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Saturday interview

  • John Kerry

    John Kerry: ‘People are going to die because of the decision Trump made’

    The former US secretary of state has looked on as Donald Trump has dismantled the Paris climate agreement. Now, 14 years after losing his presidential bid, he is considering another
  • Anna Soubry in her office in parliament

    Tory MP Anna Soubry: ‘The young will never forgive my party’

    She is convinced history will judge the Conservatives poorly over Brexit. But with Arron Banks facing investigation and remain polling strongly, she has not lost hope of a people’s vote

  • Mark Gatiss

    Mark Gatiss: ‘The League of Gentlemen was a premonition of Brexit’

    After a turn on stage as George III, the co-founder of the League is returning to horror to recreate Dracula for TV. What he finds ‘frightening and debilitating’ now, though, is leaving the EU
  • Karen Pierce, UK's permanent representative to the UN

    Karen Pierce, UK ambassador to the UN: ‘We can’t be pushed around’

    The first woman in the role has made headlines for her informal but frank style. As she contends with the threat of Russia and crises in Syria and Yemen, her message is clear
  • Donna Strickland, physicist and Nobel prize winner

    Nobel laureate Donna Strickland: ‘I see myself as a scientist, not a woman in science’

    The Canadian professor is only the third female recipient of the physics prize in its 118-year history, but she is nonplussed by the focus on her gender
  • Mary Robinson in her office in Dublin

    Mary Robinson on climate change: ‘Feeling “This is too big for me” is no use to anybody’

    The former president of Ireland has a new raison d’être: saving the planet. Yet, despite the dire warnings of this week’s IPCC report, she is surprisingly upbeat
  • Graham Norton

    Graham Norton: ‘In a world going to hell in a handcart, Ireland is a wonderful beacon’

    The chatshow host’s new novel centres on Irish lives dominated by shame and repression. Yet, after ‘decades of darkness’, the country’s legalisation of abortion and gay marriage have made him hopeful
  • Leader of the Scottish Conservative Party Ruth Davidson.

    Ruth Davidson: ‘We’re not as far along in the conversation about mental health as we think’

    The leader of the Scottish Conservatives on why she needed to speak out about her depression – and how she deals with Boris Johnson types in the party
  • Damien Whitmore, who moved from London to the Isle of Wight to take care of his mother. Photographed 20 September 2018

    Damien Whitmore: I would find Mum crying and repeating: 'I don’t know who I am'

    After a 25-year career in the arts, I was still somehow unsatisfied. Then, when my mother’s Alzheimer’s became so acute that she could no longer cope alone, I moved in with her
  • Joseph Stiglitz

    Joseph Stiglitz on artificial intelligence: 'We’re going towards a more divided society'

    The technology could vastly improve lives, the economist says – but only if the tech titans that control it are properly regulated. ‘What we have now is totally inadequate’
  • Colin & Wendy Parry outside their peace centre in Warrington.

    Colin and Wendy Parry, parents of Warrington bombing victim: ‘We don’t want to know who did it’

    The couple’s 12-year-old son, Tim, was killed in the 1993 IRA bombing of Warrington. As a BBC drama about the attack airs, they say they don’t want answers, just peace
  • Don Letts: ‘I think young people have to get over the London thing and think about new places of creative growth.’

    Don Letts: ‘Windrush stirred up some deep emotions. I walked down the street practically crying’

    The son of Jamaican immigrants, the musician and film-maker was energised by punk and the Notting Hill carnival in the 70s. But the Windrush scandal has left him deeply concerned about Britain’s future
  • Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, professor in cognitive neuroscience, in her office.

    ‘Teens get a bad rap’: the neuroscientist championing moody adolescents

    Sarah-Jayne Blakemore’s studies of the adolescent brain have won her awards. So when she says GCSEs are damaging to teens’ health, perhaps we should listen
  • Rukmini Callimachi of the New York Times at home.

    Rukmini Callimachi: the podcasting terror expert getting into the minds of Isis

    With her hit podcast, Caliphate, the Isis correspondent has revealed much about life inside the terrorist organisation – and has even become part of the story herself
  • Clare Smyth. Photographed in the kitchen at Core Restaurant. London. Photograph by David Levene. 4/7/18

    Clare Smyth, world’s best female chef: ‘I’m not going to stand and shout at someone. It’s just not nice’

    She was once told by Gordon Ramsay she wouldn’t last a week in his kitchen. Now, the chef patron of Core in London has been named best female chef at the food industry’s ‘Oscars’. But why is the business still dominated by men?
  • John Glen, Conservative MP for Salisbury and South Wiltshire.

    Salisbury MP John Glen: ‘There’s been an assassination attempt and someone has died. This is not a game’

    The Wiltshire city’s MP is seeking answers over four cases of novichok poisoning, but more than anything, he just wants to help the community get back on its feet
  • Stacey Cunningham outside the New York Stock Exchange

    'We need a call to action': Stacey Cunningham, the NYSE's first female president

    She is the first woman to lead the New York Stock Exchange in its 226 years. Faced with falling sales and government pressure, though, she finds the attention to her gender a distraction
  • Jon Favreau: ‘Donald Trump has energised the base of the Democratic party’

    Jon Favreau of Pod Save America: ‘We’re not running for office. So we just speak our mind’

    Jon Favreau wrote some of the greatest speeches of the Obama presidency. Today, with a runaway political podcast, he says he is grateful that Trump has inspired a grassroots Democratic revival
  • ‘I didn’t set out to make a change’ …  Gareth Thomas.

    Rugby star Gareth Thomas: ‘I want a black-and-white law so people can deal with homophobia’

    Coming out in 2009 was a hugely painful experience for Thomas. Now, he has a radical plan to help tomorrow’s gay sports stars avoid what he had to go through
  • Hillary Clinton … ‘I hoped I wouldn’t see the worst of my fears come true.’

    Hillary Clinton: 'What is more uncivil than taking children away?'

    She has made peace with losing the election – but not with Donald Trump. Now she is fighting to undo the damage of the president’s child-separation policy – and has no time for debates over civility
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