In 1719 London, the year began well enough for London’s stock traders, working from their corner of the city, a narrow passage called Exchange Alley, buying and selling shares-dealing not in things but in numbers – was still new to the city. There was no fixed marketplace for traders in the paper. So those who…
A definitive biography of legendary White House chief of staff and secretary of state James A Baker III: the man who ran Washington when Washington ran the world. From the end of the Watergate scandal to the aftermath of the Cold War, no Republican won the presidency without his help or ran the White House…
David Attenborough, the 94-year-old natural historian, broadcaster, and legend who filmed his first wildlife documentary in Sierra Leone while the country was still a British colony and seen a colossal expanse of the natural world. In A Life On Our Planet, he highlights the natural world has been damaged and how much trouble we are…
The winners of this year’s International Photography Awards (IPA), open to professional, non-professional and student photographers around the world, received over 13, 000 submission across its 13 categories. Winners of the professional categories will be entered into the IPA’s Photographer of the Year Competition, with the chance of winning $7, 750($ 10, 000) prize. The…
Former president Jospeh R Biden Jr has been called the luckiest man and the unluckiest – a fifty-year political career that reached the White House also marked by deep personal losses that he suffered. AS Biden’s life has been shaped by drama, powered by a willingness, rare at the top ranks of politics, to…
In the recent US presidential Television debate, Donald Trump’s oneliner was ” China ate your lunch Joe” against challenger Joe Biden. According to Trump’s view, China is a global villain that has visited a “Plague” upon the world while stealing US jobs and intellectual properties, Biden for his part has called XI Jinping, China’s leader, a…
Ghosts don’t realise they’re dead and wander around screaming because no one is paying them attention. You howl around the corridors of power while the elite march straight through. Rupert Everett tells the story of a soulful and thought-provoking autobiography from one of our best-loved and most talented actors and writer and how he set…
35-year-old Mohammed bin Salman is the pivotal leader of the Arab World, Crown prince who became king in 2015 and de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, ended the House of Saud’s consensual model of an absolute monarchy with no absolute monarch, seizing all the reins of power and urged forward social and economic reform. The…
Curtis Sittenfeld’s Help Yourself, hilarious and insightful new collection of three short stories, illuminates human experience, combines a potent blend of biting truths, entertainment and upends our assumption about race, class, envy, and disappointment, gender and celebrity. Suburban friends fall out after a racist encounter at a birthday party is caught on video and…
Human nature has the instinct to fight but War – organised violence – with organised society shaped humanity’s history, social and political institutions, its values and ideas. MacMillan’s War: How Conflict Shaped Us explores the glory and misery of war which brings out both the vilest and the noblest aspects of humanity and reveals the…