John J Lennon has forged a journalistic career over the course of 24 years in prison. He talks about serving sentences – and writing them

The wildlife biologist on his surprise hit Owls of the Eastern Ice, why tigers do well under autocrats, and lessons learned from Russia’s untamed spaces

The former flat-pack king is poised to become a UN high commissioner

For the two tennis champions, retirement brought battles with drugs, adultery and prison. But only one man makes a triumphant story of his struggle

The director of the White House office of management and budget is playing Cromwell to Trump’s Henry VIII

The Austrian skydiver survived jumping 24 miles from the edge of space. But then his challenges really began. How did a daredevil hero become a political villain?

The activist group’s Windsor Castle stunt made top use of its weapon of choice: embarrassment

The Harvard professor on America’s new dogmas and why intellectual freedom is under attack from all sides

David Henty sells copies of masterworks to financiers, footballers and gangsters. Is it art or opportunism?

The former actor and hypnotherapist has swept in on a tide of leftwing populism that will worry Labour

Is the Spinal Tap film-maker about to turn it up to 11 with the mockumentary sequel – or will it be Stonehenge revisited?

As flags spring up across the city, some speak of national pride. Others cry racism. Birmingham council just wants to tear them down…

Heading up the UN’s humanitarian affairs is not a role for the faint-hearted

From ‘ammo’ boxes for storing food to hazmat suits, survival packs and crossbows, a Cornish shop is cashing in on the post-Covid boom in paranoia

The Dutch branded their former PM Mr Teflon. But the world won’t forget that he called the US president ‘daddy’

With a fictitious case, academics imagine how justice over high-profile museum thefts might unfold

In early April, two women died in a cryotherapy unit at a Paris gym. What happened? And why is cryotherapy still so popular?

She’s the favourite to be MI6’s first female boss, but don’t expect Judi Dench’s M.

Bananas taped to walls, gold lavatories and suicidal squirrels – Maurizio Cattelan’s work intends to provoke, shock and amuse. But is it even art? Andrew Anthony leans in to the iconoclastic Italian

When ancient artefacts were stolen, evidence seemed to point in one direction. But the case has become more perplexing