You’ve got to admire the Fifa president’s chutzpah in trying to flog off football’s greatest prize. If only Uefa wasn’t being so pesky about it allImagine a plan so distasteful that even the Americans and...
Read MoreIn an increasingly dangerous world, our European neighbours are finding safety in numbers – but Britain is on the outside. The new PM’s task is to change thatThere is an orange cloud in the sky. I’m not...
Read MoreExclusive: Danielle Kirton calls on Ed Miliband to help her get answers about why evacuation order came too lateThe bereaved daughter of a British couple who died in a Spanish wildfire is calling on Ed Miliband to get answers...
Read MoreCampaigners worry politicians will have moved on by time of elections in which Marine Le Pen is expected to challengeAs dozens of forest wildfires burned across France this week amid the summer’s fourth brutal heatwave and...
Read MoreFerocious flames continue to rage in parts of France and Spain, with no sign of abating. We chart the destruction in graphics and picturesThe hellish infernos that have torn through parts of France and Spain have caused deaths,...
Read MoreFatima left her family behind in Morocco for seasonal work in Spain. But the dreams of a better life quickly turned into exploitation, squalid conditions and violenceAt the farm in the northwestern Spanish region of Castile and...
Read MoreRemoval of Soviet-era statues sped up when Russia seized Crimea in 2014, and since Putin’s 2022 invasion has moved at pace as Ukrainians question their identitySince 2013 the plinth at the bottom of Taras Shevchenko...
Read MoreDavid Nwamini was working at a market in Lagos when he was given the chance to start anew in the UK. He had no idea what was expected of him in return• The summer issue of the Long Read magazine is out now. Click here to...
Read MoreUnderground clinic’s fate hangs in the balance after government withdrew state funding For most people, spending hours deep underground in darkness would seem an odd prescription for better health.Yet every morning, a...
Read More‘Racist bias’ overestimating ages in Home Office’s facial-recognition software will lead to solo children being housed with adults, says Human Rights NetworkFlawed and racialised models that underpin the...
Read MoreEsperanto had always seemed to me like an idealistic movement that had failed. So why was its annual congress so vibrant and full of young people?The summer issue of the Long Read magazine is out now. Click here to orderOne day,...
Read MoreEsperanto had always seemed to me like an idealistic movement that had failed. So why was its annual congress so vibrant and full of young people?The summer issue of the Long Read magazine is out now. Click here to orderOne day,...
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