David Edgerton: “The UK needs a politics of modesty”
The acclaimed historian on whether Britain is in decline, the Nairn-Anderson thesis and what Labour gets wrong about economic growth.
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How to live forever
Oliver Zolman, doctor to millionaires, on the science of longevity.
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Elise Loehnen: “Wellness as a concept needs to fracture”
The journalist and former chief content officer for Goop on learning not to be good.
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Marina Litvinenko: “I’m glad to talk about him – it feels like a duty”
The wife of Alexander Litvinenko on Putin, Peter Morgan's Patriots and depictions of her husband's assassination on stage and screen.
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Joanna Moncrieff: “I’m not convinced antidepressants have any use”
The controversial psychiatrist on taking on the pharmaceutical firms, and how Covid made it “OK to cancel scientists”.
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Monica Macias: “I wanted to become a pianist. Kim Il Sung said no”
The author – and daughter of Equatorial Guinea’s former dictator Francisco Macías Nguema – on her childhood spent in exile…
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Richard Ingrams: “Journalism is a drug: you can’t give it up”
The veteran editor on satire, libel and Private Eye.
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Mary Harrington: “Make sex consequential again”
The journalist and author on what liberal feminism gets wrong.
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