Our best longform journalism and essays from 2025.

Finding the Words for the Journey: How Travel and Nature can be turned into Prose. On this weekend residential course, tutors Nick Hunt and Joanna Pocock will introduce you to travel and nature writi...

The Baillie Gifford Prize rewards excellence in non-fiction writing, bringing the best in intelligent reflection on the world to new readers.

In the dry and fiery deserts of Central Asia, among the mythical sites of both the first human and the end of all days, I found evidence that life restores itself even on the bleakest edge of ecologic...

Donald Trump’s late announcement left operators with ‘extremely limited timeframe to get prepared’

Reports detailing killing of children and elderly, forced displacement and starvation likely to add to pressure for action * Middle East crisis – live updates Two leading human rights organisations based in Israel, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights, say Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and the country’s western allies have a legal and moral duty to stop it. In reports published on Monday, the two groups said Israel had targeted civilians in Gaza only because of their identity as Palestinians over nearly two years of war, causing severe and in some cases irreparable damage to Palestinian society. Continue reading...

Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli forces opened fire on Sunday on a crowd of Palestinians waiting to collect humanitarian aid, providing a preliminary toll of at least 44 people killed. The latest deaths came as Pope Leo XIV slammed the "barbarity" of the war in Gaza in his traditional Sunday blessing. 

Police in London detain scores of people and confiscate placards under section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000

Israel is the main source of terror and instability in the Middle East. But the west continually turns away from this reality, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

How civilisation slays legendary beasts, a story

Walking Europe's Winds from the Pennines to Provence

In the 1840s, a dinosaur was discovered on a Kazakh island. Not a fossil – a giant flying lizard, complete with leathery black wings and a beak bristling wi ...

In the dry and fiery deserts of Central Asia, among the mythical sites of both the first human and the end of all days, I found evidence that life restores itself even on the bleakest edge of ecologic...

Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.