Richard Godwin

I profiled the pioneers of the social media trickshot, a genre that exists somewhere between performance art, elite sport and childhood tomfoolery.

I interviewed (and preened!) the pioneering primatologist and environmental campaigner on her extraordinary life. We talked chimpanzees, octopuses, love, death, war, whiskey, hope, ghosts, the afterlife - and what makes humans human.

Felix can’t remember when he first bet on football, but he reckons he was between eight and 10 years old.

I spent a week at Wadham College, Oxford, on an "academic retreat for leaders" that reimagines learning as a high-end experience

Donald Trump's ambitions to be Tsar of All the Americas

There are moments when Capri, a small, rocky island in the Gulf of Naples, seems deranged.

Poor Tracey Emin is feeling the worse for wear.

GLP-1 drugs like Mounjaro, Ozempic and WeGovy seem to actually deliver where no weightloss treatment has before. But in helping people to master their impulses, their effects could be even more profound

Life expectancy for the poorest started to stall from 2010 - even as it continued to rise for the richest. Now the gap is so wide, it has brought the average life expectancy in reverse for the first time since records began

Half of the world will be short-sighted by 2050 and 350 million people could face blindness as a result. Why? And how do we reverse this?

Yes they can. But only bad art. Then again. People like bad art, don't they?

The Berkshire town is a byword for despair and desolation. And yet it has dynamic economy, a genuinely multicultural population, acres of green space and productivity levels that put all other UK cities to shame.

Why our politicians are suddenly all reading John Bew's history of a mid-19th century German idea

The lost futures beneath Britain's magic roundabouts

An unbelievably powerful Amazonian hallucinogen is the It drug of the tech elite. What is it actually teaching them?