‘I see it as trafficking’: the brutal reality of life as a foreign student in the UK
Universities in Britain rely on overseas applicants paying full fees, which has given rise to some unscrupulous recruiters and left many hop...
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The Guardian's Audio Long Reads
The Guardian's Audio Long Reads podcasts are a selection of the Guardian’s long read articles which are published in the paper and online. It gives you the opportunity to get on with your da...
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Listen to The Guardian's Audio Long Reads, a News & Politics podcast by The Guardian. Stream 306 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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No cults, no politics, no ghouls: how China censors the video game world
We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. Th...
Where Duolingo falls down: how I learned to speak Welsh with my mother
Once violently defended from extinction, Welsh is still a part of daily life. By learning my family’s language, I hoped to join their conver...
‘Any other child would have died’: the miraculous survival of Nada Itrab
After a nine-year-old girl was kidnapped and taken from Spain to Bolivia, authorities feared the worst. They found her in the rainforest nin...
From the archive: the impossible job: inside the world of Premier League referees
We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. Th...
Inside China’s robotics revolution
How close are we to the sci-fi vision of autonomous humanoid robots? I visited 11 companies in five Chinese cities to find out By Chang Che....
Endo dreams of sushi: a trip around Japan with one of the world’s greatest chefs
Endo Kazutoshi spent decades climbing to the top of the culinary world, only for a devastating fire to threaten it all. I joined him in the...
From the archive: The high cost of living in a disabling world
We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. Th...
Teacher v chatbot: my journey into the classroom in the age of AI
I was a newcomer, negotiating all of the usual classroom difficulties for the first time. Throwing AI into the mix felt like downing a coffe...
35,000 pints of stolen Guinness, 950 wheels of pilfered cheese: can the UK’s cargo theft crisis be stopped?
It costs the UK economy £700m a year, and criminal gangs are operating with near impunity. Every time a lorry gets robbed, raided or hijacke...
From the archive: Foreign mothers, foreign tongues: ‘In another universe, she could have been my friend’
We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. Th...
How the US far right bought into the myth of white South Africa’s persecution
When Trump granted white South Africans refugee status, he was echoing a falsehood about Black people taking revenge for years of brutality....
AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying
LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years,...
From the archive: Freedom without constraints: how the US squandered its cold war victory
We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. Th...
My maddening battle with chronic fatigue syndrome: ‘On my worst days, it feels almost demonic’
I suffered with my mystery illness for decades before gaining a diagnosis. Could retraining my brain be the answer? By Hermione Hoby. Read b...
Apocalypse no: how almost everything we thought we knew about the Maya is wrong
For many years the prevailing debate about the Maya centred upon why their civilisation collapsed. Now, many scholars are asking: how did th...
From the archive: the butcher’s shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)
We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. Th...
‘I felt betrayed, naked’: did a prize-winning novelist steal a woman’s life story?
His novel was praised for giving a voice to the victims of Algeria’s brutal civil war. But one woman has accused Kamel Daoud of having stole...
What was Doge? How Elon Musk tried to gamify government
Steeped in gaming and rightwing culture wars, Musk and his team of teenage coders set out to defeat the enemy of the United States: its peop...
From the archive: Are we really prisoners of geography?
We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. Th...
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