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Link in bio. Be quick. by @dispatch__media

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5 months ago

Who wants to be a monk? Not many people, it turns out.

At Montecassino, the birthplace of Western monasticism, some 200 men have expressed an interest in joining over the past 15 years.

Fewer than five lasted a week.

We travelled to monasteries in Italy and England to find out why a way of life that survived wars and revolutions is struggling to survive the modern world.

Words: Daniel Beurthe by @dispatch__media

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4 days ago

England is running out of young farmers. Pay is poor, hours are long — and some farming parents are warning their children to find another career.

But in Dorset, the next generation is still taking to the fields.

We went to a Young Farmers ploughing competition to meet them.

Words: @ellajglover
Photography: @jenny_graphic by @dispatch__media

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11 days ago

Can Bitcoin buy a place in the Premier League?

In 2021, Bitcoin millionaire Peter McCormack bought a tiny non-league club in Bedford. Since then, Real Bedford have won three promotions, attracted a $4.5 million investment from the Winklevoss twins and started running on a “Bitcoin standard”.

Words: @edcmpbl

Read the full story at the link in our bio. by @dispatch__media

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13 days ago

Every year, people travel to a small town in Cumbria to compete for the title of World Gurning Champion.

It is easy to laugh at gurning. That is, after all, the point.

But behind the contorted faces is a group of people who take it more seriously than you might expect.

Click the link in bio to read their stories.

Words: @jsburke
Photography: @dimitridippolito by @dispatch__media

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18 days ago

York’s ghost guides have an unusual problem.

One of their number was jailed for sexual offences involving a 15-year-old girl — then returned to work. Now innocent guides are being mistaken for him, abused and sometimes attacked.

@jessica_elizabeth_b went inside York’s surprisingly fraught ghost-tour scene.

Read at the link in bio. by @dispatch__media

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20 days ago

Istanbul has become the world capital of hair transplants.

Every year, men arrive from across the world in search of cheaper procedures — emerging onto the city’s streets with shaved heads, bloodied bandages and freshly implanted hairlines.

But what is it like for the people who actually live there?

@ptr_yeung went to Üsküdar, where hair-transplant clinics crowd the streets, to report from the heart of “Hairstanbul”.

Read the full story at the link in our bio. by @dispatch__media

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25 days ago

They’re barely out of school — and spend their days tending to the dead.

Britain has almost a million young people classified as NEETs.

@lotts_to_say met some who chose an unusual way out: becoming apprentice undertakers. by @dispatch__media

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a month ago

What happens when Adam Curtis fans try to make sense of modern Britain?

Last week, a small group gathered in Boscombe for the inaugural Adam Curtis Party Conference.

It was an appropriate setting. The faded seaside town is packed with rehab centres, recovering addicts and characters who could have wandered straight out of one of Curtis’s films.

And then there was the murder.

@skulfred went to Boscombe to find out what happens when the strange world of Adam Curtis collides with real life.

Read the full story at the link in our bio. by @dispatch__media

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a month ago

Will Wales go independent in the next decade?

This week, the leader of Plaid Cymru signed a landmark agreement calling on Downing Street to allow a referendum on Welsh independence.

For a handful of older nationalists, it's a moment they have spent their lives waiting for.

To find out what that means to them, we tracked down the last survivors of the Free Wales Army.

Words: Lorcán Lovett
Photography: @valeria.mongelli by @dispatch__media

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25 years ago, two crews left a small firehouse on Manhattan's Lower East Side for the World Trade Center.

The men of Engine 28 came home. All six men aboard Ladder 11 were killed.

For today’s piece, the novelist Nico Walker spent months reconstructing who they were, how they died, and what became of those who survived.

Accompanied by original photography by @vincegphoto, it’s one of the most affecting things we’ve published. by @dispatch__media

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25 years after 9/11, we went back to where the story began: Greeley, Colorado.

More than half a century before the attacks, the Egyptian Islamist thinker Sayyid Qutb came here to study.

The spiritual emptiness he found helped shape ideas that would later influence Osama bin Laden.

Eric Vanderwall retraced his steps to ask: what would Qutb make of America today? by @dispatch__media

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