Category: The Independent

Mikhail Khodorkovsky was the oligarch who dared to defy Russia’s president – and paid the price. Convicted of tax evasion and fraud, stripped of his billions, and exiled to Siberia’s most brutal and notorious prison, he faces a daily struggle for survival in one of the most remote places on earth. Ed Caesar joined his…

To his critics, he’s just an over-coiffed mediocrity. To his fans, he’s a living rock god. To himself, he’s just a kid from New Jersey who got very, very lucky. But one thing’s for certain: Jon Bon Jovi’s latest world tour is the quintessential rock’n’roll experience. Ed Caesar joins the man and his band on…

It was a byword for journalistic integrity, a beacon of truth and one of America’s proudest institutions. Then, in 2003, The New York Times was brought to its knees. A 27-year-old reporter, one of the newsroom’s brightest stars, was exposed as a plagiarist who fabricated stories and concocted quotes. The fall-out was epic: the editor…