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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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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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A century ago, America was ablaze in progressive change: Jazz. Flappers. Shorter skirts. Speakeasies. The…

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Might is not right

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

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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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Creative destruction

According to a quip once made by Peter Ustinov, “Just before the world blows itself…

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Falling better

The only thing slower than writing books, it seems, is publishing them. The mechanisms of…

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

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Free as a bird

Keggie Carew

A meditation on our complex relationship with wildness

Reviled swimmers

Claudia Cockerell

Restricted access to clean waters leads to legal action

The young ones

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

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The end of days

Boris Starling

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

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Nicola Rollock

Social class and race are not mutually exclusive

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We asked some of our favourite historians and writers what key insights they have gained from studying the past

Put AI in its place

Susie Alegre

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

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Sathnam Sanghera

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

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Dominic Cummings

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Chuck Berry

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

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Joanna Lumley

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Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

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Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Sally Phillips

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

Vince Cable

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

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Helen Brown

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Francesca Beauman

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Cathy Newman

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

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

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

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Miranda Seymour

Jean Rhys, literary genius and trouble alcoholic

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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Helen Brown

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Emma Flint

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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