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Excited to say that the beautiful Guardian Long Read Magazine is out now, ft. work by @mrkocnnll.bsky.social, @imogenwk.bsky.social, @jackgoulder.bsky.social, @tessairini.bsky.social, @hettieobrien.bsky.social + many other brilliant writers. Order your copy here guardianbookshop.com/long-read-50...
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2000s emo
I figure Ken Burns has one, maybe two big documentary series in him before he fully retires. What do you think they should be? My votes include Football, Hip-Hop, World War 1, Reconstruction (though Skip Gates did this one well), Iraq/Afghanistan, 19th Century Expansionism.
November 25, 2025 at 12:15 AM
2000s emo
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THE ASSET CLASS, my first book, will be published by @wnbooks.bsky.social on 9 April 2026. It’s a narrative investigation of private equity, a secretive and relentlessly destructive wing of finance that penetrates almost every aspect of our lives - and it’s available to pre-order now!
November 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
THE ASSET CLASS, my first book, will be published by @wnbooks.bsky.social on 9 April 2026. It’s a narrative investigation of private equity, a secretive and relentlessly destructive wing of finance that penetrates almost every aspect of our lives - and it’s available to pre-order now!
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Exclusive: ‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school
Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations
w/ Dan Boffey and @drblacklock.bsky.social
Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations
w/ Dan Boffey and @drblacklock.bsky.social
‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school
Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations
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November 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Exclusive: ‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school
Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations
w/ Dan Boffey and @drblacklock.bsky.social
Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations
w/ Dan Boffey and @drblacklock.bsky.social
Come see Chris Clarke, Clare Longrigg and I talk about the long read! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/magculture...
magCulture Meets The Guardian Long Read
The team behind The Guardian Long Read join us to introduce this new magazine
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November 17, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Come see Chris Clarke, Clare Longrigg and I talk about the long read! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/magculture...
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This is by some distance the best thing out there on this subject
New: for @equatormag.bsky.social I spent months talking to BBC journalists, from front-line reporters to the former head of the World Service, about how the corporation came unstuck over Gaza. But as I was working on the story, it collided with something... bigger... www.equator.org/articles/ins...
Inside the BBC’s Gaza Fiasco • Articles • EQUATOR
How the world’s most trusted media organisation fell apart
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November 13, 2025 at 10:56 PM
This is by some distance the best thing out there on this subject
Excited to say that the beautiful Guardian Long Read Magazine is out now, ft. work by @mrkocnnll.bsky.social, @imogenwk.bsky.social, @jackgoulder.bsky.social, @tessairini.bsky.social, @hettieobrien.bsky.social + many other brilliant writers. Order your copy here guardianbookshop.com/long-read-50...
The Guardian Long Read
A better place to buy your books. Support independent journalism with everything you buy. Free UK P&P on online orders over £25
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November 13, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Excited to say that the beautiful Guardian Long Read Magazine is out now, ft. work by @mrkocnnll.bsky.social, @imogenwk.bsky.social, @jackgoulder.bsky.social, @tessairini.bsky.social, @hettieobrien.bsky.social + many other brilliant writers. Order your copy here guardianbookshop.com/long-read-50...
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Equator is live today. Read about our mission and our first pieces, which include works of reportage, essays, memoirs, poetry, and fiction from around the world: www.equator.org
EQUATOR
Equator is a magazine of politics, culture and art.
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October 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨The most exciting new thing in journalism is here 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
There are so many interesting threads in this piece - the explosion in fraud over the last decade, the rise of private policing, the former CPS lawyers and police officers spotting the business opportunities that austerity presented. Plus a con artist brought down by his furious ex-girlfriends.
My latest Guardian Long Read is about a shadowy area of criminal law that has exploded since austerity, and what “two tier justice” really means in Britain: www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
‘The police weren’t interested’: what’s driving the rise in private prosecutions?
The long read: As the police and courts continue to struggle with the legacy of austerity, many people are seeking alternative routes to justice – but it could be making matters worse
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October 23, 2025 at 6:33 PM
There are so many interesting threads in this piece - the explosion in fraud over the last decade, the rise of private policing, the former CPS lawyers and police officers spotting the business opportunities that austerity presented. Plus a con artist brought down by his furious ex-girlfriends.
Today’s long read by Lauren Hilgers is about a Chinese journalist watching the US unravel www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
October 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Today’s long read by Lauren Hilgers is about a Chinese journalist watching the US unravel www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
“Act cool and everything will be fine,” wrote one of the thieves. “No one is following you, it’s just your inner fear.“
Another "special operation" or a Marx Brothers-style farce in which competing thieves tried to outwit one another? I wrote a long read about the curious disappearance of rare Russian books from European libraries www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
The Pushkin job: unmasking the thieves behind an international rare books heist
The long read: Between 2022 and 2023, as many as 170 rare and valuable editions of Russian classics were stolen from libraries across Europe. Were the thieves merely low-level opportunists, or were bi...
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October 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
“Act cool and everything will be fine,” wrote one of the thieves. “No one is following you, it’s just your inner fear.“
“With the fracture of a single cable, Tonga was plunged into the kind of isolation it hadn’t seen in more than a century.”
