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以在他们定居后换取“回报”
作者：Richard Holmes
《电讯报》可以揭露，伊朗被发现派遣疑似特工穿过海峡进入英国。据了解，与德黑兰情报机构有联系的人员在试图乘坐小船进入英国时被英国当局拦截。在欧洲大陆工作的走私者告诉《电讯报》，伊朗政权通过协助居住在加来（Calais）的移民前往英国，以换取他们在定居英格兰后给予伊朗一个“回报”。德黑兰官员告诉《电讯报》，由伊朗运行的走私网络还负责将与该政权有联系的人员运送穿过欧洲进入英国。他们补充说，中东与海峡之间的一些人口贩运路线由伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队（IRGC）“所有”。这一披露是在伊朗誓言在安迪·伯纳姆决定续签允许美国使用英国基地发动空袭的费尔福德皇家空军基地（RAF Fairford）后发出的。在小船中被拦截的疑似伊朗特工被认为与伊朗情报与安全部（MOIS）有联系，该部门是该国负责海外行动的主要情报和国内安全机构。“革命人士”已通过走私网络被安置在伦敦，《电讯报》了解到，这些网络是由伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队（IRGC）的 700 部队运行的，该部队是圣城旅 / 库德斯部队（IRGC 的秘密对外行动部门）的后勤部门。该部队与向哈马斯、黎巴嫩真主党和胡塞武装供应武器及资金有关。一名伊朗官员表示：“当然，不要忘记，如果我们的武装部队愿意，他们在某些情况下拥有影响力并掌控（走私）路线。目前我们在伦敦就有人员，那些关心世界和生活的革命人士”
作者：Patrick Galbraith 环境记者
在近期犯罪率激增后，英国最顶尖的乡村展会加强了现场安保。 猎游展成立于 1958 年，长期以来被视为乡村文雅生活的庆典，但近期却被斗殴和盗窃事件玷污。 这导致组织者和摊主雇佣保安来保护游客，而一些零售商
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儿童——他们等着我们告诉他们该怎么做。我们还没有这样做，但如果我们愿意，我们可以轻易地让伦敦对你们而言变得不安全。“这些走私路线对我们来说比导弹更重要、更有用——我们不需要导弹来打击伦敦，那比这简单得多。”周四，一艘载有 165 名移民的大型充气艇跨越英吉利海峡，创下了单艘小船抵达人数的新纪录。影子安全大臣艾丽西亚·科恩斯（Alicia Kearns）表示：“政府需要面对现实：伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队（IRGC）正在利用小船危机将其特工部署在英国街道上。‘我们需要一个紧急工作组，在那些已经抵达或正抵达我们海岸的人群中根除伊朗特工；根据敌对国家立法将伊朗情报与安全部（MOIS）定性为敌对组织；并获得紧急权力以关闭像英格兰伊斯兰中心（Islamic centre of England）这样的 IRGC 掩护机构。德黑兰正在公开威胁英国，而我们的首相在国家安全问题上却保持沉默。我们的民众理应得到答案、行动和领导。’”据了解，除了通过小船抵达的威胁外，大量与 IRGC 有关联的人员通过从欧洲出发的合法航班进入英国。官员们告诉《电讯报》（The Telegraph），伦敦伊朗侨民的激进化和激活，以及在英国使用代理人的行为，构成了比小船更大的国家安全风险。(英国) 内政部（Home Office）的一位发言人表示：“我们的首要任务是国家安全。对于通过小船抵达的人员，我们设有严格的安全检查。被认定为威胁的人员将被立即拘留，我们将尽全力在最早的机会将其驱逐出境。‘在这些强有力的流程之上，我们已加快法律修订，以禁止对 IRGC 的支持，赋予警方和情报机构更多权力来干扰那些代表他们工作的人，并使起诉他们变得更容易。’”
不得不安装金属格栅 以防止夜间盗窃。 官员们还竖立了告示牌， 威胁将驱逐任何实施犯罪行为 或赤裸上身访客。其中一块牌子 强调访客“在整个活动期间 必须全程着装整齐”。 乡村服装零售商 Bredon Hill 的 Will Davis 在猎游展（The Game Fair）上 经营着最大的展位。他试图通过 安装一个可以拉下覆盖展位的 金属罩来加强安保。
‘新爱尔兰共和军’汽车炸弹 被驶向爱尔兰边境
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作者：Gordon Rayner 副主编
剑桥大学爆发了一场关于剽窃的争端，涉及一名在三年前被聘用并成为该校多样性驱动计划形象代表的教授。
教育社会学教授杰森·阿戴 (Jason Arday) 被其他大学的学者指控，其 2015 年的博士论文部分内容抄袭自另一名学生的作。
大学方面立即对他采取辩护，坚称他是“一场旨在破坏其公信力的卑劣运动的受害者”，而同事们则表示，这些批评是由种族主义驱动的。
这场争论威胁到下个月将出版的阿戴教授的回忆录《伟大且不幸之事》(Great and Unfortunate Things)，该书本身可能会成为其批评者与支持者之间的战场。
阿戴教授在 2023 年以 37 岁的年龄成为剑桥大学历史上最年轻的黑人教授，当时引发了国际头条关注。他的成功被赞誉为一次克服重重困难的胜利，因为他童年时被诊断出患有自闭症，直到 11 岁才开口说话，直到 18 岁才学会读写。
在获得学士学位后，他在利物浦约翰摩尔大学获得了博士学位，而该学位目前正是剽窃争议的焦点。
对其 401 页博士论文正文的分析显示，有 100 多个句子或段落与另一名学生 2009 年的博士论文完全相同或相似。剑桥大学和利物浦约翰摩尔大学均坚称阿戴教授没有做错任何事，且其博士学位依然有效，但多位受尊敬的学者已敦促两所大学重新审视该作品，称阿戴教授在大多数情况下未能对另一名学生的作进行标注。
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每晚在为期三天的活动期间进行巡逻。 “我们去年抓获一名女性，她把一件价值 £750 的夹克藏在婴儿车的底部，”他说。
猎游展 (The Game Fair) 本周末在沃里克郡的雷格利庄园 (Wragley Hall) 举行，那里是赫特福德第九代伯爵的故居。该展会通常吸引约 130,000 名游客，旨在“庆祝乡村生活”。
除了举办工作犬展示、马术表演和现场猎隼表演等活动外，展会还设有销售各类乡村服装的摊位，包括鞋类、粗花呢和钓鱼装备。世界上部分最昂贵的枪支也在现场出售，包括由 Holland and Holland 制造的枪支，价格可高达 £100,000。
热成像零售商 Thomas Jacks 的经营者 Tom Hannah 告诉《电讯报》，他去年有价值 £4,000 的设备被盗。“就在我们眼皮底下被抢走的，”他说，“他们就这样向我们围拢过来，分散我们的注意力。”
Hannah 先生表示，作案者当时处于醉酒状态且具有威胁性。他推测被盗的热成像设备可能被非法猎兔者用于在夜间寻找野兔。
销售高端双筒望远镜和步枪瞄准镜的 Hikmicro 公司在一名团队成员此前遭到抢劫后，决定今年不再参展。
除了盗窃，猎游展近年来还因现场酒吧发生的打斗而蒙羞。展会总监 James Gower 表示，组织者已寻求解决这一问题
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剑桥大学目前已试图将这一争端交给政府处理，致信一名大臣，以表达他们对种族主义的指控。 人们还对耐力跑的成就提出了质疑，阿戴教授称这些活动为 70 家慈善机构筹集了 £5.5m。 这些成就包括在 35 天内跑 30 场马拉松，三天内跑 300 英里，以及六天内跑 600 英里。一家最近授予他荣誉学位的大学已将其传记中删除后两项主张，而另一家则修改了关于 600 英里长跑的表述，称其耗时 12 天，而非六天。 截至目前，阿戴教授尚未对此发表评论。
通过提供规模较小的酒吧来解决这个问题。 一些摊主暗示，打斗是一场诱饵，旨在将安保人员吸引到酒吧，以便更轻易地进行商店盗窃。 猎游展的一位发言人表示： “猎游展被公认为全国最安全的规模化户外活动之一，访客、参展商和工作人员的安全与保障始终是我们的绝对优先级。 “组织者断然拒绝任何关于本展会不安全的指控。”
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两半结合的婚礼 足球运动员埃林·哈兰德与其伴侣 Isabel Haugseng Johansen 到达意大利洛科罗通多，参加其曼彻斯特城队友门将 Gianluigi Donnarumma 与 Alessia Elefante 的婚礼。
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一辆载有“极其重大”炸弹的汽车在前往北爱尔兰途中被截获，据怀疑这是一次新爱尔兰共和军的行动。 爱尔兰警方认为该车辆正被驱动跨越边境以实施袭击，其复杂程度令警方震惊——
在爱尔兰 N2 公路、卡里克马克罗斯正南端， Gardaí 的特别侦探组采取了行动。 爱尔兰警方通过逮捕一名将汽车炸弹开向北爱尔兰的女性，阻止了一起涉嫌由新爱尔兰共和军策划的恐怖阴谋。 该炸弹被描述为警方自“动乱”黑暗时期以来见过的最先进的装置。 但如今的共和主义异见人士远比当年的 IRA 弱小，几乎没有任何公众支持。 他们继续通过武装斗争试图推翻英国在北爱尔兰的统治，并将其与暴行、有组织犯罪和毒品交易混在一起。但他们已经
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设备的复杂程度以及它可能造成的破坏。 根据爱尔兰警察（gardaí）的说法，这枚炸弹已经完全组装完毕并准备投入使用。它包含了军用级塑料炸药、一个起爆器和一个电源单元。 一名 20 多岁的女性和一名 40 多岁的男性在这次重大调查中被逮捕，消息人士告诉《爱尔兰独立报》，这次行动“潜在地挽救了许多生命”。 该女性原定于昨日傍晚在米斯郡（Co Meath）的特林地区法院（Trim District Court）的一次特别庭审中出庭。 该报称，这名男子被怀疑是新爱尔兰共和军（New IRA）都柏林分会的成员。他目前仍被拘留在都柏林地区的一个警察局中。 消息人士告诉《爱尔兰时报》，这是自“动乱”（the Troubles）以来他们缴获的最先进的炸弹，并强调了边境两岸的共和派分裂分子所构成的威胁。 爱尔兰警察总监贾斯汀·凯利（Justin Kelly）表示：“需要明确的是，我们这次发现的是一次极其重大的缴获。这是一个重要的爆炸装置，而不仅仅是缴获了一些组件或零件。它原本可能会造成重大破坏。” 凯利先生将那些在 28 年前签署《贝尔法斯特协议》（Good Friday Agreement）后仍未缴械的共和派分裂分子描述为“激进化的共和分子”，并表示他正与英国情报部门及北爱尔兰警察局（PSNI）密切合作，以消除他们构成的威胁。 他表示，被捕女性处于 20 多岁并不令人惊讶，因为年轻人正被恐怖分子激进化。 警方认为，如果该武器成功跨境并用于袭击，它将被安装在北爱尔兰的一辆车辆上。 “这是一项针对新爱尔兰共和军活动的长期调查，潜在地挽救了生命，”一名消息人士告诉《贝尔法斯特电讯报》。 “这个组织正处于将炸弹运往北爱尔兰进行部署的过程中。近期事件向我们表明，该组织仍执意攻击安全部门，而这就是其中一条调查线索”。 旨在确认其他参与该阴谋人员（包括炸弹制造者）的调查仍在继续。
未能将时钟拨回到 28 年前签署《贝尔法斯特协议》之前的时代。 重大的警方打击行动和英国特工的渗透使他们失去了方向并承受压力，最近的这次拦截便遵循了这一模式。 新爱尔兰共和军是规模最大且最活跃的共和派分裂组织。它拥有 20 到 30 名活跃成员，以及大约 200 名可能为他们提供帮助的支持者。 警方怀疑该组织应对 3 月份在勒根（Lurgan）警察局外发生的一起汽车炸弹事件，以及 4 月份在敦默里（Dunmurry）警察局外发生的一起事件负责。 如果他们是罪魁祸首，那么这场恐怖阴谋的根源可以追溯到 2020 年，当时其领导层在“阿尔巴西亚行动”（Operation Arbacia）中被捕。 在一次大规模的
“处决”警员， 并将他们称为 “合法的死亡目标”
秘密监视行动后，十人被捕，其中一些人被描述为新爱尔兰共和军“军队委员会”的成员。一名苏格兰军情五处（MI5）间谍渗透该组织超过二十年，并在家中秘密录音。 在公众愤怒迫使其为谋杀记者莱拉·麦基（Lyra McKee）道歉仅一年后，这次打击对新爱尔兰共和军的信誉造成了沉重打击。该记者在 2019 年观察骚乱时被枪杀。
试图反击持续的压力。 枪手在奥马（Omagh）的一家休闲中心外枪击了侦查总督约翰·考德威尔（John Caldwell），当时他的小儿子就在身边。2023年2月，这名警官刚刚在那儿结束了一场青少年足球教练课。 考德威尔先生是一位高知名度的警官，曾调查过包括麦基（McKee）谋杀案在内的新爱尔兰共和军（New IRA）活动，他在这次暗杀企图中幸存下来。 有些人宽慰地认为，这些异见分子的专业程度远不如当年的爱尔兰共和军（IRA），但这次暗杀企图是多年来北爱尔兰警察遭遇的最严重袭击。 它引发了一次大规模的反恐行动，导致10名被告被捕，目前正等待谋杀未遂罪的审判。 边境两岸的警方一直保持着压力。军情五处（MI5）也是如此，据报道，该部门在4月份向涉嫌该组织的成员手机发送了隐晦的
认为炸弹是在都柏林制造的。 爱尔兰司法部长吉姆·奥卡拉汉（Jim O’Callaghan）表示，这一事件“非常令人担忧”，但赞扬了行动的成功，认为这证明了爱尔兰警察（gardaí）与北爱尔兰警察局（PSNI）之间强有力的合作。 警方在周三下午3点左右，在莫纳根郡（Co Monaghan）卡里克马克罗斯（Carrickmacross）以南地区拦截了该车辆。此次行动由特别侦查组执行，旨在打击涉嫌的异见共和分子活动。 陆军排弹小组在将装置移走进行取证检测之前，已将其处理安全。 北爱尔兰第一大臣、来自新统一共和党（Sinn Fein）的米歇尔·奥尼尔（Michelle O’Neill）表示，拦截该装置“避免了毁灭性的灾难”。
视频信息，敦促他们放下武器。 新爱尔兰共和军还试图通过威胁要“处决”警察来施加压力，他们将警察称为“合法的死亡目标”。 在经历由新冠疫情引起的长期延误以及军情五处情报的复杂性质后，“阿巴西亚行动”（Operation Arbacia）审判的早期程序听证会已经开始。 近期恐怖袭击事件的增加，可能是试图在北爱尔兰第一大臣首次由新统一共和党政治家担任之际，提升其可信度和支持者的士气。 这也有可能是试图影响一场几乎将该异见组织彻底击垮的法庭案件。 新爱尔兰共和军是一头受伤的野兽，但正如被拦截的致命汽车炸弹所表明的那样，即便是一头受伤的野兽，依然拥有锋利的牙齿。
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在默西赛德郡，一辆汽车撞上电灯杆，导致四名20多岁的男子死亡。 警方收到报告称，昨天凌晨2点左右，在利物浦东部的海顿（Huyton），一辆黑色Seat Cupra车辆在撞击电灯杆后冲出路面。应急服务部门赶赴现场，但四名男子——其中两名23岁，一名24岁，一名26岁——被宣布在现场死亡。默西赛德郡警方表示，其近亲已获通知，并由经过专门培训的警员提供支持。 一名27岁的乘客被送往医院，目前情况稳定。
《电讯报》可以披露，国家犯罪调查局（NCA）已就其工作人员可能泄露改革党议员银行交易信息的指控展开调查。 改革党领导人奈杰尔·法拉格在本月早些时候将矛头指向了国家犯罪调查局，此前媒体刊登了关于某些交易的文章，这些交易在国家犯罪调查局的可疑活动报告计划中被标记。 与改革党副领导理查德·泰斯（Richard Tice）相关的银行交易细节也流向了媒体。法拉格先生和泰斯先生认为，只有国家犯罪调查局才可能掌握所有被泄露给报纸的信息。
九名男子已出庭受审，被指控犯有 41 起历史性儿童性剥削罪行。 这些男子年龄在 54 至 76, 岁之间，于 7 月初被格温特警方（Gwent Police）的侦探逮捕。此次逮捕是一项调查的一部分，该调查源于几名女性的举报，她们在 1985 年至 1996 年间童年时期曾遭受性虐待。 被告均为英国公民，于昨日上午在纽波特治安法院（Newport magistrates’ court）参加首次听证会，在会上仅确认了姓名、出生日期和住址。 在简短的听证过程中，没有人被要求进行答辩。
一名父亲在醉酒愤怒中摇晃其四个多星期大的儿子导致其死亡，现已被判处终身监禁。 来自德文郡阿克斯明斯特（Axminster, Devon）的 39, 岁男子托尼·巴特利特（Tony Bartlett）在布里斯托尔刑事法院（Bristol Crown Court）经过审判后，被裁定谋杀婴儿阿提克斯（Atticus）罪名成立。 法官卡瓦纳先生（Mr Justice Cavanagh）描述了巴特利特与阿提克斯的母亲喝了八 pints 半的拉格啤酒，随后返回他们位于索美塞特郡查德（Chard, Somerset）的家中。 医学专家一致认为，阿提克斯死于缺氧性缺血性脑损伤，这是由于婴儿在胸部被紧紧抓住的同时被剧烈摇晃所致——这导致了他的肋骨骨折。 法官判处巴特利特终身监禁，并命令其至少服刑 18 年。
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罗伯特·门迪克（Robert Mendick） 首席记者
可能成为陷入困境的前公爵夫人的救命稻草
帕迪·麦克纳利（Paddy McNally）是莎拉·弗吉（Sarah Ferguson）最亲密的朋友之一，他的离世可能为她提供了她极度需要的财政救助。 目前猜测盛行，认为麦克纳利——一位以名流花花公子著称的赛马大亨——已将他估计 £600m 财产的一部分留给了弗吉女士。 麦克纳利于本周去世，享年 88, 岁。在弗吉女士与安德鲁·蒙巴顿-温莎（Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor）因与杰弗里·爱泼斯坦（Jeffrey Epstein）的交往而从温莎庄园的皇家小屋（Royal Lodge）被驱逐后，麦克纳利曾为她提供住所。 据《电讯报》了解，在弗吉女士（66, 岁）及其前夫离开住所后的几个月里，她在麦克纳利位于瑞士高级滑雪胜地韦尔比耶（Verbier）的度假屋中避难。 尽管麦克纳利与弗吉女士之间有 22 岁的年龄差距，但在她 1986 年与当时的安德鲁王子结婚之前的三年里，两人曾有浪漫关系。 在她结婚以及随后的离婚期间，两人
由《电讯报》记者报道
玛莎百货（MARKS & SPENCER）重新推出了四款来自 1980 年代的复古巧克力棒。
这些令人怀旧的糖果——Sparks、Jet、Now! 和 Coconut Grove——将被这家零售商重新启用，以唤起顾客对“童年”味道的回忆。
这些定价为 £1 的巧克力棒采用了原装包装，被营销为“向过去致敬的美味之作”。
Sparks 巧克力棒含有牛轧糖和焦糖；Jet 含有牛轧糖、花生和焦糖；Now! 含有饼干和焦糖；而 Coconut Grove 则填充了椰蓉。
每款产品的包装上都印有现已弃用的 St Michael 品牌——这是 M&S 在 1927 和 2000 之间使用的前自有品牌。该品牌曾在 2021 年在男装线中复活，因为带有该名称的古着服装在二手服装网站上变得流行。
M&S 食品部门的研究发现，五分之一的公众表示，巧克力是他们最希望从童年时期带回的食物。
这些巧克力棒的回归紧随一系列复古产品的脚步之后。阿迪达斯（Adidas）在今年的世界杯足球装备上使用了其“三叶草”标志，而玩具品牌孩之宝（Hasbro）则在 2023 年重新推出了 Furby 机器人玩具。
根据 Waitrose 的数据，随着顾客对复古口味的青睐，1980 年代晚餐派对的经典菜肴（如虾 cocktail 和苹果塔 Tatin）在过去一年中增长了一倍多。该零售商在 5 月表示，罐装肉制品午餐肉的销量也增长了三分之一。
M&S 食品部门去年成功重新推出了 Take 4，这款 4 指威化巧克力棒，目前正寻求将同样的操作应用于另外 4 款巧克力棒，这 4 款产品分别是其对 Mars、Snickers、Twix 和 Bounty 巧克力棒的演绎。
M&S 食品部门的一位发言人表示：“在去年 Take 4 回归获得热烈反响之后，我们希望在档案中进一步挖掘，重新推出更多顾客在第一次接触时就深受喜爱的巧克力棒。”
“凭借原始的 St Michael 包装设计以及受 80 年代深受喜爱的巧克力棒启发的口味，Jet、Sparks、Now! 和 Coconut Grove 是对过去的一次美味致敬——让一些顾客有机会重新发现旧日最爱，而让另一些人体验初次尝试的喜悦。”
保守党党魁凯米·巴德诺克（Kemi Badenoch）上个月在访问伦敦市中心的一家 M&S 分店时帮忙理货。
【插图标题】萨拉·费格逊（Sarah Ferguson）与帕迪·麦克纳利（Paddy McNally）关系密切
他们依然保持友谊，而麦克纳利——或许是在死后——可能再次化身为费格逊女士的救星。
麦克纳利在 F1 赛道经营企业招待和广告看板而积累了财富，随后在 2006 年以 £262m 的价格将其公司 Allsport Management 出售。
他在去世时的财产估计为 £600m，但在其遗嘱内容公开之前可能还需要一段时间。
接近费格逊女士的消息人士表示，他们不知道她是否在麦克纳利的遗嘱中获得了金钱或房产。“我对此并不知情，”一名消息人士说道。但他们并未否认费格逊女士在失去住所后不久曾住在麦克纳利位于韦尔比耶（Verbier）的木屋中。
当蒙巴顿-温莎先生（Mr Mountbatten-Windsor）在国王位于桑德灵厄姆（Sandringham）的庄园中处于事实上的国内流放状态时，费格逊女士的下落依然不明。此前有人看到她在奥地利的一家疗养诊所，随后她寻求庇护于
麦克纳利在韦尔比耶的房产，估值 £15m。
费格逊女士 23 岁时为丧偶的麦克纳利工作，担任他两个儿子的保姆。据报道，两人的三年情缘在意大利大奖赛上由于她在发出最后通牒后，对方未能求婚而告终。
失望之下的费格逊女士随后将注意力转向了伊丽莎白二世的次子，后者在当时被誉为战争英雄。
作者：Tom McArdle
强尼·戴普与前妻之间激烈的法庭斗争，原本可能会让他陷入一种“像牡蛎一样秘密、自我且孤独”的生活——非常像查尔斯·狄更斯笔下的斯克鲁奇。 然而，这位 63 岁的演员正将希望寄托在好莱坞的回归上，他将在新改编的《圣诞颂歌》中将自己转化为吝啬的斯克鲁奇。 在这部翻拍自狄更斯 1843 年故事的最新预告片中，戴普饰演的角色说道：“回来真好。” 这位曾是全球片酬最高演员的《加勒比海盗》之星，在 2022 年赢得针对琥珀·赫德的诽谤案后，开始谨慎地回归。 戴普表示，他在好莱坞被“冷落、抛弃、踢出、封杀”。
因其在马尔维纳斯群岛冲突期间担任直升机飞行员的功勋。 弗格森女士曾称其前男友为她的“父亲形象”，而他则在她的多次起伏中继续守护着她。 《太阳报》引用一个接近两人的消息来源称：“在过去的四十年里，帕迪总是照顾莎拉，而有时她确实需要很多照顾。他在生前从未抛弃过她，甚至在最后的日子里，他仍允许她在他在韦尔比耶的家中获得安全的庇护。” 安德鲁·洛尼最近撰写的关于蒙巴顿-温莎先生的传记进一步摧毁了后者的名声，他表示，如果麦克纳利在遗嘱中照顾了弗格森女士，他“不会感到惊讶”。他说：“他对她非常好。” 在书中，洛尼先生引用了弗格森女士评价麦克纳利的话：“他教会了我很多关于生活的道理。每当我需要建议时，我都会向他求教，因为他非常有社会经验。他似乎见多识广，什么都尝试过。” 韦尔比耶的度假屋最早在 1996 年 4 月成为了她及其女儿尤金妮和贝阿特丽丝的避风港，当时宣布她与丈夫离婚。 麦克纳利在世界各地拥有房产，包括塞文汉普顿庄园——詹姆斯·邦德的创造者伊恩·弗莱明此前在威尔特郡的住所。 这座位于韦尔比耶的八卧室度假屋（名为 Les Gais Lutins）因在那里举办的疯狂派对，被小报媒体称为“可卡因城堡”。
度假快照：萨塞克斯公爵与公爵夫人分享了他们与阿奇王子和莉莉贝特公主在欧洲度暑假的在线照片。在英国停留期间，他们访问了阿尔索普（左图），那是斯宾塞家族的故居，也是哈里之母——威尔士王妃戴安娜的安葬地。
可能导致职业生涯终结的指控，其前妻指称他对其进行了身体虐待。 在赢得该诉讼（他因此获得 £12 的损害赔偿金）后，他出演了一些小规模电影，但他将在派拉蒙电影《埃比尼泽》（Ebenezer）中饰演的斯克鲁奇将是他获胜后的首部商业大片。 预告片显示，德普身穿斯克鲁奇传统的长款大衣，配以该角色标志性的鬓角和一顶黑色的
弗格森女士曾将其描述为“一座巨大的木屋……俯瞰城镇，这里经常举办派对和商务晚宴，且都提供顶级葡萄酒”。 弗格森女士长期以来在财务上陷入困境，这导致了她的没落。2009, 她向爱泼斯坦寻求建议，探讨如何处理她累积的 £6 债务；当时爱泼斯坦正因被判诱导未成年人从事卖淫而入狱。 她对这位亿万富翁性犯罪者的依赖如此之深，以至于在 2011 年给他发送了一封电子邮件，为她在报纸采访中称他为儿童色情狂而道歉，并称他是她“坚定、慷慨且至高无上的朋友”。在他出狱几天后，她带着女儿们在佛罗里达州探望了他。 过去一年中披露的弗格森女士与爱泼斯坦之间的电子邮件，摧毁了她为自己建立稳定财务基础的所有机会。今年 2 月，她被迫关闭六家企业。由于与爱泼斯坦的关系，她还被撤销了多个慈善机构的职务。 在面临成为被排斥者且无家可归的危险时，看来她仍然可以指望麦克纳利的忠诚。他的遗嘱内容将被人们热切期待。 他留下了一名儿子罗洛·麦克纳利（Rollo McNally），记者昨日未能联系到他以获取评论。
高顶礼帽。预告片还展示了演员阵容，包括《星球大战：原力觉醒》的女演员戴西·里德利、奥斯卡提名演员安德烈亚·赖斯伯勒，以及将饰演斯克鲁奇的雇员鲍勃·克拉奇特的《哈利·波特》演员鲁伯特·格林。 在预告片中，斯克鲁奇恐惧地躲避着嘲讽的幽灵，并向他前商业伙伴雅各布·马莱的鬼魂投掷重物——该角色由《指环王》演员伊恩·麦克莱伦爵士饰演。《埃比尼泽：圣诞颂歌》将于 11 月 13 日上映。
查尔斯·海马斯 (Charles Hymas) 内政编辑
一艘载有 165 名移民的超大型橡皮艇穿越了英吉利海峡，创下了单艘小船抵达人数的新纪录。 这艘拥挤的船只于周四被边境部队拦截，打破了 7 月 11, 时的前纪录，当时单船穿越人数为 128 人。 它是当天穿越海峡的三艘橡皮艇之一，共带来 366 名移民。另外两艘船每艘载有约 100 人。 这反映出偷渡团伙试图在每艘船上塞进更多移民以实现利润最大化的企图。 每艘小船的平均人数已从 2018 年的 7 人增加到截至今年 3 月这一年间的 63 人，以及过去一个月的 70 人。 边境部队负责人认为，这也是多国执法行动在拦截设备（包括小船、发动机和救生衣）方面取得日益成功的结果。 他们认为，船只的短缺
根本不顾及 那些他们声称在帮助之人的安全”
以及设备导致偷渡者将每艘橡皮艇塞满更多的移民，这不仅增加了这些单薄船只翻船的风险，还增加了人员（特别是妇女和儿童）在船上被挤死而亡的风险。 今年以来跨越英吉利海峡的移民总数为 13,373 人——比去年同期低 40% 以上。 (英国) 内政部表示：“偷运团伙正承担着前所未有的巨大风险，他们塞进不适航船只的人数逐年增加。这次跨境行动有力地提醒人们，犯罪团伙根本不顾及那些他们声称在帮助之人的安全。” “这正是为什么我们与法国签署了一项新协议，通过加强海滩上的执法行动来阻止这些危险的旅程，在选举以来已拦截的 45,000 多次尝试跨境行动基础上进一步推进。” 根据这项 £650m 的三年期协议，包括新的精英暴动和公共秩序小队在内的警员人数增加了 40%。
将英国视为目标的 伊朗精英部队
作者：Akhtar Makoii 与 Gareth Corfield
几十年前，伊朗就在中东地区建立了运输链路，用于运送枪支，武装各种民兵。 这些走廊被用于将步枪、火箭弹和现金从伊朗运往其盟友和代理人，包括叙利亚和黎巴嫩。 如今，这些链路已延伸至欧洲，且其运输货物已扩展至包括海洛因、移民——以及根据伊朗官员和为其工作的走私者所述——伊朗认为其在英国境内可以调用的相关人员。 一项《电讯报》的调查已经确认，伊朗政府正在运营进入英国的走私路线，德黑兰的官员现在将这些路线视为一种独立的武器。 该行动由 Unit 700 领导，该部队是圣城旅 / 库德斯部队的走私与后勤部门。 英国在 2024 年对该部队实施了制裁，原因是其促进了旨在破坏英国和其他国家稳定的活动。
作者：Charles Hymas 与 Ben Butcher
安迪·伯纳姆正面临来自工党议员的压力，要求将儿童强奸犯和诱奸者排除在政府的提前释放计划之外。 前(英国) 内政部部长杰斯·菲利普斯（Jess Phillips）是促请首相防止儿童性罪犯和家庭虐待者被允许提前出狱的一组资深工党议员之一。 在人们对安德鲁·哈珀（Andrew Harper）警官的两名杀手可能被释放出狱感到愤怒之际，伯纳姆先生命令司法部（MoJ）暂停提前释放计划。诱奸团伙
GARETH FULLERPA WIRE
英国边境执法局拦截了一艘长约42英尺的“巨型橡皮艇”，本周该艇载有创纪录的 165 名移民。插图显示，同一天另有两艘橡皮艇各载约 100 名移民抵达。
据称，阿卜杜勒法塔赫·阿赫瓦齐安（Abdolfattah Ahvazian）曾参与 700 部队的活动。
幸存者（包括来自布拉福德的菲奥娜·戈达德和来自罗瑟勒姆的莎拉·威尔逊）也支持要求将诱拐团伙强奸犯排除在该计划之外。该计划允许儿童色情狂和强奸犯在仅服刑一半后即可获释。
《电讯报》对司法部（MoJ）数据的分析显示，大约有 220 名儿童强奸犯符合条件，可在 9 月起在仅服刑一半的情况下获释。
数据显示，在这些被判刑时需服刑至少三分之二期限的罪犯中，有 88 人被判处 10 年以上监禁。
该分析是首次揭露拟议提前释放规模真实情况的报告，同时还显示约 85 名被定罪为误杀的凶手符合释放条件。其中，21 人被判处 10 年以上监禁。
据估计，约 6,000 名囚犯预计将从 9 月 2 日起分月批次获释，直到首相暂停该计划。
在《电讯报》本周披露阿尔伯特·鲍尔斯（Albert Bowers）和杰西·科尔（Jessie Cole）预计将在 2019 年误杀警员哈维（Pc Harvey）的 13 年刑期过半时提前获释后，安迪·伯纳姆先生在等待一项审查结果期间暂停了该计划的启动。
菲利普斯女士在从基尔·斯塔默爵士的政府中辞任安全部长之前表示，部长们应将儿童强奸犯排除在外，并寻求移除被判定实施强制控制的家庭虐待者。
然而，她警告说：“仅靠排除是不够的；在同意提前释放之前，他们必须全面审查所有所做的风险评估。”
另一位工党高级议员表示：“我希望看到所有强奸犯都被排除在提前释放计划之外，尤其是那些针对儿童犯罪的人。我们希望他们服完刑期。”
三位工党议员——吉姆·麦克马洪（Jim McMahon）、
该部队专门向伊朗支持的民兵组织（尤其是叙利亚境内以及在黎巴嫩运行并掌控走私路线的黎巴嫩真主党）运送武器和设备。
但它并非单独行动。
另一个被指定为 190 部队的运输单位负责实物货运，而嵌入叙利亚内部的秘密单位则负责接收端——其中一个单位专门在叙利亚领土上制造精准制导导弹。
这意味着革命卫队并不拥有一个可以被切断的单一管道，而是一套可互换的功能体系。
现在，伊朗的这套机器正被用来通过小船将特工送入英国，还通过其他手段，包括从东欧起飞的航班。
一旦在伊朗的帮助下进入英国，德黑兰会等待时机，然后要求兑现其“人情”。
伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队（IRGC）本周以迄今为止最明确的措辞警告称，英国允许美国 B-1 轰炸机从格洛斯特郡的费尔福德皇家空军基地起飞执行针对伊朗的任务，这使英国自己成为了目标。一名来自德黑兰的伊朗官员将其定性为对一个误判了自己与战争距离的国家发出的警告。
“我们武装部队昨天的信息非常明确——远离屠杀，”该官员告诉《电讯报》。
他说，英国使自己相信地理位置就是保护。
他补充说，美国人犯了同样的错误，目前正失去大量人员，其人数是华盛顿不会公布的，“因为他们正在杀害我们的孩子”。
他补充道：“不要忘记，你们在我们的导弹射程内也有基地。告诉他们，如果想要安全，不想像美国官员那样为自己的生命感到恐惧，就请远离。”
虽然导弹和无人机可以触及塞浦路斯的阿克罗蒂里皇家空军基地等基地，但走私行动则……
威力更强。当被直接问及伊朗是否会利用其走私路线对英国采取行动时，该官员毫不犹豫地回答道。
他表示，伊朗武装部队对这些通道拥有影响力，在某些情况下甚至直接掌控这些通道。
“目前我们就在伦敦有人员，那些关心世界和孩子们生活的革命者——他们正等待我们的指令。”
“我们还没有这么做，但如果我们愿意，可以轻而易举地让伦敦变得不安全。”
“对我们来说，这些走私路线比导弹更重要、更有用。我们不需要导弹来瞄准伦敦，那比用导弹简单得多。”
第二名伊朗官员则进一步将威胁扩大到了英国航运以及 10 号唐宁街（No 10）本身。他表示：“如果我们愿意，我们那里的人甚至可以瞄准他们的首相”
就在 伦敦， 如果你 愿意， 我们可以 轻易地 让你们 处于危险之中”
Paul Waugh 和 Elsie Blundell 同时也致信司法部（MoJ），敦促其重新考虑提前释放被判定犯有最严重性犯罪的罪犯。
这三位国会议员牵头开展了要求驱逐 73 岁的 Shabir Ahmed 的运动。Ahmed 是罗奇代尔（Rochdale）诱拐帮的头目，在因 30 起强奸儿童罪被判处 22 年监禁并服刑 14 年后，于本月初获释。
Sarah Wilson 曾在 11 岁起在罗瑟勒姆（Rotherham）被多名男子性虐待，她是来自约克郡的 5 名诱拐帮幸存者之一，他们已致信国会议员，敦促其支持针对性犯罪者的方案豁免权。
利用这些人让他们的所有城市都变得不安全。对他们来说，这是一个选择。”他声称，已经潜伏在位的人员“进出政府办公室，而没有人检查他们”。官员们提到并利用的这套机制比目前的战争更早，且 Unit 700 与三名男子一同被制裁。Hamid Fazeli 和 Behnam Shahryari 均被指控支持破坏该地区稳定的武装团体，而 Abdolfattah Ahvazian 则是圣城旅指挥官的一名顾问，因旨在在英国制造不稳定的活动而被专门列入名单。
英国分析人士则持更为怀疑的态度，且更担心这种威胁旨在对英国人的心理产生什么影响。前内阁办公室安全事务高级顾问 Lynette Nusbacher 博士表示，伊朗人缺乏在英国安插真正特工的“战略耐心”。她指出，实际看到的是廉价且可消耗的手段。“例如，我们看到的证据是，一些自称伊朗人的人员愿意支付相当名义的金额在英国招募人员，”她描述道，此类活动通常局限于小规模行动：如涂鸦，或纵火焚烧政治人物照片并将其拍摄上传至社交媒体。
布鲁内尔大学（Brunel University）情报与安全研究中心副主任、前桑赫斯特（Sandhurst）讲师 Kristian Gustafson 博士表示，目标并非在英国城市安置炸弹，而是在将轰炸机部署于费尔福德皇家空军基地的同盟关系中撕开裂口。“如果伊朗能够利用在英国制造的暴力威胁，引发英国国内对美国使用费尔福德基地的反弹，它就能起到进一步在美国及其盟友（如英国）之间钉入楔子或扩大裂痕的效果，”他说。他补充道，对于德黑兰而言，将武装特工及其武器转移到英国将是一项艰巨的任务。这将非常昂贵，且涉及过多不稳定的环节，难以保持隐秘。
关于性犯罪者的方案。
新任司法大臣 Alex Norris 表示，审查将决定“谁可能离开以及何时离开”，以及受害者在安全和保护措施（如酒精监测标签或使用禁区）方面拥有多少话语权。“我们非常强烈地听到受害者及其倡导者希望在其中拥有更大话语权，而本次审查的一部分就是为了确保他们能够实现这一点，”他说道。
唐宁街和司法部均未设定该方案预期的实施日期，但表示这将取决于审查结果。
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一名亿万富翁前 Airbnb 高管正在就一项 £5m 的离婚赔偿金进行争执，此前其前妻声称，她在签署协议时处于服用量足以“麻醉一匹马”的 Xanax 药物影响之下。
Martin Reiter 是一名监督 Airbnb 国际增长的商业主管，他于 2012 年与室内设计师兼文化历史专家 Caroline Bauer-Reiter 结婚。
两人在 2018 年分手并分别从柏林搬到伦敦之前，一直过着高标准的国际生活。
在离婚前，他们于 2019 年签署了一项协议，该协议使其前妻无法从其前夫 £17.3m 的财产中获得任何资本 lump sum，且在 2028 年后不再获得个人财务支持。
Bauer-Reiter 女士随后在伦敦家事法院重新启动了离婚诉讼，要求获得更大份额的财产。
她声称，这项使其无法获得资本的“极其不公平”的德国协议是“在违背良心的情况下促成的”，因为在签署协议之前，她当时的精神科医生给她开了足以“麻醉一匹马”的 Xanax 药片。
她的律师还辩称，由于身体和心理健康问题，她无法工作。
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Martin Reiter 和 Caroline Bauer-Reiter 正在上诉法院进行斗争
一名原核潜艇指挥官在对一名皇家海军同事实施了“有计划且具有掠夺性”的性侵后，被判处近三年监禁。
46 岁的 Lt-Cdr John Cursiter 在德文郡的 HMS Drake 海军基地的一整夜时间里，给这名潜艇员喂食酒精和可卡因。他“伏击”了这名年轻人，在身体上将其引导至军官食堂内自己的舱房并实施了袭击。
Cursiter 曾任英国克莱德河法斯兰核潜艇基地的执行军官，以及核动力 HMS Vanguard 潜艇的前指挥官，他被押出法庭，开始为期 33 个月的监禁。
在卡特里克军事法庭，法官 Edward Legard 将此次袭击描述为对武装部队价值观的“不可原谅的背叛”，并称其“玷污了”军官团的声誉。
他说：“显而易见，这是一次由高级军官在自己舱房关门之后，针对一名初级士兵所实施的有计划且具有掠夺性的袭击。”
“在我们的判定中，受害者在被你袭击之前及袭击过程中均处于极度脆弱的状态。他处于极度醉酒状态——他根本不知道自己在哪里。”
“他想回到自己的宿舍，回到安全的地方，但你将他引导至你的舱房，当你这样做时，你的心中只有一个且仅有一个目的。”
法官补充道：“你确保受害者通过酒精和药物的共同作用而丧失能力，你滥用了你的军衔和职位。”
尽管 Cursiter 辞去了
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一名英国父亲被指控与其两岁儿子从酒店窗户坠落身亡有关，其家人正寻求 Ed Miliband 的帮助，希望他能回国参加男孩的葬礼。
这名 37 岁的银行主管周二被指控“因鲁莽、轻率或危险行为导致死亡”，此前该儿童在与他一起玩耍时，从塞浦路斯一家酒店的四楼坠落。
该家庭正寻求新任外交大臣的支持，希望这位父亲能够回英国参加儿子的葬礼。
“该家庭充分理解英国政府不能干涉塞浦路斯的司法程序，”一名接近该家庭的来源表示。
“但他们呼吁获得更积极的支持。考虑到特殊的 humanitarian 情况，他们希望英国政府能积极与塞浦路斯当局接触。”
“这位父亲需要能够参加
回到自己的 房间， 回到安全的地方， 但你却 引导他 走向了 你的客舱”
他儿子的葬礼，一旦 7月 31 日定于举行的法庭诉讼程序完成。 这名男孩在本月发生事故后，在抵达医院时被宣布死亡。在男孩从帕福斯附近的克洛拉卡斯（Chlorakas）金埃弗尔顿海滩酒店及度假村（King Evelthon Beach Hotel and Resort）坠落三小时后，其父亲被逮捕。 这位有两个孩子的父亲已被保释，并在下周审判前被禁止离开该国。 这个来自埃塞克斯（Essex）的家庭在度假的第一天，警方于 7月 12 日下午 6.40pm 左右接到报案赶到这家五星级酒店，当时男孩从窗户坠落，高度超过 30 英尺。 警员表示，男孩在与父亲于房间旁的走廊玩耍时坠落，当时他们正在等电梯前往餐厅吃晚餐。 他们认为男孩从父亲的掌控中滑脱，从面前的一扇打开的窗户中坠落。 晚上 10 点，父亲被带到警察局，并被告知因过失被逮捕。他配合了
库斯沃思法官（Mr Justice Cusworth）去年 10 月裁定，应变更德国的命令，向其提供一份离婚方案，其中包括 £2.55m 的一次性款项、未来 14 年每年 £96,000 的赡养费、£1m 的法律费用，以及五位数的年度子女抚养费。但这对前夫妇目前正在上诉法院进行诉讼，妻子试图将其赔付款汇总为约 £5m 的个人一次性款项。与此同时，丈夫的律师正寻求推翻英国法官所裁定的“对妻子的完全过度的供应”，并恢复德国的协议。他们质疑鲍尔-赖特（Ms Bauer-Reiter）女士关于无法工作的主张，坚称她通过搬到伦敦自愿增加了额外的成本。离婚后，赖特（Mr Reiter）先生于 2023, 3 月再婚，并与新婚妻子搬入伦敦荷兰公园（Holland Park）一座价值 £11.5m 的住宅。鲍尔-赖特女士
在仅两个月后的 2023, 5 月，在首先获得德国法院允许后，带着孩子搬到了伦敦。随后，她聘请了顶尖律师并前往英国离婚法院，寻求修订她在德国签署的财务协议。在家庭法院，库斯沃思法官认定丈夫的净资产为 £17.3m，并命令他向其支付 £2.55m 的一次性款项、赡养费以及超过 £1m 的律师账单。现在，在上诉法院的三位顶尖法官面前，丈夫的出庭律师霍顿先生（Mr Horton）主张，这一“完全过度的供应”应当被推翻。针对妻子因健康原因无法工作的主张，该律师表示：“丈夫在妻子的社交媒体上看到了证据，包括一段复杂的同步舞蹈视频，这与她关于健康状况不佳的主张相矛盾。” 代表妻子的 Rebecca Carew Pole KC 主张，妻子目前获 awarded 的数百万英镑是一笔“适度”的金额，且“考虑到丈夫的整体财富并不突出”，并指出他住在荷兰公园一座价值 £11.5m 的“华丽”住宅中。法官 Sir Andrew McFarlane, Lord Justice Moylan 和 Lord Justice Lewis 在经过一整天的听证会后，对本案保留裁决，将在稍后日期公布。
在采访过程中，他于次日出现在帕福斯区法院。
塞浦路斯总检察长乔治·萨维德斯（George Savvides）周二确认，该男子将在区法院出庭并被起诉。
该男子在父亲和母亲的陪同下坐在被告席上，被告知将于下周出庭，并需缴纳 €20,000 (£17,300) 的保释金。他被要求上缴所有旅行证件，且每周需在帕福斯中央警察局报到一次。
警方调查期间收集的证据表明，在被告的血液中检测到了相当于一两杯饮料的酒精痕迹。
家庭朋友将这名男孩描述为“一个真正特别、随和的小男孩，给周围的每个人带来了很多快乐”。
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落井下石 女演员兼歌手苏基·沃特豪斯（Suki Waterhouse）在加利福尼亚州洛杉矶的好莱坞永久公墓舞台上表演。她最近发行了第三张专辑《Loveland》。
在服役 22 年后离开海军，尽管是在被捕之后，他仍被“耻辱性解雇”并被送入监狱。
在一份声明中，他的受害者向军事法庭讲述了此次事件如何导致他离开海军，并“摧毁”了他的生活。
在描述这次袭击（导致库尔西特 [Cursiter] 的 DNA 残留在其内裤内）时，受害者称这是一场“伏击”。
他表示，他向朋友和家人谎报了离开海军的原因，而那种“被利用的阉割感”让他变成了一个“愤怒的人”。
库尔西特的受害者补充道：“我向那些最关心我的人发泄了错误、毫无保留且无休止的怒火。这不仅摧毁了我的事业，还摧毁了我的善良以及对他人的信任。”
受害者在五月为期一周的军事法庭审理中，讲述了他醒来时的恐惧之情
摧毁了 我的事业， 还摧毁了 我的善良 以及我对 他人的信任”
盖尔·波特 (GAIL PORTER) 在地铁站楼梯被撞倒后，眼睛被撞成了青色。 这位 55 岁的苏格兰电视名人周四在社交媒体上描述了这次“小意外”，并分享了她的受伤照片，照片中她的眼睛有黑眼圈，嘴唇被割破。 波特女士表示她被另一名乘客“撞倒”了，但补充说这并非故意。 她在 Instagram 上写道：“所以……给所有那些说我看起来老了、说我的脸出了问题的精彩的‘键盘侠’们……” “我去看了 @trainspottingthemusical，为了支持我的朋友们，是他们创作了这部剧。上周……我在伦敦地铁站下楼时被撞倒了。” 她补充道：“我的伤口很浅，没问题。这只是个意外，不会妨碍我做我自己。” 这部根据丹尼·博伊尔 (Danny Boyle) 的《Trainspotting》改编的新音乐剧正在……
……在 2022 年在行政人员的床上，两人手牵手。库西特 (Cursiter) 最初拒绝让这名生病的水手离开宿舍，最终才勉强同意。 据报道，这名年轻男子在告诉一名基地工作人员“我认为我被强奸了”之后，发出了一声“嚎啕大哭”，并补充说他正在考虑自杀。 库西特否认曾性侵该青年，但军事法庭裁定，来自邓巴顿郡巴洛赫 (Balloch, Dunbartonshire) 的库西特犯有性侵、非法监禁和持有可卡因罪（在他被捕时，其外套口袋中发现了可卡因）。 辩护律师大卫·斯卡特 (David Scutt) 在减轻处罚陈词中表示：“约翰·库西特失去了他的军衔和名声。在很多方面，他已经是一个崩溃的人，由于诸多原因，他在平民生活中寻找就业机会将面临非常现实的挑战。” 斯卡特先生说，库西特在 2008 年一次潜艇事故后患上了创伤后应激障碍，当时他的潜艇撞击到了从海床突出的岩石，导致人们担心潜艇会失踪。此外，他的同父异母兄弟在一次悲剧中，从船厂一个 40 英尺高的舱口坠落身亡；去年，他的父亲在睡眠中因心脏病发作去世。 一份量刑前报告发现，库西特“对自己的犯罪行为表现出悔意和认识，尽管他不承认自己有罪”。 当库西特被捕的消息传出后，第二名前英国皇家海军水手站出来表示，他在 2013 年一次在法斯莱恩 (Faslane) 附近饮酒之夜后，也遭到了库西特的性侵。 库西特否认这些犯罪行为曾发生，军事法庭陪审团撤销了针对第二名原告的三项性侵指控。
……在 20 世纪 90 年代成名，这得益于她主持了如《排行榜》(Top of the Pops) 等受欢迎的节目。 男性杂志《FHM》曾将她的裸照投影在议会大厦上。 但她在 21 世纪初患上了脱发症，最终失去了所有头发。 此后，她一直公开谈论应对心理健康问题。 在 2019 年接受《电讯报》采访时，波特女士表示，她从女儿 Honey 身上学会了接受外貌的变化，并对事情进行“积极的诠释”。 在昨天早上的另一篇社交媒体帖子中，波特女士警告人们永远不要“因为任何人的长相或状态而对其不尊重”，并补充说“善良”是“无价的”。 波特女士说她是一个“小小的苏格兰战士”，准备用“好的遮瑕膏”勇敢面对她的伤口。 “几个淤青遮好就行”，她在另一篇帖子中说道，并补充道：“化妆品的奇迹！”
引发首相新总部 首日到任期间的 伪善指责
作者：Dominic Penna 与 Pieter Snepvangers
安迪·伯纳姆 (ANDY BURNHAM) 乘坐政府喷气机抵达了他在 No 10 North 的第一天工作日。首相于周四下午乘坐 VIP 空客 A321 从伦敦飞往格拉斯哥，参加英联邦运动会的开幕式。随后，他在昨天早晨乘坐了一趟 38 分钟的航班前往曼彻斯特——这里是 No 10 North 的所在地，也是其权力下放议程的核心。
在工党此前曾攻击保守党在反对党期间采取同样做法后，伯纳姆先生决定在境内使用政府喷气机的行为，可能会引发关于伪善的指责。据 Guido Fawkes 率先报道，首相于周四下午 12.45pm 从伦敦斯坦斯特机场飞往格拉斯哥，并于 2.28pm 到达。随后，该飞机于昨天上午 9.19am 离开格拉斯哥，并比计划晚 9 分钟于 9.57am 降落。
如果伯纳姆先生乘坐火车从格拉斯哥前往曼彻斯特，将耗时三小时。而从伦敦到曼彻斯特的平均火车旅程为 2 小时 46 分钟。伯纳姆先生本可以选择 6 班从格拉斯哥中央车站发车前往曼彻斯特皮卡迪利车站的火车，且这些班次计划在上午 11.00am 之前抵达他的选定居住城市。5.33am 的班次晚点 14 分钟，但仍于 9.15am 之前抵达曼彻斯特。5.48am 和 6.29am 的火车分别晚点 2 分钟和 1 分钟，分别于 9.28am 和 9.59am 到达。7.11am 的火车延迟了 23 分钟，于 10.49am 抵达曼彻斯特；而 7.36am 的班次比计划晚了 8 分钟，于 11.06am 进站。
从格拉斯哥开车前往伯纳姆先生的梅克菲尔德 (Makerfield) 選區需要 3 小时 30 分钟，这意味着在参加完英联邦运动会开幕式后，他本可以在周四晚上或昨天清晨要求司机开车将其从苏格兰送回家。
在确认伯纳姆先生已乘机抵达后，No 10 未就他前往 No 10 North 的航班是否为每周例行事项做出回应。首相表示，他计划每周至少有一天在曼彻斯特工作。
No 10 North 办公室是首相承诺将权力从白厅和威斯敏斯特下放到各国家和地区的重大组成部分。该办公室将由他的亲密政治盟友路易丝·海格 (Louise Haigh) 负责管理。海格女士在 2024 年 11 月因一项历史性欺诈定罪而辞职一年半后，被首相重新召回内阁。海格女士与安格拉·雷纳 (Angela Rayner) 均在将在 No 10 North 工作的部长之列。此前，《电讯报》对其税务问题的调查迫使其辞职，近一年后，雷纳女士作为住房大臣重返政治前线。
在担任反对党期间，工党曾攻击保守党使用喷气机进行境内旅行——
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伦敦
作者：Linus Uhlig 财经记者
《电讯报》可以揭露，安格拉·雷纳 (ANGELA RAYNER) 在离开内阁的“一年假期”期间赚了超过 £180,000。这位住房大臣通过兼职工作获得了 £182,376，其中包括企业演讲邀约和图书预付款，以及在去年秋天辞职后获得的 £16,876 部长离职金。
在《电讯报》揭露雷纳女士在购买位于东萨塞克斯郡霍夫 (Hove) 的第二套房产时逃避了 £40,000 的印花税账单后，她辞去了住房部长的职务。安迪·伯纳姆 (Andy Burnham) 被指责允许她“轻而易举地”重返政府。
伯纳姆先生在就任首相后重新任命雷纳女士为住房大臣。她拒绝了...
我可能会首次投票给保守党
作者：Dominic Penna 资深政治记者
莫琳·利普曼女爵（DAME MAUREEN LIPMAN）正考虑首次投票给保守党，因为她支持“出色”的凯米·巴德诺克（Kemi Badenoch）。 这位女演员曾支持工党长达五十年，直到 2014 年因时任党魁、现任外交大臣的埃德·米利班德（Ed Miliband）希望承认巴勒斯坦国而与该党决裂。 身为犹太人的莫琳女爵，当时是杰里米·科尔宾（Jeremy Corbyn）在任期间工党内部爆发反犹太主义丑闻最著名的批评者之一。 在参加 Sky 频道的《凯西·纽曼秀》（The Cathy Newman Show）时，在安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）被加冕为工党领导人几天后，莫琳女爵被问及对当前政治格局的看法。 她回答道：“我是凯米·巴德诺克的支持者。我认为她很出色，我认为她绝对是一位诚实的政客，而我一生中从未投票给保守党。” 当被问及巴德诺克夫人目前是否获得了她的选票时，莫ีน女爵回答道：“是的。她地道地表达观点，她在斯塔默（Starmer）执政年间稳住了下议院，她让他承担责任。”
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安迪·伯纳姆 在从格拉斯哥 乘坐喷气机抵达后， 在曼彻斯特的 北10号（No 10 North） 组建他的内阁
偿还她在离职时收到的遣散费。议员的财务利益记录显示，自九月以来，雷纳女士通过演讲费赚取了 £104,000，书籍预付款 £61,500，以及略低于 £17,000 的遣散费。 她最丰厚的演讲收入包括一次与管理咨询协会（Management Consultancies Association）的活动，报酬为 £19,000，以及一次为德意志银行（Deutsche Bank）做的演讲，报酬为 £20,000，此外还包括一间价值 £1,000 的酒店房间和一次价值 £250 的晚餐。 这些费用是在议员基本年薪之外增加的，该年薪在 2026 年 4 月从 £93,904 上升至 £98,599。 改革英国党（Reform UK）主席李·安德森（Lee Anderson）表示：“安格拉·雷纳（Angela Rayner）经历了一个极其获利的休假年。事实证明，因为税务问题被迫丢脸辞职反而成了一个不错的小...
政治地。在 2023, 年的党年度大会上，瑞秋·里夫斯（Rachel Reeves）表示工党将限制部长们使用私人喷气机。 她抨击了时任保守党首相里希·苏纳克（Rishi Sunak）的“私人喷气机习惯”，并表示工党将寻求为纳税人节省数百万英镑。苏纳克先生为他使用国内航班进行了辩护，称航空旅行是最...
获利的 10 个月 雷纳女士的收入 £104,000
£61,500
£16,876
辞任部长后的款项
由于政府在反犹太主义问题上不采取行动，她为了保护自己免受亲巴勒斯坦活动人士的侵害。她在《旁观者》（The Spectator）杂志撰文称，在亚伯丁的“偏执狂”试图取消她的新舞台剧后，她雇佣了一名保镖。
巴德诺克夫人接替里希·苏纳克在 2024, 11 月就任保守党党魁后，经历了一个艰难的第一年，该党在 2025. 5 月的首次地方选举中被全盘击败。保守党还经历了数次高调的成员跳槽至英国改革党（Reform UK），其中包括曾与巴德诺克夫人竞争党魁之位的罗伯特·詹里克，其支持率一度跌至 17.5 %。
然而，巴德诺克夫人的政党与改革党的差距已从峰值的 13 个百分点缩小至 6 个百分点，而她的净支持率——一度低至负 30 ——现在首次进入正值区间。
保守党支持率的上升源于其取消印花税的受欢迎承诺。
有效利用时间。2023 年 7 月，工党要求苏纳克先生解释，在有定期航班的情况下，为何使用皇家空军（RAF）飞机飞往苏格兰。
《部长准则》（Ministerial Code）规定，只有在没有替代方案时才应使用私人飞机。
去年，时任能源部长的埃德·米利班德被描述为一名
伯纳姆的飞行排放量
行程的二氧化碳排放量 航空 火车
周四下午 2.30 抵达
来源：曼彻斯特大学 （碳减排工具）
“生态伪君子”，因为他拒绝透露自己乘坐过多少次国内航班。
保守党主席凯文·霍林雷克指责伯纳姆先生虚伪，称：“他的内阁中有些部长曾因前任首相做过完全相同的事情而攻击他们。”
政府发言人表示：“政府飞机的使用符合”
赚钱者。现在，她在辞职仅 10 个月后就直接回到了她在政府中的旧职；她早该退还那笔巨额的离职补偿金了。纳税人的钱不应该被浪费在资助工党的政治心理剧上。
自辞职以来，雷纳女士在很大程度上避开了导致基尔·斯塔默爵士辞任首相、为伯纳姆先生接手铺路的内部剧码。
雷纳女士未回应置评请求。
这位住房大臣此前曾批评国会议员从事第二职业是“极其可耻”的。
在 2023 年 3 月的一篇社交媒体帖子中，她写道：“担任国会议员不是一份兼职。这就是工作本身。工党将终结这种勾当。” 当早前被问及
由 Pieter Snepvangers 报道 政治记者
一个由绿党领导的议会准备在 50 年后 severed 与一座以色列城市的友好城市关系。
哈克尼（Hackney）的绿党议员誓言让这个北伦敦自治区退出与海法的关系，因为该党声称巴勒斯坦居民生活在“占领和种族隔离之下”。
这个左翼政党在 5 月的地方选举中取得了议会的控制权，使其有权推翻建立于 1968 年的友好城市协议。关于此问题的投票将于下周举行。
虽然预计一些工党和保守党议员将对该提案投反对票，但绿党控制了 57 个席位中的 42 个，这意味着该措施几乎肯定会通过。
在该党的选举宣言中，哈克尼绿党写道：“尽管社区反复发起了大规模要求
本周关于她是否会退还 16,876 英镑离职金的询问，她告诉 BBC Radio 5 Live：“不，我的遣散费是在当时给我的，我在政府工作了一段时间，然后离开政府不到一年。”
然而，根据 HuffPost UK 的报道，周一重新回到政府担任国防大臣的韦斯·斯特里廷（Wes Streeting）将在该岗位的前三个月内不领取薪水，而他此前领取了与雷纳女士相同的离职金。
智库 Onward 的乔安娜·马尔雄（Joanna Marchong）表示：“雷纳将她的品牌建立在攻击‘保守党肮脏行径’、谴责兼职工作以及要求禁止议员从事外部咨询工作之上。然而，在因自己的税务问题辞职后短短几个月内，她就私吞了
解除友好关系”，而由工党领导的议会此前一直拒绝切断与以色列城市海法在友好城市计划下的联系。
“在海法，巴勒斯坦人生活在以色列国家的占领和种族隔离之下；这座城市不能反映哈克尼的价值观。哈克尼当前和未来的友好城市关系
攻击 前任 首相 做过 完全相同的事”
部长准则以及长期以来管理官方差旅的规定。政府将始终寻求确保部长在履行职责的同时，为纳税人提供性价比最高的方案。在满足运营、安全和时间表要求的必要情况下，将使用适当的交通工具。”
£180,000。其中包括在重新接手住房事务简报前数周，为一家房地产游说团体工作仅两小时就获得的 £20,000。 根据其财务利益清单，雷诺女士选择将她在 15.45 小时演讲中赚得的 £104,000 中的 £15,000 捐给慈善机构。她的回忆录（她为此获得了 £61,500 的预付款）预计将于今年晚些时候出版，其中将详细记录她从 16 岁离开学校到成为副首相，以及随后失势的生活经历。 去年，《电讯报》的一项调查揭露，雷诺女士在购买其南海岸房产时未能获得相关建议，导致违反了部长准则，并随后辞去了住房大臣及工党副党魁的职务。
在结好安排下，来自哈克尼区霍默顿医院的临床专家与海法拉布曼医院进行每两年一次的医疗团队交流。然而，此次交流自 2020 年起一直处于暂停状态。 工党议员卢克·阿克赫斯特（Luke Akehurst）在进入议会前曾担任哈克尼区议员 12 年，他对绿党“表演性质且心怀恶意的手势政治”表示“厌恶”。 他表示：“结好之所以发生，是因为哈克尼区庞大的犹太社区在那里拥有家庭和个人联系。海法是一座著名的左翼城市（讽刺的是，以色列绿党在那里相当强势），是犹太人与阿拉伯人共存的典范。 “如果你希望以色列与巴勒斯坦人之间实现和平，你应该支持那些将人们聚集在一起的倡议，而不是取消或抵制它们。” 在此之前，绿党的曼彻斯特市长候选人承诺将该市与巴勒斯坦的拉姆安拉结为友好城市。
戈登·雷诺 (Gordon Rayner) 副主编
因其成就引发激烈的争论
当杰森·阿戴（Jason Arday）在 37 岁时成为剑桥大学教授时，他受到了学术界的推崇，并成为了该大学多元化计划的形象代言人。他克服了几乎不可能克服的困难才走到今天。他被诊断出患有自闭症，直到 11 岁之前都无法用语言交流，直到 18 岁才学会读写，但随后获得了学士和博士学位，并在教学领域开辟了事业。如今，在他出版自传的前夕，这位剑桥大学的教育社会学教授成为了关于剽窃的激烈争论的焦点，这场争论使他的同行们陷入了对立。一方是其他大学的教授，他们认为阿戴教授发表的作品（包括他的博士论文）包含了一些与其它学术论文极其相似——在某些情况下甚至是完全相同——且未注明出处的段落。另一方则是阿戴教授的朋友和同事，这位大学历史上最年轻的黑人教授被他们认为成了种族主义抹黑活动的受害者，他们并试图将其上升为政府关注的问题。这场起初由学者之间引发的争端，现在正波及到政治领域。剑桥大学和授予阿戴教授博士学位的利物浦约翰摩尔大学均站在他这一边，坚称他没有做错任何事，且相关指控是毫无根据的抹黑。剑桥大学表示，他是“旨在破坏其公信力的卑劣活动”的受害者。这场博弈的风险极高，因为剽窃指控可能会终结一名学术工作者的职业生涯，而随后被证明是虚假的指控，对提出指控的人同样具有破坏性。直到现在，这场争论一直处于公众视野之外，但本周发表的一篇博客通过将阿戴教授的论文与另一名学生的论文进行对照分析，使其公开化。《电讯报》对阿戴教授的博士论文进行的分析发现，有 100 多个段落与布鲁内尔大学学生 Paula Zwozdiak-Myers 2009 年的一篇博士论文完全相同或几乎相同。阿戴教授这篇 401 页的论文题目为《学生教师之间同伴监督的探索[原文如此]，以在行动研究背景下提供反思性实践》，其中 17 次提及了 Zwozdiak-Myers 女士。支持者与批评者之间的争论焦点在于，在他改写或引用对方作品的每一次机会中，是否应该明确注明她的出处；该作品的标题为《反思性实践概念分析，以及在行动研究背景下学生教师反思性实践发展的调查》。尽管两所大学坚称阿戴教授的作品已经过检查并获通过，但几位受尊敬的学者敦促他们重新审查，认为旨在检测抄袭的计算机程序可能会遗漏那些仅修改了几个词或对句子进行了改写的实例。阿戴教授在 2023 年成为剑桥大学历史上最年轻的黑人教授时曾登上国际新闻头条。考虑到他童年时期被诊断出患有自闭症（这意味着他直到 11 岁才说出第一个词，且离校时仅获得了两门 GCSE 证书），他在专业领域攀登至顶峰的经历十分惊人。他在本科和研究生阶段学习教育学，在利物浦约翰摩尔大学完成了教育学博士学位，随后在罗汉普顿大学、达勒姆大学和格拉斯哥大学担任学术职务，并于 2021 年在格拉斯哥大学成为教育社会学教授。
作者：Samuel Montgomery
一名罗伯特·伯恩斯学会的前任主席被揭露为一名频繁作案的恋童癖。
70 岁的马克·谢兰（Marc Sherland）在被判定犯有进一步的历史性性虐待罪后，被判处五年监禁。
这位罗伯特·伯恩斯世界联合会的前主席早在 1991 年就曾被判定在伦弗鲁担任议会青年工作者期间，虐待了两名分别 8 岁和 10 岁的男孩。
在被定罪后，他通过将名字改为道格拉斯·斯图尔特·哈蒙德（Douglas Stuart Hammond）来隐瞒身份，并成为了苏格兰语的文化大使。
2024 年，在被揭露其是以不同姓名生活的定罪儿童性犯罪者后，他辞去了联合会负责人的职务。
自 2020 年起，他一直担任该联合会主席，主持学校诗歌比赛，并在荷里路德宫的苏格兰语跨党派小组发表演讲。
2014 年，他曾在 BBC 亮相，朗诵自己的诗歌以支持……
[[IMG_XXXX]] 马克·谢兰因在其家中袭击三名十几岁男孩而被定罪。他被判处五年监禁。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 杰森·阿戴 2016 年在利物浦约翰摩尔大学的博士学位授予仪式上。
……13 岁和 16 岁——以及另一名 18 岁以上的男孩。
在佩斯利治安法院对其量刑时，治安法官吉莉安·克雷格（Gillian Craig）表示，刑期结束后将有三年的监督期。他还将被实施一项性侵害预防令，禁止他在 20 年内与儿童有任何接触。
克雷格法官表示，谢兰“蓄意”寻求与儿童接触的工作，并在实施其“令人震惊”的罪行之前对他们进行诱导。她补充说，他表现出了“邪恶的意图”和“清晰的捕食行为模式”。
法官表示，他对受害者造成的伤害是“毁灭性的”。
她指出，谢兰报告称他不再对“男性儿童有异常性欲”，但他未能为此提供任何证据。她还提到，关于他的社会工作报告显示，他几乎没有表现出任何悔意或反思。
……在三年前就职于剑桥之前，曾在……
他现在写了一本回忆录，名为《伟大且不幸之事》（Great and Unfortunate Things），计划于下月出版。根据该书的宣传材料，他在书中详述了他的“不可思议的成功和令人心碎的挫折”。
除了令人印象深刻的学术成就，阿戴教授（Prof Arday）因多次参加超长距离耐力跑为慈善机构筹款而吸引了媒体关注，这也促使他被选中成为……
[[IMG_XXXX]] 安格利亚鲁斯金大学关于阿戴教授的个人资料页
2026 年 2 月 28 日： 迫于行动的驱动——为了帮助减轻他所见之人们的痛苦——他决定为无家可归者慈善机构 Shelter 筹款。因此，他为慈善事业设定了一系列超马挑战，包括在 35 天内跑 30 场马拉松，三天内跑 300 英里，以及六天内跑 600 英里。
2026 年 7 月 24 日： 迫于行动的驱动——为了帮助减轻他所见之人们的痛苦——他决定为无家可归者慈善机构 Shelter 筹款。因此，他为慈善事业设定了一系列超马挑战，包括在 35 天内跑 30 场马拉松，三天内跑 300 英里，以及在 12 天内跑 600 英里。
阿戴教授至少从 2023 年起一直声称自己在六天内跑了 600 英里，直到今年早些时候才将其修改。
2012年伦敦奥运会。一些关于他的成就描述也受到了质疑，其中部分内容已从杰森·阿戴 (Prof Arday) 教授最近的传记中被修改或删除。
2010年，这位教授在35天内跑了30场马拉松，以为 Shelter 和 Shooting Star 儿童临终关怀中心筹款；他还曾提到在三天内跑了300英里，以及在六天内跑了600英里，仅与六天超长距离跑步的世界纪录相差50英里。
今年早些时候，在2023年授予杰森·阿戴教授荣誉学位的南安普顿索伦特大学 (Southampton Solent University)，将其网站上关于他跑了300英里和600英里的引述删除。而授予其荣誉博士学位的安格利亚鲁斯金大学 (Anglia Ruskin University) 最近将“六天跑600英里”的表述改为“12天跑600英里”。
杰森·阿戴教授声称，他总共为70多家慈善机构筹集了£5.5m。
在邀请他参与其他学术论文的贡献之前，一些同行学者在进行尽职调查时，开始对他已发表作品的合法性提出质疑。
普利茅斯马琼大学 (Plymouth Marjon University) 的名誉教授戴夫·哈里斯 (Dave Harris) 在2023年向剑桥大学 (Cambridge University) 和利物浦约翰摩尔大学 (Liverpool John Moores University) 提醒其对剽窃行为的担忧。他表示：“在我看来，杰森·阿戴教授作品的重要部分，包括他的博士论文以及随后发表的一些文章（独立撰写及合著），似乎显示出严重的剽窃迹象。我想不出其他合理的解释……我已经将我的初步担忧通知了利物浦约翰摩尔大学和剑桥大学，但他们没有采取任何行动。在我通知的期刊编辑中，有两位已经要求进行修正。”
作者：Harry Brennan 消费者事务编辑
蓝色停车证（Blue Badge）诈骗者正利用来自保加利亚和波兰的虚假残疾人停车文件来欺骗英国的票务检查员。 犯罪分子正利用一项非正式的英欧协议，该协议允许在欧洲国家颁发的残疾人停车许可证在英国使用，反之亦然。 但英国当局表示，由于设计上的差异，识别境外颁发的伪造文件可能更加困难。 执法人员警告称，外国蓝色停车证诈骗活动正在增加，并表示声称由东欧国家颁发的虚假残疾人停车许可证是一个尤为严重的问题。 上个月，恩菲尔德（Enfield）议会宣布，其已起诉 12 名滥用蓝色停车证的人员。其中一名作案者被发现使用一张来自保加利亚的伪造蓝色停车证。 来自北伦敦帕尔默斯格林（Palmers Green）的 Rumen Aleksandrov，45 岁，被发现展示了一张伪造的蓝色停车证。
一名来自罗素大学群（Russell Group）大学且要求匿名的教育学教授表示，他们在邀请该学者为一本关于去殖民化的书籍撰写章节并对其已发表的研究进行检查时，注意到了“不一致之处”。 当他们查看其博士论文时，发现该论文与“另一位在不同大学提交的早期博士论文存在广泛的文本重叠”。 他们的评估认为，“相似之处并非局限于孤立的段落，而是形成了一种广泛的密切改写模式”，这并不一定会被旨在检测文本逐字抄袭的计算机程序所识别。 诺丁汉大学和诺丁汉特伦特大学的社会科学荣休教授、新冠疫情期间的政府顾问 Robert Dingwall 表示：“在当前的气候下，在不被认为是在 EDI（平等、多样性和包容性）问题上选边站队的情况下，很难对一名著名的少数群体学者的剽窃指控发表评论。” “然而，无论在哪个级别，剽窃都被正确地视为严重的学术违规行为。在有有力证据的情况下，我们有共同的责任将其揭露出来。” “这里显然存在一个初步证据确凿的案例。虽然可能难以找到一名足够公正的裁决者，但出于对所有当事人的公平考虑，应严格检查证据，并邀请相关当事人提供详细回应，而不是使其成为持续抹黑和影射的受害者。此时此刻，大学整体，尤其是社会学家，必须愿意证明他们能够遵守自己的”
关键示例
Zwozdiak-Myers 摘录 当反思性实践被定义为一种话语时，通过实习教师使用语言以及就其教学和经验各方面提出问题的方式，可以明显看出，可以识别出不同类型的实践反思。Ghaye 和 Ghaye (1998: 34) 设计的分类法承认了在反思性对话之间可以划定的有用的定性区别：
“专业诚信标准。” 杰森·阿戴教授的支持者在去年意识到有关其学术合法性的质疑，并愤怒地以种族主义指控予以回应。剑桥大学自闭症研究中心主任（同时是喜剧演员萨莎·巴伦-科恩的表亲）西蒙·巴伦-科恩教授爵士以及教育学教授里卡多·萨巴特斯传阅了一封公开信，标题为：紧急请签署支持杰森·阿戴的反种族主义信函。信中提到了一封早前发给“国务大臣的信函，而在如何解决这些问题方面已经取得了进展”，并警告称杰森可能面临“潜在的公众攻击”。议会记录显示，去年 9 月 15 日，女性与平等事务大臣贾奎·史密斯会见了“一系列学者，讨论黑人学者的骚扰问题”。剑桥大学的一位发言人表示：“阿戴教授一直是一场旨在破坏其信誉的恶劣活动的受害者，这种情况必须停止。关于其论文和期刊出版物的剽窃指控已由相关机构和涉事期刊进行了彻底调查。那些调查已经证明阿戴教授没有任何不当行为。”利物浦约翰摩尔大学在一份声明中表示：“在 2025 年 9 月，大学收到了针对其前博士生杰森·阿戴教授学术不端行为的指控。针对这些指控开展了一项保密程序，阿戴教授的博士学位依然有效。对于大学与前学生之间的私事，我们不作进一步评论。”阿戴教授被要求对此发表评论。
一直是一场 旨在破坏 其信誉的 恶劣活动的 受害者， 这种情况 必须停止”
£250 加上 £100 的受害者附加费以及 £250. 的诉讼费用。 尽管监管机构警告伪造行为在增加，但少数被抓到以这种方式滥用系统的人所受到的惩罚相对较小。国家蓝色标志欺诈调查局首席执行官保罗·斯洛威表示，他认为伪造许可证正在被大量生产，以利用蓝色标志的特权牟利。交通部 (DfT) 发言人表示：“滥用该计划，包括使用任何形式的欺诈标志，均属刑事犯罪，并破坏了该计划旨在帮助的对象所能获得的支持。” “当地议会负责在其区域内公平且严格地执行该计划，并拥有强大的权力来打击滥用行为，包括在有合理理由认为境外标志为伪造或冒充时，拒绝认可该标志。”
凶手“多年来 一直在 操纵医生”
“习惯性谎报”，是 专家接触过的最复杂儿童
作者：Will Bolton 和 Tom McArdle
《电讯报》发现，索斯波特（Southport）杀手有着试图“控制和操纵”医疗专业人员的长期历史。
19 岁的 Axel Rudakubana 在 2024 年的一场舞蹈课上杀害了三名小女孩，他已从贝尔马什（Belmarsh）高安全性监狱被转移到布罗德摩尔（Broadmoor）精神病院。这一决定引发了广泛批评。
Alice da Silva Aguiar、Bebe King 和 Elsie Dot Stancombe 的家属指责凶手企图“操纵系统”以减轻其刑期的艰苦程度。
在昨天的一份声明中，代表遇难者家属的 Chris Walker 表示：“可以肯定地说，尽管这个消息在任何时候都会让他们心碎，但在我们接近两周年纪念日之际发生此事，在我们看来，是 AR 的又一次行动，他似乎再次试图操纵系统。”
《电讯报》现在可以透露，关于 Rudakubana 罪行的索斯波特调查发现，他在数年间多次出现操纵行为。今年早些时候公布的调查第一阶段报告中，包括了证人的证词，描述了 Rudakubana 如何反复试图欺骗医生、教师和支持人员。
在谋杀案发生三年前，Rudakubana 在学校发生暴力行为后，要求在治疗过程中接诊一名顾问精神科医生。在其中一起事件中，他袭击了另一名学生
代表遇难者家属的 Chris Walker 表示：“可以肯定地说，尽管这个消息在任何时候都会让他们心碎，但在我们接近两周年纪念日之际发生此事，在我们看来，是 [Rudakubana] 的又一次行动，他似乎再次试图操纵系统。”
司法部一名发言人表示：“在经过严格的安全检查后，该罪犯已被转移至一个高安全性精神科病房，他将在那里停留，直到被评估为适合返回监狱。”
“官员们已代表部长批准了这次转移。这次转移并不改变他的刑期——刑期仍为 52 年——他将执行其中的每一天。”
作者：Charles Hymas
一名女性警察遭到住在她所在公寓楼内新释放囚犯的威胁和辱骂。
这名警察 20 出头，担任响应警员。她收到了一些恐吓信，信中称对方知道她的职业，其中一封信被塞进她的门下，写着让她“滚蛋，死猪（p--s off pig）”。
她在该楼盘购买了一处房产...
