Take a Right at the Second Cloud
After 50 years, is one man’s dream of flying cars closer to reality?
“Off with Their Euros!”
Welcome to Royalist theme park Puy du Fou, the least woke place in France
Tempest in a Teacup
The author of a naughty tell-all memoir is driven into hiding while le tout London wonders what on earth Sasha Swire was thinking
Did You Hear About … ?
Quirky news about these rather curious days
Party Like It’s 1929!
Americans are finagling their way around international-travel bans and decamping to Europe, where the living is (comparatively) easy
Whatever You Say, Sir!
Trust in the media is as low as the president’s approval rating. Here are the Top 10 media remora of the Trump era
Magisterial Meghan
Prince Harry’s wife and master fires the lawyer who successfully defended Johnny Depp and picks his biggest rival to pursue her defamation suit
“The Best Eyes in the Business”
During the Swinging 60s, Valerie Askew ran the largest modeling agency in Europe and partied with the Beatles
Sex Education
Two elite British universities—including Prince William’s alma mater—unravel amid horrific accusations of assault on campus
Is Serge Gainsbourg #Annulé?
The French intelligentsia now see him as Harvey Weinstein in dirty denim
The View from Here
Read ’em and weep: all the president’s biographers find different ways to paint the same horrifying portrait
Did You Hear About … ?
Quirky news about these curious days
Tattle Tales
What I know about the Tory wives titillating London with their deliciously disloyal tell-alls
Toulouse-Lautrec’s Family Is Shortchanged
The artist’s 91-year-old great-grandniece gets grifted out of the château
Vick Hope
The rising star in British radio and television brings a focus on diversity and mental health
Covid in Connecticut
What a difference six months make
Soldier of Misfortune
William Barr helps Michael Flynn leave a mess—and a man—behind
Boundless as the Sea
The Italian couple who fell in love across their balconies during the height of the coronavirus are finally united—and engaged
The Woman in Black
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s unanswerable power of argument
It’s Just Not Cricket
The world’s snootiest sporting club is being rocked by revolt from within
Booty Call
Paris robbers who stole $10.6 million worth of Kim Kardashian’s jewelry used her social media to map their heist
“If You Are in Denial About Climate Change, Come to California”
—Governor Gavin Newsom
Number of acres burned in all of 2019: 259,000
Number of acres burned to date in 2020: 3,400,000
(an amount greater than all of Connecticut; equal to 4,000 Central Parks)
Instascam
Kuwaiti prosecutors charge social-media influencers with money-laundering and boost their online popularity
The Way We Live Now
How Sir Terence Conran Turned Bauhaus into Your House