Ahead of my book on the history of Russia's Illegals programme coming out next week, here's a taste in Guardian Longread form. ‘I am not who you think I am’: how a deep-cover KGB spy recruited his own son theguardian.com/news/2025/apr/…

Yesssssssssss!

“He said, don’t worry, we’re your pals. And there’s always a small bit of you that hopes your gut feeling is wrong.” Today's stunning The Guardian Long Read by Hettie O'Brien theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/m…

"Stick to Football is weirder still: the venue is somewhere between a hotel breakfast buffet and the dream room from Twin Peaks, where every Premier League legend is inexplicably hanging out and making small talk with one another, over croissants and bottles of Huel."

RIP Alasdair MacIntyre. A few years ago, we asked whether we could profile him for The Guardian Long Read. This was his very gracious reply.

No one ever got Yentob – the good, the bad, the ridiculous, the admirable – like Sam Knight did with this piece theguardian.com/media/2016/dec…

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Wholly agree with Prof. Hawks here. This is one of the best pieces of science writing I've read in some time. Fine work by Scott Sayare .

The Silvers Foundation is proud to have supported this extraordinary work from Scott Sayare, who excavates a generational debate in paleoanthropology over who we are and where we come from.

RIP Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. One of the greats, astonishingly captured at the end of his life in this profile by Carey Baraka theguardian.com/books/2023/jun…

"US commitment to undermining the court runs deep. In 2002, Congress passed the 'Hague Invasion Act', giving the president the power to use 'all means necessary' to release a US govt official detained by the ICC." Today's The Guardian Long Read by Linda Kinstler theguardian.com/law/2025/jun/2…

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 Emmanuel Carrère on Emmanuel Macron 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 theguardian.com/news/2025/jul/…

The definitive account of the trial of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon by Sophie Elmhirst for The Guardian Long Read theguardian.com/news/2025/jul/…

"Qatar is a rich country with a poor man’s mindset, a powerful country with a weak one’s vigilance."

The go-between: how Qatar became the global capital of diplomacy theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…

Joint statement on Gaza from AFP News Agency, The Associated Press, BBC News (World) and Reuters