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  ‘If you win the popular imagination, you change the game’: why we need new…

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  ‘We can’t even get basic care done’: what it’s like doing 12-hour shifts o…

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  From the archive – The selling of the Krays: how two mediocre criminals cr…

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  ‘It was a set-up, we were fooled’: the coalmine that ate an Indian village

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  The price of ‘sugar free’: are sweeteners as harmless as we thought?

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  From the archive: El Chapo: what the rise and fall of the kingpin reveals …

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  Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site

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  Becoming a chatbot: my life as a real estate AI’s human backup

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  From the archive: Who killed the prime minister? The unsolved murder that …

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  ‘The Godfather, Saudi-style’: inside the palace coup that brought MBS to p…

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  ‘They want toys to get their children into Harvard’: have we been getting …

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  From the archive: How the ‘rugby rape trial’ divided Ireland

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  Iran’s moment of truth: what will it take for the people to topple the reg…

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  Best of 2022: ‘Is this justice?’: why Sudan is facing a multibillion-dolla…

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  Best of 2022: The amazing true(ish) story of the ‘Honduran Maradona’