Great, hope to get there! xx

Exactly Annie. hope you're well xx

Try telling this to Woody.

My mom, the cult leader: ‘She told us what to wear, when to pray, how we would have sex. We were prisoners’ Deborah Green was a charismatic woman who established a ‘free love ministry’ in California, claiming to be a vessel for God. She was also a controlling, cruel sadist. Her daughter Sarah talks about he...

Sarah Green's parents mother ran the Aggressive Christianity Missions Training Corps, which controlled every aspect of their members' lives and abused children. She tells me how she eventually escaped the US cult that almost destroyed her.

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

Thanks so much Ben.

This is brilliant…😍

It's so good

‘I was in the pit of despair’: Non-speaking autistic novelist Woody Brown on his journey from write-off to writer As a child, Brown was underestimated, infantilised and dismissed by specialists and teachers. Now 28, he has written an acclaimed debut novel set in an adult day care centre that gives people like him...

Woody Brown is non-speaking, autistic and a brilliant new novelist. I interviewed him, and he's bloody amazing. Would be great if you could share
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

thank you. Yes, a friend was taking my pulse at work today just to make sure.

Thanks so much Mike, much appreciated

The unbelievable life of Leo Sayer! The songs, the sex, being swindled – and a spooky phone call from Elvis He lit up the 1970s with a string of hits, before falling out of the public eye. But was any man ever more connected? He discusses extraordinary encounters with Muhammad Ali and Keith Moon – and why h...

'This is Elvis Aaron Presley, and you make me feel like dancing'

In 153 years of interviewing I don't think I've ever met anybody with stories like Leo Sayer.

www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...

ta sam xx

Undercover officer deceived women with ‘grotesque and cruel’ lies, spycops inquiry told Carlo Soracchi admits exploiting empathy of woman who had abusive father by claiming his father abused his sister

@robevansgdn.bsky.social has been brilliant in his pursuit of the undercover cops scandal over the years. Here's yet another shocking betrayal of everything decent by the police
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

thanks so much. I'll have to dig up my old Alan Bennett and Hockey interviews. Love both of them (the people not the profiles)

Heathcliff and Cathy next, Rebecca

Corinne Bailey Rae: ‘If you weren’t tits-out-for-the-lads, they called you middle of the road’ Her first album was a huge hit – then she faced the sudden tragedy of her husband’s early death. She describes the rupture of grief, her return to music and the harsh reality of fame as a woman in the...

This is my interview with the inspirational Corinne Bailey Rae. She's brilliant on grief and what the music press wanted from women in the noughties

www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...

The case against Jeremy Bamber was built around the use of a silencer. Now, after 41 years in jail, one of Britain's top forensic physicians, commissioned by the Guardian, has analysed crime scene photographs and concluded that a silencer was not used
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...

Thank you JR.

Well, this made me bawl. Immense courage of the sort we never see but also an openness to talking about her mistakes.

thanks so much Rebecca. Perfect poem

‘She did kill. There’s no grey area there’: Labour MP Naz Shah on the day she and her mother were arrested for murder The politician was 18 when she and her mum were hauled off to a police station for the killing of the man she’d considered an uncle. What happened next would shape her future. She talks Labour’s woes,...

There are not many politicians (or people full stop) who have had a life like Labour's Naz Shah. She tells me all about it.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Thanks so much Tim, hope you're well.

Thanks so much Oli, that's incredibly kind of you

‘Am I at peak popularity? I hope not’: on the road with Zack Polanski, from protest to podcast to Heaven nightclub With polls and membership at an all-time high, the Green party are having a moment – and it’s largely down to their charismatic (if slightly cheesy) new leader. Can he really pull off a socialist revo...

I go on the road with Zack Polanski.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Thanks so much Paul. If I took my personal beliefs into every interview with me and just prosecuted them, I wouldn't be doing my job!

Thanks so much Ben

thanks loads Laurie, doesn't look as if they're mking you aware of any other option!

I think that's in breach of contract unless they explain (which is kinda irrelevant to you) that they will be doing the form for you and you're free to phone, walk in and book appointments as you used to. If you want to email me abt it I'm, on simon.hattenstone@theguardian.com

I'm great at bursting into tears Laura, but rubbish at doing it on command. Thanks for the advice!

Laurie, did your GP say that the form is the only route to access GP. If so they are breaking their contract.