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The Attention-Whore Index

Can professional victims HarMeg™ once again hang on to their No. 1 ranking? It’s up to them. But also up to you! Plus: news of the week that’s not to be missed

The Brotherhood of the Bloody Heads

A growing number of men are taking solo trips to Turkey—and returning with a lot more hair

100 Seconds to Midnight

With Putin rattling his nuclear saber and Trump back on the campaign trail, even battle-hardened generals are gripped with atomic anxiety

The View from Here

Being a travel writer means spreading envy for all to see

The View from Here

The rock star and soul of Ukraine

Dame Frances Campbell-Preston

Harry Mount remembers his cousin, the Queen Mother’s oldest surviving lady-in-waiting

Our Attention-Whore Index

Can professional victims HarMeg™ hang on to their No. 1 ranking? It’s up to them. But also up to you! Plus: news not to be missed

Derek Granger

Remembering the former Royal Navy officer who forged a singular career as a TV producer behind the Emmy-winning Brideshead Revisited and other hits

Freezing to Death?

As an energy crisis looms, the French are melting down amid threats of rolling blackouts and school closures

Introducing the “Russian Manicure”

It’s the drilling-intensive new nail trend that TikTokers love … and dermatologists dread!

The View from Here

Prince Heinrich XIII is not a one-off. German aristocrats like nothing more than planning coups

The Sussex Survivors’ Club

The trauma. The truths. The tears. The second installment of Harry & Meghan goes full-blown reality TV

Trump Gets Even Smaller

We have editorial columns and editorial cartoons. Now we have editorial toy soldiers

The Real Loretta Lynn

When I joined the late country singer on her tour bus, I got an earful—and a very different picture of country music than the one I had in my head

Leading the Way by Standing Still

Fashion has finally caught up with Old Town clothing, a singular apparel company on the Norfolk coast

Who Wants to Be a Thrillionaire?

For the .01 percent, a vacation isn’t truly luxurious unless it involves adventure—and possibly danger

The View from Here

In the spirit of the season, a holiday letter from a family that’s putting the “salt” in “salt of the earth”

Introducing the Attention-Whore Index!

Who deserves the No. 1 spot? Goodness knows, there’s a lot of competition: Harry and Meghan? Ye? Trump? You decide! Plus: News not to be missed

Desperately Seeking Sympathy

Can someone get Harry and Meghan a private jet to this Netflix “global event” pity party?

Heavy Assets

“Baroness Bra,” the U.K.’s most controversial member of the House of Lords, is accused of “bullying” ministers into awarding her lucrative coronavirus contracts worth more than $240 million

The Week in Review

Marie Kondo’s a mess, the French have lost their sex drive, and more …

Business Model

How Kate Moss turned the attention from her decades of scandals—and the kids of the friends who shared them—into a successful talent agency

Immoral Campus

France’s best-known university, responsible for educating countless world leaders, including Emmanuel Macron, is a hotbed of sexism, misogyny, drink spiking, and all-around scandal

The Amateur’s Hour

With reporters and regulators in thrall to FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, it took a hobbyist newsletter writer to notice the “crypto emperor” had no clothes