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By Henry Bodkin, Actor Matt Smith, Adam Hickman, Admiral Lord West, Adolescent Mental Health Service, Adrian Daulby
绕过 禁用水管令 抗暑发型
下令停止 提前释放
作者：Charles Hymas 内部事务编辑
由于公众对两名杀害警察 Andrew Harper 的凶手可能获释而感到愤怒，安迪·伯纳姆（ANDY BURNHAM）已下令司法部停止囚犯的提前释放计划。
首相表示，在政府对此计划进行审查并“尽一切可能将公众风险降至最低”之前，不会有任何囚犯在该计划下获得释放。
此举可能导致一个正与过度拥挤作斗争的监狱系统陷入混乱，因为官员们在数千名罪犯原定释放日期的前几周，不得不重新制定新的释放计划。
约 6,000 名囚犯（包括杀人犯、强奸犯和其他暴力罪犯）原定于 9 月 2 日起分月批次释放。
在《电讯报》披露 Albert Bowers 和 Jessie Cole 因 2019 年杀害 Harper 警官而被判处 13 年监禁，且原定在刑期过半时获释后，安迪·伯纳姆先生于周三宣布对该计划进行审查。
政府官员此前坚持认为 9 月的释放计划仍将执行，但昨天下午，首相宣布他已指示官员“暂停这些变更”。
他说：“在我们进行紧急审查并尽一切可能将公众风险降至最低之前，不会有任何囚犯根据该政策获释。如果需要做出调整，我们将毫不犹豫地执行。”
唐宁街和司法部均未设定该计划预计何时重新实施的日期（如果还会实施的话），并表示这将取决于审查结果。
在该计划下，严重罪犯——包括杀人犯、强奸犯和儿童诱导者——只要在狱中没有严重的违规行为，就有资格在刑期过半时获释，而不是三分之二。被判定为
作者：Memphis Barker 和 Lily Shanagher
政府表示，在德黑兰威胁袭击美军使用的英国皇家空军基地后，英国已准备好防御伊朗的导弹袭击。
在昨天的一份声明中，伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队 (IRGC) 威胁要攻击费尔福德皇家空军基地，并对“英国君主制政权”发出了含蓄的威胁。
此次威胁发生在安迪·伯纳姆同意继续
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较轻的罪行在服刑时间仅达到三分之一时即有资格获释。安迪·伯纳姆先生面临来自国会议员、受害者、警方和一线监狱狱警的压力，要求将最严重的犯罪者排除在该计划之外。在今天的《电讯报》中，一名在 14 岁时被绑架并遭受性虐待的女性放弃了匿名权，呼吁取消提前释放计划。西奥·塞威尔（Thea Sewell）被告知其袭击者的刑期可能会缩短，她写道：“安迪·伯纳姆先生，这项计划可能属于基尔·斯塔默的政府，但将其彻底终止的选择权和责任现在在您手中。”前保守党司法大臣戴维·高克爵士（Sir David Gauke）曾就工党的量刑问题提交报告，为提前释放计划奠定了框架，他表示政府可能有空间引入“狭义聚焦”的豁免条款，例如适用于袭击警方的暴力犯罪者。但他补充道：“问题在于，没有一种简单的划线方法可以既不留下一些有争议的案例，又不实质性地增加监狱人口。”官员们警告称，如果取消提前释放计划中的措施，英格兰和威尔士的监狱将在 11 月之前耗尽空间。前保守党司法大臣亚历克斯·乔克（Alex Chalk）表示，工党绝不应该将刑期变更追溯既往，因为这等于在受害者脚下“抽走地毯”。他认为这些规定应仅适用于规则生效后被定罪的人员。他补充说，除非英国考虑替代方案，例如为低级别罪犯建立澳大利亚式宿舍型监狱（其建设成本仅为现代监狱的三分之一，建设时间也仅为三分之一），否则将无法解决监狱过度拥挤的危机。一座新监狱的成本为 £600m，建设时间需要 6 年。
基尔·斯塔默爵士允许华盛顿从英国基地对伊朗发动袭击的政策。 伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队表示，“任何用于侵犯伊朗领土的基地对我们来说都是合法目标”，并声称美国“诉诸于使用从英格兰费尔福德皇家空军基地起飞的 B-1 飞机”，因为其导弹储备已经枯竭。 它还指责英国通过“拆解伊斯兰国家……强加专制政府”导致了“我们地区人民的不幸”，而“最糟糕的是”制造了
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安妮塔·辛格（Anita Singh） 艺术与娱乐编辑
英国广播公司要求唐纳德·特朗普提交其私人信息，试图证明他煽动了 1 月 6 日的骚乱。 在应对这位美国总统发起的 $10bn (£7.5bn) 诽谤诉讼时，该广播公司的律师希望在法庭上证明，他应为敦促支持者冲击美国国会大厦承担责任。 去年，《电讯报》披露，唐纳德·特朗普在 2021 年 1 月 6 日发表的一场演说在一部《全景》（Panorama）纪录片中被剪辑拼接，使其看起来像是直接煽动抗议选举结果的暴徒。这位被判无罪的美国总统，
“以色列的灾难”。政府回应称，军队已“24/7”准备好保护英国免受“任何形式的袭击，无论是在我们的领土上还是来自海外”。 政府补充道：“这包括通过实施分层空中和导弹防御方法，由配备一系列先进能力的皇家海军、英国陆军和英国皇家空军资产提供，并与我们的北约盟友密切协作。 “英国对待此次冲突的方式保持不变——我们致力于保卫我国人民、我国利益和
新冠专家私下 怀疑实验室泄漏
通过最高法院煽动暴徒， 英国广播公司（BBC）称其损害了他的名誉。 现在，该广播公司的律师 已向美国政府申请 获取由杰克·史密斯（Jack Smith）搜集的证据， 后者当时是美国司法部的特别检察官， 他在去年的一份报告中得出结论，“暴力 对特朗普先生而言是可以预见的， 是他造成的，这对他的干扰认证 计划有利，而且在暴力发生时， 他有意识地选择不阻止， 而是利用它来进一步拖延”。 这些证据包括特朗普先生与他的顾问在 1月6日，即演讲与他要求暴徒 散场之间那3小时内发送的消息。BBC还向第三方发出传票。在本周提交给美国的一份法院文件中，BBC表示：“在[他的]诉讼中，特朗普总统声称BBC通过编辑他在6, 2021年1月6日在白宫椭圆形草坪上的演讲，以一种
对特朗普先生而言 是可以预见的……这对他 计划有利”
他声称传达了所谓的虚假暗示，即他煽动了随后在国会大厦发生的暴力行为。 “因此，正如BBC所解释且政府并不否认的，如果特朗普总统在案件中无法获胜，如果他……”
我们的盟友，按照国际法行事，且不会被卷入更广泛的冲突。” 昨晚，航班追踪网站 追踪到一架B1轰炸机从格洛斯特郡的 费尔福德皇家空军基地（RAF Fairford） 飞往伊朗。该飞机可携带两打2,000磅炸弹。唐纳德·特朗普 已连续12个夜晚对伊朗发动袭击，美国军方 正部署位置，准备在未来几天可能的升级行动。 额外的F-35和F-16战斗机（包括16） 已部署，加油机也已抵达以色列。昨
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昨日下午，美国总统表示 他正在考虑一次“大规模袭击”， 其规模将“比以往任何时候都大”。 “I am close to making a decision,” 特朗普先生告诉Axios。“我们已经准备就绪。” 皮特·海格塞斯（Pete Hegseth），美国国防部长， 警告说，如果国会 不通过紧急资金请求，美国国防部 (五角大楼) 将面临“关键短缺”， 并表示伊朗战争的成本 已膨胀至至少$37.5bn (£28bn)。 伊朗曾试图在英国领土上发动恐怖袭击，包括去年5月一次在发起前数小时被挫败的袭击。
帕瓦罗蒂的裁缝陷入 £550,000 冰箱之争
根据议会情报与安全委员会 2025年的一份报告，该政权已试图在 国内杀害或绑架至少15人， 该报告警告称存在“广泛、 持久且不可预测的威胁”。 英国空军基地的安全漏洞在去年被凸显，当时巴勒斯坦行动 (组织) 的成员闯入布赖兹诺顿皇家空军基地（RAF Brize Norton）并破坏了2架军用喷气机。基地的部分区域仅由一道6英尺高的木栅栏保护。《电讯报》随后的一项调查显示，其他几处皇家空军基地也存在类似的安保松懈问题。
天然气主管发出 冬季能源警报
错失了阻止 犹太会堂袭击的机会
在反犹太人杀戮事件前 未检查没收的恐怖分子手机
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警方承认，曼彻斯特的一座犹太会堂遭受的恐怖袭击本可以被阻止。
35 岁的 Jihad al-Shamie 在 10 月 2 日将车撞向克朗普索尔（Crumpsall）希顿公园犹太会堂外的一名保安，随后将 66 岁的 Melvin Cravitz 刺死。
Al-Shamie 是一名出生于叙利亚的英国国民，此前因涉嫌强奸而被保释。在犹太历中最神圣的节日——赎罪日（Yom Kippur）袭击发生期间，当礼拜者们将自己反锁在犹太会堂内时，Al-Shamie 被警方击毙。
一名流弹还击中了 53 岁的 Adrian Daulby，他当时在试图阻止袭击者进入。
Mohammad Bashir 是 Al-Shamie 的一名同伙。在袭击发生前不到两个月，他曾开车带该恐怖分子前往牛津郡的英国国防学院执行侦察任务，现已被判处终身监禁。在承认准备恐怖袭击罪名后，Bashir 上个月被判处最低 17 年监禁。
然而，负责起诉的 Jonathan Polnay 表示，闭路电视（CCTV）画面结合 Al-Shamie 手机的电话数据表明，两人一直在策划针对国防学院的恐怖袭击。
在昨天 Bashir 宣判后，大曼彻斯特警方（GMP）首席警长在承认 Al-Shamie 的手机在之前两次被捕时已被没收但未被检查后，表达了歉意。
首席警长 Sir Stephen Watson 表示，这在袭击发生前揭露其“极端主义心态”证据方面是一个“错失的机会”。
Sir Stephen 表示：“在进行内部审查后，很明显 GMP 在每次逮捕时都没收了 Al-Shamie 的移动设备。这些设备的数据内容对于证明极端主义心态具有重大意义。”
“遗憾的是，我可以确认，由于在 2025 年 10 月 2 日袭击发生前未对设备进行检查，Al-Shamie 设备中存储信息的重大意义未被意识到。这将由 IOPC [警察行为独立办公室] 和验尸官调查委员会来决定未审查设备内容所产生的影响。
“然而，毫无疑问，这些设备中所包含的信息本会引发进一步的调查行动。很明显，我们在袭击发生前没有审查可用数据，构成了一个错失的机会。
“对于可能增加去年 10 月可怕事件中所有受影响者的痛苦，我感到很失望。为此，我深表歉意。”
在去年的 8 月 14 日，Bashir 开着 Al-Shamie 的车从曼彻斯特出发进行了 10 小时的往返行程，两人在国防学院所在地——国防部（MoD）希夫纳姆（Shrivenham）区域停留了 13 分钟。
作者：Simon Calder 和 Greg Dickinson
瑞安航空（RYANAIR）首席执行官警告称，今年夏天，如果乘客被困在欧洲各地的护照排队队列中，飞机将直接起飞。
自欧盟的入境-出境系统（EES）于 4 月全面生效以来，英国航空旅客在申根区机场排队时间高达三小时。在某些情况下，乘客因生物识别检查而错过了返程航班。
在《电讯报》的播客节目《旅游专家》中，Michael O’Leary 表示：“我们不会等待任何人。我们的优先级是那些在登机开始时就已在登机口等待的乘客。如果我们完成登机时你不在登机口，飞机就会在没有你的情况下起飞。”
自该计划生效以来，多家航空公司的数百名旅客错过了飞机。一些瑞安航空乘客——
重要性在当时未被意识到”
在返回之前。随后他们处理掉了自己的手机。 Al-Shamie 曾于 2 月 13 日被逮捕，时间在袭击发生前八个月，与一项违反禁止骚扰令的指控有关。他于 9 月 21 日再次被逮捕，与一项强奸指控有关，警方两次在逮捕时没收了他的手机。 在希顿公园袭击事件后，反恐警察对这些手机进行了检查。警方还获得了搜查 Al-Shamie 在线 iCloud 存储空间的搜查令。 相关信息揭露了 Bashir 与 Al-Shamie 之间的 WhatsApp 消息和语音便条交换，以及一个两人均在其中的 WhatsApp 群组聊天。 8 月 9 日，两人抵达位于曼彻斯特的 al-Sunnah 清真寺，并坐在 Al-Shamie 的车内，此时他在互联网上搜索“IDF soldiers UK”（英国境内以色列国防军士兵），搜索结果生成了一篇关于在伦敦皇家国防研究学院学习的以色列军队军官的文章。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 白玫瑰 英国模特 Rosie Huntington-Whiteley 在马耳他度假期间在游艇上享受阳光。这位 39 岁的模特表示她已准备好“轻盈步入夏季”。
从米兰贝加莫飞往曼彻斯特以及从雅典飞往伦敦斯坦斯特机场的乘客，由于护照检查处极度延误，眼睁睁看着飞机在他们尚未登机的情况下起飞。 受困的旅客在更换机票和酒店上花费了数百英镑，结果却发现航空公司和旅行保险公司均不承担这部分费用。航空公司和机场已敦促布鲁塞尔取消边境检查。 由国际机场理事会、欧洲航空公司协会和国际航空运输协会本月早些时候发布的一封信函警告称：“EES（入境/出境系统）正在造成严重的运营后果，干扰乘客，并使边境当局、机场和航空公司承受难以持续的压力。” “因此，我们敦促您在夏季旅游高峰期间情况进一步恶化之前立即干预。” 奥里利先生（Mr O’Leary）称缺乏乘客权益令人“遗憾”，但警告称： “我们不会为了那些被困在护照检查队列中的乘客而延误航班。他们必须更早地到达机场[并]在登机口候机，否则就无法飞行。” 许多乘客指出，行李托运通常在起飞前两小时才开启，这意味着提前到达机场并无实际意义。
作者：埃里克·威廉姆斯 (Eric Williams)
一项民意调查发现，仅有 6% 的人表示，如果英国面临入侵威胁，他们愿意志愿参军。
当被问及在面对“迫在眉睫的入侵”时是否愿意保卫国家时，52% 的人声称他们由于年龄或残疾而没有参军资格。
虽然 14% 的人表示如果被征召将同意服役，但 17% 的人声称他们将拒绝任何保卫国土的命令。
这是最新的一项调查，表明英国在应对潜在重大冲突的准备工作上已落后于其欧洲邻国。
在周二任命约翰·希利 (John Healey) 为财政大臣后，预计安迪·伯纳姆 (Andy Burnham) 将增加国防开支。希利先生上个月辞去了国防大臣一职，此前基尔·斯塔默 (Keir Starmer) 爵士拒绝承诺在 2030 年前将 GDP 的 3% 用于军事支出。
YouGov 对 2,300 人的民意调查显示，近三分之一的受访者认为，英国在未来十年内很可能会遭到全面的军事攻击。这项与天空新闻 (Sky News) 共享的调查显示，超过半数的受访者对于一旦发生最糟糕的情况，武装部队维持英国安全的能力“没有信心”。
57% 的人表示，他们认为政府在国防方面的“投入太少”。仅有 6% 的人认为国防预算过高。
在对依赖美国保障安全日益警惕之后，欧洲各国正急于重新武装，并为可能与俄罗斯发生的冲突做准备。去年有消息披露，英国正在秘密制定应对克里姆林宫直接军事攻击的应急计划。
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其家属表示，今年晚些时候将为安·威德康姆 (Ann Widdecombe) 举行公开追思会。
这位前保守党部长（后成为改革党的司法和移民发言人）于 7 月 9 日被发现死在德文郡海托尔 (Haytor) 的家中，头部受严重创伤。
来自南约克郡罗瑟勒姆 (Rotherham) 的 Joshua Kerry，28, 岁，周二出庭，被指控谋杀她。
威德康姆小姐的家属表示： “我们了解到公众对安·威德康姆的葬礼有浓厚兴趣。” “未来几周将为家人和亲密朋友举行私人仪式，该仪式的邀请函已经发出。” “随后将在今年晚些时候举行一次更公开的追思会，具体细节将在适当时公布。”
受中年女性诊断率上升的推动，成年人 ADHD 药物的处方量在一年内增长了 40%。
NHS 数据显示，2025-26, 年度共开出了 4.2 million 份治疗注意力缺陷多动障碍 (ADHD) 的药物处方，在 12 个月内增长了四分之一。增长最明显的是成年人群体，越来越多的人在成年后被诊断，在某些情况下，是在他们的孩子被诊断之后才被诊断。
研究表明，女性往往比男性诊断得晚，因为其症状较不明显，表现为内化焦虑或缺乏组织能力，而非多动或破坏性行为。
精神科医生注意到，许多女性在接近更年期时寻求帮助，且随着雌激素水平下降，相关症状变得更加明显。
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作为工党“大不列颠夏季省钱”计划的一部分，儿童火车票价格已降至 £1。 该计划于上月首次推出，目前已为儿童提供免费巴士出行，并为家庭在酒店及餐饮场所提供一系列折扣。 政府昨日表示，在夏季期间，部分儿童火车票的价格将降至 £1，但坚称该政策将通过鼓励更多人乘坐火车而实现自负盈亏。每家铁路公司都在开展时间段不同的独立促销活动。 安迪·伯纳姆尚未为这项将在国家运营的铁路服务中实施的政策拨款。他公布了一系列旨在降低生活成本的政策，但关于这些政策如何获得资金支持的问题已经出现。
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一篇名为《大都会警察局向我道歉，但我拒绝接受》（5月 21 日）的文章称，斯特凡尼·海登（Stephanie Hayden）利用其跨性别身份逃避债权人。我们承认此描述不准确，并乐于更正记录。
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作者：莉莉·沙纳格 (Lily Shanagher)
新西兰将以库克船长的名字命名一艘轮渡，政府已告知那些“啜泣的觉醒主义者”对此接受。 这艘连接该国北岛和南岛的新轮渡将以这位皇家海军军官及探险家的名字命名，他被认为是第二个访问该国的欧洲人。 然而，以库克命名该船的决定引发了关注，因为库克及其船员在 1769 年 10 月登陆该国海岸时杀害了毛利人。而目前，新西兰许多地标和地名正从殖民时代的名称更改为原住民名称。 奥塔哥大学历史学教授托尼·巴兰泰因 (Tony Ballantyne) 表示：“毛利人
在“博士”的 TARDIS 帮助下 飞抵运动会
Victoria Ward 副皇家编辑
国王和王后习惯于在护送骑手群和闪烁的灯光簇拥下被送往目的地。但昨晚，他们将这一规格提升了一个档次，挑战时间与空间的法则，乘坐着并非他者，正是来自《神秘博士》（Doctor Who）中的 TARDIS，从巴尔莫拉抵达了英联邦运动会。
当这对夫妇从这台时间旅行机器中步入格拉斯哥的 Hydro 体育馆参加开幕式时，现场响起了巨大的欢呼声。
难怪国王看起来如此欣喜。据说他自 15 岁起就是《神秘博士》的粉丝。这座可容纳 14,300 人的体育馆被变成了一个巨大的花园，上演了一场令人印象深刻的两小时表演，赞颂了格拉斯哥的勇敢精神。
在表演过程中，节目向苏格兰的“标志性元素”致敬，从这座城市中那尊一如既往地戴着交通锥的臭名昭著的威灵顿公爵雕像，到 Tunnock's 茶点心以及 The Proclaimers 乐队。
在体育馆中现身之前，TARDIS 经历了一场环绕苏格兰的史诗般旅程，并在大屏幕上进行了展示。
操纵设备的是苏格兰自行车运动员、六次奥运冠军克里斯·霍伊爵士（Sir Chris Hoy）以及苏格兰演员格雷格·麦克休（Greg McHugh）。
两人当时正漫步在格拉斯哥，这时这座城市一个历史悠久的蓝色警察电话亭内响起了电话。在接听电话后，他们发现自己正在与“宫廷”通话，对方要求
指令
想办法
将国王 和王后 从巴尔莫拉 送到运动会 快点。
当然 还有一个 选择
经过一段 关于谁 有资格操作 的争论后， 两人登上了 TARDIS，引发了 巨大的混乱
麦考伊（McCoy）， 那个把车停在 [此处文本缺失] 一场混乱的 旅程，穿过 L [此处文本缺失] 怪物的故乡，E [此处文本缺失] 凯尔派（The Kelpie） 雕塑 [此处文本缺失] 大学 格伦芬南（Glenfinnan） ,
那些因库克远征而遭受伤亡的社区从未忘记这些损失，并且近年来越来越多地向更广泛的公众分享他们的观点。” 外交部长温斯顿·彼得斯（Winston Peters）将对渡轮命名批评的看法斥为“抱怨政治”，并告诉那些认为詹姆斯·库克是“殖民主义先驱”的人要更加意识到这个国家的过去。 “我们知道会发生什么。那些啜泣的觉醒主义者会因为这个名字而激动不已，”彼得斯先生告诉议会。 “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抱怨政治的最新时尚而破坏自己的记忆，”他补充道。“在某些圈子里，现在流行将库克船长仅仅视为一个被谴责、被抵制和被抛弃的符号。” 两艘岛际渡轮已从中国购买，将于 2029 年抵达新西兰，用于在连接北岛与南岛的库克海峡运送乘客和货物。 另一艘将以库佩（Kupe）命名，他是波利尼西亚航海家，毛利传统认为他是第一个抵达新西兰的人。此举也打破了新西兰的命名传统。
因为它在《哈利·波特》电影中的出现，以及侏罗纪时期的高地。最终，它停在巴尔莫勒尔（Balmoral），在那里可以短暂地瞥见两个模糊的身影正在“登上”时间机器。 TARDIS（时间机器）在旅程的最后一段再次飞离，随后在水力体育馆（Hydro stadium）静静地现身，在舞台上的灯光闪烁中出现。 舱门打开，国王和王后走了出来。 对于恐飞的王后来说，这可能被证明是最理想的交通方式。“希望没有晕车，”一名助手开玩笑说。 由 18 人组成的皇家苏格兰国家管弦乐团青年合唱团在运动员登上中心舞台前演唱了国歌。 历史上首次，每个英联邦国家都收到了自己的接力棒，每根接力棒由三块可持续来源的苏格兰白蜡木制成，相互交锁，代表了人性、平等和命运的价值观。 所有 74 根接力棒在仪式期间重新聚集，它们被“种植”在舞台上，形成一个代表共同基础与联系的彩色花园。 接着，演出了一天中城市的生活缩影，从格拉斯哥中央车站的时钟滴答声开始，带领观众在城市的工业历史与其夜生活之间穿梭。 在一段简短的演说中，作为英联邦负责人的国王正式宣布运动会开幕。 他描述了在英联邦各国之间进行的接力赛如何概括了这个“独特且非凡的国家大家庭”。 这与 2014 年以来格拉斯哥市的活动共同举行。
由于去年 11 月因丑闻辞职的自由撰稿人，将就《全景》（Panorama）节目片段的编辑问题在宣誓后接受质询。 一名接近此案的消息人士告诉《电讯报》，特朗普先生的法律团队准备前往伦敦，将戴维先生的证词记录在案作为其案件的一部分。 该消息人士表示：“只要他们能提供人，我们准备在任何地方进行。我们将与 BBC 的法律顾问协调该证词的记录；无论是在美国还是在英国进行，对我们来说都并不重要。” 如果戴维先生拒绝自愿提供证据，一份美国的传票通常不足以强制其出庭。 特朗普先生的律师可以改为请求美国法院发布正式的请求。
我们建立一个和谐且持久的未来，为了我们的家庭，也为了彼此。现在，我非常荣幸地宣布第23届英联邦运动会开幕。”
多年来，《神秘博士》（Doctor Who）中出现过许多苏格兰籍的“博士”，包括麦考伊、大卫·特南特、彼得·卡帕尔迪和恩库提·加特瓦。Tardis（塔底斯）是基于由苏格兰建筑师吉尔伯特·麦肯齐·特伦奇设计的警察亭而创作的，且这位博士
来自伦敦高等法院的请求。如果高等法院批准该请求，戴维先生通常将被迫遵守。戴维先生将陷入该机构风暴的责任归咎于英国广播公司（BBC）的“敌人”，并宣称该广播机构是“社会的精华”。
据了解，特朗普先生在这一案件中投入巨大，即便在BBC要求获取他在1月6日暴乱前后时期的电话记录和私人日程表时，他追求诉讼的热情也未曾动摇。
BBC已为该纪录片道歉，但承诺将对抗特朗普先生的诉讼。该广播机构的律师正寻求使该案件被完全驳回。
诽谤案的审理日期已定于2027年2月在佛罗里达州进行。
拥有格拉斯哥大学的学位。2013年7月，当时的查尔斯王子和康沃尔公爵夫人（现国王与王后）访问了位于卡迪夫的BBC演播室，以庆祝该剧开播50周年。
他们参观了Tardis，在被交给一个特效麦克风之前，国王证明自己能很自然地使用博士的音速起子。“灭绝（Exterminate），
以在特许经营费资金危机中寻求资金
作者：乔·赖特 (Joe Wright)
英国广播公司 (BBC) 正在考虑对不缴纳执照费的观众屏蔽 iPlayer。 将这一点播服务置于付费墙之后，被认为是在未来几年中该广播公司可以追求的一个“机会”。 BBC 首席客户官 Kerris Bright 在周一的一次全员会议中提出了这一前景。 拟议的限制措施出台之际，该机构正面临着日益严重的执照费逃缴和裁员问题。根据现行规则，任何人在任何频道观看或录制电视直播，或使用 iPlayer，都必须拥有执照，费用为每年 £180。据信约 12.5% 的家庭在逃缴此项费用。 在新闻网站 Deadline 获得的一段录音中，Bright 女士告诉 BBC 员工，该广播公司应“绝对继续研究”将 iPlayer 置于付费墙之后，但她承认目前此类行动尚不可行。 “iPlayer 确实是唯一一个可授权且实际上可以决定在其前面设立门槛的服务，但目前的数据显示，这样做其实并没有投资回报，”她说道。 “数据表明……[这] 并不是增加收入的灵丹妙药。其成本可能高于收入，但这是我们绝对应该继续研究的事情，因为这可能是你未来实际上想要做的事情。” 一名消息人士向《电讯报》确认，虽然目前屏蔽 iPlayer 并不可行，但员工已获知
安装了铁路系统的船只带有毛利语前缀“Ara”（意为路径），这一习俗始于 1962 年。 近年来，新西兰将其埃格蒙特山 (Mount Egmont) 更名为塔拉纳基山 (Taranaki Maunga)，其最高山的名称也从 Aoraki/Mount Cook 变更为
这个国家双重遗产的体现。
被殖民，
随着《怀唐伊条约》的签署，
承认
主权，以换取
毛利土地的占有。
英国人与
大约 2,200 名原住民
在纽西兰战争期间被杀。 库克本人在该国承载着复杂的遗产。 1859, AS Thomson, 一位历史学家说，库克离开新西兰时“没有一名船员被原住民杀死或受伤；而他们
[[IMG_XXXX]] 新西兰南北岛的一艘渡轮以库克船长命名，见下图
国王与 Finnie 见面，后者是本届赛事的独角兽吉祥物。 左侧为自行车运动员克里斯·霍伊爵士，他当时在塔迪斯 (Tardis) 的控制台前。右侧为马来西亚代表团抵达开幕式，左侧插图为一名打扮成 Tunnock's 茶点心演员
“消灭！”他说，声音被转换成了戴莱克人 (Dalek) 的声音。 他努力克制住情绪，忍住一阵咯咯的笑声，继续说道：“你们是我们的囚犯……不许有任何轻举妄动！” 当时饰演 Doctor 的演员马特·史密斯 (Matt Smith) 表示：“王子说他从 15 岁起就开始看《神秘博士》(Doctor Who)，他熟悉所有行话，他非常”
必须哀悼 10 名在这次访问中被英国人杀死以及许多其他受伤的人。 前新西兰政治家 William Pember Reeves 表示，库克是一位天才制图师，但谴责了他及其船员对原住民施加的暴力。 2019, 英国正式表达遗憾，承认库克的船员在登陆新西兰时杀害了毛利人。库克在 1768 和 1779, 之间领导了三次太平洋和南洋的探索航行，期间他还访问了澳大利亚，并领导了欧洲人首次有记录的对夏威夷群岛的访问。 原住民活动人士指责在库克之后到来的英国人实施暴力并没收土地。而且在 2020, 南岛城市但尼丁的“库克船长”酒吧的所有者将店名改为“Dive”，以取代一个“压迫与苦难”的象征。 位于新西兰和澳大利亚的几座致力于纪念这位探险家的纪念碑也遭到破坏。
感兴趣。他了解不同的 医生……他对《神秘博士》(Doctor Who) 的 世界很熟悉。” 当被问及这位王室成员是否能成为一名出色的“博士”时，史密斯表示：“他在塔迪斯 (Tardis) 里的穿行绝对驾轻就熟，所以谁知道呢？” 在该节目今年圣诞特辑被英国广播公司 (BBC) 取消并将其制作权对外招标后，该节目的未来尚不确定。
认为只要流媒体技术继续提高，英国广播公司 (BBC) 将会对该想法保持审查。 对于那些没有支付费用的人来说，iPlayer 长期以来一直很容易访问。该平台偶尔会询问用户是否拥有电视执照费，但并不要求提供证明。英国广播公司 (BBC) 在 2024-25, 年度通过该费用获得了 £3.8，但据估计有高达 £550 因逃费而损失。公共账户委员会 11 月发布的一份严厉报告指责其在强制执行该要求方面“做得不够”。 布赖特女士告诉员工，绝大多数逃费行为并非发生在 iPlayer 上。因此，她对将该服务设为付费墙并使其成为“为执照付费者的极其糟糕的体验”持谨慎态度。 英国广播公司 (BBC) 拒绝置评。
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随着商业税率降低 ... 但 No 10 仍不确定 将如何支付这笔费用
作者：Tom Haynes 和 Dominic Penna
安迪·伯纳姆 宣布他将降低酒吧的商业税率，他的一位大臣承认此举并未获得充足的资金支持。首相昨日宣布，从 4 月起，酒吧、俱乐部和现场音乐场所的征税额将削减 20 per cent，这标志着《电讯报》“拯救我们的酒吧”活动的胜利。然而，仅一小时后，财政部首席秘书艾玛·雷诺兹（Emma Reynolds）承认，该政策拟定的两个资金来源——预计将使每家场所每年平均节省 £1,000 ——仍在研究中。这已经是伯纳姆先生在三天内第三次宣布新政策，随后几乎立即就资金来源引发争议。唐宁街声称，将通过两种方式为针对酒吧的 £100m 商业税减免提供资金：提高对英国境内在线科技巨头及其仓库的征税，以及取消电子烟店的税收减免，称后者未能对社区做出“积极贡献”。雷诺兹女士随后承认，部长们仍在研究这两个来源。她告诉天空新闻（Sky News）：“作为首席秘书，在研究过数字之后——我们将在预算案中详细列出具体数字——我确信我们将通过我刚才提到的方式为这一公告提供资金。” “我们可能还会考虑额外的措施。但这将是我们将为该商业税减免提供资金的两个主要方式。” 作为财政大臣的实际副手，雷诺兹女士随后被问及，她是否确信能够为伯纳姆先生的酒吧计划提供资金，但目前尚未达成具体的资金方案。她回答道：“嗯，今天是第四天，显然，作为财政部首席秘书，我已经在深入研究数字了。我今天不会向你们提供所有数字。” “但正如我所说，我们将更具体地阐明我们将采取的两种主要资金筹措方式。从明年 4 月起，这将涉及 £100m。” 当被告知她不能说该政策已“获得充分资金”时，她表示：“嗯，它... 正如你所说，它将获得充分资金。” 唐宁街声称，该政策将使英格兰全境近 32,000 家餐饮服务场所受益，并使平均每家酒吧在下一个财政年度节省约 £1,100。但 Leon 餐厅的老板指责伯纳姆先生在餐饮业内部制造分歧，因为他削减了酒吧的商业税率，却让餐厅和酒店面临飙升的税单。于 2004 年共同创立该快餐连锁店的约翰·文森特（John Vincent）表示：“我们非常困惑为什么餐厅没有被涵盖在内。它们承受的痛苦非常巨大，就像酒吧一样。我们在同一个市场竞争，拥有相同的成本结构。当你拥有……”
困惑 为什么 餐厅 没有 被涵盖 在内。 它们承受的 痛苦 非常巨大”
作者：Zachariah Sharif 和 Madeleine Ross
对于一些已经在工党“残酷”的税务袭击后面临关闭的酒吧来说，商业税的削减来得太晚了。 伯纳姆先生昨日表示，他将从明年 4 月起将酒吧的商业税率降低 20 per cent。 但房东们表示，部分酒吧在减税生效前就无法生存。 自从工党在 2024 年执政以来，酒吧一直受到一系列税收上涨的打击，包括商业税、啤酒税和增值税（VAT）的增加。 根据英国啤酒和酒吧协会（British Beer and Pub Association）的数据，自今年年初以来，平均每天有 4 家酒吧关闭。 诺福克郡 Railway Tavern 酒吧的保罗·斯坦福（Paul Stanford）表示，伯纳姆先生的举措“绝对不够”，并要求将减税追溯到以前。 他说：“很多地方无法生存到 2027 年 4 月。在我们经历了这一切之后，这简直是雪上加霜——力度太小，时间太晚，”他补充说，酒吧“无法与”超市竞争
作者：罗宾·希尔 (Robin Hill)
在埃德·米利班德 (Ed Miliband) 进入该部门的第一周，数百名公务员已因外交部的裁员计划开始采取罢工行动。
外交、联邦和发展事务部 (FCDO) 去年宣布，计划在未来四年内将其员工人数削减 15 到 25%，约 2,000 个岗位。由于该部门未能排除强制裁员的可能性，公共和商业服务工会 (PCS) 上月就罢工行动对其成员进行了投票。
该工会已于周三举行了首日罢工，并宣布在 8 月 12 日和 26 日将进一步进行两日罢工。
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安迪·伯纳姆通过给财政大臣约翰·希利 (John Healey) 倒了一品脱淡色艾尔啤酒，来标志其政策的启动。
八月份还将实施“照章办事” (Work to rule) 的抗议行动。PCS 总书记弗兰·希思科特 (Fran Heathcote) 表示：“罢工行动总是最后的手段，但 FCDO 管理层让我们的成员别无选择。一个政府部门在推进重大重组的同时，却拒绝给工人提供一个基本的保证，即他们不会被强迫失业，这是不可接受的。”
“我们的成员理应获得透明度、公正和尊重。然而，他们面对的却是不确定性，以及对方拒绝提供正确审查这些计划所需的信息。”
“该部门今天就可以通过采取正确行动来结束这场争端——排除强制裁员，并与 PCS 进行有意义的接触。”
在昨天的宣布中，安迪·伯纳姆表示：“长期以来，政府一直袖手旁观，任由我们当地商业街上那些珍贵的场所消失。所以今天，我要改变这一点。”
“本届政府将支持人们希望在社区中看到的企业。”
“我说过我会保护酒吧和当地商业街——它们是我们社区跳动的心脏——而这正是我们将要做的。我们今天宣布的仅仅是一个开始，我们将致力于在全国范围内重塑希望。”
安迪·伯纳姆通过给财政大臣约翰·希利倒了一品脱淡色艾尔啤酒，来标志其政策的启动。
小型企业的商业税起缴点目前为 £12,000，这一门槛自 2017 年 4 月以来一直冻结。
唐宁街昨日声称，安迪·伯纳姆先生削减商业税将使英格兰全境近 32,000 处款待场所受益，并在下一个财政年度为平均每家酒吧节省约 £1,100。
然而，他并未宣布削减增值税 (VAT) —— 对于小企业来说，20% 的增值税是一项沉重负担。
斯坦福 (Stanford) 先生表示：“增值税正在摧毁这个行业。业内很多朋友赚的钱仅够交税并维持雇员就业——他们根本没有赚到任何钱。”
Wetherspoon 酒吧连锁店首席执行官蒂姆·马丁 (Tim Martin) 告诉《电讯报》，虽然安迪·伯纳姆先生的宣布是“向正确方向迈出的一小步”，但增值税率扩大了酒吧与超市之间的差距。他说：“酒吧与超市之间最大的劣势在于增值税。超市的食品销售零税率，而包括酒吧在内的款待场所则需缴纳 20% 的税。”
“这种劣势导致了价格差距不断扩大，因为酒吧的运营成本远高，这意味着酒吧不得不承担许多额外的成本。”
同样的顾客，同样的成本，这就是同一行业的经典定义，因此这创造了一种虚假且不公平的区别。我们只能希望安迪·伯纳姆有一个计划，并且后续还有更多措施。
PCS 还警告称，在全球局势不稳的时刻，不应削减外交、联邦和发展事务部（FCDO）的资深工作人员人数。然而，保守党认为，缩减英国公务员队伍的规模早已是刻不容缓之举。总体而言，公务员人数自 2016 年以来逐年增加，目前处于 2005. 年以来的最高水平。2016, 年，公务员人数为 384,000 个全职等量单位，但到 2026, 年 3 月，这一数字已上升至 524,000 人，较 2016 年增加了 36 %。
一名 FCDO 发言人表示，该部门正在进行“战略转型”，以帮助其在“日益复杂且动荡的世界”中履行职责。他补充道：“我们尊重 PCS 成员采取罢工行动的权利，并对进一步对话保持开放态度。”
议政官，来一杯麦克马伦（McMullen’s）东印度淡色艾尔啤酒。
汤姆·克里奇（Tom Kerridge）正率先呼吁降低餐饮场所的增值税（VAT），他对这一公告表示欢迎，但补充说“对于每个场所来说，这并不是一笔巨额资金”。这位厨师兼酒吧老板表示：“平均账单减少了约 £1,000，在整体大局中并没有太大的意义。”他补充说，社区餐厅也应被认可为社区中心：“对每一个空间都能产生重大影响的最大因素，就是增值税的降低。”
UKHospitality 首席执行官艾伦·辛普森（Allen Simpson）表示：“这将为酒吧、俱乐部和现场音乐演出场所提供受欢迎的支持，但它们仅占餐饮业职位的五分之一左右。该行业的其余部分现在需要看到同样的雄心。”税务专家表示，针对酒吧的方案比
相比于超市，在酒吧喝一品脱啤酒或用餐的价格更高。”
大流行时代的商业税减免于 4 月结束，政府重新评估了计算税率的系统。结果，税值平均增加了 30 %。
“不负责任”的北海钻探
作者：Genevieve Holl-Allen 政治记者
据透露，新任能源大臣反对在 Rosebank 油田进行钻探。 Miatta Fahnbulleh 此前将北海钻探描述为“不负责任且短视的”，并宣布英国需要“快速”实现净零排放。 她此前经营一家名为新经济基金会（New Economics Foundation）的左倾智库。在她任职期间，该机构签署了一封公开信，要求基尔·斯塔默承诺如果工党上台将阻止 Rosebank 项目，并谴责英国“两个世纪的化石燃料使用和殖民权力”。Fahn-
该头条数字之所以被提出，是因为它建立在 Rachel Reeves 今年早些时候已经宣布的支持基础之上。 全球税务公司 Ryan 的 Alex Probyn 表示，20 per cent 的数字与之前的减免相结合，对于符合条件的酒吧来说是一个“重大方案”。 针对营业税减免的承诺，保守党副主席 Matt Vickers 告诉 GB News： “这是三天内的第三项无资金支持的支出承诺。当本届政府就职时……那些位于商业街上的企业，包括所有休闲、餐饮和零售企业，以及那些小企业，在营业税上获得了 75 per cent 的减免。他们取消了 75 per cent，而现在他告诉他们要还给 20 per cent。” 自从工党在 2024. 上台以来，一系列加税举措打击了小企业，导致账单飙升。在本报的压力下，前财政大臣 Rachel Reeves 制定了一项针对酒吧的临时支持方案——15 per cent 的营业税减免，随后是两年的冻结。但随着酒吧继续关闭，预计政府在四年内仍将额外增加 £12bn 的收入。 圣阿尔班斯 The Boot 酒馆的店主 Sean Hughes 表示：“工党承诺”
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行业伙伴的收入仅够 支付税款并维持 员工就业”
他们在政纲中提出要改革商业率的估值体系，但我们至今仍未看到改革——他们在税率问题上制造了太多的混乱。” 休斯先生在估值方法更改前支付了 £78,000 的商业率。现在他支付 £132,000。他说：“我们是一家只有 12 张桌子的小酒吧，竟然要支付这么多。”
据报道，法恩布勒女士在安迪·伯纳姆准备接任首相期间为其提供建议，现在她负责决定是否批准罗斯班克 (Rosebank) 及其他油气田的开采。在本周的一次采访中，她坚持表示在北海钻探问题上将采取“务实”态度，但未说明是否会允许进一步勘探。 一份由新经济基金会 (New Economics Foundation) 撰写的公开信（日期为 2023 年 9 月，当时法恩布勒女士负责该智库，并首次由《泰晤士报》报道）对基尔·斯塔默爵士作为反对党领袖承诺不发放新许可证表示欢迎。信中补充道：“现在你们必须通过承诺停止像罗斯班克这样正在建设的油气田，以及废除所有化石燃料生产，来贯彻这一承诺。” 在成为国会议员之前，法恩布勒女士在 2022 年的一篇 X 帖文中还表示：“为了有机会将全球变暖控制在 1.5C 以内，我们不能有任何新的油气田。银行知道这一点，但有些银行仍在向新项目投入数十亿资金。” 据信安迪·伯纳姆对在北海进行更多钻探持开放态度，但预计他将遵守工党 2024 年政纲中不发放新许可证的承诺。 能源安全与净零部门的一位发言人表示：“我们很明确，在未来几十年里，石油和天然气将与可再生能源、核能和其他低碳技术一起，在我们的能源体系中继续发挥重要作用。”
在 11 月增加了雇主国民保险，这——结合最低工资的上涨——使得酒吧和商店更难雇人。时任财相里夫斯女士和基尔·斯塔默爵士在 1 月宣布，2026/27 年度的商业率将削减 15 %。随后，从 2027 年到 2029 年，酒吧的税率将随通货膨胀而上涨。 然而，安迪·伯纳姆的公告承诺从 2027/28 年起提供 20 % 的折扣，尽管最大的现场音乐场所无法享受该折扣，而一些活动人士认为这些场所最需要支持。 小型企业目前的商业率起付点为 £12,000，该标准自 2017 年 4 月起一直冻结。安迪·伯纳姆此前曾表示，他希望将免税门槛提高到 £18,000，并将 £15,000 的递减区间延长至 £21,000。
整个税率体系存在严重缺陷，我们还必须降低增值税 (VAT)。 “当我们失去更多酒吧及其带来的税收时，代价将要大得多。” 经营白马旅馆 (White Horse Inn) 25 年的克里斯·萨金特表示：“我们销售的所有商品都要支付 20 % 的增值税。” “我们是一家小村庄酒吧，我的账单在 £26,000 到 £30,000 之间。这令人心碎，因为工作和雇佣没有任何激励措施。我们只是在勉强维持。” 安迪·伯纳姆将在今年晚些时候宣布英国的“10 年计划”。休斯先生呼吁该计划解决酒吧业主令人瞠目的成本问题。 休斯先生说：“酒吧是商业街的核心部分，它需要雇佣 25 岁以下的人并对他们进行培训。” “我们还需要一种特殊的保护地位来保护酒吧，这样它们就不会被拆除并改为公寓或酒店。”
阻止沙普斯 代表保守党参选
作者：Daniel Martin 副政治编辑
凯米·巴德诺克（Kemi Badenoch）已阻止格兰特·夏普斯爵士（Sir Grant Shapps）在下次选举中代表保守党参选。这位前保守党共同主席申请成为议会候选人，但被拒绝。巴德诺克女士在回应保守党在上次选举中惨败的问题时表示，她正在领导一个“充满新面孔的全新政党”。夏普斯爵士在 2012 和 2015, 年间担任卡梅伦勋爵领导下的保守党共同主席，随后先后担任交通大臣、商业大臣、能源大臣、国防大臣，并短暂担任内政大臣。夏普斯爵士自 2005. 年起代表韦尔温-哈特菲尔德（Welwyn Hatfield）选区，但在 2024 年选举中以 3,799 票之差输给工党，失去了该席位。他在里希·苏纳克的辞职荣誉名单中被封骑士，并且是“保守党同心 (Conservatives Together)”的共同主席，该组织成立于“支持并代表保守党候选人”。尽管拥有深厚的党内资历，夏普斯爵士再次代表保守党参选的申请仍被否决。巴德诺克女士表示，所有未来的保守党候选人必须同意她关于退出欧洲人权法院 (ECHR) 以及取消 2050. 年净零排放计划的政策。据了解，夏普斯爵士并不反对这两项政策。在接受 BBC 采访时，巴德诺克女士表示，讨论个人的申请是不公平的。她说：“我想让人们知道，这是一个新的保守党。它不会只是重复过去的错误。我们明白哪里出了问题，我们倾听了意见，我们改变了政策，我们将拥有一个充满新面孔的全新政党。我们在上次选举中失去了 250 名国会议员。我们需要新人才。我们想要具有商业经验的人。想要了解立法工作职责的人。回归的保守党将是一个全新且不同的政党。”
大卫·弗罗斯特 (David Frost)
你可能已经忘了。但在所有关于“北方灵魂 (Northern Soul)”的氛围渲染中，安迪·伯纳姆在周一的首次演讲中承诺，将制定一项 10 年计划，将国家“从现在的状态带到我们所有人都希望英国达到的状态”。唯一的小问题是，他目前还无法告诉我们那个计划具体是什么。但请放心，它会出台的。真的。就在今年某个时候。安迪·伯纳姆的“神奇旅程 (Magical Mystery Tour)”已经开始了。就像在披头士的电影中一样，我们可以预见在旅途中会发生不少超现实的事情。人们可能会认为，事实上伯纳姆根本没有计划，只有关于计划的计划，且需要接下来的几个月时间来构思。对此的积极看法是，希望伯纳姆至少已经
作者：Pieter Snepvangers 政治记者
有时，因果报应来得很快……尤其是当你正在开车时。 一名女性在摇下车窗向奈杰尔·法拉格（Nigel Farage）咒骂仅数秒后，就发生了车祸，她对此有了切身体会。 这次事故发生在改革英国党（Reform UK）党魁访问埃塞克斯郡克拉克顿（Clacton, Essex）期间，被视频记录并发布在网上。 该名驾驶欧宝 Astra 车的女性在开车经过法拉格先生身边时，摇下车窗大喊“w---er”，却没注意到前方的车辆正因为红灯而减速。当她转回目光看向道路时，已经太晚了。 她在撞上前方宝马（BMW）车尾前踩了刹车。目前看来没有人受伤。 此次周二晚间的事故由改革英国党拍摄并记录。 视频中听到一名助手对法拉格先生说：“她短期内不敢再这么干了。”法拉格先生在 X 平台上发帖称：“这位女士对我大吼辱骂，然后就撞了她自己的车。这就是人们所说的”
《电讯报》本月早些时候透露，巴德诺克（Badenoch）夫人因某些前保守党议员在“净零”立场上的主张而拒绝让他们担任候选人。 她在本报撰文称，她正在建立一个“面向未来的政党”，而不是一个“失败政客的养老院”。 她表示：“如果有人仍然相信那些让能源变得更昂贵并破坏工业的净零目标，他们将无法回归。” “如果有人认为欧洲人权法院（ECHR）可以通过简单的愿望就将其抹去，而不是妥善处理，那么他们是不认真的。” “如果他们想追随每一个让我们看起来更像自由民主党而非保守党的短暂流行趋势，那么在这个政党中没有他们的位置。我们必须证明我们已经变得更好。” “毫无疑问，有些人会感到失望。他们会向报刊抱怨，在 WhatsApp 群组里控诉自己被坑了。有些人可能会向记者透露消息。有些人会”
转而投奔改革党或自由民主党。那就这样吧。” 在昨天的发布会上，当被多次问及格兰特爵士时，巴登诺克夫人表示：“我们不会像对待威斯敏斯特八卦传闻那样对待我们的前议员或候选人。 “我想说的是，我们将很快公布候选人名单，你们将看到这是一个与 2024 年被移出政府时的政党截然不同的政党。” 她表示，“对个人申请进行评论绝对是错误的”，但补充道：“我想让人们知道，这是一个全新的保守党。它不会重蹈过去的覆辙。我们在上次选举中失去了 250 名议员。 “我们正在改变政策，改变人员，改变流程。我所说的是，我们希望人们能够达到我们设定的标准，并遵守我划定红线的政策。任何人是否被允许进入名单，可能有各种各样的原因。” 格兰特爵士拒绝发表评论。
意识到现状无法维持。令人担忧的是，他可能还会证明存在更糟糕的选择。对于我们这些即便只有轻微倾向于自由市场和经济自由的人来说，担心的是安迪·伯纳姆的思维方式就像李尔王那样：“我要做一些事情——具体是什么，我还不知道：但它们将成为大地的恐怖之源。” 因为到目前为止，他和他的团队还没有表现出理解英国实际出了什么问题，或者选择正确的政策方案来改变现状的迹象。 据我们所知，他打算给我们所有的人一些“喘息空间”——这一承诺相当地让人想起斯塔默打算“更轻地介入我们的生活”，而且实现的可能性也差不多。我们知道他想要更多的权力下放——是支出的下放，当然不是增税权力或困难选择的下放。我们知道他想要将公共事业国有化，并实施一个巨大的市政房建设项目（就好像我们还没有一个最大的社会住房部门一样
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住房秘书安吉拉·雷纳出现在 BBC 节目中，表示尽管她离开政府仅 10 个月，但她不会退还她的离职金
作者：Dominic Penna 高级政治记者
安吉拉·雷纳坚称，在被安迪·伯纳姆重新任命回原职后，她不会退还 £16,876 的离职金。 这位住房秘书在去年秋天辞职后收到了这笔钱，此前《电讯报》对其税务事务的调查揭露她逃缴了 £40,000 的印花税。 46, 岁的雷纳女士在首相周一将其重新纳入内阁后，拒绝了退还该款项的要求。 在她重返政府后，保守党带头要求雷纳女士在被重新任命后退还离职金。 但当在 BBC Radio 5 Live 节目中被问及是否会退还这笔钱时，雷纳女士
不会做出 艰难的选择， 因此 注定会 失败，即使 在政治上 具有吸引力”
雷纳固执地拒绝改变她在离职金问题上的立场。 她说：“不，我的遣散费是在当时给我的。我在政府工作了一段时间，然后离开了政府不到一年。而现在我将再次在政府中履行职责。” 随后，她试图通过将自己的情况与前保守党政府中在就任新职前辞职的保守党部长们进行对比，来减轻她拒绝退还离职金的负面影响。 她说：“但关于那些领取遣散费的保守党人士，我们谈论的是几周的时间。其中一些人甚至——你知道，时间非常短。” “我认为那种混乱——以及关于为英国人民提供服务的更广泛观点——正是我们关注的重点，即不要出现那种混乱。”
（欧洲）。但这一切将如何支付，以及他对英国真正的愿景是什么——除了对 LS Lowry 的怀旧，或对一个一切都运行良好、虚构的 20 世纪 70 年代的向往之外——关于这一点，我们几乎一无所知。 有可能我们会得到一个严肃的、经过成本核算的计划，旨在提高税收并实施他计划的所有那些可怕的事情。 但更有可能的是，这个 10 年计划仅仅是一份他的愿望清单，顶部印着“By 2036”。幸好，这样一个计划根本没有成功实施的机会，因为这仅仅是对情况有所改变的愿望。 它不会做出艰难的选择。因此，它注定会失败。然而，它在政治上具有吸引力，因为一个没有细节的计划之美在于它不会激怒支持者。它就那样摆在那里，散发着乐观情绪，就像一张你还没有核对结果的彩票。 一个真正的 10 年计划会在 year 1 包含令人不快的措施，希望并相信此类艰难的修复能让情况好转。而一个政治性的 10 年计划仅仅包含愉快的目标和一项沟通策略。谁能怀疑伯纳姆政府会选择后者？ 问题当然在于，英国确实需要一个 10 年计划。 事实上，当我听到伯纳姆承诺制定一个计划时，我有那么一瞬间在想他是否成了《电讯报》的读者，因为我多次主张实施一个 10 年计划。但我的想法有些不同。 它们分为三个部分。第一，税收和支出必须回到布莱尔时代早期的水平，这意味着在 10 年里的每一年，支出要减少约 1 per cent of GDP, £30bn。 第二，住房、规划、环境和劳动力市场监管必须自由化，恢复价格机制（本周保守党与工党就谁首先提出巴士行程价格上限而产生的争执，尤其令人不快地提醒了人们情况已经恶化到了何种程度），并废除净零排放这一国家自杀协定，以便投资者再次希望在英国制造产品。
在她重返政治前线后的首次采访中，她也未能说明她想要建造多少套市政住房，以及伯纳姆先生将于何时结束露宿街头现象。 《电讯报》在 9 月披露，雷纳女士在购买位于东萨塞克斯郡霍夫的第二套房时，避缴了 £40,000 的印花税。 在收到基尔·斯塔默爵士的伦理顾问提交的报告后，雷纳女士辞去了所有职务，包括住房大臣和工党副党魁。 英国皇家税务与海关总署 (HMRC) 在 5 月关闭了对雷纳女士税单的调查，就在她的律师要求决定后的 24 小时。 在同意了反对者所描述的“优厚协议”后，她最终支付了购买一套价值 £800,000 的度假房所欠的款项。
作者：Gordon Rayner 副编辑
《电讯报》获悉，埃德·米利班德（Ed Miliband）拟任命前美国大使凯伦·皮尔斯女爵（Dame Karen Pierce）为其最高级文官，以协助重建与白宫的关系。 安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）选择米利班德先生担任外交大臣，在华盛顿引起了“真正的愤怒”，因为他此前在净零排放问题上与唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）发生冲突，并曾称其为“种族主义者、厌女者、自承的猥亵者”。 白宫消息人士表示，特朗普先生并未忘记米利班德先生对他发起的反复攻击，且他将成为跨大西洋关系中的一个“摩擦点”。 凯伦女爵在 2020 到 2025 年期间担任驻美大使，随后由曼德尔森勋爵（Lord Mandelson）接任；她深受特朗普政府尊重，被视为成为外交、联邦和发展事务部常务次官的首选人选。 特朗普先生 2024 年竞选活动的联合竞选经理克里斯·拉奇维塔（Chris LaCivita）将凯伦女爵描述为“专业且深受广泛尊重”的人，并表示更换她是个错误。当基尔·斯塔默（Sir Keir）因曼德尔森勋爵就其与恋童癖金融家杰弗里·爱泼斯坦（Jeffrey Epstein）的友谊撒谎而不得不将其解雇时，事实证明拉奇维塔是对的，这一丑闻也促成了基尔·斯塔默最终的垮台。 本周早些时候，总统前首席战略师史蒂夫·班农（Steve Bannon）告诉《电讯报》：“特朗普政府采取了极其罕见的步骤，警告新任首相，美国将认为任命‘红内裤’婴儿及自称社会主义者的埃德·米利班德将严重损害‘特殊关系’。伯纳姆根本不在乎——他还是任命了这个蠢货。” 现年 66 岁的凯伦女爵自去年 2 月离开华盛顿以来，一直担任首相的西巴尔干地区特使，据悉她对与米利班德先生共事持开放态度。 尽管她被认为是这个外交部高级职位的领跑者，但尚未做出最终决定。
雷纳（Rayner）女士似乎淡化了她未能缴纳印花税的失职，称这涉及英国税制中一个“非常小众”的环节。 她被问及，在担任住房主管却无法理顺规则的情况下，她是否能理解人们为何感到愤怒。 雷纳女士告诉主持人马特·乔利（Matt Chorley）：“当然，那是一项税务规则，而且是非常小众的一部分，我认为人们已经对此释怀了。我当时寻求了建议，但事后反思发现需要额外的建议，这在英国税务海关总署（HMRC）经过彻底调查并证明我是清白之后得到了认可。” “但我认为你触及了一些我认为绝对正确的事情。人们觉得现在要做正确的事太复杂了，生活对他们来说变得更艰难了。”
第三，必须进行国家改革：将移民人数严格控制在低位，将国民健康服务体系（NHS）转向欧洲保险模式，赋予大臣们对政府的真正控制权，并取消欧洲人权法院（ECHR）和《温莎框架》所施加的法律限制。 一个这样经过妥善规划的计划或许有机会重启经济增长。事实上，这是唯一可行的方法。 我希望保守党、改革党，或者两者都在致力于此类计划。 但当然，伯纳姆是不可能这么做的。他的“神奇之旅”终点其实并不神秘。还是老一套——更多的支出，更多的政府权力，更少的自由，更少的繁荣，以及极有可能出现的金融崩溃。 伯纳姆正确地认为国家需要方向。问题在于，他及其团队完全是无法提供方向的人。问题不在于我们是否需要一个 10 年计划，而在于我们是否能在他 10 年的治理下幸存。
尼克·古特里奇 (Nick Gutteridge) 首席政治记者
安迪·伯纳姆 (ANDY BURNHAM) 正在应对他担任首相后的首个重大危机，处理工党备受争议的囚犯提前释放计划。 他昨天宣布，他已“暂停”该计划。该计划原定于 9 月 2 日起，每月分批提前释放 5,000 名以上的囚犯，其中包括杀人犯、强奸犯和暴力罪犯。 在《电讯报》披露杀害警员安德鲁·哈珀 (Pc Andrew Harper) 的两名凶手也在该政策的受益名单之列后，他介入了此事。该政策于 2024 年 9 月推出，旨在解决英国监狱严重的过度拥挤问题。这并非伯纳姆先生及其团队预期在就职首周需要处理的问题，他们原本希望重点落实减轻数百万家庭生活成本的承诺。 现在，如果他想避免在秋季陷入尴尬的措辞反转，就必须寻找释放监狱空间的新方法。 奈杰尔·法拉格 (Nigel Farage) 呼吁政府通过在国防部拥有的土地上建设临时监狱来解决过度拥挤危机。去年，这位改革党领袖表示，应开设五座此类建筑——效仿新冠疫情期间建立的临时医院，将其命名为“南丁格尔监狱”，以为“较低类别罪犯”创造 12,400 个新床位。他坚称这些监狱可以在 18 个月内建成并投入运行，甚至建议可以征调军队协助建设。 尽管这些措施能为过度拥挤提供中期解决方案，但不太可能在今年秋天足够快地建成以挽救伯纳姆先生。另一个无需从零开始建设新监狱的选项是
《电讯报》在哈珀警员的遗孀抨击提前释放计划后的头条新闻
查尔斯·海马斯 (Charles Hymas) 内政编辑
索斯波特 (SOUTHPORT) 杀手阿克塞尔·鲁达库巴纳 (Axel Rudakubana) 在精神健康状况恶化后已被移交给精神病院。 独立医疗专家评估认为，这名 19 岁的三重杀手在伦敦南部的贝尔马什 (Belmarsh) 高安全监狱中已无法获得适当的精神疾病治疗。 鲁达库巴纳已被移交给位于伯克郡的布罗德摩尔 (Broadmoor) 安全精神病院。该医院此前关押过“约克郡开膛手”彼得·萨特克利夫 (Peter Sutcliffe)、统治伦敦有组织犯罪的双胞胎之一罗尼·克雷 (Ronnie Kray)，以及连环杀手兼强奸犯罗伯特·纳珀 (Robert Napper)。
作者：查尔斯·海马斯 (Charles Hymas) 以及 蒂姆·西格沃思 (Tim Sigsworth)
一名被警方描述为“在驾驶座后见过的最醉者”的杀人司机，将根据工党缓解监狱拥挤的努力而获准提前出狱。
72 岁的马尔科姆·韦特 (Malcolm Waite) 在其驾驶的汽车冲上人行道时导致 20 岁的费内拉·霍斯 (Fenella Hawes) 死亡。他继续驾驶直到在 1 英里外撞上路标和树木。
警员发现他瘫在驾驶座上，身上散发出强烈的酒精味，身边放着一瓶喝了一半的伏特加。他的酒精含量是法定限额的四倍。
韦特在承认因危险驾驶导致死亡后，于 2022 年被判处八年监禁，但现在他将在服满一半刑期后获释，而非三分之二。此案将使工党在监狱提前释放计划上承受更大压力。
在《电讯报》揭露一名警察安德鲁·哈珀 (Pc Andrew Harper) 的两名杀手将获提前释放后，安迪·伯纳姆已承诺审查该政策。
哈珀警察的遗孀莉西·哈珀 (Lissie Harper) 将这些计划描述为“可耻的”，而首席警务长杰森·霍格 (Jason Hogg) 认为，解决方案将是将废弃的军营转化为监狱或租赁监狱船。一些已经用于安置寻求庇护者的前军事遗址可以重新利用，转变为类似于澳大利亚等国家用于关押低风险囚犯的宿舍式机构。同样地，部长们可以重新考虑采购像“比比·斯德哥尔摩号” (Bibby Stockholm) 这样曾被用于安置移民的驳船，以缓解危机。但目前尚不清楚前军营能以多快速度达到标准，尤其是能否安全到足以关押囚犯，而“比比·斯德哥尔摩号”的实验则问题重重，最终被前保守党政府废弃。莎巴娜·马哈穆德 (Shabana Mahmood) 已经承诺，将增加目前在英国服刑的近 11,000 名外国国民的驱逐人数。本月早些时候，内政大臣威胁称，如果巴基斯坦拒绝接回罗奇代尔 (Rochdale) 诱拐团伙的头目，将对其采取签证限制。在采取这一果断行动后，她可以将这种方法扩展到其他国家，以增加被驱逐出境的外国犯罪者人数。
前保守党律政大臣加尼尔勋爵 (Lord Garnier) 表示，政府应优先从监狱中释放非暴力女性以腾出空间。他认为，在这种计划下释放足够的女性可以腾出整个监狱，进而用于关押男性。加尼尔勋爵表示，英格兰和威尔士有 3,650 名女性在狱中，其中约 2,500 人因非暴力犯罪而被监禁。工党部长卡茨男爵 (Baron Katz) 对这一想法不屑一顾，认为“应对该问题有比他提出的简单方案更成熟的对策”。
首相可以采取的另一个选项是推迟对惯犯非暴力罪犯（如专业窃贼）的量刑。该提案由哈维·雷德格雷夫 (Harvey Redgrave) 在 2023 年的一篇智库论文中提出，他目前是伯纳姆先生在 10 号唐宁街的首席司法顾问。他表示，那些因为重复犯罪而非因为犯罪性质而面临监禁的惯犯，应被提供为期六个月的康复计划，仅在未能遵守计划时才被监禁。这将通过减缓进入系统的新囚犯数量来帮助腾出空间，但这在公众中将引发争议。
司法部只有在官员能够证明将其转移是“不合理的”，且其临床治疗需求在监狱内可以得到满足的情况下，才能继续将其羁留在贝尔马什监狱（Belmarsh）。鲁达库巴纳（Rudakubana）在今年1月因谋杀三名女孩——9岁的爱丽丝·达·席尔瓦·阿吉亚尔（Alice da Silva Aguiar）、6岁的贝贝·金（Bebe King）和7岁的艾尔西·多特·斯坦科姆（Elsie Dot Stancombe），以及企图谋杀其他8名儿童、舞蹈课教练利安·卢卡斯（Leanne Lucas）和商人约翰·海耶斯（John Hayes）而被判处最低52年监禁。
这次袭击发生在2024年7月29日，位于南肖波特（Southport）一个以泰勒·斯威夫特（Taylor Swift）为主题的工作坊中，另有10人受伤。鲁达库巴纳还被判定犯有包括制造蓖麻毒素、持有恐怖主义材料以及持有刀具等罪行。
一项针对这起暴行的公共调查发现，专业人员反复将他严重且具有攻击性的行为视为自闭症谱系障碍的症状，而未能认识到日益增长的安全威胁。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 【OCR清理说明：Malcolm Waite was four times the legal limit when officers found him slumped in his crashed car】 马尔科姆·韦特（Malcolm Waite）在被警员发现瘫在撞毁的汽车中时，其酒精含量是法定上限的四倍。 OWEN HUMPHREYS/PA
杰森·霍根森（Jason Hoganson）于2024年作为囚犯释放计划的一部分，提前从达勒姆（Durham）监狱获释。他此前因袭击前伴侣而被监禁。
南丁格尔监狱 驱逐外国囚犯 窃贼康复中心
高风险：英国最臭名昭著的罪犯被羁押地
贝尔马什监狱 (Belmarsh) 德尔罗伊·格兰特 (Delroy Grant) 这位“夜巡者”被认为在2009年之前通过潜入女性家中，袭击了多达一千名女性。 哈谢姆·阿贝迪 (Hashem Abedi) 一名恐怖分子，因协助其兄长策划2017年曼彻斯特竞技场爆炸案而被判处至少55年监禁。 罗尼·比格斯 (Ronnie Biggs) 这名火车抢劫犯在这里度过了六年，随后被转移到诺里奇（Norwich）监狱。
他曾服役的泰晤士河谷警察局（Thames Valley Police）表示，让他们提前获释的计划是“错误的”。
在9月2日该计划启动时，韦特可能是5,000多名包括杀手、强奸犯和暴力罪犯在内的获释囚犯中的第一批。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 【OCR清理说明：Fenella Hawes had been walking to her mother’s home when Malcolm Waite’s car hit her. She died at the scene】 费内拉·霍斯（Fenella Hawes）当时正走在去母亲家的路上，马尔科姆·韦特的车撞击了她。她在现场死亡。
霍斯女士的家人呼吁，任何造成死亡的人都应被排除在提前获释计划之外，称减轻其刑期对韦特重复犯罪“没有任何威慑力”。她的家人表示，想到他将在当地街道上自由行走，就感到“惊恐万分”。
霍斯女士是兰开斯特大学（Lancaster University）的一名自然科学本科生。周日一个下午，她正沿着人行道行走，给她的母亲玛格丽特（Margaret）带着向日葵，此时韦特的雷克萨斯（Lexus）车撞击了她。她在现场死亡。
逮捕韦特的警员卡勒姆·沃尔切斯特（Callum Walchester）说，他是“我见过的开车人中最醉的一个”。
霍斯女士的姐姐罗斯玛丽·谢泼德（Rosemary Shepherd）告诉《电讯报》，韦特服刑的四年与“费内拉的生命完全不成比例”。
她说：“她才20岁，前途无限。这根本不对应。对于其他人来说，这不能产生不酒驾的威慑力，因为他们只要撞死一个人，只需要坐四年牢。”
“这件事让我的全家人再次面对围绕我妹妹死亡的所有痛苦。我很庆幸人们现在意识到这类家庭正在经历这些。我希望人们能同样……”
布罗德摩尔医院 (Broadmoor) 彼得·萨特克利夫 (Peter Sutcliffe) “约克郡开膛手”在1975年至1980年间谋杀了13名女性，并企图谋杀另外7人。 迈克尔·阿德博瓦莱 (Michael Adebowale) 阿德博瓦莱于2015年被判刑，他是两名在伦敦伍利奇（Woolwich）军营外杀害步兵李·里格比（Lee Rigby）的男子之一。 罗尼·克雷 (Ronnie Kray) 一名被判定为刑事精神病的帮派分子，在布罗德摩尔医院度过了16年。
证词指出，由于他的行为严重恶化以及过往病史，他本应接受《精神健康法》下的正式评估，但机会被错失了。就在袭击发生前几天，他被儿童和青少年心理健康服务机构出院，且被贴上了“极低”风险的标签。精神科医生承认，他们此前并未审查过他关于过去持有刀具和发出威胁的完整记录。
在他就读的下一所学校——Acorns学校时，由于他在电脑上搜索校园大规模屠杀相关内容，他被转介至“防止” (Prevent) 反极端主义计划。
去年5月，警方对鲁达库巴纳 (Rudakubana) 涉嫌袭击贝尔马什监狱 (HMP Belmarsh) 狱警的事件展开调查。据称，他在狱中利用电水壶将水烧开，随后将沸水泼在狱警身上。该狱警被采取预防性措施送医，随后于当天出院，并在次周返回工作岗位。
“尽管我如此愤怒，但我知道这无法让我的妹妹回来。” 该家庭认为八年的判刑过于轻微，但他们向总检察长提出的申诉未能成功。
这反映了人们对杀害哈珀警员 (Pc Harper) 凶手判决的愤慨，而那次事件导致了法律的修订，对杀害警察的罪犯引入了强制终身监禁。
舍泼德夫人 (Mrs Shepherd) 表示：“想到我们可能会在街上遇到他，我就感到恐惧，这令我毛骨悚然。我有孩子，他们见过他的样子，他们知道发生了什么。如果我们中任何人看到他的脸，产生的冲击将使我们陷入震惊状态。他可能会重新开车，他可能会再次做出同样的事。”
“令人震惊的是，杀掉一个人竟然不会被终身禁足。”
她认为像韦特 (Waite) 这样的杀人犯应被排除在提前释放之外，并补充道：“我理解这项法案设立的原因，但不应适用于造成死亡的人。考虑到对家庭造成的影响，起初根本就不应该考虑让他们提前释放。”
布罗德摩尔 (Broadmoor) 由西伦敦NHS信托管理，在一个据称专注于护理和帮助康复的设施中收容最多 210 名患有精神疾病的男性。
这座二级登录建筑设施提供一系列活动，包括工艺美术、体育和职业培训，
[[IMG_XXXX]] 阿克塞尔·鲁达库巴纳 (Axel Rudakubana) 涉嫌袭击贝尔马什监狱 (HMP Belmarsh) 的一名狱警。据称他向该狱警泼了沸水。
内部还设有咖啡馆、理发店、“多信仰圣所”和陶艺工作室。
贝尔马什监狱是一所高安全性 A 类监狱，以收容大量伊斯兰恐怖分子而闻名，近年来的收容人员包括曼彻斯特竞技场轰炸者萨尔曼·阿贝迪 (Salman Abedi) 的兄弟哈沙姆·阿贝迪 (Hasham Abedi)。英国监狱监察局 2025 年 5 月的最新视察发现，厨房内有害虫，不足够的囚犯参与教育或工作等“有目的性的活动”，且被隔离的囚犯必须在露天厕所附近用餐。
司法部发言人表示：“在索斯波特 (Southport) 被谋杀和受伤者的家属将永远留在该国心中，我们的心与他们同在。”
“实施这些恶劣罪行的罪犯将理所应当地在 52 年的监禁刑期内全程被囚禁，且不太可能被释放。”
“高安全性医院并非自由之地。他将留在高安全性精神科病房接受持续监督，并将在最短时间内返回监狱。”
“罪犯的转移是基于严格的独立临床评估。”
这样的野餐热门美食 有助于那些旨在降低 慢性病风险的人群达成目标
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健康专家表示，在夏季野餐时食用“精选小食”（picky bits）可以计入人们每日五份果蔬的配额。据英国心脏基金会（BHF）称，鹰嘴豆泥、炸法拉费和希腊酸奶黄瓜酱（tzatziki）等深受喜爱的食品都能帮助人们达成每日健康目标。 政府建议每天至少食用五份水果和蔬菜，这是基于相关证据，即每天消费 400 克以上与降低心脏病、中风及某些癌症的风险相关。包含鹰嘴豆等食物的精选小食，
后首次宣布 进入干旱状态
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在经历了破纪录的高温波后，今年夏季的首次干旱状态已经宣布。 威尔士部分地区已被列入干旱状态，原因是高温导致河床干涸，并引发农民对放牧条件和水供应的担忧。 野火风险显著增加，尤其是北威尔士在近几周经历了多次重大火灾。由于全国 7 月的降水量仅为平均值的 3 per cent，英格兰许多地区处于长期干旱天气状态。 23 million 个家庭目前面临软管禁令，供应商警告称，该禁令可能会在整个夏季持续。野火在英格兰各地肆虐，而苏格兰的凯恩戈姆山脉也遭受了一次重大火灾的袭击。 北威尔士部分地区以及塞文河上游流域（包括格温内斯、安格尔西、康威、迪和克拉伊德地区）已宣布进入干旱状态。 威尔士自然资源局（NRW）表示，触发干旱状态的决定是基于近几周持续的高温干燥天气。如果未来一周没有显著降雨，今年 7 月将成为威尔士近 190 年来记录中最干燥的 7 月。 北威尔士和塞文河上游本月的实际降水量不足预期值的 2 per cent，河流流量极低。目前整个威尔士要么处于干旱状态，要么处于长期干旱天气状态。 英国气象局表示，英国全境的气温很快将回归到该季节的平均水平。 虽然苏格兰北部部分地区在周六可能会有 10-15mm 的降雨，但周末南部地区预计仅有 3-4mm 的降雨。气象局一名发言人表示：“虽然部分地区的降雨量将高于近期水平，但这并非某些地区在补充水资源方面所期待的大雨。”
蝴蝶正成群结队地飞往英国，迎来十年一遇的“彩蝶之夏”。 专家表示，这个词描述的是大量迁徙昆虫抵达此处繁殖的季节。 蝴蝶保护协会（Butterfly Conservation）正邀请公众在年度“大蝴蝶计数”（Big Butterfly Count）活动中统计他们看到的彩蝶数量，这将帮助自然保护主义者评估其
垂直悬浮睡眠
科学家发现，抹香鲸在睡眠时能够通过释放气体气泡来调节浮力，从而在水中垂直悬浮。 据认为，保持在海平面下方稍低的位置可以为鲸鱼提供一个缓冲地带，使其免受波浪影响，从而帮助它们更好地睡眠，同时避免在潜入深海时消耗能量。 自然主义者在 2008. 年首次记录了这些鲸鱼不寻常的休息行为。它们是已知唯一以头部向上垂直姿势休息的鲸鱼物种，但此前并不清楚它们是如何维持这一位置的。 在的一项研究中，圣安德鲁斯大学和法国讷沙特尔大学的科学家发现它们会释放气体气泡，研究人员表示，这有助于动物保持中性浮力。 来自圣安德鲁斯大学海洋哺乳动物研究中心的帕特里克·米勒教授表示：“通过释放空气，动物的正浮力会降低，从而减缓其向海面上升的速度。” 他表示，当鲸鱼最初潜入休息深度时，头部向下，但由于头部含有轻质抹香鲸蜡，它们会“缓慢旋转至头部向上”。 “然后，在旋转到这个垂直位置后，动物起初仍会缓慢向海面移动。它们应对这一情况的方式就是吹气泡。因此，分析显示，它们每释放一个气泡，都会减缓向海面的上升速度，帮助动物保持在水面之下。” 由于它们必须浮出水面呼吸，每次“休息潜水”大约持续 20 分钟。 该团队通过在挪威海岸附近的抹香鲸身上使用吸盘安装小型标签来收集数据。
[[IMG_XXXX]] PELAYO SALINAS DE LEÓN 希望之光：在红树林摄影奖（Mangrove Photography Awards）的一组照片中，一群黄金魟鱼在加拉帕戈斯群岛的红树林上方滑翔，该奖项的获奖名单于今日公布。该奖项旨在赞颂全球范围内因人类活动而受到威胁的脆弱生态系统。
许多野餐 快餐 其实 对健康有益
【OCR清理说明：此处原文片段不完整，包含豆类和番茄相关饮食建议】 ……豆类和番茄…… 看起来……但要计算，…… 例如，大约…… 干番茄可以制作…… 每日五份蔬果的一份额…… 可以很容易地添加到…… 沙拉、意面和库斯库斯（couscous）中。 大约三汤匙满的鹰嘴豆泥 l可能…… 算作每日五份之一，因为…… 它是用鹰嘴豆制成的。 人们被敦促…… 记住，豆类…… 鹰嘴豆只能算作…… 一次，因为它们不提供…… 与水果和蔬菜相同的维生素…… 矿物质。 但将鹰嘴豆泥与…… 切片蔬菜配对…… 胡萝卜、黄瓜或萝卜，可增加…… 另一份。 tzatziki（希腊酸黄瓜酱）是用 黄瓜制成的，同样算作一份。
【OCR清理说明：此处原文片段关于蝴蝶迁移】 ……每年昆虫的情况如何。该慈善机构表示，今年春天席卷欧洲的热浪促使数百万只小红蛱蝶飞往英国，在一些地点可以看到成群的蝴蝶在进食和交配，后代现在正陆续出现。 “小红蛱蝶之夏”大约每 10 年才会发生一次，届时会出现大量具有独特橙色、黑色和白色翅膀的昆虫。 从撒哈拉以南非洲到欧洲的迁徙是世界上最长的昆虫旅程之一，需要连续几代才能完成，因此专家表示，离开非洲的小红蛱蝶并不是最终到达英国繁殖的那一批。 冬季在撒哈拉以南非洲出生的成虫飞往北非，在那里交配并产卵，随后其后代在地中海地区迁徙并交配。 在南欧出生的那一代随后在春末到达英国，交配，现在新一代的“本土”小红蛱蝶……
【OCR清理说明：此处原文片段包含饮食建议残缺部分】 ……增加更多…… 黄瓜…… 条或胡萝卜…… 烹饪。 大约三…… 汤匙豆类， 同类，白芸豆…… 豆类，也可以…… 算作五份…… 通常是…… 鹰嘴豆和…… 算作…… 豆类份额…… 烘焙而非…… 法拉费（falafel）使其…… 自制萨尔萨酱（salsa） 如番茄-…… 牛油果和……
ts . 人们被敦促检查商店购买的萨尔萨酱的标签，因为这类产品的蔬菜含量可能较低，而……含量较高。
成年个体的激增现象正出现在全国各地。此次繁荣期出现在去年的蝴蝶计数结果令人失望之后，当时数量的整体下降趋势几乎没有反转的迹象。
蝴蝶保护组织（Butterfly Conservation）表示，今年的小红蛱蝶（painted lady）数量有望成为有记录以来第三高的年份，仅次于 1996 年和 2009 年。
作为年度计数的组成部分，自然爱好者们被要求记录小红蛱蝶以及他们看到的其他蝴蝶的数量。去年，计数员……
盐或糖。英国心脏基金会 (BHF) 表示，大约 30 颗橄榄可以构成一份水果和蔬菜，但它们可能含有盐分。建议人们一次食用少于 30 颗，但应将其与其他新鲜蔬菜搭配，以凑成一份。
BHF 高级营养师 Dell Stanford 表示：“目标是每天食用五份水果和蔬菜，这有助于维护心脏健康，但我们知道许多人发现这很难实现。”
“夏季野餐是一个很好的提醒，告诉你‘每日五份’可以包括除 obvious 选项之外的更多选择，豆类、豆荚类和蔬菜蘸酱都能帮助你接近每日目标。”
“事实上，摆出一盘‘精选小食’（picky bits）可以是每天增加额外水果和蔬菜的一种简单方法，尤其是当其中包含鹰嘴豆泥、法拉费 (falafel)、萨尔萨酱 (salsa) 或其他蔬菜基底的蘸酱时。用这些选项填满野餐篮是一种既社交又能照顾心脏的方式。”
报告了总共 15,856 只小红蛱蝶——但在 2019 年的小红蛱蝶之夏，总数超过 420,000 只。
蝴蝶保护组织 (Butterfly Conservation) 表示，到目前为止观察到的数量表明，今年的数量可能会让去年显得微不足道。
该慈善机构的科学主管 Richard Fox 教授表示：“我们目前看到的数量已经远超去年看到的总数，我们对此感到非常高兴。”
“它们拥有美丽的粉橙色、黑色和白色图案的翅膀，是我们最受欢迎的物种之一。”
吃起来吧：什么计入 每日五份
三满勺鹰嘴豆泥 四到五颗法拉费球 大碗希腊 tzatziki 酱 四个日晒番茄 三满勺自制萨尔萨酱 三满勺豆类（毛豆、白芸豆、奶油豆） 30 颗橄榄
去年的一项研究发现，红酒和黑巧克力可以计入一种新型的“每日五份”饮食中，该饮食强调类黄酮而非蔬菜。
类黄酮共有五个主要组群，涵盖了数十种独特的化学物质，但其中一个主要类别是花青素，大量存在于葡萄和红酒中。茶富含类黄酮-3-醇（另一种类黄酮），而橙汁和羽衣甘蓝也含有大量类黄酮。
该研究作者兼贝尔法斯特女王大学营养与预防医学主席 Aedín Cassidy 教授表示：“类黄酮‘每日五份’有潜力降低死亡率。”
“数据表明，食用多种类黄酮比单纯摄入高数量更有益，因为不同的类黄酮作用方式不同，有些能改善血压，有些则有助于调节胆固醇水平并减轻炎症。”
小红蛱蝶以多种花卉为食，包括被称作“蝴蝶灌木”的夏天客（buddleia），它们的幼虫主要以蓟类植物为食。
该慈善机构表示，今年的热浪为这些昆虫的迁徙提供了绝佳条件。
要参与这项直到 Aug 9, 人们只需在任何阳光充足的户外地点停留 15 分钟并报告其见闻即可。
欲了解更多信息并参与，请访问 bigbutterflycount.org。
一名被怀疑是“激进素食主义者”的牛奶窃贼现原形为一只狐狸。
Gordon Campbell, 42, 在格拉斯哥附近的 Bearsden 自宅安装了摄像头，因为大约一个月前，他配送的牛奶开始失踪。
他起初怀疑街道上有一个“激进素食主义者”，直到一次诱捕行动揭露了真相。
Campbell 先生说：“一段时间内，喜鹊被指责，因为它们是非常聪明的鸟，但我认为它们可能没有力气把瓶子滚走。周日晚上，我用一瓶牛奶设置了摄像头。”
窃贼在周一凌晨 2.30am 左右现身。
Campbell 先生说：“我觉得这简直太好笑了，这只小巧可爱的狐狸突然出现把它叼走了。当我看到它的大耳朵和小脸时，一切都被原谅了。既然知道了是谁干的，我可能会恢复牛奶配送，但我可能会给送奶员放个盒子或类似的东西用来装[牛奶瓶]。”
曾秘密担忧 病毒源自实验室泄漏
作者：Sarah Knapton 科学编辑 及 Eric Williams
一些致力于通过关闭该理论来扼杀全球辩论的科学家，在私下里承认了相关担忧。美国参议员兰德·保罗获得并公布的内部聊天消息显示，他们承认“无法将其排除”。
2020年3月，一组极具影响力的病毒学家在《自然医学》杂志上发表了一篇论文，认为即使是动物溢出，也可能是导致大流行的原因。
这篇名为《新冠病毒的近端起源》的文章结论是：“我们不认为任何类型的基于实验室的场景是可信的”，且该结论在很大程度上具有说服力。
但幕后消息显示，他们在病毒学研究所研究冠状病毒时，对安全级别表示担忧。
就在仅八[月/周/日]后，武汉病毒研究所（WIV）的实验室[病毒]似乎已经预先适应了感染人类。
在论文发表三个月后，作者之一、加州斯克里普斯研究所的克里斯蒂安·安德森教授写道：“归根结底，我们确实没有任何确凿证据”
作者：Laura Donnelly 健康编辑
高等法院将在下周决定是否在英格兰一项极具争议的青春期阻断剂临床试验开始招募年仅 11 岁的儿童之前将其叫停。
活动人士正请求法官阻止该研究在 8月 1 日起招募参与者，他们认为监管机构在批准一项允许给 11 岁女孩和 12 岁男孩使用青春期阻断剂的实验时，行为是不合法的。
在从周一开始的为期两天的听证会上，高等法院将首先决定是否允许司法复核程序继续进行。法院还将考虑一项紧急申请，在更广泛的法律挑战审理期间暂停招募。
如果禁令获得批准，该试验将被暂停，直到法院决定其是否获得合法批准。如果禁令被拒绝，研究人员可能会从下周开始招募儿童。
左为 Peter Daszak， 他遭到了右侧 Robert Garry 的嘲讽
该试验在今年早些时候被暂停，当时药品和医疗保健产品管理局（MHRA）表示，担心参与者可能会受到“潜在的显著”生物学伤害。该监管机构还在 2 月份表示，希望讨论为参与者引入 14 岁的最低年龄限制。
但上个月，MHRA 表示已就该试验继续进行的方案达成新协议。女孩需年满 11 岁方可报名，男孩需年满 12 岁方可使用青春期阻断剂。
然而，活动人士呼吁在招募任何儿童之前就叫停该试验。
青春期阻断剂是激素抑制药物，可暂停成年期的身体变化（如面部汗毛和月经），用于治疗儿童性别焦虑。
2024年 12月，时任卫生大臣的韦斯·斯特雷汀宣布无限期禁止 18 岁以下青少年使用青春期阻断剂，并表示其使用方式……
证据，无论如何——尤其是考虑到近期的一些证据，我们也不能排除有人实际上将其放入其中的可能性。“这显然不是说有人确实这么做了，但我们不能排除这种可能性。我们的论文在主张‘绝无可能’方面相当强硬。‘但在现阶段，我对该陈述的信心较低。’] 在《自然医学》(Nature Medicine) 的论文中，作者认为蝙蝠冠状病毒的操纵在全世界范围内进行，因此将手指指向武汉病毒研究所 (WIV) 是不公平的，但安德森 (Anderson) 私下承认事实并非如此。“这不是真的，这仅在 WIV 进行，”他写道，并补充说他认为自然起源和实验室起源两种情景“可能性均等”。他还警告说，该论文声称操纵病毒很难，且病毒无法通过细胞进化实验产生。但他表示，这两项论点都已被证明是不真实的。安德森认为实验室泄漏的可能性为 30%，而共同作者、悉尼大学的埃迪·霍姆斯 (Eddie Holmes) 教授认为概率在 10 和 20 之间。 《病毒：寻找新冠肺炎起源》(Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19) 的作者里德利子爵 (Viscount Ridley) 表示：“这些信息证实了《近源起源》(Proximal Origins) 的作者们一直认为实验室泄漏是有可能的。那么，为什么他们没有更正或撤回那篇误导世界的论文呢？”这些信息还揭示，作者们意识到 WIV 的首席蝙蝠病毒科学家施正利博士本人也担心新冠肺炎是由实验室事故引起的。 2021 年 9 月，施博士申请了一项资助，旨在将蛋白酶切割位点 (FCS) 插入蝙蝠冠状病毒中——正是这一添加项使得新冠肺炎对人类具有如此强的传染性。尽管美国国防高级研究计划署 (Darpa) 认为该资助过于危险而予以拒绝，但内部聊天系统 Slack 上的信息显示，科学家们担心该工作无论如何都已经推进了。爱丁堡大学的安德鲁·兰堡 (Andrew Rambaut) 教授写道，“有人继续尝试其中一部分工作，这并非是不可能的。”
被使用是一桩丑闻。他随后表示，他对使用药物延迟青春期感到“深感不安”，但还是批准了卡斯男爵夫人 (Baroness Cass) 报告中的建议，该报告号召开展青春期阻断剂的临床试验。
围绕高等法院案件的讨论可能会成为新任卫生大臣伊薇特·库珀 (Yvette Cooper) 的一次考验。
在 2015 年大选之前，库珀女士表示，如果工党获胜，将研究为那些不认同自己是男性或女性的人发放性别中立护照的可能性。
2022 年，在担任影子内政大臣期间，在 J.K. 罗琳批评工党在跨性别权利问题上的立场后，库珀女士拒绝定义什么是女性，并暗示这场辩论是“毫无意义的”。
在国际妇女节上，库珀女士说：“我认为人们在这件事上陷入了死胡同。我认为让我们共同庆祝国际妇女节和那些了不起的...”
