1843 magazine
Afghanistan
Why I opened a secret school for Afghan girls
When the Taliban cracked down on girls’ education, one woman knew what she had to do
Ukraine
The hopes and dreams of Ukraine’s teenage refugees
Photographer Polly Braden has followed the lives of schoolgirls who fled after Russia’s invasion
Russia
Life and death in Putin’s gulag
Navalny’s death has exposed the similarities between Russia’s current penal system and Stalin’s
Nationalism
Why right-wing Italians love hobbits, pirates and talking seagulls
Their obsession with fantasy literature has a long and curious history
Letter from Kalundborg
The town that Ozempic and Wegovy built
Novo Nordisk’s drug is helping millions to lose weight. It is also changing Denmark
Property
TikTok gurus made property investing look easy. I lost thousands
Samuel Leeds has retooled an old sales pitch for the age of influencers. No amount of controversy seems to dent it
Letter from Tbilisi
The prisoner and the oligarch: the struggle for Georgia’s future
Can Mikheil Saakashvili, a former president, win back the hearts of his countrymen?
Business
The last stand of the call-centre worker
AI is poised to eliminate customer-service agents. We’ll miss them when they’re gone
Mountaineering
Will climbers have to brave Everest without Sherpas?
Mountain work can be well paid by Nepali standards but traditional guides are finding it less attractive
Reparations
The slavery heirs who went on an apology tour
Their ancestor was one of Britain’s biggest slave-owners. So they came to the Caribbean to say sorry
Letter from Stockholm
Sweden’s polite war with Elon Musk
Unions are cheerfully preparing to fight Tesla for 538 years
Ukraine
On patrol with the Ukrainian army’s drone hunters
Mobile air-defence units have just a few minutes’ notice to shoot down deadly weapons