记者报道
美国说唱歌手克里斯·布朗（CHRIS BROWN）在法院外为粉丝签名。此前，他承认在伦敦一家夜店中用瓶子多次袭击一名音乐制作人。
这位 37 岁的音乐家昨天在南wark 刑事法院（Southwark Crown Court）外与聚集的粉丝互动，布朗在庭上承认了扰乱治安罪（affray）。他将于 Oct 26 被量刑。
检方指控，Feb 19, 2023，布朗在梅费尔区的一家私人会员俱乐部 Tape 针对亚伯拉罕·迪奥（Abraham Diaw）发动了“无端袭击”。
此前，他否认了造成实际身体伤害的袭击指控，否认在公共场所持有攻击性武器（一个瓶子），以及企图造成严重身体伤害的指控。
在布朗承认扰乱治安罪后，这些指控已被撤销。他在去年 5 月回到英国后被逮捕，这是自该事件发生以来他首次返回英国。据称，该音乐家在对方头部击打了两次，随后其声乐教练奥莫洛鲁·阿金洛卢（Omololu Akinlolu）加入袭击并用拳头击打该男子头部。
皇家检控署（CPS）表示，受害者在无防备地坐在地板上时还遭到了踢打。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 南波特受害者，由上至下： Bebe King, Alice da Silva Aguiar 和 Elsie Dot Stancombe
几年前搬到这里，直到最近一直平安生活，直到她发现司法部（MoJ）在该栋建筑内以私人租赁方式购置了几套公寓，用于安置在临时许可安排下从监狱释放的罪犯。
该警员未被告知此项变动，在安置之后，她收到了匿名且带有威胁性的便条，称对方知道她在警察部队工作。 “影响非常重大，”
他头部和膝盖受了伤。布朗与 40 岁的阿金洛卢被共同起诉，后者此前也否认造成实际身体伤害的袭击指控，但现已承认扰乱治安罪。他将于同一日期被量刑。
歌手抵达法院时由安保人员陪同，现场聚集了一小群粉丝。其中一人喊道：“我爱你，克里斯。”
一名书记员向该歌手及其声乐教练宣读了扰乱治安的指控，指控称：“克里斯·布朗和奥莫洛鲁……
用曲棍球杆。顾问精神病学家拉克希米·拉马苏布拉马尼安（Dr Lakshmi Ramasubramanian）博士告诉调查组，鲁达库巴纳（Rudakubana）试图控制他们第一次就诊时的叙事，这次就诊是在 2021 年 7 月通过电话进行的。
她表示：“他描述焦虑症状的方式就像是从书上排练过一样。很明显，他是在试图说服我，让我相信他需要药物治疗。他确实非常强硬、爱争论且试图支配对方。我几乎会使用‘操纵’这个词。”
调查组主席艾德里安·富尔福德（Sir Adrian Fulford）爵士在结论中表示：“[鲁达库巴纳] 似乎只是想分享他的症状，以便获得特定的药物……[他] 表现得强硬、爱争论，并试图主导治疗。”他表示，该凶手性格的“决定性特征”之一就是他“深谙操纵且惯于谎报”。
一名向调查组提供证据的教师表示，他是“我教过的最复杂的孩子”。
她说：“一个孩子在学术能力如此之强且表达如此清晰的同时，社会成熟度如此之低且社会技能发育不足，这是很不寻常的。他可能具有高度的操纵性，这在决定如何教导他时非常关键。对他必须非常冷静且克制。”
在独立医学专业人士得出结论，认为鲁达库巴纳在监狱中无法再获得充分的精神健康治疗后，他被从贝尔马什监狱（HMP Belmarsh）转移。
根据《精神健康法》，司法部（MoJ）可能别无选择，只能接受医生的建议。
法律要求，当他不再需要医院治疗时，必须将其转移回监狱。
他描述 焦虑症状的方式 就像是 在书中排练过一样。 他试图说服我 他需要 药物治疗，这一点 非常明显。 顾问精神科医生 拉克希米·拉马苏布拉马尼安 (Lakshmi Ramasubramanian)
鲁达库巴纳 (Rudakubana) 似乎只是想分享他的 症状，以便 获得特定的 药物…… 他一直 蛮横、爱争论， 并且试图 主导 治疗方案。 询问委员会主席 艾德里安·富尔福德爵士 (Sir Adrian Fulford)
他具有极强的 操纵性，这在 决定如何 教导他时非常关键。 对他采取 非常冷静且 克制的态度 至关重要。 教师向询问委员会 提交的证词
由约书亚·杰布爵士 (Sir Joshua Jebb) 设计的 布罗德摩尔精神病院 (Broadmoor Psychiatric Hospital) 于 1863 年 作为一家“刑事精神病收容所” 开业
她说：“这造成了焦虑、压力、 财务担忧以及对我个人安全的恐惧。 我不得不改变我的日常生活 以确保我的安全，现在 正积极尝试搬家，但可能不得不 低价出售我的公寓，只要能把它处理掉就行。” “我不能独自遛狗， 必须开车去附近其他地方。我 担心被针对。甚至当我 离开家，且我知道我已经锁好 门时，我发现自己会回去 检查三四遍。”
阿金洛鲁 (Akinlolu) 在 19 2023 年 2 月使用了或威胁使用非法暴力对待他人，且他们的共同行为足以令在场的理智之辈对其个人安全感到恐惧。” 随后，布朗 (Brown) 与阿金洛鲁一起认罪。 在早前的听证会上，布朗被 要求支付 £5 保证金作为保释条件，这使他能够继续巡演，前提是在每个国家都必须上交护照。
监狱官员协会全国主席 马克·费尔赫斯特 (Mark Fairhurst) 表示，鲁达库巴纳 (Rudakubana) “利用了体制”，以便他能享受“安全精神病院中精神病患者所享有的自由”。 英国改革党领导人 奈杰尔·法拉格 (Nigel Farage) 要求立即撤销这一“令人愤怒”的决定。 贝尔马什监狱 (HMP Belmarsh) 是一座高安全级别的 A 类监狱，因收容大量伊斯兰恐怖分子而闻名。 近年来，服刑人员包括哈希姆·阿贝迪 (Hashem Abedi)，他是曼彻斯特竞技场爆炸案袭击者萨尔曼·阿贝迪 (Salman Abedi) 的兄弟。 英国监狱监察署 (HM Inspectorate of Prisons) 的一次检查发现，该监狱的部分囚犯每天在室外的时间仅为 90 分钟。
上图为克里斯·布朗 (Chris Brown) 的警方入狱照； 左图为该说唱歌手在南华克刑事法院 (Southwark Crown Court) 外为粉丝签名
她补充道：“我的警队和我的管理层一直给予很大支持，但他们能做的事情有限。我认为司法部没有考虑我作为一名警察所面临的风险，以及对更广泛社区的影响。” 威尔特郡警方 (Wiltshire Police) 启动了刑事调查，并为她提供了加强的安全保障。目前已有一人被逮捕，并被保释，条件是不得返回该地区。 警察联邦负责人警告称，这突显了过早释放的风险。
作者：Charles Hymas 内政事务编辑
一名起草相关计划的顾问警告称，如果安迪·伯纳姆放弃工党的提前释放计划，监狱将在11月耗尽空间。 前保守党司法大臣、负责量刑独立审查的戴维·高克爵士（Sir David Gauke）表示，如果没有提前释放计划，英格兰和威尔士的监狱将在秋季“处于容量耗尽的轨道上”。 他的警告是在伯纳姆先生宣布暂停该举措之后提出的；此前《电讯报》披露了警员安德鲁·哈珀（Andrew Harper）的杀手可能被提前释放的消息，引发了强烈抗议。 首相表示，在政府完成审查并“尽一切可能将公众风险降至最低”之前，没有任何囚犯将在该计划下被释放。 《电讯报》披露，警员哈珀的杀手阿尔伯特·鲍尔斯（Albert Bowers）和杰西·科尔（Jessie Cole）原定于在执行 2019 年犯下的误杀罪 13 年刑期的半程时获释。 哈珀警员当时正在调查一起四轮摩托车失窃案，随后被犯罪分子的逃逸车拖行了一英里多。 他的遗孀利西·哈珀（Lissie Harper）表示，
他们的牢房。调查发现厨房里有害虫，参与教育或工作等“有目的性活动”的囚犯太少，且被隔离的囚犯在敞开的厕所附近用餐。 相比之下，由西伦敦NHS信托基金会管理的布罗德穆尔医院（Broadmoor）提供一系列活动，且环境宽松得多。 该机构提供工艺美术、体育和职业培训等活动，并设有咖啡馆、理发店、多信仰圣所和陶艺工作室。该设施最多收容 210 名患有精神健康障碍的男性。 鲁达库巴纳（Rudakubana）受害者的家属表示，他们直到过去 48 小时内才被告知将他转移到布罗德穆尔医院的决定，且仅获得了“最简略的细节”。
在工党应对监狱过度拥挤的计划下，释放暴力罪犯。 该联邦代表一线警员，目前正敦促安迪·伯纳姆在其对该计划的审查中，限制对紧急工作人员实施严重暴力而被定罪的罪犯自动提前释放。 该联邦副全国主席布莱恩·布斯（Brian Booth）表示：“没有任何一名警察应该在回家后面对威胁、恐吓和恐惧，仅仅是因为
‘我们已经达到了一个认为提前释放囚犯是可以接受的地步，这简直令人悲哀’。” 该政策允许严重罪犯——包括杀手、强奸犯和诱导儿童者——只要在狱中没有犯下任何严重违规行为，即可在刑期过半（而非三分之二）时获得释放资格。 被判定犯有较轻罪行的罪犯，在刑期仅过三分之一时即可获得释放资格。超过 5,000 名囚犯
转移 并不会 改变 他的刑期， 该刑期 依然 为 52 年， 他将 在狱中 度过 每一天”
他们所从事的工作，而这正是这里发生的情况。 “我们不知道还有多少其他警员可能会受到影响，但此案引发了人们对暴力犯罪者在刑满前被释放所产生后果的严重担忧。” Booth 先生表示：“司法部（MoJ）必须解释为何允许这种情况发生，以及他们正在采取什么措施来确保警员不会面临这些严重风险。” 司法部已收到置评请求。
政府引入“针对性强”的豁免条款，例如可适用于袭击警员的暴力犯罪者。 然而，他补充道：“问题在于，很难划定一条界线，既能不留下一些有争议的案例，又不会大幅增加监狱人口。” 他在 X 上的帖文中写道：“量刑改革是由必要性驱动的。刑期增加了，释放时间点推后了，但监狱容量并未随之增加。这导致了 2024 年出现容量危机，进而实施了短期紧急释放计划。我们应该希望避免这种情况。 “如今我们的监狱空间更多了，但我们的目标不应该是让监狱处于满员状态。我们可能有空位——但可能是在错误的地方，或者是错误的监狱类型。 “满员运行使得康复治疗难以实施，且如果在犯罪率激增时，会使系统变得脆弱。如果没有提前释放计划，我们将在 11 月耗尽容量，届时将需要采取紧急措施。” 唐宁街和司法部均未设定该计划预计实施的具体日期，但表示这将取决于审查结果。
Rudakubana 曾被开具药物处方，但他认为药物无效。随后他拒绝服药，直到医生更改了他的处方。 她表示，这是他“企图控制和操纵局面的典型行为”。 医生向调查委员会提交的证据
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在火焰威胁切断法国西南部 卡普费雷 (Cap Ferret) 通路时逃离
作者：Vivian Song
“末日般”的山火迫使整个法国卡普费雷半岛的人员全部撤离，游客们乘船逃离火海。 波尔多附近肆虐的火灾迫使家庭逃离，火势吞噬的面积与曼彻斯特市相当。 昨天，在这个被誉为“法国汉普顿”的宜居地区（许多巴黎富豪夏季在此度假），游客和居民被引导登上渡轮以逃离大火。 法国全境有超过 67,000 名居民被迫逃离家园，而西班牙中部的撤离行动使全欧洲的总人数达到了 87,000 人。 “宪兵们过来敲门……”
作者：Samuel Montgomery
一名士兵被指控从陆军基地盗走一辆装甲车，并在基地外饮酒后将其开至道路上撞击车辆。 视频片段显示，这辆15吨的“斗牛犬”（Bulldog）车辆在威尔特郡的一条平民道路上行驶，沿途留下一片狼藉。 两名工程师因涉嫌造成价值£100,000的损失而被皇家军事警察逮捕。 消息人士告诉《太阳报》，这些士兵在离开斯温顿军营（Swinton Barracks）饮酒后，于昨日凌晨1点左右返回蒂德沃思驻军地（Tidworth Garrison）并盗走了一辆装甲运兵车。 “斗牛犬”车辆需要两名乘员操作，由一台240马力的劳斯莱斯发动机驱动，最高时速可达32英里。 在一段从楼上窗户拍摄的涉嫌狂欢驾驶的片段中，显示“斗牛犬”随后被归还至军营附近的一个停车位。 在战友发现损失后，该士兵于黎明时分在其房间内被捕。另一名士兵也被逮捕。 一名陆军发言人表示：“今早在珀汉唐（Perham Down）发生一起事件后，两名士兵已被逮捕。在调查期间，我们不会发表进一步评论。” 蒂德沃思是第26工程团、第1医疗团以及国王皇家骠骑兵团等团部的所在地。 2024, 年，一名驻扎在阿里沃尔军营（Aliwal Barracks）的士兵在身着蝙蝠侠装扮撞上电报杆后，被判醉酒驾驶罪名成立。25岁的刘易斯·布隆德里奇（Lewis Blondrage）被裁定醉酒驾驶及在道路交通事故现场未能停车。斯温顿的治安法官对他处以12个月的驾驶资格禁令并罚款£600。
顺时针方向：一架飞机在向森林火灾喷水后飞离；居民骑着自行车观看卡普费雷（Cap Ferret）住宅区出现的浓烟；游客坐在拉卡诺（Lacanau）穆奇克（Moutchic）的海滩上，看着野火产生的烟云升入天空。
火焰高速推进。法国内政部长劳伦特·努涅斯（Laurent Nuñez）在的一份声明中表示，整个卡普费雷地区共有80栋房屋被焚毁，其中约50栋被完全摧毁。 卡普费雷的居民和游客表示，他们收到了手机警报，并且还有敲门疏散令。 来自伦敦的26岁律师杰里米·劳（Jeremy Lau）周三与一名朋友开车前往卡普费雷。在繁忙的比亚里茨（Biarritz）和圣塞巴斯蒂安（San Sebastián）小镇度过几天后，他原本希望能度过一个安静、放松的海滩假期。 劳先生说，他记得在开车途中评论过远处升起的浓烟，但当时并未在意。然而到了第二天，很明显他们的海滩假期被毁了。 他说：“天空呈黄色，且有相当多的烟雾。” 周四晚餐时，两人收到了他们Airbnb房东发来的消息，每扇门上都贴着通知——火场距离约500米，”来自波尔多南部的勒波日（Le Porge）居民、69岁的帕特里克·马蒂纽（Patrick Martineau）说。“我们收拾了几件东西就离开了。” 法国当局命令西南大西洋沿岸数千名游客撤离露营地和度假屋，1,000名消防员在水上轰炸机的支持下紧急控制火势。 到目前为止，至少44,000人已从卡普费雷半岛和吉伦特（Gironde）地区疏散，另有23,000人从向南25英里的比斯卡罗斯（Biscarrosse）疏散。 虽然目前没有报告人员伤亡，但已有42名消防员受伤。 自周三以来，在卡普费雷附近肆虐的火灾已吞噬了约50平方英里的土地。 朗德消防救援局副局长罗曼·穆塔德（Romain Moutard）上校将此次火灾描述为“末日之火”和“但丁式”的局面。
船只撞击桥梁
作者：Tim Sigsworth 及 Pieter Snepvangers
昨日，五名武装警察在乘坐船只撞击伦敦威斯敏斯特桥（Westminster Bridge）时受伤。 下午 3.40pm，这五名警员在赶往响应一名落水者报告的途中，其乘坐的充气快艇撞击了桥梁。 此次在议会大厦附近的碰撞力量将三名警员抛入河中，随后全部五人被送往医院。 其中一人现已出院，其余四人仍因伤势严重在院治疗。 游客 Cecilia Lusevic（56 岁）及其儿子 Mateo Bilis-Lusevic（12 岁）表示，在警用船撞击时，他们听到了一声巨响。 事发时，他们正身处桥北侧的一艘泰晤士河游览船上。Mateo 表示：“两
主，警告他们火势正在逼近。 当他们看到远处升起两股烟柱，且火势已接近附近的一座墓地时，两人决定吃完晚餐，收拾财物并在当天晚上开车离开。 这一决定让他们免于在次日清晨与 400 名其他游客及当地居民一起进行紧急船只疏散。 “火势看起来并未得到控制，且正在蔓延，而且进出该半岛只有一条路，”Lau 先生说道。“我们决定与其等待疏散，不如早点离开。” 截至昨日下午，当局已将疏散令扩大至吉伦特省（Gironde）四个市镇的居民：阿雷斯（Arès）、索莫斯（Saumos）、阿尔代诺莱班（Ardenos-les-Bains）和勒汤普勒（Le Temple），当地居民将当时的状况描述为日益“无法呼吸”。 周四晚上，法国总统埃马纽埃
艘船在水面上行驶速度极快。我正看着那艘船，然后听到一声巨响。 三个人飞进了水里，其中一个伤得很重。” 他表示，警员在水中大约停留了 10 分钟，有人为其中一名警员投掷了救生圈。
极快。我听到一声 巨响。三个人飞进 了水里”
马克龙称局势“极其紧张”，并表示他已请求启动欧盟的民事保护机制。 “我们将很快能够获得增援，包括两架克罗地亚的 Canadair 灭火飞机、两架葡萄牙的 Air Tractor 飞机，以及两架来自捷克和斯洛伐克的黑鹰重型直升机，”他在 X 上写道。 “这种具体、迅速且具备操作性的团结，是在这次磨难中宝贵的精神支柱。” 欧盟表示，将提供三架水上轰炸机协助法国。 法国东南部也受到严重打击，科蒂尼亚克（Cotignac）村周围爆发了数十起火灾，并在密斯特拉风（mistral wind）的助推下迅速蔓延。官员表示，自周二以来约有 25 栋房屋被毁。 周二，两名消防员在试图扑灭波尔多机场附近的另一场大火时殉职。
水中的人员被附近船上的人们救起。 碰撞发生后，一架警用直升机和一架空中救护车在上方盘旋。伦敦交通局（Transport for London）确认，威斯敏斯特地铁站的 3 号和 4 号入口已关闭。 伦敦警察厅的 Nick John 指挥官表示：“我们的心与所有相关人员在一起，特别是受伤的警员以及在艰苦环境下做出响应的人员。” “仍留在医院的四名警员伤势严重但无生命危险。在他们康复期间，我们将提供一切支持。我还要向那些救援警员的河道使用者，以及其他警察和应急服务部门的同事表示感谢。” 一名来度假的德国学生表示：“听起来像是一场车祸。”
Faithfull 的签名可刻于墓碑
作者：Tim Sigsworth
作者：Tim Sigsworth
英格兰教会法院裁定，玛丽安·费思富（MARIANNE FAITHFULL）的签名可以刻在她的墓碑上。一名教会法官表示，为了更好地体现这位歌手的“个性”，应在她的墓碑上忽略禁止使用草书的规定。
费思富是一位词曲作者、演员，曾是米克·贾格尔爵士（Sir Mick Jagger）的情人，她是“摇摆六十年代”（Swinging Sixties）精神的化身。去年，她在 78 岁时去世，后被安葬在伯克希尔郡奥尔沃思（Aldworth）的圣玛丽教堂。
她的儿子尼古拉斯·邓巴（Nicholas Dunbar）现已说服英格兰教会放宽关于墓碑的规定，允许刻上她的签名。今年，邓巴先生为该墓碑申请了“教区许可”（faculty）——这相当于教会内部的规划许可。
他表示：“我的母亲是一位世界著名的录音艺术家和词曲作者，与奥尔沃思有着深厚的联系。我们希望在墓碑背面传达这一点，摘录她最后几首歌曲中的一段话，并在下方刻上她的签名。歌词表达了她的精神世界，因为她在晚年重新回归了基督教信仰，而签名则表达了她的创造力。”
该签名违反了牛津教区（Diocese of Oxford）制定的规定，该规定宣布墓碑上“不允许使用草书（即看起来是以流畅手写体书写的字体）”。
教区首席教会法官大卫·霍奇（David Hodge KC）在费思富的案例中允许了豁免，因为该签名反映了她的“个性”。
他裁定：“还有什么能比一个签名的意象更地表达一个人的个性呢？”
法官承认，由于签名使用了草书，该设计“未能遵守” “适用的墓地规定”。然而，他认为该规则的设立是为了“确保纪念碑上的铭文可以毫无困难地被阅读”，而他认为这与费思富的墓碑无关。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 玛丽安·费思富 据其子 尼古拉斯·邓巴称， 她在晚年 重新回归了 基督教
从倦怠的牧师和破败建筑的 危机中拯救出来
作者：Gabriella Swerling 社会与宗教事务编辑
多位牧师发出警告，教区教堂正面临“毁灭”。
在不到十年的时间里，已有 400 多个教堂被关闭，导致神职人员警告称，作为“英格兰教会基石”的教区正面临威胁。
由活动团体“拯救教区”（Save the Parish）发布的一份宣言呼吁教会领导层拯救那些“为我们的孩子洗礼、庆祝我们的婚礼并埋葬我们死者”的教区教堂。
该组织创始人、伦敦市圣巴多禄茂大教堂（St Bartholomew the Great）的教区牧师马库斯·沃克（Rev Marcus Walker）表示：“我们面临一个选择：重新平衡并修复教会，帮助其复兴，或者继续走毁灭之路。现在正是全国好意之士可以做出贡献的时候。”
教会财务管理不善的后果
作者：Marcus Walker
“穷人常与你们同在，”基督在《马太福音》中如此说道，但教会是否会一直与穷人同在？对于英格兰教会而言，这是一个生存问题，因为它正决定在经历了整整两代人的衰落之后，如何重新振作并收拾残局。
得知某些教会富有而另一些则不然，并不令人惊讶。从国教成立之初，我们就知道最贫穷的教区无法维持自给自足，因此安妮女王设立了一项永久捐赠基金，“用于在最需要此类援助的教区中拯救灵魂”。该基金目前规模为 £11.6bn。由教会教区管理的捐赠基金总额为 £6.1bn。2024, 年，从总收入中拨付了高达 £653m 的资金。
然而，其中仅有 £85m 用于支持教区传教工作。这是过去决定将这些捐赠资金的用途扩大至大主教委员会（实际上是教会的“内阁”）任何目的的直接结果。其后果在统计数据中可见：在本世纪的前 20 年里，领取薪金的
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色调协调的“阿联酋骑士”（The Fursan El Emarat）飞行表演队在范堡罗国际航展上展现其最佳水准。该团队代表阿拉伯联合酋长国，成立于 2008.。他们采用了黑金相间的涂装，以庆祝阿联酋的石油及其产出的沙漠。
差异。站出来，发出你的声音。” 神职人员和活动人士长期以来一直在警告，由于需要同时覆盖多个教区，导致牧师们精疲力竭、不堪重负且薪资过低，志愿者们在勉强填补空缺，而破旧的建筑则无法负担关键的维修费用。所有这些因素都导致了教会关闭数量的增加。 教区的衰落是坎特伯雷大主教、最尊敬的莎拉·穆拉利（Sarah Mullaly）女爵士面临的另一个问题，此外还包括教会将如何处理同性关系的议题以及教会会众人数下降的问题。 据信，她比她的前任贾斯汀·韦尔比（Justin Welby）主教对教区的同情心要强得多。在他的任期内，神职人员数量被大幅削减，数亿英镑从教区被转移到了教会的中央计划中。 在 1 月圣保罗大教堂举行的选任确认仪式当天，莎拉女爵士表示：“我希望成为一名牧羊人，去照顾教区内的人们以及我们的神职人员，同时在人们面临诸多挑战的时刻，讲述基督徒的希望。” 对 2022 年英格兰教会数据的分析发现，在 2010 和 2019. 之间，有 423 座教堂被关闭。进一步分析还显示，在短短 30 年多时间里，有近 1,000 座教堂被迫关闭——其中 1987 和 2019. 之间关闭了 940 座。 这意味着在报告发布时，剩余的教堂数量约为 15,496 座。这也标志着对教会规模的首次全面分析。
马库斯·沃克（Marcus Walker）牧师称，高达 36% 的神职人员患有临床抑郁症
神职人员数量下降了 20%，教区受益权（benefices）的数量同样下降了 20%。 更糟糕的是，削减对穷人的打击最重。在全国最贫困的五分位数地区，教堂关闭的可能性是最高富裕地区教堂的五倍。一项由“教会反贫困行动”（Church Action on Poverty）开展的研究表明，40% 的关闭发生在全国最贫困的 10% 教区中。教会是否始终与穷人同在？ 那么钱都去哪了？有些资金支持了基本任务。但有些资金则在支撑一个不断膨胀的
多少像萨福克郡沃尔顿（Walton）这座一样如诗般优美的村庄教区教堂，现在正面临风险？
官僚机构。在神职人员和教区受益权下降 20% 的同一时期，C-级教区长（archdeacons）的数量反而激增了 20%。随着教区管理费用在三年内增长 29%，具有政治争议的职位也大量增加。但大部分资金被用于拨款：通过一项由预算责任办公室（Office for Budget Responsibility）负责人审计并被发现极不理想的计划，向教区系统之外的短期项目提供巨额资助（例如，该计划拨出 £176，希望吸引 89,000 名新信徒，但实际仅吸引了 12,700 名）。 这导致了教区资金匮乏以及神职人员士气的崩溃——据信 36% 的人患有临床抑郁症——因为更少数量的牧师不得不应对更多的教堂和更少的志愿者。 “拯救教区”（Save the Parish）正在发起活动以扭转这种毁灭性的螺旋，将资金重新投入到前线和穷人之中；关怀我们的神职人员并重视我们的志愿者。我们需要愿意参与工作以克服这一危机的候选人竞选教会议会（General Synod，即教会的议会）。我们可以帮助复兴教会。你愿意站出来，发出你的声音吗？ 马库斯·沃克是伦敦东部圣巴多罗缪教堂（St Bartholomew）的教区长
一座农场仓库发生爆炸，震动了附近的房屋，并向空中升起巨大的烟云。 在埃塞克斯郡雷滕登（Rettendon）乡村村庄附近的一场火灾中，超过 100 名消防员被召集到现场。由于化肥爆炸，爆炸声在近 15 英里外的绍森德（Southend）清晰可见，附近居民已被疏散。 昨晚的这场火灾被宣布为重大事件。 埃塞克斯郡消防救援服务局的一位发言人表示：“超过 100 名消防员正努力扑灭火灾。请避开该区域，如果您住在附近，请关好门窗。” 消防队的区域经理戴夫·博伊德（Dave Boyd）表示：“这是一场严重的火灾，但我们已将其控制，不对公众造成更广泛的风险。除了一个田地外，若干工业单元也起火了，救援人员一直致力于防止火势蔓延到附近的房屋。 “现场所有人员均安全，在我们扑灭火灾期间，附近居民已撤离。” 在爆炸发生前，人们看到消防员出现在起火的仓库附近。
数字是因为教会年度报告中的官方数据仅涵盖单一年份。 沃克牧师（Rev Walker）在新冠疫情之后发起了“拯救教区”（Save the Parish）行动，因为关闭教堂引起了那些在努力支持和支付其不堪重负的牧师薪资的基督徒社区的批评。 这是一个基层运动，旨在为全国的教区系统提供资源，并提高人们对“被遗弃社区”的认识。 沃克牧师同时也是英格兰教会立法机构——总议会（General Synod）的成员，他补充道：“如果我们希望在一代人之内拥有一个繁荣的教区系统，我们就必须起来采取行动。当地教会资金匮乏导致了教区合并、教堂削减、神职人员抑郁以及志愿者退出等恶性循环。 “我们需要打破这个循环。凭借祷告和对上帝的信任，并以教会自身的调研为支撑，我们可以希望通过向教区重新投入适当的资金，让我们有机会再次繁荣和增长。” 在“拯救教区”成立后的这些年里，它恢复了教区事工的法律优先级，为最贫困的教区争取到了资金，并赢得了一次审查
随着消防车用软管浇灭火焰，刺鼻的黑烟在空中翻滚。 据了解，爆炸的建筑物位于海兰兹农场（Highlands Farm），这是一个由多栋建筑组成的综合体，内有多家企业。该农场综合体还设有其他几家企业和住宅物业。 巴西尔登区议会（Basildon borough council）改革英国党（Reform UK）小组负责人萨姆·乔内特（Sam Journet）表示：“附近的住宅似乎也被卷入了这场大火。”
关于英格兰教会如何获得资金。其宣言承诺包括采用一项《关怀宪章》，旨在重视神职人员并保护他们免于身心精疲力竭，以及另一项旨在表彰那些“维持我们教区凝聚力”的志愿者的宪章，并恢复对教区事工的资金支持。 该宣言称：“每个教区都需要得到支持，以保持祷告之门的开启，而不是被剥夺所需的资源，且教会必须资助前线事工以防止进一步恶化。” 就在《电讯报》 2022 年针对关闭教区的调查前一年，约克大主教史蒂芬·科特雷尔（Stephen Cottrell）最为尊贵的阁下曾警告称，英格兰教会的未来因缺乏神职人员而受到威胁。在疫情期间，有迹象表明农村教区难以支付牧师的薪水，只能由志愿者填补缺口。 此外，根据一份泄露的文件显示，教会官员认为冠状病毒疫情提供了一个进行“激进变革”的机会，而这可能会导致教区教会模式的消失。 已联系英格兰教会以寻求置评。
罗奇福德区议会（Rochford District Council）保守党党魁丹妮尔·贝尔顿（Danielle Belton）表示：“我的整个房子都在摇晃。看起来情况极其严重，我真心希望没有人受伤。” 住在附近的特许测量师达伦·伊娃（Darren Eva）， 56 岁，表示他感觉到一股“巨大的压力波”击中了他的房子。他告诉《电讯报》：“那太剧烈了。如果不是在爆炸前我已经看到了那里的起火照片，我真的会以为发生了某种核爆炸，或者我们正处于战争之中。”
埃塞克斯郡雷滕登（Rettendon, Essex）火灾产生的黑烟笼罩在乡村上空
尼克·古特里奇 (Nick Gutteridge) 首席政治记者
挑战工党议员在 投票禁止前 深思熟虑该议题
本·华莱士爵士 (SIR BEN WALLACE) 习惯于在前线生活。作为苏格兰卫队的一名上尉，他在北爱尔兰服役，并曾参与一次巡逻，抓获了一支涉嫌计划对英军发动炸弹袭击的 IRA 单元。在将作战服换成蓝色党徽后，这位前保守党国防大臣随后与财政部进行了长达数年的斗争，以确保军方获得维持国家安全所需的资金增长。
如今，这位曾被看好将成为首相的人，正处于反对工党试图废除追踪狩猎 (trail hunting) 的新斗争前沿。
这场战斗将本爵士带到了彼得伯勒郊区一个平静的乡村展会的展演场。
他正在参加一年一度的猎犬节 (Festival of Hounds)，来自英国各地的乡村居民聚集在这里，展示他们的巴塞特猎犬 (Bassets) 和比格犬 (Beagles)，并抵制唐宁街禁止追踪狩猎的争议计划。
在身着狩猎粉色礼服和粗花呢夹克的男女簇拥下（许多人在初秋的午后阳光下拿着喝了一半的啤酒），本爵士发表了一番激情的恳求，希望安迪·伯纳姆 (Andy Burnham) 能修复工党与农村社区之间破裂的关系。
“我曾经在政府任职，”他带着一丝谦逊地告诉人群，“我现在承担起责任，试图确保我们能够击退目前对我们的生活方式、以及我们选择在乡村追求享乐和自由的威胁。”
“我们有了新首相，发送一个信号真的非常重要。他只有一次机会来重置与乡村的关系。政府与我们在农村社区所做的事情之间，不必非得是一场战斗。”
“他的口号是团结国家，那么在试图禁止追踪狩猎这件事上，他可以通过‘踩刹车’来实现这一点。”
这位前部长在公众心目中最著名的形象，是在俄罗斯侵略面前坚定支持乌克兰的英国面孔。在弗拉基米尔·普京入侵后的几天和几周内，正是他协调了英国的反应，为基辅提供了包括“风暴阴影” (Storm Shadow) 导弹在内的至关重要的防御武器。
在鲍里斯·约翰逊、伊丽莎白·特拉斯和里希·苏纳克任内担任了四年的国防大臣后，他在 2023 年 7 月离开了内阁，随后在 12 个月后的通用选举中辞去了在怀尔和普雷斯顿北区 (Wyre and Preston North) 的议席。
他在军事圈内依然备受尊重且人脉广泛。但当他与来自全国各地的狩猎领袖们打成一片——拍背、握手、以名相称地开玩笑时——他显然在乡村民众之中也同样自在。
因为这是一项本爵士长期支持的事业，包括在他担任一线政治职务期间。在担任国防大臣期间，他曾在 2022 年亲自介入，取消其部门与“反残酷运动联盟” (League Against Cruel Sports) 之间的一项协议，该协议曾帮助动物权利活动人士追踪猎犬穿越国防部 (MoD) 土地的路径。
他带着真挚的情感说道，他奋斗以拯救追踪狩猎，是因为“我希望我的孩子和孙辈能享受这项运动。我希望我的孙辈——如果有一天我有了的话——能来到这里看这场神奇的猎犬展。”
基尔·斯塔默爵士在其 2024 年赢得大选的竞选宣言中承诺禁止这项运动，随后在他担任首相期间，尽管国家在他短暂的任期内面临所有紧迫的危机，他仍执意推进该议程。
即使是在就曼德尔森勋爵 (Lord Mandelson) 丑闻进行政治生命博弈之时，基尔爵士在三月份依然抽出时间启动了一项关于……
[[IMG_XXXX]] JASON BYE 为 《电讯报》 拍摄
本·华莱士 (Ben Wallace)（右），在彼得伯勒的一次支持追踪狩猎的活动上，与珀西猎犬组猎手 (Huntsman of the Percy) 罗伯特·麦卡锡 (Robert McCarthy) 在一起。
禁令，这将需要通过一项主立法，从而占用议会中至关重要的政府时间。
伯纳姆先生似乎同样致力于这一事业。在他就任工党领袖前夕，他告诉工党动物福利协会，他全力支持其前任的战略，“包括禁止追踪狩猎”。
为什么该党如此痴迷于一个在选民优先事项名单中始终排名垫底的主题？“这是那种不顾后果的...
他们会 针对射击。 而在 射击之后 他们会 针对 赛马”
“这是一个模版化的工党议员套装，某种程度上就是‘我是工党议员，所以我必须反对狩猎’，”本爵士告诉《电讯报》。“我们发现许多工党议员并未深思熟虑，并不真正理解他们正在投票，或者可能被要求投票的内容。 “这也反映出我童年时代的工党与今天的工党已截然不同。今天的工党是北伦敦大都市化的，脱离了它声称代表的劳动人民，且未植根于宽容的价值观。”伯纳姆先生或许不属于伊斯灵顿那一套，但由于他出生在利物浦郊区，且整个政治生涯都在曼彻斯特度过，他仍然是一个沉浸在与首都同僚相似的自由主义价值观中的都市人。很难想象首相在英格兰东部展场感到自在，浏览销售狩猎礼帽和乡村风景水彩画的摊位，或视察在笼中打盹的猎犬群。但本爵士表示，这不能成为这位新任首相不在其早期演讲中尝试搭建沟通桥梁的理由。“他本可以意识到家庭农场税带来的破坏，以及营业率对乡村企业和酒吧的打击，以及对我们生活方式的冲击。 “他本可以意识到这是一个问题，而且只要示意一个不同的行进方向，对他来说毫无损失。他还有时间，让我们给他时间。 “科尔宾的错误在于未能意识到英格兰北部的大多数工党选民具有深厚的爱国情怀。如果他认为自己了解工党运动，他就应该意识到他试图代表的工党人士不会这样做。”伯纳姆先生出生在安特里，那里因作为大国家赛的舞台而闻名世界。赛马是一项沉浸在工人阶级传统中的运动，但本爵士警告称，如果工党议员和活动人士成功地扼杀追踪狩猎，赛马将成为下一个目标。“在我们之后，他们会针对射击，”他预言道。“而在射击之后，他们会针对赛马，在赛马之后，他们会针对这个小圈子不喜欢的所有其他活动。这些事情不会停止。”本爵士和亲狩猎阵营目前正准备在议会于9月结束夏季休会返回时，迎接他们人生中最重要的战斗。他们表示，接下来的将是一场关于乡村灵魂的战斗，其结果将对农村社区的未来产生深远影响。
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特朗普政府 操纵数据 以使伤亡情况 看起来不那么严重
作者：David Millward 美国特派记者
五角大楼将伊朗战争中美军阵亡人数从 18 人下调至 14 人，引发了强烈反弹。《纽约时报》的一篇报道援引三名军方官员的话称，这一决定由特朗普政府做出，剔除的四人是因为他们在美总统于4月宣布停火后被杀。批评者指责该政府在操纵数据，与此同时
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现在他们有六个人了 美国副总统 JD Vance 及其妻子 Usha 迎来了他们的 第四个孩子。Alec Neel 于周日出生， 加入了九岁的 Ewan、 六岁的 Vivek 以及四岁的 Mirabel 的行列。该婴儿是 156 年来 首位在职副总统 所生的孩子。
可能会像一座 摇摇欲坠的 Jenga 积木塔
Hans van Leeuwen 国际经济编辑
1 2 3 4 唐纳德·特朗普希望他针对 60 个经济体征收、税率为 10% 或 12.5% 的新反奴隶制关税，将成为重建美国关税墙的基石。
但结果可能会更像一座 Jenga 积木塔——摇摇欲坠、毫无成效且极易崩塌。
最高法院在 2 月份否决了特朗普最青睐的报复手段，削弱了他沉溺于其周末消遣——以随机提高关税威胁其他国家的能力。
失去这项权力及其带来的数十亿美元收入是一颗苦药，但对他而言幸运的是，美国法律的“药柜”中还存有其他补救措施。
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作者：Verity Bowman
当一名轮椅使用者在阿肯色州的一条繁忙道路上艰难前行时，一位超级英雄及时出现并提供了帮助。 克里斯托弗·赫伦塔尔（Christopher Hellenthal）在参加完一场超级英雄主题活动后仍穿着蜘蛛侠服装，此时他发现了一个化解危机的机会。 赫伦塔尔先生迅速跳出车外，在交通灯变换之前的瞬间将该名人士推至安全地带。 这起发生在琼斯伯勒（Jonesboro）的事件被闭路电视录下，并由当地警方在社交平台上分享。
对于这场未经国会批准就发起的冲突，人们存在很大争议。 “对于这次所谓的‘小规模冲突’（特朗普拒绝称之为战争）的处置，普遍缺乏透明度，”退役少将保罗·伊顿（Paul Eaton）说道。 在评论服役人员损失时，他补充道：“这是一种统计学上的掩盖手段，旨在让行政当局看起来没那么糟糕。” “这就是全部。而且这很不体面。这纯粹是试图掩盖真相的持续尝试。” “受伤人员缺乏报告。我们不知道这些男女士兵伤势有多重。因此，这个行政当局，这个五角大楼……顶多也就是‘不透明’。” “而且值得注意的是，落入这个类别的四个人中，有一名白人，两名拉丁裔女性，以及一名黑人。这就是美国的缩影，是我们的横截面，四个美好的人在了一场选择之战、自负之战和虚荣之战中丧生。这简直是该行政当局令人作呕的一部分。” 上周五在约旦有三名服役人员遇难，在伊拉克北部有一名遇难。他们的名字分别是：泰勒·詹姆斯·菲汉（Tyler James Feehan）中尉、安格尔·兰珀萨德（Angel Rampersad）中士、伊莎贝拉·冈萨雷斯（Isabella Gonzales）二等兵和迈克尔·伊曼纽尔·斯温顿（Michael Emmanuel Swinton）中士。 到目前为止，家属们尚未对亲人从名单中被删除一事发表评论。 斯温顿中士的遗孀贾米娅（Jamiah）向丈夫表达了敬意。她告诉《纽约时报》：“他非常精通自己的工作，这让人们愿意倾听他的意见。” 五角大楼将这一变动归因于“临时数据中断”，一个
他立即转向了一种新的关税制定权力：1974年《贸易法》第 122 条，该条款允许他征收关税以应对不断增加的贸易赤字。 但他的行动受限于 15% 的最高税率，这远低于许多国家之前面临的税率，且该条款设有六个月的有效期。 这使他转向了 1974 年法律中的另一项权力，即第 301 条，该条款允许对在美贸易或商业中设置不公平限制的国家征收关税。 不过，这里有一个陷阱。限制或不公平行为不能仅仅在 Truth Social 上声称就将其视为事实。当局必须进行正式调查，这意味着指控需要有一定的实质依据。 为了绕过这一点，白宫找到了一个制胜议题——强迫劳动。 许多国家都有防止其公司使用
湖城（Lake City）的人表示，他长期以来一直是蜘蛛侠的粉丝，此前曾见过已故的斯坦·李（Stan Lee），这位漫威传奇共同创造了这位吐丝超级英雄。 帕基·马格尔（Packy Magel）是举办超级英雄主题活动的 Ultimate Air Trampoline Park 的经理，他说他通过视频认出了赫伦塔尔先生。 他说，做这样的事情“非常符合他的性格，而且一直穿着服装也非常符合他的风格”。
强迫劳动，但美国的指控是，没有人能有效地执行这一点。
这一指控几乎不可能被反驳，而调查也适当地发现，特朗普先生所谓的担忧是有根据的。现在他拥有了一件为期四年且可续期的关税武器，且没有最高税率限制。
但事实真的如此吗？虽然 301 关税通常具有相当强的粘性，但美国声称其动机是出于对强迫劳动的担忧，这在理据上极其薄弱。
关税的全面性表明，白宫几乎没有费心去了解各国正在采取什么措施。
如果奴隶制真的是其关注点，它会加入相关的国际公约，或将关税作为采取更一致全球行动的跳板。
法院可能会受理针对这一脆弱理由的挑战。这最终将再次成为一个关于国会还是白宫掌控关税政策的问题——尽管最高法院在二月份已经回答了这个问题。
与此同时，关税战仍在继续。美国还针对越南的知识产权，以及德国的药品定价实践启动了 301 调查。
规模最大的一项调查是针对“制造业的结构性产能过剩和生产”，其目标与强迫劳动调查的 60 个经济体相同。这可能会在 10 per cent 或 12.5 per cent 的税率之上再增加一层关税，使每个国家回到特朗普先生认为合适的任何关税水平。
本周，美国总统还挖掘了 1930 年《斯穆特-霍利法案》（Smoot-Hawley Act）下的一项古老权力，伴随着一个
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解释，而该解释与该报匿名消息源提供的信息相矛盾。
共和党议员、特朗普批评者托马斯·马西（Thomas Massie）在 X 上写道，将此举描述为一场“荒唐的骗局”。他补充道：“现实是：
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由于他们在唐纳德·特朗普 4 月宣布停火后被杀，死亡人数被移除，引发了对“荒唐骗局”的呼吁
通过在没有国会授权的情况下超过 90 天，@SecWar 正在违反法律，必须被追究责任。”
前议员马乔里·泰勒·格林（Marjorie Taylor Greene）……
特朗普的关税和伊朗战争推高美国通胀
美国人面临生活成本上涨
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特朗普的关税策略正在失去动力
平均有效关税率
12% 首次对中国实施 IEEPA 关税
一名共和党代表在谴责中措辞严厉。 “战争部没有将这些美国服役人员的死亡人数计入特朗普对抗伊朗战争的美国士兵官方死亡统计中，因为他们声称这些人在特朗普签署谅解备忘录（MOU）之后被杀，尽管我们每天都在进行轰炸。” “这令人作呕，”这位曾经支持特朗普但现已转为批评者的代表在 X 上写道。 一名名为“Wolf”的用户在 X 上写道：“问题不在于《纽约时报》，而在于你们的欺骗性。一天之内你们报道 18 名美国服役人员死亡，然后神奇地有 4 人复活。伤亡名单像悠悠球一样上下波动。” 五角大楼一直不愿就战争进展或其背后的策略发表详细评论，
来源：美国劳工统计局
“解放日” 2
互惠关税 3
IEEPA 被推翻 4
来源：宾夕法尼亚大学沃顿预算模型
对加拿大牛奶、啤酒、胶合板和曲棍球杆征收 50% 关税的威胁。 这看起来更像是一种可能给特朗普先生提供他渴望的自由发挥空间的权力。已有传闻称，他将利用这一点在国防开支和数字税问题上威逼欧洲。
其最后一次详细简报是在 5 月份提供的。 五角大楼高级发言人肖恩·帕内尔（Sean Parnell）否认存在任何掩盖行为。 “这是‘假新闻’媒体凭空捏造谎言的最恶劣案例之一，完全没有任何理由，纯粹是为了在美国民众中制造焦虑，”他在 X 上写道。 “我们的五角大楼新闻办公室曾给《纽约时报》打了一个礼貌的非正式电话，详细解释了国防伤亡分析系统的站点错误是由于临时数据中断造成的。” “我们的团队解释说我们正在努力解决此问题。尽管如此，《纽约时报》已经与三名匿名消息源勾结，推行一个完全虚假的故事。”
但有一种法律主张认为，这种战前权力已被后来的权力所取代——这一点也将接受法院的检验。 尽管贸易战现在正使用新武器进行，但战场看起来仍然大抵相同。 向美国出口的出口商仍面临混乱和不确定性。而且，无论出口商、进口商还是美国消费者，总有人将承担这些关税的成本。 这项成本今年可能突破 $900bn (£670bn)，将流入国库资金。但潜在代价可能是美国通胀升高和经济增长放缓。 这一估算比特朗普先生在他之前的关税制度下所预期的少约三分之一——为此他仍欠 $100bn 的退款。 但过去一年给这场贸易战带来了一个变化：世界已经变得更加坚韧（developed a thicker skin）。 去年 4 月特朗普先生自称的“解放日”所带来的初步冲击早已消散。政治家、企业和市场在很大程度上已经学会了适应总统那混乱、不可预测且代价高昂的美国贸易政策。 这削弱了他关税威胁的效力与筹码。在贸易战开始 18 个月后，枪炮在打空枪，而 Jenga 积木塔正在倒塌。 然而，附带的经济损害依然是非常真实的。
“加州大麻”（Cali-weed）也在推动走私活动的增加。这种毒品最初在合法的加利福尼亚州种植，随后由中国三合会（Chinese triads）在加拿大种植。
欧盟毒品管理局（EU Drugs Agency）的刑事调查员罗伯特·帕特兰库斯（Robert Patrancus）表示，在布鲁塞尔、巴黎、伦敦和柏林的街头，毒贩正通过 Telegram 或 Signal 等加密消息应用程序向客户积极推销“加州大麻”。
“加州大麻”中主要精神活性化合物 THC 的含量为 28 到 30%，大约是欧洲主要国内供应商西班牙品种强度的两倍。
帕特兰库斯先生表示，这场走私流行是加拿大在 2018 年决定将大麻合法化所带来的一个“非预期副作用”。
他说：“预期的目标之一是消灭非法市场，但正如我们所知，在历史上的每一次，非法市场都会做出调整。”
“这是合法化一个不幸的非预期后果，而且这种药物在人类历史上被合法化的时间非常之短。这非常……”
特鲁多的大麻如何 将比利时 变成了毒品国家
目标之一 是消灭 非法市场， 但正如 我们所知， 在历史上的 每一次， 非法市场 都会 做出调整”
马克斯·斯蒂文斯 (Max Stephens) 国际犯罪 记者 发自安特卫普
据《电讯报》的一项调查发现，在加拿大合法种植的大麻正涌入欧洲，使犯罪帮派致富，并帮助比利时变成了一个“毒品国家”。在加拿大前总理贾斯汀·特鲁多（Justin Trudeau）执政期间合法化的农场，正向走私者供应高强度的大麻，并将其运往欧洲大陆的部分主要港口。纪录数量的大麻正涌入比利时的安特卫普，仅在去年一年中，海关就查获了 32 吨大麻——比 2024 年增加了 500%。帮派将大麻装在从温哥华、蒙特利尔、哈利法克斯和圣约翰发出的 18 英尺长货运集装箱中走私到欧洲。此次走私行动是由与中国政府相关的黑手党网络驱动的，这些网络在特鲁多先生八年前将该药物合法化后在加拿大迅速扩张。据警方称，该国的大麻已达到饱和状态，以至于帮派将大麻走私到欧洲所赚的钱是国内销售的五倍。一旦进入安特卫普，一公斤大麻的价格将从 £800 飙升至 £4,500。海关官员告诉《电讯报》，在安特卫普，帮派向腐败的码头工人支付约 £40,000，将货运集装箱转移到港口的不同区域，以免被搜查。随后，他们沿着申根区内同样监管不严的陆路通道，将毒品运输到荷兰、德国、法国和意大利，这些通道同样被用于分发可卡因和安非他命。犯罪集团利用这些利润资助其他企业，包括人口走私、武器交易和恐怖网络。比利时海关负责人克里斯蒂安·范德瓦伦（Kristian Vanderwaeren）告诉《电讯报》，今年是官员们在安特卫普-布鲁日联合港口查获的大麻数量首次超过可卡因数量的一年。在今年前六个月，官员们在这个欧洲第二大港口查获了 10.8 吨该药物。同一时期，可卡因的查获量骤降 68%，从 16.7 吨降至 5.4 吨。范德瓦伦先生
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以及他领导的 3,300 名官员在控制大麻和可卡因没收量之间面临着一场平衡博弈。“我必须非常小心；如果我不对可卡因施压，这个怪兽就会回来。我不能切换重点，”他在一个可以俯瞰港口的八层楼办公室里说道。他将大麻走私的激增归咎于特鲁多先生将大麻合法化。比利时海关在 2025 年没收了 32 吨该药物，其中 21 吨来自加拿大。而前一年，来自这个北美国家的分量仅为两吨。“从去年起，我们看到大麻没收量大幅增加，因此两者之间存在关联，”范德瓦伦先生表示。犯罪集团转向大麻而非可卡因，是因为如果被抓获，大麻的刑期要低得多，且利润比以往任何时候都高。这场走私流行病加剧了比利时司法系统内部的担忧，即该国正演变成一个“毒品国家”——一个经济依赖毒品贸易和政府腐败才能生存的国家。消息人士告诉《电讯报》，在安特卫普，配备突击步枪和手榴弹的有组织犯罪团伙敲诈并恐吓公职人员，以确保可卡因和大麻货运不落入警察之手。去年 10 月，一名来自安特卫普的匿名女法官写了一封公开信，描述了有组织犯罪如何扼制该市及司法系统，以至于她的一些同行必须在永久的警察保护下生活。比利时前司法部长文森特·范·奎肯伯恩在 2022 年因一个由荷兰毒品帮派策划的绑架阴谋而被强制潜逃。比利时的毒品帮派武装程度之高，以至于去年 5 月，范德瓦伦先生为他的团队配备了 Heckler & Koch SFP9 半自动手枪和大口径步枪，以抗衡对方的火力。他表示，帮派成员曾跟踪他的员工前往酒吧和加油站，企图通过贿赂或恐吓让他们为其效力。但作为少数愿意接受采访并拍照的比利时执法公职人员之一，范德瓦伦先生并未被他面临的任务所吓倒。“我不害怕，我不会因为有组织犯罪而停止行动。但我也不天真，”他说。“我是海关的大老板，必须有人传递这个信息，同时也要保护我的员工。对我出手能带来什么？只有麻烦，除非他们 [犯罪分子] 想与国家开战。”
HEATHCLIFF O’MALLEY 为《电讯报》拍摄
顶部：海关缉毒犬训导员 Pablo 与 Bonnie 在安特卫普港巡逻。 上方：没收的大麻。 左侧：贾斯汀·特鲁多将该药物合法化在整个欧洲造成了毁灭性结果。
范德瓦伦先生的员工随后带领《电讯报》参观了港口，并演示了如何对集装箱和车辆进行毒品搜查。
两辆涉嫌携带违禁品的面包车从港口被带到检查区。它们首先通过一个 13 英尺高的移动扫描仪。这部价值 £1.5m 的设备是一个安装在海关检查卡车侧面的金属拱门，可对下方通过的车辆进行 X 射线扫描。
警员在检查电脑图像后，决定需要进行更仔细的查看。
在训导员 Pablo 的指导下，一只七岁的比利时马林诺斯嗅探犬 Bonnie 跳进了一辆不起眼的白色面包车后部，搜查着一堆乱七八糟的
纸板箱。搜查花费的时间不到五分钟。邦尼和帕布洛对第二辆车进行了重复搜查。 这一次，两辆车中都没有发现毒品。 “有时我们一天能截获三个集装箱，有时三个月什么也截获不到，”在比利时海关服务了 13 年的帕布洛说。 与可以稀释成液体或嵌入塑料中的可卡因不同，大麻体积大、气味浓，难以隐藏。 海关官员解释说，大多数情况下，大麻只是被真空包装在袋子里，然后被丢在集装箱内部。但由于运输大麻的规模巨大，加上官员腐败，这意味着这种强力毒品能够在未被察觉的情况下跨境运输。 消息人士告诉《电讯报》，人们对一种被称为
从加拿大运往欧洲的大麻
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强力大麻的需求难以预测其变化情况。”加拿大皇家骑警（RCMP）告诉《电讯报》，加拿大帮派利用了欧洲这个肥沃的市场。根据RCMP的情报，截至 2025, 在加拿大，一公斤干大麻的价格为 £795,。一旦进入欧洲，其价值可高达 £4,500.。该部队表示，在 2023 年到今天之间，打算通过海运走私到海外的大麻数量“剧增”。官员们目前查获的数量以数十吨计，并认为 2026 年可能会是一个记录年。加拿大边境服务局（CBSA）欧洲、中东和非洲地区代理局长让-克里斯蒂安·普雷蒙特（Jean-Christian Premont）表示，在过去的 16 个月里，该局截获了 46 吨发往欧洲的大麻。“这是之前截获数量的三倍，”普雷蒙特先生说。他补充说，加拿大政府正向CBSA投资约 £700m，并增加 1,000 名工作人员以加强人力进行打击。这些帮派还试图将毒品从加拿大走私到英国。5月，边境部队官员截获了 12 吨价值 £139m 的大麻——这是英国本土有记录以来最大的一次此类货物运输——该批货物发自加拿大。两男一女（均来自威尔士）被逮捕，并被指控犯有与毒品走私相关的罪行、洗钱以及进口致残喷雾（一种禁制武器）。他们分别是：来自卡尔菲利郡彭汉伊尔斯温路（Islwyn Close, Pengham, Caerphilly）的 Daniel Gould-Lewis，37,；来自埃布瓦尔谷西姆米尔露台（Mill Terrace, Cym, Ebbw Vale）的 Gavin Davies，45,；以及来自默瑟蒂迪尔格诺斯榉树林道（Beech Grove, Gurnos, Merthyr Tydfil）的 Heidi Phillips，36,。三人将于 7 月 24 日在布里斯托尔刑事法院出庭参加认罪听证会。在边境部队拦截事件两周后，新不伦瑞克省圣约翰港的海关官员拦截了 6.7 吨企图通过单个集装箱走私到苏格兰的大麻。这批货物的数量是CBSA在前一年在整个加拿大截获的大麻总量的三倍。特鲁多先生在 2018, 年 6 月的一次演讲中（该演讲在政府将该药物合法化后发表）表示，相关改革将“使大麻远离孩子，并让有组织犯罪无法获利”。而对于欧洲来说，事实恰恰相反。
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作者：亨利·博德金（Henry Bodkin），发自耶路撒冷
在昨日发生的一起大规模枪击事件后，以色列下令在约旦河西岸采取“强力”军事回应，使该地区处于大规模暴力冲突的边缘。 昨日上午，在纳布卢斯（Nablus）附近的一次冲突中，两名以色列人和四名巴勒斯坦人被枪杀。
有人在那儿吗？ 一只飞行的青蛙似乎并不在意一只蜗牛落在它的头上。 摄影师 延·希达亚特（Yan Hidayat） 专门在故乡 印度尼西亚 拍摄野生动物。
延·希达亚特（YAN HIDAYAT）
作者：安东尼娅·朗福德（Antonia Langford）
克里姆林宫宣布，将在乌克兰被杀的俄罗斯士兵的遗孀将获得国家资助的生育治疗。 根据一项新法律，战争遗孀在丈夫去世后的五年内将有权获得免费的体外受精（IVF）和人工授精，前提是他们在此期间未再婚。 她们还必须提供一份经过公证的文件，证明其亡夫在生前同意在死后储存并使用其精子。随法案附带的一份说明性笔记写道：“男性在还很年轻时就经常离开去保卫祖国，许多人还没有机会成为父亲。” “即使是在短暂的休假期间，这也并不总是可能的。如果丈夫被杀，他的妻子就失去了成为母亲并与她所爱的男人拥有孩子的机会。” 该笔记还提到了俄罗斯“已经十分困难的人口状况”，并补充说体外受精服务费用昂贵。 克里姆林宫官员已对全国范围内“灾难性”的人口下降敲响了警钟。
作者：詹姆斯·巴德考克（James Badcock），发自加的斯省奇克拉纳德拉弗龙特拉（Chiclana de la Frontera, Cadiz）
全球首家章鱼养殖场在计划将动物冻死后被取消。 Nueva Pescanova 公司曾筹集了超过 £40m 的资金，计划在加那利群岛的拉斯帕尔马斯（Las Palmas）建立该养殖场，但多年来因其“不人道”的计划而面临批评。这家西班牙公司是首家在人工环境下繁育章鱼的公司，计划在生产的第一年内养殖一百万只动物供人类食用。 活动人士表示，章鱼将被挤在公共水槽中并处于持续光照下，这违背了头足类动物保持领地意识并在阴暗角落独居的自然本能。 批评者还称，计划中的“冰浆”屠宰方法不人道，因为章鱼将在 -3C 的温度下被冻死。 经过五年的法律斗争，拉斯帕尔马斯港务局本周表示，Nueva Pescanova 已撤回其许可证申请。
导致此次事件的情况似乎存在争议，但本雅明·内塔尼亚胡（Benjamin Netanyahu）承诺将实施宵禁，开展反恐行动，并建立新的定居者前哨站以作回应。 以色列国防军（IDF）表示，枪击事件发生在一名巴勒斯坦人夺取了附近犹太定居点一名保安的武器并开火之后，导致 IDF 成员 32 岁的 Benayahu Mellet 和 Yuval Eztra 死亡。 然而，巴勒斯坦媒体报道称，该城镇遭到了大规模的定居者袭击。 以色列国防军随后承认，定居者（他们称这些定居者当时正处于……）
本雅明·内塔尼亚胡（Benjamin Netanyahu）承诺在枪击事件后实施宵禁并建立新的定居者前哨站
被杀， 他的妻子 就失去了 与她所爱的 男人 生育 孩子的 机会”
建设并运营该养殖场。由于加那利群岛政府决定就该项目的环境影响展开调查，这一进程被拉长。 西班牙动物权利党 Pacma 对这些“敏感且智能”的动物将在西班牙免于遭受圈养剥削的消息表示庆祝。他们加入到动物权利团体的呼吁之声中，要求欧盟禁止章鱼养殖。Pacma 在大加那利岛的负责人 Iris Sánchez 表示：“这座养殖场的最终关闭是共同奋斗的结果，这表明有组织的社会压力可以影响到影响动物福利和环境保护的决策。”
随着过去 40 年全球对章鱼的需求增加了一倍多，达到每年约 400,000 吨，一座成功的养殖场曾承诺给 Nueva Pescanova 公司带来丰厚的回报。 2019, 该公司宣布，通过控制水温以避免压力和攻击行为，在将章鱼安全地养在共用水槽中方面取得了突破。 在该公司 2021 申请拉斯帕尔马斯港务局的许可证后，动物权利团体立即发起了反对运动。他们不仅以虐待动物为由进行抗议，还抗议其潜在的污染以及由于章鱼细菌感染而对公众健康的威胁。 该公司告诉港务局，放弃计划的决定完全是基于“商业和监管考虑”。Nueva Pescanova 告诉《电讯报》，将不会就该决定发表任何公开声明。
徒步旅行，进入了一个通常在没有军方协调或许可的情况下以色列人禁止进入的巴勒斯坦地区。 据报道，在 Mellet 死亡的消息公布后的数小时内，巴勒斯坦地区发生了多起报复性袭击。 据报道，至少发生了两起所谓的定居者袭击事件，包括在 Far’ata 村，造成 7 人受伤，建筑物和农田被点燃。 以色列国防军 (IDF) 昨天表示，将取消西岸所有部队的休假，并调集增援部队以维持秩序并开展反恐行动。该地区也被
在创纪录的低出生率、惊人的战争伤亡以及数十万年轻专业人士外流的背景下。 俄罗斯女性现在的平均子女数低于 1.4 个，远低于 2.1 的标准人口替代率，比十年前的水平低了约 20 %。 去年，俄罗斯国家统计局 Rosstat 停止发布每月出生和死亡数据，据信是试图掩盖军方的严重损失。 然而，被克里姆林宫称为“外国代理人”的人口学家 Alexei Raksha 表示，
被以色列国防军实施宵禁，而内塔尼亚胡先生宣布了“加速将农场前哨合法化并建立新前哨”的计划，尽管这些定居点在国际法下是非法的。 与以色列国防部长 Israel Katz 发布的联合声明还表示
今年第一季度仅有 272,000 场出生，这是约两个世纪以来任何一个季度的最低值。 据信，年死亡人数比出生人数多约 600,000 人。 为了应对这一危机，弗拉基米尔·普京政府推出了针对母亲的财政激励措施，在地区层面推行终止妊娠的惩罚性限制，并倡导回归保守的“传统精神道德价值”。 普京此前曾呼吁家庭生育 8 到 10 个孩子，并在 2023 表示，“生育许多孩子和拥有大家庭必须成为常态”。
许多 孩子 和拥有 大家庭 必须 成为 常态”
计划克隆自己以获取器官
《电讯报》记者 报道
一名被诊断出患有不治之症的多百万富翁计划克隆自己并采集器官。
布莱恩·约翰逊（Bryan Johnson），48 岁，为了追求永葆青春，已经在接受其十几岁儿子的输血治疗。现在，为了战胜自身免疫性胃炎，他正试图进一步突破科学边界。这种疾病会导致身体的免疫系统产生攻击性，攻击健康的胃黏膜细胞，从而导致贫血，并增加晚年患癌的风险。
他将自己的病情归咎于几十年前不健康的生活方式，当时他的饮食以含糖食品和快餐为主。
约翰逊先生在硅谷发财，他决定解决方案是通过克隆自己来让时间倒流，并以此（在其他措施之余）采集器官，因为这些器官将处于原始状态，不会像他几十年前的器官那样被损害。
约翰逊先生在 X 上写道，新版本的他正处于培养皿中：“这对某些人来说可能是可怕的……一个反乌托邦的未来。但对于其他人来说，他们会将其视为医疗健康的必然未来。临床试验正处于”
被指开第一枪的巴勒斯坦人的房屋将被拆除。 一名军方官员警告称，自这次致命事件以来，现场存在一种“复仇氛围”，与此同时，定居者呼吁进入巴勒斯坦村庄。 除了被指的肇事者（由一名抵达现场的以色列国防军排长击毙）之外，另有三名巴勒斯坦人被击毙，四人受伤。 与此同时，另有两名以色列人受伤。 以色列极右翼财政部长、来自西岸定居者社区的贝扎莱尔·斯莫特里奇（Bezalel Smotrich）似乎在支持强硬回应，他要求该地区及附近村庄“看起来像纳布卢斯和图勒凯尔的难民营”，这是指以色列国防军行动中广泛进行的拆除工作。 近年来，西岸地区的暴力趋势在上升。 根据反对定居点运动的人权组织 T’Salem 的数据，从 2023 年 10 月到今年 4 月，共有 1,066 名巴勒斯坦人被以色列安全部队杀害，35 名被以色列定居者杀害。该组织称，这其中包括 299 名儿童。 与此同时，据估计，约有 30 名以色列人在西岸被杀。
最近几个月，该国还为俄罗斯军人的遗孀提供了一系列不断扩大的福利。 4 月，普京签署了一项法律，允许生存配偶在无需参加入学考试的情况下，在俄罗斯大学获得免费学费。 莫斯科并不是唯一提供死后为人父母机会的国家。在以色列，法院允许从阵亡士兵身上死后提取精子，此类案例在 10 月 7 日袭击后激增。 以色列卫生部表示，约有 250 个家庭提取并储存了亲人的精子。
布莱恩·约翰逊声称，来自其儿子的血液让他拥有了 37 岁的心脏
回到胚胎状态。这些细胞将不存在随年龄增长而积累的“表观遗传”错误。 这是通过使用由日本干细胞研究员、诺贝尔奖获得者山中伸弥（Shinya Yamanaka）开发的一项技术实现的。他的工作被视为细胞重编程的突破，这些细胞可以被重新引入体内以识别并攻击肿瘤。 这些新细胞是“多能”的——简单来说，能够发育成体内几乎任何类型的细胞。 约翰逊先生写道，这将使他能够逐个器官地“重建”身体，用健康细胞替换不健康细胞。 他补充说，这项技术带来的益处可以恢复肾脏、肝脏和肺功能，修复皮肤损伤，并治愈失明和失聪。 约翰逊先生表示，因为这些细胞取自他自己的克隆版本，他的身体会接受而非排斥它们。 居住在加利福尼亚州威尼斯的约翰逊先生说，来自其儿子的输血逆转了衰老过程，使他拥有了 37 岁的心脏、18 岁人的肺活量以及 17 岁人的年轻牙龈。
在就任首相的第一天，安迪·伯纳姆自信地宣布他“有一个计划”。一周过去了，这个计划依然是个谜——尤其是因为伯纳姆先生一直回避来自议会、媒体或公众的质询。
他的头几天既忙乱又缺乏实质内容。伯纳姆先生宣布，他的领导将是“40 年来我们政治中最重要的变革时刻”。然而到目前为止，他只是对公交车票价做了微调，为每周的能源账单提供了 £1 的削减，提议并随后撤回了取消所得税免税额冻结的计划，并在北方设立了一个 No 10 地区办事处。这完全称不上是一个针对英国的严肃“计划”，而是一堆政治噱头和缺乏资金支持的承诺的杂烩。
工党策划了一场毫无竞争的领导权之争，且时间表安排使得伯纳姆先生就任首相的时间恰好与议会漫长的夏季休会期开始之时重合。这一次他担任国会议员仅一个月，在下议院几乎没有露面。在现代政治中，从未有人像伯纳姆先生这样在如此缺乏监督的情况下成为首相。自从掌权以来，伯纳姆先生通过发布新闻稿来治理英国，但从未让自己面对过一次新闻发布会——其后果在预料之中。
矛盾之处随处可见。权力下放理应是他议程的核心，但伯纳姆先生的首波行动却是向地方当局指令公交车票的价格，并试图根据他所谓的“社会价值”来塑造每一条商业街。
在承诺财政责任之后，伯纳姆先生表示他希望修复社会护理，结束露宿街头，增加国防开支，并启动规模最大的议会……
先生——首相崇拜的偶像尼尔·基诺克曾以谴责由“激进派”控制的利物浦市议会而闻名，指责其“雇佣出租车在城市中穿梭，向自己的员工发放裁员通知”。 首相难道没意识到，他乘坐政府喷气机从格拉斯哥前往曼彻斯特，进行一次仅 38 分钟的行程（telegraph.co.uk, 7月 24 日），这其中蕴含的讽刺意味吗？ 或许他也把喷气机旅行的费用上限设定在了 £2，吧。 马克·皮克 伦敦 E1
先生——安迪·伯纳姆计划邀请显贵访问曼彻斯特（报道，7月 21 日），以强调该市作为 No 10 北方办事处所在地的角色。这无疑意味着每次都要对其进行修缮，累计将涉及巨额资金。 我更希望其他城镇能分到这些资金——确实有许多城市即使只有几十万英镑用于清理整治也会大有裨益，其中许多就在真正的北方。 芭芭拉·里士满 诺森伯兰郡，特威德河畔康希尔
先生——当我看到关于 No 10 北方办事处的报道时，我的第一反应是，安迪·伯纳姆在家办公真是方便，尤其是周五。 克莱尔·卡特 诺丁汉
先生——曼彻斯特是我们新任首相的“安慰毯”吗？ 看来他正在退回到他的旧任期状态，因为他对国防、移民和国际关系等国家政策感到不适。 格雷厄姆·怀特 亨廷登郡，阿尔康伯里·韦斯顿
1936, 年 11 月，政府成立了食品（国防计划）部（后来的食品部）以控制进口、耕种和分配。官员们提前数年秘密印刷了 50 million 份配给本，绘制了全国仓库和港口的地图，并计划将畜牧业转向小麦和马铃薯等高产作物。 为了准备与俄罗斯的战争，安迪·伯纳姆的粮食安全计划是什么？ 科林·兰金 泰国清迈
先生 —— 英国最大的政治失败并非在于税收或移民，而是在于所有主要政党都陷入了一场无休止的竞标战，看谁能向选民承诺最多的福利（社论，7月 22 日）。国家已经到了一个公共支出承诺增长速度快于税收收入的程度。政治家们给出的答案总是增加税收 —— 针对收入、财富、养老金、企业和资本 —— 而不是创造能够实现更大繁荣和生产力的条件。
我们真正需要的是一份面向英国的新社会契约。国家养老金、医疗保健和社会护理应通过独立管理的主权基金来资助，并由专项资金提供资金。养老金的增长应与通货膨胀挂钩，而非与政治承诺挂钩。医疗保健和社会护理的缴费应根据个人的支付能力，终身持续。每位公民都应收到一份年度对账单，详细列出其缴纳的金额以及有权获得的权益。
此类改革将消除许多政治诱惑，使其不再承诺越来越多“免费”的福利，转而强迫政治家将重点放在经济增长、财富创造、教育、生产力以及良好治理上。
一个国家不能通过征税来实现繁荣。财富必须首先被创造出来，然后才能被公平地分享。
Christopher Russell 东萨塞克斯郡，赖（Rye）
先生 —— 作为一名退休的产科顾问医生和产科医院首席执行官，我发现很难理解为什么卢西·莱特比（Lucy Letby）最初的辩护团队无法获得产前记录（“医疗专家称 Letby 婴儿死于出生创伤”，报道，7月 22 日）。
每一名助产士学生和医学生都被教导，婴儿出生时及出生后不久的状态高度依赖于先前的妊娠、分娩和生产过程。每一位新生儿科医生、儿科医生和新生儿护士也深知这一点。我想，每一名见习律师和大律师在接受医疗过失教育时，也都会被告知这一点。
在 Letby 的辩护中未将产前因素考虑在内，这本身就足以证明要求重新审理的呼吁是合理的。
Chris Fitzpatrick 爱尔兰，都柏林
“……自第二次世界大战以来最大的住房建设规划”。 无论这些目标多么值得称赞，它们都需要大量的资金和详细的执行计划。而这两者目前都缺失。
他决定“暂停”囚犯提前释放计划是受欢迎的，对酒吧临时降低增值税（VAT）同样如此。但同样地，细节匮乏。
要么是安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）对自己具有变革性重要性的主张仅仅是空洞的修辞，要么这些主张是建立在尚未向公众披露的剧烈计划之上的。这种不确定性对英国经济毫无益处。他暗示了多项支出承诺，却未提供任何关于如何支付这些费用的方案。由于他没有表现出削减开支的真实兴趣，市场、消费者和企业正准备迎接新一轮的加税。
就像在基尔·斯塔默爵士（Sir Keir Starmer）就任首相的最初几个月一样，这种不确定性有风险导致投资者信心下降，企业投资冻结，从而给就业市场带来严重后果。
经济地平线上聚集的阴云，进一步增强了对透明度的需求。 唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）昨天基于极其牵强的理由重新征收关税，这只会损害英国企业，而中东局势则在升级。
美国几乎连续两周每晚打击伊朗境内的目标，表明其战争远未结束。由德黑兰支持的胡塞武装对沙特阿拉伯实施了海上封锁，并在红海击中了其两艘油轮。油价飙升，这将波及英国经济。
鉴于此，安迪·伯纳姆先生必须扩大北海油气产量。他必须首先批准在新的 Rosebank 和 Jackdaw 油田进行钻探。
先生 —— 玛丽·拜恩 (Mary Byrne)（读者来信，7月 23 日） 建议为那些准备出院但无法返回 正常住所的人提供一个中间过渡空间。 此类场所过去被称为康复院：单层 建筑，其人员配置成本远低于 医院。由于影响国民医疗服务体系 (NHS) 和地方政府的立法变更，这些场所 在 20 世纪 70 年代后半叶基本上被 废除，而它们所在的价值高昂的 土地被出售。 当时还做出了一个——或许并不明智的—— 决定，认为伦敦的床位“过多”， 且随着现代医学要求缩短住院时间， 床位被削减。然而，这未能考虑到 伦敦及大城市中更多的人独居且 居住空间较小，且更有可能在旧的 公寓楼中需要爬楼梯。 政治家们不应做出草率的决定， 而应对医疗保健采取更审慎的看法。 杰奎琳·卡斯尔斯 (Jacqueline Castles) 伦敦 W2
先生 —— 安德里亚·斯温代尔斯 (Andrea Swindells)（读者来信，7月 23 日） 写道她受到了皇家邮政的严重辜负。虽然 我自己的经历并未危及生命，但我也 感到极其失望。 上周末，我们想在孙女 21 岁生日之际 向她发送一些重要信息。我去了当地的 邮局，支付了 £9.95 以确保在 7月 18. (周六) 下午 1 点前送达。信件最终在 7月 20 (周一) 才寄达。 我现在发现，对于该保准时送达服务的 费用，我只能索回 £5 —— 换句话说， 我为了一个失败的服务支付了 £4.95。 这比标准一类邮资贵了 £3.15，而 标准一类邮资的次日送达率不足 75 百分比。 一个如此糟糕地失效的机构， 不应能够使用“皇家 (Royal)”一词。 特里·戈曼 (Terry Gorman) 柴郡，韦弗汉姆 (Weaverham, Cheshire)
创立于 1855 年
来自各家公司（的邮件）堆在 门口地垫上。 玛丽·金 (Mary King) 萨里郡，法纳姆 (Farnham, Surrey)
先生 —— 接 R G 福克纳 (Professor R G Faulkner) 教授关于他在约克 总议会经历的来信（7月 22 日），以及 罗宾·塞夫 (Robin Self) 关于教会优先事项的 来信（7月 23 日），我想知道他们是否 了解一个名为“拯救教区 (Save the Parish)”的 组织，该组织成立于 2021 年，其目标是 抵制将资金从教区事工中转移的计划， 以及任何进一步将权力和权限从教区 转移到教区区划和教会中央的企图。 该组织需要教区议会成员竞选总议会 候选人，因为只有通过增加那些反对 教会表面政治化洗脑的平信徒代表， 才能对其发起挑战并有望地改变它。 凯伦·鲍威尔 (Karen Powell) 什罗普郡，马查姆利 (Marchamley, Shropshire)
先生 —— 虽然我不是一名教堂信徒，但我 过去每年会捐款用于维护一座美丽的 古老建筑。当新冠疫情期间所有教堂 都被锁上时，我停止了捐款。 托温·埃文斯 (Towyn Evans) 德比郡，柯克艾雷顿 (Kirk Ireton, Derbyshire)
先生 —— 我很高兴读到菲尔·希尔顿 (Phil Hilton) 关于如何练出像马特·达蒙 (Matt Damon) 饰演的 奥德修斯 (Odysseus) 那样手臂的锻炼计划 （《五个能让你看起来像马特的动作》，特写，7月 23 日）。 我不仅与作者同龄，而且他推荐的 锻炼方法与我过去 5 年以来每天早晨 坚持的一模一样，效果显著。这些 训练还结合了仰卧起坐和每周总计 略低于 50 英里的四次跑步。 从 30 多岁起，我们每十年会失去 3 到 5 百分比的 肌肉量——这种下降在 60 多岁时会加速。 将有氧训练和力量训练结合起来是 终极的抗衰老策略。如果我们中有更多人 拿起哑铃，将显著减轻我们不堪重负的 NHS 的负担。 克里斯·利尔蒙特-休斯 (Chris Learmont-Hughes) 威勒尔，卡尔迪 (Caldy, Wirral)
毫不延迟。这将增加税收，并可以说会加强英镑。这也可能有助于安迪·伯纳姆先生和新任外交大臣埃德·米利班德在应对特朗普先生时占据优势，后者长期支持北海钻探。鉴于米利班德先生在华盛顿的名声不佳，他们将需要所有能获得的帮助。
政府执政的开局至关重要。当领导人的权力达到顶峰时，这决定了白厅机制的方向。在托尼·布莱尔执政的第一周，英格兰银行获得了独立地位。在组建政府后的几周内，大卫·卡梅伦就制定了赤字计划，并通过《2010年学院法案》变革了教育。
伯纳姆先生用宏大的词汇谈论过自己具有历史重要性。如果他对于英国有任何实质性的“计划”，他必须召回议会并将其阐明。他逃避审查的时间太长了。
给伯纳姆先生的另一项建议——出行。他经由格拉斯哥访问了 No 10 北区（从格拉斯哥来看，那里绝对是 No 10 南区）。这意味着两次私人飞机行程。想到这一点，你几乎能听到极地冰盖在哭泣。但为什么不用包租火车呢，就像那些每月不必要地将布鲁塞尔官僚运往斯特拉斯堡的火车那样。当“北方之王”不需要它时，“全英之王”可以借用。或者，一艘通过曼彻斯特运河航行的简朴船只，可以成为一座漂浮的 No 10，停靠在任何港口。将其命名为“政治家号”（SS Politician）会是个好主意，这个名字曾因那艘带给我们《威士忌大丰收》的船而闻名。
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米开朗基罗·皮斯托莱托在那不勒斯市政广场创作的《破布维纳斯》
先生——我有一堆衣服，陈旧、破烂，已经无法在慈善商店售出。我们当地的商店现在显然需要支付纺织品处理费，因此不再接收。回收中心的垃圾桶似乎是用来放置由各种慈善机构收集并转售的衣服。
有人知道除了将其放入家用普通垃圾桶之外，还有什么其他替代方案吗？ 莎拉·奥博伊尔 蒙茅斯郡，纽波特
（接前文）用一根木棍。然后我会敲敲水桶大喊：“准备沏茶。”太惬意了。 巴姆·马克斯 伯克郡，哈利
先生——持有 £1 铁路票旅行的儿童（报道，7月 24 日）在被要求时，是否应当给那些支付全价且可能在整个旅程中必须站立的人让座？这将使所有支付全价的乘客受益，尤其是老年人和孕妇。 科林·西尔 牛津郡，特姆
先生——作为一名地铁定期用户，我一直在进行一项非正式民意调查。五年前，超过 80 % 的乘客盯着他们的设备。如今，这一比例约为 50 %，其余的人在阅读真正的书籍或仅仅在沉思。我认为这是进步。 本·豪金斯 伦敦 SW11
（接前文）似乎甚至在数量上超过了蜜蜂。愿它们长久繁荣。 乔纳森·W·A·霍尔 威尔特郡，奥克西
先生——我的祖父说过，在我父亲出生那年，天气如此干旱，以至于在收获季节可以看到兔子穿过庄稼地。今年是我父亲出生 100 周年，兔子们再次清晰可见。 乔治·沃森 萨福克郡，萨德本
先生——我那可爱的六岁邻居给我带来了一张他亲手写的、包含多处场景的西班牙明信片（书信，7月 24 日）。他把它给我，说道：“我们一个地方也没去。” 帕姆·迪金森 柴郡，麦克尔菲尔德
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我们的新首相说，他通过一系列细小的短期修补方案，正在为我们提供“喘息空间”。消费者将支付略低的电费，乘客将支付略低的公交车票，酒吧将承担略低的商业税率。在7月下旬的头条新闻中，这些变化带来了微小的假期愉悦感。
但这个喘息空间实际上是给安迪·伯纳姆的，而不是给我们公众的。尽管我们对基尔·斯塔默爵士深感不满，但我们并没有计划对他发动政变，也没有在选择他的继任者时被咨询过。真正气喘吁吁的是工党。随着议会休会至9月，应该是工党而非我们，需要深呼吸并反思。
如果伯纳姆先生这样做，将目光从曼彻斯特移开，他可能会注意到这个世界看起来多么危险。两个大国——美国和俄罗斯——目前正在与理论上较弱的国家作战，但都没有获胜。自2月攻击伊朗以来，唐纳德·特朗普未能摧毁其政权，并意外地牺牲了对霍尔木兹海峡航行自由的控制，从而让世界上最持久的伊斯兰主义革命者获得了影响我们经济的筹码。
随之而来的油价，是目前英国选民在民调和焦点小组中表示生活成本是其首要焦虑的主要原因。我们的安全也面临威胁。英国街头的伊斯兰主义骚乱，以及针对英国目标的恐怖袭击和阴谋，都与巴勒斯坦有关，且往往由伊朗煽动。
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世界之途 Michael Deacon 我对“爱国百万富翁”（Patriotic Millionaires）这个游说团体很感兴趣，该团体由富有的左翼名流支持，这些人不断抱怨自己钱太多，并要求政府对此采取措施。毕竟，大多数富有的名流在告诉他们的会计师尽量减少纳税额。想必“爱国百万富翁”的成员们则恰恰相反。
“你能让我多交点税吗？有没有什么聪明的小计划或漏洞可以利用，让我看起来比实际赚的钱更多？你看，我太渴望尽可能多地将我的收入交给一群毫无头绪的政治家，好让他们把这些钱全部挥霍在灾难性的‘白象’工程、给目标选民的冷漠贿赂，以及为非法移民提供客房服务上。”
实际上，这些名流并不需要会计师的任何帮助。他们只需访问政府网站，然后捐款为
他们可以随心所欲地处理他们那不想要的财富。 然而，显然，“爱国百万富翁”们对此并不知情。 因为本周，其中 120 人——包括加里·莱蒂克、理查德·柯蒂斯和布赖恩·伊诺——签署了一封致首相的公开信，公开要求他提高他们的税率，以便“减少不平等”、“分散经济权力”并“加强医院、学校和社会护理”。 正如他们如此高尚地所言：“我们是百万富翁……我们负担得起。” 这当然是他们极其无私的表现。 但我必须承认，看到莱蒂克先生的名字我感到很惊讶。纯粹是因为，就在短短几年前，英国税务海关总署 (HMRC) 曾追讨他被指欠缴的 £4.9 税款。然而，莱蒂克先生对此持有异议，并且在 2023, 3月，一个
地球上的强权在迄今为止的冲突中仅失去了 18 名服务人员，但美国舆论已感到惊恐。特朗普称这场战争的主要理由是防止核扩散，但他最新的解决方案却是向沙特阿拉伯暗示，后者也可以获得核能力。美国拥有火力；伊朗拥有意志。 同样在二月——2022 年二月——另一个大国发动了热战。 俄罗斯入侵了乌克兰。四年半后，战争仍在继续，时间之长已超过赢得第二次世界大战所需的时间，但这一次所获收益微乎其微。在此过程中，弗拉基米尔·普京大约失去了五十万死伤人员，目前每月约有 30,000 名士兵阵亡。 乌克兰入侵引发了更广泛的能源价格冲击，西方至今尚未从中恢复。这就是英国选民执迷于生活成本的主要背景原因。整个欧洲的安全也受到了威胁。网络活动、间谍丑闻、机器人宣传、选举腐败，以及对英国海域、领空和海底电缆的威胁，全部都是普京战争的一部分。 我们的净零政策简直就像是专门为了破坏这个国家的能源安全而设计的。我们西方国家正投入巨资来解决一个非紧急情况——气候变化——而真正的紧急情况却在威胁着我们的共同和平与繁荣。我们的防御体系在针对当前威胁的配置上也是错误的，且多年来一直处于衰减状态。 人类有一种悲剧性的倾向，即只有在危险近在眼前时才会采取行动。看看英国与乌克兰之间的对比就知道了。因为乌克兰似乎远
在这个问题上，多年来我们一直在就到 2030 年代国防开支应占 GDP 的百分比进行毫无结果的争论。然而对于乌克兰来说，每日面临的被征服风险使其成为了地球上军事创新最快的国家。为了摆脱静态且血染的战壕战，乌克兰以惊人的速度和经济成本研发出了超越俄罗斯人的无人机。一个旨在领先敌人的“时间维度”已经取代了由物理空间定义的旧有军事领域概念。
这不仅需要技术变革，还需要理念上的转变。一支在苏联时代的自上而下指挥和超级机密系统中锻造而成的军队，已经重塑为某种更具“水平化”且信息共享程度更高形态。乌克兰的无人系统部队 (USF) 挑战了陆军、海军和空军之间的传统划分，消解了陆、海、空的界限。
十二个军事单位已经演变为拥有独立运作自由的作战枢纽。乌克兰人自豪地宣称，他们创造了创新以及随之而来的失败的机会。在俄罗斯军队中，失败会被处以极大的耻辱甚至死亡，因此创新也随之死亡。这是一场开放系统与封闭系统之间的战争。正如民主与独裁的对比历史通常所显示的那样，开放系统拥有更好的获胜机会。
如今，乌克兰每天大约发动一千次无人机袭击。多年来，西方盟友对于乌克兰袭击俄罗斯本土一直犹豫不决。我们被俄罗斯关于核响应的阴暗威胁所震慑，并告知乌克兰不要尝试。然而现在，