Today‘s long read by @samanthsubramanian.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...
Today‘s long read by @samanthsubramanian.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...
Extremely offline: what happened when a Pacific island was cut off from the internet | Samanth Subramanian
A colossal volcanic eruption in January 2022 ripped apart the underwater cables that connect Tonga to the world – and exposed the fragility of 21st-century life
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September 30, 2025 at 10:40 AM
“With the fracture of a single cable, Tonga was plunged into the kind of isolation it hadn’t seen in more than a century.”
Today‘s long read by @samanthsubramanian.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...
Today‘s long read by @samanthsubramanian.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...
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Analytic philosophers - this is it, this is the moment that the grounding literature actually becomes relevant to something.
September 29, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Analytic philosophers - this is it, this is the moment that the grounding literature actually becomes relevant to something.
This is remarkable www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...
September 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
This is remarkable www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...
“Everything in front of you is dirty. Everything behind you is clean.”
Another Tom Lamont masterpiece
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Another Tom Lamont masterpiece
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The human stain remover: what Britain’s greatest extreme cleaner learned from 25 years on the job | Tom Lamont
From murder scenes to whale blubber, Ben Giles has seen it – and cleaned it – all. In their stickiest hours, people rely on him to restore order
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September 23, 2025 at 10:15 AM
“Everything in front of you is dirty. Everything behind you is clean.”
Another Tom Lamont masterpiece
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...
Another Tom Lamont masterpiece
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...
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'Welcome to my last four years.' A search for accountability and a full, detailed explanation for Martha's death . . . www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Paul Laity · After Martha
For the hospital, and for the NHS, it was a closed case, another preventable death: medicine is imperfect, such things...
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September 17, 2025 at 12:33 PM
'Welcome to my last four years.' A search for accountability and a full, detailed explanation for Martha's death . . . www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Today’s long read is one of the most interesting pieces we’ve published all year. Do not miss if you’re interested in AI, China, America or the future of the world www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
‘I have to do it’: Why one of the world’s most brilliant AI scientists left the US for China
In 2020, after spending half his life in the US, Song-Chun Zhu took a one-way ticket to China. Now he might hold the key to who wins the global AI race
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September 16, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Today’s long read is one of the most interesting pieces we’ve published all year. Do not miss if you’re interested in AI, China, America or the future of the world www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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Our new magazine, Equator, is officially out in the world — and here @equatormag.bsky.social
Sign up for preview emails, donate, and get tickets to our launch event in London: equator.org
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September 15, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Our new magazine, Equator, is officially out in the world — and here @equatormag.bsky.social
Sign up for preview emails, donate, and get tickets to our launch event in London: equator.org
Sign up for preview emails, donate, and get tickets to our launch event in London: equator.org
Gloriously terrible bit of writing here (from back cover of 1984 edition of La Place de La Concorde Suisse)
September 4, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Gloriously terrible bit of writing here (from back cover of 1984 edition of La Place de La Concorde Suisse)
Superb long read by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, both depressing and hopeful, about the cycle of sectarian violence and revenge killings in post-Assad Syria www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...
‘What reconciliation? What forgiveness?’: Syria’s deadly reckoning
Over a few brutal days in March, as sectarian violence and revenge killings tore through parts of Syria, two friends from different communities tried to find a way to survive
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September 2, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Superb long read by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, both depressing and hopeful, about the cycle of sectarian violence and revenge killings in post-Assad Syria www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...
Total vindication for a brilliant piece of journalism
The Guardian has successfully defended a libel action brought by the actor Noel Clarke over an investigation by the newspaper in which he was accused of sexual misconduct by more than 20 women.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...
Noel Clarke loses libel case against Guardian over sexual misconduct investigation
High court rejects actor’s claim that accusations against him by more than 20 women were false and part of a conspiracy
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August 22, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Total vindication for a brilliant piece of journalism
Today’s long read by David Pegg is a gripping, sometimes comic, frequently jaw dropping tale www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Very British bribery: the whistleblower who exposed the UK’s dodgy arms deals with Saudi Arabia
The long read: When Ian Foxley found evidence of corruption while working at a British company in Riyadh, he alerted the MoD. He didn’t know he’d stumbled upon one of its most closely guarded secrets
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August 7, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Today’s long read by David Pegg is a gripping, sometimes comic, frequently jaw dropping tale www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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This is a very illuminating essay that compellingly situates Starmer in the post-war human rights regime. It’s almost as much about that latter topic as it is Starmer himself.
Good morning, I've written a piece about the prime minister. I spoke to several dozen sources, including government insiders, former legal colleagues and campaigners to ask: what happened to Keir Starmer the heroic human rights lawyer? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Starmer v Starmer: why is the former human rights lawyer so cautious about defending human rights?
The long read: Given his career as a human rights barrister, it was hoped Keir Starmer would be the PM to restore the UK’s commitment to international law. The reality tells a different story
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July 29, 2025 at 10:04 AM
This is a very illuminating essay that compellingly situates Starmer in the post-war human rights regime. It’s almost as much about that latter topic as it is Starmer himself.