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October 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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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
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Another Tom Lamont masterpiece
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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
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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
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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...
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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.
“Careless People: A Story of Where I Used to Work has too long a title and should of course simply be called ‘Cunts.’”
Hoping that this Zadie Smith quote will be on the paperback
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Hoping that this Zadie Smith quote will be on the paperback
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Summer Reads 2025
Granta contributors, friends and staff share what they are reading this summer.
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July 29, 2025 at 11:43 AM
“Careless People: A Story of Where I Used to Work has too long a title and should of course simply be called ‘Cunts.’”
Hoping that this Zadie Smith quote will be on the paperback
granta.com/summer-reads...
Hoping that this Zadie Smith quote will be on the paperback
granta.com/summer-reads...
“Starmer, Hermer, Lammy – they’re all lawyers. They’re committed to law, but they can’t bear the full consequences of committing to law.”
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 9:59 AM
“Starmer, Hermer, Lammy – they’re all lawyers. They’re committed to law, but they can’t bear the full consequences of committing to law.”
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Joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters
July 24, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters
“I had never seen anything like it,” the detective inspector said of the scale of the allegations. “But then I don’t know of any other organisation like the Jesus Fellowship.”
Today’s gripping long read by Barbara Speed
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...
Today’s gripping long read by Barbara Speed
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The rise and fall of the British cult that hid in plain sight
The long read: Philippa Barnes was a child when her family joined the Jesus Fellowship. As an adult, she helped expose the shocking scale of abuse it had perpetrated
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July 24, 2025 at 9:19 AM
“I had never seen anything like it,” the detective inspector said of the scale of the allegations. “But then I don’t know of any other organisation like the Jesus Fellowship.”
Today’s gripping long read by Barbara Speed
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...
Today’s gripping long read by Barbara Speed
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...
“The Qatari officials I spent time with oscillated, sometimes in the same breath, between self-assurance and humility.”
If, like me, over the past two years you’ve wondered ‘how did Qatar come to be at the centre of everything?’, this perceptive, deeply reported piece is for you.
If, like me, over the past two years you’ve wondered ‘how did Qatar come to be at the centre of everything?’, this perceptive, deeply reported piece is for you.
The go-between. My long read on how Qatar has become the diplomatic capital of the world, and the power it has accumulated in the process.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
The go-between: how Qatar became the global capital of diplomacy
The long read: The tiny, astonishingly wealthy country has become a major player on the world stage, trying to solve some of the most intractable conflicts. What’s driving this project?
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July 22, 2025 at 9:08 AM
“The Qatari officials I spent time with oscillated, sometimes in the same breath, between self-assurance and humility.”
If, like me, over the past two years you’ve wondered ‘how did Qatar come to be at the centre of everything?’, this perceptive, deeply reported piece is for you.
If, like me, over the past two years you’ve wondered ‘how did Qatar come to be at the centre of everything?’, this perceptive, deeply reported piece is for you.
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This is a very entertaining read
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...
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The shining: my trip to the G7 horror show with Emmanuel Macron | Emmanuel Carrère
The long read: Deeply unpopular in France, President Macron relishes the international stage, where he projects himself as the leader best placed to handle Trump. Seven years after our last encounter,...
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July 15, 2025 at 8:14 AM
This is a very entertaining read
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...
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"A trial is a grave process, but at times it resembles a game. Suddenly, there was a player who didn’t know the rules." —Sophie Elmhirst for @theguardian.com
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www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...
‘A relentless, destructive energy’: inside the trial of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon
The long read: An intimate account of an unprecedented trial
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July 15, 2025 at 11:35 PM
"A trial is a grave process, but at times it resembles a game. Suddenly, there was a player who didn’t know the rules." —Sophie Elmhirst for @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...
“Two stories would unfold in court six. One was the story of Gordon and Marten, their complex history and their crimes, and the other was of a battle for control between a married couple and a judge“
Sophie Elmhirst’s astonishing account of the 4 month trial
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...
Sophie Elmhirst’s astonishing account of the 4 month trial
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‘A relentless, destructive energy’: inside the trial of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon
The long read: An intimate account of an unprecedented trial
www.theguardian.com
July 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
“Two stories would unfold in court six. One was the story of Gordon and Marten, their complex history and their crimes, and the other was of a battle for control between a married couple and a judge“
Sophie Elmhirst’s astonishing account of the 4 month trial
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...
Sophie Elmhirst’s astonishing account of the 4 month trial
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...