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As AI threatens to steal composers’ livelihoods, the industry is fighting back
Music

As AI threatens to steal composers’ livelihoods, the industry is fighting back

A new awards ceremony is giving composers more recognition in a bid to counter the threat of AI
Being Heumann’s Rob Delaney: ‘Don’t sit around hoping another world is possible. Build it by hand’
Rob Delaney as Senator George Miller in Being Heumann
Interview

Being Heumann’s Rob Delaney: ‘Don’t sit around hoping another world is possible. Build it by hand’

Charlie Mackesy: ‘I’d rather have spilt ink and spelling mistakes than AI’
Charlie Mackesy
Illustration

Charlie Mackesy: ‘I’d rather have spilt ink and spelling mistakes than AI’

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Onwards and Sideways writer Paul Mayhew-Archer: ‘I fight Parkinson’s by looking for ways to find it funny’
Film

Onwards and Sideways writer Paul Mayhew-Archer: ‘I fight Parkinson’s by looking for ways to find it funny’

Actor Ashley Walters: ‘There’s no way you cannot be political as a young black man in London’
Letter To My Younger Self

Actor Ashley Walters: ‘There’s no way you cannot be political as a young black man in London’

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty

Letter To My Younger Self

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Actor Ashley Walters: ‘There’s no way you cannot be political as a young black man in London’
Ashley Walters
Letter To My Younger Self

Actor Ashley Walters: ‘There’s no way you cannot be political as a young black man in London’

‘What’s done to animals is so incredibly cruel, all I did was invade Anna Wintour’s office’
PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk
Letter To My Younger Self

‘What’s done to animals is so incredibly cruel, all I did was invade Anna Wintour’s office’

Chase & Status: ‘We were vinyl-collecting kids obsessed with smashing up a rave’
Chase & Status
Letter to Our Younger Selves

Chase & Status: ‘We were vinyl-collecting kids obsessed with smashing up a rave’

Lush co-founder Mark Constantine: ‘I was homeless. I spent a lot of my time scared’
Lush co-founder Mark Constantine
Letter To My Younger Self

Lush co-founder Mark Constantine: ‘I was homeless. I spent a lot of my time scared’

TV

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Actor Ashley Walters: ‘There’s no way you cannot be political as a young black man in London’
Ashley Walters
Letter To My Younger Self

Actor Ashley Walters: ‘There’s no way you cannot be political as a young black man in London’

Sir Patrick Stewart: ‘Take on Trump? Make it so’
Film

Sir Patrick Stewart: ‘Take on Trump? Make it so’

This City Is Ours star James Nelson-Joyce: ‘Just to be linked with James Bond is great’
Interview

This City Is Ours star James Nelson-Joyce: ‘Just to be linked with James Bond is great’

Why we made controversial Channel 4 documentary The Experiment
Mat Fraser, Sophie L Morgan fronting C4 doc The Experiment
TV

Why we made controversial Channel 4 documentary The Experiment

Books

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Charlie Mackesy: ‘I’d rather have spilt ink and spelling mistakes than AI’
Charlie Mackesy
Illustration

Charlie Mackesy: ‘I’d rather have spilt ink and spelling mistakes than AI’

I am a big fan of eulogies. Here’s why they are far more revealing than obituaries
white and yellow flowers in a vase in front of a grey background
Books

I am a big fan of eulogies. Here’s why they are far more revealing than obituaries

Patrice Lawrence: ‘My dad was homeless. I never felt seen in the books I read growing up’
Children's Laureate Patrice Lawrence
Books

Patrice Lawrence: ‘My dad was homeless. I never felt seen in the books I read growing up’

Stephen Mulhern: ‘I genuinely believe that anything is possible’
Stephen Mulhern
Recommended reads

Stephen Mulhern: ‘I genuinely believe that anything is possible’

Interviews

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Being Heumann’s Rob Delaney: ‘Don’t sit around hoping another world is possible. Build it by hand’
Rob Delaney as Senator George Miller in Being Heumann
Interview

Being Heumann’s Rob Delaney: ‘Don’t sit around hoping another world is possible. Build it by hand’

Actor and activist Rob Delaney walks the talk when it comes to standing up for what he believes in
Meet the 80-year-old with a learning disability who wants others to live to their ‘golden age’
Geoffrey Leer
Mencap

Meet the 80-year-old with a learning disability who wants others to live to their ‘golden age’

Being Heumann: ‘Our world looks different because of what these protesters did’
Ruth Madeley as Judy Heumann in Being Heumann
Disability activism

Being Heumann: ‘Our world looks different because of what these protesters did’

