Right now, across our ‘green and pleasant’ land, thousands of tiny fox cubs are exploring a new world. Born in March and April, these tiny, vulnerable little bundles of fur are clumsy, curious and full of life. They’re finally beginning to explore the world. Chasing bugs through long glare, these iconic little cubs are totally unaware of the ticking time bomb that’s so close to going off. A shadow is creeping up on them. And in just a few weeks, their peaceful summer ends. And for so many fox cubs, so do their lives.

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August marks the arrival of cubbing season. And that is when the tranquil lives of these tiny cubs are shattered. Hunters politely call this ‘autumn hunting’ or ‘hound exercise’ to mask the reality. The reality is, this is a schooling season for new hounds, and the curriculum is blood. Hunts are not looking for the usual long, dramatic chases across open fields. This time, they’re targeting the most vulnerable animals they can find.

Come August, when these tiny little fox cubs are ready to explore the world, the hunt will strike. Huntsman will take young, inexperienced hounds into small patches of woodland called a covert where foxes live. And there, the slaughter begins. Huntsman choose late-summer fox cubs because they’re young, lacking in stamina and don’t quite yet have knowledge of their territory. This lesson for the hounds is simple. Learn the scent of foxes and gain a taste for killing innocent wildlife.

Escape is pretty much impossible. As hounds flush terrified cubs out from hiding, riders and followers line the perimeter. When a tiny, panicked cub tries to make a break for safety, huntsman slap saddles and crack whips. These monsters deliberately terrify the cubs back into the drooling jaws of the hounds.

The bloody data

And the scale of these activities are damning. A suspected 10,000 fox cubs die every single year to this cruel ‘training’. Can I ask… why the hell are they even training the hounds to kill when hunting live mammals with dogs is illegal? Because these rich huntsman, frankly, don’t give a shit about the law. When hunters claim they’re simply exercising the pack, or following a pre-laid, false trail, they’re lying. The data exposes the truth.

Because the police don’t seem to care, independent monitors watched 624 hunt meets across the country. A mere 23 of these actually showed evidence of an actual trail being laid. A pathetic 3.7% actually showed intent to follow the law.

And the violence is skyrocketing. Monitors recorded 127 incidents of illegal cub killing in just three months. Within that, they saw 106 young cubs being illegally chased by hounds. This is a wild 83% increase compared to last autumn.

This blatant disregard for our laws spills into communities. Hound hunts caused 315 incidents of havoc, targeting domestic pets and trespassing on private land. And that’s just in that same three-month window.

We need to be on the ground for these fox cubs

The Hunting Act 2004 banned this bloody cruelty two decades ago. So why is this bloodshed continuing, and in fact, ramping up? And it’s not like the hunt actually even care about the hounds that are ripping apart these innocent cubs. To the hunt, these hounds are nothing but tools. And they treat them as such. If a young dog fails to recognise scents or it’s too slow to keep up with the pack, the huntsman regularly shoot them in the head when they think no one is looking.

These baby fox cubs and discarded hounds are running out of time. Right now, the government is running a public consultation on finally closing the loophole that is ‘trail hunting’. And it ends on Thursday 18 June 2026. This is our chance to end the smokescreen that allows 10,000 fox cubs to be massacred every year. Why not join or support the Hunt Saboteurs Association who help to monitor these illegal hunts?

We can’t allow these rich, horse-riding monsters to quietly wipe out the next generation of foxes. Will we continue to look away? Or will we finally say enough is enough? Have a look at the consultation, and let’s get boots on the ground this August to end this lawlessness once and for all.

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On 7 June, Israel’s occupation naval forces intentionally targeted and killed Gaza fisherman Mohammad Mousa Abu Jiyab. Mohammed Atef Al-Aqra, who was in the same vessel, was seriously injured. They were fishing off the coast of Deir al Balah, in central Gaza.

Israel intentionally targets Gaza’s fishermen

Off the coast of Gaza City, in a separate incident on the same day, four fishermen were forced to jump into the sea from their boat. They were then arrested by Israel and taken to an unknown location.

