Very powerful The Guardian Long Read essay about both surviving sexual assault and documenting it in others - not an easy read but beautifully written, honest and thought provoking theguardian.com/world/ng-inter…

While much has changed since 7 October, the horrific events of the past six months are not unique, and do not stand outside history

by Rashid Khalidi

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‘A new abyss’: Gaza and the hundred years’ war on Palestine

by Rashid Khalidi theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

'A few weeks ago, I had a difficult conversation with my teenage daughter. It came out of something that happened to me more than a decade ago, and which changed the course of my life and work…'

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After I was assaulted, I posted a photo of my injuries. The reaction I craved was not pity, but anger

by Rena Effendi

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New research into the dying brain suggests the line between life and death may be less distinct than previously thought theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

The new science of death: ‘There’s something happening in the brain that makes no sense’, by alex blasdel

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Gonna keep flogging this one for a few days: my Long Read on Joseph Weizenbaum, a German Jew who fled the Holocaust, got really into computers, was radicalized by the antiwar movement, and became one of AI’s most ruthless critics theguardian.com/technology/202…

A tide of effluent, broken laws and ruthless cuts has devastated Britain's waterways.

This is the story of how an academic and a detective dredged up the truth of how it was allowed to happen

From our archive by Oliver Bullough
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A few years ago, there was a crackdown on child labour in the Indian sandstone industry.

Then businesses found a workaround: rather than bringing the children to the mines, they brought the mines to the children

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How child labour in India makes the paving stones beneath our feet, by Romita theguardian.com/news/2024/mar/…

A deep and gorgeous reflection. theguardian.com/news/2024/mar/…

Excellent long read, deep dive, by Joshua Leifer:
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Fascinating read on Hamas Joshua Leifer theguardian.com/world/2024/mar…

Enriching and thought-provoking read by Vincent Brown on Jamaican memory of Tacky's Revolt--a personal meditation on the place of the historian in wider conversations about memorialization, with all their ambiguities and complexity: theguardian.com/news/2024/mar/…

As the author of a book about a slave revolt in 18th-century Jamaica, Vincent Brown was enlisted in a campaign to make its leader a national hero.

But when he arrived in Jamaica, he started to wonder what he had got himself into… theguardian.com/news/2024/mar/…

Four years ago to the day the UK went into the first COVID lockdown.

Here's an essay I wrote about those four pandemic years in Black Britain.

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A historic revolt, a forgotten hero, an empty plinth: is there a right way to remember slavery? theguardian.com/news/2024/mar/…

For The Guardian Long Read, I talked to a lot of people about how to understand Hamas, and about how the clash between these understandings will determine what kind of agreement can be reached to end this horrific war. theguardian.com/world/2024/mar…

How Israeli, Palestinian and US political actors understand Hamas is not merely a theoretical question – it will determine what kind of agreement can be reached to end the current war, and what the future of Gaza will look like theguardian.com/world/2024/mar…