教授们关于实验室泄漏的看法
克里斯蒂安·安德森 (Kristian Andersen) 我们的论文在主张“绝无可能”方面相当强硬，但在现阶段，我对该陈述的信心较低。 June 11 2020, 14:08
克里斯蒂安·安德森 (Kristian Andersen) 考虑到我们撰写论文时看到的资料，我高度倾向于“自然”起源。但根据一些新资料（加上我之前不知道的内容），我正（再次）向中间地带靠拢。 June 11 2020, 16:42
克里斯蒂安·安德森 (Kristian Andersen) 不能在她的回答中直接否认，因为她正是在说他们就在进行这类实验。用一种新型（蝙蝠）冠状病毒进行此类工作肯定构成了非同小可的风险。 August 29 2020, 15.53
安德鲁·兰堡 (Andrew Rambaut) 我们只需要再次说服自己，这只是巧合。
埃迪·霍姆斯 (Eddie Holmes) 与多米尼克 (Dominic) 进行了长时间交谈……他说施私下告诉他们，她非常担心实验室泄漏。 March 29 2021, 16:22
全世界的女性，同时也挑战不平等地现状，并阐明我们为了未来需要采取的行动。”
同年，她的儿子乔尔（Joel）在跨性别议题上公开活跃。当时就读于华威大学（Warwick University）二年级的他，在时任教育大臣纳齐姆·扎哈维（Nadhim Zahawi）发表讲话时对其进行了打断，指责政府通过其学校政策将跨性别青少年置于风险之中。
Pathways 临床试验是在卡斯男爵夫人（Baroness Cass）对儿童性别服务进行独立审查后受命开展的。该审查发现，支持使用青春期阻断剂的证据“极其匮乏”。
尽管该审查结论认为，目前尚无充分证据证明这些药物是有益还是有害，但它建议应开展一项设计合理的临床试验来回答这些问题。
青春期阻断剂在 NHS 的常规使用中已被无限期禁止，时间为
September 21 2021, 08:08
允许了 该路径 试验，因为 它可能提供 数十年来 一直缺失的 证据
“东西”。他补充道：“我们只需要重新说服自己，这只是巧合。”霍姆斯教授表示，一种带有 furin 裂解位点（FCS）的蝙蝠源冠状病毒，恰好出现在一座拥有一个“打算在蝙蝠冠状病毒中随意摆弄”FCS 的实验室的城市里，这一点非常“惊人”。武汉病毒研究所（WIV）计划与 EcoHealth Alliance 合作进行蝙蝠研究，后者由英国动物学家彼得·达萨克（Peter Daszak）和美国北卡罗来纳大学的病毒学家拉尔夫·巴里克（Ralph Baric）博士创立。兰鲍特（Rambaut）教授告诉他的共同作者，他们需要聊聊关于“巴里克/达萨克的烂摊子”……“这样我们就不会和这些混蛋联系在一起”。他还警告同事们要“远离电子邮件”或“仔细筛选部分电子邮件”，以防收到信息自由请求。尽管这些病毒学家公开声称大多数科学家同意这场大流行源于自然，但私下里他们承认事实并非如此。
安德森表示，当他得知“我交谈过的大多数科学家都认为与实验室有潜在联系”时，感到“相当惊讶”。美国罗格斯大学的分子生物学家理查德·艾布赖特（Richard Ebright）教授——他一直呼吁对实验室泄漏情景进行全面调查——表示：“记者们重复了数千次的说法，称大多数科学家支持新冠病毒的自然起源并反对实验室起源，这一直是一个谎言。而且几乎总是一个蓄意的谎言。”这些科学家还对支持实验室泄漏理论的记者、政治评论员和其他专家不屑一顾，称他们为“白痴”、“傻瓜”、“毫无头绪”、“精神错乱”和“低能儿”，并为专家们起了贬损的绰号。保罗（Paul）参议员表示：“在闭门会议中，撰写《近源起源》（Proximal Origin）论文的科学家私下质疑他们自己的结论。然而在公开场合，他们以损害控制的名义，羞辱、攻击并审查那些提出正当问题的人。对于每一次试图掩盖真相的行为，我们要求追究责任。”《电讯报》已联系这些科学家寻求评论。
在药物和医疗产品监管局（Commission on Human Medicines）得出结论认为其在外部研究中构成了“不可接受的安全风险”后，18 岁以下人群被禁。然而，部长们为该路径试验开了特例，认为它可以提供数十年来一直缺失的证据。此次法律挑战是由贝兹沃特支持小组（Bayswater Support Group）发起的，该组织代表了那些拥有性别质疑子女的家长，参与者还包括停止过渡者凯拉·贝尔（Keira Bell）和心理治疗师詹姆斯·埃塞斯（James Esses）。 他们认为，MHRA 和健康研究管理局（Health Research Authority）在批准该项研究时行为违法。他们的主张之一是，在授予批准之前，伦理委员会成员并未获得由对试验提出担忧的专家提交的所有证据。 预计下周将做出判决。如果法院批准临时救济申请，原定于 Aug 1 开始的招募工作将被暂停。
科学家群体 如何评价 公众人物
唐纳德·特朗普， 候任总统 埃迪·霍姆斯（Eddie Holmes）： “我可以把我的 回忆录命名为 ‘唐纳德·特朗普： 我在这次垮台中的 角色’吗？” 以及后来：“ 看不出特朗普 会将（新冠）传给 梅拉尼娅，因为 他们多年来 在身体上 一直保持距离”
弗朗索瓦·巴洛克斯（Francois Balloux）教授， UCL 遗传学家 埃迪·霍姆斯： “弗兰基确实 是个彻头彻尾的 混蛋。 我甚至无法 忍受去思考 关于他的事。” 以及后来：“ 弗兰基·博洛克斯 一直是个 大傻X。”
彼得·达萨克， EcoHealth Alliance 前任主席 罗伯特·加里（Robert Garry）： “达萨克是个白痴。 不确定在每一句话 从这位‘大巫师’ 嘴里蹦出来之前， 大脑是否运作。”
大卫·雷尔曼（David Relman）教授， 斯坦福大学 微生物学家 克里斯蒂安·安德森（Kristian Anderson）： “雷尔曼是个白痴。 简单直接。 下次‘见到’他时， 我会告诉他 他是个白痴。”
病毒学家施正礼（Shi Zheng-li，左）， 与她的同事在 武汉实验室工作
业主起诉冰箱公司，称“葡萄酒冷却器故障”导致藏酒毁坏
《电讯报》记者报道
《电讯报》记者报道
《电讯报》记者报道
一名声称故障冰箱导致其葡萄酒藏品“发霉”的百万富翁裁缝，正起诉供应商，索赔金额超过 £550,000。 汤姆·赖默（Tom Reimer）曾为歌剧演唱家卢恰诺·帕瓦罗蒂（Luciano Pavarotti）设计服装，他是一位葡萄酒爱好者，在伦敦和德国的家中共储存了 20,000 瓶藏酒。 但赖默先生称，由于 2021 年在他价值 £8m 的玛丽勒本（Marylebone）公寓中安装的葡萄酒冷却器存在故障，导致他在伦敦的藏品价值毁损。 赖默先生声称，安装的三台设备门上有一个 1 厘米宽的缝隙，导致冷空气流失且暖空气进入。 他说，这导致了标签上出现冷凝水并生长霉菌，且导致部分极其昂贵的年份酒……
男子死亡，其母亲在前往辨认遗体途中遇难
一名母亲在前往辨认其儿子遗体的途中死于车祸，而其子在数小时前死于一条河中。 安德鲁·廷斯利（Andrew Tinsley），46 岁，据信死于冷水冲击——数小时后，他的母亲卡罗尔·廷斯利（Carol Tinsley），70 岁，在被送往医院辨认其子遗体时死于一场车祸。 廷斯利先生的三名孩子，年龄分别为 17、20 和 21 岁，当时同在车内，虽受伤但幸存。 家属被告知，廷斯利先生于 7 月 11 日周五从北威尔士朗戈伦（Llangollen）一座著名的桥上跳下后死亡。 应急服务部门于晚上 8.16 分抵达城堡街（Castle Street）现场。当时在西德比（West Derby）的家属接到了事故通知，并开始向雷克瑟姆梅洛医院（Wrexham Maelor Hospital）停尸房进行 50 英里的行程。
卡罗尔·廷斯利（左），在被送往医院停尸房辨认其子遗体时死于车祸
他们的车辆于当晚 11.30 分在切斯特（Chester）发生碰撞。廷斯利女士死亡，廷斯利先生的三名孩子受伤。 北威尔士警方表示，廷斯利先生的死亡情况仍在调查中，将举行死因研讯。 警方表示，将与当地议会合作，强调从朗戈伦 16 世纪古桥上跳下的危险性。这座桥在这个集镇被描述为“一项长期存在的夏季传统，被视为一种危险的成年礼”。 廷斯利女士的孙女、廷斯利先生的侄女丽莎（Lisa），42 岁，在恐怖碰撞发生时正与其中一名表亲通话。 她表示：“我不知道发生了什么。我只知道她上了车出发了，接着我们听到的就是发生了一场悲惨的车祸。” “我当时正和一个孩子通话，碰撞发生时他就坐在后座。” “只听到一声尖叫、轰鸣和撞击声。太不真实了。”
在试图营救男孩时溺亡
作者：Tom McArdle, Samaan Lateef 以及 Andrea Hamblin
一名母亲和女儿在埃塞克斯郡（Essex）海滩附近的水域陷入困境，在试图营救一名七岁男孩时溺水身亡。
现年 40 多岁的英裔孟加拉教师谢琳娜·拉赫曼（Shelina Rahman）及其 15 岁的女儿萨米哈·拉赫曼（Sameeha Rahman），周三晚上在科尔切斯特（Colchester）附近的西默西亚（West Mersea）海景大道（Seaview Avenue）去世。
《电讯报》可以透露，遇难者是蒙苏尔·拉赫曼博士（Dr Monsur Rahman）的妻子和女儿，该博士是孟加拉民族党在英国的海外青年翼组织——英国青年党（Jubo Dal UK）的领导人。
谢琳娜的父亲、萨米哈的祖父穆吉布·拉赫曼（Mujibur Rahman）表示，一名七岁的家庭成员在事故后在伦敦的一家医院接受生命维持系统治疗。他透露，女儿在周三早些时候来看过他，随后与家人前往海滩。据《电讯报》了解，这名男孩是萨米哈的表亲。
其友人巴博·乔杜里（Babor Chowdhury）表示，他祈祷拉赫曼博士能够获得“面对这一无法弥补的损失所需的坚强与耐心”。
周三下午 5.30 左右，在收到一组人员在海中陷入困境的报告后，一艘救生艇、两架空中救护车和一架海岸警卫队直升机被派遣至现场。
“大概”出现了塞栓现象——这降低了他位于伦敦的 1,500 瓶藏酒的价值。
专家表示，如果标签受损，稀有葡萄酒在收藏家市场上的价值会大幅降低，因为购买者担心葡萄酒本身可能已经损坏，不愿冒险。
赖默（Reimer）先生在伦敦的大规模收藏中包含了来自波尔多和罗纳河谷的“一级庄”克拉雷特红酒（clarets）——包括珍贵的 1982 年穆顿罗斯柴尔德酒庄（Château Mouton Rothschild），其售价可超过 £1,000，以及 2012 年彼得罗（Petrus），其零售价远超 £2,000。
彼得罗备受推崇，因为该酒庄位于波尔多以东 27 英里处，年产量仅约 30,000 瓶。
在伦敦中心郡法院，这位裁缝现正起诉国际餐饮设备公司（International Food Services Equipment），索赔约 £500,000 以弥补其藏酒价值的损失，以及另外 £50,000 的其他成本和损失。
然而，这家总部位于克罗伊登（Croydon）的公司在抗辩该主张，称该“发丝般”的缝隙是行业标准的设计特征，
“就像生活在电影里一样。太震惊了。我想我们的生活永远不会再像以前那样了。在六个小时内，我们的家庭就被撕裂了。”
丽莎（Lisa）说，她的叔叔由于年龄相仿，对她来说“更像哥哥”，他经常访问朗戈伦（Llangollen），并喜欢在迪河（River Dee）游泳。
她说：“我们还不真正清楚发生了什么。我们仍在等待相关信息。但就我们所知，他的心脏受到了冷水冲击（cold water shock）。”
“他们尝试让他心脏再次跳动，
目击者称，一名人员被涌入的潮水冲走，其他人试图游出去救援。
昨天上午，埃塞克斯警方表示，一名十几岁的少女和一名 40 多岁的女性已经死亡。三人住院治疗，其中一人情况严重。
《电讯报》了解，由于强烈的涌潮导致脚下的沙地坍塌，导致多人陷入困境并被冲入水中。一名熟悉此事件的社区代表表示，这对母女不会游泳。
埃塞克斯警方的侦查总督阿尔·皮彻（Al Pitcher）表示：“我们请求当时在海滩的任何人请与我们联系，以帮助我们了解发生了什么。”
[[IMG_XXXX]] 裁缝汤姆·赖默（Tom Reimer，右）声称故障的酒柜摧毁了他的收藏
[[IMG_XXXX]] 蒙苏尔·拉赫曼博士 与女儿 萨米哈（Sameeha）合影， 萨米哈与母亲 谢琳娜（Shelina，见上图） 一同去世
且不会对酒柜温度产生任何影响。
这家专门从事餐厅设计的供应商安装了一套葡萄酒冷却系统，配备了玻璃滑动门。
门和远程冷凝器，给赖默先生造成的费用约为 £23,000。 赖默先生表示，由于“冷热空气的不断交换”导致了灾难的发生。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 安德鲁·廷斯利（Andrew Tinsley，右上图）被认为是在从兰戈伦桥（Llangollen bridge，左图）跳入河中后，因冷水冲击而死亡。
麦德琳·麦肯（Madeleine McCann）失踪案的主要嫌疑人被指控在一家超市外袭击德国警察。
据一名警方发言人称，强奸犯及恋童癖克里斯蒂安·布吕克纳（Christian Brueckner）于 6 月 6 日在基尔市参与了一次针对警员的“肢体攻击”。
据《明镜周刊》（Der Spiegel）杂志报道，布吕克纳自 9 月出狱以来一直处于 24 小时监视之下；他在一家超市外用手机拍摄警员照片后，与警察发生了打斗。
据称，警员们反对被拍照，而布吕克纳拒绝了他们要求上交手机的请求。
一名警局发言人表示：“一名警员在事件中受伤。”
布吕克纳被列为麦德琳·麦肯案的嫌疑人但从未被起诉，他此前还因 4 月份与另一名男子发生斗殴而受到基尔警方调查。
49 岁的布吕克纳曾多次因性犯罪被定罪，还涉及盗窃、贩毒、袭击和儿童性虐待等其他罪行。9 月，他在德国服完强奸罪刑期后获释。
布吕克纳在 2024 年底被德国法院判定无罪，此前他被指控在 2000 年至 2017 年间涉嫌强奸和两项儿童性虐待罪，这些指控与麦肯失踪案无关。
2020 年，德国检察官将他列为麦肯案的首要嫌疑人，并表示他们掌握了“具体证据”。
温度波动和冷凝现象，这对需要维持 12-13C 恒温的葡萄酒冰箱来说是致命的。
但辩护律师马修·温-史密斯（Matthew Winn-Smith）告诉法官：“被告确实……
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一名家属的申诉称： “在前往医院的途中，他们不幸发生了严重的 RTC（道路交通事故），令人悲痛的是，我们的奶奶在现场死亡，我的两个表亲也受了重伤，另一人受轻伤。”
文中补充道：“他们现在一无所有，我们非常需要帮助来筹集两场葬礼的资金，以减轻我表亲们的压力和焦虑。”
北威尔士警局（NWP）康威与登比格乡村警务组的约瑟夫·邓恩（Joseph Dunn）督察表示，他的心与该男子的家人和朋友在一起。
dence” against him but not enough to secure a conviction. 三岁的玛德琳（Madeleine），也被称为“麦迪”（Maddie），于 2007 年 5 月在葡萄牙普赖亚-达卢什（Praia da Luz）的家庭度假公寓中失踪，当时她的父母正在附近用餐。 当时，布吕克纳经常在葡萄牙该地区活动，而一部登记在他名下的手机在女孩失踪当晚曾在麦肯（McCann）一家的住所附近发出信号。《电讯报》此前披露，大都会警察局
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他补充道：“我想感谢警员、我们的应急服务合作伙伴以及提供协助的公众在应对此次事件中的反应。 “作为一个警务团队，我们意识到了当地关于从桥上跳水安全的担忧。 “虽然这不构成刑事犯罪，但我们将继续与登比郡议会（Denbighshire County Council）、朗戈伦镇议会（Llangollen Town Council）及其他合作伙伴共同努力，向公众强调其中的危险；警员将继续向意图从桥上跳下的人员提供建议并警告其危险性。”
警察侦探正试图将布吕克纳带回英国，就绑架和谋杀玛德琳一案受审。 苏格兰场一名最高级别的官员正致力于在明年玛德琳失踪 20 周年前对这名德国嫌疑人提起指控。 警方希望布吕克纳在中央刑事法院（Old Bailey）受审，并认为可以搜集到足够的证据，让皇家检控局（Crown Prosecution Service）授权提起指控。 然而，德国宪法禁止将其公民引渡至非欧盟国家，这可能导致柏林方面拒绝该请求。这很可能会引发一场外交和法律争端。 在脱欧之前，德国国民可以通过《欧洲逮捕令》自动被引渡至英国，该令要求欧盟成员国在极低法律障碍的情况下相互移交嫌疑人。 如果德国拒绝将其移交，大都会警察局正敦促让他在德国或涉案地葡萄牙面临指控。 布吕克纳一直否认参与了玛德琳的失踪，并在出狱后一直在德国境内活动。
作者：Ruby Cline
巴勒斯坦行动 (组织) 宣传的培训日鼓励潜在的恐怖分子“用锤子锻炼”，而不是挥舞旗帜。 在该被禁组织进行培训课程的几天后，有消息称前国会议员安·威德科姆（Ann Widdecombe）在一次涉嫌使用锤子的袭击中死亡。
拒绝批准条约，旨在 要求英国军队为其 涉嫌犯罪负责
作者：Tom Cotterill 和 Ben Farmer
在一名年轻母亲被指被谋杀后，英国陆军被禁止在肯尼亚进行训练。 肯尼亚政府已拒绝批准一项双边国防协议，这意味着英国陆军在该非洲国家训练所需的许可证尚未签署。 英国政府希望更新现有协议。然而，这个英联邦国家寻求修改条款，以赋予当地当局更大的权力，要求英国军队为其在该国犯下的任何罪行负责。此前发生了一系列争议，其中包括 2012 年 Agnes Wanjiru 遇害案。据称，她被一名驻肯尼亚英国陆军训练单位 (Batuk) 的英国士兵杀害。 这名 21 岁女子的尸体在南尤基 (Nanyuki) 驻军城镇的一家酒店化粪池中被发现，而此前据称她曾在该基地与英国士兵共度一个夜晚，时间间隔近三个月。
[[IMG_XXXX]] Agnes Wanjiru 的尸体在一家酒店化粪池中被发现。 这名 21 岁女子据称被一名英国士兵杀害。
来自威尔特郡蒂德沃思 (Tidworth) 的前士兵 Robert James Purkiss 被指控谋杀这名肯尼亚女性，目前正面临被引渡至这个东非国家的局面。Purkiss 否认谋杀指控。 由于肯尼亚拒绝允许英国军队在其境内训练，导致原定于 9 月开始的一项涉及兰开斯特公爵团 (Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment) 第一营的大规模演习在最后一刻被取消。他们将改为在索尔兹伯里平原 (Salisbury Plain) 进行训练。 分歧的核心在于人们担心，英国军队在执行公务期间被指控犯罪时，仍受英国管辖，而非由肯尼亚法院审理。 立法者和人权组织表示，拟议的协议必须符合肯尼亚宪法，通过
一名沙特王子在服用多种药物和酒精后，被发现死于一家肯辛顿酒店。 Abdullah bin Fahad bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz bin Jalawi al Saud 的体内酒精含量几乎是饮酒驾驶限值的三倍，并检测出 γ-羟基丁酸 (GHB)、大麻和 Xanax 的痕迹。去年 Nov 25，他的尸体在肯辛顿每晚 £600 的万豪酒店浴室中被发现。 伦敦内西区的一场死因研讯
作者：Lora Jones 消费者事务记者
一名前警察被指控进行投资欺诈和有组织洗钱，涉及一起最初由《电讯报》披露的涉嫌法国城堡投资骗局。 Halcyon Retreat 计划的董事之一 Robin Barrasford 于 May 20 在西班牙警方与法国及英国当局的一项联合行动中被拘留。 在昨日的一项更新中，负责在法国监督此项调查的金融犯罪专业部门波尔多 JIRS 确认，他此后已被起诉，并被置于“司法监管”之下。该部门表示，第二名相关人员于 June 24 被指控同一项罪名。 该度假村向投资者推销为购买利穆赞 (Limousin) 地区度假村房产的机会。它由英国开发商买下
这些每周一次的会议是为那些打算采取“直接行动”的活动人士准备的，这个词通常被用来描述合法和非法的抗议手段。一张宣传培训的海报上写着：“厌倦了挥舞旗帜？用锤子来锻炼吧！提供直接行动培训！”在其他地方，该组织分享了传单，提供两小时的课程，教授“巴勒斯坦历史殖民化概况”以及直接行动的“法律后果概况”。
前政府政治暴力与干扰独立顾问沃尔尼男爵 (Baron Walney) 告诉《电讯报》：“这些极左翼极端分子在继续用阴险的锤子煽动支持者的同时，竟然声称自己是非暴力的，这简直是令人不齿。”
[[IMG_XXXX]] 罗宾·巴拉斯福德 (Robin Barrasford)，左，是一名前警员，也是被指控进行投资诈骗的公司主管。
允许英国军队在肯尼亚法院就其在肯尼亚领土上犯下的罪行接受审判。国防部坚持认为，它将配合肯尼亚对英国人员涉嫌行为的任何刑事调查。肯尼亚国民议会国防、情报和外交关系委员会主席尼尔森·科埃奇 (Nelson Koech) 补充说，两国政府正“积极接触以解决这些悬而未决的问题”。此次争端源于肯尼亚议会一项为期两年的调查，该报告于去年 12 月公布，指责英国士兵在莱基皮亚 (Laikipia) 的 Batuk 基地处于一种“免责文化”中。报告指控英国人员在 Batuk 培训期间，数十年间实施了性虐待、杀戮、破坏环境和侵犯人权的行为。据称，士兵们通过拒绝配合为期两年的议会调查来逃避责任。
负责编写该报告的肯尼亚国防、情报和外交关系议会委员会表示，住在军事基地附近的居民投诉过杀戮、袭击和受伤事件，包括涉及 Batuk 士兵的公开斗殴和致命交通事故。这份具有破坏性的 94 页文件声称，Batuk “日益被视为一个占领者而非发展伙伴，受影响的居民将其与殖民时期的不公正行为联系起来”。万吉鲁 (Wanjiru) 夫人的死亡是肯尼亚调查中重点关注的最严重案件之一。小组表示，“追求正义的过程缓慢且充满挫折”，且调查面临着“不当的干预和阻碍，据称是由 Batuk 人员造成的”。前国防大臣约翰·希利 (John Healey) 去年访问了肯尼亚，会见了万吉鲁夫人的家人。与此同时，据称是杀害她的普基斯 (Purkiss) 先生预计将于 11 月出席为期四天的引渡听证会。政府表示，英国“高度重视与肯尼亚的关系”，且联合培训有助于确保“肯尼亚和英国人民的安全”。一名发言人补充道：“我们将继续与肯尼亚政府密切接触，以支持在最早合适的机会恢复在肯尼亚国内的培训。”
验尸法庭听证会获悉，死者一直与酒精和赞安诺 (Xanax) 的使用作斗争。三个月前，他曾在伦敦西南部罗汉普顿 (Roehampton) 的普莱奥里诊所 (Priory Clinic) 住院，那里的住院费用每周可能高达 £35,000。在那里，他接受了酒精、苯二氮卓类药物和抗焦虑药物普瑞巴林 (Pregabalin) 的脱毒治疗。
死因研讯获悉，这名 29 岁的男子于 11 月 19 办理入住酒店，计划停留一周。这位王子最后一次...
2010, 且该开发项目包含“豪华”公寓和别墅，曾估值 £60m。但“保证”的租金回报未能实现，投资者告诉《电讯报》，他们将毕生积蓄投入到了从未完工的房产中。
波拉·爱德华兹 (Paula Edwards) 因在 Salute Her UK（一家支持武装部队女性的慈善机构）的工作而获得了英国公民奖。
在他去世前一晚的CCTV监控中，可以看到他走到室外抽烟。随后一名清洁工发现他穿着整齐地躺在五楼锁闭房间的浴室地板上。急救人员无法将其救活，随后宣布其死亡。
一份毒理学报告称，其血液酒精浓度为每100毫升血液含222毫克酒精。法定饮酒驾驶限制为80毫克。体内还发现了潜在致命剂量的所谓“派对药物”
建筑延期被归咎于大流行病、规划困难以及与出资人的谈判拖延。一名来自贝克斯利（Bexley）的投资者乔纳森·曼斯菲尔德（Jonathan Mansfield）告诉《电讯报》，他希望这些指控能成为投资者追回部分资金的“敲门砖”。他与妻子丽莎（Lisa）曾向一套公寓投入了 £32,000，当时被租金收入和优厚的回购计划所吸引。英国国家打击犯罪局（NCA）也一直在协助法国的调查，搜查英国境内的地址，扣押设备和银行详情，以追踪并追回潜在的犯罪所得。
Halcyon度假村的董事此前表示，他们一段时间以来一直在“努力为这家陷入困境的企业筹集资金”。并且无法提供投资者回本的时间表，但一直向投资者更新进展情况。
他们已被要求就此事提供进一步评论。
意象，即便在安·威德科姆（Ann Widdecombe）头部遭到多次锤击身亡的震惊消息传出之后。
“英国政府在采取行动打击‘巴勒斯坦行动 (组织)’之前花了五年时间，在此期间，[一名活动人士]用大锤砸断了一名女警的脊椎，恐吓了数千名劳动者，并攻击了对防御英国至关重要的地点”
GHB（γ-羟基丁酸）及其系统中还发现了大麻痕迹、抗焦虑药物阿尔普拉唑（alprazolam，更广为人知的名称是 Xanax）以及其他抗焦虑药物。顾问精神科医生维多利亚·查莫罗（Victoria Chamorro）博士表示，这位王子在普莱里（Priory）接受脱毒治疗时“配合良好”，且治疗过程“没有出现身体副作用”。
她在声明中说：“他对同伴很支持且友善，结交了朋友。经评估，他具有症—”
“嘲弄伦敦人”
作者：Genevieve Holl-Allen 政治记者
在萨迪克·汗爵士的领导下，逃票者正日益逃避司法制裁，因为该类犯罪的起诉人数已减半。
根据最新的数据分析，自 2019 年以来，伦敦地铁网络的逃票率翻了一番，约占行程的 5%。
尽管首都交通网络的逃票行为激增，但执法人员的数量在 15 年间几乎没有增长。
这些发现引发了人们的指责，称伦敦市长萨迪克爵士正让逃票者“嘲弄每一个付费的伦敦人”。
市政厅保守党的一份新报告显示，逃票起诉人数已从疫情前的约 29,000 宗下降到今年的 14,000 宗定罪。
不足一半的罚金被缴纳
来自敌对国家的”。维德科姆女士于 2019 年从保守党转投脱欧党，后来加入了改革英国党，她于 7 月 9 日被发现死亡。
检察官在周二的西敏斯特治安法庭上告知，她的头部被锤子击打了 21 次。
28 岁的行政工作人员约书亚·克里在被指控谋杀维德科姆女士一天后出庭。
入院时有情绪低落和焦虑的症状。在他出院时，被认为没有自杀风险。他与一名朋友一起出院，但随后未能参加预定的 Zoom 预约。尽管如此，并没有人担心他。他配合良好并完成了治疗。”
离开普里奥里（Priory）后，这位王子在默西赛德郡圣海伦斯的一家私人诊所 Rainford Hall 接受了进一步治疗，该诊所每周费用为 £7,000，他在那里被
那些未向伦敦交通局 (TfL) 缴纳罚金的人实际上并未支付。
根据信息自由披露的数据，逃票在 2022-23 年度给 TfL 造成了约 £190 百万的损失，而 2018-19 年度为 £116 百万。
上个月，市长表示他打击逃票的行为正在“发挥作用”。
维德科姆在德文郡的平房中。
在去年 6 月五名抗议者涉嫌闯入牛津郡的布赖兹诺顿皇家空军基地并破坏两架旅行者飞机，造成估计 £7m 的损失后，工党根据恐怖主义法将巴勒斯坦行动 (组织) 列为禁制组织。5 月，该组织四名成员被裁定于 2024 年在一家以色列国防公司实施了持大锤袭击。
授予帮助女退伍军人 慈善机构的创始人
作者：戈登·雷纳 (Gordon Rayner) 副主编
一家专门为女性退伍军人服务的慈善机构创始人因其在帮助遭受同事性虐待的女性方面所做的工作而获得表彰。波拉·爱德华兹 (Paula Edwards) 在发现军队内遭受强奸或性侵害的女性服务人员缺乏支持后，成立了“向她致敬英国”(Salute Her UK)。她是昨天在威斯敏斯特宫获得英国公民奖的 28 人之一。该奖项通常被称作“人民荣誉奖”，在过去的 11 年里一直表彰这个国家默默无闻的英雄。
来自纽卡斯尔的爱德华兹女士在另一家军事慈善机构 Forward Assist 工作时，被委派建立英国首个专门针对女性的退伍军人慈善机构。自那时起，已有 6,000 名女性接受了“向她致敬英国”的帮助，其中 98% 为性侵害受害者。该慈善机构的工作促使议会启动了 2021 年的阿瑟顿 (Atherton) 调查，旨在调查军队中针对女性的欺凌、骚扰、歧视和性犯罪。调查发现了“真正令人震惊的证据”，以及军方在处理性侵害投诉方面存在的“严重问题”。
爱德华兹女士，45, 表示：“我们发现女性不向其他军事慈善机构寻求帮助，因为这些机构在很大程度上是由男性以及仍在军队服役的人员经营的。”
“她们发现，如果举报同事的性侵害行为，最终会导致她们失去职业生涯。”
凭借在英国国家医疗服务体系 (NHS) 担任创伤治疗师 25 年的经验，爱德华兹女士成立了“向她致敬英国”，并于 2021. 成为首席执行官。它的成功促使其他国家也成立了类似的女性专属军事慈善机构。
同样获得表彰的还有来自埃塞克斯郡索瑟德-翁-希 (Southend-on-Sea) 的 丁格沃尔 (Clare Dingwall)，59, 她通过自己于 2009. 共同创立的“英雄马球”(Polo For Heroes) 慈善机构筹集了超过 £167,000 资金。丁格沃尔女士是一名医学秘书，她利用自己在体育方面的关系，在伯克郡的费菲尔德马球俱乐部 (Fifield Polo Club) 举办年度比赛，由受伤的退伍军人与常规球员组成混合队伍。
来自西米德兰兹郡索利哈尔 (Solihull) 的 33 岁霍莉·贝尔德 (Holly Baird) 因在丹尼尔·贝尔德基金会 (The Daniel Baird Foundation) 的工作而获奖。该基金会以她的哥哥命名，后者在 2017 年一次与朋友外出之夜中被刺死，年仅 26 岁。她和家人成立该慈善机构是为了提高人们对止血包的认知并增加获取渠道；如果在贝尔德被袭击时能提供止血包，本可以挽救他的生命。到目前为止，该机构已在公共场所放置了 35,000 个止血包，据称已挽救了数条生命。该奖项每年颁发两次，由便利店连锁店 One Stop 赞助。
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同时被诊断患有上呼吸道感染。他在 10 月 14 日康复出院。尸检结果显示，这位皇室成员（是沙特阿拉伯国王萨勒曼的曾曾孙辈）由于药物和酒精共同作用导致心脏骤停。助理验尸官让·哈金 (Jean Harkin) 记录的裁决结果为意外死亡，死因为多种药物摄入。
秘书，与违规者对质。加拉特先生的新报告《逃票事实》（“Fact Evasion”）指责伦敦交通局（TfL）决定“在疫情期间忽视逃票行为，导致情况失控”。
他要求市政厅公布官方数据，以揭示该问题的严重程度。加拉特先生告诉《电讯报》： “处罚金和起诉数量仅为以往的一半，而且大多数罚款反正没人缴纳，所以逃票者如此猖獗也就不足为奇了。
“他们是在愚弄每一个付费的伦敦人，而汗（Khan）就任由他们如此行之。”
他的报告还发现，尽管乘客人数有所增加，但伦敦交通局网络中执行人员的数量在 15 年间似乎一直稳定在 500 人。
政府本月初宣布，从明年起，将在全国各地的“逃票高发区”火车站安装新型 6英尺（1.8 米）高的检票闸机。
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亨利·博德金 (Henry Bodkin) 耶路撒冷特派记者
唐纳德·特朗普坚持要求沙特阿拉伯承认以色列，将其作为与美国达成里程碑式核协议的条件。 该协议将允许该王国利用美国技术建设民用核反应堆。 本周早些时候，美国宣布将与沙特阿拉伯建立核合作伙伴关系，且不以该王国承认以色列为条件，这一消息在以色列引起了巨大的不安和谴责。
正面临资金、导弹…… 甚至石油的枯竭
汉斯·范·莱韦 (Hans van Leeuwe) 国际经济编辑
“我们现在正在见证战争的一个新阶段，”伊朗准将阿米尔·穆罕默德·阿克拉米尼亚 (Amir Mohammad Akraminia) 昨天上午告诉国家媒体。他没有说错。胡塞武装声称在红海轰炸了两艘沙特油轮，兑现了他们封锁曼德海峡的威胁。这个驻在也门的伊朗代理人表示，另有 10 艘沙特油轮被被迫掉头，并表示如有必要，已准备好轰炸沙特阿拉伯本土。沙特人一直将曼德海峡（位于该国海岸线与被封锁的霍尔木兹海峡的另一端）作为每天近 500 万桶原油的排压阀，通过管道进行跨境运输。因此，在红海开辟这一新战线，伊朗也为稳定全球石油供应的竞赛鸣响了发令枪。全球石油供应的新挤压使全球能源市场更接近一个临界点。除此之外，一场经济上具有惩罚性的供应短缺和价格螺旋正在等待发生。到目前为止，危机得以避免是因为中国和美国正在积极消耗其库存，从而缓解了市场压力。但没人知道北京的库存还剩多少，而美国的战略石油储备已降至 1983. 年以来的最低水平。自三月以来，美国人已经释放了约 105 million 桶。在损坏储罐和管道的风险变得过大之前，他们最多还能再释放大约同样数量的石油。截至本月初，储备量还剩约 319.5 million 桶。不出所料，布伦特原油价格再次攀升。它现在正逼近每桶 $100 的门槛，而每当达到这个阈值，唐纳德·特朗普通常会转向 Truth Social 并声称与伊朗人的协议即将达成。这一次，他采取了更强硬的立场。
他说他将继续轰炸伊朗，直到伊朗带着重新开放霍尔木兹海峡的承诺回到谈判桌前。他的最新威胁是，伊朗或其代理人每攻击一艘油轮，他就摧毁一座伊朗桥梁或发电厂。日内瓦公约的效力在中东已不再适用。特朗普通过轰炸迫使伊朗屈服的行动需要在石油市场到达悬崖边缘之前取得成功。否则，经济打击将……
作者：Connor Stringer 驻华盛顿首席记者
唐纳德·特朗普对英国征收了10%的关税，显然是对其与中国关系的惩罚。
白宫宣布，由于未能打击强迫劳动产品进口，英国将成为被征收10%至12.5%关税的60个国家之一。
尽管英国声称拥有世界上最严厉的所谓“现代奴隶制”法律，但仍将面临10%的税率。美国贸易代表办公室（USTR）昨天宣布的这些新税项旨在取代特朗普先生的临时10%关税，后者于今日到期。
该税项于今日东部时间凌晨12:01起生效，目标涵盖60个国家（包括欧盟成员国），美国政府表示这些国家约占美国贸易额的99%。
一名官员否认了有关强迫劳动关税（根据一项1974年法律调用）是为了在规避最高法院指令的同时替换到期关税的说法。该指令推翻了特朗普去年根据国家紧急状态法为缩小美国贸易逆差而实施的关税。
该官员表示，美国对强迫劳动商品的进口禁令比任何其他国家都更强，执行也更严格，这使得竞争对手拥有不公平的贸易优势。
一份2021年由国会议员提交的关于商业报告的内容可能会破坏共和党在11月国会中期选举中的机会。无论如何讨论中国的选举舞弊都无法转移责任。
但战争记录表明，单纯的轰炸行动很少能让对手接受失败。要将伊朗彻底逼入绝境，需要海量的弹药，可能还需要地面部队。
这反过来又凸显了第二个时钟的滴答声。美国人的资金和导弹正在耗尽。
战争部长皮特·海格塞斯警告称存在“严重短缺”，并恳请国会为这场已耗资近$38bn (£28bn)的战争解锁更多资金。立法者对他要求寻找$67bn战争资金的请求持犹豫态度。
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针对以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡。
甚至是对以色列在加沙行为比特朗普先生更为批评的前美国总统乔·拜登也坚持认为，承认以色列是核合作的前提条件。
沙特阿拉伯此前表示，只有在巴勒斯坦人民走上可靠的国家建制道路上，它才会与这个犹太国家建立外交关系。
这被理解为立即削减在约旦河西岸的定居点建设和反巴勒斯坦暴力（两者目前都在升级），并大幅改善加沙人民的前景。
在昨天的一次明显转向中，美国总统表示，核协议“将会获得批准，但完全取决于沙特阿拉伯是否加入这个备受尊敬且成功的
据英国广播公司 (BBC) 报道，中国强迫从事季节性采棉工作的少数民族工人人数为 500,000 人。
委员会发现证据表明，中国政府拘留了维吾尔穆斯林并强迫他们从事无偿的工厂工作。报告称，“英国时尚、零售、媒体和技术领域的主要公司”通过其供应链成为了“共犯”。 特别令人担忧的是运往英国的服装和太阳能电池板。一项英国广播公司 (BBC) 的调查发现，在
“亚伯拉罕协议”。针对特朗普先生的话，以色列总理办公室表示：“美以两国针对德黑兰种族灭绝政权的联合军事行动，以及以色列对伊朗恐怖轴心的摧毁，创造了扩大和平之圈的可能性。 “正如特朗普总统所言，沙特阿拉伯加入亚伯拉罕协议将是中东和平的一次历史性飞跃。” 特朗普先生还澄清说，根据与美国签署的被称为 123 协议的协议，沙特阿拉伯将无法自行浓缩铀。 “民用核协议（将不进行材料浓缩！）……仅限于非军事用途，例如伊朗和阿联酋（及其他国家）已经拥有的那种，将被批准，但完全取决于沙特阿拉伯加入备受推崇的
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且 F-35 战斗机现已进入该战区。更多加油机也正前往以色列。为了应对伊朗对美国军事基地的袭击，防空弹药正被进一步消耗。
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海湾地区石油产量仍低于战前水平 美国石油储备处于 43 年来最低水平
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中国多达 50 万少数民族工人被强迫从事季节性的采棉工作。 根据美国贸易代表办公室 (USTR) 的数据，去年中国种植的棉花约 93% 来自新疆，而该地区是强迫劳动被记录的主要区域。这些材料在出口到英国之前，先被用于在第三国制造的服装中。 该官员补充说，特朗普先生将“始终利用其掌握的工具来实现其贸易政策目标，这包括关税”。石油和天然气、化肥、某些食品以及已经受 232 条款国家安全关税影响的商品（如汽车、钢铁、铝和铜）将被豁免。 据《华尔街日报》报道，美国认为没有任何国家能够充分执行劳工保护，即使是那些拥有反奴隶法的国家也是如此。该报报道称，白宫将继续监测这一问题。 专家警告称，英国目前的反奴隶法不足以处理该问题，且实际上允许公司进行自我监管。
“成功的亚伯拉罕协议，”美国总统在 Truth Social 平台的一篇帖子中表示。 亚伯拉罕协议是在特朗普先生的第一任期内促成的，是一系列正式承认以色列并与其关系正常化的协议。 这些协议由阿拉伯联合酋长国 (UAE) 和巴林于 2020 年签署，摩洛哥和苏丹随后加入。 以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡表示，沙特阿拉伯加入亚伯拉罕协议“将成为中东和平的一次历史性飞跃”。 美国能源部长克里斯·赖特表示，沙特-美国协议将开启一场“美国核能复兴”，该协议在生效前必须经由国会通过。 伊朗是该地区唯一自行浓缩铀的国家，尽管阿联酋、土耳其和埃及都拥有民用
覆盖整个地区。这些物资的补充将需要数年时间。 当然，伊朗也深受其害。其经济已崩溃，军事能力被削弱，自身的无人机和导弹库存正在减少。如果
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核计划。阿联酋有四分之一的能源通过核反应堆产生。 伊朗的协议须接受联合国的检查，这些检查可随时进行，以防止德黑兰利用其浓缩设施帮助开发核武器。 特朗普先生长期坚持认为该国不能拥有核武器，在担心德黑兰试图回收浓缩度高达 60 per cent 的铀的情况下，他在 2 月 28 日对该国发动了袭击。 特朗普先生此前表示，大部分材料在去年 6 月的美国袭击中被掩埋或摧毁。 全球最大石油出口国沙特阿拉伯表示，核协议支持能源多样化的努力，并包含核安全、安保和不扩散的“最高国际标准”。
美国切断了其大片电力供应，无论是军事行动还是普通生活都将变得异常艰难。但制裁下的生活已经相当艰难。而且并没有太多替代方案，也没有太大的异议空间。因此，可以安全地假设，伊朗人的痛苦耐受力高于美国人。 随着时间一分一秒过去，特朗普先生要么必须撤退，要么必须加倍下注。伊朗人似乎几乎在期待将他诱入一场地面战争。 “地面行动提供了许多机会来破坏并给敌人造成更多伤亡。我们在这一领域的效能和效率肯定会高得多，”阿克拉米尼亚准将（Brig Gen Akraminia）说道。 世界其他地区将希望特朗普先生与时间的赛跑能有一个可行的出口。但在战争的迷雾中，很难发现这个出口。
[[IMG_XXXX]] Splash Harry 萨塞克斯公爵在家庭夏季度假期间，在泳池里翻转利贝特公主（Princess Lilibet）。照片由其妻子公爵夫人发布在社交媒体上。
亚马逊 现在成了 乌克兰的 优先目标
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袭击目标是 军事物资，并 “粉碎俄罗斯人 舒适的和平 时期生活”
作者：安东尼娅·朗福德（Antonia Langford），发自基辅
从克拉斯诺达尔（Krasnodar）的 Wildberries 仓库升起的黑色浓烟塔，看起来就像是从地狱深处涌现的一样。 在向黑暗中逃离的工人并不知情的情况下，近 200 miles 之外，乌克兰的无人机也正降落在内温诺梅斯克（Nevinnomyssk）的另一个仓库。与此同时，在莫斯科地区，火焰继续吞噬几天前被击中的一座仓库的残骸。 近日，基辅在其将战争带入俄罗斯的行动中开启了新篇章。在经历了数月针对油库和炼油厂的升级袭击后，它突然改变了战术，将目光转向了一个更出人意料的目标：属于 Wildberries 的仓库和存放点。Wildberries 是一家俄罗斯零售巨头，经常被描述为该国的亚马逊。 乌克兰已击中了该公司的五处大型设施，并对其他电商巨头使用的存储点发动了规模较小的袭击。这些袭击摧毁了该公司总仓库空间的 15 per cent。 乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基将这些终端描述为合法目标，理由是它们被用于供应俄罗斯军队——罗伯特·布罗夫迪（Robert Brovdi），乌库拉
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作者：Joe Barnes, Connor Stringer 以及 Tony Diver
英国和美国已敦促乌克兰在深受民众欢迎的国防部长被解雇后，继续执行米哈伊洛·费多罗夫（Mykhailo Fedorov）的反腐行动。通过外交后门渠道，基辅的这两个盟友对上周弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基在内阁重组中撤换费多罗夫先生表示担忧。
据称，当有传闻称乌克兰总统正考虑罢免费多罗夫先生时，英美官员对此可能的举动感到“极其惊讶”。他们担心，他的被解雇可能会终结这位 35 岁部长根除腐败以及推动乌克兰武装部队技术创新的尝试。
一名消息人士告诉《电讯报》，美国官员尤其担心费多罗夫先生被解雇可能会引发埃隆·马斯克的反弹，而马斯克的星链（Starlink）卫星互联网系统对基辅的军队至关重要。在原部长离职几天后，早些时候本
作者：Julian Ryall，发自东京
她将自己称为“日本的铁娘子”——高市早苗（Sanae Takaichi）在效仿玛格丽特·撒切尔方面，不仅仅限于其保守主义政策。
这位日本首相透露，她每晚最多睡眠三小时，甚至少于她崇拜的偶像（撒切尔夫人）的四小时。
但这一坦白引发了人们对高市女士委派权能力及其长期健康的担忧。
在 10 月就任首相后，她在就职演说中自豪地表示：“我将抛弃‘工作与生活平衡’这个词，我会工作，工作，工作，并坚持工作下去。”
她履行了她的承诺，并在 X 上发帖称，她在周末几个月来第一次能够睡五小时。这条帖子显然是为了展示她应对国家挑战的决心，其中声称即使在周末她也“持续-
通过该网站销售商品的商家。数百人已在网上发布视频，抱怨他们损失了大量商品库存且无法获得赔偿。
本月早些时候，Wildberries 和另一家主要电子商务平台 Ozon 修改了卖家协议，明确规定他们不对无人机袭击导致的损失承担法律责任。在袭击发生后，另一家竞争对手 Yandex Market 迅速修改了自身的条款。
“就我个人而言，我正走向破产，”来自圣彼得堡的企业家 Timofey 说道。他声称自己在 Elektrostal 损失了价值超过 50 million 卢布的库存（£480,000），在 Kotovsk 进一步损失了 2.5 million 卢布。
“在我损失的 53 million 卢布货物中，大约有 20 million 是通过贷款购买的。就在此前不久，Wildberries 修改了条款和条件，简直就像它预知了什么一样。现在公司对此完全撇清关系，”这位商人告诉自由电台 (Radio Svoboda)。
根据研究机构 Data Insight 的分析师 Sergei Semko 的说法，仅在 Elektrostal 和 Kotovsk 仓库中存储的卖家未售库存价值就可能在 150 到 235 billion 卢布（£1.4bn-£2.3bn）之间。与此同时，根据俄罗斯日报《商业评论报》(Kommersant) 的报道，这些仓库损失了约 5.9 million 平方英尺的空间，修复费用可能在 22 到 36 billion 卢布（£211m-£345m）之间。Wildberries 的净利润
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一年中，他与这位科技万亿富翁的 SpaceX 紧密合作，以关闭俄罗斯使用该系统攻击乌克兰的权限。
Fedorov 先生将此举归功于自己，这一行动使俄罗斯军队在前线处于“失明”状态，并被认为是乌克兰近期局势好转的主要原因之一。
“我们原以为他做得很好，”一位知情人士表示，并承认西方官员对这次解职感到措手不及。
但尽管内心有所担忧，英美官员在干预时表现得极其谨慎。他们不希望被视为干涉乌克兰内政，因此并未敦促泽连斯基先生撤销对 Fedorov 先生的解职决定。
然而，考虑到西方政府向基辅注入的大量资金，他们认为有必要敦促乌克兰总统不要放弃前部长启动的反腐败改革。
英国国防部、美国国防部 (五角大楼) 和美国国务院并未否认已传递了相关警告。
从清晨到深夜阅读厚厚的一叠资料”。她补充说，“自从担任首相以来，睡眠时间在零到三小时之间已成为常态”。
反对党国民民主党党魁 Tamaki Yuichiro
高市早苗表示，在承诺继续工作后，“睡眠时间在零到三小时之间已成为她的常态”。
在线零售商被用于军队供应。基辅的新战略是在莫斯科将包括来自北极圈在内的防空系统转移以守护该国一些最受攻击的炼油厂之后采取的。 现在，出现了一个更脆弱的目标。皇家联合服务研究所的高级研究员埃米莉·费里斯（Emily Ferris）表示，新一轮袭击可能比之前的几轮产生更大的“社会影响”。 “燃料短缺是一回事，但 Wildberries 就像俄罗斯的亚马逊，它将影响日常商品的国内供应链。” 虽然这些袭击可能令俄罗斯人感到不安，但它们也让弗拉基米尔·普京已经如此强硬的姿态变得更加决绝。这位俄罗斯总统现在的目标不仅是夺取顿内茨克其余的部分被占领地区。
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ing：“我很少见到一个国家的首相如此公开地展示不睡觉。” 此外，也有指责称，一名睡眠不足的领导人会做出糟糕的决定；而另一些人则指出，她极其繁重的工作量直接违反了政府改革日本工作习惯、为员工实现更好工作与生活平衡的努力。 内阁官房长官木原实（Minoru Kihara）在东京向记者为高市女士辩护称：“我相信首相将继续做出选择并在其职责中尽最大努力。这是为了国家和人民的利益。” 然而，高市女士的失眠之夜可能会进一步恶化。上周末的一项民意调查显示，她的支持率仅为 41%，一个月内下降了 10 个百分点。分析人士将这一大幅下跌归咎于未能实施帮助人们应对物价上涨的措施。
通过秘密渠道。欧洲盟友和加拿大已承诺在今年和 2027 年分别为乌克兰提供 €70bn (£61bn) 的军事援助。 这笔资金的大部分正通过这个饱受战争摧残国家的国内国防工业进行渠道化，以资助无人机和导弹的生产。 费多罗夫先生在国防部任职期间，将根除国防承包中的腐败作为其关注重点的一部分。 他的被撤职在乌克兰引发了国内危机，随后爆发了谴责泽连斯基先生此举的街头抗议。乌克兰总统的决定导致了自战争开始以来乌克兰军队规模最大的一次大洗牌。 泽连斯基先生开除费多罗夫先生，是因为前国防部长与亚历山大·瑟尔斯基（Oleksandr Syrsky）将军就基辅武装部队的未来方向产生了争执。随着抗议活动的持续，泽连斯基先生还解雇了作为最高指挥官的瑟尔斯基将军。 在昨日给记者的一份声明中，费多罗夫先生表示，他仅接受回到原职，以便能够打击“腐败”、“根除谎言文化”并“完成军队的转型”。 他在声明中说：“除了国防部长，我不会接受任何其他职位。” 与此同时，英国于昨日接管了多国部队的指挥权。
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作者：James Titcomb 技术编辑
埃隆·马斯克表示，他不可能成为种族主义者，因为他的伴侣有一半印度血统，且他的一个儿子是以一名印度科学家的名字命名的。
这位全球最富有的人——据福布斯（Forbes）估计，其财富达 $800bn (£600bn)——此前曾表示白人是“正在消亡的少数群体”，并支持欧洲的极右翼政党。他是在接受《经济学人》（The Economist）采访时发表上述言论的。
马斯克与希冯·齐利斯（Shivon Zilis）有四个孩子，齐利斯是一位加拿大科技高管，其母亲出生于印度。他与齐利斯的一个儿子，斯特莱德·塞卡尔·西里乌斯（Strider Sekhar Sirius），是以印度裔美国物理学家苏布拉马尼安·钱德拉塞卡尔（Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar）命名的。
“我的伴侣有一半印度血统，我和她有四个孩子。”
“其中一个是以一位著名的印度物理学家命名的。所以我想说，我不是种族主义者，”马斯克说。“而且，如果你看看在我公司工作的员工，我们拥有所有种族的高管。我认为那里不存在任何种族主义。”
马斯克在近几个月经常在社交媒体上发布关于种族的内容。他在1月的社交平台 X 上写道：
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被乌克兰袭击 （尚未）被击中
叶卡捷琳堡 (Yekater)
泽莱诺多尔斯克 (Zelenodolsk)
乌法 (Ufa)
能与法国 副司令 并肩工作， 为这支部队 提供持续的 领导力”
该地区，而且在任何和平协议中，也要将苏梅和哈尔科夫边境地区的被占部分保留在计划内，彭博社报道。然而，有些人仍然希望，一次关于战争已来到俄罗斯门前的新鲜提醒，可以开始削弱公众的漠不关心。 “以前，战争是一个边缘现象，不直接影响普通俄罗斯人的生活，”政治分析师、普京的前演讲撰稿人阿巴斯·加利亚莫夫 (Abbas Gallyamov) 表示。 “现在，它以燃料短缺和在线购物中断的形式出现。这种对俄罗斯当局不利的势头破坏了宣传所描绘的图景，”他补充道。“（这些袭击）强化了反战情绪。” “人们会团结在一个获胜的政府周围，而不是一个失败的政府周围。”
准备部署到乌克兰，以维护可能出现的任何和平协议。 英国三星级指挥官汤姆·贝特曼 (Tom Bateman) 中将在一场巴黎举行的仪式上接替了他的法国同行。乌克兰多国部队是由英法领导的“意愿联盟” (Coalition of the Willing) 计划支持基辅在任何停火期间而产生的结果。该部队计划帮助确保乌克兰的领空和领海安全，并重建这个饱受战争蹂躏国家的地面部队。 新任国防大臣韦斯·斯特里廷 (Wes Streeting) 表示：“贝特曼中将是一位杰出的军官，他已经在国家和国际层面展现了军事领导力。他的指挥将有助于加强我们支持乌克兰未来安全的努力。” 贝特曼中将补充道：“我很荣幸能与新任法国副司令并肩工作，为这支重要的多国部队提供持续的英国和法国领导力。这支部队在最近的‘意愿联盟’峰会上已被宣布‘准备好行动’。”
他曾称英国的内战是“不可避免的”，并被指责煽动 6 月在贝尔法斯特发生的种族相关骚乱。 当被问及他是否反穆斯林时，马斯克先生回答道：“如果人们带着截然相反的观点来到一个国家，我反对这一点。” “我反对强奸和谋杀，我反对强加那些与我们在西方所接受的相悖的规则和法律。”他还表示，那些被定性为极右翼的人“只是普通人”。 马斯克先生承认，尽管他经常发布关于英国的贴文，但他已有数年未访问英国，不过他说他已经去过“简直是一百次”。 “如果你有一个……庞大且在迅速增长的群体，其信仰与西方信仰截然相反，那么在某个时刻将会迎来清算，”他说。 “他们将试图实施他们的观点，而那些反对的人将会反对。”
此手段以便能够以 极低的价格购买 被焚毁的房产
作者：马特奥·塞拉姆菲莫夫斯基 (Matteo Seramfimovski)
调查人员表示，放火犯将碎布系在猫尾巴上并点燃，在意大利引发了山火。 本周，火焰席卷了意大利南部卡拉布里亚的波利诺 (Pollino) 国家公园，摧毁了大部分公园土地。 除了流浪猫，调查人员还在阴燃的残骸附近发现了蜡烛和延时点火装置。 卡拉布里亚民防局的多梅尼科·科斯塔雷拉 (Domenico Costarella) 表示： “这些动物被释放到田野中，到处乱跑并传播火势。” 他补充说，打击纵火需要一次“心态上的转变……这些是
作者：Vivian Song，发自巴黎
世世代代以来，温德里-叙尔-蒂尔丁 (Vindry-sur-Turdine) 的教堂钟声每半小时就会响起，日夜不停。但这次热浪终于给夜晚的敲钟画上了句号，并在这一片美丽的罗讷河谷宁静角落里，引发了邻里之间的矛盾。
当一些村民在开窗睡觉后对夜晚的噪音提出抱怨时，他们无意中将社区分成了两派。
一名住在教堂旁且未具名的女性告诉当地报纸《进步报》(Le Progrès)：“我睡不着。”
“我不认为在晚上每 30 分钟响一次有什么意义。”
而其他人并不认同。一名叫吉勒 (Gilles) 的当地人告诉法国新闻频道 BFMTV：“以前我们有公鸡在早晨打鸣，人们也抱怨。” “他们只需要进城去就行了。乡村就是乡村。”
“晚上响起来对我来说很合适，”另一位未具名的当地人告诉区域新闻机构 France3。“当你习惯了之后，你就听不到任何声音了；而当你没睡着时，它给夜晚设定了节奏。这很好。”
市长办公室在与教区协商后，同意暂时在晚上 10 点到早上 6 点之间禁钟。
“会有些人不高兴，”温德里-叙尔-蒂尔丁的市长凯瑟琳·拉芬 (Catherine Raffin) 告诉《进步报》。
“少数人对此感到困扰，但我们知道我们会让更多的人失望。我们正准备迎接一些不愉快的评论。”
“这有点像农场附近的公鸡，”她补充道，指的是在新冠疫情期间搬到乡村，却对典型的乡村噪音（教堂钟声、拖拉机声和公鸡打鸣声）颇有微词的城市居民。
在拉加纳什 (La Garnache)，当地男子蒂埃里·西莫宁 (Thierry Simonin) 计算出，该镇的教堂钟声在晚上 10 点到早上 7 点之间共响起 726 次。
作者：Natasha Leake，美国记者
由于去年的山火导致房产无法售出，马利布的豪宅价格已大幅下调。
2025 年的帕利塞兹大火 (Palisades Fire) 烧毁了马利布 600 栋单户住宅，以及周边地区的数千栋房屋，几乎摧毁了该市东部所有的海滨住宅。
这使得这座曾被视为高端住宅中心的加利福尼亚海滨小镇，留下了一排排空置的豪宅
作者：Lily Shanagher
花费 €40，人们本可以参观世界上首座拥有废墟台阶和雕像的露天剧场，该剧场位于意大利东北部。但游客们发现情况发生了变化，因为该剧场据称建于公元 393 年之后，而非 393A 之前。 现在，费琴察（Vicenza）市附近露天剧场的策展人 Franco Malos 被指控削平了一座山，建造了一个虚假的考古遗址，并向游客收取 €40, 费用参观。他声称自己拥有该地区，且拥有从新石器时代、希腊时期到罗马时期的考古研究资料。这位 69 岁的策展人称其行为是出于非人道的行径。“遗憾的是，人类是自己最大的敌人。” 意大利动物保护协会已发布 €1,000 (£870) 的悬赏，以获取关于谁点燃这些猫的信息。 此前，西西里岛曾有人利用猫来引发森林火灾。2016, 当局指责与黑手党有关的组织利用动物点燃了西西里岛北部的内布罗迪（Nebrodi）地区公园。 次年，总部位于坎帕尼亚的卡莫拉（Camorra）黑手党采用了同样的策略，在维苏威火山下的受保护林地引发火灾，导致当地人员疏散并部署了意大利军队。 研究员 Lauren Pearson 去年告诉 CNN，纵火是更大规模的土地抢夺策略的一部分，旨在以廉价购买被焚毁的土地。 在卡拉布里亚（Calabria）地区，记录在案的火灾超过 160 起，当地民防局局长将其归咎于“心怀恶意者”的纵火。 意大利的森林火灾最集中在南部。
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黎明时分的马鞍袋：两匹马在人群的注视下激烈地搏斗，这是中国中部一次传统民俗庆典上的场景。赛马长期以来一直是利州市附近年度新河节的一部分，该节日还包括音乐和舞蹈，居民们聚在一起祈求丰收。
以及待价而沽的空地。 根据 Realtor.com 的数据，马里布（Malibu）单户住宅的中位价格在 6 月同比下降了 7.3%。 马里布所有房产类型的活跃挂牌量上升了 7.1%，而整个加利福尼亚州的挂牌量则下降了 5.5%。 业主们正苦于难以脱手，许多人被迫大幅降低房产要价以吸引潜在买家。Olivia Lynn 在 7 月的一次开放日活动中告诉《华尔街日报》(WSJ)：“我希望能在那 8 月前收到出价，但我觉得这不太可能实现了。” 在一年时间里，她不得不将其这座可以俯瞰太平洋的豪华联排别墅的价格从 $2.3m (£1.7m) 降低到 $1.9m。 专家表示，在火灾发生后，房屋所有者对灾难威胁和激增的保险费感到厌倦。马里布的地产中介 Jill Reeder 告诉《华尔街日报》：“这非常令人不安，绝对会让人们犹豫。”
在西西里岛，尽管部署了水炸弹飞机，大约 6,000 名消防员、森林护林员和民防官员仍在与这座地中海岛屿上持续数日的数十起火灾作斗争。 意大利内政部长 Matteo Piantedosi 证实，一名消防员
她补充说，现在市场上房源过多，反而让客户打消了购买念头，她表示：“由于选择太多，你会失去那些原本愿意买下该房产的客户。” 长期以来，马里布一直是娱乐业明星的聚集地，包括歌手 Beyoncé 和 Jay-Z，他们住在被称为“亿万富翁之行”（Billionaires’ Row）的天堂湾（Paradise Cove）。 Tom Hanks 在马里布潟湖州立海滩（Malibu Lagoon State Beach）和马里布码头（Malibu Pier）以西拥有一处房产，而 Lady Gaga、Julia Roberts 等人也在此拥有房产。
飞机被用于在巴勒莫附近的 Casaboli 森林扑灭森林火灾
在扑救火灾时丧生。意大利民政部门的一位发言人告诉法新社，西西里岛的情况“严峻”，且火势“正受到极高气温和极干燥土壤的推波助澜”。 在意大利，随着南欧出现破纪录的热浪，已有超过 11,500 公顷的土地被大火吞噬。 在法国，由于波尔多以西茂密的松林发生山火，超过 20,000 人被迫撤离。 消防员表示，这场火灾周三始于索莫斯（Saumos）村，随后蔓延至勒波尔日（Le Porge），接着向勒日-卡普-费雷（Lège-Cap-Ferret）推进，已烧毁 2,000 公顷——该面积约为直布罗陀面积的三倍。 当局表示，他们周三从露营地、度假租赁房和住宅中撤离了 12,000 名居民和游客，随后在昨天又从露营地撤离了 8,800 人。约 700 人采取预防措施离开了家，
罗伯茨、莱昂纳多·迪卡普里奥、小罗伯特·唐尼和迈莉·赛勒斯在这个高端海滨城市拥有房产。 南非女演员兼电影制片人查理兹·塞隆曾拥有的一处房产在帕利塞德大火（Palisades Fire）中被烧毁。现任业主、经济学家兼作家大卫·斯米克（David Smick）告诉《华尔街日报》，重建地基需要花费 $2.3m，这让他质疑这样做是否值得。 里德女士表示，当时有 37 栋房产在市场上以 $10m 至 $15m 的价格出售。
省政府表示，超过 3,000 名露营者被重新安置。 勒日市长菲利普·德·贡内维尔（Philippe de Gonneville）表示，“天气并不在我们的这一边”。 “气温在 30°C 以上，风向已转向东部和东北部，且风力相当强。” 朱莉·伦纳德（Julie Leonard）是波尔多的一名居民，她与家人一起来到了勒波尔日一个不受威胁的地带，她说她能看到“下午天空中弥漫着巨大的黑烟云”。 75 岁的伯纳德·罗什（Bernard Roche）在该地区生活了 35 年，他说他上了车离开。“如果我有勇气，我就留在我的木屋里了，但太热了，”他说。 周二，两名消防员在扑救波尔多机场附近发生的一场大火中丧生。 在西班牙，消防员在处理托莱多附近的一场大火（该火灾曾引发马德里南部的撤离行动）时，一夜之间取得了“非常积极”的进展。 瓜达拉哈拉省最大的一场火灾在一周内已吞噬超过 32,000 公顷土地。
与此同时，该城市的整体人口一直在下降。根据人口普查，截至 2025 年 7 月，该市有 9,574 名居民——低于 2020 年 4 月的 10,653 人。市议会议员史蒂夫·尤林（Steve Uhring）将这一下降归因于频繁的自然灾害。他告诉《华尔街日报》：“通常情况下，我们的规划部门和建筑部门每隔几个月处理一两处房产申请。而突然之间，我们得面对 600 处需要重建的房产。”
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考试的耻辱感 ——它教会我们 成功的喜悦
YSENDA MAXTONE GRAHAM
为了让学生免受耻辱，并维护他们备受推崇的隐私权，大多数学校和大学已经废除了将考试成绩公开的古老传统。这种公开排名的强硬方法被认为对于年轻人敏感的自尊心来说过于严苛且具有侵入性。结果是，生活中大量的色彩和戏剧性地失踪了；更重要的是，学生们被剥夺了一个至关重要的动力工具——对被看到失败的恐惧，以及对被看到成功的渴望。
这两种情感都没有错。它们是人类生活的一部分。它们促使我们更加努力，并让我们为成年后的现实做好准备，因为在成年世界中，我们的成功与失败都是公开的。正如一位校长告诉我的：“如果你必须等到申请第一份工作时才发现这个世界竞争如此激烈，那就有点太晚了。”
我们这些人，中谁经历过大学考试成绩公布在公告栏上的日子，都不会忘记其中的戏剧性和紧张感。我们三五成群地聚集在一起，紧张得快要呕吐，双腿发抖。当成绩单终于被钉在板上时，页面被分为几个区块：一等荣誉（Firsts）、2:1、2:2、三等荣誉（Thirds）以及“特殊类”（Specials，即不及格）。
我们的目光会被吸引到我们希望并祈祷自己身在的那个区块。我们知道，在接下来的余生里，我们必须面对自己的名字在这些递减区块中所处的位置——而且我们的同龄人也会看到并知晓这一点。但我们也知道，如果我们失败了，只能责怪我们自己。
牛津大学在本世纪初就停止在公告栏公布成绩；剑桥大学坚持到了 2021, 年，但随后也放弃了，理由是对学生福祉和压力的担忧。多么可惜，失去了一个令人难忘的成年礼！
在经历了这种对知识能力（或匮乏）的公开展示后，法律系的学生们还将面临更糟糕的情况：他们的法律学会最终考试（Law Society Finals）成绩会公布在报纸上。许多人至今仍会对在午夜前往火车站终点站购买首版报纸以查看自己是否及格而做噩梦。这种特殊的公开折磨在 20 世纪 90 年代被逐步淘汰。
不过，我们已经习惯了这种紧张感，以及考试成绩的公开性质，因为我们在学校的排名体制中长大。我们不仅要听班级里读出“每两周一次的排名”，而且期末考试成绩是由老师按反序发回的。排在末尾的人会尴尬地最早拿到试卷。等待的时间越长，你越会兴奋地认为自己可能考得不错。
直到最近，伊顿公学（Eton College）仍按学科成绩对整个年级进行排名，所以你真的可能会在数学课上排在第 256 名。如果你能排到那个位置，几乎是一种荣誉。
也许这些公开排名系统终身损害了那些垫底者的自信心，并给那些顶尖者灌输了过多的傲慢。但这个系统的目的并非为了灌输傲慢。它仅仅是为了讲述真相，并让真相公开。这有什么错？
为了保护极少数可能因公开羞辱而受伤的人的隐私，学校和大学剥夺了高成就者在成功时感受到的光芒，而这正是未来奋斗的巨大动力。请找回考试的耻辱感，以及与之相对的，考试的荣耀！
对于男女运动员被残酷地排名，我们完全接受，且他们知道这是规则的一部分。但对于年轻人的学术成就，我们却变得恐惧这样做，担心让他们感到“不舒服”。真是太遗憾了。
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当来自兰开斯特郡的安迪·伯纳姆本周进入唐宁街时，我发现自己想起了伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔的小说《北与南》。在一段令人难忘的文字中，来自虚构城市米尔顿（该市以曼彻斯特为原型）的棉纺厂主约翰·桑顿愤慨地表示，他宁愿在北方战斗而失败，也不愿在贵族南方的“陈旧且磨损的沟壑”中庸碌度日。“一个人可能会被蜂蜜粘住，无法起身飞翔。”
在阅读这部小说的同时，我在马盖特的一个社区花园中漫步。这里感觉与伯纳姆致力于领导的那个神话般的英国相去万里：那是一个充满北方坚毅精神、历史阴霾以及社会主义反射弧正缓慢苏醒的土地。花园的管理员保罗叹息道，马盖特或许不属于那个辉煌且受压迫的北方，但它是全国最贫困的角落之一。“我父亲经营一家当地工厂，组装空调设备。他雇用了大约 200 人。后来当我们陷入 20 世纪 80 年代的经济衰退时，银行要求偿还贷款，工厂就破产了。北方遭受了苦难。但像这样的南部海滨城镇也同样陷入了深渊。”
伯纳姆的领导策略归结为一个单一的紧迫任务：工党必须通过赢回其北方核心地带的忠诚来击溃改革党。从表面上看，伯纳姆对北方的关注在选举上是有道理的。改革党
现在是我们英国人学习变得更加亲密之时了
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作为一个极其典型的英国人，我花了 43 年才意识到牵手的力量。在此之前，我的手掌总是试图从他人的掌控中溜走，这令许多恋人愤怒不已。直到我遇到了相处 11 年的伴侣，我才终于理解。如今，在深夜失眠时，主动寻求他掌心温度的人是我。
显然，我和类人猿有很多共同点。你也是如此。因为生物学家发现，类人猿利用触觉来减轻压力并改善关系，尤其是在局势即将恶化（ proverbial is about to hit the fan）之时。
黑猩猩和倭黑猩猩也会进行一些不那么体面的行为，但让我们将注意力集中在互助这种形式上。研究发现，我们这些多毛的近亲会通过紧握手掌来预先化解冲突，这表明，对于我们这些不怎么嗅对方屁股的人来说，适度的牵手或许能降低紧张情绪。
其中一名科学家指出：“我想你可以鼓励政客也这样做。也许我们在议会里需要更多的牵手。” 在经历了安迪·伯纳姆那充满心机（afternoon of the long eyelashes）的一周，以及随后出现的那些极其不雅的讨好式握手之后，我们许多人可能希望这种行为少一点。
尽管如此，了解触觉的根本性质依然是有益的，亚里士多德认为触觉是我们最原始且不可或缺的感官。亚里士多德没有错。触觉已被证明能够降低压力化学物质皮质醇，增加社交粘合激素催产素，缓解疼痛，降低血压，并让世界变得更好。
牵手不应仅仅是年轻恋人的特权。它是一种表达方式：你还活着，你属于一个物种，这里有支持你的后盾。
希腊医神阿斯克勒庇俄斯（Asclepius）运用治疗之手，“外科医生”（surgeon）一词便源于 kheir（手）和 ergon（工作）。基督则通过抚触……
……在劳工党北部的核心地带崛起之际，[该项/该观点]在大多数民调中依然排名第一。然而，我选择在英国政治这个极其重要的一周里前往马盖特（Margate）以及更广泛的东塞内特（East Thanet）选区，是有原因的。这是一个位于英格兰被遗忘角落的、不稳定的南方摇摆席位，它挑战了我们认为自己对英国政治所认知的一切。塞内特拥有挣扎在生存线上的海滨城镇和孤立的村庄，这与那种将“被遗忘的北方”和“舒适的南方”简单对立的粗糙二分法截然相反。至关重要地，塞内特提供了一个观察潜在的游戏规则改变现实的窗口，而威斯敏斯特（Westminster）尚未完全意识到这一点。因为尽管人们都在讨论北方选民是“造王者”，但南方似乎正处于反抗的边缘。在塞内特的人民中，我没有察觉到对伯纳姆政府前景的兴奋，而是一种日益消磨的耐心。在思考“被遗忘”的北方时，
在布罗德斯特尔斯（Broadstairs）经营一家高端健身房的彼得·艾尔（Peter Eyre）讽刺地谈到了他在曼彻斯特的姐姐那套时髦的公寓，以及邓肯·班纳坦（Duncan Bannatyne）惊人的财富；在很长一段时间里，后者的北方高端健身房连锁店是他最大的企业竞争对手。在马盖特经营海滩装精品店的凯蒂·拉森（Katy Lassen）告诉我，当她看到关于降低增值税（VAT）的标题时，心跳加速，结果却失望地发现那是针对能源账单的。当地一家反贫困慈善机构的负责人则对“富裕的南方”这一概念发出了阴郁的笑声。他们坚决认为，对于塞内特那些生活在贫困线上的居民来说，情况不仅没有改善，反而是在恶化。他们对伯纳姆亲北方的姿态感到愤慨：“不仅有一种认为南方铺满金子的态度，而且认为南方人拥有的一切要么是通过欺诈，要么是通过出生时的偶然获得。认为我们就像某种被宰的奶牛，等着被榨干。”这种情绪在整个东塞内特地区……
……关注这种相互支持的形式。我们的多毛近亲被发现通过紧握手掌来预先化解冲突，这表明，对于我们这些不怎么嗅对方屁股的人来说，适度的牵手或许能降低紧张情绪。
其中一名科学家指出：“我想你可以鼓励政客也这样做。也许我们在议会里需要更多的牵手。” 在经历了安迪·伯纳姆那充满心机（afternoon of the long eyelashes）的一周，以及随后出现的那些极其不雅的讨好式握手之后，我们许多人可能希望这种行为少一点。
尽管如此，了解触觉的根本性质依然是有益的，亚里士多德认为触觉是我们最原始且不可或缺的感官。亚里士多德没有错。触觉已被证明能够降低压力化学物质皮质醇，增加社交粘合激素催产素，缓解疼痛，降低血压，并让世界变得更好。
牵手不应仅仅是年轻恋人的特权。它是一种表达方式：你还活着，你属于一个物种，这里有支持你的后盾。
希腊医神阿斯克勒庇俄斯（Asclepius）运用治疗之手，“外科医生”（surgeon）一词便源于 kheir（手）和 ergon（工作）。基督则通过抚触……
– 一个工党席位 – 应该会让伯纳姆夜不能心。塔内特（Thanet）的政治格局此前一直呈现为工党与改革党（Reform）之间的对决。但随着法拉奇（Farage）的影响力减弱，情况正在发生变化。一场“伯纳姆主义”与复兴的保守主义之间的对决正在酝酿之中。不久前，在这些地区出现保守党复苏的想法似乎还很幻想。在 2024 年，保守党的支持率崩盘，远远落后于工党，排名第二。此后，改革党迅速崛起，在赢得肯特郡议会的同时横扫塔内特。但随着改革党的衰落，当地的保守党竞选人员察觉到了有利于他们的趋势。在以承诺减税进行竞选之后，改革党反而提高了税收。该党几名议员已背弃党派加入“恢复党”（Restore）。其中一人最近因对妻子采取强迫行为而被监禁。因此，塔内特预示着某种潜在的爆发点：即伯纳姆的整个领导战略都集中在
打一场昨天的战争。因为英国政治中一个新的前沿正威胁要出现。这不是传统工党北部的“红墙”，而是不可预测的“南部欧泊带”（Southern Opal Ribbon，其色调是由工党红、保守党蓝和改革党青色混合而成的颜色）。这条由通勤小镇、沿海城镇、河口村庄和郊区扩张地带组成的带状区域——从东部的塔内特到西部的斯温登（Swindon），涵盖约 80 个席位——其规模与北部的对应区域一样庞大。这个国家的角落非意识形态化、有抱负且被忽视，正是这里诞生了激发“新工党”革命的“新”中产阶级“蒙迪欧之辈”（Mondeo man）。不知为何，此后它从威斯敏斯特的雷达监测中消失了。但工党在这些边缘选区的优势与在北方一样不稳定。这些席位在 2024 年落在该党手中，很大程度上是由于上任保守党政府的无能，而非区域性的向社会主义倾斜。而它们正处于危险的边缘
