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The pitfalls of assisted dying

One of the first concepts new students of philosophy are introduced to is Isaiah Berlin’s famous distinction between “freedom to” and “freedom from”: an illustration of the fact that giving…

Simon Heffer

Correcting our Grammar mistake

During the Blair years, when recalcitrant Conservatives longed for a pledge to open new grammar schools, no class warrior threw himself into the battle against selective education with such ferocity…

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Bonkers bunkers

In December 2023 Ron Hubbard, a security consultant from Texas (not to be confused with…

Guy Shrubsole

English pastoral

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

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Where hope takes root

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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, the googly-eyed sage Yoda lectured…

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

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Breaking the class ceiling

Aspiration and social mobility were at the heart of Tony…

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An age without rival

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

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Free for all

When you’re stuck in the swamp of a midlife crisis, there’s generally only two ways…

Christopher Hart

Hedge fund

According to the great Dr Oliver Rackham, hedges may be the oldest manmade structures on…

Nathaniel Tapley

Defenestration nation

Postmortems on the corpse of the Conservative party are much like those on real bodies:…

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All that jazz

Lucy Moore

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

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Róisín Lanigan

Fake farm story

Joy Lo Dico

Shouldn’t we be doing more for British farmers?

AI makes you stupid

Susie Alegre

It's shrinking your brain – but don't panic, because swearing can reboot your cognitive creativity

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Keggie Carew

A meditation on our complex relationship with wildness

Xi the Peacemaker

Michael Burleigh

China’s diplomatic manoeuvring wrong-foots the West

Silence of the lambs

Fred Skulthorp

The Left’s embrace of the covid consensus has badly impacted the world’s poor

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Amir Amirani

Reflecting on the twentieth anniversary of the Iraq War

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Henry Dimbleby

Our diet is killing us, but politicians and big business don’t want to know, says the food entrepreneur and writer

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Dominic Cummings

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The revolutionary musician who single-handedly transformed rock 'n' roll

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Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Andrew Roberts

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Zandra Rhodes

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Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Craig Brown

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Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Sally Phillips

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

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

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Lynn Barber

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DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Rosie Holt

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Andrew Roberts

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Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Benny Higgins

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Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Vince Cable

Former Leader of the Liberal Democrats and Secretary of State (2010-2015)

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Dan Snow

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Helen Brown

“Mum set up the company just after her fifth child, my younger brother, left home”

Francesca Beauman

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

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

Tessa Hadley

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

Mary Beard

The classicist, Cambridge don and trustee of the British Museum discusses flamingo-brain feasts, gender surgery in antiquity and her new book Emperor of Rome

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Elizabeth Sharkey

Exploring the history of a genre that first bewitched Elizabeth as a teenage Joy Division fan

Hymn to Hestia

Natalie Haynes

The forgotten goddess of the hearth

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Tina Gharavi

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

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Anne Billson

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Max Lunn

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Man-made girl bands

Lily Webb

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Helen Brown

“It is a religion that asks women to have many children and really sacrifice their bodies”

Hanna Pylväinen

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

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

Cathy Newman

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

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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