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When Walt Disney offered to adapt the Tale of Peter Rabbit for film in 1936, Beatrix Potter did not hesitate: the answer was no. During her lifetime, the author exercised minute control over the reams of merchandise spun...

Hedy Lamarr, the star MGM called “the most beautiful woman in the world”, had two of the worst-kept secrets in Hollywood. One of them, she could never escape until long after her career was over. The...

Nick Logan: Bryan Ferry, 19 January 1974 In November 1973 – shortly after I’d moved up from deputy to editor – there was a printing strike. In the previous couple of years, NME had been diligently...

School children around the world are being exposed on a daily basis to cigarette advertising and promotions by a tobacco industry that needs to recruit the young to maintain its vast profits. A major investigation in more...

Donald Trump has accepted an invitation from the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, to hold an unprecedented summit meeting to discuss the future of the embattled regime’s nuclear and missile programme. In a stunning development following months...

All the talk about Paris Saint-Germain’s exit in the Champions League has been whether it would have been a different story had star man Neymar been able to play. But what about PSG’s World Cup winner?...

From Syria to Yemen and the US, the UN human rights body has delivered a scathing annual report on violations and threats to rights around the globe. Syria and Myanmar have some of the worst conditions....

Eight people have been found guilty of numerous crimes including deliberate attacks on refugee shelters in Germany. After a yearlong trial, the legal points hinged on the very nature of the group’s structure and intent. The...

I strongly urge you to make this. It is satisfying in every way – to make and to eat. If you are at all worried about making your own mayonnaise rest assured that the addition of...

Simple, nuanced and just the tiniest bit nerdy. There’s only one way to wear your hair this season – and it doesn’t involve a blow-dry • Read more from the spring/summer 2018 edition of The Fashion, our biannual...