将手放在人们身上以祈福、治愈并让他们死而复生，这种姿势被中世纪的君主们用来尝试减轻项疽病。据说查理二世在一年内向近 7,000 名患者施予了这种“国王之触”，尽管佩皮斯对他这位著名的爱狗人士身上散发出的臭味冷嘲热讽。在新冠疫情期间，当人类被迫保持距离时，许多人长期得不到触碰，以至于出现了关于“皮肤饥渴”的讨论。那些年岁大到能记得 20 世纪 80 年代的人，会想起在齐奥塞斯库政权下被遗弃在国家run机构中罗马尼亚孤儿的惨状，他们在婴儿床中无人触碰，留下了终身创伤。一项 1995 年的研究认为，每天需要四个拥抱才能缓解抑郁。如果这一切听起来有点过于女性化，请想想男孩们在进行体育运动时需要多少鼓励，他们总是击掌、揉乱对方头发并跳入彼此怀中。事实上，研究发现，在进行篮球投篮等活动时，肢体接触能提高表现，这就像是一种环境灵气疗法，让运动员们确信自己得到了球队的支持。与此同时，事实证明，握手的谈判者能获得更好的
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优势。在东塔内特，保守党需要从工党那里获得 8 个百分点的选票转移才能将该席位转回蓝色。但考虑到改革党在地方政府中混乱的统治，这现在看来是可能的。在普尔，保守党仅需在选票上压过工党 10 票即可夺回该席位。在迪恩森林是 140 票，在肯特郡的西廷本和谢佩岛是 178 票，在达特福德是 2 个百分点，在克劳利是 6 个百分点。现在确实存在一种危险，即安迪·伯纳姆那种——严重倾向于安抚“红墙”——的做法在“蛋白石腰带”（Opal Ribbon）地区（不仅是塔内特）遭遇惨败。安迪·伯纳姆推动的公共住房计划在北方社区具有文化共鸣。但民调显示，南方人更希望国家将干预重点放在其他地方，例如应对天文数字般的育儿成本。安迪·伯纳姆的公交车票封顶计划可能会让他赢得像曼彻斯特和利兹这样的大都市的粉丝。但在塔内特的比钦顿海滨村，
人们对这一举措的反应冷淡；当地人担心的不是成本，而是服务的频率，该频率已从每 15 分钟一班萎缩到每小时一班。在北方，公共部门的影响力日益增强。但在东南部，有更多的选民要么是自雇人士，要么在私营部门工作。这些人关心的是贡献：谁在尽职尽责，谁在偷懒。如果安迪·伯纳姆拒绝讨论贡献问题——或者以一种将南方毒性地刻板地定义为寄生财富囤积地的方式来讨论——他将很快失去这些选民。随着斯塔默追随者在被驱逐后感到震惊，威斯敏斯特的圈子已经开始猜测，安迪·伯纳姆的内部敌人是否将对其统治构成最大威胁。但英国新领导人面临的最深远的危险是，他对南北方过时的看法，就像桑顿先生一样深。
交易更少，谎言更少。 西方文化中最令人动容的牵手实例，必定是《神曲》中维吉尔对但丁的紧紧把握。在《地狱篇》中，地狱可能字面上就关乎一切，但维吉尔绝不会让他的弟子脱手，无论是在他发现地狱之门上刻着的“抛弃一切希望”时，还是在抵达冥河时。 即便在今天，在西西里岛，人们仍能看到刚毅的男子在进行passeggiata（散步）时手牵手地走在街上。 英国人倾向于将肢体接触视为那些情感失禁的外国人的专利——电影史上最压抑的时刻，便是1945年电影《邂逅》中，亚历克在永远离开劳拉的生活时，对她的肩膀轻轻一捏。 但任何曾在临终者床边陪伴的人都会知道，牵手并非伤感的戏剧化表演，而是人类最深层的情感连接。当言语失效，你轻托对方的掌心，以传达这样一个信息：此时此刻，在最后的时刻，他们被爱着，被守护着，被抚慰着。 牵手不仅仅关乎性——后者可以独自享受——它是我们对他人基本需求的证明。 抓自己的爪子是搓手焦虑；伸向另一个人的手则是生命之锚。
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很难想象还有比选择将强奸犯、儿童性犯罪者和暴力罪犯在仅服刑不足一半的情况下释放到英国街道上更令人谴责的国家失败案例。然而，这正是议会在今年 1 月通过 2026. 年《量刑法案》时所决定的。到 9 月，将有 5,000 多名囚犯可能被提前释放。其中可能包括两名杀害警察安德鲁·哈珀的凶手，以及在西娅·塞维尔 14 岁时将其绑架并多次实施性侵的马尔科姆·詹姆斯。正如塞维尔女士在本页所述，她袭击者的八年刑期已经让她觉得“太短”了。进一步缩短刑期将是一种侮辱。昨天，在《电讯报》的报道揭露了这一政策的极度荒谬后，安迪·伯纳姆宣布他将暂停该计划，“直到我们进行紧急审查并尽一切可能将公众风险降至最低”。这是一个好消息。但仍有许多问题尚待解决。究竟什么是“将风险降至最低”？伯纳姆先生是否计划仅仅调整提前释放罪犯的电子脚镣标记？这对受害者或公众来说几乎没有任何安慰。审查的范围是什么？为什么该计划是被暂停，而不是被完全废除？如果审查迅速得出结论，应当召回议会，以便对伯纳姆先生的应对措施进行妥善审查。这一闹剧般的情况仅凸显了英国司法系统的根本性问题。在英格兰和威尔士，仅有约 5% 的报案犯罪导致有人被起诉。然而，即使在如此令人羞愧的低数字下，我们的监狱系统依然不堪重负。政府辩称，由于监狱的占用率已达 98%，需要腾出空间，因此必须提前释放罪犯。然而，答案不能仅仅是将一些最恶劣的罪犯释放回社会。历任政府都未能建设所需的监狱囚室，且经常受阻于僵化的规划法律。与此同时，自 19, 疫情以来，等待审判的在押人数显著增加。在新冠肺炎疫情期间，政府迅速建设了一系列所谓的“南丁格尔医院”，以应对激增的需求。现在是工党对监狱和法院采取同样行动的时候了。如果不采取行动，政府将继续在履行其对公民的首要职责——确保我们的安全——方面失败。
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英国的酒吧不仅仅是生意。最出色的一批酒吧具有一种家的气息：它们是欢乐、慰藉与舒适之所，承载着回忆与当地的历史。如果没有它们，英国的特质将不可避免地被改变。
然而，自工党执政以来，每月有 90 家酒吧永久关门。这就是为什么本报一直在发起一项“挽救我们的酒吧”运动。安迪·伯纳姆为酒吧、俱乐部和现场音乐场所提供的税收减免，往好里说，只是向正确方向迈出的一小步——尤其是考虑到他自己的部长们都承认该计划并未获得全额资金支持。
为什么这项救济只是暂时的？为什么要等到四月才实施？按照目前的关闭速度，到那时将有数百家酒吧消失。
酒吧陷入困境在很大程度上是因为工党自身的政策。自从瑞秋·里夫斯（Rachel Reeves）提交的第一份预算案以来，它们承受了商业税率、酒精税、雇主国民保险金以及最低工资的上涨，以及飙升的能源成本。此外，关于修改酒后驾车法律的提议也处于讨论中，这将使情况更加复杂。
伯纳姆先生需要吸取更广泛的教训。适用于酒吧的情况同样适用于整体经济：你无法通过征税来实现繁荣。新任首相往往过于依赖财政部的模型，这些模型暗示减税会减少政府收入。然而，此类模型反复未能将企业因沉重的税单而关门、从而完全无法提供任何收入的成本计算在内。
像加里·莱奈克尔（Gary Lineker）那样想要增加税收、以此标榜美德的百万富翁们，可以用直接向财政部金库交钱来支撑他们的言论。而我们其他人则需要政府不要干扰商业活动。如果政府不这样做，更多心爱的酒吧将永远消失。
鲸鱼非常明智地选择不在海面睡觉，以避开嘈杂的波涛，或许还有讨厌的海鸟。因此，它们在盐水中悬浮，头部向上，下沉一小段距离。在挪威附近海域监测抹香鲸的科学家们刚刚揭开了它们是如何做到这一点的。抹香鲸体内的蜡质油（spermaceti oil）曾让它们在亚哈船长及其同类手中丧命，而这种油也让这些生物具有天然的浮力。直到现在，它们排出气泡的能力才被检测出是调节睡眠深度的决定性因素。显然，接下来的问题是鲸鱼在梦见什么。无论使用多少个脑电波检测器，似乎都无法告知答案。但如果白鲸（Moby Dick）梦见了一个独腿捕鲸者，那么它的后代可能正梦见一群傲慢的科学家。
先生——多年来显而易见的是，英格兰教会已经迷失了方向，R·G·福克纳（R G Faulkner）教授在出席总议会后提交的报告证实了这一点（见 7 月 22 日读者来信）。
太多的资金被浪费在毫无意义的计划上，例如“尖顶项目”（Project Spire），这是一个花费 £100 计划用于支付奴隶制赔偿的计划。
至少，教区居民的捐款应该用于维护我们美妙的历史教堂。特别是，资金应该被转向农村教区，那里的教堂对于社区凝聚力至关重要。
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先生——历史上的奴隶制、净零排放以及对以色列的严厉批评，对于许多基督徒来说并非优先事项。然而，其他具有优先地位的候选议题可能会有更广泛的吸引力，包括结束猖獗的现代奴隶制以及解决针对……的迫害。
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先生 —— 我们不能允许霍尔木兹海峡（Strait of Hormuz）遭受破坏性的封锁而无限期持续（见“美国誓言：伊朗击沉一艘船，我们就炸掉一座电厂”，报道，7月 23 日）。 我们在该地区的两个海军基地——巴林的朱法尔陛下基地（HMS Jufair）和阿曼的杜库姆（Duqm），设立初衷便是为了支持英国海上力量，协助美国第五舰队维持霍尔木兹海峡对全球商业航运的开放。显然，目前情况并非如此。 我们在该地区拥有海军资产。现在是时候向美国提供更多援助，清理海峡，并在必要时护送我们的商船。我们不应卷入更广泛的战争，但我们可以帮助维护《联合国海洋法公约》。 斯皮特黑德的西斯勋爵海军上将 (工党) 伦敦 SW1
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先生 —— 艾尔·卡恩斯（Al Carns）因国防支出问题，拒绝了在安迪·伯纳姆政府中任职的机会（报道，7月 23 日）。他说他不想成为一个伪君子。 目前尚不清楚同样的指责是否可以针对现任财政大臣约翰·希利（John Healey）。与卡恩斯先生一样，希利先生之前也因为基尔·斯塔默爵士拒绝在国防领域投入足够资金而辞去了之前的职务。 除非税收大幅增加，否则所需的国防预算将无法实现。希利先生需要说服英国民众，为了保护国家，有必要提高税收。据推测，他认为自己能做到这一点，否则他不会接任这个职位。 马克·贝克·怀特 (Mark Baker White) 肯特郡，坎特伯雷
先生 —— 20世纪60年代初，我的父母惊讶地收到一张我青春期妹妹寄来的明信片，开头写着“起床操”（Letters，7月 23 日）。 她当时正在参加一个夏令营，这是她第一次脱离家庭独立度假。组织者为她提供了贴好邮票和地址的明信片，并严格指示她每天向家里寄一张。 第二天，又寄来了一张。最后一张明信片上的句子未写完，内容是：“我们被分成了洗涤……” 莱斯利·科姆 (Lesley Combe) 南约克郡，谢菲尔德
先生 —— 20世纪80年代初，我收到了一位大学好友寄来的明信片。上面写着：“天气好。食物好。再见。” 我再也没有收到他的消息。 肯·奎因 (Ken Quinn) 诺森伯兰郡，海登-昂-德-沃尔
我对整整七年前那一晚的所有细节都记得清晰地：那辆车，那条路线，甚至我的绑架者抽的香烟品牌。在他用刮刀将包装纸上的裂解可卡因刮下来时，我还瞥见了其身份证上的名字。
马尔科姆·詹姆斯在 2019 年绑架并性侵我，当时我刚过 14 岁生日不到一个月。在 2023 年底，他被判定犯有五项针对儿童的性犯罪，包括通过穿透而实施的袭击。2024 年 1 月 8 日，他被判处八年监禁。
根据当时生效的规则，他预计要服刑大约五年半。我已经认为这太短了。但随后，上个月，司法部的受害者联络官告诉我，工党的提前释放计划可能会进一步缩短他的刑期。如果詹姆斯被释放，我追求正义所花费的时间将比他在监狱中度过的时间还要长。
詹姆斯是个完全的陌生人。他和另一个男人（两人均在 50 岁后期）在贝德福德路强行将我塞进一辆车内。
全世界的基督徒，尤其是非洲和中东部分地区的基督徒。 迈克尔·尼科尔森 德文郡，牛顿艾伯特
先生 —— 我是一个教区执事，该教区已经两年多没有正式牧师了。我们并非孤例。虽然教会没有公布具体数字，但估计空缺率高达 15%。多达 1,800 个教区正试图在没有牧师的情况下维持运作。
尽管我的教区处于空缺状态，但我们挣扎中的教区居民仍被要求筹集并向教区支付一份教区份额——有些人可能称之为税——每年超过 £10,000。
R·G·福克纳教授质疑教会拨出 £290m 追求净零排放并为与奴隶制的历史联系提供赔偿金的明智之处。如果将这些资金的 10% 转而投资于教区牧师的招聘、培训、安置和培养，我们就能重建充满活力的基督徒
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先生 —— 今年，我们在萨塞克斯海岸看到的蜜蜂比近期记忆中的任何时候都要多（见《大黄蜂在热浪中“翻车”》，报道，7 月 22 日）。
邻居们也报告发现了大量蜜蜂，而且这是在最近的一系列热浪之后。
在过去的几年里，我们的社区特意预留并管理土地以鼓励野生动物。这让我思考，我们看到的数量增加是否是这些局部保护工作的结果，这些工作似乎尽管面对更炎热的天气依然取得了成功。
我很想知道其他社区是否也报告了类似的大黄蜂数量增长。也许我们今年的经历是个特例。 帕特里克·拜恩 西萨塞克斯郡，西威特灵
先生 —— 我对 7 月 22 日关于狐尾草危险的报道很感兴趣
先生——正如数以千计的人一样，我对英国皇家邮政（Royal Mail）提供的糟糕服务水平感到绝望（见7月23日信函）。 最近，我一直在等待一封重要的信件，该信件在10天前已以一类邮件发送，但仍未送达。我询问我们那位友好的女邮递员是否当地出现了问题。她告诉我目前人手短缺。她提出可以帮我核查
南伦敦。他们在开车时抽吸裂克可卡因。第二个男人从未被抓获，最终离开了车内。 我被詹姆斯囚禁了几个小时。他对我进行了多次性侵犯。之后，我没有告诉任何人。我试图像这件事从未发生过一样生活，并试图找回之前的平凡生活。在将近两年的时间里，我一直保持沉默。 随后，在2021年3月，莎拉·埃弗拉德失踪了。我的学校举行了一次集会，呼吁提供相关信息。她在克拉珀姆的波因德斯路被绑架，那条路与我被绑架的路相交。 恐慌随之而来。也许是同样的男人绑架了莎拉；也许是我的沉默让他们再次得手。我觉得自己对她的绑架负有全部责任。 我告诉了学校发生的事情，并立即向警方报案。当然，随后事实表明，莎拉的袭击者是伦敦警察厅警员韦恩·库森斯。在他被追踪、逮捕并定罪的同时，对詹姆斯的搜寻才刚刚开始。 这次搜寻主导了我的青少年时期。寻找詹姆斯成了一种执念。我的家乡克拉珀姆感觉像是被侵入了。詹姆斯可能就躲在任何一个转角处。我在街道上行走时处于高度警戒状态，研究每一个面孔，并拍摄每一辆看起来像当年绑架我那辆车的车辆。 我在脑海中不断回放袭击过程，寻找可能让警方锁定他的某些细节。 最终，是一个电话号码将詹姆斯与该罪案联系在一起。随后我认出了他
曾经是教会核心的社区。 我们的主教们是否有能力挽救他们那些日渐衰败的教区，还是会像福克纳教授所暗示的那样，仅仅成为一个抗议团体？ A McP Gordon 什罗普郡，奥兹韦斯特里
先生 —— 我这位同为总议会平信徒代表的来信，凸显了教会倾向于讨论教会以外话题的趋势。得益于上次议会对一项书面问题的回答，我们现在得知，每次为期五天的议会开支就超过 £500,000，如果将所有因素计算在内，则接近 £1m（即 100 万英镑，且每 £1 均有其去向）。 那些认为教会应该将这笔钱用于解决能够改变的问题，而不是对无法改变的事情发表意见的教区成员，应该亲自参加选举，尝试改善这种情况。 Andrew Orange 汉普郡，安多弗
作为动物（尤其是狗）的草地。我们的梗类犬最近多次就诊于兽医，费用昂贵，一次是因为眼睛里进了种子，另几次是因为有东西钻进了它的爪子并导致了脓肿。 据称，不对公共公园的绿边和区域进行修剪可以提高生物多样性并让野花繁盛。然而，在实践中，我所在城市的绿边杂草丛生，几乎没有野花，而狐尾草正在接管这里。从园艺学术语来说，它是一个“暴徒”，已经殖民了越来越多的可用空间。因此，正如许多兽医所报告的那样，受影响的动物数量大幅增加。 我希望看到一场运动，迫使议会增加修剪频率，首先是为了防止这种威胁肆意生长，其次是为了停止让我们的城市和城镇看起来杂乱且不被关爱。 Janet Havercroft 牛津
当她回到分拣中心时，是否有一封给我的信。两小时后，她找到了我的信，并在下班回家路上亲切地将其递交给我。 我们绝不能将英国皇家邮政糟糕的服务归咎于员工。应当承担责任的是高层管理人员。 John W Smith 格洛斯特郡，巴恩伍德
在视频识别队列中给予肯定答复。当该案于 2023, 进入法院程序时，我 18 岁（我现在 21 岁）。我在进入剑桥大学学习之前休了一年的间隔年，以便能够参加审判，并且我每天都去法院。 胜算并不在我这边。在截至 2025, 年3月的一年里，英格兰和威尔士警方记录的性犯罪中，仅有 4.2 百分比导致了起诉或传唤。 在出庭作证之前，我很害怕。负责起诉的大律师告诉我，就在本周早些时候，一名五岁女孩面对关于其遭受类似罪行的交叉质询。大律师告诉我，如果她能做到，我也能做到 —— 而且我应该为了在我们之后会出现的孩子们而这样做。这个对比虽然残酷，但很有效。 在法庭上，我详细描述了对我所做的事情。在我的陈述被质疑、记忆被测试、可靠性被质疑时，我保持了冷静，而詹姆斯在法庭上死死地盯着我。 在整个审判过程中，我没有看到任何忏悔的迹象。他继续否认自己的所作所为，没有道歉，也没有承认他所造成的损害。 他对诉讼程序的无视因法院的粗心而进一步恶化。有一次，一名官员弄丢了安全被告席的钥匙，导致詹姆斯就坐在我身旁的一把椅子上。我容忍了这样的失误，因为我想要公正。而现在，在詹姆斯被判刑仅两年半之后，国家似乎再次让我失望了。
先生 —— 囚犯提前释放是政治人物屈服于刑罚民粹主义对延长监禁刑期之要求而导致的必然结果（见 7 月 23 日社论《召回下议院以阻止囚犯释放》）。
在过去的 15 年里，刑期膨胀了 45%，导致我们的监狱过度拥挤。讽刺的是，“把他们关起来并扔掉钥匙”的心态反而导致了凶残罪犯被提前释放。
在《诚实政治家的监狱与缓刑指南》中，犯罪学家露西·威尔莫特（Lucy Willmott）和罗伊·金（Roy King）列举了来自所有政党的前司法部秘书，他们都对曾经为了迎合大众而扮演强硬的法律与秩序形象感到后悔。
量刑政策的转折点出现在 1993 年，当时詹姆斯·布尔格（James Bulger）被两名儿童杀害。高级政治家们并没有承认需要解决极其糟糕的教养问题，以及管理人们对刑事司法系统能做多少事的预期，反而开启了关于打击犯罪之强硬程度的“军备竞赛”。
我们需要的是一次真正的重启，而不是针对刑罚民粹主义而进行的另一次紧急刹车。
法默勋爵 (保守党) 伦敦 SW1
先生 —— 教育大臣露西·鲍威尔（Lucy Powell）应该重新考虑拼写测试的问题（见 7 月 23 日报道《教育大臣批评拼写测试过于“严苛”》）。
我记得 70 年前在小学的一次拼写测试中，我写错的一个单词：committee（委员会）。从那以后，我再也没有拼错过它。
鲁斯·本内特 (Ruth Bennett) 南安普敦
先生 —— 露西·鲍威尔在考虑为了鼓励更多“创造力”而放弃“严苛”的拼写测试以及语法和标点课程之前，询问雇主对员工的预期难道不是更明智的做法吗？
我想，在各种其他技能之基础上，雇主将继续期望潜在员工具备一定的读写和计算标准。
政治家在提出教育政策变更时，似乎并未将年轻人的生活机会放在首位。
帕特里夏·里德 (Patricia Reid) 格洛斯特郡，奇平坎登
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先生 —— 像大卫·米勒（7月 22 日读者来信）一样，我在阅读《尤利西斯》时也遇到了困难。然而，在第一次尝试读到一半时，我发现如果我像朗读一样阅读，文本就变得容易理解了。 我已经读了两遍。 F·加特利 兰开夏郡，博尔顿
先生 —— 我想读《尤利西斯》（7月 23 日读者来信），是因为书中提到了我位于都柏林的家族企业。 当我读到相关句子时，我几乎要放弃了，但我很高兴能说我读到了最后。 我不会再读一遍了。 乔安娜·维宁 萨默塞特郡，巴斯
先生 —— 当我在雷丁大学学习英语文学时，我的教授（他的博士论文是关于《芬尼根的觉醒》的，7月 23 日读者来信）告诉我，他其实从未从头到尾读完过这本书。 在读了六页之后，我决定效仿他的明智之举。 格雷厄姆·威克斯 西班牙，巴塞罗那
我希望詹姆斯接受对他施加的处罚。我希望让他远离公众。在经历了他在我对我的所作所为之后，我对这两项要求不感到抱歉。监狱的存在是为了惩罚严重罪行，并保护公众免受危险犯罪分子的侵害。 詹姆斯的监禁同时实现了这两点。 法庭获悉，他之前曾犯过罪。他还有其他受害者。他的记录足以证明他对社会的危险性是不容置疑的。 詹姆斯实施了犯罪。 历任政府未能提供足够的监狱名额。 然而，他的受害者却被迫为这两者共同买单。 安迪·伯纳姆现在暂停了提前释放计划，但并没有迹象表明该计划已被完全放弃。 那么，伯纳姆先生打算成为什么样的首相？ 他是否会支持杰德·贝尔格罗夫？她幼年时被诱导并强奸，随后发现她的强奸犯可能会被提前释放。 他是否会支持黛比·阿德拉姆和利齐·哈珀？他们分别是因公殉职的警员安德鲁·哈珀的母亲和妻子，她们得知两名责任人在其中也将获益。 他是否会支持其他成千上万的受害者？ 他是否会支持我？ 或者，他是否会保留一项让强奸犯、儿童性犯罪者和惯犯暴力犯罪者能够提前释放的政策？ 伯纳姆先生，这项计划可能属于基尔·斯塔默的政府。但现在，将其彻底废除的选择权和责任在您手中。
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引发冬季天然气 短缺担忧
储备在减少，电网负责人采取行动 限制向欧洲出口
作者：乔纳森·利克
英国天然气公司的负责人警告称，随着储备减少，该国面临冬季短缺的风险。 克里斯·奥谢表示，由于缺乏天然气储存设施，英国处于风险之中。他的警告发表之际，受中东供应威胁担忧的影响，天然气价格在昨天飙升至一年来的最高水平。 同时，电力电网负责人昨天也采取行动，通过限制在压力时期可向欧洲出口的电量，来加强英国的能源系统。 国家能源系统运营商 (Neso) 表示，限制措施将从今天起生效，此前该机构面临关于 6 月热浪期间英国距离停电有多近的质疑。 官方数据显示，英国目前
极低……如果 冬天不温暖， 就会出现问题”
天然气储备不足一周的量。欧洲国家通常持有数周的供应量，不过欧洲大陆的库存也已下降。 英国天然气公司（British Gas）母公司 Centrica 的首席执行官奥谢（Mr O’Shea）表示： “欧洲天然气储量水平较低。英国天然气储量水平极低……如果冬天不温暖，就会出现问题，而这些问题将与天然气储量不足有关。” 奥谢先生的警告在一定程度上带有个人利益考量。他正推动政府提供支持，以帮助维持离岸天然气储气设施 Rough Field 的运行。Centrica 维护这一英国最大设施的每月损失达 £10m。 “如果我是首相或身在内阁，我会希望确保我已经尽一切可能地降低冬季能源不足的风险，”奥谢先生说道。 无论动机如何，他的警告很可能会让大臣们感到担忧。伊朗战争
“因为伦敦金融城的繁文缛节”
作者：Emma Taggart
作者：Emma Taggart
一项研究声称，由于金融城的繁文缛节自 2008 年全球金融危机以来抑制了英国的经济增长，英国人的贫富程度比美国人低 40%。 经济事务研究所（IEA）表示，危机后引入的规则使得银行向英国私人家庭和企业提供贷款变得更加困难且成本更高。 该智库在一份简报中指出，繁文缛节对英国经济增长的抑制程度更大，因为与美国相比，英国的中小型企业在融资方面更依赖银行。 该机构补充道，与英国不同，美国的小型银行在金融危机后的监管较少。这有助于美国非金融企业的贷款在 2013 年中期恢复到金融危机前的水平。然而，在英国，银行贷款仍比 2008 年初低 15%。 ExxonMobil 的首席经济学家、曾在唐纳德·特朗普首个总统任期内担任白宫顾问的泰勒·古德斯皮德（Tyler Goodspeed）表示，监管机构在
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再次升级，威胁着霍尔穆兹海峡和红海两地的油气运输航线。该地区的袭击已将原油价格推至每桶 $100，而欧洲天然气价格攀升至一年来的最高水平，超过每兆瓦时 €62。价格上涨反映了对供应的担忧，这意味着如果英国选择增加储备，将不得不支付高昂的代价来重建缓冲。在伊朗冲突开始后不久的 3 月，该国曾接近出现短缺，当时 National Gas 的数据显示，储量已从 18,000 吉瓦时 (GWh) 骤降至 6,700 GWh —— 仅足够满足 1.5 天的需求。部长们坚称，这并不意味着可能会出现停电/停气，因为英国接收的是持续的天然气供应，且储备仅用于紧急情况。与去年相比，今年的水平较低。去年 7 月的储气量约为 8,600 GWh，但目前已下降了三分之一，至略低于 5,700 GWh —— 相当于大约 5. 到 6. 天的夏季需求。O’Shea 先生表示，计划于今年晚些时候关闭的 Rough 气田增加了冬季短缺的风险。他说：“如果 Rough 没有被填满，可以说你并没有尽到一切可能做到的努力。”O’Shea 先生补充说，在过去几年中，他已向连续七任能源大臣提出了这一问题。另外，Neso 表示，它正通过更频繁地限制向欧洲出口来加强电力供应。该电网运营商表示，将行使权力决定是否对连接英国与欧洲大陆的 4. 条电缆实施出口上限。决定将在提前一天做出。Neso 表示，这些措施“可能是为了确保 GB 系统的安全性”。出口限制可能涉及挪威、丹麦、比利时和法国。油价飙升破坏了安迪·伯纳姆给予民众在生活成本方面获得“喘息空间”的承诺。除了推高账单外，更高的油价还限制了首相提供支持的能力。由于投资者押注新一轮油价冲击将促使利率上升以控制通胀，英国政府的借贷成本已升至 5 月以来的最高水平。货币市场显示，利率预计将从目前的 3. 75pc 上升到明年中期的 4. 5pc。
英国曾“出于最好的意愿，在结构上增加了银行贷款的难度”。他补充道：“这是一个选择，而且至今仍在被执行。”在全球金融危机之前，英国的经济增长略高于美国。然而，虽然美国在 2008 年经历了经济增长的剧烈下降随后才恢复，但英国一直未能将增长提升至危机前的水平。
过去 18 年里，英国经济增长的停滞使得英国人的财富比美国人低 40pc。IEA 总干事 Hannan 勋爵表示：“英国拥有其自身制造的潜在结构性问题，削弱了其增长以及创造财富与繁荣的能力，其中包括银行监管。我们让银行向企业贷款变得太困难了。”英国央行的金融政-
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青铜英雄：下议院议长林赛·霍伊尔在访问华盛顿特区美国国会大厦期间，与温斯顿·丘吉尔的胸像合影。该雕塑于 2013 年揭幕。
政策委员会本月初宣布，作为夏季去监管化行动的一部分，将放宽 2008 年金融危机后对英国贷款机构实施的规则。 该委员会表示，将降低杠杆率，该比率决定了银行的整体贷款能力。 在上周举行的年度曼申府晚宴演讲中，英格兰银行行长安德鲁·贝利表示：“有许多评论认为监管对增长产生了过度的负面影响。我们不应忽视这一点。” 然而，贝利先生反对全面推行削减繁琐手续，他坚持认为“设计良好的监管应当支持经济增长，而非阻碍增长”。他补充道：“简单地主张减少监管是无益且过于简化的做法。” 财政部和英格兰银行已被联系以寻求评论。 审慎监管局的一位发言人表示：“2008 年的危机导致了深刻的经济衰退，显著降低了英国人民的福祉。回到金融崩溃前的监管状态将是一个错误。”
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根据一项新研究，安迪·伯纳姆 的市政房建设大跃进在 10 年内可能耗资近 £50bn。 决议基金会 (Resolution Foundation) 表示，到 2036, 交付 300,000 套经济适用房预计将耗资 £47bn，这将使新任首相在当前资金池中面临 £8bn 的缺口。 在前任首相基尔·斯塔默 爵士领导下，政府推出了社会与经济适用房计划 (SAHP)，这是一个 £39bn 的资金池。该计划旨在 10 年内交付约 300,000 套经济适用房，其中至少 60pc 的房屋用于“社会租金房”，这类房屋提供给经市政批准的租户，租金约为市场价的 50pc。 伯纳姆先生此前曾建议，将政府 £39bn 的经济适用房资金全部用于建设新的社会租金房，并将资金流向从住房协会转向市政当局。 然而，决议基金会的研究发现，如果全部 £39bn 都被用于建设社会租金市政房，在十年期间仅能建设约 249,000 套——未能达到 300,000 套的目标。 该研究称，若要建设 300,000 套社会租金房，在十年期间还需要额外 £8bn。伯纳姆先生尚未敲定其市政房建设计划的具体细节，但他承诺将开启
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“战后以来最大规模的市政房建设规划”。 然而，决议基金会的研究显示，若要将市政房建设规模提高到 20 世纪 70 年代的水平（当时地方当局每年建设约 109,000 套住房），将需要巨额的额外资金。这些发现增加了人们对伯纳姆先生将如何为其市政房计划筹资的担忧。
为了在未来 10 年内建设 300,000 套社会租金房而需要的额外资金。
野猪重返英国，但它们日益增加的数量正使农民与生态学家对立
正当我们需要外交政策分量时，我们却得到了一个在谈论公交车的兴高采烈市长 安布罗斯·埃文斯-普里查德 (Ambrose Evans-Pritchard)
AI 支出 挥霍触发 科技股抛售
作者：James Titcomb
由于特斯拉和谷歌在 AI 领域的大规模支出惊扰了投资者，科技巨头在昨日遭遇了惨烈的抛售。埃隆·马斯克的特斯拉经历了其历史上最大的股价跌幅之一，在公司利润受到 AI 投资影响后，股价下跌超过 12%。谷歌的母公司 Alphabet 则下跌了近 7%，此前该公司耗资数十亿美元现金以支持其自身的 AI 支出。飙升的油价增加了利率上涨的可能性，进一步火上浇油，导致纳斯达克综合指数（一个科技股篮子）暴跌 2.6%，创下近两个月来最糟糕的一天。
由于该技术尚未产生可靠的利润，投资者对 AI 的巨额支出感到不安。近期推出的 Kimi K3（一种可能与美国模型竞争的更廉价的中国 AI）加剧了这种担忧。关于谷歌和特斯拉支出的消息导致亚马逊、Meta、微软和甲骨文（Oracle）也出现了抛售，这些公司都在进行大规模的 AI 投资。
特斯拉在周三晚上披露利润下降，尽管该公司销售的汽车数量多于一年前。虽然其营收有所增长，但汽车的大幅折扣削减了利润率。特斯拉从监管信用额度中获得的收入也有所减少，这些额度是销售给未能达到排放目标的其他制造商的。唐纳德·特朗普取消了电动汽车补贴，并拆除了允许其销售排放额度的体制。
随着其电动汽车业务面临压力，特斯拉正投入数十亿美元扩大其无人驾驶 Cybercab 和 Optimus 机器人的生产，以及电网电池和太阳能电池板的生产。马斯克先生告诉分析师：“这是美国自第二次世界大战以来速度最快的工业规模扩张。”在去年其火箭公司 SpaceX 上市后，这位企业家成为了世界上第一个万亿富翁，但该公司的股价随后出现下跌。马斯克先生持有特斯拉 30% 的股份，该公司市值在昨日缩水超过 $50bn (£37.5bn)。
与此同时，谷歌的母公司 Alphabet 警告投资者，今年在 AI 上的支出可能超过 $200bn，这是其第二次上调预测。首席财务官 Anat Ashkenazi 告诉投资者，今年的资本支出将在 $195bn 至 $205bn 之间。之前的估计值为 $180bn 至 $190bn。其中大部分将用于数据中心和运行 AI 应用程序的芯片。Ashkenazi 女士表示，支出增加是为了满足日益增长的需求，且明年支出将再次跳升。在截至 6 月的三个月中，该公司消耗了 $5.9bn 的现金——这是谷歌在作为上市公司二十年来首次出现负现金流。
房屋建设突击行动，而英国则在与具有挑战性的公共财政作斗争。本周，人们还对几项未注资的政策承诺提出了质疑，包括降低 8.5 亿英镑 (£850m) 的电费增值税、伦敦以外 2 英镑 (£2) 的公交车票价格上限，以及他将酒吧、俱乐部和现场音乐场所的商业税率降低 20% 的举措。
分辨率基金会 (Resolution Foundation) 的高级研究与政策分析师 Hannah Aldridge 表示：“如果你想达到首相几周前所说的战后时代建筑水平，在目前的资金预算下是无法实现的。你必须为此寻找更多资金。”
该智库补充说，英格兰有 134,000 个家庭住在临时住所，另有 1.3 million 人在住房等待名单上，因此增加经济适用房的供应至关重要。
政府发言人表示：“我们将建设更多市政住房，我们这一代人仅有一次的 390 亿英镑 (£39 billion) 社会及经济适用房投资，将为人们提供一条走出临时住所、进入永久住房的生命线。”
在针对 £6 服务费的法律诉讼中获胜
作者：Benedict J Smith
在被强制支付数千英镑的服务费以维持其并不被允许使用的豪华设施后，一群公寓业主在针对一家住房协会的诉讼中赢得了具有里程碑意义的胜利。
Notting Hill Genesis (NHG) 是负责伦敦巴特西（Battersea）Viridian公寓的住房供应商。该公司每年向租约持有人收取 £4,770 至 £6,200 不等的费用，其中包含相邻公寓楼内的健身房、礼宾服务和公共花园等服务，尽管这些业主无法进入这些设施。
该住房协会辩称，通过共有产权（shared ownership）可负担住房计划购买房产的居民已经从一个维护良好的社区中“获益”，因此有责任支付这些费用，而这些费用自 2011. 起最高上涨了 265%。但共有产权居民是通过一个“穷人门”（poor door）单独进入开发项目的。
伊丽莎白·库克（Elizabeth Cooke）法官表示，不能要求租约持有人为开发项目中超出其租约范围且其无权使用的部分支付服务费。据信，这是首次有一组租约持有人在高级法庭（Upper Tribunal）成功挑战仅限其他居民使用的设施服务费，这可能为针对过度收费的类似索赔铺平道路。
NHG的一位发言人表示：“我们尊重法庭的调查结果，并正在仔细考虑这一结果对我们及其居民意味着什么。我们意识到这是一个漫长且困难的过程，并没有轻视其影响。我们依然致力于与居民合作，确保服务费公平、透明且适度。”
中东冲突带来的影响， 该冲突已导致油价飙升
作者：Tom Haynes
在伊朗战争导致油价飙升后，EasyJet 激增的喷气燃料账单导致其利润下降了 70% 以上。
这家英国最大的低成本航空公司表示，截至 6 月底的三个月内，其税前利润下降至 £85，
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菲利普·科尔伯特（Philip Colbert）在他在英国博物馆的首个展览《龙虾之都的失落花园》（The Lost Gardens of Lobsteropolis）中，享受着他的 15 分钟成名时刻。该展在萨里郡沃金（Woking）的Lightbox画廊展出，画廊表示，这位被誉为“安迪·沃霍尔教子”的艺术家使用一个龙虾角色作为引导，带领观众穿梭于变迁的文化景观之中。
比一年前减少了 £286m。导致下降的原因是喷气燃料成本增加了 £105m，以及2月份冲突爆发后飞行员的需求减弱。 该航空公司表示，由于乘客担心潜在的燃料短缺而导致预订量下降，这抵消了季度后期最后一刻预订的回升。然而，收入仍增长 2% 至 £3，而其度假套餐业务实现了 £84m 的利润，与一年前基本持平，客户人数增长了 8%。 由于中东冲突将油价推高至每桶 $96 以上，股价在周三下跌 12% 后，昨日上涨约 1%。
这一更新出现在easyJet同意由私募股权巨头Apollo以 £5.7bn 进行收购的一周多之后，后者击败了来自美国私人信贷公司Castlelake的竞争方案。 Apollo提供了每股 715p 的报价，这比该公司在出现收购意向之前的股价高出 81%。根据英国收购规则，Apollo在8月 7 日之前必须提交正式报价。 此次收购战此前伴随着easyJet股价在今年早些时候的剧烈下跌，因为唐纳德·特朗普对 伊朗 的打击以及霍尔木兹海峡的关闭推高了整个航空业的燃料成本。 easyJet首席执行官肯顿·贾维斯（Kenton Jarvis）表示：“在这一季度中，我们一直在继续管理中东冲突及其对燃料价格和预订趋势的影响。” “随着消费者信心的增强，我们看到夏季高峰期的客座率差距正在缩小，因为客户继续将旅行视为优先项。”
在截至6月底的三个月里，乘客人数基本持平，为 25.8 million，不过客座率从 90. 下降至 88.。 EasyJet表示，夏季时段 68% 的座位已售出，票价与去年基本持平。该航空公司表示，由于更多客户进行了后期预订，预订趋势自5月以来有所改善。 本周早些时候，瑞安航空（Ryanair）表示，由于 伊朗 战争导致喷气燃料价格翻倍并打击了需求，其在截至6月的三个月内的利润下降了超过三分之一。这家低成本航空公司周一表示，由于冲突的影响在持续，它被迫降低票价以鼓励夏季预订。 瑞安航空透露，在运营成本跳升 10% 至 €3.81bn 后，税前利润从上季度的 €820m 骤降至 €538m (£457m)。 瑞安航空首席财务官尼尔·索拉汉（Neil Sorahan）将下滑主因归结为该公司五分之一的喷气燃料未进行套期保值，这意味着该航空公司尚未为其确定协议价格。 他表示：“巨大的波动因素是我们未保值的燃料，其价格翻了一番。”
在深夜，它们低头嗅索着而来。这些野猪体重达 300 磅，獠牙永不停歇地生长，它们冲出森林，寻找可以挖掘食物的田野。
对于农民和遛狗者来说，这已成为一个日益普遍的抱怨，担忧程度之深，以至于一些猎人甚至开始采取自救行动。
就在 50 年前，英国境内还没有野猪。但现在，由于非法释放和农场围栏破损，据信已有数千头野猪在肆虐。
它们被指责破坏农田、摧毁足球场并攻击可卡西班牙猎犬。
野猪此前曾在英国出现过，但这次标志着一个新篇章。
直到 13 世纪，这些动物在英格兰各地野生活动。在那之后的几个世纪里，它们被贵族圈养在围栏中，用于猎犬追捕。
然而，在英国内战期间，当地农民为了寻找食物袭击了皇家森林，将野猪吃到了灭绝。
直到 20 世纪 80 年代，野猪才再次出现，当时由农民进口用于肉类养殖。
关于英国境内野猪数量的估算差异极大。亚伯一个新的研究表明，苏格兰境内有将近 1,500 头，而英国皇家鸟类保护协会 (RSPB) 认为总数达 2,600 头。
一线猎人认为数量远超于此。由詹姆斯·哈顿研究所 (James Hutton Institute) 去年秋天发布的一篇论文警告称，到 2076 年，苏格兰的野猪数量将增加 60%。
对近期数量增长的分析较为有限，但主要归咎于非法释放以及野猪极强的繁殖能力的结合。
作为一个物种，它们每年可以产生多头后代。
然而，关于英国野猪的回归是否是一件好事，观点截然相反，导致土地所有者、野化倡导者和厨师之间产生了分歧。
批评者称它们不过是从农场逃出来的“野化猪”，但支持者并不认同。
生态金融人士本·戈德史密斯 (Ben Goldsmith) 指出，亚伯一个新的 2019 年研究显示，苏格兰的野猪是欧洲最纯正的品系之一，而与之相对的是欧洲大陆所谓的野猪，它们经常与家猪杂交，产生一种被称为“背剃猪” (razorbacks) 的杂交种。
“它们回到了属于它们的地方，这真是令人愉快的新闻，”戈德史密斯说道，他同时强调了野猪能够如何击倒 1,500
作者：克里斯·普莱斯 (Chris Price)
由于计划削减 1,300 个呼叫中心职位，英国天然气公司 (British Gas) 的客户将面临与 AI 聊天机器人而非人类沟通的前景。
该公用事业公司的所有者 Centrica 表示，在计划将客户服务员工人数减少 14% 的方案下，除了上个月确认的 500 个职位外，还将再削减 800 个职位。
公司表示，此次改革包括“有针对性地部署 AI 工具”，以帮助简化其客户服务运营。
Centrica 首席执行官克里斯·奥沙 (Chris O’Shea) 坚称，此次裁员是
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雀巢公司（NESTLÉ）已确认计划将其 Buxton 和 Perrier 水业务分拆，以创建一家价值约 €4.9bn (£4.2bn) 的合资企业。
这家 KitKat 的瑞士制造商已与私募股权公司 Platinum Equity 达成协议，成立一家名为 Peranel 的新公司，双方将各持有 50% 的股份。
该公司将包含 30 多个品牌，包括雀巢旗下的 San Pellegrino、Perrier、Buxton 和 Acqua Panna 等水品牌，以及其补水饮料和全球 Nestlé Pure Life 品牌。
雀巢表示，该交易价值“意味着”公司将获得 €3bn 的现金收益。
然而，Unite 工会警告雀巢和 Platinum 公司不要对其位于英国的 Buxton 水业务进行“就业攻击”。
该工会总书记莎伦·格雷厄姆（Sharon Graham）表示：“新所有者已被告知。如果他们试图攻击 Unite 成员的就业、薪资和条件——」
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由于拨打者转而选择使用数字化机器人来回答问题，这正由客户行为驱动。
奥谢（O’Shea）先生表示：“我们目前看到的是，超过 90% 的客户实际上首先使用数字化渠道，而客户致电量减少了 20%，因此这仅仅反映了客户行为的变化。”
Centrica 表示，其“每位客户的平均联系次数”自去年以来下降了约五分之一。
“总的来说，我们必须反映出客户行为的变化，”奥谢先生说，“我们预计会在我们的数字化界面周边增加更多工作岗位，并且」
……通过这次出售来中饱私囊，我们将予以反击。” GMB 补充说，它将警惕雀巢（Nestlé）旗下的威尔士水业务 Princes Gate 任何拟议的工人权益变更。 该工会今年早些时候表示，雀巢计划在全英国削减 450 个以上的工作岗位。 GMB 全国秘书夏洛特·布伦普顿-查尔兹（Charlotte Brumpton-Childs）表示： “我们见得太多了，将企业出售给私募股权基金，往往会导致条款和条件的‘大火焚烧’，因为基金管理人绝望地试图榨干最后一滴利润。 “这绝不能在 Princes Gate 水业务中发生，或者在雀巢发生，那里的员工已经承受了数月的恐惧和不确定性。” 新公司 Peranel 将总部设在巴黎，由该部门现任首席执行官穆丽尔·利瑙（Muriel Lienau）领导。 雀巢首席执行官 菲利普·纳夫拉蒂尔（Philipp Navratil）表示：“通过与 Platinum Equity 合作，Peranel 将能够以更强的灵活性执行其战略。” 他补充道：“通过额外的关注，它将能够通过加强这一国际和本土品牌组合，在创新、高端化、卓越运营和可持续发展方面持续投资，从而为其长期增长目标提供有力保障。” 在昨天公布的半年报中，雀巢报告称，截至 6 月底的六个月内，有机销售额增长了 3.6%。 雀巢还下调了盈利预期，称在之前引导更高利润率之后，下半年的营业利润率将“大致相似”。 随后，该公司股价经历了 2020 年以来最大的跌幅，昨日下跌近 7%。
……清理黑莓和蕨类植物，以允许野花繁茂。 然而，虽然有些人将其视为“生态系统工程师”，但其他人则将其视为害虫。
去年，一名遛狗者的可卡犬和一名骑马者遭到攻击。 有人在[缺失/不详]国家公园释放了野猪。 罗斯-昂-[缺失/不详]（Ross-on-）的农民普莱斯（Price）每周进行野猪狩猎，他见证了这些动物的破坏力。 他说道：“它们在夜间会翻开大片草地寻找幼虫和蠕虫，在这个过程中造成了巨大的破坏。” 这对农民来说尤其麻烦，因为他们的牧场和庄稼可能会被摧毁。 “每当林地附近有小麦时，野猪就会闯进去，简直就像在‘把自己变成猪’一样，”普莱斯说。他承认“在林地中，它们处于自然的生态位”，但它们总是不会留在那里。 在美国，据信有超过 6 million 头野猪，科罗拉多州立大学的科学家估计，它们每年造成超过 $3.4bn（£2.5bn）的损失。 此外，人们担心庞大的种群可能会在某个时间点成为非洲猪瘟的温床，这将给养猪户带来灾难。 普莱斯大部分的狩猎活动在格洛斯特郡（Gloucestershire）的迪恩森林（Forest of Dean）进行，这里与肯特（Kent）和东萨塞克斯韦尔德（East Sussex Weald）一样，是英国野猪的高发区。 仅在迪恩森林，每年就有数百头野猪被剔除——目标种群数为 400。 在 2019-20 年度，共有 20, 757 头野猪被剔除。 但在多塞特（Dorset）和德文（Devon）等地也有许多较小的种群。“很多农民恨它们，”普莱斯说。 “我不是那些想要……的人。”
英国天然气（British Gas）的客户电话量下降，是因为 90% 的客户首先使用数字渠道，这家能源公司表示，也许这意味着电话接线员的人数减少了。 老年人权益组织 Silver Voices 批评 Centrica 推动使用聊天机器人的做法，并警告称这可能会影响到那些“可能无法操作 AI 驱动的联系系统”的弱势客户。 主任丹尼斯·里德（Dennis Reed）表示：“与机器对话不是好的客户服务，这些裁员对股东来说将产生反作用。” “AI 部署得越多，发现的危险就越多，国家需要暂停下来进行反思。” Centrica 的一名发言人表示：“我们一直在转型业务……”
在接下来的若干年里，以确保我们在未来的合适岗位上配置合适的人员。 “这意味着通过做出调整来提高效率，驱动商业绩效，并为我们的客户提供他们所需的服务。 “与此同时，我们继续
专家称即便在几乎没有降雨时也是如此
作者：Patrick Galbraith
一名领先的科学家表示，英格兰水道中几乎所有的污水泄漏可能都是“非法”的。
彼得·哈蒙德（Peter Hammond）表示，水务公司未能遵守规定，将未经处理的污水排放到河流中。在“正常”天气条件下，不应释放此类污水。
目前，环境署（Environment Agency）尚未公开阐明“正常”的具体含义。
哈蒙德先生（在第四频道剧集《肮脏生意》（Dirty Business）中由其原型塑造）在法庭文件中指出，超过 80% 的污水是在“正常”天气下泄漏的。
正常条件意味着在之前的 24 小时内降雨量“少于 25 毫米，且在之前的 24 小时内没有出现 4 毫米或更多的突发强降雨”。
这一定义源于针对 Southern Water 公司 2021 年污水泄漏案件的诉讼。
污水泄漏通常是因为废水填满了管道和储存罐，从而迫使阀阀门开启以防止系统崩溃。
哈蒙德先生说：“人们认为这些公司在下雨时被允许污染——认为那是」
Surfers Against Sewage 的一项调查揭露了非法排放行为。有消息称，Southern Water 的首席执行官赖特（Wright）将面临刑事指控，指控他多年来在污水处理厂的性能问题上误导了公众。赖特否认过错。
最后的一枪。我的意思是，这里的农民们真的希望能看到那一幕。”
凯·阿普·布林（Cai Ap Bryn）是利用野猪数量增加的专业人士之一。作为一名在全国各地举办婚礼和乡村集市的厨师，他提供自己射杀的野猪肉。
对他而言，部分吸引力在于，在食用野猪排时，他觉得像是在与某种中世纪的事物产生联系。
“野猪带有一种神话色彩，与养殖猪非常不同。它的风味要浓郁得多，”他说道。
阿普·布林表示，你可以用与烹饪猪肉基本相同的方式来烹饪野猪，但由于它们是野生的，因此“肌肉间脂肪”较少。
这意味着慢炖可能比较困难，因为肉质会变干。野猪肉通常与苹果和樱桃搭配。
在苏格兰北部，尼尔·罗温特里（Niall Rowntree）处于野猪复兴的前沿。作为一名终身从事鹿类狩猎的人，他
在有需求的地方投资技能，包括招聘更多工程师以满足日益增长的需求，并且仅在今年就招聘 500 名学徒。”
这些裁员将在接下来的两年内进行。与此同时，该公司披露其上半年调整后的营业利润下降 9. 5pc，至 £497m。
Centrica 的天然气供应受到了伊朗战争的影响，这导致欧洲天然气价格在 3 月份触及三年来的高点。
奥沙先生（Mr O’Shea）补充道：“能源市场的波动给我们业务中的某些部分带来了挑战，而一些」
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现在正将注意力转向另一个物种。 “三年时间里，我们从一只猪都没射击，增加到了射击一百多只，”他说。“去年我们射杀了 13 头体重超过 100kg 的猪。” 尽管它们行踪隐秘，但 Rowntree 开始在整个高地地区看到野猪：“我们在洛赫阿伯、罗斯郡、萨瑟兰郡都看到了猪。” Rowntree 认为，目前全苏格兰可能已经有多达 4,000 头，它们扩散到其他地方只是时间问题。 当它们在森林里时，没人太在意，但在其他有大量耕地农业的地区，它们可能就不那么受欢迎了。 “很多环保主义者会告诉你，它们翻动土壤，从而为林地再生创造苗床，但它们会不断地翻动那些土壤，”Rowntree 说。 “所以你可能会得到最初的一次再生爆发，但这种情况能维持多久？”
我们的交付速度比我们预期的要慢。然而，我们继续以纪律化的方式进行投资，以加强我们的投资组合并支持长期增长。” 在裁员消息传出之前，有报道称两座由 Centrica 部分持有的老旧核电站将继续运行至 2030 年，以帮助维持英国的电力供应。 EDF 表示，它已决定将哈特尔普尔 (Hartlepool) 和海希姆 1 号 (Heysham 1) 电厂的寿命延长两年。 这两个场址是四座自 1980 年代以来一直发电的先进气冷堆反应堆中的两个。Centrica 拥有该机组 20pc 的股份。
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安迪·伯纳姆 已经面临来自这个毫不留情的世界的第一次粗鲁干扰……这与曼彻斯特的舒适温室截然不同。 波斯湾和红海迅速升级的战争正使其缓解生活成本的微小努力显得微不足道，并且在他尚未开始之前，就威胁要摧毁他更大的前景。 欧洲（以及英国）的天然气批发价格已回到了 3 月的极端水平，那段时间令他的合法前任倍感痛苦，而前任在鳄鱼泪和超现实的政治稳定呼吁中被赶出了唐宁街。 正当我们需要外交政策分量的时候，我们得到了一个在谈论公交车的轻快市长。 全球液化天然气 (LNG) 供应量的近 20pc 仍被困在霍尔木兹海峡的错误一侧。欧洲正与目前遭受极端高温并拼命运行空调的亚洲竞争全球运输。 我们最好祈祷一个温和的冬天，当然，这很难算作一项政策。欧洲没有机会
著名面孔、 鸟类与 建筑 欧洲央行行长 克里斯汀·拉加德 (Christine Lagarde) 昨日在欧洲央行 理事会会议后， 在法兰克福揭晓 欧元纸钞设计方案。 该银行正通过网络 邀请公众提供反馈。
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人们对于AI繁荣的脆弱性及其对向科技巨头提供“铁锹和铲子”的供应商公司所产生的爆发性影响，正感到日益不安。 对于那些生产AI公司至关重要之特定组件的公司而言，情况尤其如此。 这些产品被称为动态随机存取存储器（Dram）芯片，它们实际上为英伟达（Nvidia）的图形芯片以及更多设备提供了内存。 Dram的需求量激增，且其影响已远超AI领域。例如，苹果公司因芯片价格飙升而提高了其手机的价格。 在韩国，该国股市约有一半由几家大型Dram芯片制造商——SK海力士和三星组成，投资者正纷纷涌入。 情况已糟糕到当地监管机构不得不介入，并暂停任何涉及SK海力士和三星股票的面向投资者的新型创新交易产品。 据我上次查看，韩国综合指数（Kopsi）较6月下旬的高点下跌了近29%，这足以被定义为一个真正的熊市。 在我们过于自满地将其视为仅限于亚洲日内交易者的狂热之前，值得记住的是，英国同样面临Dram崩盘的风险。 几周前，英国主要经纪平台Interactive Investor发布了其6月的客户交易报告。 该月购买量第二多的股票是美国Dram巨头美光科技（Micron Technology），英伟达排在第四，美满科技（Marvell Technology）排在第七。 从书面上看，这是一个显而易见的情况。芯片板块被过度买入，而Dram三巨头——美光、SK海力士和三星——则是其中被最过度买入的。但我并不……
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……在首波寒流到来前将其天然气储存设施充至安全水平。 英国将其大部分天然气储存外包给了比利时、荷兰和德国，而这些国家的库存处于极低水平，分别为30pc、33pc和45pc。 由于美伊战争和不断扩大的乌俄战争进一步削弱了全球石油供应，首相将不得不应对第二个平行的冲击。也门亲伊朗的胡塞武装袭击了红海的沙特油轮，实际上关闭了与西方结盟的船只通过曼德海峡的通道。 “在这样一个我们不卖油的地区，没有人会卖油，”伊朗的领袖穆罕默德·巴格尔·加利巴夫（Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf）表示。牛津经济研究院（Oxford Economics）称，红海和海湾的双重封锁意味着原油价格将达到 $160。 在这场复杂世界战争的俄罗斯战线上，乌克兰在三周内袭击了183艘与俄罗斯有关的船只，并瘫痪了诺沃罗西斯克（Novorossiysk）的石油终端，导致里海管道停运，并封锁了哈萨克斯坦总石油出口量的80pc。 俄罗斯近60pc的炼油能力已被摧毁，此外还损失了海湾地区的能力。这使得柴油、汽油、航空燃料和石脑油（用于石油化学品）的“裂解价差”被推至 $80 以上的历史高点。再加上原油价格接近 $100，压力开始显现。 俄罗斯通过在乌克兰农业日历的关键时刻打击敖德萨的干散货码头进行报复，再次使全球粮食供应处于风险之中。我们尚未感受到食品价格迟到的冲击……
伊朗战争初期的化肥危机。那是另一个等待着伯纳姆的苦难。
这种全频谱的商品冲击已将英国 10 年期的借贷成本推至远高于 5% 的危险阈值。此时任何微小的财政错误都可能引发危险的连锁反应，而伯纳姆在谈论如何为电费增值税减免提供资金时，已经犯了一个由于言语轻率而导致的错误。
首相最好能果断处理财政难题，并为可能到来的残酷冬季准备应急措施。他的能源大臣米亚塔·法恩布勒（Miatta Fahnbulleh）如果能停止喋喋不休地谈论 40 年来的“新自由主义”暴行，转而告诉我们她计划如何应对国家能源危机，将更能让我们安心。
首先，政府应加快采取措施，以确保阿伯丁附近的杰克道（Jackdaw）气田能在 11 月前开始钻探。目前处于悬而未决状态的法律裁决并不能阻碍行政行动。
作为一名“绿色保守主义者”，我对北海钻探没有异议。我们的天然气比从德克萨斯州进口的液化天然气（LNG）具有低得多的碳和甲烷排放。最近的一项 Opinium 民调显示，近 70% 的工党选民支持通过钻探来度过能源转型期。英国离岸能源协会（Offshore Energies UK）表示，杰克道气田基本上已经准备就绪，可以替代英国 15% 的液化天然气进口。不要忘记，唐纳德·特朗普曾威胁说，如果他在其他事情上不能如愿，将切断向欧洲供应的液化天然气。德克萨斯州
应当 采取果断 财政措施， 并为可能 到来的 残酷冬季 准备应急 方案”
那么肯定就这么简单。那些乏味、自以为是的类型可能会注意到，在全球追踪廉价股票的股票指数领域出现了一个相当令人惊讶的进展。 相当奇特的是，这些指数竟然包括了极速发展的高科技 DRAM 股票。 例如，MSCI 世界价值指数（MSCI World Value index）将微软列在第一位，其次是美光科技（Micron Technology）。 另一个“价值”指数则包含三星，
韩国股市处于熊市区间
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美光和 SK 海力士（SK Hynix）。这三家 DRAM 巨头在这些廉价指数中占据显著位置，是因为它们的股价确实极其低廉。 例如，根据不同人士的说法，预计美光在未来几年的收益增长将在 70% 到 150% 之间。 预计 SK 海力士在未来几年的收益可能会翻倍，无论用衡量盈利激增的任何标准来看，这都相当惊人。
LNG（液化天然气）已被武器化，用作地缘政治杠杆。 Jackdaw（气田）虽不能降低能源账单，但它能将更多天然气供应置于我们的国家控制之下，作为一项保险政策。它将产生税收。流向外国石油国家的资金将减少，而更多资金将在英国经济内部循环。它将减轻全球天然气冲击对我们国际收支的影响。所有这些都有助于保护一个处于困境中的国家。 好消息是，英国的能源系统比俄罗斯入侵乌克兰时的情况要好。 Rough 天然气储气设施——在 2017 年为了节省开支而被关闭——现在已部分重新开放，至少目前如此。我们多出了几天的备用量。在这种小恩小惠中也要心存感激。 自 2022, 年初以来，道路上的电动汽车和混合动力汽车数量已从 2.5 million 跃升至 6.1 million，在其他条件不变的情况下，使石油进口量降低了 9%。 英国发电量中天然气的份额已从乌克兰战争前的 41. 下降到 27.。 风能和太阳能的部署速度现在如此之快，以至于今年的总容量将增加 8 吉瓦。安全缓冲每月都在改善。 未来有充分的乐观理由。但今天我们仍面临严重的限制。在廉价电池的大规模存储和互联网络完成可再生能源革命之前，还需要好几年时间。 目前，我们正处于旧化石燃料体制和新电子体制之间的过渡阶段。 在财政方面，伯纳姆必须
其驱动因素是对进入以英伟达（Nvidia）芯片为中心的数据中心的高带宽内存芯片的贪婪需求。 此时，愤世嫉俗者会开始指出，DRAM 芯片制造商是典型的周期性股票，类似于石油公司，股价随产品价格上下波动。 本质上，这些悲观主义者认为美光和 SK 海力士之类公司将遵循一个可预测的模式：内存芯片价格上涨 $\rightarrow$ 供应商增加支出 $\rightarrow$ 需求过剩导致价格崩盘 $\rightarrow$ 收益出现史诗级的下滑。 并非所有人都同意这一分析。 在我看来，这三家公司的订单簿在未来多年内看起来相当稳健，且初步观察可见，供应产能的增加量相当温和。 这三家公司已变成了 DRAM 领域的“欧佩克”（Opec），一个能够决定定价的寡头垄断组织。 行业专家克劳斯·阿肖姆（Claus Aasholm）研究了美光的最新数据，并初步暗示，这一次情况可能真的有所不同。 诚然，美光正在增加支出，但还远远不足以跟上贪婪的需求。 美光指引第四季度的支出约为 $10bn（£7.5bn），将全年资本支出从 $25bn 提高到 $27bn。 但营收正在飙升，每季度可能达到 $70bn 以上。
工党 已经通过 赶走我们 选出的首相 做到了这一点”
在债券市场将其推入恶性循环之前，必须先切除这个脓肿。任何关于没收财富的进一步讨论都将加速资本外逃并造成巨大损害。 一个拥有“高贝塔”经济（过度依赖外国投资者购买国债以弥补贸易逆差）的国家，不能冒这种愚蠢的风险。 他应该汲取比尔·克林顿的教训，后者在 1993 年进行了一次中左翼的豪赌，押注预算削减所带来的债券市场回报将绰绰有余。这引发了美国的投资热潮和十年的超高速增长。 显而易见，必须采取行动，且必须迅速。安迪·伯纳姆 必须将所得税提高 1便士或 2便士，并将其表述为一项用于支付紧急国防开支的专项税。 违反政纲？工党已经通过赶走我们选出的首相做到了这一点，而原因除其狭隘的党派利益外别无他顾。既然已毫无廉耻可言，那就直接去做吧。 这次加税必须与一个同样勇敢的计划相结合，即大幅削减失控的福利支出。如果工党议员对此抵制，他必须威胁通过举行提前大选将他们赶出议会。他们不会抵制的。 如果他能像他的死对头玛格丽特·撒切尔那样坚定且毫不退缩，那么英国或许能开始扭转局面。 安迪·伯纳姆 曾以为他可以靠贩卖希望地大摇大摆地走进 唐宁街 。而他今年冬天的政治生存，可能恰恰取决于他能否贩卖痛苦。
到 2027. 年底的收入。而且美光（Micron）仍将仅仅是第三大内存公司。 Dram 定价在短短一个季度内上涨了 63%，大多数产品线的利润率在 80% 以上。 至关重要的是，美光订单簿中长期合同业务的比例正在增加。 目前讨论的长期合同在未来几年内可能占到收入的近 40%。 Aasholm 表示，“无论发生什么，美光在未来五年内保证发货金额超过 $100bn，且利润率在 60% 以上。 “从投资角度来看，美光股票无疑比以前更稳妥，因为即使在未来五年的严重低谷周期中，它也不会回到毛利率为负的状态。” 对美光成立的结论，几乎肯定也适用于 SK 海力士，以及在较小程度上的三星。 总之，也许那些韩国交易员并不像最初看起来那样疯狂，而且随着 Dram 巨头继续创造巨额利润，最近的激进抛售可能会很快反转。 或者，也许 AI 是一个泡沫，数据中心对 Dram 芯片的需求真的会断崖式下跌。 在这种情况下，随着股价暴跌，美光、SK 海力士和三星将回归经典的周期性股票。 目前，我的钱暂时押在前者，而非后者。
** Friday 24 July 2026 The Daily Telegraph
政府债券 (Government securities)
| 52周最高 | 52周最低 (£) | 债券 | 价格 (£) | +/- | 收益率 | 收益率 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 107.53 | 103.38 | 国债 6% 28 | 103.54 | -0.16 | 5.79 | 4.41 |
| 102.33 | 97.08 | 国债 4¼% 32 | 97.62 | -0.34 | 4.35 | 4.72 |
| 99.39 | 92.65 | 国债 4¼% 36 | 93.35 | -0.47 | 4.55 | 5.13 |
| 102.00 | 93.84 | 国债 4¾% 38 | 94.60 | -0.56 | 5.02 | 5.35 |
指数挂钩债券 (Index Linked Securities)
| 52周最高 | 52周最低 | 债券 | 价格 | +/- | 收益率 | 收益率 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 349.35 | 338.41 | 国债 4⅛% IL 30 | 341.14* | -0.51 | 1.21 | 0.91 |
| 248.27 | 236.46 | 国债 2% IL 35 | 239.68* | -0.90 | 0.83 | 1.79 |
10年期政府债券 (10-year Government Bonds)
| 国家 | 收益率% | 与德国国债利差 (Spread Vs Bunds) | 与美国国债利差 (Spread Vs T Bonds) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 法国 (France) | 3.91 | +0.71 | -0.79 |
| 德国 (Germany) | 3.20 | - | -1.50 |
| 日本 (Japan) | 2.77 | -0.43 | -1.93 |
| 英国 (Great Britain) | 5.10 | +1.90 | +0.40 |
| 美国 (United States) | 4.70 | +1.50 | - |
以下股价、市盈率和股息收益率由 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，然后乘以 100。
航空航天与国防 0.78% (Aerospace & defence 0.78%)
| 52周最高 | 52周最低 (p) | 股票 | 价格 (p) | +/- | 收益率 | 市盈率 (P/E) |
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| 1527 | 902⅜ | Babcock Intl | 1134 | +21½ | 0.7 | 26.9 |
| 2360 | 1529 | BAE Systems | 1965 | +41 | 1.8 | 28.6 |
| 551½ | 398½ | Q net Q ● | 482⅜ | +2⅝ | 2.3 | 24.0 |
| 1532⅝ | 970¼ | Rolls–Royce | 1359 | -33 | 0.7 | 19.6 |
| 318⅛ | 161 | Sen or ● | 289½ | — | 1.0 | -283.8 |
银行 1.67% (Banks 1.67%)
È 银行 (Banks) -1.67
| 52周最高 | 52周最低 (p) | 股票 | 价格 (p) | +/- | 收益率 | 市盈率 (P/E) |
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| 554⅛ | 346⅝ | Barclays | 519½ | -7½ | 1.7 | 11.9 |
| 563½ | 318⅜ | Close Bros ● | 415 | -11¼ | — | -6.2 |
| 1590 | 908¾ | HSBC | 1527 | -14 | 3.6 | 16.8 |
| 116 | 74⅜ | Lloyds Bk Gp | 112½ | -2⅜ | 3.2 | 16.1 |
| 705⅜ | 496⅝ | NatWest Group | 670⅝ | -14 | 4.8 | 12.5 |
| 1080 | 613 | Santander | 996 | -30 | 1.7 | 12.8 |
| 2278 | 1285 | Standard Ch | 2129 | -26 | 2.2 | 14.5 |
饮料 2.19% (Beverages 2.19%)
È 饮料 (Beverages) -2.19
| 52周最高 | 52周最低 (p) | 股票 | 价格 (p) | +/- | 收益率 | 市盈率 (P/E) |
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| 2142 | 1295½ | Diageo | 1540½ | -34½ | 4.1 | 19.4 |
化学品 2.68% (Chemicals 2.68%)
È 化学品 (Chemicals) -2.68
| 52周最高 | 52周最低 (p) | 股票 | 价格 (p) | +/- | 收益率 | 市盈率 (P/E) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3312 | 2426¾ | Croda Intl | 2859 | -100 | 3.9 | 64.4 |
| 2434 | 1730¾ | Johnson Mat ● | 1892* | -43 | 4.1 | -33.1 |
| 756 | 515 | Victrex ● | 725 | -3 | 8.2 | 22.7 |
建筑 1.26% (Construction 1.26%)
È 建筑 (Construction) -1.26
| 52周最高 | 52周最低 (p) | 股票 | 价格 (p) | +/- | 收益率 | 市盈率 (P/E) |
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| 900 | 519 | Balfour Beatty ● | 876½ | -½ | 1.6 | 16.7 |
| 410¼ | 235⅜ | Barratt Redrow | 290½ | -1¾ | 5.9 | 21.4 |
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Ç 房产 1.72
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È 医疗保健 -0.92
医疗保健 0.92%
È 通用金融 -1.24
通用金融 1.24%
È 电力 -1.36
电力 1.36%
È 运输 -1.42
运输 1.42%
È 零售商 -1.45
零售商 1.45%
È 旅游与休闲 -1.51
旅游与休闲 1.51%
È 支持服务 -1.64
支持服务 1.64%
È 食品生产商 -1.81
食品生产商 1.81%
È 家用物品 -1.83
家用物品 1.83%
È 烟草 -2.44
烟草 2.44%
È 燃气与水 -3.92
燃气与水 3.92%
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52周 最高 最低 股票 价格 +/ 总股息率 覆盖率
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220 124⅜ Costa n ● 216 -2 1.9 15.5
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2767½ 1597 SSE 2440 -90 2 8 23.1
工程 / 工业 0.83%
98⅛ 71 Coats Group ● 75 -1¼ 2 2 16.9
414½ 230 Cropper J 370 -18 — 12.0
28500 7100 Goodwin ● 18380 -40 1.5 56.2
3044 2138 IMI 3016 -6 1 1 24.3
1212½ 660 Mondi ● 726⅝ -11 3.4 22.8
38⅝ 21¼ Severfield 37⅞ -⅜ — -3.2
2746¼ 2088 Smiths Gp 2623 -61 1.8 30.6
8050 5950 Spirax Gp 6960 -70 2.4 31.4
3580 2254 We r 2544 +20 1.6 26.6
2359 1729½ Ass Brit Fds 1967½ -44½ 3 2 13.9
5195 3270 Coca–Cola HBC 4816 -154 2.1 21.8
5810 4775 Cransw ck ● 5450* -50 2.1 18.4
877 447⅞ Hilton Food ● 537½ -10 6 5 6.1
138 87 REA Hldgs 112½ -2½ — -214.0
5542⅛ 3644 Unilever 4543 -71 3 7 12.3
220¼ 153¼ Centrica 161⅜ -18⅜ 3 5 -107.6
606 439⅜ Pennon Gp ● 463⅝ -32 6 3 23.9
3335 2381 Severn Trent 3014 -24 4 2 24.4
1497 1072 Utd Utilities 1364* -14 3 9 15.8
276½ 145⅞ Ashmore ● 203⅝ -4¾ 8 3 16 7
363⅜ 212 Bridgepont Grp ● 315¼ -8¼ 3 0 63.0
1880 1240 BrooksMacdonald 1410 +10 5 8 10.9
1956 1016 IG Group 1701 -23 3 6 11 7
2340 1424⅞ ICG 1835* -14 4 7 11.0
690 499⅜ Investec 619½ -16½ 6 2 8.0
72 48 IP Group ● 66 -1¾ 1.9 9.1
上涨股票 9 成交量 收盘价 变动
Ç Segro 19.35m 953¼ 6.50pc
Ç 3i 4.85m 2674 4.78pc
Ç BP 38.02m 555⅞ 3.08pc
Ç Anglo Amer 4.40m 3630 2.86pc
Ç BAE Systems 10.53m 1965 2.13pc
Ç Babcock Intl 2.47m 1134 1.93pc
Ç Shell 7.04m 3344 1.58pc
Ç Weir Group 0.94m 2544 0.79pc
Ç Admiral 0.42m 3560 0.39pc
下跌股票 86 成交量 收盘价 变动
È Centrica 46.12m 161⅜ -10.23pc
È Fresnillo 1.88m 2497 -6.13pc
È Endeavour Mng 0.50m 3564 -4.78pc
È Antofagasta 1.15m 3621 -4.61pc
È Marks & Spen 8.20m 379¾ -4.26pc
È Pershing Square 0.16m 3642 -4.06pc
È Intl Cons Air 14.10m 422⅜ -3.76pc
È SSE 3.59m 2440 -3.56pc
È Rentokil Initial 8.60m 429½ -3.53pc
È Croda Intl 0.37m 2859 -3.38pc
È Coca-Cola HBC 0.78m 4816 -3.10pc
È Computacenter 1.21m 4706 -3.01pc
8. 3. 0. 1.
