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Dafne Keen and Harriet Walter on working with Patrick Stewart: ‘I’ve never seen anyone so ecstatic’

The late actor’s co-stars in Logan and Anthony and Cleopatra remember dog impressions, marching band-conducting and a fervent belief in fun

I had the unbelievable privilege of working with Patrick when I was 11 [in Logan]. He was a man of extraordinary warmth, wit and generosity. He possessed that increasingly rare ability to make everyone around him feel as though they were being let in on something wonderful. To work alongside him was to be reminded, every day, of what it means to love what you do, and to share that love with others. He imparted lessons in a way that was so wise, you didn’t even realise you were being taught.

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© Photograph: Alastair Muir/Shutterstock

© Photograph: Alastair Muir/Shutterstock

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Shabana Mahmood urged to grant visa to former Weather Underground activist

Home Office refused entry to Judith Clark, 77, invited by RSC to speak about restorative justice after her time in prison

Human rights activists and celebrities including the lawyer Helena Kennedy, the actor Harriet Walter and the theatre director Phyllida Lloyd have urged the Home Office to overturn its decision to refuse a visa to a former member of the radical US group the Weather Underground, saying her decades of rehabilitation should count in her favour.

Judith Clark, 77, was the inspiration for Walter’s portrayal of prisoners in the Donmar Warehouse all-female Shakespeare trilogy, including Brutus in Julius Caesar and Prospero in The Tempest.

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© Photograph: Damon Winter/New York Times/Redux/eyevine

© Photograph: Damon Winter/New York Times/Redux/eyevine

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Graue Wohnungsnot: Wohin mit all den Boomern?

Millionen Senioren leben in Wohnungen, in denen der Rollator nicht durch die Tür passt und sie kaum in die Dusche kommen. Mit der alternden Babyboomer-Generation wird sich das Problem weiter verschärfen. Deutschland ist darauf nicht vorbereitet.

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Archäologie: „Wir erleben weltweit eine Renaissance des Nationalismus“

In Magdeburg wird am 1. September Kaiser Otto der Große nach der Untersuchung der Gebeine wieder beigesetzt. Warum Landesarchäologe Harald Meller nichts davon hält, ihn zum nationalen Symbol zu machen.

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Feminism for a World on Fire by Natasha Walter review – hope amid the hopelessness

A writer and activist links the climate crisis to battles for justice around the world in this vital book

It has become increasingly difficult to change our minds, to question our own views or to find common ground with people we disagree with, all of which makes Natasha Walter’s new book both refreshing and exhilarating.

In her ebullient 1998 debut The New Feminism, Walter hailed Margaret Thatcher as a trailblazer. In this fiercer, bleaker work, she rips into the “glossy language of aspiration feminism”, “the message that the individual woman can do anything she wants if she only has the necessary courage”. That kind of feminism inspired an “explosion of books and films about pioneers and heroines, about bossy women and gutsy girls” which retold the feminist story as “a succession of isolated campaigns, led by outsize individuals”.

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© Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian

© Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian

© Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian

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Entscheidung in Rothenburg: Landesausstellung erstmals wegen Haushaltskrise abgesagt

„Ganz Rothenburg wird Landesausstellung“, hatte Bayerns Kunstminister angekündigt. Daraus wird nichts. Die Stadt, im Tourismus weltweit bekannt, zieht die Reißleine – ein singulärer Vorgang.

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Mittelalter: Femizide: Was die Geschichte über die Tötung von Frauen verrät

Wann ist es legitim, die eigene Ehefrau zu töten? Diese Frage klang nicht immer so absurd wie heute. Was ein internationales Forschungsprojekt über die Geschichte der Frauentötungen herausgefunden hat.

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