The collapse of US hegemony, who will run Gaza when the guns fall silent, and the fight against fake drugs. Plus, Eliot Higgins profiled, our annual list of the world’s top thinkers and a brief encounter with Miriam Margolyes
Triumphant at the end of the Cold War, the United States pledged to lead humanity in a new world order. Two conflicts—in Gaza and in Ukraine—have exposed that it has never been weaker
Nemone Lethbridge smashed the glass ceiling to become a criminal barrister in the 1950s. What she did next—befriending the Kray twins
and marrying a convicted murderer who wrote plays with Ken Loach—no one could have predicted