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The writer and Conservative party candidate on her escape from the hermit kingdom, the case for Brexit — and building a new life in Bury
The Nobel-winning author on Turkey’s strongman president, solidarity with Salman Rushdie — and his new novel about a plague
The prophet of ‘Effective Altruism’ on giving away his earnings — and how we can save the world, one small act at a time
The tabloid editor turned TV provocateur on his faith in Rupert Murdoch and using the ‘cesspit’ of social media to his advantage
The ‘Goon Squad’ author on the ‘mass psychosis’ of her homeland and the right to write about anything in the ‘greedy grab bag’ of fiction
The fintech entrepreneur on the culture of the City in the 1980s, confounding expectations in Silicon Valley — and falling out with her co-founder
The Mercedes team principal on selling motor racing to a new generation, becoming a social media meme — and how he engineered one of sport’s great winning runs
The former prisoner of Iran on her six-year ordeal, the politics behind her release — and the joy of being reunited with her daughter
In exile in Vienna, the former ‘kingmaker’ on the dangers of mixing business and politics — and the moment his country missed its chance to stop Putin’s war
The British broadcaster and novelist on the secrets of his Cumbrian childhood, his 50 years of championing the arts — and what cut short his movie career
The famously literary Pimco chief on generational luck in finance, where you find ideas, and the art of investing in good times — and bad times
The economist and author explains how data can help us to raise our children — and why writing about her pregnancy was seen as ‘weird’
The Ukrainian historian on the end of empire, life under a nuclear shadow — and why Putin’s war might end in a new Russia
The Russian exile on seeing his fiction become fact, the ‘zombie’ of empire — and how culture will pay a price for the war on Ukraine
The former presidential candidate on negotiating with Putin, the ‘prophet’ Margaret Atwood — and why the Democrats need to rein in the radical left
The Pulp frontman on loathing Britpop, a guitar-playing Tony Blair and the evolving business of being human
The Australian chef on creating a fine-dining renaissance in China’s commercial capital, how it is becoming more closed under Xi Jinping — and why she’s called time on M on the Bund
The insurance chief on fighting back against sexism at her AGM, growing up in a mining community — and how big business can do good
The oligarch talks about his encounters with Putin, rising above his own rivalry with Zelensky — and why his country’s forces surprised the world
The FTX founder on hype, the problem with bitcoin and how crypto can build a fairer financial system
The Vietnamese-American poet on the legacy of war, navigating grief — and turning invisibility into a superpower
The social psychologist on the ‘darts’ of social media, our dangerous present moment — and a decade of stupidity in America
The great chronicler of India’s past on Narendra Modi, what Mahatma Gandhi told her — and her country’s attitude to the war in Ukraine
The unlikely star of tech investing on backing ‘outliers’, the future for China’s entrepreneurs — and the comfort of 19th-century literature
The outgoing chief inspector of constabulary on kicking out bad cops, getting his own back on the bullies — and why he keeps 29,970 press cuttings in his shed
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