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The Audio Long Read — 351 episodes

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Best of 2026 … so far: Where Duolingo falls down: how I learned to speak Welsh with my mother

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Best of 2026 … so far: Asian mothers, bad feelings: notes on an all-conquering stereotype

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Iraq’s impossible predicament: why the country is trapped between Iran and the US

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Best of 2026…so far: Endo dreams of sushi: a trip around Japan with one of the world’s greatest chefs

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Best of 2026…so far: 35,000 pints of stolen Guinness, 950 wheels of pilfered cheese: can the UK’s cargo theft crisis be stopped?

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The Dacre dynasty: how Britain’s rightwing press was radicalised

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Best of 2026…so far: ‘I see it as trafficking’: the brutal reality of life as a foreign student in the UK

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Best of 2026…so far: My maddening battle with chronic fatigue syndrome: ‘On my worst days, it feels almost demonic’

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‘This process has turned into a form of torture’: inside the trial of Erdoğan’s challenger
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‘It makes your heart sing’: can a pioneering project show that rewilding really works?

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From the archive: ‘A dizzying maze’: how the UK immigration system is geared to reject
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‘It is comforting to be haunted’: how attitudes to abortion have changed through the ages

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What training my chaotic dog taught me about power, control – and human beings

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Pinker’s progress: the celebrity scientist at the centre of the culture wars

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Saint Levant: the pop star from Gaza caught between passionate fandom and bitter disapproval

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‘There’s this deep mystery of what, actually, is this thing?’: the philosopher inside Google DeepMind AI
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From the archive: Battle of the botanic garden: the horticulture war roiling the Isle of Wight

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‘Navigating the unknown together’: me and my idiot AI boyfriend
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‘He liked that people were scared of him’: my year unpicking fantasy and reality with a veteran of Italy’s football ultras

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From the archive: Leave no trace: how a teenage hacker lost himself online

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How did Mexico’s president become the world’s most popular leftwing leader?
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I launched Cuba’s first independent magazine. And that’s when my troubles began

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From the archive: Flour power: meet the bread heads baking a better loaf
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‘They take you out of life, out of time’: a journey into Spain’s astonishing cave paintings

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Ping-pong sponges, ‘black smokers’ and floating somethings: the secrets of the deep sea
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From the archive: No coach, no agent, no ego: the incredible story of the ‘Lionel Messi of cliff diving’

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‘Seriously the best boss ever’: inside the world of Jeffrey Epstein’s assistant

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‘The devil’s child’: the rise and fall of the only female yakuza

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From the archive: Terrorists, cultists – or champions of Iranian democracy? The wild wild story of the MEK

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As a Ukrainian journalist, I’ve covered the US for 20 years. I find it increasingly shocking
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‘Should we leave them to die?’ The battle over how to save orangutans from the curse of palm oil
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From the archive: Sold to the Trump family: one of the last undeveloped islands in the Mediterranean

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Prisoner number 804: the plot to erase Imran Khan

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‘I couldn’t breathe’: the sinister spread of France’s killer seaweed
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From the archive: Three abandoned children, two missing parents and a 40-year mystery

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After a hard-fought victory to legalise medical cannabis in the UK, why is it still so hard to access?

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Asian mothers, bad feelings: notes on an all-conquering stereotype

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From the archive:‘I feel like I’m selling my soul’: inside the crisis at Juventus

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‘I had poked the bear right in the eye’: my fight to renounce my Russian citizenship

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On the trail with the hunters who believe shooting big game can save Africa’s wildlife
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From the archive: Putin, Trump, Ukraine: how Timothy Snyder became the leading interpreter of our dark times

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How to survive the information crisis: ‘We once talked about fake news – now reality itself feels fake’

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Stateside with Kai and Carter: Stacey Abrams on why gutting of the US Voting Rights Act is ‘evil’
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‘Lawrence is karma’: the gangster who became an icon of Modi’s India

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From the archive: How western travel influencers got tangled up in Pakistan’s politics

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The impossible promise: are we witnessing the return of fascism?

