‘We have nothing left, not even a glass for tea’ Debris rubble and tree roots is all that remains in some parts of the villages in hit by flash flooding late last week. Our piece for BBC News (UK) from Afghanistan With Malik Mudassir Hassan and Usman عثمان

Back from Pakistan and feeling immensely grateful for such stellar colleagues & friends — as well as all those who showed us such generosity while we were there.

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This, for me, beautifully sums up the brilliance of Steve Rosenberg: Russian FM Lavrov: Ah, it’s you… Rosenberg [shrugs]: It’s me, yes… It’s like he’s always been there, telling us about Russia, and always will be. (Plus, there’s pudding for dessert)

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After a night of violence, the community of Southport comes together to rebuild.

As symbolic of London as Big Ben and Buckingham Palace

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On this day of celebrations, I think of the Syrians who were killed during the war, and of my friend the journalist Marie Colvin and photographer Remi Ochlik, killed in Baba Amr in 2012. I wish they had lived to report this day. Paul Conroy @reflextv.bsky.social

Underrated prop: the Nespresso machine in CONCLAVE

TS Eliot died sixty years ago today. To me he is the great artistic genius of the twentieth century.

As protesters prepare to gather for a sixth straight da against the arrest of Ekrem İmamoğlu, we are live in Istanbul all day BBC News (UK). As the demonstrations grow, so does the clampdown. This is becoming a fight for democracy in Turkey - with both sides determined to win

📣 Some news about me: Yesterday (Wednesday) I was detained by police in Istanbul, held for 17 hours and then deported from Turkey to the UK. Told I was “a threat to public order”. In the country I lived in - and love. Journalism is not a crime. Here’s the BBC’s statement:

BBC statement on detention and deportation of Mark Lowen. Read the statement⬇️ bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/st…

It's World Piano Day, an opportunity to celebrate this wonderful instrument. For me the piano provides relief from a world turned upside down. Here I play Hymne à l'amour by Édith Piaf and Marguerite Monnot.

Conclave may have lost most of its Oscar noms but its CLEARING Anora and The Brutalist in cultural relevance as God intended

🗣 ‘I’m sick of women not being listened to’ Naga Munchetty @tvnaga01 told anita rani why she wanted to write about women's health. She's spoken out about her own experience of having a coil fitted & living with debilitating period pains and adenomyosis ⬇️

I was brought up to regard English literature as a kind of secular religion. I never doubted that poetry and novels contained the meaning of life I wrote this about the tragedy of the subject's decline and the dawn of a world in which nobody reads newstatesman.com/culture/books/…