Michael Connelly Q&A: “My father was my hero, then and now”
The novelist on childhood, golf and the influence of Kurt Vonnegut.
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Fiona Hill: “The UK needs to think of its own sovereignty”
The foreign policy expert on spheres of influence and what America First really means
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David Blunkett: “Starmer mustn’t chop Labour’s tall poppies”
The former home secretary believes the only solution to leadership speculation is success
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Salman Rushdie’s uprooted people
From meeting EM Forster to being called “the Muslim James Joyce”, India’s greatest novelist speaks about his long and ever-migrating…
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Wes Streeting: “I’m pretty frustrated”
The Health Secretary on Keir Starmer, Labour’s purpose, and his future
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Leah Williamson: “We haven’t been brought up like boys in the Arsenal academy”
The England captain on the rapid changes of women’s football
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Anthony Barnett: “The Sixties were a catastrophic failure”
The writer and campaigner on nationalism, the rise of the new right and how a fractured left can organise in…
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Colwill Brown: “Romanticising a place is only another way to diminish it”
The 2025 Goldsmith Prize-shortlisted author on the poetry of the South Yorkshire dialect and paradigm-shifting novels
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CD Rose: “Novels are like massive clouds which lower overhead”
The 2025 Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author on the art world, how we measure value and the role of criticism today
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Jimmy Wales: “Elon Musk is very pleasant to me in private”
Mr Wikipedia on Donald Trump, AI and trust on the internet
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Ben Pester: “Feeling weird is essential”
The 2025 Goldsmith Prize-shortlisted author on the pleasure of generational differences and the value of messy literature
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Piers Morgan on monarchy, Rupert Murdoch and Paul Marshall
How did the broadcaster become the most successful hack in Britain?
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Yrsa Daley-Ward: “How could anyone keep themselves all the way out of a novel?”
The Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author on colour as a language, trusting strangeness and how memories revise and rewrite themselves
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Charlie Porter: “Every word is tested”
The Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author on active reader engagement, the UK Aids memorial and learning to make pastry.
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Bridget Phillipson: “I’ve had to fight tooth and nail”
The deputy leadership candidate on her cabinet battles and why she believes in the socialism of freedom
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Lucy Powell: I’m already moving Labour leftwards
The deputy leadership front-runner says “when members’ voices count for something we shift policy”
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Martyn Oliver: “Schools are more than a single-word judgement”
The Ofsted chief inspector on the organisation’s new assessment system
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How the world left Steven Pinker behind
The public intellectual is at pains to stress the world isn’t backsliding into the dark ages
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Zack Polanski: “We absolutely need to stop the boats”
The Greens’ Zack Polanski on facing up to Reform
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Douglas Alexander: “We must be a remedy for Reform, not a replica”
The Scotland Secretary on his political comeback, taking on the SNP, and the crisis in Labour
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