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‘I see it as trafficking’: the brutal reality of life as a foreign student in the UK

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From the archive: No cults, no politics, no ghouls: how China censors the video game world

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Where Duolingo falls down: how I learned to speak Welsh with my mother
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‘Any other child would have died’: the miraculous survival of Nada Itrab

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From the archive: the impossible job: inside the world of Premier League referees

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Endo dreams of sushi: a trip around Japan with one of the world’s greatest chefs

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From the archive: The high cost of living in a disabling world

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Teacher v chatbot: my journey into the classroom in the age of AI
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35,000 pints of stolen Guinness, 950 wheels of pilfered cheese: can the UK’s cargo theft crisis be stopped?

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From the archive: Foreign mothers, foreign tongues: ‘In another universe, she could have been my friend’

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How the US far right bought into the myth of white South Africa’s persecution

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AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying

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From the archive: Freedom without constraints: how the US squandered its cold war victory

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My maddening battle with chronic fatigue syndrome: ‘On my worst days, it feels almost demonic’
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Apocalypse no: how almost everything we thought we knew about the Maya is wrong
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From the archive: the butcher’s shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)

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‘I felt betrayed, naked’: did a prize-winning novelist steal a woman’s life story?

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What was Doge? How Elon Musk tried to gamify government

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From the archive: Are we really prisoners of geography?

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Power without a throne: how Khalifa Haftar controls Libya

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Off Duty: The Crime

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‘The children are not safe here’: the Nigerian couple fighting infanticide
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From the archive: ‘Parents are frightened for themselves and for their children’: an inspirational school in impossible times

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Access denied: why Muslims worldwide are being ‘debanked’

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Shock, awe, death, joy and looting: how the Guardian covered the outbreak of the Iraq war

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From the archive: ‘Iran was our Hogwarts’: my childhood between Tehran and Essex
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‘Pretty birds and silly moos’: the women behind the Sex Discrimination Act
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‘What I see in clinic is never a set of labels’: are we in danger of overdiagnosing mental illness? -podcast
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From the archive: China’s troll king: how a tabloid editor became the voice of Chinese nationalism

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I used to report from the West Bank. Twenty years after my last visit, I was shocked by how much worse it is today
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Out of the ruins: will Aleppo ever be rebuilt?
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From the archive: Why can’t we agree on what’s true any more?
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A century in the Siberian wilderness: the Old Believers who time forgot
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Inside voice: what can our thoughts reveal about the nature of consciousness?
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From the archive: ‘Who remembers proper binmen?’ The nostalgia memes that help explain Britain today

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What technology takes from us – and how to take it back
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The crisis whisperer: how Adam Tooze makes sense of our bewildering age

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From the archive: Do we need a new theory of evolution?

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Walking into disaster: the narcotrafficking scandal that blew up the BVI

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Trump’s assault on the Smithsonian: ‘The goal is to reframe the entire culture of the US’

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From the archive: the free speech panic: how the right concocted a crisis

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‘We hate it. It’s desecration’: the real cost of HS2

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Death on the inside: as a prison officer, I saw how the system perpetuates violence

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From the archive: The King of Kowloon: my search for the cult graffiti prophet of Hong Kong

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We published explosive stories about the president of El Salvador. Now we can’t go home

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‘We were forced to burn bodies’: will survivors of the Tadamon massacres see justice?