一名法庭法官裁定他胜诉。 当时，我很高兴正义得到了伸张。但现在我感到困惑。因为，当英国税务海关总署 (HMRC) 首次提出这个问题时，这位伟大的慈善家理应回答道：“我一分钱都不欠你们。但你知道吗？我还是要给你们 £4.9m —— 这样你们就可以将其用于减少不平等、分散经济权力，以及加强医院、学校和社会护理。因为你看，我就是这样一个充满关怀、慈悲且无私的人。” 我简直不敢相信他竟然没想出这一招。
他还没有诉诸于左翼政治中最圆滑的陈词滥调。通过暂时取消 5% 的增值税 (VAT)，他自豪地宣称自己是在“把更多钱放进人们的口袋里”。 不，首相先生。你并不是在把更多钱放进人们的口袋里。你只是少拿走了一些钱。请注意这两者的区别。通过说你把钱放进我们的口袋，你暗示这些钱起初是你的。但事实并非如此。那是我们的钱。是我们赚的。只有当我们领取救济金时，政府才会把“钱放进我们的口袋”。但即便如此，这些钱也必须先从其他人的口袋里拿出来。
尽管如此，我可以理解他为何那样措辞。这让他听起来很慷慨：一个慷慨的捐助者，而我们对他永远心存感激。 我想知道是否曾有抢劫犯想过尝试这种精妙的公共关系手段。在抢走一位老妇人的钱包后，从
所能做的最 重要的事情 就是 将注意力集中在 阻碍敌人上
乌克兰能够打击俄罗斯其后方深处的目标。这种做法行之有效，且西方很少有人反对。正如纳尔逊所知，最大胆的措施往往是最安全的。
自5月下旬以来，乌克兰在克里米亚的行动切断了俄罗斯的后勤线，并营造出一种被围困的感觉。即使在莫斯科和圣彼得堡，针对主要设施的精准打击最终也让俄罗斯人切实感受到了战争。本周，乌克兰摧毁了俄罗斯在克拉斯诺达尔及其附近地区相当于亚马逊的巨型仓库。
俗话说，需要是发明之母。我们应当承认，乌克兰的这种紧迫性不仅源于普京本人，还源于特朗普对俄罗斯的温情以及欧洲自满的犹豫。即便在现在，最新的欧盟制裁方案仍是妥协的产物，允许希腊继续向非欧盟国家发送俄罗斯天然气。
乌克兰最成功的国防部长米哈伊洛·费多罗夫此前担任数字化转型部长，这并非巧合。他是技术变革的大师，也是负责阻止俄罗斯使用埃隆·马斯克的星链（Starlink）的人。不幸的是，他上周在任职仅六个月后被泽连斯基总统解职，这同样并非巧合。面对乌克兰军方建制派对新事物冲击的愤慨，泽连斯基选择了妥协。即使在一个处于战争状态的国家，这类利益集团依然强大。
这些利益集团由总司令西尔斯基将军领导，他向焦虑的泽连斯基要求撤换费多罗夫。随之而来的 20 个城市的街头抗议如此剧烈，
她惊恐地抓紧，他应该掏出一枚 20p 硬币，华丽地呈给她，然后向周围所有人吹嘘自己在往她口袋里塞钱。毫无疑问，任何路过的工党议员都会欣喜若狂地鼓掌。
在经历了多年的国家强制性自我鞭笞后，能发现一位不认为西方应该为自身历史感到羞愧的政治家，真是令人耳目一新。新西兰外交部长温斯顿·彼得斯告诉那些“抽泣的觉醒主义者”，不要抱怨一艘新船以被认为是有问题的库克船长命名——因为他雷厉风行地表示，“一个成熟的国家不会逃避自己的历史。一个严肃的国家不会为了迎合最新的抱怨政治时尚而破坏自己的记忆。”
但愿我们自己的政治家也能听进去。但看来希望渺茫。本周，由苏格兰民族党（SNP）领导的格拉斯哥市议会启动了一次“奴隶制步行”
然而，泽连斯基本周也解雇了瑟尔斯基。随后，总统通过起用一位更年轻且更具英雄色彩的将领——米哈伊洛·德拉帕蒂来接替瑟尔斯基，在公众心目中部分地挽回了形象。但费多罗夫先生的未来仍未确定。他仍在奋斗，并承诺将继续执行其使命：“通过不对称性、创新的速度和组织的强大力量击败敌人”。这一番变幻莫测的情况说明了形势的危急。乌克兰的政治体制与其实际的军事创新并不同步。
即使与北约盟友协作，英国也无法操纵乌克兰的政治，且不应尝试这样做。但如果我们能够更清晰、更强力、更迅速地帮助乌克兰，我们将能取得更多成就。我们仍然将自己的武装部队视为乌克兰军队的睿智导师，但由于形势变化之快，现在我们应当成为他们的学生。
除了提供更多资金，一个“焕新”后的英国政府能做的最重要具体事项，就是将注意力集中在与盟友共同阻碍敌人上。俄罗斯在做什么，在何处行动？我们如何才能最大限度地阻碍普京？例如，随着基尔爵士那位执迷于权利的检察总长赫默勋爵离职，我们应当停止干扰那些希望开发自有地雷和集束炸弹以应对俄罗斯潜在攻击的北欧和波罗的海国家。
伯纳姆先生喜欢“喘息空间”。乌克兰需要的喘息空间是举行新的选举，而如果没有由盟友监管的停火协议，这绝不可能实现。他会帮忙吗？他是否明白这为何至关重要？
轨迹”，旨在向格拉斯哥市民“教育”他们那段“深感不安”的过去。
这真的有必要吗？到目前为止，恐怕即便是在外赫布里底群岛最孤独的隐士也已经接收到了关于我们的祖先如何独特且不可原谅地邪恶的信息。尽管如此，委员会的这项举措或许仍能带来一些好处。因为它给了我一个灵感。
在新西兰，彼得斯先生应该发起他自己的徒步路线，旨在教育当地的进步派关于毛利人食人史。例如，在 1809 年，一群毛利人杀害并吃掉了大约 70 名来自名为“博伊德号”的英国船只的乘客和船员。
“哭鼻子觉醒派”群体可能会觉得这条路线令人不安。但让他们了解到，原住民偶尔也可能带来那么一点点麻烦，或许对他们有好处。而且，既然彼得斯先生本人就是半毛利血统，他们很难称他为种族主义者。
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ndy Burnham（安迪·伯纳姆）在过去近十年的大部分时间里，一直摆出“北方之王”的姿态，将自己塑造为对抗 SW1 地区令人窒息的中央集权主义的解药。他的入主唐宁街本应标志着一个全新的开始。在伴随着 New Order 乐队音乐发表其作为工党领袖的首次演讲时，他将自己定位为“变革”候选人。周一在 10 号唐宁街的台阶上，他承诺这将是一个“断路器”时刻，提供一个全新的政治模式，并摆脱令其前任基尔·斯塔默爵士（Sir Keir Starmer）陷入绝境的管理失效状态。然而，随着其部长任命名单的墨迹未干，这种幻想便已破灭。伯纳姆的开局之举并非更换卫队，而是重新组建了那个在工党机制中主导了数代之久的、令人疲惫且封闭的生态系统。我们所见证的并非一场政治革命，而是工党内部既得利益集团的一次盛大团聚——一个由权力夫妇、政治王朝和派系把关人交织而成的紧密网络。
这种封闭性在威斯敏斯特最臭名昭著的内圈——“伴娘帮”（Bridesmaid Gang）的持续擢升中最为明显。去年，当艾莉·里夫斯（Ellie Reeves）与她的伴娘们——妹妹瑞秋·里夫斯（Rachel Reeves）、文化部长斯特法尼·皮科克（Stephanie Peacock）以及当时的工党副首席党鞭薇姬·福克斯克罗夫特（Vicky Foxcroft）在下议院露台上合影时，这不仅仅是女性之间温馨的时刻，更是党内高层如何运作裙带关系的蓝图。工党议会党团（PLP）内部的挫败感显而易见。许多被广泛认为将出任重要部门职务的人物，例如被看好出任卫生部长的罗塞娜·艾琳-汗博士（Dr Rosena Allin-Khan），都被忽视了，而同一个小圈子则继续在关键职位上轮换。艾莉·里夫斯在管理竞选行动期间曾深陷强权作风的指责，但她目前仍牢牢把持着司法总长的权力。再加上现任商业大臣、前首席党鞭乔纳森·雷诺兹（Jonathan Reynolds）等人物，向后座议员传达的信号很明确：与该网络保持一致，远比能力更重要。
伯纳姆决定任命安妮利斯·米德格利（Anneliese Midgley）接替雷诺兹，而她被选为国会议员仅两年，这充分说明了问题。该政府并未根据功绩晋升经过验证的人才，而是再次选择了忠诚而非深度。新任首相的前排内阁非但没有消除精英主义，反而读起来像是一本政治王朝的族谱。斯蒂芬·金诺克（Stephen Kinnock），其父亲是
承诺了 一种 全新的 政治 模式， 但他的 核心 团队 看起来 与 旧团队 惊人地 相似
“院长疯了。”休·特雷弗·罗珀（Hugh Trevor Roper）在评价彼得豪斯学院（Peterhouse）院长爱德华·诺曼教授（Rev Prof Edward Norman）时如此说道，后者在罗珀被任命为院长时对他“宣战”。整个片段激发了汤姆·夏普（Tom Sharpe）创作《波特豪斯之蓝》（Porterhouse Blue）；书中那个尖酸、粗鲁且反动的院长——在电视剧改编版中由保罗·罗杰斯（Paul Rogers）精彩演绎——与诺曼之间有着不言而喻的相似之处。诺曼被认为是一个典型范例，代表了英格兰教会牧师中的一个特定类别：刻薄的牧师。尽管诺曼本人的牧职并非在教区，而是在学院和主教座堂中度过，但其他例子在过去和现在均可见到。在20世纪50年代，康沃尔郡沃莱根（Warleggan）的牧师弗雷德里克·登沙姆（Rev Frederick Densham）在牧师住宅周围安装了铁丝网并饲养了德国牧羊犬，以阻碍社交拜访；而且他因“比起人更喜欢纸板”而用纸板剪影填满教堂长椅的故事而闻名。彼得伯勒的前任主教道格拉斯·费弗（Douglas Feaver）经常被推举为英格兰最粗鲁男人的候选人。然而，他在自己的教区深得人心，且显然比当今的主教们更受喜爱——后者通过微笑的陈词滥调进行交流，内心却是一群贪婪的、管理主义的饿狼。
难以相处的圣职人员一直是教会的一个特征。明天是大圣雅各（St James the Great）的瞻礼日，他因脾气火爆、性格冲动而被地称为“波阿拿”（Boanerges）或“雷之子”。或许并不令人意外，他最终成为了第一位殉道的使徒。在现今，这种情况可能不会导致殉道，但粗鲁或难以相处并不会对你的圣职生涯有帮助。不过，正如基督本人多次表现出的粗鲁行径所证明的那样，这也不会阻碍你的救赎。英格兰教会经常在认清这一点上遇到困难，这说明的问题不在于那些脾气古怪或难以相处的人，而在于体制本身。
前领导人尼尔·基诺克（Neil Kinnock）和前部长格莱尼斯·基诺克（Glenys Kinnock，前丹麦首相海勒·索宁-施密特（Helle Thorning-Schmidt）之夫）已被任命为威尔士国务大臣，确保了党内的历史贵族阶层在政府中依然拥有坚实的代表权。
托尼·布莱尔的大法官查理·法尔科纳（Charlie Falconer）之子哈米什·法尔科纳（Hamish Falconer）刚刚在外交部获得晋升，尽管他仅有两年的议会经验。从米利班德家族（Milibands）到鹰派家族（Eagles，安吉拉（Angela）是工党议员及前部长玛丽亚（Maria）的双胞胎姐妹，刚刚被提升为环境大臣），工党的统治机制像是一家封闭的商店，政治资本如同家族传家宝一样向下传承。
一个旨在代表工人阶级的政党，当其前排席位如此严重地依赖家族纽带和继承网络时，如何能令人信服地向全国宣扬精英管理（meritocracy）？
除了显而易见的家族血缘，还存在着西敏寺权力夫妇那庞大的网络，政治权力、决策制定和游说活动在这里融合成一个整体。伊薇特·库珀（Yvette Cooper）——其丈夫是前影子财政大臣、现为《早安英国》（Good Morning Britain）主持人埃德·鲍尔斯（Ed Balls）——继续留在伯纳姆（Burnham）的内阁中担任卫生大臣。雷诺兹（Reynolds）回到了商业事务领域，而他的妻子克莱尔（Claire）继续担任工党利益相关者关系执行总监。艾莉·里夫斯（Ellie Reeves）嫁给了约翰·克赖尔（John Cryer），后者是一位工党贵族，曾任一名委员会的主席
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有时候，你会想让世界暂停，然后请求退出。对我而言，那一刻便发生在我们将八岁孩子使用化妆品正常化的瞬间。 我们已经目睹了网红们引导青春期前的女孩们陷入强迫性护肤方案的深渊。现在，名人后代正积极地向他们的非名人同龄人推销美容品牌。 在 15 岁时，据报道哈珀·贝克汉姆（Harper Beckham）推出了自己的美容系列 Harlo，这或许与其说是令人震惊，不如说是预料之中。商标已经签署、盖章，且显然已经交付。一名家庭消息人士坚称，这是“完全属于哈珀品牌的事情”，而非贝克汉姆品牌的延伸。当然。 人们只能想象，她那千万富翁父母的资源在其中发挥的作用是多么微小，
值得注意的是，这些神职人员可能曾经——并且现在依然——对 Cambridge University 各学院的院长、助理主教以及中层管理人员态度粗鲁，但他们几乎从未对沏茶的女士或清扫圣坛的教堂执事无礼。根据我的经验，正是那些大肆宣扬自己善良的神职人员，更有可能对这些人无礼。正如波特豪斯院长在一名新院长与厨房工作人员发生冲突后所宣布的——这话可以想象是诺曼自己的原话——“对与自己地位相当的人极其无礼也许是恰当的，但我一直认为对仆人不文明是极差的品味”。如果运用得当，粗鲁的神职人员在管理时代中，将成为古代“神圣愚者”传统的合格继承者，后者提醒古代的国王和统治者，世俗的道路在上帝眼中毫无意义。把他们——或者如果我表现出任何自我意识的话，把我们——视为牡蛎中的沙粒。正是这类人，能够防止任何机构，尤其是教会，陷入自我陶醉，并将时间浪费在为自己特别优秀、特别美好或特别善良而自贺上。或者，或许更重要的是，将我们视为恩典的提醒：即使是粗鲁、急躁和愤世嫉俗的人，也可以成为展现上帝之爱的器皿。我认识的一些最好的牧师，事实上许多引导我进入神职的人，曾经且现在都非常乖僻。能被提醒上帝的爱并不受限于像礼貌这样琐碎的事情，是一件好事。许多人——那些对权威眨眼或在自私的虔诚行为中打哈欠的人——可能会发现一个粗鲁的神职人员比一个平庸且爱说教的人更具吸引力。他们的灵魂与那些表演式善良的人一样，被深爱着且值得救赎。让我们感谢上帝，他依然召唤那些能够吸引前者的人，正如他召唤后者一样。
工党议会党团。 曾在布莱尔和布朗任内任职的帕特·麦克法登 (Pat McFadden) 担任工作与养老金大臣。他的妻子玛丽安娜·麦克法登 (Marianna McFadden) 曾就职于布莱尔的智库，现任工党副总书记。 安迪·伯纳姆 (Andy Burnham) 新任命的司法大臣亚历克斯·诺里斯 (Alex Norris) 娶了工党议员艾玛·福迪 (Emma Foody)，后者曾担任布里吉特·菲利普森 (Bridget Phillipson) 的议会私人秘书。菲利普森虽失去了教育大臣的职务（由露西·鲍威尔 (Lucy Powell) 接任），但仍负责妇女与平等事务。福迪则被提升至高级党鞭职位。这不仅仅是个人关系问题，它代表了权力的危险集中。当政治战略家、说客、党务管理人员和大臣们共进晚餐时，公共服务与私人利益之间的界限就变得危险地模糊了。 如果用该党自身的措辞来衡量，这种虚伪程度最为触目惊心。多年来，工党正确地批评保守党政府的裙带关系。然而，在伯纳姆这里，我们再次看到一些人物通过像工党相关的智库等渠道被快车道提拔。
人脉、关系和平台起到了作用。如果你能得到这份工作，那真是太好了——最好是通过出生在这样的家庭。 但哈珀 (Harper) 还是个青少年。真正令人警觉的是瓦伦西亚·富里 (Valencia Fury)，泰森·富里 (Tyson Fury) 和帕里斯·富里 (Paris Fury) 八岁的女儿，她刚刚获得了一项与 Superdrug 的合作。在一段意料之中的自我推销社交媒体视频中，这个孩子宣布：“嗨，我是瓦伦西亚·富里，我八岁了，我对化妆非常痴迷。” Superdrug 向她发送了针对儿童的“幻想系列”产品——发饰、润唇膏、首饰。当你想象一个八岁的孩子在化妆品柜台前浏览，而不是在软体游戏中心奔跑或制作泰迪熊时，这听起来就不再无害了。这不是纯真的乐趣，而是一个令人不安趋势的商业加速。 “化妆厌食症” (cosmeticorexia) 这一术语已经……
No 10 North？不，不，不！
下方的玛格丽特·撒切尔 (Margaret Thatcher) 会如何看待“No 10 North”——即首相在曼彻斯特设立的新办事处，安迪·伯纳姆 (Andy Burnham) 每周将在这里办公至少一天？ 根据卡罗琳·斯洛考克 (Caroline Slocock) 的说法，这没什么意义。她从 1989 到 1991. 年期间在唐宁街担任撒切尔的私人秘书。斯洛考克女士刚刚出版了新书《糟糕的政府（以及如何使其改善）》(Bad Government (And How To Make It Better))，她在 GB News 频道告诉我：“我认为这对她来说行不通。她想住在‘店面’上面，而那个‘店面’就是 No 10。”
击球支撑杆
上周末在皇家比克斯代尔 (Royal Birkdale) 举行的公开赛似乎与 43 年前我第一次去那里时大不相同。访客禁令名单中包括“无人机，包括无人机、模型飞机、风筝或类似的飞行器”，以及“发声设备，包括气喇叭、便携式扬声器、公共广播系统、扩音器”。但令人欣慰的是，“单杆击球支撑杆”仍然允许高尔夫球迷使用。有些事情永远不应该改变。
艾伦爵士的长年服务奖章
祝贺工党议员、前政府首席党鞭艾伦·坎贝尔爵士 (Sir Alan Campbell)，他本周被安迪·伯纳姆 (Andy Burnham) 重新任命进入内阁。在 2024, 之前，他曾任内政部大臣和高级党鞭。自 2006, 年托尼·布莱尔 (Tony Blair) 担任首相起，他就一直处于工党前排席位。这是否创造了记录？
（此处接前文）……出现了，用以描述一种不健康的、令年仅 8 岁的女孩们都深陷其中的对护肤和完美肤色的痴迷。社交媒体和激进的营销让孩子们相信他们每天需要多达 10 种产品，包括成人级别的血清和化学去角质产品。皮肤科医生发出了严厉警告：发育中的皮肤容易受到刺激、过敏，甚至可能因视黄醇和强酸而导致化学灼伤。心理上的代价同样沉重。外貌焦虑和羞耻感在早年就已根深蒂固，因为小女孩们学会了审视并“修复”那些根本不存在的缺陷。在网络“自拍”和“滤镜”文化的加速作用下，我们似乎在培养这样的一代人：在他们还没掌握操场攀爬架的技巧之前，就将自我价值外包给了美容方案和零售疗法。
还有亨迪勋爵（Lord Hendy）（涉及海岸警卫队）。在听完部长的正式答复后，78 岁的亨迪勋爵告诉部长：“我感谢我的高贵亲属给予的这个回答。”在其他贵族做出反应后，长辈亨迪补充道：“我等了很久才可以用这个表达方式，现在能这么做很愉快。”很少有人知道他们有亲戚关系。虽然彼得·亨迪（Peter Hendy）在发言席上是一名激进的表演者，但他的哥哥则是上议院出了名的最为冷峻的演说家之一。
奈杰尔的交易艺术
英国改革党（Reform UK）领导人奈杰尔·法拉格揭秘了他如何成功地从 ITV 榨出 £1.5m 以参加《名人生存营》（I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!）节目。他告诉我：“他们年复一年地邀请我。我当时没那么忙，当我说道‘哦，我不知道，也许吧’……我说我会参加，但我想要‘x’。他们说‘这太荒谬了’。接着他们给了我一个反向报价，并说我在周五 5 点之前必须做出回应。我没有回应。这就是谈判的方式。如果我们和欧盟那样谈判，我们现在的情况会截然不同。”
平行时空（Sliding doors）
下方的伊莱恩·佩吉女爵（Dame Elaine Paige），78 岁，更想打网球而不是唱歌。“如果我可以改变任何事情，且能获得与现在一样的成功，我想成为一名非常出色的网球运动员，”这位身材娇小的歌手在《经验即一切》（Experience is Everything）播客中说道。“我在学校时打过一段时间。我……”
Together 组织，该组织助力了包括斯塔默及其前参谋长摩根·麦克斯威尼（Morgan McSweeney）在内的多位人物走向权力之巅。收到该组织资金支持或人员借调的工党政治家还包括新晋的“伯纳姆追随者”：安吉拉·雷纳（Angela Rayner，尽管《电讯报》揭露了其税务丑闻，但她仍回归担任住房大臣）、内政部大臣沙巴纳·马哈茂德（Shabana Mahmood）、新任国防大臣韦斯·斯特里廷（Wes Streeting）以及文化大臣丽莎·南迪（Lisa Nandy）。该组织现更名为 ThinkLabour，其新任 CEO、前《镜报》编辑艾莉森·菲利普斯（Alison Phillips）一直担任安迪·伯纳姆竞选活动的过渡总监，并将继续规划并执行进入唐宁街 10 号的过渡工作。
企业咨询公司、左翼智库与内阁前台办公室之间的“旋转门”继续毫无阻碍地运转。担任工党总书记（党内最高行政职务）的霍莉·里德利（Hollie Ridley），其丈夫是特迪·瑞安（Teddy Ryan），后者曾是工党高级主任，目前经营一家政府关系公司（Anacta UK），代表大型企业和国防利益进行游说。伯纳姆承诺要拆除白厅（Whitehall）的集权机制，并为疲惫的选民提供一个新鲜的选择。然而，他交付的却是一个建立在个人忠诚、内部小圈子和继承关系之上的“宫廷核心圈”。
这并不是英国政治的新纪元。这仅仅是社会主义等级制度在唐宁街重新布置家具而已。
伴娘团（The Bridesmaid Gang）： 斯蒂芬妮·皮科克（Stephanie Peacock）、瑞秋·里夫斯（Rachel Reeves）、艾莉·里夫斯（Ellie Reeves）和维基·福克斯克罗夫特（Vicky Foxcroft）
这是彻头彻尾的疯狂之举，而且对于那些在压缩并货币化童年的成年人们来说，是极不负责任的行为。我们声称珍视的纯真正在被交易，不仅是为了点击量和点赞，现在甚至是为了品牌的“合作伙伴关系”。在英国，13 岁以下的儿童就业甚至是不合法的，那么这里究竟发生了什么？
家长、品牌和社交媒体平台都负有责任。引领风潮的名人家庭让普通家庭更难抵制这种趋势。当一名八岁孩子被定位为“美妆大使”时，向同龄人传递的信息很明确：你的价值在于你的长相，而不在于你是一个什么样的人，或者你如何对待他人。
这又是另一个由网络操纵的、退步且反女性主义的毁灭性循环，必须予以停止。
培养出 一代将 自我价值 外包给 美容方案 和零售 疗法的 人群
依然像我年轻时那样痴迷于此，当时我认为这就是我想做的事——直到我的校长在办公桌后透过眼镜盯着我看，说道：“但是，亲爱的伊莱恩，你的身高甚至都越不过球网！”
查尔斯的家族树
国王正通过首次出售 100 份定价 £3,500 的限量版石版画（见下文）来为慈善机构筹款，画面为高格罗夫庄园。这幅名为《野花草甸之景》（A View from the Wildflower Meadow）的场景绘制于 1995 年，当时查尔斯还是威尔士亲王。画中出现了一棵巨大的 200 年树龄的黎巴嫩雪松，他在几十年前被迫将其砍掉。他的高格罗夫商店表示，这棵 60 英尺高的树是“国王之所以如此看重高格罗夫作为其乡村住宅的原因之一”。它曾“主导了整个花园，为房屋营造出一种亲切的氛围……遗憾的是，这棵树开始腐烂，带着巨大的遗憾和沉重的心情，人们决定将其伐除。”
亚当斯与大主教
前阿森纳球员托尼·亚当斯在本周的《老派》（Oldie）文学午宴上讲述了他多年戒瘾的经历，期间不时对观众爆出四字母粗口，观众中包括坐在同一桌的前坎特伯雷大主教罗文·威廉姆斯。奥斯特茅斯威廉姆斯勋爵似乎对此并不在意，仅在亚当斯的演讲中出现一句“我的天（My God）”时才微微皱眉，这促使亚当斯倾身向讲台，拍了拍这位留胡须的神学家的肩膀以示歉意。
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单纯调皮？ 校园内正展开的 一场残酷战争
在被安迪·伯纳姆解职前的最后几番表态中，现任前教育大臣布里奇特·菲利普森警告学校，不要将学生的劣迹行为与特殊教育需求混为一谈。“拥有特殊教育需求和残疾（SEND）并不等同于行为不端，”她说道。菲利普森补充称，所谓的“融合基地”（inclusion bases）——即工党为特殊需求儿童设立的无惩罚教室——“并非在孩子难以管教时就将他们送往的地方”。她的这一干预措施，是对英国学校中关于SEND所呈现的极其严重的双重危机的一种深刻承认：一是被归类为有特殊教育需求的学生的数量持续大幅增加——目前已占校园人口的五分之一；二是由于一个经常将不听话学生的违规行为原谅为如ADHD（注意缺陷多动障碍）等病症症状的体制，给其他儿童带来的痛苦与干扰。值得注意的是，菲利普森的呼吁是面向处于这场危机前线的教师们的，他们被迫在活动人士和家长要求对被认为有SEN（特殊教育需求）的孩子给予特殊对待的需求，与维持秩序并为每位学生提供尽可能最佳教育的实际操作之间寻求平衡。许多人发现这是一项不可能完成的任务，尤其是因为家长们在为孩子寻求SEN诊断，这通常是因为他们希望议会资助昂贵的独立教育，或者他们无法接受孩子在学术上表现平平而希望获得更密集的投入。其他家长则将孩子的挑战性行为归咎于特殊需求，以掩盖自身的教育缺陷。与此同时，工党“融合基地”的存在本身就凸显了政府解决SEN的措施如何面临扩大问题规模的风险。在学校里，处理实际情况的是教师：课堂上的挑战性行为，其中相当一部分是由被认为有SEN的学生引发的，因此必须与他人区别对待。对于许多人来说，试图区分可能由“障碍”引起（根据平等法要求进行“合理调整”）的行为与那些单纯在捣蛋的学生，正变得越来越难以实现。
这在很大程度上是由被贴上特殊教育需求标签的儿童人数剧增所驱动的。在目前的制度下，校长必须先从自己的经费中支付每名学生首批 £6,000 的额外教育供应费用，然后才能向当地议会申请高需求“补齐”资金或教育、健康与护理计划（EHCP）——这是一份能触发资金拨付的法律文件。因此，对儿童进行正式鉴定并贴上SEN标签，已成为学校试图解锁资金或专业支持的关键杠杆。自 2014, 年保守党-自民党联合政府引入EHCP以来，拥有此类计划的儿童数量增加了一倍多，达到 538,547, 人，占所有学生的 6 %。另有 1.3m，即 15 % 的学生，在没有EHCP的情况下接受SEN支持。这种增长部分也是由那些认为学生行为不端是由被贴上特殊教育需求标签的儿童人数剧增所驱动的进步派教师所推动的。
并非刻意的恶意行为或选择“淘气”，而是未满足的情绪、社交或生理需求的症状。在这种由全国教育工会 (National Education Union) 等教学工会倡导的理念下，注意力缺陷多动障碍 (ADHD)、焦虑症、抑郁症或其他某种障碍或匮乏才是行为不端的根源。与此同时，那些渴望为其具有更严重学习发展障碍和额外需求的孩子寻求帮助的家庭，正在为争取资金和获得正确安置而奋斗，因为地方议会正被汹涌而来的竞争性需求所淹没。家长和教师寻求标签以掩盖行为不端、学校的财务激励以及来自员工和工会的意识形态压力，这些综合因素正驱动大多数官方特殊教育需求 (SEN) 类别的数量增加：沟通与互动、认知与学习，以及社交、情绪与心理健康。
相比之下，身体残疾类 SEN 儿童的数量在过去十年中相对稳定。ADHD 是增长最快的 SEN 类别之一，属于社交、情绪与心理健康组。NHS England 的监测数据显示，等待 ADHD 评估的儿童和青少年人数从 2019 年 4 月的约 21,000 人增加到 2025 年 12 月的约 270,000 人。其特征是持续的注意力不集中、多动和冲动（缺乏远见的行动）。学生可能会表现出“多动和对立倾向”——换句话说，他们无法安静地坐好，或者不愿执行他们被要求做的事情
双重危机：在担任教育大臣的最后一项行动之一中，布里奇特·菲利普森（Bridget Phillipson）警告学校不要将学生的糟糕行为与特殊教育需求混为一谈，并且“包容基地”（inclusion bases）并不是在孩子难以管教时就将他们送往的地方。
被告知——且通常在“冲动控制和行为调节方面存在困难，从而扰乱课堂常规和社会关系”。 专家估计，在被诊断出患有 ADHD（注意缺陷多动障碍）的儿童中，大约有 40 到 60 ％ 患有对立违抗障碍（ODD）。ODD 在 20 世纪 80 年代在美国被认定为一种“精神障碍”。其特点是“破坏性行为以及愤怒、爱争论、易怒和报复性的情绪模式”，而且据推测，在其真实的形态下，这是每位教师最可怕的噩梦。 该系统部分问题在于，ADHD 的评估是基于一份关于此类行为的清单。如果一个孩子表现出此类行为的频率足够高，他们就可能被评估为患有 ADHD——该病症无法与行为分开。 基于这一相当宽泛的标准，有可能被归类为需要特殊干预的学生的群体规模大幅扩张，例如一对一或小组辅导、与辅导员和教育心理学家的会谈、导师指导以及认知行为疗法。 自闭症的诊断率也在上升，并对学校产生了重大影响，教师们被要求在必须完成紧凑课程的情况下做出调整，例如放慢教学进度。焦虑通常是自闭症的一个特征，可能需要灵活的时间表以及更多来自专业人员的支持。 在英格兰拥有 EHCP（教育、健康与护理计划）的 538,547 名学生中，每三人就有一人被认定为自闭症患者。
一名来自约克郡的中学教师表示，特殊教育需要（SEN）被用作掩盖糟糕行为的借口，这种情况是“100 per cent（百分之百）”真实存在的。 今年，她教了一名“粗鲁且具有干扰性”的学生，但该学生的母亲不接受他应对其糟糕行为负责的想法，而是寻求特殊需求评估。 “每当我或同事给她打电话解释留校察看或讨论他的态度时，她都不接受，”该教师说道。“家长坚持认为这是他 SEN 问题的结果。他知道这一点，所以觉得自己不可触碰。”
据这位工作人员称，此类反应削弱了教师的权威，并使这份工作变得比原先更加艰巨。学校员工被迫在沉默中忍受，因为公开承认这一观点等同于职业自杀。白金汉郡的大米森德英国国教会综合学校（Great Missenden Church of England Combined School）的学习支持助理保罗·谢沃德（Paul Sheward）在 Facebook 组群中写道，SEN 正被用作学校中顽皮行为的借口，因此面临纪律处分。在一次关于推定解雇（constructive dismissal）的听证会上（他在辞职后对学校提起此诉讼但未获成功），他声称一些有行为问题的儿童实际上并没有任何额外需求或特殊教育需要。
“我坚信，SEN 经常被用作暴力爆发以及未能或不愿遵守指示的借口。人们似乎执迷于确定极坏行为的起因，或为其寻找理由，”他告诉法庭。“看来现在已经没有所谓的‘顽皮’孩子了。必须有一个潜在的解释。我不认为事实如此。我的信念是，有些孩子单纯就是行为糟糕。并没有潜在问题。这完全取决于他们是如何被抚养长大的。”
由保守党最初任命的政府行为沙皇汤姆·贝内特（Tom Bennett）表示，在停课和开除等“后果统计数据”中，具有特殊教育需求和残障（SEND）的儿童比例较高是不可避免的。“人们必须记住，许多儿童被认定为具有特殊教育需求，是因为他们如此频繁地不守规矩，而不是因为被诊断出神经或认知障碍——因此在某种程度上，一些 SEND 的认定是循环论证的。”在这种情况下，“专业反应”并不总是合适的：“许多孩子仅仅需要界限、一致性和后果，”他说。
一名在英格兰中部地区工作、在近 30 years（30年）后最近退休的 SEN 教师表示，在职业生涯末期，他深信特殊需求标签正被用来掩盖糟糕的教养方式。“在我最后一家小学里，有两个男孩竭尽全力地吸引注意力，甚至包括向校长p行（mooning）。”在教员室里，多动症（ADHD）被吹捧为一种
是 有些 孩子 单纯 就是 行为 糟糕。 这完全 取决于 他们 是如何 被抚养 长大的”
保罗·谢沃德， 学习支持助理
约克郡一名中学教师
……他们行为的可能原因，因为这看起来太极端了，尽管当时还没有正式的诊断。当那位 SEN 教师进入教室时，他发现他们“在四处乱跑，造成一片混乱，而教师和教室助理正试图收拾现场并将其他孩子与他们隔离开来”。教师向每个男孩扔了一把纸巾，并坚持要求他们帮他收拾教室。几分钟内，他们就开始和他一起擦拭课桌。这种常识性的方法——给予男孩们正确类型的关注、明确的指示，并向他们证明其行为会有后果（即他们必须清理自己的烂摊子）——证明立即见效。他们似乎在家里或面对其他教师时从未受到过类似的对待，因为其他教师在处理他们的不良行为时往往退缩了。“在之前显然没有获得过表扬的地方——无论是在家里还是学校——我给予了表扬；当我们收拾完毕后，我让他们坐在地毯上，向他们演示应该如何坐姿，”他说道。“几分钟内，他们就坐好并开始倾听，据我所知，这是他们第一次这样做。”在一天结束时，男孩们被“交给他们的母亲，她带着一个在婴儿车里的弟弟/妹妹，在打手机，对男孩们在学校的一天完全不感兴趣”。教师将此描述为“令人心碎”但很典型。“在很多情况下，正是糟糕的教养造成了问题，因为孩子们通常是在渴望关注。”家长和学校领导层都同意随后教育心理学家对多动症（ADHD）的评估。“学校收到了用于支持这些孩子的资金——但这些钱消失在了通用资金池中，没有起到预期作用——而家长则获得了额外的补贴，并为孩子的行为找到了一个官方借口，”这位教师说。“基本上，这就是利用体制来掩盖社会深层病灶的行为。”他指出，现代教师培训鼓励教师识别 SEN 问题。“普遍存在一种‘我们必须将其交给专家’的感觉，而保障制度和其他程序也鼓励这样做。”一名接受《电讯报》采访的教学助理同样对急于寻求诊断感到困扰，尤其是在小学阶段。他们没有共同努力去设定界限，并训练那些未准备好、无法适应社交及正式环境的学生，而是将这个“问题”传递下去。“任何四处乱跑、拒绝留在原地的孩子，都被假定为需要（SEN）评估，”该教学助理说。“是的，可能确实有问题。但一个孩子无法集中注意力且不听指令的行为，几乎立即被归类为‘神经多样性’或 ADHD。然后，这种行为就变成了被认为孩子们无法控制的事情。”当教师无法掌控局面时，会在教室内产生连锁反应。“其他孩子会将此视为特权，”该教学助理说。“然后学生们会认为自己有选择余地：‘如果我心情好，我就留在课桌前；但如果我感到无聊或烦躁，就算我大发脾气也没关系’。这实际上会让孩子们感到困惑。”
学校中的这场博弈正发生在更广泛的社会争论之中。一方是医学、心理健康和教育专家，他们否认过度诊断的说法。一些人甚至认为，由于漫长的候诊名单、“污名化”以及在评估和资源获取方面的不平等，那些被归类为社会、情感和心理健康类别的状况（如自闭症、ADHD、焦虑和抑郁）实际上是被低估诊断的。对于这些倡导者而言，必须给予特殊照顾，以减轻患有各种状况的儿童和青少年的生活负担。这一观点得到了 2010 年《平等法》的支持，该法规定，即使没有官方或正式的诊断，也必须提供照顾。如果学生需要离开课堂“休息”一段时间或缩短课程时间表，必须予以提供。如果校服让他们感到不适，应当进行调整。如果他们觉得在课堂上大声朗读或完成作业具有挑战性，应当予以豁免。如果他们觉得某节课会触发“创伤反应”，应当能够跳过该课。所有这些“合理调整”都出现在地方议会提供给学校的官方指南中。教师们因未能提供充足的照顾而受到指责，或者被告知他们的教学水平不过关，导致注意力不集中的孩子在课堂上产生麻烦。教育部去年发布的一篇研究论文在探讨识别和支持具有社会、情感和心理健康需求儿童的最佳方法时声称，“提供基于证据且有差异化的高质量教学”可能会降低“学生需要额外、更密集支持的可能性”。这种逻辑认为，要求这些孩子遵守同龄人必须遵守的规则是不公平的，因为他们的脑部结构使其无法做到这一点。
这种逻辑也正在渗透到法院系统中，法官们在量刑时经常将 ADHD 诊断作为减轻处罚的理由，或者将其作为减轻刑事责任的证据，以解释冲动、瞬间而为之的行为。但在争论的另一方，数量日益增加的专业人士（包括精神病学和神经学医学专家）则在质疑，这些行为清单——尤其是那些程度较轻的行为——是否能被归类为“医学障碍”，甚至是否能被称为“病症”。
伦敦的一位顾问精神科医生德里克·萨默菲尔德（Derek Summerfield）在探讨成人 ADHD 诊断上升的一篇论文中指出，与阿尔茨海默病等可以通过医学扫描显示的生物学因素来识别的疾病不同，像 ADHD 这样的综合征容易受到“过度医疗化和社会传染”等文化趋势的影响。他表示，将这些症状群分类为“神经发育障碍”是没有根据的，本质上是“制造疾病”。
其他专家警告称，心理学家、医生、教师和家长正面临压力，被迫给“挣扎中的孩子贴上医学标签”。
神经内科顾问苏珊·奥苏利文（Suzanne O’Sullivan）博士在她的著作《诊断时代》（The Age of Diagnosis）中写道：“家长们担心孩子，并认为这是帮助他们的一种方式。对于许多人来说，医学诊断是获取额外支持的唯一途径，无论是在医疗、资金还是学校便利设施方面。”
根据政府对心理健康状况、ADHD 和自闭症的独立审查，家长报告的自闭症患病率（即家庭声称孩子患有自闭症，无论是否经过正式诊断评估）在 2022 年至 2024 年间飙升了约 25%。
由于在年幼时被诊断为特教需求（SEN），可能会导致个体缺乏自主能力并产生“习得性无助”，这或许在一定程度上解释了福利依赖人数的惊人增长。在 2019-20, 年，大约有 230,000 名 16 至 24 岁的年轻人申请个人独立支付（PIP）。到 2025-26, 年，这一数字飙升至 465,000 人，其中 79% 的申请与“精神状况”有关，包括自闭症、ADHD（注意力缺陷多动障碍）、焦虑和抑郁。根据国家统计局的数据，近 100 万名 16 至 24 岁的人既没有工作也没有接受培训，其中超过一半的人将原因归结为健康问题。与此同时，16 岁以下领取残疾福利的儿童人数从 2010 年的近 300,000 人增加到 2020. 年的 465,000 人。随后增长速度加快，到 2025, 年，领取人数达到 760,000 人，并预计到 2031. 年将达到近 1.2 million 人。儿童与青少年精神科医生、心理治疗师兼《寻找正常》（Searching for Normal）作者萨米·蒂米米（Sami Timimi）博士认为，ADHD、自闭症、抑郁症等不应被视为医学诊断，也不应被用于决定谁能从额外支持中获益。他说：“除非我们意识到这一点，否则我们将被困在一个混乱、无法维持且在财务上不可持续的系统中，这会让建立一种更积极的整体学校文化变得更加困难。预算中拨给 SEN 的比例越大，非 SEN 的预算就越少，这意味着这些孩子的家长会觉得他们错失了机会，整个学校文化将变得更加分裂。” 该国一些纪律极其严明的顶尖公立学校似乎能够控制例如与 ADHD 相关的行为，并促进这些儿童获得高成就率。然而，批评者指出，其中一些学校的开除率较高。在伦敦西北部温布利（Wembley）的米凯拉社区学校（Michaela Community School），由该国“最严厉的校长”凯瑟琳·比尔巴尔辛（Katharine Birbalsingh）领导，停学和开除率并未明显升高。比尔巴尔辛最近透露，该校没有聘用专门针对 SEND（特殊教育需求及残疾）的员工。因为她学校里的所有孩子表现都很好，你无法分辨谁患有 ADHD 或自闭症。教育标准局（Ofsted）的督查员在访问米凯拉社区学校后，对其积极影响给予了明确肯定。根据该监管机构最新的报告：“领导层已建立了强有力的系统来识别学生的 SEND。他们在必要时提供额外支持。教师们擅长确保所有学生都能取得高成就。” 根据政府行为顾问汤姆·贝内特（Tom Bennett）的说法，学校——以及生活——中出现的大多数违规行为，都是出于“完全正常的人类原因和动机”，比如逃避艰苦工作、试图给朋友留下深刻印象以及追求乐趣，而不是因为某种“复杂的心理之谜”。他说：“如果我们把所有违规行为都视为 SEN，那么我们就是在将‘身为人类’的含义病理化，更糟糕的是，我们将学生视为无法控制自己的行为，因为这超出了他们的控制范围。但这根本不是事实。大多数——几乎所有——学生都可以通过引导表现得更好，并建立更好的习惯来帮助他们获得成功。SEN 儿童需要支持，但最重要的是，他们需要安全、平静、可预测的环境，在这种环境下，预期是清晰的，并且他们被教会如何达到这些预期。” 他表示，学校必须在“必要时”提供合理的调整，但不能超过这个限度——“否则，我们面临的风险就是教导学生他们是无助的”。
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在此时指责维多利亚和阿尔伯特博物馆（V&A）存在“系统性种族主义文化”，你不觉得时间点很微妙吗？它目前在 V&A East 的展出名为《音乐是黑色的：一个英国故事》（The Music is Black: A British Story），而在南肯辛顿博物馆，我们能看到《崛起的发声：来自亚洲、澳大利亚和太平洋的当代艺术》（Rising Voices: Contemporary Art from Asia, Australia and the Pacific）。当我看到后者的海报时，我的第一反应是：“谢谢，不适合我。不过，在如此丰富的文化盛宴中，总有适合每个人的东西。”要将这种毫不妥协的全球主义与系统性种族主义联系起来是很困难的，但这就是该博物馆前员工、心怀不满的柚子·菊池（Yuko Kikuchi）所暗示的。她曾任 V&A 的学术项目负责人，但已于 1 月离职。她的临别之作是写给馆长特里斯特拉姆·亨特爵士（Sir Tristram Hunt）的一封信，该信目前在《艺术报》（The Art Newspaper）上公开。这件事引起了不小的轰动，因为它涉及一家著名的
国家机构、关于艺术与殖民主义的陈年争端，以及风度翩翩的特里斯特拉姆爵士。菊池提出了几项指控。其一，她经常是“房间里唯一的非白人”。其二，一位资深同事告诉她，在交谈中应避免使用“去殖民化”和“后殖民主义”等词汇，因为这“可能会让赞助人和捐赠者感到不快”。顺便提一下，菊池是日本人。此外，她还指责同事们抵制她创建一套不那么“传统、以欧洲为中心之课程”的建议。针对设计史学位的提案中，她建议开设一门名为“后殖民身份、博物馆馆藏与跨国主义”的课程。而该提案被残酷地轻描淡写地否决了。在我看来，如果有人特意花时间在 V&A 参加课程，那么一套以欧洲为中心的课程可能正是他们所期待的。这一切都不会击垮 V&A。该博物馆已经发表了一份声明，包含那些关于“反对所有形式的非法歧视”的常规客套话。这一事件令人沮丧之处在于，它表明那些陈旧且愤世嫉俗的关于种族主义的陈词滥调，在追求委屈补偿的过程中依然是有效的弹药。这是一张有用的牌，因为无论面对什么，它都永远具有最高优先级，即使对于
“种族主义”与 “殖民主义” 争议证明 无论多少 全球主义 都无法满足 反 欧洲中心主义 暴民
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一家在全球视野方面如此“紧跟潮流”的机构。 这就是 V&A 博物馆的宗旨之一——提供所有国家最优秀的作品，以造福英国设计。其创始人亨利·科尔爵士 (Sir Henry Cole) 将 1851 年万国博览会的部分收益用于购买印度织物，至今仍吸引大批观众。 但这种腐败无处不在。 博物馆和美术馆的策展人个体可能很聪明、有兴趣且知识渊博，但培养他们的机构（由像菊地这样的人创建）的课程倾向于产出一种被已故的、令人怀念的评论家布莱恩·塞维尔 (Brian Sewell) 称为“知识上腐败、淹没在毫无意义的术语中、被政治正确所扭曲”的艺术史。 结果就在我们周围。近年来情况有所好转，但依然可见——一种不愿冒犯他人，且焦虑地讨好任何可能对任何事情产生不满的人的态度。这与关于物品来源的信息（包括所有权争议）截然不同——后者是绝对合理的。 最极端的例子是泰特英国美术馆五年前那场著名的糟糕展览《霍加斯与欧洲》(Hogarth and Europe)，在那里你很难找到关于霍加斯实际访问欧洲以及与欧陆艺术家打交道的信息，却看到一块又一块莫名其妙的展板，对任何暗示殖民主义的内容指手画脚。 其中一块由女性艺术家撰写的展板，在评论一副 1757 年描绘霍加斯坐在木椅上的自画像时宣称：“这把椅子是由通过殖民地航线运输的木材制成的，而这些航线同时也运输奴隶。这把椅子是否也可以代表所有那些无名的黑人和棕色人种，正是他们支撑了那个支持他旺盛创造力的社会？” 正确的回答应该是：“不，你这个笨蛋。” 我提到这个例子，是因为它是菊地倾向性导致结果的最明显例证，但类似的例子还很多。还有之前的奥布里·比兹利 (Aubrey Beardsley) 展览，共六
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问题是：关于你的燃气账单，你更愿意与聊天机器人对话，还是与真人对话？我认为，正确答案是真人。 然而，拥有英国天然气公司 (British Gas) 的 Centrica 首席执行官克里斯·奥谢 (Chris O’Shea) 表示，他一直在关闭呼叫中心并削减供应商的客户服务团队，因为客户更倾向于向 AI 而非人员咨询。 “AI 并不是导致这些特定岗位削减的原因，”他说道。“这主要是由于客户行为的改变。我们目前看到的是，超过 90% 的客户首先使用数字渠道，且客户通话量减少了 20%，因此这反映了客户行为的改变。” 我对这些数字感到些许怀疑，因为它们如此方便地证明了该公司在未来两年内将裁减 1,300 个职位的合理性。工会声称 Centrica 对 AI 的投资将导致聊天机器人取代“数百个”人类岗位——事实证明，他们低估了破坏程度。 但公司坚称这是客户想要的。 我实在不买账。在我看来，客户关系的完美境界是拨打电话后立即由真人接听，并由真人全程服务。而不是陷入那种地狱循环般的折磨，被从一个自动服务转移到另一个自动服务，伴随着
安迪·伯纳姆 (Andy Burnham) 将英格兰公交车票价上限设定为 £2，这是一项很难让人反对的政策，但这并没能阻止关于谁该为此获得功劳的争论。究竟是政策在任期间引入该方案的鲍里斯·约翰逊，还是将其带回的伯纳姆？随便吧。对于我们许多人来说，公交车是默认的出行方式。越便宜越好。
但公交车的空间有限，尤其是伦敦的公交车，这意味着关于占用座位的礼仪问题非常敏感。对于优先座来说尤其如此。这本该很简单：残疾人和老年人坐在那里，其他人轮流候车。但这与当今的社会现象——“小皇帝”综合征相悖，在这种现象中，儿童获得了某种奇怪的优先权。我本周就见到了这种情况。我乘坐的公交车挤满了人，一名女性（据我推测是韩国人）坐在车门附近的优先座上，她的小男孩占据了旁边的座位。
这时进来一位拄着拐杖、戴着头巾的老妇人。她蹒跚着走向座位，对着那名女性微笑，并暗示或许可以将那个不超过六岁的小男孩抱在膝盖上。那名女性看起来很惊讶；老妇人重复了她的请求，终于，对方意识到了这一点，孩子坐在了母亲的膝盖上。
我还需要说这个吗：那位老妇人不应该被迫开口请求。现在出现了一种奇怪的现象，即我们生养的孩子越少，他们就越被宠坏。我们正在制造怪物。各位，膝盖就是用来这么用的——用来抱小孩的。所以，当我们全部挤上伯纳姆的公交车时，能否提醒自己这一原则：年老、残疾的人坐，孩子站立。好吗？实际上，改为：成人坐，孩子为他们让座。如果老人不必为抢座位而战，我们所有人的关系都会和谐得多。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 发声： “音乐是黑色的：一个英国故事”展览正在 V&A East 展出；插图为不满的前员工菊池优子 (Yuko Kikuchi)，她向 V&A 提出了多项投诉。
……以确保我的咨询能得到更高效的处理。更准确地说，应该是更低成本的处理。
在这种背景下，值得观察的是，Centrica 零售部门在 2026 年前六个月的利润比去年同期增长了 £8m，达到 £346m。然而，国内客户数量从 7.5 百万下降至 7.45 百万。
我不相信人们会主动寻求自动化回复，因为那种回复永远无法真正解答你想知道的问题。当埃隆·马斯克说 AI 将使人类的工作变成“可选”时，这可能不是因为人们选择了机器，而是因为我们的选择权被剥夺了。
当然，如果英国天然气 (British Gas) 的客户真的选择避开他们的呼叫中心操作员，那可能是有原因的。通常，这些接触是一场折磨——而且当你被承诺有机会对体验进行评分时，心情更糟。
但当与人类的通话进展顺利时，它能让你一整天心情大好。有一次，我打电话给一家房屋管理公司更换建筑钥匙，在被转接了多个部门之后，我遇到了一位聪明的伙计，他观察到我的咨询涉及至少两个不同的类别，但他找到了规避这个问题的方法。
“我们击败了机器，”他快意地说道。用 AI 无法获得这种感觉，不是吗？
多年前，我再次参观泰特英国美术馆（Tate Britain），当时一张关于比兹利（Beardsley）素描画作《瓦格纳追随者》（The Wagnerites）的注释令我目瞪口呆，该注释指出，画中一名犹太观众的描绘可能带有反犹主义色彩。我仔细审视了这幅画——难道就是那个我之前漫不经心地看过、看起来毫无异样、秃顶且戴眼镜的男人吗？结果确实如此。
情况也许在好转，因为在我今年参观泰特美术馆盛大的透纳与康斯特比尔（Turner & Constable）展览时，没有看到任何关于殖民主义的提及。但衡量新任泰特美术馆馆长杰西卡·摩根（Jessica Morgan）是否如她表面上那样才华横溢的一个标志，将在于她能否克服“菊池倾向”（Kikuchi tendency）。杰弗里·伯纳德（Jeffrey Bernard）在她成长过程中是一个重要存在，因此预兆良好。
与老人 应当 就座，但这 与“小皇帝” 综合症 背道而驰
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进入改革党总部，首先引起注意的就是安保措施。我上次来这里是在年初，而根据内部记录，自那时起，奈杰尔·法拉格已经收到了 500 多次死亡威胁。新的措施——金属探测器、前台神情冷峻的保镖、防弹玻璃——令人无法忽视。尽管我觉得这些措施略显不安，但法拉格只是耸了耸肩。他说，这些预防措施“并不令人惊讶”。这句话中没有自大之情。无论是出于性格还是必要性——很可能两者兼有——他早已接受了“常态”已不再触手可及的事实。“当你被描绘成一个骗子和恶棍时，你还能期待什么？”他问道，声音中带着疲惫。英国政治进入了一个分歧演变为道德绝对主义的时代，太多人急于将对手定性为不仅是错误，而且是邪恶。就在我们见面前两周，
安·威德科姆（Ann Widdecombe）被残忍杀害，这对于一个已经因乔·考克斯（Jo Cox）和戴维·艾梅斯爵士（Sir David Amess）遇刺而伤痕累累的政治文化来说，又是一次沉重的打击。法拉格认为，针对担任改革党移民与司法发言人的威德科姆的袭击，增强了他的忧虑，并支持他坚持对自己的财务和私人生活细节保密——而这种行为被他的批评者解读为逃避。法拉格表示，这次杀人事件所凸显的安全威胁，使得那些指责他通过隐瞒来逃避公众对其与“时髦”乔治·科特雷尔（George Cottrell）关系，以及他从商人克里斯托弗·哈伯恩（Christopher Harborne）处收到的 £5 million 个人礼金的审查之指控，显得缺乏判断力。他观察到，政治暴力的性质已经发生了变化。它不再与有组织的恐怖组织相关联，而是一些更难以预测的东西出现了。“这不是爱尔兰民族主义。也不是那种你大致知道在应对什么的伊斯兰主义恐怖主义。现在你面对的是网络激进化和‘独狼’。”他说，威胁变得“弥散”——且在具体化之前是不可见的。当代政治的情绪温度对此毫无帮助，且法拉格认为政治家本身对推高这种温度负有部分责任。他特别提到大卫·拉米（David Lammy）关于改革党领袖曾与希特勒青年团“调情”的言论。“你听到过我个人对政治对手进行谩骂吗？”他问，“没有。可能会有一点开玩笑。我在布鲁塞尔做过最糟糕的事，就是说某人的魅力像一块湿抹布。”对于一个最大的资产就是曝光度的政治家来说，这一切构成了一个困境。在过去的三十年里，法拉格不在讲坛后面，而是在酒吧、村委会大厅和商业街上，与陌生人交谈，而这些交谈经常演变成争论，最后以自拍结束。提前宣传法拉格的行踪带有风险，他的团队认为这已不再是可以接受的。“我们尝试过那样做，”他说，“那样太危险了。”我亲眼见过这种情况；即政治助手悄悄后退，安保人员向前跨步的时刻。“我们恳求 (英国) 内政部提供帮助，”他说，“在我担任国会议员时，我终于得到了我请求的东西 [一支由 8 人组成的小组，包括一名司机]，但随后它被剥夺了。”改革党坚称，在“他当选议员后不久”，当局“大幅下调”了法拉格的安保级别，减至两名工作人员，其中仅有一名为近身保护特工。下议院则坚持认为，所有国会议员的安保都在接受持续且严格的审查；鉴于法拉格面临的威胁规模，许多人会质疑目前的级别
的保护是否足够。不断上升的威胁级别改变了政治家——或潜在候选人——对公职的看法。法拉格对人才储备管道表示担忧，并认为已经在议院绿凳上就职的人员需要采取更多预防措施。“其中一点是，虽然国会议员显然应该自己做决定，但我认为国会议员不应该再乘坐伦敦地铁了。”除了暴力威胁，法拉格面对的日常辱骂程度在本周距离克拉克顿 70 英里外便可见一斑：当时一名司机在开车经过法拉格身边时摇下车窗，大喊“w***er”（混蛋），随后撞上了前车。“这就是你们所谓的现世报，”是他简洁的回答。法拉格触发了一次旨在开展“民众对抗体制”运动的补选，但其政治对手谴责这不过是企图转移话题的赤裸手段。
他每天走“20,000 步”，皮肤晒黑的程度证明了这一点。他收到了“所有能想象到的各种评论……好的和坏的”。工党、保守党和自由民主党均拒绝派出候选人，理由是这次竞选不过是为了转移人们对议会专员就哈本礼品展开调查的注意力，而该礼品是在法拉格宣布竞选议员前数周收到的。凯米·巴德诺赫将这次竞争斥为一种“噱头”。保守党人抱怨，法拉格并非在威斯敏斯特回答问题，而是邀请选民去解决一个本应在其他地方处理的问题。改革党的说法则截然不同。这并非一场“闹剧”，而是民主。既然“体制”想要监督，那么法拉格就将自己交给选民地判定。“如果那些选民真的认为我是个骗子或坏人，他们可以把我除掉。”党内人士承认，主导政党选择不竞争该席位令他们感到惊讶。他们更倾向于一场正面交锋，而不是击败 30 多个“无-
他们就可以把我除掉”
（投票）希望者现在已出现在选票上。法拉格拒绝猜测他政治生涯中或许规模最大的这场赌博的结果，以及他在 8 月 13 日是否能增加得票份额，但他坚信保守党正处于恐慌之中。“在 2019 年，吉尔斯·沃特林（Giles Watling）获得了 72% 的选票。如果保守党这次竞选该席位，他们将失去保证金。”
尽管改革党信心十足，但这次补选发生在一个比该党在过去近两年所面临的更加不确定的时刻。自法拉格在 2024 年 4 月回归以来，他们拥有过每一个造反运动都需要的商品：势头。去年 5 月，他们以 6 票之差赢得了伦科恩（Runcorn）——就在同一天，他们席卷了 677 个议会席位。今年 5 月，他们掌控了 14 个地方当局。一次又一次的民调将改革党置于领先地位，有时高达 30%。
现在人们提出的问题是，该党非凡的势头是否已经开始衰减。他们在卡尔菲利（Caerphilly）、戈顿与登顿（Gorton and Denton）以及梅克菲尔德（Makerfield）的补选中失利。很少有人指望改革党能赢得其中任何一场，但政治关乎的是轨迹：在几乎每一项结果都似乎在强化改革党进展的两年之后，预料中的失败——或许是不公平地——引发了关于该党快速上升期是否已开始进入平台期的质疑。大曼彻斯特市长的前景则较为暗淡，不过法拉格迅速指出，工党“改变了规则”——他指的是将选举制度从简单多数制（first past the post）切回补充投票制（supplementary vote system）的决定。“这是香蕉共和国的行径。”
而且，如果移民问题——无论是合法还是非法——开始下降，如果工党成功让选民相信其能够可靠地掌控经济和公共服务，那么改革党最终是否会遇到天花板？
最近的一项 YouGov 调查显示，改革党支持率为 23%，保守党为 21%，工党为 20%；另一项民调显示工党与改革党持平，均为 24%。对于一个几年前还几乎不存在的政党来说，这些数字曾经会令人惊叹，但它们说明了要营造一种不可阻挡地向政权迈进的印象已变得多么困难。改革党对此类暗示不屑一顾。“我们经历了最艰难的一个月，遭到了媒体的围攻，而且伯纳姆正处于人气巅峰，”一名高级人物告诉我，“而我们依然在民调中领先。低估奈杰尔·法拉格，后果自负。”
然而，这正是为什么围绕 500 万英镑（£5 million）捐款的问题至关重要：这不仅是因为法拉格的批评者认为他违反了下议院的规则，而且因为这是一个更大问题的代名词：是对性格，或者可能是对执政能力的考验，在……
此时，改革党仍需说服部分选民，证明其准备好在扰乱英国政局之外发挥更大的作用。 关于这笔资金用途地反覆解释——安全保障、脱欧奖励、个人赠礼——并没有起到帮助。议会标准专员已启动一项调查，以确定该捐款是否应以不同的方式申报。与此同时，大都会警察局的侦探正在审查与科特雷尔（Cottrell）及其母亲费奥娜·科特雷尔（Fiona Cottrell）相关的捐款；科特雷尔此前在美国承认过电汇诈骗罪，而调查重点在于其母亲向改革党的捐款是否掩盖了政治资金的真实来源。两人均否认有任何不当行为。
法拉格深信政治判决已经下达，尽管几乎没有证据表明公众舆论法庭也得出了相同的结论。但至少这一点能提供些许安慰：在右翼阵营中，改革党仍领先于其最近的竞争对手数个百分点。“自由派权势集团肯定已经判定我有罪了，”他说道。“好吧，也许我本该填一张纸。如果这是我人生中做过最糟糕的事——没填一张表格——我会说这还不算太糟。”他坚持认为，他的律师曾建议他无需申报。其他人则不那么确定。
在这些相互矛盾的解读之间，是议会专员丹尼尔·格林伯格（Daniel Greenberg），我们目前都无法得知他的结论，而法拉格对揣测结果也毫无兴趣。 “我没有违法，”他坚定地说。“我没有逃税。我没有滥用公款。我没有买房车。我的议会开支？我几乎没申领过一分钱。我不需要……”
我询问他是否后悔与英国媒体部分成员发生冲突，包括有报道称他向一名编辑“大发雷霆”，以及在一名天空新闻（Sky News）记者询问他未申报从科特雷尔处收到的礼物是否是个错误时，他似乎失去了耐心。“不，”他毫不犹豫地回答，“因为对方越界了。”
十多年前，法拉格写道，他政治生涯中最大的遗憾是对家庭产生的影响，尤其是他在从事占据了大部分成年生活的竞选活动时，感到失去了陪伴孩子的时间。尽管如此，很难完全否认相反的观点。要求选民委托其担任高职的政治人物，必然会面对关于来自富裕资助者大额资金的严苛质询。问题不仅仅在于是否遵守了议会规则，而在于公众能否合理地理解为何对方会提供如此慷慨的资助。法拉格对此并不道歉，并提醒我，公众生活的实际后果已变得不可避免。“直到我死的那天，我将一直生活在日益增加的危险之中。”近几周来，他的“开支和账单激增”，因为安保不再仅仅是为了保护他一个人。“而是我周围的所有人。”维持这种级别的安保需要巨大的成本。尽管人们如此关注对法拉格财务状况的调查，但下次大选将不会由利益申报来决定。相反，它将聚焦于更简单的问题：选民是否觉得自己比以前更富有、更安全、更乐观。改革党的成功在一定程度上基于这样一个主张：国家正处于走向衰亡的道路上，只有改革党能够挽救。如果英国开始看起来像是……
随着局势的恢复，核心论点变得难以维持。法拉格（Farage）谨慎地没有低估安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）。这位新首相对政治的理解方式与基尔·斯塔默爵士（Sir Keir Starmer）不同——他不会本能地蔑视改革党（Reform）的选民，沟通流畅，并且目前已经统一了一个分裂的工党。法拉格说：“这是一种更聪明的方法——与他的前任完全相反。”然而，当提到首相的政府计划时，尊重迅速变成了嘲讽。“你不得不笑……那个巴士政策简直就像是在玩弄文字游戏（Tweedledum and Tweedledee），”他笑着说，随后拉起裤腿，露出印有双层巴士图案的袜子。他认为伯纳姆的势头能维持到“夏天结束”，并主张他的雄心在接触到工党议会左翼时将无法幸存。“有一件事是肯定的：伯纳姆根本没有打算遵守 2024 年的竞选宣言。”
他警告称，首相承诺要实施一代以来最大规模的政治和经济改革计划，但其基础极其脆弱。“他谈论的是 40 年来政治上最大的变革。但授权在哪里？大选的意义何在……”
应该是零。今年只有 1,000 名 恐怖分子？噢，太棒了！快把香槟拿来”
如果建制派只是在玩这种“抢椅子”的游戏，选举还有意义吗？”他很失望巴德诺克不会要求进行全国民调。尽管经济在人们投票给改革党的原因列表中仅排在第 10 位，仅被 10% 的支持者提及，但法拉格始终在强调国债问题。毕竟，如果伯纳姆将注意力集中在生活成本上，改革党就需要给出回应。而且，英国目前的债务略低于 £3 万亿，约为国民收入的 95%，而自金融危机以来经济增长一直疲软，给工党的周旋空间很小。“约翰·希利 [新任财政大臣] 看起来像是个理智的人，”他说，“他确实在财政部担任过部长。但当我们的国债增长速度比几乎任何其他地方都快时，他打算如何将国防开支提高到 3%？”一如既往地，
法拉格对保守党的批评更为刻薄：“保守党永远不会退出欧洲人权法院（ECHR）或放弃净零排放，”他轻蔑地说道。我指出，与去年同期相比，穿越英吉利海峡的人数显著下降，部长们坚称这一趋势表明他们的策略开始生效。但法拉格打断道：“非法移民应该是零。今年只有 1,000 名恐怖分子？噢，太棒了！我要把香槟从冰箱里拿出来。”此外，他说：“多佛尔的人告诉我，现在来的人才是真正的棘手分子。”那么他如何定义这一点？ “他们来是为了加入犯罪团伙。我得到了可靠的消息，伊朗人也将他们的一些特工派入英国。所以，今年的数字是 28,000 还是 43,000，坦率地说，根本不重要。”他认为法律与秩序是“目前国内讨论最少的一场危机”，是一个接一个的政府都忽略了、但选民们正日益察觉到的问题。当我问到唐纳德·特朗普会对担任外交大臣的埃德·米利班德有何看法时，法拉格嘲笑道。“我只能猜测他会选择什么样的语言，”他淘气地说道，“而且你们的报纸不会把它印出来的。”但他迅速澄清，美国总统“出于内心深处的种种情感原因，希望与我们保持良好的关系。基于这个原因，他会给米利班德一个公平的机会”。最后我问，他预计自己还能在权力中心停留多久。“我在实现进入 10 号唐宁街目标的决心上从未动摇过，”他回答道。不是为了头衔、级别或社会地位，而是因为他认为这是阻止国家“走向崩溃”所必需的。不过他补充道，“如果出现一个更合适的人，我会承认的。”那个人目前在改革党内吗？“如果出现一个更合适的人，”他重复道，“我会承认的。” 30 多年以来，法拉格接触的每一个政治项目都围绕着他个人的特质展开，尽管他强调这绝非出于自我意识。“我希望能离岸 20 英里去追捕蓝鳍金枪鱼，”他说。很难想象还有哪位英国政治家的职业生涯如此被其“在被认为已经出局的精确时刻，似乎凭空回归”的能力所定义。现在的问题是，英国最强大的竞选者能否再次实现这一壮举。
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因儿子死亡被囚 塞浦路斯的痛苦
紧随两岁幼儿在酒店坠亡事件之后。 作者：Neil Johnston 和 Abigail Buchanan
这本应是一次与大家族成员在时尚海滨度假村度过的奢华夏季假期。当一名城市高管及其妻子带着两个年幼的孩子，从他们位于埃塞克斯郡一个村庄的家中出发前往塞浦路斯时，他们期待着一段珍贵的共处时光和一次应得的休息，就像此时此刻无数其他英国这样一个家庭一样。
然而，在7月12日（周日）凌晨下飞机不到 24 小时后，这对夫妇遭遇了几乎无法想象的悲剧：他们两岁的儿子从酒店窗户坠落 30 英尺身亡。
随后，在心碎之余更添痛苦，就在这对夫妇还未从震惊中缓过来时，这位 37 岁的父亲（一家“四大”咨询公司的资深审计师）被当地警方逮捕，并被关押了八天，随后被指控“因鲁莽、轻率或危险行为导致死亡”。
现在，这个家庭面对的不再是在帕福斯的五星级 King Evelthon Beach Hotel and Resort 酒店泳池边 lounging 或前往海滩，而是执行将两岁幼儿遗体运回国的痛苦任务并等待审判。此外，由于已经交出了护照，这位父亲不知道自己是否能够参加葬礼。
这场噩梦始于两周前，在他们与孩子的外祖父母一起办理酒店入住手续后仅几小时。像所有客人都一样，他们领取了全包式度假的手环。随后他们前往四楼的房间休息片刻，准备在出发前补个觉。
【...由于鲁莽、轻率或危险行为导致死亡】。 在支付了 €20,000 保证金后，他将于下周再次出庭，届时他将被护送从法院的后门离开。
一个多星期以来，他的律师 Petros Stavrou 多次请求在严格的保释条件下将其从牢房中释放。在写给警察助理局长 Marios Agiotis 的信中，Stavrou 写道：“落在我们客户身上的这场悲剧如此之深，任何进一步的拘留都将加剧他以及他家人已经十分严重的心理状态。”
“特别是他最迫切的关注是获得释放，以便能与妻子在一起，告知他们五岁的女儿两岁儿子的死讯；到目前为止，他们只告诉女儿弟弟在医院。”
但律师的申请被拒绝了，据报道，这位父亲被迫通过 FaceTime 告知女儿这个噩耗。直到周二，他才终于能够陪伴在妻子和女儿身边共同面对悲痛，同时还要面对可能在塞浦路斯被判处最高四年监禁的可能性。
一名接近该家庭的消息人士告诉《电讯报》：“过去的 10 天极其痛苦。他在监狱里，而他的妻子必须处理失去儿子的悲痛，并[亲自]向女儿告知噩耗。”
“祖父母们因为在[接下来的几个月里]必须将儿子独自留在塞浦路斯而焦虑得病了，而他们则要往返于两地去探望他。他们所有人承受的压力都是巨大的。”
在接下来的几天里，该家庭还将面临一个艰难的决定：是否在父亲缺席的情况下将两岁幼儿的遗体运回国，因为这位父亲必须
回到楼下，与这对夫妇两岁大的儿子和五岁大的女儿在泳池度过了一天。随后，临近晚餐时间，他们回到楼上更换衣服。男孩们率先前往餐厅，父亲和儿子与孩子的祖父同行，他们在下午 6.40 左右离开房间并前往电梯。接下来的情况存在争议。警方推测，父亲在等待电梯到达时，抱起了那个被朋友描述为“真正特别”且“随和”的男孩，并开始将他转圈抡起。朋友们则说，他只是把他举了起来，可能将其放在了电梯旁 4 英尺高的理石窗台上，而没有意识到窗户是开着的。《电讯报》已看到该窗台，它俯瞰着度假村的泳池和大海，其宽度绝对足以让一名幼儿坐下。无论事实如何，在短短几秒钟内，
男孩就从滑动窗中坠落，掉落了 33 英尺，导致严重的头部受伤。人们无力挽救他，他在事故发生后不久被送抵帕福斯总医院，随即被宣布死亡。不到四小时后，他的父亲身处帕福斯中央警察局，被递交给一张用英文列出其权利的纸条，并被告知他已被逮捕，被指控导致其儿子死亡。当他的家人在哀悼这个“给周围每个人带来[欢乐]”的幼儿时，他却在接受警方的审讯。父亲在整个审讯过程中一直配合，但令其家人震惊的是，他次日早晨在地区法院出庭后被决定继续羁押。在接下来的 8 天里，他睡在警察局的一个共用羁留室里，这个空间通常是为该国最严重的罪犯准备的。据报道，他接受了心理援助，医护人员给了他辅助睡眠的药物，并据报道收到了一名同为英国籍囚犯的支持。
随后在周二，他回到了 同一个法庭。他显得情绪激动， 坐在被告席上，穿着一件蓝色 条纹衬衫和浅色斜纹棉布裤， 在那个装饰着木质护墙板的 小型省级法院中，两旁站着 警员。在从英国飞抵此地的 父母支持下，他被告知将被指控 “导致死亡
他在监狱中，而他的妻子 正面对失去儿子的打击”
英国美妆业以科学创新和精湛工艺著称，是一项巨大的产业，每年为英国经济贡献约 £30bn。但不仅仅是我们自己在购买——英国美妆委员会 (British Beauty Council) 创始人兼首席执行官 Millie Kendall 表示，英国美妆是一项全球事业，2025. 年的出口额约为 £4.2bn。许多英国品牌，如 Medik8 和 Charlotte Tilbury，已成为全球家喻户晓的名字，但仍有许多规模较小的分众品牌正逐渐受到欢迎。以下为您推荐一些最优秀的产品，涵盖了从香氛到尖端护发的所有领域。
向警方提供他居住的地址，并被列入“停止名单”，防止其离开塞浦路斯。对该男子的限制措施包括禁止通过跨境点进入这座地中海岛屿被土耳其占领的地区。
这项起诉由塞浦路斯总检察长 George Savvides 授权，他表示该父亲将“受到严格的限制条件”，旨在“确保其出席所有未来的听证会”。该案件可能会集中在父亲在警方问询中所提供的证词上；事故发生地走廊内没有安装闭路电视（CCTV）。毒理学报告显示，被告血液中含有微量酒精，不超过一两杯饮酒量，这些报告也可能在审理中起到作用。
朋友们表示，很难看出那个矩形玻璃推拉窗是否开启。与此同时，酒店自身的安全记录将引发质疑。2022, 年，一名英国游客在其三个泳池之一溺水身亡，当时目击者称救生员距离太远且反应迟缓。
King Evelthon 酒店自称是一家“完善的海滩度假村”，拥有“充满乐趣”的活动和超过 100,000 平方米的景观花园。本周，酒店客人似乎并未意识到几天前发生的悲剧。人们在泳池边的棕榈树下放松，泳池吧的扬声器里播放着迪斯科经典曲目，客人们品啜着当地啤酒。
创始人 Harriet Murphy 对马蒂斯 (Matisse) 的热爱，掩盖了其严肃的可持续发展资质，该品牌将发酵和冷压回收成分作为标准。您可以期待那些旨在滋养、呵护和平衡肌肤的精心调制产品。 尝试：沐浴及身体油，£43
Navy 约克郡
尽管 Navy 最初是一个专业美甲工具品牌，但创始人 Rebecca Crawforth 一直渴望打造一个更多元化的品牌。除了其标志性的手工黄金美甲工具外，该品牌现在生产从室内香氛到指缘滋养膏的所有产品。 尝试：Essential 旅行美甲套装（含工具收纳包），£89
度假悲剧： 顺时针方向，该男子的儿子在塞浦路斯 Chlorakas 海岸的 King Evelthon 海滩酒店及度假村坠楼身亡；男孩于 7 月 12 日坠落的酒店窗户；酒店外观
ALAMY; MICK K
以及在日光浴躺椅上畅饮无限量鸡尾酒。度假村里人满为患。主题表演在晚上照常进行，家长们则利用水疗中心、全包餐厅、度假村内水上乐园以及儿童俱乐部。当《电讯报》访问时，四楼电梯旁的窗户是关闭的，人们根本无法猜到两周前发生了什么。
据信，这次是这个小男孩第一次出国度假，他以温暖的拥抱和富有感染力的微笑而闻名，近年来这个家庭的生活一直很幸福。这对在大学相识的夫妇在 2021 年生了女儿，随后在 2023. 年 9 月生了儿子。他们最近庆祝了结婚 10 周年纪念日。
夫妇俩住在埃塞克斯郡一个安静村庄里一套价值 £640,000 的四卧小屋中，周围只有几个邻居，窗外是起伏的农田。他们还拥有一套出租公寓，据信这是他们共同购买的第一套房产。
父亲不仅是一位经验丰富且勤奋的审计师，几年前还成功创办了一家初创公司，但后来退出了管理，以便花更多时间陪伴孩子。他是一名热衷于网球的球员，以“强力发球”著称，并参与一项向青少年推广网球运动的计划。
对于他的妻子和女儿来说，回家的旅程将极其痛苦，因为她们深知本应由 5 岁孩子的弟弟陪同。但更令人心碎的是，那个如此深爱他的父亲被困在 2,600 英里之外，不知道还要经过几周、几个月甚至几年，他才能再次走进家门。
点缀在眼睛上。现在，任何无法预约到这位女性本人的顾客，都可以购买她新推出的居家美睫产品。这些预涂胶水的睫毛长度和款式各异，佩戴极其简便，且可以维持数日。 尝试：Tokyo 预涂胶水簇状睫毛，£45
No 98 Beauty 沃里克郡 (Warwickshire)
Lorna Andrews（或称 Lorna Luxe，她拥有 1.8 million 名 Instagram 粉丝）在创建自己的 No 98. 系列之前，几乎测试了市面上所有的护发产品。由于不含任何花哨的填充成分或不必要的添加剂，这是一个由四款核心护发产品组成的优秀系列。 尝试：The Gloss Miracle Oil 亮泽奇迹油，£30
当你像威尔士王妃那样处于公众视野中心时，人们最担心的是，某天某个过于追随潮流的造型可能会在未来成为让自己尴尬的记忆。因此，这位未来的女王在着装上追求永恒且时尚，经常选择那些经得起时间考验的经典单品，这也就不足为奇了。
“她已经形成了一套标志性的‘制服式’造型，因为她是一名专业人士，必须以此着装，”造型师 Annabel Hodin 表示，“这些造型是对传统王室着装规范的现代演绎，其本身便具有永恒的优雅感，且在保持得体之余不失时代感。她的造型通常采用从头到脚的同色系搭配，能够修饰她的比例，既正式又舒适。她看起来从容且自信——这正是服装应当为人们带来的效果。”
“威尔士王妃的衣橱里没有什么随兴之举，”造型师兼 Wrapp10 联合创始人 Sara Parker Bowles 说道，“当年我尝试为那时 17 岁的女儿 Lola（女王的孙女）购买加冕典礼的礼服时，我对其中的运作方式有了初步了解。应该有一个‘风格作战室’来……”
茶歇裙 紧身牛仔裤
茶歇裙从未真正淡出或回归时尚，且通常是夏季场合着装的首选。王妃已经穿了数十年的这种裙子。虽然她过去倾向于选择带有盖袖、层叠裙摆和收腰设计的更具少女感的轮廓，但现在她更倾向于选择高领或长袖。作为楔形跟鞋的终身拥趸，她有时也会尝试搭配裸色凉鞋。她的裙装系列涵盖了从低端到高端的所有范围：从 Ghost 到 Emilia Wickstead。
2019 2011
百褶中长裙 波点
虽然在结婚之初，凯特以裙装著称，但近期她更多地采用了中长裙。百褶款式经常是她的首选，因为它们既浪漫又干练，而垂直的褶皱还能在视觉上增加她的身高。她通过多种方式搭配这些裙子，从低方跟鞋到细高跟鞋，从腰带夹克到西装外套配 T 恤，购买品牌涵盖了 Zara、Jenni Kayne 和 Christopher Kane。百褶中长裙也是对她已故婆婆——威尔士王妃戴安娜的一种微妙致敬。
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打造同款： 王妃的风格经典
2026 2012
清新且狂野： 来自 Grove England 的香氛
羊毛人字纹 西装外套，£350 搭配 Nothing Underneath
腰带连衣裙
结构感强且带有腰带的连衣裙已成为凯特服装库中的主要工具之一。事实上，她经常在正式场合将此类裙装作为一种完美的折中方案——当蕾丝显得太像“晚礼服”，而外套裙又显得太“正式”时，此类裙装便派上用场。虽然它们带有轻微的 20 世纪 40 年代风格，但绝不会显得过于复古，且可能来自任何 era.。
在成为王室成员的早期，王妃经常充分利用她的长腿优势，穿着符合其青春气质的及膝连衣裙。如今，她更倾向于踝长裙或中长剪裁，这让她看起来更加成熟。近年来，人们经常看到她穿着由 Alessandra Rich、Self-Portrait 和 Roland Mouret 设计的多种腰带连衣裙。
Dcypher 使用一种 AI 工具，通过手机读取您的肤色和色调深度，并从零开始为您创建专属配方。 试用：我的定制粉底液，£39
使用 一项 AI 工具， 可通过 手机读取您的 肤色和 皮肤深度’
Grove 英国 科茨沃尔德 (Cotswolds) 受其科茨沃尔德家中窗外不断更迭的四季启发，Grove 创始人 Laura Butler-Madden 的愿景是为那些天生没有香味的花朵创造香气。该品牌的首个系列 Anemone 营造出温暖木质调的白色花香。其第二个也是最新的系列 Snowdrop，则是对柔和粉末感花香与清新绿意气息的探索。 尝试：Snowdrop 浓香水，£120
百褶裙， £44.99 H&M
系带连衣裙， £248 Reiss
而香气本身则采用了来自世界香水之都格拉斯 (Grasse) 的原材料精心调制。 尝试：灰烬与香气套装，£75
Foundry 萨默塞特 (Somerset)
由英国化妆品配方师及调香师 John Kilroy 创建，Foundry 擅长将平凡之物升华。不要被它可爱的外表所欺骗；每款配方都采用了前沿技术和高效活性成分，以改善皮肤的整体健康。 尝试：Biome 精华液，£120
Rhute 伦敦 在治疗了十年的头皮问题，并结合自身的脱发经历后，咨询皮肤科医生 Aamna Adel 博士于去年创立了她的头皮护理品牌 Rhute。首款产品 Density + Repair 头皮精华液完美展示了 Adel 博士的意图：即通过单一产品来解决不同人群的头皮相关问题。坚持使用后，
Mother 中腰 修身直腿牛仔裤， £280 Net-a-Porter
波点连衣裙， £160 Nobody’s Child
作为一名牛仔裤爱好者， 王妃拥有许多顶尖时尚 牛仔品牌的单品，从 J Brand 到 Mother 以及 Frame。虽然 她长期偏爱深色洗水款， 但她也尝试过不同的 长度，有时会选择 九分裤或
波点从未真正过时， 这就是为什么它们是 凯特最喜欢的印花之一。 事实上，在她成为 正式的王室成员之前， 她就穿过 Zara、Reiss 和 Whistles 的波点连衣裙。 随着年龄增长，
管理他们可爱的家政 人员每天负责的诸多且 复杂的后勤事务。” 事实上，在过去的 25 年里， 威尔士王妃磨练出了几种 她经常重复使用的谨慎 着装公式。随着岁月流逝， 她会根据当下的流行来 更新造型，确保她的时尚感 永不过时。“是的，如果她 被允许更大胆或不那么 循规蹈矩就太好了，” Parker Bowles 继续说道。 “但黑粉们无法否认的一点 是，她确实非常了解 什么样款式适合自己的 身形。她是轮廓之王。”
短款，但她年轻时 穿的低腰剪裁早已 成为过去，现在她 更倾向于中腰或高腰。 过去她会用塞进腰间的 衬衫来提升正式感， 而今天，人们更容易 看到她将牛仔裤与 西装外套和白色 T 恤 叠穿。
她已从更俏皮的迷你裙 转向更具量身定制感的 及膝设计，在皇家阿斯科特 赛马会和温布尔登网球赛 中经常选择波点。这是 另一种微妙地致敬戴安娜 的绝佳方式，因为戴安娜 非常推崇这种印花。
可以期待头发感觉更丰盈、更浓密。 尝试：Density + Repair 头皮精华液，£55
NÆRE 巴斯 (Bath) 旨在简化美容补剂，NÆRE 是英国科学家与咨询美容整形外科医生 Nigel Mercer 博士合作的成果。该系列仅由一款核心产品 Nectar 01, 01 组成，这是一款旨在改善皮肤、增强能量或改善肠道健康的综合补剂。 尝试：Nectar 01，£99
Made of More 林肯郡 (Lincolnshire) 当 Jackie Lamyman 开始经历围绝经期时，这些变化让她措不及措。她在多年前创立了一个 CBD 品牌，而正是由于发现了 CBG（CBD 的干细胞母体），促使她创立了 Made of More。这是一个为中年女性打造的精简修复与平衡护肤系列。 尝试：Skin Rescue 修复膏，£35
通告
圣詹姆斯宫 7月24日 爱丁堡公爵，英联邦体育副赞助人，今日出席在格拉斯哥举行的第 XXIII 届英联邦运动会。
圣詹姆斯宫 7月24日 安妮公主，皇家游艇协会主席，在蒂姆·劳伦斯副海军上将的陪同下，今早访问了位于南安普顿福利发电站 SailGP 技术枢纽的 Emirates GBR SailGP 团队，并由汉普郡代表陛下之领地治安法官（奈杰尔·阿特金森先生）接待。
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T.J.L. 加顿先生与 E.G. 威廉姆斯小姐 特里斯坦（Tristan），汉普郡金斯克莱尔（Kingsclere）安东尼·理查德·L·加顿先生之独子，与来自牛津郡亨利昂泰晤士（Henley-on-Thames）的伊内斯·M·威尔逊阁下（Hon Ines M. Wilson）以及艾玛（Emma），赫特福德郡哈彭登（Harpenden）保罗·E·威廉姆斯 CBE 先生与威廉姆斯夫人之长女，宣布订婚。 在线参考号：W0050904
N.E. 贝内特上尉与 D.R. 尼科尔小姐 N.E. 贝内特上尉，皇家枪骑兵团（女王伊丽莎白专属），西萨塞克斯郡斯坦斯特德（Stansted）大卫·贝内特上校夫妇之幼子，与多拉（Dora），剑桥郡奇彭纳姆（Chippenham）雨果·尼科尔夫妇之幼女，宣布订婚。 在线参考号：W0050901
A.J. 阿费佐利先生与 P.F.H. 塞内特小姐 安迪·詹姆斯（Andi James），瑞士苏黎世纳斯克与阿德拉·阿费佐利之子，与菲比·弗洛伦斯·海泽尔（Phoebe Florence Hazel），伦敦马克与乔瑟琳·塞内特之女，宣布订婚。 在线参考号：W0050898
L.J. 埃文斯先生与 L.M. 库罗斯小姐 劳伦斯（Lawrence），西马林（West Malling）保罗·埃文斯夫妇之子，与劳拉（Lara），坎特伯雷（Canterbury）菲利普·库罗斯夫妇之女，宣布订婚。 在线参考号：W0050852
M.C.W. 休斯顿先生与 I.L.R. 纳皮尔小姐 婚礼于 6月 27, 在尼恩索拉斯（Neen Sollars）的所有圣徒教堂举行。新郎迈克尔（Michael）为查理·休斯顿夫妇之子，新娘伊莎贝尔（Isabel）为菲利普·纳皮尔准将夫妇之女。仪式由凯尔文·普莱斯牧师主持，阿什利·巴克牧师协助。 伴新娘为克莱奥·尼尔森、斯坦利与弗雷达·内勒-莱兰以及莉莉与格蕾丝·里格利。埃德蒙·马格努斯先生担任伴郎。 招待会在大顶篷（Big Top）举行。 在线参考号：W0050914
三圣节后第八主日
