Need something brilliant to read this weekend? Here are six of our favourite pieces from the last seven days
“It was Christmas Eve 2024 and 19-year-old Chloe Cheung was lying in bed at home in Leeds when she found out the Chinese authorities had put a bounty on her head. As she scrolled through Instagram looking at festive songs, a stream of messages from old school friends started coming into her phone. Look at the news, they told her.”
Tom Levitt, writing for our Rights and Freedom series, spoke to Cheung to hear her extraordinary story and why the reward for her capture will follow her “for ever”.
A sewer isn’t necessarily the first thing you think of when you think of great architecture, but Oliver Wainwright was excited to discover the new series of Thames-side embankments build in the city to to tackle 18m tonnes of rising excrement. Join him on a “stink tower” tour of the UK capital.
Large-scale, often outdoor, family reunions are an important tradition for many Black families in the United States. Reporter Adria R Walker traced the history of the tradition, which can be traced back to the immediate period post emancipation and why, it’s as important as ever today.
