Private Mossad for Hire
A profile of Psy-Group, the private intelligence agency with the slogan “Shape Reality”.
Let Me Tell You About My Friend Maria Butina — Who Might Be A Russian Spy
A friend of Maria Butina tells her story from very close up.
The Money Saving Expert: how Martin Lewis became the most trusted man in Britain
A profile of the man who The Financial Times suggests is “the most successful journalist in the world, ever”.
The teen lovebirds last saw each other in 1952. Now they were reuniting. But was it love?
She was a Brazilian heiress on her first trip abroad, he the son of the owners of the hotel where she was staying in Italy. Teenage romance blossomed, but it would be more than half a century before they met again.
My disabled son’s amazing gaming life in the World of Warcraft
It was only after his death that the parents of a boy with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, learned that their son Mats had lived had a vibrant online life in World of Warcraft as Ibelin, “a nobleman by birth, a philanderer and a detective”.
A Suspense Novelist’s Trail of Deceptions
This story about a hit novelist’s complex web of fabrications has gone viral this week, unsurprisingly, as it offers readers an intoxicating combination of literary intrigue, society gossip, and schadenfreude.
The Lonely Life of a Yacht Influencer
The Yacht Guy has a job that is up there with the strangest in the new economy. He is paid to party on luxury yachts, sleep in their smallest cabin, and publicise their availability and location to his 800,000 Instagram followers.
Retail is broken. Apple’s Angela Ahrendts has a plan
An interview with Angela Ahrendts, the former CEO of Burberry, who has spent the last five years running Apple’s retail operation. In this interview, she discusses the future of retail.
“Down the Rabbit Hole I Go”
At its heart this is a simple and tragic story, but it contains an array of troubling tropes of the new media age – catfishing, doxxing, hacking, bitcoin fraud and more.
He Played by the Rules of Putin’s Russia, Until He Didn’t: The Story of a Murder
A fine piece of reporting, peeling back the layers of Russian power and criminality swirling around the murder of the Russian politician and fixer Denis Voronenkov.