06.00 BST Last modified on Sun 18 Oct 2020 06.01 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Donald Trump speaks at West Point – which Benedict Arnold once tried to betray – in June. Photograph: David Dee Delgado/Getty Images One of the most important qualities a good reporter can have is a very low […]
08.02 BST Last modified on Fri 16 Oct 2020 08.03 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email The Perfect Weapon. Photograph: HBO In early 2010, scientists at a uranium enrichment plant in Natanz, Iran, watched their infrastructure malfunction at an unprecedented, inexplicable rate. Technicians inspected their equipment, but could find no explanation for why […]
09.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Ursula and her first husband Rudi after a picnic in the countryside just before her departure for Moscow. Photograph: Collection of the Hamburger family In November 1930, the 22-year-old Ursula Hamburger was visited at her Shanghai home by a good-looking man with a strong German […]
08.03 BST Last modified on Thu 24 Sep 2020 08.04 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email 3 / 5 stars 3 out of 5 stars. Jeff Daniels and Brendan Gleeson in The Comey Rule. Photograph: CBS Television Studios/Ben Mark Holzberg/Showtime The Comey Rule, a new miniseries from Captain Phillips scribe Billy Ray, airing […]
06.10 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in 2017. The film explores a common purpose by Russia and pro-Trump players, sometimes in tandem and sometimes covertly. Photograph: BPA/Reuters Last month, the US Senate intelligence committee published over 1,000 pages of findings on Russian interference in the 2016 […]
09.00 BST Last modified on Wed 9 Sep 2020 13.51 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Settling scores … Kim Darroch resigned in 2019 amid a row regarding leaked emails that criticised Donald Trump’s administration. Photograph: Alex Wong/Getty Images Kim Darroch recounts the events which led to his resignation as UK ambassador in […]
05.01 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘Naples is already part of me, as I am of Naples.’ Composite: Getty/Photo By Eduardo Castaldo ©Wildside/Umedia 2018 Neapolitan dialect plays an important role in your novels. Could one say that you are doing a work of translation, hearing the voices of these characters in […]
14.23 BST Last modified on Mon 3 Aug 2020 22.22 BST Bristol, UKA hot air balloon pilot checks her rigging inside the canopy before takeoff in a mass ascent with 43 balloon teams taking part. The event is a socially distanced alternative to the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA Media Facebook Twitter Pinterest Binnish, SyriaSmoke […]
07.00 BST Hadia, Mundri, South Sudan, 2018Four-month-old Hadia was born with spina bifida, hydrocephalus (fluid in the brain) and club foot. Sophia, a community rehabilitation expert, is showing her mother, Zaina, a treatment called the Ponseti method, which uses stretches and casts to correct Hadia’s feet. (Medicine in Focus shortlist) Photograph: Julia Gunther/Wellcome Trust Facebook Twitter […]
11.49 BST Last modified on Wed 22 Jul 2020 11.51 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email The rite stuff … Igor Stravinsky. Photograph: Gjon Mili/The Life Picture Collection/Getty Images Of the composers who spearheaded modernism in music at the beginning of the 20th century, it has been Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) whose influence has […]
07.30 BST Last modified on Wed 22 Jul 2020 22.23 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email A rare gift for startling evocations of the natural world … Jonathan C Slaght Jonathan Slaght has the best author photograph I’ve ever seen. Pale, bearded, dressed in black, he gazes at the camera with forbidding intensity. […]
16.54 BST Last modified on Thu 4 Jun 2020 16.55 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Elle Fanning in The Great, Hailee Steinfeld in Dickinson and Elisabeth Moss in Shirley. Composite: Hulu/Apple TV+/Sundance/AP It is a point in favor of TV’s sprawling proliferation that one gets, in the course of a year, both […]
07.30 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Mission accomplished … Edward Snowden. Photograph: Laurence Topham/The Guardian In January 2013, the documentary film-maker Laura Poitras asked Barton Gellman if he wanted to grab a coffee. The venue was New York. Poitras told Gellman – a former Washington Post reporter – that a few […]
09.00 BST Last modified on Fri 22 May 2020 10.25 BST This image from 1998 was from the first shoot I did with Manson –it was also the first time I met him – in Los Angeles, shooting a cover for Time Out magazine. Prior to this, I had been listening to Rock n Roll Nigger as […]
18.04 BST Last modified on Wed 13 May 2020 18.49 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email A Rainy Day in New York … stars Selena Gomez and Timothée Chalamet disowned the movie. Photograph: Jessica Miglio/Signature Entertainment A Rainy Day in New York, the Woody Allen film disowned by high-profile members of its cast […]
20.54 BST Last modified on Wed 13 May 2020 21.50 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Elle Fanning in The Great. Photograph: Hulu When The Favourite, Yorgos Lanthimos’s absurd take on a period drama, landed in 2018, it earned critical raves for its incisive rupture of conventions, and its recasting of a historical […]
07.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email A detail from Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s The Triumph of Death (c1562): ‘Epidemics have never stopped being a fact of life and death for hundreds of millions of people.’ Photograph: Granger Historical Picture Archive/Alamy Twenty years ago, the US Department of Defense set out a […]
07.00 BST Metamorphosis by KyeongJun Yang (South Korea) Winner. Yang presents a series of black and white images depicting or representative of Julie Chen, a young woman who emigrated to the US from China at the age of 12 after her parents’ separation Facebook Twitter Pinterest ±100 by Magdalena Stengel (Germany) Shortlist. Stengel examines increasing human […]
Reporter #3: [Spoken] Excuse me, Mr. Sergievsky, why are you leaving Russia? What about your wife and family? Reporters: How long was this planned? What made you defect? Did anyone help you? And do you expect To be joined in your exile By loved ones, e.g. your wife? Or are you starting again In all […]
Embassy Officials: Oh, my dear how boring, He’s defecting Just like all the others, He’s expecting Us to be impressed With what he’s done here, But he hasn’t stopped To think about the paperwork His gesture causes– We’ve an embassy to run here. If these people can’t strike Blows for freedom With a valid visa, […]
Me again It’s heat again Thats three of them You’d think I was trying to achieve something What’s the reasoning? What’s been eating him? Why’s he got this gusto? I just finished playing tennis like I’m John McEnroe Compare me to Brando, Eminem Pen to pen I’m better then him and him 20 men, 2 […]
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If money is your God who’s your devil? If everybody die what make’s you special? I wonder if heaven got a ghetto And I wonder if it’s crowded Okay now I’m acting childish but hey Don’t force your religion on me And I won’t force my non-religion on you Truth’s the only thing I’m devoted […]