Anne Sebba Q&A: “A spark of humanity is enough to ignite the will to live”
The author on Ernest Shackleton as maverick and a year in Rome in 1972.
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Mark Fairhurst: “I do not fear the law. I will accept the consequences”
The national chair of the Prison Officers’ Association on the next prison officers’ strike.
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Gabriel Weston Q&A: “I would love to experience not living in the patriarchy”
The doctor and writer on swimming pool maintenance and resisting nostalgia.
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Christine Rosen: “If you give people an easy path, they will take it”
The American academic on how tech is changing our capacity for experience.
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Laila Lalami Q&A: “Power is a dynamic. It doesn’t flow in just one direction”
The essayist and novelist on Spanish history, Aretha Franklin and meeting her heroes
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Can the British Council be saved?
CEO Scott McDonald on an imperilled institution.
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Abdulrazak Gurnah Q&A: “What bugs me? The smug self-regard of the powerful”
The writer on Primo Levi and his grandchildren’s art.
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Q&A: The hidden crisis in the NHS
The resignation of NHS England chief Amanda Pritchard represents a chance to clear out a broken managerial system.
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Ash Sarkar: “I wasn’t smart enough to listen when I was younger”
The journalist and figurehead of the young Corbynite left on progressive politics in retreat and what the right got right.
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Eimear McBride Q&A: “I have a face only Lyubov Popova could love”
The novelist on American cinema and the dream of being an antiquarian bookseller.
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Lissa Evans: “Being in the sea is like being cradled by a benign goddess”
The author, TV director and producer on Father Ted and fan-girling on suffragettes.
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Jonathan Sumption: “Democracy is impossible for the state to satisfy”
The former judge on the limits of politics, the Chagos Islands and Trumpism.
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Judith Butler Q&A: “I’d like more joy, more music, a new political regime”
The philosopher and gender theorist on Hegel, Kafka, and getting lost at the circus.
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Adam Zeman Q&A: “Life is a fatal condition but creativity is limitless”
The neurologist on the science of subjectivity, and the irony of sophisticated tech that makes simple jobs harder.
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William Waldegrave: “The hereditary House of Lords element must end”
The former Conservative cabinet minister – and life peer – on the ancien régime.
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John McDonnell on where Rachel Reeves is going wrong
The veteran socialist and former shadow chancellor speaks out from political exile.
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Roisín O’Donnell Q&A: “I collect old Irish proverbs written on sugar sachets”
The author on single parenting and needing to be painted in a soft-toned impressionist style.
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Markus Zusak: “You have to win by so much that they can’t take it off you”
The author on Neil Young and wanting to have watched Michelangelo create the statue of David.
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Joe Powell: “Foreign wealth hollows out the community”
The Labour MP for Kensington and Bayswater on modern slavery, fighting corruption, and who owns London.
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