Remote Working: What the UK’s Last Lighthouse Keepers Can Teach Us About Isolation

“As the former keeper of one of the UK’s most remote lighthouses, his work has been a unique training ground for lockdown. Only with more elemental havoc.”

Source: The Independent
Published: Feb 23, 2021
Length: 9 minutes (2,437 words)

Inside Xinjiang’s Prison State

“Survivors of China’s campaign of persecution reveal the scope of the devastation.”

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Feb 26, 2021
Length: 28 minutes (7,000 words)

Please Just Let Women Be Villains

“From ‘Wicked’ to ‘Cruella,’ rehabilitated villainesses rely on outdated ideas of women’s virtue.”

Published: Feb 25, 2021
Length: 7 minutes (1,957 words)

Britney Spears Was Never in Control

“Why did I ever believe a teen girl could hold all the power?”

Published: Feb 23, 2021
Length: 17 minutes (4,300 words)

“Dr. Lecter, My Name Is Clarice Starling”

“The movie is so scary because it seeps into people’s consciousness through fears. It really works on fear more than anything else.”

Source: Vanity Fair
Published: Feb 23, 2021
Length: 19 minutes (4,811 words)

Five Fishermen, a Stormy Night and £53m of Cocaine: Were the Freshwater Five Wrongly Convicted?

“The men, now known as the Freshwater Five, were not typical multimillion-pound drug smugglers. They had no previous convictions relating to drugs or dishonesty, no forensic evidence linked them to the cocaine, and a Proceeds of Crime Act inquiry assessed their gains from criminality at zero.”

Author: Anna Moore
Source: The Guardian
Published: Apr 18, 2020
Length: 16 minutes (4,013 words)

Netflix and Anna Delvey: The Race to Secure the Story of New York’s ‘Fake Heiress’

“Over time, payments from Netflix to Sorokin would rise to $320,000. And for the first time in almost 20 years, they triggered a controversial New York law, designed to stop convicted criminals from profiting from their crime.”

Source: BBC
Published: Feb 20, 2021
Length: 11 minutes (2,937 words)

Death Takes the Lagoon

“Ariel Saramandi on the sinking of the MV Wakashio off the coast of Mauritius.”

Source: Granta
Published: Feb 8, 2021
Length: 16 minutes (4,066 words)

“Mark Changed the Rules”

“How Facebook went easy on Alex Jones and other right-wing figures.”

Source: BuzzFeed News
Published: Feb 21, 2021
Length: 17 minutes (4,290 words)

The Final Descent of Dean Cummings

““This isn’t a tale of savagery,” said former H2O lead guide turned Cummings nemesis Will Spilo. “This is a tale of mental illness.””

Source: Outside
Published: Feb 22, 2021
Length: 44 minutes (11,237 words)