French Nails at Dawn!
The WAGatha Christie of the Real Housewives of British football
Irene Shubik
The television producer who gave us Rumpole of the Bailey and The Jewel in the Crown
The Playing Fields of Money
The Swiss school that charges around $130,000 a year to raise the future global elite
A Daunting Task
James Daunt, the bookstore buccaneer, wants to save Barnes & Noble
Hiding in Plain Sight
A trove of Hitler artifacts in Argentina shows just how many Nazis escaped justice after the war
Bronze Age. Iron Age.
Now, the Plastic Age
Congratulations: your garbage has entered Earth’s fossil record
Boris Johnson’s Ishtar
The British prime minister’s hitherto undiscovered and very un-woke movie treatment
From Russia with Something Other than Love
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once his nation’s richest man, spent a decade in a Siberian prison. Still, he has a great laugh
Me and My Shadow
Lost without the Instagram Following tab
Protest or Die?
Extinction Rebellion argues that radical, mass nonviolent civil disobedience is the only way to change current climate policies. On October 7, they’re going global
Dirndl Power
Behind the beer-soaked scenes at the corporate-networking extravaganza known as Oktoberfest
They Shoot Horses
For the Stronach family, the fallout from the recent horse deaths at their Santa Anita racetrack is only part of a larger family feud with echoes of King Lear and Succession
She Worked Hard for His Money
Will Boris Johnson’s relationship with a pole-dancing American model who appeared in Naughty @ 40 lead him to prison?
Stately Hellhole
In a 100-room Palladian palace, the Marquess of Hertford makes his son sleep on an air mattress
My Month of Rest and Relaxation
In Asia’s posh postpartum hotels, new mothers are pampered while newborns are sequestered in the nursery
Lady Hale, Boris Johnson, and the Spider Brooch
The president of the U.K.’s Supreme Court tells the prime minister what’s what, and creates a legion of fans
Golden Head
Whodunit? A $6 million toilet is stolen from Churchill’s ancestral home
Very High and Drying
The little-known “third pole,” in Asia’s high peaks, is one of the most ecologically diverse places on Earth
Take the Money
Protest criminality, not charity, says the former head of Lincoln Center
