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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…

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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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Might is not right

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The rewilding Republican

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

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Where hope takes root

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Free for all

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Peter Lawlor

History’s false promises

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

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Sonia Sodha

Breaking the class ceiling

Aspiration and social mobility were at the heart of Tony…

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English pastoral

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

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Rent in two

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

Rowan Pelling

Letter from the editor

It often feels there are only three topics worth discussing: sex, death and freedom. And…

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The end of days

Boris Starling

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

Toxic in the extreme

Anjana Menon

India’s women still face a widespread culture of lethal misogyny

Caste list

Anjana Menon

From Modi to cricket to young influencers, caste is no longer a barrier to the top in India

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Róisín Lanigan

Falling birth rates are a sign of existential angst

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All that jazz

Lucy Moore

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

Put AI in its place

Susie Alegre

And that’s a job for human rights experts, not tech billionaires

Defining women

Milli Hill

Hard-won rights are at stake

#MeToo returns

Charlotte Proudman

New high-profile cases expose deep-rooted misogyny

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Sathnam Sanghera

The British writer who says our multicultural empire led to a multicultural society

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Rory Stewart

The former MP talks to Peter Phelps and Rowan Pelling about global conflict and the possibility of his return to front-line politics

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Lucy Ward

Catherine the Great

The enlightened empress who inoculated herself to protect her subjects and advance science

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Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Sally Phillips

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

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Dan Snow

Historian and TV presenter

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Benny Higgins

Banker

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

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Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Andrew Roberts

Historian and journalist

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Rosie Holt

Comedian and actress

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Ed Vaizey

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England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Daniel Howell

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Helen Brown

This is a book that faces the awful possibility of a wind’s death amid climate collapse

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

Francesca Beauman

The Persephone Books publisher discusses forgotten gems written by women and the imprint’s 150th 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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Zealots not harlots

Elizabeth Sharkey

How Quaker dissenters became England’s first feminists

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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Apocalypse now and then

Anne Billson

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Anything goes

Christobel Kent

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Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

I Am Waiting For You by Risalet Merdan

Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

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Art in an emergency

Max Lunn

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Rock and Rigoletto

Laura Barton

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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

Hanna Pylväinen

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

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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