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Patrick Smith

@PatrickHJSmith

Patrick Smith is The Independent's Head of Culture & Lifestyle, having joined in 2018 from The Daily Telegraph, where he was music editor, as well as a TV and film critic. He specialises in profile interviews.

<p>‘We shot ourselves in the face by voluntarily leaving the only economic union we’re ever going to be invited into’ </p>

Jack Davenport: ‘What would Shakespeare make of a trigger warning?’

<p>‘Regardless of your colour of your skin, regardless of how tall you are or short you are or what sex you are, regardless of how you identify, you should have the ability to play anything’ </p>

Andy Serkis: ‘I defy anyone not to tap their foot to Michael Jackson’

<p>The quartet very nearly didn’t make it to Worthy Farm – their flight from LAX was cancelled yesterday, prompting Rowsell to tweet: ‘Has anyone got a private jet in LA?’ </p>

Wolf Alice call on their reserves after almost missing Glastonbury

‘I had never heard a song, much less an R&B song or in black music, where a woman was singing a love song to another woman’

Brittany Howard: ‘I didn’t want to end up back in the trailer park’

Blair's `good guys' have lost

Letter: In Brief