Six great reads: the OnlyFans legacy, stolen cargo and Meta’s ‘creepy’ glasses

The OnlyFans inheritance: how its owner’s death could reshape the porn money-making machine

Amelia Gentleman took a fascinating look at what the death of Leonid Radvinsky, the secretive 43-year-old owner of OnlyFans, means for the future of the controversial adult-content site.

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My mom, the cult leader: ‘She told us what to wear, when to pray, how we would have sex. We were prisoners’

Deborah Green was a charismatic woman who established a “free love ministry” in California, claiming to be a vessel for God. She was also a controlling, cruel sadist. Her daughter Sarah told Simon Hattenstone about her terrifying upbringing – and dramatic escape.

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35,000 pints of stolen Guinness, 950 wheels of pilfered cheese: can the UK’s cargo theft crisis be stopped?

In the Long read, we published Stuart McGurk’s hugely entertaining piece about the rise of cargo theft (of anything from wheels of cheese to barrels of Guinness) – and the one British cop trying to put a stop to it.

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Visible from space: why Spain has the world’s biggest concentration of greenhouses

Europe’s vegetable garden is in Andalusia. It is so vast that it can even be seen from space: if you open Google Maps and look west of Almería, you will see a white patch that looks like a glacier, but as you zoom in, you realise it is the highest concentration of greenhouses in the world. More than 30,000 hectares (74,131 acres) of land are covered in plastic, a geometric labyrinth five times the size of Manhattan, where 3.5m tons of vegetables are produced every year – enough to feed half a billion people and generate a turnover of more than €3bn. This incredible photo essay by Alessandro Gandolfi captured the scale of the operation.

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‘I wrote The Sopranos to get over my mother wishing me dead’: David Chase on his mob masterpiece – and his new LSD epic

It’s nearly two decades since the screen turned black on Tony Soprano. And Sopranos creator David Chase hasn’t written a word for TV since. But that could soon change with a new limited series about the CIA’s MKUltra programme. Stuart Heritage sat down with him.

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I wore Meta’s smartglasses for a month – and it left me feeling like a creep

Content creators love the built-in camera on Meta’s Ray-Ban smart specs – while sceptics call them “pervert glasses”. Do we really need any more hi-tech wearables, even with a voice assistant that sounds like Judi Dench? After a month wearing them, Elle Hunt wasn’t convinced.

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