You’ve got an extra hour in bed, use it wisely
In celebration of that blessed extra hour, here’s bumper edition of upday UK’s long reads roundup
Who is Philip Green?
The unmasking of the man behind the ‘UK’s #MeToo moment’ took less than 48 hours. But what do we really know about Philip Green? (This isn’t that long, but it’s still interesting).
He doesn’t do email. He still operates two old Nokia phones and text messaging is about as much as you will get from him
Robyn, Robyn, ROBYN!
This is one of those you either really care about, or really don’t. Me? I’m in the corner, very much the former. Robyn’s much-anticipated and from what I can tell universally-adored new album came out this week. This (very) long read about Robyn, however, isn’t actually from this week, it’s from September. So sue me.
Robyn had two US hits and disappeared. But she didn’t need to sing the 90s’ most iconic song to change the course of pop music.
Life in the frozen north
This beautiful bit of writing has been named the first winner of The Independent’s Rupert Cornwell prize for foreign journalism. It’s a detailed, absorbing account of the hardships of life in a remote Canadian town.
We saw one guy jumping out of the window on the fifth floor. He was in flames. He’d burned himself
A billionaire’s murder that went unsolved
Last year, a Canadian pharmaceutical executive, Barry Sherman, and his wife Honey, were strangled in their home. The murders are still a mystery. This Bloomberg feature examines the facts.
In this vacuum, the theorizing about the Shermans has taken on a Murder on the Orient Express quality, with everyone a potential suspect.
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-apotex-billionaire-murder/
What’s going on in Yemen and why you should care
This week, the UN warned that half the population of Yemen is at risk of famine. Here, Refinery29 speaks to three women to find out what’s going on, and why we should care.
Simple tasks and errands are becoming a challenge, and people are fed up and exhausted. I’m lucky to be one of the few people in Yemen who still receives an income and has a job.
The story of a tiny football club that took on the developers and won
Dulwich Hamlet is a South London non-league football club (they’re currently in the National League South). They also have a passionate (and growing) band of supporters — home game numbers often push the 3,000 capacity. In 2017, that was all threatened by developers. This is a story for fans of David vs Goliath epics, football, or nice pictures of cool people drinking beer.
Four minutes later he scored another, after which he skidded on his knees toward the rusted pitchside barrier as if this were Wembley, not an away game at a leisure centre off the A309.
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