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The road to recovery

First in 1945, then 1997 and now 2024. The three times in history that a Labour government has been elected on a sweeping majority, crushing the Conservative incumbents. What Keir Starmer…

Simon Heffer

An age without rival

It wasn’t long before Hallowe’en that I noted many of the significant women in my life – including my wife and the editrix of this august publication – were devoting…

Nathaniel Tapley

Passing as upper class

Lots of things from the 1990s are difficult to explain to your teenage children now:…

Nathaniel Tapley

Cradle of libertines

England likes to think of itself as “the cradle of liberty”. True, if you think…

Khaled Bazzi

Where hope takes root

As headlines veer toward the apocalyptic – from collapsing ecosystems to vanishing species – it’s…

Peter Lawlor

Rent in two

In this class-themed issue I want to touch on an important social distinction in the…

Michael Janofsky

Fight madness with more madness

Most of my friends and I live in a bubble (Los Angeles) within a bubble…

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Sonia Sodha

The road to recovery

First in 1945, then 1997 and now 2024. The three…

Simon Heffer

An age without rival

It wasn’t long before Hallowe’en that I noted many of…

Guy Shrubsole

English pastoral

Guy Shrubsole explores England’s buried tradition of land reform, where less than one percent of…

Michael Janofsky

Defensive positions

When I was a kid and the Cold War was in full bloom, we were…

Keiran Goddard

Falling better

The only thing slower than writing books, it seems, is publishing them. The mechanisms of…

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All that jazz

Lucy Moore

The carefree socialites of the 1920s can teach us how to let our hair down

Roaring Olympics

Boris Starling

One hundred years since the last Paris Games

Lessons from History

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We asked some of our favourite historians and writers what key insights they have gained from studying the past

Stealth wealth

Róisín Lanigan

A crack in the Millennial dream of equality

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The end of days

Boris Starling

If the apocalypse comes, we will almost certainly have brought it on ourselves

The disappearance of Abdullah Öcalan

Toby Green

Imprisoned for a quarter-century, the Kurdish leader has been all but forgotten

Democracy inaction

Gavin Esler

From Russia to Rwanda, a year of record global voting masks a deepening crisis for democratic freedom

The risk factor

Robert Jackman

New fiscal regulations don’t address the thin line between scams and foolish investments

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Joanna Grochowicz

Charles Spencer

The writer, historian, podcaster and 9th Earl Spencer Charles Spencer talks about boarding school trauma, class aspirations and the importance of speaking out

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Ian Anderson

The leader of prog rock band Jethro Tull talks about the end of days, faith, fencesitting, Jacob Rees-Mogg and the band’s new album, RökFlöte

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Simon Heffer

Chips Channon

Brilliance blighted by poor judgment

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Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

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Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Sally Phillips

The much-loved UK actress on comedy, faith, disability and Christmas

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

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Helen Brown

“The current generation don’t seem to be using their power for much more than shooting penis-shaped rockets into outer space”

Naomi Alderman

The novelist, gamer and Bailey Women’s Prize winner discusses tech billionaires, apocalypse bunkers, her fans Obama and Gates, and her new book The Future

Tessa Hadley

The critically acclaimed novelist discusses her 1950s-set novella The Party with Helen Brown

Francesca Beauman

The Persephone Books publisher discusses forgotten gems written by women and the imprint’s 150th book

Ruth Ivo

The former burlesque dancer discusses her fictionalised memoir of Soho life in Performance, the exhilarating freedom of club nights in her youth and “hatching” from an egg on stage

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The politics of colour

Tina Gharavi

Tina Gharavi’s full response to the controversy surrounding Queen Cleopatra, a Netflix series about the identity of the legendary last pharaoh

There’s always whisky

Miranda Seymour

Jean Rhys, literary genius and trouble alcoholic

Acts of sedition

Pauline F Kiernan

Shakespeare’s Richard II was pure treason, so how did he get away with it? asks the author

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Christobel Kent

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Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

I Am Waiting For You by Risalet Merdan

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Raye against the machine

Laura Barton

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Helen Brown

“The vitriol online can really knock your confidence”

Cathy Newman

Channel 4’s first female news anchor discusses trailblazing women, internet trolls, sexual assault and her new book The Ladder

Sarah Hall

The acclaimed novelist discusses her Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel Helm, writing a "strange biography" of Britain's only named wind, climate collapse and "radical optimism," and why sorority is the key to consolidating power shifts and positive change

Hanna Pylväinen

Whiting Award and Balcones Fiction Prize-winner discusses her strict Lutheran upbringing and her novel The End of Drum-Time

Bee Wilson

The food writer, journalist, author and charity campaigner for TastEd discusses festive family rituals, celebrating Christmas as a newly single parent and her first recipe book

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