Profiles
What does the Ukip leader know?
With just 100 days to save the Union, Alistair Darling fights back
If Alex Salmond’s opponents in London are feeling confident, they shouldn’t be. He is deadly serious about Scottish independence and how he might achieve it
Jason Cowley talks to the world’s best footballer
The England cricket captain has redefined the art of batting in an age addicted to novelty and speed
Will he topple his brother David and win the Labour leadership?
Jason Cowley accompanied the Foreign Secretary on what turned out to be a troubling and contentious four-day trip to India
He can speak to and for the nation at times of crisis
How David Sylvian and his misunderstood but influential band, Japan, gave a sense of identity to a generation of disaffected suburban teens
Rian Malan grew up in revolt against his colonial inheritance. His first and only book offers vital insights into the white man’s experience of apartheid
With her first single up for a Brit Award and a new album soon to be released, Kate Bush is back in a big way
The author of the bestselling Da Vinci Code has tapped into our post-9/11 anxieties and fear of religious fundamentalism
Once a model progressive, he is now the royal choice to write the Queen Mother’s life and proselytises for the Iraq War
A Jewish Museum in Berlin, a war museum in Manchester, even a Rwanda massacre memorial - is Libeskind being typecast? If so, it may help him to the biggest prize in contemporary architecture.
When easyJet buys out BA’s low-cost airline later this week, Go’s high-flying founder will make a personal fortune. Barbara Cassani reveals how she found big thrills in the world of no-frills flying
He is an undeviatingly serious writer whose novels are steeped in the darkness, the violence and the obsessions of his native Latin America.