‘What reconciliation? What forgiveness?’: Syria’s deadly reckoning

Take away our language and we will forget who we are: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and the language of conquest

From the archive: The Blackstone rebellion: how one country took on the world’s biggest commercial landlord

‘We’ve done it before’: how not to lose hope in the fight against ecological disaster

From bank robber to scholar: the Knoxville dropout fighting to change how we see addiction

From the archive: Divine comedy: the standup double act who turned to the priesthood

‘A climate of unparalleled malevolence’: are we on our way to the sixth major mass extinction?

Bland, easy to follow, for fans of everything: what has the Netflix algorithm done to our films?

From the archive: Forgetting the apocalypse: why our nuclear fears faded – and why that’s dangerous

‘The forest had gone’: the storm that moved a mountain

Life in a ‘sinking nation’: Tuvalu’s dreams of dry land

From the archive: Sewage sleuths: the men who revealed the slow, dirty death of Welsh and English rivers

Very British bribery: the whistleblower who exposed the UK’s dodgy arms deals with Saudi Arabia

‘People pay to be told lies’: the rise and fall of the world’s first ayahuasca multinational

From the archive: ‘We were all wrong’: how Germany got hooked on Russian energy

Dancing with Putin: how Austria’s former foreign minister found a new home in Russia

Don’t call it morning sickness: ‘At times in my pregnancy I wondered if this was death coming for me’

From the archive: ‘We need to break the junk food cycle’: how to fix Britain’s failing food system

The rise and fall of the British cult that hid in plain sight

Best of 2025 … so far: ‘The Mozart of the attention economy’: why MrBeast is the world’s biggest YouTube star