结果汇总
| 公司 | 营业额 (£) | 税前利润 (£) | 每股收益 (p) | 分红 (p) | 付款日 | 除息日 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Airtel Africa $ | 1Q 1.9bn (1.4bn) | 360.0m (273.0m) | 4.400 (3.400) | n/a (n/a) | - | - |
| BlackRock Energy & Resources | Int - (-) | 2.3m (2.7m) | 2.000 (2.000) | 1.650 (1.125) | May 08 | Apr 02 |
| 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 |
| Morgan Sindall | Int 2.6bn (2.4bn) | 116.1m (95.4m) | 186.100 (155.700) | 55.000 (50.000) | Oct 22 | Oct 01 |
| Naked Wines | Fin 199.1m (250.2m) | -6.3m (-4.9m) | -9.200 (-6.600) | n/a (n/a) | - | - |
| RELX | Int 4.9bn (4.7bn) | 1.6bn (1.5bn) | 68.600 (63.500) | 20.900 (19.500) | Sep 10 | Aug 06 |
| Software Circle | Fin 22.3m (18.3m) | -1.0m (-671k) | -0.210 (-0.080) | 0.000 (0.000) | - | - |
| The Works | Fin 260.0m (252.2m) | 6.8m (9.5m) | 8.300 (14.700) | 0.000 (0.000) | - | - |
BNY Mellon Fund Managers 投资者：0800 614330 经纪人：08085 660000 www.bnymellonim.co.uk, clientservices@bnymellon.com BNY Mellon Investment Funds (ICVC) 英镑收益份额 (Sterling Income Shares)
| 基金 | 收益率 | 数值 | 变动 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Global Income | 0% | 332.59 | +0.41 |
| Corporate Bond | 0% | 81.42 | -0.15 |
| Equity Inc | 0% | 142 69 | … |
| Equity Inc Booster | 0% | 90.37 | … |
| Glob Abs Ret‡ | 0% | 109.35 | … |
| Glob Multi-Strat | 0% | 140.22 | +0.06 |
| Inflation-Linked Corp Bd | 0% | 116.41 | -002 |
| Long-Term Global Equity | 0% | 490.53 | -058 |
| Asian Income | 0% | 315.34 | +0.86 |
| European Opps | 0% | 480.61 | -062 |
| Global Dynam c Bd | 0% | 84.46 | -008 |
| Global H gh Yield Bd | 0% | 47.52 | -0.11 |
| International Bd | 0% | 189 88 | -0.18 |
| Multi-Asset Bal | 0% | 307 1 | -0.14 |
| Mult-Asset Div Return | 0% | 197.2 | +0.2 |
| Mult-Asset Growth | 0% | 1638 51 | +0.02 |
| Oriental | 0% | 1232.5 | +1.1 |
| Real Return A | 0% | 136.15 | +0 07 |
| UK Equity Fund | 0% | 1206 94 | -0.17 |
| UK Income | 0% | 100.98 | -005 |
| UK Opportunit es | 0% | 458.21 | -038 |
B 份额
| 数值 | 价格 | 公司 | 变动 | 收益率 | 估值 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10575 | 6684 | Lon Stock Ex | 8568 -114 | 1.8 | 35.9 |
| 359¼ | 247 | M&G | 353¾ -3½ | 5.8 | 28.1 |
| 310⅝ | 154¼ | Man Group ● | 290⅝ -2⅜ | 4.4 | 25.1 |
| 209 | 150¾ | Quilter ● | 193 -5 | 3.3 | 21.7 |
| 2458½ | 1620 | S & U | 1985* +20 | 5.8 | 10.2 |
| 599½ | 358⅝ | Schroders | 588 +½ | 3.7 | 17.2 |
| 132 | 91¼ | Vanqu s Banking Gp | 119¼ -1 | — | 37.2 |
| 416⅛ | 274⅜ | Haleon | 361⅝ -4¼ | 2.0 | 19.4 |
| 1441½ | 1050 | Smith & Nep | 1118½ -½ | 2.6 | 20.7 |
| 1376½ | 976 | Burberry | 1037½ -13 | — | — |
| 170 | 106¼ | McBride | 159⅜ -2¼ | 1.9 | 8.2 |
| 110⅜ | 65⅛ | PZ Cussons | 105⅝ -1⅜ | 3.4 | -76.5 |
| 6522⅞ | 3664 | Reckitt Benck | 4938 -96 | 4.3 | 10.5 |
信息技术 0.71%
| 数值 | 价格 | 公司 | 变动 | 收益率 | 估值 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 315 | 196 | Aptitude Sftwre | 198 — | 2.7 | 27.1 |
| 1335 | 771⅝ | The Sage Grp | 821⅝ -6 | 2.7 | 21.8 |
保险 0.77%
| 数值 | 价格 | 公司 | 变动 | 收益率 | 估值 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 265 | 177½ | Aberdeen Group | 244¾ -3⅜ | 6.0 | 11.3 |
| 3730 | 2624 | Admiral | 3560 +14 | 5.8 | 14.4 |
| 700¾ | 590⅝ | Aviva | 683⅝ -4⅜ | 5.7 | 25.4 |
| 1295 | 750 | Beazley | 1287½ -½ | 1.9 | 11.4 |
| 1904 | 1246 | Hiscox | 1796 -29 | 2.1 | 13.2 |
| 700 | 549 | Lancashire Hldg ● | 638½ +½ | 17.4 | 70 |
| 310 | 217¼ | Legal & General | 296⅛ -3⅞ | 7.4 | 29.6 |
| 1238 | 910¼ | Prudential | 1085 -11½ | 1.8 | 9.4 |
| 920½ | 615 | Standard Life | 906 -8½ | 6.1 | -192.4 |
| 1575½ | 1050 | St Jamess Place | 1066 -2 | 1.7 | 10.7 |
投资信托 0.05%
| 数值 | 价格 | 公司 | 变动 | 收益率 | 估值 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4497 | 1825 | 3i | 2674* +122 | 3.2 | 3009 |
| 394½ | 325 | 3i Infrastructure ● | 385½ -8 | 3.5 | 403 |
| 830 | 606 | Aberdeen New Ind a | 704 -2 | — | 792 |
| 1356 | 1178 | A liance Witan | 1319 -13 | 2.2 | 1393 |
| 764 | 439½ | Allianz Tech Trust ● | 687 -11 | — | 756 |
| 331 | 255⅜ | Bai lie Giff China | 302* -2 | 0.8 | 337 |
| 116½ | 91⅜ | Bai lie Giff Euro Gwth | 114 -1½ | 0.6 | 127 |
| 153⅜ | 120⅝ | Bankers Invstmt Tst ● | 147¼ -2⅜ | 1.9 | 163 |
| 1661⅝ | 786 | Biotech Growth | 1612 +2 | — | 1718 |
| 284 | 197 | BlckRckAmInc | 276 -1 | 5.1 | 274 |
| 205 | 116½ | BlackRockEnrgy&Res | 177 — | 3.3 | 187 |
| 208 | 159½ | BlckRock FroInv | 187 -3 | 4.1 | 187 |
| 625 | 507 | BlckRck Grt Euro ● | 591 -5 | 1.2 | 643 |
| 238 | 198 | BlckRck Inc&Grth | 231 — | 3.3 | 258 |
| 288⅜ | 230¾ | BlackRock Small ● | 270½ -2½ | 2.9 | 311 |
| 1072⅞ | 543⅛ | BlackRock Wld M ● | 882 -26 | 2.7 | 906 |
È Brit Amer Tob 2.76m 4480 -2.93pc È Investec 9.29m 619½ -2.59pc È Experian 3.28m 2655 -2.53pc È Scot Mort Inv Tst 6.21m 1313 -2.52pc È Rolls-Royce 21.30m 1359 -2.37pc È Smiths Gp 1.63m 2623 -2.27pc È Autotrader Grp 4.46m 482½ -2.23pc È Ass Brit Fds 0.86m 1967½ -2.21pc È Diageo 4.21m 1540½ -2.19pc È Lloyds Bk Gp 178.84m 112½ -2.09pc È NatWest Group 50.39m 670⅝ -2.04pc È Diploma 0.62m 7430 -2.04pc
È Land Secs 3.71m 686½ -2.00pc
È Sainsbury 10.21m 344¼ -1.96pc
È Reckitt Benck 1.12m 4938 -1.91pc
È Brit Land 5.32m 429⅝ -1.87pc
È F&C Inv Trust 1.77m 334⅝ -1.82pc
È Polar CapTech 4.33m 647½ -1.75pc
È Melrose Ind 2.71m 474 -1.66pc
È Hiscox 1.04m 1796 -1.59pc
È Metlen Energy 0.18m 3632½ -1.57pc
È Unilever 2.57m 4543 -1.54pc
È JD Sports Fash 16.22m 85¾ -1.52pc
Glob Mu ti-Strat 0% 140.96 +0.06
Inflat on-L nked Corp Bd 0% 116.48 -0.01
Long-Term Global Equ ty 0% 377.02 -0.57
Asian Income 0% 198.14 +0.86
Cont nental European 0% 317.34 -0.62
Global Dynamic Bd 0% 82.74 0.08
Global High Yield Bd 0% 76 37 -0.1
Internat onal Bd 0% 87.08 -017
Mu ti-Asset Bal 0% 207.2 -0.13
Mu t-Asset Div Return 0% 152.63 +0 2
Mu t-Asset Growth 0% 328.18 +0.02
Oriental 0% 250.56 +1.11
Real Return A 0% 123.18 +0.06
UK Equ ty Fund 0% 208.4 -017
UK Income 0% 205.64 -0.05
UK Opportunities 0% 228.29 -0.38
Emerg ng Income 0% 138.66 +1
Global Emerg ng Mkts 0% 284.13 +1.18
Global Equ ty Fund 0% 395.75 -0.19
Mu ti Asset Inc 0% 141.48 +0.4
Discretionary Unit Fund No 1, Poultry, London EC2R 8JR. 020 7415 4130
Ma tland Discretionary Inc 3 00 2269.35 +4.54
Fundsmith LLP PO Box 10846, Chelmsford, Essex, CM99 2BW. 0330 123 1815 www.fundsmith.co.uk enqu ries@fundsm th.co.uk
Fundsmith Equ ty T Acc – 673.07 -8.72
395 312 Caledonia ● 377½* -1½ 2.0 594
592 486 City of Lon ● 578 -13 3.8 573
467 207 CQS Nat Res G & I 365 -7 7.8 356
330 268¼ CT Glbl Mgd G 320 -1 — 328
135 114 CT Glbl Mgd I 131½ — 6 1 131
592 439⅞ CT Priv Eq Ord 500* -8 5.6 694
373 320 CT UK Cap & Inc 353 — 3.8 371
126 97 CT UKHighIncTst 112¼* +4¼ 5.3 118
480¼ 460 Dunedin Ent # 475 — 4.8 —
842 737⅝ Edinburgh Inv Tr ● 822* -6 3.9 900
294½ 183 Edin Worldwide ● 245 -9½ — 269
1332 325¾ F&C Inv Trust 334⅝* -6¼ 1.3 369
672 546 Fdelity Asian V 582 -4 3.5 619
339 241 Fdlty Chna Sp Sits ● 257½* -½ 3.5 276
442 367½ Fdelity Euro Tst ● 421 -3½ 2.4 448
460½ 372 Fdelity Sp V ● 447 -6½ 2.3 457
939 706¼ Fnsbury Gwth ● 757 -10 2.7 823
198⅜ 162⅜ Glbl Small Co Trust ● 192⅜ -1 1.6 203
211 173¼ Hend High Inc 203* +2 5.5 214
960 769 Hend Smaller Co ● 944 -5 3.0 1043
3290¾ 2285 Herald Inv ● 3025 -10 — 3297
530 318⅝ HgCap tal ● 374 -12 1.3 530
138 107¼ HICL Infrastructure ● 134⅜ -¾ 6.3 161
1611⅜ 1288¼ ICG Enterprise Tst ● 1404 -14 3.0 2033
968 782½ JPM Claverh’se ● 946 -16 3.9 973
153 121½ JPM Eur G&I ● 145* -1⅝ 3.8 148
849 632 JPM Japanese ● 784 -7 1.1 855
710¼ 522½ Land Secs 686½* -14 6.0 —
186½ 141½ Lowland Inv 178¼* +¼ 3.8 198
280 234¼ Mercant le InvTr ● 275* -3½ 3.0 310
662 536 Merchants Tst ● 649* -9 4.6 693
1664 1315⅞ Monks ● 1586 -14 0 1 1679
1012 854⅝ Murray Income ● 988 -14 4.0 1071
369 283 Murray Intl ● 360* -2½ 3.5 360
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 Pac f c Assets 406 +2 1.4 440
409 319½ Pantheon ● 389 -1 — 518
2610 1900 RIT Cap Ptnrs ● 2525 -40 1.8 3159
319 281¼ Ruffer Inv Pref ● 293 -1 2 1 304
738 488¾ Schroder Asian TR ● 670 -1 1.7 717
558 480⅛ Scot American ● 541 -5 3.0 585
1563 1015¾ Scot Mortgage 1313 -34 0.3 1485
253 215⅞ STS Global Income 226 -2 3 7 230
352 196¼ Tmpletn Em Mt ● 312* -½ 1.7 340
364½ 291 TR Property ● 311½* -½ 5.2 341
150¼ 137 UIL F n ZDP 2026 150 — — 149
302 239⅞ Util co Emerg ● 285* -3 3.4 320
398 306½ Worldw HealthTr ● 383* +2 0.6 404
Net Asset Values © 2026 Morningstar Est mated at prev ous day’s close see www.Morningstar.co.uk.
Guinness Global Investors 18 Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HZ www.guinnessgi.com +44(0)20 7222 5703
Sustainable Energy Acc – 25 4523 …
Global Innovators Acc – 45.897 …
Global Equity Income Inc – 24.165 …
Available as an ISA (可作为 ISA 账户持有)
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Janus Henderson Investors PO Box 9023 Chelmsford, CM99 2WB Enquiries: 0800 832 832 Website: www.janushenderson.com
Cautious Managed A Acc 5.00 354 …
Cautious Managed A Inc 5.00 153.3 …
China Opps A Acc 5.00 1311 …
Emerg Mkts Opps A Acc 5.00 305 3 …
European Sel Opps A Acc 5.00 3180 …
Fixed Int Mthly Inc A Inc 4.25 17.1 …
Global Care Growth A Inc 4.50 688.2 …
Global Equity Inc A Inc 5.25 86.15 …
Global Select Acc 4.25 6443 …
Global Strateg c Cap Acc 5.00 433 9 …
Global Technology A Acc 5.00 7051 …
Inst UK IDX Opp Tr – 178.0686 …
Janus Asian Dividend In Ut 5.00 100 7 …
844⅜ 418⅝ Autotrader 482½ -11 2.4 14.1
690 435 Bloomsbury ● 605 -40 2.7 18 3
1000 719 Informa 854¾ -11⅝ 2.6 —
88⅞ 65¾ ITV ● 72¾ -1⅜ 6.9 12 3
1318 874¾ Pearson 1204½ -2½ 2.1 23.4
81 41⅛ Reach 41⅛ -3⅝ 14.4 -1 0
4008 1991 RELX 2451 -3 2.8 21 8
827 391⅜ Rightmove ● 431⅜ -5⅛ 2.5 15.4
443¼ 218½ WPP ● 272⅜ -3⅝ 5.5 5.4
采矿业 0.86%
4239 2042 Anglo Amer 3630 +101 0.5 -14 6
4475 1850½ Antofagasta 3621 -175 1.3 35 8
3495 1873½ BHP Group 3145 -21 3.3 23 6
81 81 Evraz # 81 — — 0 5
4472 1371 Fresnillo 2497 -163 3.8 17.7
707¼ 275¼ G encore 537¾ -⅜ 2.4 —
858 246¼ Hochschild Mng ● 438 -22¾ 1 0 15 0
345 178⅜ Kenmare Res 190 +1 — -0.7
9117 4344½ Rio Tinto 6856 -47 4.4 14 9
609⅜ 393¼ BP 555⅞ +16⅝ 4.5 —
28 9¾ EnQuest 27¾ +¾ 2.9 —
553 288½ Hunting ● 475½ +2 2.0 24.2
3758½ 2553¾ She l 3344 +52 3.3 14.7
制药业 0.17%
15732 9892 AstraZeneca 12688 -14 2.0 25 6
3228¾ 1943 Genus ● 2156 -24 1.5 73 6
2282 1288⅝ GSK 1905½ -5 3.7 13 5
2046 1187 Hikma ● 1553 -16 4.1 11.4
16 5⅞ Alina Hldgs 11 — — 17
1208 800½ Big Yellow Gp ● 876½* +1 5.4 —
445⅜ 318⅝ Brit Land 429⅝* -8¼ 5.4 —
2070 1469⅜ Derwent Ldn ● 2016 -24 4.0 —
377 270 Gt Portland Est ● 343¼ -2⅝ 2.4 —
213 149½ Grainger ● 175⅛ -4⅜ 4.8 6.4
377 263⅜ Hammerson ● 365⅜ -5 4.5 —
969 603 Segro 953¼ +58¼ 3.3 —
162⅞ 124⅛ Shaftesbury Capital ● 140⅜ -1⅞ 2.8 75
140 104 Town Centre 121½ +1½ 4.1 —
174 132¼ Tritax Big Box 168⅜ -⅜ 4.9 183
169⅜ 106 Currys ● 162½ -2½ 1 8 10 5
1249 707 Dunelm ● 857½ -8 8.2 11.1
819½ 598 Frasers Group ● 752 -13 — 8.7
1856 1407¼ Greggs ● 1560 -63 4.4 13 0
Ç 澳大利亚 全澳指数 (All Ordinaries) 9018.10 +13.20 +0.15pc
È 巴西 博韦斯帕指数 (Bovespa) 176723.62 -823.95 -0.46pc
Ç 中国 上证综合指数 (Shanghai Composite) 3876.78 +9.74 +0.25pc
È 法国 CAC综合指数 (CAC General) 8299.09 -138.80 -1.65pc
È 德国 DAX指数 (DAX) 24763.12 -392.29 -1.56pc
Ç 香港 恒生指数 (Hang Seng) 25210.81 +318.15 +1.28pc
È 印度 BSE S&P SENSEX指数 (BSE S&P SENSEX) 76391.39 -363.66 -0.47pc
Ç 日本 日经指数 (Nikkei) 66422.60 +307.00 +0.46pc
È 新加坡 海峡时报指数 (Straits Times) 5581.76 -13.66 -0.24pc
È 西班牙 马德里证券交易所 (Madrid SE) 1905.10 -33.50 -1.73pc
È 瑞士 SMI指数 (SMI Index) 14214.95 -100.93 -0.70pc
È 美国 道琼斯指数 (Dow Jones) 51711.65 -506.93 -0.97pc
È 美国 纳斯达克指数 (Nasdaq) 25137.69 -553.21 -2.15pc
0. 1. 2.
È 黄金 每特洛伊盎司 $4050.08 -85.53 -2.07pc
È 白银 每特洛伊盎司 £43.28 -1.41 -3.15pc
È 克鲁格金币
£3014.57 -26.68 -0.88pc
È 新主权金币
£709.62 -11.18 -1.55pc
È 枫叶金币
£3029.77 -40.00 -1.30pc
È 铂金 每盎司 £1197.33 -29.51 -2.41pc
È 钯金 每盎司 £943.29 -26.14 -2.70pc
È 铜† A级 £10186.98 -125.61 -1.22pc
È 锡† 高级 £40136.67 -268.92 -0.67pc
Ç 铅†
£1416.99 +3.03 +0.21pc
Ç 锌† 特级 £2688.29 +10.52 +0.39pc
Ç 铝† 高级 £2395.43 +10.84 +0.45pc
Ç 镍†
£12987.16 +177.18 +1.38pc
Ç 波罗的海干散货指数*
2725.00 +10.00 +0.37pc
È 小麦 每吨 £206.00 -0.75 -0.36pc
Ç 布伦特原油 9月交割 $100.69 +6.62 +7.04pc
*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
Mu ti-Mgr Inc&Gwth A Acc 5 00 229.7 …
Mu ti-Mgr Mangd A Acc 5 00 398.2 1 3
Mu ti-Mgr Mangd A Inc 5 00 367.3 1 2
Sterling Bond Acc 4.25 227.7 …
Sterling Bond Inc 4.25 55.01 …
Strategic Bond A Inc 4.00 95.21 …
UK Absolute Return A Acc 5 00 206.9 …
UK Alpha A Acc 5.25 194.8 …
UK Smaller Cos A ACC 5 00 916 …
UK Equ ty Income A Inc 5 00 694.3 …
UK Index Opps Tst A Acc – 175 8342 …
US Growth A Acc 5 00 2945 …
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JPM Ems C Net D s – 274.6000 +4.6000
JPM Japan C Net Acc – 478.7000 +3.0000
JPM Natural Res C Net ACC – 1642.0000 +29.0000
JPM UK Equity Core E Acc – *700 3000 0.1000
JPM UK Equity Core E Inc – *91.8100 -0.0200
JPM US Eq Inc C Net – *591 3000 +1.0000
JPM US Eq Inc C Net D s – *581 5000 +1.0000
JPM US Select C Net Acc – 1245.0000 -40000
JPM US Sm Cos Gwth C Net Ac – 1270 -14
981 713 Howden Joinery 770½ -4½ 2.9 15.7
106⅛ 64 JD Sports Fash 85¾* -1⅜ 1.4 9.9
372¼ 240¼ Kingfisher 296¾ -1⅝ 4.2 21.2
411¾ 301⅛ Marks & Spen 379¾ -16⅞ 1.1 29.9
4 ⅝ Mothercare ¾ -¼ — 0.6
15105 11200 Next 14670* -165 1.8 19.3
397⅞ 140¼ Ocado ● 181¾ -13¾ — 3.8
575 200 P newood Tech 314 -½ — 65.4
680 171⅜ Saga ● 636 -20 — —
370¾ 291¼ Sainsbury J 344¼ -6⅞ 4.0 19.9
1120 378⅝ Smith WH ● 410 -9 — -3.7
510⅜ 406⅞ Tesco 475¼ -2¼ 3.1 17.3
2800 1981 Bunzl 2722 -14 2.7 19.3
416 215 Capita 241½ -2½ — -1.7
6740 4188 DCC Energy 6290* -5 3.4 —
114 78⅜ Essentra 91¼ -2⅜ 2.2 —
4092½ 2203 Experian 2655* -69 2.0 21.5
5840 3519⅜ Intertek Group 5815 -5 2.8 26.7
250¾ 163½ Intl Workplace ● 195⅞ -1⅛ 0.5 —
172⅛ 123¾ Johnson Serv ● 149 -¼ 3.2 16.0
214 134¾ MITIE Gp ● 209¼* -¼ 2.2 31.7
507 342½ Rentokil 429½ -15¾ 2.1 30.7
325¾ 203 Serco Group ● 238⅝ -⅝ 1.9 16.6
15¼ 6¾ S G 8¼ … — -1.5
723½ 493⅜ Travis P ● 552 -9½ 2.2 -6.6
电信 0.73%
242⅛ 173 BT Group 193¾ -2 4.3 17.6
2040 638 Telecom Plus ● 867 -6 5.8 8.6
131⅛ 80⅝ Vodafone 116⅛* -⅝ 3.4 -82.4
5326 3677 Brit Am Tob 4480* -135 5.5 12.8
3632 2626 Imp Brands 2797 -5 6.0 11.1
490 294½ Z GUP ● 451½ -6½ 6.0 13.4
683¾ 332⅝ easyJet ● 601 +15¾ 2.2 9.1
1031½ 500⅜ Entain 548 -1 3.6 -5.3
240⅜ 152⅛ FirstGroup ● 180⅛* -1⅞ 4.0 8.4
23610 6722 Flutter Entrtmt 7472 +8 — -47.4
774 544 Fullers ‘A’ 750* +10 2.8 19.1
492⅞ 332¾ IAG Intl Cons Air 422⅜ -16½ 1.6 6.9
13305 8458 Intercont Hotels 11515¾ -114½ 1.2 31.2
308 223½ Mitchels&But ● 261 -14 — 8.8
40⅝ 17 Mobico Group 23⅛ -⅝ — -0.4
447 210 Playtech ● 360 -2⅝ — 0.9
166¼ 86 Rank Group ● 93¼ -1⅛ 3.2 9.8
指数 变动
Jupiter Unit Trust Managers Ltd The Z g Zag Building, 70 Victoria Street, London, SW1E 6SQ 020 3817 1000
Jupiter Asian Inc L Acc – 349 7 +1.3743
Jupiter Asian Inc L Inc – 235.67 +1.3743
Jupiter China L Acc – 118 65 +1.0497
Jupiter China L Inc – 108.61 +1.0497
Jupiter Corp Bond L Inc – 50.76 0.1783
Jupiter Eco L Inc – 690.29 -0.4469
Jupiter European L Inc – 3859.61 -0.5012
Jupiter Euro Inc L Acc – 85.01629 …
Jupiter Euro Inc L Inc – 49.78698 …
Jupiter Euro Special Sits L Acc – 580.09 -0.5000
Jupiter Fin Opp L Inc – 1312.01 -08356
Jupiter Fund Of Inv Tsts L Inc – 394.13 +0.0723
Jupiter Global Emg Mkts L Acc – 106.22 +2.4740
Jupiter Global Finl Innov L Acc – 227.13 +0.0473
Jupiter Income Trust L Inc – *690.05 +0.1887
Jupiter India L Acc – 208 9 -09614
Jupiter Japan Inc L Acc – 216.28 +0.1674
Jupiter Japan Inc L Inc – 140 68 +0 1673
Jupiter Merlin Bal Prtfo L Acc – 336.69 +0.1108
Jupiter Merlin Bal Prtfo L Inc – 193 03 +0.1112
Jupiter Merlin Grth Prtfo L Acc – 813.28 +0 6137
Jupiter Merlin Grth Prtfo L Inc – 785.74 +0 6137
3302 2098 Whitbread 2392 -64 4.1 19.4
89⅜ 36¾ Afentra 66¾ +1¼ — -63.4
1130 799 Arbuthnot 830 — 6 6 7.6
244 125¼ Central As a Met 144⅝ -2⅝ 8.3 -4.5
872½ 98 Ceres Power ● 400⅜ -9⅝ — -16.3
470 271 Church ll China 387½ +7½ 5.4 9.8
380 194 CML Micro 260 — 4.2 -787.9
1612 881⅛ Cohort 1302 +22 1.4 24.9
181¼ 101 Eleco 133½ +18½ 0.9 83.4
14⅞ ¼ Futura Medical ⅜ … — -0.1
163 112 James Halstead 119 -⅜ 7.5 12.3
405 200 Mpac Group 322½ -5 — -10.1
1800 1100 MS Intl 1480 +30 1 8 22.0
68 34½ Premier Miton 37¼* — 8.1 47.8
74 43¼ Tribal Gp 64 — 2 0 15 2
1½ ½ Xtract Resources 1 … — -4.1
替代投资市场（The Alternative Investment Market）面向年轻且成长中的公司。这些股票可能比全额报价股票承担更高的风险，且可能难以出售。
Americans 0.38%
84⅜ 28⅛ Alcoa $ 45½ -⅝ 0.9 9.8
387½ 288⅜ Amer Express $ 341⅝ -7⅛ 1.1 4.1
62⅛ 44¾ BankAmer ca $ 61⅛ -½ 1 8 3.6
254⅜ 176¾ Boeing $ 208⅝ … — —
1073½ 405½ Caterpillar $ 908¼ +19 0.7 3.1
214¾ 146½ Chevron $ 196⅛ +3⅛ 3 6 0.8
110⅞ 84⅝ Coca–Cola Euro $ 103⅛ -2¾ 2 3 0.8
99⅜ 74½ Colgate Palm $ 89⅝ -2 2.4 1 2
ExxonMobil Hldgs $ 157¼ — 2 6 1.4
383 260 Gen Electr c $ 349¼ +8 0.5 4.5
426¾ 289⅛ Home Depot $ 325½ -6 2 9 1.5
Honeywel $ 246¼ — 3 9 1.5
29⅝ 17½ HP $ 24⅞ -¼ 4 8 2.3
332½ 204½ IBM $ 206⅞ +1⅛ 3.3 1.7
142⅜ 19 Intel $ 102¼ -⅜ — —
56⅛ 29¼ Intl Paper $ 37¾ -⅜ 4 9 2.8
351¼ 279⅛ JP Morgan Ch $ 348¼ … 1.7 3.5
269⅜ 164¼ Johnson&John $ 258¼ +2⅝ 2.1 1.6
36 24⅞ Keurig Dr Pep $ 29¾ -½ 3.1 1.7
55¾ 25⅛ Manpower $ 50¼ -1⅜ 2 9 0 2
341¾ 261⅞ McDonalds $ 262⅝ -⅞ 2 8 1.6
131¾ 76⅝ Merck $ 130⅜ +2⅞ 2 6 1.1
555½ 349¼ M crosoft $ 380½ -9⅞ 1 0 4.6
28¾ 23⅛ Pfizer $ 25 +⅛ 6 9 0.8
167¼ 137⅝ Procter & Gamble $ 146¼ -2⅞ 3 0 1.6
214½ 149⅛ Raytheon Tech $ 210⅛ +15¼ 1.4 1.8
497⅜ 305½ Rockwell $ 459⅞ +1⅝ 1 2 1.8
505⅞ 348 Trane Tech $ 478¼ +4⅝ 0.9 3.1
135⅛ 95¼ Wal Mart Strs $ 107⅞ -1½ 0.9 2.9
£ > Eur 汇率 1.1711 变动 -0.11¢ £ > $ 汇率 1.3317 变动 -0.58¢
| 旅游价 £1 | 英镑 £1 | 1 欧元 | 1 美元 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 澳大利亚 Aus $ | 1.8551 | 1.9099 | 1.6308 | 1.4342 |
| 加拿大 Can $ | 1.8214 | 1.8760 | 1.6019 | 1.4087 |
| 丹麦 Krone | 8.315 | 8.7545 | 7.4755 | 6.5742 |
| 欧元 € | 1.1427 | 1.1711 | … | 0.8794 |
| 香港 HK $ | 9.9443 | 10.4418 | 8.9163 | 7.8412 |
| 印度 Rupee | 97.41 | 128.6008 | 109.8126 | 96.5725 |
| 以色列 Shekels | 3.8454 | 4.0925 | 3.4946 | 3.0732 |
| 日本 Yen | 210.9827 | 218.3040 | 186.4104 | 163.9350 |
| 科威特 Dinar | … | 0.4129 | 0.3527 | 0.3101 |
| 新西兰 NZ $ | 2.211 | 2.3073 | 1.9702 | 1.7327 |
| 挪威 Krone | 12.2577 | 12.8041 | 10.9335 | 9.6152 |
| 巴基斯坦 Rupee | 340.39 | 369.9657 | 315.9148 | 277.8250 |
| 沙特阿拉伯 Riyal | 4.7657 | 4.9985 | 4.2682 | 3.7536 |
| 新加坡 $ | 1.6353 | 1.7218 | 1.4703 | 1.2930 |
| 南非 Rand | 20.9693 | 22.3001 | 19.0421 | 16.7462 |
| 瑞典 Krona | 12.3413 | 12.9997 | 11.1005 | 9.7621 |
| 瑞士 Franc | 1.0499 | 1.0874 | 0.9285 | 0.8165 |
| 泰国 Baht | 43.409 | 45.0264 | 38.4482 | 33.8125 |
| 阿联酋 Dirham | 4.7365 | 4.8908 | 4.1762 | 3.6728 |
| 英国 £ | … | … | 0.8539 | 0.7510 |
| 美国 $ | 1.3058 | 1.3317 | 1.1371 | … |
RPI (1987 100) 6月 416.50 +0.3pc +3.0pc
RPIX (目标 2.5pc) 6月 409.70 +1.1 +2.9pc
CPI (2015 100 目标 2pc) 6月 142.50 +0.1pc +2.6pc
劳埃德房价指数 (Lloyds house price index) 6月 516.20 +0.2pc +0.6pc
银行利率 (Bank Rate) 3.75pc
Nationwide 基础抵押贷款利率 5.75pc
美国联邦基金利率 3.5-3.75pc
美国长期债券收益率 5.17pc
欧洲基础利率 2.40pc
Jup ter Merlin Select L Acc – 125.01 0.0934
Jup ter Merlin Select L Dis – 55 44 0.0934
Jupiter Responsible Inc L Acc – 167.35 -05719
Jupiter Responsible Inc L Inc – 76.9 -0.5723
Jupiter Global Strat Bond L Acc – 109.81 -00772
Jupiter Global Strat Bond L Inc – 53.37 -00772
Jup ter UK Growth L Inc – 274.44 -0.7704
Jupiter UK Dynamic Eq L D S – 283 17 -01524
Jupiter Un tstd Van F 3.50 427.92 +0.3991
Jupiter US Sml Cos Inst I Acc – 80 99 …
Jupiter US Sml Cos Ret Acc – 74.46 …
Marks & Spencer Unit Trust Management Ltd Kings Meadow, Chester, CH99 9UT 0870 333 1835
High Income Inc – 88 02 88.02 …
High Income Acc – 295.9 295.9 …
UK Select Port Inc – *477.4 477.4 …
UK Selection Port – *1092.2 1092.2 …
UK 100 Co's Fund Inc – 319.3 319.3 …
UK 100 Co's Fund Acc – 709.7 709.7 …
W'wide Man Inc – *738.2 …
W'wide Man Acc – *1326 …
M&G Securities Ltd PO Box 9039, Chelmsford, CM99 2XG Enq: 0800 390 390. UT Deal: 0800 328 3196
6¾ 1¼ Xerox Hldgs $ 2½ -⅛ 4.0 83.4
Europeans 1.66%
67⅝ 46⅛ AkzoNobel € 56¼ -1⅞ 3.5 2.3
97⅞ 56¾ BMW € 56⅞ -¾ 7.7 2.7
17½ 12 Carrefour € 16½ -⅛ 7.1 1.6
77⅝ 53⅛ Continental AG € 69¼ -1⅞ 3.9 0.3
62⅜ 42⅝ Daimler € 44⅜ -½ 7.9 2.9
80⅛ 60⅝ Danone € 68½ -1½ 3.3 1.2
57¾ 37 Deutsche Post € 56⅜ -¾ 3.4 1.6
34⅜ 23½ Deutsche Tele € 26⅛ -1⅛ 3.8 2.0
80¼ 63⅞ Heineken € 75¾ -2 2.5 2.5
654¾ 440 LVMH € 453½ -20½ 2.9 1.7
82½ 60⅛ LafargeHolcim SFr 73¾ -⅝ 2.3 1.9
10¼ 6¾ Lufthansa € 8½ -⅜ 3.9 9.0
15 3⅜ Nok a OYJ € 8¾ -½ 1.6 0.9
35¾ 25½ Michelin € 34½ -½ 4.0 1.7
107½ 58⅝ Pernod Ricard € 62⅛ -1 7.6 1.4
27¾ 21½ Phil ps (Kon) € 23 -¼ 3.7 0.6
284⅝ 198 Siemens € 268¼ -3 2.0 2.0
79⅛ 49⅜ Societe Gen € 75¾ -2¼ 2.1 4.2
10½ 4⅝ Stellantis € 5 -⅛ 13.5 1.1
279¼ 212⅝ Thales € 238¼ +11½ 1.6 2.1
81⅜ 49¼ Total € 76⅛ +1⅞ 4.5 2.0
44½ 28¼ UBS AG SFr 42¼ -⅝ 2.0 2.3
37⅝ 27⅜ Veolia Env ron € 36¾ -½ 4.1 0.3
110¼ 71 Volkswagen € 73⅞ -1 7.0 2.6
近期发行 (Recent issues)
300 125 Coastal Africa Group 200 — — —
12½ 7½ EDX Medical Group 11¼ — — -10.9
5¼ 3⅝ Mendell Hel um 4⅜ … — -1.3
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Eqty Inv Chrties GBP Acc – 45991.46 +58 57
Eqty Inv Chrties GBP D s – 1907.06 +2.43
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Natwest Investment Funds (RBS Collective Investment Funds Ltd) PO Box 249, York YO90 1ZY 0117 940 3848
Global Bond Fund Inc – 86.39 …
Mangd Eqty Grwth Fnd Acc – 187 89 …
Mangd Grwth Fund Inc – 157 37 …
Mangd Grwth Fund Acc – 171.60 …
UK Eqty Fund Acc – 179 66 …
UK Eqty Fund Inc – 141 25 …
Yealand Fund Services Limited 行政地址：Stuart House, St John's St, Peterborough PE1 5DD 交易与查询：0345 850 0255
Generation Fd 5.00 *1101.5 …
FENIX Balanced Fund Dis 5.00 *214 92 …
随着工具盗窃案频发 手工业者生计受威胁
由于入狱可能性极低 作者：Benedict J Smith
哈里·菲茨帕特里克（Harry Fitzpatrick）的面包车第三次成为窃贼的目标时，情况最为糟糕。在前两次被盗时，这位来自肯特郡的自雇木匠还处于职业生涯早期，相对没有太多负担。而这一次，面临的风险要大得多。“当我年轻且在攒钱的时候，那次打击确实很大。但在 2022 年，我有三个孩子、一个妻子和一只狗要照顾，”他说道。在他报案、联系保险公司并补齐被盗物品之前，很多工作机会已经流失，让他为支付账单而担忧。“如果没有工具，我就什么都做不了，”他说，“但不会有人说‘哦，你被盗了，所以我们这个月不收你的房贷’。我所有的账单依然像往常一样到期。” 菲茨帕特里克，38, 自 2014 年以来被盗设备价值近 £10,000，且每次造成的财务连锁反应都远高于工具本身的价值。然而，至今没有一个人被绳之以法，警方在给了他一个用于保险报案的案件参考号后，每次都未能跟进。“他们根本不在意，”他说，“这件事在他们的关注范围内级别太低，低到他们甚至懒得理你。” 与此同时，威胁在增加。根据保险公司 Direct Line 的数据，工具盗窃案去年从 2024 年的 25,000 多起增加到近 27,000 起——这意味着每 20 分钟就发生一起入室盗窃。菲茨帕特里克表示，他认识的技工中“至少有 70%”曾成为受害者，但并非所有人都报案，因为担心保险费用上涨。去年，他一位电工朋友的面包车在他在附近睡觉时被盯上。工具盗窃的起诉率依然低下，在截至 2025 年 3 月的一年里，包括面包车盗窃在内的 84% 的车辆相关犯罪案件在未确定嫌疑人的情况下被结案。对于那些被抓到的人来说，被判入狱的情况很少见。
盗窃罪的最高刑期 为七年监禁， 但许多定罪被归类为 第三类罪行，导致 被判处较轻的非监禁刑罚。 被盗工具中仅有 1% 能够找回。 中小型建筑公司贸易团体 建筑商联合会（Federation for Master Builders）的杰里米·格雷 （Jeremy Gray）表示，当前的 体制失效了。 “判决并未反映出工具盗窃 所造成的破坏。财务损失 是一方面；而面对支付账单 时的压力、焦虑和不确定性 则是另一方面，”他说道。 保险公司 Tradesman Saver 表示， 英国有超过五分之二的技工 曾成为受害者，且近 80% 的 案件涉及面包车。 面包车在街道和停车场中随处可见， 且通常缺乏足够的安保措施， 使其成为快速潜入盗窃的容易目标。 窃贼使用研磨机切开面包车车顶， 或使用扫描仪复制电子钥匙。 弗兰基·威廉姆斯（Frankie Williams） 在 2022 年丢失了价值 £4,000 的 设备后，发起了“英国被盗工具”（Stolen Tools UK） 活动组织，他表示犯罪分子经常 盯上技工，因为他们知道 后果很轻。 “这是一个利润丰厚的市场， 且处罚极轻，”他说，“一些 工程师的面包车里可能装有 高达 £100,000 的设备。因为 需求量大， 它们可以被 快速出手。” 在 一月， 大都会警察局没收了 £2 百万 英镑的被盗工具。 这些工具是在 几个月前 伦敦的罗姆福德 和雷纳姆地区 的两场后备箱 集市上被没收的。 “后备箱集市 是犯罪的温床，” 威廉姆斯说， 他曾参与 多次对市场的 突击检查。“它们 不受监管， 而且许多组织者 对此睁一只眼闭一只眼。” 菲茨帕特里克 说，他总是 警惕 那些出售数十 件工具的摊主。 他补充道：“你可能 [此处原文中断]”
JEFF GILBERT FOR THE TELEGRAPH
哈里·菲茨帕特里克，一名自雇木匠，在面包车被窃贼盯上三次后失去了工作。下方为珍贵的电动工具。
摊主被怀疑在沃特福德附近的一次后备箱集市上销售被盗的电动工具，警方随后从中没收了价值 £80,000 的货物。
“你会看到一个老先生在卖旧手动工具，因为他清理了他的棚屋或车库，而这些工具他已经拥有 30 年了。但涉及到电动工具时，我们就是不卖。”
工具失窃的影响延伸到了更广泛的经济领域。随着建筑业在劳动力和材料成本飙升中苦苦支撑，以及贸易从业者大规模离开该行业，这波犯罪浪潮使项目的可行性面临风险，并威胁到新入行者的积极性。
贸易服务平台 MyBuilder 的安迪·西姆斯（Andy Simms）表示：“我们开始看到一种‘软退出危机’，一些贸易从业者拒绝接手那些没有安全停车位或已知有犯罪活动的区域的工作。”
“如果这种情况继续增加，贸易工人们完全有可能选择离职并寻找其他工作。”
更严厉的量刑，特别是针对惯犯的量刑，是《工具盗窃贸易法案》（Theft of Tools Trade Bill）的核心，该法案由阿曼达·马丁（Amanda Martin）在 2024. 年首次提出。这位工党议员曾推动将工具盗窃案的严重程度从第三级提升至第二级，从而增加
监禁的可能性。然而，该法案已被并入政府的《2026年量刑法》。在改革之后，法院在量刑时将被要求考虑对受害者的全面影响，包括心理痛苦和生计损失。但监禁并非必然结果。
菲茨帕特里克并不乐观。“他们需要解决这个问题，但我认为在接下来的 25 年里不会有任何改变，”他说道。
与此同时，威廉姆斯表示警方需要采取主动，他说在自己成为受害者时，“我感到非常孤单”。
伦敦警察厅表示：“我们一直开展针对性行动，并与建筑、零售和物流领域的合作伙伴合作，以震慑犯罪者并打击失窃工具的转售。在本日历年，车辆盗窃案下降了 9%。但仍有更多工作要做。”
但菲茨帕特里克仍然希望能继续工作。“只要你能保持工作并赚到一些钱，你就没问题，”他说道。内政部已被要求就此发表评论。
谷歌因违反欧盟竞争规则被欧盟罚款 €890m (£759m)。
欧盟委员会对谷歌开出了两笔分别价值 €460m 和 €430m 的罚单。欧盟称，谷歌在 Google 搜索中给自己的服务（包括购物、酒店、体育赛事结果和交通）提供优先待遇，从而违反了竞争规则，损害了其他公司的利益。
欧盟还发现，谷歌阻止应用开发者在 Google Play 应用商店中向客户提供更优惠的价格。
由于能源价格波动如何影响通胀存在不确定性，欧洲央行维持利率不变。
在 6 月 11. 日加息 25 个基点后，该行将基准利率维持在 2.25%。此次加息旨在减轻因美伊战争导致油价上涨给消费者带来的影响。
该行表示：“不确定性依然很高，能源冲击带来的全面通胀影响尚未完全显现。通过今天的决定，理事会仍处于能够应对这一局面的良好位置。”
GfK 的数据显示，尽管信心指数出现“伯纳姆反弹”的迹象，但消费者依然持悲观态度。
GfK 表示，虽然热浪、足球赛事的成功以及新任首相的就职似乎“提升了情绪”，并帮助其消费者信心指数上升了 6 个点，但总体数值仍处于 -17。
过去 12 个月对英国整体经济状况的信心跳升了 10 个点，至 -39。GfK 的尼尔·贝拉米表示，消费者信心指数已经十年没有进入正值区间了。
麦考密克（McCormick）在同意以 £33.8bn 的交易与联合利华的食品业务合并后，将寻求在伦敦进行二次上市。
此举将为伦敦股市带来一个受欢迎的提振。这家总部位于马里兰州的调味品巨头希望此举能增加资本流动并改善股东的流动性。
麦考密克负责人布伦丹·福利表示，此举“强化了合并后运营的全球性质，并为我们持续的成功奠定了基础”。
海尔曼（Hellmann’s）、马麦特（Marmite）和科尔曼（Colman’s）等品牌已于去年 3 月出售。
通告
桑德灵厄姆，诺福克 7月23日 国王（英联邦体育协会赞助人）与王后今晚抵达格拉斯哥展览大道（Exhibition Way）的苏格兰活动中心（Scottish Event Campus）的水晶酒店（the Hydro），并由格拉斯哥市陛下委任的副代表（市议员 Jacqueline McLaren）、英联邦体育协会主席（Donald Rukare 博士）及 2026 格拉斯哥运动会主席（George Black 先生）迎接。陛下出席了由政府、英联邦及运动会代表参加的招待会，并由爱丁堡公爵（英联邦体育协会副赞助人）、右荣 安迪·伯纳姆 (Andy Burnham) 议员（首相及财政大臣第一大臣）、右荣 John Swinney MSP（苏格兰政府首席部长）及 Shirley Botchwey 阁下（英联邦秘书长）接待。 随后，国王宣布第二十三届英联邦运动会开幕。 在今日于爱丁堡圣吉尔斯大教堂举行的 Lord Mackay of Clashfern KT（前蓟花勋章最古老且最高贵勋章大十字勋章持有者）的葬礼和追思会上，Tillyorn 的 Lord Wilson KT 代表国王和王后出席。 Charles Ritchie 夫人代表安妮公主出席。
圣詹姆斯宫 7月23日 爱丁堡公爵（爱丁堡公爵国际奖基金会信托基金会主席）今天下午在格拉斯哥 1 William Street 的希尔顿酒店举行了一次会议。
圣詹姆斯宫 7月23日 安妮公主今天上午
J.A.T. Williamson 先生与 F.H. Wright 小姐 宣布 James 与 Fenella 订婚。James 是格洛斯特郡布洛克利（Blockley）的 Ross 和 Deborah Williamson 之幼子；Fenella 是珀斯郡邓布莱恩（Dunblane）的 Tiff 和 Michaela Wright 之长女。 在线参考号：W0050991
K.A. Reeves 先生与 D.N.R. Thorne 小姐 宣布 Kevin 与 Davina 订婚。Kevin 是加拿大渥太华的 William Reeves 先生和 Lesley Reeves 夫人之子；Davina 是已故 Ian Thorne 先生和诺丁汉郡尼索尔（Kneesall）的 Thorne 夫人之女。 在线参考号：W0051054
O.W. Smithson 先生与 A.J.W. Rushton 小姐 宣布 Oliver 与 Annabel 订婚。Oliver 是葡萄牙里斯本的 William Smithson 先生及夫人之长子；Annabel 是白金汉郡韦文登（Wavendon）的 Mark Rushton 先生及夫人之次女。 在线参考号：W0051074
其他通知
皮带制造者公司 (GIRDLES’ COMPANY) On July 23, 2026, 皮带制造者公司选举了下一年度的以下官员： 会长，Sara Kaye Drake 女士；上级监事，Anthony Mark James 先生；中级监事，Matthew Charles Robertson 先生；以及下级监事，Edward Charles Mackaness 先生。 Nicholas Archer 先生继续担任公司书记员。
法律新闻
Burn 法官于 May 12 2026 起退休，不再担任巡回法官。 Robinson 法官于 May 12 2026 起退休，不再担任巡回法官。 Coppel 法官于 May 16 起退休，不再担任巡回法官。 St John-Stevens 法官于 May 23 2026 起退休，不再担任巡回法官。 Downing 法官于 May 30 2026 起退休，不再担任巡回法官。 Laing KC DL 法官于 May 30 2026 起退休，不再担任巡回法官。
桥牌新闻
桥牌通讯员 Julian Pottage 报道，伦敦大会在哈默史密斯的年轻切尔西桥牌俱乐部举行。获胜者如下： 瑞士双人赛 1st Jon Cooke 和 Sarah Kosch 119 VPs. 2nd Jamie 和 Liam Fegarty 95 VPs. 3rd Szczepan Smoczynski 和 Mary Gordon-Smith 92 VPs. 瑞士团体赛 1st Andi Boughey, Adam Hickman, Steve Raine 和 David Willis 81.51 VPs. 2nd Jon Cooke, Sarah Kosch, Neil 和 Anne Rosen 80.81 VPs. 3rd Daniel McIntosh, Claire Robinson, Sally Brock 和 Barry Myers 78.34 VPs.
昨天凌晨，从帕丁顿开往彭赞斯的午夜快车在经过梅登黑德附近的拉斯康布后不久，发现火车中间的两节车厢起火。快车随即停下，受影响隔间的乘客在车内撤离，两节车厢被隔离。然而，火势无法被扑灭，这两节车厢（其中一节为行李车）几乎被焚毁。
在乘客们得到所有危险已排除的保证，并安排继续行程之前，人群中一度陷入相当大的惊慌。起火原因目前仍是个谜。
度假者的损失。
【本报特派记者报道】特威福德，星期五。火灾是在火车经过伯克斯郡特威福德附近的拉斯康布时被发现的，当时两节中间车厢被发现起火。起火原因尚未查明，也不确定火源是始于乘客车厢的一个空置隔间，还是始于与之挂接的海运邮件信件车。一名乘客首先发现了火灾并拉动了紧急通讯链。当火车停下时，发现两节车厢均已剧烈起火，随即被分离。火势之猛，加之可用水量极少，人们立刻意识到几乎没有可能挽救这两节车厢免于被毁。不过，铁路官员和乘客们仍竭力抢救起火邮件车内的财物，并取得了一定成效。乘客中包括大量度假者，许多人失去了个人物品——丝绸连衣裙、野战望远镜、照相机、儿童海边用的水桶和铲子、报纸、杂志以及成捆的乐谱，这一切都成为了助燃物。一名乘客对现场进行了生动的描述。她说道：“我在打盹，被火车突然停下时接连的颠簸惊醒。透过窗户，我瞥见天空有一道强光，向外一看，只见两节中间车厢喷出火舌。我们许多乘客跳下车厢，沿着铁轨跑去，看看能否提供帮助。涉事车厢的所有人员均已安全撤离，这幸好，因为火车以每小时50英里的速度疾驰，微风助长了火势，火焰已经失控，从窗户喷涌而出，冲向高空。当时已经没有希望再从列车员车厢中取出任何行李，而凭借现有设备，我们扑灭火势的努力就像用花园喷水壶对付熔炉一样毫无效果。不久之后……”
个人动态
访问了布鲁克豪斯健康与福祉中心（Brooke House Health and Wellbeing Centre），位于 Colebrooke Park, 26 Colebrooke Park Road, Brookeborough，并由费马纳郡的国王代表（布鲁克伯勒子爵 KG）接见。
随后，她的皇家殿下访问了在圣蒂格纳克教堂（St Tighernach’s Church）和厄文斯顿教堂街（Church Street, Irvinestown）圣心教堂的英联邦战争坟墓委员会遗址的英国皇家空军航空学员，以纪念该部队成立 85 周年，并由肖恩·潘德里先生（费马纳郡副代表）接见。
安妮公主今天下午访问了卡斯尔阿什代尔战争博物馆（Castle Archdale War Museum），位于 Castle Archdale Country Park, 346 Killadeas Road, Irvinestown。
今日寿辰
AA 主席 Trevor Chinn 爵士，2004-07，91 岁；建筑师 Quinlan Terry 先生，89 岁；证券投资学院主席 Scott Dobbie 先生，2000-09。
一百年前
伦敦，星期六 7 月 24, 1926
“车厢已被解钩隔离，它们被熊熊烈火吞噬，火光将现场照得如同白昼。” 在延迟了一个多小时后，这列快车继续向西行驶。被分离的车厢几乎被烧毁，随后被移至特威福德（Twyford）的大西部铁路货场，直到今日正午时分，那里仍有余烟在缭绕。 将举行调查。
大西部铁路公司的一份官方声明称，火灾局限在一部行李车和一部乘客制动车内。声明继续道：“起火原因目前尚不明确，但将成为调查的主题。火车在特威福德伦敦方向约一英里处停下，随后车辆被分离。前部车厢被送往特威福德，后部车厢的乘客被转移至 12.15 a.m. 从帕丁顿（Paddington）出发的列车上，该车在事故现场的救援线上停靠以接载他们。随后他们在特威福德与午夜十二点的列车汇合。没有乘客或工作人员受伤，永久路基未受损坏，但车厢内的物品（包括报纸和乘客行李）被毁。”
法国对外国游客的敌意。
本报驻巴黎特派记者，周五。连续两个晚上，巴黎再次出现针对夜晚乘坐大型旅游巴士在市区游览的外国人的示威活动。法国人首先对这些示威表示遗憾，这些活动的严重程度无需夸大，尽管这些抗议标志着一种萌芽状态的不安。另一方面，来自其他国家的人们（其中一些国家因其在盟国间债务问题上的态度而在此受到批评）应当记得，身在法国，他们面对的是一群开始感受到货币贬值影响的人民；在这种情况下，至少出于礼貌，不应在法国人面前炫耀自己货币的优越性，也不应大声宣称因此而导致物价对他们来说“几乎不花钱”。 随后：今晚，针对乘坐旅游巴士在巴黎景点游览的外国游客的示威活动再次地以更激烈的程度爆发。在旅游巴士准备从海尔德路（Rue de Helder）与意大利人大道（Boulevard des Italiens）交汇处的一家旅行社出发前不久，人群变得如此密集，以至于需要强力警力来维持交通畅通。每当一辆载满游客的车辆出发时，都会迎接一阵大声的嘲笑和口哨声。九点半时，人群规模已达到必须请求警察增援的程度。警方进行了数次逮捕。其中一起案例中，一名男子紧紧抓住车辆的踏板，被一名警察强行扯下，经过在拥挤交通中一段短暂而激烈的追逐后被捕。他被带走时高喊着“法兰西万岁”，人群中的很大一部分也齐声重复这一口号。有六辆旅游巴士满载离开旅游办公室，但随后其他车辆空车离开时则引起了欢呼。在发报时，人群正在散去，但仍有 1,000 多名激动的人群在街角等待，并对每辆经过大道的旅游巴士进行抗议。
87; Highbury的西蒙勋爵 (Lord Simon of Highbury)， 1992–95年任首席执行官， 1995–97年任BP董事长，87; Sir John Bond， 2011-13年任 Glencore Xstrata 董事长， 2006-11年任 Vodafone Group 董事长，85; Zaheer Abbas先生， 前巴基斯坦板球运动员及管理人员，79; 皇家空军元帅 Sir Malcolm Pledger， 2002-04年任国防部国防后勤主管，78; Finsbury的史密斯勋爵 (Lord Smith of Finsbury)， 前工党内阁部长； 2015-25年任剑桥大学彭布罗克学院院长，75; 正教会主教 James Newcome， 2009-23年任卡莱尔主教，73; Oareford的希尔勋爵 (Lord Hill of Oareford)， 2014-16年任欧盟委员会成员，66; Eglinton和Winton伯爵，60; Daniel Pruce先生， 英属维尔京群岛总督，60; Julia Bradbury女士， 广播员，56; 以及 Dame Tracey Crouch， 前保守党政府部长，51。
今天是作家 Robert Graves 于 1895. 年出生的周年纪念日。同时也是 1704 年从西班牙人手中夺回直布罗陀的周年纪念日。
HODGSON RYCKAERT.—7月17日星期五，在比利时根特，Poppy和Philippe喜得双胞胎，分别为 Margot Ferelith Kiki 和 Louis Thomas Granville。 在线参考号：W0051081
周年纪念
金婚
MUSSETT - LOMAS.—1976, 年7月24日，在 Rye 的圣玛丽教堂，Paul 与 Tessa 结为夫妻。育有女儿 Rachel 和儿子 Samuel，以及孙女 Leighton 和 Ellie。 在线参考号：W0051028
讣告
COLLENETTE.—Richard。2026 年6月30日在南安普顿总医院安详离世，享年 70 岁。他是 Annabel 深爱的丈夫。他的所有家人和朋友都将深切缅怀他。所有查询请联系 Brockenhurst 的 Maria Jones 殡仪馆。电话：01590 622981。 在线参考号：W0051085
KRUGER.—Zia 在患病后于 2026 年7月6日星期一安详离世，享年 85 岁。葬礼仪式将于 2026 年7月29日星期三上午 11 点在 West Kington 的圣玛丽处女教堂举行。仅限家人献花，如欲捐款，请通过 F.W. Jones 殡仪馆捐赠至 Leukaemia UK 和 RSPCA。电话：01249 652525。 在线参考号：W0051083
WALTON.—Edith ‘Mollie’ 于 2026 年7月9日安详离世，享年 87 岁。她是已故的 The Venerable Geoffrey Walton（前多塞特区执事）挚爱的妻子，也是 Jeremy 亲爱的母亲。查询请联系 Nicholas O’Hara 殡仪馆。电话：01202 882134。 在线参考号：W0051015
WINDLE.—Mary，2026 年7月17日在 Brampton 的 Greenlane House 安详离世，享年 96 岁。她是已故 Gordon 珍爱的妻子。她是 Michael, Robert 和 Helen 深爱的母亲。八个孙辈和十个曾孙辈的祖母。将举行私人家庭葬礼。 在线参考号：W0051047
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每日经文
当你进入他的殿堂，要心存感恩，赞美主。主是好的！ 他的慈爱和信实永远长存。 诗篇 100.4-5 (CEV)
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资助博物馆和艺术画廊的金融家、探险家、奥运运动员及慈善家
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克里斯托弗·翁达特杰爵士 (SIR CHRISTOPHER ONDAATJE) 逝世，享年 93 岁。他最初仅拥有 10 英镑 (£10)，通过在加拿大股票市场获利而积累了巨额财富，并以真正惊人的规模成为了出版商、作家、探险家、收藏家、奥运运动员和慈善家。尽管他不如其弟弟迈克尔 (Michael) 那样出名——后者的布克奖获奖小说《英国病人》被改编成了获奖电影——但克里斯托弗·翁达特杰的慈善事业可能为他赢得了在历史上更长的一笔注脚。他的资助项目如此之多且如此多样，以至于一位评论员观察到，“以他命名的展翼已经足够开一家航空公司了”。翁达特杰身材高挑、优雅且五官精致，散发出真正创造者那种紧张的强度和无限的热情，且似乎蔑视那个让他赚到数百万英镑的贪婪高层金融世界。他的慈善行为部分是出于一种担忧，即他希望人们记住他的不仅是他在股票和股份方面的天赋。“我不希望我的墓碑上写着金融家，”他说道，并提到阿尔弗雷德·诺贝尔发明了炸药，但人们记得的是诺贝尔和平奖。“我担心自己死后会获得错误的赞誉。”他在英国资助的项目包括国家肖像画馆的翁达特杰翼楼（他捐赠了 275 万英镑 £2.75 million）、维多利亚和阿尔伯特博物馆、皇家地理学会（他捐赠了 150 万英镑 £1.5 million 用于资助翻新的讲堂——翁达特杰剧院）、萨默塞特郡板球俱乐部在汤顿的卓越学校，以及他位于德文郡的母校布伦德尔学校。他还设立了每年 10,000 英镑 (£10,000) 的翁达特杰肖像画奖，并在 2001 年收购了《文学评论》 (Literary Review)。然而，翁达特杰直到 2001 年才真正引起公众关注，当时他宣布将支持对象从保守党转向工党，并向工党捐赠 200 万英镑 (£2 million)。在当年大选前夕，他背离保守党是对该党领袖威廉·海格 (William Hague) 的沉重打击。一些愤慨的声音暗示翁达特杰这样做是为了获得贵族爵位，他对此予以坚决否认：“出于社交原因我曾支持保守党，因为那样比较容易，”他解释道。“但我意识到那是错的。我对那些认为自己拥有所谓统治权的保守党大佬感到厌恶。那些日子已经结束了。现在是一个不同的世界。工党赢得了人民的信任和理解。我很高兴能给他们钱。”不过，翁达特杰真正的热情在于探险。在 20 世纪 70 年代初，他发现了一本名为《恶魔驱动》(The Devil Drives) 的书，作者是福恩·布罗迪 (Fawn Brody)，这是一部关于维多利亚时代探险家理查德·伯顿爵士 (Sir Richard Burton) 的传记。他痴迷于伯顿与约翰·汉宁·斯皮克 (John Hanning Speke) 寻找尼罗河源头的经历，并在接下来的 20 年里决定在某个时刻他也将“过那种生活”。翁达特杰随后在非洲和印度追随这位探险家的足迹，并撰写了几本广受好评的书籍，包括《尼罗河源头之旅》(Journey to the Source of the Nile) 和《重访信德》(Sindh Revisited)，这两本书都记录了他对伯顿冒险经历的重现；以及《普南奈的食人者》(Maneater of Punanai)。
克里斯托弗·翁达特杰爵士，出生于 1933 年 2 月 22 日，逝世于 2026 年 7 月 20 日 克里斯托弗·特纳牧师 (The Reverend Christopher Turner)
克里斯托弗·特纳 (CHRISTOPHER TURNER) 牧师逝世，享寿 96 岁。他是一位卓越的教育家，在担任院长克洛斯学校 (Dean Close) 和斯托学校 (Stowe) 校长期间，成功地在两所学校引入了男女同校制。尽管他看起来端正、学究且正式，但这掩盖了他的机智、同情心和独立思考能力。他在道德层面上难以认同私立学校享有慈善机构地位的合理性，并提醒斯托学校的学生们，“他们必须记住，当他们离开这里时，这个世界并不欠他们任何东西——相反，他们欠这个世界的比大多数人更多。”当他身穿飘逸的学者袍，浓眉大眼地在斯托学校的柱廊亭阁间穿梭时，人们亲切地称他为“蝙蝠”。
他在金钱、时间以及才智上都十分慷慨。在中年时期，他曾考虑在伦敦的一所综合中学任教，但不得不承认，他的主修科目拉丁语和希腊语不太可能被需要。在 59 岁退休后不久，他不仅被任命为牧师，在牛津郡的胡克诺顿 (Hook Norton)、斯韦福德 (Swerford) 和格里特罗尔赖特 (Great Rollright) 教区服务，还在伯明翰郊区买了一栋简朴的房子。在那里，他与妻子露西娅 (Lucia) 连续 10 年在霍克斯利教会小学学院 (Hawksley Church Primary Academy) 担任非正式的补习教师志愿者。
克里斯托弗·吉尔伯特·特纳于 12 月 23 1929 年出生，是以他母亲和父亲的兄长克里斯托弗和吉尔伯特的名字命名，两人均在第一次世界大战中牺牲。他的父亲西奥多 (Theodore) 是一位名流御用大律师 (King’s Counsel)；他的母亲伊丽莎白 (Elizabeth)，原姓舒斯特 (Schuster)，曾是圣保罗女子学校的学校首席学生，且在 20 世纪 20 年代初对于女性而言非常罕见地攻读了法律。
他的祖父之一曾在老肯特路 (Old Kent Road) 做刷匠，他...
