The only given it feels like is that the more you look at your work the more you hate it. It doesn’t take long and all your weaknesses seem to start leaking out of every crevice.

The final Iraq audio slide show is finally done. Big thanks to Anita.

Jane Bown’s portrait photographs are well known. Week on week they have been appearing in The Observer, where her first portrait, of the philosopher Bertrand Russell, was published in 1949