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Russell T Davies: ‘I looked away for years. Finally, I have put Aids at the centre of a drama’ The screenwriter recalls his life during the 1980s Aids crisis, and how it inspired his new Channel 4 TV series It’s a Sin theguardian.com/tv-and-radio…
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The mane attraction: hair-tossing horses, photographed by @WiebkeHaas and shortlisted for a 2018 Sony World Photography award – in pictures theguardian.com/artanddesign…
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This Sunday's cover 🔸 EXCLUSIVE @pevchikh, right-hand woman to imprisoned Putin critic @navalny, talks to @carolecadwalla 🔸 Our critics' picks for the Oscars 🔸 How the science of Covid vaccines may aid the fight against cancer Plus @WainBright, director Simon Stone & more
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This Sunday's cover, exclusively designed by @coldwarsteve @sleafordmods hold forth on the state of the nation and who's to blame Interview by @msmirandasawyer
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This Sunday's cover Bestselling novelists @MarianKeyes and @richardosman on the heights of success and the lows of addiction ✍️ @LisaAllardice 📸 @davidvintiner
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This Sunday's cover: what an English literature degree did for me – by 40 influential British graduates 📚🎓 Introduction by @jeffreykboakye Featuring Zadie Smith, @parislees @lindasgrant @TulipSiddiq @DJYodaUK @iNikeshPatel @theJeremyVine, Sarah Waters & more
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Congratulations to Pulitzer finalist @carolecadwalla 🎉
Omg! Only just seen this. V v v honoured to be a Pulitzer finalist alongside @nytimes (omfg!). And tho I got the mention all of team @ObserverUK share in this. Especially top ladies @_EmmaGH @sarah_donaldson & @JaneFerg. And top editors @paulfwebster & @jnmulholland. 👏👏👏
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This Sunday's cover: Award-winning actors Jodie Comer and @StephenGraham73 on friendship and their hard-hitting new care home drama set at the start of the pandemic Interview by @carmitstead Photos by Pål Hansen
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Staged's Anna Lundberg and Georgia Tennant: 'Scenes with all four of us usually involved alcohol' On the eve of the second series of the BBC's hit lockdown sitcom, @michaelhogan talks to Michael Sheen and David Tennant's scene-stealing partners theguardian.com/tv-and-radio…
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This Sunday's cover 🎬🍿 @KermodeMovie and @simonmayo answer questions from Observer readers and famous fans – including @ThandiweNewton @jasonsfolly @AshleyWalters82 @edgarwright @AmmaAsante @asifkapadia @_CarolMorley & more ✍️ @msmirandasawyer 📸 @davidvintiner
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Bafta-winning Chewing Gum creator @MichaelaCoel on bullying, renouncing Christianity & ending up in a sex club theguardian.com/tv-and-radio…
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This Sunday's cover @TimAdamsWrites talks to the hosts of Parkinson's podcast Movers & Shakers @moversand6 - including Jeremy Paxman, Gillian @LaceySolymar and Rory Cellan-Jones - about challenging attitudes to the condition 📸 @AOlmosPhotos
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This Sunday's cover Meet Julie K Brown (@jkbjournalist), the Miami Herald reporter who brought down billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein Interview by Andrew Anthony
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On the cover this Sun: @MichaelaCoel, Bafta-winning creator of sitcom Chewing Gum, on race, religion & making her rude, racy hit show
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.@HAIMtheband's Something to Tell You – the LA trio add a bittersweet edge to their fusion of retro pop styles ★★★★ theguardian.com/music/2017/j…
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This Sunday's cover Game of Thrones star @emiliaclarke on making her British stage debut in The Seagull @JamieLloydCo ✍️ @kathryn42 📸 Pål Hansen
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Matt Smith on @TheCrownNetflix: “I found a lot to celebrate in Philip” This week's cover story, by @nibser theguardian.com/tv-and-radio…
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French evolutionary biologist Léo Grasset (@dirtybiology) on research, failure, and teaching people to think theguardian.com/science/2016…
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This Sunday's cover: our 10 best debut novelists of 2022 📚 @BonnieGarmus @rosieandrews22 @AyaRoots @danswiles @emiliepine @LaJohnJoseph @KennedyLoulou @JoBrowningWroe @eastsidemoses @Sheena_Patel_ 📸 @AOlmosPhotos
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This Sunday's cover: @angiecthomas, award-winning author of #TheHateUGive, answers your questions PLUS: @eddiemair interviewed by @msmirandasawyer @JillAbramson speaks to @MsRachelCooke Artists' postcards @britishmuseum @RichardEGrant's cultural highlights & much more
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This Sunday's cover On the anniversary of the #CambridgeAnalyticaFiles, what's changed? @carolecadwalla talks to @chrisinsilico about the aftermath of the scandal that radically altered the way we think about big tech