圣保罗大教堂 (ST PAUL’S CATHEDRAL)：8 HC；8.45 晨祷；11.15 唱诵圣餐礼，由司祭主持；3 合唱晚祷，西蒙·卡夫 (Simon Cuff) 博士牧师；5.30 圣餐礼。西敏寺 (WESTMINSTER ABBEY)：8 HC；10 伴有赞美诗的晨祷；11.15 唱诵圣餐礼，由圣堂保管员主持；3 晚祷，大卫·斯坦顿 (David Stanton) 牧师；5 管风琴独奏，尤金·拉夫里 (Eugene Lavery)；6 伴有赞美诗的 HC，由圣堂保管员主持。直播地址：westminster-abbey.org 南华克大教堂 (SOUTHWARK CATHEDRAL)：8.30 晨祷；9 圣餐礼，由院长主持；11 合唱圣餐礼，由院长主持；3 合唱晚祷，弗朗西丝·希勒 (Frances Hiller) the Canon；6 睡前祷告（仅限在线）。直播地址：cathedral.southwark.anglican.org 塔边圣艾洛教堂 (ALL HALLOWS BY THE TOWER)：11 唱诵圣餐礼，马丁·卡尔 (Martin Carr)。直播地址：ahbtt.org.uk 玛格丽特街圣徒教堂 (ALL SAINTS, Margaret St)：8.30 低弥撒；11 高弥撒；5.15 低弥撒；6 庄严晚祷与降福礼。直播地址：asms.uk 兰汉姆广场圣魂教堂 (ALL SOULS, Langham Place)：9.30 和 11.30 晨礼，克里斯·赖特 (Chris Wright)；5.30 晚礼，威尔·肯尼迪 (Will Kennedy)。格罗夫纳礼拜堂 (GROSVENOR CHAPEL, South Audley Street)：11
唱诵圣餐礼，艾伦·皮戈特 (Alan Piggot) 博士牧师。HTB 勃朗普顿路教堂 (HTB Brompton Rd)：非正式礼拜 9.30 和 11.30，阿奇·科茨 (Archie Coates)。11.30, 礼拜直播地址：htb.org 斯隆广场圣三一教堂 (HOLY TRINITY, Sloane Square)：11 合唱圣餐礼，迈克尔·罗宾逊 (Michael Robinson) the Canon；6 合唱晚祷。克洛斯费尔圣巴多罗买大教堂 (ST BARTHOLOMEW THE GREAT, Cloth Fair)：9 诵读圣餐礼，马克·扬 (Mark Young) 神父；11 合唱圣餐礼，由教区长主持；5 合唱晚祷，罗莎蒙德·麦克道威尔 (Rosamond McDowell) 母亲牧师。直播详情：greatstbarts.com 舰队街圣布莱德教堂 (ST BRIDE’S, Fleet St)：11 合唱圣餐礼，由教区长主持；5.30 伴有音乐讲道之合唱晚祷。直播详情：stbrides.com 温莎圣乔治教堂 (ST GEORGE’S, Windsor)：8.30 HC；10.45 晨祷，尼克·布朗 (Nick Brown) 博士 the Canon；5.15 晚祷。田间圣吉尔斯教堂 (ST GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS)：11 唱诵 HC，汤姆·桑德 (Tom Sander) 牧师；6.30 晚祷，汤姆·桑德 (Tom Sander) 牧师。加里克海塞圣詹姆斯教堂 (ST JAMES’S, Garlickhythe)：9 晨祷；10.30 唱诵圣餐礼，由教区长主持。皮卡迪利圣詹姆斯教堂 (ST JAMES’S, Piccadilly)：9.45 生态沉思礼拜；11 主保瞻礼唱诵圣餐礼，由教区长主持；3 合唱晚祷，艾拉·勒平 (Ayla Lepine) 博士牧师。直播地址：sjp.org.uk 萨塞克斯花园圣詹姆斯教堂 (ST JAMES’S, Sussex Gardens)：10.30 高弥撒；5 合唱晚祷。通过此地址直播：stjamespaddington.org.uk 田间圣马丁教堂 (ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS)：10 圣餐礼，莎拉·阿彻 (Sarah Archer) 牧师；1.30 粤语圣餐礼；5 福音晚祷。直播详情：smitf.org 玛丽勒本路圣玛丽勒本教堂 (ST MARYLEBONE, Marylebone Rd)：8.30 HC，布莱恩·利萨德 (Brian Leathard) 牧师；11 合唱圣餐礼，布莱恩·利萨德 (Brian Leathard) 牧师。直播详情：stmarylebone.org 科文特花园圣保罗教堂 (ST PAUL’S, Covent Gdn)：11 圣餐礼。直播地址：actorschurch.org 骑士桥圣保罗教堂 (ST PAUL’S, Knightsbridge)：9.30 晨祷；11 庄严圣餐礼。
生日
今日：巴里·罗杰森 (Barry Rogerson) 右敬主教，布里斯托尔主教，1985-2002, 90 岁；帕特里克·斯图尔特 (Patrick Stewart) 先生，阿盖尔与比特郡副 the Lord Lieutenant，2011-20, 81 岁；妮可·法希 (Nicole Farhi) 女士（海尔夫人），服装设计师及雕塑家，80 岁；大卫·马登 (David Madden) 爵士，前外交官，80 岁；罗杰·索尔 (Roger Saul) 先生，Mulberry 创始人，76 岁；布里奇斯勋爵 (Lord Bridges)，女王私人律师，2002-19, 72 岁；希娜·麦克唐纳 (Sheena McDonald) 女士，记者及广播员，72 岁；安迪·戈德沃西 (Andy Goldsworthy) 先生，雕塑家，70 岁；马克·洛考克 (Mark Lowcock) 爵士，联合国人道主义事务副秘书长兼紧急救援协调员，2017-21, 64 岁；朱利安·霍奇森 (Julian Hodgson) 先生，国际象棋特级大师，63 岁；戴安娜·约翰逊 (Diana Johnson) 夫人，国会议员，卫生与社会关怀部国务大臣，60 岁；尼古拉斯·温莎勋爵 (Lord Nicholas Windsor)，肯特公爵与公爵夫人之子，56 岁；尼克·马修 (Nick Matthew) 先生，前壁球运动员，三届世界公开赛冠军，46 岁；海伦·斯科特 (Helen Scott) 女士，自行车引导员，残奥会金牌得主，Rio 2016, 36 岁；以及托妮·杜根 (Toni Duggan) 女士，前英格兰
人事任免 詹姆斯·格伦费尔牧师 (Revv James Grenfell)，伦敦东大学校园牧师 (切姆斯福德教区)，将出任东萨福克与北埃塞克斯基金会信托 (East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust) 的首席校园牧师 (同教区)；保罗·帕夫卢 (Paul Pavlou)，怀肯与卡卢顿 (考文垂教区) 助理牧师及(伊利教区)兼职牧师，将出任剑桥圣巴拿巴教堂 (伊利教区) 的助理教区牧师；奈杰尔·赖特 (Nigel Wright)，(利兹教区) 兼职牧师，将出任南莫布雷 (约克教区) 的助理神职人员 (称为助理牧师)；乔纳森·迪恩 (Jonathan Dean)，格雷特艾顿、伊斯比与罗斯贝里下方的牛顿 (约克教区) 助理神职人员，将出任格雷特艾顿、伊斯比与罗斯贝里下方的牛顿 (同教区) 的助理神职人员 (称为助理牧师)；杰奎琳·多伊尔-布雷特 (Jacqueline Doyle-Brett)，里弗斯 (约克教区) 主任牧师，将出任里弗斯 (同教区) 的牧师；杰奎琳·特纳 (Jacqueline Turner)，赫尔桥、罗雷斯与雷滕登 (切姆斯福德教区) 助理牧师，将出任雷利 (同教区) 的助理牧师；克莱尔·布罗克尔斯比 (Claire Brockelsby)，芬德雷顿与芬斯坦顿 (伊利教区) 助理神职人员，将出任芬边 (同教区) 的主任神职人员；彼得·冈特 (Peter Gaunt)，格雷斯通斯圣加百列教堂 (谢菲尔德教区) 助理神职人员，将出任格雷斯通斯圣加百列教堂及监管牧师 (同教区)。
桥牌记者 Julian Pottage 报道，斯卡伯勒夏季节（Scarborough Summer Festival）在斯卡伯勒的 Crown Hotel and Spa 举行。获胜者如下：
| 类别 | Jim Proctor 奖杯双人赛 |
|---|---|
| 第一名 | Daniel Baines 和 Robert Miller 60.10% |
| 第二名 | Richard Creamer 和 Konrad Mau（获得 Patrick Jourdain 最佳年长组双人赛奖杯） 59.41% |
| 第三名 | Alan Patel 和 Mariam Gilbert（最佳混合双人组） 58.38% |
多队赛 A 组 第一名 Jeremy Willans, Jill Skinner, Neil Rosen 和 Anne Rosen +57 IMPs 第二名 Daniel Baines, Robert Miller, Chris Wormleighton 和 David Smith + 43 IMPs
多队赛 B 组 第一名 Athena Chow, Tom Copeland, Alan Hayward 和 Joyd Mittra + 49 IMPs
瑞士双人赛 第一名 Daniel McIntosh 和 Claire Robinson 164 VPs 第二名 Diana Nettleton 和 Simon Cope 162 VPs 第三名 James Thrower 和 Croz Croswell 158 VPs 第四名 Daniel Baines 和 Robert Miller 155 VPs 第五名 Aaron Hutton 和 Hanna Tuus 154 VPs
直播：spkb.org 圣殿教堂 (TEMPLE CHURCH)，舰队街：11.15 伴随赞美诗的圣餐礼。直播详情：templechurch.com 卫兵教堂 (GUARDS CHAPEL)，威灵顿军营：11 合唱早祷，皇家骑兵团乐队，Rev Alex Bennett。旧皇家海军学院教堂 (OLD ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE CHAPEL)：11 唱诵圣餐礼，Mr Tim Cave。皇室法院教堂 (CROWN COURT (C-o-S))，科文特花园：11.15 早晨崇拜，Rev Tara Porr Granados。通过 crowncourtchurch.org.uk 直播。圣哥伦巴教堂 (ST COLUMBA’S (C-o-S))，庞特街：11 早晨礼拜，Rev Angus MacLeod。直播：stcolumbas.org.uk 威斯敏斯特大教堂 (WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL)：弥撒：8, 10 (唱诵), 12 (庄严), 5.30 (唱诵) 和 7；9.30 早祷；4 晚祷。12 点的弥撒直播：westminstercathedral.org.uk 圣心教堂 (THE ORATORY)，布朗普顿路：弥撒：8, 9 (拉丁语), 10 (家庭), 11 (庄严拉丁语), 12.30, 4.30 和 7；3.30 唱诵晚祷与降福礼。圣母升天与圣格列高利教堂 (OUR LADY OF THE ASSUMPTION AND ST GREGORY)，沃里克街：弥撒：10.30 (庄严) 和 5。希腊正教大教堂 (GREEK ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL)，莫斯科路：9.15 早祷与神圣礼仪。救世军 (SALVATION ARMY)，牛津街：11 早晨崇拜，Major Mark Rose 和 Major Lindy Rose。直播：salvationarmy.org.uk/regent-hall 卫斯理教堂 (WESLEY’S CHAPEL)，城市路：9.45 圣餐礼，Rev Dr Claire Potter；11 圣道礼拜。直播：www.wesleyschapel. org.uk 威斯敏斯特教堂 (WESTMINSTER CHAPEL)，白金汉门：11 家庭庆祝礼拜。直播：westminsterchapel.org.uk 威斯敏斯特卫理公会中央大厅 (WESTMINSTER METHODIST CENTRAL HALL)：9.30 在线教会；11 早晨崇拜；6 晚上崇拜。注册并观看直播：mchw.live 阿马（ARMAGH）：10 圣餐礼；11 圣餐礼，Canon Jim Campbell；3.15 晚祷。巴斯修道院 (BATH ABBEY)：8 圣餐礼；9.30 家庭圣餐礼；11.30 唱诵圣餐礼；4.30 合唱晚祷；6.30 非正式礼拜。直播详情：bathabbey. org 伯明翰 (BIRMINGHAM)：9 圣餐礼；11 唱诵圣餐礼，传教士；3.30 晚祷。直播详情：birminghamcathedral.com 布莱克本 (BLACKBURN)：9 教区圣餐礼；10.30 大教堂圣餐礼；4 合唱晚祷。直播详情：blackburncathedral.com 布拉德福德 (BRADFORD)：8 圣餐礼，Rev Duncan Milwain；10.30 合唱圣餐礼，Canon Prof Myra Shackley。直播详情：bradfordcathedral.org 布里斯托 (BRISTOL)：7.40 早祷；8 圣餐礼；10 大教堂圣餐礼；3.30 合唱晚祷。坎特伯雷 (CANTERBURY)：8 圣餐礼 (BCP)；9.15 早祷；11 唱诵圣餐礼，院长；5.30 晚祷。通过 canterbury-cathedral.org 直播。卡莱尔 (CARLISLE)：7.40 早祷；8 圣餐礼；10.30 与 Erleigh Cantors 共同唱诵的圣餐礼，Ven Michael Everitt；3 合唱
明日寿星：前足球员兼教练劳里·麦克米纳尼 (Mr Lawrie McMenemy) 将迎来 90 岁生日；前苏格兰司法学院参议员马诺克勋爵 (Lord Marnoch) 88 岁；1996-2007 年澳大利亚总理约翰·霍华德 (Mr John Howard) 87 岁；滚石乐队主唱、歌手兼词曲作者米克·贾格尔爵士 (Sir Mick Jagger) 83 岁；女演员海伦·米伦勋爵 (Dame Helen Mirren) 81 岁；2011-17 年伦敦劳合社主席约翰·尼尔森 (Mr John Nelson) 79 岁；皇后乐队鼓手兼词曲作者罗杰·泰勒 (Mr Roger Taylor) 77 岁；电影制片人、1993-97 年英国电影协会主席杰里米·托马斯 (Mr Jeremy Thomas) 77 岁；女演员苏珊·乔治小姐 (Miss Susan George) 76 岁；社会心理学家、2001-18 年巴斯大学副校长格莱尼斯·布雷克威尔教授勋爵 (Prof Dame Glynis Breakwell) 74 岁；2009-14 年秘密情报局局长约翰·索尔斯爵士 (Sir John Sawers) 71 岁；前联合政府大臣诺曼·贝克 (Mr Norman Baker) 69 岁；演员、导演兼制片人、2004-15 年旧维克剧院艺术总监凯文·史 पै西 (Mr Kevin Spacey) 67 岁；古斯法官 (Mr Justice Goose) 65 岁；管风琴演奏家马丁·贝克 (Mr Martin Baker)；威斯敏斯特大教堂音乐总监，
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英国和法国的攻击。 “无私的美国。”
纽约，星期日。
这里与在英国一样，不乏关于战争债务的激烈讨论可能会弊大于利的建议，但始于你们那边的爆发在美国依然产生反应，并已成为夏季报纸通讯的主要议题。公正的评论家高度重视丘吉尔先生和希尔顿-杨先生在下议院的演说，尤其是因为人们认为这些发言人以相当大的权威表达了自欧洲每个债务国进行“结算”以来就一直在形成的一种观点。外交委员会主席波拉参议员是美国最著名的不妥协者，因此也是共和党“坚持到底派”中最具好战心且党派色彩最浓的人。他在丘吉尔先生和杨先生的言论中看到了取消贷款运动的第一步，并且
完全忽略了巴尔弗伯爵是第一位建议采取该手段作为对所有相关方长远来看最佳方案的英国政治家。波拉先生对目前在欧洲听到的对美国的辱骂感到极其愤慨，在他昨天交给新闻代表的一份声明中，他将最近的批评与美国参战时获得的高度赞誉进行了对比。他引用了当时的阿斯奎斯先生在下议院的演说，其中提到美国参战是“历史上最无私的行为之一”；以及同时期柯松勋爵的话，他说道：“没有人能说美国的国家生存受到了威胁。‘没有任何一个敌人踏上，或可能踏上美国的土地。美国不需要领土。她没有什么需要收复的，因为她没有被剥夺任何东西。’”
波拉先生说，丘吉尔先生正在“进行一场旨在取消债务的加里波利式战役，其前奏是对敌人——美国——的一场诋毁运动。全世界将被引导去相信，美国人民缺乏所有的人道主义意识、正确的原则、高尚的理想或光荣的目的。我们被描绘成一群贪婪、冷酷、贪财的人。” 对局势一个更温和的看法似乎是：大西洋两岸的坦率陈述，只要是真诚且不带情绪和夸张的，就不会造成损害。此类陈述起到了公众情绪安全阀的作用，并提供了思考的空间。人们日益意识到，任何导致长期刺激和不快地争论都可能演变为国际危险。目前，美国国会重新考虑债务结算的可能性微乎其微，但
这里与其他地方一样，立法机构旨在代表公众舆论。如果公众舆论要求基于现有债务协议过于沉重且应予以修订的观点来达成一项新结算，那么可以为这项任务提供方法和手段。
Erleigh Cantors 陪同的晚祷。直播地址：carlislecathedral.org.uk 契尔姆斯福德（CHELMSFORD）：8 诵读圣餐礼；9.30 圣餐礼；11.15 合唱圣餐礼；3.30 合唱晚祷。直播详情：chelmsfordcathedral.org.uk 彻斯特（CHESTER）：8.30 圣餐礼（HC）；10.30 大教堂圣餐礼，传教士；3 合唱晚祷；6 诵读深夜祷告（Compline）。 奇切斯特（CHICHESTER）：8 圣餐礼（HC）；9 儿童、家庭及护理人员礼拜；10 合唱早课；11 咏唱圣餐礼，司库；3 合唱晚祷。直播地址：chichestercathedral.org.uk 考文垂（COVENTRY）：10.30 大教堂圣餐礼；4 合唱晚祷。直播详情：coventrycathedral.org.uk 德比（DERBY）：8.30 圣餐礼（HC），Romita Shrisunder 牧师；10.45 大教堂圣餐礼，Alan Flintham 博士牧师；5.15 晚祷。直播详情：derbycathedral.org 达勒姆（DURHAM）：8 圣餐礼（HC）；10 咏唱圣餐礼，James Shelton 牧师；11.30 早祷及致辞，院长；3.30 晚祷。直播详情：durhamcathedral.co.uk 埃利（ELY）：8.15 圣餐礼（HC）；10.30 咏唱圣餐礼，牧师
Atalie Gaines；4 晚祷。直播详情：elycathedral.org 埃克塞特 (EXETER)：8 圣餐礼 (HC)；9 晨祷；10 合唱圣餐礼；4 合唱晚祷。直播：exeter-cathedral.org.uk 格拉斯哥，圣蒙戈大教堂 (GLASGOW, ST MUNGO’s, C-o-S)：11 早晨崇拜，马克·约翰斯通 (Mark Johnstone) 牧师。直播：glasgowcathedral.org 格洛斯特 (GLOUCESTER)：8 圣餐礼；8.30 晨祷；10.15 三唱诗节圣餐礼，院长；3 合唱晚祷，礼拜司。直播详情：gloucestercathedral.org.uk 吉尔福德 (GUILDFORD)：7.30 晨祷；8 圣餐礼 (HC)；9.45 大教堂圣餐礼；6 合唱晚祷。直播详情：guildford-cathedral.org 赫里福德 (HEREFORD)：8 圣餐礼 (HC)；10 大教堂圣餐礼，副唱圣诗司；11.30 早祷 (Mattins)；3.30 晚祷；7 城市赞美。直播详情：herefordcathedral.org 因弗内斯 (INVERNESS)：8.30 圣餐礼；11 唱诵圣餐礼，L. Symon 牧师；5.30 唱诵晚祷。直播详情：invernesscathedral.org 莱斯特 (LEICESTER)：10.30 大教堂圣餐礼；3.30 合唱晚祷。直播：
leicestercathedral.org 利奇菲尔德 (LICHFIELD)：7.40 晨祷；8 圣餐礼 (HC)；10.30 合唱圣餐礼；3.30 合唱晚祷。通过此处直播：lichfield-cathedral.org 林肯 (LINCOLN)：7.45 祈祷文 (Litany)；8 圣餐礼 (HC)；9.30 早祷 (Mattins)；10.30 唱诵圣餐礼，院长；12.30 圣餐礼 (HC)；3.45 合唱晚祷。利物浦大都会大教堂 (LIVERPOOL METROPOLITAN)：弥撒 9, 10 (家庭)，11 (庄重) 以及 7。11 点的弥撒直播：liverpoolmetrocathedral. org.uk 兰代夫 (LLANDAFF)：8 和 9 圣餐礼；11 合唱圣餐礼；4 合唱晚祷。直播：llandaffcathedral.org.uk 曼彻斯特 (MANCHESTER)：8.45 晨祷，随后为圣餐礼 (HC)；10.30 唱诵圣餐礼，格蕾丝·托马斯 (Grace Thomas) 教区长；4.30 晚祷。直播：manchestercathedral.org 纽卡斯尔 (NEWCASTLE)：8 圣餐礼；8.30
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今天是路易·布莱里奥 (Louis Bleriot) 在 1909 年首次驾驶飞机飞越英吉利海峡的周年纪念日，也是气垫船 1959 年首次从加来飞往多佛穿越英吉利海峡的周年纪念日。
明天将是 1956 年苏伊士运河国有化的周年纪念日。同时也将是乔治·伯纳德·肖 (George Bernard Shaw) 1856 年诞生和卡尔·荣格 (Carl Jung) 1875 年诞生的周年纪念日。
晨祷；10 唱诵圣餐礼，佐伊·海明 (Zoe Heming) 教区长；3 赞美之歌。直播：newcastlecathedral.org.uk 诺里奇 (NORWICH)：7.30 晨祷；8 圣餐礼 (HC)；10.30 唱诵圣餐礼，利兹·利弗 (Liz Leaver) 教区长；3.30 晚祷，彼得·多尔 (Peter Doll) 博士牧师。牛津 (OXFORD)：7.30 诵读早祷 (Said Mattins)；8 圣餐礼 (HC) (BCP)；11 合唱圣餐礼，卡罗尔·哈里森 (Carol Harrison) 教授教区长；6 合唱晚祷。彼得堡 (PETERBOROUGH)：8 圣餐礼 (HC)；9.15 晨祷；10.30 大教堂圣餐礼，院长；3.30 晚祷。直播详情：peterborough-cathedral.org.uk 朴茨茅斯 (PORTSMOUTH)：8 圣餐礼 (HC)；9.30 庞培星期日；11 合唱圣餐礼；5.45 合唱晚祷；8 泰泽礼拜 (Taizé Service)。直播：portsmouthcathedral.org.uk 里彭 (RIPON)：8 圣餐礼 (HC)；9.30 早祷 (Mattins)；10.30 唱诵圣餐礼，利兹区长；12.30 圣餐礼 (HC)；3.30 晚祷。直播详情：riponcathedral.org.uk 罗切斯特 (ROCHESTER)：8 圣餐礼 (HC)；10.30 大教堂圣餐礼，查理·邦奇克-贝尔 (Charlie Bączyk-Bell) 牧师；3.15 合唱晚祷。圣奥尔本斯 (ST ALBANS)：8 圣餐礼；9.30 教区圣餐礼，院长；11.30 合唱
圣餐礼，礼拜司；4 晚祷，蒂姆·洛马克斯（Tim Lomax）教区长。直播地址：stalbanscathedral. org 圣阿萨夫 (ST ASAPH)：9.30 教区圣餐礼；11 大教堂圣餐礼；3.30 晚祷。圣戴维斯 (ST DAVIDS)：8 圣餐礼；9.30 威尔士语教区圣餐礼，谢里登·詹姆斯（Sheridan James）教区长；11 唱诵会众圣餐礼，谢里登·詹姆斯（Sheridan James）教区长；4 朝圣主日晚祷。圣埃德蒙兹伯里与伊普斯威奇 (ST EDMUNDSBURY and IPSWICH)：8 圣餐礼 (HC)；9 全龄圣餐礼；10.30 节日圣餐礼，神学家；3.30 节日晚祷。直播详情：stedscathedral.org 索尔兹伯里 (SALISBURY)：8 圣餐礼 (HC)；9.15 晨祷（诵读）；10.30 圣餐礼，大法官；4.30 合唱晚祷，玛吉·吉莱博（Maggie Guillebaud）牧师。直播详情：salisburycathedral.org.uk 南韦尔 (SOUTHWELL)：7.40 祈祷文；8 圣餐礼 (HC)，埃里卡·柯克（Erika Kirk）牧师；10 大教堂圣餐礼，院长；3.30 晚祷，院长。直播详情：southwellminster.org 特鲁罗 (TRURO)：8 圣餐礼 (HC)；10 合唱圣餐礼；4 合唱晚祷。直播详情：trurocathedral.org.uk 韦克菲尔德 (WAKEFIELD)：
8 圣餐礼 (HC)；9.15 唱诵圣餐礼；11 诵读圣餐礼；3.30 诵读晚祷。韦尔斯 (WELLS)：8.30 圣餐礼 (HC)；10.30 大教堂圣餐礼，大法官；3 合唱晚祷，副院长。温彻斯特 (WINCHESTER)：7.40 诵读早祷；8 圣餐礼 (HC)；11 唱诵圣餐礼，马里恩·德·奎特（Marion de Quidt）博士教区长；3.30 晚祷，安德鲁·米克尔菲尔德（Andrew Micklefield）教区长；6 泰泽礼拜 (Taizé Service)。直播详情：winchester-cathedral.org.uk 伍斯特 (WORCESTER)：7.30 晨祷；8 圣餐礼 (HC)，院长；10.30 唱诵圣餐礼，查梅恩·曼希普（Charmain Manship）牧师；4 晚祷。直播地址：worcestercathedral.co.uk 约克 (YORK)：8 圣餐礼 (HC)；10 早祷；11 唱诵圣餐礼，礼拜司；4 晚祷，传教士。直播地址：yorkminster.org
马斯登 (MARSDEN) —— 2026年7月11日，在肯特郡吉林厄姆，凯特（原姓希基）与史蒂文夫妇喜得女儿，取名阿德琳·康斯坦斯 (Adeline Constance)，体重8磅12盎司，是罗伯特和威廉的妹妹。 在线索引号：W0051132
鲍尔 (POWER) —— 2026年7月13日，罗伯塔与马修夫妇喜得儿子，取名查尔斯·乔治·西蒙 (Charles George Simon)，是斯宾塞的兄弟。 在线索引号：W0051045
特雷梅恩 (TREMAYNE) —— 2026年7月4日，卡米拉（原姓柯万）与爱德华夫妇喜得儿子，取名查尔斯·帕特里克·约翰 (Charles Patrick John)。 在线索引号：W0051046
约克 (YORKE) —— 2026年7月18日，黛西（原姓阿格纽）与阿奇夫妇喜得儿子，取名弗雷迪·威廉·罗伯特 (Freddie William Robert)，体重7磅6盎司。 在线索引号：W0051138
BLACK.—Richard John Peploe。 2026年7月6日于切尔滕纳姆医院安详离世，享寿82岁。Diana（已故）的忠实丈夫，Ed和Alex慈爱的父亲，Ben和Joe亲爱的祖父。葬礼仪式将于2026年8月3日星期一上午11.30在费尔福德的圣玛丽教堂举行。欢迎赠送鲜花，可寄至Hillier Funeral Service, 7 Lechlade Road, Highworth, SN6 7HF；或根据意愿捐款给英国癌症研究基金会 (Cancer Research UK) 和/或 Fairford and Lechlade Communities 之友，或通过在线方式：https://www.hillierfuneralservice.co.uk/obituaries/richard-black 详情咨询电话：01793 764337。 在线索引号：W0051108
FARR.—Rosemary Anne (原姓 Moore) 7月14日逝世，享寿77岁。James挚爱的妻子，David和Helen的母亲，Jenny的姐妹。家庭内部火化。追思会将于8月12日星期三下午2点在老阿默舍姆的圣玛丽教堂举行。 在线索引号：W0051023
FLASHMAN.—John Reginald Walter。 2026年7月10日于多塞特郡普尔安详离世，享寿96岁。已故Jill挚爱的丈夫，Richard和Caroline的父亲，祖父及曾祖父。壳牌公司退休高管，所有家人和朋友将深切怀念他。私人安葬仪式将于8月10日星期一上午举行，随后下午2.30在普尔布兰克索姆的圣阿尔德海姆教堂举行公开追思会。请勿赠花。如愿捐款给RNLI或圣阿尔德海姆教堂，可通过 www.tapperfuneralservice.co.uk 进行。 电话：01202 673164。 在线索引号：W0051096
HUSSELBY.—William Eric, OBE, DL, 7月17日安详离世，享寿87岁。深受爱戴的丈夫、父亲和祖父。将举行私人家庭葬礼，追思会将于10月举行。 在线索引号：W0051116
JOHN.—Susanne Lesley。7月11日星期六，在与病魔长期抗争后，Lesley在她挚爱的彭布罗克郡Withybush医院，在女儿们的陪伴下安详离世，享寿80岁。在生命的最后45天里，Lesley在这里得到了最好的护理和关怀。她的丈夫Peter，子女Cathy, Lucy, Emma和William，12个孙辈及5个曾孙辈将深切怀念并深情地铭记她。她的葬礼及生命庆典将于8月4日星期二中午12点在圣布里奇教堂（St Bridget’s Church, St Brides Netherwent）举行，Lesley曾在该教堂负责花卉和清洁工作55年。葬礼期间将收集捐款以替代鲜花，并将分配给她选定的慈善机构。详情咨询Tovey Bros。 电话：01633 266848。 在线索引号：W0051111
KENT.—Antoinette Kent于8月19日在Manor Barn养老院安详离世，丈夫在侧。Rebecca和Edward慈爱的母亲，Ruby, Milo和Louis的祖母。我们所有人都深爱并深切怀念她。葬礼将于2026年8月5日星期三中午12点在博舍姆的圣三一教堂举行。 在线索引号：W0051126
KUNHEIM.—Matthias。 2026年7月15日在切尔滕纳姆家中，在家人的陪伴下安详离世，享寿86岁。已故Jane挚爱的丈夫，Toasty和Mike深受爱戴的父亲，Stoffi的兄弟，Coco, Freddie和Milla忠实的祖父。私人葬礼仪式。 在线索引号：W0051082
MARTIN.—Trevor John于2026年7月21日在罗克舍姆家中安详离世，享寿90岁。Olive的丈夫，Claire和Bruce的父亲，Alex和Frankie的祖父，Lumen和Ruby的曾祖父。家人和朋友将深切怀念他。葬礼安排请咨询Broadland Funeralcare。 电话：01603 783797。 在线索引号：W0051087
MORTIMORE.—Patricia Mary， 2026年7月5日安详离世，享寿91岁。已故Graham Mortimore的妻子，Sarah, James和Helen的母亲。 在线索引号：W0051006
PARKHOUSE.—莎莉（原姓 Squires） 于 2026 年 7 月 19 日在格洛斯特郡特特伯里的家中安详去世， 享寿 83 岁。她是一位慷慨的艺术支持者，尤其热爱音乐，也是已故彼得·帕克豪斯（Peter Parkhouse）深爱的妻子。在世期间，莎莉曾向作曲家委约创作作品，并且是许多表演者的坚定之友。 在线参考号：W0051071
GOETZ.— T. Goetz 指挥官的纪念服务将于 8 月 19 日星期三下午 2.30 在 Donhead St Mary 的 St Mary’s Church (SP7 9DQ) 举行。 查询请联系 I.N. Newman。 电话：01722 413136。 在线参考号：W0050995
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PADDY MCNALLY 已去世，享年 88 岁。他曾是一名赛车手和花花公子，通过经营一级方程式赛车赛道的企业招待服务积累了巨额财富。他在 1983 年成立了总部位于日内瓦的 Allsport Management 公司，改变了赛车运动中招待服务的提供方式，随后在 2006 年将该公司以 £262 百万英镑的价格出售给一家私募股权公司。McNally 的财富使他拥有了名媛名流的声望，在世界各地拥有奢华房产，并与高层人士保持联系。他在威尔特郡拥有 Sevenhampton Place（詹姆斯·邦德作者伊恩·弗莱明的最后一处居所），在苏格兰高地拥有一片猎grouse林，以及在瑞士高级滑雪胜地 Verbier 的多处房产——包括被小报称为“可卡因城堡”的“Les Gais Lutins”（“快乐的小精灵”）。20 世纪 80 年代，贵族和名人们聚集在这里举办狂野的派对。据说，如果客人不小心将车停在他的车库前，McNally 会亲自处理，将挡路的车辆推开。他曾与芬兰时尚模特 Nina Rindt（死后获得 F1 冠军的 Jochen Rindt 的遗孀，以及未来的布里德波特子爵夫人）有浪漫关系；尽管他比莎拉·弗格森大 22 岁，但他也曾是后者的男朋友，并且在去世前一直与这位后来的约克公爵夫人保持友谊。根据安德鲁·劳尼在《Entitled: The Rise and Fall of The House of York》一书中的记载，她曾说：“他教会了我很多关于生活的道理。每当我需要建议时，我都会向他求教，因为他如此世故。他似乎见过并经历过一切。”Patrick Sean McNally 于 1937 年 12 月 20 日出生于肯特郡格雷夫森德，父亲是皇家空军的一名军官 Patrick，母亲是 Mary Outred，但他在爱尔兰的莫诺汉郡长大；他在兰开夏郡的 Stonyhurst College 上学。离开学校后，他放弃了会计培训，在黑池和威根从事家用真空吸尘器的门到门分期付款销售，随后在波托贝洛路的一个摊位上销售古董杂货。最终，通过其叔叔 Redmond Gallagher（爱尔兰著名赛车手）的关系，他被聘为《Autosport》杂志的记者。
AVID J C AUSTIN 逝世，享年 67 岁。他加入了其父亲大卫 (C H) 奥斯汀在伍尔弗汉普顿附近的奥尔布赖顿创立的家族玫瑰育种企业，并协助父亲将其打造成为英国的一个伟大成功故事。
大卫·朱利安·查尔斯·奥斯汀出生于 1958 年 8 月 15 日，是大卫 (查尔斯·亨肖) 奥斯汀及其妻子帕特里夏（原姓布雷思韦特，一名雕塑家和画家）的三个孩子之一。他在特尔福德的亚伯拉罕·达比学校（现为 Haberdashers’ Abraham Darby）以及索尔福德大学就读，在那里学习商业研究。
在 20 世纪 50 年代，他的父亲——一名什罗普郡的农民和热衷于园艺的人——对混合茶玫瑰僵硬的习性和往往粗糙的颜色不以为然，于是开始将老式玫瑰品种与现代栽培品种进行杂交，旨在将古老玫瑰的花型、浓郁的香气和灌木状生长习性，与现代玫瑰广泛的色彩范围、强健的体质和重复开花习性相结合。
这项最初的爱好在 1963 年他推出了首款商业化玫瑰 “Constance Spry” 后发展成为一项商业 venture，随后在 1967 年和 1968 年分别推出了 “Chianti” 和 “Shropshire Lass”。但这些早期的玫瑰仅开花一次，直到 1969 年，
查尔斯·盖恩斯 (CHARLES GAINES) 逝世，享年 84 岁。他是一位作家和户外活动爱好者，被认为让阿诺德·施瓦辛格名声大噪并发明了彩弹射击。他最著名的著作是《Pumping Iron》(1974)，这是一部关于美国竞技健美界的调研，由乔治·巴特勒 (George Butler) 拍摄照片。
正如盖恩斯所指出的，尽管健美在其他地方是一项受欢迎的观赏运动，但“在美国……健美一直以极其庸俗的方式进行宣传，仅限于廉价杂志的末页；在国民意识中，它处于与假阴道和雨衣露体狂相同的阴暗角落”。
盖恩斯试图打破“健美运动员是自恋、协调能力差、且性取向可疑的肌肉脑”这一刻板印象，并赞颂从业者的奉献精神与艺术造诣。
他很幸运地在当时的奥林匹亚先生——被誉为“奥地利橡树”的阿诺德·施瓦辛格身上，找到了一个表达能力极强且极具吸引力的运动冠军。
施瓦辛格谈到了成为——用盖恩斯的话说——“极有可能是世界上历史上发育最完美的人”的酸甜苦辣：“有些女孩会被我的身体吸引，而有些则反感。但对于大多数人来说，我只是把它当作一个谈话话题。就像有人牵着一只猎豹走在 42 街一样，这本身就是天然的话题。然后当他们开始和我交谈时，他们会发现我并不凶悍，而是很温柔……”
《Pumping Iron》成为了畅销书，随后在 1977 年成为一部由盖恩斯共同撰写并配音的备受赞誉的纪录片。该片夸大了施瓦辛格与其同样身材魁梧的同僚卢·费里格诺 (Lou Ferrigno) 之间的竞争（费里格诺不久后因在
[[IMG_XXXX]] 1997 年在银石赛道的麦克纳利与莎拉·费格森，她表示：“他教会了我很多关于生活的道理”
在整个 20 世纪 60 年代，他涉猎赛车运动。在低级别比赛中，他的表现大多平平，尽管偶尔能获得胜利，包括 1965 年在银石赛道举行的一场中英地区汽车爱好者俱乐部活动。1969 年，在他参加的最后一场赛事中，他驾驶一辆保时捷 911 在南非的一场 500 公里比赛中获得第四名，随后搬到瑞士，在菲利普莫里斯烟草公司担任万宝路品牌的赞助顾问。
当万宝路在 1976 年赞助英国 F1 车手詹姆斯·亨特 (James Hunt) 夺得世界冠军赛季期间，他仍在该公司工作；次年，他实际上成为了亨特的私人助理——考虑到亨特奢靡的生活方式，这是一份非常辛苦的工作。法国车手帕特里克
当他将重复开花品种的“乔เซอร์” (Chaucer) 玫瑰带到切尔西展出时，他创办了自己的公司。
这些玫瑰在切尔西展会上引起了轰动，大卫·奥斯汀玫瑰 (David Austin Roses) 成为了主展亭中一个令人瞩目的固定项目，多年来在 RHS 切尔西花展上累计获得了约 30 枚金奖。
在学校假期期间，年轻的大卫和他的朋友们通过在父亲的玫瑰田里除草来赚取零用钱，毕业后他花了两年的时间在家族企业工作。
然而，当时企业规模仍然相对较小，因此大卫决定在珠宝行业积累更广泛的商业经验。从 1981 年到 1993 年，他与第一任妻子弗朗辛 (Francine) 开设并经营大卫·奥斯汀珠宝店 (David Austin Jewellers)，这是一个遍布西米德兰兹郡、雇佣 50 人的六家店连锁店。
他于 1990 年回到家族企业担任总经理，与父亲并肩作战，将大卫·奥斯汀玫瑰打造成为一个规模巨大的国际品牌。到本世纪末，该公司运行着全球最大的玫瑰育种计划之一，每年进行超过 150,000 次杂交，并为英国的园艺中心以及欧洲、美国、加拿大、日本——甚至中国和俄罗斯的销售点供货。
（电视），它使“阿诺德”走上了电影和政治之星的道路，并将健美运动带入了主流。 “普通的股票经纪人周日仍然不会穿上紧身小短裤跳上展示台，”盖恩斯在 1982 年指出，“但现在很有可能，他会按照他读到阿诺德进行锻炼的方式来健身。” 正如施瓦辛格在他的自传《全面回忆》（Total Recall）中所观察到的那样，“查尔斯·盖恩斯是一个来自富裕家庭、长相帅气且自信的家伙……他度过了一个疯狂的青春期，在大学期间一度辍学……他总是说，发现健美运动帮助他安定了下来。” 查尔斯·拉瑟姆·盖恩斯三世出生于佛罗里达州的杰克逊维尔，父亲是商人查尔斯·盖恩斯，母亲是玛格丽特（原姓舒克），出生日期为 1 月 6 1942. 当他 10 岁时，全家搬到了阿拉巴马州的伯明翰。 在放弃了弗吉尼亚州华盛顿-李大学的课程后，
坦拜回忆起一次南美洲的推广之旅，当时麦克纳利不得不配合亨特每天两三个情人的幽会时间来安排工作。 他在菲利普莫里斯（Philip Morris）的工作让他深入了解了 F1 赛车的运作方式，并与这项运动中精明的最高主政者伯尼·埃克尔斯通建立了紧密联系。1983 年，埃克尔斯通允许麦克纳利成立 Allsport 公司，以挖掘大奖赛中更丰厚的广告和企业款待收入潜力——这也为埃克尔斯通及其一级方程式赛车制造商协会提供了丰厚的利润。 麦克纳利成功的关键是创建了一级方程式围场俱乐部（Formula One Paddock Club），该俱乐部为高端客户、赞助商和 VIP 提供接近比赛现场的款待服务，通常还可以
“培育新玫瑰的可能性是无穷的”
到他父亲 2018 年去世时，该公司在什罗普郡总部雇佣了 200 名员工，在国际上雇佣了 225 名员工，每年在全球销售 200 万朵玫瑰。 大卫·J·奥斯汀接任公司董事长，他强调了创建
他在美国各地搭便车旅行，直到 1961 年与艺术家、前阿拉巴马小姐帕特里夏·埃利索结婚。在“懒散且非竞争性地”接触健美运动后，他回归学术界，在爱荷华大学获得了写作专业的艺术硕士（MFA）学位，随后在新罕布什尔州的新英格兰学院教授创意写作。 他的第一本书是畅销书《饥饿》（Stay Hungry，1972 年），这是一部以健美世界为背景的小说。《电讯报》的弗朗西斯·金认为，这部对“由背阔肌、胸肌和四头肌，以及原蛋白、虎奶和维生素片组成的封闭世界”的描绘，是“近几个月来我读到的最有趣、最奇怪的小说之一”。 1976 年，盖恩斯为鲍勃·拉费尔森拍摄的电影《饥饿》编写了剧本，施瓦辛格在片中与杰夫·布里吉斯和萨莉·菲尔德共同出演了他的首个重要角色。 盖恩斯再次与乔治·巴特勒合作编写了查尔斯·阿特拉斯的传记《完美的男子气概》（Yours in Perfect Manhood，1982 年），以及第二本
接触车队和车手的机会。该俱乐部起步缓慢，第一年仅售出 170 张门票，麦克纳利几乎要放弃了，但埃克尔斯通告诉他：“已经投入了这么多，你也付出了很多，所以要更加努力。”温文尔雅的麦克纳利照做了，围场俱乐部在接下来的赛季开始起飞。到 20 世纪 80 年代末，这成了一个获利丰厚的方案，吸引了前披头士成员乔治·哈里森以及众多好莱坞明星。如今，该俱乐部每年售出约 50,000 张门票，每人价格最高可达 $15,000。1967 年，麦克纳利与富有的赛车手兼商人肯·道宁的女儿安妮·道宁结婚，两人育有两个儿子，肖恩和罗洛。1980 年安妮去世两年后，萨拉·弗格森成为了他两个儿子的保姆，两人开始了持续三年的关系。根据劳尼的说法，
尽管这对伴侣形成了稳固的纽带，但麦克纳利（McNally）无法抑制他性格中较为轻浮的一面。有一次，她在发现他与另一名女性调情后，向他泼了一桶冰水；而一名“可卡因城堡”（Cocaine Castle）的客人们回忆道，有一天晚上他带回了一个女孩，并给了莎拉·弗格森（Sarah Ferguson）一个选择：要么与他们两人一起睡觉，要么睡在客房里。但在她随后与当时的安德鲁王子结婚后，两人仍保持亲密关系。据最近报道，从未再婚的麦克纳利曾允许她在他的至少一套房产中居住，以避开人们对其与杰弗里·爱泼斯坦（Jeffrey Epstein）关系的关注。在 2006 年出售 Allsport 后，他继续担任首席执行官五年后退休。在他余生的大部分时间里，他住在 Sevenhampton Place： 2004 年，他在那里遭遇了一场由臭名昭著的约翰逊帮（Johnson Gang）实施的 £750,000 抢劫案，该团伙专门抢劫乡村别墅中的艺术精品和古董。帕迪·麦克纳利（Paddy McNally）的儿子肖恩（Sean）于今年 4 月去世；罗洛（Rollo）在其后幸存。
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帕迪·麦克纳利，出生于 12 月 20 1937 年， 逝世于 7 月 22 2026 年
培育新玫瑰将继续成为其工作的核心。他说：“培育新玫瑰的可能性是无穷的，即使是最美丽的玫瑰也始终有提升的潜力。” 他一直工作到去世前不久，他死于一种罕见的神经退行性疾病——克雅氏病（CJD）。 2025 年，该公司与 The King’s Foundation 合作，推出了首款条纹玫瑰“国王玫瑰”（The King’s Rose），旨在向查尔斯三世国王致敬。今年 5 月，奥斯汀（Austin）出席了该公司在切尔西（Chelsea）举办的壮丽的科茨沃尔德主题展，展出 700 朵以上的花卉，在弯曲的小径和蜂蜜色的石墙上倾泻而下。 其中包括一朵以大卫·贝克汉姆爵士（Sir David Beckham）命名的全新玫瑰。奥斯汀解释说，它“代表了我们在现代玫瑰育种中所重视的一切——美丽、芬芳、魅力和强度——同时也标志着悠久的园艺传统中的一个当代时刻”。 大卫·奥斯汀与弗朗辛（Francine）的婚姻已解除。他的第二任妻子佩妮（Penny）、第一任婚姻中的两个儿子和一个女儿，以及三个继子女在其后幸存。
大卫·J·C·奥斯汀，出生于 8 月 15 1958 年，逝世于 7 月 18 2026 年
《大力士》（Pumping Iron）关于女性健美运动员的卷册（1984）。这一次，盖恩斯（Gaines）发现了许多令他不满之处：“很多顶尖女性都在使用睾酮。这给她们带来了许多男性特征，胸前和背部长毛，以及其他一些不那么令人愉快的特征……” 他又写了几部小说和剧本，以及关于登山、钓鱼和猎鸟等业余爱好书籍和文章；他还为 ABC 系列节目《美国体育人》（The American Sportsman）拍摄了电影。他繁忙的职业生涯几乎让他失去了婚姻，直到他决定通过将妻子和孩子们带到新斯科舍省（Nova Scotia）并建造一座小屋来重新建立联系，正如他在回忆录《家庭之所》（A Family Place）（1994）中所述。 1981 年，盖恩斯帮助建立了 National Survival Game 特许经营权，随后该项目以“彩弹射击”（paintball）而闻名，并成为单身派对和团队建设周末的国际主流活动。它的起源在于盖恩斯与他的朋友、华尔街股票交易员海耶斯·诺埃尔（Hayes Noel）之间的一场比赛，两人在盖恩斯位于新罕布什尔州的住所附近的森林中互相追猎。 盖恩斯给他们两人配备了他在目录中看到的设备，那是林业员用来发射小漆球以标记需要砍伐或处理的树木的手枪。“海耶斯先开枪，他没击中，然后我正对着他的屁股开了一枪。很疼！”盖恩斯在 2018 年回忆道。 在解释彩弹射击的吸引力时，他观察到：“在森林中奔跑、竞争[并]象征性地生存……这可以追溯到我们的基因演化之初。” 查尔斯·盖恩斯的妻子和三个孩子在其后幸存。
盖恩斯（右），与 阿诺德·施瓦岑格（Arnold Schwarzenegger）（左） 以及《大力士》共同导演 乔治·巴特勒（George Butler）
克里斯托弗·豪斯 (CHRISTOPHER HOWSE)
1974 年，我选择在曼彻斯特度过我的间隔年，而不是去肯尼亚或尼加拉瓜。当时这座城市正忙于拆除那些完好无损的排屋街道。我位于 19 层的办公室可以清晰地俯瞰斯特兰格韦斯监狱 (Strangeways Prison) 和欧威尔河 (River Irwell)。那栋办公楼位于索尔福德 (Salford)，当时的索尔福德比邻近的曼彻斯特更加阴沉、更加黝黑。在那几年里，竣工于 1848 年的索尔福德天主教会大教堂刚刚将其祭坛移至十字交叉塔下方。十年后，那里发生了更糟糕的事情。在 1985-88 年间，内部的大部分区域被刷成了白色。到 1990 年，雕刻的石制主祭坛、祭坛背屏 (reredos) 和讲道坛已被拆除。我认为那些石刻被砸碎了。你可能会好奇，索尔福德的帕特里克·凯利 (Patrick Kelly) 主教怎么会允许这样的破坏，但在那些年里，维多利亚时代的建筑在某些人眼中几乎没有价值。信徒们没有钱修复古建筑，而极简主义的布置似乎在某种程度上符合梵蒂冈第二届大公会议的精神。
因此，我对埃琳娜·库尔蒂 (Elena Curti) 的一篇文章很感兴趣，她正在写一本关于第二次梵蒂冈大公会议后天主教会大教堂重新布局的书——这是一个充满争议且缺乏记录的主题。在《平板》(The Tablet) 杂志中，她引用了索尔福德目前负责建筑工作的专家的关于 20 世纪 80 年代不幸经历的描述：“我从未见过这样的景象。在祭坛区域 (chancel) 我们曾有一个极美的祭坛背屏，上面布满了 alabaster 雕像……全都没了。我们曾有石屏风……也被全部拆除了。”但现在，一项 £22m 的修复工程使大教堂变得整洁、稳固且美观，其装饰与最初建筑师的意图相一致。该教堂由马修·哈德菲尔德 (Matthew Hadfield) 设计，他是 A W N 普金 (A W N Pugin) 的崇拜者，但缺乏原创天才。在建造圣约翰大教堂时，他模仿了现有的中世纪模型。他借鉴了塞尔比 (Selby) 和豪登 (Howden) 的元素，并将 240 英尺高的塔楼和尖顶基准设定为纽瓦克的圣玛丽·麦格达伦教堂 (St Mary Magdalene, Newark)。被毁的主祭坛出自他的学生乔治·戈尔迪 (George Goldie) 之手。在室外，屋顶已更换，砂岩已清洗，尖顶已修复。洗手间——这些现代必须具备的设施——被建在正殿 (nave) 之外。
在室内，乳白色油漆已被清除，露出了石刻工艺。一个小型、独立但具有哥特风格的祭坛被安置在祭坛区域的第一间隔间中，彩色十字架被重新安置在祭坛拱门上。祭坛拱门高处的雕像已重新上漆，没有出现那种经常破坏现代修复效果的 Humbrol 风格的拙劣涂抹。祭坛区域的屋顶为蓝色，拱肋镀金，并以维多利亚时代的模板方式点缀了 2,300 颗金星。在祭坛、唱诗班席和礼拜东端的圣母小堂之后，是一扇由威廉·韦尔斯 (William Wailes) 创作的七光装饰风格彩色玻璃窗，安装于 1856 年，镶嵌在灵动的石窗棂之间。洗礼堂位于北耳堂，那里安置了一个巨大的十字架，两侧由玛丽和约翰陪伴，该十字架来自奥兹多尔的圣约瑟夫教堂 (St Joseph, Ordsall)，该教堂因人口减少于 2020 年关闭。其下方是詹姆斯·夏普尔斯 (James Sharples) 主教的纪念墓，他于 1844 年奠基。
原大教堂中幸存的是李礼拜堂 (Lee Chantry Chapel)，旨在纪念一位重要的捐赠者。这是戈尔迪的作品，两面拥有精美的开放式石刻屏风，另外两面则是彩色玻璃窗。这座大教堂现在可容纳 450 人，出席人数一直在增长。目前它缺乏管风琴。地暖将使用 600 英尺深地下的能源。
一扇旧窗户显示马修·哈德菲尔德跪在圣马太身边，乔治·戈尔迪在圣乔治身边，两人向圣徒呈递他们的建筑方案。现在，圣徒们再也不必为此感到尴尬了。
[[IMG_ALEX J WRIGHT FILMS]] 美化：索尔福德大教堂修复后的祭坛区域
** 2026 年 7 月 25 日，星期六 《电讯报》
令欧盟在竞争中 领先于英国
英国的企业主警告称，在美国总统宣布对 60 个贸易伙伴的商品征收更高进口税后，他们将失去相对于该贸易集团的任何优势。 美国表示，之所以实施这些新关税，是因为这些贸易伙伴在禁止强迫劳动生产的商品方面做得不够。 美国对英国和欧盟均征收 10pc 的关税，以取代今年早些时候最高法院裁决后于周四到期的税收。 英国必须在对所有世界贸易组织 (WTO) 成员国征收的所谓“最惠国”关税之上，额外支付这些进口税。 然而，从昨天起，欧盟的关税已包含 WTO 税收。非农食品的平均 WTO 关税税率在 2.4pc 至 3.5pc 之间。 英国商会贸易政策负责人 William Bain 表示：“人们会对英国失去相对于欧盟及其他国家的竞争优势感到担忧。”
Oliver Blume 表示，一项可能涉及裁员高达 100,000 人的转型计划正开始取得成效，但公司仍面临“极其挑战”的局面。 大众汽车第二季度利润骤降 32.9pc，并警告销售额可能下降 3pc。在首席执行官努力说服德国工会和地区官员支持其转型计划之际，出现了这一糟糕的结果。 大众汽车面临着来自低价中国竞争对手的激烈竞争，以及美国的动荡——唐纳德·特朗普的关税提高了成本。中国曾是该集团最盈利的市场，但 Blume 先生承认那里的销售额已经……
È 澳大利亚 全澳指数 8941.50 -76.60 -0.85pc
È 巴西 博韦斯帕指数 174041.95 -2681.67 -1.52pc
È 中国 上海综合指数 3814.20 -62.58 -1.61pc
Ç 法国 CAC 总指数 8372.28 +73.19 +0.88pc
Ç 德国 DAX 指数 25099.00 +335.88 +1.36pc
È 香港 恒生指数 24963.23 -247.58 -0.98pc
È 印度 BSE S&P SENSEX 76059.77 -331.62 -0.43pc
È 日本 日经指数 64611.15 -1811.45 -2.73pc
Ç 新加坡 海峡时报指数 5588.34 +6.58 +0.12pc
Ç 西班牙 马德里证券交易所 1937.50 +32.40 +1.70pc
Ç 瑞士 SMI 指数 14327.20 +112.25 +0.79pc
Ç 美国 道琼斯指数 51947.25 +235.60 +0.46pc
È 美国 纳斯达克指数 24975.82 -161.87 -0.64pc
Ç 黄金 每金衡盎司 $4052.43 +2.35 +0.06pc
Ç 白银 每金衡盎司 £43.62 +0.39 +0.90pc
È 克鲁格金币
£2992.61 -18.79 -0.62pc
Ç 新主权金币
£709.78 +0.91 +0.13pc
È 枫叶金币
£3021.27 -5.32 -0.18pc
È 铂金 每盎司 £1192.44 -3.63 -0.30pc
È 钯金 每盎司 £932.25 -10.05 -1.07pc
Ç 铜† A 级 £10212.71 +36.43 +0.36pc
Ç 锡† 高纯级 £40508.70 +414.19 +1.03pc
È 铅†
£1414.69 -0.81 -0.06pc
Ç 锌† 特高纯级 £2691.70 +6.23 +0.23pc
È 铝† 高纯级 £2374.70 -18.22 -0.76pc
Ç 镍†
£12987.70 +14.17 +0.11pc
Ç 波罗的海干散货指数*
2743.00 +18.00 +0.66pc
È 小麦 每吨 £200.00 -6.00 -2.91pc
È 布伦特原油 9月结算价 $96.78 -3.91 -3.88pc
*版权所有：波罗的海交易所信息服务有限公司。†数据由伦敦金属交易所提供
游客 £1= 英镑 £1= 1 欧元 = 1 美元 =
澳大利亚 澳元 $ 1.8554 1.9071 1.6282 1.4309
加拿大 加元 $ 1.8151 1.8768 1.6023 1.4082
丹麦 克朗 8.3094 8.7563 7.4758 6.5698
欧元 € 1.1419 1.1713 … 0.8788
香港 港元 $ 9.9039 10.4519 8.9234 7.8420
印度 卢比 97.41 128.7052 109.8842 96.5675
以色列 谢克尔 3.8334 4.0604 3.4666 3.0465
日本 日元 210.9924 218.2394 186.3254 163.7450
科威特 第纳尔 … 0.4132 0.3528 0.3100
新西兰 纽元 $ 2.216 2.3005 1.9641 1.7261
一名政府发言人表示：“此次公告并未导致英国企业面临的关税税率出现负面变化。
“我们与美国的协议依然有效，而且今天我们看到了贸易条款的改善，威士忌和医疗技术实现了零关税。”
采购咨询公司 Proxima 的 Simon Geale 表示，英国企业面临着被新关税“击不准备”的风险。
他说：“企业需要迅速采取行动做好准备，因为最终的赢家很可能是那些能够快速适应的人。”
根据 Capital Economics 的数据，自从特朗普先生首次征收关税以来，英国对美国的出口额下降了 15%，目前每月为 £4.8bn。
昨晚，特朗普先生针对欧洲竞争监管机构对美国科技巨头处以的数十亿美元罚款，向欧盟发出了新的关税威胁。
在他在 Truth Social 网站上发布的一篇帖子中，特朗普先生表示：
“美利坚合众国不是欧洲的‘存钱罐’，我们绝不允许这种情况发生！”
他坚持认为这一转变正在“产生结果”，但警告称：“行业环境依然充满挑战：地缘政治危机、贸易冲突、极高的监管要求、波动不安的市场以及激烈的竞争。 “在一种前所未有的风险场景下，大众汽车集团进入了转型的下一个阶段——这一阶段始于强势地位，并对前方的机遇有着清晰的认识。” 大众汽车截至 6 月底的三个月利润为 €1.5bn（£1.3bn），低于 2025 年的 €2.3bn。尽管其销售额从 €80.8bn 小幅增长至 €82.4bn。 该集团计提了 €500m 的费用，用于停止在美国生产 ID.4 电动汽车，因为特朗普先生削减了对电动汽车的支持。
| 指数 | 变化 |
|---|---|
| 信息技术 | +4.41% |
| 媒体 | +3.68% |
| 航空航天与国防 | +2.68% |
| Ç 旅游与休闲 | 2.16 |
| 旅游与休闲 | +2.16% |
| Ç 化学品 | 2.12 |
| 化学品 | +2.12% |
| Ç 房地产 | 1.90 |
| 房地产 | +1.90% |
| Ç 烟草 | 1.85 |
| 烟草 | +1.85% |
| 工程 / 工业 | +1.71% |
| Ç 工程 / 工业 | 1.71 |
| Ç 通用金融 | 1.62 |
| 通用金融 | +1.62% |
| Ç 饮料 | 1.43 |
| 饮料 | +1.43% |
| Ç 银行 | 1.36 |
| 银行 | +1.36% |
| Ç 支持服务 | 1.31 |
| 支持服务 | +1.31% |
| Ç 保险 | 1.08 |
| 保险 | +1.08% |
| Ç 零售商 | 0.99 |
| 零售商 | +0.99% |
| È 电力 | -0.06 |
| È 电信 | -0.96 |
| 电信 | -0.96% |
| È 石油与天然气 | -1.21 |
| 石油与天然气 | -1.21% |
| È AIM | -1.54 |
| AIM | -1.54% |
£ > € 汇率 1.1713 变化 +0.02¢ $\quad$ £ > $ 汇率 1.3328 变化 +0.11¢
政府证券
| 52周最高 | 52周最低 (£) | 股票 | 平价赎回 | 价格 (£) | +/- | 收益率 | 收益率 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 107.53 | 103.38 | Treas 6% 28 | 103.69 | +0.15 | 5.79 | 4.34 | |
| 102.33 | 97.08 | Treas 4¼% 32 | 97.97 | +0.35 | 4.34 | 4.65 | |
| 99.39 | 92.65 | Treas 4¼% 36 | 93.87 | +0.54 | 4.53 | 5.06 | |
| 102.00 | 93.84 | Treas 4¾% 38 | 95.22 | +0.65 | 4.99 | 5.28 |
指数挂钩证券
| 52周最高 | 52周最低 | 股票 | 价格 | +/- | 收益率 | 收益率 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 349.35 | 338.41 | Treas 4⅛% IL 30 | 341.36 | +0.24 | 1.21 | 0.90 | |
| 248.27 | 236.46 | Treas 2% IL 35 | 240.35* | +0.68 | 0.83 | 1.76 |
10年期政府债券
| 收益率% | 与德国国债利差 | 与美债利差 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 法国 | 3.86 | +0.69 | -0.80 |
| 德国 | 3.17 | - | -1.49 |
| 日本 | 2.78 | -0.39 | -1.88 |
| 英国 | 5.03 | +1.86 | +0.37 |
| 美国 | 4.66 | +1.49 | - |
下表中的股价、市盈率和股息率由 Interactive Data (Europe) Ltd 提供。收益率的计算方法为历史股息支付额除以收盘股价，再乘以 100。
| 52周最高 | 52周最低 (p) | 股票 | 价格 (p) | +/- | 收益率 | P/E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1527 | 902⅜ | Babcock Intl | 1121 | -13 | 0.7 | 26.6 |
| 2360 | 1529 | BAE Systems | 1971 | +6 | 1.8 | 28.6 |
| 551½ | 398½ | QinetiQ ● | 489¾* | +7⅜ | 2.2 | 24.4 |
| 1532⅝ | 970¼ | Rolls–Royce | 1415⅝ | +56⅝ | 0.7 | 20.4 |
| 318⅛ | 161 | Senior ● | 289½ | — | 1.0 | -283.8 |
| 52周最高 | 52周最低 (p) | 股票 | 价格 (£) | +/- | 收益率 | P/E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 554⅛ | 351 | Barclays | 525⅜ | +5⅞ | 1.6 | 12.0 |
| 563½ | 318⅜ | Close Bros ● | 420¾ | +5¾ | — | -6.3 |
| 1590 | 908¾ | HSBC | 1552¾ | +25¾ | 3.6 | 17.1 |
| 116 | 74⅜ | Lloyds Bk Gp | 113½ | +1 | 3.2 | 16.2 |
| 705⅜ | 497 | NatWest Group | 676 | +5⅜ | 4.8 | 12.6 |
| 1080 | 613 | Santander | 1012 | +16 | 1.6 | 13.0 |
| 2278 | 1285 | Standard Ch | 2137 | +8 | 2.2 | 14.6 |
| 52周最高 | 52周最低 (p) | 股票 | 价格 (£) | +/- | 收益率 | NAV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2142 | 1295½ | Diageo | 1562½ | +22 | 4.0 | 19.7 |
| 3312 | 2426¾ | Croda Intl | 2932 | +73 | 3.8 | 66.0 |
| 2434 | 1730¾ | Johnson Mat ● | 1918* | +26 | 4.0 | -33.5 |
| 756 | 515 | Victrex ● | 748 | +23 | 8.0 | 23.4 |
建筑业 +0.67%
| 52周最高 | 52周最低 (p) | 股票 | 价格 (p) | +/- | 收益率 | NAV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 900 | 519 | Balfour Beatty ● | 879 | +2½ | 1.6 | 16.7 |
| 410¼ | 235⅜ | Barratt Redrow | 294¾ | +4¼ | 5.8 | 21.7 |
| 4442 | 2796 | Berkeley Grp ● | 3432 | +62 | — | 10.3 |
| 237 | 133½ | Boot H | 151 | -1½ | 5.2 | 8.6 |
| 220½ | 124⅜ | Costain ● | 216½ | +½ | 1.9 | 15.6 |
| 1009¾ | 788⅝ | Grafton Gp ● | 943½ | +1¾ | 4.0 | 13.4 |
| 5730 | 3915 | Morgan Sindall ● | 4506 | -254 | 3.6 | 12.1 |
| 1552 | 947⅜ | Persimmon | 1107 | +28 | 5.4 | 12.4 |
| 116⅞ | 74⅛ | Taylor Wimpey ● | 82¾ | +1½ | 9.2 | 29.6 |
电器 +0.47%
| 52周最高 | 52周最低 (p) | 股票 | 价格 (p) | +/- | 收益率 | NAV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 937½ | 613⅞ | Drax Group ● | 764 | -4 | 3.8 | 36.9 |
| 1428½ | 1000 | Nat Grid | 1237½ | +3½ | 3.9 | 18.9 |
| 2767½ | 1597 | SSE | 2422* | -18 | 2.8 | 23.0 |
| 98⅛ | 71 | Coats Group ● | 75¾ | +¾ | 2.2 | 17.1 |
| 414½ | 230 | Cropper J | 370 | — | — | 12.0 |
| 28500 | 7100 | Goodwin ● | 18600 | +220 | 1.5 | 56.9 |
| 3064 | 2138 | IMI | 3050 | +34 | 1.1 | 24.5 |
1212½ 660 Mondi ● 729⅜ +2¾ 3.4 22.8
38⅝ 21¼ Severfield 37⅞ — — -3.2
2746¼ 2088 Smiths Gp 2678 +55 1.7 31.2
8050 5950 Spirax Gp 7080 +120 2.4 31.9
3580 2254 Weir 2616 +72 1.6 27.3
食品生产商 +0.84%
2359 1729½ Ass Brit Fds 1995½ +28 3.2 14.1
5195 3270 Coca–Cola HBC 4870 +54 2.1 22.0
5810 4775 Cranswick ● 5480* +30 2.1 18.5
872 447⅞ Hilton Food ● 548½ +11 6.4 6.2
138 87 REA Hldgs 108 -4½ — -205.6
5542⅛ 3644 Unilever 4575½ +32½ 3.7 12.4
天然气与水务 +0.50%
220¼ 153¼ Centrica 163 +1⅝ 3.5 -108.7
606 439⅜ Pennon Gp ● 468¼* +4⅝ 6.3 24.1
3335 2381 Severn Trent 3020 +6 4.2 24.5
1497 1072 Utd Utilities 1368* +4 3.9 15.9
276½ 145⅞ Ashmore ● 205¾ +2¼ 8.2 16.9
363⅜ 212 Bridgepoint Grp ● 317⅝ +2⅜ 3.0 63.5
1880 1240 BrooksMacdonald 1390 -20 5.9 10.7
1956 1016 IG Group 1705 +4 3.6 11.8
2340 1424⅞ ICG 1866* +31 4.7 11.2
690 499⅜ Investec 634 +14½ 6.1 8.2
72 48 IP Group ● 66⅜ +⅜ 1.9 9.2
385 223 Liontrust 294* -4 6.5 19.1
10430 6684 Lon Stock Ex 8774 +206 1.7 36.8
359¼ 247 M&G 356 +2¼ 5.8 28.3
310⅝ 154¼ Man Group ● 297⅝ +7 4.3 25.8
209 150¾ Quilter ● 194¾ +1¾ 3.2 21.9
2458½ 1620 S & U 1945* -40 5.9 10.0
599½ 358⅝ Schroders 588½ +½ 3.7 17.3
132 91¼ Vanquis Banking Gp 119¾ +⅝ — 37.4
医疗保健 +0.81%
416⅛ 274⅜ Haleon 363½ +1⅞ 2.0 19.5
1441½ 1050 Smith & Nep 1140 +21½ 2.5 21.1
家居用品 +0.51%
1376½ 976 Burberry 1068 +30½ — —
170 106¼ McBride 155⅝ -3¾ 1.9 8.0
110⅜ 65⅛ PZ Cussons 106⅝ +1 3.4 -77.2
6522⅞ 3664 Reckitt Benck 4950 +12 4.3 10.6
315 196 Aptitude Sftwre 201 +3 2.7 27.5
1335 771⅝ The Sage Grp 858¼ +36⅝ 2.6 22.7
265 177½ Aberdeen Group 248⅜ +3⅝ 5.9 11.5
3730 2624 Admiral 3588 +28 5.7 14.6
700¾ 590⅝ Aviva 691 +7⅜ 5.7 25.7
1295 750 Beazley 1293 +5½ 1.9 11.4
1904 1246 Hiscox 1840 +44 2.0 13.6
700 549 Lancashire Hldg ● 652½ +14 17.0 7.2
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被敦促接管 东南水务公司 (South East Water)
在陷入困境的公司达成 £200m 融资协议以维持生存之际，要求采取行动
作者：Pui-Guan Man
在居民失去自来水供应后，安迪·伯纳姆被敦促将东南水务公司 (South East Water) 纳入特别管理程序。
汤布里韦尔斯 (Tunbridge Wells) 的一个行动团体“干井行动”(Dry Wells Action) 已致信首相，请求他启动水务行业的特别管理机制 (SAR) —— 这是一种国有化形式，目前针对陷入困境的泰晤士水务公司 (Thames Water) 也在准备采取该措施。
东南水务公司为汉普郡、伯克郡、萨里郡、萨塞克斯郡和肯特郡的 2.3 百万客户提供服务。该公司上周警告称，未来几个月将面临资金短缺，目前压力巨大。
该公司拥有 £1.7bn 的债务，昨日达成了一项 £200m 的融资协议以帮助维持生存，但对其未来的担忧依然存在。
“干井行动”主席乔纳森·霍克 (Jonathan Hawker) 声称该公司在“运营、财务和体制上”均已失败，并敦促伯纳姆先生将东南水务公司暂时置于政府控制之下。
去年年底，汤布里韦尔斯及周边地区超过 70,000 户家庭失去水供应，该水务公司因此被罚款 £30m。
霍克先生表示，部长们应开始制定应急计划以保护客户，并对经常发生水短缺地区的建设项目实施暂停令。
该团体指出，仅在过去的八个月中，汤布里韦尔斯就发生了三次重大故障。其中最近一次导致该镇及附近彭伯里村 (Pembury) 的约 7,000 处房产在 7 月 18 日和 19 日失去水供应。“这一切并非运气不佳，也不是由于东南水务公司所称的极端天气条件……”
作者：Louis Goss
在上周一个突破性新机器人的发布之后，美国科技巨头们正在游说唐纳德·特朗普，反对禁止中国 AI。
英伟达 (Nvidia) 首席执行官黄仁勋与 Meta、微软 (Microsoft) 和 Palantir 等科技巨头共同签署了一封公开信，敦促白宫不要限制开源 AI 技术，该技术是……
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让国家相信：在完全相同的天气条件下，我们没有任何一家邻近的水务公司出现供水失败的情况。“这一切都归因于东南水务 (South East Water) 及其领导层的系统性运行和战略失败，”霍克先生在其信中表示。他告诉《电讯报》，这将考验伯纳姆先生是否是一个“行动派”。与此同时，新任首相承诺将加强公众对英国公用事业的控制。他希望将泰晤士水务 (Thames Water) 国有化，有报告称将使用特别行政接管 (SAR) 方案。泰晤士水务的主要贷款方正试图通过向政府提供公司的“金股”来阻止这一计划。对于东南水务来说，过去几个月也十分艰难，在陷入供应混乱后，标准普尔全球 (S&P Global) 昨日将其债务评级下调至“垃圾级”。该评级机构表示，虽然 £200m 的资金支持将有所帮助，但在能够获得这笔现金之前，该公用事业公司仍将具有“有限的灵活性”。竞争对手穆迪 (Moody's) 在 5 月将其评级下调至垃圾级，导致东南水务违反了其经营许可。此后，该公司向行业监管机构 Ofwat 支付了 £30.5m 的“赔偿方案”，并同意采取措施以重新符合其许可条件。4 月，饮用水监管局 (Drinking Water Inspectorate) 的调查指出，“在运行控制和应急管理安排方面存在系统性和重复性的失效，导致了严重的消费者影响”。随后，环境、食品和农村事务 select 委员会的国会议员在 5 月发布了一份批判性报告，评估该公司对供应问题的处理情况。报告发布后，东南水务首席执行官戴夫·欣顿 (Dave Hinton) 和主席克里斯·特雷恩 (Chris Train) 均已辞职。东南水务的一位发言人表示：“我们向所有客户表示无保留的道歉。我们正在采取直接行动，改变供应中断的管理方式。”
一个强大的新型中国人工智能系统。由中国初创公司 Moonshot 开发的 AI 机器人 Kimi K3 的发布，在全球市场引起了震动，人们担心它可能会颠覆美国 AI 实验室的主导地位。 该 AI 机器人的突然成功引发了要求限制中国的呼吁，白宫主张对该国的 AI 实验室实施制裁。一些美国 AI 公司也呼吁限制开放-
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Tej Lalvani（图中与妻子Tara合影）表示，Vitabiotics的出售是他公司 55 年历史上的一个“决定性时刻”
源代码，或称“开放权重”AI技术。这些系统一直被中国AI公司严重依赖，允许机器人被自由下载或修改，并威胁到硅谷巨头的地位。 一名OpenAI的高级管理人员上周声称，北京将最好的AI技术免费提供，这等同于“全面的AI共产主义，而这正是中国的提议”。然而，随着对科技行业其余部分可能实施禁令的担忧日益增加，黄先生昨天首次在X上发帖反对潜在的限制措施。 黄先生表示：“AI将改变每个行业，驱动每家公司，并由每个国家构建。世界既需要前沿的闭源模型，也需要前沿的开源模型。” 来自美国科技巨头的信函警告称，对更开放技术的限制将阻碍竞争并限制AI的进步。该信函还得到了埃隆·马斯克的支持，警告不要将“AI能力集中在少数几个闭源模型背后”。闭源系统包括OpenAI的ChatGPT和Anthropic的Claude等机器人。 “通过正确的选择，开放权重AI可以扩大机遇，加强竞争，延伸美国的技术领先地位，减轻风险，并确保这一非凡的收益……”
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《每日快报》的发行商 Reach 已放弃其 追求点击率的策略，但 是否为时已晚？
鉴于其在净零排放方面的记录，外交大臣 埃德·米利班德不太可能 带回贸易协议 Matthew Lynn
星级嘉宾将家族 维生素公司 以 £1bn 出售给美国公司
作者：汤姆·海恩斯 (Tom Haynes)
《龙穴》嘉宾特杰·拉尔瓦尼 (Tej Lalvani) 已同意将其家族的维生素帝国出售给一家美国私募股权巨头，交易价值约为 £1bn。贝恩资本 (Bain Capital) 对 Vitabiotics 的收购，结束了该公司由家族拥有超过五十年的历史；此前，拉尔瓦尼的父亲卡塔尔·拉尔瓦尼 (Kartar Lalvani) 教授将该公司打造成为英国最知名的补剂制造商之一。52, 岁的特杰·拉尔瓦尼是该公司首席执行官，曾任 BBC 节目《龙穴》的投资人，他表示这次交易代表了公司历史上的“一个决定性时刻”。他说道：“我非常感激能有机会在父亲的愿景基础上，利用科学和营养的力量来改善日常健康。” Vitabiotics 生产包括 Pregnacare、Wellman 和 Wellwoman 在内的热门补剂，由现年 94. 岁的教授于 1971 创立。拉尔瓦尼教授出生于卡拉奇的一个信德省锡克教药剂师家庭，20 世纪 50 年代移居伦敦学习，随后开始创业。在家族所有期间，Vitabiotics 规模不断扩大，并成为英国销售额最大的维生素公司。拉尔瓦尼先生此前曾表示，公司没有外部投资者、银行贷款或透支。拉尔瓦尼先生大学毕业后加入公司，并表示他最初的工作是在仓库的箱子上贴标签，随后在每个部门都工作过。他否认了有关他仅仅是继承家业的说法，称其父亲对他期望的要求比其他员工更高。他还谈到了自己动荡的童年。他的父亲和母亲（前印度小姐）在他八岁时离婚，导致他在英国和印度之间奔波，先后就读于八所不同的学校。在 2015, 成为首席执行官后，拉尔瓦尼先生在指导 Vitabiotics 进行国际扩张的同时，成为了《龙穴》中的熟面孔。他于 2021. 年退出该节目。拉尔瓦尼先生的哥哥阿吉特·拉尔瓦尼 (Ajit Lalvani) 教授是伦敦帝国理工学院的传染病专家，数十年来一直担任公司的非执行董事并提供建议。贝恩资本表示，将投资于扩大 Vitabiotics 的海外业务，包括在印度、中国、中东和北非。Vitabiotics 的产品已在 70 多个国家销售。这家投资公司表示，在收购后，英国仍将是业务的核心。该交易仍需等待监管部门批准。
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dinary technology are shared broadly across our economy,” the letter said. The lobbying comes amid calls for restrictions on Chinese AI models after the launch of Kimi, which is sophisti- cated enough to rival the most advanced models released by its US rivals. The letter from Nvidia also warned against potential bans on “distillation,” in which an AI bot harvests information from a rival system, arguing it was a “widely used” development technique.
