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18/06/2023

Covering everything from Watergate to the wives of Henry VIII, their chart-topping podcast has turned Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland into global stars. How did two middle-class, middle-aged blokes make the past so… s*xy?

18/06/2023

Alex South was 22 when she got her first job at a maximum-security jail. A decade later, suffering from recurring nightmares, she quit. This is her inside story

18/06/2023

Tramplings in the countryside are more common than you might think. Would you know what to do when the herd attacks? Siân Boyle reports

11/06/2023

Frances Haugen exposed her former employer for putting ‘profits over safety’. Eighteen months on, has she made so much as a dent in Mark Zuckerberg’s empire? Danny Fortson meets her

11/06/2023

A global race is on to mine the magical element that’s turbocharging our post-oil future. But at what cost? Ed Conway reports from South America’s lithium triangle

11/06/2023

Most pace bowlers retire in their early thirties, so why is James Anderson in the form of his life? As he prepares to contest the Ashes for the tenth time, he tells our science editor, Ben Spencer, the secret of his longevity

04/06/2023

The president who sacked him behaved like a Mob boss, he tells Sarah Baxter. And his run-ins with the real mafia have inspired his first novel

04/06/2023

After five decades of heavy-metal mayhem alongside Ozzy Osbourne, the bassist Geezer Butler has (amazingly) lived to tell the tale to Decca Aitkenhead

04/06/2023

Murmurs are emerging from the secretive state that the force behind the dictatorship is female. Could she be next in line for the throne?

28/05/2023

How did a polite boy from Bryne become a record-breaking football sensation? David Collins travels to Norway on the trail of an unstoppable goal machine

28/05/2023

He broke his oath of celibacy. He conducted secret gay blessings in his church. He thought he might win Strictly. He’s angry with the BBC. And he’s found love again. The former vicar confesses all to Decca Aitkenhead

28/05/2023

To celebrate three decades of not being fired, our motormouth introduces 31 of his greatest pieces of writing — one for every year since 1993

28/05/2023

No, she’s not doing a Christmas fitness video. But could the sword-wielding star of the coronation have another stab at being party leader? Iain Dale meets the nation’s new favourite Tory

21/05/2023

With the first fall in billionaires since the financial crash, is the party finally over?

07/05/2023

The former teammate of Mikel Arteta is now an entrepreneur with a very different goal: to decarbonise the chemicals industry

07/05/2023

The murder of an elephant in 2012 led to the abdication of Spain’s controversial king. Matthew Campbell tells the inside story of a royal scandal still rocking a nation

07/05/2023

Six riders died last year but still competitors are queueing up for this month’s race. Why do they keep coming back for more?

07/05/2023

In her new memoir, radio presenter Aasmah Mir recalls the pain of growing up between two cultures

30/04/2023

Driven to desperation by insomnia, the writer Bregje Hofstede began a quest to try everything that might give her a good night’s rest. It took a while…

30/04/2023

He’s the ‘lawfare’ barrister who almost derailed Brexit — and clubbed a fox to death in a kimono. Is he the justice warrior the country needs or an egotist doing more harm than good?

30/04/2023

As Turkey prepares for a landmark election, Louise Callaghan tells the full story of a strongman on the brink

30/04/2023

When Iris died in an accident on his farm aged 15, the financier sank into a spiral of grief. His quest for solace led him to a monk, a medium and a spiritual awakening under the spell of a hallucinogenic drug

23/04/2023

Little girls have now been playing with the doll for 64 years and this summer she’s getting a new movie. Despite some controversies, life in plastic, it seems, is still fantastic

23/04/2023

Before he became the most famous torso of the 1990s, the pop singer and reality TV star grew up a devout Jehovah’s Witness. Now a children’s author, he tells Decca Aitkenhead how he still lives with the guilt of breaking free from his faith

23/04/2023

It has been banned for decades but 1.5 million buildings in the UK still contain the lethal construction material. Why aren’t we doing more to get rid of it? Steve Boggan meets the victims

23/04/2023

Masculinity is in crisis and today’s young men are either toxic or terrified of s*x. Or are they? Megan Agnew messaged six of her recent dates to find out what’s going on inside boys’ brains

09/04/2023

Sir Jonathan Bate is a world authority on the Bard — and a long-time fanboy of the American singer. Here, he shall compare her (favourably) to the greats of poetry and prose. Plus, play our lyric-guessing game

09/04/2023

Unlikely romances have blossomed in the muddy trenches and urban battlegrounds of the war. Christina Lamb meets the couples who fell for each other against the odds

09/04/2023

He was a popular boy from Salisbury who grew up to be a police officer — and a serial ra**st. Here, we speak to his mother, friends, colleagues and victims, and reveal for the first time that Carrick is being investigated for crimes he may have committed at the age of 13

02/04/2023

Computers are now impossible to beat and have fuelled a cheating crisis in the sport. Is it game over for the ultimate battle of (human) minds?

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