[[IMG_XXXX]] 昂达特在切尔西的家中：他真正的热情在于探索 “颠簸地颠簸、痢疾、身上爬满蜱虫、脏得要命，我渴望这一切，”他说
身穿飘逸的袍子，浓眉大眼地在柱廊亭阁间穿梭，他被亲切地称为“蝙蝠”
...关于他自己斯里兰卡根源的半自传体记述；海明威在非洲的经历；以及伍尔夫在锡兰的经历：《在伦纳德·伍尔夫的阴影下的一次帝国之旅，1904–1911》。
根据他自己的描述，他生命中真正的最高点出现在 1996 年，当时他到达了阿尔伯特湖的南端，并沿着塞姆利基河穿过沼泽、湿地和泥潭进入湖中的路径进行了追踪。
“我到达了没有其他探险家去过的地方，”他回忆道，“不是伯顿，不是斯皮克，不是贝克，不是利文斯顿，也不是斯坦利。我知道我跨越了界限。我赢得了属于自己的奖赏。”
菲利普·克里斯托弗·昂达特 (Philip Christopher Ondaatje) 于 2 月 22 1933 年出生在锡兰的康提 (Kandy)。他的父亲默文 (Mervyn) 是一位富有的种植园主，其祖先是 17 世纪抵达该岛的荷兰市民 (burghers)。一位祖先完成了圣经的首个泰米尔语译本，而年轻的昂达特在母亲那边的舅舅是锡兰的总检察长。
12 岁时，昂达特被送往蒂弗顿 (Tiverton) 的布伦德尔学校 (Blundell’s School)，在那里他被视为外来者，但他凭借出色的板球技巧，成功克服了殖民地出身的劣势。
就在最后一学年之前，他收到一封来自母亲的信，告诉他必须离开，因为在锡兰脱离...独立后出现的问题导致家庭失去了所有资金。
取得了“成功”，创办了一家刷鞋业务，后来发展成了 Cherry Blossom 鞋油品牌。另一位是舒斯特勋爵（克劳德），他在大法官部门担任常务秘书长 35 年。
特纳家族是天主教徒。舒斯特家族最初是德国犹太金融家，其后代在 19 世纪 20 年代从法兰克福迁至曼彻斯特并皈依基督教。
信仰与教育深深植根于他的基因中。他的堂兄（同样出生于 1929 年）是板球运动员、著名的利物浦主教大卫·谢泼德。他的表妹是哲学家玛丽·沃诺克（原姓威尔逊）。他的家族有五代人在牛津大学就读，其中大多数是古典学者。他的姐姐珍妮成为了一名外交官和广播员，弟弟迈克尔则成为一名高等法院法官。
克里斯托弗在多塞特长大，并在 1943 年战争最阴郁的岁月里作为奖学金获得者进入温彻斯特学院；在那里，他还参与唱歌和演奏小提琴。1948 年，他获得了一项奖学金，在牛津大学新学院攻读古典学。1951 年——也就是牛津队翻船的那一年——他代表大学参加了赛艇赛（他是两艘船中体重最重的人，重出一人之量）。
他曾考虑过入圣职，但被父亲劝阻。相反，他选择了另一种天职：教学。在这一领域，他始终如一且专注，在各个岗位上度过了近十年的时光——先后担任拉德利（1952-61）和查特豪斯（1961-68）的古典学主管，随后担任迪恩克洛斯（1968-79）和斯托（1979-89）的校长。在此期间，他分别在 61、68、79 和 89 年完成了这些阶段。
他保持着对合唱的兴趣，在基布尔学院礼拜堂一场由巴赫合唱团举办的音乐会结束时，他遇到了露西亚·格兰维尔。露西亚曾是萨默维尔学院的奖学金获得者，是一名中英语大学讲师，并在玛格丽特夫人楼担任导师。她是斯蒂芬·格兰维尔的女儿，后者是剑桥大学国王学院院长及埃及学教授。
他们于次年 1961 年夏天结婚；他们的三个孩子在他在查特豪斯的年间出生。
克里斯托弗和露西亚在 2021 年庆祝了他们的钻石婚，不久之后她在 2022 年去世。
此外还有其他悲痛：在特纳 1989 年从斯托退休前几周，他们刚结婚不久的长女罗莎莉在一次车祸中丧生。近期，他们的儿子马修在访问父亲后，在一次飞往新西兰故乡的长途飞行后于 2024 年去世。
特纳留下的持久遗产之一是将斯托学校引导向长期的生存之路。在 20 世纪 20 年代，位于欧洲最精美的 18 世纪新古典主义景观之一的斯托宫邸，拥有 27
曾在英国“大有作为”，创办了一家刷鞋业务，后来发展成了 Cherry Blossom 鞋油品牌。现实中，他的父亲由于酗酒和赌博败光了家业。
他的父母离婚，不久后他的父亲死于一场事故。与此同时，他的母亲带着小儿子迈克尔和女儿珍妮特搬到了英格兰，并找到了一份在诺丁山经营寄宿房的工作。作为长子，克里斯托弗肩负起恢复家族财富的责任，在他 17 岁生日那天，他开始在伦敦的一家银行工作。
为了通过银行考试，他必须在伦敦政治经济学院参加一场关于股市的讲座。这改变了他的生活：“讲师告诉我，你可以拥有一个公司，并将其分割成代表其价值的纸片。我简直惊呆了。我想：‘我的天，这种情况已经持续多久了？这就是我要度过的生活。我要学习关于金融的一切，成为一名专家。’”
在判断加拿大能提供更好的机会后，他于 1956 年离开英国，到达多伦多时口袋里仅有 £10。他曾一度靠烤面包和咖啡维持生活，随后在银行和投资界步步攀升，很快赚到了他的第一个百万。他于 1970 年创办了加拿大第一家机构经纪公司 Loewen, Ondaatje, McCutcheon & Co，并成立了自己的出版公司 Pagurian Corporation，到 1988 年，该公司控制的资产达 $2 billion。
与此同时，他建立了一个最大的私人收藏之一。
加拿大和东南亚艺术，并撰写并资助出版了他的第一本书《加拿大总理：1867-1967》(1968)，该书售出 600,000 册。1964 年，他代表加拿大参加了在因斯布鲁克举行的冬季奥运会四人bobsleigh（雪橇）比赛。尽管他在该领域极其出色，但他一直不认可股市，曾将自己职业生涯的那部分比作将灵魂出卖给魔鬼。1988 年，他决定不再如此，卖掉了自己的公司，以便过上他更向往的生活——一名 19 世纪旅行者和探险家的生活。随后，他搬回伦敦，以便靠近皇家地理学会。Ondaatje 对 Burton、Speke 以及寻找尼罗河源头的痴迷，促使他开始了一系列进入赤道非洲核心地带的艰险旅程。“颠簸、痢疾……全身都是蜱虫……脏得要命……我渴望这一切，”他告诉《电讯报》。在 1996 年的一次前往东非和中非大裂谷湖区的远征中，他幸运地从 5,000 人的劳伦特·卡比拉叛军的杀戮关注中逃脱，当时这些叛军正处于反对扎伊尔姆布托政权的战争早期阶段。在不探险和写作时，Ondaatje 将精力投入到他的慈善基金会中。他成为皇家地理学会的院士和信托人，忠实地参加会议，并且是其筹款咨询小组的成员。他经常在学会位于 Kensington Gore 的总部发表演讲，并定期参加周一晚上的讲座。在英联邦的其他地区，他慷慨资助的对象包括加拿大的皇家安大略博物馆（他捐赠了 £450,000 用于建设克里斯托弗·昂达特南亚艺术馆）、百慕大国家美术馆、达尔豪斯大学、新斯科舍省美术馆、加拿大国家芭蕾舞学校以及新西兰的梅西大学。他于 2000 年被授予 CBE（大英帝国司令勋章），并于 2003 年因对博物馆、美术馆和学会的贡献而被封爵。Ondaatje 保持着对体育的兴趣，是一位热衷于帆船、高尔夫和板球的运动爱好者，并且是萨默塞特郡板球俱乐部 (Somerset CCC) 的终身会员和赞助人。除了在伦敦的住所外，Ondaatje 周末会在埃克斯穆尔的庄园 Glenthorne 度过，并在新斯科舍省、巴哈马和科罗拉多州阿斯彭拥有房产。2011 年，他出版了回忆录《最后的殖民者》(The Last Colonial)。他的其他著作还包括《纸张的力量》(The Power of Paper) (2007)，这是一部对全球经济崩溃的预见性警告。1959 年，他与拉脱维亚人 Valda Bulins 結婚，后者陪同他参加了一些较为艰苦的冒险活动。“我让我的妻子经历了一些艰辛，”他评论道。“我们绝对深爱彼此，但我认为她并不信任我。”他们育有一个儿子和两个女儿。
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其园内的 I 级上市建筑曾因学校的建立而免于被拆除。但到了 20 世纪 70 年代，在缺乏任何重大捐赠的情况下，仅凭学费收入，该校在维持、更不用说修复这座住宅或景观方面，一直处于劣势。
特纳（Turner）与国家信托基金会（National Trust）合作，在 1989. 年为景观及其亭阁制定了一项 1,000 万英镑（£10 million）的修复计划。而国家信托基金会的未来主席罗杰·乔利勋爵（Lord (Roger) Chorley）——许多谈判是通过他进行的——是一位资深的斯多葛主义者，这对计划有所帮助。
这一举措在很久之后促成了斯托庄园保护信托基金会（Stowe House Preservation Trust）的成立，通过该机制，住宅的国家礼宾厅在学期内由学校占用，而在假期则向公众开放。
特纳的著作包括为《希腊与罗马文学比较研究》（1969）和《迪恩克洛斯——首个百年》（1986）撰写的章节，以及给政客和公司董事长们写的源源不断的——但未能引起关注的——信件。
退休后，他担任当地学校管理机构的主席，包括 Oakdene、Beachborough、Aldro、Elstree、Lambrook 和 Chipping Norton。
他一生都在演奏小提琴，经常与学校管弦乐团合作。在他于斯托（Stowe）参加的最后一个演讲日（Speech Day）里，他是海顿《告别交响曲》的最后一名演奏者。
在 93, 岁时，他出发前往黑山共和国参观古典考古遗址，并计划在西班牙进行同样的行程。
克里斯托弗·特纳（Christopher Turner）留下了他的一个女儿和五个孙辈。
拉斯·约翰逊 (LAS JOHNSON) 逝世，享年 94 岁。他是一位次中音萨克斯风演奏家，曾与众多星光熠熠的艺术家合作，包括艾拉·费兹洁拉 (Ella Fitzgerald)、小理查德 (Little Richard)、钢心丹 (Steely Dan) 和埃尔顿·约翰 (Elton John)。他最著名的时刻为全球数以百万计的人所熟知：1963 年，他演奏了《粉红豹主题曲》(The Pink Panther Theme)，而亨利·曼西尼 (Henry Mancini) 在作曲时正是考虑到他。曼西尼在回忆录《他们提到音乐了吗？》(Did They Mention the Music?) 中写道：“我告诉动画师，我会给他们一个可以配合动画的节奏，这样每当有激烈的动作，比如有人被击中时，我可以为其配乐。”“我心中有一个特定的萨克斯风演奏者——拉斯·约翰逊。我几乎总是预先选定演奏者，并为他们以及围绕他们而创作，而拉斯拥有我想要的音色和风格。”在录音室里，约翰逊很快就精准地掌握了它。“我想我们只录了两遍，”他回忆道。“当我们结束时，每个人都鼓掌了，甚至连弦乐手也鼓掌。这很有说服力，因为他们从不对任何事情鼓掌。”拉斯·约翰·约翰逊于 1931 年 7 月 21 日出生在路易斯安那州的唐纳森维尔，离新奥尔良不远。他的名字与“爵士”(jazz) 押韵，源自法语 plaisant，意为“愉快的”或“宜人的”。他的母亲弹钢琴并唱歌，而他的父亲演奏中音萨克斯风，他们在酒吧、舞厅和餐厅工作谋生。在他 12 岁时，父亲给了他一支高音萨克斯风并教授了一些课程；后来他扩展到该乐器的其他音域，并精通长笛和单簧管。青少年时期，他在新奥尔良与弹钢琴的兄弟雷 (Ray) 一起演奏，并与 R'n'B 歌手查尔斯·布朗 (Charles Brown) 一起巡演。在服完兵役后，他搬到了洛杉矶，在那里成为一名炙手可热的录音室乐手，以在极其简短的贡献中填充丰富内容而闻名。“我擅长在 8 个小节内迅速进入状态，”他在 1992 年说道，“在 12 个小节内则能达到极热状态。”约翰逊为其录音增色的一份截短名单包括：纳特·“国王”·科尔 (Nat “King” Cole)、弗兰克·辛纳屈 (Frank Sinatra)、佩吉·李 (Peggy Lee)、莎拉·沃恩 (Sarah Vaughan)、海岸合唱团 (the Coasters)、约翰博士 (Dr John)、圆盘合唱团 (the Platters)、杜安·艾迪 (Duane Eddy)、法茨·多米诺 (Fats Domino)、马文·盖伊 (Marvin Gaye)、至上公司 (the Supremes)、雷·查尔斯 (Ray Charles)、
他是录音室乐手之王
芭芭拉·斯特赖桑 (Barbra Streisand)、昆西·琼斯 (Quincy Jones) 和 B.B. 金 (BB King)。他是“破坏之组”(Wrecking Crew) 的常客，参与了曼西尼的《彼得·根》(Peter Gunn) 主题曲录音，以及《古怪组合》(The Odd Couple) 和《 the Monkees》等节目。他还参与了多张钢心丹 (Steely Dan) 的专辑，并在罗德·斯图尔特 (Rod Stewart) 的《今晚就是那个夜晚》(Tonight’s the Night) 中提供了那段极具诱惑力的独奏。
1991 年，当另一位经常合作的艺术家琳达·朗斯塔特 (Linda Ronstadt) 在制作亚伦·内维尔 (Aaron Neville) 的专辑《温暖你的心》(Warm Your Heart) 时，她在广播中听到了一首古老的都-沃普 (doo-wop) 歌曲——由唐纳德·伍兹 (Donald Woods) 和 Vel-Aires 演唱的《天使之死》(Death of an Angel)。她喜欢那段萨克斯风独奏的感觉，于是打电话给约翰逊并透过电话播放给他听，希望他能做出类似的效果。他说他确定可以做到——几分钟后，灵感迸发：这段独奏成为了他的作品。
尽管他是录音室之王，但约翰逊和他的录音室同僚们自称为“好莱坞娼妓”，一些观察者认为，如果他坚持纯粹的爵士乐，他可能会成为其世代最伟大的次中音萨克斯风演奏家之一。不过，他坚持认为自己没有担任领衔人物的性格：“我从未在观众面前拥有能言善道的才华。我只会变得僵硬。”
在晚年，他开始以自己的名义进行巡演，经常与当地的节奏组以及像吉恩·哈里斯超级乐队 (Gene Harris Superband) 这样的团体合作。“我意识到，我现在所做的事情在很多年里都被我搁置了，”他说。
2006 年，他为史蒂夫·马丁 (Steve Martin) 的翻拍版录制了一个新版本的《粉红豹》主题曲。
拉斯·约翰逊的第一任妻子是伊丽莎白·布林肯伯格 (Elizabeth Blinkenberg)，最终以离婚告终。他的遗属包括与其结婚 60 年的妻子卡罗尔 (Carol)、他们的一个女儿和两个儿子，以及他第一段婚姻中的两个女儿和一个儿子。
拉斯·约翰逊，生于 1931 年 7 月 21 日，卒于 2026 年 7 月 15 日
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鲍里斯·约翰逊：深入乌克兰杀戮区 Channel 5, 9pm
鲍里斯·约翰逊在前往乌克兰前线时穿戴好防护装备
前首相 鲍里斯·约翰逊曾多次访问 饱受战争蹂躏的乌克兰。然而， 那些外交访问几乎总是前往 首都基辅，在那里国家 领导人可以免受俄罗斯的 袭击。 然而，在这部非凡的 纪录片中， 约翰逊回归其记者身份， 进行一次前往乌克兰前线（ 即所谓的“杀戮区”）的 大胆旅程。 他想要亲眼目睹乌克兰士兵 在对抗普京的第四年里—— 为其自身而战的 日常现实。 由于约翰逊即使在隐姓埋名的情况下 依然是一个极具价值且易于识别的 目标，这次任务变得更加危险。 随着约翰逊在乌克兰旅行， 住在简陋粗糙的公寓里， 在炸弹如雨般落下时 难以入眠，他面对的是 世界上第一场无人机战争的 地狱现实。 在乌克兰，几乎所有事情都围绕着
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花岗岩港 (Granite Harbour) BBC One, 8pm 这部苏格兰侦探剧的 前两季讲述了牙买加籍 警探戴维斯·林多（罗马里奥·辛普森 饰） 在抵达阿伯丁成为一名 局外人后，试图证明自己的故事。 第三季今晚开播，案件 再次触及偏见：一名年轻女性 被发现在一个流浪者营地附近死亡。
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这部热门同志浪漫剧的幕后故事
无人机：探测、击落、 快于其速及部署 无人机。正如约翰逊所观察到的， 这种持续的无人机威胁 已迫使部队进入地下， 情况令人想起第一次 世界大战。他认为这是一个 恐怖的战场，如果西方 能采取更多行动帮助乌克兰获胜， 本可以避免。 相反，他说，“我们 被乌克兰的成功 诱导产生了一种虚假的安全感”。 Stephen Kelly
这部 1980 年代犯罪 经典剧集的重启版在 BBC 盛大首播。今晚的开播 双集将向我们重新介绍 酗酒的吉姆·贝格拉克 (Jim Bergerac，由 Damien Molony 饰)，一名在 泽西岛一名精英成员被杀后 重返岗位的悲伤侦探。 一部犀利且引人入胜的悬疑剧。
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Prog Rock at the Proms (前卫摇滚音乐会) BBC Four, 7pm 前卫摇滚打破了流行音乐的 界限。今晚的 音乐会由 BBC Radio 6 Music 的 Stuart Maconie 主持， 将通过 ELP、Genesis、Jethro Tull、 Mike Oldfield 等人的歌曲的 全新管弦乐编曲 向该流派致敬。 随后请继续关注 一个前卫摇滚主题的 重播之夜。 SK
Janet Planet (2023) BBC Two, 11.05pm 这是一部由普利策奖 得主作家 Annie Baker 执导、带有温柔神秘感的 导演处女作。《Janet Planet》是一部 母女剧，背景设定在 1991 年绿意盎然的 马萨诸塞州农村。 11 岁的 Lacy (Zoe Ziegler 饰) 和她的 母亲 Janet (Julianne Nicholson 饰，这与她在 《Paradise》中那个令人惊恐的 角色完全不同) 在他们巨大的林中木屋家中 共同度过一个夏天， 各种角色在他们的生活中 进进出出。
[[IMG_XXXX]] Julianne Nicholson 和 Zoe Ziegler 饰演母女
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Kay 曾在 BBC 报道美国新闻多年，面孔与声音都非常熟悉，现在她更以热门播客《政治之余：美国篇》(The Rest is Politics: US) 的共同主持人（与 Anthony Scaramucci 共同主持）身份而闻名。在这部新的六集节目中，她探讨了“信心”——它是如何塑造我们的生活与工作方式的。
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8.00am 新闻 8.06 访谈 8.30 商业日报 8.50 历史见证 9.00 新闻室 9.30 BBC 内部科学 10.00 新闻 10.06 意外元素 11.00 新闻室 11.30 全球故事 12.00 新闻 12.06pm 展望 (Outlook) 12.50 历史见证 1.00 新闻室 1.30 心灵之窗 (Heart and Soul) 2.00 新闻小时 (Newshour) 3.00 新闻 3.06 访谈 3.30 商业日报 3.50 世界商业快讯 4.00 BBC OS 6.00 新闻 6.06 展望 (Outlook) 6.50 历史见证 7.00 新闻室 7.30 今日体育 8.00 新闻 8.06 BBC OS 对话 8.30 群体科学 (CrowdScience) 9.00 新闻小时 (Newshour) 10.00 新闻 10.06
上午 6.00 《早安英国》(S) 10.00 《今晨》(S) 下午 1.30 新闻 (S) 1.55 ITV 伦敦新闻；天气 (S) 2.00 《迪金森的真实交易》(AD) (R) (S) 3.00 《交易还是不交易》(AD) (R) (S) 4.00 《颠覆点》(R) (S) 5.00 《追击》(R) (S) 6.00 ITV 伦敦新闻；天气 (S) 6.30 新闻 (S)
7.30 《艾比·克兰西：名人住宅》 艾比走访 Lorna Luxe 和 Jo Wood 的住宅 (S)
8.00 《艾默代尔》Dawn 对 Billy 与 Gabby 约会感到不满 (AD) (S)
8.30 《加冕街》Sarah 承认谋杀 Theo (AD) (S)
9.00 《阿曼达·诺克斯的扭曲故事》 媒体的报道将阿曼达塑造成了一个怪物 (AD) (S)
10.05 《阿曼达·诺克斯的扭曲故事》 Mignini 的案件出现了转折，对新嫌疑人的搜寻开始 (AD) (S)
11.05 新闻 11.40 ITV 伦敦新闻；天气 11.55 《走进朗廷酒店：英国第一座豪华酒店》 凌晨 12.20 电视购物 3.00 《没人是傻瓜》 3.50 《失散多年的亲人》 4.45 - 6.00am ITV 舒缓时光
“了解你的价值”运动创始人 Mika Brzezinski，健身创业家 Ally Love 以及心理学家兼科普作家 Adam Grant。 Gerard O’Donovan
《访谈》 10.30 《心灵与灵魂》 11.00 《新闻室》 11.30 《世界商业报告》 12.00 新闻 凌晨 12.06 《意外元素》 1.00 《新闻室》 1.30 《全球故事》 2.00 《新闻室》 2.30 《僵局》 3.00 新闻 3.06 《展望》 3.50 《见证历史》 4.00 新闻 4.06 《意外元素》 5.00 《新闻室》 5.30 《不仅仅是比分》 5.50 6.00am 《更多或更少》
RADIO 4 EXTRA（广播4 附加频道）
上午 6.00 《波尔特》 6.30 《高桌与低层》 7.00 《衰落的小英格兰》 7.30 《超出我们的认知》 8.00 《忏悔室》 8.30 《来自无处的新闻》 8.45 《散步摇滚》 9.00 《教区事务》 9.30 《花园之野》 9.45 《每日礼拜》 10.00 《灵魂音乐》 10.30 《发胶与和谐》 11.00 《波尔特》 11.30 《高桌与低层》 12.00 《衰落的小英格兰》 下午 12.30 《超出我们的认知》 1.00 《忏悔室》 1.30 《来自无处的新闻》 1.45 《散步摇滚》 2.00 《好奇心博物馆》 2.30 《米尔波特》 3.00 《绿山墙之安妮》 3.30 《一些驯服的瞪羚》 4.00 《灵魂音乐》 4.30 《发胶与和谐》 5.00 《波尔特》 5.30 《高桌与低层》 6.00 《衰落的小英格兰》 6.30 《超出我们的认知》 7.00 《忏悔室》 7.30 《来自无处的新闻》 7.45 《散步摇滚》 8.00 《好奇心博物馆》 8.30 《米尔波特》 9.00 《绿山墙之安妮》 9.30 《一些驯服的瞪羚》 10.00 《教区事务》 10.30 《恩詹比·麦格拉思：成为恩詹比》 10.45 《里斯·詹姆斯是特权阶级》 11.00 《发泄》 11.30 《劳拉·索隆：讲述与不讲述》 12.00 《灵魂音乐》 凌晨 12.30 《发胶与和谐》 1.00 《波尔特》 1.30 《高桌与低层》 2.00 《衰落的小英格兰》 2.30 《超出我们的认知》 3.00 《忏悔室》 3.30 《来自无处的新闻》 3.45 《散步摇滚》 4.00 《好奇心博物馆》 4.30 《米尔波特》 5.00 《绿山墙之安妮》 5.30 6.00am 《一些驯服的瞪羚》
6.25 am Cheers (R) (S) 6.50 Cheers (R) (S) 7.20 Cheers (R) (S) 7.45 Everybody Loves Raymond (AD) (R) (S) 8.10 Everybody Loves Raymond (AD) (R) (S) 8.40 Everybody Loves Raymond (AD) (R) (S) 9.10 Frasier (AD) (R) (S) 9.40 Frasier (AD) (R) (S) 10.10 Frasier (AD) (R) (S) 10.40 Frasier (AD) (R) (S) 11.10 American Pickers (AD) (R) (S) 12.05 pm Channel 4 News (S) 12.10 Car S.O.S (AD) (R) (S) 1.10 The Great House Giveaway (R) (S) 2.10 Countdown (S) 3.00 A Place in the Sun (R) (S) 4.00 Narrow Escapes (AD) (R) (S) 5.00 Chateau DIY (AD) (R) (S) 6.00 Four in a Bed (R) (S) 6.30 Come Dine with Me (R) (S)
Live from Abbey Road Father Brown Z Cars Quadrophenia Big Fat Quiz: Best Bits Michael Palin in Venezuela
7.00 Channel 4 News (S)
8.00 Surgery Secrets of the Super Rich Business executive Phoebe undergoes a lunchtime boob job (AD) (S)
9.00 Celebrity Gogglebox The best moments from the recent series. Last in the series (AD) (S)
10.00 Big Fat Quiz: Best Bits Shocking, surprising and scandalous moments from the show (S) 11.05 Sarah Millican: Outsider 12.05am FILM: Polite Society (2023) Action comedy starring Priya Kansara 1.55 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 2.45 Britain’s Most Expensive Houses 3.40 Come Dine with Me 4.10 Come Dine with Me 4.35 Come Dine with Me 5.05 Come Dine with Me 5.30 - 6.00am Come Dine with Me
More channels Variations FV Freeview FS Freesat (AD) Audio description (R) Repeat (S) Subtitles (SL) In-vision signing
FV Freeview FS Freesat (AD) Audio description (R) Repeat (S) Subtitles (SL) In-vision signing
FV 9 FS 173 SKY 116 VIRGIN 108
7.00 pm Prog Rock at the Proms 8.55 Wonderwall at the Proms 9.00 TOTP: 2000 9.30 TOTP: 1982 10.00 TOTP: 1986 10.30 Prog Rock at the BBC 11.30 Genesis: Old Grey Whistle Test 12.10 am Jethro Tull: The Lively Arts 1.10 Sight & Sound in Concert: Supertramp 1.40 TOTP2: Genesis 2.25 TOTP: 2000 2.55 TOTP: 1982 3.25 3.55am TOTP: 1986
U&Dave
11.15am Rick Stein’s Long Weekends 12.20pm Top Gear 2.20 Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing 3.00 Robson Green: World’s Most Amazing Walks 4.00 The Hairy Bikers: Mums Know Best 5.00 Rick Stein’s Long Weekends 7.00 Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing 7.40 Would I Lie to You? 8.20 Would I Lie to You? The Unseen Bits 9.00 QI XL 10.00 Magnum P.I. 12.00 Mock the Week 12.40am Would I Lie to You? 1.20 Would I Lie to You? The Unseen Bits 2.00 QI 3.35 4.00am Superstore
ITV2
11.20am The Real Housewives of Orange County 12.15pm Dinner Date 1.15 Supermarket Sweep 2.15 The Floor USA 3.10 The Only Way Is Essex 4.10 The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City 5.00 The Real Housewives of Orange County 6.00 Celebrity Catchphrase 7.00 The Floor USA. New series. Rob Lowe hosts the American version of the dramatic and fast paced game show 8.00 The 1% Club 9.00 Love Island 10.05 Love Island: The Debrief. Daily Love Island reactions 10.35 Family Guy 11.35 American Dad! 12.35am Bob’s Burgers 1.30 Deal or No Deal 2.20 Unwind with ITV 3.00 6.00am Teleshopping
6.00 am Milkshake! 9.15 Jeremy Vine (S) 11.30 Storm & Alexis (S) 12.45 pm 5 News at Lunchtime (S) 12.50 Matt Allwright (S) 2.20 电影：Fatal Flatshare (2023, TVM) 由 Camila Senna 主演的惊悚片 (AD) (S) 4.00 Castle (R) (S) 4.55 Love Nature (R) (S) 5.00 5 News with Dan Walker (S) 6.00 Jersey and Guernsey (R) (S) 6.55 5 News Update (S)
7.00 2026年环法自行车赛 第19赛段实况 (S)
7.55 5 News Update (S)
8.00 Michael Palin in Venezuela Michael 访问了加勒比海一个名为 Los Roques 的珊瑚群岛 (AD) (R) (S)
9.00 Boris Johnson: Into Ukraine’s Kill Zone 镜头跟随前首相前往俄罗斯-乌克兰战争的前线 (S)
10.30 2026年英联邦运动会 开幕日集锦 (S)
11.30 Piers Morgan Uncensored: The End of Andrew Tate? 1.00am Cruise TV with LoveitBookit 2.00 Car Pound Cops 2.50 Car Pound Cops 3.45 Friends 4.10 Friends 4.35 Amazing Railway Adventures with Nick Knowles 5.25 Entertainment News on 5 5.35 Milo 5.45 - 6.00am The Adventures of Paddington
FV 10 FS 115 SKY 119 VIRGIN 117
11.20 am Heartbeat 12.25 pm Heartbeat 1.30 Midsomer Murders 3.35 Classic Emmerdale 4.05 Classic Emmerdale 4.40 Classic Coronation Street 5.15 Classic Coronation Street 5.50 Heartbeat 6.55 Heartbeat 8.00 Doc Martin 9.00 Doc Martin 10.00 Grantchester 11.00 Grantchester 11.50 Trial & Retribution 1.25 am Wycliffe 2.30 6.00am Teleshopping
Challenge
Noon Tenable 1.00pm Family Fortunes 2.00 Bridge of Lies 3.00 The Chase 4.00 Celebrity Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? 5.00 The Bidding Room 6.00 Tenable 7.00 The Chase Celebrity Special 8.00 The Chase 10.00 The Chase Celebrity Special 11.00 Bullseye 12.00 Bridge of Lies 1.00am The Chase 2.00 The Celebrity Chase 3.00 4.00am The Chase
Quest
Noon Gem Hunters Down Under 1.00pm Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic 2.00 Shed and Buried 3.00 Shed and Buried: Classic Cars 4.00 Find It, Fix It, Flog It 5.00 The Yorkshire Auction House 7.00 Antiques Road Trip 8.00 The Yorkshire Auction House 9.00 The Repair Shop 11.00 How Do They Do It? 1.00am Salvage Hunters 3.00 4.00am Salvage Hunters: The Restorers
FV 26 FS 117 SKY 120 VIRGIN 118
11.20 am BattleBots 12.25 pm Magnum, PI 1.30 Magnum, PI 2.35 Dempsey and Makepeace 3.45 Boon 4.50 The Champions 5.50 Minder 6.55 Sharpe 9.00 Ice Road Truckers: Deadliest Roads 10.00 All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite 12.05 am Dark Side of the Ring 1.00 Minder 2.05 Two and a Half Men 2.30 Two and a Half Men 3.00 Teleshopping 3.30 4.00am Auto Mundial
12.00 Deadliest Catch 1.00am Expedition Files 2.00 Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch 3.00 4.00am Gold Divers
PBS America
11.55am Messages Home: Lost Films of the British Army 1.00pm America the Bountiful 1.35 Treasures Decoded 2.35 Waco: The Longest Siege 3.50 Titans of the Cold War 4.55 Messages Home: Lost Films of the British Army 5.55 America the Bountiful 6.30 Treasures Decoded 7.35 Waco: The Longest Siege 8.40 Titans of the Cold War 9.50 Messages Home: Lost Films of the British Army 10.50 Waco: The Longest Siege 12.00 Titans of the Cold War 1.10am America the Bountiful 2.00 6.00am Teleshopping
Sky History
Noon History’s Greatest Aircraft 1.00pm Salvage Kings 3.00 Hardcore Pawn 6.00 History’s Greatest Picks with Mike Wolfe 7.00 Forged in Fire 8.00 Secrets of Great British Castles 9.00 The Witches of Salem 10.00 Gangland Chronicles 11.00 MonsterQuest 12.55am Hardcore Pawn 3.40 4.25am Ancient Aliens
FV 36 FS 143 SKY 822 VIRGIN 123
6.00 am Classic FM Live: Greatest Hits of Opera (S) 8.00 The Joy of Painting (AD) (S) 8.30 The Joy of Painting (AD) (S) 9.00 Tales of the Unexpected (AD) (S) 9.30 Tales of the Unexpected (AD) (S) 10.00 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (S) 10.30 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (S) 11.00 Discovering: Barbara Stanwyck (AD) (S) 12.00 The Myth of Marilyn Monroe (S) 1.00 pm Tales of the Unexpected (AD) (S) 1.30 Tales of the Unexpected (AD) (S) 2.00 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (S) 3.00 Discovering: Gregory Peck (AD) (S) 4.00 Guy Garvey: From the Vaults (S) 5.00 Portrait Artist of the Year 2021 (AD) (S) 6.00 Tales of the Unexpected (AD) (S) 6.30 Tales of the Unexpected (AD) (S)
7.00 Alfred Hitchcock Presents 一个恐惧枪支的人面对抢匪 (S)
7.30 Alfred Hitchcock Presents 一个男人发现他的妻子过着秘密生活 (S)
8.00 Guy Garvey: From the Vaults 回顾 1985 (S)
9.00 Live from Abbey Road 保罗·西蒙 (Paul Simon)、大卫·吉尔摩 (David Gilmour) 和 谢丽尔·克劳 (Sheryl Crow) 的演出 (S)
10.00 Live from Abbey Road 与 红辣椒乐队 (Red Hot Chili Peppers)、绿日乐队 (Green Day) 和 缪斯乐队 (Muse) (S)
11.00 Siouxsie and the Banshees: Nocturne 12.20am Poly Styrene I Am a Cliche 2.20 Ian Dury and the Blockheads: Hold on to Your Structure 3.35 Discovering: Elvis Costello 4.00 The Art of the Garden 5.00 - 6.00am The Myth of Marilyn Monroe
FV 18 FS 124 SKY 136 VIRGIN 147
11.35 am Four in a Bed 12.10 pm Four in a Bed 12.40 Come Dine with Me 1.10 Come Dine with Me 1.40 Come Dine with Me 2.15 Come Dine with Me 2.50 Come Dine with Me 3.20 Four in a Bed 5.50 George Clarke’s Old House, New Home 6.55 Location, Location, Location 7.55 Grand Designs 9.00 The Sommerdahl Murders 11.00 24 Hours in A&E 12.05 am 24 Hours in A&E 1.05 999: On the Front Line 2.10 24 Hours in A&E 3.15 3.55am A Place in the Sun
5.00 Discovering: Tom Hanks 6.00 电影：Hitsville: The Making of Motown (2019) Motown 唱片公司的历史与起源 8.00 电影：Tina (2021) 纪念蒂娜·特纳 (Tina Turner) 的一生与职业生涯 10.10 The Truth vs Alex Jones 12.20am OJ: Made in America 2.10 5.00am The Essex Murders
Sky One
Noon Chasing the Rains 1.00pm Hawaii Five 0 3.00 S.W.A.T. 5.00 The Simpsons 6.00 Animal Control 7.00 The Simpsons 8.00 The F1 Show 9.00 An Idiot Abroad 2 10.00 Ricky Gervais: Fame 11.30 Animal Control 12.30am Grimm 1.30 The Force: North East 2.30 Road Wars 3.00 4.00am Hawaii Five 0
Great! Mystery
Mysteries: A Case of Murder (2017) 由 Lori Loughlin 主演的惊悚片 1.50 电影：Perfect Plan (2010) 由 Emily Rose 主演的惊悚片 3.20 4.50am 电影：Picture Perfect Lies (2021) 由 Megan Elizabeth Barker 主演的惊悚片
Noon Unforgettable 1.00pm In Plain Sight 2.00 Castle 3.00 Diagnosis Murder 5.00 Murder, She Wrote 7.00 Castle 8.00 Unforgettable 9.00 In Plain Sight 10.00 电影：Murder, She Baked: Just Desserts (2017) 由 Alison Sweeney 主演的悬疑片 10.56 Good News on GREAT! 11.01 电影：Murder, She Baked: Just Desserts (2017) 由 Alison Sweeney 主演的悬疑片 11.55 电影：Garage Sale Mysteries: A Case of Murder (2017) 由 Lori Loughlin 主演的惊悚片 12.51am Good News on GREAT! 12.56 电影：Garage Sale
FV 20 FS 158 SKY 143 VIRGIN 116
6.00 am 电视购物 7.20 The Bill (S) 8.15 Doctors (S) 8.50 Doctors (S) 9.25 Classic Holby City (S) 10.40 Casualty (AD) (S) 11.40 The Bill (S) 12.40 pm Classic EastEnders (S) 1.20 Classic EastEnders (S) 2.00 Neighbours (S) 2.30 Neighbours (S) 3.00 Pie in the Sky (S) 4.05 Lovejoy (S) 5.20 Waiting for God (S) 6.00 Last of the Summer Wine (S) 6.40 Last of the Summer Wine (S)
7.20 Last of the Summer Wine Hobbo 试图查明自己的出生地 (S)
8.00 Father Brown 牧师与 Flambeau 联手 寻找失踪的宝藏 (AD) (S)
9.00 Father Brown 神父与一名有影响力的 新教区居民发生冲突 (AD) (S)
10.00 New Tricks 团队调查一名 高尔夫球手的死亡 (AD) (S)
11.20 Silent Witness 1.35am Lovejoy 2.40 Waiting for God 3.10 Darby and Joan 4.00 - 6.00am 电视购物
SKY 110 VIRGIN 124
2.20 pm The Green Green Grass 3.00 Are You Being Served? 3.40 Ever Decreasing Circles 4.20 Dad’s Army 5.00 Last of the Summer Wine 6.20 Dad’s Army 7.00 Only Fools and Horses 7.40 Keeping Up Appearances 8.20 Are You Being Served? 9.00 Porridge 10.20 Not Going Out 11.00 Colin’s Sandwich 11.40 Porridge 12.20 am Porridge 1.00 Not Going Out 1.40 Colin’s Sandwich 2.30 Don’t Wait Up 3.00 Hi de Hi! 3.35 4.00am Toast of London
Sky Cinema Premiere
Noon Anaconda (2025) 由杰克·布莱克 (Jack Black) 和保罗·路德 (Paul Rudd) 主演的喜剧 冒险片 1.45pm Wicked: For Good (2025) 由辛西娅·艾莉佛 (Cynthia Erivo) 和亚莉安娜·格兰德 (Ariana Grande) 主演的奇幻续集 4.10 Civil War (2024) 由克尔斯汀·邓斯特 (Kirsten Dunst) 主演的动作惊悚片 6.15 In Cold Light (2025) 由麦卡·门罗 (Maika Monroe) 主演的犯罪惊悚片 8.00 Mortal Kombat II (2026) 由卡尔·厄本 (Karl Urban) 主演的奇幻冒险片 10.05 Anaconda (2025) 朋友们在翻拍一部 他们从小就想拍摄的电影时，遇到了一只 可怕的生物。由杰克·布莱克 (Jack Black) 和 保罗·路德 (Paul Rudd) 主演的喜剧冒险片 11.50 Redux Redux (2025) 由麦凯拉·麦克马纳斯 (Michaela McManus) 主演的奇幻冒险片 1.45am Anemone (2025) 由肖恩·宾 (Sean Bean) 和 丹尼尔·戴-刘易斯 (Daniel Day Lewis) 主演的剧情片 3.55 5.50am Mile End Kicks (2025) 由芭比·费雷拉 (Barbie Ferreira) 主演的浪漫喜剧
FV 82 FS 306 SKY 324 VIRGIN 445
6.00 am 电影：《Someone at the Door》 (1950, 黑白) 由迈克尔·梅德温 (Michael Medwin) 主演的犯罪喜剧 (S) 7.15 电影： 《Hammer the Toff》 (1952, 黑白) 由约翰·本特利 (John Bentley) 主演的侦探剧 (S) 8.45 电影： 《The Snows of Kilimanjaro》 (1952) 由格里高利·派克 (Gregory Peck) 主演的浪漫冒险片 (S) 11.00 The Lucy Show (S) 11.30 Star Performance (S) 12.00 Railway Murders (S) 1.00 pm 20世纪50年代厨房卫生 掠影 1.05 The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (S) 2.15 The Adventures of Robin Hood (S) 2.45 电影：《The Vicious Circle》 (1957, 黑白) 由约翰·米尔斯 (John Mills) 主演的惊悚片 (S) 4.25 Cinebox Memories 4.30 The Cheaters (S) 5.00 A Family at War (S) 6.00 Hannay (S)
7.00 Z Cars 一名男子声称其子是 警察暴行的受害者 (S)
8.00 Public Eye 弗兰克被 DI Firbank 操纵 (S)
9.05 Maxwell 由大卫·苏切特 (David Suchet) 主演的单集剧 (S)
10.55 Cellar Club with Caroline Munro 卡罗琳·门罗 (Caroline Munro) 介绍 《Supernatural》的第四集 (S) 11.00 Supernatural 12.00 Cellar Club with Caroline Munro 12.05am 电影： 《Devil’s Partner》 (1960, 黑白) 由埃德加·布坎南 (Edgar Buchanan) 主演的恐怖片 1.40 Cellar Club with Caroline Munro 1.45 电影： 《Killer Fish》 (1979) 由李·梅杰斯 (Lee Majors) 主演的恐怖片 3.45 What’s on TPTV with Noel 4.00 Turn of Fate 4.30 The Vise 5.00 - 6.00am The Rogues
FV 27 FS 159 SKY 155 VIRGIN 129
正午 Antiques Roadshow 1.00 pm Antiques Roadshow 2.00 Bangers & Cash: Restoring Classics 4.00 Secret Nazi Bases 5.00 World War Two from Above 6.00 Antiques Roadshow 7.00 Asia 8.00 Citizen Smith 8.40 Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em 9.20 Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em 10.00 Bangers & Cash: Restoring Classics 12.00 Bangers & Cash 1.00 am Find It, Fix It, Flog It 2.00 Great British Railway Journeys 3.00 6. Teleshopping
1.55pm Ted Looks at the Regulation Changes 2.00 Sports Desk 3.00 The Hundred Live. Birmingham Phoenix Women v Trent Rockets Women (开赛时间 3.00pm) 6.00 The Hundred Live. Birmingham Phoenix Men v Trent Rockets Men (开赛时间 6.30pm) 9.30 Live World Matchplay Darts. 赛事第七日报道，比赛在黑pool的Winter Gardens举行，包含最后两场四分之一决赛 11.00 6. Sky Sports News
Sky Sports Premier League 正午 Premier League Review 11.00pm Premier League Years 1.00am PL Retro 3.00 4. PL Greatest Games
TNT Sports 1
正午 Cycling Essential Stories 12.15pm The Gruppetto 12.30 Live: Tour de France Men. 大环赛第19赛段报道 5.15 Live: LIV Golf. 本赛季第10轮第二天报道 6.30 AFL 8.00 Tour de France Men Highlights 9.00 Women’s Cycling Pro Series 10.00 Spirit of Yachting 10.30 MLB Classic 11.00 MLB Highlights 12.00 Live MLB. Tampa Bay Rays v Cleveland Guardians (开赛时间 12.10am) 3.00 5. Live:
FV 14 FS 300 SKY 855 VIRGIN 428
11.00 am 电影：《奇幻公园》(Wonder Park, 2019) 米拉·库尼斯配音的动画家庭冒险片 (AD) (S) 12.45 pm 电影：《亚娜斯塔西娅》(Anastasia, 1956) 英格丽德·伯曼和尤尔·布林纳主演的历史剧 (AD) (S) 2.55 电影：《暴力之徒》(The Violent Men, 1955) 爱德华·G·罗宾逊主演的西部片 (S) 4.50 电影：《杰森与金羊毛》(Jason and the Argonauts, 1963) 托德·阿姆斯特朗主演的奇幻冒险片 (AD) (S)
6.55 电影：《地球停转之日》(The Day the Earth Stood Still, 2008) 一名外星人被派往地球，执行决定人类种族应当被抹除还是允许继续存在的任务。基努·里夫斯和詹妮弗·康纳利主演的科幻重拍片 (AD) (S)
9.00 电影：《四象限》(Quadrophenia, 1979) 六十年代伦敦的一名青少年对其生活境况不满，但认为自己在摩登亚文化中找到了归属感。菲尔·丹尼尔斯主演的剧情片 (AD) (S)
11.25 电影：《天鹅绒金矿》(Velvet Goldmine, 1998) 克里斯蒂安·贝尔主演的华丽摇滚剧情片 1.50 - 3.35am 电影：《蓝色房间的亮片》(Sequin in a Blue Room, 2021) 科诺·利奇主演的澳大利亚剧情片
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一只在英国罕见可见的稀有黑冠夜鹭在萨默塞特郡被发现。这种鸟广泛分布于非洲、亚洲、美洲和欧洲，在萨默塞特郡的国家信托 Holnicote 庄园被摄像头拍到。英国首次确认夜鹭筑巢记录是在 2017 年的萨默塞特郡。 这种体型粗壮的鹭科成员通常最高可长至 66 厘米——大约是英国更常见的灰鹭长度的一半。它拥有灰色羽毛、黄色腿部和一顶黑色的“帽子”，帽子后方拖着长长的白色“羽冠”羽毛。 顾名思义，它主要在夜间活动——这使得爱好者们更难地发现它。
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orders halt to early release
by November without an alternative plan
By Charles Hymas HOME AFFAIRS EDITOR
ANDY BURNHAM has ordered the Ministry of Justice to halt the early release of prisoners amid outrage at the prospect of two of Pc Andrew Harper’s killers being freed from jail. The Prime Minister said no prisoners would be freed under the scheme until the Government had reviewed it and “done everything we can to minimise risk to the public”. The move threatens to plunge a prison system struggling with over- crowding into chaos, as officials face having to work out new release plans for thousands of off enders just weeks before they were due to be freed. About 6,000 prisoners, including killers, rapists and other violent crimi- nals, had been set to be released in monthly tranches from Sept 2. Mr Burnham announced a review of the scheme on Wednesday after The Telegraph disclosed that Albert Bowers and Jessie Cole were scheduled to be freed halfway through their 13-year sen- tences for the manslaughter of Pc Harper in 2019. Government offi cials had insisted the September releases would still go ahead, but yesterday afternoon the Prime Min- ister announced he had instructed offi - cials “to put a pause on the changes”. “No prisoners will be let out under this policy until we have conducted an urgent review and done everything we can to minimise risk to the public. Where changes are needed, we will not hesitate to make them,” he said. Neither Downing Street nor the MoJ have set a date for when they expect the scheme to be implemented again, if at all, saying it would depend on the out- come of the review. Under the scheme, serious criminals – including killers, rapists and child groomers – are eligible for release half- way through their sentences rather than two-thirds, provided they have not committed any serious rule breaches while in prison. Criminals convicted of
By Memphis Barker and Lily Shanagher
BRITAIN is ready to defend itself against Iranian missile attacks, the Gov- ernment has said, after Tehran threat- ened to strike a Royal Air Force base used by US forces. In a statement yesterday, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) threatened to attack RAF Fairford and made veiled threats against the “British monarchy regime”. The threat comes two days after Andy Burnham agreed to continue
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less serious off ences are eligible to be freed as little as a third of the way through their sentences. Mr Burnham is under pressure from MPs, victims, police and front-line prison officers to exempt the most serious off enders from the scheme. Writing in today’s Telegraph, a woman who was kidnapped and sexually abused at 14 has waived her anonymity to call for the early release scheme to be aban- doned. Thea Sewell, who has been told her attacker’s sentence might be short- ened, writes: “Mr Burnham, this scheme may belong to Keir Starmer’s govern- ment but the choice and the responsibil- ity to kill it entirely is now yours.” Sir David Gauke, the former Tory jus- tice secretary whose report on sentenc- ing for Labour framed the early release scheme, said there might be scope for the Government to introduce “narrowly focused” exemptions that could apply, for example, to violent criminals who had attacked police. But he added: “The prob- lem 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.” Offi cials have warned that prisons in England and Wales will run out of space by November if the measures in the early release scheme are abandoned. Alex Chalk, the former Tory justice secretary, said Labour should never have made the changes to sentences retrospective as it “pulled the rug” from under victims. He said they should only have been applied to people convicted after the rules came into force. He added that Britain would not solve its prison overcrowding crisis unless it considered alternatives such as Austral- ian dormitory-style jails for lower-level off enders, which could be built at a third of the cost of a modern prison and in a third of the time. A new prison costs £600m and takes six years to build.
Sir Keir Starmer’s policy of allowing Washington to launch strikes on Iran from British bases. The IRGC said “any base used for aggression against Iranian territory is a legitimate target for us”, and claimed the US was “resorting to using B-1 air- craft flying from Fairford airbase in England” because its missile stockpiles had been depleted. It also accused Britain of causing the “misfortunes of the people of our region” by “dismantling Islamic coun- tries… imposing despotic govern- ments” and “worst of all” creating the
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By Anita Singh ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR
THE BBC has demanded that Donald Trump hand over his personal mes- sages in an attempt to prove that he incited the Jan 6 riots. In a fightback against the US presi- dent’s $10bn (£7.5bn) defamation law- suit, the broadcaster’s lawyers hope to prove in court that he should be held responsible for urging his supporters to storm the US Capitol. Last year, The Telegraph revealed that a speech given by Mr Trump on Jan 6 2021 was spliced together in a Pano- rama documentary that made it appear as if he was directly inciting the mob in protest against the election result. The US president, who was acquitted of
“disaster of Israel”. The Government responded by saying the military was “ready 24/7” to defend Britain from “any kind of attacks, whether it’s on our soil or from abroad”. It added: “This includes through operating a layered approach to air and missile defence, provided by Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force assets equipped with a range of advanced capabilities, working closely with our Nato allies. “The UK’s approach to the conflict remains the same – we are committed to defending our people, our interests and
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inciting the mob by the Supreme Court, claims the BBC damaged his reputation. Now, lawyers for the broadcaster have applied to the US government to obtain evidence gathered by Jack Smith, the then special counsel for the US department of justice, who con- cluded in a report last year that “the vio- lence was foreseeable to Mr Trump, that he caused it, that it was benefi cial to his plan to interfere with the certifi - cation, and that when it occurred, he made a conscious choice not to stop it and instead to leverage it for more delay”. That evidence includes messages sent between Mr Trump and his advis- ers on Jan 6, in the three hours between the speech and his call for the rioters to disperse. The BBC has also served sub-
our allies, acting in accordance with international law and not getting drawn into the wider confl ict.” Last night, flight-tracking websites traced the journey of a B1 bomber from RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire towards Iran. The aircraft can carry two dozen 2,000lb bombs. Donald Trump has launched 12 consecutive nights of strikes on Iran, and the US military is moving into position for a potential escalation in the coming days. Additional F-35 and F-16 fi ghter jets have been deployed and refuelling tanker planes have arrived in Israel. Yes-
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poenas on third parties. In a court docu- ment fi led in the US this week, the BBC said: “In [his] lawsuit, President Trump claims that the BBC defamed him by editing his speech at the White House Ellipse on Jan 6, 2021 in a manner that
Capitol was foreseeable to Mr Trump... it was beneficial to his plan’
he claims conveyed the allegedly false implication that he fomented the vio- lence that followed at the Capitol. “Thus, as the BBC explained and the government does not dispute, President Trump cannot prevail in his case if he
terday afternoon, the US president said he was considering a “massive attack” that was “bigger than ever before”. “I am close to making a decision,” Mr Trump told Axios. “We’re all set for it.” Pete Hegseth, the US defence secre- tary, warned that the Pentagon would face “critical shortfalls” if Congress did not pass an emergency funding request, and said the cost of the Iran war had bal- looned to at least $37.5bn (£28bn). Iran has tried to carry out terrorist attacks on British soil, including one that was foiled hours from being launched in May last year.
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The regime has tried to kill or kidnap at least 15 people inside the country, according to a 2025 report by Parlia- ment’s intelligence and security commit- tee, which warned of a “wide-ranging, persistent and unpredictable threat”. Security weaknesses at UK air bases were highlighted last year, when Pales- tine Action members broke into RAF Brize Norton and vandalised two mili- tary jets. Sections of the base were pro- tected only by a 6ft wooden fence. A Telegraph investigation later revealed that several other RAF bases suff ered from similarly lax security measures.
Gas chief sounds winter energy alert
missed chance to stop attack on synagogue
it didn’t examine terrorist’s phones that were seized before anti-Semitic killing
By Telegraph Reporter
THE terrorist attack on a Manchester synagogue could have been prevented, police have admitted. Jihad al-Shamie, 35, drove his car into a security guard outside Heaton Park Synagogue in Crumpsall on Oct 2 before stabbing Melvin Cravitz, 66, to death. Al-Shamie, a Syrian-born UK national who was on bail for an alleged rape, was shot dead by police as worshippers barricaded themselves inside the syna- gogue during the attack on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. A stray bullet also killed Adrian Daulby, 53, who was among those pre- venting the attacker from entering. Mohammad Bashir, an associate of Al-Shamie who drove the terrorist on a reconnaissance mission to the UK Defence Academy in Oxfordshire less than two months before the attack, has been jailed for life. After pleading guilty to the preparation of terrorist acts, Bashir was sentenced to a minimum term of 17 years in prison last month. However, Jonathan Polnay, prosecut- ing, said CCTV footage combined with telephone data from Al-Shamie’s phone demonstrated that both men had been planning a terrorist attack on the Defence Academy. After Bashir’s sentencing yesterday, the Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police (GMP) apologised after admitting Al-Shamie’s phones had been seized upon two previous arrests, but had not been examined. Chief Constable Sir Stephen Watson said this had been a “missed opportu- nity” to uncover evidence of his “extremist mindset” before the attack. Sir Stephen said: “In conducting an internal review, it became apparent that GMP had seized Al-Shamie’s mobile devices at the point of each arrest. The significance of the data contents of these devices was substantial in respect of evidencing an extremist mindset.
passengers facing EU passport queues
By Simon Calder and Greg Dickinson
RYANAIR planes will take off without passengers caught in passport queues across Europe this summer, the airline’s chief executive has warned. Since the EU’s entry-exit system (EES) took full eff ect in April, British air passengers have been caught in queues of up to three hours at Schengen Area airports. In some instances, passengers have missed their return fl ights owing to the biometric checks. Speaking on The Telegraph’s podcast, The Travel Expert, Michael O’Leary said: “We will not wait for anybody. Our priority is to those passengers who are at the boarding gate when boarding starts. If you’re not at the boarding gate when we fi nish boarding, the plane is going without you.” Hundreds of travellers on a range of airlines have missed planes since the scheme took eff ect. Some Ryanair pas-
“Regrettably, I can confi rm that the signifi cance of the information stored on Al-Shamie’s devices was not realised as they had not been examined before the attack took place on Oct 2, 2025. It is for the IOPC [Independent Office for Police Conduct] and the Coronial Inquests to determine the impact of not reviewing the contents of the devices. “There can, however, be little doubt that the information contained within these devices would have inspired further investigative action. It is clear that our not having reviewed the data available to us prior to the attack consti- tutes a missed opportunity. “I am disappointed at the prospect of adding to the distress of all of those affected by the terrible events last October. For this, I am deeply sorry.” On Aug 14 last year, Bashir drove Al-Shamie’s car on a 10-hour round trip from Manchester, and the pair spent 13 minutes in the area of MoD Shriven- ham, the home of the Defence Academy,
information stored on Al-Shamie’s devices was not realised’
before returning. They disposed of their mobile phones afterwards. Al-Shamie had been arrested on Feb 13, eight months before the attack, in connection with an allegation of breaching a non-molestation order. He was arrested again on Sept 21 in connec- tion with an allegation of rape, and police seized his phone both times. They were examined by Counter-Ter- rorism Police after the Heaton Park attack. The police also obtained a warrant for Al-Shamie’s online iCloud storage. The information revealed WhatsApp and voice-note exchanges between Bashir and Al-Shamie, and a WhatsApp group chat of which they were both members. On Aug 9, both men arrived at the al-Sunnah Mosque in Manchester and sat in Al-Shamie’s car as he searched “IDF soldiers UK” on the internet, which generated an article about Israeli army offi cers who were studying at the Royal College of Defence Studies in London.
sengers booked from Milan Bergamo to Manchester and from Athens to London Stansted have watched their fl ights take off without them because of extreme delays at passport control. Stranded travellers have spent hun- dreds of pounds on replacement fl ights and hotels, only to fi nd that neither the airline nor travel insurers will cover the cost. Airlines and airports have urged Brussels to scrap the border checks. A
White Rose British model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley soaks up the sun on a yacht during her holiday in Malta. The 39-year-old says that she is ready to ‘slip into summer’.
letter from Airports Council Interna- tional, Airlines for Europe and the International Air Transport Associa- tion, published earlier this month, warned: “The EES is creating severe operational consequences disrupting passengers and putting border authori- ties, airports and airlines under unsus- tainable pressure. “We therefore urge your immediate intervention before the situation deteri- orates further during the peak summer travel season.” Mr O’Leary called the lack of passen- ger rights “regrettable”, but warned: “We’re not delaying our fl ights for peo- ple who are stuck in passport control queues. They have to show up at the air- port earlier [and] be at the boarding gate, otherwise they’re not fl ying.” Many passengers have pointed out that bag drop typically opens only two hours ahead of departure, making arriv- ing earlier at the airport futile.
only one in 17 would volunteer)
By Eric Williams
ONLY 6 per cent of people say they would volunteer to fi ght if Britain ever faced the threat of an invasion, a poll has found. Asked whether they would be willing to defend the country in the face of an “imminent invasion”, 52 per cent claimed that they would be ineligible to fi ght because of age or disability. While 14 per cent said that they would agree to serve if called up, 17 per cent claimed they would refuse any order to defend their homeland. It is the latest survey to suggest that Britain has fallen behind its European neighbours in preparation for a possible major confl ict. Andy Burnham is expected to boost defence spending after he appointed John Healey as Chancellor on Tuesday. Mr Healey resigned as defence secretary last month after Sir Keir Starmer refused
to commit to spending 3 per cent of GDP on the military by 2030. YouGov’s poll of 2,300 people showed that almost a third of respondents believe it is likely that Britain will come under a full-scale military attack within the next decade. More than half of those surveyed were “not confident” in the Armed Forces’ ability to keep the UK safe should the worst happen, according to the poll, which was shared with Sky News. Fifty-seven per cent of people said that they believed that the Government was “spending too little” on defence. Just 6 per cent of people said that the budget for defence was too large. European nations are scrambling to rearm and ready themselves for a possi- ble confl ict with Russia after growing increasingly wary of relying on the US for security. It emerged last year that Britain was secretly preparing contin- gency plans for a direct military attack by the Kremlin.
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held for Widdecombe
A public memorial for Ann Widdecombe will be held later this year, her family has said. The former Tory minister, who later became Reform’s justice and immigration spokesman, was found dead at her home in Haytor in Devon on July 9 with serious head injuries. Joshua Kerry, 28, from Rotherham, South Yorks, appeared in court on Tuesday charged with her murder. Miss Widdecombe’s family said: “We understand that there is signifi cant public interest in the funeral of Ann Widdecombe. “A private service for family and close friends will be held in the coming weeks, and invitations for this ceremony have been distributed. “A more public memorial will follow later in the year, the details of which will be released in due course.”
fuel ADHD drug surge
Prescriptions for ADHD drugs for adults have risen by 40 per cent in a year, fuelled by rising diagnoses among middle-aged women. NHS fi gures show 4.2 million prescriptions for medication to treat attention defi cit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) were issued in 2025-26, up one quarter in 12 months. The sharpest rises were among adults, with increasing numbers of people being diagnosed later in life, in some cases, after their children received a diagnosis. Research suggests that women tend to be diagnosed later than men, because symptoms are less visible, resulting in internalised anxiety or disorganisation, rather than hyperactive or disruptive behaviour. Psychiatrists have noted a number of women seeking help as they approach menopause, and symptoms become more apparent as oestrogen levels drop.
tickets to cost £1 a ride
The price of children’s train tickets has been cut to £1 as part of Labour’s Great British Summer Savings drive. First introduced last month, the scheme already gives children free bus travel and off ers families an array of discounts at hospitality venues. The Government said yesterday that the price of some children’s train tickets would now drop to £1 over the summer weeks, but insists the policy will pay for itself by encouraging more people to travel by train. Each train fi rm is running separate promotions that run for diff erent periods of time. Andy Burnham has not allocated any money to pay for the policy, which will run on state-operated rail services. He has unveiled a series of policies aimed at cutting the cost of living, but questions have arisen about how they will be funded.
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after British explorer in spite of ‘whingers’ who criticised the decision
By Lily Shanagher
NEW ZEALAND is to name a ferry after Captain Cook, and the government has told “snivelling wokesters” to accept it. A new ferry linking the country’s North Island and South Island will be named after the Royal Navy offi cer and explorer credited with being the second European to visit the country. But the decision to name one vessel after Cook, who killed Māori when he and his crew landed on the country’s shore in October 1769, has raised eyebrows at a time when the names of many New Zealand landmarks and places are being replaced from colonial- era titles to indigenous ones. Tony Ballantyne, professor of history at the University of Otago, said: “Māori
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request from the High Court in London. If the High Court approved the request, Mr Davie would generally be forced to comply. Mr Davie blamed “enemies” of the BBC for whipping up the furore that engulfed the corporation, declaring the broadcaster “the very best of society”. Mr Trump is understood to be heav- ily invested in the case, and his eager- ness to pursue litigation has not wavered even as the BBC has requested his phone records and private sched- ules from around the time of the Jan 6 riot. The BBC has apologised for the docu- mentary but has promised to fi ght Mr Trump’s lawsuit. Lawyers for the broad- caster are seeking to have the case dis- missed altogether. A date for the defamation trial has been set for February 2027 in Florida.
holds a degree from the University of Glasgow. In July 2013, the King and Queen, then Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall, visited the BBC studios in Cardiff to celebrate the show’s 50th anniversary. They had a tour of the Tardis and the King proved a natural with the Doctor’s sonic screwdriver before he was handed a special eff ects microphone. “Exterminate,
in scramble for licence fee cash
By Joe Wright
THE BBC is considering blocking iPlayer for viewers who do not pay the licence fee. Putting the on-demand service behind a paywall is thought to be an “opportunity” the broadcaster could pursue in the years ahead. Kerris Bright, the BBC’s chief cus- tomer offi cer, raised the prospect dur- ing an all-staff call on Monday. The proposed clampdown comes as the corporation grapples with growing licence fee evasion and job cuts. Under current rules, anyone who watches or records live television on any channel or uses iPlayer must have a licence, costing £180 a year. Around 12.5 per cent of households are thought to evade the bill. In a recording obtained by the news
rail-enabled ships with the Māori prefi x “Ara”, meaning path, a custom that began in 1962. In recent years, New Zealand has renamed its Mount Egmont to Taranaki Maunga, and the name of its highest mountain has been changed from
oraki/Mount Cook to
untry’s dual heritage.
was colonised by the
with the signing of the
ngi, which recognised
gnty in exchange for
ession of Māori land.
ween the British and
h some 2,200 indige-
killed during the New Wars. k himself carries a lex legacy in the coun- In 1859, AS Thomson, e historian, said Cook eft New Zealand “without having had one of his crew killed or wounded by the natives; while they
One of New Zealand’s North- South Island ferries has been named after Captain Cook, below
The King meets Finnie, the Games’ unicorn mascot. Left, cyclist Sir Chris Hoy, who was at the controls of the Tardis. Right, Malaysia’s team arriving at the opening ceremony and, inset left, a performer dressed as a Tunnock’s teacake
exterminate!” he said, his voice converted into that of a Dalek. Struggling to keep his composure as he got a fi t of the giggles, he went on: “You are our prisoners ... one false move!” Actor Matt Smith, who then played the Doctor, said at the time: “The Prince said he had been watching Doctor Who since he was 15 and he knew all the lingo, he was very
website Deadline, Ms Bright told BBC staff that the broadcaster should “abso- lutely keep looking” at putting iPlayer behind a paywall, but conceded that such action was not yet viable. “iPlayer is the only service really that’s licensable where you could actu- ally decide to put a gate in front of it, but the data today says that actually [there’s] not really the return on investment for doing that,” she said. “The data says ... [it] is not the silver bullet to generating more revenue. There’s probably more cost in it than revenue, but it is something we should absolutely keep looking at because it might be something that you actually would want to do in the future.” A source confi rmed to The Telegraph that while blocking iPlayer was not currently viable, staff were informed
had to mourn the loss of 10 men killed, and many others wounded, by the English during this visit”. William Pember Reeves, the former New Zealander politician, said Cook was a talented mapmaker but con- demned the violence he and his crew infl icted on the indigenous population. In 2019, Britain issued a formal expression of regret that Cook’s crew killed Māori when they landed in New Zealand. Cook led three voyages of exploration to the Pacifi c and Southern Oceans between 1768 and 1779, where he also visited Australia and led the fi rst recorded European visit to the Hawaiian Islands. Indigenous activists have accused the British who came after Cook of violence and land confi scation. And in 2020, the owners of the Captain Cook pub in the South Island city of Dunedin changed the name to Dive to replace a symbol of “oppression and suff ering”. Several monuments dedicated to the explorer have also been vandalised in both New Zealand and Australia .
interested. He knew about diff erent Doctors… he was familiar with the world of Doctor Who.” Asked if the royal would make a good Doctor, Smith said: “He certainly knows his way around the Tardis, so who knows?” The future of the programme is uncertain after the BBC cancelled this year’s Christmas special and put production out to tender.
that the BBC would keep the idea under review as streaming technology continued to improve. iPlayer has long been easily accessi- ble for those who do not pay the fee. The platform occasionally asks users whether they have a licence fee, though it does not require proof. The BBC took in £3.8bn from the fee in 2024-25, but up to £550m is estimated to have been lost through evasion. A damning report by the public accounts committee in November accused it of “not doing enough” to enforce the requirement. Ms Bright told staff that the “vast majority” of evasion is not on iPlayer. As a result, she was wary of putting the ser- vice behind a paywall and making it a “very difficult experience for people that are paying for the licence”. The BBC declined to comment.
SAVE OUR PUBS
as business rates lowered
... but No 10 is still not sure
how it will be paid for
By Tom Haynes and Dominic Penna
ANDY BURNHAM has announced he will cut business rates for pubs, in a move one of his own ministers admits is not fully funded. The Prime Minister announced yesterday that the levy would be cut by 20 per cent for pubs, clubs and live music venues from April, marking a victory for The Telegraph’s Save Our Pubs campaign. However, just an hour later, Emma Reynolds, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, admitted the two proposed sources of funding for the policy – which was expected to save venues £1,000 a year on average – were still being looked at. It is the third time in as many days that Mr Burnham has announced a new policy, only for a row over how it will be funded to break out almost immediately. Downing Street claimed it would fund the £100m cut to business rates on pubs in two ways: raising taxes on online tech giants and their warehouses in Britain, and stripping reliefs from vape shops, which it said did not make a “positive contribution” to communities. Ms Reynolds later admitted ministers were still looking at both sources. She told Sky News: “I am confident as Chief Secretary, having looked at the num- bers – and we will set out the numbers in more detail at the Budget – that we will fund this announcement in the ways that I’ve just mentioned. “There may be additional measures that we look at as well. But it’s those two principal ways we’re going to fund this business rate relief.” Ms Reynolds, the Chancellor’s de facto deputy, was then asked whether she was confident she could fund Mr Burnham’s plan for pubs, but had not yet agreed how to fund it. She responded: “Well, this is day four and obviously, as Chief Secretary to the Treasury, obviously I’m well into the numbers. I’m not going to give you all the numbers today. “But we will set out in more specific detail as I said those two major ways that we’re going to fund this. This is £100m from next April.” Told that she could not say the policy was “fully funded”, she said: “Well, it... as you say, it will be fully funded.” Downing Street has claimed the pol- icy would benefit nearly 32,000 hospi- tality venues across England and save the average pub around £1,100 in the next financial year. But the boss of Leon accused Mr Burnham of creating a divide within hospitality by cutting business rates for pubs while leaving restaurants and hotels to face soaring tax bills. John Vincent, who co-founded the fast-food chain in 2004, said: “We are very confused as to why restaurants are not covered. They are suffering mas- sively, just like pubs. We all compete in the same market, and we have the same cost structures. When you have the
confused
as to why
restaurants
are not
covered.
They are
suffering
massively’
By Zachariah Sharif
and Madeleine Ross
THE business rate cut will come too
late for some pubs who are already
facing closure after Labour’s
“crucifying” tax raids.
Mr Burnham said yesterday that
he will cut business rates for pubs by
20 per cent from April next year.
But landlords said that some pubs
will not survive until the relief kicks in.
Since Labour took power in 2024,
pubs have been hammered by a series
of tax rises including increases in
business rates, beer duty and VAT.
Four pubs have closed every day
since the start of this year, according to
the British Beer and Pub Association.
Paul Stanford, of The Railway
Tavern in Norfolk, said Mr Burnham’s
move was “absolutely not enough” and
called for relief to be backdated.
“A lot of places won’t survive until
April 2027. It’s a kick in the teeth after
what we’ve been through – too little,
too late,” he said, adding that pubs
“cannot compete” with supermarkets
civil servants strike on week one
By Robin Hill
HUNDREDS of civil servants have begun strike action over job cuts at the Foreign Office in Ed Miliband’s first week in the department. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) announced plans last year to make cuts of between 15 and 25 per cent from its workforce over the next four years – about 2,000 jobs. The Public and Commercial Ser- vices Union (PCS) balloted its members on strike action last month over the department’s failure to rule out com- pulsory redundancies. It staged its first day of strike action on Wednesday and has announced two further strike days on Aug 12 and 26.
SIMON DAWSON / NO 10 DOWNING STREET
Andy Burnham
marked the launch
of his policy by
pouring John
Healey, the
Chancellor,
a pint of pale ale
on alcohol prices as they have far higher overheads, which means that pubs are forced to swallow many of their additional costs. Small businesses currently start paying business rates at £12,000, a threshold that has been frozen since April 2017. Downing Street claimed yesterday that Mr Burnham’s cut to business rates would benefit nearly 32,000 hospitality venues across England and save the average pub around £1,100 in the next financial year. However, he did not announce cuts to VAT – a significant burden for small businesses at 20 per cent. Mr Stanford said: “VAT is crucifying the industry. A lot of friends in the industry just earn enough to pay taxes and keep everyone employed – they’re not making any money whatsoever.” Tim Martin, the chief executive of the Wetherspoon pub chain, told The Telegraph that while Mr Burnham’s announcement was a “small move in the right direction”, VAT rates are widening the gap between pubs and
Work to rule will also be in place throughout August. Fran Heathcote, the PCS general secretary, said: “Strike action is always a last resort, but FCDO management has left our members with no choice. It is unacceptable that a gov- ernment department is pushing ahead with a major restructure while refusing to give workers the basic assurance that they will not be forced out of their jobs. “Our members deserve transparency, fairness and respect. Instead, they have been met with uncertainty and a refusal to provide the information needed to properly scrutinise these plans. “The department could end this dis- pute today by doing the right thing – rule out compulsory redundancies and engage meaningfully with PCS.” The
same customers and the same costs, it is the classic definition of being in the same business, so this creates a false and unfair distinction. We can only hope Andy Burnham has a plan and that there’s more to come.” Making his announcement yester- day, Mr Burnham said: “For too long, governments have stood by while cherished venues have disappeared from our local high streets. So today, I am changing that. “This Government will back the businesses that people want to see in their communities. “I said I would protect pubs and local high streets – the beating heart of our communities – and that’s what we will do. What we’re announcing today is just the start as we work to bring back hope across the country.” Mr Burnham marked the launch of his policy by pouring John Healey, the
supermarkets. He said: “The biggest disadvantage for pubs vs supermarkets relates to VAT. Supermarkets pay zero on food sales while hospitality venues, including pubs, pay 20 per cent. “This disadvantage is responsible for the ever-widening gap in the price
PCS has also warned against cutting the number of experienced staff at the FCDO at a time of global instability. However, the Tories say reducing the size of Britain’s Civil Service is long overdue. Overall, it has increased year on year since 2016 and now stands at its highest level since 2005. In 2016, the Civil Service headcount was 384,000 full-time equivalents but by March 2026, this had risen to 524,000, a 36 per cent increase since 2016. A spokesman for the FCDO said it was undergoing a “strategic transforma- tion” to help it deliver in an “increas- ingly complex and volatile world”. He added: “We respect the right of PCS members to take strike action and remain open to further talks.”
Chancellor, a pint of McMullen’s East India Pale Ale. Tom Kerridge, who is spearheading calls for a VAT reduction for hospitality venues, welcomed the announcement but added that “it’s not a huge amount of money for each venue”. The chef and pub owner said: “The average bill is cut by about £1,000, which isn’t hugely sig- nificant in the grand scheme of things.” He added that neighbourhood restaurants also deserved recognition as community hubs: “The biggest thing that will make a big difference to every single space is that reduction in VAT.” Allen Simpson, chief executive of UKHospitality, said: “This will provide welcome support for pubs, clubs and live music venues, but they only account for around a fifth of hospitality jobs. The rest of the sector now needs to see the same ambition.” Tax experts said the pubs package was more generous than
of a pint or meal in a pub compared
to a supermarket.”
Pandemic-era business rate relief
ended in April and the Government
re-evaluated the system to calculate
the rates. As a result, the values
increased by 30 per cent on average,
‘irresponsible’ North Sea drilling
By Genevieve Holl-Allen Political corresPondent
THE new Energy Secretary opposed drilling at Rosebank oil field, it has emerged. Miatta Fahnbulleh previously described drilling in the North Sea as “irresponsible and short-sighted” and declared Britain needed to reach net zero “fast”. She previously ran a Left-leaning think tank called the New Economics Foundation. Under her watch, it signed an open letter that demanded Sir Keir Starmer pledge to block Rosebank if Labour came to power, and condemned Britain for “two centuries of fossil fuel use and colonial power”. Ms Fahn-
the headline figure suggested because it built on support already announced by Rachel Reeves earlier this year. Alex Probyn, of global tax firm Ryan, said the 20 per cent figure combined with earlier relief amounted to “a signif- icant package” for eligible pubs. Responding to the business rates pledge, Matt Vickers, the Conservative Party deputy chairman, told GB News: “This is the third unfunded spending commitment in three days. When this Government came to office... those businesses, all leisure, hospitality, and retail businesses, on the high streets, those small businesses, were getting a 75 per cent reduction in their business rates. They took away the 75 per cent and now he’s telling them he’s giving them 20 per cent back.” Small businesses have been ham- mered by a series of tax rises since Labour took power in 2024. Ms Reeves
Sean Hughes, the landlord of The Boot in St Albans, said Labour have ‘created confusion’ over business rates
leading to soaring bills. After pressure from this newspaper, Rachel Reeves, the former chancellor, set out a temporary support package for pubs – a 15 per cent relief on business rates, followed by a two-year freeze. But as pubs continued to close, the Government was still expected to rake in an extra £12bn in four years. Sean Hughes, landlord of The Boot in St Albans, said: “Labour promised to
industry friends just earn enough to pay taxes and keep everyone employed’
reform the valuation system for business rates in their manifesto, but we still haven’t had reform – they’ve created so much confusion over rates.” Mr Hughes paid £78,000 in business rates before the valuation method was changed. He now pays £132,000. He said: “We’re a tiny pub with 12 tables paying this much.
bulleh, who had reportedly been advis- ing Mr Burnham while he prepared to take over as Prime Minister, is now responsible for decisions over whether to approve extraction at Rosebank and other oil and gas fields. In an interview this week, she insisted she would be “pragmatic” on North Sea drilling, but would not say if she would allow further exploration. An open letter by the New Economics Foundation, dated September 2023 when Ms Fahnbulleh was in charge of the think tank and first reported by The Times, welcomed Sir Keir’s pledge as leader of the Opposition to issue no new licences. It added: “Now you must fol- low through by pledging to stop in-pro- gress oil and gas fields, like Rosebank,
increased employers’ National Insur- ance in November, which – combined with an increase in the minimum wage – has made it harder for pubs and shops to hire. Ms Reeves, the then chancellor, and Sir Keir announced a 15 per cent cut to business rates for 2026/27 in January. Pubs would then see their rates rise in line with inflation from 2027 to 2029. However, Mr Burnham’s announce- ment promises a 20 per cent discount from 2027/28, although it would not be available to the largest live music venues, which some campaigners have argued most need support. Small businesses currently start pay- ing business rates at £12,000, which has been frozen since April 2017. Mr Burn- ham previously suggested he wanted to raise the rates-free threshold to £18,000 and extend a £15,000 taper to £21,000.
The whole rates system is incredibly
flawed, and we have to reduce
VAT too.
“The cost will be far greater when
we lose more pubs and the tax revenue
they bring.”
Chris Sargent, who has run the
White Horse Inn for 25 years, said:
“We’re paying 20 per cent VAT on
everything we sell.”
“We’re a little village pub, and my
bill can be anything between £26,000
and £30,000. It’s heartbreaking as
there’s no incentive to work and to
employ. We’re just treading water.”
Mr Burnham will announce a
“10-year plan” for Britain later this
year. Mr Hughes has called for that
plan to address pub landlords’ eye-
watering costs.
Mr Hughes said: “The pub is a
central part of the high street, and it
needs to be employing under-25s and
training them.
“We also need a special status
protecting pubs, so they can’t be
demolished and turned into flats or
hotels.”
and to scrap all fossil fuel production.” Before she became an MP, Ms Fahn- bulleh also said in a post on X in 2022: “To have a shot at staying within 1.5C global warming, we can’t have any new oil or gas fields. Banks know this, but some are pumping billions into new projects.” Mr Burnham is thought to be open to more drilling in the North Sea, but is expected to uphold Labour’s 2024 man- ifesto pledge not to issue new licences. A spokesman for the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero said: “We are clear that oil and gas will continue to play an important role in our energy system for decades to come, alongside renewables, nuclear and other low-car- bon technologies.”
blocks Shapps from standing for Tories
explain why the former home secretary has been barred from next election
By Daniel Martin DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR
KEMI BADENOCH has blocked Sir Grant Shapps from standing for the Tories at the next election. The former Conservative Party co-chairman applied to be a parliamen- tary candidate but was rejected. Mrs Badenoch said she was leading a “brand new party full of new people” in response to the drubbing the Tories received at the last election. Sir Grant was the Tory co-chairman under Lord Cameron between 2012 and 2015, and went on to serve as transport secretary, business secretary, energy secretary, defence secretary and briefl y home secretary. Sir Grant lost his Welwyn Hatfield seat in 2024 by 3,799 votes to Labour, after representing it since 2005. He received a knighthood in Rishi Sunak’s resignation honours list and is the co-chairman of Conservatives Together, a group founded “to support and represent Conservative candidates”. Despite his party pedigree, Sir Grant’s application to stand again for the Conservatives was declined. Mrs Badenoch has said that all future Conservative candidates must agree with her policies on leaving the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) and scrapping plans for net zero by 2050. It is understood that Sir Grant does not disagree with either of those policies. In an interview with the BBC, Mrs Badenoch said it would not be fair to discuss individual applications. “I want people to know that this is a new Conservative Party,” she said. “It’s not just going to be making the mistakes of the past. “We understand what went wrong, we’ve listened, we’ve changed policies, we’re going to have a brand new party full of new people. We lost 250 MPs at the last election. “We need new people. We want people with business experience. People who understand what the job of legislating is. The Conservative Party that is coming back is a new and diff erent party.”
David Frost
YOU’VE probably already forgotten it. But amid all the Northern Soul atmospherics, Andy Burnham promised in his fi rst speech on Monday to lay out a 10-year plan to take the country “from where we are now to where we all want Britain to be”. The only slight problem was that he couldn’t yet tell us what that plan was. But fear not, it will come. Honestly. Some time this year. The Andy Burnham Magical Mystery Tour has begun. And just as in the Beatles’ fi lm, we can expect quite a few surreal things to happen to us on the way. One could be forgiven for thinking that in fact Burnham does not have a plan at all, only a plan for a plan, and needs the next few months to spend time thinking something up. The positive way of looking at this is to hope that Burnham has at least
after shouting abuse at Farage
By Pieter Snepvangers POLITICAL REPORTER
SOMETIMES karma comes at you quickly... particularly if you are driving. That was what one woman discovered when she crashed her car only seconds after winding down her window to swear at Nigel Farage. The accident was captured on video during the Reform UK leader’s visit to Clacton, Essex, and posted online. Driving past Mr Farage, the Astra driver rolled down her window and shouted “w---er” without noticing that the car ahead of her was slowing down for a set of red lights. By the time she turned to face the road, it was too late. She braked before crashing into the rear of the BMW. It appeared that nobody was injured. The accident on Tuesday evening was captured on video by Reform UK. An aide is heard telling Mr Farage: “She won’t be doing that again in a hurry.” In a post on X, Mr Farage said: “This lady shouted abuse at me and then crashed her own car. That’s what you might call
The Telegraph revealed earlier this month that Mrs Badenoch had rejected former Tory MPs as candidates over their net zero stance. She wrote in this newspaper that she was building a “party for the future”, not a “retirement home for failed politicians”. She said: “If someone still believes in net zero targets that make energy more expensive and are destroying industry, they are not coming back. “If someone thinks that the ECHR can be wished away rather than being dealt with properly, they are not serious. “If they want to jump on every passing fad that makes us look more like Liberal Democrats than Conserva- tives, there is no place for them in this party. We have to show we have changed for the better. “No doubt some people will be disap- pointed. They will go to the papers and complain on their WhatsApp groups about being stitched up. Some may brief journalists. Some will
this is a new Conservative Party. It’s not going to make the mistakes of the past’
defect to Reform or the Liberal Demo- crats. So be it.” Asked repeatedly about Sir Grant at a press conference yesterday, Mrs Badenoch said: “We don’t treat our former MPs or our candidates like tittle-tattle for Westminster gossip. “What I will say is that we’re going to be announcing candidates shortly, and you will see that this is a very diff erent party from the one that was removed from government in 2024.” She said that “commenting on indi- vidual applications would be absolutely wrong”, but added: “I want people to know that this is a new Conservative party. It is not going to be making the mistakes of the past. We lost 250 MPs at the last election. “We are changing policies, we are changing people, we are changing pro- cess. What I have said is we want people who are going to meet the standards which we are setting, who are going to abide by the policies I have put red lines on. There could be all sorts of reasons for any individual to be allowed or not allowed on the list.” Sir Grant declined to comment.
understood that things can’t go on as they are. The worry is that he may yet demonstrate that there are even worse alternatives. The concern for those of us with even a mild predisposition to free markets and economic liberty is that Burnham is thinking in the same way as King Lear: “I will do such things – what they are, yet I know not: but they shall be the terrors of the earth.” For he and his team have so far shown no signs of understanding what is actually amiss with Britain or of choosing the right policy prescription to make any diff erence to it. Insofar as we can tell, we know he intends to give us all some “breathing space” – a pledge rather reminiscent of Starmer’s intention to “tread more lightly on our lives”, and about as likely to be delivered. We know he wants more devolution – of spending, not of course of tax-raising powers or of diffi cult choices. We know he wants to nationalise public utilities and a huge council housebuilding programme (as if we didn’t already have one of the biggest social housing sectors in
instant karma!” In 2024, Mr Farage was doused with a milkshake outside a pub in Clacton after announcing he would stand for election in the constituency. Mr Farage has spoken out repeatedly about the level of abuse and threats of violence that he r
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Housing Secretrary Angela Rayner appears on the BBC to say she will not hand back her severance payment despite being out of Government for only 10 months
By Dominic Penna SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT
ANGELA RAYNER has insisted she will not return a £16,876 exit payment after she was reappointed to her old job by Andy Burnham. The Housing Secretary received the money following her resignation last autumn after a Telegraph investigation into her tax aff airs revealed she avoided paying £40,000 stamp duty. Ms Rayner, 46, has rejected demands to return the sum after the Prime Minis- ter brought her back into the Cabinet on Monday. On her return to the Government, the Tories led calls for Ms Rayner to hand back her exit payment now she had been reappointed. But when asked on BBC Radio 5 Live if she would return the money, Ms
won’t make difficult choices, and is therefore doomed to failure, even if politically appealing’
Rayner stubbornly refused to change her position on the exit payment. She said: “No, my severance payment was given to me at the time. I’d worked in government for a period of time, and then I came out of government for just under a year. And I’ll be delivering in government again.” She then attempted to mitigate her refusal to pay back the exit money by constrasting her position with Conserv- ative ministers who resigned before taking up new positions in the previous Tory government. She said: “But on the Conservatives who took their severance, we’re talking weeks. Some of them were even – you know, a very short period of the time. “And I think that chaos – and that wider point about delivering for the British people – is what we’re focused on, is not having that chaos.”
Europe). But how any of this is going to
be paid for, and what his actual vision
of Britain is, beyond nostalgia for
LS Lowry or an imaginary 1970s in
which everything worked properly:
thereof we know almost nothing.
It is possible that we will get a
serious, costed plan to raise taxes and
do all the dreadful things he plans.
But it is surely much more likely that
the 10-year plan will be just a list of his
aspirations with “By 2036” typed in at
the top. Happily, such a plan will have
no chance of being implemented
successfully, for it amounts only to a
wish that things would be diff erent.
It will not make diffi cult choices . It is
therefore doomed to failure. It is,
however, politically appealing, for the
beauty of a plan with no details is that
it won’t upset supporters. It just sits
there, radiating optimism, rather like a
lottery ticket that you haven’t checked .
A genuine 10-year plan would
contain unpleasant measures in year
one in the hope and belief that such
diffi cult fi xes would see things getting
better . A political 10-year plan merely
contains pleasant objectives and a
comms strategy . Who can doubt that
the Burnham administration will
choose the latter?
The problem is, of course, that
Britain does need a 10-year plan.
Indeed when I heard Burnham
promise one I wondered for one brief
moment whether he had become a
Telegraph reader, for I have advocated
a 10-year programme many times . But
my ideas are a bit diff erent.
They fall into three parts. First,
taxation and spending must return to
early Blair-era levels, which means
about 1 per cent of GDP, £30bn, off
spending in each of 10 years .
Second, housing, planning,
environmental and labour-market
regulation must be liberalised, the
price mechanism restored (this week’s
Conservative-Labour spat over who
fi rst came up with the bus journey
price cap was a particularly unedifying
reminder of how bad things have got),
and the net-zero national suicide pact
scrapped so that investors once again
want to make things in Britain.
In her fi rst interview since returning to front-line politics, she also failed to say how many council homes she wanted to build or when Mr Burnham would end rough sleeping. The Telegraph disclosed in Septem- ber that Ms Rayner avoided paying £40,000 stamp duty on the purchase of her second home in Hove, East Sussex. Following receipt of a report by Sir Keir Starmer’s ethics adviser, Ms Rayner resigned from all her positions, including Housing Secretary and dep- uty Labour leader. HMRC closed its investigation into Ms Rayner’s tax bill in May, just 24 hours after her lawyers demanded a decision. She fi nally paid the money she owed on the purchase of an £800,000 holi- day home after agreeing what oppo- nents described as a “sweetheart deal”.
ambassador his top mandarin
By Gordon Rayner ASSOCIATE EDITOR
ED MILIBAND is set to appoint Dame Karen Pierce, the former ambassador to the US, as his top civil servant to help rebuild relationships with the White House, The Telegraph understands. Andy Burnham’s choice of Mr Milib- and as Foreign Secretary has caused “genuine anger” in Washington after he clashed with Donald Trump over net zero and previously called him “a racist, misogynistic, self-confessed groper”. White House sources have said Mr Trump has not forgotten Mr Miliband’s repeated attacks on him, and that he would be a “point of friction” in the transatlantic relationship. Dame Karen, who was ambassador to the US from 2020 to 2025 before being replaced by Lord Mandelson, is hugely respected by the Trump administration and is seen as the front-runner to become the Permanent Under-Secre- tary of Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Aff airs. Mr Trump’s 2024 election co-cam- paign manager Chris LaCivita described
is right that the country needs direction. He is entirely the wrong person to deliver it’
Ms Rayner appeared to downplay her failure to pay stamp duty, saying that it related to a “very niche” element of Britain’s tax regime. She was challenged on whether she could understand why people felt angry when she was in charge of housing but unable to navigate the rules. Ms Rayner told presenter Matt Chor- ley: “Sure, and that’s a taxation rule and it’s a very niche element of it as well, and I think people have gone over that. And I took advice at the time but on refl ection needed extra advice, and that was acknowledged when HMRC vindi- cated me after their thorough investiga- tion. “But I think you touched on some- thing there which I think is absolutely right. People feel that it is so complex now for them to do the right thing and that life is more diffi cult for them.”
Third, the state must be reformed: immigration held right down, the NHS moved towards a European insurance model, ministers given genuine control of government, and the legal constraints imposed by the ECHR and the Windsor Framework removed. A properly prioritised plan of this kind might have a chance of getting economic growth going again . In truth, it’s the only approach that will. I’m hoping that the Tories, Reform, or both are working on such a thing. But, of course, there is no chance of seeing it from Burnham. The destination of his Magical Mystery Tour is in truth not so mysterious . It’s the same old thing – more spending, more government power, less freedom, less prosperity, and quite possibly fi nancial meltdown. Burnham is right that the country needs direction. The trouble is that he and his team are entirely the wrong people to provide it. The question isn’t whether we need a 10-year plan. It’s whether we could possibly survive 10 years of his.
Dame Karen as “professional, univer- sally respected” and said replacing her was a mistake. He was proved right when Sir Keir had to sack Lord Mandel- son for lying about his friendship with Jeff rey Epstein, the paedophile fi nan- cier, a scandal that contributed to Sir Keir’s own eventual downfall. Earlier this week Steve Bannon, the president’s former chief strategist, told The Telegraph: “The Trump administra- tion took the extraordinary step of warning the new Prime Minister that the United States would view the appointment of ‘red diaper’ baby and self-described socialist Ed Miliband as very injurious to the ‘special relation- ship’. Burnham could not care less – he appointed this twit anyway.” Dame Karen, 66, has been the Prime Minister’s Special Envoy to the Western Balkans since she left Washington in February last year, and is understood to be open to the idea of working along- side Mr Miliband. Although she is regarded as the front runner for the senior Foreign Office role, no fi nal decision has been taken.
freeing female inmates – how Burnham could solve Britain’s jail crisis
Nick Gutteridge CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT
ANDY BURNHAM is grappling with his fi rst major crisis as Prime Minister, dealing with Labour’s controversial prisoner early release scheme. He announced yesterday that he had “paused” the programme, which would have freed more than 5,000 inmates including killers, rapists and violent criminals early in monthly tranches from Sept 2. He intervened after The Telegraph revealed that two of Pc Andrew Harper’s killers were among those set to benefi t from the policy, which was introduced in September 2024 to address acute overcrowding in Britain’s jails. It was not an issue that Mr Burnham and his team would have expected to have been dealing with in their fi rst week on the job, instead having hoped to hammer home his off er to ease the cost of living for millions of families. Now they must fi nd new ways to free up prison space if he is to avoid having to make an embarrassing about-turn in the autumn. Nigel Farage has led calls for the Government to address the overcrowding crisis by building temporary jails on land owned by the Ministry of Defence. Last year, the Reform leader said that fi ve such buildings – known as Nightingale Prisons after the pop-up hospitals that were created during the Covid-19 pandemic – should be opened to create 12,400 new spaces for “lower category off enders”. He insisted they could be up and running within 18 months and even suggested that the Army could be enlisted to help with their construction. Though they would provide a medium-term solution to overcrowding, it is unlikely any could be built quickly enough to rescue Mr Burnham this autumn. Another option that would not require building new jails from scratch
The Telegraph s headline after Pc Harper s widow attacked the early release scheme
transferred to Broadmoor after his psychiatric health gave cause for concern
By Charles Hymas HOME AFFAIRS EDITOR
SOUTHPORT killer Axel Rudakubana has been transferred to psychiatric hospital after a deterioration in his mental health. Independent medics assessed that the 19-year-old triple killer could no longer be adequately treated for his mental ill health at Belmarsh high- security prison in south London. Rudakubana has instead been moved to Broadmoor secure psychiatric hospi- tal in Berkshire, which previously held Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, Ronnie Kray, one of the twins who dom- inated organised crime in London, and Robert Napper, a serial killer and rapist.