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From the archive: The last humanist: how Paul Gilroy became the most vital guide to our age of crisis

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‘The English person with a Chinese stomach’: how Fuchsia Dunlop became a Sichuan food hero
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The dangerous rise of Buddhist extremism: ‘Attaining nirvana can wait’

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From the archive: Kudos, leaderboards, QOMs: how fitness app Strava became a religion

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Hard to digest: we still live in Fast Food Nation

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‘I wish I could say I kept my cool’: my maddening experience with the NHS wheelchair service

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From the archive: The cartel, the journalist and the gangland killings that rocked the Netherlands

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Inside the rise and fall of Podemos: ‘We believed we had a stake in the future’

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Best of 2025: ‘A relentless, destructive energy’: inside the trial of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon

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Best of 2025: ‘What reconciliation? What forgiveness?’: Syria’s deadly reckoning

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Best of 2025: The human stain remover: what Britain’s greatest extreme cleaner learned from 25 years on the job

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Best of 2025: Life in a ‘sinking nation’: Tuvalu’s dreams of dry land

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Best of 2025: The real Scandi noir: how a filmmaker and a crooked lawyer shattered Denmark’s self-image

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Best of 2025: Don’t call it morning sickness: ‘At times in my pregnancy I wondered if this was death coming for me’

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The snail farm don: is this the most brazen tax avoidance scheme of all time?

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The Birth Keepers: I choose this – episode one

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‘DeepSeek is humane. Doctors are more like machines’: my mother’s worrying reliance on AI for health advice

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From the archive: is the IMF fit for purpose?

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‘The police weren’t interested’: what’s driving the rise in private prosecutions?

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When I met Craig he was 13 and homeless. I still thought his life might turn around. I was tragically wrong

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Money talks: the deep ties between Twitter and Saudi Arabia

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From the archive: A day in the life of (almost) every vending machine in the world

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‘They take the money and go’: why not everyone is mourning the end of USAID

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‘I knew in my head we were dying’: the last voyage of the Scandies Rose

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From the archive: ‘If you decide to cut staff, people die’: how Nottingham prison descended into chaos

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‘Scamming became the new farming’: inside India’s cybercrime villages

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From the archive: how we lost our sensory connection with food – and how to restore it
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The Pushkin job: unmasking the thieves behind an international rare books heist

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‘The jobless should lead the attack’: a radical Jamaican journalist in 1920s London

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From the archive: ‘We are so divided now’: how China controls thought and speech beyond its borders

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Special Edition: Behind the scenes at the Long Read
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Counting down to zero: the final warning from a climate diplomat

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Extremely offline: what happened when a Pacific island was cut off from the internet

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From the archive: A drowning world: Kenya’s quiet slide underwater
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‘Americans are democracy’s equivalent of second-generation wealth’: a Chinese journalist on the US under Trump

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The human stain remover: what Britain’s greatest extreme cleaner learned from 25 years on the job

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From the archive: The queen of crime-solving

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A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0

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‘Resistance is when I put an end to what I don’t like’: The rise and fall of the Baader-Meinhof gang

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From the archive: Who owns Einstein? The battle for the world’s most famous face

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The origins of today’s conflict between American Jews over Israel

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‘I have to do it’: why one of the world’s most brilliant AI scientists left the US for China

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From the archive: ‘Infertility stung me’: Black motherhood and me

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‘What reconciliation? What forgiveness?’: Syria’s deadly reckoning

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Take away our language and we will forget who we are: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and the language of conquest

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From the archive: The Blackstone rebellion: how one country took on the world’s biggest commercial landlord

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‘We’ve done it before’: how not to lose hope in the fight against ecological disaster

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From bank robber to scholar: the Knoxville dropout fighting to change how we see addiction

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From the archive: Divine comedy: the standup double act who turned to the priesthood

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‘A climate of unparalleled malevolence’: are we on our way to the sixth major mass extinction?
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Bland, easy to follow, for fans of everything: what has the Netflix algorithm done to our films?

