This is the story of how a handfull of mega-rich ended up hoarding most of the world’s wealth.
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Turning Love and Grief into Outsider Art
How one London man transformed his house into a work of art, and a physical love story to the people he’s lost.
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The Roaring Girls of Queer London
Flashy hooligans like Moll Cutpurse and Long Meg sported broad-brimmed hats, wore “ruffianly short locks,” and carried swords. Other women lived quietly in secret same-sex marriages.
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Trying to Understand YouTube Success
How a successful YouTube celebrity barely leaves the house.
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Maybe Your House Can Be “Most Congenial”
Richard Wallace considers his chances (not great) at being memorialized by a blue English Heritage plaque.
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How to Get So Famous They Give Your House a Medal
What decides whose legacies get memorialized? Mostly richness and whiteness.
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‘A Tale of Decay’: The Houses of Parliament Are Falling down
As politicians dither over repairs, the risk of fire, flood or a deluge of sewage only increases. But fixing the Palace of Westminster might change British politics for good – which is the last thing many of its residents want.
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“This Frenzied, Dirty, Impossible Evacuation”
Londoner Tom Lamont spent months reporting for this GQ piece on the ins, outs, and aftermath of the Grenfell Tower disaster.
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Trapped: The Grenfell Tower Story
The untold story of what it felt like to fight that fire and to flee it — a story of a thousand impossible decisions and the people who dared to make them.
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Grenfell Tower: London, England’s ‘Katrina Moment’
How gentrification, apathy, and government negligence failed the residents of Grenfell Tower.