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Back to SearchEmmanuel Macron
Emmanuel Macron has become France's youngest-ever President at the age of 39. He created a new political movement out of nothing and defeated the pop…
8 years, 6 months ago
Leo Varadkar
Mark Coles looks at the life of Leo Varadkar, head of Fine Gail, the country's governing centre right party and the newly appointed Taoiseach (Prime …
8 years, 7 months ago
Arlene Foster
Arlene Foster's Democratic Unionist Party now holds the balance of power, after elections this week. Some people have suggested that all the parties …
8 years, 7 months ago
Cornelia Parker
Mark Coles profiles sculptor and installation artist Cornelia Parker, this year's official election artist. Parker's work has involved spectacular ac…
8 years, 7 months ago
David Lynch
Mark Coles profiles the director David Lynch, whose classic TV series Twin Peaks has just returned to the screen after 25 years.
Obsessed with drawin…
8 years, 7 months ago
Robert Mueller
Mark Coles profiles Robert Mueller who's just been appointed as special counsel to oversee the investigation into Russian interference in the US elec…
8 years, 7 months ago
Kelvin MacKenzie
Former editor and columnist of The Sun Kelvin MacKenzie is to leave the paper after comparing Everton footballer Ross Barkley to a gorilla. It's not …
8 years, 8 months ago
Jean-Claude Juncker
The President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, has been called 'the chief Eurocrat' by the British press and accused of looking to bu…
8 years, 8 months ago
Aretha Franklin
Aretha Franklin has won hearts - and 18 Grammy awards - with her astonishing voice. But this week a bust up with another iconic singer revealed her s…
8 years, 8 months ago
Sam Warburton
Welsh rugby union star Sam Warburton has been given perhaps the game's most prestigious role - captain of the British & Irish Lions - for a second ti…
8 years, 8 months ago