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  • Friday, 1 July, 2022
    Life & Arts
    Serhii Plokhy: Putin’s imperialist narrative ‘is being crushed’

    The Ukrainian historian on the end of empire, life under a nuclear shadow — and why Putin’s war might end in a new Russia

  • Friday, 24 June, 2022
    InterviewLife & Arts
    Writer Vladimir Sorokin: ‘I underestimated the power of Putin’s madness’

    The Russian exile on seeing his fiction become fact, the ‘zombie’ of empire — and how culture will pay a price for the war on Ukraine

  • Friday, 17 June, 2022
    InterviewLife & Arts
    Hillary Clinton: ‘We are standing on the precipice of losing our democracy’

    The former presidential candidate on negotiating with Putin, the ‘prophet’ Margaret Atwood — and why the Democrats need to rein in the radical left

  • Friday, 10 June, 2022
    Life & Arts
    Jarvis Cocker: ‘I was like the Kofi Annan of Blur vs Oasis’

    The Pulp frontman on loathing Britpop, a guitar-playing Tony Blair and the evolving business of being human

  • Friday, 3 June, 2022
    Life & Arts
    Restaurateur Michelle Garnaut: ‘Shanghai won’t be the same at the end’

    The Australian chef on creating a fine-dining renaissance in China’s commercial capital, how it is becoming more closed under Xi Jinping — and why she’s called time on M on the Bund

  • Friday, 27 May, 2022
    Life & Arts
    Aviva’s Amanda Blanc: ‘You prepare for everything. You do not prepare for comments like that’

    The insurance chief on fighting back against sexism at her AGM, growing up in a mining community — and how big business can do good

  • Friday, 20 May, 2022
    Life & Arts
    Ukraine’s ex-president Petro Poroshenko: ‘The army is like my child, and I am very proud’

    The oligarch talks about his encounters with Putin, rising above his own rivalry with Zelensky — and why his country’s forces surprised the world

  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    Life & Arts
    Crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried: ‘I got involved with no clue what a blockchain was’

    The FTX founder on hype, the problem with bitcoin and how crypto can build a fairer financial system

  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    Life & Arts
    Writer Ocean Vuong: ‘Beauty is medicinal to me. It’s not useless’

    The Vietnamese-American poet on the legacy of war, navigating grief — and turning invisibility into a superpower

  • Friday, 29 April, 2022
    InterviewLife & Arts
    Jonathan Haidt: ‘We got fooled into thinking liberal democracy is easy’

    The social psychologist on the ‘darts’ of social media, our dangerous present moment — and a decade of stupidity in America

  • Friday, 22 April, 2022
    Life & Arts
    Historian Romila Thapar: ‘There’s always been this feeling in India that Russia is misunderstood’

    The great chronicler of India’s past on Narendra Modi, what Mahatma Gandhi told her — and her country’s attitude to the war in Ukraine

  • Friday, 15 April, 2022
    Life & Arts
    Baillie Gifford’s James Anderson: ‘There will always be the Ides of March out there’

    The unlikely star of tech investing on backing ‘outliers’, the future for China’s entrepreneurs — and the comfort of 19th-century literature

  • Friday, 8 April, 2022
    Life & Arts
    Police watchdog Tom Winsor: ‘I’ll arbitrate pretty much anything’

    The outgoing chief inspector of constabulary on kicking out bad cops, getting his own back on the bullies — and why he keeps 29,970 press cuttings in his shed

  • Friday, 1 April, 2022
    Life & Arts
    Travel writer Dervla Murphy: ‘I just did my own thing’

    After 60 years of intrepid exploration, the Irish chronicler reflects on a life of adventure, the place she’d most like to revisit — and why money never mattered

  • Friday, 25 March, 2022
    Life & Arts
    Suzanne Simard: ‘I say to the trees “I hope I’m helping”’

    The Canadian ecologist on protecting imperilled forests, the limits of science — and why trees and humans are more similar than we might think

  • Friday, 18 March, 2022
    Life & Arts
    Former Russian foreign minister Andrei Kozyrev: ‘I don’t buy this talk that Putin cannot back down’

    The ex-top diplomat on the frustrations of working for Boris Yeltsin, what the west got wrong about post-Soviet Russia and why Putin believes his own lies

  • Friday, 11 March, 2022
    InterviewLife & Arts
    Tech pioneer Stephanie Shirley: ‘I need to make the life that was saved worth saving’

    The ‘venture philanthropist’ on her journey from child refugee to billion-dollar businesswoman — and why Britain must do more for those fleeing war today

  • Friday, 4 March, 2022
    InterviewUK politics & policy
    General Sir Nick Carter: ‘Ukraine is a wake-up call’

    The former head of the UK’s armed forces on how the west can reach out to Russians — and counter Vladimir Putin

  • Friday, 25 February, 2022
    InterviewLife & Arts
    Met police veteran Leroy Logan: ‘The force has always had an issue about race’

    The former superintendent on how to change the culture of Britain’s biggest police force — and how John Boyega changed his life

  • Friday, 18 February, 2022
    InterviewLife & Arts
    Estonian PM Kaja Kallas: ‘There is a certain naivety towards Russia’

    The Estonian prime minister on the Baltic state’s precarious position and why many European nations misread Moscow

  • Friday, 11 February, 2022
    Life & Arts
    David Chalmers: ‘We are the gods of the virtual worlds we create’

    The techno-philosopher on meaningful life in the metaverse, building virtual utopias and why the ‘corporatocracies’ are becoming part of our brains

  • Friday, 4 February, 2022
    Life & Arts
    Lea Ypi: ‘For me, Marx is neither a saint nor the enemy’

    The Albanian author on her family’s ordeal under Hoxha, her ‘obsession’ with freedom — and what the free market gets wrong

  • Friday, 28 January, 2022
    InterviewLife & Arts
    Artist Kehinde Wiley: ‘I wanted to interrupt the history of these paintings’

    The American portraitist on race and representation, casting models on the streets of south London — and his audience with Barack Obama

  • Friday, 21 January, 2022
    InterviewLife & Arts
    ‘Shuggie Bain’ author Douglas Stuart: ‘I have a radar for the suffering soul’

    The Booker-winning novelist on the tough Glasgow childhood that inspired the book, and why he writes from love, not anger

  • Friday, 14 January, 2022
    Life & Arts
    Artist Laurie Anderson: ‘Nothing stays the same for more than a few seconds’

    The iconic New Yorker on still changing at 74, life after Lou Reed — and making music for cars and chimps

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