The Oxford professor on rising China, declining Britain — and the danger of Byzantine books

Jack Ma’s right-hand man on bad movies and censorship

The ‘Billions’ star on schooldays with David Cameron, conflicted characters and 007

The legal wunderkind on the monopolies hiding in plain sight — and bringing Big Tech to heel

The German politician on fighting for ‘Grexit’, clashing with Merkel — and what he thinks about austerity now

The former Spice Girl on the travails of building a luxury label — and what ‘Mr Beckham’ makes of her dress sense

The ‘bond king’ on blackjack, building an investment powerhouse — and his Asperger’s diagnosis

Her short story about a toxic date captured the zeitgeist and won her a $1.3m book deal. What happened next?

The climate activist on becoming the face of a global movement — and why she sees her Asperger’s as a gift

The ‘snake-eating’ general on Trump, war movies — and the Rolling Stone interview that got him fired

The broadcaster on 60 years of filming wildlife, brushes with big cats — and how we can still save the planet

The Europhile MP on Boris, Brexit — and whether she will run for prime minister

The Malian who scaled a Paris building to save a child on meeting Macron, immigration and his new life in the spotlight

The tech executive on surviving disruption, politics as combat and taking on Netflix

The neuroscientist talks about combating insomnia, going up against Big Pharma — and why night owls shouldn’t feel guilty

The actress’s clean-living empire divides opinion. She talks about Goop’s controversies — and why it’s ‘bullshit’ that wellness is for rich people

America’s youngest billionaire on Snapchat’s future and why he limits his kids’ screen time

‘Anyone asking me for PR advice would need their head examined’

The 86-year-old talks about her years in hiding on a farm, the rise of the far-right — and building a new temple in Munich

The Socialist politician on Macron’s mis-steps, her country’s malaise — and why the men who rule France should have listened to her

Over Bellinis in New York, the outsider of American art talks about screaming patrons, making masterpieces and not fitting in

The UN lawyer on running the Rwandan and Yugoslav tribunals, rethinking the refugee crisis and why clarity matters more than courage

The first man to walk to both poles and climb Mt Everest talks about the value of silence and why endurance is all in the mind

The actor on her latest stage epic, the refugee crisis — and why she doesn’t much like going to the theatre