There have been many incidents of fishermen being intentionally targeted in Gaza, if not by shooting, by drones instead 

HEARTBREAKING: Old footage shows 18 year old Mohammad Abu Jiyab smiling and swimming at sea.

He was killed today by an Israeli direct strike while in his small fishing boat off the coast of Gaza, as he was trying to earn a living for his family amid the ongoing humanitarian… https://t.co/mfb1IExAOw pic.twitter.com/UnNieiumEL

— Gaza Notifications (@gazanotice) June 7, 2026

For generations, fishing has generated a dependable income, and important protein source, for thousands of Palestinians in Gaza.

Before October 2023 more than 6000 people depended on fishing as their main source of livelihood. A further 110,000 benefited from the sector through related economic activities and household support networks.

Fishing zone in Gaza continually shrinking and so is the catch

Under the Oslo Accords, Palestinian fishermen were promised by Israel access to waters extending up to 20 miles- 37 km, from the coast. But this was never implemented. Since Hamas took power in Gaza, the Israeli occupation has applied severe constraints on Gaza’s fishing industry, including systematically restricting fishing zones.  And these have intensified further since October 2023.

Because the bigger, more profitable fish are found in deeper water, further from the coast, these restrictions have severe consequences. Too many boats fishing in the same small area has lead to increased pressure on coastal fish stocks.

According to Gaza Fishermen Syndicate member Zakaria Baker,  before the genocide, Gaza’s fishing industry used to catch around 15 tonnes a day. But now the catch is less than 15 tonnes for a whole month. Less fish mean that fishing families are having to survive on a greatly reduced income.

Fishermen are also often left uncertain as to where the fishing areas are. Often they discover overnight that previously accessible waters have become off-limits. These limits are increasingly enforced, and fishermen are repeatedly attacked- both onshore and at sea, by the Israeli occupation forces. Every day Gaza’s fishermen have their access to the sea blocked, and risk their lives just to survive. Not only does the occupation confiscate and destroy their boats and fishing equipment. It also arrests these Palestinians, and fires live bullets at them.

Intentional decimation of a one thriving industry

But access is only one part of the problem. According to Gaza’s Ministry of Agriculture, Gaza’s port’s, fish farms and most landing sites have all been bombed or bulldozed by Israel. UNRWA reports that about 95 percent of fishing facilities and assets have been damaged or destroyed. This large scale destruction is intended to ensure that fishing is impossible.

The ongoing blockade is also affecting the entry of materials vital for boat maintenance. Items such as such as fiberglass, steel cables, and engine parts are heavily restricted because they are classified as “dual-use” items. This is because the occupation claims they could also be used for military purposes.

These restrictions have made it increasingly difficult to maintain fishing vessels, while available materials have increased greatly in price. A fisherman told Reuters that before the start of the genocide, a kilo of fibreglass cost 50- 60 shekels, approximately £12-£15. He said the same fiberglass now costs the equivalent of £200. All these factors directly impact the livelihoods of all Gaza’s fishermen, and their families.

Gaza’s fishing industry has now been decimated, with average daily fish catch between October 2023 and April 2024 falling to just over seven percent of 2022 levels. Over 200 fishermen have been killed in Gaza since October 2023, while more than 300 others have been injured. “Israel’s” deliberate and ongoing targeting of Gaza’s fishing industry, its agricultural food production system, and humanitarian aid are all part of its coordinated and intentional genocidal campaign to annihilate Palestinians.

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Israeli occupation police say they have “neutralised” two people involved in a shooting incident on 7 June. The attack occurred at a gas station near the entrance to Kochav Yair, in “Israel”. It resulted in the death of one “Israeli” and injuries to five others.

Two Palestinians martyred by Israel

Within minutes, Ben Gvir threatens execution: “if the terrorist is caught alive, he will be executed”

Minutes later, the Israeli occupation’s national “security” minister Itamar Ben Gvir, took to X:

“If the terrorist is caught alive, he will be executed. This is the law, and we will demand its enforcement.”

Ben Gvir has championed and celebrated the recently approved death penalty law, which applies to Palestinian prisoners only.

