Robert Hardman occupies a rarefied space: he is the journalist who actually knows where the bodies are buried—and he has usually had tea with the family first. As the late Queen Elizabeth II’s centenary fills the bookshelves with tributes, Hardman’s latest release, Elizabeth II: In Private. In Public. The Inside…
Catherine Blaiklock. When we talk about the seismic shift of Brexit, the narrative is dominated by the showman bravado of Boris Johnson, the quiet fury of David Cameron, and—most of all—the relentless, cigarette-in-hand crusade of Nigel Farage. Farage is the face, the brand, the celebrity of Euroscepticism. He is the…
To the British public, Mike Soutar is the bulldog. He is the guy who buys candidates’ domain names right before the interview to prove they haven’t done their admin. He is the one who peers over his glasses at a £250,000 business plan and asks, quietly, “Why is this so…
In the world of heavyweight boxing moses itauma, we are conditioned to be size queens. For decades, the first line of any scouting report has been the vital statistics: the height, the reach, the weight. We fawn over the 6’9” titans like Tyson Fury and the 6’6” knockout artists like…
The name Irfan Khan Niazi is currently echoing through two very different arenas: the cacophonous, boundary-lined cricket stadiums of Pakistan and the quiet, decisive clicking of shutter rooms at the Los Angeles Times. On one side of the world, Irfan Khan Niazi is a 23-year-old with a six-hitting swing and ice in…
Claudine Collins To the millions who tune into BBC’s The Apprentice, she is the intimidating interviewer with the laser-focused gaze—the woman Lord Sugar deploys to shatter the delusions of overconfident candidates. But to the media moguls and blue-chip clients of London’s Mad Men era, she is something rarer: a titan…
Logan Sargeant, the story was supposed to have ended that way. When Williams Racing dropped him after the 2024 Dutch Grand Prix, the obituaries wrote themselves: “The American Dream that Wasn’t,” “One Point and Done,” “Another casualty of the F1 ladder.” But if you listen closely this season, past the screaming turbos…
Morgan McSweeney, the steely Irish-born strategist known as the “enforcer” behind Prime Minister Keir Starmer, has spent the better part of the last decade pulling the levers of power from the shadows. Yet, in a political landscape often defined by ruthless ambition, the woman at his side—his wife, Imogen Walker—is…
To read Hadley Freeman is to watch someone think in public—messy, contradictory, and blisteringly intelligent. For over two decades, Freeman has carved out a space in British and American journalism that defies easy categorization. She is the fashion writer who is deeply suspicious of the fashion industry. She is the…
He was John Volanthen: an IT consultant from Bristol, a volunteer scout leader, and a man who designs his own diving equipment in his spare time. He is, by his own admission, an ordinary person who has mastered an extraordinary reaction to panic. While the world watched the Thai cave…
