Long Reads
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The ex factor: the very complex love life of Elon Musk
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson was finally published this week, allowing the world to gain an insight into the mind…
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A modern, moody monarch in a hurry – inside the court of King Charles
However much the Queen’s death was anticipated, the news from Balmoral on 8 September 2022 came as a shock to…
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The Truss calamity: 49 deranged days that convulsed Britain
Almost exactly a year ago, outside the Queen Elizabeth II conference centre in Westminster, the anti-Brexit activist Steve Bray pressed…
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The sky’s the limit: Can green flying ever take off?
The end of last month marked an aviation milestone: on 20 July, there were more planes in the sky than…
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Intimidation, violence and endless debt: how loan sharks are circling the cost of living crisis
Last winter, Claire mentioned to a mother at her children’s school that she was struggling financially. “She said she knew…
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Was Oppenheimer really the ‘father’ of the atomic bomb?
It is always too easy to fall for the great man – or great woman – theory of history. Massive…
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Cash and dishonours: an inglorious history of celebrity bank Coutts
Back in 1970, Coutts ran one of those insufferably smug advertising campaigns in broadsheet newspapers that would not sit well…
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The most troublesome protestors since the Suffragettes? Yes, but I back the Just Stop Oil disrupters
I’ve never met Marcus Decker, though I did speak to him once on the phone from his prison cell. On…
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The fall and rise of one of the most beautiful museums in the world
In Essen, a grey and gritty city in the centre of Europe’s biggest rustbelt, Germany’s most beautiful art gallery is…
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Succession, spying and selling up: is this the end of the Barclay brothers’ empire?
Occasionally in London in the 1980s and 1990s, it was possible to catch a glimpse of the Barclay twins, David…
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