Need something brilliant to read this weekend? Here are six of our favourite pieces from the last seven days
Amelia Gentleman took a fascinating look at what the death of Leonid Radvinsky, the secretive 43-year-old owner of OnlyFans, means for the future of the controversial adult-content site.
Deborah Green was a charismatic woman who established a “free love ministry” in California, claiming to be a vessel for God. She was also a controlling, cruel sadist. Her daughter Sarah told Simon Hattenstone about her terrifying upbringing – and dramatic escape.
In the Long read, we published Stuart McGurk’s hugely entertaining piece about the rise of cargo theft (of anything from wheels of cheese to barrels of Guinness) – and the one British cop trying to put a stop to it.
Europe’s vegetable garden is in Andalusia. It is so vast that it can even be seen from space: if you open Google Maps and look west of Almería, you will see a white patch that looks like a glacier, but as you zoom in, you realise it is the highest concentration of greenhouses in the world. More than 30,000 hectares (74,131 acres) of land are covered in plastic, a geometric labyrinth five times the size of Manhattan, where 3.5m tons of vegetables are produced every year – enough to feed half a billion people and generate a turnover of more than €3bn. This incredible photo essay by Alessandro Gandolfi captured the scale of the operation.
