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17 Oct

At Harewood House, in West Yorkshire, two men sat down for a difficult conversation.

“My great-great-great-great-grandparents were slaves on your family’s plantation,” the actor David Harewood told David Lascelles, the 8th Earl of Harewood. thetimes.co.uk/article/david-…

“This is a fine house and beautiful grounds. But it was built on the proceeds of slavery. Do you feel any guilt or shame about that?” Harewood asked Lascelles.

“No, not in a personal way,” Lascelles replied. “I don’t feel that feeling guilty for something you have no involvement with is a helpful emotion.”

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17 Oct

@katie_gatens

“Trans people aren’t a threat to you ... I want people to see others as human and be accepting of each other.”

@katie_gatens sits down with @biminibabes — nonbinary star of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK and Great Yarmouth’s most fabulous export. thetimes.co.uk/article/bimini…

Bimini Bon Boulash doesn’t like labels. “Non-binary is a new term, but the idea has been around for a long time,” the 28-year-old drag queen says.

“David Bowie was non-conforming to gender standards, and people like Prince and Grace Jones were very fluid with their gender identity. I often wonder if people who get so flared up about it ever listen to those artists.”

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16 Oct

Is Scott Stuber now the most important man in Hollywood? He laughs nervously at the question.

“I am just a guy in a chair that someone else will [one day] occupy.” thetimes.co.uk/article/scott-…

It is, nonetheless, a very big chair: Stuber oversees the Netflix film slate and when he joined early in 2017, he had to fix a glaring problem.

While the company was winning acclaim for its original series, customers were still complaining about the quality of its film offering and Hollywood was sniffy.

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16 Oct

@PaulMcCartney

"Fans or readers, or even critics, who really want to learn more about my life should read my lyrics."

In an exclusive extract from his new book, @PaulMcCartney reveals the stories behind the music. thetimes.co.uk/article/paul-m…

"Some people, when they get to a certain age, like to refer to a diary to recall day-to-day events from the past, but I have no such notebooks. What I do have is my songs — hundreds of them — which serve much the same purpose."

I Lost My Little Girl
Written in 1956, released in 1991

"You wouldn’t have to be Sigmund Freud to recognise that the song is a very direct response to the death of my mother. I wrote this song later that same year. I was 14 at the time."

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16 Oct

#WorldAtFive 🌎: They first appear as great black smears on the horizon. As they move closer, they black out the sun and the land goes dark.

Then to the growing rhythm of millions of beating wings, they drop lower and lower, devouring all in their path. thetimes.co.uk/article/un-usi…

Patrick Mutugi, a farmer in Meru, eastern Kenya, watched in horror as the worst locust plague to hit the Horn of Africa for more than 70 years invaded his land.

Terrified villagers, fearing that the insects would enter their homes, tried to chase them away, to no avail.

“They ran around singing, shouting, even throwing stones to try and frighten them off,” he said.

“When the swarm descends, the air is so think with them you can barely see. They carpet the ground.” The crops are stripped bare. The locusts move on.

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10 Oct

@Joancollinsdbe

One of the last links to Hollywood’s golden age, @Joancollinsdbe is about to publish her withering and witty diaries. @thesundaytimes meets her at home in Belgravia. thetimes.co.uk/article/joan-c…

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A mood killer in this interview is The Mail on Sunday, writes @joshglancy, which has just printed a story about Collins supposedly having an affair with the patrician Tory MP Alan Clark that is “an absolute, 100% lie”.

The offending anecdote is taken from documentary maker Michael Cockerell’s new memoir.

Collins was “appalled” by the story and is trying to put her lawyer on it. “I’ve never heard of this Cockerell chap,” she says dismissively.

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