The Policy Ask with Tim Bradshaw: “R&D investment will give us the talent to tackle climate change and pandemics”
The chief executive of the Russell Group on barriers to global academic collaboration and the need for a Zero Carbon…
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Discover our latest interviews with notable personalities across various fields. Step into the minds of influential figures and gain unique perspectives.
Why Salman Rushdie’s imagination cannot be stopped
In his first interview since the attack on his life, the novelist refuses to be defined as target or victim.
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Dacher Keltner Q&A: “I’m not wired for happiness”
The Berkeley psychologist on growing up in Laurel Canyon in the Sixties and why you should do your homework.
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Martin Wolf: “Austerity and Brexit made everything worse”
The chief economics commentator of the Financial Times reflects on the failures of globalisation and how the UK became the…
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Francesca Stavrakopoulou Q&A: “In my field, people often talk about doom”
The biblical historian on the government’s cruelty and The Last Temptation of Christ.
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Carl Benedikt Frey: in an automated future, trade unions will be more important than ever
The economist says Britain is at a crucial turning point: use robots to boost productivity and jobs, or risk unrest.
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Konstantin Kisin: “Being anti-woke isn’t making you happy”
The podcaster is the viral man of the moment. But does he really have anything to say?
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First Aid Kit: “We realised constant touring was not a good way to live”
Johanna and Klara Söderberg on making music as sisters, the side effects of ambition, and taking a break from live…
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Stephen Flynn: “The Tories and Labour are one and the same”
The SNP’s new man in Westminster on the party’s internal divisions, Scotland’s gender bill and Brexit.
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Oleksiy Danilov: “Weak people always come up with excuses not to act”
Ukraine’s national security adviser on German betrayal, the coming Russian onslaught and why the West is scared.
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Doctors’ union chair: prioritising private healthcare will increase inequalities
Iain Kennedy, the chair of BMA Scotland, on why charging wealthier patients will reduce NHS funding and widen the health…
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George McGavin Q&A: “All species live on the knife-edge of survival”
The entomologist on lush prehistoric forests and inescapable doom.
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Bret Easton Ellis: “Wokeness is running out of room”
The Shards is the famously morbid author’s latest “trickster book”. He prefers cabinet shopping to culture wars now.
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Kenneth Roth on Harvard fellowship controversy: “My biggest concern is for academic freedom”
Although the university has reversed its block against the former head of Human Rights Watch, concerns over freedom of speech…
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Dan Jarvis on levelling up: There is an institutional bias against the North of England
The former Mayor of South Yorkshire and Barnsley MP on levelling up and Labour’s electoral offer.
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Maria Ressa: “The law was bent to the point that it was broken”
The Nobel Peace Prize-winning journalist on why Big Tech rewards disinformation, and how to fight back.
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Can Newsnight recapture its lost glory?
With declining viewing numbers and high-profile resignations at the flagship news programme, Victoria Derbyshire speaks on the troubles at the…
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Sherif Tawfik: The Middle East and Africa are ready to lead on the climate
Microsoft’s chief sustainability officer for MEA on why the region is key to growing the green economy.
Radek Sikorski: Poland does not have “the influence on Europe’s eastern policy that we deserve”
The former Polish foreign minister on the war in Ukraine, relations with Germany and how the illiberal government can be…
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The £7m fingers: how Jeff Beck became a guitar hero by saying no
In one of Jeff Beck’s last major interviews, he talked to Kate Mossman about his rivalry with Eric Clapton and…
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