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10 years of the long read: Is this the end of Britishness? (2014)

10/2/2024 • 43 min

As the Long Read turns 10 we are raiding the archives to bring you a favourite piece from each year since 2014, with new introductions from the authors. This week from 2014: A shared history of 300 years could be washed away if Scotland votes for independence. What was the complex identity the United Kingdom created – and should we mourn its loss? by Ian Jack. H… Play episode

Special Edition: 10 years of the Guardian Long Read
Strange and wondrous creatures: plankton and the origins of life on Earth
No god in the machine: the pitfalls of AI worship
From the archive: The unravelling of a conspiracy: were the 16 charged wit…
On board the Creed cruise: the unfathomable return of the ‘worst band of t…
A Chinese-born writer’s quest to understand the Vikings, Normans and life …
From the archive: The invention of whiteness: the long history of a danger…
Ukraine’s death-defying art rescuers
As a former IDF soldier and historian of genocide, I was deeply disturbed …
From the archive: Death on demand: has euthanasia gone too far?
‘A diagnosis can sweep away guilt’: the delicate art of treating ADHD
From the archive – ‘A merry-go-round of buck-passing’: inside the four-yea…
From the KKK to the state house: how neo-Nazi David Duke won office
‘Nobody knows what I know’: how a loyal RSS member abandoned Hindu nationa…
Best of 2024 … so far: Solar storms, ice cores and nuns’ teeth: the new sc…
‘It comes for your very soul’: how Alzheimer’s undid my dazzling, creative…
Best of 2024 … so far: ‘Scars on every street’: the refugee camp where gen…
Food, water, wifi: is this the future of humanitarian aid?
Best of 2024…so far: ‘They were dying, and they’d not had their money’: Br…
My family and other Nazis
Best of 2024 … so far: Hippy, capitalist, guru, grocer: the forgotten geni…
Revolution in the air: how laughing gas changed the world
From Nobel peace prize to civil war: how Ethiopia’s leader beguiled the wo…
From the archive: From Game of Thrones to The Crown: the woman who turns a…
Chortle chortle, scribble scribble: inside the Old Bailey with Britain’s l…
‘I’m good, I promise’: the loneliness of the low-ranking tennis player
From the archive: ‘As borders closed, I became trapped in my Americanness’…
‘If there’s nowhere else to go, this is where they come’: how Britain’s li…
‘How do I heal?’: the long wait for justice after a black man dies in poli…
From the archive: The elephant vanishes: how a circus family went on the r…
Dirty waters: how the Environment Agency lost its way
Inside Mexico’s anti-avocado militias
From the archive: ‘Colonialism had never really ended’: my life in the sha…
Where the wild things are: the untapped potential of our gardens, parks an…
How the Tories pushed universities to the brink of disaster
From the archive: Ten ways to confront the climate crisis without losing h…
‘Natty or not?’: how steroids got big
Nairobi to New York and back: the loneliness of the internationally educat…
From the archive: Brazilian butt lift: behind the world’s most dangerous c…
Two poems, four years in detention: the Chinese dissident who smuggled his…
As a teenager, John was jailed for assaulting someone and stealing their b…
From the archive: Can computers ever replace the classroom?
The man who turned his home into a homeless shelter
From low-level drug dealer to human trafficker: are modern slavery laws ca…
From the archive: How globalisation has transformed the fight for LGBTQ+ r…
‘Ryan Reynolds never had to deal with this’: the slow death and (possible)…
César Aira’s unreal magic: how the eccentric author took over Latin Americ…
From the archive: ‘The Silicon Valley of turf’: how the UK’s pursuit of th…
Mother trees and socialist forests: is the ‘wood-wide web’ a fantasy?

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