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Misha Glenny

February 2024

  • Frank Skinner

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: One Person Found This Helpful; Straight to the Comments!; The Rise and Rise of the Microchip; Capital Breakfast – review

    Frank Skinner’s new Radio 4 panel show is a winner; the Daily Mail goes below the line; Misha Glenny gives us microchips with everything; and Capital gains Radio 1 star Jordan North

April 2022

  • Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump

    Book of the week
    The Age of the Strongman by Gideon Rachman review – democracy muscled out?

    This chilling examination of how the growing popularity of autocrats and their aspirants could upend western liberal values is forceful and timely

August 2018

  • Misha Glenny: ‘If Trump really is a Russian stooge, he’s a pretty incompetent operator.’

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Misha Glenny: ‘Crime exerts a fascination that ordinary politics doesn’t’

    The McMafia author on organised crime, the poisoning of the Skripals, Trump and Putin’s relationship and his fears for the future of the BBC

January 2018

  • McMafia: Katya Godman (Faye Marsay), Alex Godman (James Norton)

    McMafia review – James Norton caught in a twisted web of international crime

    The BBC adaptation of Misha Glenny’s book is more than a Bond audition for Norton, with globe-spanning scope that manages to hit the mark

December 2017

  • Misha Glenny

    Saturday interview
    McMafia author Misha Glenny: ‘I don’t want to be moral. I want to show people the way the world works'

  • ‘Don’t think you’re special – I offer cabins to everyone’ … Juliet Rylance, who asked our writer out to Joshua Tree.

    Juliet Rylance on playing a moll in McMafia: 'The Russians taught us how to kiss'

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