The Secret Economics Of a VIP Party
Behind every £100,000 bar tab, there is a secret economy of pretty women.
Medieval Warfare: Just as Terrifying as You Might Imagine
The soldier now known as Towton 25 had survived battle before. A healed skull fracture points to previous engagements. He was old enough—somewhere between 36 and 45 when he died—to have gained plenty of experience of fighting. But on March 29th 1461, his luck ran out. Towton 25 suffered eight wounds to his head that day. The precise order can be worked out from the direction of fractures on his skull: when bone breaks, the cracks veer towards existing areas of weakness. The first five blows were delivered by a bladed weapon to the left-hand side of his head, presumably by a right-handed opponent standing in front of him.
How Toyota Lost Its Crown
Wall Street’s new shape — Rearranging the towers of gold
Wall Street has staged a surprisingly strong recovery from its meltdown a year ago. But it will not return to business as usual
The Geneva conventions at 60 — Unleashing the laws of war
The chasm is still too wide between noble Swiss ideas and the hard reality of locations where war is hell
We Are All Writers Now
Go back 20, 30 years and you will find all of us doing more talking than writing. We rued literacy levels and worried over whether all this phone-yakking and television-watching spelled the end of writing. Few make that claim today. I would hazard that, with more than 200m people on Facebook, and even more with home internet access, we are all writing more than we would have ten years ago.
The Bankruptcy of General Motors: A Giant Falls
The collapse of General Motors into bankruptcy is only the latest chapter in a long story of mismanagement and decline