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From the archive: Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the r…

3/22/2023 • 42 min

We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors This week, from 2019: For a century, the humble paper towel has dominated public toilets. But a new generation of hand dryers has sparked a war for loo supremacy. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longr… Play episode

Baghdad memories: what the first few months of the US occupation felt like…
Dinner with Proust: how Alzheimer’s caregivers are pulled into their patie…
From the archive: How the MoD’s plan to privatise military housing ended i…
‘One billionaire at a time’: inside the Swiss clinics where the super-rich…
From the archive: The real David Attenborough
No coach, no agent, no ego: the incredible story of the ‘Lionel Messi of c…
From the archive: Fifty shades of white: the long fight against racism in …
Portrait of a killer: art class in one of Mexico’s most notorious prisons
From the archive: Welcome to the land that no country wants
Can a mass shooter demand a good death? The strange case that tested the l…
From the archive: Snow machines and fleece blankets: inside the ski indust…
Battle of the botanic garden: the horticulture war roiling the Isle of Wig…
From the archive: Can the greatest darts player of all time step away from…
A tragedy pushed to the shadows: the truth about China’s Cultural Revoluti…
From the archive: Where oil rigs go to die
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‘If you win the popular imagination, you change the game’: why we need new…
‘We can’t even get basic care done’: what it’s like doing 12-hour shifts o…
From the archive – The selling of the Krays: how two mediocre criminals cr…
‘It was a set-up, we were fooled’: the coalmine that ate an Indian village
The price of ‘sugar free’: are sweeteners as harmless as we thought?
From the archive: El Chapo: what the rise and fall of the kingpin reveals …
Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site
Becoming a chatbot: my life as a real estate AI’s human backup
From the archive: Who killed the prime minister? The unsolved murder that …
‘The Godfather, Saudi-style’: inside the palace coup that brought MBS to p…
‘They want toys to get their children into Harvard’: have we been getting …
From the archive: How the ‘rugby rape trial’ divided Ireland
Iran’s moment of truth: what will it take for the people to topple the reg…
Best of 2022: ‘Is this justice?’: why Sudan is facing a multibillion-dolla…
Best of 2022: The amazing true(ish) story of the ‘Honduran Maradona’
Best of 2022: ‘Parents are frightened for themselves and for their childre…
Best of 2022: The sludge king: how one man turned an industrial wasteland …
Best of 2022: ‘A deranged pyroscape’: how fires across the world have grow…
Best of 2022: Seven stowaways and a hijacked oil tanker: the strange case …
The many meanings of moss
From the archive: Dulwich Hamlet: the tiny football club that lost its hom…
‘He was fast … he ran you right over’: what it’s like to get hit by an SUV
How to move a country: Fiji’s radical plan to escape rising sea levels
From the archive: China’s hi-tech war on its Muslim minority
‘Who remembers proper binmen?’ The nostalgia memes that help explain Brita…
Are we really prisoners of geography?
From the archive: How I let drinking take over my life
The night everything changed: waiting for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Megalopolis: how coastal west Africa will shape the coming century
From the archive – Spain’s Watergate: inside the corruption scandal that c…
Is the IMF fit for purpose?
Ukraine’s true detectives: the investigators closing in on Russian war cri…
From the archive: The Anthropocene epoch: have we entered a new phase of p…

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