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This Sunday's cover: @beastieboys talk to @msmirandasawyer - about their long awaited memoir: ‘being in a band… it’s an absurd comedy’ Photo: Mike McGregor
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Lindsay Lohan: ‘I needed to grow up and London was a better place to do that than anywhere else’ gu.com/p/444b3/tw #Observerfacesof2014
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This Sunday's cover Poet @lemnsissay, with the help of London’s @FoundlingMuseum, has brought together 59 athletes, artists, CEOs and others who, like him, spent part of their childhoods in care Introduction by @carmitstead Interviews by @killianfox0
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This Sunday's cover: broadcaster @jonsnowC4 on stepping down after 45 years in news Interview by @MsRachelCooke (📷 @phil_fisk)
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In this Sunday's Observer Music: cover star @QueensChristine talks pop, pansexuality, and the power of the alter ego
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This Sunday's cover @TracyBrabin on becoming mayor for West Yorkshire, her friendship with Jo Cox, and how she hopes to "bring back northern pride" Interview by @TimAdamsWrites Photos by @garycaltonphoto
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This Sunday's cover ‘We’re both romantic about what politics can be’: @campbellclaret and @RoryStewartUK on their double act @Restispolitics Interview by @MsRachelCooke 📸 @garycaltonphoto
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Tomorrow's cover. The Brexit whistleblower. #CambridgeAnalyticaFiles
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Feast your eyes, feed your soul. It’s day one of our January art diet - a daily work selected by @LauraCummingArt The Skating Minister by Sir Henry Raeburn (c1795) “…poised on one red-ribboned skate, the ice incised with his elegant arabesques…” theguardian.com/artanddesign…
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This Sunday's cover 'If it's not a risk then it's nothing': Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux on her unapologetic career Interview by @aliceblackhurst 📸 @ed_alcock
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So where did it all go wrong, Toby? Let us count the ways Stewart Lee on the “Maverick Toadmeister’s” “shock” resignation theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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This Sunday's cover 🎸 @Johnny_Marr answers questions from Observer readers and famous fans, including @BlondieOfficial @sleafordmods @MPeakeOfficial @paulineblack @AndyBurnhamGM & more Interview by @TimLewi5 📸 Pål Hansen
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This Sunday's cover @florencemachine talks about the irresistible ‘monster of performance’, the conflict between career and motherhood, and sounding like ‘Nick Cave at the club’ ✍️ Kate Mossman 📸 Lillie Eiger
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The Observer's obituaries of 2020: - Diana Rigg remembered by @Markgatiss - Sean Connery remembered by Jackie Stewart - Little Richard remembered by @Bootsy_Collins - Chadwick Boseman remembered by @iamRuthECarter + Juliette Gréco, Lynn Shelton, Diego Maradona, RBG & more
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Olivia Cooke: ‘There aren’t a lot of working-class actors’ The star actor talks about Hollywood and home, and refusing to be typecast as a ‘northern actress’. bit.ly/47mNwMe
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This Sunday's cover Kane @TheRealKano Robinson and Daniel Kaluuya on drawing on their their London childhoods for their new movie, dystopian thriller #TheKitchen ✍️ @msmirandasawyer 📸 @phil_fisk Styling Cheryl Konteh
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This Sunday's cover: the 10 best debut novelists for 2024 📚 🔸@ColinBarrett82 🔸@ka_bradley 🔸@HConstable 🔸@tomlamont 🔸@elleandthebooks 🔸@Elizaroconnor 🔸@AndresNOrdorica 🔸@nicolaspadamsee 🔸@aetwigg 🔸@L_Vardiashvili  📸 @sukidhanda
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This Sunday: Meet 2021's best debut novelists: @CalebANelson Sam Riviere @mmegannnolan Natasha Brown @abigailsdean, @TroubledStriker @rebeccawhatsun @ThoroughlyThorp Ailsa McFarlane & @imaginearoad + @AshleyWalters82 Ethan Hawke David Mitchell & Tabitha Lasley's oil rig memoir
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This Sunday's cover ‘I love the perversity of it’: Bad Seed @warrenellis13 on how Nina Simone’s gum inspired a book Interview by Sean O’Hagan 📸 @cyrilzed
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Congrats to the brilliant @LauraCummingArt - Critic of the Year at last night’s press awards, here with highly commended colleague @jayrayner1. Congrats also to shortlisted writers @MsRachelCooke and @TimAdamsWrites. What a team of writers @ObserverUK has! We are v proud 👏🙏🙌
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On my radar: author @OliverJeffers on boxing, unfinished paintings and performing pigeons theguardian.com/culture/2016…
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Public Enemy founder @MrChuckD on his new book on hip-hop's history, his childhood, and losing his father. Interview by @msmirandasawyer theguardian.com/music/2017/n…
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LBC radio host @mrjamesob on becoming famous for his trademark riffs & what keeps him going through these dark times theguardian.com/tv-and-radio…
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