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Pip Lev

Pip Lev is an interactive developer at the Guardian. They previously contributed as Pip Burkett

May 2026

  • Lund Point on the Carpenters estate

    Abandoned Britain
    ‘I knew everyone here’: the tower block with 164 boarded-up homes – and a few residents who just won’t leave

  • *100Novels

    100 best novels
    The 100 best novels of all time

  • The Hare & Hounds Inn at Bowland Bridge in Cumbria, which closed its doors in November 2025.
Christopher Thomond for The Guardian.

    Abandoned Britain
    ‘Now the village is dead. It’s awful’: why was one of Britain’s best pubs forced to close?

  • An illustration of a map of ‘anxietyland’ - a visual depiction of how the illustrator was feeling.

    Welcome to Anxietyland: I used alcohol to hide my fear – but booze became a very bad friend

April 2026

  • Inside Hulme Hippodrome ... showing the stage and red velvet seats of a beautiful ornate theatre

    Abandoned Britain
    It once hosted Eric and Ernie and a boxing kangaroo – now it’s all pigeons and decay. How did Hulme Hippodrome fall so low?

    It showcased the biggest stars of the day, including Stan Laurel, Harry Houdini, Morecambe and Wise and Shirley Bassey, before becoming a bingo hall, a church and a squat. It was almost turned into flats. What next for Manchester’s forgotten music hall?
  • Tom Bown and his sister Peggy Thomas outside St Tyfrydog’s Church

    Abandoned Britain
    The Welsh church claimed by spiders and ivy: what do Britain’s derelict churches say about our health and happiness?

    Half of the most important buildings in the UK are churches and, even when congregations fall away, they are vital community hubs. But many, including beloved St Tyfrydog’s in Wales, which closed in 2020, are decaying. Can they be saved?
    • The Guardian picture essay
      From sleeping lions to spitting snakes: a year in the life of London zoo vets

    • Abandoned Britain
      Wildings in Newport, Wales: the grand department store that became an illicit cannabis farm

    • How rotten is your brain?

February 2026

  • Composite image featuring Zelenskyy, Putin and a column of tanks

    A war foretold: how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them

  • Composite image of best paperbacks February 2024

    This month's best paperbacks
    This month’s best paperbacks: Susan Choi, Sarah Perry and more

December 2025

  • Cartoon-style illustration of people on the streets interacting with AI-operated machines such as cameras, drones and cars

    The future of AI
    What will your life look like in 2035?

  • Jared Kaplan

    The future of AI
    ‘The biggest decision yet’: Jared Kaplan on allowing AI to train itself

November 2025

  • Women in Prison trail

    Women in prison
    The deadliest wait: five women on death row

  • 10-11-2025- Valencia. Report on Toñi Garcia in Benetusser, one year after the DANA storm where her husband and daughter died in the garage of their home.
Photo Pablo Garcia/The Guardian

    This is climate breakdown
    ‘My husband and daughter went down to the garage in case it flooded. Then I heard a strange noise’ – This is climate breakdown

  • Portrait of Ryan Kirkham

    This is climate breakdown
    ‘We sent the kids home. Then all our cellphones went out’ – This is climate breakdown

  • Gowend

    This is climate breakdown
    ‘I had already given my baby a name’ – This is climate breakdown

  • This is climate breakdown
    ‘I couldn’t speak. I couldn’t breathe’ – This is climate breakdown

  • This is climate breakdown
    ‘The water came up to my waist but I carried on walking’ – This is climate breakdown

  • This is climate breakdown
    ‘There’s fire all around us, this is it’ – This is climate breakdown

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