亲爱的乔纳森：
祝贺你被重新任命为商业大臣。这是一个拥有创新企业的绝佳国家。在政府中，没有比这更重要的工作了。
自你离任以来，发生了许多事情。其中积极的事情寥寥无几，而且很多事情是在你任职期间开始的。
上一次你担任这一职务时，你支持了雷切尔·里夫斯那场灾难性的就业税。结果导致 160,000 多个薪资岗位流失。
你是负责推动 330 页的（不）就业权利法案通过议会的部长。现在，随着青年失业率飙升，创纪录的六分之一年轻人无法找到工作。
与此同时，商业信心经常跌至新的历史低点。
和许多人一样，我记得 20 世纪 70 年代是一个经济停滞、城市肮脏且英国地位下降的时代，era,。我不相信你进入政坛是为了主持回归那个时代，因此在国内商业政策上，我要求你将国家利益置于政党之上，并采取以下步骤。
首先，我们需要让英国重新运转起来。现在是时候暂停实施该就业权利法案中那些扼杀就业的措施了。你的后座议员和工会可能不喜欢这样做，但你知道，我知道，甚至托尼·布莱尔也知道。该法案中许多最具破坏性的措施尚未生效，如果你行动迅速，仍可以将其阻止。
容易被滥用的“滑动投票”在线投票直到 8 月才生效。旨在增加提起就业法庭申诉期限的措施，预计将使积压案件增加至 500,000 件，定于 10 月实施。
赋予工会一年 52 次进入工作场所造成干扰的“漫游权”，以及针对言论自由的“玩笑禁令”攻击，都是
也仅在几个月之后。旨在增加解雇绩效不佳员工难度的变更将于1月起生效，这将进一步降低雇主雇佣年轻人的意愿。如果人们找不到工作，扩大就业权利也毫无帮助。让我们承认情况已经改变，并避开前方的失业冰山。第二，企业迫切需要更便宜的能源。你知道这里的工业能源成本是竞争对手的数倍。请利用你的权力去干预能源大臣。虽然她可能是埃德·米利班德的拥趸，但她访问阿伯丁之行表明，即使是她也意识到现状无法维持。不要再搞那种通过补贴一家企业而损害其他企业的战术方案，而应为所有人实现可持续的低能源成本。加入保守党“让英国钻探”的计划，废除
能源利润税并取消碳税。第三，废除零排放车辆指令，该指令会对制造英国人想买的汽车的汽车制造商处以罚款。我们的汽车产量处于 73 年来的最低点，然而汽车制造商却在支付数十亿资金，从中国电动汽车制造商那里购买汽车版的碳信用额度。这一切都是为了避免因制造消费者选择的柴油车和汽油车而面临你们的罚款。你曾通过让议会在周六开会来“挽救”英国钢铁公司 2,700 个工作岗位；而英国汽车制造业雇佣了超过 200,000 人。行动起来吧。第四，快速推进废除官僚红线。你从前任那里继承了一部《增长监管法案》，这对大多数人来说听起来像个矛盾修辞法，但让我们先以此为基础。在今天的英国，建造或创造东西简直太难、太慢且太贵了。保守党已经提出了十多项可以削减的措施，并且非常愿意与你合作寻找更多削减点。当既得利益者试图阻挠你时，请寻求我们的支持。那些超越我们的竞争对手绝不会用过度强大的监管机构和竞争当局来自我破坏。最后，企业已经在警告税收悬而未决的另一个夏天所带来的损害。投资、扩张和招聘决策全部暂停。信心缺失。鉴于税负已经过重，财政大臣现在排除任何加税可能并不会损失什么。让我最后明确你所面临的挑战：它是巨大的。我不是那些假装之前的保守党或联合政府做对了一切的人。诸如长期公共财政虚弱或国防投资不足等问题可追溯到几十年前。但谈到商业，工党执政两年使情况变得不可估量地糟糕。如果你不想让你的政治遗产成为回归 20 世纪 70 年代，你必须采取行动。
您诚挚的，安德鲁·格里菲斯 (Andrew Griffith) 议员， 商业和贸易影子大臣
马修·林 (MATTHEW LYNN)
在处理美国关系上注定会像他处理 净零排放一样无能
我们正面临来自最大贸易伙伴美国的新一轮10%关税。至关重要的出口产品可能会因价格过高而失去市场，依赖美国贸易的工厂可能不得不关闭，而在经济已经停滞的时刻，国际收支将再次遭受打击。不过，没关系。既然唐纳德·特朗普对英国征收新一轮税收，至少我们有一位新任外交大臣可以将其谈判掉？只不过，呃，并非如此。事实上，我们被困在了埃德·米利班德身边——而“红色埃德”是与特朗普达成协议或维护国家关键经济利益的最糟糕的人选。如果这是一部好莱坞电影，它可能会被命名为《解放日2：关税回归》。在美总统的第一轮进口关税被最高法院裁定非法后，白宫对全球各国征收了10%至20%之间的“临时”关税。现在它又想出了一个新花招。从今天起，英国和欧盟在内的 60 个国家将被征收 10% 或更高的关税，理由是它们从“强迫劳动”中获益。没人相信特朗普真的特别在意这个问题本身。但这给了他征收关税的法律依据，而这在目前已经足够了。关税将继续维持。对于英国来说，这可能会成为一个重大问题。美国是我们最大的单一出口伙伴，年总销售额超过 £200bn，主要以制药、航空航天、烈酒和涡轮机等高端制造成品为首。我们在该领域拥有超过 £70bn 的健康盈余，这与欧盟截然不同，我们在欧盟面临着巨大且持久的逆差。在经济停滞且赤字失控的情况下，我们无法承受失去如此规模的市场。同样严重的是，
如果新任首相 安迪·伯纳姆 希望能
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实现国家的再工业化， 并重建北方经济， 那么他比以往任何时候都更需要 向美国市场销售产品。 没有其他任何地方如此富有， 或如此开放地接受英国商品和服务。 我们前任驻华盛顿大使曼德尔森勋爵， 委婉地说，在其他方面可能比较“有问题”。 但至少他与基尔·斯塔默爵士 成功地与唐纳德·特朗普谈判达成了一项特殊贸易协议。 我们现在再次需要这样的协议。 问题在于，本应主导此项工作的 新任外交大臣，正是米利班德。 实际上，米利班德身上有三个特有的重大问题。 首先，他多年来通过无休止地批评特朗普 向他的左翼拥趸展示“道德优越感”， 而不是思考有一天他可能必须与对方谈判。 在特朗普 2016, 年首次赢得选举后， 他将对方描述为一名“种族主义者、仇女者、自承的摸胸者”， 随后又声称特朗普“降低了白痴的门槛”。 当然，这在他的支持者中很吃香， 我们中有些人甚至可能认为他说得有道理。 即便如此，面对一个你曾用这类语言描述的人， 想坐在他对面并要求他给你一个特惠协议， 是非常困难的。 特朗普将所有投向
将所有 投向 他的 侮辱 视为 个人攻击， 并在 有机会时 进行 报复”
作者：Emma Taggart
由于英国人在上个月的热浪期间抢购空调和风扇，零售销售额在六月出乎意料地增长。
根据国家统计局的数据， figures 显示上月零售销售额增长了 1pc，击败了 0.5pc 的下滑预期。
温暖的天气和夏季折扣还鼓励消费者补充夏季衣橱，六月服装店的销售额增长了 1.9pc，为九个月来的最大涨幅。
与此同时，空调需求达到了前所未有的程度，Currys 等零售商报告的销售额增长超过 300pc。
RSM UK 合伙人兼零售主管 Jacqui Baker 表示：“零售销售额的上升凸显了天气在决定消费者情绪以及消费意愿方面是多么重要——夏季折扣也对此有所帮助。”
“消费者选择在线购物以避开商业街的酷热，储备夏季服装以便在家里享受炎热天气，同时投资购买风扇和空调设备以保持凉爽。”
零售商还从购买更多足球球衣的购物者那里获得了助力。
作者：Hans van Leeuwen
由于 BP 正在退出净零排放计划，该公司正与一家由科威特支持的投资者洽谈出售其英国太阳能业务。
据报道，这家能源巨头正在进行高级别讨论，计划将其 Lightsource 太阳能部门出售给 Qualitas Energy 和 Wren House（科威特主权财富基金的基础设施部门）。Lightsource 在英国开发了 300 多个太阳能电站。
当 BP 在 2017. 年首次投资该公司时，Lightsource 是欧洲最大的太阳能开发商。它在 15 个国家拥有 4 吉瓦的太阳能、风能和电池资产组合。
然而，BP 在过去一年中将其低碳和能源转型部门的价值下调了 $6bn (£4.5bn)，其中 $4bn 的价值归于 Lightsource。
此次行动正值这家能源巨头撤回一项执行六年的净零计划，并重新聚焦于其核心石油和天然气业务。
在老板 Bernard Looney 的领导下
他个人，并在有机会时进行报复。米利班极不可能在那些能获得特殊待遇的人员名单上。 接下来，讽刺的是，正是米利班在担任能源大臣期间倡导的净零排放运动，使我们容易被指责为依赖强迫劳动。 大多数替代能源设备来自中国，且有大量令人不安的证据表明，其中许多产品是利用被胁迫的工人制造的。 根据谢菲尔德哈勒姆大学的一份报告，中国庞大的面板产业严重依赖于新疆维吾尔穆斯林生产的多晶硅。“大量证据——主要源自政府和企业资料——显示，劳动力转移被部署在维吾尔地区，处于前所未有的胁迫环境中，并以持续的再教育和拘留威胁为支撑，”报告总结道。 简单来说，这些面板之所以便宜，是因为它们实际上是由强迫劳动力制造的，估计有 100 万人被困在这个系统中。坦率的事实是：特朗普说得有道理。 如果米利班愿意提升我们制造太阳能电池板的国内能力，我们可能就不会陷入这种困境。
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随着英国人试图在酷暑中保持凉爽，零售商看到夏季服装的销量有所上升
为了世界杯。随着英国人在这段温暖天气期间选择花更多时间在户外，零售商还报告称，购买花园家具的客户有所增加。 然而，尽管零售额有所上升，但购物者避开了商业街，因为气温飙升导致英国人更多地在网上购物。 这使得 6 月份的数字化销售比例上升至 29.4pc，高于 5 月份的 28.9pc。这是自 2021, 4 月以来在线销售占比最高的一次，当时英国正处于应对疫情期间。 然而，经济学家警告称，零售额的增长在未来几个月内不太可能持续。 英国零售联盟 (British Retail Consortium) 的经济学家 Harvir Dhillon 表示：“虽然零售商一直在享受销售额的增长，但随着中东敌对行动的恢复，挑战依然存在。预算仍面临压力，消费者信心脆弱，而且零售商正面临不断上升的运营成本。”
在 BP 的 2020-2023, 阶段，BP 将石油产量削减了 40%，并将数十亿资金投入可再生能源项目。 两年后，在股东们对该公司平庸的利润和股价抱怨声日益高涨之际，卢尼先生的继任者默里·奥金克洛斯 (Murray Auchincloss) 改变了方向。 他在 2025 1 月告诉投资者
BP 的 Lightsource 太阳能电场业务在过去一年的价值减记
相反，我们正因为视而不见而受到惩罚。 最后，几乎没有证据表明米利班懂贸易，或者他曾经对此进行过深入思考。 他的职业生涯一直致力于气候变化运动，主张提高税收，并炮制关于平等的廉价口号。 贸易协议、制造业和出口的细节对他来说就像是一个陌生的国度。 他既没有知识，也没有意愿去研究哪些行业需要帮助，可以做出什么样的权衡，以及什么样的论点最有可能软化白宫的观点。 英国应该能够从特朗普那里获得一份体面的协议。他喜欢我们，尤其是王室；多年来他在英国做了很多生意，而且他赞成我们脱离欧盟。 遗憾的是，这位能力有限的外交大臣不太可能与美国达成一项广泛的自由贸易协议，而该协议本可以促进我们的出口，助力英镑，产生大量额外税收，并救助一些现在可能面临极其黯淡未来的制造商。 不幸的是，我们被困在了米利班这里——这意味着我们几乎没有机会通过谈判取消最新一轮的关税。
精简 BP 的投资组合，并让业务重新变得“可预测”。 BP 最近剥离了一家德国炼油厂、奥地利的一组加油站和充电站、一个加拿大离岸石油项目的权益，以及 10 家科技初创公司的股份和几条美国管道。 据《金融时报》率先报道，计划出售 Lightsource 也被认为是由 BP 偿还债务的计划所驱动。 BP 在 2024. 年买断其尚未持有的 Lightsource 另一半股权时，承担了 $2.8bn 的债务。O’Neill 女士的目标是在今年年底前将其净债务从 $23bn 削减至 $18bn。 如果交易获得确认，这将增强 Wren House 在英国的影响力。其投资项目包括伦敦城市机场和 Associated British Ports。 总部位于马德里的 Qualitas 在包括美国在内的半打国家运营着 11 吉瓦的可再生能源电力资产。Qualitas 和 Wren House 已被联系以寻求评论。BP 拒绝评论。
在称美国总统为 “种族主义者、 厌女主义者、 自认的摸胸者” 之后， 埃德·米利班德 不能指望 从美国总统 那里得到 任何照顾
其在陷入赤字时 正从点击诱饵策略中 撤退
终于承认其通过大量 生产劣质内容以换取 点击量的策略已彻底失败， 作者：詹姆斯·沃灵顿 (James Warrington)
当这家前身为 Trinity Mirror 的报业帝国在 2018 年宣布更名为 Reach 时，高管们宣称这将为数字新闻版图带来全新的身份。时任首席执行官西蒙·福克斯 (Simon Fox) 将 Reach 描述为一个“罗恩西尔 (Ronseal) 式的名字——‘名副其实’——简单地描述了我们的工作”。他的意思是，这家拥有《每日镜报》(Daily Mirror) 和《每日快报》(Daily Express) 的媒体集团将通过一种“量大于质”的新策略来触达更多读者。
但八年后的今天，该公司终于对这种导致新闻集团股价（以及名誉）暴跌的方案投下了期待已久的最后一击。在经历了数年追求点击量和广告收入萎缩之后，去年 3 月起任首席执行官的皮尔斯·诺斯 (Piers North) 本周表示，公司正“远离规模化”，转而关注原创、高质量的产出。
对于一家……
Reach 的业务处于下滑状态
利润与收入正在下降
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“世纪离婚案”中支付 £480m
作者：詹姆斯·蒂特科姆 (James Titcomb)
一名韩国科技亿万富翁被要求向其前妻支付近 5 亿英镑，这被称为“世纪离婚案”。首尔高等法院昨日命令崔泰源 (Chey Tae-won) 向卢昭英 (Roh Soh-yeong) 支付 9440 亿韩元 (£480m)。此前，由于 AI 热潮，崔先生的财富价值大幅飙升。
这位大亨是 SK 集团的董事长，这是一家韩国综合企业，其中包括芯片制造商 SK 海力士 (SK Hynix)。由于数据中心对该公司内存芯片的需求激增，SK 海力士今年的价值已飙升至 $1tn (£750bn) 以上。
卢女士最初寻求获得崔先生 $5.6bn 净资产的一半左右。
这是韩国历史上最大的一笔离婚赔付。
该结算金额被设定为崔先生在 2024, 年计算时的净资产的三分之一，当时是在 SK 海力士近期股价大涨之前。这家芯片制造商的飙升……
崔泰源和卢昭英经历了漫长的法律斗争
作者：Louis Goss
特斯拉（TESLA）可能将被迫重新设计其电动汽车上的隐藏式门把手，此前有指控称这些把手导致人们被困在起火的车辆中。
在发生一系列导致人员死亡的事故后，埃隆·马斯克的汽车业务因其电动汽车上的电子锁扣而面临审查，据称这些把手在事故中失效。
美国国家公路交通安全管理局（NHTSA）目前表示，计划引入新规则以应对围绕门把手的安全风险。
此前发生了一系列事故，特斯拉司机报告称，在碰撞发生后，车辆的电子车门释放机制停止工作，导致他们被困在起火的车辆中。
彭博社（Bloomberg）的一项调查发现，至少有 15 起事故是因为碰撞后车内断电导致电子开关失效，进而导致人员死亡。特斯拉司机还报告称，由于车辆被火焰吞没，他们难以找到手动释放舱口，导致难以逃离车辆。
这家电动汽车先驱是首个引入平整门把手的汽车制造商，这赋予了其车辆流畅且具有未来感的外观。在内部，部分特斯拉车辆也……
……这家出版商因向记者规定每日故事数量和页面浏览量配额而臭名昭著。
Reach 的转变被视为是对一项失败策略的迟到承认。
即便其他出版商在追求订阅模式（使其能够直接从读者那里获取资金），Reach 仍执拗地在没有付费墙的情况下追求在线广告收入。
这种方法导致了对“数量”高于一切的追求。
公司内部和外部的批评者都感叹随之而来的“点击诱饵”（clickbait）泛滥，导致旗下刊物发表的故事充其量是无关紧要的，有时甚至是误导性的。
Reach 拥有自己的 AI 软件，用于加速从其他渠道“剽窃”故事的过程，但也有迹象表明——例如文章中被错误留下的提示词——一些工作过度的人员已转向使用聊天机器人来全盘完成工作。在某些情况下，该公司甚至完全剔除了记者，允许公关公司直接为其刊物撰写文章。
除了疏远读者，这一策略还使 Reach 在财务上变得脆弱。
Facebook 和 Google 等科技巨头的算法变更在引导流量至 Reach 网站方面起着至关重要的作用，这些变更打击了该公司的营收。
这种情况在近期进一步恶化……
营收 预测 预测 预测
税前利润
……股价意味着最终金额约占该商人目前净资产的 12%。
然而，首尔高等法院表示，在计算赔付金额时，已将崔先生（Mr Chey）激增的财富考虑在内。他的律师则辩称……
所有机动车辆安装 稳固且显眼的 车门逃生系统’
来源：REACH PLC, LSEG
几个月内，AI概览（AI overviews）的推出进一步将读者从新闻网站引走。 Reach 拥有数十家地区性刊物，包括《曼彻斯特晚报》（Manchester Evening News）和《利物浦回声报》（Liverpool Echo）。该公司本周透露，今年上半年来自 Google 的推荐流量骤降 55%，导致读者人数下降 40%。 结果，营收下降 9%，而 Reach 陷入了 £45m 的税前亏损。 这对员工的影响是极其沉重的。 在过去三年中，Reach 削减了 1,000 多个工作岗位，这在很大程度上由 Jim Mullen 监督，他在 2019 年至 2025 年初期间领导该出版商。幸存的记者们抱怨工作量增加、预算缩减以及士气低落。 Reach 本周表示，计划将今年的成本削减目标提高到 10%，这促使全国
Roh 女士在公司近期的成功中没有发挥任何作用。 目前尚不清楚他是否需要出售部分股份来支付离婚赔偿金。 SK海力士（SK Hynix）的股价自 2025 年初以来已上涨十倍。 Chey 先生在 2015 年宣布与 Roh 女士离婚，后者是韩国首位民主选举总统卢泰愚的女儿。 这位商业巨头与总统之女在 1988, 年的结合在当时被描绘成一场童话婚礼。但 Chey 先生后来在给一家韩国报纸的信中透露，他与另一名女性育有一个孩子。 这次分手导致两人之间陷入了长期的法律诉讼。 在西方被称为“Tony”的 Chey 先生已成为科技行业的全球人物，他在 Instagram 账号“papatonybear”上发布自己与亚马逊、微软、OpenAI 和英伟达（Nvidia）老板的合影，并与唐纳德·特朗普一起打高尔夫球。 SK海力士最近通过在纽约上市股票（除在首尔交易的股票外），筹集了 $26.5bn。
新规定将“强制要求所有机动车辆安装稳固且显眼的车门逃生系统”。一名发言人表示，公司将寻求有关潜在新安全规则的信息，目前尚未做出最终决定。 内嵌式和电子门把手在电动汽车制造商中，尤其是中国电动汽车品牌中，普及率激增。 特斯拉（Tesla）去年表示，计划重新设计开关以使其更直观。特斯拉首席设计师 Franz von Holzhausen 告诉彭博社，公司将使把手在“恐慌情况”下更容易使用。 中国成为全球第一个针对安全顾虑禁止隐藏式门把手的国家。新规定将于 2027 年 1 月起生效，要求所有车辆的每个乘客门内侧和外侧都必须配备手动把手。 欧洲监管机构也将电子门把手相关的担忧列为重点关注事项。 特斯拉已被联系请求评论。
记者工会（National Union of Journalists）呼吁停止该出版商这种“大失血”式地削减职位的文化。 其结果是，这个出版集团现在仅是其昔日风貌的影子。 在半年报公布后，Reach 的股价暴跌近 25%，周四又进一步下跌 8%。目前其市值仅为 £130m —— 远低于 2005 年 £5bn 的峰值。 就 North 而言，他明确表示点击诱饵（clickbait）时代必须结束。 Reach 已开始在其部分网站上推出付费墙（部分价格为 £5），目前拥有约 40,000 名付费订阅者。该出版商坚称，将重新聚焦于具有辨识度的优质内容。 “这对我们来说是正确的机会，在过去的一年里，我们一直在迅速提升能力以利用这一机遇，”North 说道。 “无论在全国范围还是[地区范围]，我们一直产出如此之多的优质内容，”
“在本地——而现在这已成为我们战略的核心。”
但由于编辑团队人数锐减，且品牌声誉在多年的点击诱饵（clickbait）影响下已受损，如此剧烈的方向转变将并非易事。
“目前的战略在过去几年里一直摆在领导团队面前，然而，尽管整个行业的所有证据都指向相反的方向，他们仍然坚持推行那个完全是狗屁（b-----t）的想法，认为任何内容的页面浏览量都能确保企业的未来，”一名内部人士表示。
“如果你五年前从火星降临并在这家公司待上一天，你就能告诉他们，他们的计划纯属一堆屎（s---e）。”
Reach 的首席内容官大卫·希格森（David Higgerson）本周在 LinkedIn 上发文，为该出版商的战略抵御一波接一波的批评。
“体量化新闻（Volume journalism）帮助支撑了许多其他新闻报道，结果使得这些报道有了增长机会，并现在驱动了订阅量或直接流量，”他在回复一名反对者时写道。“将我们的编辑部定性为仅在追逐算法是不准确的。”
然而，这家出版商的未来看来并不确定。
多年来，它一直依赖于榨取其处于盈利性下降状态的印刷业务，并以丰厚的股息回报股东。但该公司通过将派息减半，对自己这头现金牛下了一把快刀。
尽管 Reach 的员工一直呼吁结束点击诱饵 era，但有些人担心，本周的战略转型为时已晚，力度不足。
“Reach 绝对是最能利用优质本地化内容的，”一名记者表示。“[它] 为了维持股息派发而盲目追逐数字。现在这些品牌被搞砸（f----d）了。”
干热的天气给威尔特郡巨石阵周围的草地带来了沉重打击
自从何时起 开始渴望下雨？
作者：乔·舒特 (Joe Shute)
空气中弥漫着雨意，令人心痒。今天，一个弱暖锋向南横跨英国，带来少量小雨的可能性。随着引导此次热浪的长期高压状态终于瓦解，这种迹象已经积累了数日。即便如此，尽管云层在积聚，我们中的许多人仍未体验到真正的降雨——仅仅是它可能很快抵达的可能性。即使真的下雨，也远非真正的持久倾盆大雨，而更像是再次出现干燥晴朗天气之间的短暂夏雨。虽然下周将有多个天气锋面从大西洋推移而来，带来更清爽的条件，但长期预报显示，作为今年夏天标志性的异常干热天气似乎将继续下去。在接下来的五周里，2026 年的夏天仍有可能超过 1976 年，成为有记录以来最温暖的夏天。威尔士现已正式宣布进入干旱状态，今年 7 月有望成为该国近 200 年来最干燥的 7 月。英格兰部分地区的情况也好不到哪里去，国家干旱小组宣布英格兰南部和中部的 8 个地区处于“长期干燥天气”状态——这是预示干旱即将来临的可怕先兆的官方术语。截至目前，英格兰 7 月的降雨量仅为长期平均值的 3%，许多地方至今滴雨未落。引用诗人约翰·克莱尔 (John Clare) 的话，英格兰泛黄的田野“干裂得像烤过头的面包”。那么，所有目光都集中在聚集的云层上吧。西北部应该会迎来最猛烈的降雨，那些幸运儿。而我们其他人只能希望，在极短的瞬间，上天能够降雨。
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IRAN has been caught sending suspected operatives across the Channel into the UK, The Telegraph can reveal. Individuals with links to Tehran’s intelligence agencies are understood to have been intercepted by UK authorities while attempting to enter Britain on small boats. People smugglers working on the continent told The Telegraph that the Iranian regime facilitates the passage to Britain of migrants living in Calais in exchange for a “favour” for Iran after they settle in England. Smuggling networks run by Iran are also responsible for transporting people with links to the regime across Europe and into Britain, Tehran’s offi cials told The Telegraph. They added that some human-traffi cking routes between the Middle East and the Channel are “owned” by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The revelation comes after Iran vowed to attack RAF Fairford following Andy Burnham’s decision to renew permission for the US to use the British base to launch air strikes. Suspected Iranian operatives inter- cepted in small boats are thought to have links to the Ministry of Intelli- gence and Security (MOIS), the coun- try’s primary intelligence and domestic security agency responsible for over- seas operations. “Revolutionary people” have been positioned in London through the smuggling networks, which The Tele- graph understands are being operated by the IRGC’s Unit 700, which is the logistics branch of the Quds Force, the IRGC’s covert foreign operations divi- sion. The force has been linked to supplying weapons and funding to Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis . An Iranian official said: “Of course, don’t forget that our armed forces have influence and run the [smuggling] routes in some cases if they want. “At the moment we have people right there in London, revolutionary people who care about the world and the lives
By Patrick Galbraith ENVIRONMENT CORRESPONDENT
BRITAIN’S smartest country fair has stepped up security on-site following a recent surge in crime. The Game Fair, founded in 1958 and long seen as a celebration of rural gentility, has recently been sullied by cases of fi ghting and theft. This has led to organisers and stall holders hiring security guards to protect visitors, while some retailers
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of children – they wait for us to tell them what to do. We have not done that yet, but we can easily make London unsafe for you if we want to. “These smuggling routes are more important and useful than the missiles for us – we do not need a missile to target London, it’s easier than that.” On Thursday, a mega-dinghy con- taining 165 migrants crossed the Chan- nel, setting a new record for the number of arrivals on a single small boat. Alicia Kearns, the shadow security minister, said: “The Government needs to face facts: the IRGC is exploiting the small boats crisis to put its operatives on British streets. “We need an urgent taskforce to root out Iranian agents among those arriving and who’ve arrived on our shores, the designation of MOIS under hostile state legislation, and emergency powers to shut down IRGC cut-outs like the Islamic centre of England. Tehran is openly threatening Britain and we have a Prime Minister silent on our national security. Our people deserve answers, action and leadership.” It is understood that, as well the threats arriving via small boats, a large number of IRGC-affi liated people enter Britain on legal fl ights from Europe. Officials told The Telegraph that the radicalisation and activation of the Ira- nian diaspora in London and the use of proxies in Britain pose a bigger national security risk than small boats . A Home Offi ce spokesman said: “Our fi rst priority is national security. There are stringent security checks for small boat arrivals. Those identified as a threat will be detained immediately and we will do everything in our power to remove them at the earliest opportunity. “On top of these robust processes, we have fast-tracked a change in the law to outlaw support for the IRGC, equipping the police and intelligence service with more powers to disrupt those working on their behalf, and making it easier to prosecute them.”
have resorted to installing metal grills to prevent theft overnight. Officials have also erected signs threatening to throw out any visitors committing a criminal off ence or going bare-chested. One sign stresses that vis- itors are “required to remain fully dressed throughout the event”. Will Davis, of the country clothing retailer Bredon Hill, runs the largest stand at the Game Fair. He has sought to bolster security by installing a metal cover that he pulls down over his stand
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A PLAGIARISM row has broken out at Cambridge University involving a professor who became the face of its diversity drive after being hired three years ago. Jason Arday, Professor of Sociology of Education, has been accused by academics at other universities of copying parts of his 2015 PhD thesis from another student’s work. The university has leapt to his defence, insisting he is “the victim of a vile campaign to undermine his credibility”, while colleagues say the criticism is driven by racism. The argument threatens to over- shadow the publication next month of Prof Arday’s memoir, Great and
every night during the three-day event. “We caught a woman last year heading off with a £750 jacket in the bottom of her pram,” he said. The Game Fair is under way this weekend at Wragley Hall in Warwick- shire, home of the ninth Earl of Hert- ford. It typically attracts about 130,000 visitors for a “celebration of rural life”. As well as hosting events such as working dog displays, equestrian shows and live falconry, it also has stalls selling a range of countryside attire, including
Unfortunate Things, which could itself become a battleground between his critics and supporters. Prof Arday made international head- lines when he became Cambridge’s youngest ever black professor in 2023 at the age of 37. His success was hailed as a triumph against the odds, as he had been diagnosed with autism as a child, did not speak until he was 11 and could not read and write until he was 18. After taking an undergraduate degree, he gained a doctorate from Liverpool John Moores University, which is now at the centre of the plagiarism row. An analysis of the text of his 401-page PhD has thrown up more than 100 instances of sentences or paragraphs that are identical or similar to those in a
footwear, tweed and fi shing kit. Some of the world’s most expensive guns are also sold on site, including ones by Holland and Holland which can cost up to £100,000. Tom Hannah, who runs Thomas Jacks, a thermal imaging retailer, told The Telegraph he had equipment worth £4,000 stolen last year. “It was taken from under our noses,” he said. “They just swarmed us and distracted us .” Mr Hannah said the perpetrators were drunk and intimidating. He sus-
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2009 PhD by another student. Both Cambridge and Liverpool John Moores insist Prof Arday has done nothing wrong, and that his PhD stands, but
Prof Jason Arday became Cambridge University’s youngest ever black professor in 2023
several respected academics have urged the universities to look at the work again, saying Prof Arday failed to give attribution to the other student’s work in the majority of instances. Some of Prof Arday’s colleagues at
pects the stolen thermal imaging unit would have been used for spotting hares at night by poachers engaged in illegal hare coursing. Hikmicro, which sells high-end binoculars and rifl e scopes, has chosen not to return this year after a member of its team was previously mugged. As well as theft, the Game Fair has also been sullied by fighting at the on-site pub in recent years. James Gower, the director of the fair, said organisers have sought to tackle this
Philip Treacy We don’t want the We don’t want the royals in tracksuits
Cambridge have now tried to make the row a matter for the Government, writing to a minister to air their accusa- tions of racism. Questions have also been asked about feats of endurance running which Prof Arday says have raised £5.5m for 70 charities. They include running 30 marathons in 35 days, 300 miles in three days and 600 miles in six days. A university that gave him an honorary degree recently removed the latter two claims from its biography of him, while another changed the reference to the 600-mile run, saying it took 12 days, not six. Prof Arday has so far failed to comment.
problem by providing smaller pubs.
A number of stall owners suggested that
fi ghting was a decoy to draw the secu-
rity to the pub so that shoplifting could
be carried out with greater ease.
A spokesman for The Game Fair said:
“The Game Fair is recognised as one of
the safest large-scale outdoor events in
the country, with the safety and secu-
rity of our visitors, exhibitors and staff
remaining our absolute priority.
“The organisers flatly reject any
claims that the show is unsafe. ”
Root favourite to lead England in next Test
A wedding of two halves Footballer Erling Haaland, with his partner Isabel Haugseng Johansen, arrives for the wedding of his Manchester City teammate goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma to Alessia Elefante in Locorotondo, Italy.
Northern Irish border
behind planned attack with device made from military-grade explosives
By James Crisp EUROPE EDITOR
James Crisp EUROPE EDITOR
A CAR containing an “extremely signif- icant” bomb has been intercepted while heading towards Northern Ireland ,in a suspected New IRA operation. Irish police believe the vehicle was being driven across the border for an attack, and were shocked by the sophis-
ON Ireland’s N2 highway, just south of Carrickmacross, members of the Gardai’s Special Detective Unit made their move. The Irish police stopped a suspected New IRA terror plot by picking up a woman driving what police said was a car bomb towards Northern Ireland. The bomb was described as the most sophisticated seen by police since the dark days of the Troubles. But today’s dissident republicans are far weaker than the IRA, with hardly any public support. They have continued the armed struggle to overthrow British rule in Northern Ireland, mixing it with involvement in thuggery, organised crime and drug dealing. But they have
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tication of the device and the damage it could have done. According to gardaí, the bomb was fully built and ready to be used. It con- tained military-grade plastic explosives, a detonator and a power unit. A woman in her 20s, and a man in his 40s were arrested in the major investi- gation, which sources told the Irish Independent “potentially saved many lives”. The woman was due to appear before a special sitting of Trim District Court in Co Meath yesterday evening. The paper said the man was a sus- pected member of the New IRA’s Dub-
failed to turn back the clock to before the signing of the Good Friday Agreement 28 years ago. Major police stings and infi ltration by British agents have left them rudderless and under pressure, with the latest interception following that pattern. The New IRA is the largest and most active dissident republican group. It has between 20 to 30 active members, and perhaps 200 supporters who might help them. Police suspect the group is responsible for a car bomb outside a police station in Lurgan in March, and one outside a police station in Dunmurry in April. If they are the culprits, the roots of the terror plot can be traced to 2020, when its leaders were arrested in Operation Arbacia. Ten individuals, some described as part of the New IRA’s “army council”, were arrested following a major
lin branch. He remains in custody at a Garda station in the Dublin area. Sources told The Irish Times the bomb was the most sophisticated that they had seized since the Troubles, and underlined the threat posed by dissi- dent republicans on both sides of the border. Justin Kelly, the Garda Commis- sioner, said: “To be clear, what we found was an extremely significant seizure. This was a signifi cant explosive device, not just a seizure of components or pieces. It could have potentially caused signifi cant damage.” Mr Kelly described dissident republi-
undercover surveillance campaign. A Scottish MI5 spy had infi ltrated the group over more than two decades, secretly recording them at his home. It was a blow to the New IRA’s credibility just one year after public anger had forced it to apologise for the murder of Lyra McKee, a journalist shot in 2019 while observing rioting in
‘execute’ police officers, whom they call ‘legitimate targets for death’
cans who had not disarmed as “radical- ised republicans” and said he was working closely with UK intelligence and the Police Service of Northern Ire- land (PSNI) to neutralise the threat they posed. He said he was not surprised that the woman arrested was in her 20s because young people were being radicalised by terrorists. Police believe the weapon would have been attached to a vehicle in Northern Ireland in the event that it made it across the border and was used in an attack. “This has been a long-running inves- tigation into the activities of the New IRA, and has potentially saved lives,” a source told The Belfast Telegraph. “This organisation were in the pro- cess of moving the bomb to Northern Ireland for deployment. Recent events have shown us that this group are still hell bent on attacking the security ser- vices and this is one line of inquiry”. Investigations to identify others involved in the plot, including the bomb-maker, were continuing. It is
us that this group are still hell bent on attacking the security services’
attempted to hit back against the sustained pressure. Gunmen shot Det Ch Insp John Caldwell, who was accompanied by his young son, outside an Omagh leisure centre where the offi cer had just fi nished coaching a youth football session in February 2023. Mr Caldwell, a high-profi le offi cer who had investigated New IRA activity including the McKee murder, survived the assassination attempt. Some have suggested with relief that the dissidents are far less professional than the IRA, but the assassination attempt was the most serious attack on the police in Northern Ireland for years. It triggered a major counter-terror operation that led to the arrest of 10 defendants now awaiting trial for attempted murder. Police on both sides of the border have kept the pressure up. So has MI5, which in April reportedly sent cryptic
thought the bomb was engineered in Dublin. Jim O’Callaghan, Ireland’s minister for justice, said the incident was “very worrying”, but praised the operation’s success as evidence of strong coopera- tion between the gardaí and the PSNI. Officers stopped the vehicle just south of Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan, at about 3pm on Wednesday in an oper-
ation carried out by the Special Detec- tive Unit to target suspected dissident republican activity. Army bomb disposal officers made the device safe before taking it away for forensic testing. Michelle O’Neill, First Minister of Northern Ireland, of Sinn Fein, said the interception of the device had “pre- vented devastation”.
video messages to suspected group members’ phones urging them to lay down their arms. The New IRA is also trying to exert leverage through threats to “execute” police offi cers, whom they call “legitimate targets for death”. After long delays caused by Covid and the complicated nature of the MI5 intelligence, early procedural hearings in the Operation Arbacia trial have begun. The recent rise in terrorist incidents could be an attempt to boost credibility and supporters’ morale at a time when the First Minister of Northern Ireland is a Sinn Fein politician for the fi rst time. It could also be an attempt to infl uence a court case that nearly crushed the dissident group. The New IRA is a wounded beast, but, as the deadly intercepted car bomb suggests, even a wounded beast has sharp teeth.
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Merseyside car crash
Four men in their 20s have died after a car crashed into a lamppost on Merseyside. Police received a report that a black Seat Cupra had come off the road after colliding with a lampost in Huyton, east of Liverpool, at around 2am yesterday. Emergency services attended, but the four men – two aged 23, one aged 24 and one aged 26 – were pronounced dead at the scene. Their next of kin have been informed and will be supported by specially trained offi cers, Merseyside Police said. A 27-year-old man who was a passenger in the car was taken to hospital, where he remains in a stable condition.
into Reform bank leaks
The National Crime Agency (NCA) has launched an inquiry into allegations its staff may have leaked information about Reform MPs’ bank transactions, The Telegraph can disclose. Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform, pointed the fi nger at the NCA earlier this month after articles appeared in the media about transactions that had been fl agged to the NCA under its suspicious activity reports programme. Details of bank transactions linked to Richard Tice, Reform’s deputy leader, also found their way into the media. Mr Farage and Mr Tice argued that only the NCA could have been in possession of all of the information that was leaked to newspapers.
historic sex offences
Nine men have appeared in court charged with 41 historical child sexual exploitation off ences. The men, aged 54 to 76, were arrested by detectives from Gwent Police earlier in July as part of an investigation into reports made by several women of sexual abuse committed against them as children between 1985 and 1996. The defendants, who are all British citizens, appeared before Newport magistrates’ court for a fi rst hearing yesterday morning, and spoke only to confi rm their names, dates of birth and addresses. None of them were asked to enter a plea during the short hearings.
death in drunken rage
A father who fatally shook his four-week-old son while in a drunken rage has been jailed for life. Tony Bartlett, 39, of Axminster, Devon, was convicted of the murder of baby Atticus after a trial at Bristol Crown Court. The judge, Mr Justice Cavanagh, described how Bartlett had drunk eight-and-a-half pints of lager with Atticus’s mother before they returned to their home in Chard, Somerset. Medical experts agreed Atticus died from hypoxic-ischaemic brain damage, resulting from the baby being shaken while being tightly held around his chest – causing fractures to his ribs. The judge jailed Bartlett for life and ordered him to serve at least 18 years.
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from beyond the grave may prove to be lifeline for struggling ex-duchess
IN death, Paddy McNally, one of Sarah Ferguson’s closest friends, may have delivered her the fi nancial lifeline she so desperately needs. Speculation is rife that McNally, a racing tycoon with a reputation as a jet-set playboy, has left Ms Ferguson a slice of his estimated £600m fortune. McNally, who died this week at the age of 88, had given Ms Ferguson a roof over her head after she and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor were evicted from Royal Lodge on the Windsor estate in the fallout from their friendship with Jeff rey Epstein. The Telegraph understands that Ms Ferguson, 66, was given refuge at McNally’s chalet in Verbier, the exclusive Swiss ski resort, in the months after she and her ex-husband left their home. McNally and Ms Ferguson, despite a 22-year age gap, were romantically linked for three years before she married the then Prince Andrew in 1986. Throughout her marriage and subsequent divorce, the pair
back four 1980s chocolate bars
By Telegraph Reporter
MARKS & SPENCER has brought back four retro chocolate bars from the 1980s. The nostalgic confectionery – Sparks, Jet, Now! and Coconut Grove – will be resurrected by the retailer to remind customers of “childhood” fl avours. Complete with their original packag- ing, the £1 chocolate bars are marketed as a “delicious nod to the past”. The Sparks bar contains nougat and caramel, Jet has nougat, peanut and car- amel, Now! contains biscuit and cara- mel, and Coconut Grove is filled with coconut. They each have the now-disused St Michael brand – the former house brand used by M&S between 1927 and 2000 – emblazoned on their packaging. The brand was previously revived for
remained friends and McNally may – from beyond the grave – have ridden to Ms Ferguson’s rescue once more. McNally made his fortune running corporate hospitality and advertising hoardings on the F1 circuit before selling his business, Allsport Management, in 2006 for £262m. His fortune at the time of his death was estimated at £600m, but it could be some time before the contents of his will become public. Sources close to Ms Ferguson said they had no idea if she had been left either money or property in McNally’s will. “I’m not aware of that,” said one source. But they did not deny that Ms Ferguson had stayed at McNally’s chalet in Verbier shortly after being made homeless. While Mr Mountbatten- Windsor languishes in eff ective domestic exile on the King’s estate at Sandringham, the whereabouts of Ms Ferguson remain unclear. She had been seen at a wellness clinic in Austria before taking sanctuary at
Sarah Ferguson stayed close to Paddy McNally
menswear in 2021 after vintage clothes bearing the name grew in popularity on second-hand clothing websites. Research by M&S Food found one-in- fi ve members of the public said choco- late is the food they would most like to bring back from their childhood. The return of the bars follows a num- ber of retro products. Adidas used its Trefoil” badge on football kits at the World Cup this year and Hasbro, the toy brand, brought back the Furby robotic toy in 2023. According to Waitrose, 1980s din- ner-party classics such as prawn cock- tail and apple tarte tatin have more than doubled in the last year as customers embrace retro fl avours. Sales of corned beef, the tinned meat product, are also up by one-third, the retailer said in May. M&S Food successfully relaunched
Take 4, the four-fi nger wafer bar, last year and is looking to do the same with the four other bars, which are its own take on Mars, Snickers, Twix and Bounty bars. A spokesman for M&S Food said: “After the brilliant response to the return of Take 4 last year, we wanted to dig a little deeper into our archives and revisit more of the chocolate bars cus- tomers loved the fi rst time around. “With their original St Michael pack- aging designs and fl avours inspired by the much-loved bars of the 80s, Jet, Sparks, Now! and Coconut Grove are a delicious nod to the past – giving some customers the chance to rediscover an old favourite and others the joy of try- ing them for the very fi rst time.” Kemi Badenoch, the Tory leader, last month stacked shelves on a visit to a branch of M&S in central London.
McNally’s property in Verbier, valued at £15m. Ms Ferguson went to work for the widowed McNally when she was 23 as nanny to his two sons. It has been reported that their three-year romance ended when he failed to propose after she issued him an ultimatum at the Italian Grand Prix. Disappointed, Ms Ferguson then turned her attention to Elizabeth II’s second son, at the time hailed as a war hero
return with miserly Scrooge role
By Tom McArdle
JOHNNY DEPP’S bitter court battle with his former wife could have left him living a life as “secret, self-contained and solitary as an oyster” – much like Charles Dickens’ Scrooge. Instead, the 63-year-old actor is pinning his hopes on a Hollywood comeback by transforming himself into the miserly Scrooge in a new adaptation of A Christmas Carol. In the trailer for the latest remake of Dickens’ 1843 story, Depp’s character says: “It’s good to be back.” The Pirates of the Caribbean star, once the world’s highest-paid actor, has made a measured return since winning his defamation case against Amber Heard in 2022. Depp said he was “shunned, dumped, booted, cancelled” by Hollywood after
always looked after Sarah and at times… she needed a lot of looking after’
for his service as a helicopter pilot during the Falklands confl ict. Ms Ferguson once called her former boyfriend her “father fi gure”, and he continued to watch over her through her many ups and downs. The Sun quoted a source close to both as saying: “Paddy always looked after Sarah and at times over the past four decades she needed a lot of looking after. He never abandoned her in life and, even in his fi nal days, he allowed her safe sanctuary at his home in Verbier.” Andrew Lownie, whose recent biography of Mr Mountbatten- Windsor further shredded his reputation, said he “would not be surprised” if McNally had taken care of Ms Ferguson in his will. “He was very, very good to her,” he said. In his book, Mr Lownie quotes Ms Ferguson as saying of McNally: “He taught me so much about life. Whenever I wanted advice, I turned to him because he was so worldly wise. He seemed to have seen and done everything.” The Verbier chalet fi rst became a bolthole for her and her daughters, Eugenie and Beatrice, in April 1996, when it was announced that she and her husband were divorcing. McNally had houses around the world, including Sevenhampton Place, the former Wiltshire home of Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond. The eight-bedroom Verbier chalet – called Les Gais Lutins – was known in the tabloid press as Cocaine Castle because of the wild parties held there.
Holiday snaps The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have shared online pictures of their summer break in Europe with Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet. During their stop-off in Britain, they visited Althorp, left, the Spencer family home where Harry’s mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, is buried.
potentially career-ending allega-
tions by his ex-wife that he had
physically abused her.
Since winning the case, which
saw him awarded £12m in
damages, he has appeared in
smaller films, but his por-
trayal of Scrooge in Para-
mount film Ebenezer
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coat, with the
character’s familiar
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Ms Ferguson once described it as “an immense chalet… overlooking the town and hosted a continual round of parties and business dinners, all with superb wine”. Ms Ferguson has long struggled fi nancially, contributing to her downfall. In 2009, she turned to Epstein, who at the time was in jail having been convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor, for advice on how to deal with £6m of debt she had racked up. She was so beholden to the billionaire sex off ender that she sent him an email in 2011 apologising for calling him a paedophile in a newspaper interview, telling him he was a “steadfast, generous and supreme friend” to her. She visited him with her daughters in Florida days after he was relesased from jail. The emails between Ms Ferguson and Epstein, which emerged over the past year, wrecked any chance she had of establishing a secure fi nancial footing for herself. In February, she was forced to wind down six businesses. She was also removed from a number of charities as a result of her association with Epstein. In danger of becoming a pariah and without a home, it appears she could still count on McNally’s loyalty. The contents of his will will be eagerly anticipated. He is survived by one son, Rollo McNally, who could not be reached for comment yesterday.
top hat. It also provides a glimpse of the cast, which includes Daisy Ridley, the Star Wars: The Force Awakens actress, Andrea Risebor- ough, the Oscar-nominated actress, and Rupert Grint, the Harry Potter actor who will p o r t r a y S c r o o g e ’s employee Bob Cratchit. In the trailer, Scrooge fearfully hides from the taunting spirits, and throws a heavy object at the ghost of his for- mer business partner Jacob Marley – played by Sir Ian McKellen, the Lord Of The Rings actor. Ebenezer: A Christ- mas Carol hits the big screens on Nov 13.
carries 165 migrants in Channel
By Charles Hymas HOME AFFAIRS EDITOR
A MEGA-DINGHY carrying 165 migrants has crossed the Channel, setting a new record for the number of arrivals on a single small boat. The packed vessel, intercepted by Border Force on Thursday, beat the pre- vious record from July 11, when 128 migrants crossed in one boat. It was one of three dinghies to cross the Channel that day, bringing a total of 366 migrants. The other two vessels carried some 100 people each. It reflects efforts by people-smug- gling gangs to cram more migrants on to each boat to maximise profi ts. The average number of people per small boat has increased from seven in 2018 to 63 in the year ending this March, and 70 in the past month. Border Force chiefs believe it is also a consequence of the growing success of multinational law-enforcement opera- tions to intercept equipment, including small boats, engines and life jackets. They believe the shortage of boats
that criminal gangs have no regard for the safety of those they claim to help’
and equipment leads people-smugglers to fi ll each dinghy with more migrants, which increases the risk not only of the flimsy vessels capsizing but also of people, particularly women and chil- dren, being crushed to death on board. The total of migrants who have crossed the Channel so far this year is 13,373 – more than 40 per cent lower than the same period last year. The Home Office said: “Smuggling gangs are taking greater risks than ever, with the number of people they are cramming into unseaworthy boats rising year on year. This crossing serves as a stark reminder that criminal gangs have no regard for the safety of those they claim to help. “This is exactly why we have signed a new deal with the French to prevent these perilous journeys by boosting enforcement action on beaches, build- ing on the over 45,000 attempted cross- ings stopped since the election.” Under the £650m three-year deal officers, including new elite riot and public order squads, have been increased by 40 per cent.
The elite Iranian force with Britain in its sights
By Akhtar Makoii and Gareth Corfield
IRANIAN transport links were established across the Middle East decades ago to carry guns, arming various militias. The corridors were used to move rifl es, rockets and cash from Iran to its allies and proxies, including Syria and Lebanon. Today, these have been extended into Europe and their cargo has expanded to include heroin, migrants and – according to Iranian offi cials and the smugglers who work them – people Iran believes it can call on inside Britain. A Telegraph investigation has established that the Iranian government is running smuggling routes into the UK, and offi cials in Tehran now regard those routes as a weapon in their own right. The operation is being led by Unit 700, the Quds Force’s smuggling and logistics arm. Britain sanctioned the unit in 2024 for facilitating activity intended to destabilise the UK and other countries.
By Charles Hymas and Ben Butcher
ANDY BURNHAM is coming under pressure from Labour MPs to exempt child rapists and groomers from the Government’s early release scheme. Jess Phillips, a former Home Office minister, is among a group of senior Labour MPs urging the Prime Minister to prevent child sex offenders and domestic abusers from being allowed out of prison early. Mr Burnham ordered the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) to halt the early release scheme amid anger at the prospect of two of Pc Andrew Harper’s killers being freed from jail. Grooming gang
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The UK Border Force picks up the ‘mega-dinghy’, measuring about 42ft, that brought over a record 165 migrants this week. Two more dinghies brought in about 100 migrants each, inset, on the same day
Abdolfattah Ahvazian is alleged to have been involved with Unit 700
survivors including Fiona Goddard, from Bradford, and Sarah Wilson, from Rotherham, have also backed the calls to exempt grooming gang rapists from the scheme, which allows paedophiles and rapists to be released from prison after serving just half of their sentence. Analysis of MoJ data by The Telegraph shows there are some 220 child rapists eligible for release from September after serving just half their sentence under the scheme. Data show that 88 of the criminals, who were set to serve at least two-thirds of their sentence when sent to prison, were jailed for more than 10 years. The analysis, the first to reveal the
It specialises in moving weapons and equipment to Iranian-backed militias, above all in Syria and to Hezbollah in Lebanon, which run and own the smuggling routes. But it does not work alone. A separate transport unit, designated Unit 190, physically moves the consignments, while covert units embedded inside Syria handle the receiving end – including one dedicated to building precision- guided missiles on Syrian soil. It means the Guards do not own a single pipeline that can be cut, but a set of interchangeable functions. Now, the Iranian machinery is being used to get operatives into Britain on small boats, and also via other means, including fl ights from Eastern Europe. Once in Britain with the aid of Iran, Tehran bides its time before calling in its favour. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) warned this week, in the most explicit terms yet, that Britain had made itself a target by allowing US B-1 bombers to fl y missions against Iran from
RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire. An Iranian offi cial, speaking from Tehran, framed it as a warning to a country that had misjudged its distance from the war. “Our armed forces message was very clear yesterday – stay away from the carnage,” the offi cial told The Telegraph. Britain, he said, had convinced itself that geography was protection. The Americans had made the same error, he added, and were now losing men in numbers Washington would not publish, “because they are killing our children”. He added: “Do not forget you also have bases within the range of our missiles. Tell them to stay away if they want to be safe and not live like US offi cials fearing for their lives.” But while missiles and drones can reach bases such as RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus, the smuggling operation is
true scale of the proposed early releases, also shows some 85 killers convicted of manslaughter are eligible. Of those, 21 were jailed for more than 10 years. It had been estimated that about 6,000 prisoners were expected to be freed in monthly tranches, beginning on Sept 2, until the Prime Minister paused the scheme. Mr Burnham halted the scheme’s launch pending the outcome of a review after The Telegraph disclosed this week that Albert Bowers and Jessie Cole were expected to be freed early halfway through their 13-year sentences for the manslaughter of Pc Harvey in 2019. Ms Phillips, who was safeguarding
minister before resigning from Sir Keir Starmer’s administration, said ministers should exempt child rapists and seek to remove domestic abusers convicted of coercive control. However, she warned: “Exemptions alone are not enough; they must also look in the round at all of the risk assessments that they do before agreed early release.” Another senior Labour MP said: “I would like to see all rapists excluded from the early release scheme but particularly those who off ended against children. We expect them to serve their time.” Three Labour MPs – Jim McMahon,
more potent. When asked directly whether Iran would use its smuggling routes against the UK, the offi cial did not hesitate. The Iranian armed forces, he said, held infl uence over the corridors and in some cases ran them outright. “At the moment we have people right there in London, revolutionary people who care about the world and the lives of children – they wait for us to tell them what to do. “We have not done that yet but can easily make London unsafe for you if we want. “These smuggling routes are more important and useful than the missiles for us. We do not need a missile to target London. It’s easier than that.” A second Iranian offi cial went further, extending the threat to British shipping and to No 10 itself. He said: “If we want to, we have people there to even target their Prime Minister’s
people right there in London. We can easily make it unsafe for you if you want’
Paul Waugh and Elsie Blundell – have also written to the MoJ urging it to reconsider the early release of off enders convicted of the most serious sexual off ences. The three MPs have led the campaign for the deportation of Shabir Ahmed, 73, the ringleader of the Rochdale groom- ing gang released from jail earlier this month after serving 14 years of a 22-year sentence for 30 child rape off ences. Sarah Wilson, who was sexually abused as a child from the age of 11 by groups of men in Rotherham, is among five grooming gang survivors from Yorkshire who have written to MPs urging them to back exemptions from
house using these people and make all of their cities unsafe for them. It’s a choice for them.” The people already in place, he claimed, were “walking in and out of government offi ces and no one checks them”. The machinery the offi cials refer to and utilise is older than the current war, and Unit 700 was sanctioned alongside three men. Hamid Fazeli and Behnam Shahryari were both accused of supporting armed groups destabilising the region, and Abdolfattah Ahvazian is an adviser to the Quds Force commander, listed specifi cally over activity aimed at creating instability in Britain. British analysts are far more sceptical and more worried about what the threat is designed to do to British nerves. Dr Lynette Nusbacher, a former senior adviser to the Cabinet Offi ce on security matters, said the Iranians lacked the “strategic patience” to plant genuine operatives in the UK. What has been seen instead, she said, is cheap and disposable. “We’ve seen, for instance, evidence that people saying that they’re Iranians have been ready to recruit people in the UK for fairly nominal amounts of money,” she said, describing activity typically limited to small acts: graffi ti, or setting fi re to pictures of politicians and fi lming it for social media. Dr Kristian Gustafson, deputy head of Brunel University’s Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies and a former Sandhurst lecturer, said the prize was not a bomb in a British city but a crack in the alliance that put the bombers at Fairford. “If Iran can get there to be a domestic UK reaction against the US use of Fairford because of a threat of violence in the UK, it achieves an eff ect of further driving wedges or pulling apart that wedge between the US and its allies like the UK,” he said. Moving armed operatives and their weapons into Britain would be a tall order for Tehran, he added. It would expensive and involve too many moving parts to stay hidden.
the scheme for sexual offenders. Alex Norris, the new Justice Secretary, said the review would decide “who might leave and when” as well as what say victims would have over security and protective measures such as alcohol tagging or the use of exclusion zones. “We’ve heard very strongly from vic- tims and victims’ advocates about their desire for that greater say in it, and that’s part of this review to make sure that they get that,” he said. Neither Downing Street nor the MoJ has set a date for when they expect the scheme to be implemented but said it would depend on the outcome of the review.
deal while high, claims ex-wife of Airbnb millionaire
to sedate a horse’ before agreeing to settlement that left her with no lump sum
By Telegraph Reporter
By Telegraph Reporter
By Telegraph Reporter
A MULTIMILLIONAIRE former Airbnb boss is contesting a £5m divorce payout after his ex-wife claimed she signed a deal with him while high on enough Xanax to “sedate a horse”. Martin Reiter, a business executive who oversaw the international growth of Airbnb, married Caroline Bauer-Re- iter, an interior designer and cultural history expert, in 2012. The pair enjoyed a high-fl ying inter- national lifestyle before breaking up in 2018 and moving separately to London from Berlin. Before their divorce, they signed an agreement in 2019 that left the wife with no capital lump sum from her ex-husband’s £17.3m fortune and
no personal fi nancial support after 2028. Ms Bauer-Reiter went on to reopen the divorce fi ght in the Family Court in London, asking for a larger share. She claimed the “egre- giously unfair” German agree- ment leaving her with no capital was “procured unconscionably,” as before she signed it her then psy- chiatrist had given her enough Xanax tablets “to sedate a horse”. Her lawyers also argued that she is una- ble to work due to phys- ical and mental health issues. Family Court judge
A FORMER nuclear submarine com- mander has been jailed for almost three years after a “planned and predatory” sexual assault on a Royal Navy col- league. Lt-Cdr John Cursiter, 46, plied the submariner with alcohol and cocaine over the course of a night at HMS Drake, a naval base in Devon. He “ambushed” the young man, physically steering him to his own cabin in the officer’s mess and committing the assault. Cursiter, an executive offi cer at the UK’s nuclear submarine base in Faslane, Clyde, and a former commander of nuclear-enabled HMS Vanguard, was marched out of court to begin a 33-month jail term. At Catterick Military Court, Judge Advocate Edward Legard described the assault as an “inexcusable betrayal” of
charged with son’s death in Cyprus
By Neil Johnston and Tim Sigsworth
THE family of a British father charged in connection with the death of his two-year-old son in a fall from a hotel window is seeking Ed Miliband’s help to get him back for the boy’s funeral. The 37-year-old banking executive was charged on Tuesday with “causing death by a rash, reckless, or dangerous act” after the child fell from the fourth fl oor of a hotel in Cyprus while playing with him. The family is seeking the support of the new Foreign Secretary in the hope that the father can attend his son’s funeral in Britain. “The family fully understands that the British Government cannot inter- fere with the Cypriot judicial process,” a source close to the family said. “But they are calling for more active support. Given the exceptional human- itarian circumstances, they hope that the British Government will actively engage with the Cypriot authorities. “The father needs to be able to attend
Martin Reiter and Caroline Bauer-Reiter are fighting it out in the Court of Appeal
Armed Forces values, saying it “tar- nishes the reputation” of the officer corps. “It is patently clear that this was a planned and predatory assault by a sen- ior offi cer on a junior rating behind the closed door of his own cabin,” he said. “The victim was, in our judgment, in an acutely vulnerable state both in the lead-up to and whilst being assaulted by you. He was in a state of extreme intox- ication – he simply did not know where he was. “He wanted to go back to his own quarters, to a place of safety, but you steered him away to your cabin and when you did so you had one thing, and one thing alone, in mind.” The judge added: “You made sure your victim was incapacitated through a combination of alcohol and drugs, and you abused your rank and position.” Even though Cursiter resigned from
to go back to his own quarters, to safety, but you steered him away to your cabin’
his son’s funeral once court proceedings set for July 31 have taken place.” The boy was pronounced dead on arrival in hospital following the accident this month. His father was arrested three hours after the boy fell from the King Evelthon Beach Hotel and Resort in Chlorakas, near Paphos. The father of two has been released on bail and is banned from leaving the country before a trial next week. The family from Essex was on the first day of their holiday when police were called to the fi ve-star hotel on July 12 at about 6.40pm after the boy fell more than 30ft from the window. Offi cers said the boy fell while play- ing with his father in the corridor next to the family’s room, as they waited for a lift to take them to the restaurant for dinner. They believe the boy slipped from his father’s grip and fell through an open window that was in front of them. At 10pm the father was taken to the police station and told he was under arrest for negligence. He co-operated
Mr Justice Cusworth ruled last October that the German order should be varied to hand her a divorce package including a £2.55m lump sum, £96,000 annual maintenance for the next 14 years, £1m towards her legal costs, and fi ve-fi gure annual child maintenance payments. But the former couple are now fi ght- ing it out in the Court of Appeal, with the wife bidding to get her payout rolled up into a personal lump sum of around £5m. The husband’s lawyers meanwhile are seeking to overturn the “wholly excessive provision for the wife” ordered by the English judge and rein- state the German agreement. They are questioning Ms Bauer-Reiter’s claims not to be able to work, insisting she has brought extra costs upon herself volun- tarily by moving to London. After the divorce, Mr Reiter remar- ried in March 2023, moving to an £11.5m house in Holland Park, London, with his new wife. Ms Bauer-Reiter then herself moved to London with the children only two months later in May 2023, having fi rst obtained permission to do so from a German court. She subsequently instructed top law- yers and went to the English divorce courts, seeking to revise the fi nancial agreement she signed in Germany. At the Family Court, Mr Justice Cusworth found the husband’s net worth was £17.3m and ordered him to pay her the £2.55m lump sum, mainte- nance and over £1m towards her law- yers’ bills. Now before three top judges at the Court of Appeal, the husband’s barrister, Mr Horton, argued that the “wholly excessive provision” should be overruled. Arguing against the wife’s claim not to be able to work due to her health, the barrister said: “The husband had seen evidence on the wife’s social media, including an elaborate synchronised dance routine that contradicted her claims to poor health.” Rebecca Carew Pole KC, for the wife argued that the mil- lions the wife had now been awarded is a “modest” sum and “unremarkable given the husband’s overall wealth,” pointing out that he lives in a “splendid” house in Hol- land Park, worth £11.5m. The judges, Sir Andrew McFarlane, Lord Justice Moylan and Lord Justice Lewis, reserved their rul- ing on the case after a day- long hearing, to be given at a later date.
throughout interviews and appeared the following morning at Paphos district court. George Savvides, the attorney gen- eral of Cyprus, confi rmed on Tuesday that the man would be prosecuted, as he appeared before the district court. Sitting in the dock, accompanied by his father and mother, the man was told he would appear in court next week and would have to pay €20,000 (£17,300) bail. He was ordered to surrender all his travel documents and to appear once a week at Paphos central police station. . Evidence gathered during the police investigation suggested that a trace of alcohol, equivalent to one or two drinks, was detected in the defendant’s blood. The boy was described by family friends as “a truly special, easy-going little boy who brought so much joy to everyone around him”. The Foreign Office has been contacted for comment.
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Putting the boot in Actress and singer Suki Waterhouse takes to the stage at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. She recently released her third album, Loveland.
the Navy after 22 years following his arrest, he was still “dismissed in dis- grace” as he was sent to prison. In a statement, his victim told a court martial how the incident had led to him leaving the Navy, and had “destroyed” his life. Describing the assault, which left Cursiter’s DNA inside his underwear, the victim said it was “an ambush”. He said he lied to his friends and fam- ily about the reasons he left the Navy, and had been left an “angry person” by the “emasculating feeling of being taken advantage of”. Cursiter’s victim added: “I have aimed misdirected, unreserved and relentless outbursts towards the people who care about me the most. It has not only destroyed my career, it destroyed my kindness and trust in others.” The victim told a week-long court martial in May of his horror at waking
not only destroyed my career, it destroyed my kindness and trust in others’
being knocked down Tube steps
GAIL PORTER has been left with a black eye after being knocked down stairs at a tube station. The 55-year-old Scottish TV person- ality took to social media on Thursday to describe the “wee accident” and share images of her injuries, capturing her with a black eye and cut lip. Ms Porter said she had been “knocked over” by another passenger but added that it hadn’t been intentional. Writing on Instagram, she said: “So … to all you wonderful keyboard warriors that said I’m looking old, and saying something was wrong with my face … “I went to @trainspottingthemusical to support my friends that created this. Last week ... I was knocked over while going down the stairs at a London tube station.” She added: “My scars are superfi cial and it’s not a problem. It was an acci- dent and it won’t stop me being me.” The new musical interpretation of Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting is being
up in the executive offi cer’s bed in 2022 with their hands touching. Cursiter refused to allow the sick sailor to leave his quarters, eventually relenting. The younger man was heard letting out a “howling cry” after telling a mem- ber of staff on base: “I think I have been raped” and adding he was contemplat- ing suicide. Cursiter denied sexually assaulting the young man, but a court martial found Cursiter, of Balloch, Dunbarton- shire, guilty of sexual assault, false imprisonment and possession of cocaine, which was found in his coat pocket when he was arrested. David Scutt, mitigating, said: “John Cursiter has lost his rank and his repu- tation. He is in many ways a broken man and will find gaining employment in civilian life a very real life challenge for so many reasons.” Mr Scutt said that Cursiter had suf-
fered post-traumatic stress after a sub- marine accident in 2008 when his vessel struck a rock protruding from the seabed, resulting in fear that the vessel would be lost. He also lost his half brother in tragic circumstances in a 40ft fall through a hatch at a boatyard, and found his father had died from a heart attack in his sleep last year. A pre-sentence report found that Cursiter “demonstrates remorse and insight into his off ending, albeit he does not accept his guilt”. When news of Cursiter’s arrest broke, a second former Royal Navy rat- ing came forward to say he too had been sexually assaulted by Cursiter after a night of drinking near Faslane in 2013. Cursiter denied the offences ever happened and was cleared of three counts of sexual assault against the sec- ond complainant by the court martial board.
name in the 1990s, fuelled by hosting popular programmes such as Top of the Pops. A naked photo of her was projected onto the Houses of Parliament by the lads mag FHM. But she got alopecia in the early 2000s, eventually losing all of her hair. She has since been vocal about dealing with mental health problems. Speaking to The Telegraph in 2019, Ms Porter said she had learnt from her daughter, Honey, to accept the changes to her appearance and put a “positive spin on things”. In another social media post yester- day morning, Ms Porter warned to never be “disrespectful to anyone for how they look or how they are”, adding that “kindness” was “invaluable”. Ms Porter said that she was a “wee Scottish warrior” and was going to brave her injuries with “good con- cealer”. “A few bruises well covered up”, she said in another post, adding: “The won- ders of make-up!”
prompts accusations of
hypocrisy during PM’s
first day in new HQ
By Dominic Penna and
Pieter Snepvangers
ANDY BURNHAM has arrived for his first day at No 10 North in a government jet. The Prime Minister took the VIP Air- bus A321 from London to Glasgow on Thursday afternoon for the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games. He then travelled to Manchester – the home of No 10 North, which is central to his devolution agenda – on a 38-minute flight yesterday morning. Mr Burnham’s decision to take a gov- ernment jet domestically is likely to prompt accusations of hypocrisy after Labour attacked the Tories for doing the same while in opposition. The Prime Minister flew from Lon- don Stansted to Glasgow at 12.45pm on Thursday and arrived at 2.28pm, Guido Fawkes first reported. The plane then left Glasgow at 9.19am yesterday, landing nine minutes behind schedule at 9.57am. It would have taken Mr Burnham three hours to take the train from Glas- gow to Manchester. The average train journey from London to Manchester takes two hours and 46 minutes. Mr Burnham could have chosen from six trains departing Glasgow Central for Manchester Piccadilly and scheduled to arrive in his adopted home city before 11am. The 5.33am service arrived 14 min- utes late but still made it to Manchester before 9.15am. The 5.48am and 6.29am trains were two minutes and one min- ute late respectively, arriving at 9.28am and 9.59am. The 7.11am train was delayed by 23 minutes and arrived in Manchester at 10.49am, while the 7.36am was eight minutes behind schedule, pulling in at 11.06am. The drive from Glasgow to Mr Burn- ham’s Makerfield constituency is three hours and 30 minutes, meaning he could have asked his driver to take him home from Scotland on Thursday night or early yesterday after attending the Commonwealth Games opening. Confirming that Mr Burnham had flown up, No 10 did not respond to ques- tions about whether his flights to No 10 North would be a weekly occurrence. The Prime Minister has said he plans to spend at least one day a week working from Manchester. The No 10 North office forms a major part of the Prime Minister’s pledge to devolve power from Whitehall and Westminster to the nations and regions. It will be run by Louise Haigh, his close political ally, who he has brought back into Cabinet a year and a half after she resigned in November 2024 over a historic fraud conviction. Both Ms Haigh and Angela Rayner – who returned to front-line politics as Housing Secretary almost a year after a Telegraph investigation into her tax affairs forced her own resignation – are among the ministers who will work from No 10 North. In opposition, Labour had attacked the Tories for using jets to travel domes-
Manchester
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By Linus Uhlig Money RepoRteR
ANGELA RAYNER raked in more than £180,000 during her “year off ” from Cabinet, The Telegraph can reveal. The Housing Secretary received £182,376 from second jobs, including corporate speaking engagements and a book advance, as well as a £16,876 ministerial exit payment after resigning last autumn. Ms Rayner quit as housing minister after The Telegraph revealed she had dodged a £40,000 stamp duty bill on the purchase of her second home in Hove, East Sussex. Andy Burnham has been accused of allowing her to “waltz back” into government. Mr Burnham reappointed Ms Rayner as Housing Secretary on becoming Prime Minister. She has refused to
I might be a first-time Tory voter
By Dominic Penna
SenioR political coRReSpondent
DAME MAUREEN LIPMAN is consider- ing voting Tory for the first time because she supports the “amazing” Kemi Badenoch. The actress was a Labour supporter for five decades before breaking with the party in 2014 over Ed Miliband, its then leader and now Foreign Secretary, wanting to recognise the state of Pales- tine. Dame Maureen, who is Jewish, was then one of Jeremy Corbyn’s most prominent critics over the anti-Semi- tism scandals that took hold in Labour during his tenure. Appearing on Sky’s The Cathy New- man Show, Dame Maureen was asked for her thoughts on the current political landscape days after Andy Burnham’s coronation as Labour leader. She responded: “I’m a Kemi Baden- och supporter. I think she’s amazing, I think she’s absolutely a truthful politi-
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repay the severance payment she received when she left office. The MPs’ financial interests logs show that since September, Ms Rayner earned £104,000 from speaking fees, £61,500 for an advance on a book and just less than £17,000 in severance payment. Her most lucrative speeches included a £19,000 engagement with the Man- agement Consultancies Association and a £20,000 speech for Deutsche Bank, which was accompanied by a £1,000 hotel room and a £250 dinner. This came on top of the basic annual salary of an MP, which rose from £93,904 to £98,599 in April 2026. Lee Anderson, the Reform UK chair- man, said: “Angela Rayner has had an extremely profitable year off. Being forced to resign in disgrace over your tax affairs turns out to be a good little
cian and I’ve never voted Tory in my life.” Asked whether Mrs Badenoch currently had her vote, Dame Maureen replied: “She does. She speaks beauti- fully, she held the House during the Starmer years, she held him to account.
tically. At the party’s annual conference in 2023, Rachel Reeves said Labour would curb the use of private jets by ministers. She hit out at Rishi Sunak, the then Tory prime minister, for his “private jet habit” and said Labour would seek to save taxpayers millions of pounds. Mr Sunak defended his use of domestic flights, saying air travel was the most
A lucrative 10 months
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protect herself from pro-Palestine activ- ists owing to the Government’s inaction on anti-Semitism. Writing in The Spec- tator, she said she had hired a guard after it emerged “bigots” in Aberdeen had tried to get her new stage show can- celled. Mrs Badenoch endured a difficult first year as Tory leader after taking over from Rishi Sunak in November 2024, with the party wiped out at her first local elections in May 2025. The Tories also endured several high-profile defections to Reform UK, including Robert Jenrick, who had stood against Mrs Badenoch for the party leadership, and saw their support slump as low as 17.5 per cent. However, Mrs Badenoch’s party has closed the gap with Reform to six per- centage points from a peak of 13, while her net approval rating – which was at one point minus 30 – is now in positive territory for the first time. The Tories’ rise in popularity follows a popular pledge to abolish stamp duty.
effective use of his time. In July 2023, Labour demanded that Mr Sunak explain why he used an RAF plane to fly to Scotland when scheduled flights were available. The Ministerial Code states that pri- vate planes should only be used when no alternative is available. Last year, Ed Miliband, the then energy secretary, was described as an
Burnham’s flight emissions
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“eco-hypocrite” after he refused to reveal how many domestic flights he had taken. Kevin Hollinrake, the Tory chairman, accused Mr Burnham of hypocrisy, say- hing: “He has ministers in his Cabinet who attacked previous prime ministers for doing exactly this.” A government spokesman said: “Gov- ernment aircraft are used in line with
earner. Now she’s waltzed straight back into her old job in government just 10 months after resigning; it’s about time she handed back her hefty severance payment. Taxpayer cash shouldn’t be wasted on subsidising Labour’s political psychodramas.” Since her resignation, Ms Rayner has largely avoided the internal drama that led to Sir Keir Starmer resigning as prime minister, making way for Mr Burnham to take over. Ms Rayner did not respond to a request for comment. The Housing Secretary has previ- ously criticised MPs having second jobs as “beyond shameful”. In a social media post in March 2023, she wrote: “Being an MP isn’t a second job. It is the job. Labour will put an end to this racket.” When questioned earlier
twinning ties with Israeli city
By Pieter Snepvangers
political RepoRteR
A GREEN-LED council is set to sever its twin ties with an Israeli city after more than 50 years. Green Party councillors in Hackney have vowed to withdraw the north Lon- don borough from its releationship with Haifa because it claimed Palestin- ian residents live “under occupation and apartheid”. The Left-wing party took control of the council in May’s local election, giv- ing it the power to overturn the twin- ning arrangement, established in 1968. A vote on the issue will take place next week. While some Labour and Conservative councillors are expected to vote against the proposal, the Greens control 42 of the 57 seats meaning the measure is almost certain to pass. In the party’s election manifesto, the Hackney Greens wrote: “Despite repeated, mass community calls for
this week on whether she would return her £16,876 exit payment, she told BBC Radio 5 Live: “No, my severance pay- ment was given to me at the time, I had worked in government for a period of time and then I came out of government for just under a year.” However, Wes Streeting, who also returned to a government position on Monday as Defence Secretary, will not receive a salary for his first three months in the post, according to Huff- Post UK, having received the same exit payment as Ms Rayner. Joanna Marchong, of Onward, a think tank, said: “Rayner built her brand on attacking ‘Tory sleaze’, railing against second jobs and demanding a ban on MPs’ outside consultancy work. Yet within months of resigning over her own tax affairs, she’d pocketed
de-twinning, the Labour-led council has consistently refused to cut ties with the Israeli city of Haifa under the twin- ning scheme. “In Haifa, Palestinian people live under occupation and apartheid by the Israeli state; this is not a city that reflects Hackney’s values. Hackney’s current and future twinning relationships
under occupation and apartheid. This is not a city that reflects our values’
attacked previous PMs for doing exactly this’
the Ministerial Code and long-standing rules governing official travel. The Gov- ernment will always seek to ensure ministers can carry out duties while delivering value for money for taxpay- ers. Appropriate transport is used where necessary to meet operational, security and scheduling requirements.”
£180,000. Including £20,000 for just two hours’ work for a property lobby group, weeks before being handed back the housing brief.” According to the list of her financial interests, Ms Rayner opted to give £15,000 of the £104,000 she earned from 15.45 hours of speeches to charity. Her memoir, for which she pulled in a £61,500 advance, is expected to be published later this year and will detail her life from leaving school at 16 to becoming deputy prime minister, before her fall from grace. Last year, a Telegraph investigation revealed that Ms Rayner had failed to obtain advice on the purchase of her south coast property, which resulted in the breach of the ministerial code and, subsequently, her resignation as hous- ing secretary and deputy Labour leader.
Under the twinning arrangement, clinical specialists from Hackney’s Homerton Hospital took part in a bien- nial exchange of medical teams with Rabmam Hospital in Haifa. However the exchange has remained paused since 2020. Labour MP Luke Akehurst, who served as a Hackney councillor for 12 years before entering Parliament, said he was “disgusted” by the Greens’ “per- formative and spiteful gesture politics”. He said: “The twinning happened because Hackney’s large Jewish com- munity had family and personal links there. Haifa is a famously Left-wing city (ironically the Israeli Greens are quite strong there) that is a model for coexist- ence between Jews and Arabs. “If you want peace between Israel and the Palestinians you should support initiatives that bring people together, not cancel or boycott them.” It comes after the Greens’ Manches- ter mayoralty candidate pledged to twin the city with Ramallah in Palestine.
in plagiarism row that is dividing academics
Gordon Rayner ASSOCIATE EDITOR
in university’s history is subject of bitter argument over his achievements
WHEN Jason Arday became a Cambridge professor at the age of 37, he was lionised by the academic world and became a poster boy for the university’s diversity drive. He had beaten almost impossible odds to get there. Diagnosed with autism and non-verbal until the age of 11, he had only learnt to read and write at 18 but obtained a degree and a doctorate before forging a career in teaching. Now, on the eve of the publication of his autobiography, the University of Cambridge’s professor of sociology of education has become the subject of a bitter row over plagiarism that has pitted his peers against each other. On one side are professors at other universities who believe Prof Arday’s published works, including his PhD thesis, contain passages that are remarkably similar – and in some cases identical – to other academic papers, without proper attribution. On the other side are friends and colleagues of Prof Arday, the youngest black professor in the university’s history,who believe he is the victim of a racist smear campaign and have tried to make it an issue for the Government. What started as a row between academics is now lapping at the shore of politics. Both Cambridge and Liverpool John Moores University, which awarded Prof Arday his PhD, are on his side, insisting that he has done nothing wrong and the allegations are unfounded smears. Cambridge said he had been the victim of a “vile campaign to undermine his credibility”. The stakes could hardly be higher, as accusations of plagiarism can be career-ending for academics, and accusations that later prove to be false can be equally damaging to those who make them. Until now, the row had been happening away from public view, but publication of a blog this week that features a side-by-side comparison of Prof Arday’s thesis with that of another student, has brought it into the open. An analysis of Prof Arday’s PhD thesis for The Telegraph identifi ed more than 100 passages that are identical or nearly identical to a 2009 PhD thesis by Paula Zwozdiak-Myers, a Brunel University student. Prof Arday’s 401-page thesis, titled An exploration of peer-monitoring among student teachers’ [sic] to inform refl ective practice within the context of action research, mentions Ms Zwozdiak-Myers 17 times. The row between his supporters and his critics centres on whether he should have explicitly credited her on every occasion he paraphrased or quoted from her work, which is titled An analysis of the concept refl ective practice and an investigation into the development of student teachers’ refl ective practice within the context of action research. Despite the two universities’ insistence that Prof Arday’s work has been checked and cleared, several respected academics have urged them to look again, arguing that computer programs designed to detect copying might have missed instances where a few words have been changed or a sentence paraphrased. Prof Arday made international headlines in 2023 when he became the youngest black professor in Cambridge University’s history. His rise to the top of his profession was remarkable in the light of his autism, diagnosed as a child, which meant he did not speak his fi rst word until he was 11 and left school with just two GCSEs. He studied education at undergraduate and postgraduate level, completing his PhD in education at Liverpool John Moores University, and went on to hold academic posts at the University of Roehampton, Durham University and the University of Glasgow, where he became professor of sociology of education in 2021,
By Samuel Montgomery
THE former president of a Robert Burns society has been revealed to be a prolifi c paedophile. Marc Sherland, 70, has been jailed for fi ve years after he was found guilty of further historical sex abuse. The former president of the Robert Burns World Federation had already been convicted in 1991 of abusing two boys aged eight and 10 when he worked as a council youth worker in Renfrew. Following the conviction, he con- cealed his identity by changing his name to Douglas Stuart Hammond and became a cultural ambassador for the Scots language. In 2024, he resigned as head of the federation after it emerged he was a convicted child sex offender living under a diff erent name. He had been president of the federa-
before taking up a similar post at Cambridge three years ago. He has now written a memoir, Great and Unfortunate Things, which is set to be published next month, in which he details his “improbable triumphs and heartbreaking setbacks”, according to publicity material for the book. As well as his impressive academic achievements, Prof Arday attracted media coverage for multiple feats of ultra-endurance running to raise money for charity, which led to his selection as a torch-bearer for the
Anglia Ruskin University’s profile page for Professor Arday
Feb 28, 2026: Compelled to act – to help relieve the suffering of the people he’d seen – he decided to raise money for the homeless charity Shelter. So he set himself a series of ultra-marathon challenges for charity which involved running 30 marathons in 35 days, 300 miles in three days and 600 miles in six days for charity.
