A profile of George Osborne and his renewed lease of political life as editor of the Evening Standard. The piece contains insider comment including a memorable line they report the former chancellor throwing out about Theresa May – that he won’t stop until she is “is chopped up in bags in my freezer”.
An account of a life less ordinary.
The author Iain Sinclair traverses the city, records what he sees and considers what has been before.
The horrendously dangerous existence of illegal miners in South Africa working outside the law.
President Barack Obama lays out his personal perspective on feminism.
A 2014 piece examining repression and persecution taking place in Russia.
The story of a murder at an apartment block marketed as a luxury development when it opened in 1968, but now “like an inverse of Dante’s layers of hell”. The building is disintegrating, but houses a large and diverse population, including an estimated 50 drug dealers. This is a story about the changes in fortune in the Italian economy, urban development, immigration, integration, and failing public infrastructure.
A story about a man who sells private jets, and about society, and the global economy.
A biographer of Machiavelli looks to Florentine history for lessons in the battle to preserve the rule of law in the face of tyranny.