Rivals threaten BBC with court for £150m online learning push
Several media and software companies are demanding a judicial review of the BBC's plans to spend £150m of licence money on expanding its online education service, writes John Cassy.
In reality, I’m just an addict
Extreme psychological or physical suffering -preferably both - still makes for great entertainment.
Who made Marion?
There was more to William Randolph Hearst and Marion Davies than Citizen Kane suggested, as biographies from David Nasaw and Louis Pizzitola show
Jésus Díaz
Cuban intellectual stirring controversy at home and in exile.
These feelings inside…
What happens when ordinary law-abiding citizens play at prisoners and guards? Victoria Mapplebeck reports on the BBC's Experiment.
FBI files reveal attempt to prove Dietrich was spy
Marlene Dietrich,was long considered a spy in her adopted homeland, according to newly published FBI files.
The sum of a man
On Sunday John Nash basked in adulation as A Beautiful Mind, the film based on his life, collected the Oscar for best picture. But his reputation has recently taken a battering: he's been called an anti-semite, an adulterer and a lousy father. So what is the truth about the mathematical genius who recovered from decades of schizophrenia to win a Nobel prize? Sylvia Nasar, his biographer, knows better than most.
Beautiful mind, lousy character
A Beautiful Mind does not tell the whole truth about John Nash - he was not a nice man. But it should still win an Oscar, writes John Sutherland.
Glum greens vs eco-optimists in global mudfight
An extraordinarily bitter row between environmentalists over whether or not the world is really coming to an end has escalated from pie-throwing and hate mail to threats of legal action and accusations of censorship.
Hitler’s little helper
All of Norway loved the novelist Knut Hamsun. Then the Nazis invaded and he welcomed them with open arms. Geoffrey Macnab reports.
Turner collection goes online
The web has enabled the realisation of the impossible deathbed demand of the eccentric English artist JMW Turner. By Maev Kennedy.