Monday 1st December 2025

Hattie Simpson

Gina Miller: “Vigilance is a civic duty for all of us”

Gina Miller is not a conventional political figure. She did not rise through party ranks, but she has altered the British constitution twice –...

Richard Ovenden: “We are guardians of facts and truth, rights of citizens, and identities of communities”

From his office in the Clarendon building on Broad Street, Richard Ovenden calls libraries “the infrastructure of democracy.” These words are spoken with the...

In Conversation with Sathnam Sanghera

Sathnam Sanghera doesn’t believe in tidy or easy stories. Whether writing about empire in his award-winning books Empireland and Empireworld, or his own family...

Margaret Hodge on legacy, fighting the BNP, and hope for the political future

Above the Churchill War Rooms, Dame Margaret Hodge sits with the easy confidence of someone who’s been in the fight for too long to...

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