Robert Macfarlane: “Come and meet this incredible tree”
The bestselling writer asks: can a forest think? Is a river alive?
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Ross Douthat: “In the intelligentsia, it’s Catholicism or nothing”
The veteran conservative writer on Christianity and Maga.
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Steve Reed: “Reform is a symptom of broken trust”
The Environment Secretary on how Labour can defeat populism and why Defra must no longer be a blocker of growth.
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Adriana Brownlee: “As soon as you think of records, it gets dangerous”
The mountaineer on climbing the world’s highest peaks.
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Mark Fairhurst: “I do not fear the law. I will accept the consequences”
The national chair of the Prison Officers’ Association on the next prison officers’ strike.
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Christine Rosen: “If you give people an easy path, they will take it”
The American academic on how tech is changing our capacity for experience.
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Ash Sarkar: “I wasn’t smart enough to listen when I was younger”
The journalist and figurehead of the young Corbynite left on progressive politics in retreat and what the right got right.
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Sharone Lifschitz: “On 7 October, my father saw his life’s work going up in flames”
The film-maker on her father Oded Lifschitz and the plight of the 7 October hostages.
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