By Charles Hymas and Tim Sigsworth
A KILLER driver, described by police as the “drunkest ever seen behind the wheel”, is set to be released from prison early under Labour’s eff orts to reduce overcrowding. Malcolm Waite, 72, killed Fenella Hawes, 20, when his car mounted a pavement. He drove on until he hit a road sign and trees a mile away. Officers found him slumped in the driver’s seat smelling strongly of alco- hol, with a half-drunk bottle of vodka beside him. He was four times the legal alcohol limit. Waite was jailed for eight years in 2022 after admitting causing death by dangerous driving, but is now to be released after serving half his sentence in prison, rather than two thirds. The case will pile pressure on Labour over its prison early release scheme. Andy Burnham has pledged to review the policy after The Telegraph revealed that two of the killers of Pc Andrew Harper were to be freed early. Lissie Harper, Pc Harper’s widow, has described the plans as “deplorable” while Jason Hogg, the chief constable of
would be to convert disused barracks or lease prison ships. Former military sites, some of which are already being used to house asylum seekers, could be repurposed and turned into the kind of dormitory-style institutions that are used to incarcerate low-risk inmates in countries such as Australia. Similarly, ministers could revisit the procurement of barges like the Bibby Stockholm, which was also used to house migrants, to alleviate the crisis. But it is unclear how quickly former barracks could be brought up to scratch, and in particular be made secure enough to contain prisoners, whilst the Bibby Stockholm experiment was beset by problems and was ultimately scrapped by the former Tory government. Shabana Mahmood has already pledged to increase the deportation of the almost 11,000 foreign nationals who are currently jailed in Britain. Earlier this month, the Home Secretary threatened Pakistan with visa restrictions if it refused to take back the leader of the Rochdale grooming gangs. Having crossed the Rubicon in doing so, she could extend that approach to other countries to ramp up the number of foreign criminals being kicked out. Lord Garnier, a former Tory solicitor general, said the Government should prioritise freeing non-violent women from prisons to free up space. He argued that enough women could be released under such a scheme to free up an entire jail, which could then be used to lock up men. Lord Garnier said that there were 3,650 women incarcerated in England and Wales, around 2,500 of whom were jailed for non-violent off ences. Baron Katz, a Labour minister, dismissed the idea, arguing there were “more sophisticated responses to the problem than the simplistic one he posed”. Another option open to the Prime Minister is to defer the sentencing of serial non-violent off enders such as professional thieves. The proposal was put forward in a 2023 think tank paper by Harvey Redgrave, who is now the top justice adviser in Mr Burnham’s No 10. He said that prolifi c criminals who face prison because of their repeat off ending, rather than because of the nature of their crimes, should be off ered a six month rehabilitation programme and only jailed if they fail to comply. It would help free up space by slowing down the number of new prisoners entering the system, but would prove controversial with the public.
The Ministry of Justice could only have continued to hold him in Belmarsh if officials had been able to show his transfer was “irrational” and that his clinical treatment needs could be met in prison. Rudakubana was jailed for a minimum of 52 years in January for the murders of three girls – Alice da Silva Aguiar, 9, Bebe King, 6, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7 – and attempted murders of eight other children, dance class instructor Leanne Lucas and business- man John Hayes. The attack took place at a Taylor Swift-themed workshop in Southport on July 29, 2024, and 10 others were injured. Rudakubana was also con- victed of off ences including producing ricin, possessing terrorist material, and possessing a knife. A public inquiry into the atrocity found that professionals repeatedly dismissed his severe and aggressive actions as symptoms of his autism spectrum disorder rather than recog- nising a growing security threat. Expert
Malcolm Waite was four times the legal limit when officers found him slumped in his crashed car
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Jason Hoganson was freed early from HMP Durham in 2024 as part of the prisoner release scheme. He had been jailed for assaulting his ex-partner
NIGHTINGALE JAILS DEPORT FOREIGN INMATES REHAB FOR THIEVES
High risk Where UK’s most notorious criminals were detained
Belmarsh Delroy Grant The “Night Stalker” is thought to have attacked as many as a thousand women up to 2009 after sneaking into their homes. Hashem Abedi Terrorist jailed for at least 55 years for helping his older brother plan the 2017 Manchester arena bombing. Ronnie Biggs The train robber spent six years here before being transferred to Norwich Prison.
Thames Valley Police, where he served, said plans for their early release were “wrong”. Waite could be one of the first of more than 5,000 offenders including killers, rapists and violent criminals to be freed under the scheme when it begins on Sept 2. Ms Hawes’s family has called for any- one who has caused a death to be Fenella Hawes had been walking to her mother’s home when Malcolm Waite’s car hit her. She died at the scene
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exempted from the early release scheme, saying reducing his sentence would be “no deterrent” to Waite repeating his crime. The thought of see- ing him free on local streets was “petri- fying”, her family said. Ms Hawes, a Lancaster University natural-sciences undergraduate, had been walking on a pavement on a Sun- day afternoon, carrying sunfl owers for her mother, Margaret, when Waite’s Lexus hit her. She died at the scene. Pc Callum Walchester, who arrested Waite, said he “was the drunkest person I have ever seen behind the wheel of a car”. Ms Hawes’s sister, Rosemary Shep- herd, told The Telegraph the four years served by Waite were not “equivalent to Fenella’s life at all”. She said: “She was 20 years old and had a whole life ahead of her. It doesn’t correlate. It’s not a deterrent for anyone else to not drink drive because they can run someone over and only have to do four years for killing someone. “This has brought up everything sur- rounding my sister’s death again for all of my family. I’m happy that people are now aware that this is happening to families like ours. I want people to be as
testimony noted that his severe behav- ioural deterioration and history meant he should have undergone a formal assessment under the Mental Health Act, but opportunities were missed. He was discharged from the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service with a “minimal” risk label just days before the attack. Psychiatrists admit- ted they had not reviewed his complete records detailing past knife possession and threats. He was also referred to the Prevent counter-extremism programme after researching school massacres on a com- puter at his next school, the Acorns. In May last year, police launched an investigation into an alleged attack by Rudakubana on a prison offi cer at HMP Belmarsh. He allegedly used a kettle in his cell to heat water up and then poured boiling water over the offi cer. The prison offi cer was taken to hospi- tal as a precaution, then discharged on the same day and returned to work the next week.
angry as I am. I know it’s not going to bring my sister back.” The family felt the eight-year sen- tence was unduly lenient, but their appeal to the Attorney General was unsuccessful. It mirrors the outcry over the sentences for Pc Harper’s killers, which led to a change in the law that intro- duced compulsory life sentences for criminals who kill police offi cers. Mrs Shepherd said: “It’s scary to think that we might see him in the street, and that is petrifying to me. I’ve got children; they know his face. They are aware of what’s going on. The impact that seeing his face would have on any of us would send us into a state of shock. He might get back in the car. He might do the same thing again. “It is just astonishing they don’t get a lifetime ban for killing someone.” She said there should be exemptions from early release for killers such as Waite, adding: “I understand why the act was put in place, but it should not apply to people who have caused a death. It shouldn’t even have been con- sidered in the fi rst place for their release to be earlier because of the impact it has on families.”
Broadmoor is run by the West Lon- don NHS Trust and houses up to 210 men with mental disorders in a facility said to be focused on care and helping them recover. The Grade II-listed facility offers a range of activities, including arts and crafts, sports and vocational training
Axel Rudakubana allegedly attacked a prison officer at HMP Belmarsh. He is said to have thrown boiling water on the officer
and is home to a café, hairdresser, “multi-faith sanctuary” and pottery workshop. Belmarsh is a high-security Category A prison known for its high population of Islamist terrorists, which in recent years has included Hasham Abedi, brother of Manchester Arena bomber
Salman Abedi. Its most recent inspec- tion by HM Inspectorate of Prisons found in May 2025 that kitchens were home to vermin, not enough inmates were engaged in “purposeful activity” such as education or work, and prison- ers in segregation had to eat meals near open toilets. A Ministry of Justice spokesman said: “The families of those murdered and injured in Southport will be in this country’s heart forever and our thoughts remain with them. “The off ender who carried out these vile crimes will rightly spend the entirety of his 52-year custodial sentence locked up, and is unlikely to ever be released. “High-security hospitals are not places of freedom. He will remain under constant supervision in a high-security psychiatric unit, and be returned to prison as soon as possible. “The transfer of an off ender follows a robust independent clinical assess- ment.”
and hummus help towards target for those aiming to cut risk of chronic disease
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EATING “picky bits” on a summer picnic can count towards people’s fi ve a day, health experts have said. Favourites such as hummus, falafel and tzatziki can all help people hit the daily health target, according to the British Heart Foundation (BHF). The Government recommends eating at least fi ve portions of fruit and vegetables each day based on evidence that consuming more than 400g a day is associated with a lower risk of heart disease, stroke and some cancers. Picky bits containing foods such as chickpeas,
declared after record-breaking heatwaves
By Telegraph Reporters
THE first drought of the summer has been declared after record-breaking heatwaves. Parts of Wales have been placed under drought status after high temper- atures dried up riverbeds and raised concerns among farmers about grazing conditions and water supplies. The risk of wildfi res has signifi cantly increased with North Wales in particu- lar experiencing a number of major blazes in recent weeks. Many parts of England are in prolonged dry weather status as the country has received just 3 per cent of its average July rainfall. Hosepipe bans are in place for 23 mil- lion households and suppliers warn they may stay in place throughout the sum- mer. Wildfi res have been raging across England, while Scotland has also been
will have more rain, it’s not the heavy rain that some areas may be after’
hit by a major blaze in the Cairngorms. Drought has been declared in parts of North Wales and the Upper Severn catchment, including Gwynedd, Angle- sey, Conwy, the Dee and Clwyd areas. Natural Resources Wales (NRW) said the decision to trigger drought status followed continued hot, dry weather over recent weeks. July is on course to become the driest on record for Wales for almost 190 years without signifi cant rainfall in the next week. North Wales and the Upper Severn have received less than 2 per cent of the expected rainfall for the month, with river flows exceptionally low. All of Wales is now either in drought or pro- longed dry weather status. The Met Office said temperatures across Britain will soon be moving towards average for the time of year. While parts of northern Scotland could see 10-15mm of rain on Saturday, just 3-4mm of rain is expected further south over the weekend. A Met Offi ce spokesman said: “Although some areas will have more than they have seen in a while, it’s not the heavy rain that some areas may be after in terms of topping up water supplies.”
BUTTERFLIES have fl ocked to Britain for a once-in-a-decade “painted lady summer”. The term describes the season when huge numbers of the migratory insects arrive here to breed, say experts. Butterfly Conservation is inviting members of the public to tally up the painted ladies they see as part of its annual Big Butterfly Count, which helps conservationists assess how the
to sleep by blowing bubbles
SPERM whales are able to hang verti- cally in the water while sleeping by releasing gas bubbles that regulate their buoyancy, scientists have discovered. It is thought that maintaining a posi- tion just below the sea surface provides a buffer for the whales against wave action, helping them to sleep better while avoiding expending energy on diving to deeper depths. The whales’ unusual resting behav- iour was fi rst documented by natural- ists in 2008. They are the only whale species known to rest in a head-up ver- tical posture, but it has been unclear how they maintain their position. In a study, scientists at the University of St Andrews and Université de Neu- châtel in France discovered they release gas bubbles, which they said helped the animals retain a neutral buoyancy. Prof Patrick Miller, from the Sea Mammal Research Unit at the Univer-
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Rays of hope A shoal of golden rays glide towards the mangroves over the Galapagos Islands in one of the pictures in the Mangrove Photography Awards, whose winners are announced today. The awards celebrate the delicate ecosystems around the world which are under threat from human activity.
insects are faring each year. The charity says the heatwaves across Europe this spring prompted millions of painted ladies to fly to the UK, with clouds of them seen feeding and mating in some spots, and off spring are now emerging. A “painted lady summer” only occurs every 10 years or so and sees large num- bers of the insects with distinctive orange, black and white wings. The migration from sub-Saharan Africa to Europe is one of the world’s longest insect journeys, and takes suc-
Many picnic favourites can be good for you, too
cessive generations to complete, so that the painted ladies that leave Africa are not those that arrive in the UK to breed, experts say. Adults born in sub-Saharan Africa during the winter fly to north Africa where they mate and lay eggs, with those off spring then migrating across the Mediterranean Sea to mate. The generation born in southern Europe in turn arrived in the UK in late spring, mated, and now a new genera- tion of “home-grown” painted lady
sity of St Andrews, said: “By releasing air, that’s going to decrease the positive buoyancy of the animal, which will slow it from going up towards the surface.” He said when the whales initially dive to a resting depth they are head down, but that they “slowly rotate to be head up” because of the light spermaceti oil in their heads. “Then, initially, the animals are still slowly moving up towards the surface once they spin to this vertical position. And the way that they combat that is by blowing bubbles. So, each time they release a bubble, the analysis was able to show how that slowed the ascent towards the surface, helping the animal stay just beneath the surface.” Since they have to come to the surface to breathe, each “rest- ing dive” lasts 20 minutes or so. The team collected data by placing small tags using suction cups on sperm whales off the Norwegian coast.
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salt or sugar. About 30 olives make up a portion of fruit and vegetables but can be salty, the BHF said. People are advised to eat fewer than 30 in a sitting but pair them with other fresh vegeta- bles to make up one portion. Dell Stanford, senior dietitian at the BHF, said: “Aiming to eat fi ve portions of fruit and vegetables a day can help to support heart health, but we know many people fi nd it diffi cult to achieve. “Summer picnics are a good reminder that your five a day can include more than the obvious choices, with beans, pulses and vegetable dips all helping you get closer to the daily target. “In fact, a spread of picky bits can be a simple way to add extra fruit and veg- etables to your day, especially when it includes options like hummus, falafel, salsa or other veg-based dips. Filling a picnic basket with these options is a sociable way to look after your heart.”
reported a total of 15,856 painted ladies – but in 2019’s painted lady summer the total was more than 420,000. Butterfl y Conservation said the num- bers seen so far suggest that this year’s could dwarf the last one. Prof Richard Fox, the charity’s head of science, said: “The numbers we’re seeing have already dwarfed the total we saw last year, and we’re delighted. “With their beautiful pinky-orange, black and white patterned wings, they are one of our most popular species.”
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Three heaped spoons of hummus Four to five falafel balls Large bowl of tzatziki Four sundried tomatoes Three heaped spoons of homemade salsa Three heaped spoons of beans (edamame, cannellini, butter beans) 30 olives
A study last year found that red wine and dark chocolate could be counted in a new five-a-day diet that promotes fl avonoids over vegetables. There are five main groups of flavonoids covering dozens of unique chemicals, but one main tranche is anthocyanins, found in abundance in grapes and red wine. Tea is rich in fl avan- 3-ols, another flavonoid, while orange juice is full of fl avonoids, as is kale. Prof Aedín Cassidy, the study’s author and chairman in nutrition and preven- tive medicine at Queen’s University Belfast, said: “A fl avonoid ‘fi ve a day’ has the potential to reduce mortality. “The data suggest that there is a ben- efi t to consuming a range of fl avonoids beyond that of simply consuming a high quantity as diff erent fl avonoids work in different ways, some improve blood pressure, others help with cholesterol levels and decrease infl ammation. ”
Painted ladies feed on many flowers including buddleia – known as the but- terfl y bush – and their caterpillars feed mainly on thistles. This year’s heatwaves have provided perfect conditions for the insects’ migration, the charity said. To take part in the count, which runs until Aug 9, people just need to spend 15 minutes in any sunny outdoor spot and report their sightings. For more information and to take part, visit bigbutterfl ycount.org.
the hook as milk thief is unmasked
A SUSPECTED “militant vegan” milk thief has been unmasked as a fox. Gordon Campbell, 42, set up a cam- era at his home in Bearsden, near Glas- gow, after his milk deliveries started going missing around a month ago. He first suspected there was a “militant vegan in the street”, before a sting operation revealed the truth. Mr Campbell said: “The magpies got the blame for a while, as they’re really smart birds, but I was thinking they probably wouldn’t have the strength to roll a bottle away. On Sunday night I set up the camera with a bottle of milk.” The thief showed its face at around 2.30am on Monday. Mr Campbell said: “I just thought it was kind of hilarious that this wee, cute fox was popping up and taking it away. All was forgiven when I saw its big ears and its wee face. I may resume my milk delivery knowing who’s responsible, but I may put out a box or something for the milkman to put [the milk bottle] in.”
secretly feared virus leaked from a lab
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By Laura Donnelly HEALTH EDITOR
THE High Court will next week decide whether to halt England’s controversial puberty blocker trial before it begins recruiting children as young as 11. Campaigners are asking a judge to stop the study from enrolling partici- pants from Aug 1, arguing that regula- tors acted unlawfully in approving an experiment that would allow 11-year-old girls and 12-year-old boys to be given puberty blockers. At a two-day hearing beginning on Monday, the High Court will fi rst decide whether to grant permission for the judicial review to proceed. It will also consider an emergency application to suspend recruitment while the wider legal challenge is heard. If the injunction is granted, the trial will be put on hold until the courts have decided if it was lawfully approved. If it is refused, researchers could begin recruiting children from next week.
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The trial was paused earlier this year when the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said it was concerned about “potentially signifi cant” biological harm to partici- pants. The regulator also said in Febru- ary that it wanted to discuss introducing a minimum age of 14 for participants. But last month, the MHRA said it had agreed new protocols for the trial to go ahead. Girls will need to be at least 11 to enrol, and boys will have to be at least 12 to be put on puberty blockers. However, campaigners are calling for the trial to be halted before any children are recruited. Puberty blockers are hormone-sup- pressing drugs that pause the physical changes of adulthood, such as facial hair and periods, and are used to treat childhood gender dysphoria. In December 2024, Wes Streeting, then health secretary, announced an indefi nite ban on puberty blockers for under-18s and said the way they had
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evidence one way or the other – and especially given some of the recent evidence, we also can’t rule out that somebody actually put it in there. “That’s obviously not to say that somebody did but we can’t rule it out. Our paper was pretty strong in saying “there’s no way”. “But I have less confi dence in that statement at this stage.” In the Nature Medicine paper, the authors argued that bat coronavirus manipulation was carried out across the world, so it was unfair to point the fi nger at WIV, but Anderson privately admitted that wasn’t the case. “That isn’t true, it has exclusively been going at WIV,” he wrote, adding that he believed both a natural and a lab-origin scenario “equally probable”. He also warned that the paper had claimed manipulation of viruses was hard, and that the virus could not emerge through cell evolution experiments. But he said both those arguments had been proven untrue. Anderson said a lab leak was 30 per cent likely while co-author Professor Eddie Holmes of the University of Sydney put the probability at between 10 and 20 per cent. Viscount Ridley, author of Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19 said: “These messages confi rm that the Proximal Origins authors continued to believe a lab leak was possible. So why did they not correct or retract the paper that misled the world?” The messages also reveal authors were aware that Dr Shi Zhengli – the lead bat virus scientist at WIV – was herself worried that Covid had been caused by a lab accident. In September 2021, Dr Zhengli had applied for a grant to insert a furin cleavage site (FCS) into bat coronaviruses – the very addition that made Covid-19 so infectious to humans. Although the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) dismissed the grant because it was too dangerous, Messages on Slack, an internal chat system, show that scientists feared the work had gone ahead anyway. Professor Andrew Rambaut of Edinburgh University wrote that “it isn’t beyond plausibility that someone went ahead and tried some of this
been used was a scandal. He later said he was “deeply uncomfortable” with the use of drugs to delay puberty, but gave the go-ahead to recommendations from a report by Baroness Cass, which called for a clinical trial of puberty blockers to go ahead. Discussions around the High Court case may prove a test for Yvette Cooper, the new Health Secretary. Before the 2015 general election, Ms Cooper said Labour would look into the possibility of issuing gender-neutral passports for those who did not identify as male or female, if it won. While shadow home secretary, in 2022, Ms Cooper refused to defi ne what a woman is after JK Rowling criticised Labour’s stance on transgender rights, suggesting the debate was “pointless”. Speaking on International Women’s Day, Ms Cooper said: “I think people get themselves down rabbit holes on this one. I think let’s just celebrate Interna- tional Women’s Day and amazing
What professors said about lab leak
Kristian Andersen Our paper was pretty strong in saying “there’s no way”, but I have less confidence in that statement at this stage.
June 11 2020, 14:08
Kristian Andersen Given the data we had seen at the time of our writing, I was highly skewed towards ‘natural’. But with some of this new data (plus stuff I didn’t know previously), I’m moving much more towards the middle (again).
June 11 2020, 16:42
Kristian Andersen Can’t be dismissed out of hand as what she’s saying in her answer that they were doing exactly those types of experiments. Doing that type of work with a novel (bat) CoV would constitute a non-trivial risk for sure August 29 2020, 15.53
Andrew Rambaut We just need to re-convince ourselves it is coincidence.
Eddie Holmes Had a long chat with Dominic........He said that privately Shi told them she was very worried about a lab escape March 29 2021, 16:22
women all over the world, but also chal- lenge inequalities and say what it is we need to be doing for the future.” In the same year, her son, Joel, was publicly active on transgender issues. The then second-year student at War- wick University interrupted a speech by Nadhim Zahawi, then education sec- retary, to accuse the government of put- ting transgender teenagers at risk through its schools policy. The Pathways trial was commis- sioned following Baroness Cass’s inde- pendent review of children’s gender services, which found there was “remarkably weak” evidence to support the use of puberty blockers. While the review concluded there was insuffi cient evidence that the drugs were either benefi cial or harmful, it rec- ommended that a properly designed clinical trial should be carried out to answer those questions. Puberty blockers have been banned indefinitely for routine NHS use in
September 21 2021, 08:08
allowed the pathways trial as it may provide evidence that had been lacking for decades
stuff ”. He added: “We just need to re-convince ourself it is coincidence.” Professor Holmes said that it was “striking” that a bat-derived coronavirus with a furin cleavage site turned up in a city with a lab “proposing to muck around” with FCSs in bat coronaviruses. WIV planned the bat research in collaboration with EcoHealth Alliance, founded by British zoologist Peter Daszak and the American virologist Dr Ralph Baric of the University of North Carolina. Prof Rambaut told his co- authors that they would need to have a chat about the “Baric/Daszak s---show”... “so we don’t get associated with these f-----s”. He also warned colleagues to “stay off email” or “carefully curate some emails” in case of Freedom of Information requests. Although the virologists claimed publicly that most scientists agreed on a natural origin for the pandemic, privately they admitted this was not the case. Anderson said he had been “pretty surprised” to learn that “most scientists I talk to believe there is a likely connection to the lab”. Molecular biologist Prof Richard Ebright, of Rutgers University in the US – who has called for a lab-leak scenario to be fully investigated – said: “The claim repeated literally thousands of times by journalists that most scientists favor a natural origin of Covid and oppose a lab origin of Covid always was a lie. And almost always was a deliberate lie.” The scientists were also dismissive about journalists, politicians commentators and other experts who supported a lab-leak theory, branding them “idiots”, “t---s”, “clueless”, “deranged”, and “morons.” and made up disparaging nicknames for experts. Senator Paul said: “Behind closed doors, the scientists who authored the Proximal Origin paper privately questioned their own conclusions. “Publicly, however, they shamed, attacked, and censored those who raised legitimate questions – all in the name of damage control. We deserve accountability for every eff ort to keep the public in the dark.” The Telegraph has approached the scientists for comments.
under-18s after the Commission on Human Medicines concluded they posed “an unacceptable safety risk” outside research. However, ministers allowed an exception for the pathways trial, arguing it could provide evidence that had been lacking for decades. The legal challenge has been brought by the Bayswater Support Group, which represents parents of gender-question- ing children, together with detransi- tioner Keira Bell and psychotherapist James Esses. They argue that both the MHRA and the Health Research Authority acted unlawfully in approving the study. Among their claims is that ethics committee members were not given all the evidence submitted by experts rais- ing concerns about the trial before granting approval. A judgment is expected next week. If the court grants the application for interim relief, recruitment due to begin on Aug 1 will be suspended.
What group of scientists had to say about public figures
Donald Trump, incoming president Eddie Holmes: “Can I call my memoirs ‘Donald Trump: My Part in this Downfall’?” And later: “Can’t see Trump giving it [Covid] to Melania as they’ve been physically distant for years”
Prof Francois Balloux, UCL geneticist Eddie Holmes: “Frankie is indeed a total twt. “I can’t stand to even think about him.” And later: “Frankie Bollocks has always been such a dck.”
Peter Daszak, former president of EcoHealth Alliance Robert Garry: “Daszak is an idiot. Not certain that the brain engages before every word comes out of the Grand Wizard’s mouth.”
Prof David Relman, microbiologist from Stanford Kristian Anderson: “Relman is an idiot. Pure and simple. I’ll tell him he’s an idiot the next time I ‘see’ him.”
Virologist Shi Zheng-li, left, works with her colleague in the Wuhan lab
owner sues fridge firm as he claims collection ruined by ‘wine chiller fault’
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A MULTI-MILLIONAIRE tailor who claims faulty fridges caused his wine collection to go “mouldy” is suing the supplier for more than £550,000. Tom Reimer, who once dressed Luciano Pavarotti, the opera singer, is a wine lover with a 20,000-strong collection of bottles, stored at his homes in London and Germany. But Mr Reimer claims that the value of his collection in London was ruined because of faults with wine chillers installed in his £8m Marylebone apartment in 2021. A 1cm-wide gap on the doors of the three units installed allowed cool air to escape and warmer air to enter, Mr Reimer claims. This, he said, lead to condensation and mould growth on the labels and to some of the hugely expensive vintages
man dies, then his mother is killed going to ID his body
A MOTHER died in a car crash on her way to identify her son’s body, after he died in a river hours earlier. Andrew Tinsley, 46, is believed to have died from cold water shock – and hours later his mother Carol Tinsley, 70, was killed in a crash as she was taken to identify his body in hospital. Mr Tinsley’s three children, aged 17, 20 and 21, were in the same car but sur- vived with injuries. The family were told Mr Tinsley died after jumping from a well-known bridge in Llangollen, North Wales on Friday July 11. Emergency services attended the scene on Castle Street at 8.16pm. His family, at the time in West Derby, were notified of the incident and begun a 50-mile journey to the mortuary at Wrexham Maelor Hospital.
Carol Tinsley, left, was killed in a car crash while she was being taken to identify her son’s body in the hospital mortuary
Their car was in a collision in Chester at 11.30pm that evening. Ms Tinsley died and three of Mr Tinsley’s children were injured. North Wales Police said the circum- stances of Mr Tinsley’s death are still being investigated, and an inquest will be held. The force said will it be working with local councils to highlight the dangers of jumping from Llangollen’s 16th cen- tury bridge, described as “a long-held summer tradition regarded as a danger- ous rite of passage” in the market town. Ms Tinsley’s granddaughter, and Mr Tinsley’s niece Lisa, 42, was on the phone to one of her cousins at the time of the horror collision. She said: “I don’t know what hap- pened. All I know is she got in the car and set off , and the next thing we hear is there’s been a tragic car accident. “I was on the phone to one of the kids, who was sitting in the back seat as the crash happened. “It was just a scream and a rumble and crashing. It was unreal.
drown trying to rescue boy
By Tom McArdle, Samaan Lateef and Andrea Hamblin
A MOTHER and daughter drowned
trying to save a seven-year-old boy after
they got into diffi culty in the water off
an Essex beach.
Shelina Rahman, a British-Bangla-
deshi teacher in her 40s, and her daugh-
ter Sameeha Rahman, 15, died at
Seaview Avenue in West Mersea near
Colchester on Wednesday evening.
The Telegraph can disclose that
the victims are the wife and daughter
of Dr Monsur Rahman, the leader
of Jubo Dal UK, the overseas youth wing
of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party in
Britain.
Mujibur Rahman, the father of
Shelina and grandfather to Sameeha,
said a seven-year-old family member
was on life support in a London hospital
following the incident. He revealed his
daughter had visited him earlier on
Wednesday before leaving for the beach
with family. The Telegraph understands
that the boy is the cousin of Sameeha.
Babor Chowdhury, a friend, said he
prayed Dr Rahman would be granted
“the strength and patience to bear this
irreparable loss”.
A lifeboat, two air ambulances and a
coastguard helicopter were dispatched
to the scene at about 5.30pm on
“probably” becoming corked – reducing the value of his 1,500-bottle London collection. Experts say rare wines are much less valuable on the collectors’ market if their labels are damaged as purchasers are wary of taking a risk on the wine itself being ruined. Mr Reimer’s extensive collection in London contained “first growth” clarets from Bordeaux and the Rhône Valley – including prized bottles of 1982 Château Mouton Rothschild, which can sell for more than £1,000, and 2012 Petrus, which retails for well in excess of £2,000. Petrus is highly-prized as the estate, situated 27 miles east of Bordeaux, has an annual production of about 30,000 bottles. At the Central London county court, the tailor is now suing International Food Services Equipment for about £500,000 to cover the reduced value of his collection, as well as another £50,000 in other costs and losses. However, the Croydon-based company is fighting the claim, saying that the “hairline” gap is an industry-standard design feature and
“It was like living in a movie. It was so shocking. I don’t think our lives are every going to be the same again. Within six hours, our family has been ripped apart.” Lisa said her uncle, who was “more like a brother” to her because of their close ages, was a regular visitor to Llangollen, and enjoyed swimming in the River Dee. She said: “We don’t really know what’s happened yet. We’re still waiting for that information. But as far as we know, he had cold water shock to the heart. “They tried to start his heart again,
Wednesday, following reports that a group of people had encountered diffi - culty in the sea. Witnesses claimed one person had been swept away by an incoming tide and other people had attempted to swim out to help. Yesterday morning, Essex Police said a teenage girl and a woman in her 40s had died. Three people were in hospital, including one in a serious condition. The Telegraph understands several peo-
Tailor Tom Reimer, right, is claiming that faulty wine fridges destroyed his collection
would not have made any diff erence to the fridge temperature. The supplier, which specialises in restaurant design, installed a wine cooling system, featuring glass sliding
Dr Monsur Rahman with daughter Sameeha, who died with mother Shelina, above
ple got into difficulty after a heavy incoming tide caused the sand beneath their feet to give way, sweeping them into the water. A community represent- ative familiar with the incident said the mother and daughter could not swim. Det Ch Insp Al Pitcher, of Essex Police, said: “ We would ask anyone who was at the beach at the time to please get in touch, to help us understand what happened.”
doors and remote condensers, at a cost to Mr Reimer of about £23,000. Mr Reimer said disaster struck because the “constant exchange of warm and cold air” produced
Andrew Tinsley, above right, is believed to have died from cold water shock after jumping from the Llangollen bridge, left, into the river
of attacking police trailing him
THE prime suspect in the disappear- ance of Madeleine McCann has been accused of attacking German police outside a supermarket. Rapist and paedophile Christian Brueckner was involved in a “physical attack” on police offi cers in the city of Kiel on June 6, according to a police spokeswoman. Brueckner – who has been under round-the-clock surveillance since his release from prison in September – got into a fi ght with police outside a super- market after taking photos of the offi cers with his mobile phone, the mag- azine Der Spiegel reported. The officers allegedly objected to being photographed and Brueckner refused their demand he hand over his phone. A force spokesman said: “An offi cer sustained injuries during the incident.” Brueckner, who was named as a sus- pect in the Madeleine McCann case but never charged, was also investigated by Kiel police over a brawl with another man in April. Brueckner, 49, has multiple previous convictions for sexual off ences as well as other crimes including theft, drug traffi cking, assault and sexual abuse of children. In September, he was released
temp erature fluctuation and condensation which was fatal for wine fridges that are required to maintain a steady temperature of 12-13C. But Matthew Winn-Smith, barrister for the defence , told the judge: “The defendant did
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but unfortunately he didn’t make it.” An appeal from a family member said: “When on the way to the hospital they tragically got in a serious RTC, sadly our nan died at the scene my two cousins also had serious injuries, the other had minor injuries.” It added: “They have been left with nothing and we really need help to raise funds for a double funeral to take some pressure and stress away from my cous- ins.” Inspector Joseph Dunn of the NWP Conwy & Denbigh Rural policing team said his thoughts are with the man’s family and friends.
from prison in Germany after serving a sentence on rape charges. Brueckner was acquitted by a court in Germany in late 2024 after being charged with rapes and two counts of child sex abuse over alleged crimes between 2000 and 2017 unrelated to the McCann disappearance. He was named the top suspect in the McCann case by German prosecutors in 2020, who said they had “concrete evi-
under round-the-clock surveillance since his release from prison’
dence” against him but not enough to secure a conviction. Three-year-old Madeleine, known also as “Maddie”, vanished from her family’s holiday apartment in Praia da Luz in Portugal in May 2007 while her parents dined nearby. At the time, Brueckner was regularly spending time in that area of Portugal and a mobile phone registered to his name pinged near the McCanns’ accom- modation on the evening of the girl’s di sapp earance. The Telegraph previously revealed Metropolitan
claimant’s wine collection was the result of Mr Reimer – or his agents or a third party – turning off the wine fridges because they were too noisy for his residential setting.” “Had they been left on then, on
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He added: “I would like to thank officers, our emergency service part- ners, and the assisting public for their response to this incident. “As a policing team, we are aware of safety concerns locally regarding diving off the bridge. “Whilst this is not a criminal off ence, we will continue to work with Denbigh- shire County Council, Llangollen Town Council, and other partners to highlight the dangers to the general public, and officers will continue to advise and warn individuals intending to jump from the bridge of the dangers of doing so.”
Police detectives are trying to bring Brueckner to Britain to stand trial for the abduction and murder of Madeleine. One of Scotland Yard’s most senior offi cers was leading a push to charge the German suspect before the 20th anni- versary of Madeleine’s disappearance next year. The force would like to see Brueck- ner stand trial at the Old Bailey and believes it can gather a strong enough case for the Crown Prosecution Service to authorise charges. However, the German constitution prevents the extradition of its citizens to non-EU countries, which could lead Berlin to reject the request. This would be likely to provoke a diplomatic and legal row. Before Brexit, a German national could be automatically extradited to the UK under the European Arrest Warrant, which requires EU member states to surrender suspects to each other with minimal legal barriers. If Germany refuses to hand him over, the Met is pressing for him to faces charges in Germany or in Portugal, where the alleged crime took place. Brueckner has always denied any involvement in Madeleine’s disappear- ance and has been moving around Ger- many since his release from prison.
By Ruby Cline
PALESTINE ACTION has advertised training days encouraging potential terrorists to “work out with a hammer” instead of carrying flags. The proscribed group’s training ses- sions took place days after it emerged that Ann Widdecombe, a former MP, had died in an alleged hammer attack.
from Kenya over killing of mother
refuses to ratify treaty in bid to hold British troops to account for alleged crimes
By Tom Cotterill and Ben Farmer
THE British Army has been banned from training in Kenya after the alleged murder of a young mother. The Kenyan government has refused to ratify a bilateral defence agreement meaning licences needed for the Army to train in the African country have not been signed. The UK Government wants to renew the existing agreement. However, the Commonwealth country has sought changes to give local authorities greater powers to hold British troops accounta- ble for any crimes committed in the country. It follows a series of controver- sies, which include the 2012 murder of Agnes Wanjiru. She was allegedly killed by a UK soldier based at the British Army Training Unit in Kenya (Batuk). The 21-year-old’s body was found in a hotel septic tank in the garrison town of Nanyuki, almost three months after she
Agnes Wanjiru's body was found in a hotel septic tank. The 21-year-old was allegedly killed by a British solider
was alleged to have spent an evening with British soldiers from the base. Former soldier Robert James Purkiss, of Tidworth in Wiltshire, is accused of the Kenyan woman’s murder and is facing extradition to the east African country. Purkiss denies murder. The refusal to grant permission for UK troops to train in Kenya has led to the last-minute cancellation of a major exercise involving the 1st Battalion, the Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment, which was due to begin in September. They will instead train on Salisbury Plain. The disagreement centres over concerns that British troops accused of crimes while on official duty remain subject to UK jurisdiction instead of Kenyan courts. Lawmakers and human rights groups have said the proposed agreement must align with Kenya’s constitution by
A SAUDI prince was found dead at a Kensington hotel after taking a cocktail of drugs and alcohol. Abdullah bin Fahad bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz bin Jalawi al Saud was almost three times the drink-drive limit and had traces of gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB), cannabis, and Xanax in his sys- tem. His body was discovered in his bathroom at the £600-a-night Marriott Hotel in Kensington on Nov 25 last year. An inquest at Inner West London
French chateau investment scam
By Lora Jones consumer AffAirs corresPondent
A FORMER police officer has been charged with investment fraud and organised money laundering in an alleged French château investment scam first exposed by The Telegraph. Robin Barrasford, one of the direc- tors of the Halcyon Retreat scheme, was detained by the Spanish police as part of an operation with the French and Brit- ish authorities on May 20. In an update yesterday, the JIRS de Bordeaux, a specialist financial crime unit overseeing the investigation in France, confirmed that he has since been charged and was being kept under “judicial supervision”. A second indi- vidual was also charged on June 24 with the same charges, it said. The resort was sold to investors as an opportunity to buy a property in a holiday village in the Limousin region. It was bought by British developers in
The weekly sessions are for activists who intend to take part in “direct action”, a term often used to describe both legal and illegal protest tactics. A poster advertising the training reads: “Arms tired of waving flags? Workout with a hammer! Direct action training available!”Elsewhere, the group shared flyers offering a two-hour session teaching “an overview of the
allowing British troops to face trial in Kenyan courts for offences committed on Kenyan soil. The Ministry of Defence has insisted it will co-operate with any Kenyan criminal investigation into alleged actions by British personnel. Nelson Koech, chairman of the Kenyan national assembly’s defence, intelligence and foreign relations committee, added the two governments were “actively engaging to address these outstanding issues”. The dispute follows a two-year Kenyan parliamentary inquiry, pub- lished last December, which accused British soldiers of operating in “a cul- ture of impunity” at Batuk in Laikipia. The report accused British personnel of decades of sexual abuse, killings, environmental destruction and human rights violations while training at Batuk. Soldiers were also alleged to have evaded accountability by refusing to co op erate with the two -year parliamentary inquiry. Kenya’s parliamentary committee on defence, intelligence and foreign relations, which compiled the report, said residents living near the military base had complained of killings, assaults and injuries, including public fights and fatal traffic incidents involve Batuk soldiers. The damning 94-page document claimed Batuk was “increasingly seen as an occupying presence rather than a development partner, with affected residents drawing parallels to colonial injustices”. The death of Mrs Wanjiru was among the worst cases highlighted by the Kenyan inquiry. The panel said the “pursuit of justice has been slow and fraught with frustra- tion” and that the investigation had faced “undue interference and obstruc- tion, allegedly by Batuk personnel”. John Healey, the former defence secretary, last year visited Kenya to meet Mrs Wanjiru’s family. Meanwhile, Mr Purkiss, her alleged killer, is due to appear before a four-day extradition hearing in November. The Government said the UK “highly values its relationship with Kenya” and that the joint training helped to keep “both Kenyan and British people safe”. A spokesman added: “We will continue to engage closely with the Kenyan Government to support the resumption of training in-country at the earliest appropriate opportunity.”
coroner’s court heard that the deceased had been struggling with the use of alcohol and Xanax. Three months ear- lier, he had been an inpatient at the Pri- ory Clinic in Roehampton, south-west London, where a stay can cost £35,000 a week. There, he was detoxed from alcohol, benzodiazepines and the anti-anxiety drug Pregabalin. The inquest heard that the 29-year- old had checked into the hotel on Nov 19 for a one-week stay. The prince was last
2010, and the development, comprising “luxury” apartments and villas, was once valued at £60m. But “guaranteed” rental returns failed to materialise, and investors told The Telegraph they had poured their life savings into properties that were never completed.
Robin Barrasford, left, is an ex-police officer and director from the firm accused of the investment scam
historical colonisation of Palestine” and “an overview of legal consequences” of direct action. Baron Walney, the former govern- ment independent adviser on political violence and disruption, told The Tele- graph: “It is contemptuous for these far- Left extremists to claim they are non-violent when they continue to incite supporters with sinister hammer
Paula Edwards received a British Citizen Award for her work with Salute Her UK, a charity supporting women in the Armed Forces
seen on CCTV on the evening before his death going outside to smoke a cigarette. A cleaner subsequently found him lying fully clothed on the bathroom floor of his locked fifth-floor room. Paramedics were unable to resuscitate him and he was pronounced dead. A toxicology report heard that he had a blood ethanol concentration of 222mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood. The drink-drive limit is 80mg. Potentially fatal levels of the so-called “party drug”
Construction delays had been blamed on the pandemic, planning difficulties and talks with financiers dragging out. One investor, Jonathan Mansfield, from Bexley, told The Telegraph that he hoped the charges would be a “stepping stone” to investors recovering some of their money. He and his wife Lisa had committed £32,000 to an apartment, swayed by the idea of rental income and a generous buy-back scheme. The National Crime Agency has also been assisting the French investigation, searching addresses in the UK, seizing devices and banking details to trace and recover potential criminal proceeds. The directors of the Halcyon resort previously said they had been “working to secure financing” for the belea- guered business for some time. And could not offer a timeline for investor returns but had kept investors updated on progress. They were approached for further comment.
imagery, even after the shocking news that Ann Widdecombe died after multi- ple hammer blows to the head. “It took five years for the UK govern- ment to act against Palestine Action, after a campaign in which [an activist] smashed a policewoman’s spine with a sledgehammer, intimidated thousands of working people and attacked sites critically important to defending the UK
GHB were also found in his system as well as traces of cannabis, the anti-anx- iety medication alprazolam, better known as Xanax, and other anti-anxiety medicines. Dr Victoria Chamorro, a consultant psychiatrist, said the prince had “engaged well” with detox treat- ment at the Priory, which had “pro- ceeded without physical side effects”. “He was supportive and kind to his peers, making friends,” she said in a state- ment. “He was assessed as having symp-
‘take mickey out of Londoners’
By Genevieve Holl-Allen
PoliticAl corresPondent
FARE-DODGERS are increasingly escaping justice under Sir Sadiq Khan, as the number of prosecutions for the crime have halved. Fare evasion on the London Under- ground network has doubled since 2019, to around five per cent of jour- neys, according to new data analysis. Despite the boom in fare-dodging on the capital’s transport networks, the number of enforcement officers has barely grown in 15 years. The findings have prompted accusations that Mayor of London Sir Sadiq is letting fare dodgers “take the mickey out of every paying Londoner”. A new report by the City Hall Conservatives revealed the number of prosecutions for fare-dodging has fallen from around 29,000 pre-pandemic to 14,000 convictions this year. Less than half of penalty fares owed
from hostile states.” Miss Widdecombe, who defected to the Brexit Party from the Tories in 2019 and later joined Reform UK, was found dead on July 9. She had been hit over the head with a hammer 21 times, prosecutors told West- minster magistrates’ court on Tuesday. Joshua Kerry, a 28-year-old admin worker, appeared in court a day after being charged with the murder of Miss
toms of low mood and anxiety on admission. When he was discharged, he was considered not to be at risk of sui- cide. He was discharged with a friend but then failed to attend scheduled Zoom appointments. Nevertheless, there was no concern for him. He engaged well and completed his treatment.” After leaving the Priory, the prince had further treatment at the private £7,000-a-week Rainford Hall clinic in St Helens, Merseyside, where he was
to Transport for London (TfL) by those who did not pay actually get paid. Fare evasion cost TfL around £190 million in the year 2022-23, according to Freedom of Information data, up from £116 million in 2018-19. Last month, the mayor said his crack- down on fare-dodging was “working”.
unpaid anyway so it’s no wonder fare dodgers are rampant’
Widdecombe at her Devon bungalow. Labour proscribed Palestine Action under terror laws after five protesters allegedly broke into RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire in June last year and vandal- ised two Voyager planes, causing dam- age estimated at £7m. In May, four group members were found guilty of carrying out a raid with sledgehammers at an Israeli defence firm in 2024.
for founder of charity helping women veterans
By Gordon Rayner AssociAte editor
THE founder of a charity for female vet- erans has been honoured for her work helping women who have been sexually abused by colleagues. Paula Edwards set up Salute Her UK after discovering there was little sup- port for servicewomen who had been the victims of rape or sexual assault within the Armed Forces. She was one of 28 people presented with a British Citizen Award at the Pal- ace of Westminster yesterday. Often referred to as the People’s Honours, the awards have recognised the country’s unsung heroes for the past 11 years. Ms Edwards, from Newcastle, was working for Forward Assist, another military charity, when she was tasked with setting up Britain’s first veterans’ charity specifically for women. Since then 6,000 women have received help from Salute Her UK, 98 per cent of whom have been victims of sexual assault. The charity’s work led to Parlia- ment’s 2021 Atherton inquiry into bul- lying, harassment, discrimination and sexual offences against women in the Armed Forces, which found “truly shocking evidence” and “serious prob- lems” with the way the military had handled complaints of sexual assault. Ms Edwards, 45, said: “We found that women weren’t seeking help from other military charities because they were largely run by men and by people who were still in the military. “They found that if they reported sexual assaults by colleagues, they ended up losing their career.” Using her 25 years of experience as an NHS trauma therapist, Ms Edwards set up Salute Her UK, becoming chief executive in 2021. Its success has led to similar women-only military charities being set up in other countries. Also among those honoured was Clare Dingwall, 59, from Southend-on- Sea, Essex, who raised more than £167,000 through her charity Polo For Heroes, which she co-founded in 2009. Ms Dingwall, a medical secretary, used her connections in the sport to stage an annual match at Fifield Polo Club in Berkshire, where injured veter- ans make up mixed teams with regular players. Holly Baird, 33, from Solihull, West Midlands, was honoured for her work with The Daniel Baird Foundation, named after her brother who was stabbed to death at the age of 26 in 2017 during a night out with friends. She and her family set up the charity to raise awareness of, and access to, bleed-control kits, which could have saved Baird’s life if one had been availa- ble when he was attacked. It has so far placed 35,000 kits in public places which have been credited with saving several lives. The awards, which are presented twice yearly, are sponsored by One Stop, the convenience store chain.
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also diagnosed with an upper respira- tory tract infection. He recovered and left on Oct 14. A post mortem examina- tion found that the royal, who was descended from the great-great-grand- father of King Salman of Saudi Arabia, had suffered cardiac arrest as a result of the combination of drugs and alcohol. Jean Harkin, the assistant coroner, recorded a verdict of death by misad- venture with the cause of death as multi-drug ingestion.
secretary, confronted offenders. Mr Garratt’s new report, “Fact Evasion”, accused TfL of deciding to “ignore fare evasion during the pandemic, so it spiralled out of control”. He demanded that City Hall publish the official data to reveal the extent of the issue. Mr Garratt told The Telegraph: “Penalty fares and prosecutions are half what they were, and most fines just go unpaid anyway so it’s no wonder fare- dodgers are rampant. “They’re taking the mickey out of every paying Londoner, and Khan is letting them get away with it.” His report also found the number of enforcement officers operating on TfL’s networks has appeared to remain steady at 500 for 15 years, despite the increase in the number of passengers. The Government announced earlier this month that new 6ft (1.8 metre) ticket gates would be installed in rail- way stations at “fare-dodger hotspots” across the country from next year.
agreement is contingent on the gulf state joining the Abraham Accords
By Henry Bodkin JERUSALEM CORRESPONDENT
DONALD TRUMP has insisted that Saudi Arabia recognise Israel as a condition of their landmark nuclear deal with the US. The pact will allow the kingdom to build nuclear reactors for civil use employing US technology. The announcement earlier this week that the US would enter a nuclear partnership with Saudi Arabia that was not conditional on the kingdom’s recognition of Israel caused huge disquiet in Israel and recrimination
running out of cash, missiles... and even oil
Hans van Leeuwe INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS EDITOR
“WE are now witnessing a new phase
in the war,” Amir Mohammad
Akraminia, the Iranian brigadier
general, told state media yesterday
morning. He’s not wrong.
Houthi militants claimed to
have bombed two Saudi oil tankers
in the Red Sea, making good on
their threat to blockade the
Bab al-Mandeb Strait.
The Yemen-based Iranian proxy
said a further 10 Saudi tankers had
been turned around, and that it was
ready, if necessary, to bomb Saudi
Arabia itself.
The Saudis have been using the
Bab al-Mandeb, on the country’s
opposite coastline to the strangled
Strait of Hormuz, as an escape valve
for almost fi ve million barrels of crude
oil a day, shifting it cross-country via
the pipeline.
So in launching this new front on
the Red Sea, Iran has also fi red the
starter’s gun on a race to stabilise
global oil supply.
The new squeeze on world
oil supplies brings global energy
markets closer to a tipping point.
Beyond that, an economically
punishing supply shortage, and price
spiral, lies in wait.
A crisis has been averted so far
because China and the US are
aggressively running through their
stockpiles, easing the market pressure.
But nobody knows how much Beijing
has left in the tank and the US strategic
petroleum reserve has been drained to
its lowest since 1983.
Since March, the Americans have
released about 105 million barrels.
They can release about that much oil
once more before the risk of damaging
their tanks and pipelines becomes
too great.
As of the start of this month, the
reserve had roughly 319.5 million
barrels left.
Unsurprisingly, the Brent crude oil
price is bubbling up again. It is now
verging on the $100-a-barrel threshold
at which Donald Trump typically takes
to Truth Social and claims that a deal
with the Iranians is imminent.
This time, he has taken a harder line.
He said he would keep bombing Iran
until it came to the table with a pledge
to reopen Hormuz.
His latest threat is to take out an
Iranian bridge or power plant in
exchange for every tanker that Iran or
its proxies attack. The writ of the
Geneva Convention no longer runs in
the Middle East.
Mr Trump’s campaign to bomb Iran
into submission needs to succeed
before the oil market reaches the
precipice. If not, the economic hit
ties to China with 10pc tariff
By Connor Stringer CHIEF WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT
DONALD TRUMP has hit Britain with 10 per cent tariff s as apparent punish- ment over its ties to China. The White House announced that the UK would be among 60 countries hit with levies of between 10 and 12.5 per cent for failing to crack down on imports made with forced labour. Britain will face a 10 per cent rate, despite claiming to have some of the world’s toughest laws against so-called “modern slavery”. The new levies, announced by the US Trade Represent- ative (USTR) yesterday, are intended to replace Mr Trump’s temporary 10 per cent tariff , which expires today. The tax came into force at 12:01am Eastern time today, and targets 60 countries, including ones in the EU, that the administration said represent about 99 per cent of US trade. An offi cial rejected suggestions that the forced labour tariff s, invoked using a 1974 law, were a way to replace expir- ing tariffs while circumventing a supreme court order. The order struck
against Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli
prime minister.
Even Joe Biden, the former US
president who was more critical of
Israel’s conduct in Gaza than Mr Trump,
insisted on recognition of Israel as the
price for nuclear cooperation.
Saudi Arabia has previously stated
that it would only establish diplomatic
ties with the Jewish state if the
Palestinian people were put on a
credible path to statehood.
This was taken to mean an immediate
curtailment of settlement building and
anti-Palestinian violence in the West
Bank, both of which are escalating, and
a dramatic improvement of prospects
for the people of Gaza.
In an apparent about-turn yesterday,
the US president said the nuclear
agreement “will be approved, but is
totally subject to Saudi Arabia joining
the very respected and successful
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could scupper the Republicans’ chances at the mid-term congressional elections in November. No amount of talk about Chinese electoral malpractice will be able to defl ect the blame. But the annals of war suggest that bombing campaigns alone seldom bring an adversary to accept defeat. It will take a vast amount of munitions, and perhaps ground troops, to grind Iran into a truly hopeless position. This, in turn, highlights the ticking of a second clock. The Americans are running out of money and missiles. Pete Hegseth, the war secretary, warned of “critical shortfalls” as he pleaded with Congress to unlock more cash for a war that has already cost close to $38bn (£28bn). Legislators are baulking at his request to fi nd $67bn to fund the war. Yet the cash continues to burn. F-16
down Trump’s tariff s imposed last year under a national emergencies law to shrink the US trade defi cit. The offi cial said the US has stronger import bans on goods made with forced labour and enforces them more rigor- ously than any other country, giving rivals an unfair trading advantage. A 2021 report by MPs on the business
Number of minority workers being coerced into seasonal cotton-picking jobs by China, according to the BBC
committee found evidence that the Chi- nese government had detained Uyghur Muslims and forced them into unpaid factory jobs. “Major companies in fash- ion, retail, media and technology in the UK” were “complicit” through their supply chains, the report said. Of particular concern were clothing and solar panels shipped to the UK. A BBC investigation found that in
Abraham Accords”. Responding to Mr Trump’s words, the Israeli prime minister’s office said: “The joint American and Israeli military action against the genocidal regime in Tehran and Israel’s crushing of Iran’s terror axis have created the possibility to expand the circle of peace. “As President Trump has said, Saudi Arabia’s joining of the Abraham Accords would be an historic leap forward for peace in the Middle East.” Mr Trump also clarified that Saudi Arabia will not be able to enrich its own uranium under the deal with the US, known as the 123 Agreement. “The Civil Nuclear Deal (There will be no enrichment of material!)... pertains only to non-military use such as the ones that Iran and UAE (and others) already have, will be approved, but is totally subject to Saudi Arabia joining the very respected and
Nuclear Deal (There will be no enrichment of material!) pertains only to non-military use’
Arabia’s joining Abraham Accords would be an historic leap forward for peace in the Middle East’
and F-35 fi ghter jets have now been added to the theatre. More refuelling tanker planes are on their way to Israel, too. Air-defence munitions are being further depleted in response to Iranian attacks on US military bases
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China up to half a million minority workers were being coerced into sea- sonal jobs picking cotton. Around 93 per cent of cotton grown in China last year came from Xinjiang, the main region where forced labour has been documented, according to the USTR. The material ends up in clothing made in third countries before it is exported to the UK. Mr Trump will “always use the tools at his disposal to achieve his trade pol- icy objectives, and that includes tariff s,” the offi cial added. Oil and gas, fertiliser, certain food and goods that are already subject to Section 232 national security tariff s, such as automobiles, steel, alu- minium and copper, will be exempt. The US does not view any nation as sufficiently enforcing labour protec- tion, even those with anti-slavery laws, according to The Wall Street Journal. The White House will continue to monitor the issue, the paper reported. Experts have warned that Britain’s current anti-slavery laws are ill- equipped to deal with the problem and that they eff ectively allow companies to police themselves.
successful Abraham Accords,” the US president said in a post on his Truth Social platform. The Abraham Accords, brokered under Mr Trump’s fi rst term, are a series of agreements to recognise Israel for- mally and normalise relations with it. They were signed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain in 2020, with Morocco and Sudan joining later. Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, said Saudi Arabia’s joining of the Abraham Accords “would be an historic leap forward for peace in the Middle East”. The Saudi-US deal, which Chris Wright, the US Energy Secretary, said would usher in an “American nuclear renaissance”, must be passed by Congress before it comes into eff ect. Iran is the only country in the region that enriches its own uranium, although the UAE, Turkey and Egypt all have civil
across the region. These will take years to replace. Iran is hurting too, of course. Its economy is in pieces, its military has been degraded, its own drone and missile stocks are dwindling. If the
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nuclear programmes. The UAE generates a quarter of its energy through nuclear reactors. Iran’s agreement is subject to United Nations checks that can be conducted at any time, to prevent Tehran from using its enrichment facilities to help develop a nuclear weapon. Mr Trump, who has long insisted that the country cannot have a nuclear weapon, launched strikes on the country on Feb 28 amid fears that Tehran was trying to retrieve uranium enriched up to 60 per cent. Much of the material was buried or destroyed in US strikes last June, Mr Trump previously said. Saudi Arabia, the world’s top oil exporter, said the nuclear agreement supports efforts to diversify energy sources, and includes the “highest international standards” of nuclear safety, security and non-proliferation.
US shuts off swathes of its power supply, both military operations and ordinary life will become very hard indeed. But life was already pretty hard under sanctions. And there is not much alternative, or much capacity for dissent. So it is probably safe to assume that the Iranian pain threshold is higher than the American one. As the clock ticks down, Mr Trump will either have to retreat or to double down. The Iranians seem almost hopeful of luring him into a ground war. “Ground operations provide many opportunities to damage and infl ict more casualties on the enemy. Our eff ectiveness and effi ciency will certainly be much higher in this area,” said Brig Gen Akraminia. The rest of the world will be hoping that Mr Trump’s race against time has a viable exit ramp. But it’s hard to spot it through the fog of war.
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By Antonia Langford in Kyiv
THE tower of black smog that rose from the Wildberries warehouse in Krasnodar looked like it had emerged from the bowels of hell. Unbeknown to the workers fl eeing into the darkness, nearly 200 miles away Ukrainian drones were also descending on another depot in Nevinnomyssk. Meanwhile, in the Moscow region, fl ames continued to devour the remains of a warehouse struck days before. In recent days, Kyiv has opened a new chapter in its campaign to bring the war to Russia. After months of escalating attacks on oil depots and refi neries, it has abruptly shifted tactics, turning its sights on a more unexpected target: warehouses and depots belonging to Wildberries, a Russian retail giant often described as the country’s equivalent of Amazon. Ukraine has struck fi ve massive facilities belonging to the company, alongside smaller attacks on storage sites used by other e-commerce titans. The strikes have wiped out up to 15 per cent of the company’s overall warehouse space. Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, has described the terminals as a legitimate target, citing their use to supply the Russian army Robert Brovdi, Ukra
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BRITAIN and the United States have pressed Ukraine to continue Mykhailo Fedorov’s corruption crackdown after the popular defence minister’s sacking. Using diplomatic back channels, Kyiv’s two allies expressed concern over Mr Fedorov’s dismissal in Volodymyr Zelensky’s cabinet reshuffl e last week. When rumours surfaced that the Ukrainian president was considering ousting Mr Fedorov, British and Ameri- can officials were said to have been “hugely surprised” at the possible move. They feared his sacking could usher in an end to the 35-year-old min- ister’s attempts to root out corruption and push through technological inno- vation in Ukraine’s armed forces. A source told The Telegraph that US officials were particularly concerned that Mr Fedorov’s fi ring could trigger a backlash from Elon Musk, whose Star- link satellite internet system has been crucial for Kyiv’s military. Days after the former minister took offi ce earlier this
By Julian Ryall in Tokyo
SHE has referred to herself as “Japan’s Iron Lady” – and Sanae Takaichi is emu- lating Margaret Thatcher in more than just her conservative policies. The Japanese prime minister revealed that she slept for a maximum of three hours a night, even less than her heroine’s four hours. But the admission has raised con- cerns about Mrs Takaichi’s ability to delegate and her long-term health. After becoming prime minister in October, she boasted in her acceptance speech: “I will discard the term ‘work- life balance’ and will work, work, work and keep on working.” She has kept to her pledge, posting on X that she had been able to sleep for fi ve hours for the fi rst time in months at the weekend. The post, apparently made to show her commitment to tack- ling the nation’s challenges, claimed that even on weekends she had “contin-
businesses selling goods through the site. Hundreds have posted videos online complaining that they had lost large inventories of goods and would not receive compensation. Earlier this month, Wildberries and another major e-commerce platform, Ozon, revised their seller agreements to specify that they would not be legally liable for losses resulting from drone attacks. After the strikes, Yandex Market, another competitor, quickly amended its own terms. “Personally, I’m heading for bankruptcy,” said Timofey, an entrepreneur from St Petersburg, who claimed he had lost more than 50 million roubles’ worth of stock in Elektrostal (£480,000) and a further 2.5 million in Kotovsk. “Of the 53 million roubles’ worth of goods I lost, around 20 million were bought on credit. Shortly beforehand, Wildberries changed its terms and conditions, almost as if it knew something. Now the company is washing its hands of the whole matter,” the businessman told Radio Svoboda. Sellers’ unsold inventory stored in the Elektrostal and Kotovsk warehouses alone could be worth between 150 and 235 billion roubles (£1.4bn-£2.3bn), according to Sergei Semko, an analyst at the research agency Data Insight. Meanwhile, repairing the warehouses – which have lost some 5.9 million square feet of space, according to Kommersant, a Russian daily newspaper, is likely to cost between 22 and 36 billion roubles (£211m-£345m) Wildberries’ net profi t
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year, he worked closely with the tech trillionaire’s SpaceX to shut off Russia’s use of the system to attack Ukraine. Mr Fedorov has taken personal credit for the move, which has left Russian troops blind on the front line and is con- sidered one of the main reasons for Ukraine’s recent uplift in fortunes. “We thought he was doing a good job,” said a well-placed source, who admitted Western officials had been taken aback by the sacking. But despite their quiet concerns, British and American officials have been incredibly cautious during their interventions. They are keen not to be seen to be intervening in Ukraine’s domestic politics by urging Mr Zelen- sky to reverse Mr Fedorov’s dismissal. However, given the large amounts of money fl owing into Kyiv from Western governments they deem it important enough to urge the Ukrainian president not to drop his former minister’s anti-corruption reforms. Britain’s Ministry of Defence, the Pentagon and US State Department did not deny the warnings had been passed
ued reading thick stacks of materials from early morning until late at night”. She added that “since becoming prime minister, zero to three hours of sleep has become the norm”. Yuichiro Tamaki, head of the opposi- tion Democratic Party for the People,
Sanae Takaichi says ‘zero to three hours of sleep has become her norm’ after pledging to keep on working
that online retailers are used for army supplies. Kyiv’s new strategy came after Moscow moved air defence systems, including from the Arctic Circle, to guard some of the country’s most embattled refi neries. Now, there is a more vulnerable target. Emily Ferris, a senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, said the fresh strikes may have more of a “social impact” than previous rounds. “While fuel shortages are one thing, Wildberries is like Russia’s Amazon and it will impact on domestic supply chains of everyday goods.” While the strikes may have rattled Russians, they have hardened Vladimir Putin’s already uncompromising posture. The Russian president is now intent not only on seizing the rest of Ukraine’s partially occupied Donetsk
Britain’s Lt Gen Tom Bateman has taken command of the multinational force in Ukraine
ing: “I have rarely seen the prime min- ister of a country make a show of not sleeping.” There have also been accusa- tions that a sleep-deprived leader will make poor decisions, while others have pointed out that her brutal workload directly contravenes government efforts to reform Japan’s work habits and achieve a better work-life balance for employees. Minoru Kihara, the chief cabinet secretary, defended Mrs Takaichi, tell- ing reporters in Tokyo: “I believe the prime minister will continue to make choices and do her best in her duties. This is for the good of the nation and the people.” Mrs Takaichi’s sleepless nights may be about to get worse, however. A pub- lic opinion poll at the weekend put her support rate at 41 per cent, down 10 percentage points in a month. Analysts blame the sharp fall on a failure to implement measures to help people struggling with rising prices.
through back channels. European allies and Canada have pledged to provide €70bn (£61bn) in military aid for Ukraine both this year and 2027. Much of this money is being chan- nelled through the war-torn country’s domestic defence industry to finance the production of drones and missiles. Mr Fedorov made rooting out corrup-
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tion in defence contracting a large part of his focus during his time in the min- istry of defence. His dismissal triggered a domestic crisis in Ukraine after street protests erupted to denounce the move by Mr Zelensky. The Ukrainian president’s decision has resulted in one of the larg- est shake-ups of Ukraine’s military since the beginning of the war. Mr Zelensky fired Mr Fedorov because of a row between the former defence minister and Gen Oleksandr Syrsky over the future direction of Kyiv’s armed forces. As protests continued, Mr Zelensky also sacked Gen Syrsky as his top commander. In a statement to reporters yesterday, Mr Fedorov said he would accept only a return to his old role where he could combat “corruption”, “root out a culture of lies” and “complete the army’s trans- formation.” “I will not accept any position other than Minister of Defense,” he said in the statement. Meanwhile, Britain yesterday took command of the multinational force
By James Titcomb TECHNOLOGY EDITOR
ELON MUSK has said he cannot be
racist because his partner is half Indian
and one of his sons is named after an
Indian scientist.
The world’s richest man, with a
fortune estimated at $800bn (£600bn)
by Forbes, who has previously said
white people were a “dying minority”
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inan interview with The Economist.
Mr Musk has four children with
Shivon Zilis, a Canadian tech executive
whose mother was born in India.
One of his sons with Ms Zilis, Strider
Sekhar Sirius, is named after
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, an
Indian-American physicist.
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four children with her.
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famous Indian physicist. So I would say
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I’m not racist,” Mr Musk said. “And also, if you look at the people that are employed at my companies, we have senior executives of all races. I don’t think there’s any racism there.” Mr Musk has frequently posted about race in recent months. He wrote on his social media site X in January that
that are employed at my companies, we have senior executives of all races’
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honoured to work side by side with the French deputy commander to provide continued leadership to this force’
region but also on keeping the occupied parts of the Sumy and Kharkiv border regions under any peace deal, Bloomberg reported. Some, however, remain hopeful that a fresh reminder that the war has come o Russia’s doorstep could begin to hip away at public indiff erence. “Before, the war was a peripheral phenomenon that didn’t directly aff ect he lives of ordinary Russians,” said bbas Gallyamov, a political analyst nd former speechwriter for Putin. Now it comes in the form of fuel hortages and disruptions to online hopping. This negative momentum or the Russian authorities undermines he picture painted by propaganda,” he added. “[The strikes] strengthen nti-war sentiment.” “People rally behind a government hat is winning, not one that is losing.”
preparing to deploy to Ukraine to uphold any peace deal which may emerge. Lt Gen Tom Bateman, a three-star British commander, took over from his French counterpart in a ceremony in Paris. Multinational Force Ukraine is the result of the UK-French-led Coali- tion of the Willing’s planning to support Kyiv during any ceasefi re. The force is planning to help secure Ukraine’s skies and seas, as well as rebuild the war-torn country’s ground forces. Wes Streeting, the new Defence Secre- tary, said: “Lt Gen Bateman is a distin- guished officer who has already displayed military leadership on a national and international level. His com- mand will help strengthen our eff orts to support Ukraine’s future security.” Lt Gen Bateman added: “I am hon- oured to work side by side with the new French deputy commander to provide continued British and French leader- ship to this important multinational force which has been declared ‘ready to operate’ at the recent Coalition of the Willing summit.”
that civil war in Britain was “inevitable” and been accused of stoking June’s race-related riots in Belfast. When asked whether he was anti-Muslim, Mr Musk responded: “If people are coming to a country with antithetical views, I am against that. “I’m against rape and murder, I’m against the imposition of rules and laws that are contrary to what we’ve come to accept in the West.” He has also said that people characterised as being on the far-Right were “just normal people”. Mr Musk conceded he had not visited Britain in several years, despite his frequent posts about the UK, but said he had been “literally a hundred times”. “If you have a... large and growing, rapidly growing, group of people whose beliefs are antithetical to Western beliefs, at some point there will be a reckoning,” he said. “They will try to implement their views and those who oppose it will oppose it.”
the tactic so they can buy torched properties at bargain basement prices
By Matteo Seramfimovski
ARSONISTS tied rags to cats’ tails and set them alight, causing wildfires in Italy, investigators have said. Flames tore through Pollino national park in Calabria, southern Italy, this week, destroying much of the parkland. Along with the stray cats, investiga- tors found candles and delayed ignition devices near the smouldering remains. Domenico Costarella, of Calabria’s civil protection agency, said: “These animals were released into the fi elds, running around and spreading the fi re.” He added that fi ghting arson would take a “shift in mindset… These are
French village as church bells are silenced
By Vivian Song in Paris
FOR generations, the church bells of Vindry-sur-Turdine have rung every half hour, all day and all night. But the heatwave has fi nally brought an end to the nightly chimes, pitting neighbour against neighbour in this quiet corner of the beautiful Rhone countryside. When a number of villagers com- plained about the noise at night after sleeping with their windows open, they unwittingly divided the community. “I can’t sleep,” one unnamed woman who lives beside a church, told the local newspaper Le Progrès. “I don’t see the point in them ringing every 30 minutes at night.” Others are not convinced. “Before we had a rooster crowing in the morning, and people grumbled,” a local named Gilles told French news channel BFMTV. “They just have to go into town and that’s it. The countryside is the countryside.”
see the point in them ringing every 30 minutes at night’
“It suits me very well that it rings at night,” another unnamed local told regional news outlet France3. “When you’re used to it, you can no longer hear anything, and when you’re not sleep- ing, it sets the pace at night. It’s good.” The mayor’s office, in consultation with the parish, had agreed temporarily to silence the bells from 10pm to 6am. “There will be some people who are unhappy,” the mayor of Vindry-sur-Tur- dine, Catherine Raffi n, told Le Progrès. “A minority are bothered by it, but we know we’re going to disappoint even more people. We’re bracing ourselves for some unpleasant comments.” “It’s a bit like roosters near farms,” she added, referring to urbanites who moved the countryside during the Covid pandemic only to complain about typical rural noises: church bells, trac- tors and the crowing of roosters. In La Garnache, local man Thierry Simonin calculated that the church bells in the town ring 726 times between 10pm and 7am.
By Natasha Leake US REPORTER
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inhumane acts. Sadly, men are their own worst enemies.” The Italian association for the defence of animals has issued a €1,000 (£870) reward for information about who set the cats alight. Cats have previously been used to start wildfi res in Sicily. In 2016, author- ities blamed Mafia-linked groups for using animals to set the Nebrodi regional park in northern Sicily alight. The next year, the Campania-based Camorra mafi a deployed the same tac- tic to start fi res in protected woodlands below Mount Vesuvius, triggering evacuations and the deployment of the Italian army. Lauren Pearson, a researcher, told CNN last year the arson was part of a wider land-grab tactic to buy up torched land at bargain prices. In the Calabria region, more than 160 fires have been recorded, which the local civil protection chief blamed on arson by “malicious individuals”. Italy’s wildfires are most concen- trated in the south.
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Saddlebags at dawn Two horses clash as crowds watch the animals tussle at a traditional folk celebration in central China. Horse fighting has long been part of the annual Xinhe festival, close to Lizhou City, which also features music and dancing as residents come together to pray for a good harvest.
and empty lots up for bargain prices. The median price of single-family homes in Malibu fell 7.3 per cent year on year in June, according to Realtor.com. Active listings across all Malibu property types rose 7.1 per cent, compared with a 5.5 per cent decline across California as a whole. Owners are struggling to sell up, with many forced to lower the asking price of their property dramatically to attract potential buyers. Olivia Lynn told the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) during a July
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open house: “I was hoping to get an offer by August, but I don’t think it’s going to happen.” She has had to reduce the cost of her luxury townhouse, which has views over the Pacifi c, from $2.3m (£1.7m) to $1.9m over the course of a year. Experts say homeowners have grown tired of the disaster threat and soaring insurance premiums in the aftermath of the fi res. Jill Reeder, an estate agent in Malibu, told the WSJ: “It’s very disturb- ing and it defi nitely gives people pause.”
In Sicily, around 6,000 fi refi ghters, forest guards and civil protection offi - cials battled dozens of fires that have raged for days across the Mediterra- nean island despite the deployment of water-bombing aircraft. Matteo Piantedosi, Italy’s interior minister, confi rmed that one fi refi ghter
She added that there were now so many houses on the market that it was putting clients off buying, saying: “You lose cli- ents who would have taken on that property as there are so many choices.” Malibu has long been home to stars of the entertainment industry including Beyoncé and Jay-Z, the singers, who live in Paradise Cove on what is known as Billionaires’ Row. Tom Hanks owns a home west of the Malibu Lagoon State Beach and the Malibu Pier, while Lady Gaga, Julia
had died while tackling the fire. A spokesman for Italy’s civil protection agency told AFP the situation in Sicily was “serious” and that the fires were “being fuelled by very high tempera- tures and very dry soil”. In Italy, more than 11,500 hectares of land have been consumed by fi re amid a record-breaking heatwave in south- ern Europe. In France, more than 20,000 people- have been forced to fl ee wildfi res that ripped through dense pine forest west of Bordeaux. The fi re, which began in the village of Saumos on Wednesday, before spreading to Le Porge and then advanc- ing toward Lege-Cap-Ferret, has ripped through 2,000 hectares – an area about three times the size of Gibraltar – fi re- fi ghters said. Authorities said they had evacuated 12,000 residents and tourists from campsites, holiday lets and homes on Wednesday, then a further 8,800 from camp sites yesterday. About 700 people left their homes as a precaution and
Roberts, Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert Downey Jr and Miley Cyrus have properties in the exclusive beach city. A home once owned by Charlize Theron, the South African actress and fi lm producer, burnt down during the Palisades Fire. David Smick, the owner, an economist and author, told the WSJ it would cost $2.3m for a new founda- tion, making him question whether it would be worth it. There were 37 homes on the market for $10m to $15m, said Ms Reeder.
brave, I would have stayed in my cabin, but it was too hot. I got in my car and left’
more than 3,000 campers were relo- cated, the prefecture said. Lege mayor Philippe de Gonneville said “the weather is not on our side”. “We have temperatures above 30C with winds that have shifted to the east and northeast and are fairly strong.” Julie Leonard, a Bordeaux resident who came with her family to a spot not under threat in Le Porge, said she could see a “big cloud of black smoke spread across the sky in the afternoon.” Bernard Roche, 75, who has lived in the area for 35 years, said he got in his car and left. “If I’d been brave, I would have stayed in my cabin, but it was too hot,” he said. Two firefighters died on Tuesday tackling a blaze that broke out near Bor- deaux airport. In Spain, firefighters made “very positive” progress overnight against a fire near Toledo that had triggered evacuations south of Madrid. The largest fire in the province of Guadalajara has claimed more than 32,000 hectares in a week.
Meanwhile, the city’s population as a whole has been declining. According to a census, the city had 9,574 residents as of July 2025 – down from 10,653 in April 2020. Steve Uhring, a council member, attributed the decline to the frequent natural disasters. He told the WSJ: “We typically have a planning department and a building department that deals with one or two properties coming in every couple of months. All of a sudden you’ve got 600 properties that we’re looking at rebuilding.”
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exam humiliation – it teaches us the joy of success
YSENDA MAXTONE GRAHAM
o spare students humiliation and to preserve their much-vaunted right to privacy, most schools and universities have abolished the age-old convention of making exam results public. That tough method of open ranking is considered far too harsh and invasive for young people’s delicate sensibilities. A great deal of life’s colour and drama has been lost in consequence and, more importantly, students have been robbed of a vital instrument of motivation – the fear of being seen to fail, and the longing to be seen to succeed. There’s nothing wrong with either of those sentiments. They’re part of human life. They make us try harder, and they prepare us for the realities of adulthood, where our successes and failures are public. As one schoolmaster told me: “If you have to wait till you apply for your fi rst job before you discover the world is highly competitive, you’ve left it a bit too late.” None of us who lived through the days when university exam results were published on noticeboards will forget the drama and tension. We milled around in small groups, sick with nerves, legs shaking . When at last they were pinned to the board, the page was divided into blocks: Firsts, 2:1s, 2:2s, Thirds, “Specials” (fails). Our eyes were drawn to the block where we hoped and prayed we’d be. We knew that, for the rest of our lives, we’d have to live with the position of our name in those descending blocks – and that our peers would see and know it too. But we knew that if we had failed, we only had ourselves to blame. Oxford ceased to publish results on noticeboards early in this century; Cambridge hung on till 2021, but then also gave up, citing concerns about student welfare and stress. What a loss of an unforgettable rite of passage! Having endured that
public display of intellectual prowess, or lack of it, worse was to come for law students, who had their Law Society Finals results published in the newspapers. Many still have nightmares about going to the railway terminus at midnight to buy the fi rst editions to see if they’d passed or failed. That particular public torture was phased out in the 1990s. We were used to the tension of it, though, and to the public nature of exam results because we’d grown up with school rankings. Not only did we have our form’s “fortnightly order” read aloud, but end-of-term exam results were handed back by the teacher in reverse order. Those who’d come bottom got their papers back embarrassingly soon. The longer you waited, the more excited you became that you might have done well. Until recently, Eton College ranked whole school years in order of achievements in subjects, so you really could come 256th in maths. It was almost an accolade if you did. Perhaps those open ranking systems dented the confi dence of those who came bottom, for life, and instilled too much arrogance in those who came top. But the system did not set out to instil arrogance. It simply set out to tell the truth, and to make it known. What’s wrong with that? To protect the privacy of the few who might be hurt by public humiliation, schools and universities have deprived high achievers of the glow of success, which acts as a great motivator for future striving. Bring back exam humiliation, and its counterpart, exam glory! We’re completely happy about sportsmen and sportswomen being ruthlessly ranked, and they know that it’s part of the deal. But we’ve become terrifi ed of doing such a thing with young people’s academic achievements for fear of making them “uncomfortable”. What a great shame.