The occupation’s police shot and killed one of the “suspects” at their home in Tayibe. They later reported arresting another suspect there, who they say was connected with the incident. The police claim “the arrest followed intelligence indicating that he had requested assistance in hiding. During the arrest, the police claim he “attempted to attack the officers with a bottle, but he was subdued and taken into custody without injuries.”

Smotrich and Ben Gvir continue to stir up hatred towards Palestinians

Yet again, it will be the occupation’s word against that of Palestinians. And the arrest of this person in Tayibe is more than likely collective punishment. No details have emerged yet of the two killed by the occupation, or this third person who was arrested.

The occupation’s finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, took to X after the incident, blaming Arab- Israelis for the shooting. He claimed “a dangerous and extremist terrorist hotbed is growing that seeks to annihilate the state of Israel.”

Smotrich, a lifelong illegal settler, has recently had an application for his arrest warrant filed by the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor’s office.

Photos of Ben Gvir later emerged on the Israeli occupation’s police X post. It stated that Ben Gvir inspects “the site of the terrorist attack in the Sharon region.”

The Israeli occupation police, illegal colonial settlers, military and government all work together. They advance the aims of the ethno- supremacist Jewish state, which is to have a Jewish state for only Jews. None of them are to be trusted or believed.

“Israel” carries out collective punishment against Palestinians on a daily basis, and this inciteful and dehumanising language used against them, by the occupation’s police, Knesset members and others today will, no doubt, lead to yet more violence against the indigenous people of Palestine by “Israeli” colonists.

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In the grim annals of British political opportunism, few figures have mastered the art of turning tragedy into a personal recruitment drive quite like Nigel Farage.

The murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak in Southampton last December was a horror that should unite any decent society in grief and resolve. A young student, full of promise, was stabbed five times by Vickrum Digwa, who then allegedly spun a tale of racial victimhood while the boy lay bleeding out. The police got it catastrophically wrong, handcuffing the dying teenager as they prioritised the killer’s narrative.

It is an unimaginable failure that demands serious scrutiny, accountability, and immediate reform of policing and knife laws. What this shocking murder doesn’t need is Nigel Farage attempting to transform solemn mourning into a circus of self-serving division.

The left has always championed justice for the working class — including holding the powerful to account when systems fail ordinary families like the Nowaks.

We must reject the cynical weaponisation of such failures to pit neighbour against neighbour. Farage’s schtick is as predictable as it is poisonous. Every incident involving a white victim and a Brown perpetrator becomes Exhibit A in his toxic, endless culture war, proof that “real” (read: white, native) Britons are second-class citizens in their own country.

The hypocrisy is staggering, and the hatefulness beneath the pint-and-cigarette persona is unmistakable.

Nigel Farage: staggering hypocrisy

Let’s just dissect the hypocrisy of ‘Breaking Point’ poster boy Nigel Farage, for a moment.

Private-schooled former commodities broker, Nigel Farage has spent literal decades positioning himself as the champion of the common man against the establishment.

Yet where was this fiercest defender of British justice when it came to the countless knife deaths in Britain’s inner cities that disproportionately affect Black and Asian working-class communities?

These tragedies never merit his “emergency addresses” or calls for national rage. They are dismissed as unfortunate by-products of gang culture — problems for “those communities” to sort out themselves.

But let a case fit the narrative of white victimhood and “woke” policing, and suddenly it’s a national emergency demanding “cold rage.”

Farage doesn’t want better training or resources for our underfunded forces (decimated by years of Tory austerity, let’s not forget). He wants to fuel the myth that the entire system is rigged against “people like us.”

It’s classic divide-and-rule, straight from the populist playbook.

The real two-tier system

The real two-tier system in Britain is economic.

One for the super-rich who dodge taxes and buy influence, and another for the rest of us scraping by with crumbling NHS services, sky-high rents, and stagnant wages.

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK offers no solutions to these — no wealth taxes, no massive housebuilding programme, no renationalisation of utilities. Just endless scapegoating of migrants, Muslims, Sikhs, or whoever is convenient.

Farage’s behaviour isn’t just opportunistic. It is hateful in its deliberate stoking of resentment.

