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Guardian 200

A series to mark the Guardian's 2021 bicentennial, highlighting where we came from, where we are going, and the impact we have had on the world

  • Sinead Browne photographed at one of the spaces in her food bank's office

    ‘I was hungry – and it was terrifying’: How Sinéad Browne overcame the odds and set up her own food charity

    After a childhood in care, Browne found herself at 16 with no money and often nothing to eat. But she defied expectations to become a lawyer and now runs her own venture to combat food poverty and waste
  • Mike Allen sitting on a stone wall by his small but impressive Welsh castle

    ‘I wanted to die. This gave me hope’: Mike Allen, the ex-soldier building a castle in Wales

    When he came back from Afghanistan, his life fell apart. Now he’s putting it back together, one stone at a time – and helping other veterans do the same
  • Actor Tommy Jessop.

    ‘It’s time for us to live our lives to the full’: Line of Duty’s Tommy Jessop on changing the world for people with Down’s syndrome

    His parents hoped he might get a job in a library. Instead he became an actor, a campaigner – and a role model
  • Kitty Wallace, of The BDD Foundation photographed in south-west London.

    ‘I had this strong feeling that my face was disfigured’ – Kitty Wallace, the body dysmorphic sufferer turned campaigner

    Her early life was blighted by the condition, until a TV documentary changed everything. Now, she works for the UK’s leading support group
  • Kwajo Tweneboa

    ‘I’m willing to take on absolutely everyone!’ Kwajo Tweneboa on fighting for Britain’s poorest tenants

    After his dying father was nursed in their vermin-infested flat, the student took on the country’s biggest social landlord. Now, he champions all those living in terrible conditions
  • Craig Jones: ‘The fact that I had come out didn’t just go around my ship quickly, it went around the whole damned fleet.’

    ‘Admirals would say: we don’t want to serve with these people’ – Craig Jones, the sailor who came out and changed the navy

    The ban on gay people serving in the military meant the lieutenant commander spent a decade fearing imprisonment. As soon as it was lifted he insisted on speaking out – whatever the cost
  • PC Jon Needham: ‘I felt the justice system had no empathy at all. It’s not about people.’

    Jon Needham: the man who went to hell and back as a child – and now fights for all rape victims

    He experienced horrendous abuse in foster care, then suffered terribly years later when the case came to court. Now a police officer, he is determined to change how the system treats survivors
  • Longread healthy cities

    ‘We need a new commons’: how city life can offer us the vital power of connection

  • LP Scott (left), chairman of the Manchester Guardian and Evening News, and Prof AL Armitage, vice-chancellor of Manchester University, at the handing over of the paper’s archives to the university, 1971.

    Manchester Guardian archives handed over to John Rylands library – archive, 1971

  • for long read by Rebecca Solnit on climate crisis toolbox

    Ten ways to confront the climate crisis without losing hope – podcast

    Reconstruction after Covid: a new series of long reads.

    It’s easy to despair at the climate crisis, or to decide it’s already too late – but it’s not. Here’s how to keep the fight alive by Rebecca Solnit
  • longread2 web kopia

    A tale of two pandemics: the true cost of Covid in the global south – podcast

    While the rich nations focus on booster jabs and returning to the office, much of the world is facing devastating second-order coronavirus effects. Now is the time to build a fairer, more responsible international system for the future
  • Gary Younge - racism after covid

    What Covid taught us about racism – and what we need to do now

    The long read: We were told coronavirus didn’t discriminate, but it didn’t need to – society had already done that for us. But there is a path to a fairer future if we want it
  • Longread should children get the vote

    Votes for children! Why we should lower the voting age to six – podcast

    Welcome to a new series of long reads: Reconstruction after Covid

    The generational divide is deforming democracy. But there is a solution
  • Linda and Stuart Allan at their home in Clarkson, Glasgow

    Linda and Stuart Allan: the couple fighting for prison reform – after their daughter died in custody

    Katie Allan was only 20 when she was locked up. Three months later she was dead. Her parents believe the Scottish Prison Service failed her and needs radical change
  • collage illo for long read on death and denial by jacqueline rose

    Life after death: how the pandemic has transformed our psychic landscape

    The long read: Modern society has largely exiled death to the outskirts of existence, but Covid-19 has forced us all to confront it. Our relationship to the planet, each other and time itself can never be the same again
  • collage illustration: food on plates, food delivery trucks, children cooking, etc

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

    The long read presents Reconstruction after Covid: From ultra-processed junk to failing supply chains and rocketing food poverty, there are serious problems with the way the UK eats. Will the government ever act?
  • Armed Boers<br>1st January 1900: A Boer picket on Spion Kop, Ladysmith. (Photo by Van Hoepen/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) white;format landscape;male;weapon;gun;ammunition;Africa;H 8670;H/WAR

    The Guardian editorial: how does a newspaper decide what it thinks?

    Our chief leader writer compares today’s team with a golden period of leader writing in the run-up to the first world war
  • longread2 web5

    Is society coming apart?

    The long read presents Reconstruction after Covid: Despite Thatcher and Reagan’s best efforts, there is and has always been such a thing as society. The question is not whether it exists, but what shape it must take in a post-pandemic world
  • Balwinder Singh Rana photographed in front of Southall Town Hall, which bears three plaques commemorating the local struggle agaist racism. Balwinder Singh has led a life long fight against Racism and Fascism.

    Balwinder Singh Rana: the fearless anti-fascist who fought racism at work – then on the streets

    When Rana came to Britain from India, aged 16, he encountered racism for the very first time. Soon he was dedicating his life to the fight to end it
  • longread2 web kopia

    A tale of two pandemics: the true cost of Covid in the global south

    The long read presents Reconstruction after Covid: While the rich nations focus on booster jabs and returning to the office, much of the world is facing devastating second-order coronavirus effects. Now is the time to build a fairer, more responsible international system for the future
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