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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.
Mark Haddon: “I’m quite lucky to be alive”
The novelist on his triple heart bypass, literature’s “culture wars”, and why he’s donating book royalties to abortion funds in…
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The man who lives on rubbish
Dumpster-diving with Patrick O’Hare, the anthropologist fighting for our right to what people throw away.
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Pascal Lamy on the climate crisis: “We have to go way back to find a global picture as depressing as today”
Cop27 in Egypt must focus on bespoke solutions for the host continent, says the former WTO head.
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Édouard Louis: “I dream of a world without politics”
The French literary celebrity on shame, autobiography and why his family abandoned the far right.
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Cold War Steve’s Q&A: “I still have a strong affection for the sound of a tent zip”
The artist discusses his hero Gary Shaw, living in the Regency era and wishing someone else could drive his children…
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Lisa Nandy: “I disliked the cults around Blair and Corbyn: one man doesn’t change things”
On the road in Wigan, the shadow minister talks levelling up, the Tory leadership – and how Labour can define…
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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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Jim Al-Khalili Q&A: “I wouldn’t swap my home in Southsea for anywhere else”
The physicist and broadcaster on Leeds United, US visa problems, and his soft spot for the millennium.
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“I often spend my time sounding like a Lib Dem”: Rory Stewart on the fractured Tory party
The former Conservative MP and one-time leadership candidate shares his thoughts on Boris Johnson and the race to become prime…
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John McEnroe: “You don’t win every time, no matter how good you are”
The former professional tennis player on his sporting heroes, his friend Taylor Hawkins and being painted by Andy Warhol.
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Angela Rayner: “The Tories fear me because I say it how I see it”
As deputy Labour leader, she has proved both an asset and a liability. Is she destined to lead her party?
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Ninja Thyberg: “Instead of trying to erase the bad porn, I was like, ‘We need to do good porn!’”
The Swedish director of Pleasure was an anti-porn activist – until she saw how sex workers valued their “erotic capital”.
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Jeremy Hunt: “It’s a rabbit hole to try and change how the NHS is structured”
The former health secretary and 2019 Tory leadership candidate on Blue Wall Toryism, health policy and social care.
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Tracey Emin interview: “When I die, there could be riots”
Having survived cancer, the artist has returned home to Margate. Now she’s working on her legacy.
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Hannah Fry’s Q&A: “Pull handles on push doors make me feel like an idiot”
The mathematician discusses why Michael Schumacher is her hero, and her love for the 1990s adaptation of Pride and Prejudice.
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International Booker Prize winner Geetanjali Shree: “Women come into their own when they are older”
The author of Tomb of Sand on writing in Hindi, the politics of daily life, and why “people think English…
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Universities minister Michelle Donelan: “Young people are being conned into courses that don’t deliver”
Are the government’s radical reforms to higher education about protecting students or simply saving money?
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“This might be worse than Covid”: Shevaun Haviland on why businesses need help to survive inflation
The director-general of the British Chambers of Commerce says Andrew Bailey told her inflation would be “fine by September”.
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“There is a serious vacuum in the Kremlin. It can’t last” Christopher Steele on Ukraine and Putin
The former spy and author of the Trump-Russia dossier talks Londongrad oligarchs, Ukraine and the vulnerability of Vladimir Putin.
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