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  • Monday, 5 June, 2023
    InterviewThe Royal Family
    Anti-monarchist Graham Smith: The British royals are ‘tax-funded Kardashians’

    Head of the campaign group Republic on why the monarchy should be abolished and the government’s protest laws revoked

  • Monday, 22 May, 2023
    InterviewDaniel Chandler
    Economist Daniel Chandler: ‘Shareholders have all the power. It doesn’t have to be that way.’

    The author of ‘Free and Equal’ makes the case for workplace democracy

  • Monday, 8 May, 2023
    InterviewLudwig Minelli
    Dignitas founder Ludwig Minelli: ‘We should have the freedom to choose how we die’

    The 90-year-old Swiss lawyer says assisted dying should be available to almost everyone

  • Monday, 10 April, 2023
    InterviewUK politics & policy
    Mayor Sadiq Khan: ‘You don’t make the UK more level by making London poorer’

    The former MP warns against ‘bashing’ the capital as he seeks a record third term

  • Monday, 27 March, 2023
    InterviewUS inequality
    Matthew Desmond: ‘America does so much more to subsidise affluence than alleviate poverty’

    The sociologist believes the US is stacked against the poor and decisions by the rich are to blame

  • Monday, 13 March, 2023
    InterviewFrench politics
    Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo: ‘A city’s creativity doesn’t depend on cars. That’s the 20th century’

    Accused of desecrating the French capital, the politician wants more bikes, green spaces and social housing

  • Monday, 27 February, 2023
    InterviewWork & Careers
    Tim Peake: ‘I do not see us having a problem getting to Mars’

    The Henry Mance Interview | The British astronaut is convinced that humans will live on the Red Planet

  • Monday, 13 February, 2023
    InterviewWork & Careers
    Mariana Mazzucato: ‘The McKinseys and the Deloittes have no expertise in the areas that they’re advising in’

    The economist argues that consultants are hobbling the state’s ability to perform the role of economic motor

  • Monday, 30 January, 2023
    InterviewInternet privacy
    Shoshana Zuboff: ‘Privacy has been extinguished. It is now a zombie’

    The professor who predicted that computers would change our lives demands a right to sanctuary from data ‘theft’

  • Monday, 16 January, 2023
    InterviewTyler Cowen
    Tyler Cowen: ‘Economists can’t predict the effects of new technologies. Surely that should humble us a bit?’

    The libertarian professor is on a mission to inform and educate so that people can make themselves more productive

  • Monday, 19 December, 2022
    InterviewGlobal Economy
    Nouriel Roubini: ‘I hope I didn’t depress you too much’

    The famously gloomy economist has turned up the dial on dark predictions for 2023 and beyond, but is upbeat about technology and the meaning of life

  • Monday, 5 December, 2022
    InterviewUK universities
    Louise Richardson: ‘I do wish our students were more resilient about nasty remarks’

    Before she steps down this month, the vice-chancellor of Oxford university talks about cancel culture, state schools and why universities should not be businesses

  • Monday, 21 November, 2022
    InterviewCryptocurrencies
    Stephen Diehl: Crypto is the ‘commoditisation of populist anger, gambling and crime’

    The software engineer has denounced crypto assets as vehicles for pure speculation. But his views have made him a target of harassment — including death threats

  • Monday, 7 November, 2022
    InterviewEnvironment
    Wanjira Mathai: ‘We’re only at a 1.2C world. Can you imagine how much worse it will get?’

    As the COP27 climate talks begin, the Kenyan environmentalist urges the west to win back the trust of developing countries

  • Monday, 24 October, 2022
    InterviewSteven Pinker
    Steven Pinker: ‘Putin’s invasion won’t lead to a return to the age of warring civilisation’

    The Harvard professor of psychology says he doesn’t sign on to the pessimistic conclusion that humans are inherently irrational 

  • Monday, 10 October, 2022
    InterviewJason Furman
    Jason Furman: ‘Everyone should wake up every morning figuring out how to get paid more’

    The US economist argues that the Federal Reserve cannot ease up on inflation, despite global market jitters

  • Monday, 26 September, 2022
    InterviewScience
    Carlo Rovelli: ‘Science is not just about writing equations. It’s about reconceptualising the world’

    The physicist known for making complex ideas seem simple wants us to accept that certainty is often out of reach

  • Monday, 12 September, 2022
    InterviewEU trade
    Sabine Weyand: ‘The EU found out we are dependent on Russia. We can’t afford that’

    Europe’s director-general of trade has discovered that assertiveness pays — and that economic ties can mask vulnerabilities

  • Monday, 29 August, 2022
    InterviewMedical science
    Adrian Hill: ‘This is the breakthrough tool — vaccines against malaria’

    Having helped create the AstraZeneca Covid-19 drug, the Oxford scientist has another urgent goal, to eliminate malaria through vaccination

  • Monday, 15 August, 2022
    InterviewMichelle O'Neill
    Michelle O’Neill: ‘What I won’t allow is the unravelling of the Good Friday Agreement’

    Northern Ireland’s would-be first minister is frustrated by political stalemate but has one consolation — her goal of Irish reunification is becoming more likely

  • Monday, 1 August, 2022
    InterviewTom Tugendhat
    Tom Tugendhat: ‘I will serve in whatever capacity I’m asked to serve’

    He was eliminated from the Tory leadership race, but the former soldier still wants to help British politics make a clean break with the Boris Johnson era

  • Monday, 18 July, 2022
    InterviewClimate change
    Corinne Le Quéré: ‘Could we just adapt to climate change? The answer is no’

    The Canadian-born climate scientist stays cool as politicians fail to act, saying we have the solutions we need — we just have to use them

  • Monday, 4 July, 2022
    InterviewUS politics & policy
    Michael Lewis: ‘The thing that really works for Trump is: the system’s rigged’

    One of the greatest chroniclers of America’s financial crisis takes aim at the former president — and at the US response to Covid

  • Sunday, 19 June, 2022
    Russian politics
    Mikhail Khodorkovsky: ‘Putin has embarked on a route that is going to lead to his demise’

    Russia’s once-richest man, now one of its most prominent dissidents, believes regime change will happen — but only by force

  • Monday, 6 June, 2022
    InterviewFeminism
    ‘This might be a watershed for American feminism’: Amia Srinivasan on repealing Roe vs Wade

    The philosopher has emerged as one of today’s most innovative feminist thinkers, analysing how women are constrained by politics, culture and technology

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