A piece looking at friendships in parliament that cross party lines. A piece with a positive slant that is perhaps unsurprisingly generating immediate online praise and opprobrium (in almost equal measure).
A story suggesting that MI6 played a significant part in rendition programmes in collaboration with Muammar al-Gaddafi’s Libyan regime and the US – a far more significant part than was previously known.
Matthew d’Ancona looks at the behind the scenes dynamics that have led to the referendum on leaving the EU.
A look at City Football Group’s ambitious plans to build a global network of clubs and radically reshape football’s business model.
If you have been looking for a deep dive into the macroeconomics, microeconomics, design process, supply chain, and key players of the sandwich industry, then this is for you. A surprisingly engaging piece looking at a phenomenally successful £8bn industry, that will also teach you the meaning of the term “goblin caves”.
A spate of linked murders has revealed worryingly active far right movements in Germany. Even more alarming is the strange role in the affair played by the German intelligence services.
The story of Nasa’s evocatively named Operation IceBridge.
A piece examining the criminal organisations operating in Russia and how they have evolved during Vladimir Putin’s time in office.
A fine piece of writing about the author’s experience of miscarriage.
The former Director of BBC News and Editor of The Times asserts in this lecture that technology is damaging democracy. The piece is elevated from the multitude of others with a similar theme by its superior writing, wry humour, and effective deployment of numerous case studies from this time of “democratic recession”.