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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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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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Question time

A little while ago, I was invited to a small private dinner at a well-known…

Michael Janofsky

Long division

Our good friend Kalyan, a gay Indian-American, was so distraught by rising discrimination against Blacks,…

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Where hope takes root

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

Peter Lawlor

History’s false promises

In 2015, when interviewing Jonathan Sumption, Matt Stadlen asked a deceptively simple question: “Why does…

Peter Phelps

Time for a class act

January is San Francisco’s coldest and wettest month, and generally its quietest. That wasn’t the…

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Sonia Sodha

Breaking the class ceiling

Aspiration and social mobility were at the heart of Tony…

Simon Heffer

Why Labour has to be conservative

Here’s a paradox for you: Britain is a conservative country…

Mic Wright

High society

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

Lucy Moore

All that jazz

When we were finally released from lockdown in summer 2021, a hedonistic return to real…

Peter Phelps

Hopeful histories

“No news is good news”, the saying goes, but the reverse is also true. Good…

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Free as a bird

Keggie Carew

A meditation on our complex relationship with wildness

Dollar fever

Frances Coppola

Competing currencies won’t unlock the world from the shackles of US financial hegemony

I post therefore I am

Róisín Lanigan

Uncovering the online persona

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Snob value

Philip Hensher

Looking down your nose at “common” behaviour can create a constructive social dynamic

Spun sugar

Kate Devlin

Childhood books feed us Christmas dreams by the spoonful

AI: A wake-up call

Khaled Bazzi

Muddle class

Joshua Mcloughlin

Social divides are increasingly ambiguous

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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

Rowan Pelling talks to Dominic Cummings about a start-up party, Brexit, the covid inquiry, Whitehall and other shit-shows

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Chuck Berry

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

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Zandra Rhodes

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Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Dan Snow

Historian and TV presenter

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

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Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Andrew Roberts

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Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Sally Phillips

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

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Craig Brown

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Zandra Rhodes

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Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

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Helen Brown

“When you see extremely violent sexual stuff on stage you always need to ask: who’s creating it for who and why?”

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

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

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

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Acts of sedition

Pauline F Kiernan

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

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

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Primetime Potus

Anne Billson

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Tribal fashion

Christobel Kent

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Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

I Am Waiting For You by Risalet Merdan

Things to Consider in the Design of Your First Space Suit by Harry Man

There's a Walrus on My Windscreen by Ian Humphreys

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The wisdom of native art

Max Lunn

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Sucking the marrow out of life

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

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

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

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