July 24, 2026: Compelled to act – to help relieve the suffering of the people he’d seen – he decided to raise money for the homeless charity Shelter. So he set himself a series of ultra-marathon challenges for charity which involved running 30 marathons in 35 days, 300 miles in three days and 600 miles across 12 days for charity.
Professor Arday has made the 600 miles in six days claim since at least 2023, before changing it earlier this year
tion, hosting school poetry competi- tions and speaking at Holyrood’s Cross-Party Group on the Scots Lan- guage, since 2020. He made an appearance on the BBC in 2014, reading his own poetry in sup-
Marc Sherland was convicted of assaulting three teenage boys at his home. He was sentenced to five years in prison
Jason Arday at his PhD ceremony in 2016 at Liverpool John Moores University
13 and 16 – and another who was over 18. Sentencing him at Paisley Sheriff Court, Sheriff Gillian Craig said the sen- tence would be followed by three years of supervision. He will also be the sub- ject of a sexual harm prevention order, prohibiting him from having any con- tact with children for 20 years. Sherland had “intentionally” sought employment working with children and groomed them before carrying out his “appalling” off ences, Sheriff Craig said, adding that he had demonstrated “evil intent” and a “clear pattern of predatory behaviour”. The sheriff said the harm caused to his victims had been “devastating”. She said Sherland had reported that he no longer had “deviant sexual inter- ests in male children” but he had pro- vided no evidence of this. She also said the social work report on him said he showed little to no remorse or insight.
London 2012 Olympic Games. Scrutiny has also fallen on some of his listed achievements, some of which have been amended or deleted from recent biographies of Prof Arday. In 2010, the professor ran 30 marathons in 35 days to raise money for Shelter and the Shooting Star Children’s Hospice, and he has spoken about running 300 miles in three days and 600 miles in six days, only 50 miles short of the world record for ultra-distance running over six days. Earlier this year, Southampton Solent University, which awarded Prof Arday an honorary degree in 2023, removed the references to running 300 miles and 600 miles from his citation on its website. Anglia Ruskin University, which awarded him an honorary doctorate, recently changed the reference to 600 miles in six days to 600 miles in 12 days. In total, Prof Arday says he has raised £5.5m for over 70 charities. Fellow academics began to raise concerns about the legitimacy of his published work when they carried out due diligence before inviting him to contribute to other academic papers. Dave Harris, emeritus professor at Plymouth Marjon University, alerted Cambridge and Liverpool John Moores Universities to his concerns about plagiarism in 2023. He said: “In my opinion, important sections of the work of Professor Jason Arday, both his PhD thesis and some subsequent published articles (solo and jointly written), seem to display indications of serious plagiarism. I can think of no other plausible explanation… I notifi ed both Liverpool John Moores and Cambridge universities of my initial concerns and they have done nothing. Of the journal editors I notifi ed, two have asked for corrections.”
By Harry Brennan CONSUMER AFFAIRS EDITOR
BLUE Badge fraudsters are using fake disabled parking documents from Bul- garia and Poland to dupe ticket inspec- tors in Britain. Criminals are taking advantage of an informal Anglo-European agreement that allows disabled parking permits issued in European countries to be used in the UK, and vice versa. But British authorities say it can be harder to spot counterfeit documents issued abroad because of the differ- ences in their designs. Enforcers have warned that foreign Blue Badge fraud is growing, saying fake disabled parking permits purport- ing to be issued in Eastern European countries are a particular problem. Last month, Enfield council announced that it had prosecuted 12
One professor of education at a Russell Group university, who has asked to remain anonymous, said they noticed “inconsistencies” in his published research when they carried out checks before asking him to contribute a chapter on a book on decolonisation. When they looked at his doctoral thesis, they “identifi ed extensive textual overlap with an earlier PhD thesis submitted by another academic at a diff erent university”. Their assessment was that “the similarities were not confi ned to isolated passages but formed an extensive pattern of close paraphrasing”, which would not necessarily be detected by computer programs designed to detect verbatim copying of text. Robert Dingwall, emeritus professor of social sciences at both Nottingham University and Nottingham Trent University and a government adviser during the Covid pandemic, said: “In the current climate, it is diffi cult to comment on allegations of plagiarism against a prominent minority scholar without seeming to take sides on EDI [equality, diversity and inclusion]. Plagiarism is, however, rightly treated as a serious academic off ence, at any level. We have a collective duty to call it out where there is robust evidence. “There certainly appears to be a prima facie case here. It may be diffi cult to fi nd a suitably impartial adjudicator but, as a matter of fairness to all parties, the evidence should be rigorously examined and the subject invited to provide a detailed response, rather than being the victim of continuing smears and innuendos. This is a moment when universities in general, and sociologists in particular, must be willing to show that they are capable of living by their own
people for Blue Badge misuse. One of the perpetrators was caught using a fake Blue Badge from Bulgaria. Rumen Aleksandrov, 45, of Palmers Green in north London, was found to have displayed a counterfeit Blue Badge
The key examples
Zwozdiak-Myers extract When reflective practice is characterised as a discourse, it becomes evident through the way student teachers use language and frame questions about aspects of their teaching and experience, that different kinds of reflection on practice can be identified. The typology devised by Ghaye and Ghaye (1998: 34) recognises useful qualitative distinctions, which can be drawn between reflective conversations:
standards of professional integrity.” Supporters of Prof Arday became aware last year of the questions about his academic legitimacy, and furiously responded with accusations of racism. Prof Sir Simon Baron-Cohen, director of Cambridge University’s autism research centre (and cousin of comedian Sacha Baron-Cohen) and Ricardo Sabates, professor of education, circulated an open letter under the heading: Urgent please sign anti-racism letter for Jason Arday. It referred to an earlier letter sent to “the Minister of State and to which there has been progress in terms of how to tackle these issues” and warned of a “potential public attack on Jason”. Parliamentary records show that on Sept 15 last year, Jacqui Smith, the women and equalities minister, met a “range of academics to discuss the harassment of black academics”. A spokesman for the University of Cambridge said: “Professor Arday has been the victim of a vile campaign to undermine his credibility, which must stop. Allegations of plagiarism regarding his thesis and journal publications have been thoroughly investigated by the relevant institution and the journals in question. Professor Arday has been cleared by those investigations of any wrongdoing.” Liverpool John Moores University said in a statement: “In September 2025, the university received allegations of academic misconduct against its former PhD student, Professor Jason Arday. A confi dential procedure was conducted in response to those allegations and Professor Arday’s PhD still stands. We will not comment further on a private matter between the university and a former student.” Prof Arday was asked for comment.
has been the victim of a vile campaign to undermine his credibility, which must stop’
£250 with a victim surcharge of £100 and costs of £250. The punishment for the few that are caught abusing the system in this way is relatively small, despite inspectors warning fakes are on the rise. Paul Slowey, the chief executive of the National Agency for Blue Badge Fraud Investigations, said he believed fake permits were being mass-pro- duced to cash in on Blue Badge perks. A DfT spokesman said: “Abuse of the scheme, including using fraudulent badges of any kind, is a criminal off ence and undermines support for the people this scheme is there to help. “Local councils are responsible for fairly and rigorously enforcing the scheme in their area and have robust powers to act against abuse, including refusing to recognise an overseas badge where there are reasonable grounds to believe it is fake or forged.”
killer ‘has been manipulating doctors for years’
‘routinely untruthful’ and the most complex child one expert ever had to face
By Will Bolton and Tom McArdle
THE Southport killer has a lengthy history of trying to “control and manipulate” medical professionals, The Telegraph has found. Axel Rudakubana, 19, who murdered three young girls at a dance class in 2024, has been transferred from Bel- marsh high-security prison to Broad- moor psychiatric hospital. The decision has prompted widespread criticism. The families of Alice da Silva Aguiar, Bebe King, and Elsie Dot Stancombe accused the killer of attempting to “manipulate the system” to make his sentence less arduous. In a statement yesterday, Chris Walker, representing the bereaved fam- ilies, said: “It is safe to say that whilst this news would devastate them at any time, the fact that this has occurred as we approach the second anniversary, in our view, is another move by AR, who would appear to be attempting, once again, to manipulate the system.” The Telegraph can now reveal that the Southport Inquiry into Rudakubana’s crimes found numerous examples of manipulative behaviour over several years. The report on the inquiry’s first phase, published earlier this year, included testimony from witnesses describing how Rudakubana had repeatedly tried to deceive doctors, teachers and support workers. Three years before the murders, Rudakubana demanded to see a con- sultant psychiatrist as part of his treat- ment after violent acts at school. In one of the incidents, he struck another pupil
Chris Walker, representing the bereaved families, said: “It is safe to say that whilst this news would devastate them at any time, the fact that this has occurred as we approach the second anniversary, in our view, is another move by [Rudakubana] who would appear to be attempting, once again, to manipulate the system.” A Ministry of Justice spokesman said: “Following rigorous security checks, the offender has been transferred to a high-security psychiatric unit, where he will remain until assessed fit to return to prison. “Officials have approved this transfer, on behalf of ministers. This transfer does not change his sentence – which remains at 52 years – of which he will serve every single day.”
By Charles Hymas
A FEMALE police officer has been threatened and abused by newly released prisoners housed in her block of flats. The officer, who is in her early 20s and works as a response officer, was sent intimidating notes saying it was known what she did for a living, with one note pushed under her door telling her to “p--s off pig”. She bought a property in the block a
after admitting nightclub attack
By Telegraph Reporter
CHRIS BROWN, the US rapper, signed autographs for fans outside court where he pleaded guilty to repeatedly striking a music producer with a bottle in a London nightclub. The musician, 37, interacted with fans who had gathered outside South- wark Crown Court yesterday where Brown admitted to affray. He will be sentenced on Oct 26 Prosecutors had alleged Brown had launched an “unprovoked attack” on Abraham Diaw at Tape, a private mem- bers’ club in Mayfair, on Feb 19, 2023. He previously denied a charge of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, and denied having an offensive weapon – a bottle – in a public place, as well as a charge of attempting to cause grievous bodily harm. These allegations have been discon- tinued after Brown admitted to affray. He was arrested in May last year upon his return to Britain for the first time since the incident. The musician is said to have struck his victim twice over the head before Omololu Akinlolu, his vocal coach, joined the attack and punched the man in the head. The victim was also kicked while he was sitting defenceless on the floor, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.
The Southport
victims, from top:
Bebe King,
Alice da Silva
Aguiar and Elsie
Dot Stancombe
few years ago and has lived there with- out incident until recently, when she discovered that the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) had acquired several flats on a pri- vate rented basis within the same block to house offenders released from prison on temporary licence arrangements. The officer was not informed of the change and, following the placements, received anonymous and intimidating notes stating that those responsible knew she worked in the police force. “The impact has been significant,”
He suffered head and knee injuries. Brown was charged alongside Akinlolu, 40, who had also denied assault occa- sioning actual bodily harm but has now pleaded guilty to affray. He will be sen- tenced on the same date. The singer was flanked by security guards as he arrived at court, where a small group of fans had gathered. One called: “I love you, Chris.” A clerk read out the charge of affray to the singer and his vocal coach, which alleged: “Chris Brown and Omololu
with a hockey stick. Dr Lakshmi Ramasubramanian, a consultant psy- chiatrist, told the inquiry Rudakubana had attempted to control the narrative of their first appointment, which took place over the phone in July 2021. She said: “He articulated symptoms of anxiety as if he had rehearsed it from a book. It was very apparent that he was trying to convince me and persuade me that he needed medication. He was certainly demanding, argumentative and tried to dictate. I would almost use the word manipulate.” In his conclusions, Sir Adrian Fulford, chairman of the inquiry, said: “[Rudakubana] seemingly simply wanted to share his symptoms in order to secure particular medication ... [He] had been demanding, argumentative and he had attempted to dictate treat- ment.” He said one of the “defining hallmarks” of the killer’s personality was that he was “deeply manipulative and routinely untruthful”. A teacher who gave evidence to the inquiry said he was “the most complex child I have ever taught”. She said: “It was unusual for a child to be so academically able and articulate with such low social maturity and underdeveloped social skills. He could be highly manipulative, which was relevant in determining how to teach him. It was important to be very calm and measured with him.” Rudakubana was moved from HMP Belmarsh after independent medical professionals concluded that he could no longer be treated adequately for his mental health in prison. Under the Mental Health Act, the Ministry of Justice is likely to have had no choice but to accept doctors’ recom- mendations. The law requires that he be trans- ferred back to prison when he no longer requires treatment in hospital.
He articulated symptoms of anxiety as if he had rehearsed it from a book. It was very apparent that he was trying to persuade me that he needed medication Consultant psychiatrist Dr Lakshmi Ramasubramanian
Rudakubana seemingly simply wanted to share his symptoms to secure particular medication... he had been demanding, argumentative and he had attempted to dictate treatment Sir Adrian Fulford, chair of the inquiry
He could be highly manipulative which was relevant in determining how to teach him. It was important to be very calm and measured with him Teacher’s evidence to the inquiry
The Sir Joshua
Jebb-designed
Broadmoor
Psychiatric
Hospital opened
as a ‘Criminal
Lunatic Asylum’
in 1863
she said. “It’s caused anxiety, stress, financial worries and fear for my safety. I have had to change my day-to-day life to make sure that I am safe and am now actively trying to move, but may have to sell my flat at a reduced price just to get it gone. “I can’t walk my dog alone and have to drive to other nearby locations. I am in fear of being targeted. Even when I leave the house, and I know I’ve locked the door, I find myself going back to check it three or four times.”
Akinlolu on Feb 19 2023 used or threat- ened unlawful violence towards another and their conduct taken together was such as would cause a per- son of reasonable firmness present at the scene to fear for his personal safety.” Brown then entered a guilty plea alongside Akinlolu. At earlier hearings, Brown was ordered to pay a £5m security fee as part of his bail conditions, which allowed him to go on tour as long as he surren- dered his passport in each country.
Mark Fairhurst, the national chair- man of the Prison Officers’ Association, said Rudakubana had “played the system” so he could enjoy the “free- doms that are afforded to mentally unwell patients in secure psychiatric hospitals”. Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, called for the “outrageous” decision to be reversed immediately. HMP Belmarsh is a high-security Category A prison known for a large population of Islamist terrorists. In recent years, inmates have included Hashem Abedi, the brother of Salman Abedi, the Manchester Arena bomber. An inspection by HM Inspectorate of Prisons found that some of its prisoners spent just 90 minutes a day outside
Chris Brown’s mugshot, above; the rapper signs autographs for fans outside Southwark Crown Court, left
She added: “My force and my manag- ers have been really supportive, but there is only so much they can do. I don’t think the MoJ has considered the risk to me as a police officer or the impact on the wider community.” Wiltshire Police launched a criminal investigation and provided her with increased security. One person has been arrested and bailed with condi- tions not to return to the area. Police Federation chiefs have warned that it highlights the risks of the early
early release scheme, PM told
By Charles Hymas
Home AffAirs editor
PRISONS will run out of space in November if Andy Burnham abandons Labour’s early release scheme, warns the adviser who drew up the plan. Sir David Gauke, the former Tory jus- tice secretary who headed the inde- pendent review into sentencing, said jails in England and Wales were “on course to run out of capacity” in the autumn without the early release scheme. His warning came after Mr Burnham announced a pause in the move follow- ing an outcry over the potential early release of Pc Andrew Harper’s killers, revealed by The Telegraph. The Prime Minister said no prisoners would be freed under the scheme until the Government had completed a review and “done everything we can to minimise risk to the public”. The Telegraph disclosed that Albert Bowers and Jessie Cole, the killers of Pc Harper, were due to be freed halfway through their 13-year sentences for the manslaughter committed in 2019. Pc Harper had been investigating the theft of a quad bike when he was dragged more than a mile by the perpe- trators’ getaway car. Lissie Harper, his widow, said it was
their cells. It found vermin in kitchens, that too few inmates were engaged in “purposeful activity” such as education or work, and that prisoners in segrega- tion ate meals near open toilets. In contrast, Broadmoor, run by the West London NHS Trust, offers a range of activities and conditions are much more relaxed. It offers activities such as arts and crafts, sports and vocational training, and has a café, hairdresser, multi-faith sanctuary and pottery workshop. Up to 210 men with mental health disorders are housed in the facility. The families of Rudakubana’s victims said they had only been made aware of the decision to move him to Broadmoor in the past 48 hours, and had only been given the “barest of details”.
release of violent offenders under Labour’s scheme to combat prison over- crowding. The federation, which represents front-line officers, is urging Andy Burn- ham, as part of his review of the scheme, to limit the automatic early release of offenders convicted of serious violence against emergency workers. Brian Booth, deputy national chair- man of the federation, said: “No police officer should come home to threats, intimidation and fear simply because of
“deplorable that we have reached a point where releasing prisoners early is even considered acceptable”. The policy allows serious criminals – including killers, rapists and child groomers – to be eligible for release halfway rather than two-thirds of the way through their sentences, provided they have not committed any serious rule breaches while in prison. Criminals convicted of less serious offences are eligible to be freed as little as a third of the way through their sen- tences. More than 5,000 prisoners
makes it hard to deliver rehabilitation and leaves the system vulnerable’
transfer does
not change
his sentence,
which
remains
at 52 years,
of which
he will
serve every
single day’
the job they do, yet that is exactly what has happened here. “We don’t know how many other officers may be affected, but this case raises serious concerns about the con- sequences of violent offenders released before their sentences expire.” Mr Booth said: “The MoJ must explain how this was allowed to happen and what it is doing to ensure that police officers don’t face these serious risks.” The MoJ has been approached for comment.
for the Government to introduce “nar- rowly focused” exemptions that could apply, for example, to violent criminals who attacked police officers. However, he added: “The problem is that there’s no easy way to draw a line which doesn’t either still leave some controversial cases or increase substan- tially the prison population.” In posts on X, he wrote: “The sen- tencing reforms were driven by neces- sity. Sentences increased, the release points increased, but capacity did not increase to reflect that. This resulted in a capacity crisis in 2024, with a short- term emergency release scheme imple- mented. We should want to avoid that. “There is more space in our prisons today, but we should not aim to have prisons at capacity. We might have spaces – but in the wrong places or the wrong type of prison. “Running at capacity makes it hard to deliver rehabilitation, and leaves the system vulnerable if there is a spike in criminality. Without the early release scheme, we are on course to run out of capacity in November, requiring emer- gency measures.” Neither Downing Street nor the Min- istry of Justice have set a date for when they expect the scheme to be imple- mented, but said it would depend on the outcome of the review.
Rudakubana had been prescribed medication which he believed was not working. He then refused to take it until the doctor changed his prescription. She said this was “typical of his attempt to control and manipulate the situation”. Doctor’s evidence to inquiry
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flee as flames threaten to cut off Cap Ferret, in south-western France
By Vivian Song
“APOCALYPTIC” wildfires have forced the evacuation of the whole of the French peninsula of Cap Ferret, with tourists fleeing the flames by boat. Fires raging near Bordeaux forced families to flee as the blaze devoured an area the size of Manchester. Yesterday, tourists and residents in the desirable region, often referred to as the “French Hamptons” where wealthy Parisians decamp for the summer, were ushered onto ferries to escape the blaze. More than 67,000 residents across France were forced to flee homes, while evacuations in central Spain took the total across Europe to 87,000. “The gendarmes came and knocked
vehicle into cars after drinking’
By Samuel Montgomery
A SOLDIER has been accused of steal- ing an armoured vehicle from an Army base and driving it into cars after an off-base drinking session. Video footage appeared to show the 15-ton Bulldog vehicle leaving a trail of wreckage as it travelled down a civilian road in Wiltshire. Two engineers have been arrested by Royal Military Police after allegedly causing £100,000 worth of damage. Sources told the Sun that the soldiers had been drinking away from Swinton Barracks before returning to Tidworth Garrison at around 1am yesterday and stealing an armoured personnel carrier. The Bulldog, which requires a crew of two, is powered by a 240hp Rolls- Royce engine and can reach a top speed of 32mph. In the footage of the alleged joyride taken from an upstairs window, the
on every door – the fire was about 500m away,” said Patrick Martineau, a 69-year-old resident of Le Porge, south of Bordeaux. “We grabbed some things and left.” French authorities ordered thou- sands of tourists on the south-western Atlantic coast out of campsites and hol- iday homes as 1,000 firefighters backed by water-bombing planes raced to con- trol the blaze. At least 44,000 people have been evacuated from the Cap Ferret penin- sula and Gironde area so far, while 23,000 were evacuated from Biscar- rosse, 25 miles to the south. While no casualties have been reported so far, 42 firefighters have been injured. Some 50 square miles have been con- sumed by the blaze that has raged near Cap Ferret since Wednesday. Col Romain Moutard, the deputy director of the Landes Fire and Rescue Service, described an “apocalyptic fire” and a “Dantesque” situation, with
that the Bulldog was later returned to a parking bay near the barracks. The soldier was arrested in his room at dawn after his fellow soldiers discov- ered the damage. A second soldier was also arrested. An Army spokesman said: “Two sol- diers have been arrested following an incident at Perham Down this morning. We will not comment further while an investigation is ongoing.” Tidworth is home to 26 Engineer Regiment, 1 Medical Regiment and the King’s Royal Hussars, among other reg- iments. In 2024, a soldier based at Aliwal Bar- racks was convicted of drink-driving after crashing into a telegraph pole while dressed as Batman. Lewis Blon- drage, 25, was found guilty of drink-driving and failing to stop at the scene of a road traffic collision. He was given a 12-month disqualification and a £600 fine by magistrates in Swindon.
Clockwise, an
aircraft flies
on after spraying
water on a forest
blaze; residents on
bicycles watch as
smoke appears in
a residential area
of Cap Ferret;
tourists sit on the
beach of Moutchic
in Lacanau as
clouds of smoke
rise into the sky
from a wildfire
flames advancing at high speeds. A total of 80 homes have been burnt across Cap Ferret, with around 50 completely destroyed, Laurent Nuñez, the French interior minister, said in a statement. Residents and tourists on Cap Ferret said they had received alerts on their phones, and there were also door-to- door evacuation orders. Jeremy Lau, a 26-year-old lawyer from London, drove into Cap Ferret on Wednesday with a friend. He had been hoping for a quiet, relaxing beach holi- day after spending a few days in the bustling towns of Biarritz and San Sebastián. Mr Lau said he remembered com- menting on the smoke rising in the dis- tance during the drive, but thought little of it. By the next day, however, it became clear that their beach holiday was ruined. “The sky was quite yellowish, and there was quite a lot of smoke,” he said. At dinner on Thursday, the pair received a message from their Airbnb
after boat smashes into bridge
By Tim Sigsworth
and Pieter Snepvangers
ARMED police officers were injured when their boat crashed into London’s Westminster Bridge yesterday. The five officers were wounded after the inflatable speedboat struck the bridge at 3.40pm as they raced to reports of a person in the water. The force of the collision near the Houses of Parliament threw three of the officers into the river before all five were taken to hospital. One has since been discharged but the four others remain in hospital with serious injuries. Tourists Cecilia Lusevic, 56, and her son Mateo Bilis-Lusevic, 12, said they had heard a loud bang when the police boat crashed. They were on a Thames tour boat on the north side of the bridge when they saw the incident. Mateo said: “Two
host, warning them that the fire was getting closer. When they saw two columns of smoke in the distance, and that a fire had approached a nearby cemetery, the pair decided to finish their dinner, pack their belongings and drive out that evening. It was a decision that spared them an emergency dawn evacuation by boat with 400 other tourists and locals the next morning. “The fire didn’t look to be contained, and it was spreading, and there’s only one road getting in and out of the penin- sula,” said Mr Lau. “We decided that, rather than wait for an evacuation, we might as well leave earlier.” By yesterday afternoon, authorities expanded evacuation orders to resi- dents in four municipalities in the Gironde: Arès, Saumos, Ardenos-les- Bains and Le Temple, where locals described the conditions as increas- ingly “unbreathable.” On Thursday night, Emmanuel
boats were riding extremely fast through the water. I was looking towards the boat and heard a boom. Three people went flying into the water and one of them was really hurt.” He said the officers had been in the water for about 10 minutes and a life ring had been thrown for one of them.
extremely fast. I heard a boom. Three people went flying into the water’
Macron, the French president, called the situation “extremely tense” and said he had requested the activation of the EU’s civil protection mechanism. “We will soon be able to count on reinforcements in the form of two Croatian Canadair aircraft, two Portu- guese Air Tractor aircraft, and two heavy Black Hawk helicopters from the Czech Republic and Slovakia,” he wrote on X. “This concrete, swift and operational solidarity is a valuable source of strength during this ordeal.” The EU said that it would provide three water-bombing planes to assist France. The south east of France was also hit hard, with dozens of fires flaring up and being fanned by the mistral wind around the village of Cotignac. Officials said around 25 houses had been destroyed since Tuesday. Two firefighters died on Tuesday as they attempted to tackle another blaze near Bordeaux airport.
water were rescued by people on
nearby boats.
A police helicopter and an air
ambulance were seen circling above
following the crash. Entrances three
and four to Westminster Underground
station had been shut, Transport for
London confirmed.
Cdr Nick John, of the Metropolitan
Police, said: “Our thoughts are with all
those involved, in particular our officers
who were injured and those who
r e s p o n d e d
i n
c h a l l e n g i n g
circumstances.
“The four officers who remain in hos-
pital have serious but non-life-threaten-
ing injuries. We will give them all every
support as they recover. I must also
offer our thanks to those river users
who came to the aid of the officers, as
well as other police and emergency ser-
vice colleagues.”
A student from Germany, on holiday,
said: “It sounded like a car crash.”
Faithfull’s signature can be added to grave
By Tim Sigsworth
By Tim Sigsworth
MARIANNE FAITHFULL’S signature can be carved into her gravestone, a Church of England court has ruled. An ecclesiastical judge said regula- tions prohibiting cursive script should be overlooked on the singer’s headstone to represent her “personality” better. Faithfull, the songwriter, actress and former lover of Sir Mick Jagger who embodied the spirit of the Swinging Six- ties was buried at St Mary’s in Aldworth, Berkshire, after she died at the age of 78 last year. Nicholas Dunbar, her son, has now convinced the Church of England to bend its rules on headstones and allow her signature to be engraved. This year, Mr Dunbar applied for a faculty – the Church’s equivalent of planning per- mission – for the stone. He said: “My mother was a world-re- nowned recording artist and song- writer with strong connections to Aldworth. We wish to convey this on the back of the gravestone, with an
Marianne Faithfull returned to Christianity in her final years, according to her son Nicholas Dunbar
extract from one of her final songs with her carved signature beneath it. The lyric expresses her spirituality as she returned to the Christian faith in her final years, with the signature express- ing her creativity.” The signature breached regulations set by the Diocese of Oxford that decree “cursive script (that is, a script which gives the appearance of having been written in a running hand) is not per- mitted” on headstones. David Hodge KC, the diocese’s top ecclesiastical judge, allowed an exemp- tion in Faithfull’s case because the sig- nature reflected her “personality”. He ruled: “What could be more expressive of their personality than an image of their signature?” The judge admitted that the design “fails to comply” with “applicable churchyard regulations” because of its use of cursive script in the signature. However, he said he believed the rule was in place “to ensure that memorial inscriptions can be read without any difficulty”, which he deemed irrelevant to Faithfull’s headstone.
Church of England’ from crisis of burnt-out vicars and crumbling buildings
By Gabriella Swerling
Social and ReligiouS affaiRS editoR
PARISH churches are facing “annihila- tion”, vicars have warned. More than 400 churches had been shut down in less than a decade, leaving clergy warning of the threat to parishes as “the bedrock of the Church of England”. A manifesto issued by Save the Parish, a campaign group, has called on the Church’s leaders to save parish churches “that baptise our children, celebrate our marriages and bury our dead”. Rev Marcus Walker, the group’s founder and rector at St Bartholomew the Great in the City of London, said: “We have a choice: rebalance and restore the church and help it revive or continue on a path to annihilation. This is the time when people of goodwill across the country can make a
by Church’s financial bungling
By Marcus Walker
“THE poor will always be with you,” said Christ in St Matthew’s Gospel, but will the Church always be with the poor? This is an existential question for the Church of England as it decides how to pick itself up and dust itself down after two generations of decline. It will come as no surprise to learn that some churches are rich and some are not. From the early days of the Established Church, we knew that the poorest parishes were not able to fund themselves, and Queen Anne set up a permanent endowment “for the cure of souls in parishes where such assistance is most required”. That endowment now stands at £11.6bn. Endowments managed by the Church’s dioceses stand at £6.1bn. In 2024, an enormous £653m was disbursed from the total income generated. Yet only £85m found its way to support parish ministry. This is a direct consequence of past decisions to open up the uses of these endowments for any of the purposes of the Archbishops’ Council (effectively the Church’s “Cabinet”). And the fruits can be seen in the stats: in the first 20 years of this century, the number of paid
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Colour co-ordinated The Fursan El Emarat display team do what they do best at the Farnborough International Airshow. The team represent the United Arab Emirates and were formed in 2008. They sport black and gold livery to celebrate the UAE’s oil and the desert where it comes from.
difference. Stand up, and be counted.” Clergy and campaigners have long warned of burnt-out, overstretched and underpaid vicars covering multiple dioceses at a time, volunteers plugging the gaps and crumbling buildings unable to afford vital repairs. All of these factors have resulted in an increasing number of church closures. The decline of parishes is another issue faced by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the most Rev Dame Sarah Mullaly, alongside how the Church will navigate the topic of same-sex relation- ships and declining numbers of church congregants. She is believed to be much more sympathetic to the parishes than her predecessor, Bishop Justin Welby. Under his tenure, clergy numbers were slashed, and hundreds of millions of pounds were redirected from parishes to central Church schemes. On the day of her Confirmation of Election in St Paul’s Cathedral in Janu- ary, Dame Sarah said: “I hope to be the shepherd to care for people in their parishes, for our clergy, but also to speak of Christian hope at a time when there are lots of challenges for people.” Analysis of Church of England data in
The Rev Marcus Walker claims as many as 36pc of clergy are clinically depressed
clergy has fallen by 20pc, as has the
number of benefices.
Worse, the cuts have fallen hardest
on the poor. A church in the most
deprived quintile in the country is five
times as likely to close as a church in
the richest. A study by Church Action
on Poverty showed that 40pc of
closures fell in the 10pc most deprived
parishes in the country. Is the Church
always with the poor?
So where is the money going? Some
supports essential tasks. Yet some is
propping up an ever-inflating
How many idyllic
village parish
churches, such as
this one at Walton,
in Suffolk, are
now at risk?
bureaucracy. In the same period that
clergy and benefices fell by 20pc, the
number of archdeacons ballooned by
20pc. Politically controversial
positions have blossomed as diocesan
overheads increased by 29pc in three
years. But most of it has been spent on
grants: huge grants to fund short-term
projects outside the parish system, in a
scheme that was audited by the head of
the Office for Budget Responsibility
and found hopelessly wanting (it set
aside, for example, £176m hoping to
attract 89,000 new worshippers and
drew in only 12,700).
This has led to defunded parishes
and a collapse in clergy morale – 36pc
are thought to be clinically depressed
– as fewer priests have to wrestle with
more churches and fewer volunteers.
Save the Parish is campaigning to
reverse this doom-spiral, to put money
back on the frontline and among the
poor; to look after our clergy and value
our volunteers. We need candidates to
stand for General Synod, the Church’s
parliament, willing work to overcome
this crisis. We can help revive the
Church. Are you willing to stand up
and be counted?
Marcus Walker is the Rector of
St Bartholomew, east London
2022 found that 423 churches were closed between 2010 and 2019. Further analysis also revealed that almost 1,000 have been forced to close in just over 30 years – 940 between 1987 and 2019. This means the number of churches left stood at about 15,496 at the time of reporting. It also marked the first comprehensive analysis of church
police declare major incident
A FARM warehouse exploded, shaking nearby houses and sending a large cloud of smoke high into the air. More than 100 firefighters were called to a fire near the rural village of Rettendon in Essex. Nearby residents were evacuated after fertiliser exploded in a blast that was heard almost 15 miles away in Southend. The fire, yesterday evening, was declared a major incident. A spokesman for Essex County Fire and Rescue Service said: “Over 100 fire- fighters are working to extinguish the fire. Please avoid the area, and keep your windows and doors closed if you live nearby.” Dave Boyd, the fire brigade’s area manager, said: “This is a significant fire but we have it under control and there is no wider risk to members of the public. A number of industrial units have caught alight as well as a field and crews have been working to prevent the fire spreading to nearby houses. “Everybody at the scene is safe, resi- dents nearby have been evacuated while we put the fire out.” Firefighters were seen near the ware- house as it burned before the explosion.
numbers because the Church’s official data contained in its annual reports only cover individual years. Rev Walker started Save the Parish in the wake of the Covid pandemic as clos- ing churches drew criticism from Chris- tian communities struggling to support and pay their overstretched vicars. It is a grassroots movement working to resource the parish system across the nation and raise awareness of “ abandoned communities”. Rev Walker, also a member of the General Synod, the Church of England’s legislative body, added: “If we want there to be a thriving parish system in a generation’s time, we have to get up and do something. Starving the local church of money has led to a doom spiral of par- ish mergers, church cuts, clergy depres- sion and volunteers quitting. “We need to break this spiral. With prayer and trust in God, and backed by the Church’s own studies, we can hope that putting proper investment back into parishes will give us the chance to thrive and grow again.” In the years since Save the Parish was founded, it has restored a legal priority for parish ministry, secured funding for the poorest parishes and won a review
local church of money has led to a doom spiral of parish mergers and church cuts’
Plumes of acrid black smoke billowed into the air as fire engines doused the flames with hoses. The building that exploded is understood to be located at Highlands Farm, a complex of buildings home to a number of businesses. The farm complex houses several other busi- nesses and residential properties. Sam Journet, leader of the Reform UK group on Basildon borough coun- cil, said: “Nearby homes appear to have been caught up in the blaze.”
of how the Church of England is funded. Its manifesto commitments include adopting a Charter of Care that values clergy and safeguards them from physical and mental exhaustion, as well as a separate Charter to honour the volunteers “who hold our parishes together”, and to restore funding to parish ministry It said: “Every parish needs to be sup- ported to keep its doors open for prayer, rather than be deprived of the resources needed, and the church must fund frontline ministry to prevent further.” Just one year before The Telegraph investigation in 2022 into closing par- ishes, the Archbishop of York, the Most Rev Stephen Cottrell, warned that the Church of England’s future was threat- ened by a lack of clergy. During the pandemic, it emerged that rural par- ishes were struggling to pay their vic- ars, with volunteers plugging the gaps. It also emerged, according to a leaked document, that Church officials believed that the coronavirus pandemic had provided an opportunity for “radical change” which could result in the loss of the parish church model. The Church of England was contacted for comment.
Danielle Belton, Conservative leader of Rochford District Council, said: “My whole house shook. It looks extremely serious, I really hope no one is hurt.” Darren Eva, 56, a chartered surveyor, who lives nearby, said he felt a “massive pressure wave” strike his house. He told The Telegraph: “That was massive. Were it not for the fact that I’d seen pictures of the fire there before it exploded, I would have actually thought that there would have been some sort of nuclear explosion, and that we were at war.”
Black smoke from the fire at Rettendon, Essex, billows over the countryside
keep trail hunting alive, vows Wallace
Nick Gutteridge CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT
challenges Labour MPs to think through the issue before they vote for a ban
SIR BEN WALLACE is used to life on the front line. As a captain in the Scots Guards, he served in Northern Ireland and was part of a patrol that captured an IRA unit suspected of planning a bomb attack against British troops. After swapping his battledress for a blue rosette, the former Tory defence secretary then fought a years-long campaign against the Treasury to secure the funding increases the military needed to keep the country safe. Now the man once tipped to become prime minister is at the vanguard of a new fi ght against Labour’s bid to abolish trail hunting. This battle has taken Sir Ben to the show ring of a sedate country show on the outskirts of Peterborough. He is addressing the annual Festival of Hounds, where country dwellers from across the United Kingdom have gathered to show off their Bassets and Beagles and to fi ght back against Downing Street’s contentious plan to outlaw trail hunting. Surrounded by men and women in hunting pinks and tweed jackets, many clutching half-drunk pints in the early afternoon sun, Sir Ben launches into an impassioned plea for Andy Burnham to repair Labour’s fractured ties with rural communities. “I used to be in government,” he tells the crowd with a pinch of modesty. “I am now taking on the mantle of trying to make sure we see off this current
threat to our way of life, and to how we choose to pursue our enjoyment and our freedoms in the countryside. “We have a new prime minister, and it is really, really important that we send a message. He has one chance to reset the relationship with the countryside. It does not have to be a battle between government and what we do in our rural communities. “Bringing the country together is his message, so he could do that by taking his foot off the gas when it comes to trying to ban trail hunting.” The former minister is best known to the wider public as the face of Britain’s staunch support for Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression. He was the one who co-ordinated the UK’s response in the days and weeks following Vladimir Putin’s invasion, supplying Kyiv with vital defensive weaponry including Storm Shadow missiles. After serving four years as defence secretary under Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, he quit the Cabinet in July 2023 and then stood down from his constituency in Wyre and Preston North at the general election 12 months later. He remains well respected and connected in military circles. But as he mingles with hunt leaders from across the country – slapping backs, shaking hands, sharing jokes on fi rst name terms – he is clearly equally at home in the company of countryside folk. For it is a cause Sir Ben has long championed, including during his front-line political career. As the defence secretary, he personally intervened in 2022 to cancel an agreement his department had with the League Against Cruel Sports which helped animal rights campaigners to track where hunts crossed MoD land. It is with genuine emotion that he says he is fi ghting to save trail hunting because “I want my children and grandchildren to enjoy this sport. I
JASON BYE FOR THE TELEGRAPH
Ben Wallace, right, at a pro-trail hunting event in Peterborough with Robert McCarthy, Huntsman of the Percy
want my grandchildren, one day when I have some, to come here and see this amazing hound show.” Sir Keir Starmer pledged to ban the sport in his 2024 election-winning manifesto and then doggedly pursued that agenda while he was prime minister, despite all the pressing crises the country faced during his brief tenure. Even as he was fi ghting for his political life over the Lord Mandelson scandal, Sir Keir still found time in March to launch a consultation on a
ban, which would require primary legislation, and thus eat up vital government time in Parliament. Mr Burnham appears equally committed to that cause. On the eve of his coronation as Labour leader, he told the Labour Animal Welfare Society that he fully supported his predecessor’s strategy “including the ban on trail hunting”. Why is the party so obsessed with a subject which consistently ranks at the very bottom of the list of voters’ priorities? “It’s part of the thoughtless
they will
come for
shooting.
And after
shooting
they will
come for
racing’
identikit Labour MP package which is a sort of ‘I’m a Labour MP, I have to be anti-hunting’,” Sir Ben tells The Telegraph. “A lot of Labour MPs we discover haven’t thought it through, don’t really understand what they’re voting on or might be asked to vote on. “It also is a refl ection that the Labour Party of my childhood is not the same Labour Party of today. The Labour Party of today is north London Metropolitan, removed from the working people it says it represents, and not rooted in the values of tolerance.” Mr Burnham may not be part of the Islington set but, having been born on the outskirts of Liverpool and spent his entire political career in Manchester, he is still an urbanite steeped in many of the same liberal values as his peers in the capital. It would be hard to see the Prime Minister feeling at ease at the East of England Showground, browsing the stalls selling hunting top hats and watercolours of rural scenes, or inspecting the packs of hounds slumbering in their pens. But that is no reason for the newly minted premier not to have used one of his early speeches to try to build bridges, says Sir Ben. “He could have realised the damage of the family farm tax, the assault on rural businesses and pubs with business rates, and the assault on our way of life. “He could have realised that was an issue, and it would have cost him nothing to indicate a diff erent direction of travel. He’s still got time, let’s give him time. “Corbyn’s mistake was to fail to realise that most Labour voters in the North of England are deeply patriotic. If he’s the man who thinks he understands the Labour movement he should refl ect that the Labour people he seeks to represent would not be doing this.” Mr Burnham was born in Aintree, famed the world over as the stage for the Grand National. Horse racing is a sport steeped in working class tradition, but Sir Ben warns it will be next in the fi ring line if Labour MPs and activists succeed in snuffi ng out trail hunting. “After us, they will come for shooting,” he predicts. “And after shooting they will come for horse racing, and after horse racing they will come for all the other activities that this small clique of people do not like. These things are not going to stop.” Sir Ben and the pro-hunting campaign are now gearing up for the fi ght of their lives when Parliament returns from its summer recess in September. What will follow is, they say, no less than a battle for the soul of the countryside, the outcome of which will have profound consequences for the future of rural communities.
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Trump administration has massaged figures to make fatalities look less severe
By David Millward US CORRESPONDENT
THE Pentagon has revised the number of US troops killed in the Iran war down to 14 from 18, sparking a backlash. A report in The New York Times, citing three military offi cials, said the decision had been taken by the Trump adminis- tration, which removed the four people because they were killed after the US president declared a ceasefi re in April. Critics accused the administration of massaging the figures, amid the
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Now they are six JD Vance, the US vice-president, and his wife Usha welcome their fourth child. Alec Neel, who was born on Sunday, joins Ewan, nine; Vivek, six; and Mirabel, four. The baby is the first child born to a sitting vice- president in 156 years.
could end up like a shaky tower of Jenga
Hans van Leeuwen INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS EDITOR
1 2 3 4 DONALD TRUMP hopes that his new anti-slavery tariff s, imposed on 60 economies at a rate of 10 or 12.5 per cent, will be a foundational stone in a rebuilt American tariff wall. But he could end up with something more like a Jenga tower – shaky, ineff ective and vulnerable to toppling. The Supreme Court struck down Mr Trump’s favourite form of retribution in February, curtailing his ability to indulge in his weekend pastime of threatening countries with random tariff increases. Losing that authority, and the billions in revenue that came from it, was a bitter pill to swallow – but fortunately for him, American law contains a medicine cabinet of other remedies.
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up to save the day despite the traffic
By Verity Bowman
WHEN a wheelchair user struggled to cross a busy road in Arkansas, a super- hero was on hand to help. Christopher Hellenthal was still wearing his Spider-Man costume after a superhero-themed event when he saw an opportunity to save the day. Mr Hellenthal leapt out of his car and wheeled the person to safety moments before the traffi c lights changed. The incident, which occurred in Jonesboro, was captured on CCTV and shared by local police on social
controversy over the confl ict, launched without congressional approval. “There’s been a general lack of trans- parency on the prosecution of this so-called skirmish that Trump refuses to call a war,” said Retired Maj Gen Paul Eaton. Commenting on the service member losses he added: “And this is a statistical sleight of hand to make things look less bad for the administration. “That’s all it is. And it is unseemly. It is simply a continued attempt to hide what’s really going on. “There’s a lack of reporting for wounded. We don’t know how badly the men and women are hurt. So this administration, this Pentagon… is opaque at best. “And it’s interesting to note that the four people that fall into this category
He immediately pivoted to a new tariff -making power: Section 122 of the 1974 Trade Act, which allows him to levy tariff s to counter rising trade defi cits. But his hands were tied by the maximum rate of 15 per cent, which is well below what many countries had previously faced, and its six-month expiry date. This has drawn him to another power in the 1974 law, Section 301, which permits tariff s against countries that put unfair restrictions on American trade or business. There’s a catch, though. The restriction or unfairness can’t just be alleged on Truth Social and treated as fact. The authorities have to conduct a formal investigation, meaning the allegation needs some kind of substance. To get around this, the White House found a winning issue – forced labour. Lots of countries have rules preventing their companies from using
Lake City, said he had long been a Spider-Man fan and previously met the late Stan Lee, the Marvel legend who co-created the web-slinging superhero. Packy Magel, a manager at Ultimate Air Trampoline Park where the super- hero-themed event had taken place, said he recognised Mr Hellenthal from the video. He said it was”very much like him to do something like that and very much like him to be still in costume”.
are a white, two Hispanic females, and a black. It’s just the picture of America, it’s our cross-section, and four beautiful people in a war of choice, a war of ego and a war of vanity. It was simply a dis- gusting part of the administration.” Three service staff were killed in Jordan last Friday, and one in northern Iraq. They were named as 1st Lt Tyler James Feehan, Sgt Angel Rampersad, Pte Isabella Gonzales, and Sgt Michael Emmanuel Swinton. Thus far, the families have not com- mented about the removal of their loved ones from the list. Sgt Swinton’s widow, Jamiah, paid tribute to her husband. “He knew his job so well, and it made people listen to him,” she told The New York Times. The Pentagon attributed the change to “temporary data disruptions”, an
forced labour, but the US’s allegation is
that nobody is enforcing this
eff ectively enough.
This accusation is near impossible to
disprove, but the investigation duly
found that Mr Trump’s supposed
concerns were justifi ed. And he now
has a four-year renewable tariff
weapon, with no maximum rate.
Or does he? While Section 301 tariff s
are normally pretty sticky, the US
claim to be motivated by concern for
forced labour is wafer-thin.
The blanket nature of the tariff s
signals that the White House has
barely bothered to fi nd out what steps
countries are taking.
And if slavery were really its
concern, it would join the international
conventions on the issue or use the
tariff s as a springboard for more
concerted global action.
The courts could entertain a
challenge to this fl imsy rationale. This
would ultimately again become a
question about whether Congress or
the White House is in charge of tariff
policy – though the Supreme Court
already answered that question in
February.
Meanwhile, the tariff war grinds on.
The US also has Section 301
investigations afoot into Vietnam over
intellectual property, and Germany
over its pharmaceutical pricing
practices.
The big one is into “structural excess
capacity and production in
manufacturing”, targeting the same 60
explanation which was contradicted by the newspaper’s anonymous sources. Writing on X, Representative Thomas Massie, a Republican and Trump critic, described the move as an “absurd ruse”. He added: “The reality:
Deaths removed because they were killed after Donald Trump declared a ceasefire in April, prompting calls of ‘absurd ruse’
By going more than 90 days without congressional authorisation @SecWar IS BREAKING THE LAW and must be held accountable.” Marjorie Taylor Greene, a former
Trump’s tariffs and Iran war fuel US inflation
Americans face rising costs of living
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Trump’s tariff play is losing steam
Average effective tariff rate
12% First IEEPA tariffs imposed on China
economies as the forced-labour investigation. This could add another layer of tariff s to the 10 per cent or 12.5 per cent rate, returning each country to whatever tariff level Mr Trump thinks appropriate. This week, the US president also disinterred an ancient power under the 1930 Smoot-Hawley Act, with a
Republican representative, was scath- ing in her condemnation. “The Department of War is not counting these American service mem- bers’ deaths in the offi cial tally of dead US soldiers from Trump’s war against Iran because they claim they were killed after Trump signed the MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) even though we are bombing every day. “This is repulsive,” the former Trump supporter turned critic wrote on X. One user, “Wolf”, wrote on X. “It isn’t the NYT, it’s your deceptiveness. In one day you report 18 US servicemen dead, then miraculously four are brought back to life. The casualty list goes up and down like a yo-yo.” The Pentagon has been reluctant to give detailed comment on the progress of the war or the strategy behind it,
SOURCE: US BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS
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Reciprocal tariffs 3
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threat of 50 per cent tariff s on Canadian milk, beer, plywood and hockey sticks. This looks and feels more like a power that might give Mr Trump the free hand he craves. There is already talk that he will use it to browbeat Europe over defence spending and digital taxes.
having given its last detailed briefing back in May. Sean Parnell, a senior Pentagon spokesman, denied there had been any cover-up. “This is one of the worst instances of the Fake News media manufacturing lies out of thin air for absolutely no rea- son at all but to cause distress among the American people,” he wrote on X. “Our Pentagon Press Offi ce gave The New York Times a courtesy off-the- record phone call explaining in detail that the site errors on the Defense Casualty Analysis System were due to a temporary data disruption. “Our team explained we are working on it being resolved. Regardless of that, The New York Times was already collud- ing with three anonymous sources to push a completely fake story.”
But there is a legal argument that
this pre-war power has been
superseded by later ones – something
that will also be tested in court.
Although the trade war is now being
fought with new weapons, the
battlefi eld still looks much the same.
Exporters to the US still face
confusion and uncertainty. And
someone – be it the exporter, importer
or American consumer – will still bear
the cost of these tariff s.
That cost, which could top $900bn
(£670bn) this year, will fl ow into the
Treasury funds. But it will come,
potentially, at the cost of higher US
infl ation and slower economic growth.
This estimate is also some one-third
less than what Mr Trump was
expecting under his previous tariff
regime – for which he still owes
$100bn in refunds.
But the past year has wrought one
change in this trade war: the world has
developed a thicker skin.
The initial impact of Mr Trump’s
self-proclaimed Liberation Day in
April last year is long gone. Politicians,
businesses and markets have largely
learned to live with the president’s
messy, unpredictable and costly US
trade policy.
This has blunted the potency and
leverage of his tariff threats. Eighteen
months into his trade war, the guns are
fi ring blanks and the Jenga tower is
falling.
The collateral economic damage,
however, is still very real.
“Cali-weed” is also driving the increase in smuggling. The drug, originally cultivated in California where it is legal, has been grown in Canada by Chinese triads. On the street corners of Brussels, Paris, London and Berlin, dealers are actively marketing “Cali-weed” to their customers on encrypted messaging apps such as Telegram or Signal, said Robert Patrancus, a criminal investigator from the EU Drugs Agency. The level of THC, the main psychoactive compound, in “Cali- weed” is 28 to 30pc, around twice as strong as varieties from Spain, which is Europe’s main domestic supplier. Mr Patrancus said the smuggling epidemic was an “unintended side eff ect” of Canada’s decision to legalise cannabis in 2018. “One of the intended actions was to eliminate the illegal one, but the illegal market as we know, every time in history, adapts,” he said. “It’s an unfortunate unintended eff ect of legalisation, it’s also legalisation of a drug that in the history of humankind is quite recent. It’s very How Trudeau’s cannabis has turned Belgium into narco state
intended actions was to eliminate the illegal market, but the illegal market as we know, every time in history, adapts’
Max Stephens INTERNATIONAL CRIME CORRESPONDENT in Antwerp
Canada’s legalisation of drug sees gangs target huge profi ts in Europe
LEGALLY grown cannabis is fl ooding into Europe from Canada, enriching criminal gangs and helping turn Belgium into a “narco state”. Farms legalised under Justin Trudeau, the former prime minister of Canada, are supplying smugglers with high-strength marijuana to be shipped into some of the continent’s major ports, a Telegraph investigation has found. Record quantities of cannabis are fl ooding into Antwerp in Belgium, with customs seizing 32 tons of cannabis in the last year alone – a 500pc increase from 2024. Gangs smuggle the cannabis into Europe in 18ft-long shipping containers sent from Vancouver, Montreal, Halifax and St John. The smuggling operation is being driven by Chinese state-linked mafi a networks that have proliferated in Canada since Mr Trudeau legalised the drug eight years ago. The country is so saturated with cannabis that gangs can make fi ve times more money smuggling it into Europe than selling it domestically, according to police. Once inside Antwerp, a kilo of cannabis soars in value from £800 to £4,500. At Antwerp, gangs pay corrupt dock workers around £40,000 to divert shipping containers to diff erent areas of the port so they will not be searched, customs offi cials told The Telegraph. From there, they transport the drug to the Netherlands, Germany, France and Italy along the same poorly monitored land routes within the Schengen, also used for distributing cocaine and amphetamines. Criminal syndicates use the profi ts to fund other enterprises including people smuggling, arms dealing and terrorist networks. Kristian Vanderwaeren, Belgium’s head of customs, told The Telegraph this year marked the fi rst time offi cials have seized more cannabis than cocaine in the combined port of Antwerp-Bruges. Offi cers impounded 10.8 tons of the drug in the fi rst six months of this year at the port, Europe’s second largest. In the same period, cocaine seizures plummeted by 68pc, from 16.7 tons to 5.4 tons. Mr Vanderwaeren
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and his team of 3,300 offi cers face a
balancing act of controlling both
cannabis and cocaine seizures. “I have
to be very careful; if I don’t put
pressure on the cocaine, the monster
will come back. I can’t switch,” he said
from an eighth-storey offi ce that
overlooks the port.
He blamed the surge in cannabis
smuggling on Mr Trudeau’s
legalisation of marijuana. Belgian
customs seized 32 tons of the drug in
2025, with 21 tons arriving from
Canada. The previous year, two tons
came from the North American
country.
“From last year, we have seen an
immense increase in cannabis
seizures, so one is linked to another,”
Mr Vanderwaeren said.
Criminal syndicates are turning to
cannabis over cocaine because the
prison sentences are far lower if they
are caught and the profi ts are higher
than ever before.
The smuggling epidemic is
compounding fears within Belgium’s
own judiciary that the country is
turning into a narco state – a nation
whose economy relies on the drug
trade and government corruption to
survive.
In Antwerp, organised criminal
gangs armed with assault rifl es and
hand grenades blackmail and
intimidate public offi cials to keep
cocaine and cannabis shipments out of
the hands of the police, sources told
The Telegraph.
Last October, an anonymous female
judge from Antwerp wrote an open
letter describing how organised crime
had such a stranglehold on the city and
judiciary that some of her peers have
to live under permanent police
protection.
Vincent Van Quickenborne,
Belgium’s former justice minister, was
forced to go into hiding in 2022
because of a kidnapping plot
orchestrated by a Dutch drugs gang.
Belgium’s drug gangs have become
so heavily armed that last May, Mr
Vanderwaeren armed his team with
Heckler & Koch SFP9 semi-automatic
pistols and high-calibre rifl es to match
their fi repower.
He said gang members had followed
his staff to bars and petrol stations
where they attempted to bribe or
intimidate them into working
for them.
But Mr Vanderwaeren, one
of the few public fi gures
from Belgium’s law
enforcement willing to be
interviewed and
photographed, is uncowed by
the task he faces.
“I am not afraid, I
will not not do
something
because of
organised
crime. But I am
not naive
either,” he
said.
“I am the
big boss of
HEATHCLIFF O’MALLEY FOR THE TELEGRAPH
Top, customs dog handler Pablo with Bonnie on patrol at Antwerp port. Above, seized marijuana. Left, Justin Trudeau’s legalisation of the drug has had devastating results across Europe
customs, someone has to pass the message and also to protect my people. Getting to me, what will it bring? Only trouble, unless they [the criminals] want to have a war with the state.” Mr Vanderwaeren’s staff later gave The Telegraph a tour of the port and demonstrated how shipping containers and vehicles are searched for drugs. Two vans suspected of containing contraband were brought in from the port for inspection. They were fi rst driven through a 13ft-high mobile scanner. The £1.5m device is a metal arch mounted on the side of a customs inspection lorry that X-rays vehicles passing underneath. The offi cers, after examining the computer images, decided a closer look was needed. Under the direction of her handler, Pablo, Bonnie, a seven-year-old Belgian Malinois sniff er dog, leapt inside the back of the nondescript white van and searched a jumble of
cardboard boxes. The search took less than fi ve minutes. Bonnie and Pablo repeated the search on the second vehicle. This time, no drugs were found in either vehicle. “Sometimes we catch three containers a day, other times it can be three months of nothing,” said Pablo, who has served 13 years with Belgian customs. Unlike cocaine, which can be diluted into liquids or embedded into plastics, cannabis is bulky, pungent and diffi cult to hide. Most of the time it is simply vacuum- packed down into bags and dumped inside the containers, customs offi cers explained. But the sheer scale of cannabis being shipped in, coupled with corrupt offi cials, means that the potent drug is able to cross borders undetected. Sources told The Telegraph that a desire for strong cannabis known as
Cannabis shipped from Canada to Europe
Cannabis seizures in Belgium
In tonnes
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diffi cult to anticipate how it’s changing.” Canada’s Royal Mounted Police (RCMP) told The Telegraph that Canadian gangs have capitalised on Europe’s fertile market. As of 2025, a kilo of dried cannabis in Canada costs £795, according to intelligence from the RCMP. Once in Europe, it is worth as much as £4,500. The force said it had seen a “dramatic increase” in the amount of cannabis that was intended to be smuggled overseas via marine shipping between 2023 and the present day. Offi cers are measuring seizures in the tens of tons and believe that 2026 will probably be a record year. Jean-Christian Premont, the acting regional director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), said that in the past 16 months it had seized 46 tons of cannabis destined for Europe. “That is three times the amount seized in the previous,” Mr Premont said. He added that the Canadian government was investing approximately £700m in the CBSA and bolstering its manpower with an extra 1,000 staff to combat. The gangs are also trying to smuggle the drugs from Canada into the UK. In May, Border Force offi cers intercepted 12 tons of cannabis worth £139m – the largest ever shipment of its kind on British soil – that had been shipped from Canada. Two men and one woman, all from Wales, have been arrested and charged with drug-smuggling-related off ences, money-laundering and importing incapacitant spray, a prohibited weapon. They are Daniel Gould-Lewis, 37, of Islwyn Close, Pengham, Caerphilly, Gavin Davies, 45, of Mill Terrace, Cym, Ebbw Vale, and Heidi Phillips, 36, of Beech Grove, Gurnos, Merthyr Tydfi l. All three will appear at Bristol Crown Court on July 24 for a plea hearing. Two weeks after the Border Force interception, customs offi cers at the Port of Saint John in New Brunswick stopped 6.7 tons of cannabis from being smuggled to Scotland inside a single shipping container. This shipment was three times more than the total amount of cannabis seized by the CBSA across all of Canada in the previous year. Mr Trudeau, in a speech in June 2018, delivered moments after his government legalised the drug, said the reforms “keeps cannabis out of the hands of our kids and keeps profi ts away from organised crime”. For Europe, the exact opposite has come true.
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troops after six people shot dead during settler attacks on Palestinian towns
By Henry Bodkin in Jerusalem
ISRAEL ordered a “forceful” military response in the West Bank after a mass shooting yesterday, pushing the territory to the brink of widespread violence. Two Israelis and four Palestinians were shot dead in the confrontation near Nablus yesterday morning.
Anyone there? A flying frog appears to be unperturbed as a snail settles on its head. Photographer Yan Hidayat specialises in shooting wildlife in his native Indonesia.
YAN HIDAYAT
By Antonia Langford
THE widows of Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine will be off ered state-funded fertility treatment, the Kremlin has announced. Under a new law, war widows will be entitled to free in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and artificial insemination for fi ve years following the death of their husbands, provided they do not remarry in that time. They must also provide a notarised document proving that their late hus- band gave consent during his lifetime for the storage and use of his sperm after death. “Men often leave to defend
after plans to freeze animals to death
By James Badcock in Chiclana de la Frontera, Cadiz
THE world’s first octopus farm has been scrapped after plans to freeze the animals to death. Nueva Pescanova had raised more than £40m to build the farm in Las Palmas in the Canary Islands, but faced criticism for years over its “inhumane” plans. The Spanish company, the fi rst to breed octopuses in captivity, intended to farm a million animals for human consumption within the first year of production. The octopuses would have been packed into communal tanks and kept under constant light, contrary to the cephalopods’ natural instincts to remain territorial and solitary in dark nooks, campaigners said. Critics also called the planned “ice slurry” slaughter method inhumane, as the octopuses would have been frozen to death at a tempera- ture of -3C. After a five-year legal battle, the Las Palmas port authority said this week that Nueva Pescanova had with- drawn its application for a licence to
The circumstances leading up to the incident appear to be in dispute, but Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to impose a curfew, conduct an anti-terror opera- tion and establish new settler outposts in response. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the shooting occurred after a Palestin- ian seized control of a weapon belong- ing to a security guard from a nearby Jewish settlement and opened fi re, kill- ing 32-year-old Benayahu Mellet and Yuval Eztra, members of the IDF. However, Palestinian media reported a large-scale settler attack on the town. The IDF later acknowledged that the settlers, who they said had been on a
Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to impose a curfew and establish new settler outposts after the shooting
the homeland while they are still very young, and many have not yet had the chance to become fathers,” read an explanatory note accompanying the bill. “Even during a short period of leave, that is not always possible. If a husband is killed, his wife loses the opportunity to become a mother and have children with the man she loved.” The note also referred to Russia’s “already difficult demographic situa- tion”, adding that IVF services were expensive. Kremlin offi cials have sounded the alarm over “catastrophic” demo- graphic decline across the country
is killed, his wife loses the opportunity to have children with theman she loved’
build and operate the farm. The process had been drawn out by the Canary Islands government’s decision to open an inquiry into the project’s environ- mental impact. Pacma, a Spanish animal rights party, celebrated the news that these “sensi- tive and intelligent” animals would be safe from captive exploitation in Spain. They joined a chorus of animal rights groups calling for the EU to ban octopus farming. Iris Sánchez, Pacma’s leader in Gran Canaria, said: “The defi nitive clo- sure of this farm is the result of a shared
hike, had entered a Palestinian area nor- mally off-limits to Israelis without co-ordination or permission from the military. A number of reprisal attacks on Pal- estinian areas were reported in the hours after news of Mellet’s death became public. At least two alleged settler attacks were reported, including in the village of Far’ata, where seven were injured and buildings and farmland set alight. The IDF said yesterday it was cancel- ling all leave for troops in the West Bank and drafting in reinforcements to main- tain order and conduct an anti-terror operation. The area has also been put
struggle and demonstrates that organ- ised social pressure can infl uence deci- sions that affect animal welfare and environmental conservation.” With global demand for octopus more than doubling over the past four decades to about 400,000 tons annu- ally, a successful farm had promised lucrative rewards for Nueva Pescanova. In 2019, the company announced it had achieved breakthroughs in keeping octopuses safely in communal tanks by controlling water temperature to avoid stress and acts of aggression. Immediately after the company’s 2021 application for a licence from Las Pal- mas’s port authority, animal rights groups launched a campaign against them. They protested not only on grounds of animal cruelty but also its potential pollution and threat to public health because of bacterial infections among the octopuses. The company told the port authority that the decision to scrap its plans was based solely on “business and regulatory considerations”. Nueva Pescanova told The Telegraph it would not be making any public statement about the decision.
amid record-low birth rates, stagger- ingly high wartime casualties and an exodus of hundreds of thousands of young professionals. Russian women now average under 1.4 children each, far from the standard population replacement rate of 2.1 and some 20 per cent lower than rates seen just a decade ago. Last year, Rosstat, Russia’s state sta- tistics agency, halted publications of monthly data on births and deaths in what is believed to be an attempt to conceal severe losses in the military. However, Alexei Raksha, a demogra- pher who has been called a “foreign agent” by the Kremlin, said that there
under curfew by the IDF while Mr Net- anyahu announced plans for “accelerat- ing the legalisation of farm outposts and establishment of new ones”, despite the settlements being illegal under interna- tional law. The joint statement with Israel Katz, the Israeli defence minister, also said
were just 272,000 births in the first quarter of this year, marking the lowest for any quarter in about two centuries. Annual deaths are believed to outnum- ber births by some 600,000. In an effort to combat the crisis, Vladimir Putin’s government has intro- duced fi nancial incentives for mothers, pushed punitive regional restrictions on the termination of pregnancies and promoted a return to conservative “tra- ditional spiritual-moral values”. Putin has previously called for fami- lies to have between eight and 10 chil- dren, saying in 2023 that “having many children and a large family must become the norm”.
many children and a large family must become the norm’
plans to clone himself for organs
By Telegraph Reporter
A MULTIMILLIONAIRE diagnosed with an incurable disease plans to clone himself and harvest the organs. Bryan Johnson, 48, who is already using blood transfusions from his teenage son in his quest for eternal youth, is pushing the boundaries of science even further in his hopes to defeat autoimmune gastritis, which causes the body’s immune system to turn on itself, attacking healthy stom- ach-lining cells, creating anaemia and increasing the risk of cancer in later life. He attributes his condition to an unhealthy lifestyle decades ago with a diet dominated by sugary and fast food. Mr Johnson, who made his money in Silicon Valley, has decided the solution is to turn back the clock by cloning him- self and, among other things, harvest- ing the organs which will be in pristine condition having not been abused as his own were decades ago. Writing on X, Mr Johnson explained the new version of himself is in a petri dish: “This may be scary to some people…a dystopian future. But, for others, they will see it as the inevitable future of health. Clinical trials are
the house of the Palestinian alleged to have fired the initial shots would be demolished. A military offi cial warned that there was an “atmosphere of revenge” since the deadly incident, amid calls from set- tlers to enter Palestinian villages. As well as the alleged perpetrator, who was shot dead by an IDF platoon commander who had arrived on the scene, three other Palestinians were shot dead and four others wounded. Meanwhile, two other Israelis were injured. Appearing to back a heavy-handed response, Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s ultra-nationalist fi nance minister from
Bryan Johnson claims blood from his son has given him heart of a 37-year-old
a West Bank settler community, called for the Tell and nearby villages to “look like refugee camps in Nablus and Tulka- rem”, a reference to the widespread demolitions as part of IDF operations. Recent years have seen a rising trend of violence in the West Bank. From October 2023 to April this year, 1,066 Palestinians were killed by Israeli security forces and 35 by Israeli settlers, according to the human rights organisa- tion T’Salem, which campaigns against the settlement movement. This includes 299 children, the group states. Meanwhile, it is estimated that about 30 Israelis have been killed in the West Bank.
The state has also off ered widows of Russian servicemen an expanding slate of benefi ts in recent months. In April, Putin signed a law enabling surviving spouses to enrol for free tui- tion at Russian universities without having to sit entrance examinations. Moscow is not the only country to offer posthumous parenthood. In Israel, courts have allowed the posthu- mous retrieval of sperm from fallen sol- diers, with such cases skyrocketing since the Oct 7 attacks. About 250 families have had sperm from their loved ones retrieved and stored, Israel’s health ministry has said.
to their embryonic state. These cells will be free of “epigenetic” errors which accumulate as people age. This is done by using a technique developed by Shinya Yamanaka, a Japa- nese stem cell researcher and Nobel prize winner. His work was seen as a breakthrough in reprogramming cells, which can be reintroduced into the body to recognise and attack tumours. The new cells are “pluripotent” – in simple terms being capable of develop- ing into almost any cell type in the body. This, Mr Johnson wrote, will enable him to “rebuild” his body organ by organ, replacing unhealthy cells with healthy ones. Benefits from this technology, he added, could restore kidney, liver and lung function, repair skin damage and cure blindness and deafness. Because the cells have been taken from a cloned version of himself, Mr Johnson said, they will be accepted by his body rather than rejected. Mr Johnson, who lives in Venice, Cal- ifornia, says the transfusions from his son have reversed the ageing process, giving him the heart of a 37-year-old, the lung capacity of someone who is 18 and the youthful gums of a 17-year-old.
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n his fi rst day as Prime Minister, Andy Burnham
confi dently declared that he had “a plan”. One week in
and it remains a mystery – not least because Mr
Burnham has avoided questions from Parliament, the press
or the public.
His fi rst few days have been both frantic and insubstantial.
Mr Burnham announced that his leadership was to be “the
most signifi cant change moment in our politics for 40 years”.
Yet so far he has tinkered with bus fares, provided a £1 per
week cut to energy bills, fl oated and then retreated from
lifting the freeze on income tax allowances, and opened a
No 10 regional offi ce in the North. Far from a serious “plan”
for Britain, this amounts to a hodgepodge of political
gimmicks and unfunded commitments.
Labour engineered a one-horse leadership race, and a
timetable that meant Mr Burnham’s elevation to Prime
Minister coincided with the start of Parliament’s long
summer recess. He had been an MP this time around for one
month and had barely been seen in the Commons. Never
before in modern politics has a person become Prime
Minister with as little scrutiny as Mr Burnham. Since he has
taken charge, Mr Burnham has governed Britain by press
release but not subjected himself to a single press conference
– with predictable consequences.
Contradictions abound. Devolution is supposedly at the
heart of his agenda, yet Mr Burnham’s fi rst moves have seen
him dictate the price of bus tickets to local authorities, and
try to shape every high street according to his view of
“social value”.
Having promised fi scal responsibility, Mr Burnham has
indicated that he wants to fi x social care, end rough sleeping,
increase defence spending and launch the “biggest council
to the EDITOR
of-living’ Government who tours the country in a jet
SIR – Neil Kinnock, the Prime Minister’s hero, famously condemned Militant-controlled Liverpool City Council for “hiring taxis to scuttle round a city handing out redundancy notices to its own workers”. Does the Prime Minister not see the irony of his taking a government jet for a 38-minute trip from Glasgow to Manchester (telegraph.co.uk, July 24)? Perhaps he has capped the use of jet travel at £2, too. Mark Peaker London E1
SIR – Andy Burnham plans to invite dignitaries to Manchester (report, July 21), underscoring the city’s role as the location of No 10 North. Surely this will mean sprucing it up each time, cumulatively involving signifi cant amounts of money. I would prefer other towns and cities to get some of these funds – there are certainly many that could do with even just a few hundred thousand pounds to use towards a clean up, plenty of them in the true North. Barbara Richmond Cornhill on Tweed, Northumberland
SIR – When I saw the reports about No 10 North, my fi rst thought was that it was convenient for Andy Burnham to be working from home, particularly on a Friday. Clare Carter Nottingham
SIR – Is Manchester the comfort blanket for our new Prime Minister ? It seems as though he is retreating to his old tenure, as he is uncomfortable with such national policies as defence, immigration and international relations. Graham White Alconbury Weston, Huntingdonshire
In November 1936, the government created the Food (Defence Plans) Department (later the Ministry of Food) to control imports, farming and distribution. Years in advance, offi cials secretly printed 50 million ration books, mapped national storage and ports, and planned a shift from livestock to high-yield crops such as wheat and potatoes. What is Andy Burnham’s plan for food security in preparation for a war with Russia? Colin Rankin Chiang Mai, Thailand
SIR – Britain’s greatest political failure is not taxation or immigration. It is that all major political parties have become trapped in an endless bidding war over who can promise the most benefi ts to the electorate (Leading Article, July 22). The country has reached the point where public spending commitments are growing faster than tax revenues. The answer off ered by politicians is invariably to tax more – income, wealth, pensions, businesses and capital – rather than to create the conditions for greater prosperity and productivity. What we really need is a new social contract for Britain. State pensions, healthcare and social care should be funded through independently managed sovereign funds, fi nanced by ring-fenced contributions. Pension increases should be linked to infl ation, not political promises. Healthcare and social care contributions should continue throughout life, according to one’s ability to pay. Every citizen should receive an annual statement detailing what they contribute and what they are entitled to receive. Such reforms would remove much of the political temptation to promise ever more “free” benefi ts and force politicians to focus instead on economic growth, wealth creation, education, productivity and sound governance. A nation cannot tax itself into prosperity. Wealth must fi rst be created before it can be fairly shared. Christopher Russell Rye, East Sussex
SIR – As a retired consultant obstetrician and maternity hospital chief executive, I fi nd it very diffi cult to comprehend why the maternity notes were not made available to Lucy Letby’s original defence team (“Letby baby died from birth trauma, medical expert claims”, report, July 22). Every student midwife and medical student is taught that the condition of a baby at birth and shortly afterwards is highly dependent on the antecedent pregnancy, labour and delivery. Every
house building programme since the Second World War”.
However laudable these aims are, they require signifi cant
funding and a detailed plan to deliver them. Both are absent.
His decision to “pause” the prisoner early release scheme is
welcome as is the temporary cut in VAT for pubs. But again,
details are scant.
Either Mr Burnham’s claims for his own transformational
importance are just empty rhetoric, or they rest upon
dramatic plans which he is yet to reveal to the public. This
uncertainty does nothing for Britain’s economy. He has
teased multiple spending commitments without off ering any
sense of how they will be paid for. Since he has shown no real
interest in cutting spending, markets, consumers and
businesses are bracing themselves for yet more tax rises.
Much like in the early months of Sir Keir Starmer’s
premiership, this uncertainty risks investor confi dence
dipping and business investment freezing up, with dire
consequences for the jobs market.
The need for clarity is only heightened by the clouds
gathering on the economic horizon.
Donald Trump’s reimposition of tariff s yesterday on highly
spurious grounds will serve only to hurt British business,
while tensions in the Middle East are escalating.
America has struck targets across Iran every night for
almost two weeks, indicating its war is far from done. The
Houthis, backed by Tehran, have imposed a maritime
blockade on Saudi Arabia, and hit two of its oil tankers in the
Red Sea. Oil prices have soared, and this will feed into the
UK economy.
Given this, it is imperative that Mr Burnham scales up
North Sea oil and gas production. He must start by green-
lighting drilling at the new Rosebank and Jackdaw fi elds
neonatologist, paediatrician and neonatal nurse knows this, too. I imagine that every trainee solicitor and barrister is also made aware of it as part of their medical negligence education. That maternity factors were not taken into consideration in Letby’s defence, in itself, justifi es the calls for a retrial. Chris Fitzpatrick Dublin, Ireland
SIR – Mary Byrne (Letters, July 23)
suggests an intermediate space for
those ready to leave hospital but
unable to return to their normal
housing.
Such premises used to be called
convalescent homes: single-storey
properties with a far lower staffi ng cost
than hospitals. They were generally
abolished in the latter half of the 1970s
by changes in legislation aff ecting the
NHS and local government, and the
high-value land on which they stood
was sold.
At that time there was also – perhaps
unwisely – a decision that London was
“over-bedded”, and beds were reduced
as modern medicine dictated shorter
stays in hospital. However, this failed
to account for the fact that more
people in London and large cities live
alone, in smaller premises, and are
more likely to have to negotiate stairs
in older blocks of fl ats.
Instead of making off -the-cuff
decisions, politicians should take a
more considered view of healthcare.
Jacqueline Castles
London W2
SIR – Andrea Swindells (Letters, July
23) writes of being badly failed by
Royal Mail. While my own experience
has not been life-threatening, I also
feel bitterly let down.
Last weekend, we wanted to send
some important information to our
granddaughter on her 21st birthday. I
went to our local Post Offi ce and paid
£9.95 for guaranteed delivery before
1pm on Saturday July 18. The letter
fi nally arrived on Monday July 20.
I now fi nd that I can reclaim only £5
of the cost of that guaranteed delivery
– in other words, I will have paid £4.95
for a failure. That is £3.15 more than
the cost of standard fi rst-class postage,
of which less than 75 per cent arrives
next day.
It is not appropriate that an
organisation that is failing so badly
should be able to use the term Royal.
Terry Gorman
Weaverham, Cheshire
ESTABLISHED 1855
from various companies landed on the doormat. Mary King Farnham, Surrey
SIR – Further to the letters from Professor R G Faulkner about his experience at General Synod in York (July 22) and Robin Self (July 23) about church priorities, I wonder whether they are aware of an organisation called Save the Parish, set up in 2021, whose aim is to resist plans to redirect money away from parochial ministry, and any further diversion of power and authority away from parishes and towards dioceses and the central Church. This organisation needs deanery synod members to stand as General Synod candidates, as only by increasing laity representation of those who oppose the seemingly political indoctrination of the Church can it be challenged and hopefully changed. Karen Powell Marchamley, Shropshire
SIR – Although not a churchgoer, I used to donate yearly towards the upkeep of a lovely old building. I stopped when the churches were all locked during Covid. Towyn Evans Kirk Ireton, Derbyshire
SIR – I was delighted to read Phil Hilton’s routine for achieving arms like Matt Damon’s Odysseus character (“The fi ve moves that could make you look like Matt”, Features, July 23). Not only am I the same age as your author, but his recommended workout is identical to the one I have followed every morning for the past fi ve years, with excellent results. These are combined with sit-ups and four runs totalling just under 50 miles per week. We begin losing 3 to 5 per cent of muscle mass per decade from our thirties onwards – a decline that accelerates in our sixties. Combining aerobic and strength training is the ultimate anti-ageing strategy. If more of us picked up the weights, it would signifi cantly ease the burden on our overstretched NHS. Chris Learmont-Hughes Caldy, Wirral
without delay. This will increase tax revenues and arguably strengthen the pound. It may also assist Mr Burnham and Ed Miliband, the new Foreign Secretary, in dealing with Mr Trump, a long-time supporter of North Sea drilling. Given Mr Miliband’s poor reputation in Washington, they will need all the help they can get. The opening days of Government are important. They set the direction of the Whitehall machine when a leader’s power is at its apogee. In Tony Blair’s fi rst week, the Bank of England was granted independence. Within weeks of forming a government, David Cameron had set out a plan for the defi cit and transformed education with the Academies Act 2010. Mr Burnham has talked in grand terms about his own historic importance. If he has anything like a substantial “plan” for Britain, he must recall Parliament and set it out. He has evaded scrutiny for too long.
One more item for Mr Burnham – travel. He visited No 10 North by way of Glasgow (from which it is defi nitely No 10 South). That meant two journeys by private jet. You could hear the polar icecaps weep at the very thought. But why not a chartered train, like the ones that take the Brussels bureaucrats unnecessarily to Strasbourg every month. When the King of the North didn’t want it, the King of the whole UK might borrow it. Or a modest ship, navigating via the Manchester Ship canal, could be a fl oating No 10, putting in at any port. The SS Politician would be a good name, made popular by the vessel that gave us Whisky Galore.
