
Long reads

The coming Republican civil war
The US midterms were a setback for Donald Trump. Will his 2024 White House bid survive a brutal round…
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The death of “Boris” the clown
All of a sudden nothing worked. The audience began to jeer. Yes, for the first time in his career,…
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A battle for the soul of English cricket
When the former Yorkshire bowler Azeem Rafiq blew the whistle on racism, resignations and inquiries followed. Has anything changed?
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“We’re going to disrupt”: A year inside GB News
Faced with a new rival, can the channel survive? Staffers share the story of a tumultuous 12 months.
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Do you want to live forever? Big Tech and the quest for eternal youth
Anti-ageing drugs are bankrolled by some of the wealthiest people on Earth, including Jeff Bezos and Peter Thiel. Are…
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Watergate in the age of Donald Trump
Fifty years ago, the scandal that brought down Richard Nixon revealed flaws in American democracy that still haunt US…
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Inside the UK hotel that became home to 150 refugees
The Koofi family were airlifted to safety in August 2021. This is their story – and that of thousands…
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The battle for Stonewall: the LGBT charity and the UK’s gender wars
It secured landmark legislation for gay people, before taking on the divisive issue of trans rights. Can Stonewall survive…
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The reckoning: rape culture and the crisis in British schools
After Scarlett Mansfield collated 200 accounts of sexual harassment, inspectors put her former school on notice. Could it be…
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