The guru of the ‘growth mindset’ on why your qualities are not set in stone

The violinist on making high art popular and what #MeToo means for musicians

The novelist on Cicero’s lessons for Brexit Britain, Labour’s future — and how to write a bestseller a year

Whose back feels like an anatomy textbook in Braille? Who sparred with Trump? Who’s too posh for her target base? Have lunch again with Federer, Schwarzenegger and Beckham . . . 

The architect on why buildings move us — and what he shares with Don Quixote

The Russian billionaire on working with Putin, his Premier League plans and making a fortune in the 1990s

The Tory grandee on Thatcher, Johnson — and how centrist complacency fuelled Brexit

Her bestselling novel showed South Korea’s everyday sexism — and struck a chord around the region

Canada’s deputy PM on moving from the ‘snark’ of journalism to the ‘smarm’ of politics

Her gene-editing tool could cure disease and change the human race. But what happens if it falls into the wrong hands?

The Polish novelist on confronting history and her battles with the nationalist right

The former Goldman chief executive on the crash, the criticism — and sparring with Bernie Sanders

The ‘Mick Jagger of microbes’ on a life of fighting disease — and the severity of the current crisis

The former engineer on bullying, tech firm culture and breaking the silence

US liberals’ favourite TV host on polarisation, the primaries and staying sane

The South Carolina congressman on Trump, Michael Moore — and the ‘bombastic’ Bernie bros

The Chinese novelist on life under censorship — and why he is still a ‘peasant’ at heart

As chief executive of 23andMe, she holds the key to a vast genetic database. What will she do with it?

The economist has long argued that governments should spend whatever it takes. Has her time now come?

The Lancet editor on Britain’s response to coronavirus — and being labelled a pariah

The Wall Street strategist talks about debt, lessons from losing his hearing — and his latest predictions for the world

The England cricketer on finding his faith, burnout — and why he can’t wait to get back on the pitch

Group seeks to ‘protect capital structure’ as uncertainty swirls over Covid-19 impact

Pentwater Capital calls for boardroom change in vehicle developing Oyu Tolgoi

Supply disruptions expected to increase as governments impose lockdowns 

African nation vows to block decision it rejects as unjustified and illegal

Restrictions in nation that processes 90% of world’s stones upend global industry 

Discovery raises prospect of industry’s return 20 years after Cornwall’s last pit closed

Main non-China producer says it may need public funds to weather coronavirus downturn

Lusaka ups ante in dispute over shuttered copper mine

London-listed explorer hires Citi for fundraising and advice as rivals eye acquisitions

Prime minister escalates dispute over Canada-listed group’s licence

Group has halted work at number of mines due to pandemic

Boxer’s ideas don’t have to make sense — he just has to hit people

Mourinho in Norfolk, Tyson v Fury, and mandatory drug-taking at the Olympics

In the resort where winter tourism began, warm weather forced the cancellation of the White Turf horse race

How has modern Ireland changed the way it views the events that took place in Dublin 100 years ago?

Golfers need no reminding of their fallibility, especially on the back nine at Augusta

Commentators have forsworn understatement

A fascinatingly detailed history one of the world’s great scholarly projects

With an hour of season to go, three of the nine teams were all in with a chance of winning

In Stoke-on-Trent, Matthew Engel finds a party struggling to answer the simplest questions

A celebrated journalist’s guide to crisp, accurate expression is full of sound advice

Academics and students on campus life in the era of ‘knowledge corporations’

Matthew Engel tours Middle England in search of the root of voter disillusionment

An entertaining inquiry into the relentless advance of American expressions among the British

Doyen of radio cricket commentary will hang up his microphone in September

Recent books by Matthew Engel, Edward Luce and Anne-Marie Slaughter

National identity matters less in an age of globalised sport

Geography is destiny in this historical meditation on the peculiarities of the English