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From the archive – ‘A merry-go-round of buck-passing’: inside the four-year Grenfell…

9/6/2024 • 51 min

We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some notable pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2022: Five years after the fire that killed 72, the inquiry is nearing a close. Over 300 days of evidence, what have we learned about the failings that led to disaster? By Robert Booth. Help support our indepen… Play episode

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?
‘I’ll stay an MP for as long as I can’: Diane Abbott’s tumultuous politica…
From the archive: The secret deportations: how Britain betrayed the Chines…
‘He likes scaring people’: how Modi’s right-hand man, Amit Shah, runs India
Guatemala’s baby brokers: how thousands of children were stolen for adopti…
From the archive: Trump’s useful thugs: how the Republican party offered a…
After I was assaulted, I posted a photo of my injuries. The reaction I cra…
‘Super cute please like’: the unstoppable rise of Shein
From the archive: The evolution of Steve Albini: ‘If the dumbest person is…
‘A new abyss’: Gaza and the hundred years’ war on Palestine
The true cost of El Salvador’s new gold rush
From the archive: The age of perpetual crisis – how the 2010s disrupted ev…
How child labour in India makes the paving stones beneath our feet

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