Over Dover sole in Mayfair, Saudi Arabia’s former oil minister talks about his frustrations with Opec, his early years as a nomad — and why he will be proved right

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At a New York café, the writer talks about 21st-century readers, faith and the failure of liberal thought

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Fashion genius, billion-dollar businessman, Oscar winning film-maker? ‘I usually do exactly what I say I’m going to do,’ the designer says over steak frites in Mayfair

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The young artist on millennial misery and looking for the ‘beauty in rough lives’

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The entrepreneur on failed friendships and why his fraud trial is ‘all for political show’

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The Private Eye editor talks about scrapes with jail, liberal elites and why it’s getting harder to ‘land a punch’

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Over a bottle of Riesling in Munich, the Oscar-winning director talks about politics, power and creating films with attitude

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The celebrated musician on how culture and politics can’t avoid each other and why he’s not ‘the Larry David of music’

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Tipped to be Britain’s next prime minister, the ‘austerity chancellor’ saw his ambitions in tatters as the UK voted for Brexit. In a northern trattoria, he talks about life after Number 11

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He’s the face of the news for the US’s 55m Hispanics but for English-speaking Americans he is mostly known for taking on Donald Trump. Over chiles en nogada in Florida, the anchorman talks about hate, hope — and why he’s always been a rebel

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The world’s most famous whistleblower has room service with Alan Rusbridger in a Moscow hotel to talk about the ‘surveillance free-for-all’ — and the possible role of a Rubik’s Cube in his spiriting away of the NSA files

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Over lobster bisque, the founder of trailblazing gossip site Gawker talks about the fallout from outing a ‘tech lord’ and the backlash against too much truth

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What’s it like to be Donald Trump’s streetfighter? On a hectic summer’s day in Manhattan, over ‘the best devilled eggs in the world’, Edward Luce finds out

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Over Shrimp Louis, the festival’s ‘chief philosophic officer’ talks about ‘radical self-reliance’, conservative values and why a ‘sudden change’ is on the way

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Over an affogato that tests the laws of thermodynamics, the physicist known for making complex science intelligible talks about radical politics and his delight in transforming how we see the universe

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At a Harlem hotspot, the writer and critic talks about racial tensions, American exceptionalism and social media

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The Kremlin media star on the world according to Russia

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His ‘future food’ began as a lifehack for techies. Now it’s a $100m-plus start-up. Over double desserts in LA, he says our eating habits are stuck in the industrial revolution

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Over steak and salad, rugby’s coach of the moment talks about man-management, wooing Japanese fans and Boris Johnson’s lack of a plan

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Over apple fizz and celeriac soup in London, the sage of ‘superforecasting’ talks about the Brexit curveball and why political pundits get it wrong

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Over jollof rice in Lagos, the Nigerian novelist talks about race, gender, her hard-edged heroines and her optimism for her home country — while revealing some surprising news

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Before his sudden resignation this week, the Indian tech titan talked about the challenges of being an outsider in Japan, gambling with his own money and his love for his now former SoftBank boss

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Over sea bass and ravioli, the former head of the FSA talks about Brexit, his mistake with the euro and why George Osborne is ‘a bit of a gambler’

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Over vegetables in Mayfair, the British painter talks about Proust, the ‘physical urge’ to paint and why motherhood meant joining the ‘human race’

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The Republican grandee on Nixon’s culinary tastes, Reagan’s pragmatism, the meaning of Trump and how best to wield American power

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