A piece looking at the destruction wrought by climate change on the Pacific Islands of Kiribati (on average 2-3 metres above sea level), already vulnerable due to unscrupulous phosphate mining stretching back a century. http://bit.ly/stuff-sea
A searching piece about Amazon and monopoly, published in a newspaper owned by Amazon’s CEO. If you have the time, it’s also worth dipping into the elegantly wrought 28,000 word ‘note’ in The Yale Law Journal that inspired the piece.
A piece examining the significant impact of new, highly partisan independent publications on the UK election and the failure of the right-wing press to destroy Jeremy Corbyn.
An absorbing data visualisation and analysis of how popular slang words of the last few years spark into life, come into fashion, and fade away.
The story of Gertrude Sanford, a socialite who fought against Germany in the Second World War and was taken prisoner in enemy territory.
The tragic story of what went wrong for a group of Finnish deep water cave divers when they were over a hundred meters underground.
A history of the iconic video game that changed the industry and helped significantly develop the genre of first-person shooters, delivered by the people who made it.
Bill Clinton and James Patterson’s thriller The President is Missing gets the London Review of Books write up it deserves.