I found it so moving talking to Michael Palin about how he is rebuilding his life after the death of his wife Helen
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For those who are outside UK and want to watch The Assembly. It's great!

Wonderful to see the great , much missed Eamonn McCabe on TV presenting his fab history of photography, Britain in Focus – BBC 4 now. I loved working with Eamonn. He's always give me a nudge about five minutes in: 'There's your intro, kid'

'Progress is about resistance': I interviewed Riz Ahmed about Defiance – a must-watch 3-part documentary on South Asian resistance to the far-right during the Thatcher era that starts tonight on C4 theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2…

The film IO Capitano, about two boys leaving Senegal for a 'better future' , is bloody astonishing – performances, cinematography, screenplay, and accuracy.
It's eerily close to the story of Ibrahima Bah, who was jailed for 9 years in UK, after the boat he piloted collapsed.

📢 We're very keen to keep reporting on the DWP's prosecution of unpaid carers. If you know anyone affected, or have inside knowledge of the system, please do get in touch with myself or Patrick Butler in confidence.

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Our Guardian G2 deputy editor Phil Daoust on his attempt to get ripped at 60 and emulate peak Daniel Craig. (Btw, that expression is nothing to do with the weights, it's what he looks like when you hand in your copy)
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Belatedly caught up with this fab show – the great Michael Sheen being interviewed by a group of 35 autistic, neurodivergent or learning disabled individuals. Lots to learn for interviewers here about the art of the direct question
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DWP are the real criminals’: carer in tatters after ‘brutal’ fraud prosecution
This is such a devastating story by Josh Halliday, and shows the DWP at its most incompetent and savage
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This piece is heartbreaking, terrifying and inspiring – and, of course, beautifully reported by Sirin Kale.
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Adidas bans fans from adding ‘44’ to German team football shirt. Kit’s resemblance to infamous SS rune of Nazi paramilitary wing unintentional, company says
By our Danny Lavelle.
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The Guardian and the Royal Photographic Society have joined forces to launch a photography bursary in honour of the great Eamonn McCabe (who used to call me his caption writer back in the day). I'm sure his wife Rebecca Smithers is rightly proud

Happy 75th Birthday to Gil Scott-Heron my mentor & friend. Here is some exclusive footage, never before seen. that I shot with Gil in 2005. My memoir “Letters to Gil” tells the story of our remarkable 27 year friendship published by HarperCollinsUK 🔗⏬

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God, I love Nick Cave. Interviewing him was both heartbreaking and life enhancing. I'm not sure how he manages to pull both off
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Nick Cave tells me why his amazing ceramics series The Devil – A Life, in which the Devil kills his child, is deeply personal
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I've been looking to this for a while - thank you so much to everyone who has shared their #smartmeter experiences:
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The astonishing story of Antonio Salazar-Hobson, beautifully told by Annie Kelly
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It’s demoralising that an innocuous interview featuring a milquetoast bureaucrat stating the obvious has received more attention than anything I’ve written before.

Well, seeing as UFO Twitter is stalking my timeline like a starving panther, this is a good time to reshare the…

This is a fab introduction to ex-slob Phil Daoust's new column about trying to live to 100. Great way to get himself a (potential) 40-year gig, but has he never read Gulliver's Travels?
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My onetime colleague @susansmillie, one of the world's great people, has only written one of the year's great books. The Half Bird launches this evening. Wishing it fair winds & calm seas as it sets out through the world