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10 years of the long read: Man v rat: could the long war soon be over? (2016)

10/16/2024 • 40 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 2016: Rats spread disease, decimate crops and very occasionally eat people alive. For centuries, we have struggled to find an effective way of controlling their numbers. Until now… By Jordan Kisne… Play episode

Morality and rules, and how to avoid drowning: what my daughters learned a…
The shapeshifter: who is the real Giorgia Meloni?
10 years of the long read: Farewell to America (2015)
The cocaine kingpin’s wildest legacy: what can be done with Pablo Escobar’…
‘Like a cheese grater raking across my nipple’: why I kept trying to breas…
10 years of the long read: Is this the end of Britishness? (2014)
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

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