By framing the Henry Nowak murder as evidence of systemic anti-white bias, Farage echoes the very darkest corners of online discourse. He knows exactly what he’s doing. His call for “pure cold rage” wasn’t a slip of the tongue – it was calibrated to resonate with frustrated, misguided young men that are feeling left behind.

Southampton saw the result. Mindless violence on the streets, further trauma for the Nowak family, and a Sikh community put on edge.

At what point does someone in power stand up and call for his arrest?

When are we arresting him?

This is the same Nigel Farage who once complained about feeling “uncomfortable” hearing foreign languages on trains. I feel the same when I hear his voice on every bloody news outlet, every bloody day, to be fair.

Farage has repeatedly platformed ideas that equate multiculturalism with societal collapse. His hatefulness isn’t the frothing variety of a street thug but polished, folksy, and delivered with a wink and a pint.

I don’t think there’s anyone on the left that will deny the existence of cultural tensions or systemic failures in integration. We simply refuse to reduce complex human tragedies to tribal point scoring, because it is an utterly hideous thing to do.

Henry Nowak deserved so much better than becoming a convenient prop in Farage’s endless re-election campaign.

Farage, the man who looks like he was assembled from the spare parts of a 1950s bank manager and a pub bore, demands this pure cold rage as if he’s rallying the troops at Agincourt rather than rage-tweeting from a comfortable studio.

Would anyone be shocked if Farage followed up his hateful rants with a Reform-branded energy drink called ‘“Grievance Fuel”? I wouldn’t.

Nigel Farage isn’t a serious statesman. He is a professional stirrer whose greatest achievement is convincing people that their pint costs more because of Polish plumbers and Romanian roofers rather than greedy energy companies and failed privatisation.

Nigel Farage: a professional demagogue

The Nowak family’s incredibly dignified call for unity stands in stark contrast to Farage’s ghoulish exploitation. They understand what he never will: that turning grief into grievance helps no one except those selling fear.

This professional demagogue, this pint-swilling provocateur who has built a career on stoking the very divisions he claims to decry, offers nothing but recycled resentment wrapped in a Union Jack.

Nigel Farage doesn’t care about Henry Nowak or working-class families like his. He only cares about the clicks, the donations, and the ego boost from another viral rant.

Every tragedy that Farage hijacks is another rung on his ladder of self-promotion, leaving communities more fractured and ordinary people more cynical in his wake.

Farage will no doubt continue his pathetic merry dance, hopping from one manufactured outrage to the next like a desperate stand-up comedian whose only material is fear and loathing, his bank balance and media profile ever fattened by the misery that he amplifies.

Rest assured my friends, history has a special contempt for such shameless charlatans – the false prophets who prey on grief to peddle division, because Henry Nowak’s memory deserves far better than to be defiled by Nigel Farage’s grotesque opportunism.

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By Rachael Swindon

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Equity, the UK performing arts and entertainment union, has today congratulated US union SAG-AFTRA on reaching a new agreement for film and TV workers. Crucially, the US agreement includes stronger protections around AI and Equity says its members:

will accept no less than the global industry standard on AI protections.

A ballot of SAG-AFTRA members closed on Thursday 4 June, with 91% voting to ratify the new agreement. The agreement with studio trade association the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers is wide-ranging. It covers pay, pensions, healthcare, and working conditions.

Equity continues push for AI protections

The issue of AI is common across the industry and Equity is now seeking to secure the same AI provisions and protections for UK performers as part of negotiations with Pact (Producers Alliance for Film and TV).

In an indicative ballot in December 2025, Equity members voted 99% in favour of taking industrial action to secure adequate AI protections.

Paul W Fleming, Equity general secretary, said:

We congratulate our sister union SAG-AFTRA on securing a significant new contract for film and TV performers, ratified by an overwhelming number of their members. We were proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with our SAG colleagues when we attended their negotiations in LA in April.

We now see a clear global minimum standard for AI protections for performers, which covers key issues of scanning, consent, data security for digital replicas, remuneration and a commitment to favour human performances.

This foundation must now be built on in our legislative and industrial context in what we hope are the closing weeks of our own negotiations.

Equity members have shown their determination, through their historic ballot in December, to secure no less than this new standard achieved by SAG-AFTRA.