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Ribbon will seal Burnham’s fate
heartland ignores a volatile belt of 80 marginal seats from Thanet to Swindon
SHERELLE J
s Lancastrian Andy Burnham entered Downing Street this week, I found myself reaching for Elizabeth Gaskell’s novel North and South. In a memorable passage, cotton mill owner John Thornton, from the fi ctional city of Milton, modelled on Manchester, fulminates that he would rather fi ght and fail in the North than vegetate in the “old worn grooves” of the aristocratic South. “One may be clogged with honey and unable to rise and fl y.” Devouring the novel, I strolled through a community garden in Margate. It felt a world away from the mythological Britain that Burnham is intent on leading: a land of Northern grit, historic demons and socialist refl exes slowly tingling back to life. The garden’s manager, Paul, sighed that Margate might not be part of the glorious, downtrodden North, but it is one of the most deprived corners of the country. “My dad ran a local factory, assembling air conditioning units. He employed around 200 people. Then when we hit the 1980s recession, the banks called in their loans and it went under. The North has suff ered. But Southern seaside towns like these have also fallen off a cliff .” Burnham’s leadership strategy boils down to a single imperative: Labour must crush Reform by winning back the loyalty of its Northern heartlands. Burnham’s Northern focus makes electoral sense on the surface. Reform
contact to reduce stress. It’s time we Britons learnt to be more touchy-feely
HANNAH B
xcruciatingly English as I am, it took me 43 years to appreciate the power of the hand-hold. Before this, my palm forever snaked out of others’ clutches, much to lovers’ rage. When I met my partner of 11 years, I fi nally understood. Today, it is I who reaches for his grasp, often when sleepless in the small hours of the night. Quite obviously then, I’ve got a lot in common with apes. As have you. For biologists have discovered that they use touch to reduce stress and improve relationships, not least when the proverbial is about to hit the fan. Chimps and bonobos also engage in more unsavoury actions, but let us
continues to top most polls amid its rise across Labour’s Northern heartlands. Yet I chose to spend this huge week in British politics in Margate and the wider constituency of East Thanet for a reason. A volatile Southern swing seat in a forgotten corner of England, it throws into question everything that we think we know about British politics. Thanet, with its struggling seaside towns and isolated villages, fl ies in the face of crude dichotomies between the left-behind North and the comfortable South. And crucially, Thanet off ers a window into a potentially game- changing reality that Westminster hasn’t quite caught up with. Because for all the talk of Northern voters as the kingmakers, the South seems on the cusp of revolt. Among the people of Thanet, I did not detect excitement, but fraying patience, at the prospect of a Burnham government. Cogitating on the “left behind” North, Peter Eyre, who runs an elite gym in Broadstairs, mused ironically about his sister’s swish apartment in Manchester and the eye-watering wealth of Duncan Bannatyne; for a long time the latter’s Northern chain of upscale gyms was his biggest corporate competitor. Katy Lassen, who runs a beachware boutique in Margate, told me her heart leapt when she saw a headline about VAT cuts, only to disappointedly realise it was for energy bills. Those running a local anti-poverty charity laughed morosely at the notion of an affl uent South. They were adamant that for those in Thanet on the breadline, things didn’t just feel stagnant; they were deteriorating. They were indignant about Burnham’s pro-Northern posturing: “There is an attitude not only that the South is paved with gold, but whatever Southerners have is wrongly acquired either by fraud or accident of birth. That we are some sort of cow down here to be milked.” Such sentiments across East Thanet
focus on this form of mutual support. Our hirsute cousins have been found to pre-empt confl ict by clasping palms, suggesting that a spot of hand-holding might lower tension among those of us who spend less time sniffi ng each other’s backsides. One of the scientists noted: “I guess you could encourage politicians to do the same. Maybe we need more hand-holding in Parliament.” In a week that has seen Burnham’s afternoon of the long eyelashes, followed by unseemly displays of glad-handing, many of us might hope for rather less. Still, it is useful to have evidence of the fundamental nature of touch, deemed by Aristotle to be our most animal and indispensable sense. Ari wasn’t wrong. Touch has been proved to reduce the stress chemical cortisol, raise the bonding hormone oxytocin, relieve pain, lower blood pressure and make the world a better place. Hand-holding should not merely be the preserve of young lovers. It is a means of saying: you are alive, part of a species, here’s back-up. Asclepius, the Greek god of medicine, deployed a healing hand, the word “surgeon” deriving from kheir (hand) and ergon (work). Christ laid
– a Labour seat – should keep Burnham awake at night. Thanet’s politics have been shaping up into a battle between Labour and Reform. But as Farage fades, things are shifting. A showdown between Burnhamism and resurgent Toryism is brewing. Not long ago, the idea of a Conservative recovery in such parts seemed fantastical. Conservative support collapsed in 2024, as it trailed a distant second to Labour. Since then, Reform has risen mercurially, sweeping the board in Thanet as it won Kent county council. But as Reform fails, local Tory campaigners have sensed a favourable tilt in their direction. After campaigning on a promise of tax cuts, Reform has raised them. Several of its councillors have defected to Restore. One was recently jailed for coercive behaviour towards his wife. Thanet, then, hints at something potentially explosive: that Burnham’s entire leadership strategy is centred on fi ghting yesterday’s war. For a new front is threatening to emerge in British politics. Not the Red Wall of the traditional Labour North. But the unpredictable Southern Opal Ribbon (the hue you get when you mix Labour red, Tory blue and Reformer turquoise). This belt of commuter and coastal towns, estuary villages and suburban sprawl – from Thanet in the east to Swindon in the west and comprising around 80 seats – is just as formidable in scale as its Northern counterpart. Non-ideological, aspirational, overlooked, this corner of the country birthed the “new” middle-class “Mondeo man” that inspired the New Labour revolution. Somehow it has since fallen off Westminster’s radar. But Labour’s dominance in these marginals is just as precarious as in the North. The seats landed in the party’s lap in 2024 largely due to the last Tory government’s ineptitude, rather than a regional swing towards socialism. And they are on a knife
commuter and coastal towns, estuary villages and suburban sprawl is just as formidable in scale as its Northern counterpart
hands upon people to bless, heal and
raise them from the dead, a gesture
taken up by medieval monarchs
attempting to allay scrofula. Charles II
is said to have given the King’s touch to
almost 7,000 suff erers in a single year,
despite Pepys’s jibes about the stench
emanating from this famous dog lover.
During the Covid pandemic, when
humanity was forced to be standoffi sh,
so many of us went untouched that
there was talk of “skin hunger”.
Those of us old enough to remember
the 1980s will recall the horror of
Romanian orphans abandoned to
state-run institutions under
Ceaușescu’s regime, untouched in their
cribs, and left with lifelong trauma.
A 1995 study maintained that it takes
four hugs per day to alleviate depression.
If all this sounds a tad girly, think
how much buoying boys require when
playing sport, forever high-fi ving,
hair-tousling and leaping into each
other’s arms. Indeed, physical contact
has been found to improve
performance when it comes to taking
basketball throws and the like, a sort of
ambient reiki reassuring jocks that they
have the backing of their team.
Meanwhile, negotiators who shake
hands have been proved to make better
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edge. In East Thanet the Tories need a swing of eight points from Labour to fl ip the seat blue. But given Reform’s chaotic reign in local government, this now seems plausible. In Poole, the Tories only need to squeeze Labour by 10 votes to take the seat. In Forest of Dean, 140 votes, in Kent’s Sittingbourne and Sheppey, 178 votes, in Dartford, two points, in Crawley six points. There is a real danger that Burnham’s approach – heavily geared towards keeping the Red Wall sweet – bombs across the Opal Ribbon, not just Thanet. Burnham’s council-housing drive has cultural resonance in Northern communities . Polling suggests that Southerners are keener for the state to focus its interventions elsewhere, such as contending with astronomical costs of childcare . Burnham’s bus-fares cap may gain him fans in metropolises like Manchester and Leeds. But in the Thanet village of Birchington-on-Sea, reception to the gesture was tepid; locals were concerned not about the cost but the frequency of services, which have shrivelled from every 15 minutes to once an hour . In the North the public sector is ever more dominant. But in the South East, many more voters are either self- employed or work in the private sector. These people care about contribution: who is pulling their weight and who isn’t. If Burnham refuses to broach the question of contribution – or does so in a way that toxically stereotypes the South as a land of parasitic wealth-hoarders – he will quickly lose these voters. As Starmerites reel over their ejection, the Westminster bubble has started to speculate about whether Burnham’s internal enemies will pose the biggest threat to his reign. But the most profound danger facing Britain’s new leader is that he is as much in hock to an outdated view of North and South as Mr Thornton.
deals and lie less. Western culture’s most moving example of hand-holding has to be Virgil’s fi rm grip on Dante in The Divine Comedy. Hell may be literally all about in The Inferno, but Virgil will not let his pupil slip, not when he spots its gates’ “Abandon all hope” inscription, or comes upon the river Styx. Even today, in Sicily, one will see macho chaps strolling about hand-in- hand as they take their passeggiata. Britons tend to regard touch as the preserve of emotionally incontinent foreigners – the most repressed moment in cinematic history being Alec’s shoulder squeeze as he leaves Laura’s life forever in 1945’s Brief Encounter. But anyone who has sat at the bedside of the dying will know that hand-holding is not maudlin theatricality, but human connection at its most profound. When words are no more, you cradle someone’s palm to convey that, here, at this fi nal moment, they are loved, held, soothed. More than mere sex – which can be enjoyed alone – hand-holding is proof of our fundamental need for others. Hold your own paw and it’s hand- wringing; reach out to another and it’s ballast.
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t would be hard to imagine a more damning example of state failure than electing to release rapists, child sex off enders and violent criminals on to Britain’s streets having barely served half their sentences. Yet that was what Parliament decided to do when, in January this year, it passed the Sentencing Act 2026. Come September, more than 5,000 prisoners could be released early. Among them might be two of the killers of Pc Andrew Harper, and Malcolm James, who abducted and repeatedly sexually assaulted Thea Sewell when she was 14 years old. As Ms Sewell says on this page, her attacker’s eight-year sentence already felt “too short”. To shorten it further would be an insult. Yesterday, after Telegraph reporting highlighted the utter perversity of this policy, Andy Burnham announced he was pausing the scheme “until we have conducted an urgent review and done everything we can to minimise risk to the public”. This is welcome news. But many questions remain. What, exactly, does “minimise risk” mean? Does Mr Burnham plan simply to tweak the tagging of early release off enders? That would be of little comfort to victims or the public. What is the scope of the review? And why is the scheme paused, rather than scrapped entirely? If the review concludes swiftly, Parliament should be recalled, in order that Mr Burnham’s response be properly scrutinised. This farcical situation serves only to highlight the fundamental issues in Britain’s justice system. Only around 5 per cent of crimes reported in England and Wales result in someone being charged. Yet even with such shamefully low numbers, our prison system is overwhelmed. Criminals are released early, the Government argues, because jails are operating at 98 per cent capacity and need the space. The answer, though, cannot be just to release some of the worst off enders into society. Successive governments have failed to build the prison cells required, often stymied by sclerotic planning laws. Coupled to that has been a signifi cant rise since the pandemic in the number of people held on remand awaiting trial. During Covid-19, the Government built a series of so-called Nightingale hospitals at pace, in order to deal with the surge in demand. It is time Labour did the same for prisons and courts. Without action, the Government will continue to fail in its fi rst duty to its citizens: to keep us safe.
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THEA SEW
ritain’s pubs are more than merely businesses.
The best have an air of home: places of joy,
solace and comfort, full of memories and local
histories. Without them, Britain’s character would
be ineluctably altered.
Yet since Labour took power, 90 a month have
shut their doors forever. That is why this
newspaper has been running a campaign to Save
Our Pubs. Andy Burnham’s tax break for pubs,
clubs and live music venues is, at best, a small step
in the right direction – particularly given his own
ministers admit it is not fully funded.
Why is the relief only temporary? And why wait
until April to implement it? At the current rate of
closure hundreds of pubs will be lost by then.
Pubs are in diffi culty in no small part due to
Labour’s own policies. Since Rachel Reeves’s fi rst
Budget, they have suff ered hikes in business rates,
alcohol duties, employer’s National Insurance and
the minimum wage, as well as soaring energy costs.
A change to the drink-driving laws is mooted,
which will only compound matters.
Mr Burnham has a wider lesson to learn. What is
true for pubs is true for the economy as a whole:
you cannot tax your way to prosperity. Too often,
new prime ministers are captured by Treasury
models that suggest tax cuts reduce government
revenue. Yet such models repeatedly fail to factor
in the costs of fi rms closing due to crushing tax bills
and thus providing no revenue at all.
Those virtue-signalling millionaires such as Gary
Lineker who want to increase tax can back up their
rhetoric by paying directly into the Treasury’s coff ers.
The rest of us need government to get out of the
way of business. If it doesn’t, more cherished pubs
will be forever lost.
hales very sensibly prefer not to sleep on the surface of the sea, in order to avoid the noisy waves and perhaps the annoying seabirds. So they hang a little way down, suspended in the brine, head up. How they do this has just been fathomed by scientists monitoring sperm whales off Norway. The spermaceti oil that was the whales’ undoing at the hands of Captain Ahab and his kind makes the creatures naturally buoyant. Only now has their ability to expel bubbles of gas been detected as the decisive factor in regulating the depth at which they slumber. Obviously the next question is what whales dream about. No number of brainwave detectors seem capable of telling that. But if Moby Dick dreamt of a one- legged whaler, so his descendants might be dreaming of impertinent scientists.
SIR – It has been obvious for years that the Church of England has lost its way, and Professor R G Faulkner’s report after attending the General Synod confi rms this (Letters, July 22). Too much money is wasted on pointless schemes such as Project Spire, the £100m plan to pay slavery reparations. At the very least, parishioners’ contributions should be spent on the upkeep of our wonderful historic churches. In particular, money should be diverted to rural parishes, where churches are vital for community cohesion. Stella Govette Holybourne, Hampshire
SIR – Historical slavery, net zero and harsh criticism of Israel are not priority issues for many Christians. However, there are other candidates for priority status that might have wider appeal, including ending rampant modern slavery and addressing the persecution of
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SIR – We cannot allow the damaging blockage of the Strait of Hormuz to continue indefi nitely (“We’ll blow up a power plant for every ship Iran hits, vows US”, report, July 23). Our two naval bases, HMS Jufair in Bahrain and Duqm in Oman, were established to support the UK maritime forces that were there to assist the US Fifth Fleet in keeping the Strait of Hormuz open to global merchant shipping. That is clearly not happening. We have naval assets in the region. It is time to give more assistance to the Americans, clearing the strait and escorting our merchant shipping if necessary. We should not get involved in the wider war, but we can help uphold the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Admiral Lord West of Spithead (Lab) London SW1
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SIR – Al Carns has turned down a job in Andy Burnham’s Government over defence spending (report, July 23). He says that he has no wish to be a hypocrite. It is yet to be seen whether the same accusation can be levelled at John Healey, the Chancellor, who, like Mr Carns, resigned from his previous role because of Sir Keir Starmer’s refusal to invest suffi ciently in defence. Unless taxes rise signifi cantly, the required defence budget will not be delivered. Mr Healey needs to persuade the British people that higher taxes are needed to protect the nation. Presumably he believes he can do this, or he would not have taken the job. Mark Baker White Canterbury, Kent
SIR – In the early 1960s, my parents were startled to receive a postcard from my teenage sister, which opened with the words “up squads” (Letters, July 23). She was attending a summer camp, her fi rst holiday independent of the rest of the family, and the organisers had supplied her with stamped- addressed postcards, with the strict instruction to post one home daily. The next day, another arrived. The fi nal, unfi nished sentence reported: “We’ve been divided into washing...” Lesley Combe Sheffi eld, South Yorkshire
SIR – I received a postcard from a university friend in the early 1980s. It said: “Good weather. Good food. Goodbye.” I never heard from him again. Ken Quinn Heddon-on-the-Wall, Northumberland
scandalous prisoner release scheme. Now he must scrap it, to protect victims like me
remember almost everything about that night exactly seven years ago: the car, the route, even the brand of cigarettes my kidnapper smoked. I also caught sight of his fi rst name on his ID while he was scraping crack cocaine from its wrapper. Malcolm James abducted and sexually assaulted me in 2019, less than a month after my 14th birthday. At the end of 2023, he was convicted of fi ve sexual off ences against a child, including assault by penetration. On January 8, 2024, he was sentenced to eight years in prison. Under the rules then in force, he was expected to serve around fi ve-and-a- half years. I already thought that was too short. But then, last month, I was told by my victim liaison offi cer at the Ministry of Justice that Labour’s early-release scheme may shorten it further. If James is freed, I will have spent longer pursuing justice than he spent in prison. James was a total stranger. He and another man, both in their late 50s, forced me into a car on Bedford Road in
Christians around the world, especially in parts of Africa and the Middle East. Michael Nicholson Newton Abbot, Devon
SIR – I am a churchwarden in a parish that has been without an incumbent for more than two years. We are not alone. While the Church does not publish the fi gure, estimates suggest a vacancy rate of up to 15 per cent. There are as many as 1,800 parishes trying to function without a priest. Despite my parish having a vacancy, our struggling parishioners are still expected to raise and pay the diocese a parish share – some might call it a tax – in excess of £10,000 a year. Professor R G Faulkner questions the wisdom of the Church setting aside £290m to pursue net zero and fund reparations for historical links to slavery. If 10 per cent of these funds were instead invested in the recruitment, training, placement and development of parish priests, we could recreate the vibrant Christian
A bee in a bonnet: a visitor sports a homemade hat at RHS Chelsea Flower in 2019
SIR – This year, we have seen more
bees on the Sussex coast than at any
time in recent memory
(“Bumblebees ‘keel over’ in
heatwaves”, report, July 22).
Neighbours have also reported large
numbers, and this is after the recent
series of heatwaves.
Over the past few years, our
community has deliberately set
aside and managed land to
encourage wildlife. It makes me
wonder whether the increase we are
seeing is the result of these local
conservation eff orts, which appear
to be succeeding despite the hotter
weather.
I would be interested to know if
other communities are reporting
similar rises in bumblebee numbers.
Perhaps our experience this year is
unusual.
Patrick Byrne
West Wittering, West Sussex
SIR – I was interested in the report (July 22) on the dangers of foxtail
SIR – Like thousands of others, I despair at the appalling level of service being off ered by Royal Mail (Letters, July 23). Recently, while waiting for an important letter that had been sent fi rst-class 10 days earlier but had still not been delivered, I asked our friendly postlady if there was a local problem. I was told that there was a shortage of staff . She off ered to check
south London. They smoked crack as they drove. The second man, who was never caught , eventually got out of the car. I was held captive by James for several hours. He subjected me to repeated sexual assaults. Afterwards, I told no one. I tried to live as though it had never happened and recover the ordinary life I had before. For nearly two years, I remained silent. Then, in March of 2021, Sarah Everard disappeared. My school held an assembly appealing for information. She had been abducted from Poynders Road in Clapham, a road intersecting with the one I was taken from. Panic set in. Perhaps the same men had taken Sarah; perhaps my silence had allowed them to do it again. I felt wholly responsible for her kidnapping. I told my school what had happened and immediately reported it to the police. It did then emerge, of course, that Sarah’s attacker was the Met offi cer Wayne Couzens. As he was traced, arrested and convicted, the search for James had only just begun. The hunt came to dominate my teenage years. Finding James became an obsession. Clapham, my home, felt invaded. James could be around any corner. I moved through its streets in a state of high alert, studying faces and photographing every car that looked like the one in which I had been taken. I replayed the attack constantly in my head, searching for some detail that might lead the police to him. Eventually, it was a telephone number that connected James to the crime. I went on to identify him
communities that were once the heart of the Church. Do our bishops have the wherewithal to rescue their sinking parishes, or will they, as Professor Faulkner suggests, simply become a protest group? A McP Gordon Oswestry, Shropshire
SIR – The letter from my fellow General Synod laity representative highlights the tendency of the Church to debate topics other than the Church. Thanks to an answer to a written question at the last Synod, we now know that each fi ve-day Synod costs more than £500,000 in expenses, and close to £1m when all is factored in. Parishioners who think the Church should use this money to address what it can change, rather than airing opinions on what it can’t, should stand for election themselves and try to improve the situation. Andrew Orange Andover, Hampshire
grass for animals, particularly dogs. Our terrier has recently had several expensive visits to the vet, one for a seed in his eye, and others because one burrowed through his paw and caused an abscess. Not mowing verges and areas in public parks is claimed to improve biodiversity and allow wildfl owers to fl ourish. However, in practice, the verges in my city are unkempt, with few wildfl owers, and foxtail grass is taking over. It is a thug in horticultural terms, and has colonised more and more of the available space. Consequently, as many vets are reporting, there has been a huge increase in the number of aff ected animals. I would like to see a campaign to force councils to mow more frequently, fi rst to prevent the rampant growth of this menace, and secondly to stop our cities and towns looking unkempt and unloved. Janet Havercroft Oxford
whether there was a letter for me when she returned to the sorting offi ce. Two hours later, she had located my letter and kindly delivered it to me on her way home from work. We must not blame the staff for Royal Mail’s dreadful service. It is the senior managers who should be held responsible. John W Smith Barnwood, Gloucestershire
positively in a video ID parade. When the case reached court in 2023, I was 18 (I’m now 21). I took a gap year before studying at Cambridge University so that I could attend the trial, and I went to court every day. The odds were not in my favour. Of the sexual off ences recorded by police in England and Wales in the year ending March 2025, only 4.2 per cent resulted in a charge or summons. Before I gave evidence, I was afraid. The prosecuting barrister told me that, earlier that week, a fi ve-year-old girl had faced cross-examination about similar crimes committed against her. The barrister told me that if she could do it, so could I – and that I should do it for the children who would come after us. The comparison was severe, but eff ective. In court, I described in detail what had been done to me. I held my nerve while my account was challenged, my memory tested and my reliability questioned, with James staring me down in the courtroom. Throughout the trial, I saw no sign of contrition. He continued to deny what he had done, off ered no apology and showed no recognition of the damage he had caused. His disregard for the proceedings was compounded by the court’s carelessness. On one occasion, an offi cer misplaced the key to the secure dock, so James was seated on a chair right beside me. I tolerated such failures because I wanted justice. And now, only two-and-a-half years after James was sentenced, the state appears to be letting me down again.
SIR – Early release of prisoners is
the predictable consequence of
politicians caving in to penal
populism’s demands for ever-longer
custodial sentences (“Recall the
Commons to stop prison releases”,
Leading Article, July 23).
Sentence infl ation of 45 per cent
over the past 15 years has clogged up
our prisons. Ironically, the “lock ’em
up and throw away the key” mentality
has led to earlier release of heinous
criminals.
In The Honest Politician’s Guide to
Prisons and Probation, criminologists
Lucy Willmott and Roy King list
former justice secretaries from all
political parties who regret playing to
the gallery as tough law-and-order
fi gures.
The turning point in sentencing
policy came in 1993, after James Bulger
was murdered by two children. Instead
of acknowledging the need to address
desperately poor parenting, and
manage expectations about what a
criminal justice system can do, senior
politicians kicked off the arms race of
toughness on crime.
We need a proper reset, not another
handbrake turn in response to penal
populism.
Lord Farmer (Con)
London SW1
SIR – Lucy Powell, the Education Secretary, should think again about spelling tests (“Education Secretary criticised spelling tests as ‘draconian’”, report, July 23). I remember the one word I got wrong during a spelling test at primary school 70 years ago: committee. I have never misspelt it since. Ruth Bennett Southampton
SIR – Would it not be wise for Lucy Powell to ask employers what they expect of staff before she considers ditching “draconian” spelling tests and lessons in grammar and punctuation, in order to encourage more “creativity”? I would imagine that, alongside a wide variety of other skills, employers will continue to expect a certain standard of literacy and numeracy from potential employees. Politicians seem not to have the life chances of young people at the forefront of their minds when proposing changes to education policy. Patricia Reid Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire
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SIR – Like David Miller (Letters, July 22), I had problems with Ulysses. However, halfway through my fi rst attempt I discovered that, if I read as if I were reading aloud, the text became simple to understand. I’ve read it twice. F Gatley Bolton, Lancashire
SIR – I wanted to read Ulysses (Letters, July 23) because my Dublin-based family business is mentioned. When I passed the relevant sentence I nearly gave up, but I’m pleased to be able to say I reached the end. I won’t be reading it again. Joanna Vening Bath, Somerset
SIR – When I studied English literature at Reading University, my professor, whose doctorate was on Finnegans Wake (Letters, July 23), told me that he had never actually read the book from start to fi nish. Half a dozen pages in, I decided to follow his wise example. Graham Weeks Barcelona, Spain
I want James to serve the punishment imposed on him. I want him kept away from the public. After what he did to me, I make no apology for either demand. Prison exists to punish grave crimes and to protect the public from dangerous off enders. James’s imprisonment does both. The court heard that he had committed previous off ences. He has other victims. His record should place his danger to society beyond doubt. James committed the crimes. Successive governments failed to provide suffi cient prison places. Yet his victims are being made to pay for both. Andy Burnham has now paused the early release scheme, but there is no suggestion it has been fully abandoned. So what kind of Prime Minister does Mr Burnham intend to be? Will he stand with Jade Belgrove, who was groomed and raped as a child and discovered her rapist could be released early? Will he stand with Debbie Adlam and Lizzie Harper, the mother and the wife of Pc Andrew Harper, killed in the line of duty, who learnt two of the men responsible were to also benefi t? Will he stand with the thousands of other victims? Will he stand with me? Or will he preserve a policy under which rapists, child sex off enders and repeatedly violent criminals can be released early? Mr Burnham, this scheme may belong to Keir Starmer’s government. But the choice and the responsibility to kill it entirely is now yours.
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dwindling reserves as power grid bosses move to restrict exports to Europe
By Jonathan Leake
THE boss of British Gas has warned the country risks winter shortages as reserves dwindle. Chris O’Shea said Britain was at risk because of a lack of gas storage facili- ties. His warning came as gas prices surged to their highest level in a year on yesterday, driven by concerns about threats to Middle Eastern supply. There were also moves by electricity grid bosses yesterday to shore up Brit- ain’s energy system by restricting how much power can be exported to Europe during times of stress. The National Energy System Opera- tor (Neso) said the curbs would take eff ect from today, as it faces questions over how close Britain came to black- outs during a heatwave in June. Offi cial data show the UK currently
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has less than a week’s worth of gas reserves. European nations typically hold several weeks’ worth of supply, though stocks on the Continent have also been run down. Mr O’Shea, the chief executive of Centrica, which owns British Gas, said: “European gas storage levels are low. UK gas storage levels are incredibly low ... If it’s not a warm winter, then there’ll be problems, and the problems will be associated with having less gas in stor- age.” Mr O’Shea’s warning carries a degree of self-interest. He is pushing for gov- ernment support to help keep off shore gas storage facility Rough Field opera- tional. Centrica is losing £10m a month maintaining the facility, which is Brit- ain’s biggest. “If I was the prime minister or I was in the Cabinet, I would want to ensure I’ve done everything I could to reduce the chance of not having enough energy over the winter,” said Mr O’Shea. Regardless of motive, his warning is likely to worry ministers. The Iran war
‘because of the City’s red tape’
By Emma Taggart
By Emma Taggart
BRITONS are 40pc poorer than Ameri- cans because City red tape has held back economic growth in the UK since the 2008 global financial crash, research claims. The Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA) said that rules introduced after the crisis made it harder and more costly for banks to lend to private households and businesses in Britain. The think tank said in a briefi ng note that red tape has held back UK eco- nomic growth to a greater extent because small and medium-sized busi- nesses rely more heavily on banks for fi nancing compared with the US. It added that, unlike in Britain, small American banks were governed by fewer regulations in the wake of the fi nancial crisis. This helped lending to non-financial businesses in the US recover to pre-fi nancial-crisis levels in mid-2013. However, in the UK bank lend- ing is still 15pc lower than in early 2008. Tyler Goodspeed, the chief econo- mist at ExxonMobil and a White House adviser during Donald Trump’s first term as president, said regulators in
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Britain had “with the best of intentions, made it structurally harder for banks to lend”. He added: “That was a choice, and it is still being made today.” Before the global fi nancial crash, eco- nomic growth was slightly higher in the UK than the US. However, while the US endured a sharp fall in economic growth in 2008 before recovering, the UK has been unable to boost growth to its pre-crash level.
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house blitz could cost £47bn
ANDY BURNHAM’s council house building blitz could cost nearly £50bn over ten years, according to new research. The Resolution Foundation said that delivering 300,000 affordable homes would cost an estimated £47bn by 2036, leaving the new prime minister with a £8bn shortfall to the current funding pot. Under former prime minister Sir Keir Starmer, the Government introduced the Social and Aff ordable Homes Pro- gramme (SAHP), a £39bn pot of fund- ing. This was aimed at delivering around 300,000 aff ordable homes over 10 years, with at least 60pc of the homes for “social rent”, which are offered to council approved tenants at around 50pc of the market rate. Mr Burnham has previously sug- gested channelling the Government’s £39bn aff ordable housing fund towards building only new social rent homes and redirecting the fl ow of money from housing associations to councils. However, research by the Resolution Foundation has found that if all of the
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£39bn was used to build council homes for social rent, only around 249,000 could be built over the ten year period - falling short of the 300,000 target. To build 300,000 social rent homes, it said a further £8bn would be needed over the ten year period. Mr Burnham is yet to iron out the details on what his council housebuilding plans would involve but has promised to usher in the
Additional funding needed in order to build 300,000 social rent homes over the next 10 years
“biggest council-house building pro- gramme since the post-war period”. However, Resolution’s research reveals that ramping up council house building to 1970s levels, when around 109,000 homes a year were built by local authorities, would require vast amounts of additional funding. The fi ndings add to growing concerns about how Mr Burnham will fund his council
Wild boar are back in Britain but their growing presence is pitting farmers against ecologists
Just when we need foreign policy gravitas we get a chirpy mayor talking about buses Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
AI spending splurge triggers tech sell-off
By James Titcomb
TECHNOLOGY giants suff ered a brutal sell-off yesterday after heavy AI spend- ing by Tesla and Google spooked inves- tors. Elon Musk’s Tesla suff ered one of its biggest ever share price drops, falling by more than 12pc after the company’s profi ts were hit by investments in AI. Google’s parent company, Alphabet, dropped by almost 7pc after it burned through billions in cash to fund its own AI spending. A surging oil price that raised the prospect of interest-rate rises added fuel to the fi re, prompting the Nasdaq composite, a basket of tech shares, to plunge 2.6pc in its worst day for almost two months. Investors have become nervous about heavy spending on AI as the tech- nology is yet to generate reliable profi ts. Concerns have been heightened by the recent launch of Kimi K3, a cheaper Chinese AI that could rival US models. News of Google and Tesla’s spending led to sell-off s at Amazon, Meta, Micro- soft and Oracle, which are all making substantial AI investments. Tesla revealed a fall in profits on Wednesday night despite the company selling more cars than a year ago. Although its revenues rose, substantial discounts on its cars ate into profi t mar- gins. Tesla also made less money from regulatory credits, which it sold to other manufacturers that fail to hit emissions targets. Donald Trump has cancelled electric-car subsidies and dismantled the regime that allowed it to sell emis- sions credits. As its electric-vehicle business comes under pressure, Tesla is spending bil- lions on expanding production of its driverless Cybercab and Optimus robots, as well as grid batteries and solar panels. Mr Musk told analysts: “This is the fastest industrial scale-up since World War II in America.” The entrepreneur became the world’s fi rst trillionaire after his rocket company SpaceX went public last month, but its shares have since slumped. Mr Musk owns 30pc of Tesla, which declined in value by more than $50bn (£37.5bn) yesterday. Meanwhile, Google’s parent com- pany Alphabet warned investors that it could spend more than $200bn on AI this year, the second time it has raised forecasts. Anat Ashkenazi, its chief fi nancial offi cer, told investors that cap- ital expenditure would be between $195bn and $205bn this year. Its previ- ous estimate was $180bn to $190bn. Much of it will be spent on data cen- tres and chips that run AI applications. Ms Ashkenazi said the increase in expenditure was to meet growing demand and that spending would jump again next year. The company burned through $5.9bn of cash during the three months to June – the fi rst time that cash fl ow had been negative in Google’s two decades as a public company.
housebuilding blitz, while Britain grap- ples with challenging public fi nances. Questions have also been raised about several unfunded policy pledges this week, including a £850m VAT cut on electricity bills, the £2 cap on bus fares outside of London and his move to cut business rates for pubs, clubs and live music venues by 20pc. Hannah Aldridge, a senior research and policy analyst at the Resolution Foundation , said: “If you want to go much higher to post-war era levels of building that the prime minister talked about a few weeks ago, you can’t do that under the current funding envelope. You’re going to have to find more money for that.” The think tank added that with 134,000 families in England living in tem- porary accommodation, and 1.3 million on the housing waiting list, boosting the supply of aff ordable housing is crucial. A government spokesman said: “We will build more council homes and our once-in-a-generation £39 billion invest- ment in social and aff ordable housing will give people a lifeline out of tempo- rary accommodation and into perma- nent homes.”
win legal action against £6k service charge
By Benedict J Smith
FLAT owners have won a landmark vic- tory against a housing association after being forced to pay thousands of pounds in service charges for luxury amenities they were not permitted to use. Notting Hill Genesis (NHG), the hous- ing provider responsible for Viridian Apartments in Battersea, London, charged leaseholders between £4,770 and £6,200 a year for services includ- ing a gym, concierge and communal garden in a neighbouring block of flats, despite having no access to them. The housing association argued that the residents, who had purchased their properties on the shared ownership affordable housing scheme, had “bene- fited” from a well-maintained estate and were therefore liable for the charges, which had risen by up to 265pc since 2011. But the shared ownership resi- dents had their own separate access to the development via a “poor door”. Judge Elizabeth Cooke said that the leaseholders could not be required to pay service charges for parts of the development that fell outside the scope of their leases and that they were not entitled to use. The ruling is believed to be the first time a group of leaseholders has successfully challenged service charges for facilities accessible only to other residents at an Upper Tribunal, potentially paving the way for similar claims against excessive fees. A NHG spokesman said: “We respect the findings of the tribunal and are care- fully considering what this outcome means for us and our residents. We rec- ognise this has been a lengthy and diffi- cult process and do not take that impact lightly. We remain committed to work- ing with residents to ensure service charges are fair, transparent and pro- portionate.”
impact of conflict in Middle East which has caused oil prices to spike
By Tom Haynes
EASYJET’S spiralling jet fuel bill cut its profits by more than 70pc after the Iran war caused oil prices to spike. The UK’s biggest low-cost airline said that its pre-tax profits fell to £85m in the three months to the end of June, down
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Having his 15 minutes Philip Colbert with art in his The Lost Gardens of Lobsteropolis exhibition, his first in a UK museum. It is at the Lightbox Gallery in Woking, Surrey, which said the artist – dubbed ‘the godson of Andy Warhol’ – uses a lobster character as a guide through shifting cultural landscapes.
from £286m a year earlier. The decline was driven by a £105m increase in jet fuel costs and weaker demand from flyers after the outbreak of the conflict in February. The airline said a slowdown in book- ings from passengers nervous about potential fuel shortages outweighed a recovery in last-minute bookings later in the quarter. However, revenues still rose 2pc to £3bn, while its package hol- iday business delivered profits of £84m, broadly unchanged from a year earlier, with customer numbers up 8pc. Shares climbed about 1pc yesterday
after falling 12pc on Wednesday as the Middle East conflict pushed oil prices above $96 a barrel. The update comes just over a week after easyJet agreed to a £5.7bn takeo- ver by private equity giant Apollo, which trumped a rival approach from US private credit firm Castlelake. Apollo has offered 715p a share, an 81pc premium to the company’s share price before takeover interest emerged. Apollo has until Aug 7 to make a firm offer under UK takeover rules. The takeover battle followed a sharp sell-off in easyJet’s shares earlier this
year as Donald Trump’s strikes on Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz drove up fuel costs across the aviation industry. Kenton Jarvis, easyJet’s chief execu- tive, said: “We have continued to man- age the impact of the Middle East conflict and its effect on fuel prices and booking trends during the quarter. “As consumer confidence increases, we are seeing the load factor gap close for peak summer as customers continue to prioritise travel.” Passenger numbers were broadly unchanged at 25.8 million in the three
months to the end of June, although the proportion of seats filled fell from 90.2pc to 88.9pc. EasyJet said it had sold 68pc of seats for the summer period, with ticket prices broadly flat compared with last year. The airline said that booking trends had improved since May as more customers made late reservations. Earlier this week Ryanair said that its profits had fallen by more than a third over the three months to June, as the Iran war doubled jet fuel prices and hit demand. The low-cost airline said on
Monday that it was being forced to cut fares to encourage bookings for the summer, as the fallout from the conflict drags on. Ryanair revealed that earnings before tax sank to €538m (£457m) from €820m in the last quarter after operat- ing costs jumped 10pc to €3.81bn. Neil Sorahan, Ryanair’s chief finance officer, blamed the drop-off largely on the fact that a fifth of its jet fuel was unhedged, meaning the airline had not fixed an agreed price for it. He said: “The big swing factor was our unhedged fuel, which doubled.”
extinction, their growing presence pits farmers against ecologists, writes Patrick Galbraith
IN THE night they come snuffl ing.
Weighing 300lbs with tusks that
never stop growing, the boar break
from the woods in search of fi elds to
dig for food.
For farmers and dog walkers alike, it
is an increasingly common complaint,
with concern such that some hunters
have even started taking matters into
their own hands.
Just 50 years ago, there were no
boars in Britain. But now, as a result of
illegal releases and poor fencing on
farms, there are believed to be
thousands running rampant.
They have been charged with
tearing up farmland, destroying
football pitches and attacking
cocker spaniels.
Boar had been in Britain before but
this marks a new chapter.
Until the 13th century, the animals
were living wild across England. For a
couple of centuries after that, they
remained in enclosures kept by the
aristocracy to be pursued with
hounds.
However, during the English Civil
War local peasantry raided the royal
forests in search of food, eating boar
into extinction.
They were entirely absent until the
1980s when wild boar were brought
back, imported by farmers to be reared
for meat.
Estimates of how many boar there
are in the UK vary wildly. A recent
University of Aberdeen study suggests
there are just under 1,500 in Scotland,
while the RSPB believes that the total
number is 2,600.
Hunters on the ground believe there
are many more. A paper published by
James Hutton Institute last autumn
warned that by 2076, the Scottish boar
population will increase by 60pc.
Analysis of the recent uptick is
limited but it has been blamed largely
on a combination of illegal releases
and the fact that boar are prolifi
breeders.
As a species, they can have u
off spring a year. Yet, opinion is fi ercely divide
whether the British revival of b
good thing, pitting landowners
rewilders and chefs alike.
Their critics claim they are ju
“feral pigs” on the run from farm
their champions disagree. The eco-fi nancier Ben Golds
notes that a 2019 study by the University of Aberdeen shows t
boar in Scotland are one of the purest strains in Europe, as opposed to so-called wild boar
the continent which have often
interbred with domestic swine
producing a hybrid known as
“razorbacks”.
“It’s delightful news that
they are back where they
belong,” says Goldsmith, as he
highlights how boar can knock
1,500
By Chris Price
BRITISH GAS customers face the pros- pect of talking to AI chatbots rather than humans under plans to cut 1,300 call centre jobs. Centrica, the owner of the utility, said it would cut another 800 roles, on top of 500 confi rmed last month, under plans to reduce its customer service workforce by 14pc. It said the overhaul had included the “targeted deployment of AI tools” that would help simplify its customer ser- vice operations. Chris O’Shea, the chief executive of Centrica, insisted the job cuts were
Pellegrino water business to private equity
By Telegraph Reporters
NESTLÉ has confirmed plans to spin out its Buxton and Perrier water busi- ness to create a joint venture worth about €4.9bn (£4.2bn). The Swiss maker of KitKat has agreed a deal with private equity fi rm Platinum Equity to form a new company called Peranel, in which they will each own a 50pc stake. It will include more than 30 brands, including Nestlé’s waters such as San Pellegrino, Perrier, Buxton and Acqua Panna, as well as its hydration drinks and the global Nestlé Pure Life brand. Nestlé said the deal value “implies” cash proceeds of €3bn for the company. However, Unite cautioned Nestlé and Platinum against an “attack on jobs” at its UK-based Buxton water business. Sharon Graham, the trade union’s general secretary, said: “The new owners are on notice. If there are any attempts to attack the jobs, pay and conditions of Unite mem-
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Forest of Dean wild boar and, below, Ben Goldsmith
being driven by customer behaviour as callers instead chose to use digital bots to answer their queries. Mr O’Shea said: “What we’re seeing just now is over 90pc of our customers actually use digital channels in the first instance, and we’ve seen a 20pc reduction in customer calls, so this simply refl ects the changing customer behaviour.” Centrica said that its “average con- tact per customer” had fallen by around a fi fth since last year. “Overall, we’ve got to reflect the changes in customer behaviour,” Mr O’Shea said. “We expect to grow more jobs around our digital interface, and
bers on the back of this sale in order to
line the pockets of investors, we will
fi ght back.”
GMB added that it would be on alert
to any proposed changes to workers’
rights for Nestlé’s Welsh water busi-
ness, Princes Gate.
The union said earlier this year
that Nestlé planned to cut more than
450 jobs across the UK.
Charlotte Brumpton-Childs,
GMB national secretary, said:
“We’ve seen all too often selling
a business
to private
equity results
in a bonfi re of
terms and
conditions as
fund manag-
ers desper-
ately try to
squeeze out
every last
d r o p
o f
profi t.
“That can-
n o t
b e
allowed to
happen at
Princes Gate
w a t e r, o r
back brambles and bracken to allow wild fl owers to fl ourish. However, while some champion
osystem engineers”, others
urely as a pest.
ear, a dog walker’s cocker
a horse rider were attacked
eleased wild boar in ational Park. Price, a farmer in Ross-on-
oots boar weekly, has seen
how destructive they can
ays: “They will turn over areas of grassland at night, ng for grubs and worms oots and in doing so they do huge amounts of age.” his is particularly oblematic for farmers, ose pastures and crops can devastated. Whenever there’s wheat hin proximity to woodland boar in it, they’ll just t,” says Price. “They’ll be
every night quite literally
maybe having fewer people on the phones.” Campaigners for the elderly Silver Voices criticised Centrica’s drive towards chatbots, which it warned might affect vulnerable customers “who may not be able to negotiate AI-driven contact systems”. Director Dennis Reed said: “Talking to a machine is not good customer ser- vice and these job cuts will be counter productive for shareholders. “The more AI is rolled out the more dangers are identified and a national pause for refl ection is required.” A spokesman for Centrica said: “We have been transforming the business
Ne stlé, where workers have already suffered months of fear and uncertainty.” The new fi rm, Peranel will be head- quartered in Paris and led by Muriel Lienau, the division’s current chief executive. Philipp Navratil, chief executive of Nestlé, said: “By partnering with Plati- num Equity, Peranel will be better posi- tioned to execute its strategy with enhanced agility. He added: “Through additional focus, it will be well equipped to drive its long-term growth ambitions by strengthening this portfolio of international and local brands, with continued investments in innovation, premiumisation, operational excellence and sustainability.” In half-year results announced yes- terday, Nestlé reported organic sales growth of 3.6pc for the six months to the end of June. Nestlé also cuts its profi tability out- look, saying operating profit margins would be “broadly similar” in the sec- ond half after previously guiding for stronger margins. Afterwards the company’s shares suf- fered their biggest drop since 2020, fall- ing almost 7pc yesterday.
making pigs of themselves.” He appreciates that “in woodland they are in their natural ecological niche” but invariably they don’t stay there. In the United States where there are thought to be over 6 million boar, scientists at Colorado State University estimate that they cause over $3.4bn (£2.5bn) of damage annually. There are also concerns that a large population could at some point become a reservoir for African swine fever, which would be a disaster for pig farmers. Price does most of his shooting around the Forest of Dean, in Gloucestershire, which is one of Britain’s wild boar hotspots along with the Kent and East Sussex Weald. In the Forest of Dean alone, hundreds of boar are culled annually – with a target population of 400. In the year 2019-20, 757 boar were culled. But there are plenty of smaller groups too in places like Dorset and Devon. “A lot of farmers hate them,” says Price. “I’m not one of the ones who wants
The fall in customer calls to British Gas because 90pc of customers use digital channels at first, says the energy firm
for a number of years to ensure we have the right roles in the right places for the future. “This means making changes to improve effi ciency, drive commercial performance and give our customers the service they want. “At the same time, we continue to
when there is barely any rain, says expert
By Patrick Galbraith
ALMOST all sewage spills in England’s
waterways may have been “illegal”
according to a leading scienti
Peter Hammond said wat
nies had failed to follow ru
releasing raw effl uent into riv It should not be release
“normal” weather conditions
now the Environment Agenc
not publicly clarified what
means. Mr Hammond, portraye
Channel 4 drama Dirty Busin
definition in court papers a
show that for over 80pc of the
age was spilled in “normal” w Normal conditions mean
has been “less than 25mm of
previous 24 hours and no sudd
pours of 4mm or more in an
the previous 24 hours”. The definition comes fro
case against Southern Water
age spills in 2021. Sewage spills generally
because wastewater fills pip
tanks, which forces valves to o
ews comes a
t emerged that Wright, the hief executive
n Water, is set
minal charges
ations that he
s misled the
years over the nce of its sew-
ent works.
ght has denied
g oing. An investigation by Surfers Aga
Sewage uncovered illegal disch g
the last one shot. I mean, there are farmers around here who would genuinely like to see that.” Cai Ap Bryn is one professional making the most of the rise in wild boar. As a chef who cooks at wedding and country fairs across the country, he serves up wild boar that he has shot. Part of the appeal, to him at least, is that in eating a wild boar chop, he feels like you are connecting with something medieval. “There’s something mythical about wild boar and it’s very diff erent to farmed pork. It’s much richer in fl avour,” he says. Ap Bryn says you can cook them in much the same way you cook pork but because they are wild they have less “intermuscular fat”. This means it can be hard to slow cook them as the meat can become dry. Wild boar is often paired with apples and cherries. In the north of Scotland, Niall Rowntree is at the forefront of wild boar rebirth. A lifelong deer stalker, he
invest in the skills where there is demand, including recruiting more engineers to meet growing demand and hiring 500 apprentices this year alone.” The job losses, which will take place during the next two years, came as the company revealed its adjusted operat- ing profi ts fell 9.5pc in the fi rst half of the year to £497m. Centrica’s gas supplies have been disrupted by the Iran war, which sent European gas prices up to a three-year high in March. Mr O’Shea added: “Volatility across energy markets has created challenges in some parts of our business, and some
prevent systems being overwhelmed. Mr Hammond said: “People think these companies are allowed to pollute when it’s raining thinking that
farmers hate them. I’m not one who wants the last one shot. There are some farmers who would like to see that’
Stubborn population
Estimated wild boar count
2,000
1,000
Target population a o u n Target population
2013 -14 2015 -16 2017 -18 2021 -22 2023 -24 2025 -26 2019 -20
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1,000 Forest of Dean, wild boar cull achieved
2013 -14 2015 -16 2017 -18 2019 -20 2021 -22 2023 -24
is now turning his attention to a diff erent species. “In three years we’ve gone from shooting zero pigs to shooting over a hundred,” he says. “Last year we shot 13 pigs over 100kg.” For all that they are secretive but Rowntree is beginning to see wild boar right across the Highlands: “We’re seeing pigs in Lochaber, Ross-shire, Sutherland.” Rowntree believes there could be as many as 4,000 across Scotland already and it’s only a matter of time before they spread elsewhere. Nobody minds all that much when they are in the forest but in other areas where there is much more arable farming, they might be rather less welcome. “A lot of environmentalists will tell you that they turn over ground and in doing so, they create seed beds for woodland regeneration but they’ll just keep on turning over that ground,” says Rowntree. “So you might get that initial burst of regeneration, but for how long?”
of our delivery has been slower than we would like. However, we have contin- ued to invest with discipline to strengthen our portfolio and support long-term growth.” The job losses follow news that two ageing nuclear power stations partly owned by Centrica will stay opera- tional until 2030 to help keep Britain’s lights on. EDF said it had decided to extend the life of the Hartlepool and Heysham 1 plants for an extra two years. The sites are two of four advanced gas-cooled reactors that have been gen- erating since the 1980s. Centrica owns a 20pc stake in the fl eet.
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AMBROSE EVANS-PRITCHA
income tax rise with welfare cuts can the new PM steady the ship
ANDY BURNHAM already faces his fi rst rude intrusion from an unforgiving world ... so far from the cosy cocoon of Manchester. The fast-escalating war in the Gulf and the Red Sea is overwhelming his pinprick eff orts to ease living costs, and it threatens to obliterate his larger prospects before he has even begun. The wholesale price of gas in Europe – and therefore in Britain – has returned to the extremes in March that so tortured his legitimate predecessor, booted out of Downing Street amid crocodile tears and surreal calls for political stability. Just when we need foreign policy gravitas we get a chirpy mayor talking about buses. Almost 20pc of the world’s supply of liquefi ed natural gas (LNG) remains trapped on the wrong side of Hormuz. Europe is competing for global shipments against Asia, currently suff ering extreme heat and running air conditioners for dear life. We had better pray for a mild winter, which is hardly a policy, to be sure. Europe has no chance of
Famous faces,
birds and
buildings
President of
European Central
Bank Christine
Lagarde reveals
euro banknote
design proposals
in Frankfurt
yesterday after a
meeting of the
ECB’s governing
council. The bank
is inviting feedback
from the public
online.
oligopoly who promise to defy cyclical gravity
DAVID STEVENSON
Samsung make vital Dram chips for AI. They could also be bargain stocks
THERE is growing alarm about the fragility of the AI boom and its explosive impact on the “picks-and- shovels” companies supplying the tech giants. This is especially true for those fi rms which make a particular component vital to AI companies. Known as dynamic random-access memory (Dram) chips, these products eff ectively provide the memory for Nvidia’s graphics chips as well as much more. Dram demand has skyrocketed, and the impact is being felt far beyond AI. Apple, for example, has increased the price of its phones because of rocketing chip prices. In Korea, around half of the country’s stock market is made up of a
refi lling its gas storage facilities to safe levels before the fi rst cold snap. Britain has subcontracted most of its gas storage to Belgium, Holland, and Germany, where inventories are critically low at 30pc, 33pc, and 45pc respectively. The Prime Minister will have to deal with a second parallel shock as the US-Iran war and the expanding Ukraine-Russia war bite further into world oil supply. Pro-Iranian Houthis in Yemen have attacked Saudi tankers in the Red Sea, eff ectively closing the Strait of Bab el-Mandeb to shipping aligned to the West. “In a region where we do not sell oil, no one will sell oil,” said Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran’s frontman. Oxford Economics says a double blockade of the Red Sea and the Gulf implies $160 crude prices. On the Russian front of this complex world war, Ukraine has attacked 183 ships linked to Russia in three weeks and paralysed the oil terminal at Novorossiysk, which has halted the Caspian pipeline and shut in 80pc of Kazakhstan’s total oil exports. Almost 60pc of Russia’s refi ning capacity has been knocked out, on top of losses in Gulf capacity. This has pushed the “crack spread” on diesel, petrol, jet fuel, and naphtha (for petrochemicals) to record levels above $80. Add that to crude near $100 and it starts to hurt. Russia is retaliating by hitting dry cargo docks in Odessa at a key moment in Ukraine’s agricultural calendar, again putting world grain supplies at risk. We have yet to feel the delayed hit to food prices from
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couple of large Dram chip manufacturers, SK Hynix and Samsung, with investors piling in. It’s got so bad that the local regulators have stepped in and hit the pause button on any new innovative trading products for investors involving SK Hynix and Samsung stock. The last time I looked, the Korean composite Kopsi index was down nearly 29pc from its peak in late June, which qualifi es as a proper bear market. Before we get too smug and dismiss this as a mania confi ned to Asian day traders, it is worth remembering that the UK is exposed to a Dram meltdown too. A few weeks ago, major UK broker platform Interactive Investor published its June client-trading report. The second-most-bought stock that month was US Dram giant Micron Technology, with Nvidia at number four and Marvell Technology at number seven. On paper, it looks like an open-and- shut case. The chip sector was overbought, and the Dram trio – Micron, SK Hynix and Samsung – were the most overbought of all. But I’m not
the fertiliser crunch at the start of the Iran war. That is another misery waiting for Burnham. This full-spectrum commodity shock has pushed UK 10-year borrowing costs well above the danger threshold of 5pc. The slightest fi scal error at this point risks a treacherous dynamic and Burnham has already made one with careless talk over how to fund a VAT cut on electricity bills. The Prime Minister would be well-advised to grasp the fi scal nettle and prepare emergency steps for what could be a cruel winter. Miatta Fahnbulleh, his Energy Secretary, would reassure us better if she stopped chattering about 40 years of “neo-liberal” atrocities and told us how she plans to address a national energy crisis. For starters, the Government should fast-track measures to open the Jackdaw gas fi eld off Aberdeen in time for drilling by November. A legal ruling now in limbo does not prevent executive action. As a “green conservative”, I have no problems with North Sea drilling. Our gas has far lower carbon and methane emissions than imported LNG from Texas. A recent Opinium poll showed that almost 70pc of Labour voters would back drilling to tide us through the energy transition. Off shore Energies UK says Jackdaw is basically ready to go and could displace 15pc of Britain’s LNG imports. Let us not forget that Donald Trump has threatened to cut off LNG shipments to Europe if he does not get his way on other matters. Texan
Minister would be well-advised to grasp the fiscal nettle and prepare emergency steps for what could be a cruel winter’
so sure it’s that simple. Boring, pointy headed types might have noticed a somewhat surprising development in the world of global equity indices that track cheap stocks. Rather peculiarly, these indices include whizzy hi-tech Dram stocks. The MSCI World Value index, for example, has Microsoft in the number one slot followed by Micron Technology. Another “value” index has Samsung,
Korea’s stock market is in bear territory
Chip sell off has dragged down the market
1,450
1,400
1,350
1,300
1,250
Micron and SK Hynix. The Dram trio feature prominently in these cheapo indices because their stock prices are really extremely cheap. Micron, for instance, is expected to grow earnings over the next few years by anything between 70pc and 150pc, depending on who you talk to. SK Hynix is expected to possibly double earnings over the next few years, which is quite something on any measure of surging profi tability.
LNG has been weaponised for geopolitical leverage. Jackdaw would not cut energy bills, but it would keep more gas supply under our national control as an insurance policy. It would generate tax revenues. Less money would leak out to foreign petro-states and more would circulate within the British economy. It would dampen the eff ects of the global gas shock on our balance of payments. All this helps shield a country in trouble. The good news is Britain’s energy system is better placed than it was when Russia invaded Ukraine. The Rough gas storage facility – closed in 2017 to save pennies – is partially open again, at least for now. We have a few days extra cover. Be thankful for small mercies. The number of electric vehicles and hybrids on the road has jumped from 2.5 million to 6.1 million since early 2022, shaving 9pc off oil imports, ceteris paribus. The gas share of the UK’s power generation has dropped to 27.3pc from 41.8pc before the Ukraine war. The roll-out of wind and solar is now so fast that total capacity will jump by eight gigawatts this year. The safety buff er is improving every month. There are future grounds for great optimism. But today we still face grave limits. It will be several years before mass storage from cheap batteries and a network of interconnectors complete the renewable revolution. Right now we are caught half-way between the old fossil regime and new electron regime. On the fi scal front, Burnham must
The driver is the insatiable demand for high-bandwidth memory chips going into data centres built around Nvidia chips. At this point, the cynics will start pointing out that Dram chip manufacturers are classic cyclical stocks, rather like oil companies, with share prices yo-yoing up and down in line with product prices. In essence, the cynics say the likes of Micron and SK Hynix will follow a predictable pattern: prices for their memory chips increase, suppliers increase spending, prices collapse as demand is oversupplied, and earnings go into reverse on an epic scale. Not everyone agrees with that analysis. The order books for these three companies look fairly solid to me for many years out, and the quantum of increased supply capacity looks fairly subdued on fi rst inspection. These three have turned into the Opec of Dram, an oligopoly that can determine pricing. Claus Aasholm, an industry expert, has dug into the latest Micron numbers and tentatively suggests that this time it really might be diff erent. Sure, Micron is upping its spending, but not by anywhere near enough to keep up with insatiable demand. Micron has guided to roughly $10bn (£7.5bn) of spending in the fourth quarter, raising full-year capex from $25bn to $27bn. But revenues are skyrocketing, might reach over $70bn per quarter in
violation? Labour has already done that by kicking out the prime minister we elected’
lance the boil before bond markets push him into a vicious circle. Any further talk of wealth seizures will accelerate capital fl ight and do immense damage. A country with a “high-beta” economy – over-dependent on foreign investors to buy gilts and plug the trade defi cit – cannot risk such stupidity. He should heed the lesson of Bill Clinton, who took a centre-Left gamble in 1993 by betting that budget retrenchment would more than pay for itself with bond market reward. It unleashed a US investment boom and a decade of hyper-growth. It is obvious what must be done, and done fast. Burnham must raise income tax, by 1p or 2p, presenting it as a hypothecated tax to pay for urgent defence. A manifesto violation? Labour has already done that by kicking out the prime minister we elected for no reason other than its own narrow party interests. There is no shame left, so just get on with it. This tax rise must be coupled with a plan of equal courage to slash runaway benefi ts. He must threaten to hurl Labour MPs out of Parliament by calling a snap election if they resist. They won’t. If he can be as single-minded and unfl inching as his nemesis, Margaret Thatcher, then maybe Britain can start to right the ship. Burnham thought that he could waltz into Downing Street selling hope. His political survival this winter may well depend on selling pain.
revenues by the end of 2027. And
Micron will still only be the third-
largest memory company.
Dram pricing has increased by
63pc in just a quarter, with most
product lines boasting margins of
above 80pc.
Crucially, an increasing share of
Micron’s order book is from long-term
contractual business.
It is talking about long-term
contracts that could amount to
something approaching 40pc of
revenue over the next few years.
Aasholm says that “no matter what
happens, Micron is guaranteed to ship
more than $100bn over the next fi ve
years at a margin above 60pc.
“From an investment perspective,
Micron stock is certainly a safer bet
than before, as it will not return to
negative gross margins, even in a
severe down cycle over the next
fi ve years.”
And what’s true for Micron is almost
certainly true for SK Hynix and, to a
lesser degree, Samsung.
In sum, maybe those Korean traders
aren’t as crazy as they fi rst seem and
maybe the recent aggressive sell-off
might reverse course quite quickly as
the Dram giants continue to churn out
outsized profi ts.
Alternatively, maybe AI is a bubble,
and demand for Dram chips in data
centres will really fall off a cliff .
In that case, Micron, SK Hynix and
Samsung will revert to classic cyclical
stocks as their share prices plunge.
At the moment, my money is
tentatively on the former, not
the latter.
** Friday 24 July 2026 The Daily Telegraph
Government securities
52 week Flat Rdm High Low (£) Stock Price (£) +/ Yield Yield
107.53 103.38 Treas 6% 28 103.54 -0.16 5.79 4.41
102.33 97.08 Treas 4¼% 32 97.62 -0.34 4.35 4.72
99.39 92.65 Treas 4¼% 36 93.35 -0.47 4.55 5.13
102.00 93.84 Treas 4¾% 38 94.60 -0.56 5.02 5.35
Index Linked Securities
349.35 338.41 Treas 4⅛% IL 30 341.14* -0.51 1.21 0.91
248.27 236.46 Treas 2% IL 35 239.68* -0.90 0.83 1.79
10-year Government Bonds
Spread Vs Spread Vs Yield% Bunds T Bonds
France 3.91 +0.71 -0.79
Germany 3.20 - -1.50
Japan 2.77 -0.43 -1.93
Great Britain 5.10 +1.90 +0.40
United States 4.70 +1.50 -
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Aerospace & defence 0.78%
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52 week
High Low (p) Stock
Price (p) +/ Yld NAV
52 week High Low (p) Stock Price (p) +/- Yld P/E
1527 902⅜ Babcock Intl 1134 +21½ 0.7 26.9
2360 1529 BAE Systems 1965 +41 1.8 28.6
551½ 398½ Q net Q ● 482⅜ +2⅝ 2.3 24.0
1532⅝ 970¼ Rolls–Royce 1359 -33 0.7 19.6
318⅛ 161 Sen or ● 289½ — 1.0 -283.8
Banks 1.67%
È Banks -1.67
554⅛ 346⅝ Barclays 519½ -7½ 1.7 11.9
563½ 318⅜ Close Bros ● 415 -11¼ — -6.2
1590 908¾ HSBC 1527 -14 3.6 16.8
116 74⅜ Lloyds Bk Gp 112½ -2⅜ 3.2 16.1
705⅜ 496⅝ NatWest Group 670⅝ -14 4.8 12.5
1080 613 Santander 996 -30 1.7 12.8
2278 1285 Standard Ch 2129 -26 2.2 14.5
Beverages 2.19%
È Beverages -2.19
2142 1295½ Diageo 1540½ -34½ 4.1 19.4
Chemicals 2.68%
È Chemicals -2.68
3312 2426¾ Croda Intl 2859 -100 3.9 64.4
2434 1730¾ Johnson Mat ● 1892* -43 4.1 -33.1
756 515 Victrex ● 725 -3 8.2 22.7
Construction 1.26%
È Construction -1.26
900 519 Balfour Beatty ● 876½ -½ 1.6 16.7
410¼ 235⅜ Barratt Redrow 290½ -1¾ 5.9 21.4
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Price Change
Ç Oil & Gas 2.05
Oil & Gas +2.05%
Ç Property 1.72
Property +1.72%
Ç AIM 0.20
AIM +0.20%
È Healthcare -0.92
Healthcare 0.92%
È General financial -1.24
General financial 1.24%
È Electricity -1.36
Electricity 1.36%
È Transport -1.42
Transport 1.42%
È Retailers -1.45
Retailers 1.45%
È Travel & Leisure -1.51
Travel & Leisure 1.51%
È Support services -1.64
Support services 1.64%
È Food producers -1.81
Food producers 1.81%
È Household goods -1.83
Household goods 1.83%
È Tobaccos -2.44
Tobaccos 2.44%
È Gas & Water -3.92
Gas & Water 3.92%
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Managed Income R Gross Dis – 94.4 -0.04
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237 133½ Boot H 152½ -1½ 5 2 8 7
220 124⅜ Costa n ● 216 -2 1.9 15.5
1009¾ 788⅝ Grafton Gp ● 941¾ -13¼ 4.0 13.4
5730 3915 Morgan Sinda l ● 4760 -224 3.4 12.8
1552 947⅜ Persimmon 1079 -14½ 5 6 12.1
116⅞ 74⅛ Taylor Wimpey ● 81¼ -⅝ 9.4 29.0
Electricals 0.13%
480 171 Dialight 475 +35 — —
800 505 discover E Grp ● 695* -21 1.9 23.0
4902 3191⅜ Halma 3650* -12 0.7 37.0
5490 2860 Renishaw ● 4948 +46 1.6 43.0
2060 809⅞ XP Power ● 1762 -22 — -42.0
937½ 613⅞ Drax Group ● 768 -18½ 3 8 37.1
1428½ 1000 Nat Grid 1234* -15½ 3 9 18.8
2767½ 1597 SSE 2440 -90 2 8 23.1
Engineering / Industrial 0.83%
98⅛ 71 Coats Group ● 75 -1¼ 2 2 16.9
414½ 230 Cropper J 370 -18 — 12.0
28500 7100 Goodwin ● 18380 -40 1.5 56.2
3044 2138 IMI 3016 -6 1 1 24.3
1212½ 660 Mondi ● 726⅝ -11 3.4 22.8
38⅝ 21¼ Severfield 37⅞ -⅜ — -3.2
2746¼ 2088 Smiths Gp 2623 -61 1.8 30.6
8050 5950 Spirax Gp 6960 -70 2.4 31.4
3580 2254 We r 2544 +20 1.6 26.6
2359 1729½ Ass Brit Fds 1967½ -44½ 3 2 13.9
5195 3270 Coca–Cola HBC 4816 -154 2.1 21.8
5810 4775 Cransw ck ● 5450* -50 2.1 18.4
877 447⅞ Hilton Food ● 537½ -10 6 5 6.1
138 87 REA Hldgs 112½ -2½ — -214.0
5542⅛ 3644 Unilever 4543 -71 3 7 12.3
220¼ 153¼ Centrica 161⅜ -18⅜ 3 5 -107.6
606 439⅜ Pennon Gp ● 463⅝ -32 6 3 23.9
3335 2381 Severn Trent 3014 -24 4 2 24.4
1497 1072 Utd Utilities 1364* -14 3 9 15.8
276½ 145⅞ Ashmore ● 203⅝ -4¾ 8 3 16 7
363⅜ 212 Bridgepont Grp ● 315¼ -8¼ 3 0 63.0
1880 1240 BrooksMacdonald 1410 +10 5 8 10.9
1956 1016 IG Group 1701 -23 3 6 11 7
2340 1424⅞ ICG 1835* -14 4 7 11.0
690 499⅜ Investec 619½ -16½ 6 2 8.0
72 48 IP Group ● 66 -1¾ 1.9 9.1
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Ç Segro 19.35m 953¼ 6.50pc
Ç 3i 4.85m 2674 4.78pc
Ç BP 38.02m 555⅞ 3.08pc
Ç Anglo Amer 4.40m 3630 2.86pc
Ç BAE Systems 10.53m 1965 2.13pc
Ç Babcock Intl 2.47m 1134 1.93pc
Ç Shell 7.04m 3344 1.58pc
Ç Weir Group 0.94m 2544 0.79pc
Ç Admiral 0.42m 3560 0.39pc
Fallers 86 Volume Close Change
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È Fresnillo 1.88m 2497 -6.13pc
È Endeavour Mng 0.50m 3564 -4.78pc
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È Marks & Spen 8.20m 379¾ -4.26pc
È Pershing Square 0.16m 3642 -4.06pc
È Intl Cons Air 14.10m 422⅜ -3.76pc
È SSE 3.59m 2440 -3.56pc
È Rentokil Initial 8.60m 429½ -3.53pc
È Croda Intl 0.37m 2859 -3.38pc
È Coca-Cola HBC 0.78m 4816 -3.10pc
È Computacenter 1.21m 4706 -3.01pc
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BlackRock Energy & Resources Int - (-) 2.3m (2.7m) 2.000 (2.000) 1.650 (1.125) May 08 Apr 02
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
Morgan Sindall Int 2.6bn (2.4bn) 116.1m (95.4m) 186.100 (155.700) 55.000 (50.000) Oct 22 Oct 01
Naked Wines Fin 199.1m (250.2m) -6.3m (-4.9m) -9.200 (-6.600) n/a (n/a) - -
RELX Int 4.9bn (4.7bn) 1.6bn (1.5bn) 68.600 (63.500) 20.900 (19.500) Sep 10 Aug 06
Software Circle Fin 22.3m (18.3m) -1.0m (-671k) -0.210 (-0.080) 0.000 (0.000) - -
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Global H gh Yield Bd 0% 47.52 -0.11
International Bd 0% 189 88 -0.18
Multi-Asset Bal 0% 307 1 -0.14
Mult-Asset Div Return 0% 197.2 +0.2
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UK Income 0% 100.98 -005
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10575 6684 Lon Stock Ex 8568 -114 1.8 35.9
359¼ 247 M&G 353¾ -3½ 5.8 28.1
310⅝ 154¼ Man Group ● 290⅝ -2⅜ 4.4 25.1
209 150¾ Quilter ● 193 -5 3.3 21.7
2458½ 1620 S & U 1985* +20 5.8 10.2
599½ 358⅝ Schroders 588 +½ 3.7 17.2
132 91¼ Vanqu s Banking Gp 119¼ -1 — 37.2
416⅛ 274⅜ Haleon 361⅝ -4¼ 2.0 19.4
1441½ 1050 Smith & Nep 1118½ -½ 2.6 20.7
1376½ 976 Burberry 1037½ -13 — —
170 106¼ McBride 159⅜ -2¼ 1.9 8.2
110⅜ 65⅛ PZ Cussons 105⅝ -1⅜ 3.4 -76.5
6522⅞ 3664 Reckitt Benck 4938 -96 4.3 10.5
Information technology 0.71%
315 196 Aptitude Sftwre 198 — 2.7 27.1
1335 771⅝ The Sage Grp 821⅝ -6 2.7 21.8
Insurance 0.77%
265 177½ Aberdeen Group 244¾ -3⅜ 6.0 11.3
3730 2624 Admiral 3560 +14 5.8 14.4
700¾ 590⅝ Aviva 683⅝ -4⅜ 5.7 25.4
1295 750 Beazley 1287½ -½ 1.9 11.4
1904 1246 Hiscox 1796 -29 2.1 13.2
700 549 Lancashire Hldg ● 638½ +½ 17.4 70
310 217¼ Legal & General 296⅛ -3⅞ 7.4 29.6
1238 910¼ Prudential 1085 -11½ 1.8 9.4
920½ 615 Standard Life 906 -8½ 6.1 -192.4
1575½ 1050 St Jamess Place 1066 -2 1.7 10.7
Investment trusts 0.05%
4497 1825 3i 2674* +122 3.2 3009
394½ 325 3i Infrastructure ● 385½ -8 3.5 403
830 606 Aberdeen New Ind a 704 -2 — 792
1356 1178 A liance Witan 1319 -13 2.2 1393
764 439½ Allianz Tech Trust ● 687 -11 — 756
331 255⅜ Bai lie Giff China 302* -2 0.8 337
116½ 91⅜ Bai lie Giff Euro Gwth 114 -1½ 0.6 127
153⅜ 120⅝ Bankers Invstmt Tst ● 147¼ -2⅜ 1.9 163
1661⅝ 786 Biotech Growth 1612 +2 — 1718
284 197 BlckRckAmInc 276 -1 5.1 274
205 116½ BlackRockEnrgy&Res 177 — 3.3 187
208 159½ BlckRock FroInv 187 -3 4.1 187
625 507 BlckRck Grt Euro ● 591 -5 1.2 643
238 198 BlckRck Inc&Grth 231 — 3.3 258
288⅜ 230¾ BlackRock Small ● 270½ -2½ 2.9 311
1072⅞ 543⅛ BlackRock Wld M ● 882 -26 2.7 906
È Brit Amer Tob 2.76m 4480 -2.93pc
È Investec 9.29m 619½ -2.59pc
È Experian 3.28m 2655 -2.53pc
È Scot Mort Inv Tst 6.21m 1313 -2.52pc
È Rolls-Royce 21.30m 1359 -2.37pc
È Smiths Gp 1.63m 2623 -2.27pc
È Autotrader Grp 4.46m 482½ -2.23pc
È Ass Brit Fds 0.86m 1967½ -2.21pc
È Diageo 4.21m 1540½ -2.19pc
È Lloyds Bk Gp 178.84m 112½ -2.09pc
È NatWest Group 50.39m 670⅝ -2.04pc
È Diploma 0.62m 7430 -2.04pc
È Land Secs 3.71m 686½ -2.00pc
È Sainsbury 10.21m 344¼ -1.96pc
È Reckitt Benck 1.12m 4938 -1.91pc
È Brit Land 5.32m 429⅝ -1.87pc
È F&C Inv Trust 1.77m 334⅝ -1.82pc
È Polar CapTech 4.33m 647½ -1.75pc
È Melrose Ind 2.71m 474 -1.66pc
È Hiscox 1.04m 1796 -1.59pc
È Metlen Energy 0.18m 3632½ -1.57pc
È Unilever 2.57m 4543 -1.54pc
È JD Sports Fash 16.22m 85¾ -1.52pc
Glob Mu ti-Strat 0% 140.96 +0.06
Inflat on-L nked Corp Bd 0% 116.48 -0.01
Long-Term Global Equ ty 0% 377.02 -0.57
Asian Income 0% 198.14 +0.86
Cont nental European 0% 317.34 -0.62
Global Dynamic Bd 0% 82.74 0.08
Global High Yield Bd 0% 76 37 -0.1
Internat onal Bd 0% 87.08 -017
Mu ti-Asset Bal 0% 207.2 -0.13
Mu t-Asset Div Return 0% 152.63 +0 2
Mu t-Asset Growth 0% 328.18 +0.02
Oriental 0% 250.56 +1.11
Real Return A 0% 123.18 +0.06
UK Equ ty Fund 0% 208.4 -017
UK Income 0% 205.64 -0.05
UK Opportunities 0% 228.29 -0.38
Emerg ng Income 0% 138.66 +1
Global Emerg ng Mkts 0% 284.13 +1.18
Global Equ ty Fund 0% 395.75 -0.19
Mu ti Asset Inc 0% 141.48 +0.4
Discretionary Unit Fund No 1, Poultry, London EC2R 8JR. 020 7415 4130
Ma tland Discretionary Inc 3 00 2269.35 +4.54
Fundsmith LLP
PO Box 10846, Chelmsford, Essex, CM99 2BW.
0330 123 1815
www.fundsmith.co.uk enqu ries@fundsm th.co.uk
Fundsmith Equ ty T Acc – 673.07 -8.72
395 312 Caledonia ● 377½* -1½ 2.0 594
592 486 City of Lon ● 578 -13 3.8 573
467 207 CQS Nat Res G & I 365 -7 7.8 356
330 268¼ CT Glbl Mgd G 320 -1 — 328
135 114 CT Glbl Mgd I 131½ — 6 1 131
592 439⅞ CT Priv Eq Ord 500* -8 5.6 694
373 320 CT UK Cap & Inc 353 — 3.8 371
126 97 CT UKHighIncTst 112¼* +4¼ 5.3 118
480¼ 460 Dunedin Ent # 475 — 4.8 —
842 737⅝ Edinburgh Inv Tr ● 822* -6 3.9 900
294½ 183 Edin Worldwide ● 245 -9½ — 269
1332 325¾ F&C Inv Trust 334⅝* -6¼ 1.3 369
672 546 Fdelity Asian V 582 -4 3.5 619
339 241 Fdlty Chna Sp Sits ● 257½* -½ 3.5 276
442 367½ Fdelity Euro Tst ● 421 -3½ 2.4 448
460½ 372 Fdelity Sp V ● 447 -6½ 2.3 457
939 706¼ Fnsbury Gwth ● 757 -10 2.7 823
198⅜ 162⅜ Glbl Small Co Trust ● 192⅜ -1 1.6 203
211 173¼ Hend High Inc 203* +2 5.5 214
960 769 Hend Smaller Co ● 944 -5 3.0 1043
3290¾ 2285 Herald Inv ● 3025 -10 — 3297
530 318⅝ HgCap tal ● 374 -12 1.3 530
138 107¼ HICL Infrastructure ● 134⅜ -¾ 6.3 161
1611⅜ 1288¼ ICG Enterprise Tst ● 1404 -14 3.0 2033
968 782½ JPM Claverh’se ● 946 -16 3.9 973
153 121½ JPM Eur G&I ● 145* -1⅝ 3.8 148
849 632 JPM Japanese ● 784 -7 1.1 855
710¼ 522½ Land Secs 686½* -14 6.0 —
186½ 141½ Lowland Inv 178¼* +¼ 3.8 198
280 234¼ Mercant le InvTr ● 275* -3½ 3.0 310
662 536 Merchants Tst ● 649* -9 4.6 693
1664 1315⅞ Monks ● 1586 -14 0 1 1679
1012 854⅝ Murray Income ● 988 -14 4.0 1071
369 283 Murray Intl ● 360* -2½ 3.5 360
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 Pac f c Assets 406 +2 1.4 440
409 319½ Pantheon ● 389 -1 — 518
2610 1900 RIT Cap Ptnrs ● 2525 -40 1.8 3159
319 281¼ Ruffer Inv Pref ● 293 -1 2 1 304
738 488¾ Schroder Asian TR ● 670 -1 1.7 717
558 480⅛ Scot American ● 541 -5 3.0 585
1563 1015¾ Scot Mortgage 1313 -34 0.3 1485
253 215⅞ STS Global Income 226 -2 3 7 230
352 196¼ Tmpletn Em Mt ● 312* -½ 1.7 340
364½ 291 TR Property ● 311½* -½ 5.2 341
150¼ 137 UIL F n ZDP 2026 150 — — 149
302 239⅞ Util co Emerg ● 285* -3 3.4 320
398 306½ Worldw HealthTr ● 383* +2 0.6 404
Net Asset Values © 2026 Morningstar Est mated at prev ous day’s close see www.Morningstar.co.uk.
