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David Attenborough
My gorilla encounter
The naturalist, who will turn 100 on Friday, charts the early days of his career at the BBC, including a meeting with a family of apes in the mountain forests of Rwanda
Frida Kahlo
The making of an icon
It will be ‘Fridamania’ this summer as a Netflix documentary, a fashion line and a few art shows open on both sides of the Atlantic. Vanessa Thorpe reports on the commodification of the inimitable artist
Project Freedom
Mission creep
Trump’s announcement that the US will deploy to the Strait of Hormuz has set the stage for a new confrontation with Iran. Ruth Michaelson reports that amid the uncertainty the regime hopes to salvage its position with a sale to Beijing
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Keir Starmer
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The legacy of London’s illegal weed palace
Body politic
My portrait of a friend’s double mastectomy
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