In a risk averse world of fakes and phonies, the ever-authentic Sir Michael Parkinson is sorely missed

How truckers took on Trudeau

Robin Ashenden talks to the prescient Lionel Shriver about cancel culture

As the winner of the International Booker Prize is due to be announced today, ASH Smyth talks to poet, translator and judge on this year’s panel, George Szirtes

Christopher North speaks to the fearless Andrés Roca Rey, Peru’s first bull fighting star

In an exclusive interview with Kapil Komireddi, the US senator condemns the Communist Party of China as a “genocidal regime” which poses “the greatest threat” to international peace and security

From the submarine service to the world’s southernmost sub-post office, A S H Smyth interviews Sally Owen, a Falklands-based dentist who also helps to conserve the historic sites of Antarctica

Marguerite Stern, a feminist activist who was attacked yesterday in France, speaks to Julie Bindel about why she will never give up campaigning for the rights of women and girls

An old press cutting provided the key to a defiant tale of life after Auschwitz

Alexander Larman talks to the Creative Editor of Penguin Classics, Henry Eliot about what makes a ‘modern classic’