Guinness Global Investors 18 Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HZ www.guinnessgi.com +44(0)20 7222 5703
Sustainable Energy Acc – 25 4523 …
Global Innovators Acc – 45.897 …
Global Equity Income Inc – 24.165 …
Available as an ISA
Available as an ISA
Janus Henderson Investors PO Box 9023 Chelmsford, CM99 2WB Enquiries: 0800 832 832 Website: www.janushenderson.com
Cautious Managed A Acc 5.00 354 …
Cautious Managed A Inc 5.00 153.3 …
China Opps A Acc 5.00 1311 …
Emerg Mkts Opps A Acc 5.00 305 3 …
European Sel Opps A Acc 5.00 3180 …
Fixed Int Mthly Inc A Inc 4.25 17.1 …
Global Care Growth A Inc 4.50 688.2 …
Global Equity Inc A Inc 5.25 86.15 …
Global Select Acc 4.25 6443 …
Global Strateg c Cap Acc 5.00 433 9 …
Global Technology A Acc 5.00 7051 …
Inst UK IDX Opp Tr – 178.0686 …
Janus Asian Dividend In Ut 5.00 100 7 …
844⅜ 418⅝ Autotrader 482½ -11 2.4 14.1
690 435 Bloomsbury ● 605 -40 2.7 18 3
1000 719 Informa 854¾ -11⅝ 2.6 —
88⅞ 65¾ ITV ● 72¾ -1⅜ 6.9 12 3
1318 874¾ Pearson 1204½ -2½ 2.1 23.4
81 41⅛ Reach 41⅛ -3⅝ 14.4 -1 0
4008 1991 RELX 2451 -3 2.8 21 8
827 391⅜ Rightmove ● 431⅜ -5⅛ 2.5 15.4
443¼ 218½ WPP ● 272⅜ -3⅝ 5.5 5.4
Mining 0.86%
4239 2042 Anglo Amer 3630 +101 0.5 -14 6
4475 1850½ Antofagasta 3621 -175 1.3 35 8
3495 1873½ BHP Group 3145 -21 3.3 23 6
81 81 Evraz # 81 — — 0 5
4472 1371 Fresnillo 2497 -163 3.8 17.7
707¼ 275¼ G encore 537¾ -⅜ 2.4 —
858 246¼ Hochschild Mng ● 438 -22¾ 1 0 15 0
345 178⅜ Kenmare Res 190 +1 — -0.7
9117 4344½ Rio Tinto 6856 -47 4.4 14 9
609⅜ 393¼ BP 555⅞ +16⅝ 4.5 —
28 9¾ EnQuest 27¾ +¾ 2.9 —
553 288½ Hunting ● 475½ +2 2.0 24.2
3758½ 2553¾ She l 3344 +52 3.3 14.7
Pharmaceuticals 0.17%
15732 9892 AstraZeneca 12688 -14 2.0 25 6
3228¾ 1943 Genus ● 2156 -24 1.5 73 6
2282 1288⅝ GSK 1905½ -5 3.7 13 5
2046 1187 Hikma ● 1553 -16 4.1 11.4
16 5⅞ Alina Hldgs 11 — — 17
1208 800½ Big Yellow Gp ● 876½* +1 5.4 —
445⅜ 318⅝ Brit Land 429⅝* -8¼ 5.4 —
2070 1469⅜ Derwent Ldn ● 2016 -24 4.0 —
377 270 Gt Portland Est ● 343¼ -2⅝ 2.4 —
213 149½ Grainger ● 175⅛ -4⅜ 4.8 6.4
377 263⅜ Hammerson ● 365⅜ -5 4.5 —
969 603 Segro 953¼ +58¼ 3.3 —
162⅞ 124⅛ Shaftesbury Capital ● 140⅜ -1⅞ 2.8 75
140 104 Town Centre 121½ +1½ 4.1 —
174 132¼ Tritax Big Box 168⅜ -⅜ 4.9 183
169⅜ 106 Currys ● 162½ -2½ 1 8 10 5
1249 707 Dunelm ● 857½ -8 8.2 11.1
819½ 598 Frasers Group ● 752 -13 — 8.7
1856 1407¼ Greggs ● 1560 -63 4.4 13 0
Ç Australia All Ordinaries 9018.10 +13.20 +0.15pc
È Brazil Bovespa 176723.62 -823.95 -0.46pc
Ç China Shanghai Composite 3876.78 +9.74 +0.25pc
È France CAC General 8299.09 -138.80 -1.65pc
È Germany DAX 24763.12 -392.29 -1.56pc
Ç Hong Kong Hang Seng 25210.81 +318.15 +1.28pc
È India BSE S&P SENSEX 76391.39 -363.66 -0.47pc
Ç Japan Nikkei 66422.60 +307.00 +0.46pc
È Singapore Straits Times 5581.76 -13.66 -0.24pc
È Spain Madrid SE 1905.10 -33.50 -1.73pc
È Switzerland SMI Index 14214.95 -100.93 -0.70pc
È USA Dow Jones 51711.65 -506.93 -0.97pc
È USA Nasdaq 25137.69 -553.21 -2.15pc
È Gold per troy oz $4050.08 -85.53 -2.07pc
È Silver per troy oz £43.28 -1.41 -3.15pc
È Krugerrand
£3014.57 -26.68 -0.88pc
È New Sovereign
£709.62 -11.18 -1.55pc
È Maples
£3029.77 -40.00 -1.30pc
È Platinum per oz £1197.33 -29.51 -2.41pc
È Palladium per oz £943.29 -26.14 -2.70pc
È Copper† grade A £10186.98 -125.61 -1.22pc
È Tin† high grade £40136.67 -268.92 -0.67pc
Ç Lead†
£1416.99 +3.03 +0.21pc
Ç Zinc† special high grade £2688.29 +10.52 +0.39pc
Ç Aluminium† high grade £2395.43 +10.84 +0.45pc
Ç Nickel†
£12987.16 +177.18 +1.38pc
Ç Baltic Dry Index*
2725.00 +10.00 +0.37pc
È Wheat per tonne £206.00 -0.75 -0.36pc
Ç Brent Crude Sep settlement $100.69 +6.62 +7.04pc
*Copyright Baltic Exchange Information Services Ltd †Data provided by the London Metal Exchange
Mu ti-Mgr Inc&Gwth A Acc 5 00 229.7 …
Mu ti-Mgr Mangd A Acc 5 00 398.2 1 3
Mu ti-Mgr Mangd A Inc 5 00 367.3 1 2
Sterling Bond Acc 4.25 227.7 …
Sterling Bond Inc 4.25 55.01 …
Strategic Bond A Inc 4.00 95.21 …
UK Absolute Return A Acc 5 00 206.9 …
UK Alpha A Acc 5.25 194.8 …
UK Smaller Cos A ACC 5 00 916 …
UK Equ ty Income A Inc 5 00 694.3 …
UK Index Opps Tst A Acc – 175 8342 …
US Growth A Acc 5 00 2945 …
J.P. Morgan Asset Management 60 Victoria Embankment, London, EC4Y 0JP Clients:0800 204020.Brokerline 0800 727770
JPM Ems C Net D s – 274.6000 +4.6000
JPM Japan C Net Acc – 478.7000 +3.0000
JPM Natural Res C Net ACC – 1642.0000 +29.0000
JPM UK Equity Core E Acc – *700 3000 0.1000
JPM UK Equity Core E Inc – *91.8100 -0.0200
JPM US Eq Inc C Net – *591 3000 +1.0000
JPM US Eq Inc C Net D s – *581 5000 +1.0000
JPM US Select C Net Acc – 1245.0000 -40000
JPM US Sm Cos Gwth C Net Ac – 1270 -14
981 713 Howden Joinery 770½ -4½ 2.9 15.7
106⅛ 64 JD Sports Fash 85¾* -1⅜ 1.4 9.9
372¼ 240¼ Kingfisher 296¾ -1⅝ 4.2 21.2
411¾ 301⅛ Marks & Spen 379¾ -16⅞ 1.1 29.9
4 ⅝ Mothercare ¾ -¼ — 0.6
15105 11200 Next 14670* -165 1.8 19.3
397⅞ 140¼ Ocado ● 181¾ -13¾ — 3.8
575 200 P newood Tech 314 -½ — 65.4
680 171⅜ Saga ● 636 -20 — —
370¾ 291¼ Sainsbury J 344¼ -6⅞ 4.0 19.9
1120 378⅝ Smith WH ● 410 -9 — -3.7
510⅜ 406⅞ Tesco 475¼ -2¼ 3.1 17.3
2800 1981 Bunzl 2722 -14 2.7 19.3
416 215 Capita 241½ -2½ — -1.7
6740 4188 DCC Energy 6290* -5 3.4 —
114 78⅜ Essentra 91¼ -2⅜ 2.2 —
4092½ 2203 Experian 2655* -69 2.0 21.5
5840 3519⅜ Intertek Group 5815 -5 2.8 26.7
250¾ 163½ Intl Workplace ● 195⅞ -1⅛ 0.5 —
172⅛ 123¾ Johnson Serv ● 149 -¼ 3.2 16.0
214 134¾ MITIE Gp ● 209¼* -¼ 2.2 31.7
507 342½ Rentokil 429½ -15¾ 2.1 30.7
325¾ 203 Serco Group ● 238⅝ -⅝ 1.9 16.6
15¼ 6¾ S G 8¼ … — -1.5
723½ 493⅜ Travis P ● 552 -9½ 2.2 -6.6
Telecommunications 0.73%
242⅛ 173 BT Group 193¾ -2 4.3 17.6
2040 638 Telecom Plus ● 867 -6 5.8 8.6
131⅛ 80⅝ Vodafone 116⅛* -⅝ 3.4 -82.4
5326 3677 Brit Am Tob 4480* -135 5.5 12.8
3632 2626 Imp Brands 2797 -5 6.0 11.1
490 294½ Z GUP ● 451½ -6½ 6.0 13.4
683¾ 332⅝ easyJet ● 601 +15¾ 2.2 9.1
1031½ 500⅜ Entain 548 -1 3.6 -5.3
240⅜ 152⅛ FirstGroup ● 180⅛* -1⅞ 4.0 8.4
23610 6722 Flutter Entrtmt 7472 +8 — -47.4
774 544 Fullers ‘A’ 750* +10 2.8 19.1
492⅞ 332¾ IAG Intl Cons Air 422⅜ -16½ 1.6 6.9
13305 8458 Intercont Hotels 11515¾ -114½ 1.2 31.2
308 223½ Mitchels&But ● 261 -14 — 8.8
40⅝ 17 Mobico Group 23⅛ -⅝ — -0.4
447 210 Playtech ● 360 -2⅝ — 0.9
166¼ 86 Rank Group ● 93¼ -1⅛ 3.2 9.8
Index
Change
Jupiter Unit Trust Managers Ltd The Z g Zag Building, 70 Victoria Street, London, SW1E 6SQ 020 3817 1000
Jupiter Asian Inc L Acc – 349 7 +1.3743
Jupiter Asian Inc L Inc – 235.67 +1.3743
Jupiter China L Acc – 118 65 +1.0497
Jupiter China L Inc – 108.61 +1.0497
Jupiter Corp Bond L Inc – 50.76 0.1783
Jupiter Eco L Inc – 690.29 -0.4469
Jupiter European L Inc – 3859.61 -0.5012
Jupiter Euro Inc L Acc – 85.01629 …
Jupiter Euro Inc L Inc – 49.78698 …
Jupiter Euro Special Sits L Acc – 580.09 -0.5000
Jupiter Fin Opp L Inc – 1312.01 -08356
Jupiter Fund Of Inv Tsts L Inc – 394.13 +0.0723
Jupiter Global Emg Mkts L Acc – 106.22 +2.4740
Jupiter Global Finl Innov L Acc – 227.13 +0.0473
Jupiter Income Trust L Inc – *690.05 +0.1887
Jupiter India L Acc – 208 9 -09614
Jupiter Japan Inc L Acc – 216.28 +0.1674
Jupiter Japan Inc L Inc – 140 68 +0 1673
Jupiter Merlin Bal Prtfo L Acc – 336.69 +0.1108
Jupiter Merlin Bal Prtfo L Inc – 193 03 +0.1112
Jupiter Merlin Grth Prtfo L Acc – 813.28 +0 6137
Jupiter Merlin Grth Prtfo L Inc – 785.74 +0 6137
3302 2098 Whitbread 2392 -64 4.1 19.4
89⅜ 36¾ Afentra 66¾ +1¼ — -63.4
1130 799 Arbuthnot 830 — 6 6 7.6
244 125¼ Central As a Met 144⅝ -2⅝ 8.3 -4.5
872½ 98 Ceres Power ● 400⅜ -9⅝ — -16.3
470 271 Church ll China 387½ +7½ 5.4 9.8
380 194 CML Micro 260 — 4.2 -787.9
1612 881⅛ Cohort 1302 +22 1.4 24.9
181¼ 101 Eleco 133½ +18½ 0.9 83.4
14⅞ ¼ Futura Medical ⅜ … — -0.1
163 112 James Halstead 119 -⅜ 7.5 12.3
405 200 Mpac Group 322½ -5 — -10.1
1800 1100 MS Intl 1480 +30 1 8 22.0
68 34½ Premier Miton 37¼* — 8.1 47.8
74 43¼ Tribal Gp 64 — 2 0 15 2
1½ ½ Xtract Resources 1 … — -4.1
The Alternat ve Investment Market is for young and growing companies. Shares may carry h gher r sks than those with a full quotation, and may be difficu t to sell.
Americans 0.38%
84⅜ 28⅛ Alcoa $ 45½ -⅝ 0.9 9.8
387½ 288⅜ Amer Express $ 341⅝ -7⅛ 1.1 4.1
62⅛ 44¾ BankAmer ca $ 61⅛ -½ 1 8 3.6
254⅜ 176¾ Boeing $ 208⅝ … — —
1073½ 405½ Caterpillar $ 908¼ +19 0.7 3.1
214¾ 146½ Chevron $ 196⅛ +3⅛ 3 6 0.8
110⅞ 84⅝ Coca–Cola Euro $ 103⅛ -2¾ 2 3 0.8
99⅜ 74½ Colgate Palm $ 89⅝ -2 2.4 1 2
ExxonMobil Hldgs $ 157¼ — 2 6 1.4
383 260 Gen Electr c $ 349¼ +8 0.5 4.5
426¾ 289⅛ Home Depot $ 325½ -6 2 9 1.5
Honeywel $ 246¼ — 3 9 1.5
29⅝ 17½ HP $ 24⅞ -¼ 4 8 2.3
332½ 204½ IBM $ 206⅞ +1⅛ 3.3 1.7
142⅜ 19 Intel $ 102¼ -⅜ — —
56⅛ 29¼ Intl Paper $ 37¾ -⅜ 4 9 2.8
351¼ 279⅛ JP Morgan Ch $ 348¼ … 1.7 3.5
269⅜ 164¼ Johnson&John $ 258¼ +2⅝ 2.1 1.6
36 24⅞ Keurig Dr Pep $ 29¾ -½ 3.1 1.7
55¾ 25⅛ Manpower $ 50¼ -1⅜ 2 9 0 2
341¾ 261⅞ McDonalds $ 262⅝ -⅞ 2 8 1.6
131¾ 76⅝ Merck $ 130⅜ +2⅞ 2 6 1.1
555½ 349¼ M crosoft $ 380½ -9⅞ 1 0 4.6
28¾ 23⅛ Pfizer $ 25 +⅛ 6 9 0.8
167¼ 137⅝ Procter & Gamble $ 146¼ -2⅞ 3 0 1.6
214½ 149⅛ Raytheon Tech $ 210⅛ +15¼ 1.4 1.8
497⅜ 305½ Rockwell $ 459⅞ +1⅝ 1 2 1.8
505⅞ 348 Trane Tech $ 478¼ +4⅝ 0.9 3.1
135⅛ 95¼ Wal Mart Strs $ 107⅞ -1½ 0.9 2.9
£ > Eur Rate 1.1711 Change -0.11¢ £ > $ Rate 1.3317 Change -0.58¢
Tourist £1 Sterling £1 1 Euro 1 Dollar
Australia
Aus $
1.8551
1.9099
1.6308
1.4342
Canada Can $ 1.8214 1.8760 1.6019 1.4087
Denmark Krone 8.315 8.7545 7.4755 6.5742
Euro € 1.1427 1.1711 … 0.8794
Hong Kong HK $ 9.9443 10.4418 8.9163 7.8412
India Rupee 97.41 128.6008 109.8126 96.5725
Israel Shekels 3.8454 4.0925 3.4946 3.0732
Japan Yen 210.9827 218.3040 186.4104 163.9350
Kuwait Dinar … 0.4129 0.3527 0.3101
New Zealand NZ $ 2.211 2.3073 1.9702 1.7327
Norway Krone 12.2577 12.8041 10.9335 9.6152
Pakistan Rupee 340.39 369.9657 315.9148 277.8250
Saudi Arabia Riyal 4.7657 4.9985 4.2682 3.7536
Singapore $ 1.6353 1.7218 1.4703 1.2930
South Africa Rand 20.9693 22.3001 19.0421 16.7462
Sweden Krona 12.3413 12.9997 11.1005 9.7621
Switzerland Franc 1.0499 1.0874 0.9285 0.8165
Thailand Baht 43.409 45.0264 38.4482 33.8125
UAE Dirham 4.7365 4.8908 4.1762 3.6728
UK £ … … 0.8539 0.7510
USA $ 1.3058 1.3317 1.1371 …
RPI (1987 100) Jun 416.50 +0.3pc +3.0pc
RPIX (Target 2.5pc) Jun 409.70 +1.1 +2.9pc
CPI (2015 100 target 2pc) Jun 142.50 +0.1pc +2.6pc
Lloyds house price index Jun 516.20 +0.2pc +0.6pc
Bank Rate 3.75pc
Nationwide Base Mortgage Rate 5.75pc
US Fed Funds 3.5-3.75pc
US Long Bonds Yld 5.17pc
European base rate 2.40pc
Jup ter Merlin Select L Acc – 125.01 0.0934
Jup ter Merlin Select L Dis – 55 44 0.0934
Jupiter Responsible Inc L Acc – 167.35 -05719
Jupiter Responsible Inc L Inc – 76.9 -0.5723
Jupiter Global Strat Bond L Acc – 109.81 -00772
Jupiter Global Strat Bond L Inc – 53.37 -00772
Jup ter UK Growth L Inc – 274.44 -0.7704
Jupiter UK Dynamic Eq L D S – 283 17 -01524
Jupiter Un tstd Van F 3.50 427.92 +0.3991
Jupiter US Sml Cos Inst I Acc – 80 99 …
Jupiter US Sml Cos Ret Acc – 74.46 …
Marks & Spencer Unit Trust Management Ltd Kings Meadow, Chester, CH99 9UT 0870 333 1835
High Income Inc – 88 02 88.02 …
High Income Acc – 295.9 295.9 …
UK Select Port Inc – *477.4 477.4 …
UK Selection Port – *1092.2 1092.2 …
UK 100 Co's Fund Inc – 319.3 319.3 …
UK 100 Co's Fund Acc – 709.7 709.7 …
W'wide Man Inc – *738.2 …
W'wide Man Acc – *1326 …
M&G Securities Ltd PO Box 9039, Chelmsford, CM99 2XG Enq: 0800 390 390. UT Deal: 0800 328 3196
6¾ 1¼ Xerox Hldgs $ 2½ -⅛ 4.0 83.4
Europeans 1.66%
67⅝ 46⅛ AkzoNobel € 56¼ -1⅞ 3.5 2.3
97⅞ 56¾ BMW € 56⅞ -¾ 7.7 2.7
17½ 12 Carrefour € 16½ -⅛ 7.1 1.6
77⅝ 53⅛ Continental AG € 69¼ -1⅞ 3.9 0.3
62⅜ 42⅝ Daimler € 44⅜ -½ 7.9 2.9
80⅛ 60⅝ Danone € 68½ -1½ 3.3 1.2
57¾ 37 Deutsche Post € 56⅜ -¾ 3.4 1.6
34⅜ 23½ Deutsche Tele € 26⅛ -1⅛ 3.8 2.0
80¼ 63⅞ Heineken € 75¾ -2 2.5 2.5
654¾ 440 LVMH € 453½ -20½ 2.9 1.7
82½ 60⅛ LafargeHolcim SFr 73¾ -⅝ 2.3 1.9
10¼ 6¾ Lufthansa € 8½ -⅜ 3.9 9.0
15 3⅜ Nok a OYJ € 8¾ -½ 1.6 0.9
35¾ 25½ Michelin € 34½ -½ 4.0 1.7
107½ 58⅝ Pernod Ricard € 62⅛ -1 7.6 1.4
27¾ 21½ Phil ps (Kon) € 23 -¼ 3.7 0.6
284⅝ 198 Siemens € 268¼ -3 2.0 2.0
79⅛ 49⅜ Societe Gen € 75¾ -2¼ 2.1 4.2
10½ 4⅝ Stellantis € 5 -⅛ 13.5 1.1
279¼ 212⅝ Thales € 238¼ +11½ 1.6 2.1
81⅜ 49¼ Total € 76⅛ +1⅞ 4.5 2.0
44½ 28¼ UBS AG SFr 42¼ -⅝ 2.0 2.3
37⅝ 27⅜ Veolia Env ron € 36¾ -½ 4.1 0.3
110¼ 71 Volkswagen € 73⅞ -1 7.0 2.6
Recent issues
300 125 Coastal Africa Group 200 — — —
12½ 7½ EDX Medical Group 11¼ — — -10.9
5¼ 3⅝ Mendell Hel um 4⅜ … — -1.3
Bold FTSE100 Stocks ● FTSE250 Stocks * Ex dividend † Ex scrip ‡ Ex all § Ex rights
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as tool thefts risk livelihoods of tradesmen
gear offer easy pickings given jail time is unlikely, writes Benedict J Smith
THE third time Harry Fitzpatrick’s van was targeted by thieves was the worst. During the fi rst two break-ins, the self-employed carpenter from Kent was early in his career and relatively free of responsibilities. This time there was a lot more at stake. “When I was younger and saving up, it was a real knock-back. But in 2022 I had three children, a wife, and a dog to look after,” he says. By the time he had reported the theft, contacted his insurer and replaced what was taken, jobs had passed him by, leaving him worrying about meeting his bills. “If I haven’t got any tools, I can’t do anything,” he says. “But there’s no ‘Oh, you’ve been done, so we won’t take your mortgage this month.’ All my bills are still due like normal.” Fitzpatrick, 38, has had nearly £10,000 worth of equipment stolen since 2014, and each time the fi nancial repercussions have been much larger than the value of the tools. Yet nobody has ever been brought to justice, with the police failing to follow up each time after giving him a crime reference number for his insurance. “They don’t care about it,” he says. “It’s too low down on their radar for them to even bother with you.” At the same time, the threat has risen. Tool thefts rose to almost 27,000 last year from over 25,000 in 2024, according to insurer Direct Line – a break-in every 20 minutes. Fitzpatrick says a “minimum of 70pc” of the tradesmen he knows have been victims, but not all report it for fear of higher insurance costs. Last year, an electrician friend’s van was targeted while he slept close by. Prosecution rates for tool theft remain low, with 84pc of vehicle- related off ences, including theft from a van, being closed in the year ending March 2025 with no suspect identifi ed. For those who are caught, prison time is rare. The maximum sentence
for theft is seven years behind bars, but many convictions are fi led as category three off ences, resulting in lesser non-custodial sentences. Only 1pc of stolen tools are ever recovered. Jeremy Gray, of the Federation for Master Builders, a trade body for small and medium-sized building fi rms, says the current system isn’t working. “Sentencing doesn’t refl ect the devastation tool theft causes. The fi nancial hit is one thing; the stress, anxiety and uncertainty about paying bills is another,” he says. More than two in fi ve tradesmen in the UK have been victims, says insurer Tradesman Saver, with vans involved in nearly 80pc of all cases. Vans are visible on streets and in car parks, and they often lack adequate security, making them easy targets for quick break-ins. Thieves use grinders to cut through van roofs or copy electronic key-fob with scanners. Frankie Williams, who started campaign group Stolen Tools UK in 2022 after losing £4,000 worth of equipment, says criminals often target tradesmen because they know there are few repercussions. “It’s a lucrative market, and punishment is low,” he says. “Some of these engineers can have up to £100,000 of kit in a van. Because there’s high d
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stallholders suspected of selling stolen power tools at a car boot sale near Watford, from which police later seized £80,000 worth of goods.
million pounds of tolen tools were so seized by ice at two car boot in the Romford Rainham areas of t London a few onths earlier. “Boot sales are iminal cesspits,” ays Williams, ho has been nvolved in everal raids on markets. “They’re not regulated, nd many of the organisers turn a blind eye.” Fitzpatrick he is always ous of rs selling dozens
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see an old boy that’s selling old hand tools because he’s cleared out his shed or his garage, and he’s had them for 30 years. But when it comes to power tools, we just don’t sell them.” The eff ects of tool theft extend to the wider economy. As the construction industry struggles with soaring labour and material costs and tradesmen leave the sector en masse, the crime wave puts the viability of projects at risk and threatens to deter new entrants. Andy Simms, at trade services platform MyBuilder, says: “We’re starting to see a ‘soft exit crisis’ where some tradespeople refuse to take jobs where secure parking isn’t available, or there is known crime in those areas. “If it continues to increase, it’s entirely possible that tradies will walk out and look for another job.” Tougher sentencing, particularly for repeat off enders, was at the centre of Theft of Tools Trade Bill, fi rst proposed by Amanda Martin in 2024. The Labour MP had pushed to raise the severity of tool theft cases from category three to two, increasing the
likelihood of prison time. However, the bill was absorbed into the Government’s Sentencing Act 2026. Under the reforms, courts will be required to consider the full eff ect on victims when sentencing, including the distress and loss of livelihood. But prison time is not a given. Fitzpatrick is not optimistic. “They need to fi x it, but I don’t think anything’s going to change in the next 25 years,” he says. Meanwhile Williams says police need to be proactive, saying when he was a victim “I felt very alone”. The Met Police said: “We have been carrying out targeted operations and working with partners across construction, retail and logistics to deter off enders and disrupt the resale of stolen tools. This calendar year, thefts from vehicles have fallen by 9pc. But there is still more to do.” But Fitzpatrick still wants to do his job. “As long as you can keep working and earning something, you’ll be fi ne,” he says. The Home Offi ce was approached for comment.
in EU competition fines
Google has been fi ned €890m (£759m) by the European Union for breaching its competition rules. The European Commission handed Google two separate fi nes worth €460m and €430m. It said Google breached competition rules by giving preferential treatment to its own services, including shopping, hotels, sports results and transport, over those of other fi rms in Google Search . It also found that Google prevented app developers from off ering cheaper off ers to customers in the Google Play app store .
amid oil uncertainty
The European Central Bank left interest rates unchanged amid uncertainty about how volatile energy prices will aff ect infl ation. It left its benchmark rate at 2.25pc following a quarter-point hike on June 11. That rise was aimed at dampening the impact on consumers of higher oil prices due to the US-Iran war. “Uncertainty remains high and the full infl ationary impact of the energy shock has yet to play out,” the bank said. “With today’s decision, the governing council remains well positioned to navigate this.”
to lift consumer gloom
Consumers are still pessimistic despite signs of a “Burnham bounce” in confi dence, according to GfK. GfK said that although the heatwaves, football success and a new Prime Minister appeared to “lift the mood” and help its consumer confi dence index climb six points, overall it is still at -17. Confi dence in the UK’s general economic situation over the last 12 months jumped by 10 points to -39. Neil Bellamy of GfK, said it has been a decade since the consumer confi dence index had been in positive territory.
secondary UK listing
McCormick is to seek a secondary share listing in London after agreeing to merge with Unilever’s food business in a £33.8bn deal. The move will mark a welcome boost for London’s equity markets. The Maryland-based condiment giant hopes it will boost capital fl ows and improve liquidity for shareholders. McCormick boss Brendan Foley said the move “reinforces the global nature of the combined operations and positions us for ongoing success”. Brands like Hellmann’s, Marmite and Colman’s were sold last March.
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SANDRINGHAM, NORFOLK July 23rd The King, Patron, Commonwealth Sport, and The Queen this evening arrived at the Hydro, Scottish Event Campus, Exhibition Way, Glasgow, and were received by His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of the City of Glasgow (Councillor Jacqueline McLaren), the President of Commonwealth Sport (Dr Donald Rukare) and the Chairman of Glasgow 2026 (Mr George Black). Their Majesties attended a Reception with representatives of Governments, the Commonwealth and the Games and were received by The Duke of Edinburgh, Vice Patron, Commonwealth Sport, the Rt Hon. Andrew Burnham MP
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Mr J.A.T. Williamson and Miss F.H. Wright The engagement is announced between James, youngest son of Ross and Deborah Williamson, of Blockley, Gloucestershire, and Fenella, eldest daughter of Tiff and Michaela Wright, of Dunblane, Perthshire. Online ref: W0050991
Mr K.A. Reeves and Miss D.N.R. Thorne The engagement is announced between Kevin, son of Mr William Reeves and Mrs Lesley Reeves, of Ottawa, Canada, and Davina, daughter of the late Mr Ian Thorne and of Mrs Thorne, of Kneesall, Nottinghamshire. Online ref: W0051054
Mr O.W. Smithson and Miss A.J.W. Rushton The engagement is announced between Oliver, eldest son of Mr and Mrs William Smithson, of Lisbon, Portugal, and Annabel, younger daughter of Mr and Mrs Mark Rushton, of Wavendon, Buckinghamshire. Online ref: W0051074
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GIRDLERS’ COMPANY On July 23, 2026, the Girdlers’ Company elected the following officers for the ensuing year: Master, Ms Sara Kaye Drake; Upper Warden, Mr Anthony Mark James; Middle Warden, Mr Matthew Charles Robertson; and Renter Warden, Mr Edward Charles Mackaness. Mr Nicholas Archer remains as Clerk to the Company.
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Judge Burn retired as a Circuit Judge with effect from May 12 2026. Judge Robinson retired as a Circuit Judge with effect from May 12 2026. Judge Coppel retired as a Circuit Judge with effect from May 16 2026. Judge St John-Stevens retired as a Circuit Judge with effect from May 23 2026. Judge Downing retired as a Circuit Judge with effect from May 30 2026. Judge Laing KC DL retired as a Circuit Judge with effect from May 30 2026.
Bridge news
The London Congress has taken place at the Young Chelsea Bridge club in Hammersmith, writes Julian Pottage, Bridge Correspondent. The winners are as follows: Swiss Pairs 1st Jon Cooke and Sarah Kosch 119 VPs. 2nd Jamie and Liam Fegarty 95 VPs. 3rd Szczepan Smoczynski and Mary Gordon-Smith 92 VPs. Swiss Teams 1st Andi Boughey, Adam Hickman, Steve Raine and David Willis 81.51 VPs. 2nd Jon Cooke, Sarah Kosch, Neil and Anne Rosen 80.81 VPs. 3rd Daniel McIntosh, Claire Robinson, Sally Brock and Barry Myers 78.34 VPs.
(Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury), the Rt Hon John Swinney MSP (First Minister of the Scottish Government) and the Hon Shirley Botchwey (Commonwealth Secretary-General). The King subsequently opened the XXIII Commonwealth Games. The King and Queen were represented by the Lord Wilson of Tillyorn KT at the Funeral and Memorial Service for the Lord Mackay of Clashfern KT (former Chancellor of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle) which was held in St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh, today. The Princess Royal was represented by Mrs Charles Ritchie.
ST JAMES’S PALACE July 23rd The Duke of Edinburgh, Chairman of Trustees, The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award Foundation, this afternoon held a Meeting at the Hilton Hotel, 1 William Street, Glasgow.
ST JAMES’S PALACE July 23rd The Princess Royal this morning
LONDON EXPRESS.
FLAMES.
PASSENGERS.
Shortly after the midnight express from Padding- ton to Penzance had passed Ruscombe, near Maidenhead, in the early hours of yesterday, two coaches in the middle of the train were found to be in flames. The express was brought to a stand- still, passengers in the compartments affected alighted, and the two coaches were isolated. It was not found possible, however, to extinguish the flames, and the coaches, one of which was a luggage-van, were practically burned out. Considerable excitement prevailed for a time among the travellers, until they were given an assurance that all danger was averted, and arrangements were made for them to con- tinue their journey. The origin of the fire is a mystery. HOLIDAY-MAKERS’ LOSS.
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT TWYFORD, Friday. The discovery of the fire was made as the train was passing through Ruscombe, near Twyford, Berks, when two of the middle coaches were found to be ablaze. The cause has not yet been ascertained, nor is it established whether the fire originated in an unoccupied compartment of a passenger coach, or the ocean mail letter-van, to which it was coupled. A passenger first discovered the outbreak, and pulled the emergency communication chain. When the train was stopped it was found that both coaches were well alight, and they were immedi- ately detached. The fire had obtained such a strong hold that it was at once realised, owing to the scanty supply of water available, that there was little possibility of saving the coaches from destruction. Strenuous efforts, however, were made by the railway officials and passengers to salvage the contents of the blazing mail van, and these were attended with partial success. The passengers included a large number of holiday-makers, and many of them suffered the loss of their personal belongings – silk dresses, field glasses, cameras, children’s seaside buckets and spades, newspapers, magazines, and bundles of music all helping to feed the flames. A graphic description of the scene was given by one of the passengers. She said: “I was awakened from a doze by the succession of jerks as the train was brought to a sudden standstill. Through the window I had a glimpse of a glare in the sky, and on looking out I saw flames shooting out of two of the middle coaches. Jumping out of our carriages, a number of us passengers ran along the perma- nent way to see if we could be of any assistance. All the occupants of the carriages involved had already reached safety, and it was just as well, for the flames, fanned by the breeze as the train speeded along at fifty miles an hour, had obtained a firm hold, and were spouting out through the windows and shooting up into the sky to a great height. There was then no hope of extricating any more of the luggage in the guard’s van, and, with the apparatus available, all our efforts at subdu- ing the names were about as efficacious as a gar- den syringe would be on a furnace. Shortly after
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visited Brooke House Health and Wellbeing Centre, Colebrooke Park, 26 Colebrooke Park Road, Brookeborough, and was received by His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of County Fermanagh (the Viscount Brookeborough KG). Her Royal Highness later visited Royal Air Force Air Cadets at Commonwealth War Graves Commission sites at St Tighernach’s Church and at Sacred Heart Church, Church Street, Irvinestown, to mark the Corps’ Eighty Fifth Anniversary and was received by Mr Shaun Pendry (Deputy Lieutenant of County Fermanagh). The Princess Royal this afternoon visited Castle Archdale War Museum, Castle Archdale Country Park, 346 Killadeas Road, Irvinestown.
Today’s birthdays
Sir Trevor Chinn, Chairman, AA, 2004-07, is 91; Mr Quinlan Terry, architect, 89; Mr Scott Dobbie, Chairman, Securities and Investment Institute, 2000-09,
ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO
LONDON, SATURDAY JULY 24, 1926
the coaches had been unhooked and isolated they were a mass of livid fire, of which the glow made the scene as bright as day.” After a delay of over an hour, the express resumed its journey to the West. The detached coaches were practically burned out and they were removed to the Great Western goods yard at Twyford, where they were still smouldering at midday to-day. INQUIRY TO BE HELD.
An official statement by the Great Western Rail- way Company stated that the fire was confined to a luggage van and a passenger brake-van. “The cause of the outbreak,” the statement proceeds, “is at present unknown, but will form the subject of inquiry. The train was brought to a standstill about a mile on the London side of Twyford, where the vehicles were detached. The front por- tion was sent on to Twyford, and the passengers in the rear portion were transferred to the 12.15 a.m. from Paddington, which stopped to pick them up on the relief line at the site of the mishap. They rejoined the twelve midnight train at Twy- ford. No passengers or staff were injured and the permanent way was undamaged, but the con- tents of the vehicles, which included newspapers and passengers’ luggage, were destroyed. FRENCH HOSTILITY TO FOREIGN VISITORS.
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.
PARIS, Friday.
There have been repetitions for two evenings of
the demonstrations against foreigners who parade
in Paris at night in large motor charabancs.
Frenchmen are the first to deplore these
demonstrations, the importance of which
need not be exaggerated, though the protests
are symptomatic of a nascent disquiet, On the
other hand, people belonging to other coun-
tries, some of which are criticised here for
their attitude over inter-Allied debts, would
do well to remember that, being in France,
they are among a people who are beginning
to feel the effects of currency depreciation,
and that in these circumstances, it is at least
tactful not to flaunt in Frenchmen’s faces the
superiority of their own currency, and not to
proclaim loudly that, in consequence, things
cost them “practically nothing”.
LATER: Demonstrations against foreign tourists
on evening charabanc trips round the sights of
Paris were renewed to-night with increased
vehemence. Shortly before the time at which the
charabancs started from a tourist agency at the
corner of the Rue de Helder and the Boulevard
des Italiens, the crowd became so dense that
strong forces of police were required to keep a
clear passage for traffic. As each vehicle set out
with its load of tourists it was greeted with a loud
chorus of jeers and whistles. At half-past nine the
crowd had reached such proportions that police
reinforcements were sent for. The police made
several arrests. In one case a man clung to the
footboard of a vehicle, was torn off by a police-
man and captured after a short but exciting chase
among the crowded traffic. He was carried off
shouting “Vive la France,” a cry which was
repeated in chorus by a large section of the crowd.
Half a dozen charabancs left the tourist office
fully laden, but later there were cheers as oth-
ers left empty. At the time of telegraphing the
crowd is thinning down, but there are still
well over 1,000 excited people waiting at the
corner and demonstrating against each char-
abanc that passes along the boulevard.
87; Lord Simon of Highbury, Chief Executive, 1992–95, and Chairman, 1995–97, BP, 87; Sir John Bond, Chairman, Glencore Xstrata, 2011-13, Vodafone Group, 2006-11, 85; Mr Zaheer Abbas, former Pakistan cricketer and administrator, 79; Air Chief Marshal Sir Malcolm Pledger, Chief of Defence Logistics, Ministry of Defence, 2002-04, 78; Lord Smith of Finsbury, former Labour Cabinet minister; Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, 2015-25, 75; the Rt Rev James Newcome, Bishop of Carlisle, 2009-23, 73; Lord Hill of Oareford, Member, European Commission, 2014-16, 66; the Earl of Eglinton and Winton, 60; Mr Daniel Pruce, Governor, British Virgin Islands, 60; Ms Julia Bradbury, broadcaster, 56; and Dame Tracey Crouch, former Conservative Government minister, 51.
Today is the anniversary of the birth of Robert Graves, writer, in 1895. It is also the anniversary of the capture of Gibraltar from the Spanish in 1704.
HODGSON RYCKAERT.—On Friday 17th July, in Ghent, Belgium, to Poppy and Philippe, twins, Margot Ferelith Kiki and Louis Thomas Granville. Online Ref: W0051081
Anniversaries
Golden wedding
MUSSETT - LOMAS.—On 24th July 1976, at The Church of St Mary, Rye, Paul to Tessa. Blessed with daughter Rachel and son Samuel and granddaughters Leighton and Ellie. Online Ref: W0051028
Deaths
COLLENETTE.—Richard. Passed away peacefully at Southampton General Hospital on 30th June 2026, aged 70 years. Much loved husband to Annabel. He will be greatly missed by all his family and friends. All enquiries to Maria Jones Funeral Directors, Brockenhurst. Tel: 01590 622981. Online Ref: W0051085
KRUGER.—Zia passed away peacefully after an illness, on Monday 6th July 2026, aged 85 years. A Funeral Service will be held at 11 a.m. on Wednesday 29th July 2026 at St Mary the Virgin, West Kington. Family flowers only, donations if desired, to Leukaemia UK and the RSPCA c/o F.W. Jones Funeral Directors. Tel: 01249 652525. Online Ref: W0051083
WALTON.—Edith ‘Mollie’ peacefully on 9th July 2026 aged 87 years. Beloved wife of the late The Venerable Geoffrey Walton, former Archdeacon of Dorset and dear mother of Jeremy. Enquiries to Nicholas O’Hara Funeral Directors. Tel: 01202 882134. Online Ref: W0051015
WINDLE.—Mary, peacefully, at Greenlane House, Brampton on 17th July 2026, aged 96 years. Cherished wife of the late Gordon. Dearly loved mother to Michael, Robert and Helen. Granny to eight and Great Granny to ten. A private family funeral will be held. Online Ref: W0051047
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BE THANKFUL and praise the LORD as you enter his temple. The LORD is good! His love and faithfulness will last forever. Psalm 100.4-5 (CEV)
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Redemption of Own Shares out of Capital
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Saxophonist best known for playing the Pink Panther theme Sir Christopher Ondaatje
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IR CHRISTOPHER ONDAATJE, who has died aged 93, began with just £10, made a fortune playing the Canadian stock market and became a publisher, author, explorer, collector, Olympic athlete and philanthropist on a truly prodigious scale. Although less well known than his younger brother, Michael, whose Booker Prize-winning novel The English Patient was turned into an award-winning film, Christopher Ondaatje’s philanthropic interests probably earned him the longer footnote in history. His causes were so many and so various that one commentator observed that “he has enough wings named after him to start an airline”. Tall, elegant and finely featured, Ondaatje exuded the nervous intensity and boundless enthusiasm of the truly creative and seemed to scorn the money-grubbing world of high finance in which he had made his millions. His philanthropy was motivated in part by a concern that he should be remembered for more than his flair for stocks and shares. “I don’t want to die with financier written on my gravestone,” he said, observing that Alfred Nobel had invented dynamite but is remembered for the Nobel Peace Prize. “I have the fear of dying with the wrong acclaim.” His causes in Britain included the Ondaatje Wing of the National Portrait Gallery (to which he gave £2.75 million), the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Royal Geographical Society (whose refurbished lecture hall, the Ondaatje Theatre, he financed with a donation of £1.5 million), Somerset County Cricket Club’s school of excellence in Taunton, and Blundell’s, his old school in Devon. He also endowed an annual £10,000 Ondaatje Prize for portraiture and bought the Literary Review in 2001. Yet Ondaatje only really came to public attention in 2001 when he announced that he was switching his support from the Conservatives and giving £2 million to the Labour Party. His defection from the Tories in the run-up to the general election of that year was a considerable blow to the party’s leader, William Hague. Some resentful voices suggested Ondaatje had done it for a peerage, a charge he vigorously denied: “I was a Tory supporter for social reasons, because it was easy,” he explained. “But I realised that was wrong. I became disgusted at the Tory grandees who thought they had the so-called right to rule. “Those days are over. It’s a different world now. Labour have the trust and understanding of the people. I’m really glad I gave them the dough.” Ondaatje’s real passion, though, was exploration. In the early 1970s he had discovered a book called The Devil Drives by Fawn Brody, a biography of the Victorian explorer Sir Richard Burton. He became obsessed with Burton’s search with John Hanning Speke for the source of the Nile, and for the next 20 years was determined that at some point he too would “live that life”. Ondaatje went on to trace the explorer’s footsteps through Africa and India and to write several acclaimed books, including Journey to the Source of the Nile and Sindh Revisited, both accounts of his recreation of Burton’s adventures; Maneater of Punanai, a
Sir Christopher Ondaatje, born February 22 1933, died July 20 2026 The Reverend Christopher Turner
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HE REVEREND CHRISTOPHER TURNER, who has died aged 96, was an outstanding educator who successfully introduced co- education at two schools of which he was the head, Dean Close and Stowe. Although he appeared upright, donnish and formal, this belied wit, compassion and independence of thought. He struggled to justify, on moral grounds, charitable status for private schools, and reminded pupils at Stowe that “they have to remember that the world owes them nothing when they leave – that they owe rather more than most.” As he flitted among the columned pavilions at Stowe, with his bushy eyebrows and flowing scholar’s gown he was affectionately known as “The Bat”. He was generous with his money, his time and his intellect. In his middle years, he considered teaching in a London comprehensive school but had to concede that his prime subjects, Latin and Greek, were unlikely to be in demand. Shortly after his retirement at 59, he was not only ordained as a priest, serving the Oxfordshire parishes of Hook Norton, Swerford and Great Rollright, but also bought a modest house in the suburbs of Birmingham, where for 10 years he and his wife, Lucia, volunteered as informal remedial teachers at Hawksley Church Primary Academy. Christopher Gilbert Turner was born on December 23 1929, and named after the elder siblings of his mother and father, Christopher and Gilbert, both of whom had been killed in the Great War. His father, Theodore, was a fashionable King’s Counsel; his mother, Elizabeth, née Schuster, had been head girl at St Paul’s Girls’ School and, unusually for women in the early 1920s, had also read for the Bar. One of his grandfathers had been a brushmaker on the Old Kent Road who
Ondaatje at home in Chelsea: his real passion was exploring ‘Getting bumped around, dysentery, ticks all over you, being filthy dirty, I crave all that,’ he said
Flitting among the columned pavilions with his flowing gown and bushy eyebrows, he was affectionately known as ‘The Bat’
semi-autobiographical account of his own Sri Lankan roots; Hemingway in Africa; and Woolf in Ceylon: An Imperial Journey in the Shadow of Leonard Woolf, 1904–1911. By his own account, the real high point of his life came in 1996 when he reached the southern tip of Lake Albert and tracked the Semliki river as it entered the lake through swamps, marshes and bogs. “I had been where no other explorer had been,” he recalled. “Not Burton, not Speke, not Baker, not Livingstone, not Stanley. I knew I had crossed the line. I had earned my own prize.” Philip Christopher Ondaatje was born in Kandy, Ceylon, on February 22 1933. His father Mervyn was a well- to-do plantation owner descended from Dutch burghers who had arrived on the island in the 17th century. One ancestor had produced the first translation of the Bible into Tamil, and the young Ondaatje’s uncle on his mother’s side was Ceylon’s attorney- general. Aged 12, Ondaatje was dispatched to Blundell’s School in Tiverton, where he was treated as an outsider but managed to overcome the handicap of his colonial origins by being good at cricket. Just before his last year there he received a letter from his mother, telling him he would have to leave because the family had lost all their money as a result of problems after Ceylon gained independence from
had “made good”, developing a boot-blacking business that grew into Cherry Blossom Boot Polish. The other was Lord (Claud) Schuster, Permanent Secretary of the Lord Chancellor’s Department for 35 years. The Turners were Catholic. The Schusters were originally German- Jewish financiers whose descendants had moved from Frankfurt to Manchester in the 1820s and converted to Christianity. Faith and education ran deep in his genes. His first cousin (also born in 1929) was David Sheppard, the Test cricketer and renowned Bishop of Liverpool. His second cousin was the philosopher Mary Warnock, née Wilson. Five generations of his family were at Oxford, most of them as Classicists. His sister Jenny became a diplomat and broadcaster, his younger brother Michael a High Court judge. Christopher was brought up in Dorset and admitted as a scholar in
Britain. In reality, his father had drunk and gambled his business away. His parents divorced and shortly afterwards his father died in an accident. His mother, meanwhile, moved to England with their younger son Michael and daughter Janet, and found a job running a Notting Hill boarding house. It fell to Christopher, as the eldest, to restore the family’s fortune, and on his 17th birthday he began work in a bank in London. For his banking exams he had to attend a lecture on the stock market at the London School of Economics. It changed his life: “The lecturer told me you could have a company and divide it up into pieces of paper which represented its value. I was just mind-boggled. I thought: ‘My God, how long has this been going on? This is the life I am going to lead. I will learn everything about finance and be an expert.’ ” Judging that Canada offered him better opportunities, he left Britain in 1956 and arrived in Toronto with just £10 in his pocket. Surviving for a time on a diet of toast and coffee, he worked his way up through the world of banking and investment, soon making his first million. He went on to found Canada’s first institutional brokerage, Loewen, Ondaatje, McCutcheon & Co, in 1970, and set up his own publishing house, Pagurian Corporation, which, by 1988, controlled assets of $2 billion. At the same time he built up one of the largest private collections of
1943 to Winchester College during the bleakest years of the war; there, he also sang and played the violin. In 1948 he was awarded an Exhibition to read Classics at New College, Oxford. He rowed for the University in the Boat Race (as the heaviest man, by a stone, in either boat) in 1951 – the year that Oxford sank. He considered Holy Orders, but his father dissuaded him. Instead, he chose another vocation: teaching. In this, he was consistent and dedicated, spending the best part of a decade in his posts – as head of Classics at Radley (1952-61) and Charterhouse (1961-68), then headmaster at Dean Close (1968-79) and Stowe (1979-89). He maintained his interest in choral singing and, at the end of a concert given by the Bach Choir in Keble College Chapel, he met Lucia Glanville, a former scholar at Somerville, and a university lecturer in Middle English and a tutor at Lady Margaret Hall. She was the daughter of Stephen Glanville, Provost of King’s College, Cambridge, and Professor of Egyptology. They married the following summer in 1961; their three children were born in the years at Charterhouse. Christopher and Lucia celebrated their diamond wedding in 2021, shortly before her death in 2022. There was other grief, too: a few weeks short of Turner’s retirement from Stowe in 1989, their elder daughter, Rosalie, recently married, was killed in a car accident. More recently, their son Matthew died in 2024 after a long-haul flight to his home in New Zealand, having just visited his father. One of Turner’s lasting legacies was setting Stowe School on a path to long-time survival. In the 1920s the palatial house at Stowe, set in one of the finest 18th-century neoclassical landscapes in Europe, with 27
Canadian and south-east Asian art, and wrote and financed the publication of his first book, The Prime Ministers of Canada: 1867-1967 (1968), which sold 600,000 copies. In 1964 he represented Canada in the four-man bobsleigh at the Winter Olympics in Innsbruck. Though he was extraordinarily good at it, he always disapproved of the stock market, once likening that part of his career to selling his soul to the devil. In 1988 he decided that enough was enough and sold his businesses in order to live the life he would have preferred to have led – that of a 19th-century traveller and explorer. He then moved back to London in order to be close to the Royal Geographical Society. Ondaatje’s fascination with Burton, Speke and the search for the source of the Nile led him to embark on a series of perilous journeys into the heart of equatorial Africa. “Getting bumped around. Dysentery… Ticks all over you… Being filthy dirty… I crave all that,” he told the Telegraph. During one expedition, to the great rift valley lakes of eastern and central Africa in 1996, he was lucky to escape the murderous attentions of a 5,000-strong band of Laurent Kabila’s rebels in the early stages of their war against Mubotu’s regime in Zaire. When not exploring and writing, Ondaatje devoted his energies to his charitable foundation. He became a Fellow and trustee of the Royal Geographical Society, faithfully attending meetings, and was a member of its fundraising advisory group. He frequently gave talks at the Society’s headquarters in Kensington Gore and regularly attended its Monday night lectures. In other parts of the Commonwealth, beneficiaries of his generosity included the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada (to which he gave £450,000 to build the Christopher Ondaatje South Asian Gallery), the Bermuda National Gallery, Dalhousie University, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the National Ballet School of Canada and Massey University in New Zealand. He was appointed CBE in 2000, and knighted in 2003 for services to museums, galleries and societies. Ondaatje maintained his interest in sports, and was a keen yachtsman, golfer and cricketer, and a life member and patron of Somerset CCC. Away from his house in London, Ondaatje spent weekends at Glenthorne, his manor house on Exmoor, and owned homes in Nova Scotia, the Bahamas and Aspen, Colorado. In 2011 he published a memoir, The Last Colonial. His other books included The Power of Paper (2007), a prescient warning of global economic meltdown. In 1959 he married the Latvian Valda Bulins, who accompanied him on some of his more uncomfortable adventures. “I have put my wife through some rough hoops,” he remarked. “We are absolutely devoted to each other but I don’t think she trusts me.” They had a son and two daughters.
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Grade I-listed structures in its grounds, had been saved from demolition by the establishment of the school. But by the 1970s, without any major endowment, the school had been fighting a losing battle to maintain, let alone restore, either the house or the landscape, out of fees income alone. Turner worked with the National Trust to set up a £10 million restoration plan for the landscape and its pavilions in 1989. It had helped that the future chairman of the National Trust, Lord (Roger) Chorley, through whom many negotiations were conducted, was an old Stoic. This initiative led much later to the establishment of the Stowe House Preservation Trust, a means whereby the state rooms of the house could be occupied by the school during term and open to the public in vacations. Turner’s writings included the contribution of chapters to Comparative Study of Greek and Roman Literature (1969) and Dean Close – The First Hundred Years (1986), as well as a ceaseless stream of letters to politicians and chairmen of corporations-found-wanting. In retirement, he chaired the governing bodies of local schools, including Oakdene, Beachborough, Aldro, Elstree, Lambrook and Chipping Norton. He continued to play the violin throughout his life, frequently with school orchestras. On his last Speech Day at Stowe he was the last player of Haydn’s Farewell Symphony. At the age of 93, he set off to visit classical archaeological sites in Montenegro and had been planning to do the same in Spain. Christopher Turner is survived by a daughter and five grandchildren.
LAS JOHNSON, who has died aged 94, was a tenor saxophonist who worked with a starry panoply of artists including Ella Fitzgerald, Little Richard, Steely Dan and Elton John, and his best- known moment is familiar to countless millions of people around the world: in 1963 he played The Pink Panther Theme, which Henry Mancini composed with him in mind. “I told the animators that I would give them a tempo they could animate to, so that any time there were striking motions, someone getting hit, I could score to it,” Mancini wrote in his memoir, Did They Mention the Music? “I had a specific saxophone player in mind – Plas Johnson. I nearly always precast my players and write for them and around them, and Plas had the sound and the style I wanted.” In the studio, Johnson soon nailed it. “We only did two takes, I think,” he recalled. “When we finished, everyone applauded, even the string players. And that’s saying something. They never applaud for anything.” Plas John Johnson was born on July 21 1931 in Donaldsonville, Louisiana, down the road from New Orleans. His forename, which rhymes with “jazz”, was derived from the French plaisant, “pleasant” or “agreeable”. His mother played piano and sang, while his father played alto sax, and they earned a living working the bars, dance halls and restaurants. When he was 12, his father gave him a soprano saxophone and some lessons; he later expanded to the instrument’s other registers, as well as mastering the flute and clarinet. In his teens he played in New Orleans with his brother Ray on piano, and toured with the R’n’B singer Charles Brown. Then after a spell in the army he moved to Los Angeles, where he became a sought-after sessioneer, known for packing much into his contributions, however brief. “I’m good at getting hot in eight bars,” he said in 1992, “and very hot in 12.” A truncated list of the singers and musicians whose recordings Johnson graced includes Nat “King” Cole, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Sarah Vaughan, the Coasters, Dr John, the Platters, Duane Eddy, Fats Domino, Marvin Gaye, the Supremes, Ray Charles,
He was king of the sessioneers
Barbra Streisand, Quincy Jones and BB King. He was a regular with the Wrecking Crew and played on the recording of Mancini’s Peter Gunn theme tune as well as shows like The Odd Couple and The Monkees. He also played on a clutch of Steely Dan albums and provided the come-to-bed solo on Rod Stewart’s Tonight’s the Night. In 1991, when Linda Ronstadt – another frequent collaborator – was producing Aaron Neville’s album Warm Your Heart, she heard an old doo-wop song, Death of an Angel by Donald Woods and the Vel-Aires, on the radio. She liked the feel of the sax solo, rang Johnson and played it to him over the phone, hoping he could do something similar. He was sure he could, he said – and after a few minutes, it clicked: the solo was his. Though he was king of the studios, Johnson and his fellow session men called themselves “the Hollywood whores”, and some observers felt that had he stuck to pure jazz he might have become one of the greatest tenor sax players of his generation. He insisted, though, that he did not have the right personality to be a frontman: “I never had the gift of the gab with an audience. I would just freeze up.” In later years he did go on the road, under his own name, often playing with local rhythm sections, and with outfits like the Gene Harris Superband. “I realise that what I’m doing now I put on hold for so many years,” he said. In 2006 he recorded a new version of the Pink Panther theme for the Steve Martin remake. Plas Johnson married, first, Elizabeth Blinkenberg. That ended in divorce, and he is survived by his wife of 60 years, Carol, by their daughter and two sons, and by two daughters and a son from his first marriage.
Plas Johnson, born July 21 1931, died July 15 2026
What to watch
BORIS JOHNSON: INTO UKRAINE’S KILL ZONE Channel 5, 9pm
Boris Johnson gets strapped into his protective gear as he heads for the front line in Ukraine
F ormer prime minister Boris Johnson has visited war-torn Ukraine numerous times. Yet those diplomatic trips were almost always to the capital Kyiv, where state leaders can be protected from Russian strikes. In this remarkable documentary, however, Johnson returns to his roots as a journalist with a daring journey to Ukraine’s front line, known as the kill zone. He wants to see the daily reality of Ukraine’s soldiers
Stuart Fails to Save the World HBO Max Sad sack comic book store owner Stuart (Kevin Sussman) frequently popped up in The Big Bang Theory as the king of nerds. This relatively audacious spin-off tasks him with travelling through the multiverse to save the world from becoming a hellscape. Expect cameos and superhero references.
Granite Harbour BBC One, 8pm The first two series of this Scottish detective drama saw Jamaican DC Davis Lindo (Romario Simpson) trying to prove himself after arriving in Aberdeen as an
– four years into fighting Putin – for himself. A mission made all the more dangerous by the incognito Johnson being such a prized, recognisable target. As Johnson travels through Ukraine, slumming it in rough-and-ready apartments, struggling to sleep as bombs rain overhead, he is confronted with the hellish reality of the world’s first drone war. Almost everything in Ukraine revolves around
Behind the scenes in this popular gay romance drama
outsider. The third series opens tonight with a case that again touches on prejudice, after a young woman is found dead near a traveller site.
Bergerac BBC Two, 9pm/9.45pm UKTV’s superb six-part
drones: detecting, shooting,
outrunning, and deploying
them. As Johnson observes,
this constant drone threat
has forced troops
underground in conditions
reminiscent of the First
World War. It is a theatre of
horror, he argues, that could
be avoided if the West did
more to help Ukraine win.
Instead, he says, “we’ve
been lulled into a false sense
of security by Ukrainian
success”.
Stephen Kelly
reboot of the 1980s crime classic gets its grand BBC debut. Tonight’s opening double-bill re-introduces us to alcoholic Jim Bergerac (Damien Molony), a grieving detective who returns to duty after a member of Jersey’s elite is murdered. A sharp, compelling mystery.
FILM
Heartstopper: Ending on a Hi Netflix Last week’s feature-length Heartstopper finale may have brought the popular gay romance to a close, but the love-in is not over yet. This behind-the-scenes special gives creator Alice Oseman and cast a chance to reflect upon making the film and its impact.
Prog Rock at the Proms BBC Four, 7pm Prog rock exploded the boundaries of pop. Tonight’s Prom, hosted by BBC Radio 6 Music’s Stuart Maconie, honours the genre with brand-new orchestral arrangements of songs by ELP, Genesis, Jethro Tull, Mike Oldfield and others. Stay tuned afterwards for an evening of prog-themed repeats. SK
Janet Planet (2023) BBC Two, 11.05pm A tenderly mysterious film debut from the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Annie Baker, Janet Planet is a mother-daughter drama set in verdant, rural Massachusetts in 1991. Eleven-year-old Lacy (Zoe Ziegler) and her mother Janet (Julianne Nicholson, in an utterly
Julianne Nicholson and Zoe Ziegler as mother and daughter
different role to her spectacularly creepy turn in Paradise) spend a summer together in their giant woodland cabin home as various characters move in and out of their lives.
Quadrophenia (1979) Film4, 9pm Based on the 1973 album by The Who, this powerful portrait of youthful nihilism directed by Franc Roddam has become a cult classic. Set in 1964, it depicts the feud between the Mods and the Rockers – via a disillusioned youngster called Jimmy (Phil Daniels) and his pals, who include rocker Ray Winstone. And watch out for an early appearance from a young Sting as the Ace Face.
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founder of the Know Your
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Brzezinski, fitness
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psychologist and popular
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reactions 10.35 Family Guy 11.35
American Dad! 12.35am Bob’s
Burgers 1.30 Deal or No Deal 2.20
Unwind with ITV 3.00 6.00am
Teleshopping
6.00 am Milkshake! 9.15 Jeremy Vine (S) 11.30 Storm & Alexis (S) 12.45 pm 5 News at Lunchtime (S) 12.50 Matt Allwright (S) 2.20 FILM: Fatal Flatshare (2023, TVM) Thriller starring Camila Senna (AD) (S) 4.00 Castle (R) (S) 4.55 Love Nature (R) (S) 5.00 5 News with Dan Walker (S) 6.00 Jersey and Guernsey (R) (S) 6.55 5 News Update (S)
7.00 Tour de France 2026 Action from the 19th stage (S)
7.55 5 News Update (S)
8.00 Michael Palin in Venezuela Michael visits a cluster of coral islands in the Caribbean Sea called Los Roques (AD) (R) (S)
9.00 Boris Johnson: Into Ukraine’s Kill Zone Cameras follows the former PM on a trip to the front lines of the Russia Ukraine war (S)
10.30 Commonwealth Games 2026 Highlights from the opening day (S)
11.30 Piers Morgan Uncensored: The End of Andrew Tate? 1.00am Cruise TV with LoveitBookit 2.00 Car Pound Cops 2.50 Car Pound Cops 3.45 Friends 4.10 Friends 4.35 Amazing Railway Adventures with Nick Knowles 5.25 Entertainment News on 5 5.35 Milo 5.45 - 6.00am The Adventures of Paddington
FV 10 FS 115 SKY 119 VIRGIN 117
11.20 am Heartbeat 12.25 pm Heartbeat 1.30 Midsomer Murders 3.35 Classic Emmerdale 4.05 Classic Emmerdale 4.40 Classic Coronation Street 5.15 Classic Coronation Street 5.50 Heartbeat 6.55 Heartbeat 8.00 Doc Martin 9.00 Doc Martin 10.00 Grantchester 11.00 Grantchester 11.50 Trial & Retribution 1.25 am Wycliffe 2.30 6.00am Teleshopping
Challenge
Noon Tenable 1.00pm Family Fortunes 2.00 Bridge of Lies 3.00 The Chase 4.00 Celebrity Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? 5.00 The Bidding Room 6.00 Tenable 7.00 The Chase Celebrity Special 8.00 The Chase 10.00 The Chase Celebrity Special 11.00 Bullseye 12.00 Bridge of Lies 1.00am The Chase 2.00 The Celebrity Chase 3.00 4.00am The Chase
Quest
Noon Gem Hunters Down Under 1.00pm Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic 2.00 Shed and Buried 3.00 Shed and Buried: Classic Cars 4.00 Find It, Fix It, Flog It 5.00 The Yorkshire Auction House 7.00 Antiques Road Trip 8.00 The Yorkshire Auction House 9.00 The Repair Shop 11.00 How Do They Do It? 1.00am Salvage Hunters 3.00 4.00am Salvage Hunters: The Restorers
FV 26 FS 117 SKY 120 VIRGIN 118
11.20 am BattleBots 12.25 pm Magnum, PI 1.30 Magnum, PI 2.35 Dempsey and Makepeace 3.45 Boon 4.50 The Champions 5.50 Minder 6.55 Sharpe 9.00 Ice Road Truckers: Deadliest Roads 10.00 All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite 12.05 am Dark Side of the Ring 1.00 Minder 2.05 Two and a Half Men 2.30 Two and a Half Men 3.00 Teleshopping 3.30 4.00am Auto Mundial
12.00 Deadliest Catch 1.00am Expedition Files 2.00 Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch 3.00 4.00am Gold Divers
PBS America
11.55am Messages Home: Lost Films of the British Army 1.00pm America the Bountiful 1.35 Treasures Decoded 2.35 Waco: The Longest Siege 3.50 Titans of the Cold War 4.55 Messages Home: Lost Films of the British Army 5.55 America the Bountiful 6.30 Treasures Decoded 7.35 Waco: The Longest Siege 8.40 Titans of the Cold War 9.50 Messages Home: Lost Films of the British Army 10.50 Waco: The Longest Siege 12.00 Titans of the Cold War 1.10am America the Bountiful 2.00 6.00am Teleshopping
Sky History
Noon History’s Greatest Aircraft 1.00pm Salvage Kings 3.00 Hardcore Pawn 6.00 History’s Greatest Picks with Mike Wolfe 7.00 Forged in Fire 8.00 Secrets of Great British Castles 9.00 The Witches of Salem 10.00 Gangland Chronicles 11.00 MonsterQuest 12.55am Hardcore Pawn 3.40 4.25am Ancient Aliens
FV 36 FS 143 SKY 822 VIRGIN 123
6.00 am Classic FM Live: Greatest Hits of Opera (S) 8.00 The Joy of Painting (AD) (S) 8.30 The Joy of Painting (AD) (S) 9.00 Tales of the Unexpected (AD) (S) 9.30 Tales of the Unexpected (AD) (S) 10.00 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (S) 10.30 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (S) 11.00 Discovering: Barbara Stanwyck (AD) (S) 12.00 The Myth of Marilyn Monroe (S) 1.00 pm Tales of the Unexpected (AD) (S) 1.30 Tales of the Unexpected (AD) (S) 2.00 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (S) 3.00 Discovering: Gregory Peck (AD) (S) 4.00 Guy Garvey: From the Vaults (S) 5.00 Portrait Artist of the Year 2021 (AD) (S) 6.00 Tales of the Unexpected (AD) (S) 6.30 Tales of the Unexpected (AD) (S)
7.00 Alfred Hitchcock Presents A man terrified of guns confronts a robber (S)
7.30 Alfred Hitchcock Presents A man discovers his wife is living a secret life (S)
8.00 Guy Garvey: From the Vaults A look back at 1985 (S)
9.00 Live from Abbey Road Performances by Paul Simon, David Gilmour and Sheryl Crow (S)
10.00 Live from Abbey Road With Red Hot Chili Peppers, Green Day and Muse (S)
11.00 Siouxsie and the Banshees: Nocturne 12.20am Poly Styrene I Am a Cliche 2.20 Ian Dury and the Blockheads: Hold on to Your Structure 3.35 Discovering: Elvis Costello 4.00 The Art of the Garden 5.00 - 6.00am The Myth of Marilyn Monroe
FV 18 FS 124 SKY 136 VIRGIN 147
11.35 am Four in a Bed 12.10 pm Four in a Bed 12.40 Come Dine with Me 1.10 Come Dine with Me 1.40 Come Dine with Me 2.15 Come Dine with Me 2.50 Come Dine with Me 3.20 Four in a Bed 5.50 George Clarke’s Old House, New Home 6.55 Location, Location, Location 7.55 Grand Designs 9.00 The Sommerdahl Murders 11.00 24 Hours in A&E 12.05 am 24 Hours in A&E 1.05 999: On the Front Line 2.10 24 Hours in A&E 3.15 3.55am A Place in the Sun
5.00 Discovering: Tom Hanks 6.00 FILM: Hitsville: The Making of Motown (2019) The history and origins of the Motown record label 8.00 FILM: Tina (2021) A celebration of Tina Turner’s life and career 10.10 The Truth vs Alex Jones 12.20am OJ: Made in America 2.10 5.00am The Essex Murders
Sky One
Noon Chasing the Rains 1.00pm Hawaii Five 0 3.00 S.W.A.T. 5.00 The Simpsons 6.00 Animal Control 7.00 The Simpsons 8.00 The F1 Show 9.00 An Idiot Abroad 2 10.00 Ricky Gervais: Fame 11.30 Animal Control 12.30am Grimm 1.30 The Force: North East 2.30 Road Wars 3.00 4.00am Hawaii Five 0
Great! Mystery
Mysteries: A Case of Murder (2017) Thriller starring Lori Loughlin 1.50 FILM: Perfect Plan (2010) Thriller starring Emily Rose 3.20 4.50am FILM: Picture Perfect Lies (2021) Thriller starring Megan Elizabeth Barker
Noon Unforgettable 1.00pm In Plain Sight 2.00 Castle 3.00 Diagnosis Murder 5.00 Murder, She Wrote 7.00 Castle 8.00 Unforgettable 9.00 In Plain Sight 10.00 FILM: Murder, She Baked: Just Desserts (2017) Mystery starring Alison Sweeney 10.56 Good News on GREAT! 11.01 FILM: Murder, She Baked: Just Desserts (2017) Mystery starring Alison Sweeney 11.55 FILM: Garage Sale Mysteries: A Case of Murder (2017) Thriller starring Lori Loughlin 12.51am Good News on GREAT! 12.56 FILM: Garage Sale
FV 20 FS 158 SKY 143 VIRGIN 116
6.00 am Teleshopping 7.20 The Bill (S) 8.15 Doctors (S) 8.50 Doctors (S) 9.25 Classic Holby City (S) 10.40 Casualty (AD) (S) 11.40 The Bill (S) 12.40 pm Classic EastEnders (S) 1.20 Classic EastEnders (S) 2.00 Neighbours (S) 2.30 Neighbours (S) 3.00 Pie in the Sky (S) 4.05 Lovejoy (S) 5.20 Waiting for God (S) 6.00 Last of the Summer Wine (S) 6.40 Last of the Summer Wine (S)
7.20 Last of the Summer Wine Hobbo tries to establish where he was born (S)
8.00 Father Brown The priest joins forces with Flambeau to search for a lost treasure (AD) (S)
9.00 Father Brown The padre clashes with an influential new parishioner (AD) (S)
10.00 New Tricks The team investigates a golfer’s death (AD) (S)
11.20 Silent Witness 1.35am Lovejoy 2.40 Waiting for God 3.10 Darby and Joan 4.00 - 6.00am Teleshopping
SKY 110 VIRGIN 124
2.20 pm The Green Green Grass 3.00 Are You Being Served? 3.40 Ever Decreasing Circles 4.20 Dad’s Army 5.00 Last of the Summer Wine 6.20 Dad’s Army 7.00 Only Fools and Horses 7.40 Keeping Up Appearances 8.20 Are You Being Served? 9.00 Porridge 10.20 Not Going Out 11.00 Colin’s Sandwich 11.40 Porridge 12.20 am Porridge 1.00 Not Going Out 1.40 Colin’s Sandwich 2.30 Don’t Wait Up 3.00 Hi de Hi! 3.35 4.00am Toast of London
Sky Cinema Premiere
Noon Anaconda (2025) Comedy adventure starring Jack Black and Paul Rudd 1.45pm Wicked: For Good (2025) Fantasy sequel starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande 4.10 Civil War (2024) Action thriller starring Kirsten Dunst 6.15 In Cold Light (2025) Crime thriller starring Maika Monroe 8.00 Mortal Kombat II (2026) Fantasy adventure starring Karl Urban 10.05 Anaconda (2025) Friends encounter a terrifying creature while remaking a movie they have been wanting to shoot since childhood. Comedy adventure starring Jack Black and Paul Rudd 11.50 Redux Redux (2025) Fantasy adventure starring Michaela McManus 1.45am Anemone (2025) Drama starring Sean Bean and Daniel Day Lewis 3.55 5.50am Mile End Kicks (2025) Romantic comedy starring Barbie Ferreira
FV 82 FS 306 SKY 324 VIRGIN 445
6.00 am FILM: Someone at the Door
(1950, b/w) Crime comedy starring
Michael Medwin (S) 7.15 FILM:
Hammer the Toff (1952, b/w)
Detective drama starring John
Bentley (S) 8.45 FILM: The Snows of
Kilimanjaro (1952) Romantic
adventure starring Gregory Peck (S)
11.00 The Lucy Show (S) 11.30 Star
Performance (S)
12.00 Railway Murders (S)
1.00 pm 1950s Kitchen Hygiene
Glimpses
1.05 The Edgar Wallace Mystery
Theatre (S)
2.15 The Adventures of Robin Hood (S)
2.45 FILM: The Vicious Circle (1957,
b/w) Thriller starring John Mills (S)
4.25 Cinebox Memories
4.30 The Cheaters (S)
5.00 A Family at War (S)
6.00 Hannay (S)
7.00 Z Cars A man claims his son was a victim of police brutality (S)
8.00 Public Eye Frank is manipulated by DI Firbank (S)
9.05 Maxwell One off drama starring David Suchet (S)
10.55 Cellar Club with Caroline Munro Caroline Munro introduces the fourth episode of Supernatural (S) 11.00 Supernatural 12.00 Cellar Club with Caroline Munro 12.05am FILM: Devil’s Partner (1960, b/w) Horror starring Edgar Buchanan 1.40 Cellar Club with Caroline Munro 1.45 FILM: Killer Fish (1979) Horror starring Lee Majors 3.45 What’s on TPTV with Noel 4.00 Turn of Fate 4.30 The Vise 5.00 - 6.00am The Rogues
FV 27 FS 159 SKY 155 VIRGIN 129
Noon Antiques Roadshow 1.00 pm Antiques Roadshow 2.00 Bangers & Cash: Restoring Classics 4.00 Secret Nazi Bases 5.00 World War Two from Above 6.00 Antiques Roadshow 7.00 Asia 8.00 Citizen Smith 8.40 Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em 9.20 Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em 10.00 Bangers & Cash: Restoring Classics 12.00 Bangers & Cash 1.00 am Find It, Fix It, Flog It 2.00 Great British Railway Journeys 3.00 6.10am Teleshopping
1.55pm Ted Looks at the Regulation Changes 2.00 Sports Desk 3.00 The Hundred Live. Birmingham Phoenix Women v Trent Rockets Women (start time 3.00pm) 6.00 The Hundred Live. Birmingham Phoenix Men v Trent Rockets Men (start time 6.30pm) 9.30 Live World Matchplay Darts. Coverage of day seven of the tournament, which takes place at Winter Gardens in Blackpool, and features the concluding two quarter finals 11.00 6.00am Sky Sports News
Sky Sports Premier League Noon Premier League Review 11.00pm Premier League Years 1.00am PL Retro 3.00 4.00am PL Greatest Games
TNT Sports 1
Noon Cycling Essential Stories 12.15pm The Gruppetto 12.30 Live: Tour de France Men. Coverage from the 19th stage of the Grand Tour race 5.15 Live: LIV Golf. Coverage from the second day of the 10th round of the season 6.30 AFL 8.00 Tour de France Men Highlights 9.00 Women’s Cycling Pro Series 10.00 Spirit of Yachting 10.30 MLB Classic 11.00 MLB Highlights 12.00 Live MLB. Tampa Bay Rays v Cleveland Guardians (start time 12.10am) 3.00 5.30am Live:
FV 14 FS 300 SKY 855 VIRGIN 428
11.00 am FILM: Wonder Park (2019) Animated family adventure with the voice of Mila Kunis (AD) (S) 12.45 pm FILM: Anastasia (1956) Historical drama starring Ingrid Bergman and Yul Brynner (AD) (S) 2.55 FILM: The Violent Men (1955) Western starring Edward G Robinson (S) 4.50 FILM: Jason and the Argonauts (1963) Fantasy adventure starring Todd Armstrong (AD) (S)
6.55 FILM: The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) An alien is sent to Earth on a mission to decide if the human race should be wiped out or allowed to continue existing. Sci fi remake starring Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Connelly (AD) (S)
9.00 FILM: Quadrophenia (1979)
A teenager in Sixties London is
unhappy with his lot in life, but
believes he has found a place to
belong in the mod subculture. Drama
starring Phil Daniels (AD) (S)
11.25 FILM: Velvet Goldmine (1998) Glam rock drama starring Christian Bale 1.50 - 3.35am FILM: Sequin in a Blue Room (2021) Australian drama starring Conor Leach
SKY 108
Noon Billions 1.10 pm Billions 2.15 The White Lotus 3.30 The White Lotus 4.40 Gomorrah 5.45 Gomorrah 6.50 The Gilded Age 7.55 The Gilded Age 9.00 Station Eleven 10.00 Station Eleven 11.00 Prisoner 12.00 The Last of Us 1.10 am The Last of Us 2.15 The White Lotus 3.25 4.35am The White Lotus
NWSL. Portland Thorns v Gotham FC (kick off 3.00am)
BBC News
Noon BBC News Now 2.00pm BBC News Now 2.30 Business Today 2.45 BBC News Now 3.00 Verified Live 5.30 BBC News 6.30 The World Today 8.00 The Context USA 9.00 The Context 10.00 BBC News at Ten 10.30 Newsnight 11.00 BBC World News America 11.30 The President’s Path 11.45 BBC News 12.30am Talking Business 1.00 BBC News 1.30 Tech Now 2.00 BBC News 2.30 Clive Myrie’s Caribbean Adventure 3.00 BBC News 3.30 4.00am Will Insects Thrive or Just Survive?
GB News
Noon Good Afternoon Britain 3.00pm Martin Daubney 6.00 Dewbs & Co 7.00 Lee Anderson’s Real World 8.00 Friday Night with Matt Goodwin 9.00 Patrick Christys Tonight 11.00 Patrick Christys Tonight Late Edition 12.00 The Late Show Live 3.00 5.00am Patrick Christys Tonight Replay
Northern Ireland
BBC One: No variations BBC Two: No variations UTV: 7.00pm UTV Life 7.30 - 8.00 Hidden Northern Ireland 11.50 - 12.20am Abbey Clancy: Celebrity Homes
No variations
Scotland
BBC One: 7.00pm River City 7.30 - 8.00pm Hunting the Giant Bluefin Tuna: Our Lives BBC Scotland: 7.00pm Reporting Scotland: News at Seven 7.30 Scotland’s Greatest Escape 8.00 Paramedics on Scene 9.00 Ooh the Banter 10.00 Still Game 10.30 Two Doors Down 11.00 Rip It Up midnight Close STV: 7.30 - 8.00pm What’s on Scotland 4.45 - 6.00am Unwind with STV
Wales
BBC One: 7.00pm Best of Weatherman Walking 7.30 - 8.00pm Our Lives: The Big Cat Investigator BBC Two: No variations ITV1 Wales: 7.00 - 7.30pm Coast & Country
ITV1 Regions
S4C
6.00am Cyw 12.00 Newyddion S4C 12.05pm Heno o’r Sioe 12.35 Ralïo+ 1.10 Newyddion S4C a’r Tywydd 1.15 Seiclo: Tour de France 4.50 Og y Draenog Hapus 5.00 Stwnsh 6.00 Gerddi Cymru 6.30 Garddio a Mwy 7.00 Heno 7.30 Newyddion S4C a’r Tywydd 8.00 Eigra 8.30 Gemau’r Gymanwlad 2026 10.30 Seiclo: Tour de France 11.00 - 12.05am Gwesty Aduniad
night in Somerset
A scarce black- crowned night heron rarely seen in the UK has been spotted in Somerset. The bird is widespread across Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe and was caught on cameras at the National Trust’s Holnicote Estate in Somerset. The fi rst confi rmed breeding of night heron in the UK was recorded in Somerset in 2017. This stocky member of the heron family typically grows up to 66cm in size – roughly half the length of the grey heron that is more common to the UK. It has grey plumage, yellow legs and a black “cap”, from which trail long white “plume” feathers. As its name implies, it is mainly active at night – making it doubly diffi cult for enthusiasts to spot.
结论：翻译质量未通过 (Quality Audit Failed) 该翻译版本存在严重的“幻觉”问题，将原文中的部分人名/政治人物进行了错误替换，并出现了大段的内部清理标签/质量自查记录泄露，属于严重的交付缺陷。
[!WARNING] 的质量评估报告，列出了 missing numeric tokens 和 Missing proper nouns 等自查项。这是典型的内部清理标签泄露，属于严重交付缺陷。$10bn (£7.5bn) 翻译正确。$37.5bn (£28bn) 翻译正确。该文件必须重新翻译。 译文不仅泄露了内部审核逻辑，且在最高层级的政治人物姓名上出现了混乱，极易造成误导。