The producer and head of XL Recordings on a spicy YouTube series, London’s most fascinating street and the musician who’s ahead of his time

Richard Russell was born in London in 1971. He joined XL Recordings in 1991 as an A&R and took over the label several years later, attracting a slew of artists including Dizzee Rascal, MIA and Adele. His parallel career as a producer began in 1992 with rave single The Bouncer and continued in 2010 with I’m New Here, his acclaimed collaboration with Gil Scott-Heron. He has since produced albums by Bobby Womack and Damon Albarn. Russell has just released Temporary, the latest album of his collaborative project Everything Is Recorded, with features from Sampha, Florence Welch, Kamasi Washington and others.

Crystal Palace progressed to the quarter-finals of the FA Cup at a sun-kissed, slightly distracted Selhust Park. A 3-1 win against opponents who played with 10 men for 85 minutes was comfortable enough in the end. Sadly this south London derby will be remembered instead for a single outstanding act of violence.

It took place inside the stadium this time, and in front of the watching millions, as the Millwall goalkeeper Liam Roberts launched a scrambled, wildly dangerous flying challenge into the head of Jean-Philippe Mateta with just five minutes gone. In the process Miller killed his own continued participation in the game, not to mention a large portion of the BBC live broadcast, and could conceivably have done the same to Mateta.

Health secretary earlier said outbreak was ‘not unusual’ but with first US measles death in decade steps up response

Two days after initially downplaying the outbreak as “not unusual,” the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, on Friday said he recognizes the serious impact of the ongoing measles epidemic in Texas – in which a child died recently – and said the government is providing resources, including protective vaccines.

“Ending the measles outbreak is a top priority for me and my extraordinary team,” Kennedy – an avowed anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist who for years has sown doubts about the safety and efficacy of vaccines – said in a post on X.

“Preston advance to the FA Cup quarter-finals,” proclaimed the PA announcer at Deepdale. It is a sentence no Preston fan has heard since 1966 but a reality after Paul Heckingbottom’s team produced a dominant display to shred Burnley.

Milutin Osmajic, almost inevitably, was central to Preston’s passage into the last eight. Robbie Brady, with a superb free-kick, Osmajic, with a clinical strike, and a predatory finish from Will Keane gave the hosts victory in the meeting of two founder members of the Football League. Burnley’s previously mean and lauded defence was nowhere to be seen. Defeat could have been greater for Scott Parker’s side.