The Blinder Side
The author of Moneyball and Liar’s Poker wants to take on climate change, but cannot find the right antihero to champion
The Calm Before the Storm
A letter from Hong Kong
Troubled Waters
The world’s oceans now have more plastic than fish
Naughty Nights with Randy Andy
Models, masseuses, and (ahem) more were part of the princely pleasures of the Duke of York. One fellow partyer lived to tell the tale …
In Cold Blue Blood
The mystery of the missing French aristocrat who vanished after murdering his wife, children, and dogs
Split Waterman
Charismatic, risk-taking, gun- and gold-smuggling motorcycle star lived on the edge
Village Idiot
A dot-com entrepreneur is reviled as he tries to restore his ancestral village in Devon in the style of Silicon Valley
Keith Schellenberg
The reliably colorful laird of Eigg who married often and liked to view the world from an open-top Bentley
How to Kill a Predator
Backed by big-bucks conservatives, and with deep ties in D.C., the Pacific Legal Foundation is systematically destroying U.S. wildlife protections
The Aquifer
A short play about climate change
Impostor Syndrome
German businessman who posed as an anti-Nazi martyr was actually a Hitler loyalist and wartime profiteer
Sisters in Arms
Why are young British women volunteering to fight and die alongside the Kurds?
Outsourcing the Holidays
Why go to the trouble of decorating when these enterprising entrepreneurs will handle the heavy lifting?
The View from There
Prince Andrew and Boris Johnson get ratings that rival those of The Crown (not in a good way)
Terry O’Neill
The photographer who once wanted to be a priest captured Swinging London’s cultural revolution in the 1960s
Fighting a Burning Injustice
Threatened with death, this professor battles giant corporations setting fire to rare wilderness areas
And Jeffrey Epstein, Your Highness?
How an acclaimed BBC interviewer got Prince Andrew into the hot seat—and further into hot water
Sir Spankalot
A knighted British retail billionaire who partied with Beyoncé and Leonardo DiCaprio now faces ruin and misdemeanor-assault charges
Last Call
In his new venture, Exit Here, Oliver Peyton brings his velvet-rope, nightlife-impresario approach to the funeral business
The Sex App
Ferly, the digital platform that tells you everything you wanted to know about libido and “self-pleasure”
Reefer Madness
Pot dealers literally go underground to tend a $50 million cannabis farm below the center of London
Inside the C.I.A.’s Tortured Logic
Why did the agency give two idiots $80 million in taxpayer money for illegal torture ideas? The writer and director of The Report shares his unredacted thoughts