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From the archive: Forgetting the apocalypse: why our nuclear fears faded – and why that’s dangerous

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‘The forest had gone’: the storm that moved a mountain

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Life in a ‘sinking nation’: Tuvalu’s dreams of dry land

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From the archive: Sewage sleuths: the men who revealed the slow, dirty death of Welsh and English rivers

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Very British bribery: the whistleblower who exposed the UK’s dodgy arms deals with Saudi Arabia

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‘People pay to be told lies’: the rise and fall of the world’s first ayahuasca multinational

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From the archive: ‘We were all wrong’: how Germany got hooked on Russian energy

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Dancing with Putin: how Austria’s former foreign minister found a new home in Russia

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Don’t call it morning sickness: ‘At times in my pregnancy I wondered if this was death coming for me’

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From the archive: ‘We need to break the junk food cycle’: how to fix Britain’s failing food system

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The rise and fall of the British cult that hid in plain sight

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Best of 2025 … so far: ‘The Mozart of the attention economy’: why MrBeast is the world’s biggest YouTube star

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Best of 2025 … so far: ‘Look, they’re getting skin!’: are we right to strive to save the world’s tiniest babies?

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The go-between: how Qatar became the global capital of diplomacy

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Best of 2025 … so far: an English gentleman, a crooked lawyer: the secrets of Stephen David Jones

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Best of 2025 … so far: Kahane’s ghost: how a long-dead extremist rabbi continues to haunt Israel’s politics

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Starmer v Starmer: why is the former human rights lawyer so cautious about defending human rights?

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Best of 2025 … so far: The savage suburbia of Helen Garner: ‘I wanted to dong Martin Amis with a bat’

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Best of 2025 … so far: ‘I am not who you think I am’: how a deep-cover KGB spy recruited his own son

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How Pakistan fell in love with sushi

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Best of 2025 … so far: ‘The ghosts are everywhere’: can the British Museum survive its omni-crisis?

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Best of 2025 … so far: the great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disappear?

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The Shining: my trip to the G7 horror show with Emmanuel Macron

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Are we witnessing the death of international law?

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From the archive: Bicycle graveyards: why do so many bikes end up underwater?

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Poison in the water: the town with the world’s worst case of forever chemicals contamination
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‘A relentless, destructive energy’: inside the trial of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon

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From the archive: how two BBC journalists risked their jobs to reveal the truth about Jimmy Savile

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The curse of Toumaï: an ancient skull, a disputed femur and a bitter feud over humanity’s origins

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Horse racing and erotica: how I survived the fickle world of freelance writing

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From the archive: The sludge king: how one man turned an industrial wasteland into his own El Dorado

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Sold to the Trump family: one of the last undeveloped islands in the Mediterranean

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How does woke start winning again?

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From the archive: The death of the department store
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‘Do you have a family?’: midlife with no kids, ageing parents – and no crisis
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Why does Switzerland have more nuclear bunkers than any other country?

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From the archive: ‘You can’t be the player’s friend’: inside the secret world of tennis umpires

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My husband and son suffered strokes, 30 years apart. Shockingly little had changed
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‘The Mozart of the attention economy’: why MrBeast is the world’s biggest YouTube star

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From the archive: ‘A nursery of the Commons’: how the Oxford Union created today’s ruling political class

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‘Outdated and unjust’: can we reform global capitalism?

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Extremely loud and incredibly scouse: how Jamie Carragher conquered football punditry

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From the archive: Burying Leni Riefenstahl: one woman’s lifelong crusade against Hitler’s favourite film-maker

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‘You can let go now’: inside the hospital where staff treat fear of death as well as physical pain

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An English gentleman, a crooked lawyer: the secrets of Stephen David Jones

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From the archive: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: three days with a giant of African literature

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Death, divorce and the magic of kitchen objects: how to find hope in loss
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Missing in the Amazon: the disappearance – episode 1

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A deadly mission: how Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira tried to warn the world about the Amazon’s destruction

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From the archive: Alan Yentob: the last impresario

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‘We know what is happening, we cannot walk away’: how the Guardian bore witness to horror in former Yugoslavia

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The ancient psychedelics myth: ‘People tell tourists the stories they think are interesting for them’

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From the archive: The lost Jews of Nigeria

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‘We thought we could change the world’: how an idealistic fight against miscarriages of justice turned sour

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‘All other avenues have been exhausted’: Is legal action the only way to save the planet?

