Lafarge began operating in Syria before the civil war erupted. When ISIS took over the region, Lafarge paid them protection money so it could keep selling cement.

As author of The Big Short and Moneyball, Michael Lewis is perhaps the most celebrated journalist of his generation. Now he delivers an astonishing portrait of Sam Bankman-Fried, the fallen crypto billionaire. But did he get too close?

“I caught the odd feeling that I had come to the future world from which human beings had departed. Vegetation would be renewed year after year. Hybridised itadori would be the main creature in this area.”

At Sellafield, a nuclear power plant, nothing is produced anymore. But making safe what is left behind is an almost unimaginably complex task that requires us to think not on a human timescale, but a planetary one.

Until the 1990s, there were almost no Jews in Nigeria. Now thousands of Igbo are taking up the faith, building synagogues in southern Nigeria.