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Jan 29, 2026

Slab City's fake freedom

It's supposed to be the 'last free place in America' • In reality, it's a camp in the desert • Fuelled by drugs, crime and lawlessness

by Jack Burke
Jimi Austin James, who lives in Slab City (Dispatch)

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Jan 20, 2026

The burning of Britain's trailer parks
A dwelling in Ingoldmells, which has the highest concentration of mobile homes in Europe (Dispatch)

Thousands are living in mobile homes • New data reveals fortnightly fires in just one county • A toddler's untimely death

by Jacob Furedi
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Jimi Austin James, who lives in Slab City (Dispatch)
Jan 29, 2026

Slab City's fake freedom

It's supposed to be the 'last free place in America' • In reality, it's a camp in the desert • Fuelled by drugs, crime and lawlessness

by Jack Burke
A sheep auction in Skipton (Paula Solloway)
Jan 27, 2026

How to be happy in England

A visit to England's happiest town • On the saddest day of the year • How does Skipton do it?

by Róisín Lanigan
Ollie Holman helped fraudsters steal at least £100m
Jan 22, 2026

The student behind a phishing empire

£100m stolen across Europe • Using tech supplied from a bedroom in Canterbury • How did Ollie Holman do it?

by Fin Carter
A dwelling in Ingoldmells, which has the highest concentration of mobile homes in Europe (Dispatch)
Jan 20, 2026

The burning of Britain's trailer parks

Thousands are living in mobile homes • New data reveals fortnightly fires in just one county • A toddler's untimely death

by Jacob Furedi
The great English countryside forgery
Jan 15, 2026

The great English countryside forgery

Is Constable Country a fraud? • Tom Keating's landscapes fooled a nation • Don’t tell the tourists

by Justin Hopper
Omar Bakri Mohammed founded al-Muhajiroun in 1994 (Adrian Arbib)
Jan 13, 2026

England's homegrown caliphate and me

40 years of al-Muhajiroun • How a council house in Tottenham spawned global terror • Shisha, chicken wings, jihad

by Tam Hussein
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