‘I stopped counting how many friends died’: life after the contaminated blood scandal theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/o…

What a read - funny, vivid, and a little sad. theguardian.com/world/article/…

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

by Carey Baraka

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Searing, terrifying, brilliantly reported and written. Read this
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'A defining feature of life in India today is the suffocating atmosphere of menace and threat to critics of the government. Amit Shah is the face of this fear.'

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Audio long read from our archive, with a new introduction by the author Jeremy Gordon

Steve Albini was long synonymous with the indie underground. He also often seemed determined to offend as many people as possible. What led him to reassess his past?

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I love this anecdote in Atul Dev's new The Guardian Long Read profile of Amit Shah, the second most powerful (and most feared) man in Modi's India theguardian.com/world/article/…

‘A defining feature of life in India today is the suffocating atmosphere of menace and threat to critics of the government. Shah is the face and embodiment of this fear.’

Atul Dev with this spot on Amit shah profile

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The latest powerful account published in The Guardian about the ongoing IPP scandal: theguardian.com/news/article/2… If you work in criminal justice, you need to understand what this sentence is, and why it really matters. Abolished 12 years ago but still it persists

'For Modi, he is what Dick Cheney and Karl Rove were for George W Bush – the muscle as well as the brain – rolled into one.'

Today's The Guardian Long Read by Atul Dev is an electrifying profile of India's second-most powerful man, Amit Shah

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For 40 years, Amit Shah has been at Narendra Modi’s side – his confidant, consigliere and enforcer.

Today he is India’s second-most powerful man, and he is reshaping the country in radical ways theguardian.com/world/article/…

‘He likes scaring people’: how Modi’s right-hand man, Amit Shah, runs India

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'Humans are not Earth’s chief occupants. Trees are. There are three trillion of them, with a collective biomass thousands of times that of humanity.' theguardian.com/environment/20…

Indeterminate sentences are devastating to mental health, but prisoners with mental illness are less likely to be released.

The result is a vicious cycle whereby the most vulnerable inmates often have the least chance of getting out theguardian.com/news/article/2…

You are sent to prison as a teenager. You can only get out if you prove you’re not dangerous. Eventually, your grasp on reality starts to slip. I wrote about a waking nightmare for The Guardian Long Read theguardian.com/news/article/2…

As a teenager, John was jailed for assaulting someone and stealing their bike. That was 17 years ago – will he ever be released?

by sophie atkinson

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'What surprised me most was the fact that writing outside prison was even more treacherous than writing inside prison.' theguardian.com/world/article/…

Two poems, four years in detention: the Chinese dissident who smuggled his writing out of prison theguardian.com/world/article/…

If you're curious about what made Steve Albini a special person and not just a brilliant and influential musician and recording engineer, read this.

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'The recording part is the part that matters to me – that I’m making a document that records a piece of our culture, the life’s work of the musicians that are hiring me. I want the music to outlive all of us.' theguardian.com/music/2023/aug…