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A clip from film's best-loved dwarf talking about his film work, Warwick Davis, in which he recalls learning the etiquette of false beard cleaning from Michael Gambon while filming Harry Potter.

Warwick recalls what it was like to work with George Lucas while playing the part of Wicket the Ewok in Return of the Jedi - upon their first meeting on set, twelve year-old Warwick had no idea who the luminary director was, and passed him off as "a man with big hair, glasses and a beard" (they get on much better now, and Lucas wrote the foreword to his book)

Every Sunday in Kentish Town, London, there are two church's operating next door to one another. One holds an apostolic Christian ceremony and the other a four hour alcohol fuelled strip fest. Decide which you want to visit. Created by William Pine.

http://www.dontpaniconline.com/magazine/home/undercover-with-the-bnpThe European elections take place this Thursday 4 June and it is possible that the BNP, who have taken advantage of people's disillusionment with the mainstream parties, could return up to four seats. In order to show the BNP as the racists that they are, we pretended to be sympathetic media students that wanted to make a film showing the positive side of the party after the slating they have been getting in the press. They seemed a little suspicious, but we rocked up with the camera anyway and spent the day filming them canvassing various areas around Essex. The BNP don't really seem to understand how camera equipment works and when they thought we weren't filming, they showed their true colours.http://www.dontpaniconline.com/magazine/home/undercover-with-the-bnp

To highlight the grotesque nature of MP's expenses claims, at a time when most taxpayers are finding it hard to get by, we unveiled a blue plaque on Home Secretary Jacqui Smith’s South London residence to honour her services to the people. Last July MPs (surprisingly) voted to keep their second home allowances (along with a 2.25 percent pay rise). The rules enabled the Home Secretary to claim £116,000 to furnish her ‘second’ constituency home in Redditch, which she shares with her husband (paid as his wife’s Parliamentary adviser at £40,000-a-year) and children, with barbeques and porn films. She could only do this by claiming her sister’s house in South London, where she occupies a second room, to be her first home. Other MPs who deserve blue plaques are: Alistair Darling who has a choice of four homes; he is provided with two grace and favour homes at the public’s expense, rents out his former private home (originally taxpayer funded) for his private profit and then he claims for his other home. Houseing minister Margaret Beckett who was given a grace-and-favour home in 18th-century Admiralty House in late 1997 and claimed £106,000 in expenses for a second home in the six years from 2001/02 to 2006/07. Tony McNulty, the Employment Minister, who claimed £60,000 as a second home allowance for the house in which his parents live.

The G20 protest is no anti-war march where everyone (more-or-less) knows what they’re there for. It is a confused affair - perhaps as confused as the hodge-podge of world leaders that make it up. At least with the G8 you knew your enemy - the same rich white men (plus a few Asians) that have been screwing over the planet since way back in the dizzle. This time we had the likes of Argentina and India thrown into the mix - the very same countries that have previously been screwed over by said rich white men and the deregulatory agendas that now have us all drowning in debt.This confusion was reflected on the streets and although you had your stalwart anarchists that knew exactly what they were there for (smashing the old bill/bankers) most protesters were rightly angry, but a little directionless. Many people we spoke to didn’t really know who the G20 were and what they were meeting about.As such the event became as much a cultural phenomenon and social gathering as a demonstration over some very important, world changing issues. This was reflected in articles like this in Vice which completely ignored the issues and the fact that we found two people down there who were working for a marketing company doing research for brands. They were interviewing ‘the different tribes’ and asking them what they were wearing in order to give a speech to their corporate daddies later that day. TRUE!So here is our G20 Fashion Special. Don’t hate us, hate the society that made us.

Don't Panic favourite Douglas White has carved a niche in strange and exciting sculptures. Primarily working with 'found' objects, ranging from octopuses printed with their own ink to owl-door collision imprints, we got very excited about visiting his studio.

For our latest Artist Profile, we met sculpture Benedict Radcliffe.

Don't Panic and Tower Hamlets Primary Care Trust engaged with smokers on the streets of Ealing to persuade them to quit

Chris Bianchi is a freelance illustrator based in London. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2005 he has self published two books, The Spinners 2003 and Box 2005. He is part of the well known illustration magazine Le Gun, and is now teaching and working on his new book. We visited his studio to ask him about his career so far and to demonstrate his drawing skills.

A giant, firebreathing robot dog roams the streets of London! Courtesy of our steam-punk friends Mutoid Waste Company.

DPTV went down to the (absolutely brilliant) Mutate Britain exhibition at Cordy House. The exhibition was organised by the legendary Mutoid Waste Company. We spoke to founding members Joe Rush and Sam Haggerty (a bit).