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  • The bikejacking crime wave that is striking fear into cyclists

    Amateur cyclists are buying expensive kit to stay competitive, but Lycra-clad riders are easy pickings for organised crime groups

    Simon Usborne 26 Feb 2024, 4:00pm
    'I've been riding here for 20 years and it's always been this little oasis of safety, now we've got people who aren't cycling at all and can't exercise like they used to'
  • The couple trying to keep killer ‘zombie viruses’ at bay – and protect us from another pandemic

    Thanks to rising temperatures and melting permafrosts, certain ancient viruses are resurfacing... but just how dangerous to humans are they?

    Simon Usborne 18 Feb 2024, 8:00am
    Jean-Michel Claverie and Chantal Abergel in their laboratory just outside Marseille
  • Chris Tarrant on Tiswas at 50: ‘I hated twee and patronising Blue Peter – we wanted to be the opposite’

    Chris Tarrant and Sally James presented the anarchic Saturday-morning children's show. They talk about its enduring gunge-soaked legacy

    Simon Usborne 24 Jan 2024, 7:00am
    Flan flinger: Chris Tarrant with Sally James and Lenny Henry
  • ‘Not romantic at all’: What life is really like on the UK's most remote island

    Photographers Sophie Gerrard and Tessa Bunney spent a month documenting the isolated lifestyle, where it's not just about the jumpers

    Simon Usborne 21 Jan 2024, 8:00am
    Crofter Adriana watches out over her sheep on Scotland's Fair Isle
  • ‘I spent 10 years as a conflict negotiator. This is where Israel-Hamas talks have gone wrong’

    War mediator Pierre Hazan has worked with Russia, Ukraine and across the Middle East, and has his own take on how to deescalate tensions

    Simon Usborne 15 Jan 2024, 8:00am
    Negotiator Pierre Hazan, 67, pictured on the edge of Lake Geneva near the Centre for Humanitarian Dialoguse
  • Washington whizz-kids changing rules of war mapping

    Drawing up maps of Gaza and Ukraine is a misinformation obstacle course – but these whiz kids are using youth to their advantage

    Simon Usborne 25 Nov 2023, 10:00am
    Left to right: Noel Mikkelsen, Daniel Mealie, Mitch Belcher and Thomas Bergeron at the Institute for the Study of War in Washington, DC
  • Death or jail: Inside the daredevil world of freeclimbers

    George King served time for scaling The Shard and is detained in Seoul for tackling the world’s sixth-tallest tower. Can anything deter him?

    Simon Usborne 28 Aug 2023, 11:00am
  • Why it’s last orders for the great British soap opera

    They once drew tens of millions of viewers – but silly storylines and the rise of streaming services have put our biggest shows at risk

    Simon Usborne 12 Jul 2023, 7:00am
    30 million people watched EastEnders’s Dirty Den and Angie on Christmas Day in 1986
  • What Pret reveals about British society – and where it’s going

    The store's change of direction since Covid speaks volumes about the way we live now

    Simon Usborne 30 Jun 2023, 7:00am
    Pret
  • The Met Office ‘extreme team’ preparing for the UK’s drastically changing weather

    Under pressure to predict the future and prepare us for it, the UK’s top meteorologists have formed a crack squad to save us from ourselves

    Simon Usborne 8 Jun 2023, 9:33am
    Paul Davies, Emily Wallace, Mark McCarthy and Helen Roberts – the ‘extreme team’
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  • Tesla superfans on Elon Musk: ‘He’s a genius but he’s an idiot as well’

    Despite controversies surrounding the company and its CEO, many Tesla owners have an almost cult-like commitment to the brand

    Simon Usborne 1 Jun 2023, 5:30pm
    Members of Tesla Owners UK, including Pete Smoothy (fourth from left)
  • ‘I grew up in the aftermath of Chernobyl – then became one of the world’s most successful athletes’

    Three women born near Chernobyl share what it's really like to grow up in the shadow of nuclear fallout and how it shaped their lives

    Simon Usborne 11 Mar 2023, 8:00am
    Oksana Masters
  • I made ChatGPT my secretary for a week – here’s how it went

    The AI bot is a hot topic right now, so who better to take the load and email the council about a bin so I don’t have to?

    Simon Usborne 18 Feb 2023, 8:00am
    ChatGPT and Simon Usborne
  • Why dry ski slopes have a special place in British hearts

    While the French enjoy the Alps, Brits learn without a snowflake in sight – but what they lack in white stuff they make up for in enthusiasm

    Simon Usborne 4 Feb 2023, 6:00am
    A ski racer in action at the British Schools' Ski Championships Finals at Stoke
  • LinkedIn’s billionaire founder on Musk, Trump and why the workplace will be unrecognisable by 2027

    Reid Hoffman is Silicon Valley’s most modest – and low-key – success story… but his predictions of work trends have been eerily accurate

    Simon Usborne 2 Dec 2022, 7:00pm
    Reid Hoffman may be the world’s most connected man
  • The rebirth of the Lancaster Bomber

    Fuelled by tragedy, one family’s 50-year odyssey may propel the Second World War aircraft back into the skies

    Simon Usborne 28 Nov 2022, 8:00am
  • What the little green pavilions found on London streets are really used for

    The inside story of the little green huts that provide refuge, camaraderie - and a mug of hot tea and a bacon roll - for black cab drivers

    Simon Usborne 21 Aug 2022, 10:00am
    These strange little pavilions are found by the pavement in some of central London’s grandest squares and streets
  • How BBC Radio lost its voice

    Ratings are slipping, listeners and star broadcasters defecting, much-loved institutions being scrapped

    Simon Usborne 12 Aug 2022, 7:00am
    L-R: Vanessa Feltz, Steve Wright, Simon Mayo, and Paul O’Grady
  • Air con could solve Britain’s heatwave crisis – but it comes at a cost

    Extreme temperatures could become a regular occurrence, but it’ll take more than cold cash to cool Britannia

    Simon Usborne 18 Jul 2022, 5:21pm
    This week British households will spend more than £170 million on fans and air conditioning units to cool their homes 24 hours a day
  • How the wealthy are spending millions to save their homes from fires and floods

    Those with means are paying for stilts or steel cladding, and even burrowing underground

    Simon Usborne 12 Aug 2021, 5:00am
     the Kiht'han house is located in Sagaponack, a seaside village on Long Island.
  • The $12k toy that makes tech billionaires feel like they're flying

    Kite surfing is so last year - these are the incredible gadgets that wealthy adrenaline junkies are queuing up to buy

    Simon Usborne 24 Jun 2021, 5:00am
    Lift Foils 
  • Meet the parents who relocated to Bali for its 'hippyish' schooling 

    The Green School offers a holistic education with no formal exams and has been widely praised by the families whose children have attended

    Simon Usborne 14 Feb 2021, 7:00am
    Lisi Lluch and husband Alex Fernandez-Cruz Soldevila with their two children
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