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‘For me, there was no other choice’: inside the global illegal organ trade

I spoke to dozens of people – from ‘donors’ to brokers – to find out how this exploitative trade thrives on chaos and desperation. By Seán Columb. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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  Revisited: Too much stuff: can we solve our addiction to consumerism?

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  The scandal of food waste – and how we can stop it

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  ‘I couldn’t cry over my children like everyone else’: the tragedy of Pales…

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  10 years of the long read: Seven stowaways and a hijacked oil tanker: the …

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  A cool flame: how Gaia theory was born out of a secret love affair

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  ‘You tried to tell yourself I wasn’t real’: what happens when people with …

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  10 years of the long read: The disastrous voyage of Satoshi, the world’s f…

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  The cement company that paid millions to Isis: was Lafarge complicit in cr…

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  Journalist or Russian spy? The strange case of Pablo González

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  10 years of the long read: The invisible city: how a homeless man built a …

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  Has poppymania gone too far?

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  Slash and burn: is private equity out of control?

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  10 years of the long read: Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly di…

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  Hidden traces of humanity: what AI images reveal about our world

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  The other British invasion: how UK lingo conquered the US

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  10 years of the long read: Why Silicon Valley billionaires are prepping fo…