Yuval Noah Harari’s History of Everyone, Ever
An expansive profile of the author of two of the last decade’s biggest non-fiction hits – Sapiens, and Homo Deus.
Dominic Cummings and the battle for Downing Street
A profile of Dominic Cummings by the Newsnight political editor.
Going the Distance (and Beyond) to Catch Marathon Cheaters
A man who made it his mission to catch marathon cheats encountered a case that was to have unforeseen, and tragic, consequences.
Collaborators in creation
A look at the interplay between “physical and social technologies” in driving human progress.
‘The intelligence coup of the century’
The explosive story of Crypto AG, a Swiss firm that for decades supplied cryptography technology to numerous world governments, and provided a back door to US and West German intelligence services in the process.