'The 'wood-wide-web' narrative gives us the trees for our times: anti-capitalist, feminist and extremely online.'

Today's The Guardian Long Read by Daniel Immerwahr theguardian.com/environment/20…

Please share widely - the second year of the Martha Mills Young Writers’ Prize. We’re thrilled to have the wonderful Philip Pullman as a judge - Martha was such a fan of his books

Britain’s first black female MP faced hostility from the media and political establishment from the start. Nearly 40 years on, she is still not giving up

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Diane Abbott’s tumultuous political journey

by Andy Beckett

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Excellent long read by ⁦Daniel Immerwahr⁩ on why the idea of the Wood Wide Web came to be so powerful, why it’s probably not so, and why trees are magnificent anyway 🌳🌴🌲 theguardian.com/environment/20…

Mother trees and socialist forests: is the ‘wood-wide web’ a fantasy?

by Daniel Immerwahr

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'Contemplating trees should be an exercise in humility. Perhaps the presence of beings older, larger and more numerous than we are can be a reminder that we are not everything, and that everything is not us.' theguardian.com/environment/20…

In the past 10 years the idea that trees communicate with each other – and even care for each other – has gained widespread currency. But have these claims outstripped the evidence?

by Daniel Immerwahr
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Mother trees and socialist forests: is the ‘wood-wide web’ a fantasy?
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As a victim of one of the NHS’s worst failures, I campaigned for years for an investigation into what led to so many people becoming infected with deadly viruses.

Finally we got an inquiry into the contaminated blood scandal – but did we get answers?

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Congratulations to Nesrine Malik who has been shortlisted for the European Press Prize for her piece, 'My lament for war-torn Khartoum' theguardian.com/world/2023/jul…

This is a fascinating, gripping and nuanced piece about, among other things, the complexities of prosecuting county lines cases and the blurred lines between victim and perpetrator theguardian.com/law/ng-interac…

Just heard - a court in Trapani, Sicily, has dropped the case against crew members of the search and rescue ship Iuventa. They've had this case hanging over their heads for 7 years: I wrote about its murky origins for The Guardian Long Read in 2020.

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From low-level drug dealer to human trafficker: are modern slavery laws catching the wrong people? theguardian.com/law/ng-interac…

In 2019, Glodi Wabuela became the first ‘county lines’ drug dealer to be tried & convicted for human trafficking. It was a shock to realise I’d gone to primary school with him. I’ve spent the last year putting together his story for The Guardian Long Read

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When I heard that a boy from my primary school had been convicted of people trafficking, I had to find out what had happened to make him fall so far

by Francisco Garcia

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‘Super cute please like’: the unstoppable rise of Shein, by Nicole Lipman theguardian.com/fashion/2024/a…

In 2016, we asked Ian Jack to write about Trident for The Guardian Long Read, and he produced this masterpiece —which makes very clear, over 10000 words, that the purpose of “our nuclear deterrent” has little to do with keeping us safe.
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‘A new abyss’ the brilliant Rashid Khalidi on
Gaza and the hundred years’ war on Palestine

While much has changed since 7 October, the horrific events of the past six months are not unique, and do not stand outside history

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Very powerful The Guardian Long Read essay about both surviving sexual assault and documenting it in others - not an easy read but beautifully written, honest and thought provoking theguardian.com/world/ng-inter…