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Now this floor has been established, PACT and the streamers need to propose a package which meets this and sets out its application to our agreements.

Critically, if standards in the US are acceptable on AI, then we expect to see movement to implement equivalent royalties in the instances where our agreements do not have an equivalent or superior provision.

The SAG-AFTRA agreement is available on its website. The strengthened AI protections include explicit protections for ‘no scan’ digital replicas, consent for dubbing, digital replica security and transfer protection, a commitment to “strongly favouring human performances” over synthetics, and more.

Equity sent a delegation to LA in April and attended various negotiation meetings as well as holding bilateral meetings with producers covered by the PACT agreement.

There are currently no AI protections in the Equity – PACT agreement. Equity is in negotiations with PACT seeking widespread improvements in pay, royalties, and working conditions – including for the first time ever, AI protections.

In December 2025, Equity members voted 99% in favour of taking industrial action to refuse digital scanning on set in an indicative ballot aimed at securing adequate AI protections.

The significant turnout of 75% and strong yes vote brought an improved offer from PACT, but Equity wants to secure the rights afforded in the new SAG – AMPTP agreement, something that would be unprecedented if successful.

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Fans have found themselves facing rejections, restrictions, and outright bans for short-term visa applications to the US for this year’s men’s FIFA World Cup.

Of course, this is hardly a surprise, given the Trump administration’s undisguised racism and Islamophobia. However, the news underscores existing criticisms of FIFA for awarding hosting responsibilities to the US in the first place.

World Cup chaos entirely expected

The states unveiled its bid to host the 2026 world cup back in 2017. Under the banner ‘United 2026’, it was a joint endeavor between the US, Canada, and Mexico. The latter two countries will host 13 matches each, with the US taking the remaining 78.

The United 2026 bid won out in June 2018 – in the middle of Trump’s first term. The US dictator had instated his first ban on seven Muslim-majority countries in January, just five months prior. Even at the time, FIFA president Gianni Infantino stated that:

Teams who qualify for a World Cup need to have access to the country, otherwise there is no World Cup. That is obvious.

As the Canary has previously reported, the US has now issued visas for the Iranian national team players and technical staff. However, it didn’t do likewise for 15 members of the Iranian administrative and organizational staff. This, in turn, led the Iranian Football Federation to accuse Washington of:

discrimination and political interference in sports.

However, it’s not just the players and their staff who have been affected by blatantly discriminatory US visa policies.  BBC analysis suggests that fans from over a quarter of participating countries have faced high rates of visa rejections, travel restriction, or outright travel bans for the World Cup.

‘This World Cup is not ours’

The BBC analysed the US State Department’s own data for October 2024 to the end of September 2025. The figures pertaining to any application for a B1 business and B2 tourist visa, rather than focusing on the World Cup.

It found that 11 of the 48 competing countries faced visa rejection rates above 40%. The 11 countries are Algeria, Cape Verde, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ecuador, Egypt, Ghana, Haiti, Iran, Senegal and Uzbekistan. The average rejection rate for similar visas across all countries was 34%.

For Jordan, in particular, the US rejected 57% of visa applications over the October 2024-September 2025 period. Abu Kass, leader of Jordan’s football fan association, was just one among many whom the US state department turned away without a stated reason. Kass said:

This World Cup is not ours. It’s not for Arabs this World Cup, it’s for them. If the head of the fan association was refused, who will be accepted?

As of 21 January, the Trump administration placed a visa freeze on a further 75 countries. Added to existing bans, over 46% of the world’s nations were barred from immigrating to the US. Of course, this included a high proportion of majority-Muslim nations, and an overwhelming number of Black/brown-majority populations.

These bans were nominally limited to immigrant visas, rather than short-term visas (i.e. those needed for a World Cup visit). However, Trump has also placed even greater restrictions on fans from Iran, Ivory Coast, Haiti, and Senegal, barring fans from obtaining even a visiting visa.

‘Segregation that doesn’t dare speak its name’

Speaking on behalf of the National Committee for the Support of the Elephants, the Ivory Coast’s fan association, Julien Kouadio Adonis said:

It’s a form of segregation that doesn’t dare speak its name, but the proof is there.

