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‘We hate it. It’s desecration’: the real cost of HS2

Ten years after I first followed the proposed route, I retraced my steps to see what life was like along the world’s most expensive, heavily delayed railway line By Patrick Barkham. Read by Dermot Daly. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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  I used to report from the West Bank. Twenty years after my last visit, I w…

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  Out of the ruins: will Aleppo ever be rebuilt?

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  From the archive: Why can’t we agree on what’s true any more?

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  A century in the Siberian wilderness: the Old Believers who time forgot

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  Inside voice: what can our thoughts reveal about the nature of consciousne…

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  From the archive: ‘Who remembers proper binmen?’ The nostalgia memes that …

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  What technology takes from us – and how to take it back

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  The crisis whisperer: how Adam Tooze makes sense of our bewildering age

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  From the archive: Do we need a new theory of evolution?

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  Walking into disaster: the narcotrafficking scandal that blew up the BVI

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  Trump’s assault on the Smithsonian: ‘The goal is to reframe the entire cul…

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  From the archive: the free speech panic: how the right concocted a crisis

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  Death on the inside: as a prison officer, I saw how the system perpetuates…

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  From the archive: The King of Kowloon: my search for the cult graffiti pro…

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  We published explosive stories about the president of El Salvador. Now we …