Best of 2024: Nairobi to New York and back: the loneliness of the internationally educated elite

Revisited: Two poems, four years in detention: the Chinese dissident who smuggled his writing out of prison

10 years of the long read: Ukraine’s death-defying art rescuers (2024)

10 years of the long read: ‘All that we had is gone’: my lament for war-torn Khartoum (2023)

A new nuclear arms race is beginning. It will be far more dangerous than the last one

Revisited: Too much stuff: can we solve our addiction to consumerism?

The scandal of food waste – and how we can stop it

‘I couldn’t cry over my children like everyone else’: the tragedy of Palestinian journalist Wael al-Dahdouh

10 years of the long read: Seven stowaways and a hijacked oil tanker: the strange case of the Nave Andromeda (2022)

A cool flame: how Gaia theory was born out of a secret love affair

‘You tried to tell yourself I wasn’t real’: what happens when people with acute psychosis meet the voices in their heads?

10 years of the long read: The disastrous voyage of Satoshi, the world’s first cryptocurrency cruise ship (2021)

The cement company that paid millions to Isis: was Lafarge complicit in crimes against humanity?

Journalist or Russian spy? The strange case of Pablo González

10 years of the long read: The invisible city: how a homeless man built a life underground (2020)

Has poppymania gone too far?

Slash and burn: is private equity out of control?

10 years of the long read: Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands (2019)

Hidden traces of humanity: what AI images reveal about our world

The other British invasion: how UK lingo conquered the US