The best of the long read in 2024
Our 20 favourite pieces of in-depth reporting, essays and profiles from the year
Nicholas Saunders was a counterculture pioneer with an endless stream of quixotic schemes and a yearning to spread know…
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Hong Kong police issue bounties for six more overseas activists
HK$1m rewards target people accused of national security crimes who fled after pro-democracy protests
Hong Kong police have announced bounties of HK$1m (about £105,000) for information leading to the …
Vance’s home town in Ohio does little to celebrate its famous son’s success
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a story from The Guardian › International
In Middletown there’s little indication that a local luminary will become second in line to the presidency
Ordinarily, the home town of an incoming vice-president of the United States ought to be awas…
Single-use plastic will soon be banned in Nigeria – but is the country ready?
With restrictions due next month, food vendors are still using such plastics and some traders have not heard of ban
Labake Ajiboye-Richard, the founder of a Lagos-based sustainability consultancy, was…
Ukraine war briefing: North Korean troops yet to make major impact on fighting, says Ukraine military intelligence
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Missile strike targets residential building in Kryvyi Rih; Christmas celebrations across Ukraine shrouded in grief. What we know on day 1,036
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Brazil’s mysterious ‘man of the hole’ is dead. Should his land remain protected?
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a story from The Guardian › International
The death of Tanaru, the last member of an uncontacted group in the Amazon, raises questions about ethnic cleansing of Indigenous people, justice and the future of ancestral lands
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Did you solve it? All you need to know about 2025
The solutions to today’s puzzles
Earlier today I set you the following two puzzles loosely related to 2025. (For more information on the number 2025 please read the original post.) Here they are again…
Paris to Berlin by train is now faster by five hours. We try out the new service
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a story from The Guardian › International
The new direct daytime route, via Strasbourg, sweeps through enchanting landscapes from vineyards to forests. But some say it needs to be quicker still if the train is to be more attractive than flyi…
Nigel Slater’s recipe for chocolate marzipan dates
Perfect sweet treats for a little seasonal excess
Choose 20 plump, soft dates. Using a small, sharp knife, make a long slit in one side of each and pull out the stone.
Break 250g of marzipan into 20 pi…
My petty gripe: allowing hot food in cinemas is the end of civilisation | Mike Hohnen
Nothing interrupts the escape into movie world like the pungent whiff of reheated four-cheese arancini
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