Many people agree that David Simon’s 20-year-old crime drama is the best TV series ever made – but even ardent fans often treat its final season as an inferior product. Louis Chilton pleads the case for the unjustly maligned brilliance of ‘The Wire’ season five

As the Sussexes return to the UK to celebrate the Queen’s platinum jubilee, Emma Mackenzie looks at the potential that was lost when they decided to leave the firm

Manager Oleksandr Petrakov insists the win over Scotland was for ‘the people watching them back home in shelters, for the armed forces in the trenches, for the people in the hospitals’