How the UK lost the Brexit battle
A piece focusing on the negotiation process of leaving the EU, and how UK’s team has been comprehensively outmanoeuvred by their Brussels counterparts.
The Untold Story Behind the Mysterious Disappearance of Fan Bingbing, the World’s Biggest Movie Star
Fan Bingbing is one of the most recognisable faces in China’s movie industry. So it sent huge ripples through the entertainment world when, for a part of 2018, she disappeared. The story highlights the tightrope on which many of China’s new elite walk – “You play ball, or you are screwed. So you play ball.”
The Senseless Logic of the Wild
A survival story about a group of young men from New York in their early twenties who were on an expedition to Alaska when the weather turned bad and things went very wrong.
Can Trump Survive Mueller?
A look at Donald Trump’s prospects of surviving the Mueller enquiry, and his long track record of living life right on the edge of the precipice.
The Mortician and the Murderer
The extraordinary, grisly story of a corrupt funeral home and crematorium business run by a family team.
How to move a masterpiece: the secret business of shipping priceless artworks
Behind the scenes in the business of fine art shipping.
Nihilist In Chief
A none too flattering profile of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a man right at the heart of the American political system.
The Epic Hunt for a Lost World War II Aircraft Carrier
A story about the recovery of an aircraft carrier that had been sunk in the Coral Sea during the Second World War, replete with original documents and photographs of the sinking ship and the recovery mission.
White Nationalism’s Deep American Roots
A look at the story, and writing, behind historic white nationalist movements in the USA. The piece concludes with the following reflection – “When Americans abandon their commitment to pluralism, the world notices, and catastrophe follows.”