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From the archive: Super-prime mover: Britain’s most successful estate agent

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A year of hate: what I learned when I went undercover with the far right

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‘I am not who you think I am’: how a deep-cover KGB spy recruited his own son

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From the archive: What lies beneath: the truth about France’s top serial killer expert

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‘Why would he take such a risk?’ How a famous Chinese author befriended his censor

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The mystery of the nameless girl found dead in a Spanish border town

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From the archive: Food fraud and counterfeit cotton: the detectives untangling the global supply chain

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From acid house to ancient rites: Jeremy Deller’s enormous, collaborative, unsellable art

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What happens when the US declares war on your parents? The Black Panther Cubs know

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From the archive: The last phone boxes: broken glass, cider cans and – amazingly – a dial tone

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Many life-saving drugs fail for lack of funding. But there’s a solution: desperate rich people

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In search of the South Pacific fugitive who crowned himself king

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From the archive: ‘I pleaded for help. No one wrote back’: the pain of watching my country fall to the Taliban

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The real Scandi noir: how a filmmaker and a crooked lawyer shattered Denmark’s self-image

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Kahane’s ghost: how a long-dead extremist rabbi continues to haunt Israel’s politics

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From the archive: The great betrayal: how the Hillsborough families were failed by the justice system

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My mother, the racist

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The reluctant collaborator: surviving Syria’s brutal civil war – and its aftermath

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From the archive: Votes for children! Why we should lower the voting age to six

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The Rainham volcano: a waste dump is constantly on fire in east London. Why will no one stop it?

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It came from outer space: the meteorite that landed in a Cotswolds cul-de-sac

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From the archive: ‘The treeline is out of control’: how the climate crisis is turning the Arctic green
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Holidays in hell: summer camp with Russia’s forgotten children

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The savage suburbia of Helen Garner: ‘I wanted to dong Martin Amis with a bat’

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From the archive: Is society coming apart?

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The Coventry experiment: why were Indian women in Britain given radioactive food without their consent?

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My life as a prison officer: ‘It wasn’t just the smell that hit you. It was the noise’

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From the archive: The revolt against liberalism: what’s driving Poland and Hungary’s nativist turn?

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‘The ghosts are everywhere’: can the British Museum survive its omni-crisis?
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Turkey said it would become a ‘zero waste’ nation. Instead, it became a dumping ground for Europe’s rubbish

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From the archive: The end of Atlanticism: has Trump killed the ideology that won the cold war?

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Signature moves: are we losing the ability to write by hand?
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‘Here lives the monster’s brain’: the man who exposed Switzerland’s dirty secrets
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From the archive: ‘In my 30 years as a GP, the profession has been horribly eroded’

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Massacre in the jungle: how an Indigenous man was made the public face of an atrocity

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Israel and the delusions of Germany’s ‘memory culture’

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From the archive: One drug dealer, two corrupt cops and a risky FBI sting

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Innit innit boys and Super Eagles: how Nigerian Londoners found their identity through football
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The mysterious novelist who foresaw Putin’s Russia – and then came to symbolise its moral decay

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From the archive: Was it inevitable? A short history of Russia’s war on Ukraine

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The loudest megaphone: how Trump mastered our new attention age

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How a young Dutch woman’s life began when she was allowed to die

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From the archive: The knackerman: the toughest job in British farming
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‘Bring me my tariffs’: how Trump’s China plan was 40 years in the making

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Tokyo drift: what happens when a city stops being the future?
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From the archive: The false positives scandal: how thousands of innocent Colombians were killed so soldiers could get more holiday

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The great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disappear?
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Endless work, little money, occasional UFOs: my father’s five decades driving Brazil’s roads
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From the archive: How one man spent 34 years in prison after setting fire to a pair of curtains

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The man making a business out of China’s burnout generation
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Humphrey’s world: how the Samuel Smith beer baron built Britain’s strangest pub chain
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From the archive: Inspired by nature: the thrilling new science that could transform medicine
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‘Look, they’re getting skin!’: are we right to strive to save the world’s tiniest babies?

