This is great!!

An extract from IF WE TOLERATE THIS is today's Guardian Long Read.

www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ap...

Attempted arson attack a bid to scare British Jews, says leader of London synagogue Met seeking two suspects and says overnight incident in Finchley being treated as antisemitic hate crime

Just unbelievably depressing to read about this attack on Finchley Reform Synagogue www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The past few weeks of headlines for Crispin

This piece (linked in the thread below) is my read of the day. I started out thinking “eh, what’s the big deal, just keep the passport and don’t use it,” but soon realised I hadn’t understood anything. Thoughtful, insightful and fascinating!

‘I had poked the bear right in the eye’: my fight to renounce my Russian citizenship The long read: When Putin invaded Ukraine, he raised murder to the level of national policy. I felt guilt by association. And I had to act

"I regarded renouncing my Russian passport as a liberation, a bit like ridding oneself of a toxic relationship or having surgery to remove kidney stones."

Today's Guardian long read by @radchenko.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

"Sam needed extra work, and he found shifts at a vegetable packing factory on Dundee’s outskirts, washing and packaging vegetables for Tesco and Aldi. He worked 10-hour shifts at minimum wage. 'By that time, my ego had died, so I had accepted: OK, we can do this,' he told me."

Welcome to the MrBeastification of British politics: the latest trick up Nigel Farage's sleeve | Kirsty Major The Reform UK leader’s energy bill giveaway certainly grabs our attention – but it’s all a distraction from the real winners and losers, says Guardian deputy Opinion editor Kirsty Major

I wrote about Reform UK's use of MrBeast's tactics to win our attention and distract us from the real causes behind the energy crisis www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Yes!

IF WE TOLERATE THIS is out on 30 April - just ahead of the elections. Come and see me talk about it...

5 May, Nottingham @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social
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13 May, London
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Hope to see you there!

35,000 pints of stolen Guinness, 950 wheels of pilfered cheese: can the UK’s cargo theft crisis be stopped? It costs the UK economy £700m a year, and criminal gangs are operating with near impunity. Every time a lorry gets robbed, raided or hijacked, it’s Mike Dawber who investigates

"In some ways, it’s the perfect crime. If stolen cargo isn’t found within the first few hours, it’s as good as gone. It re-enters the supply chain, and, soon after, the evidence will get eaten."

Today's Guardian long read by @stuartmcgurk.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

On 8 April, to celebrate the publication of the new Guardian Long Read magazine, I'll be talking to the extremely brilliant @samanthsubramanian.bsky.social, Sirin Kale and @samirashackle.bsky.social at the Owl Bookshop in Kentish Town. Tickets here! owlbookshop.co.uk/product/the-...

“Man says thing” is also a key component of sports transaction slop.

‘It’s just a bomb’ The true story of two strangers and an extraordinary act of courage

As Nathan Newby receives the George medal today for extraordinary bravery, read the amazing story, published in the FT Magazine in December, of how he talked a would-be hospital bomber down. It’s an astonishing piece of writing from Ravi Somaiya and it’s Free to Read www.ft.com/content/cd59...

Just one of the most extraordinary stories - incredible

they didn't call it the socialism of the wise

Inside China’s robotics revolution The long read: How close are we to the sci-fi vision of autonomous humanoid robots? I visited 11 companies in five Chinese cities to find out

Today’s Guardian long read by Chang Che is a monumental piece of reporting www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The Long Read today in @theguardian.com is an excerpt from the last chapter of @bentarnoff.com + my new book.

We revisit DOGE as a case of Musk’s cyborg conservatism: the government as a codebase to be rewritten and cleansed. The title of the chapter is StateX.

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Revealed: Nigel Farage Cameo videos show support for neo-Nazi event and far-right slogans YouTube video by The Guardian

Very snazzy video on what we found when we did a deep dive on Nigel Farage's use of Cameo

I would like someone - a journalist, a backbencher, an opposition leader - to ask the prime minister to defend this, explicitly.

It was very fun to highlight some of my favourite magazines and writers (Elaine Blair, Ann Wroe and many others) here

Power without a throne: how Khalifa Haftar controls Libya – and is answerable to no one The long read: When Nato helped overthrow Gaddafi in 2011, there were hopes of a new beginning. More than a decade later, this former CIA asset runs the country – and Libya has become yet another less...

An incredible piece by Anas El Gomati. If you have the slightest interest, read immediately www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Teacher v chatbot: my journey into the classroom in the age of AI The long read: I was a newcomer, negotiating all of usual classroom difficulties for the first time. Throwing AI into the mix felt like downing a coffee in the middle of a panic attack

There have been a lot of 'AI and the classroom' essays. But this one, by writer and now high school English teacher @apcbapcb.bsky.social, is, in fact, the best www.theguardian.com/education/ng...

True McSweeneyism has never been tried

Same

Perhaps a minor point given the scale of the Send system’s out of control costs, but these were the sorts of “hidden” things that went first when councils began cutting budgets post 2010. It’s taken 15 years, but the consequences of local govt cuts are increasingly a national problem

Incredible piece

‘I felt betrayed, naked’: did a prize-winning novelist steal a woman’s life story? The long read: His novel was praised for giving a voice to the victims of Algeria’s brutal civil war. But one woman has accused Kamel Daoud of having stolen her story – and the ensuing legal battle ha...

“Kamel Daoud’s defence has hinged on his persecution by the Algerian state. But what kind of behaviour can persecution justify?“

Do not miss this stunning Guardian long read by Madeleine Schwartz www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

god damn