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Clare Longrigg

Clare Longrigg is deputy editor of the Guardian's Long Read section

June 2024

  • Illustration of a baby in a cot, his head resting on money, more money and a gun hanging above his head

    ‘These kids are violent, drunk on power’: can mafia children be saved from a life of crime?

    Meet the judge taking mini mafiosi away from their families to see if he can break the cycle
  • Fred the pekingese, left, and sister Lottie.

    The pet I'll never forget
    The pet I’ll never forget: Fred the funny, furious pekingese, whom my father carried like a furry handbag

    Fred was the runt of the litter – often poorly, terrified of loud noises, with an expression of permanent outrage. He didn’t know he was a comedian, but he couldn’t help being hilarious
  • Maria Grazia Calandrone<br>Rome, May 18, 2024 - Portrait of Maria Grazia Calandrone, poet, writer, journalist, playwright, visual artist, teacher, author and host for RAI, Italy’s national public broadcaster.

    ‘How could my mother leave her baby and then kill herself?’: author Maria Grazia Calandrone’s quest for answers

    At eight months old she was left on a blanket in the Villa Borghese, Rome. More than 50 years later, prize-winning poet Maria Grazia Calandrone set out to discover the truth behind her abandonment

January 2023

  • A screengrab taken from a video shows Matteo Messina Denaro, Italy's most wanted mafia boss, being escorted out of a carabinieri police station after he was arrested in Palermo in January

    Full Story
    The code of omertà: how a mafia kingpin evaded police for 30 years

    Matteo Messina Denaro has been arrested after decades on the run, found hiding in plain sight in Sicily. Lorenzo Tondo and Clare Longrigg report on what it means for the once mighty Cosa Nostra
  • The arrest of Matteo Messina Denaro. Photograph: Reuters

    Today in Focus
    The code of omertà: how a mafia kingpin evaded police for 30 years

    Matteo Messina Denaro was arrested after decades on the run, found hiding in plain sight in Sicily. Lorenzo Tondo and Clare Longrigg report on what it means for the once mighty Cosa Nostra
  • Mugshot of Matteo Messina Denaro

    Matteo Messina Denaro: how fast-living mafioso evaded police for 30 years

    Sicilian mobster who boasted ‘I filled a cemetery by myself’ managed to stay hidden without going far from home

December 2021

  • Assunta 'Pupetta' Maresca, who has died at the age of 86, in Naples in June 2000

    ‘She understood her power’: the death of mafia boss Pupetta Maresca

  • Pupeta Maresca on the day of her wedding to Pasquale Simonetti

    Assunta Maresca, first female boss in Camorra mafia, dies aged 86

August 2021

  • View from one of the defendants' cells in Lamezia Terme, Calabria. (Photograph: Gianluca Chinnea/AFP/Getty)

    Today in Focus
    Revisited: Inside the ’Ndrangheta trial

    Guardian journalists Lorenzo Tondo and Clare Longrigg discuss the largest mafia trial in three decades. At the centre is Emanuele Mancuso, son of boss Luni Mancuso, who has been revealing the clan’s secrets after accepting police protection

February 2021

  • The inside of a new bunker room built for the upcoming 'Rinascita-Scott' maxi-trial in which more than 350 alleged members of Calabria's 'Ndrangheta mafia group and their associates go on trial this week.

    Today in Focus
    Inside the trial against the 'Ndrangheta, Italy's biggest mafia syndicate

    Guardian journalists Lorenzo Tondo and Clare Longrigg discuss the trial against the ‘Ndrangheta, the largest mafia trial in three decades. At the centre of the trial is Emanuele Mancuso, son of boss Luni Mancuso, who has been revealing the clan’s secrets after accepting police protection

November 2019

  • Asháninka children playing in the Amazon rainforest in Peru.

    The upside
    Money and maps: is this how to save the Amazon's 400bn trees?

    Alarmed by the impact of logging, indigenous Peruvians are using satellite mapping to manage their land

December 2018

  • FILE PHOTO: Plastic bottles and containers are seen in a domestic recycling bin in Manchester, Britain, November 20, 2018. REUTERS/Phil Noble/File Photo

    The Audio Long Read
    Discover the Familiar: The plastic backlash – podcast

  • long read sad bacon illustration bee wilson

    The Audio Long Read
    Discover the Familiar: Yes, bacon really is killing us - podcast

  • Glasses case

    The Audio Long Read
    Discover the Familiar: The Spectacular Power of Big Lens - podcast

  • CORRECTS FIRST NAME TO SETTIMO, NOT SETTIMINO - Settimino Mineo, center, who allegedly took over as the Palermo head of Cosa Nostra, is escorted by Italian Carabinieri police after an anti Mafia operation which led the arrest of 46 people including the presumed regional boss, in Palermo, Sicily, Italy, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018. Italian police say they have dismantled the rebuilt upper echelons of the Sicilian Mafia. (Igor Petyx/ANSA via AP)

    Today in Focus
    Is this the end for the Sicilian mafia?

February 2018

  • Alessandra Cerreti

    Book of the day
    The Good Mothers review – women challenge the mafia

  • ‘Il Commissario Maltese’.

    Maltese: mafia drama exposes era when Sicilian mob reigned in blood

November 2017

  • Totò Riina during his trial in Sicily in 1996

    How Totò Riina’s war on the Italian state almost destroyed Cosa Nostra

    After a crackdown by law enforcement, mafia clans have turned from violence and intimidation to corruption and collusion

July 2017

  • the dome tent with proper bed, a proper bathroom and a log-burning stove.

    Glamping in central France: a rural retreat that's packed with creature comforts

    Unwind on a rustic farm trip that’s light on the rough and tumble of camping but heavy on cool accommodation – and fabulous views

October 2016

  • Theresa May

    Guardian social
    Are you worried about the impact of a hard Brexit? Our live look at the week

    Catch up on our discussion of the week’s news and comment, covering everything from the Bake Off to Brexit
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