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Inside the Vatican’s secret saint-making process
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From the archive: ‘A deranged pyroscape’: how fires across the world have grown weirder
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The inspiring scientists who saved the world’s first seed bank
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The ‘mad egghead’ who built a mouse utopia
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From the archive: Cold comfort: how cold water swimming cured my broken heart

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Teeth as time capsules: Soviet secrets and my dentist grandmother
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The brain collector: the scientist unravelling the mysteries of grey matter
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From the archive: The invisible addiction: is it time to give up caffeine?

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The rollercoaster king: the man behind the UK’s fastest thrill-ride

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Best of 2024: ‘If there’s nowhere else to go, this is where they come’: how Britain’s libraries provide much more than books

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Best of 2024: As a teenager, John was jailed for assaulting someone and stealing their bike. That was 17 years ago – will he ever be released?

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Best of 2024: ‘It comes for your very soul’: how Alzheimer’s undid my dazzling, creative wife in her 40s

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Best of 2024: Nairobi to New York and back: the loneliness of the internationally educated elite

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Revisited: Two poems, four years in detention: the Chinese dissident who smuggled his writing out of prison

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10 years of the long read: Ukraine’s death-defying art rescuers (2024)

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10 years of the long read: ‘All that we had is gone’: my lament for war-torn Khartoum (2023)

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A new nuclear arms race is beginning. It will be far more dangerous than the last one

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Revisited: Too much stuff: can we solve our addiction to consumerism?

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The scandal of food waste – and how we can stop it
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‘I couldn’t cry over my children like everyone else’: the tragedy of Palestinian journalist Wael al-Dahdouh

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10 years of the long read: Seven stowaways and a hijacked oil tanker: the strange case of the Nave Andromeda (2022)

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A cool flame: how Gaia theory was born out of a secret love affair
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‘You tried to tell yourself I wasn’t real’: what happens when people with acute psychosis meet the voices in their heads?

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10 years of the long read: The disastrous voyage of Satoshi, the world’s first cryptocurrency cruise ship (2021)

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The cement company that paid millions to Isis: was Lafarge complicit in crimes against humanity?

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Journalist or Russian spy? The strange case of Pablo González

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10 years of the long read: The invisible city: how a homeless man built a life underground (2020)

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Has poppymania gone too far?

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Slash and burn: is private equity out of control?

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10 years of the long read: Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands (2019)

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Hidden traces of humanity: what AI images reveal about our world

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The other British invasion: how UK lingo conquered the US

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10 years of the long read: Why Silicon Valley billionaires are prepping for the apocalypse in New Zealand (2018)

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‘Places to heal, not to harm’: why brutal prison design kills off hope

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The trial of Björn Höcke, the ‘real boss’ of Germany’s far right

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10 years of the long read: How the sandwich consumed Britain (2017)

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‘For me, there was no other choice’: inside the global illegal organ trade

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How oligarchs took on the UK fraud squad – and won
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10 years of the long read: Man v rat: could the long war soon be over? (2016)

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Morality and rules, and how to avoid drowning: what my daughters learned at school in China

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The shapeshifter: who is the real Giorgia Meloni?

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10 years of the long read: Farewell to America (2015)

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The cocaine kingpin’s wildest legacy: what can be done with Pablo Escobar’s marauding hippos?

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‘Like a cheese grater raking across my nipple’: why I kept trying to breastfeed for so long

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10 years of the long read: Is this the end of Britishness? (2014)

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Special Edition: 10 years of the Guardian Long Read

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Strange and wondrous creatures: plankton and the origins of life on Earth
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No god in the machine: the pitfalls of AI worship

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From the archive: The unravelling of a conspiracy: were the 16 charged with plotting to kill India’s prime minister framed?

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On board the Creed cruise: the unfathomable return of the ‘worst band of the 90s’

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A Chinese-born writer’s quest to understand the Vikings, Normans and life on the English coast
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From the archive: The invention of whiteness: the long history of a dangerous idea

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Ukraine’s death-defying art rescuers

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