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Fear and loathing in Athens: the rise of Golden Dawn and the far right

The flag of Golden Dawn: ‘We want all illegal foreigners out of our country, we want the usurers of the troika and the IMF out for ever.’ Photograph: Reuters You can hear it from blocks away: the…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 26, 2012
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3510 words)

Barclays Libor scandal: how can we change banking culture?

Barclays boss Bob Diamond … the scale of the Libor scandal is jawdropping Photograph: Dylan Martinez/REUTERS We don't know each other, but I want to offer you a deal: You each give me £20,000. And…
PUBLISHED: July 2, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2304 words)

The Paris Review

[ John Steinbeck had agreed to a Paris Review interview late in his life. He had earlier been coy about it but then wanted the interview very much. He was, unfortunately, too sick to work on the…
LENGTH: 38 minutes (9629 words)

MPs' expenses scandal: what happened next?

'I've paid the price for it': Lord Hanningfield, sent to prison for fraud, with Jefferson. Photograph: Zed Nelson for the Guardian Lord Hanningfield talks about prison with a warmth verging on the…
PUBLISHED: May 11, 2012
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5132 words)

The true fathers of computing

Once upon a time, a "computer" was a human being, usually female, who did calculations set for her by men in suits. Then, in the 1940s, something happened: computers became machines based on…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 26, 2012
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2815 words)

the first 50 years

PUBLISHED: Jan. 11, 2012
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3044 words)
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