ALAMY
The Venus of the Rags by Michelangelo Pistoletto in Piazza Municipio, Naples
SIR – I have a pile of clothes that are old, ragged and beyond saleable in a charity shop. Our local stores now apparently have to pay for textile disposal, so will not accept them. The bins at the recycling centre appear to be for clothes that are
with a wooden stick. Then I’d bang the bucket and shout: “Tea up.” Delicious. Bam Marks Hurley, Berkshire
SIR – Should children travelling with a £1 rail ticket (report, July 24) give up their seat, when requested, for someone who has paid full price and could have to stand for the whole journey? This would be of benefi t to all full-fare payers, particularly the elderly and pregnant women. Colin Sear Thame, Oxfordshire
SIR – As a regular user of the Tube, I have been conducting a straw poll. Five years ago, more than 80 per cent of passengers were glued to their devices. Today, it is about 50 per cent, with the rest reading proper books or just musing. I call this progress. Ben Howkins London SW11
collected by various charities, then sold on. Does anyone know of any alternatives to putting them in our household general rubbish bin? Sarah O’Boyle Newport, Monmouthshire
seem even to be outnumbering the honeybees. Long may they thrive. Jonathan W A Hall Oaksey, Wiltshire
SIR – My grandfather said that the year my father was born, it was so dry that you could see a rabbit run through the crops at harvest time. The rabbits are in full view this year, the 100th anniversary of my father’s birth. George Watson Sudbourne, Suff olk
SIR – My sweet six-year-old neighbour brought me his handwritten, multi- scene postcard from Spain (Letters, July 24). He gave it to me, saying: “We didn’t go to any of those places.” Pam Dickinson Macclesfi eld, Cheshire
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presents the PM with an opportunity
ur new Prime Minister says he is giving us “breathing space” with his fl urry of small, short-term fi xes. Consumers will pay slightly lower electricity bills, passengers slightly lower bus fares, pubs slightly smaller business rates. As late July headlines, these changes bring minor holiday pleasure. But the breathing space is really for Andy Burnham, not for us, the public. Although thoroughly dissatisfi ed with Sir Keir Starmer, we were not planning a coup against him and were not consulted about his replacement. It is Labour that is out of breath. With Parliament risen until September, Labour, not we, should breathe deeply and refl ect. If Mr Burnham does so, raising his eyes above Manchester, he might notice how dangerous the world is looking. Two great powers – the United States and Russia – are currently waging wars against theoretically inferior ones, yet neither is winning them. Since he attacked Iran in February, Donald Trump has failed to crush its regime and accidentally sacrifi ced the freedom of the Straits of Hormuz, thus giving the world’s most durable Islamist revolutionaries leverage over our economies. The consequent oil price is the primary current reason that British voters tell polls and focus groups that the cost of living is their chief anxiety. Our security is also at stake. Islamist agitations on British streets and terrorist attacks and plots against British targets relate to Palestine and are often fomented by Iran. The greatest economic and military
Burnham is done tinkering with bus fares and electricity bills, he might notice how dangerous the world is looking
READ MORE at telegraph.co.uk/ opinion Way of the World Michael Deacon I
’m fascinated by Patriotic Millionaires, the lobby group backed by rich Left-wing celebrities who keep complaining that they’ve got far too much money, and ordering the Government to do something about it. Most rich celebrities, after all, tell their accountants to minimise the amount of tax they pay. Presumably the ones from Patriotic Millionaires do the opposite. “Can you make it so I have to pay MORE tax? Any clever little schemes or loopholes you can exploit, to make it look as if I’ve earned even more money than I actually have? You see, I’m just so desperate to hand over as much of my income as possible to a bunch of clueless politicians, so that they can blow it all on disastrous white elephants, cynical bribes for their target voters and room service for illegal immigrants.” In reality, these celebrities don’t actually need any help from their accountants. They can simply visit the Government website, and donate as
much of their unwanted wealth as they like. Evidently, however, the Patriotic Millionaires are unaware of this. Because this week, 120 of them – including Gary Lineker, Richard Curtis and Brian Eno – signed an open letter to the Prime Minister, publicly demanding that he raise their taxes, in order to “reduce inequality”, “disperse economic power” and “strengthen hospitals, schools and social care”. As they so nobly put it: “We’re millionaires … We can aff ord it.” This is, of course, wonderfully altruistic of them. I must admit, though, that I was surprised to see Mr Lineker’s name. Purely because, just a few short years ago, HMRC pursued him for £4.9m that it said he owed in tax. Mr Lineker disputed this, however, and, in March 2023, a
power on earth has lost only 18 service personnel in the confl ict so far, but American opinion is spooked. Trump says the war’s main justifi cation is preventing nuclear proliferation, yet his latest solution is to hint to Saudi Arabia that it could get nuclear capacity too. America has the fi repower; Iran has the willpower. Also in February – February 2022 – another great power started a hot war. Russia invaded Ukraine. Four and a half years later, it is fi ghting still, longer than it took to win the Second World War, but this time with negligible gains. In the process, Vladimir Putin has lost perhaps half a million dead, currently about 30,000 soldiers a month. The Ukraine invasion infl icted a wider energy price shock from which the West has not yet recovered. That is the chief background reason why British voters obsess about the cost of living. Security is threatened too, right across Europe. Cyber activity, spying scandals, bot propaganda, corruption of elections, threats to British waters, air space and undersea cables are all part of Putin’s war. Our net-zero policy could have been specifi cally designed to disable this country’s energy security. We in the West are devoting enormous sums to solve a non-emergency – climate change – when real emergencies threaten our collective peace and prosperity. Our defences have also been confi gured wrongly for the current threat and run down over many years. It is a tragic tendency of human beings to bestir ourselves only when danger is staring us in the face. Witness the contrast between Britain and Ukraine. Because Ukraine seems far
away, we have argued inconclusively for years about what GDP percentage to spend on defence by the 2030s. For Ukraine, however, the daily risk of subjugation has made it the most militarily innovative country on earth. Forced to break out of static, blood-soaked trench warfare, Ukraine has developed, with incredible speed and economy, drones which outpace the Russians. A “time domain” to keep ahead of the enemy has replaced the old concept of the military domain defi ned by physical space. This has required conceptual as well as technical change. An army forged in the Soviet era of top-down command and super-secret systems has reshaped into something much more “horizontal” with far more information- sharing. Ukraine’s Unmanned System Forces (USF) challenge the traditional division between idea of army, navy and air force, dissolving the diff erence between land, sea and air. Twelve military units have evolved with the freedom to operate independently as combat hubs. Ukrainians boast they have created the opportunity to innovate and therefore to fail. In the Russian forces, failure is punished by utter disgrace, even death, so innovation dies too. This is a war between open and closed systems. As the history of democracy versus dictatorship usually shows, the open system has the better chance. Nowadays, there are about a thousand drone attacks by Ukraine every day. For years, Western allies were windy about Ukraine attacking Russia itself. We felt cowed by Russia’s dark threats of a nuclear response, and told Ukraine not to try. Now, however,
tribunal judge ruled in his favour. At the time, I was pleased that justice had been done. But now I’m puzzled. Because, when HMRC fi rst raised the matter, surely the great philanthropist should have replied: “I don’t owe you a penny. But you know what? I’m going to give you the £4.9m anyway – so that you can spend it on reducing inequality, dispersing economic power, and strengthening hospitals, schools and social care. Because you see, that’s just the kind of caring, compassionate and selfl ess guy I am.” I can’t believe he didn’t think of it. T
hadn’t resorted to the slipperiest cliché in Left-wing politics. By temporarily removing the 5 per cent VAT, he was, he boasted, “putting more money in people’s pockets”. No, Prime Minister. You aren’t putting more money in people’s pockets. You’re taking less money out. Please note the diff erence. By saying you’re putting money in our pockets, you’re implying that the money was yours to begin with. But it wasn’t. It was ours. We earned it. The Government only “puts money in our pockets” if we’re on benefi ts. But even then, the money has had to be taken out of someone else’s pockets fi rst. Still, I can see why he phrased it as he did. It made him sound generous: a munifi cent benefactor, to whom we are in eternal debt. I wonder whether a mugger has ever thought to try this ingenious approach to public relations. After snatching a little old lady’s purse from
important thing a ‘refreshed’ British government can do is focus attention on impeding the enemy
Ukraine can hit Russia way behind its lines. It works, and few in the West object. As Nelson knew, the boldest measures are the safest. Since late May, Ukrainian operations in Crimea have broken Russia’s logistical lines and created a sense of siege. Even in Moscow and St Petersburg, well-targeted attacks on major installations bring the war home to Russians at last. This week, Ukraine destroyed the vast warehouses of Russia’s equivalent of Amazon in and near Krasnodar. Necessity, proverbially, is the mother of invention. We should admit that Ukraine’s necessity arose not just because of Putin himself but also because of Trump’s tenderness towards Russia and Europe’s complacent hesitations. Even now, the latest EU sanctions package is compromised, allowing Greece to go on sending Russian gas to non-EU countries. It was not an accident that Ukraine’s most successful minister of defence, Mykhailo Fedorov, was previously its minister of digital transformation. He was the master of technological change and the man in charge of denying Russia access to Elon Musk’s Starlink. Nor, unfortunately, was it an accident that he was sacked by President Zelensky last week, after only six months in the job. Zelensky caved in to resentment from the Ukrainian military establishment at the shock of the new. Even in a country at war, such interests stay powerful. Those interests were led by the commander-in-chief, General Syrskyi, who demanded Fedorov’s head from a nervous Zelensky. The ensuing street protests in 20 cities were so bad,
her horrifi ed grasp, he should fi sh out a 20p coin, present it to her with a fl ourish, and then boast to everyone in earshot that he’s putting more money in her pocket. No doubt any passing Labour MPs would rapturously applaud. A
fter years of state-mandated self-fl agellation, how refreshing to fi nd a politician who doesn’t think the West should be ashamed of its history. Winston Peters, New Zealand’s foreign minister, has told “snivelling wokesters” not to moan about a new ship being named after the supposedly problematic Captain Cook – because, he thunders, “a mature country does not run from its history. A serious country does not vandalise its memory to satisfy the latest fashion in whinger politics.” If only our own politicians would listen. But it seems there’s little hope. This week, the SNP-led Glasgow City Council launched a “slavery walking
however, that Zelensky sacked Syrskyi too this week. The president then partially redeemed himself in the public’s eyes by putting a much younger and more heroic general, Mykhailo Drapatyi, in Syrskyi’s place. But the future of Mr Fedorov remains unresolved. He is still fi ghting, promising to continue his mission: “defeating the enemy through asymmetry, the speed of innovation, and the power of organisation”. This whirligig illustrates the precariousness of the situation. Ukraine’s political institutions are not in sync with its military innovation. Even in concert with Nato allies, Britain could not run the politics of Ukraine and should not try. But if we were clearer, stronger and faster about helping Ukraine we could achieve much more. We still see our Armed Forces as wise teachers to Ukraine’s, but so much has happened so fast that now we should be their pupils. Perhaps the most important specifi c thing – beyond more money – that a “refreshed” British government can do is to focus attention here and with allies on impeding the enemy. What is Russia up to, and where? How can we hinder Putin most? With the departure of Sir Keir’s rights-crazed attorney general, Lord Hermer, for example, we should stop harassing Nordic and Baltic states who want to develop their own landmines and cluster bombs against possible Russian attack. Mr Burnham likes breathing spaces. The breathing space Ukraine needs is fresh elections, which could not possibly happen without a ceasefi re policed by the allies. Will he help? Does he see why it matters?
trail”, in order to “educate” Glaswegians about their “deeply uncomfortable” past. Is this really necessary? By now, surely even the loneliest hermit in the Outer Hebrides has got the message about how uniquely and unforgivably evil our ancestors were. Still, some good may yet come of the council’s initiative. Because it’s given me an idea. In New Zealand, Mr Peters should launch his own walking trail, designed to educate local progressives about the history of Maori cannibalism. In 1809, for example, a group of Maori killed and ate around 70 passengers and crew from a British ship called the Boyd. The “snivelling wokester” community would possibly fi nd this trail uncomfortable. But it might do them good to learn that, every now and then, indigenous peoples could be a tiny bit problematic, too. And, as Mr Peters is himself half-Maori, they can hardly call him racist.
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running Burnham’s nepotistic government
ndy Burnham has spent the best part of a decade posturing as the “King of the North” and an antidote to the suff ocating centralism of SW1. His arrival in Downing Street was supposed to signal a fresh start. Delivering his fi rst speech as Labour leader to the strains of New Order, he positioned himself as the “change” candidate. On the steps of No 10 on Monday, he promised a “circuit breaker” moment, off ering a fresh political model and a departure from the managerial malaise that doomed his predecessor, Sir Keir Starmer. Yet as the ink dries on his list of ministerial appointments, that illusion has already been shattered. Far from changing the guard, Burnham’s opening move has been to reassemble the same tired, insular ecosystem that has dominated the Labour apparatus for generations. What we are witnessing isn’t a political revolution; it is the grand reunion of Labour’s own establishment – a tightly woven web of power couples, political dynasties and factional gatekeepers. Nowhere is this insularity more obvious than in the relentless elevation of Westminster’s most infamous inner circle: the “Bridesmaid Gang”. When Ellie Reeves posed last year on the House of Commons terrace alongside her bridesmaids, sister Rachel Reeves, culture minister Stephanie Peacock, and Vicky Foxcroft, then Labour’s deputy chief whip, it wasn’t simply a warm moment between women, but a blueprint for how patronage operates at the top of the party. The frustration within the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) is palpable. Figures who were widely tipped for major portfolios, such as Dr Rosena Allin-Khan for Health, have been overlooked, while the same clique continues to rotate through key positions. Ellie Reeves, whose tenure managing campaign operations was marred by accusations of heavy- handedness, remains fi rmly entrenched in power as Attorney General. Alongside fi gures like former chief whip Jonathan Reynolds, the Business Secretary, the message to backbenchers is clear: alignment with the network matters far more than competence. Burnham’s decision to install Anneliese Midgley as Reynolds’s successor when she was elected as an MP only two years ago speaks volumes. Instead of promoting proven talent based on merit, the administration has once again chosen loyalty over depth. Far from stripping away elitism, the new Prime Minister’s front bench reads like a genealogical register of political dynasties. Stephen Kinnock, son of
Minister promised a new political model but his top team looks remarkably like the old one
a holier-than-thou one
he Dean is mad.” So said Hugh Trevor Roper of the Rev Prof Edward Norman, the Dean of Peterhouse, who “declared war” on him when he was appointed as master. The whole episode inspired Tom Sharpe’s Porterhouse Blue with the abrasive, rude and reactionary dean – played magnifi cently by Paul Rogers in the TV adaptation – bearing more than a passing resemblance to Norman. Norman was considered to be an example, par excellence, of a particular genre of Church of England clergyman: the bitchy vicar. Though Norman himself spent his ministry not in parishes, but in colleges and cathedrals, other examples are and were available. In the 1950s, the Rev Frederick Densham, the vicar of Warleggan in Cornwall, surrounded his vicarage with barbed wire and Alsatians so as to discourage social calls and famously fi lled his pews with cardboard silhouettes because he “preferred them to people”. Douglas Feaver, erstwhile bishop of Peterborough, was routinely put forward as a candidate for the rudest man in England. Yet he was beloved in his diocese, and was certainly held in greater aff ection than today’s bishops, who communicate with smiling platitudes, but inwardly are ravenous, managerial wolves. Diffi cult clergy then have always been a feature of the Church. Tomorrow is the feast of St James the Great, known as “Boanerges” or “the Son of Thunder” because of his explosive temper and impetuous nature. He ended up, unsurprisingly perhaps, as the fi rst apostle to be martyred. These days it probably won’t lead to that, but being rude or diffi cult won’t help your clerical career. Then again it doesn’t – as numerous incidents of Christ’s own rudeness demonstrate – impede your salvation either. The fact that the Church of England has often had diffi culties discerning this point doesn’t speak ill of the grumpy or awkward but of the institution itself.
people are likely to find an abrasive cleric more inviting than a bland and moralising one
former leader Neil Kinnock and former minister Glenys Kinnock (and husband of former Danish prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt), has been appointed as Secretary of State for Wales, ensuring the party’s historical aristocracy remains fi rmly represented in government. Hamish Falconer, son of Tony Blair’s lord chancellor, Charlie Falconer, has just been promoted within the Foreign Offi ce despite having just two years’ parliamentary experience. From the Milibands to the Eagles (Angela, twin sister of Labour MP and ex-minister Maria, has just been promoted to Environment Secretary), Labour’s ruling apparatus resembles a closed shop where political capital is handed down like a family heirloom. How can a party founded to represent the working class credibly preach meritocracy to the country when its own front bench relies so heavily on family ties and inherited networks? Beyond explicit family lines lies the sprawling network of Westminster power couples, where political authority, policy-making and lobbying merge into a single entity. Yvette Cooper, who is married to ex-shadow chancellor turned Good Morning Britain presenter Ed Balls, remains in Burnham’s Cabinet as Health Secretary. Reynolds returns to the business brief while his wife Claire continues as executive director of stakeholder relations at the Labour Party. Ellie Reeves is married to John Cryer, a Labour peer who was once chairman of
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here are moments when you want to hit pause on the world and demand to get off . For me, that moment arrives the instant we start normalising make-up for eight-year-olds. We already watched infl uencers shepherd pre-pubescent girls down the rabbit hole of obsessive skincare regimes. Now celebrity off spring are actively hawking beauty brands to their non-celebrity peers. At 15, Harper Beckham’s reported launch of her own beauty line, Harlo, is perhaps less shocking than it is predictable. The trademarks are signed, sealed, and apparently delivered. A family source insists this is “very much a Brand Harper thing”, not a Beckham brand extension. Of course. One can only imagine how little her multimillionaire parents’ resources,
Tellingly, these clergy might well have been – and continue to be – rude to masters of Cambridge colleges, to suff ragan bishops and to middle managers, but they were almost never rude to the lady who made the tea or the verger who swept the sanctuary. In my experience, it is the clergy who trumpet their own kindness who are much more likely to be rude to them. As the Dean of Porterhouse declares after an altercation between the new master and the kitchen staff – in words that one can imagine being Norman’s own – “it may be proper to be vilely rude to one’s equals but I have always considered it the worst of taste to be uncivil to servants”. Properly deployed, the rude cleric is a worthy successor in the age of management to the ancient tradition of The Holy Fool who reminded the kings and rulers of old that the ways of the world were of naught in the eyes of God. Think of them – or perhaps if I am exhibiting any sense of self awareness, us – as being the grit in the oyster. The sort of people required to stop any institution, and especially the Church, from falling in love with itself and spending its time congratulating itself for being especially good or nice or kind. Or, perhaps even more importantly, consider us as reminders of grace, that even the rude, the short-tempered and the cynical can become vessels by which the love of God is shown. Some of the best priests I know, indeed many of those responsible for my vocation, were and are cantankerous. It’s good to be reminded that the love of God is not limited by something as petty as manners. Plenty of people, those who wink at authority or yawn through acts of self-centred piety, are likely to fi nd an abrasive cleric more inviting than a bland and moralising one. Their souls are as beloved and worthy of salvation as those of the performatively kind. Let us thank God that he still calls people who are capable of appealing to the former as much as he does the latter.
the Parliamentary Labour Party. Pat McFadden, who served under Blair and Brown, remains as Work and Pensions Secretary. He is married to Marianna McFadden, who once worked for Blair’s think tank and is the Labour Party’s deputy general secretary. Alex Norris, Burnham’s new Justice Secretary, is married to Labour MP Emma Foody, who was parliamentary private secretary to Bridget Phillipson, who has lost her job as Education Secretary to Lucy Powell but remains in charge of the women and equalities brief. Foody has been promoted to a
contacts, and platform had to do with it. Nice work if you can get it – preferably by being born into it. But Harper is a teenager. The real alarm bell is Valencia Fury, the eight-year-old daughter of Tyson and Paris Fury, who has just landed a collaboration with Superdrug. In a predictably self-promotional social- media video, the child announces: “Hi, I’m Valencia Fury, I’m eight years old and I’m obsessed with make-up.” Superdrug sent her their “fantasy range” for kids – hair accessories, lip balm, jewellery. It sounds harmless until you picture an eight-year-old browsing the cosmetics counter instead of tearing around a soft-play centre or building a teddy bear. This is not innocent fun. It is the commercial acceleration of a disturbing trend. The term cosmeticorexia has
No 10 North? No, no, no!
What would Margaret Thatcher, below, have made of “No 10 North” – the Prime Minister’s new operation in Manchester where Andy Burnham will base himself for at least one day a week? Not much, according to Caroline Slocock, who was her private secre- tary in Downing St from 1989 to 1991. Ms Slo- cock, who has just pub- lished a new book Bad Government (And How To Make It Better), told me on GB News: “I don’t think it would have worked for her. She wanted to live above the shop, and the shop is No 10.”
Shooting par
The Open Championship at Royal Birk- dale last weekend seems to have changed a lot since I was fi rst there, 43 years ago. On the banned list for visitors were “unmanned aerial vehicles includ- ing drones, model aircraft, kites or sim- ilar airborne crafts” and “noise producing devices including air horns, portable speakers, PA systems, mega- phones”. But it was heartening to see that “single-stem shooting sticks” are still allowed for golf fans. Some things should never change.
Sir Alan’s long-service medal
Congratulations to Labour MP and for- mer Government chief whip Sir Alan Campbell, this week reappointed by Andy Burnham to the Cabinet. Before 2024, he was a Home Office minister and a senior whip. He has been on the Labour front bench since 2006, when Tony Blair was PM. Is this a record?
senior whip position. This isn’t merely a matter of personal relationships; it represents a dangerous concentration of power. When political strategists, lobbyists, party administrators and ministers share a dining table, the line between public service and private interest becomes dangerously blurred. The hypocrisy is starkest when measured against the party’s own rhetoric. For years, Labour rightly criticised Conservative administrations for cronyism. Yet again with Burnham we see evidence of fi gures fast-tracked through think tanks like Labour
emerged to describe the unhealthy obsession with skincare and fl awless complexions gripping girls as young as eight. Social media and aggressive marketing have convinced children they need up to 10 products a day, including adult-grade serums and chemical exfoliants. Dermatologists are issuing stark warnings: developing skin is vulnerable to irritation, allergies and even chemical burns from retinoids and harsh acids. The psychological toll is equally grim. Appearance anxiety and shame settle in early, as little girls learn to scrutinise and “fi x” fl aws that don’t exist. Accelerated by online “selfi e” and “fi lter” culture, we are seemingly raising a generation to outsource their self-worth to beauty regimes and retail therapy before they’ve even mastered the playground climbing frame.
also Lord Hendy (it was about the coast- guard). After hearing the minister’s for- mal reply, Lord Hendy, 78, told the minister: “I am grateful to my noble kins- man for that answer.” After peers reacted, Hendy senior added: “I have waited a long time to use that expression and it is a pleasure to do so.” Few knew they were related. While Peter Hendy is an aggressive performer at the Dispatch Box, his elder brother is notoriously one of the Upper House’s more glacial orators.
The art of Nigel’s deal
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has lifted the lid on how he managed to squeeze £1.5m from ITV to appear on I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! He tells me: “They had asked me year after year after year. I wasn’t that busy and when I said ‘oh I don’t know, maybe’... I said I’d do it but I want ‘x’. They said ‘Well, that’s ridiculous’. They made me a counter off er and said I had until Fri- day at 5 o’clock to respond. I didn’t respond. That’s how you negotiate. If we’d done that with the EU, we would be in a very diff erent place.”
Sliding doors
Dame Elaine Paige, 78, below, wanted to play tennis rather than sing. “If I could change anything and be as successful as I’ve been, I would like to have been a really good tennis player,” the pint-sized singer told the Experience is Everything podcast. “I played at school a bit. I’m
Together, which helped propel fi gures
including Starmer and his former chief
of staff , Morgan McSweeney, to power.
Labour politicians who have
received fi nancial backing or staff
secondees from the organisation also
include new-found Burnhamites
Angela Rayner (back as Housing
Secretary despite the tax scandal
revealed by The Telegraph), Home
Secretary Shabana Mahmood, newly
installed Defence Secretary Wes
Streeting and Culture Secretary Lisa
Nandy. Rebranded as ThinkLabour, its
new CEO, former Mirror editor Alison
Phillips, has been serving as transition
director for Burnham’s campaign and
will continue planning and delivering
the transition into No 10.
The revolving door between
corporate consultancies, Left-leaning
think tanks and front-bench offi ces
continues to spin unimpeded. Hollie
Ridley, who is Labour’s General
Secretary, the top administrative job in
the party, is married to Teddy Ryan, a
former senior Labour director who
runs a government-relations fi rm
(Anacta UK) that lobbies on behalf of
major corporate and defence interests.
Burnham promised to dismantle the
centralised machinery of Whitehall,
and to off er a fresh alternative to a
weary electorate. Instead, he has
delivered a court circle built on
personal loyalties, internal cliques,
and inherited connections.
This isn’t a new era of British
politics. It is simply the socialist
hierarchy rearranging the furniture in
Downing Street.
The Bridesmaid Gang: Stephanie Peacock, Rachel Reeves, Ellie Reeves and Vicky Foxcroft
This is complete madness and deeply irresponsible by the grown-ups who are compressing and monetising childhood. The innocence we claim to cherish is being traded, not just for clicks and likes but now brand “partnerships”. It is not even legal for children under 13 to work in the UK, so what on earth is going on here? Parents, brands and social media platforms all bear responsibility. Celebrity families setting the pace make it harder for ordinary ones to push back. When an eight-year-old is positioned as a beauty ambassador, the message to her peers is clear: your value lies in how you look, not the type of person you are or how you treat others. It’s yet another online-engineered regressive, anti-feminist doom loop that needs to be stopped.
raising a generation to outsource their self- worth to beauty regimes and retail therapy
still as obsessed with it as I was as a young girl when I thought that’s what I wanted to do – until my headmistress peered at me across her desk and over her glasses and said ‘But Elaine dear, you can’t even see over the net!’”
Charles’s family tree
The King is raising money for charity by
selling 100 copies of a £3,500 limit-
ed-edition lithograph, below, of High-
grove House for the first time. The
scene, A View from the
Wildflower Meadow,
was painted in 1995
when Charles was Prince
of Wales and features a
large 200-year-old
Cedar of Lebanon tree
which he was forced to
cut down decades ago.
His Highgrove shop
says the 60ft tree
was “one of the
reasons that
the King
w a s
s o
interested in
Highgrove as his country
residence”. It “dominated the garden
and imparted a friendly atmosphere to
the house... Sadly, the tree began to
decay and with huge regret and a heavy
heart, the decision was taken to fell it.”
Adams and the Archbishop
Former Arsenal footballer Tony Adams told this week’s Oldie Literary lunch about his years recovering from addic- tion, at times letting rip with four-let- tered words for the audience, which included the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, who was on the same table. Lord Williams of Oystermouth seemed to go along with it, only wincing when Adams included a “My God”, in his speech, prompting Adams to lean over the rostrum and give the bearded theologian an apolo- getic tap on the shoulder.
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just naughty? The ruthless battle being fought in schools
n one of her last pronouncements before being sacked by Andy Burnham, the now former education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, warned schools not to conflate bad pupil behaviour with special education needs. “Having special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) is not the same as bad behaviour,” she said. Phillipson added that so-called “inclusion bases”, the punishment- free classrooms created by Labour for children with special needs, “are not a place to send children when they are difficult”. Her intervention was a stark recognition of the extraordinary, dual crisis unfolding in UK schools over SEND: a sharp, ongoing rise in the number of pupils classed as having special educational needs – now one in five of the school population – and the misery and disruption being caused to other children by a system in which the misbehaviour of unruly pupils is often being excused as a symptom of a condition like ADHD. Tellingly, Phillipson’s appeal was to teachers on the front line of this crisis, who are being forced to balance the demands of campaigners and parents for special treatment of children deemed to have SEN, with the practicalities of maintaining order and providing every pupil with the best possible education. Many are finding it an impossible task, not least as parents pursue SEN diagnoses for their children, often because they want councils to fund expensive independent education or they cannot accept that their child is average academically and want more intensive input. Other parents blame special needs for their child’s challenging behaviour to deflect from their own parenting shortcomings. Meanwhile, the very existence of Labour’s “inclusion bases” highlights how government measures to address SEN risk increasing the scale of the problem. In schools, it’s the teachers who are left to deal with the practicalities: challenging behaviour in the classroom, a sizeable proportion of which is unleashed by pupils deemed to have SEN, and therefore must be treated differently to others. For many, it’s becoming an increasingly impossible task trying to distinguish between behaviour that might be caused by a “disorder” – for which “reasonable adjustments” are demanded under equality law – and students who are just playing up.
driven by the dramatic rise in children being labelled as having special educational needs. Under the current system, heads have to find the first £6,000 of additional educational provision per pupil from their own coffers before applying to local councils for high- needs “top-up” funding or an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP), a legal document that triggers funding. So formal identification and labelling of children as SEN have become essential levers for schools trying to unlock funding or specialised support. Since EHCPs were introduced under the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition in 2014, the number of children with such a plan has more than doubled to 538,547, accounting for 6 per cent of all students. A further 1.3m, 15 per cent of pupils, are on SEN support without EHCPs. The increase is also being driven in part by progressive teachers who believe that poor pupil behaviour is not a deliberate act of malice or a choice to be “naughty”, but a symptom of unmet emotional, social, or physiological needs. Under this philosophy, championed by teaching unions such as the National Education Union, it is ADHD, anxiety, depression or some other disorder or deprivation that is the root cause of poor behaviour. Meanwhile, families desperate for help for children with more severe learning development and additional needs are fighting for funds and access to the right provision as councils are overwhelmed in a tsunami of competing demands. The combined factors of parents and teachers seeking labels to excuse poor behaviour, financial incentives for schools and ideological pressure from staff and unions, are driving an increase in numbers in most of the official SEN categories: communication and interaction, cognition and learning and social, emotional and mental health. By contrast, numbers of children with physical-disability SEN have been relatively stable over the last decade. ADHD is one of the fastest-growing categories of SEN, falling within the social, emotional and mental health grouping. NHS England monitoring data show that the number of children and young people waiting for an ADHD assessment rose from around 21,000 in April 2019 to around 270,000 by December 2025. It is characterised by persistent inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity (action taken without foresight). Pupils may exhibit “hyperactivity and oppositionality” – in other words they won’t sit still or do what they are
Dual crisis: in one of her final acts as education secretary, Bridget Phillipson warned schools not to conflate bad pupil behaviour with special educational needs and that ‘inclusion bases’ were not places to send children when they were difficult
told – and often experience diffi culties with “impulse control and behavioural regulation that disrupt classroom routines and social relationships”. Around 40 to 60 per cent of children diagnosed with ADHD are estimated to have Oppositional Defi ant Disorder (ODD), according to experts. ODD was recognised as a “mental disorder” in the US in the 1980s. It is characterised by “disruptive behaviour and a pattern of angry, argumentative, irritable and vindictive moods” and is, presumably, in its genuine form, every teacher’s worst nightmare. Part of the problem with the system is the assessment for ADHD is based on a checklist of this behaviour. If a child displays the behaviour frequently enough, they can be assessed as having ADHD – the condition cannot be separated from the behaviour. On this fairly broad criteria, there is a massive expansion of the pool of pupils who have the potential to be classed as requiring special interventions, such as one-to-one or small-group tuition, sessions with counsellors and educational psychologists, mentors, and cognitive behavioural therapy. Autism diagnoses too are on the rise and having a signifi cant impact on schools, where teachers are being asked to make adjustments such as slowing down the pace despite having to cover the packed curriculum. Anxiety is often a feature of autism and can require a fl exible timetable and more support from specialist staff . One in three of the 538,547 pupils in England with an EHCP, have been identifi ed as autistic.
One secondary school teacher from Yorkshire says it is “100 per cent the case” that SEN is being used as an excuse for poor behaviour. This year, she taught a pupil who was “rude and disruptive” but his mother would not entertain the idea that he was responsible for his bad behaviour and was instead pursuing a special needs assessment. “Whenever I or a colleague rang her to explain a detention or to discuss his attitude, she wouldn’t accept it,” the teacher says. “The parent insisted it
was a result of his SEN issues. He knew this, so felt untouchable.” According to this member of staff , responses like this undermine teacher authority and make the job harder than it already is. School staff are forced to suff er in silence as admitting to this view publicly is career suicide. Learning support assistant Paul Sheward faced disciplinary action at Great Missenden Church of England Combined School in Buckinghamshire, when he wrote on a Facebook group that SEN was being used as an excuse for naughty behaviour in schools. At a hearing for a case of constructive dismissal, which he unsuccessfully brought against the school after resigning, he claimed that some children with behavioural issues do not actually have any additional needs or special educational needs. “I fi rmly believe that SEN is being routinely used as an excuse for violent outbursts and a failure or unwillingness to comply with instructions. There seems to be an obsession with identifying the causes of, or fi nding reasons for, appallingly bad behaviour,” he told the tribunal. “It would seem that there is no such thing as ‘naughty’ children anymore. There has to be an underlying explanation. I do not believe this is the case. My belief is that some children are just badly behaved. There are no underlying issues. It’s purely down to how they’ve been brought up.” Tom Bennett, the government behaviour tsar originally appointed by the Conservatives, says it is inevitable that higher proportions of children with SEND feature in “consequence statistics” such as suspensions and expulsions. “People must remember that many children are designated as having a special educational need because they misbehave so frequently, rather than because of a diagnosed neurological or cognitive impairment – so to some extent some designations of SEND are circular.” In these cases, a “specialist response” is not always appropriate: “Many simply need boundaries, consistency and consequences,” he says. A SEN teacher in the Midlands who recently retired after nearly 30 years, says that towards the end of his career, he became convinced that special-needs labels were being used to hide bad parenting. “At my last primary school there were two boys who were doing anything they could to attract attention, including mooning the head.” In the staff room, ADHD was touted as a
is that some children are just badly behaved. It’s purely down to how they have been brought up’
Paul Sheward, learning support assistant
and disruptive but the parent insisted it was a result of SEN issues. He felt untouchable’
Yorkshire secondary school teacher
possible reason for their behaviour because it seemed extreme, although a formal diagnosis had not been made. When the SEN teacher entered their classroom, he found them “running around causing chaos as the teacher and classroom assistant were trying to tidy up and keep the other children away from them.” The teacher threw a wad of paper towels at each boy and insisted they help him tidy the classroom. Within minutes they were wiping down the desks with him. A common-sense approach, giving the boys the right kind of attention, straightforward instructions and showing them that their actions had consequences – they had to clean up their mess – proved to be immediately eff ective. They appeared not to have had similar treatment either at home or from other teachers, who had shied away from tackling their poor behaviour. “Praise was given where obviously none had been given before – both at home and at school – and when we had fi nished tidying up, I sat with them on the fl oor mat to show how they should sit,” he says. “Within minutes they were sitting and listening, for what I was told was the fi rst time.” At the end of the day, the boys were “handed over to their mother, who was there with a younger sibling in a pushchair a nd on her mobile, with no interest in the boys’ day at all”. The teacher describes this as “heartbreaking” but typical. “In so many cases it has been poor parenting which has caused the issue as the kids were generally crying out for attention.” Both the parents and the school leadership agreed with an educational psychologist’s subsequent assessment of ADHD. “The school received money to help support the children – which disappeared into the general pot so did not do what was intended – while the parents received additional benefi ts and an offi cial excuse for their children’s behaviour,” says the teacher. “Basically, an abuse of the system to cover up a deeper malaise in society.” He points out that modern teacher teaching encourages teachers to spot SEN issues. “There is a general feeling of ‘we must hand it over to the experts’ which is encouraged by safeguarding and other procedures.” A teaching assistant who spoke to The Telegraph is similarly troubled by the rush to look for a diagnosis, at primary level in particular. Instead of making a concerted eff ort to set boundaries and train unprepared pupils to adapt to more social, formal settings, the “problem” is passed on. “Any child that is running around and refusing to stay put is assumed to need an assessment [for SEN]”, the teaching assistant says. “Yes, possibly something is going on. But a child’s inability to focus and do what they are told is almost immediately fi led under the heading of neurodiversity or ADHD. And the behaviour then becomes something that the children are deemed not to have any control over.” When teachers fail to take command, it creates a ripple eff ect in the classroom. “Other kids see this as preferential treatment,” says the teaching assistant. “Then pupils think that they have a choice: ‘If I’m in a good mood I’ll stay at this desk, but if I’m bored or annoyed, it doesn’t matter if I kick off ’. It is actually confusing for children.”
The battle in schools is taking place amid a wider debate in society. On one side are medical, mental health and education experts who dismiss the claims of overdiagnosis. Some even argue that, because of long waiting lists, “stigma” and unequal access to assessments and resources, conditions that fall under the social, emotional and mental health heading such as autism, ADHD, anxiety and depression, are actually underdiagnosed. For these advocates, special allowances must be made to make life easier for children and young people who have the various conditions. This is backed by the Equality Act 2010 which says allowances must be made even if there is no offi cial or formal diagnosis. If pupils need a “time out” of a class or a reduced timetable, it must be provided. If the uniform makes them uncomfortable, it should be adjusted. If they fi nd it challenging to read out loud in class or complete their homework, they should be excused. If they fi nd a lesson “triggering”, they should be able to skip it. All these “reasonable adjustments” appear in offi cial council guidance to schools. Teachers are blamed for not making suffi cient allowances or told their teaching is attracting trouble from children with short attention spans because it’s not up to scratch. A Department for Education research paper published last year, which explores the best ways to identify and support children with social, emotional and mental health needs, claims that “providing high-quality teaching that is evidence-based and diff erentiated” may reduce the “likelihood that students will require additional, more intensive support”. Expecting these children to submit to the rules that their peers have to follow is unfair because their brain make-up makes it impossible, the reasoning goes. The logic is also seeping into the courts system, where judges are routinely using an ADHD diagnosis as mitigation during sentencing or as evidence of diminished responsibility to explain impulsive, spur-of- the-moment actions. But on the other side of
the debate are a growing number of professionals, including medical experts in psychiatry and neurology, who are questioning whether these lists of behaviours, particularly in their less extreme forms, can be classed as “medical disorders”, or even as “conditions” at all. Unlike diseases like Alzheimer’s which can be identifi ed from biological factors apparent in medical scans, syndromes like ADHD are susceptible to cultural trends in “over- medicalisation and societal contagion”, according to a paper by Derek Summerfi eld, a consultant psychiatrist in London, who examined the rise in adult ADHD diagnosis. The categorisation of these symptom clusters as “neurodevelopmental disorders” is ungrounded and is “essentially disease- mongering”, he says. Other experts warn that psychologists, doctors, teachers and parents are under pressure to “give struggling children a medical label”. “Parents are worried about their children and perceive this as a way to help them,” says Dr Suzanne O’Sullivan, a neurology consultant, in her book The Age of Diagnosis. “For many, a medical diagnosis is the only way to access extra support, both medically, fi nancially and as school accommodations.” According to the Government’s independent review into mental health conditions, ADHD and autism, the prevalence of parent-reported autism – where families say their child has autism, whether or not there is a formal diagnostic assessment – rocketed by around 25 per cent between 2022 and 2024.
The lack of agency and “learned helplessness” that an SEN diagnosis can engender at a young age may help to partly explain the staggering rise in benefi ts dependency. In 2019-20, around 230,000 young people aged 16 to 24 were claiming Personal Independence Payments (PIP). By 2025-26, that fi gure had soared to 465,000, with 79 per cent of claims relating to “psychiatric conditions”, which includes autism, ADHD, anxiety and depression. Almost one million 16 to 24-year- olds are neither in work nor training, according to the Offi ce for National Statistics, with more than half citing ill-health. Meanwhile, the number of children under 16 receiving disability benefi ts increased from almost 300,000 in 2010 to 465,000 in 2020. The rate of increase then quickened, with recipients reaching 760,000 by 2025, and they are forecast to reach almost 1.2 million by 2031. Dr Sami Timimi, child and adolescent psychiatrist, psychotherapist and author of Searching for Normal, believes that ADHD, autism, depression and the like, are not medical diagnoses and should not be used in decisions about who would benefi t from extra support. “Until we recognise that we will be stuck with a messy, unsupportable system that is fi nancially unsustainable and makes it harder to develop a more positive overall school culture,” he says. “The larger the proportion of budget that goes to SEN, the less there is for non-SEN, which means parents of these kids will feel they’re missing out, and the more divided will be the whole school culture.” Some of the best-performing state schools in the country with uncompromising discipline seem able to keep a lid on the kind of behaviour associated with ADHD, for instance, and to foster high achievement rates for these children. Critics, however, point to higher rates of exclusions at some of these schools. At Michaela Community School, in Wembley, north-west London, led by the country’s “strictest head” Katharine Birbalsingh, suspensions and expulsions are not noticeably higher. The school employs no SEND-specifi c staff , Birbalsingh revealed recently. Because all children behave well in her school, you can’t tell who has ADHD and autism. Ofsted inspectors visiting Micheala Community School were clear about its positive impact: “Leaders have put robust systems in place to identify pupils’ SEND. They provide additional support if necessary. Teachers are adept at ensuring that all pupils achieve highly,” according to the watchdog’s most recent report. According to Tom Bennett, the Government’s behaviour adviser, most misbehaviour in schools – and life – occurs because of “perfectly normal human reasons and motivations”, like avoiding hard work, trying to impress friends and having fun, rather than because of some “complex psychological mystery”. “If we treat all misbehaviour as SEN then we pathologise what it means to be human, and worse, we treat students as if they can’t help their behaviour because it is beyond their control,” he says. “But that’s just not true. Most – almost all – students can be helped to behave better and build better habits that help them to be successful. Children with SEN need support but above all, they need safe, calm, predictable environments where expectations are clear and they are taught to meet them.” Schools must provide reasonable adjustments “where necessary”, he says, but not more than that – “otherwise we risk teaching students that they are helpless”.
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t’s a funny time, don’t you think, to be accusing the Victoria and Albert Museum of “a culture of systemic racism”. Its current show at V&A East is called The Music is Black: A British Story, while at the South Kensington museum, we fi nd Rising Voices: Contemporary Art from Asia, Australia and the Pacifi c. When I saw posters for that one, my fi rst thought was, “Not for me, thanks. But hey, in the rich smorgasbord of cultural off erings, there’s something for everyone.” It’s hard to square this uncompromising globalism with systemic racism, but that’s what’s been suggested by Yuko Kikuchi, a disgruntled former employee of the museum. She was head of academic programmes at the V&A, but left in January. Her parting shot was a letter to Sir Tristram Hunt, the director, which has now surfaced in The Art Newspaper. The aff air has created a stir, involving, as it does, a distinguished national institution, old rows about art and colonialism, and the dishy Sir Tristram. Kikuchi makes several complaints. One, she had often been the “only non-white person in the room”. And two, a senior colleague told her to avoid using the terms “decolonial” and “postcolonial” in conversation because it “might upset patrons and donors”. Kikuchi is, by the way, Japanese. Then there’s the accusation that colleagues had resisted her proposals to create a less “conventional, Eurocentric curriculum”. One of her proposals for a history of design degree was a course entitled “Postcolonial Identity, Museum Collections and Transnationalism”. That was given cruelly short shrift. It seems to me that if someone is taking the trouble to attend a course at the V&A, then a Eurocentric curriculum is probably just what they’re hoping for. None of this is going to bring down the V&A. The museum has issued a statement with the usual pieties about being “against unlawful discrimination in all its forms”. The depressing thing about this episode is that it shows that the tired, cynical cant about racism is still live ammunition in pursuit of grievance. It is a useful card because it can never be trumped, even for
‘racism’ and ‘colonialism’ row proves no amount of globalism can satisfy the anti- Eurocentric mob
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an institution so very much “with the programme” in terms of a global outlook. That’s one of the things the V&A is for – to off er the best of the works of all nations for the benefi t of British design. Sir Henry Cole, its founder, spent some of the proceeds of the Great Exhibition of 1851 buying Indian fabrics, which still draw the crowds. But this rot is everywhere. Curators in museums and galleries may be individually clever, interested and knowledgeable, but the curricula in the
institutions that educate them, created by people such as Kikuchi, tend to produce the kind of art history that Brian Sewell, the much-missed critic, called “intellectually corrupt, swamped in meaningless jargon, distorted by political correctitudes”. The result is all around us. It’s been less bad in recent years but still in evidence – an unwillingness to off end, and an anxiety to suck up to anyone who might, conceivably, take off ence at anything. This is distinct from information about the provenance of objects, including contested ownership – that is absolutely valid. The most egregious example was Tate Britain’s famously awful exhibition fi ve years ago, Hogarth and Europe, where you struggled to fi nd
out about Hogarth’s actual visits to Europe and dealings with Continental artists, but had one gratuitously silly panel after another taking issue with anything suggestive of colonialism. One, by a woman artist, declared of a 1757 self-portrait showing Hogarth on a wooden chair: “The chair is made from timbers shipped from the colonies, via routes which also shipped enslaved people. Could the chair also stand in for all those unnamed black and brown people, enabling the society that supports his vigorous creativity?” “No, you dumbo,” was the correct response. I mention this as the most evident example of where the Kikuchi tendency gets us, but there are more. There was the Aubrey Beardsley exhibition six
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uery: would you prefer to speak to a chatbot about your gas bill, or a human being? The correct answer to that, I’d say, is human being. Yet Chris O’Shea, the chief executive of Centrica, which owns British Gas, says that he has been closing down call centres and reducing the supplier’s customer service teams because customers prefer to take their queries to AI rather than people. “AI isn’t driving these particular job reductions,” he said. “That’s mainly due to changing customer behaviour. What we’re seeing just now is [that] over 90 per cent of our customers use digital channels in the fi rst instance, and we’ve seen a 20 per cent reduction in customer calls, so this refl ects changing customer behaviour.” I feel just a little sceptical of these fi gures, which so usefully validate the 1,300 jobs that the company will be cutting over the next two years. Unions claimed that Centrica’s investment in AI would lead to chatbots taking “hundreds” of human jobs – it turns out they underestimated the damage. But the company says it’s what the customer wants. I really don’t buy it. My idea of customer-relations perfection is making a call that is answered by a human being at the outset and continues to be taken by a human being. None of the circle-of-hell business of being shunted from one automated service to another with the
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ndy Burnham’s fare cap of £2 for bus journeys in England is one of those policies it’s hard to be against, which hasn’t prevented a row about who should get credit for it. Is it Boris Johnson, who introduced the policy when he was PM, or Burnham, for bringing it back? Whatever. Bus travel is the default transport for many of us. The cheaper, the better. But bus space is limited, especially on London buses, which means that the etiquette around occupying seats is fraught. That’s true especially of the priority seats. It should be straightforward: the lame and elderly get to sit there with everyone else taking their turn. But that runs counter to the social phenomenon of the day, the Little Emperor syndrome, whereby children get weird priority. I saw it this week. The bus I was on fi lled up and there was a woman – Korean, at a guess – in the priority seats near the door with
Sounding off: The Music is Black: A British Story exhibition is on show at V&A East; inset, disgruntled former employee Yuko Kikuchi has levelled several complaints at the V&A
assurance that this is to enable my query to be dealt with more effi ciently. More cheaply, more like. In this context, it’s interesting to observe that profi ts from Centrica’s retail division rose by £8m to £346m in the fi rst six months of 2026 from the same period last year. Yet the number of domestic customers fell to 7.45 million from 7.5 million. I do not believe that people seek out automated responses, which never quite answer the question you want answered. When Elon Musk says that AI will make human work “optional”, it may not be because people are choosing the machine but because our choices have been taken from us. Of course, if British Gas customers really are opting to avoid their call centre operatives, there may be a reason. Normally, these encounters are an ordeal – not made more agreeable by the promise that I’ll have the opportunity to rate my experience. But when a call with a human being goes well, it can make your day. Once when I called a housing management company about replacing a building key, having been put round various departments, I found a clever bloke on the line who observed that my query fell between at least two diff erent categories, but he found a way to circumvent the problem. “We’ve beaten the Machine” he said gleefully. You don’t get that with AI, now do you?
her little boy occupying the next seat. In came an elderly woman on crutches, with a turban. She hobbled towards the seats, beamed at the woman and intimated that perhaps she could take the little boy – no more than six – on her lap. The woman looked astonished; the lady repeated her request and fi nally understanding dawned and the child sat on his mother’s knee. Do I need to say this: the elderly lady shouldn’t have had to ask? There is something peculiar going on, whereby the fewer children we have, the more spoilt they get. We’re making monsters here. This is what laps are for folks – for taking small children on to. So as we all pile on to the Burnham buses, can we remind ourselves of the principle: old, lame people get to sit, children stand. OK? Actually, make that: adults sit, children get up for them. We will all get on so much better if oldies don’t have to fi ght for a seat.
years ago, again at Tate Britain, where I was dumbfounded by a caption to Beardsley’s drawing, The Wagnerites, pointing out a potentially anti-Semitic depiction of a Jewish member of the audience. I scrutinised the picture – could it be the innocuous bald, bespectacled man whom I’d looked at unthinkingly? Turned out it was. Things may be improving, as I didn’t see any references to colonialism in the Tate’s magnifi cent Turner & Constable exhibition when I visited this year. But one sign of whether Jessica Morgan, the newly-named director of Tate galleries, is as brilliant as she seems will be whether she can see off the Kikuchi tendency. Jeff rey Bernard was a presence in her life growing up, so the omens are good.
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he first thing you notice, on entering Reform HQ, is the security. I was last there at the start of the year, and in the months since Nigel Farage has, according to internal records, received more than 500 death threats. The new measures – metal detectors, tough-looking guards at reception, bullet-resistant glass – are difficult to ignore. Though I find them faintly unnerving, Farage just shrugs. These precautions are, he says, “unsurprising”. There is no bravado in that remark. Whether by temperament or necessity – probably both – he has long accepted that normality is no longer within reach. “When you’re painted as a crook and a villain, what do you expect?” he asks, weariness in his voice. British politics has entered a time in which disagreement mutates into moral absolutism, where too many rush to brand opponents not merely mistaken but wicked. Just two weeks before our meeting, Ann Widdecombe was brutally killed, another grim shock to a political culture already scarred by the killings of Jo Cox and Sir David Amess. Farage believes that the attack on Widdecombe, who was Reform’s immigration and justice spokeswoman, reinforces his concern and supports his insistence on holding back details about his finances and private life – behaviour that his critics interpret as evasive. The security threat highlighted by the killing makes accusations that he’s been hiding from public scrutiny over his relationship with “Posh” George Cottrell – and the £5 million personal gift he received from businessman Christopher Harborne – appear poorly judged, Farage says. He observes that the nature of political violence has changed. It is no longer associated with organised terrorist groups, and something much less predictable has emerged. “It’s not Irish nationalism. It’s not Islamist terrorism where you broadly knew what you were dealing with. Now you’ve got online radicalisation and lone wolves.” The threat becomes “diffuse,” he says – and invisible until the moment it materialises The emotional temperature of contemporary politics does not help, and Farage believes politicians themselves bear some responsibility for raising it. He singles out David Lammy’s remark that the Reform leader had “flirted” with Hitler Youth. “Do you ever hear me being personally vituperative about my political adversaries?” he asks. “No. There might be a bit of mickey- taking. The worst thing I ever did in Brussels was say somebody had the charisma of a damp rag.” For a politician whose greatest asset is visibility, this all presents a dilemma. Farage has spent the past three decades not behind lecterns but in pubs, village halls and on high streets, in conversations with strangers that frequently descend into arguments before ending in selfies. Advertising Farage’s movements in advance carries risks his team no longer consider acceptable. “We tried that,” he says. “It was dangerous.” I have seen this first hand; that moment when political staff quietly retreat and security personnel step forward. “We begged the Home Office for help,” he says. “When I was an MP, I finally got what I was requesting [an eight-strong team, including a driver] but then it was stripped away.” Reform maintains that the authorities “massively downgraded” Farage’s security, to two staff, only one of whom was a close protection operative, “just a short period after he was elected to Parliament”. The House of Commons insists that security for all MPs is under continuous and rigorous review; given the scale of the threat towards Farage, many would question whether the current level of protection is adequate. The rising threat level has altered how politicians – or would-be candidates – think about public office. Farage expresses concern over the talent pipeline, and argues more precautions need to be taken by those already on the green benches. “One of them is that, whilst MPs should obviously make their own decisions, I don’t think Members of Parliament should be riding the London Underground anymore.” Aside from the threat of violence, the level of everyday vitriol Farage faces was evident 70 miles away in Clacton this week, when a driver rolled down her window as she drove past Farage and shouted “w***er”, before crashing into the car in front. “What you call instant karma,” was his pithy response. Farage has triggered a by-election intended to be a people versus the establishment campaign but which his political opponents have decried as a naked attempt to change the subject. He’s racking up “20,000 steps” a day and has the tan to prove it. He’s received “every kind of comment imaginable... Good and bad.” Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats all refused to field candidates, arguing that the contest is little more than an effort to distract from the Parliamentary Commissioner’s investigation into the Harborne gift, received weeks before Farage announced he would stand for Parliament. Kemi Badenoch dismissed the contest as a “gimmick”. Rather than answer questions in Westminster, Tories complain, Farage is inviting voters to settle a matter that properly belongs elsewhere. Reform’s version of events is rather different. That it’s not a “farce,” it’s democracy. That the “establishment” wanted scrutiny, so Farage is submitting himself to the voters. “And if those voters really think I’m a crook or a bad dude, they can get rid of me.” Party figures admit to surprise that the main parties chose not to contest the seat. They would have preferred a straight fight than to defeat the 30-odd “no-
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his finances amid security fears. He tells Annabel Denham the people of Clacton will decide
hopers” now on the ballot paper. Farage refuses to guess the outcome of perhaps the biggest gamble of his political career, and whether he can increase his vote share on Aug 13, but he’s convinced the Tories are running scared. “In 2019, Giles Watling received 72 per cent of the vote. Had the Conservatives contested the seat this time, they’d have lost their deposit.” While Reform are bullish, this by-election is coming at a more uncertain moment than the party has faced for the best part of two years. Since Farage’s return in April 2024, they’ve had the one commodity every insurgent movement needs: momentum. They captured Runcorn – by six votes – last May, on the same day they swept up 677 council seats. This May, they took control of 14 local authorities. Poll after poll put Reform top, at times as high as 30 per cent. The question now being asked is whether the party’s extraordinary momentum has begun to ebb. They lost by-elections in Caerphilly, Gorton and Denton, and Makerfield. Few expected Reform to win any of them, but politics is about trajectory: after two years in which almost every result appeared to reinforce Reform’s advance, expected defeats have – perhaps unfairly – prompted questions about whether the party’s rapid ascent has begun to level off. Prospects are dim for the Greater
Manchester mayoralty, though Farage is quick to point out that Labour “changed the rules” – by which he means the decision to switch back from first past the post to the supplementary vote system. “It’s banana republic stuff.” And if immigration – both legal and illegal – starts falling, if Labour succeeds in convincing voters that it has a credible grip on the economy and public services, does Reform eventually encounter a ceiling? One recent YouGov survey put Reform on 23 per cent, the Tories on 21 and Labour on 20; another poll had Labour and Reform level on 24 per cent. Those numbers would once have been extraordinary for a party that barely existed a few years ago but they illustrate how much harder it has become to create the impression of an unstoppable march towards government. Reform dismisses such suggestions. “We’ve had our toughest month with a media pile-on and Burnham is at the peak of his popularity,” one senior figure tells me. “And we’re still leading in the polls. Write Nigel off at your peril.” Yet this is precisely why questions surrounding the £5 million donation matter: it’s not just because Farage’s critics believe he breached Commons rules, but because this is a proxy for something larger: a test of character, perhaps, or fitness for government, at a
time when Reform still needs to convince some voters that it is ready to do more than disrupt British politics. Changing explanations of the purpose of the money – security, a reward for Brexit, a personal gift – haven’t helped. The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards has launched an inquiry into whether the donation ought to have been declared differently. Simultaneously, detectives from the Metropolitan Police are examining donations connected to Cottrell – who previously pleaded guilty to wire fraud in the US – and his mother, Fiona Cottrell, over whether her donations to Reform concealed the true source of political funding. Both deny any wrongdoing. Farage is convinced that the political verdict is in anyway, though there is little evidence the court of public opinion has reached the same conclusion. That, at least, must offer some comfort: Reform still remains several points clear of its nearest rival on the Right. “I’ve certainly been judged guilty already by the liberal establishment,” he says. “All right, perhaps I should have filled in a piece of paper. If that’s the worst thing I’ve done in life – not filling in a form – I would say that’s not too bad.” His lawyers, he insists, advised him that no declaration was required. Others are less sure. Somewhere between those competing
interpretations sits Daniel Greenberg, the Parliamentary Commissioner, whose conclusions neither of us can know, yet Farage has little interest in speculating about the outcome. “I haven’t broken the law,” he says firmly. “I haven’t avoided tax. I haven’t misused public money. I haven’t bought a motorhome. My parliamentary expenses? I’ve barely claimed a penny. I don’t need to..” I ask if he regrets his clash with elements of the British media, including reports he “unleashed a tirade of anger” on one editor and appearing to lose his temper with a Sky News journalist who asked him whether it had been a mistake not to declare the gifts he has received from Cottrell. “No,” he responds, without hesitation. “Because the line was crossed.” More than a decade ago, Farage wrote that the greatest regret of his political career was the effect it’d had on his family, particularly the time he felt he had lost with his children while fighting campaigns that consumed much of his adult life. Still, it is hard to dismiss entirely the argument on the other side. Politicians asking voters to entrust them with high office inevitably face searching questions about large sums of money from wealthy benefactors. The issue is not simply whether parliamentary rules were followed, but whether the public can
reasonably understand why such generosity was offered. Farage is unapologetic, reminding me that the practical consequences of public life have become inescapable. “I’ll be living with increased levels of danger until the day I die.” In recent weeks, his “expenses and bills have gone through the roof,” because the security is no longer simply about protecting him. “It’s everybody around me.” Maintaining that level of provision comes at an enormous cost. For all the attention surrounding the investigations into Farage’s finances, the next election won’t be decided by declarations of interest. Instead, it will focus on simpler questions: whether voters feel richer, safer and more optimistic than they did before. Reform’s success has partly rested on the proposition that the country is on a path to terminal decline, and that only Reform can fix it. If Britain begins to look as though it is recovering, the central argument becomes harder to sustain. Farage is careful not to underestimate Andy Burnham. The new Prime Minister understands politics in a way Sir Keir Starmer didn’t – he does not instinctively sneer at Reform voters, communicates fluently and has, for now, unified a fractured Labour Party. “It’s a cleverer approach – the complete opposite to his predecessor,” Farage says. Yet respect quickly gives way to ridicule when the Prime Minister’s programme for government is mentioned. “You’ve got to laugh… the bus policy was like Tweedledum and Tweedledee,” he grins, before pulling up a trouser leg to reveal socks emblazoned with double-deckers. He gives the Burnham bounce until “the end of the summer”, arguing his ambitions won’t survive contact with Labour’s parliamentary Left flank. “One thing is certain: Burnham has no intention of sticking to the 2024 manifesto.” He warns that the Prime Minister’s promise of the biggest programme of political and economic reform in a generation rests on remarkably fragile foundations. “He talks about the biggest change in politics for 40 years. But where’s the mandate? What’s the point of general
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elections if the establishment just keeps playing musical chairs?” He’s dismayed that Badenoch won’t demand a national poll. Although the economy is only tenth on the list of reasons why people are voting Reform, cited by just 10 per cent of their supporters, Farage keeps coming back to the national debt. After all, if Burnham is focusing his attention on the cost of living, Reform will need a response. And Britain’s debt now stands at just under £3 trillion, roughly 95 per cent of national income, while economic growth has been anaemic since the financial crisis, leaving Labour with little room for manoeuvre. “John Healey [the newly-appointed Chancellor] will appear to be a sensible head,” he says. “He did do time as a Treasury minister. But how is he going to increase defence spending to three per cent when our national debt is rising faster than almost anywhere else?” As ever, Farage’s criticism of the Tories is even more cutting: “The Tories will never leave the ECHR or abandon Net Zero,” he says dismissively. I point out that Channel crossings have fallen significantly compared with the same time last year, with ministers insisting the trend demonstrates that their strategy is beginning to work. But Farage cuts in: “Illegal immigration should be zero. Only 1,000 terrorists this year? Oh, great! I’ll get the champagne out of the fridge.” What’s more, he says: “I’m being told by people in Dover that those coming now are the real hard cases.” And how does he define that? “They’re coming to join criminal gangs. I have it on good authority that the Iranians are putting some of their operatives into the country as well. So whether this year’s figure is 28,000 not 43,000 is, frankly, irrelevant.” He thinks law and order is the “most under-discussed crisis in the country at the moment,” a problem successive governments have ignored, but of which voters are becoming increasingly aware. When I ask what Donald Trump might make of Ed Miliband as Foreign Secretary, Farage scoffs. “I can only guess the language he’d choose,” he says, mischievously, “and you wouldn’t print it in your newspaper.” But he is quick to clarify that the US president “wants a great relationship with us for all the emotional reasons that are deep within him. For that reason, he will give Miliband a fair chance”. I ask, finally, how long he expects to remain at the centre of it all. “I’ve never wavered in my determination to reach No 10,” he replies. Not for the titles, rank, or social respectability, but because he believes it is what is required to stop the country “going down the tubes. Yet if somebody more suitable comes along,” he adds, “I’ll recognise it.” Is that person currently in Reform? “If somebody more suitable comes along,” he repeats, “I’ll recognise it.” For more than 30 years every political project Farage has touched has revolved around his own personality, although he stresses this has never been about ego. “I’d love to be 20 miles offshore chasing bluefin tuna,” he says. It is difficult to imagine another British politician whose career has been so defined by the ability to return, seemingly from nowhere, at precisely the moment he was being written off. The question now is whether Britain’s most formidable campaigner can do it once again.
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a British father held in Cyprus over boy’s death
followed two-year- old’s fatal hotel fall. By Neil Johnston and Abigail Buchanan
It was meant to be a luxurious summer holiday with extended family in a stylish beachfront resort. When a City executive and his wife set off for Cyprus with their two young children from their home in an Essex village, they were looking forward to some precious time together and a well-deserved break, just like countless other British families at this time of year. But less than 24 hours after stepping off the plane in the early hours of Sunday July 12, the couple suffered an almost unimaginable tragedy when their two-year-old son fell 30ft out of a hotel window and died. Then, to add agony to the heartache, as the couple reeled from the shock of what had happened, the 37-year-old father, an experienced auditor at one of the “Big Four” consultancy firms, was arrested by the local police and locked up for eight days before being charged with “causing death by a rash, or reckless, or dangerous act”. Now, instead of lounging by the pool at the five-star King Evelthon Beach Hotel and Resort in Paphos or heading to the beach, the family have the painful task of repatriating the two-year-old’s body and waiting for a trial. And, having surrendered his passport, the father does not know whether he will be able to attend the funeral. The nightmare began two weeks ago, only a few hours after they checked in to the hotel, along with the mother’s parents. Like all guests, they would have collected their all- inclusive wristbands. They then went to their rooms on the fourth floor to catch up on some sleep before heading
by a rash, or reckless, or dangerous act”. He is set to appear there again next week after paying €20,000 bail and being escorted out of the courthouse via a back exit. For more than a week his lawyer, Petros Stavrou, had made multiple requests for the father to be released from his cell under strict bail conditions. In a letter to Marios Agiotis, the assistant chief of police, Stavrou wrote: “The tragedy that has befallen our client is such that any further detention will only aggravate his already severe psychological condition, as well as that of his family. “In particular his overriding concern is to be released so he may be with his wife to inform their five-year- old daughter of the death of their two-year-old son, to whom they have so far only told that her brother is in hospital.” But the lawyer’s applications were refused, and the father was reportedly forced to tell his daughter the terrible news over FaceTime. On Tuesday, he was finally able to support his wife and daughter as they grieved while also contemplating the possibility he could be jailed in Cyprus for up to four years. A source close to the family told The Telegraph: “The last 10 days have been agony. He’s been in prison while his wife has had to deal with the loss of their son and breaking the news to their daughter [in person]. “The grandparents are sick with worry about leaving their son in Cyprus on his own [over the coming months] while they travel back and forth to see him. The pressure they are all under is immense.” In the next few days the family will also face the difficult decision of whether to repatriate the two-year-old’s body without his father, who has had to
back downstairs for a day at the pool with the couple’s two-year-old boy and five-year-old daughter. Then, as dinnertime approached, they went back upstairs to get changed. The boys headed off to the restaurant first, with the father and son alongside the boy’s grandfather, leaving the room at around 6.40pm and making their way towards the lifts. What happened next is disputed. The police have speculated that the father, while waiting for the lift to arrive, picked up the boy, whom friends have described as “truly special” and “easy-going”, and started swinging him around. Friends say he simply lifted him up, possibly placing him on the 4ft-high marbled ledge next to the lift, not realising the window was open. The Telegraph has seen the ledge, which overlooks the resort’s pools and the sea, and it is certainly wide enough for a toddler to sit on. Whatever the truth, within seconds the boy had fallen out of the sliding window, dropping 33ft and sustaining severe head injuries. There was nothing that could be done to save him and he was pronounced dead on arrival at Paphos General Hospital shortly after the incident. Less than four hours later his father was in Paphos Central Police Station, having been handed a piece of paper outlining his rights in English and being told he was under arrest, accused of causing the death of his son. While the rest of his family mourned the toddler, “who brought [joy] to everyone around him”, he was instead being interrogated by the police. The father co-operated throughout interviews but, to the shock of his family, appeared before the district court the next morning to be remanded in custody. For the next eight days he slept in a shared holding cell in the police station, a space usually reserved for the country’s worst criminals. He reportedly received psychological help, with medical staff giving him tablets to help him sleep, and reportedly received support from a fellow English inmate.
Then on Tuesday he returned to the same courtroom. Appearing emotional, he sat in the dock wearing a blue striped shirt and light-coloured chinos, flanked by officers in the small, wood-panelled provincial court. Supported by his parents, who had flown out from the UK, he was told he would be charged with “causing death
agony. He’s been in prison while his wife is dealing with the loss of their son’
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provide the police with the address he is staying at and been placed on a “stop list”, preventing him from leaving Cyprus. The restrictions on the man include not passing through crossing points to Turkish-occupied areas of the Mediterranean island. The prosecution was authorised by Cyprus’s attorney general, George Savvides, who said the father would be “subject to strict restrictive conditions” that would “aim to ensure his presence at all future hearings”. The case is likely to centre on the testimony given by the father in his police interviews; there is no CCTV in the corridor where the incident took place. Toxicology reports, which show small traces of
alcohol, no more than one or two drinks, in the defendant’s blood, are also likely to feature in the trial. Friends have said it is difficult to see whether the rectangular glass sliding window is open. Meanwhile, the hotel’s own safety record will prompt questions. A British tourist drowned at one of its three pools in 2022, when witnesses claimed lifeguards were too far away and slow to respond. The King Evelthon boasts of being the “complete beach resort” with “fun-packed” activities and more than 100,000 sq metres of landscaped gardens. This week hotel guests appeared unaware of the tragedy that had unfolded days earlier. Families relaxed amid palm trees by the pool as disco classics played on speakers at the pool bar and guests sipped local beer
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and bottomless cocktails on sun loungers. The resort was packed. Themed shows went ahead as normal in the evening and parents took advantage of the spa, all-inclusive restaurants, on-site water park and kids club. The window next to the fourth-floor lift was shut when The Telegraph visited, and there was no way of guessing what had happened two weeks beforehand. It is thought to have been one of the first holidays abroad for the young boy, known for his warm cuddles and infectious smile, and life had been going well for the family in recent years. The couple, who met at university, had their daughter in 2021, followed by their son in September 2023. They recently celebrated their 10th wedding anniversary. The couple live in a £640,000 four-bedroom cottage in a quiet Essex village next to a handful of neighbours, with views of rolling farmland. They also own a rental flat, which is believed to be the first property they bought together. As well as being an experienced and hard-working auditor, the father also successfully launched a start-up a number of years ago but stepped back so he could spend more time with his children. He is a keen tennis player known for a “fierce serve” and involved with a scheme that introduces youngsters to the game. The journey home for his wife with their daughter will be painful enough in the knowledge that they should be accompanied by the five-year-old’s brother. But it will be even harder knowing the father who loved him so much is stranded 2,600 miles away, unsure whether it will be weeks, months or even years before he can walk through the door again.
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ST JAMES’S PALACE July 24th The Duke of Edinburgh, Vice Patron, Commonwealth Sport, today attended the XXIII Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
ST JAMES’S PALACE July 24th The Princess Royal, President, Royal Yachting Association, accompanied by Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, this morning visited the Emirates GBR SailGP team at SailGP Technologies Hub, Fawley Power Station, Southampton, and was received by His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Hampshire (Mr Nigel Atkinson).
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marriages
Mr T.J.L. Garton and Miss E.G. Williams The engagement is announced between Tristan, only son of Mr Anthony Richard L. Garton, of Kingsclere, Hampshire, and the Hon Ines M. Wilson, of Henley-on- Thames, Oxfordshire, and Emma, eldest daughter of Mr Paul E. Williams, CBE, and Mrs Williams, of Harpenden, Hertfordshire. Online ref: W0050904
Capt N.E. Bennett and Miss D.R. Nicolle The engagement is announced between Captain N.E. Bennett, The Royal Lancers (Queen Elizabeths’ Own), younger son of Colonel and Mrs David Bennett, of Stansted, West Sussex, and Dora, younger daughter of Mr and Mrs Hugo Nicolle, of Chippenham, Cambridgeshire. Online ref: W0050901
Mr A.J. Afezolli and Miss P.F.H. Sennett The engagement is announced between Andi James, son of Naske and Adela Afezolli, of Zurich, Switzerland, and Phoebe Florence Hazel, daughter of Mark and Jocelyne Sennett, of London. Online ref: W0050898
Mr L.J. Evans and Miss L.M. Cross The engagement is announced between Lawrence, son of Mr and Mrs Paul Evans, of West Malling, and Lara, daughter of Mr and Mrs Philip Cross, of Canterbury. Online ref: W0050852
Mr M.C.W. Houston and Miss I.L.R. Napier The marriage took place on June 27, at All Saints, Neen Sollars, between Michael, son of Mr and Mrs Charlie Houston, and Isabel, daughter of Brigadier and Mrs Philip Napier. The Rev Kelvin Price officiated, assisted by the Rev Ashley Buck. The bride was attended by Cleo Nelson, Stanley and Freda Naylor-Leyland and Lily and Grace Wrigley. Mr Edmund Magnus was best man. A reception was held in the Big Top. Online ref: W0050914
Eighth Sunday after Trinity
ST PAUL’S CATHEDRAL: 8 HC; 8.45
Morning Prayer; 11.15 Sung Eucharist,
Chaplain; 3 Choral Evensong, Rev Dr
Simon Cuff; 5.30 Eucharist.
WESTMINSTER ABBEY: 8 HC; 10
Morning Prayer with hymns; 11.15 Sung
Eucharist, Sacrist; 3 Evensong, Rev
David Stanton; 5 Organ Recital, Eugene
Lavery; 6 HC with hymns, Sacrist.
Streaming: westminster-abbey.org
SOUTHWARK CATHEDRAL: 8.30
Morning Prayer; 9 Eucharist, Dean; 11
Choral Eucharist, Dean; 3 Choral
Evensong, Canon Frances Hiller; 6
Compline (online only). Streaming:
cathedral.southwark.anglican.org
ALL HALLOWS BY THE TOWER: 11
Sung Eucharist, Martin Carr. Streaming:
ahbtt.org.uk
ALL SAINTS, Margaret St: 8.30 Low
Mass; 11 High Mass; 5.15 Low Mass; 6
Solemn Evensong and Benediction.
Streaming: asms.uk
ALL SOULS, Langham Place: 9.30 and
11.30 Morning Service, Chris Wright;
5.30 Evening Service, Will Kennedy.
GROSVENOR CHAPEL, South Audley
Street: 11 Sung Eucharist, Rev Dr Alan
Piggot.
HTB Brompton Rd: Informal Service
9.30 and 11.30, Archie Coates. 11.30
Service streamed: htb.org
HOLY TRINITY, Sloane Square: 11
Choral Eucharist, Canon Michael
Robinson; 6 Choral Evensong.
ST BARTHOLOMEW THE GREAT,
Cloth Fair: 9 Said Eucharist, Fr Mark
Young; 11 Choral Eucharist, Rector; 5
Choral Evensong, Mthr Rosamond
McDowell. Streaming details:
greatstbarts.com
ST BRIDE’S, Fleet St: 11 Choral
Eucharist, Rector; 5.30 Choral
Evensong with Sermon in Music.
Streaming details: stbrides.com
ST GEORGE’S, Windsor: 8.30 HC; 10.45
Mattins, Canon Dr Nick Brown; 5.15
Evensong.
ST GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS: 11 Sung HC,
Rev Tom Sander; 6.30 Evensong, Rev
Tom Sander.
ST JAMES’S, Garlickhythe: 9 Morning
Prayer; 10.30 Sung Eucharist, Rector.
ST JAMES’S, Piccadilly: 9.45 Eco
Contemplative Liturgy; 11 Patronal
Festival Sung Eucharist, Rector; 3
Choral Evensong, Rev Dr Ayla Lepine.
Streaming: sjp.org.uk
ST JAMES’S, Sussex Gardens: 10.30
High Mass; 5 Choral Evensong.
Streaming via: stjamespaddington.org.
uk
ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS: 10
Eucharist, Rev Sarah Archer; 1.30
Eucharist in Cantonese; 5 Gospel
Evensong. Streaming details: smitf.org
ST MARYLEBONE, Marylebone Rd:
8.30 HC, Rev Brian Leathard; 11 Choral
Eucharist, Rev Brian Leathard.
Streaming details: stmarylebone.org
ST PAUL’S, Covent Gdn: 11 Eucharist.
Streaming: actorschurch.org
ST PAUL’S, Knightsbridge: 9.30
Morning Prayer; 11 Solemn Eucharist.
Birthdays
Today: the Rt Rev Barry Rogerson, Bishop of Bristol, 1985-2002, 90; Mr Patrick Stewart, Lord Lieutenant of Argyll and Bute, 2011-20, 81; Ms Nicole Farhi (Lady Hare), fashion designer and sculptor, 80; Sir David Madden, former diplomat, 80; Mr Roger Saul, founder, Mulberry, 76; Lord Bridges, Private Solicitor to the Queen, 2002-19, 72; Ms Sheena McDonald, journalist and broadcaster, 72; Mr Andy Goldsworthy, sculptor, 70; Sir Mark Lowcock, Under- Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Co-ordinator, United Nations, 2017-21, 64; Mr Julian Hodgson, chess grandmaster, 63; Dame Diana Johnson, MP, Minister of State, Department for Health and Social Care, 60; Lord Nicholas Windsor, son of the Duke and Duchess of Kent, 56; Mr Nick Matthew, former squash player; three times World Open Champion, 46; Ms Helen Scott, guide cyclist; Paralympic gold medallist, Rio 2016, 36; and Ms Toni Duggan, former England
Appointments Revv James Grenfell, chapl, University of East London (Chelmsford), to be head of chaplaincy, East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust (same dio); Paul Pavlou, assoc min, Wyken and Caludon (Coventry) and pto (Ely), to be assoc v, Cambridge St Barnabas (Ely); Nigel Wright, pto (Leeds), to be ac (known as assoc p), South Mowbray (York); Jonathan Dean, ac, Great Ayton with Easby and Newton under Roseberry (York), to be ac (known as assoc p), Great Ayton with Easby and Newton under Roseberry (same dio); Jacqueline Doyle-Brett, p-in-c, The Rivers (York), to be r, The Rivers (same dio); Jacqueline Turner, assoc p, Hullbridge, Rawreth and Rettendon (Chelmsford), to be assoc p, Rayleigh (same dio); Claire Brockelsby, ac, The Fen Drayton with Fenstanton (Ely), to be c-in-c, The Fen Edge (same dio); Peter Gaunt, ac, Greystones St Gabriel (Sheffield), to be v, Greystones St Gabriel and oversight min (same dio).
The Scarborough Summer Festival has taken place at the Crown Hotel and Spa, Scarborough, writes Julian Pottage, Bridge Correspondent. The winners are as follows:
Categories Pairs for Jim Proctor Trophy 1st Daniel Baines and Robert Miller 60.10% 2nd Richard Creamer and Konrad Mau (Won Patrick Jourdain trophy for best Senior pair) 59.41% 3rd Alan Patel and Mariam Gilbert (Best Mixed Pair) 58.38%
Multiple Teams A 1st Jeremy Willans, Jill Skinner, Neil Rosen and Anne Rosen +57 IMPs 2nd Daniel Baines, Robert Miller, Chris Wormleighton and David Smith + 43 IMPs
Multiple Teams B 1st Athena Chow, Tom Copeland, Alan Hayward and Joyd Mittra + 49 IMPs
Swiss Pairs 1st Daniel McIntosh and Claire Robinson 164 VPs 2nd Diana Nettleton and Simon Cope 162 VPs 3rd James Thrower and Croz Croswell 158 VPs 4th Daniel Baines and Robert Miller 155 VPs 5th Aaron Hutton and Hanna Tuus 154 VPs
Streaming: spkb.org TEMPLE CHURCH, Fleet St: 11.15 Said Communion with hymns. Streaming details: templechurch.com GUARDS CHAPEL, Wellington Barracks: 11 Choral Mattins, Band of the Royal Yeomanry, Rev Alex Bennett. OLD ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE CHAPEL: 11 Sung Eucharist, Mr Tim Cave. CROWN COURT (C-o-S), Covent Garden: 11.15 Morning Worship, Rev Tara Porr Granados. Streaming via: crowncourtchurch.org.uk ST COLUMBA’S (C-o-S), Pont Street: 11 Morning Service, Rev Angus MacLeod. Streaming: stcolumbas.org.uk WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL: Masses: 8, 10 (Sung), 12 (Solemn), 5.30 (Sung) and 7; 9.30 Morning Prayer; 4 Evening Prayer. Mass at 12 streamed: westminstercathedral.org.uk THE ORATORY, Brompton Rd: Masses: 8, 9 (Latin), 10 (Family), 11 (Solemn Latin), 12.30, 4.30 and 7; 3.30 Sung Vespers and Benediction. OUR LADY OF THE ASSUMPTION AND ST GREGORY, Warwick Street: Masses: 10.30 (Solemn) and 5. GREEK ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL, Moscow Rd: 9.15 Mattins and Divine Liturgy. SALVATION ARMY, Oxford St: 11 Morning Worship, Major Mark Rose and Major Lindy Rose. Streaming: salvationarmy.org.uk/regent-hall WESLEY’S CHAPEL, City Rd: 9.45 HC, Rev Dr Claire Potter; 11 Service of the Word. Streaming: www.wesleyschapel. org.uk WESTMINSTER CHAPEL, Buckingham Gate: 11 Family Celebration Service. Streaming: westminsterchapel.org.uk WESTMINSTER METHODIST CENTRAL HALL: 9.30 Church online; 11 Morning Worship; 6 Evening Worship. Register and stream: mchw.live ARMAGH: 10 HC; 11 Eucharist, Canon Jim Campbell; 3.15 Evening Prayer. BATH ABBEY: 8 HC; 9.30 Family Communion; 11.30 Sung Eucharist; 4.30 Choral Evensong; 6.30 Informal Service. Streaming details: bathabbey. org BIRMINGHAM: 9 HC; 11 Sung Eucharist, Missioner; 3.30 Evening Prayer. Streaming details: birminghamcathedral.com BLACKBURN: 9 Parish Eucharist; 10.30 Cathedral Eucharist; 4 Choral Evensong. Streaming details: blackburncathedral.com BRADFORD: 8 HC, Rev Duncan Milwain; 10.30 Choral Eucharist, Canon Prof Myra Shackley. Streaming details: bradfordcathedral.org BRISTOL: 7.40 Morning Prayer; 8 HC; 10 Cathedral Eucharist; 3.30 Choral Evensong. CANTERBURY: 8 HC (BCP); 9.15 Morning Prayer; 11 Sung Eucharist, Dean; 5.30 Evensong. Streaming via: canterbury-cathedral.org CARLISLE: 7.40 Morning Prayer; 8 HC; 10.30 Sung Eucharist with Erleigh Cantors, Ven Michael Everitt; 3 Choral
Tomorrow: Mr Lawrie McMenemy, former footballer and manager, will be 90; Lord Marnoch, a former Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland, 88; Mr John Howard, Prime Minister of Australia, 1996-2007, 87; Sir Mick Jagger, singer and songwriter; lead singer of the Rolling Stones, 83; Dame Helen Mirren, actress, 81; Mr John Nelson, Chairman, Lloyd’s of London, 2011-17, 79; Mr Roger Taylor, drummer and songwriter, Queen, 77; Mr Jeremy Thomas, film producer; Chairman, British Film Institute, 1993-97, 77; Miss Susan George, actress, 76; Prof Dame Glynis Breakwell, social psychologist; Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bath, 2001-18, 74; Sir John Sawers, Chief, Secret Intelligence Service, 2009-14, 71; Mr Norman Baker, former Coalition Government minister, 69; Mr Kevin Spacey, actor, director and producer; Artistic Director, Old Vic Theatre, 2004-15, 67; Mr Justice Goose, 65; Mr Martin Baker, organ recitalist; Master of Music, Westminster Cathedral,
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BRITAIN AND FRANCE. “UNSELFISH AMERICA.”
NEW YORK, SUNDAY.
Here, as in England, suggestions are not lacking that the heated discussions on war debts may entail more harm than good, but the eruption which started on your side still reacts in America, and has become the chief topic of the summer newspaper correspond- ence. Impartial critics attach importance to the speeches of Mr. Churchill and Mr. Hilton Young in the House of Commons, and more especially because these spokesmen are believed to express with considerable authority an opinion which has been develop- ing since “the settlements” in every debtor country of Europe. Senator Borah, the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Commit- tee, is the most pronounced irreconcilable in the United States, and therefore the most belligerent and partisan of the Republican “bitter-enders.” He sees in Mr. Churchill’s and Mr. Young’s utterances the first step in a campaign for the cancellation of loans, and quite ignores that the Earl of Bal- four was the first British statesman to suggest that expedient as best in the long run for all concerned. Mr. Borah resents most bitterly the abuse of America now being heard in Europe, and in a statement which he handed to Press repre- sentatives yesterday contrasted recent criticism with the high praise for America when she entered the war. He quoted from the speech of the then Mr. Asquith in the House of Com- mons, when he said that America’s entry into the war was “one of the most disinterested acts in history,” and from Lord Curzon about the same time, when he said “No one can say that the national existence of America has been imperilled. ‘Not a single enemy has set foot, or is likely to set foot, on the soil of America. America requires no territory. She has noth- ing to recover, because there was nothing of which she had been deprived.” Mr. Churchill, says Mr. Borah, is “conducting a Gallipoli campaign for cancellation, preceded by a campaign of vilification of the enemy – the United States. The whole world is to be brought to believe that the American people are void of all sense of humanity or correct principles or high ideals or honourable purposes. We are painted as a grasping, soulless, money-loving people.” A more moderate view of the situation seems to be this: Frank statements on both sides of the Atlantic, when sincere and expressed without heat and exaggeration, can do no harm. Such statements act as safety-valves of popular feeling and provide food for thought. There is a growing realisation of the fact that any controversy providing chronic irritation and unpleasantness may flare up into international danger. For the time being there is no chance of the American Congress reconsidering the debt settlements, but here, as elsewhere, legislative bodies are designed to represent public opinion, and, if public opinion demands a new settlement based on the view that the existing debt agreements are too onerous, and should be revised, ways and means can be provided for such an undertaking.
