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| 2024 | Signed a statement with 10,500 creative professionals warning against unlicensed use of creative work in AI training. |
| 2024 | Named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine for the second time. |
| 2024 | Miyazaki acknowledged the 'terrible things' Japan committed against the Philippines during the war. |
| 2024 | Honored on Gold House's Most Impactful Asians A100 list. |
| 2024 | Received the Ramon Magsaysay Award. |
| November 2024 | Yorke produced 'Stepdaughter', a song written and performed by his wife Dajana Roncione for the Italian film Eterno Visionario. |
| October 2024 | Yorke began a solo tour of New Zealand, Australia, Singapore and Japan, performing songs from across his career. |
| October 2024 | During a solo concert in Melbourne, Yorke was heckled by a pro-Palestinian protester criticizing his lack of condemnation for Israel's attacks on Gaza. Yorke challenged the protester, briefly left the stage, then returned to perform 'Karma Police'. |
| October 2024 | Signed an open letter with thousands of other writers pledging to boycott Israeli cultural institutions. |
| October 10 2024 | Shared the 2024 PEN Pinter Prize by naming imprisoned British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah as the 'writer of courage', announced at a ceremony at the British Library. |
| September 2024 | Yorke announced he will rework the Radiohead album Hail to the Thief for a stage production of Hamlet, to be directed by Christine Jones and Steven Hoggett. |
| August 2024 | Shared the Disturbing the Peace Award with Toomaj Salehi, a recognition for courageous writers at risk from the Vaclav Havel Center. |
| June 2024 | Announced as winner of the annual PEN Pinter Prize by English PEN, recognizing her fierce intellectual determination in telling stories of injustice. |
| June 2024 | The UAPA (Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act) was invoked against Roy in connection with her previous Kashmir-related statements. |
| June 13 2024 | Won the inaugural Women's Prize for Non-Fiction for her book 'Doppelganger'. |
| April 26 2024 | The full Confidenza film soundtrack was released, composed by Yorke and featuring the London Contemporary Orchestra and a jazz ensemble. |
| April 23 2024 | Klein spoke at a 'Seder in the Streets' event near Senator Chuck Schumer's residence, drawing parallels between the Exodus story and her critique of Zionism, describing it as a 'false idol' used for 'colonial land theft'. |
| April 22 2024 | Yorke released two tracks from the Confidenza film soundtrack, 'Knife Edge' and 'Prize Giving'. |
| February 13 2024 | Yorke collaborated with Mark Pritchard on the single 'Back in the Game'. |
| 2023 | An extinct stingray species was named Dasyomyliobatis thomyorkei in Yorke's honour. |
| 2023 | Thom Yorke served as executive producer for Clark's album 'Sus Dog'. |
| 2023 | Rolling Stone updated their greatest singers list, ranking Yorke 34th and praising his 'genuine edge of alienation'. Yorke also noted that his vocal range had dropped with age, making it difficult to sing earlier songs like 'Creep'. |
| 2023 | Studio Ghibli continued searching for a successor to lead the studio, with Miyazaki's son Goro declining the position among other candidates considered. |
| 2023 | 'Doppelganger' was featured in The Guardian's Best Ideas Books of 2023. |
| December 2023 | Spoke out against Israel's bombing campaign in Gaza, stating that silence makes one complicit in the 'brazen slaughter of Palestinians'. |
| October 2023 | Studio Ghibli became a subsidiary of Nippon Television Holdings, with Miyazaki appointed as honorary chairman. |
| September 2023 | Yorke and Donwood exhibited a selection of artwork, The Crow Flies, in London, featuring paintings based on Islamic pirate maps and 1960s US military topographic charts. |
| September 2023 | Released her memoir and social critique 'Doppelganger', which explores her experiences being chronically confused with Naomi Wolf and examines societal political fractures. |
| September 12 2023 | Delivered a lecture in Lausanne upon receiving the 45th European Essay Prize, highlighting her intellectual contributions. |
| 2022 | Yorke wrote two songs, '5.17' and 'That's How Horses Are', for the sixth series of the television drama Peaky Blinders. |
| 2022 | Biafra collaborated with Al-Qasar on the track 'Ya Malak' from the album 'Who Are We?' |
| October 7 2022 | Naomi Klein published an article titled 'COP27 Summit in Egypt's Police State Creates Moral Crisis for Climate Movement' in The Intercept, critiquing the political context of the climate conference. |
| September 29 2022 | Featured in Storytellers' Studio on the Higher Education Channel, discussing her life and worldviews. |
| May 2022 | The Smile released their debut album, A Light for Attracting Attention, and began a European tour. |
| April 28 2022 | Received the St. Louis Literary Award from St. Louis University, granted to the 'most important writers of our time'. |
| April 9 2022 | Thom Yorke performed a solo concert at the Zeltbühne festival in Zermatt, Switzerland, playing songs from across his career. |
| 2021 | Forms the band the Smile with Jonny Greenwood and Tom Skinner, debuting with three albums. |
| 2021 | Defended Hamas's rocket attacks during the Israel–Palestine crisis, citing Palestinians' right to resistance. |
| 2021 | Miyazaki became the subject of an exhibit at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, featuring over 400 objects from his films. |
| 2021 | Received the Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity from the Media Ecology Association. |
| 2021 | Joined the University of British Columbia as a Professor in Climate Justice and co-director of the Centre for Climate Justice. |
| October 2021 | Curated an exhibition of Kid A artwork and lyrics with Stanley Donwood at Christie's headquarters in London, preceding the reissued Kid A and Amnesia albums package. |
| October 2021 | Performed the Smile song 'Free in the Knowledge' at the Letters Live event at the Royal Albert Hall in London. |
| September 2021 | Yorke's son Noah released his song 'Trying Too Hard (Lullaby)'. |
| August 2021 | Yorke contributed two remixes of 'Gazzillion Ear' by rapper MF Doom. |
| May 22 2021 | Yorke debuted his new band, the Smile, with Jonny Greenwood and Tom Skinner, performing a surprise livestreamed set for Glastonbury Festival, where he sang and played guitar, bass, Moog synthesiser, and Rhodes piano. |
| April 28 2021 | Published an article in The Guardian criticizing the Indian government's COVID-19 pandemic response, describing it as a 'crime against humanity' and directly challenging Prime Minister Narendra Modi's handling of the crisis. |
| March 2021 | Thom Yorke contributed a remixed version of 'Creep' to fashion shows by Japanese designer Jun Takahashi. |
| 2020 | Collaborated with Four Tet and Burial on tracks 'Her Revolution' and 'His Rope', and remixed 'Isolation Theme' by Clark. |
| 2020 | Thom Yorke was nominated for Marketing Genius at the A2IM Libera Awards for his personal work. |
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