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Colin Firth is outstanding, as he shows in “A Single Man”, for which he has just won a Bafta. So why isn’t he at his best more often? Isabel Lloyd asks him ...  read more »

While the politicians fiddle, the world keeps warming. The Arctic may be down to its last few summers of being white. Johann Hari, in Greenland, asks hunters and scientists how climate change really feels ...  read more »

Branding used to be for products, then celebrities. Now it is something ordinary people do to themselves. Peter York traces the roots of a phenomenon that goes back to Dale Carnegie via Margaret Thatcher ...  read more »

People who know a lot about a lot have long been an exclusive club, but now they are an endangered species. Edward Carr tracks some down ...  read more »

One day in 1958 Irving Wardle received a letter from Harold Pinter. It was the beginning of a bittersweet friendship between a star writer and a leading critic ...  read more »

In our final instalment of formative years, a series about the experiences of women who entered boys' schools in the 1970s, Tracey Camilleri admits to feeling liberated when let out of an all-female environment ...  read more »

In our latest instalment of formative years, a series about the experiences of women who entered boys' schools in the 1970s, Daisy Goodwin describes her time at Westminster ...  read more »

For centuries British public schools kept the sexes apart—until the 1970s, when a handful of boys’ schools began to admit girls at 16. In the first of three memoirs by women who were among those early guinea-pigs, Rebecca Willis gives a candid view of life at Charterhouse ...  read more »

General knowledge, from capital cities to key dates, has long been a marker of an educated mind. But what happens when facts can be Googled? Brian Cathcart confers with educationalists, quiz-show winners and Bamber Gascoigne ...  read more »

The story of humanity is written in our genes, and thanks to modern science and technology, we are finally able to read it. In our latest cover story, J.M. Ledgard reports from where it—and we—all began ...  read more »