No European country has faced this kind of restriction. Why Africa?

Adonis’ comments strike at the very heart of the matter.

The US Department of Homeland Security made the feeble claim that it was concerned with the possibility that people might overstay their temporary visas. However, the counties it has chosen to single out – again, nations with majority Black, Brown and Muslim populations – clearly display the racism and Islamophobia at play.

The Trump administration is a white supremacist project. The US is a settler-colonial state dedicated to the creation of a hostile environment for immigrants, which Trump’s presidency has thrown that fact into sharp relief. Alongside Israel, it has spent recent months waging an illegal war against Iran.

FIFA president Gianni Infantino claimed that:

FIFA’s social impact campaigns will showcase the FIFA World Cup 2026 as a powerful celebration of unity, diversity, and shared passion.

Through our Football Unites the World, No Racism, Unite for Peace, Unite for Education, and Be Active campaigns, FIFA is aiming to use football’s unique power to build bridges and convey a strong message to promote peace, education, anti-racism, and a healthy lifestyle.

However, the very fact that the US is hosting this year’s World Cup is proof that racism is alive and well at the heart of football’s international organising body. What are claims of unity, peace and diversity worth when a host country treats Black, Brown, and Muslim fans as nothing more than illegal-immigrants-in-waiting?

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This article contains major spoilers for the final episode of Tip Toe.

The final instalment of Russell T Davies’ Tip Toe is likely to be the most brutal episode of TV you watch this year.

Starring Alan Cumming and David Morrissey, the five-part drama centres around two neighbours who become embroiled in an all-encompassing feud, exacerbated by the current climate of divisive rhetoric, misinformation and rising bigotry.

While episode one had already made it clear that the show would end with Alan’s character, Leo, hanged from a lamppost outside of his house, the finale focussed on the events leading up to this moment.

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Speaking to HuffPost UK in the lead-up to the drama’s release, Russell made it clear that he didn’t view Tip Toe as a cautionary tale about a not-too-distant future, but a reflection on the modern world as he sees it.

“If this was the story of a Jew who’d been hanged from a lamppost, not one person would be doubting the credibility of the story,” he claimed. “In fact, I’d be told that I was out of date, because it’s literally happening out there, in front of us.”

Describing the world depicted in Tip Toe, he continued: “I think it’s here. Again, if I was Jewish, I would be pointing at those victims [of hate crimes] and the violence [directed towards them] and saying, ‘here we are’ right now.”

The difference in the events of the Tip Toe finale, Russell claimed, is the “formality to what happens”.

“If Leo had been beaten to death or stabbed, again, that happened yesterday, in Birmingham, or Manchester, or Edinburgh,” he said. “It happens.

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“But the fact that there’s a formality to the death, it’s unusual. That’s why I wanted to give it a historical status. It’s like Mussolini hanging from a lamppost – it has happened within our lifetimes, or certainly within the lifetimes of our parents. This has happened.”

David agreed during a separate interview: “You only need to look at the news now to know that we’re not talking about some vague future events, it’s right here, right now.”

Both Alan and David told HuffPost UK that they knew as soon as they read the script for Tip Toe that it was going to make for a “difficult” shoot thanks to its subject matter.

“We said, ‘oh, we have to look after ourselves’ in the readthrough at the start,” Alan recalled, with David saying that he and his co-star “checked in with each other”, as did other members of the crew.

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“That meant that the experience – although it was exhausting and really knackering – you were held,” the former Walking Dead star explained.

“And Lala, my dog was there,” Alan noted. “It’s so funny – in the street, where all the horrible stuff happens, at the end of the street, as you look out of their doors, to the left and round the corner, there’s a little caravan, and that’s where I would go, and Lala would be there.”

He added: “And actually, she’s an extra. In the scene where I go into Clive’s house for the last time – when I say, ‘I’m just popping in’ – she’s an extra, one of the [assistant directors] walks up behind me.”

All five episodes of Tip Toe are now available to watch now on Channel 4’s streaming service. Episodes four and five will also air on Channel 4 on Monday and Tuesday night, respectively.

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