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‘I knew in my head we were dying’: the last voyage of the Scandies Rose
When a fishing boat left port in Alaska in December 2019 with an experienced crew, an icy storm was brewing. What happened to them shows why deep sea…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
From the archive: ‘If you decide to cut staff, people die’: how Nottingham prison descended into chaos
We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, …
7 months, 2 weeks ago
‘Scamming became the new farming’: inside India’s cybercrime villages
How did an obscure district in a neglected state become India’s byword for digital deceit? By Snigdha Poonam. Read by Mikhail Sen. Help support our i…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
From the archive: how we lost our sensory connection with food – and how to restore it
We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, …
7 months, 3 weeks ago
The Pushkin job: unmasking the thieves behind an international rare books heist
Between 2022 and 2023, as many as 170 rare and valuable editions of Russian classics were stolen from libraries across Europe. Were the thieves merel…
7 months, 4 weeks ago
‘The jobless should lead the attack’: a radical Jamaican journalist in 1920s London
Economic insecurity, race riots, incendiary media … Claude McKay was one of the few Black journalists covering a turbulent period that sounds all too…
8 months ago
From the archive: ‘We are so divided now’: how China controls thought and speech beyond its borders
We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, …
8 months ago
Special Edition: Behind the scenes at the Long Read
To celebrate the launch of the new Guardian Long Read magazine this week, join the long read editor David Wolf in discussion with regular contributor…
8 months ago
Counting down to zero: the final warning from a climate diplomat
Before Peter Betts died in 2023, he wanted to pass on what he had learned over many years of negotiating at Cops – including how Paris 2015 was saved…
8 months ago
Extremely offline: what happened when a Pacific island was cut off from the internet
A colossal volcanic eruption in January 2022 ripped apart the underwater cables that connect Tonga to the world – and exposed the fragility of 21st-c…
8 months, 1 week ago