Over Dover sole in Mayfair, Saudi Arabia’s former oil minister talks about his frustrations with Opec, his early years as a nomad — and why he will be proved right
Fashion genius, billion-dollar businessman, Oscar winning film-maker? ‘I usually do exactly what I say I’m going to do,’ the designer says over steak frites in Mayfair
Tipped to be Britain’s next prime minister, the ‘austerity chancellor’ saw his ambitions in tatters as the UK voted for Brexit. In a northern trattoria, he talks about life after Number 11
He’s the face of the news for the US’s 55m Hispanics but for English-speaking Americans he is mostly known for taking on Donald Trump. Over chiles en nogada in Florida, the anchorman talks about hate, hope — and why he’s always been a rebel
The world’s most famous whistleblower has room service with Alan Rusbridger in a Moscow hotel to talk about the ‘surveillance free-for-all’ — and the possible role of a Rubik’s Cube in his spiriting away of the NSA files
Over lobster bisque, the founder of trailblazing gossip site Gawker talks about the fallout from outing a ‘tech lord’ and the backlash against too much truth
What’s it like to be Donald Trump’s streetfighter? On a hectic summer’s day in Manhattan, over ‘the best devilled eggs in the world’, Edward Luce finds out
Over Shrimp Louis, the festival’s ‘chief philosophic officer’ talks about ‘radical self-reliance’, conservative values and why a ‘sudden change’ is on the way
Over an affogato that tests the laws of thermodynamics, the physicist known for making complex science intelligible talks about radical politics and his delight in transforming how we see the universe
His ‘future food’ began as a lifehack for techies. Now it’s a $100m-plus start-up. Over double desserts in LA, he says our eating habits are stuck in the industrial revolution
Over jollof rice in Lagos, the Nigerian novelist talks about race, gender, her hard-edged heroines and her optimism for her home country — while revealing some surprising news
Before his sudden resignation this week, the Indian tech titan talked about the challenges of being an outsider in Japan, gambling with his own money and his love for his now former SoftBank boss
