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Iggy Pop was a punk before punk was invented but now the master revivalist is set to take a regular BBC Radio 6Music slot

The wildest of rock’s wild men, the drug fiend’s drug fiend is to be a DJ

Ireland’s Trade and Investment Minister, Arlene Foster, with Stephen Roche, who has been inducted into the Giro d’Italia Hall of Fame

Stephen Roche: Ireland is ready for Giro d'Italia's grand start

The cycling legend on how Belfast has geared up for May's big event

American magician David Blaine (pictured) kept Chris Blackhurst spellbound during a show this week

David Blaine interview: Just how does he do it?

Chris Blackhurst hoped that a close encounter with David Blaine would reveal the secrets behind the magician’s tricks. The evening left him in awe – but none the wiser

Actors Lorraine Bracco and Ray Liotta in a nightclub scene from US mob film Goodfellas (1990)

David Clarke: Villains choose 'safe' London to launder their dirty money

London Laundry - how it's done: Dubious businessmen are moving their cash around with ease, as one of Britain's leading fraud experts tells Jim Armitage

TV presenter Lauren Laverne with stylist Wendy Elsmore at London Fashion Weekend

Meet DJ and TV presenter Lauren Laverne

Former singer, Radio DJ and TV presenter Lauren Laverne rounds up London Fashion Weekend at the iconic Somerset House,as an Amex Insider, to bring in a sneak peek of the event that is accessible to everyone.

Alec Baldwin retires from public life in epic ‘I Give Up’ essay, blames Shia LaBeouf, the media and the ‘Gay Department of Justice’

A 'blast'-sized breakdown of the near impenetrable essay Baldwin wrote for New York magazine

Christopher Graham says the public don’t have confidence that their personal information will stay secure

Privacy guardian Christopher Graham finds himself in the public eye

Christopher Graham’s role as information commissioner has seen him achieve a level of recognition he didn’t expect when he took the job in 2009 – but he’s signed up for another two years, says Ian Burrell

Steve Backshall: The adventurer on swimming with great whites, holding a gorilla by the hand, and his failed relationships

I yearn for the golden era of exploration I'd have given anything to have been around when we were truly opening up parts of the planet for the first time. For me, reading what [the British explorer] Alfred Russel Wallace wrote about travelling through the Malay archipelago in the 19th century, when he was discovering new species every single day, it felt like he was having the sort of adventures that, if you'd read about them in King Solomon's Mines, you wouldn't have believed them.

Death, Brutalism and pre-pubertal sex: Jonathan Meades embraces some difficult subjects in his TV series and memoir

The second episode of Meade's new BBC series - Bunkers, Brutalism and Bloodymindedness: Concrete Poetry - airs tonight and in May he publishes An Encyclopaedia of Myself, his first volume of memoirs

Tough lady: Marianne Marston

Marianne Marston: A formidable fighter, in and out of the ring

Next Saturday, she'll slug it out to be European Champion; and she's still battling the men who run British boxing and who refused her a licence. Alan Hubbard meets Marianne Marston

She says: “People ask me, ‘What’s your secret?’ And I’m like, ‘You just don’t pluck them.’ It’s really simple.”

Why Britain’s most successful model Cara Delevingne is the face of the decade

She’s the model whose style and attitude have come to define fashion in 2014. But why her? And why now?

Commons Speaker John Bercow wants to strengthen the scrutiny and accountability of the executive

John Bercow interview: The Speaker’s mission to make sure people are heard

In a sometimes raucous House of Commons, the Speaker is attempting to give a voice to backbenchers and a clarity to legislation

Christiane Taubira helped push through France’s gay marriage bill

Christiane Taubira on a French identity crisis: 'France is in distress. There is a kind of rage out there'

French Justice Minister Christiane Taubira says her country isn’t just suffering from the economic downturn and rising intolerance – it’s in the midst of an identity crisis

Free radical: Blix would like to see the Middle East give up its nuclear weapons

Hans Blix: From the hell of Iraq, hope for an era of peace

The UN weapons inspector who failed to prevent the invasion 11 years ago, believes it is the last such conflict, as nations learn to co-operate. Margareta Pagano meets Hans Blix

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