There are precious few medals awarded these days, unlike in previous centuries where they were routinely doled out for military, political, and financial honours. We still award a few – Olympic medals, the Nobel, the Fields – and one of the most prestigious of all, the Steward medal. The medal is a thin disc of [...]

A revolution watched over by a million cameras and a billion computers. They couldn’t prevent bloodshed, but they did cripple the monarchy.