Articles by Anya Pearson

Michael Collins Announced as Winner of This Year's Crick Prize

We are delighted to announce Michael Collins worthy winner of the annual Bernard Crick Prize for Best Article 2022 for ‘Cricket, Englishness and Racial Thinking' (93 1).

"Democracy is Really Struggling to Cope": Interview With David Runciman

"We’ve Ended up With Liberty for the Few, Rather Than for the Many": Interview with Timothy Garton Ash

Anya Pearson interviews Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies at Oxford University and Guardian columnist.

“It Honestly Feels Like We’re in the Middle of a Government Cover-Up”: Interview with Carole Cadwalladr

Anya Pearson speaks to the Observer and Guardian reporter Carole Cadwalladr, who won the Orwell journalism prize for her investigation into Cambridge Analytica.

"Recognition Alone is Not Enough": Interview with Jacqui Smith

Anya Pearson interviews the British broadcaster, political commentator and former Labour Party politician.

The Planetary Health Diet Isn’t Much Use to People Living in Food Poverty

The high cost of this earth-friendly diet could be out of this world for many people.

"The Closest You Can Get to the Truth of What Happened is a Multisided Account": Interview with Norma Percy

Anya Pearson speaks to documentary film-maker and producer Norma Percy.

"Fiction Gets us to Look at Truths That Politics Can't Get at": Interview with Petina Gappah

Petina Gappah reflects on Zimbabwe's socio-political transformation, the influence of Orwell on her writing, and the enduring power of fiction to reveal the truth.

“We Really Need Orwell’s Spirit of Fighting Back”: Interview with Alpa Shah

Alpa Shah has always striven to understand inequality, and how to address it.

"We Need to Learn How to Talk About Risk and Trade-Offs in the Coronavirus Crisis": Interview with Lawrence Freedman

Anya Pearson interviews Sir Lawrence David Freedman, Emeritus Professor of War Studies at King's College London, about the government's handling of the coronavirus outbreak.

"If We’re Not Out in Public, Then We’re Not Negotiating Difference": Interview with Sophie Watson

Anya Pearson talks to Sophie Watson about water as a site of struggle, touching on her latest book City Water Matters: Cultures, Practices and Entanglements of Urban Water.

“There is a Deeply Entrenched Assumption That England Doesn’t Need its Own Institutions or Voice:" Interview with Michael Kenny

Anya Pearson interviews Michael Kenny, Inaugural Director of the Bennett Institute for Public Policy at the University of Cambridge, about winning the 2021 Bernard Crick Prize.

"Equality has Always Been Conditional on Being a Particular Kind of Human": Interview with Anne Phillips

Anya Pearson interviews Professor Anne Phillips, one of the most distinguished political theorists of our time, on what it would mean to have genuinely unconditional equality in society.