Best of British Longform: Cara Delevingne, Hillary Clinton and the queen of dressage
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Changeling: The Cara Delevingne interview
Alex Bilmes, Esquire, 3 August
Esquire’s editor Alex Bilmes conducts one of the most candid interviews of the year with Cara Delevingne. Up for discussion is her rapid rise through the modelling world and into acting, but it’s the discussion around mental health issues and the associated stigma that makes this a must-read.
The duo that dominates dressage
Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 8 August issue
Dressage is a sport that most people are only marginally aware of every four years because of the Olympics. Sam Knight profiles its amazing British champion, Charlotte Dujardin.
The 22-year-old trying to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Nicola Davison, The Financial Times, 4 August
The world’s oceans are awash with discarded plastic bags and packaging. Boyan Slat decided to do something about it when he went diving at the age of 16 and saw that there were “more plastic bags than fish”. Since then, the challenge he has taken on is to remove and recycle plastic from the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch”, a giant expanse of rubbish in the Pacific Ocean that is twice the size of the UK.
The doctor who beat big tobacco
Gideon Haigh, The Guardian, 1 August
When Dr Bronwyn King came across the startling discovery that her pension fund was investing in the same cigarette companies that were killing her cancer patients, she was shocked. Gideon Haigh follows what happened next.
The making of Hillary Clinton: unpublished images of a would-be president
Edward Luce, The Financial Times, 5 August
Hardly a traditional British topic but in the interest of topicality and the fact it’s written by a Brit we’ll include it. Edward Luce speaks to White House photographer Robert McNeely, who spent six years with the Clinton’s in the 90s, and discusses the stories behind the pictures in this photo-essay.
