Editor’s Picks

Tim Cook: Taking Care of Business

He wants to be remembered as a good and decent man. Not that he’s going anywhere, anytime soon: Apple CEO…

7 years ago

Lucy Worsley: Bringing the Past to Life

Books are the carriers of civilisation. Without them, history is silent, literature dumb, and science crippled. That certainty has changed,…

7 years ago

Boris Johnson

Former mayor of London Boris Johnson (53), burning with ambition to seize the moment and make Britain great again, still…

8 years ago

Michel Barnier

His job requires the patience of a saint – and an ability to repeat the message ad nauseam. Michel Barnier…

8 years ago

David Davis

He had promised “the battle of the summer”, yet the argument-which-never-was ended seven minutes after it had started with a…

8 years ago

Guy Verhofstadt

He is the one European politician almost all Brits love to hate – and he knows it. Guy Verhofstadt, however,…

8 years ago

Jacob Rees-Mogg

Tipped as the conservatives’ answer to Jeremy Corbyn, the aristocratic Jacob Rees-Mogg (48) suddenly appears as one of a dwindling…

8 years ago

Jean-Claude Juncker

Dismissed and ridiculed as a failed small-town administrator with a penchant for fine wines and cognacs, European Commission President Jean-Claude…

8 years ago

Catherine Abel: Stretching the Canvas of Art Deco

A young lady from the Australian outback, determined to become part of the famed Paris art scene, Catherine Abel has…

8 years ago

Marcus du Sautoy: What We’ll Never Know

He poses questions that may never be answered and argues that the field of human knowledge is finite – confined…

8 years ago