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COMMENT

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…

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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Rent in two

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

Where hope takes root

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

Beware Project Fear

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

Question time

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

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COMMENT

Breaking the class ceiling

Aspiration and social mobility were at the heart of Tony…

New protest laws would be extreme

Having been bored into a stupor by a supposedly Conservative…

Nathaniel Tapley

Passing as upper class

Lots of things from the 1990s are difficult to explain to your teenage children now:…

English pastoral

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

Nathaniel Tapley

Defenestration nation

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

Perspectives

The end of days

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

Squeezed dry

Claudia Cockerell

The water companies have drained the coffers as well as the rivers

Freedumb, you say?

Gabrielle Bauer

Mumbo Jumbo

Political discourse has become a cauldron of curses, conspiracies and clickbait, where inflammatory rhetoric can manifest into deadly reality

Perspectives

All that jazz

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

Freedumb, you say?

Gabrielle Bauer

The nostalgia myth

The UK’s historical illiteracy has led to delusions that create problems for the future

PEOPLE

PEOPLE

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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

In Conversation In Conversation - Front Page

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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

Reputations Reputations - Front Page

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Chips Channon

Brilliance blighted by poor judgment

FROM MY PERSPECTIVE - Q&As

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Benny Higgins

Banker

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Andrew Roberts

Historian and journalist

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Dan Snow

Historian and TV presenter

Rosie Holt

Comedian and actress

Tom Curry

Black and white photo of Tom Curry in England Rugby kit

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

FROM MY PERSPECTIVE – Q&As

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Vince Cable

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

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Rosie Holt

Comedian and actress

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Sally Phillips

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

CULTURE

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“Sex is the place where the animal body erupts into the life of the thinking mind”

Tessa Hadley

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

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

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

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

FEATURES

Gothic delights

Elizabeth Sharkey

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

Zealots not harlots

Elizabeth Sharkey

How Quaker dissenters became England’s first feminists

There’s always whisky

Miranda Seymour

Jean Rhys, literary genius and troubled alcoholic

Playing through the nose

Give cardis the slip

Christobel Kent

POETRY

There's a Walrus on My Windscreen by Ian Humphreys

Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

I Am Waiting For You by Risalet Merdan

New images, new perceptions

Man-made girl bands

CULTURE

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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

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

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

FEATURES

Zealots not harlots

Elizabeth Sharkey

How Quaker dissenters became England’s first feminists

Hymn to Hestia

The forgotten goddess of the hearth

Film, Film - Front Page, TCE

Primetime Potus

Style, Style - Front Page, TCE

Anything goes

Christobel Kent

POETRY

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

Art, Art - Front Page, TCE

The art of perturbation

Rachel Campbell Johnston

Music, Music - Front Page, TCE

Prisoner with a key

Book Reviews

LIFE

For better, for worse

June brings fewer wedding bells, but Scheherazade offers post-nuptial inspiration

Alas, poor Yorick

When your childhood garden is a charnel house, and skeletons your toys

Spaniel stories

How a mischievous companion transformed my life

Buffalo Gal

Unpacking the formative impact of an iconic 1980s pop video

LIFE

Spaniel stories

How a mischievous companion transformed my life

Trussst in me…

Siân Wainwright

How do we stop snakes from scamming the elderly?

Funny Woman

The challenges of being a female comic

Free spirit

How a gap year full of travel and adventure became a “gap life” boundaried only by possibility and curiosity

MIND OVER MATTER

Neurological-based
advice

FROM DR ASH RANPURA

Gender norms and New Age neighbours

Shopping addiction and a divisive will

A personality change and a foot fetish

Festive family tensions & disordered eating

In-law etiquette, and seeking an ADHD diagnosis

MIND OVER MATTER

Neurological-based
advice

FROM DR ASH RANPURA

Mid-life rage and teenage drugs

Othello syndrome and kitchen wars

Finding new love and domestic stand-offs

How to be optimistic and an autism diagnosis

Teenage consent and a flaky friend