by Tom Preston | May 23, 2026 | Heros, Latest, People, War
Shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission at the height of the Cold War, Francis Gary Powers’s story of being captured and exchanged for a Russian spy went on to be immortalised in Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies. His son, Gary Powers Jr discusses...
by Tom Preston | May 23, 2026 | Heros, War
Antony Penrose knew next to nothing about his mother, Lee Miller’s life before he was born, in his own words, he had “dismissed her as being a useless drunk who’d achieved nothing,” he says. It wasn’t until after his mother’s death in 1977 that his outlook on...
by Matthew Stanger | May 23, 2026 | Latest, People, Sport
For generations, chess had been the Soviets’ game, a symbol of strategy and intellect that the US simply couldn’t attain. This wasn’t until Bobby Fischer’s American Dream style took offence to the Eastern reign and defeated Boris Spassky at the 1972 World Chess...
by Matthew Stanger | May 23, 2026 | Leaders, People, Present Day, Top Story
Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice laid bare one of the most revealing chapters of Donald Trump’s past. From Roy Cohn’s mentorship to Trump’s furious public backlash, the film traces how an origin story long dismissed suddenly became politically explosive in the shadow of...
by Tom Preston | May 23, 2026 | Latest, Present Day, War
Jack El-Hai published the book The Nazi and the Psychiatrist in 2013; last year, it was adapted into Nuremberg, a film depicting the psychological standoff between Hermann Göring and psychiatrist Douglas Kelley before the Nuremberg trials. But what inspired El-Hai to...
