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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…

Peter Phelps

Beware Project Fear

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

Nathaniel Tapley

Defenestration nation

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

Khaled Bazzi

Where hope takes root

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

Sam Fowles

Time’s arrow

“Lest we forget” is carved into stone in village squares, town halls and city monuments…

Kate Devlin

You’re on camera

There’s a quotation by American historian Timothy Snyder currently circulating on social media. It comes…

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Sonia Sodha

The road to recovery

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

Simon Heffer

Correcting our Grammar mistake

During the Blair years, when recalcitrant Conservatives longed for a…

Michael Janofsky

Defensive positions

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

Michael Janofsky

Long division

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

Monique Roffey

Only connect

Last month I went to Susheila Nasta’s 70th birthday party in Greenwich, south-east London. I’d…

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All that jazz

Lucy Moore

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

The young ones

Lily Webb

The new generation of men are emotionally literate and comfortable in their skin

Beside the sea

Madeleine Bunting

English seaside resorts evoke both deep nostalgia and class divisions

Birth room battles

Milli Hill

Women are not being properly consulted about their wishes during childbirth

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Free as a bird

Keggie Carew

A meditation on our complex relationship with wildness

Sporting heroes and villains

Boris Starling

The gap between winning trophies and winning hearts

Reviled swimmers

Claudia Cockerell

Restricted access to clean waters leads to legal action

Nuanced thinking

Lily Webb

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Hein de Haas

Sociologist and myth-buster Hein de Haas explains how politicians’ pandering to prejudice has backfired

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Michael Palin

Talks about his new volume of diaries, his support for the Prison Reform Trust, the loss of his wife Helen, and his determination to keep travelling in his 80s

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Caroline Calloway

The headline-hitting American social climber who found fame via a “faked” Cambridge application

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Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Sally Phillips

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

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Andrew Roberts

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John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Rosie Holt

Comedian and actress

Daniel Howell

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Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

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DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Daniel Howell

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Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Andrew Roberts

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Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

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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

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

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Zealots not harlots

Elizabeth Sharkey

How Quaker dissenters became England’s first feminists

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

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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Gangster wrap

Anne Billson

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Dressing for utopia

Christobel Kent

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I Am Waiting For You by Risalet Merdan

Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

There's a Walrus on My Windscreen by Ian Humphreys

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

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Art in an emergency

Max Lunn

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Raye against the machine

Laura Barton

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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

Francesca Beauman

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

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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