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Breaking the class ceiling

Aspiration and social mobility were at the heart of Tony Blair’s “education, education, education” pitch in 1997. They are similarly echoed in Keir Starmer’s vision for Britain: he has repeatedly framed his desire to be…

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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…

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In 1989, Richard Hoggart wrote in his introduction to George Orwell’s The Road to Wigan…

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Creative destruction

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The pitfalls of assisted dying

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Some years ago, I saw the legendary radical environmentalist Dave Foreman give his famous “howl…

Peter Lawlor

History’s false promises

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Sarah Hall

Natural hazards

The first novel that truly affected me as a young reader was eschatological in nature.…

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Susie Alegre

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Keggie Carew

A meditation on our complex relationship with wildness

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Reviled swimmers

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Restricted access to clean waters leads to legal action

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Green measures are stirring up populist dissent

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Zahra Joya

Airlifted to London after the Taliban invasion in 2021, journalist Zahra Joya runs a platform for silenced Afghan women

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Lysette Anthony

The actress speaks about the repercussions of outing Harvey Weinstein for repeatedly assaulting her as a young woman

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Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

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Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

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England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

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Dan Snow

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Member of the House of Lords

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Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

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Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

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author and journalist

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ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

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Francesca Beauman

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Cathy Newman

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

Sarah Hall

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Hanna Pylväinen

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

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Jean Rhys, literary genius and trouble alcoholic

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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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Laura Barton

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Helen Brown

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Amanda Craig

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

Ruth Ivo

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Bee Wilson

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