Sally Davies: “Anti-microbial resistance could kill us before the climate crisis does”
The former chief medical officer for England warns about the threat AMR poses to humanity – and why we need…
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Mervyn King: “The Bank of England made a terrible mistake”
The former governor of the Bank on what Kwasi Kwarteng got wrong and how quantitative easing helped fuel the inflation…
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Dieter Helm: “Capitalism works best with a strong state”
The professor of economic policy at Oxford University discusses Trussonomics and system failure in the UK.
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Martin Rees: “This could be our last century on Earth”
The astrophysicist and Astronomer Royal reflects on the threats facing humanity.
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Tsitsi Dangarembga: “People started pointing fingers at me, saying ‘She’s a Western puppet!’”
The prize-winning novelist on colonialism, her family, and being tried in Zimbabwe for political protest.
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Sabrina Cohen-Hatton: The firefighter using psychology to prevent disaster
The fire chief and behavioural psychologist on how her time sleeping rough has helped her save lives.
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Richard Powers: “Climate change is a psychological problem”
The author of The Overstory and Bewilderment explains why our best hope is to reconnect with nature.
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Adrienne Buller: “Green capitalism is its own form of denial”
The Canadian author discusses her new book The Value of a Whale and why markets won’t save the world.
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