Best long reads of 2021: The student and the algorithm: how the exam results fiasco threatened one pupil’s future

In the second instalment of our series looking back at the best audio long reads of 2021, editor David Wolf introduces another of the long read team’s favourite pieces of the year. Josiah Elleston-Burrell had done everything to make his dream of studying architecture a reality. But, suddenly, in the summer of 2020, he found his fate was no longer in his hand. By Tom Lamont. Help support our independent journalism at <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/longreadpod">theguardian.com/longreadpod</a>