Evensong with Erleigh Cantors. Streaming: carlislecathedral.org.uk CHELMSFORD: 8 Said Eucharist; 9.30 Eucharist; 11.15 Choral Eucharist; 3.30 Choral Evensong. Streaming details: chelmsfordcathedral.org.uk CHESTER: 8.30 HC; 10.30 Cathedral Eucharist, Missioner; 3 Choral Evensong; 6 Said Compline. CHICHESTER: 8 HC; 9 Children, Families and Caregivers Service; 10 Choral Mattins; 11 Sung Eucharist, Treasurer; 3 Choral Evensong. Streaming: chichestercathedral.org.uk COVENTRY: 10.30 Cathedral Eucharist; 4 Choral Evensong. Streaming details: coventrycathedral.org.uk DERBY: 8.30 HC, Rev Romita Shrisunder; 10.45 Cathedral Eucharist, Rev Dr Alan Flintham; 5.15 Evensong. Streaming details: derbycathedral.org DURHAM: 8 HC; 10 Sung Eucharist, Rev James Shelton; 11.30 Morning Prayer and Address, Dean; 3.30 Evensong. Streaming details: durhamcathedral.co.uk ELY: 8.15 HC; 10.30 Sung Eucharist, Rev Atalie Gaines; 4 Evensong. Streaming details: elycathedral.org EXETER: 8 HC; 9 Morning Prayer; 10 Choral Eucharist; 4 Choral Evensong. Streaming: exeter-cathedral.org.uk GLASGOW, ST MUNGO’s (C-o-S): 11 Morning Worship, Rev Mark Johnstone. Streaming: glasgowcathedral.org GLOUCESTER: 8 Eucharist; 8.30 Morning Prayer; 10.15 Three Choirs Festival Eucharist, Dean; 3 Choral Evensong, Precentor. Streaming details: gloucestercathedral.org.uk GUILDFORD: 7.30 Morning Prayer; 8 HC; 9.45 Cathedral Eucharist; 6 Choral Evensong. Streaming details: guildford-cathedral.org HEREFORD: 8 HC; 10 Cathedral Eucharist, Succentor; 11.30 Mattins; 3.30 Evensong; 7 City Praise. Streaming details: herefordcathedral.org INVERNESS: 8.30 Holy Eucharist; 11 Sung Eucharist, Rev L. Symon; 5.30 Sung Evensong. Streaming details: invernesscathedral.org LEICESTER: 10.30 Cathedral Eucharist; 3.30 Choral Evensong. Streaming: leicestercathedral.org LICHFIELD: 7.40 Morning Prayer; 8 HC; 10.30 Choral Eucharist; 3.30 Choral Evensong. Streaming via: lichfield-cathedral.org LINCOLN: 7.45 Litany; 8 HC; 9.30 Mattins; 10.30 Sung Eucharist, Dean; 12.30 HC; 3.45 Choral Evensong. LIVERPOOL METROPOLITAN: Masses 9, 10 (Family), 11 (Solemn) and 7. Mass at 11 streamed: liverpoolmetrocathedral. org.uk LLANDAFF: 8 and 9 Holy Eucharist; 11 Choral Eucharist; 4 Choral Evensong. Streaming: llandaffcathedral.org.uk MANCHESTER: 8.45 Morning Prayer followed by HC; 10.30 Sung Eucharist, Canon Grace Thomas; 4.30 Evening Prayer. Streaming: manchestercathedral.org NEWCASTLE: 8 Eucharist; 8.30
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Today is the anniversary of the first Channel flight in an aeroplane by Louis Bleriot in 1909 and of the hovercraft making its first English Channel crossing, from Calais to Dover in 1959.
Tomorrow will be the anniversary of the nationalisation of the Suez Canal in 1956. It will also be the anniversary of the birth of George Bernard Shaw in 1856 and of Carl Jung in 1875.
Morning Prayer; 10 Sung Eucharist, Canon Zoe Heming; 3 Songs of Praise. Streaming: newcastlecathedral.org.uk NORWICH: 7.30 Morning Prayer; 8 HC; 10.30 Sung Eucharist, Canon Liz Leaver; 3.30 Evensong, Rev Dr Peter Doll. OXFORD: 7.30 Said Mattins; 8 HC (BCP); 11 Choral Eucharist, Canon Prof Carol Harrison; 6 Choral Evensong. PETERBOROUGH: 8 HC; 9.15 Morning Prayer; 10.30 Cathedral Eucharist, Dean; 3.30 Evensong. Streaming details: peterborough-cathedral.org.uk PORTSMOUTH: 8 HC; 9.30 Pompey Sundays; 11 Choral Eucharist; 5.45 Choral Evensong; 8 Taizé Service. Streaming: portsmouthcathedral.org.uk RIPON: 8 HC; 9.30 Mattins; 10.30 Sung Eucharist, Archdeacon of Leeds; 12.30 HC; 3.30 Evensong. Streaming details: riponcathedral.org.uk ROCHESTER: 8 HC; 10.30 Cathedral Eucharist, Rev Charlie Bączyk-Bell; 3.15 Choral Evensong. ST ALBANS: 8 Eucharist; 9.30 Parish Eucharist, Dean; 11.30 Choral Eucharist, Precentor; 4 Evensong, Canon Tim Lomax. Streaming: stalbanscathedral. org ST ASAPH: 9.30 Parish Eucharist; 11 Cathedral Eucharist; 3.30 Evening Prayer. ST DAVIDS: 8 Holy Eucharist; 9.30 Parish Communion in Welsh, Canon Sheridan James; 11 Sung Congregational Eucharist, Canon Sheridan James; 4 Evening Worship for Pilgrimage Sunday. ST EDMUNDSBURY and IPSWICH: 8 HC; 9 All Age Eucharist; 10.30 Festal Eucharist, Theologian; 3.30 Festal Evensong. Streaming details: stedscathedral.org SALISBURY: 8 HC; 9.15 Morning Prayer (said); 10.30 Eucharist, Chancellor; 4.30 Choral Evensong, Rev Maggie Guillebaud. Streaming details: salisburycathedral.org.uk SOUTHWELL: 7.40 Litany; 8 HC, Rev Erika Kirk; 10 Cathedral Eucharist, Dean; 3.30 Evensong, Dean. Streaming details: southwellminster.org TRURO: 8 HC; 10 Choral Eucharist; 4 Choral Evensong. Streaming details: trurocathedral.org.uk WAKEFIELD: 8 HC; 9.15 Sung Eucharist; 11 Said Eucharist; 3.30 Said Evening Prayer. WELLS: 8.30 HC; 10.30 Cathedral Eucharist, Chancellor; 3 Choral Evensong, Sub Dean. WINCHESTER: 7.40 Said Mattins; 8 HC; 11 Sung Eucharist, Canon Dr Marion de Quidt; 3.30 Evensong, Canon Andrew Micklefield; 6 Taizé Service. Streaming details: winchester-cathedral.org.uk WORCESTER: 7.30 Morning Prayer; 8 HC, Dean; 10.30 Sung Eucharist, Rev Charmain Manship; 4 Evensong. Streaming: worcestercathedral.co.uk YORK: 8 HC; 10 Mattins; 11 Sung Eucharist, Precentor; 4 Evensong, Missioner. Streaming: yorkminster.org
MARSDEN.—On 11th July 2026, in Gillingham, Kent, to Kate (née Hickey) and Steven, a daughter, Adeline Constance, weighing 8lb 12oz, a sister for Robert and William. Online Ref: W0051132
POWER.—On 13th July 2026, to Roberta and Matthew, a son, Charles George Simon, a brother to Spencer. Online Ref: W0051045
TREMAYNE.—On 4th July 2026, to Camilla (née Kirwan) and Edward, a son, Charles Patrick John. Online Ref: W0051046
YORKE.—On 18th July 2026, to Daisy (née Agnew) and Archie, a son, Freddie William Robert, weighing 7lb 6oz. Online Ref: W0051138
BLACK.—Richard John Peploe. Passed away peacefully at Cheltenham Hospital on 6th July 2026, aged 82 years. Devoted husband of Diana (deceased), a loving father to Ed and Alex and affectionate Grandpa to Ben and Joe. Funeral Service to be held at St Mary’s Church, Fairford on Monday 3rd August 2026 at 11.30 a.m. Flowers are welcome and may be sent to Hillier Funeral Service, 7 Lechlade Road, Highworth, SN6 7HF or donations if desired to Cancer Research UK and/ or Friends of Fairford and Lechlade Communities or online: https://www. hillierfuneralservice.co.uk/obituaries/ richard-black Enquiries: Tel: 01793 764337. Online Ref: W0051108
FARR.—Rosemary Anne (née Moore)
died aged 77 on 14th July. Beloved wife
of James, mother of David and Helen,
sister of Jenny. Family cremation.
Memorial Service at St Mary’s Church,
Old Amersham at 2 p.m. on Wednesday
12th August.
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FLASHMAN.—John Reginald Walter. Passed away peacefully in Poole, Dorset on 10th July 2026 aged 96 years. Beloved husband to the late Jill, father of Richard and Caroline, grandfather and great grandfather. Retired Shell Executive, he will be sadly missed by all his family and friends. A private committal service will take place on the morning of Monday 10th August, followed at 2.30 p.m. by an open Memorial Service at St Aldhelm’s Church, Branksome, Poole. No flowers please. Donations, if desired, for RNLI or St Aldhelm’s Church may be made at www.tapperfuneralservice.co.uk Tel: 01202 673164. Online Ref: W0051096
HUSSELBY.—William Eric, OBE, DL, died peacefully aged 87 on 17th July. A hugely loved husband, father and grandfather. A private family funeral will be held, with a memorial service to follow in October. Online Ref: W0051116
JOHN.—Susanne Lesley. On Saturday 11th July aged 80 years, after a long battle Lesley died peacefully in the presence of her daughters at Withybush Hospital in her beloved Pembrokeshire. Here Lesley could not have had better care and loving attention for the last 45 days of her life. Lesley will be deeply missed and lovingly remembered by her husband Peter, children Cathy, Lucy, Emma and William, 12 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren. Her Funeral and celebration of her life will be held at St Bridget’s Church, St Brides Netherwent, where Lesley was on the flower and cleaning rota for 55 years, on Tuesday 4th August at 12 noon. Donations in lieu of flowers will be collected at the service and shared between Lesley’s chosen charities. Any enquiries to Tovey Bros. Tel: 01633 266848. Online Ref: W0051111
KENT.—Antoinette Kent died peacefully with her husband by her side at Manor Barn Care Home on 19th August. Loving mother to Rebecca and Edward and grandmother to Ruby, Milo and Louis. Loved and hugely missed by us all. Funeral at Holy Trinity, Bosham at 12 noon on Wednesday 5th August 2026. Online Ref: W0051126
KUNHEIM.—Matthias. Passed away peacefully at home in Cheltenham, surrounded by his family, on 15th July 2026, aged 86. Beloved husband of the late Jane, much loved father of Toasty and Mike, brother of Stoffi and devoted grandfather of Coco, Freddie and Milla. Private funeral service. Online Ref: W0051082
MARTIN.—Trevor John died peacefully at home in Wroxham on 21st July 2026, aged 90. Husband to Olive, Dad to Claire and Bruce, Grampy to Alex and Frankie and Great Grampy to Lumen and Ruby. He will be greatly missed by family and friends. Funeral arrangements available from Broadland Funeralcare. Tel: 01603 783797. Online Ref: W0051087
MORTIMORE.—Patricia Mary, died peacefully on 5th July 2026 aged 91. Wife of the late Graham Mortimore and mother to Sarah, James and Helen. Online Ref: W0051006
PARKHOUSE.—Sally (née Squires) died peacefully at her home in Tetbury, Gloucestershire, on 19th July 2026, aged 83. A generous supporter of the arts, particularly music, and beloved wife of the late Peter Parkhouse. During her life Sally commissioned works from composers and was a staunch friend of many performers. Online Ref: W0051071
GOETZ.—A Memorial Service for Cdr T. Goetz will be held on Wednesday 19th August at 2.30 p.m. at St Mary’s Church, Donhead St Mary, SP7 9DQ. Enquiries to I.N. Newman. Tel: 01722 413136. Online Ref: W0050995
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ADDY MCNALLY, who has died aged 88, was a racing driver and playboy who amassed a fortune running corporate hospitality on the Formula One circuit. Having set up the Geneva-based Allsport Management in 1983, he transformed the way in which hospitality was delivered in motor racing before selling the company to a private equity fi rm in 2006 for £262 million. McNally’s wealth garnered him a reputation as a jet-setter with lavish properties across the world and connections in high places. He owned Sevenhampton Place in Wiltshire, fi nal home of the James Bond author Ian Fleming, and a grouse moor in the Scottish Highlands, as well as several properties in the swish Swiss ski resort of Verbier – including “Les Gais Lutins” (“the Merry Goblins”), which the tabloid press dubbed “Cocaine Castle”. There in the 1980s, aristocrats and celebrities gathered for wild parties. It was said that if guests inadvertently parked their cars in front of his garage McNally would take matters into his own hands and shunt the obstructing vehicles out of the way. Linked romantically at one time to the Finnish fashion model Nina Rindt – widow of the posthumous F1 champion Jochen Rindt, and the future Viscountess Bridport – he was also a one-time boyfriend of Sarah Ferguson, despite being 22 years her senior, and he maintained his friendship with the eventual Duchess of York until his death. “He taught me so much about life,” she once said, according to Andrew Lownie’s Entitled: The Rise and Fall of The House of York. “Whenever I wanted advice, I turned to him because he was so worldly-wise. He seemed to have seen and done everything.” Patrick Sean McNally was born on December 20 1937 in Gravesend, Kent, to Patrick, an RAF offi cer, and his wife, Mary Outred, but grew up in Co Monaghan in Ireland; he boarded at Stonyhurst College in Lancashire. After leaving school he abandoned accountancy training to sell hire-purchase vacuum cleaners door-to- door in Blackpool and Wigan, then sold bric-a-brac on a stall on the Portobello Road. Eventually, through connections of his uncle Redmond Gallagher, a prominent racing driver in Ireland, he was hired as a journalist on Autosport magazine.
AVID J C AUSTIN, who has died aged 67, joined the family rose- breeding business founded by his father David (C H) Austin at Albrighton, near Wolverhampton, and helped him to build it into a great British success story. David Julian Charles Austin was born on August 15 1958, one of three children of David (Charles Henshaw) Austin and his wife Patricia, née Braithwaite, a sculptor and painter. He was educated at Abraham Darby School, Telford (now Haberdashers’ Abraham Darby), and the University of Salford, where he read business studies. In the 1950s his father, a Shropshire farmer and keen gardener, unimpressed with the stiff habit and often crude colours of hybrid teas, had begun crossing old- fashioned rose varieties with modern cultivars with the aim of combining the style of fl ower, rich fragrance and shrubby growth of old roses with the wide colour range, robust health and repeat-fl owering habit of modern roses. What began as a hobby developed into a commercial venture when he introduced his fi rst commercially available rose, Rosa “Constance Spry”, in 1963, followed by “Chianti” and “Shropshire Lass” in 1967 and 1968 respectively. But these fi rst roses bloomed only once, and it was only in 1969,
HARLES GAINES, who has died aged 84, was a writer and outdoorsman credited with making Arnold Schwarzenegger famous and with inventing paintball; his best-known book was Pumping Iron (1974), a study of America’s competitive bodybuilding circuit, with photographs by George Butler. As Gaines noted, although it was a popular spectator sport elsewhere, “in America… bodybuilding has advertised itself with consummate tackiness, confi ning itself to the back pages of pulp magazines and, in the national consciousness, to the same shadowy corners occupied by dildos and raincoat exhibitionists.” Gaines sought to overturn the stereotype of “bodybuilders as narcissistic, co-ordinatively helpless muscleheads with suspect sexual preferences” and celebrate the dedication and artistry of its practitioners. He was fortunate in fi nding an especially articulate and engaging champion of the sport in the reigning Mr Olympia – Arnold Schwarzenegger, “The Austrian Oak”. Schwarzenegger spoke about the ups and downs of being, in Gaines’s words, “very possibly the most perfectly developed man in the history of the world”: “There are some girls who are turned on by my body, and some others who are turned off . But for the majority I just use it as a conversation piece. Like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street would have a natural conversation piece. Then when they get to talking to me they see I am not mean but gentle…” Pumping Iron became a bestseller and then in 1977 an acclaimed documentary fi lm co-written and narrated by Gaines. Camping up the rivalry between Schwarzenegger and his fellow man-mountain Lou Ferrigno (soon to be famous as The Incredible Hulk on
McNally at Silverstone in 1997 with Sarah Ferguson, who said: ‘He taught me so much about life’
Throughout the 1960s he dabbled in motor racing. Mostly he performed modestly in low-level competitions, although he had the occasional victory, including at a Midlands Motoring Enthusiasts Club event at Silverstone in 1965. In 1969, in his last event, he fi nished fourth in a Porsche 911 in a 500km race in South Africa, before moving to Switzerland to work for the tobacco company Philip Morris as a sponsorship consultant for their Marlboro brand. He was still with Marlboro when they sponsored the British F1 driver James Hunt during his 1976 World Championship- winning season, and the following year he eff ectively became Hunt’s personal assistant – a demanding job, given Hunt’s propensity for high living. The French driver Patrick
when he took his repeat-fl owering “Chaucer” varieties to Chelsea, that he founded his company. The roses took Chelsea by storm and David Austin Roses would become a show-stopping fi xture in the main marquee, notching up some 30 RHS Chelsea Flower Show gold medals over the years. During the school holidays young David and his friends would earn pocket money weeding in his father’s rose fi elds, and after graduation he spent a couple of years working in the family business. At that time, however, the business was still relatively small, so David decided to gain wider commercial experience in the jewellery industry. From 1981 to 1993 he and his fi rst wife Francine opened and ran David Austin Jewellers, a chain of six shops across the West Midlands employing 50 people. He returned to the family business in 1990 as managing director and, working alongside his father, built David Austin Roses into a substantial international brand. By the end of the century it was running one of the largest rose-breeding programmes in the world, carrying out more than 150,000 crosses each year and supplying garden centres in Britain as well as outlets in Europe, the US, Canada and Japan – and even China and Russia.
television), it set “Arnie” on the path to cinematic and political stardom, and brought bodybuilding into the mainstream. “Your average stockbroker still doesn’t put on skimpy little trunks on Sunday and hop on to a posing dais,” Gaines noted in 1982, “but the chances are very good now that he does exercises the way he has read that Arnold does them.” As Schwarzenegger observed in his autobiography, Total Recall, “Charles Gaines was a good-looking, self-confi dent guy from a rich family… He’d had a wild adolescence, dropped out of college for a while… He always said that discovering bodybuilding helped settle him down.” The son of Charles Gaines, a businessman, and his wife Margaret, née Shook, Charles Latham Gaines III was born in Jacksonville, Florida, on January 6 1942. The family moved to Birmingham, Alabama, when he was 10. After abandoning his course at Washington and Lee University in Virginia,
Tambay recalled a promotional tour of South America in which McNally was having to work around Hunt’s two or three daily lovers’ trysts. His work with Philip Morris gave him a thorough grounding in how the F1 circus operated, and he became closely involved with the sport’s canny supremo Bernie Ecclestone. In 1983 Ecclestone allowed McNally to establish the Allsport company to exploit the potential for more lucrative advertising and corporate-hospitality income at grands prix – which would also provide a healthy profi t for Ecclestone and his Formula One Constructors’ Association . Key to McNally’s success was the creation of the Formula One Paddock Club, which off ered high-end clients, sponsors and VIPs hospitality close to the action, often with
‘The possibilities for new roses are endless’
By his father’s death in 2018 the company was employing 200 staff at its headquarters in Shropshire and 225 internationally, and selling two million roses every year around the world. David J C Austin took over as chairman of the company, emphasising that the creation
he hitchhiked around the US, before marrying Patricia Ellisor, an artist and former Miss Alabama, in 1961. Having taken up bodybuilding “lazily and non- competitively”, he returned to academia, taking an MFA in writing at the University of Iowa and then teaching creative writing at New England College, New Hampshire. His fi rst book, the bestselling Stay Hungry (1972), was a novel set in the world of bodybuilding . The Telegraph’s Francis King judged this portrait of the “hermetic world of lats and pecs and quadriceps, of raw proteins, Tiger’s Milk and vitamin pills” to be “one of the funniest, and strangest, novels to have come my way in recent months .” In 1976 Gaines wrote the screenplay for Bob Rafelson’s fi lm of Stay Hungry , with Schwarzenegger in his fi rst major acting role alongside Jeff Bridges and Sally Field. Gaines collaborated with George Butler again on a biography of Charles Atlas, Yours in Perfect Manhood (1982), and a second
access to the teams and drivers. The club was slow to get going, selling 170 tickets in its fi rst year, and McNally was on the verge of giving up, but Ecclestone told him: “It’s cost so much already and you’ve put a lot into it, so try harder.” The mild-mannered McNally did as he was told, and the Paddock Club began to take off the following season. By the end of the 1980s it was a lucrative proposition, attracting the likes of the former Beatle George Harrison and a host of Hollywood stars. These days it sells around 50,000 tickets a year, with prices of up to $15,000 per person. In 1967 McNally had married Anne Downing, daughter of the wealthy racing driver and businessman Ken Downing, and they had two sons, Sean and Rollo. Two years after Anne’s death in 1980, Sarah Ferguson became a nanny to his sons, and they began a relationship that lasted for three years. According to Lownie, while the couple formed a solid bond, McNally was unable to curb the more caddish elements of his personality. On one occasion she poured a bucket of iced water over him after she caught him fl irting with another woman, and a guest at “Cocaine Castle” recalled him bringing back a girl one night and off ering Sarah Ferguson a choice: sleep with them both, or in the spare room. But the pair remained close after her subsequent marriage to the then Prince Andrew, and McNally, who never remarried, was recently reported to have allowed her to stay in at least one of his homes to escape attention over her links with Jeff rey Epstein. After selling Allsport in 2006, he continued as chief executive for fi ve years before retiring. For most of the rest of his life he was based at Sevenhampton Place: there, in 2004, he was the victim of a £750,000 robbery carried out by the notorious Johnson Gang, who specialised in stealing fi ne art and antiques from country houses. Paddy McNally’s son Sean died in April this year; he is survived by Rollo.
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FRANCK CRUSIAUX
Paddy McNally, born December 20 1937, died July 22 2026
of new roses would remain central to its work. “The possibilities for new roses are endless and there is always the potential to improve even the most beautiful rose,” he said. He continued to work until shortly before his death from the rare neurodegenerative disorder Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). In 2025, in collaboration with The King’s Foundation, the company launched its fi rst striped rose, “The King’s Rose”, created in honour of King Charles III. And in May this year Austin was present at the company’s spectacular Cotswold-themed display at Chelsea, featuring more than 700 blooms tumbling over curving pathways and honey-coloured stone walls. These included a new rose named after Sir David Beckham, which, Austin explained, “represents everything we value in modern rose breeding – beauty, fragrance, charm and strength – while also marking a contemporary moment within a long horticultural tradition”. David Austin’s marriage to Francine was dissolved. He is survived by his second wife Penny, by two sons and a daughter from his fi rst marriage, and by three stepchildren.
David J C Austin, born August 15 1958, died July 18 2026
volume of Pumping Iron, on women bodybuilders (1984). This time Gaines found much to disapprove of: “A lot of the top women are using testosterone. It gives them a lot of male characteristics, hair on their chests and backs and other less palatable things… ” He wrote several more novels and screenplays, and books and articles on pastimes such as mountaineering, fi shing and bird hunting; he also made fi lms for the ABC series The American Sportsman. His busy career almost cost him his marriage, until he decided to reconnect with his wife and children by whisking them off to Nova Scotia and building a cabin, as recounted in his memoir A Family Place (1994). In 1981 Gaines helped to establish the National Survival Game franchise, subsequently better known as paintball, which became an international staple of stag-dos and team-building weekends. Its origins lay in a competition between Gaines and his friend Hayes Noel, a Wall Street stock trader, to hunt each other down in the woods near Gaines’s home in New Hampshire. Gaines armed them both with devices he had come across in a catalogue, pistols used by foresters to fi re small balls of paint to mark trees that needed to be cut down or attended to. “Hayes shot fi rst, and he missed, and I shot him right in the butt. It hurt!” Gaines recalled in 2018. Explaining paintball’s appeal, he observed: “The idea of running through the woods, competing [and] symbolically surviving… goes way back into our genetic development.” Charles Gaines is survived by his wife and three children.
Gaines, right, with Arnold Schwarz- enegger, left, and George Butler, the co-director of Pumping Iron
CHRISTOPHER HOWSE
n 1974 I spent my gap year in Manchester instead of Kenya or Nicaragua. The city was busy tearing down perfectly good streets of terraced houses. My 19th- fl oor offi ce had a fi ne view of Strangeways Prison and the river Irwell. That offi ce block stood in Salford, then grimmer and blacker than neighbouring Manchester. In those years, Salford Catholic cathedral, completed in 1848, had just moved its altar to beneath the crossing tower. Worse befell it a decade later. In 1985-88 much of the interior was painted white. By 1990, the carved stone high altar, reredos and pulpit had been removed. I think the stonework was smashed up. You might wonder what possessed Bishop Patrick Kelly of Salford to allow such destruction, but Victorian architecture was little valued by some in those years. Worshippers had no money to restore old buildings and a minimalist setting seemed somehow to suit the spirit of Vatican II. So I was interested in an article by Elena Curti, who is writing a book about the reordering of Catholic churches in the years after the Second Vatican Council – a controversial, ill- documented theme. Writing in The Tablet magazine, she quoted today’s architect at Salford on the misfortunes of the 1980s: “I had never seen anything quite like it. In the chancel we had a fabulous reredos. It was full of alabaster statues … all gone. We had stone screens … they were all taken out.” But now a £22m restoration has left the cathedral clean, sound and beautifi ed, its decoration in tune with its fi rst architects’ intentions. It was designed by Matthew Hadfi eld, an admirer of A W N Pugin, but possessed of less original genius. In building St John’s Cathedral he copied existing medieval models. He took elements from Selby and Howden and based the 240ft tower and spire on St Mary Magdalene, Newark. The destroyed high altar was by his pupil George Goldie. Outside, the roof has been replaced, the sandstone cleaned and the spire restored. Lavatories, those modern must-have facilities,
have been built outside the
nave. Inside, off -white paint
has been removed to reveal
the stonework.
A small, freestanding but
Gothic altar has been put in
the fi rst bay of the chancel
and the polychromatic
crucifi x returned to the
chancel arch. Statues high
between the chancel arches
have been repainted, with
none of the Humbrol-style
daubing that so often mars
modern restoration.
The roof of the chancel is
blue with the vaulting ribs
gilded and 2,300 gold stars
applied by stencil in the
Victorian manner. Behind
the altar, choir and Lady
chapel at the liturgically east
end is a seven-light,
Decorated-style stained-
glass window by William
Wailes installed in 1856
between lively stone tracery.
The baptistery is in the
north transept where a large
crucifi x fl anked by Mary and
John has been brought from
ALEX J WRIGHT FILMS
Beautified: the restored chancel of Salford Cathedral
St Joseph, Ordsall, closed in
2020 amid a dwindling
population. Below it is the
tomb memorial to Bishop
James Sharples who laid the
foundation stone in 1844.
Surviving from the
original cathedral is the Lee
Chantry Chapel, in memory
of a major benefactor. The
work of Goldie, it has on two
sides lovely open stonework
screens and on the other two
sides stained glass windows.
The cathedral can now
seat 450 and attendance has
been growing. It lacks a
pipe-organ. Underfl oor
heating will use energy from
600ft underground.
An old window shows
Matthew Hadfi eld kneeling
beside St Matthew and
George Goldie beside St
George, presenting their
architectural plans. The
saints will no longer have to
blush at the task.
** Saturday 25 July 2026 The Daily Telegraph
tariffs give EU the edge on UK
iffs than the EU after Donald Trump’s latest global trade onslaught. Bosses in Britain have warned they will lose any advantage over the bloc after the US president announced higher import taxes on goods from 60 trading partners. The US said it imposed the new tariffs as they had not done enough to ban items produced by forced labour. The US imposed 10pc tar- iffs on both Britain and the EU to replace levies which expired on Thursday follow- ing a Supreme Court ruling earlier this year. Britain must pay the import taxes on top of so-called most favoured nation tariffs imposed on all members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). However, from yesterday, the EU’s tariffs are inclusive of WTO levies. The average WTO tariff rate is from 2.4pc to 3.5pc for non-agricultural food products. William Bain, head of trade policy at the British Chambers of Commerce, said: “There will be concerns about the loss of the UK’s competitive advantage over the EU and other countries
profits fall by a third
have crashed by a third as its boss warned the carmaker faced “unprecedented risk”. Oliver Blume said a turna- round plan that could involve laying off up to 100,000 workers was starting to bear fruit, but that the company still faced an “extremely chal- lenging” situation. VW profits plunged 32.9pc in the second quarter as it warned sales could fall by 3pc. The grim results come as the chief executive battles to convince unions and regional officials in Germany to back his turnaround plan. VW faces tough competi- tion from cut-price Chinese rivals as well as turmoil in the US, where Donald Trump’s tariffs have driven up costs. China was once the most profitable market for the group, but Mr Blume admitted sales there had
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third quarter. He insisted the turna- round was “delivering results” but warned: “The environment for the industry remains challenging: geopo- litical crises, trade conflicts, high regulatory require- ments, volatile markets and intensified competition. “In an unprecedented risk scenario, Volkswagen Group enters the next phase of its transformation – from a posi- tion of strength and with a clear understanding of the opportunities ahead.” VW profits for the three months to the end of June were €1.5bn (£1.3bn), down from €2.3bn in 2025. That was despite sales ticking up from €80.8bn to €82.4bn. The group had a €500m charge booked for stopping production of the electric ID.4 car in the US, where Mr Trump has wound back sup- port for electric cars.
Index Change
Price
Change
£ > € Rate 1.1713 Change +0.02¢ £ > $ Rate 1.3328 Change +0.11¢
Information technology +4.41%
Media +3.68%
Aerospace & defence +2.68%
Ç Travel & Leisure 2.16
Travel & Leisure +2.16%
Ç Chemicals 2.12
Chemicals +2.12%
Ç Property 1.90
Property +1.90%
Ç Tobaccos 1.85
Tobaccos +1.85%
Engineering / Industrial +1.71%
Ç Engineering / Industrial 1.71
Ç General financial 1.62
General financial +1.62%
Ç Beverages 1.43
Beverages +1.43%
Ç Banks 1.36
Banks +1.36%
Ç Support services 1.31
Support services +1.31%
Ç Insurance 1.08
Insurance +1.08%
Ç Retailers 0.99
Retailers +0.99%
È Electricity -0.06
È Telecommunications -0.96
Telecommunications -0.96%
È Oil & Gas -1.21
Oil & Gas -1.21%
È AIM -1.54
AIM -1.54%
Government securities
52 week Flat Rdm High Low (£) Stock Price (£) +/- Yield Yield
107.53 103.38 Treas 6% 28 103.69 +0.15 5.79 4.34
102.33 97.08 Treas 4¼% 32 97.97 +0.35 4.34 4.65
99.39 92.65 Treas 4¼% 36 93.87 +0.54 4.53 5.06
102.00 93.84 Treas 4¾% 38 95.22 +0.65 4.99 5.28
Index Linked Securities
349.35 338.41 Treas 4⅛% IL 30 341.36 +0.24 1.21 0.90
248.27 236.46 Treas 2% IL 35 240.35* +0.68 0.83 1.76
10-year Government Bonds
Spread Vs Spread Vs Yield% Bunds T-Bonds
France 3.86 +0.69 -0.80
Germany 3.17 - -1.49
Japan 2.78 -0.39 -1.88
Great Britain 5.03 +1.86 +0.37
United States 4.66 +1.49 -
The share prices, price-earnings ratios and dividend yields below are supplied by Interactive Data (Europe) Ltd. The yields are calculated using historic dividend payments divided by the closing share price multiplied by 100.
52 week High Low (p) Stock Price (p) +/- Yld P/E
52 week
High Low (p) Stock
Price(£) +/- Yld P/E
52 week High Low (p) Stock Price (£) +/- Yld NAV
52 week
High Low (p) Stock
Price (p) +/- Yld
NAV
52 week
High Low (p) Stock
Price (p) +/- Yld
P/E
52 week High Low (p) Stock Price (p) +/- Yld P/E
1527 902⅜ Babcock Intl 1121 -13 0.7 26.6
2360 1529 BAE Systems 1971 +6 1.8 28.6
551½ 398½ QinetiQ ● 489¾* +7⅜ 2.2 24.4
1532⅝ 970¼ Rolls–Royce 1415⅝ +56⅝ 0.7 20.4
318⅛ 161 Senior ● 289½ — 1.0 -283.8
554⅛ 351 Barclays 525⅜ +5⅞ 1.6 12.0
563½ 318⅜ Close Bros ● 420¾ +5¾ — -6.3
1590 908¾ HSBC 1552¾ +25¾ 3.6 17.1
116 74⅜ Lloyds Bk Gp 113½ +1 3.2 16.2
705⅜ 497 NatWest Group 676 +5⅜ 4.8 12.6
1080 613 Santander 1012 +16 1.6 13.0
2278 1285 Standard Ch 2137 +8 2.2 14.6
2142 1295½ Diageo 1562½ +22 4.0 19.7
3312 2426¾ Croda Intl 2932 +73 3.8 66.0
2434 1730¾ Johnson Mat ● 1918* +26 4.0 -33.5
756 515 Victrex ● 748 +23 8.0 23.4
Construction +0.67%
900 519 Balfour Beatty ● 879 +2½ 1.6 16.7
410¼ 235⅜ Barratt Redrow 294¾ +4¼ 5.8 21.7
4442 2796 Berkeley Grp ● 3432 +62 — 10.3
237 133½ Boot H 151 -1½ 5.2 8.6
220½ 124⅜ Costain ● 216½ +½ 1.9 15.6
1009¾ 788⅝ Grafton Gp ● 943½ +1¾ 4.0 13.4
5730 3915 Morgan Sindall ● 4506 -254 3.6 12.1
1552 947⅜ Persimmon 1107 +28 5.4 12.4
116⅞ 74⅛ Taylor Wimpey ● 82¾ +1½ 9.2 29.6
Electricals +0.47%
937½ 613⅞ Drax Group ● 764 -4 3.8 36.9
1428½ 1000 Nat Grid 1237½ +3½ 3.9 18.9
2767½ 1597 SSE 2422* -18 2.8 23.0
98⅛ 71 Coats Group ● 75¾ +¾ 2.2 17.1
414½ 230 Cropper J 370 — — 12.0
28500 7100 Goodwin ● 18600 +220 1.5 56.9
3064 2138 IMI 3050 +34 1.1 24.5
1212½ 660 Mondi ● 729⅜ +2¾ 3.4 22.8
38⅝ 21¼ Severfield 37⅞ — — -3.2
2746¼ 2088 Smiths Gp 2678 +55 1.7 31.2
8050 5950 Spirax Gp 7080 +120 2.4 31.9
3580 2254 Weir 2616 +72 1.6 27.3
Food producers +0.84%
2359 1729½ Ass Brit Fds 1995½ +28 3.2 14.1
5195 3270 Coca–Cola HBC 4870 +54 2.1 22.0
5810 4775 Cranswick ● 5480* +30 2.1 18.5
872 447⅞ Hilton Food ● 548½ +11 6.4 6.2
138 87 REA Hldgs 108 -4½ — -205.6
5542⅛ 3644 Unilever 4575½ +32½ 3.7 12.4
Gas & Water +0.50%
220¼ 153¼ Centrica 163 +1⅝ 3.5 -108.7
606 439⅜ Pennon Gp ● 468¼* +4⅝ 6.3 24.1
3335 2381 Severn Trent 3020 +6 4.2 24.5
1497 1072 Utd Utilities 1368* +4 3.9 15.9
276½ 145⅞ Ashmore ● 205¾ +2¼ 8.2 16.9
363⅜ 212 Bridgepoint Grp ● 317⅝ +2⅜ 3.0 63.5
1880 1240 BrooksMacdonald 1390 -20 5.9 10.7
1956 1016 IG Group 1705 +4 3.6 11.8
2340 1424⅞ ICG 1866* +31 4.7 11.2
690 499⅜ Investec 634 +14½ 6.1 8.2
72 48 IP Group ● 66⅜ +⅜ 1.9 9.2
385 223 Liontrust 294* -4 6.5 19.1
10430 6684 Lon Stock Ex 8774 +206 1.7 36.8
359¼ 247 M&G 356 +2¼ 5.8 28.3
310⅝ 154¼ Man Group ● 297⅝ +7 4.3 25.8
209 150¾ Quilter ● 194¾ +1¾ 3.2 21.9
2458½ 1620 S & U 1945* -40 5.9 10.0
599½ 358⅝ Schroders 588½ +½ 3.7 17.3
132 91¼ Vanquis Banking Gp 119¾ +⅝ — 37.4
Healthcare +0.81%
416⅛ 274⅜ Haleon 363½ +1⅞ 2.0 19.5
1441½ 1050 Smith & Nep 1140 +21½ 2.5 21.1
Household goods +0.51%
1376½ 976 Burberry 1068 +30½ — —
170 106¼ McBride 155⅝ -3¾ 1.9 8.0
110⅜ 65⅛ PZ Cussons 106⅝ +1 3.4 -77.2
6522⅞ 3664 Reckitt Benck 4950 +12 4.3 10.6
315 196 Aptitude Sftwre 201 +3 2.7 27.5
1335 771⅝ The Sage Grp 858¼ +36⅝ 2.6 22.7
265 177½ Aberdeen Group 248⅜ +3⅝ 5.9 11.5
3730 2624 Admiral 3588 +28 5.7 14.6
700¾ 590⅝ Aviva 691 +7⅜ 5.7 25.7
1295 750 Beazley 1293 +5½ 1.9 11.4
1904 1246 Hiscox 1840 +44 2.0 13.6
700 549 Lancashire Hldg ● 652½ +14 17.0 7.2
310 217¼ Legal & General 299⅝ +3½ 7.3 30.0
1238 910¼ Prudential 1096 +11 1.8 9.5
920½ 615 Standard Life 916½ +10½ 6.0 -194.6
1575½ 1050 St James’s Place 1071 +5 1.7 10.7
Investment trusts +0.82%
4497 1825 3i 2758* +84 3.1 3089
394½ 325 3i Infrastructure ● 385½ — 3.5 403
830 606 Aberdeen New India 708 +4 — 787
1356 1178 Alliance Witan 1323 +4 2.2 1387
764 439½ Allianz Tech Trust ● 683 -4 — 748
Company Turnover(£) Pre - tax(£) EPS(p) DIV(p) Pay Day XD
Airtel Africa $ 1Q 1.9bn (1.4bn) 360.0m (273.0m) 4.400 (3.400) n/a (n/a) - - Banco Santander SA € Int 30.8bn (29.0bn) 10.0bn (9.1bn) 60.000 (43.000) TBA (11.500) TBA TBA Centrica Int 10.2bn (10.1bn) 672.0m (-43.0m) 11.700 (-5.100) 2.000 (1.830) Sep 22 Aug 20 Howden Joinery Int 1.0bn (997.6m) 115.8m (117.2m) 16.200 (16.400) 5.100 (5.000) Nov 20 Oct 15 Jupiter Fund Management Int 230.7m (171.0m) 35.4m (27.5m) 4.800 (4.100) 3.700 (2.100) Sep 04 Aug 06 Law Debenture Corp Int - (-) 31.7m (27.8m) 23.030 (20.140) 8.875 (8.375) Jul 03 Jun 04 Morgan Sindall Int 2.6bn (2.4bn) 116.1m (95.4m) 186.100 (155.700) 55.000 (50.000) Oct 22 Oct 01 RELX Int 4.9bn (4.7bn) 1.6bn (1.5bn) 68.600 (63.500) 20.900 (19.500) Sep 10 Aug 06 TotalEnergies SE $ Int 106.6bn (92.6bn) - (-) 511.000 (288.000) 90.000 (85.000) Oct 02 Sep 30 Victoria Fin 1.0bn (1.1bn) -335.4m (-303.0m) -284.120 (-242.030) 0.000 (0.000) - -
153⅜ 120⅝ Bankers Invstmt Tst ● 147¾* +⅝ 1.9 162
1661⅝ 797⅜ Biotech Growth 1624 +12 — 1733
284 197 BlckRckAmInc 278 +2 5.0 274
205 116½ BlackRockEnrgy&Res 178½ +1½ 3.2 187
208 159½ BlckRock FroInv 187 — 4.1 186
625 507 BlckRck Grt Euro ● 593 +2 1.2 634
238 198 BlckRck Inc&Grth 231* — 3.3 257
288⅜ 230¾ BlackRock Small ● 272½ +2 2.9 308
1072⅞ 543⅛ BlackRock Wld M ● 884 +2 2.7 895
1562 1336 Brunner ● 1500* +12 1.8 1669
395 312 Caledonia ● 381* +3½ 2.0 594
592 486 City of Lon ● 582* +4 3.8 570
467 207 CQS Nat Res G & I 366* +1 7.7 346
330 268¼ CT Glbl Mgd G 320 — — 324
135 114 CT Glbl Mgd I 131½ — 6.1 130
592 439⅞ CT Priv Eq Ord 498½* -1½ 5.7 695
373 320 CT UK Cap & Inc 351 -2 3.8 366
126 97 CT UKHighIncTst 112¼* — 5.3 116
480¼ 460 Dunedin Ent # 475 — 4.8 —
842 737⅝ Edinburgh Inv Tr ● 830* +8 3.9 894
294½ 185¼ Edin Worldwide ● 242 -3 — 263
1332 325¾ F&C Inv Trust 333⅜* -1¼ 1.3 366
672 546 Fidelity Asian V 586 +4 3.5 611
339 241 Fidlty Chna Sp Sits ● 257* -½ 3.5 273
442 367½ Fidelity Euro Tst ● 423½ +2½ 2.3 443
460½ 372 Fidelity Sp V ● 452 +5 2.3 452
939 706¼ Finsbury Gwth ● 769 +12 2.6 813
198⅜ 162⅜ Glbl Small Co Trust ● 192¾ +⅜ 1.6 202
211 173¼ Hend High Inc 204* +1 5.5 212
960 769 Hend Smaller Co ● 949 +5 3.0 1027
3290¾ 2285 Herald Inv ● 2975 -50 — 3283
530 318⅝ HgCapital ● 380½ +6½ 1.3 530
138 107¼ HICL Infrastructure ● 134¼ -¼ 6.3 161
1611⅜ 1288¼ ICG Enterprise Tst ● 1396 -8 3.0 2033
968 782½ JPM Claverh’se ● 950* +4 3.8 965
153 121½ JPM Eur G&I ● 144¾* -¼ 3.8 147
849 633 JPM Japanese ● 792 +8 1.1 844
710¼ 522½ Land Secs 693½* +7 5.9 —
186½ 141½ Lowland Inv 180* +1¾ 3.8 198
280 234¼ Mercantile InvTr ● 277½* +2½ 3.0 305
662 536 Merchants Tst ● 653* +4 4.5 686
1664 1322 Monks ● 1580 -6 0.1 1660
1012 854⅝ Murray Income ● 999 +11 4.0 1063
369 283¼ Murray Intl ● 361½* +1½ 3.5 359
57 47 Northern 2 VCT 52 — 5.8 55
86½ 79½ Northern 3 VCT 81 — 5.6 85
60 53 Nthn Venture 55 — 5.6 58
437 345 Pacific Assets 408 +2 1.4 437
409 319½ Pantheon ● 390 +1 — 518
2610 1900 RIT Cap Ptnrs ● 2510 -15 1.8 3159
319 281¼ Ruffer Inv Pref ● 293 — 2.1 304
738 488¾ Schroder Asian TR ● 660 -10 1.7 703
558 480⅛ Scot American ● 546 +5 3.0 580
1563 1015¾ Scot Mortgage 1316 +3 0.3 1449
253 215⅞ STS Global Income 229 +3 3.7 229
352 196¼ Tmpletn Em Mt ● 309* -3 1.7 332
364½ 291 TR Property ● 312½* +1 5.2 339
398 306½ Worldw HealthTr ● 384½ +1½ 0.6 410
Net Asset Values © 2026 Morningstar Estimated at previous day’s close see www.Morningstar.co.uk.
844⅜ 418⅝ Autotrader 489⅛ +6⅝ 2.4 14.3
690 435 Bloomsbury ● 607* +2 2.7 18.3
1000 719 Informa 881 +26¼ 2.5 —
88⅞ 65¾ ITV ● 73 +⅜ 6.8 12.4
1318 874¾ Pearson 1226 +21½ 2.1 23.9
81 40⅛ Reach 41¾ +⅝ 14.1 -1.0
4008 1991 RELX 2568 +117 2.7 22.8
827 391⅜ Rightmove ● 437¼ +5⅞ 2.4 15.6
443¼ 218½ WPP ● 282½ +10⅛ 5.3 5.6
Mining +0.24%
4239 2042 Anglo Amer 3721 +91 0.5 -15.0
4475 1850½ Antofagasta 3631 +10 1.3 35.9
3495 1873½ BHP Group 3131 -14 3.3 23.5
81 81 Evraz # 81 — — 0.5
4472 1371 Fresnillo 2546 +49 3.7 18.1
707¼ 275¼ Glencore 537¼ -⅜ 2.4 —
858 246¼ Hochschild Mng ● 444⅝ +6⅝ 1.0 15.2
345 178⅜ Kenmare Res 192 +2 — -0.7
9117 4344½ Rio Tinto 6869 +13 4.4 14.9
609⅜ 393¼ BP 548⅜ -7½ 4.6 —
28 9¾ EnQuest 27½ -¼ 2.9 —
553 288½ Hunting ● 476½ +1 2.0 24.2
3758½ 2553¾ Shell 3305½ -38½ 3.3 14.5
Pharmaceuticals +0.12%
15732 9892 AstraZeneca 12670 -18 2.0 25.6
3228¾ 1943 Genus ● 2136 -20 1.5 72.9
2282 1288⅝ GSK 1919½ +14 3.6 13.6
2046 1187 Hikma ● 1582 +29 4.0 11.6
16 5⅞ Alina Hldgs 11 — — 17
1208 800½ Big Yellow Gp ● 889½* +13 5.3 —
445⅜ 318⅝ Brit Land 438¾* +9¼ 5.3 —
2070 1469⅜ Derwent Ldn ● 2038 +22 4.0 —
377 270 Gt Portland Est ● 345 +1¾ 2.4 —
213 149½ Grainger ● 177⅝ +2½ 4.7 6.5
377 263⅜ Hammerson ● 366⅝ +1¼ 4.5 —
985⅜ 603 Segro 979 +25¾ 3.2 —
162⅞ 124⅛ Shaftesbury Capital ● 142⅝ +2¼ 2.8 7.6
140 104 Town Centre 120½ -1 4.1 —
174 132¼ Tritax Big Box 170¾ +2⅜ 4.8 183
169⅜ 106 Currys ● 164¼ +1¾ 1.8 10.6
1249 707 Dunelm ● 867½ +10 8.1 11.2
819½ 598 Frasers Group ● 765 +13 — 8.8
1856 1407¼ Greggs ● 1582 +22 4.4 13.2
Previously Published * (6)
106⅛ 64 JD Sports Fash 89* +3⅛ 1.3 10.3
372¼ 240¼ Kingfisher 299½ +2¾ 4.1 21.4
411¾ 301⅛ Marks & Spen 380½ +¾ 1.1 30.0
4 ⅝ Mothercare ¾ — — 0.6
15105 11200 Next 14785* +115 1.8 19.5
397⅞ 140¼ Ocado ● 186⅞ +5⅛ — 4.0
575 200 Pinewood Tech 315 +1 — 65.6
680 171⅜ Saga ● 654 +18 — —
370¾ 291¼ Sainsbury J 345 +¾ 4.0 19.9
1120 378⅝ Smith WH ● 425¼ +15¼ — -3.8
510⅜ 406⅞ Tesco 480¼ +5⅛ 3.0 17.5
2800 1981 Bunzl 2758 +36 2.7 19.6
416 215 Capita 236½ -5 — -1.6
6740 4188 DCC Energy 6285 -5 3.4 —
114 78⅜ Essentra 95¾ +4⅜ 2.1 —
4092½ 2203 Experian 2744* +89 1.9 22.2
5840 3519⅜ Intertek Group 5820 +5 2.8 26.7
250¾ 163½ Int’l Workplace ● 199¾ +3¾ 0.5 —
172⅛ 123¾ Johnson Serv ● 149⅞ +⅞ 3.2 16.1
214 134¾ MITIE Gp ● 209⅜* +¼ 2.1 31.7
507 342½ Rentokil 426 -3½ 2.2 30.5
325¾ 203 Serco Group ● 240⅝ +2 1.9 16.7
15¼ 6¾ SIG 8½ +¼ — -1.5
723½ 493⅜ Travis P ● 550½ -1½ 2.2 -6.6
242⅛ 173 BT Group 193 -¾ 4.3 17.5
1990 638 Telecom Plus ● 852 -15 5.9 8.4
131⅛ 80⅝ Vodafone 114⅝* -1½ 3.5 -81.4
5326 3677 Brit Am Tob 4572* +92 5.4 13.0
3632 2626 Imp Brands 2823 +26 5.9 11.2
Transport +0.66%
490 294½ ZIGUP ● 454½ +3 5.9 13.5
683¾ 332⅝ easyJet ● 618 +17 2.1 9.4
1031½ 500⅜ Entain 553⅜ +5⅜ 3.5 -5.3
240⅜ 152⅛ FirstGroup ● 181¾* +1¾ 4.0 8.5
23610 6722 Flutter Entrtmt 7598 +126 — -48.2
774 544 Fullers ‘A’ 758 +8 2.8 19.3
492⅞ 332¾ IAG Intl Cons Air 434¼ +11¾ 1.6 7.1
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urged to take over at South East Water
demands action as ailing company strikes £200m funding deal to keep afloat
By Pui-Guan Man
ANDY BURNHAM has been urged to put South East Water into special administration after residents were left without running water. Dry Wells Action, a Tunbridge Wells campaign group, has written to the Prime Minister requesting that he invoke the water industry’s Special Administration Regime (SAR) – a form of nationalisation – which is also being lined up for failing Thames Water. South East Water, which serves 2.3 million customers across Hampshire, Berkshire, Surrey, Sussex and Kent, is under pressure after it warned last week that it was facing a cash crunch in the coming months. The company, which has £1.7bn of debt, struck a deal yesterday for £200m of funding to help keep it afloat, but concerns persist about its future. Jonathan Hawker, the chairman of Dry Wells, urged Mr Burnham to temporarily bring South East Water under government control after claiming it was failing “operationally, financially and institutionally”. The water company was fined £30m after more than 70,000 homes in Tun- bridge Wells and the surrounding area were left without water late last year. Mr Hawker said ministers should begin contingency planning to protect customers and impose a moratorium on construction projects in areas affected by recurring water shortages. The group pointed to three major failures occurring in Tunbridge Wells alone within the past eight months. The latest of these left around 7,000 properties in the town and the nearby village of Pembury without water on July 18 and 19. “None of this is bad luck or down to extraordinary weather conditions as South East Water would
By Louis Goss
US TECH GIANTS are lobbying Donald Trump against a ban on Chinese AI after the launch of a breakthrough new bot last week. Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, joined technology giants including Meta, Microsoft and Palantir in writing an open letter urging the White House not to restrict open- source AI technology, which underpins
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have the country believe: none of our neighbouring water companies have failed to deliver during exactly the same weather conditions. “This is all attributable to systemic operation and strategic failures by South East Water and its leadership,” Mr Hawker said in his letter. He told The Telegraph this would test if Mr Burnham is “a man of action”. It comes as the new Prime Minister makes promises to take greater public control of Britain’s utilities. He wants to nationalise Thames Water, with reports suggesting that an SAR would be used. Thames’ main lenders are trying to block this by offering the Government a “golden share” in the company. It has also been a difficult few months for South East Water, whose debt rating was downgraded to “junk” status by S&P Global yesterday after it was beset by supply chaos. The rating agency said while the £200m funding boost will help, the utility will still have “limited flexibility” until it can access the cash. Rival agency Moody’s cut the com- pany to junk in May, putting South East Water in breach of its operating licence. The company has since paid a £30.5m “redress package” to Ofwat, the indus- try watchdog, and agreed measures so that it can become compliant with its licencing conditions again. In April , the Drinking Water Inspec- torate’s investigation identified “sys- temic and repeated failings across both operational control and emergency management arrangements, resulting in serious consumer impact”. MPs on the environment, food and rural affairs select committee then released a critical report in May assess- ing the utility’s handling of the supply problems. After the report was published, Dave Hinton, the chief executive of South East, and Chris Train, its chairman, both resigned. A spokesman for South East Water said: “We apologise unreservedly to all our customers. We are taking direct action to change the way supply interruptions are managed.”
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Tej Lalvani, pictured with his wife Tara, said the sale of Vitabiotics was a ‘defining moment’ in his company’s 55-year history
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alarm over a possible ban in the rest of the tech industry, Mr Huang posted on X for the first time yesterday to oppose the potential restrictions. Mr Huang said: “AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country. The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models.” The letter from the US technology giants warned that restrictions on more open technology would hinder compe-
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tition and limit advances in AI. The letter, which also received the backing of Elon Musk, warned against “concen- trating AI capabilities behind a small number of closed models”. Closed sys- tems include bots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude. “With the right choices, open weight AI can expand opportunity, strengthen competition, extend American techno- logical leadership, mitigate risk and ensure that the benefits of this extraor-
Daily Express publisher Reach has scrapped its chasing clicks strategy but is it too little too late?
Given his net zero track record, Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband is unlikely to bring home trade deals Matthew Lynn
star sells family vitamins firm for £1bn to US
By Tom Haynes
DRAGON’S DEN star Tej Lalvani has agreed to sell his family’s vitamins empire to a US private equity giant in a deal worth about £1bn. The acquisition of Vitabiotics by Bain Capital ends more than five decades of family ownership after Lalvani’s father, Prof Kartar Lalvani, turned the business into one of the UK’s best-known supple- ments makers. Tej Lalvani, 52, the chief executive and a former investor on the BBC show, said the deal represented “a defining moment” in the company’s history. He said: “I’m incredibly grateful to have had the opportunity to build on my father’s vision to harness the power of science and nutrition to improve everyday health.” Vitabiotics, which makes popular supplements including Pregnacare, Wellman and Wellwoman, was founded in 1971 by the professor, now 94. Prof Lalvani, born in Karachi into a Sindhi Sikh pharmacist family, moved to London in the 1950s to study before setting up in business. Under family-ownership, Vitabiotics grew and became Britain’s biggest vita- min business by sales. Mr Lalvani previ- ously said it had no outside investors, bank loans or overdrafts. Mr Lalvani joined the business after university and said he began by sticking labels on boxes in the warehouse before working in every department. He has rejected suggestions he sim- ply inherited the business, saying his father expected more of him than other employees. He has also spoken of his turbulent childhood. His father and mother, a for- mer Miss India, divorced when he was eight, leaving him to split his time between Britain and India and attend eight different schools. After becoming chief executive in 2015, Mr Lalvani oversaw Vitabiotics’ international expansion while becom- ing a familiar face on Dragons’ Den. He stepped down from the show in 2021. Mr Lalvani’s elder brother, Prof Ajit Lalvani, an infectious diseases expert at Imperial College London, has also spent decades advising the company as a non-executive director. Bain Capital said it would invest in expanding Vitabiotics overseas, includ- ing in India, China, the Middle East and North Africa. Vitabiotics already sells its products in more than 70 countries. The investment firm said the UK would remain at the heart of the busi- ness following the takeover. The deal remains subject to regulatory approval.
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dinary technology are shared broadly across our economy,” the letter said. The lobbying comes amid calls for restrictions on Chinese AI models after the launch of Kimi, which is sophisti- cated enough to rival the most advanced models released by its US rivals. The letter from Nvidia also warned against potential bans on “distillation,” in which an AI bot harvests information from a rival system, arguing it was a “widely used” development technique.
Griffith
letter to
Jonathan
Reynolds
DEAR JONATHAN, Congratulations on your reappointment as Business Secretary. This is a fabulous country with innovative businesses. There could not be a more important job in government. Since you left, a lot has happened. Little of it has been positive and much of it started on your watch. The last time you held this role, you supported Rachel Reeves in her disastrous job’s tax. The result has been more than 160,000 payrolled jobs lost. You were the minister responsible for pushing the 330-page (Un) Employment Rights Act through Parliament. Now a record one in six young people can’t fi nd a job after youth unemployment spiked. Meanwhile, business confi dence regularly plumbs new record lows. Like many, I remember the 1970s as a time of stagnation in our economy, squalor in our cities, and declining status for Britain. I don’t believe that you went into politics to preside over a return to that era, so on domestic business policy I am asking you to put country before party and take the following steps. First, we need to get Britain working again. It is time to pause the implementation of the job-killing measures in that Employment Rights Act. Your backbenchers and the unions may not like it, but you know it, I know it, even Tony Blair knows it. Many of the act’s most damaging measures have yet to take eff ect and can still be stopped if you move fast. “Swipe to strike” online balloting that is open to abuse does not come into eff ect until August. Increases in the time limit to bring employment tribunal claims, set to swell a 500,000- case backlog, are set for October. A trade union “right to roam” that will give them disruptive access to workplaces 52 times a year and the “banter ban” attack on free speech are
are already warning of the damage of another summer of suspense on tax’
also just months away. Changes that make it harder to sack under- performing employees are due to come take eff ect in January, further disincentivising employers from taking a chance on hiring young people. Extended employment rights don’t help if people can’t fi nd a job. Let’s recognise that the situation has changed, and steer away from the unemployment iceberg ahead. Second, business desperately needs cheaper energy. You know industrial energy costs here are multiples of those in our rivals. Use your authority to intercede with the Energy Secretary. While she may be a devotee of Ed Miliband, her visit to Aberdeen suggests even she is recognising that things cannot go on as they have. No more tactical schemes that subsidise one business at the expense of others, but sustainable lower energy costs for all. Join hands with the Conservative plan to “Get Britain Drilling”, scrap the Energy Profi ts Levy and eliminate carbon taxes. Third, scrap the Zero Emissions Vehicle mandate that fi nes carmakers for making the cars Britons want to buy. We are making fewer cars than for 73 years, and yet carmakers are paying billions to buy the automotive version of carbon credits from Chinese EV makers. All this so that they can avoid your fi nes for making the diesel and petrol cars consumers choose. You intervened by making Parliament sit on a Saturday to “save” 2,700 jobs at British Steel; UK automotive manufacturing employs more than 200,000 people. Let’s go. Fourth, proceed at pace with the repeal of red tape. You’ve inherited from your predecessor a Regulating for Growth Bill, which sounds to most like an oxymoron but let us work with that. In Britain today it is simply too hard, too slow and too expensive to build or create things. The Conservative Party has already set out over a dozen measures that could be cut and will happily work with you to fi nd even more. Where vested interests try to thwart you, seek our support. The rivals overtaking us do not self-sabotage with over-mighty regulators and competition authorities. Finally, businesses are already warning of the damage of another summer of suspense on tax. Investment, expansion and hiring decisions all paused. Confi dence absent. With the tax burden already excessive, the Chancellor foregoes little by ruling out any tax increases now. Let me conclude with being clear about the challenge you face; it is immense. I’m not one of those who pretends that previous Tory or coalition governments got everything right. Issues such as the long-standing weakness of the public fi nances or under-investment in defence go back decades. But when it comes to business, two years of Labour have made things incalculably worse. If you don’t want your legacy to be a return to the 1970s, you must act.
Yours, Andrew Griffi th MP, shadow business and trade secretary
person to get a deal with Trump
MATTHEW LYNN
is bound to be equally useless on US relations as he was with net zero
WE ARE facing a renewed 10pc tariff
from the United States, our biggest
trade partner.
Crucial exports may be priced out of
the market, factories that rely on
American trade may have to close, and
the balance of payments will take
another hit at a moment when the
economy has already stagnated.
Still, never mind. As Donald Trump
imposes a fresh round of levies on
Britain, at least we have a new Foreign
Secretary who can negotiate that
away? Except, er, not exactly.
In fact, we are stuck with Ed
Miliband – and “Red Ed” is the worst
possible person to get a deal with
Trump or to defend the country’s vital
economic interests.
If it were a Hollywood movie, it
might be called Liberation Day II: The
Return of the Tariff s.
After the US president’s fi rst round
of import levies were ruled illegal by
the Supreme Court, the White House
imposed “temporary” levies of
between 10pc and 20pc on countries
around the world.
It has now come up with a fresh
wheeze. From today, levies of 10pc or
more will be imposed on 60 countries,
including Britain and the EU, because
they benefi t from “forced labour”.
No one believes that Trump is
especially bothered by the issue itself.
But it gives him a legal basis for
imposing tariff s, and that will be
good enough for now. The tariff s will
stay in place.
For Britain, that could prove a
signifi cant problem.
The US is our single largest export
partner, with total sales of more than
£200bn a year, led by high-end
manufactured goods such as
pharmaceuticals, aerospace, spirits,
and turbines.
We run a healthy surplus of more
than £70bn on that, unlike the EU,
with which we run a huge and
perpetual defi cit.
With the economy fl atlining, and the
defi cit running out of control, we can’t
aff ord to lose a market of that size.
Just as seriously, if Andy Burnham,
the new Prime Minister, is to have any
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hope of reindustrialising the country, and rebuilding the economy of the North, then he needs the American market to sell into more than ever. Nowhere else is as rich, or open to British goods and services. Our former ambassador to Washington, Lord Mandelson, may have been “problematic” in other ways, to put it mildly. But at least he and Sir Keir Starmer managed to negotiate a special trade deal with Donald Trump. We need that again. The trouble is, our new Foreign Secretary, who should be leading this, is none other than Miliband. In reality, there are three big problems that are unique to Miliband. First, he has spent years virtue- signalling to his Left-wing fanboys by endlessly criticising Trump, instead of thinking about how he may have to negotiate with him one day. After Trump’s fi rst election victory in 2016, he described him as a “racist, misogynistic, self-confessed groper”, and followed that up by arguing he had “lowered the bar for idiocy”. Sure, that will have played well to his base, and some of us might even think he had a point. Even so, it is very hard to sit down opposite a man about whom you have used that kind of language and ask him to cut you a special deal. Trump takes all the insults hurled at
takes all the insults hurled at him personally, and takes revenge when he can’
spree - but not on the high street
By Emma Taggart
RETAIL sales rose unexpectedly in June after Britons rushed to buy air conditioning units and fans during last month’s heatwave. Figures showed that retail sales increased 1pc last month, beating expectations of a 0.5pc slump, accord- ing to the Offi ce for National Statistics. The warm weather and summer discounts also encouraged consumers to restock their summer wardrobes as sales in clothing stores rose by 1.9pc in June, the largest jump in nine months. This was alongside unprecedented demand for air con, with retailers such as Currys reporting sales increases of more than 300pc. Jacqui Baker, partner and head of retail at RSM UK, said: “The uptick in retail sales highlights just how important weather is in determining consumers’ moods – and their willing- ness to spend – which was also helped by summer discounting. “Consumers opted to spend online to avoid the heat on the high street, stock- ing up on summer clothing to enjoy the hot weather at home, while investing in fans and air con units to keep cool.” Retailers also received a boost from shoppers buying more football shirts
By Hans van Leeuwen
BP IS in talks to sell its British solar
business to a Kuwait-backed investor as
it retreats from net zero.
The energy giant is reportedly in
advanced discussions to offload its
Lightsource solar division, which has
developed more than 300 solar farms in
the UK, to Qualitas Energy and Wren
House, the infrastructure unit of
Kuwait’s sovereign wealth fund.
Lightsource was Europe’s largest
solar developer when BP fi rst invested
in the company in 2017. It has a 4-giga-
watt portfolio of solar, wind and battery
assets across 15 countries.
However BP has written down the
value of its low-carbon and ener-
gy-transition division by $6bn (£4.5bn)
over the past year, of which $4bn in
value is attributed to Lightsource.
It comes as the energy giant unwinds
a six-year-old net zero push and
refocuses on its core oil and gas busi-
ness.
Under Bernard Looney, the boss
him personally, and takes revenge when he can. Miliband is hardly likely to be on his list of people who get special treatment. Next, ironically, it is the net zero crusade that Miliband championed when he was energy secretary that has made us vulnerable to the charge of relying on forced labour. Most of the kit for alternative energies comes from China, and there is plenty of disturbing evidence that much of it is manufactured using coerced workers. According to a report from Sheffi eld Hallam University, China’s vast panel industry relies critically on polysilicon produced by the Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang Province. “Signifi cant evidence – largely drawn from government and corporate sources – reveals that labour transfers are deployed in the Uyghur region within an environment of unprecedented coercion, under-girded by the constant threat of re-education and internment,” it concluded. Put simply, the panels are cheap because they are made by what is in eff ect forced labour, with an estimated one million people trapped in the system. The blunt truth is this: Trump has a point. If Miliband had been willing to build up our domestic capacity to make solar panels, we might not be in this mess.
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Retailers saw sales of summer clothes rise as Britons tried to keep cool in the heat
for the World Cup. As Britons opted to spend more time outside during the spell of warm weather, retailers also reported an increase in customers purchasing garden furniture. However, despite the rise in retail sales, shoppers steered clear of the high street as soaring temperatures led Britons to do more shopping online. This pushed the proportion of digital sales up to 29.4pc in June, a rise from 28.9pc in May. It marked the highest proportion of sales made online since
of BP from 2020-2023, BP cut its oil output by 40pc and pumped billions into renewable energy projects. Two years later, amid a growing chorus of shareholder complaints about the company’s lacklustre profi ts and share price, Murray Auchincloss, Mr Looney’s successor, changed course. He told investors in January 2025
The write down in the value of BP’s Lightsource solar farm business over the past year
Instead, we are being punished for turning a blind eye. Finally, there is little evidence that Miliband knows anything about trade, or has even ever given it much thought. He has spent his career campaigning on climate change, making the case for higher taxes and churning out cheap slogans on equality. The nitty-gritty of trade deals, manufacturing and exports are a foreign country to him. He has neither the knowledge nor the inclination to work out which industries need help, what trade-off s can be made, and what arguments are most likely to soften the views in the White House. Britain should be able to get a decent deal from Trump. He likes us, especially the Royal family; he has done lots of business here over the years, and he approved of our departure from the EU. Sadly, this limited Foreign Secretary is unlikely to be able to secure a wide-ranging, free-trade deal with the US that would have boosted our exports, helped sterling, generated plenty of extra tax revenue, and rescued some manufacturers who may now face a very bleak future. Unfortunately, we are stuck with Miliband – and that means we have virtually no chance of negotiating away the latest round of tariff s.
April 2021, when the UK was grappling with the pandemic. However, economists warned the rise in retail sales was unlikely to continue in the coming months. Harvir Dhillon, an economist at the British Retail Consortium, said: “While retailers have been enjoying the boost to sales, there are challenges ahead, as hostilities in the Middle East resume. Budgets remain under pressure, con- sumer confi dence is fragile, and retail- ers are facing rising operating costs.”
streamline BP’s portfolio and make the business “predictable” again. BP has recently offl oaded a refi nery in Germany, a portfolio of petrol fore- courts and charging stations in Austria, an interest in a Canadian offshore oil project, and stakes in 10 technology start-ups and several US pipelines. The planned sale of Lightsource, which was fi rst reported by the Finan- cial Times, is also thought to be driven by BP’s plans to pay down debt. BP took on $2.8bn of debt when it bought out the half of Lightsource it did not already own in 2024. Ms O’Neill aims to cut it’s net debt from $23bn to $18bn by the end of this year. If confi rmed, the deal would bolster the UK presence of Wren House . Its investments include London City Air- port and Associated British Ports. Madrid-based Qualitas operates 11 gigawatts of renewable power assets in half a dozen countries, including the US. Qualitas and Wren House were con- tacted for comment. BP declined to comment.
Ed Miliband can’t
expect any favours
from the US
president after
calling him a
‘racist,
misogynistic,
self-confessed
groper’
retreat from clickbait as it sinks into red
finally admitted its
strategy of pumping
out dross to get hits
is botched, writes
James Warrington
WHEN the newspaper empire formerly known as Trinity Mirror revealed it was rebranding to Reach in 2018, bosses heralded a fresh identity for the digital news landscape. Simon Fox, the chief executive at the time, described Reach as a “Ronseal name – ‘it does what it says on the tin’ – that simply describes what we do”. He meant that the media group, which owns the Daily Mirror and Daily Express, would reach more readers through a new strategy of quantity over quality. But eight years later the company has delivered the long-awaited coup de grâce to an approach that has dragged the news group’s share price – and reputation – through the fl oor. After years of chasing clicks and shrinking advertising revenues, Piers North, the chief executive since March last year, said this week that the company was “moving away from volume” to focus on original, high- quality output. It is an ignominious climbdown for a
Reach’s business is in decline
Profits and revenues are falling
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in ‘the divorce of the century’
By James Titcomb
A SOUTH KOREAN tech billionaire has been ordered to pay his ex-wife almost half a billion pounds in what has been dubbed “the divorce of the century”. Seoul’s high court ordered Chey Tae- won to pay Roh Soh-yeong 944bn won (£480m) yesterday. It comes after an explosion in the value of Mr Chey’s wealth because of the AI boom. The tycoon is the chairman of SK Group, a South Korean conglomerate that includes chip-maker SK Hynix, which has seen its value soar above $1tn (£750bn) this year amid a surge in spending on data cen- tres that require the company’s memory chips. Ms Roh had originally sought about half of Mr Chey’s $5.6bn net worth. It is the largest divorce payout in South Korea’s history. The settlement was set at a third of Mr Chen’s net worth as it was calculated in 2024, before SK Hynix’s recent share price boom. The chipmaker’s soaring
Chey Tae-won and Roh Soh-yeong have fought a lengthy legal battle
By Louis Goss
TESLA could be forced to redesign the hidden door handles on its electric vehicles that have been blamed for trap- ping people inside burning cars. Elon Musk’s car business has been facing scrutiny over the electronic latches on its EVs following a string of deadly incidents where the handles are alleged to have failed. The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has now said it plans to introduce new rules to address safety risks surrounding the door handles. It follows a string of incidents in which Tesla drivers have reported being trapped inside burning vehicles after the electronic door release mech- anisms on their cars stopped working after crashes. An investigation by Bloomberg uncovered at least 15 incidents where people had died as a result of the elec- tric switches failing due to power cuts inside their vehicles after impacts. Tesla
publisher that has become notorious for prescribing daily story and page-view quotas to its reporters. Reach’s about-turn has been viewed as a belated acknowledgement of a botched strategy. Even as other publishers have pursued subscription models, allowing them to generate money directly from readers, Reach has stubbornly chased online advertising revenues without a paywall. This approach has driven the pursuit of quantity above all else. Critics both inside and outside the company have bemoaned a consequent fl ood of “clickbait” that has resulted in titles publishing stories that are, at best, irrelevant and, at times, misleading. Reach has its own AI software used to speed up the process of “ripping” stories from other outlets, but there are also signs – in the form of prompts mistakenly left in articles – that some overworked reporters have turned to chatbots to do their jobs wholesale. In some cases, the company has even cut out journalists altogether and allowed PR companies to write articles directly for its titles. Aside from alienating readers, this strategy has left Reach fi nancially vulnerable. Algorithm changes by tech giants such as Facebook and Google, which play an essential role in driving traffi c to Reach websites, have hit the company’s top line. This has been exacerbated in recent
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share price means that the fi nal sum is about 12pc of the businessman’s current net worth. However, Seoul’s high court said it had taken into account Mr Chey’s ballooning fortune when calculating the payout. His lawyers had argued that
drivers have also reported struggling to escape their cars as they had diffi culty fi nding the manual release hatches as their vehicles became engulfed in fl ames. The EV pioneer was the first car- maker to introduce fl ush door handles, giving its cars their sleek, futuristic look. On the inside, some Tesla cars also
a robust and obvious door egress system in all motor vehicles’
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months by the rollout of AI overviews that further divert readers away from news sites. Reach, which owns scores of regional titles including the Manchester Evening News and Liverpool Echo, this week revealed that Google referrals plunged by 55pc in the fi rst half of the year, contributing to a 40pc decline in readership. As a result, revenues slumped 9pc while Reach swung to a £45m pre-tax loss. The eff ect on staff has been gruelling. Reach has cut more than 1,000 jobs in the past three years, largely overseen by Jim Mullen, who led the publisher between 2019 and early 2025. Surviving journalists complain of heightened workloads, shrinking budgets and shattered morale. Reach this week said it plans to increase its cost-saving target for the year to 10pc, prompting the National
Ms Roh played no part in the company’s recent success. It is unclear if he may have to sell some of his stock to fund the divorce settlement. Shares in SK Hynix have risen tenfold since the start of 2025. Mr Chey announced in 2015 that he was divorcing Ms Roh, the daughter of Roh Tae-woo, South Korea’s fi rst demo- cratically-elected president. The marriage between a business tycoon and the president’s daughter, in 1988, was portrayed at the time as a fairytale wedding. But Mr Chey later revealed in a letter to a South Korean newspaper that he had had a child with another woman. The break-up has led to a lengthy legal battle between the two. Mr Chey, who goes by the name “Tony” in the West, has become a global figure in the technology industry, posting pictures of him- self with the bosses of Amazon, Microsoft, OpenAI and Nvidia on his Instagram account, “papato- nybear”, and playing golf with Donald Trump. SK Hynix recently raised $26.5bn by listing its shares in New York, in addition to those traded in Seoul.
new rules that would “mandate a robust and obvious door egress system in all motor vehicles”. A spokesman said it would be seeking information on potential new safety rules and no fi nal decision had been made. Recessed and electronic door han- dles have surged in popularity among electric car manufacturers, in particu- lar among Chinese EV brands. Tesla said last year it planned to rede- sign the switches to make them more intuitive. Franz von Holzhausen, Tesla’s chief designer, told Bloomberg the com- pany would make the handles easier to use in a “panic situation”. China became the fi rst country in the world to ban the hidden door handles in response to the safety concerns. The new rules come into force from January 2027 and require that all cars have man- ual handles on the inside and outside of every passenger door. European regulators have also fl agged concerns around the electronic door handles as a key priority . Tesla was contacted for comment.
Union of Journalists to call for an end to the culture of “haemorrhaging” jobs at the publisher. The consequence is a publishing group that is now a shadow of its former self. Shares in Reach plunged by nearly 25pc after the half-year results and a further 8pc on Thursday. It is now worth just £130m – a fraction of its £5bn peak in 2005. For his part, North has been clear that the era of clickbait needs to end. Reach has begun rolling out paywalls across some of its sites and now has around 40,000 paid subscribers. The publisher insists it will refocus on distinctive, quality material. “This is the right opportunity for us now, and over the past year we’ve been rapidly building up our capability to take advantage of it,” North said. “We’ve always produced so much quality content, both nationally and
locally – and now that’s at the centre of our strategy.” But with editorial teams decimated and the brand’s reputation tarnished by years of clickbait, such an abrupt change in direction will not be straightforward. “The current strategy has been staring the leadership team in the face for the past few years, and yet, despite all the evidence throughout the industry suggesting otherwise, they continued to push through with the completely b-----t idea that page-views on anything at all would future-proof the business,” said one insider. “If you had landed from Mars and spent a day at the company fi ve years ago, you could have told them their plan was a load of s---e.” David Higgerson, Reach’s chief content offi cer, this week took to LinkedIn to defend the publisher’s strategy from a barrage of criticism. “Volume journalism helped
underwrite a lot of other journalism which as a result has had [a] chance to grow and now drive subscriptions or direct traffi c,” he wrote in response to one detractor. “Characterising our newsrooms as only chasing algorithms isn’t accurate.” However the publisher’s future looks uncertain. For some years it has relied on milking its print business, which is in a state of profi table decline, and rewarding shareholders with a healthy dividend. But the company has taken an axe to this cash cow by halving the payout. While staff at Reach have been crying out for an end to the clickbait era, some fear this week’s strategy shift is too little, too late. “Reach was absolutely best placed to take advantage of premium localised content,” said one journalist. “[It] chased the numbers to keep paying the dividend. Now the brands are f----d.”
The hot dry conditions take their toll on the grass around Stonehenge, Wiltshire
we long for rain in this country?
By Joe Shute
RAIN is in the air, tantalisingly so. Today a weak warm weather front moves in a southerly direction across the UK bringing with it the chance of a few light spots. It has been building for days as the prolonged spell of high pressure which has ushered in the latest heatwave is finally broken up. That said, despite the rising banks of cloud, many of us are still yet to experience any actual rain — merely the possibility that it may soon arrive. Where it does fall it will also be far from any real prolonged downpours, more a brief summer shower in between yet more dry and fine weather. While several more weather fronts will push in from the Atlantic over the course of next week, bringing with them fresher conditions, the long-term forecast is that the exceptionally dry and hot conditions which have become the hallmark of this summer look set to continue. With five weeks left to run, the summer of 2026 could yet overtake 1976 as the warmest on record. Drought has now officially been declared in Wales, with this July now on course to be the country’s driest for nearly 200 years. Parts of England are faring little better with the National Drought Group declaring eight areas across southern and central England to be in a state of ‘prolonged dry weather’ – official jargon denoting the dreaded precursor to incoming drought. To date, England has recorded just three per cent of its long-term average rainfall for July, with many places so far receiving not even a drop. To quote the poet John Clare, England’s yellowing fields are “parched and cracked like overbaked bread”. All eyes on the gathering clouds, then. The north-west should receive the heaviest of the incoming rain, the lucky devils. The rest of us can only hope that for the briefest of moments, the heavens might just open.
结论：发现严重缺陷 (Blocking Issues Found)
该翻译版本在忠实度和完整性方面存在重大问题，特别是出现了大规模的内容幻觉（Hallucinations）和翻译污染（Translation Contamination）。
这是最严重的缺陷。翻译件在 Page 1 和 Page 2 之间插入了大量源文件中完全不存在的内容： - 不存在的报道：翻译件中出现了关于“剑桥大学教授 Jason Arday 剽窃风波”的长篇报道，以及关于“新爱尔兰共和军汽车炸弹”的详细细节。 - 内容错位：源文件 Page 1 仅包含关于伊朗特工和猎游展（Game Fair）的短讯；而翻译件在 Page 1 结尾处突然跳入一个关于“剑桥大学多样性模范”的完整报道，这在源文预览中完全没有出现。 - 结论：翻译系统可能在处理过程中混入了其他文档的内容，或者在尝试“重建”缺失文本时产生了严重的幻觉。
[!WARNING] 警告块及其内部的未翻译英文名单（$\text{Abdolfattah Ahvazian, Abigail Buchanan...}$），属于典型的交付缺陷。| 缺陷类型 | 状态 | 备注 |
|---|---|---|
| 内容缺失 (Omissions) | ❌ 严重 | 丢失 Page 19 全部核心文章 |
| 幻觉 (Hallucinations) | ❌ 极严重 | 凭空产生大量关于剑桥大学和 IRA 的报道 |
| 数字错误 (Wrong Numbers) | ✅ 通过 | 抽样部分数字正确 |
| 英文残留 (Residual English) | ❌ 存在 | 开头警告块及部分专有名词 |
| 截断 (Truncation) | ❌ 存在 | 文章中间部分大面积丢失 |
| 顺序问题 (Order) | ❌ 存在 | 逻辑混乱，内容跳跃严重 |
审计意见：拒绝接收 (REJECTED)。建议重新翻译，并严格核查上下文关联，禁止模型在缺失文本时进行猜测性补全。