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‘Sidney Poitier was the only light at the end of the tunnel’: Don Warrington on his lifelong hero
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When I was in my late 30s, someone came up to me in the street and started talking to me as if I were Sidney Poitier. To the extent that they called me “Sidney”. I said: “I’m sorry – my name is Don.” And they looked a...
Burying Leni Riefenstahl: one woman’s lifelong crusade against Hitler’s favourite film-maker
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On 20 November 1984, in the southern German city of Freiburg, two film-makers faced each other in court for the first day of a trial that was to last nearly two and a half years. The plaintiff, Leni Riefenstahl, had b...
England matches create lifelong memories, says Gareth Southgate
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Gareth Southgate has talked up the romance of international football and its ability to create lifelong memories and hopes his England team can give the nation a lift at the beginning of their World Cup qualifying cam...
Escape your comfort zone: I have a mortal, lifelong fear of public speaking. Can I be cured?
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I am in the pub. It is dark, loud and at full capacity. Sitting with a group of people, my mind drifts towards something funny that happened at work. I wonder if it is funny enough to repeat and, if so, how it would s...
Lifelong excess weight can nearly double risk of womb cancer – study
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Lifelong excess weight may almost double a woman’s risk of developing womb cancer, research suggests. Scientists and doctors have known for some time that being overweight or obese increases the risk of the disease. A...
Like herpes simplex, Johnson’s ministers had begun to seem like a lifelong condition
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A huge week for the Westminster village and its many idiots, then, as Boris Johnson finally got around to shuffling his cabinet. It’s always a thrill to see one’s ministerial bestiary gain some new entries – and, inde...
Prince Philip: Experts tell of trauma caused by death of a lifelong partner
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Meg Blackwood had just turned 22 when she walked down the aisle of a Hampshire church, six years after Princess Elizabeth had married Philip Mountbatten. Like the royal couple, Meg and her new husband, Robert, enjoyed...
The Saviour review – gripping two-hander tackles lifelong effects of abuse
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Deirdre Kinahan’s new play for Landmark Productions tackles the subject of the emotional and physical abuse of young women in church-run institutions in Ireland over decades, and its impact on one woman for the rest o...
Wally Funk fulfills lifelong dream to go to space with Blue Origin flight
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Wally Funk, a pilot who was denied the chance to go into space in the 1960s because she was a woman, said “I want to go again, fast”, after returning from a successful flight with the Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos. With ...
Yoga, karate, skiing … Alison Bechdel on her lifelong obsession with exercise
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The first obsession, for Alison Bechdel, was with karate. In her early 20s and fresh out of college, the artist and writer turned up on a whim to an all-women’s karate class (this was the early 80s in New York), becam...