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Long Reads

Patrick Cockburn The power of political killings

The assassination of Qasem Soleimani signals a tearing up of the international rulebook and a return to a lawless time where leaders are vulnerable to attack at any moment

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Andrew Griffin How to run a marathon with barely any training

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Sam Hancock The 24-year-old imam changing the way the world sees Islam
Sam Hancock
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Borzou Daragahi Inside Moldova’s Kremlin-backed ‘mafia’ state
Borzou Daragahi
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Berenice Langdon The dirty truth about washing your hands
Berenice Langdon
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Jon Bloomfield How young people who grew up in care are thriving at university
Jon Bloomfield
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Andrew Buncombe Honduran mother’s nightmare journey trying to find a better life in US
Andrew Buncombe
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Ian Hamilton Chemical conflict: How wars depend on drugs
Ian Hamilton
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Steven Cutts Will Boris’s Brexit bridge hold up?
Steven Cutts
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What my father taught me about Biafra and my heritage
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Kevin Childs The genocide and inhumane tactics that characterised the Biafran war
Kevin Childs
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David Barnett Parkrun: simplicity is the key to the success of community exercise
David Barnett
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Rose Stokes

How can we reform the British criminal justice system to better protect victims of rape?
Women
Inuit-run clinics give women the right to give birth at home
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Enis Yucekoralp Isn’t it about time the anti-LGBT+ rhetoric was shown the red card?
Enis Yucekoralp
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My Romanian father was broken as much by Brexit as by leukaemia
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London’s Hendrix ‘Experience’
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Mick O’Hare Nowa Huta: Poland’s forgotten attempt at a socialist utopia
Mick O’Hare
Women
Jewish women’s participation in Talmud study signals change
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Robert Fisk Trump’s attempt to kill a people’s heritage is nothing new
Robert Fisk
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Inside the fight for LGBT+ rights across the Commonwealth
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Kim Sengupta The Bouvier Affair: A perfect story about the art of deception
Kim Sengupta
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Josephine Moulds Is going vegan as good for the environment as you think?
Josephine Moulds
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I helped my terminally ill mother fulfill her dying wish
Science
Nasa loses contact with satellite monitoring mysterious exoplanets
Middle East

The Syrian American who gave everything for the country of her birth

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Hilton McRae The life and times of my best friend, Ian Charleson

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Oliver Bennett The Chernobyl art project illuminating a dark obsession with disaster

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Anthony Cuthbertson What will life look like in 2030?
Anthony Cuthbertson
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Can America accept the notion of post-exceptionalism?
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Ed Power Will the 2020s be just as roaring?
Ed Power
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James Moore Brexit uncertainty will still bedevil the markets in 2020
James Moore
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Cathy Adams The best places to visit by train in 2020
Cathy Adams
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Science’s problem with microplastics
World
Toiling in India’s sewers
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Tom Peck End of this decade marks lowest point in modern British politics
Tom Peck
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The 2010s: the Brexit Decade

John Rentoul traces back the UK’s full-blown rejection of the EU to a scorned ‘bigot’ in Rochdale 

News

Stephen Manning Larger than life: Remembering the people we lost in the 2010s

The leading lights in their fields, these figures had an impact that will reverberate for a long time

Science and Technology
The troubled legacy of Monkey Island
Health
NHS to tell cancer patients to get fit before starting chemotherapy
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Zlata Rodionova The entrepreneurs fixing Pakistan’s problems one start-up at a time
Zlata Rodionova
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Phoebe Weston After two decades of climate science, what have we learnt?
Phoebe Weston
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James Moore The weird and wonderful world of US college football
James Moore
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William Cook The Ghent Altarpiece mystery shows the enduring allure of Van Eyck
William Cook
Asia
China surveillance network moving towards digital totalitarianism
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Robert Fisk How do dictators retain power, even when reviled by those they govern?
Robert Fisk
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Male and female brains respond to injury differently, research shows
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David Barnett As twilight settles, the guerrilla gardener strikes again
David Barnett
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How mangrove trees are sowing seeds of female empowerment in Vietnam
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Mick O’Hare Time at the bar: Why are pubs disappearing from Britain’s streets?
Mick O’Hare
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William Cook How a Swiss chateau museum is bringing Charlie Chaplin back to life
William Cook
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The history of tattoos on Victorian convicts
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Steven Cutts Going up? How the idea of a ‘space elevator’ could become reality

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Andy Martin The rise of new feudalism and a never-ending game of thrones

Women

At Nasa, women are still facing outdated workplace sexism