He’s just 5ft 7in and a Manchester ‘scallywag’ who loves curry and chips. But Ricky Hatton is also Britain’s most exciting boxer, and is facing the fight of his career. Can he become a fully fledged national hero? They came, in late September, to Manchester’s Albert Square – 3,000 of them, mostly young men in[…]
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[…]