The Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code
A gambler made a fortune betting on the trickiest of markets – horses. This piece tells the story of how he made close to a billion dollars betting on Hong Kong races.
This Town Has Been Labour Since 1919. It’s About To Switch To The Tories
The writer goes to the traditional Labour stronghold of Newcastle-under-Lyme that polling suggests is now leaning towards the Conservative Party and speaks to constituents to find out why.
Breakfast In The Ruins
Destruction and regeneration at the ancient archaeological site of Palmyra over the last four thousand years of its history, from well before the Emperor Hadrian, to the present day barbarity of the Islamic State.
Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart
This extraordinary piece, spanning the Iraq War right up to the present day, takes up an entire issue of New York Times magazine and is the result of 18 months of reporting.
The Cave Divers Who Went Back For Their Friends
The tragic story of what went wrong for a group of Finnish deep water cave divers when they were over a hundred meters underground.
Scaling the World’s Most Lethal Mountain, in the Dead of Winter
A profile of a group of Polish climbers planning to summit the deadly giant K2 in winter, following in the footsteps of a celebrated older generation.
Meet the Companies Literally Dropping ‘Irish’ Pubs in Cities Across the World
How to manufacture and export a prefab “McPub”.
“Oh My God, This Is So F***ed Up”: Inside Silicon Valley’s Secretive, Orgiastic Dark Side
A piece examining the sex party culture in Silicon Valley.
The angry sea will kill us all
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
Tales from the new Silk Road
Stories from different players involved in a vast Chinese infrastructure project aimed at expanding trade routes – a “bid to shape our century”.