Film

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Being Heumann’s Rob Delaney: ‘Don’t sit around hoping another world is possible. Build it by hand’
Rob Delaney as Senator George Miller in Being Heumann
Interview

Being Heumann’s Rob Delaney: ‘Don’t sit around hoping another world is possible. Build it by hand’

Being Heumann: ‘Our world looks different because of what these protesters did’
Ruth Madeley as Judy Heumann in Being Heumann
Disability activism

Being Heumann: ‘Our world looks different because of what these protesters did’

Onwards and Sideways writer Paul Mayhew-Archer: ‘I fight Parkinson’s by looking for ways to find it funny’
Film

Onwards and Sideways writer Paul Mayhew-Archer: ‘I fight Parkinson’s by looking for ways to find it funny’

Willem Dafoe: ‘I want to have an experience that transforms or changes me’ 
Genden Phuntsok, Tom Hiddleston, Willem Dafoe and Benjamin Hoetjes in Tenzing
Film

Willem Dafoe: ‘I want to have an experience that transforms or changes me’ 

Music

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As AI threatens to steal composers’ livelihoods, the industry is fighting back
Music

As AI threatens to steal composers’ livelihoods, the industry is fighting back

Chase & Status: ‘We were vinyl-collecting kids obsessed with smashing up a rave’
Chase & Status
Letter to Our Younger Selves

Chase & Status: ‘We were vinyl-collecting kids obsessed with smashing up a rave’

Death Cab For Cutie’s Ben Gibbard: ‘I realised I could work on behalf of marginalised people’
Death Cab For Cutie singer Ben Gibbard
Music

Death Cab For Cutie’s Ben Gibbard: ‘I realised I could work on behalf of marginalised people’

Lisa Maffia: ‘To talk about music in the 90s you had to strip to your underwear. I wish I hadn’t’
Lisa Maffia in the Capital Xtra studio
Letter To My Younger Self

Lisa Maffia: ‘To talk about music in the 90s you had to strip to your underwear. I wish I hadn’t’

Art

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Mr Skelly artist Christian Watson: ‘I had a pretty rough childhood. I felt wronged by the world’
Mr Skelly artwork.
Art

Mr Skelly artist Christian Watson: ‘I had a pretty rough childhood. I felt wronged by the world’

See the protest art hitting London’s streets to mark Big Issue’s 35th birthday
Paste Present Future asked notable protest artists: what is your big issue?
Art

See the protest art hitting London’s streets to mark Big Issue’s 35th birthday

Artist Philip Colbert: ‘There’s a fascism of seriousness’
Thirty giant, surrealist lobsters interact with the Roman ruins at the Archaeological Park of Pompeii
Art

Artist Philip Colbert: ‘There’s a fascism of seriousness’

Bradley Foxwell: the homeless artist showing off his work on the side of canal boats
Canal Boat Contemporary uses London's network of waterways to bring the art to the people
Art

Bradley Foxwell: the homeless artist showing off his work on the side of canal boats

Theatre

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‘We are locking up too many women’: Why the RSC’s Julius Caesar is back behind bars
The cast of the new Julius Caesar.
Theatre

‘We are locking up too many women’: Why the RSC’s Julius Caesar is back behind bars

Pearl Mackie on her prison play: ‘Baby is the story of many women in the criminal justice system’
Theatre

Pearl Mackie on her prison play: ‘Baby is the story of many women in the criminal justice system’

Bonnie Oddie: ‘There’s no one-size-fits-all answer to assisted dying’
Theatre

Bonnie Oddie: ‘There’s no one-size-fits-all answer to assisted dying’

Actor Shonagh Marie: ‘Coming into care as a teenager was a whole different kind of trauma’
Actor Shonagh Marie in Bullet Tongue
Arts

Actor Shonagh Marie: ‘Coming into care as a teenager was a whole different kind of trauma’

Radio

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How the Shipping Forecast inspired poetry and wonder for over 100 years
Weather

How the Shipping Forecast inspired poetry and wonder for over 100 years

‘I was homeless at 16’: DJ Charlie Sloth on rough sleeping and living in poverty as a young father
Homelessness

‘I was homeless at 16’: DJ Charlie Sloth on rough sleeping and living in poverty as a young father

Why you should make Resonance FM the background noise to your life
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Why you should make Resonance FM the background noise to your life

Uncanny USA podcast host Danny Robins on Bigfoot, UFOs and why Americans scare differently to Brits
Danny Robins on set for Uncanny USA sitting on a rusty car
Podcasts

Uncanny USA podcast host Danny Robins on Bigfoot, UFOs and why Americans scare differently to Brits