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警方：提前释放将迫使巡逻压力增大 警方负责人担心，在推动社区量刑的过程中，社区警务面临风险 作者：Martin Evans，协助：Daniel Martin
《每日电讯报》可以透露，在工党的囚犯提前释放计划下，英国将面临社区警察减少以及街道上罪犯增加的情况。
英国一名最资深的警官发出警告，由于该系统试图管理 6,000 名提前获释的杀手、性犯罪者和毒贩，社区警务可能会被削减。
杰森·德文波特助理警务处长在给《每日电讯报》的文章中表示，由于监狱过度拥挤的危机，罪犯现在在监狱中度过的时间将减少，而在社区中接受管理的时间将增加，这是一个“令人不安的现实”。
据了解，部长们正准备大幅扩大社区服务范围，以便更严厉地惩罚因提前释放计划改革而未被送往监狱的日益增加的罪犯。
《每日电讯报》可以透露，鉴于目前被广泛批评为过于宽松的手段，部长们正紧急寻找扩大无偿社区工作项目的方法，让更多罪犯去清理非法倾倒垃圾和破坏行为。
新任司法大臣亚历克斯·诺里斯希望让针对罪犯的社区服务变得更严厉、要求更高，他希望此举最终能减轻监狱的过度拥挤。他认为，更严厉的社区服务将威慑年轻罪犯，防止他们进一步实施导致监禁的更严重犯罪。
但由于 12 个月以下的监禁刑期已于 3 月被废除，许多罪犯随后再次犯罪或违反释放条件，导致警务压力增加。他补充说，预计从下个月开始的大规模囚犯提前释放将进一步恶化这一问题。
作为国家警察酋长委员会 (NPCC) 刑事司法改革的负责人，德文波特先生表示，重要的是，不在监狱里并不意味着“脱离控制或脱离司法”。
目前，每年有超过 50,000 名罪犯因盗窃、刑事损坏、公共秩序混乱、部分袭击以及驾驶和药物犯罪而被判处“社区处罚”。他们每年完成 500 万小时的无偿工作，并穿着高可见度背心，以便人们看到他们正为过去的行为接受惩罚。
据了解，诺里斯先生希望社区服务在那些避免监禁刑期的罪犯中更加普遍，并让他们在自己的社区内完成无偿工作，以便居民看到司法正在得到执行。
一名政府消息人士表示：“司法大臣认为，公众应该看到罪犯在回报他们曾伤害的社区。通过更多的社区处罚来改善长期被忽视的公共空间是一个重要的优先事项。”
德文波特先生敦促政府向警务投资。他表示：“从接线员到性犯罪者管理团队，警务的每个领域都将受到这些措施的影响。仅此一项给警务带来的总成本将高达数亿英镑。警队的资金筹措方式没有灵活性来吸收这一成本，且我们的劳动力规模并未增长以满足额外需求。这将意味着警察首长必须做出艰难决定，削减 4 项其他优先事项。”
“为了让这里的现状维持下去。”：囚犯提前释放计划原定于下个月 5 开始，但已被首相安迪·伯纳姆暂停 4 并在审查中。此前，《每日电讯报》披露，在将泰晤士河谷警员安德鲁·哈珀拖至死亡的凶手中，有两人符合该计划的资格，此举引发了强烈抵制。影子内政大臣克里斯·菲利普议员指责工党“未能保护公众”，并让“受害者和守法民众生活在恐惧之中”。缓刑监督机构首席督察马丁·琼斯对他的成员在应对提前释放计划带来的额外需求方面准备是否充分表示担忧。杰森·德文波特：第 2 页
首相誓言在移民问题上采取不懈行动，而改革党计划实施封锁 安迪·伯纳姆昨日在访问多佛尔皇家海岸警卫队海事救援协调中心期间发表讲话 作者：艾米·吉本斯 (Amy Gibbons) 政治记者
英国改革党誓言将利用英国皇家海军使英吉利海峡对小船移民而言变得“不可逾越”。该党承诺将在英吉利海峡发起第二次世界大战以来规模最大的军事行动，将船只强行驱回法国。在今日的新闻发布会之前，改革党公布了“堡垒行动”的计划——该行动将拦截所有移民船只，并将其遣返回法国或比利时。在此公告之前，超过 60,000 名来自摩洛哥的移民在短短几小时内涌向西班牙的微小飞地。据称，约 53,000 人在周六晚上前返回，西班牙当局迅速将数千人驱逐回边境。改革党表示，塞乌塔的情况揭示了其针对英国计划的“紧迫性”。然而，内政大臣夏巴娜·马哈穆德坚持认为，英国不可能复制西班牙的做法，因为处理海峡跨境问题更为“棘手”。
安迪·伯纳姆（首相）昨日表示，他在应对小船跨境问题上将是“不懈的”。最新数据显示，自伯纳姆接替基尔·斯塔默爵士以来，已有 2,000 名移民完成了横跨海峡的危险旅程。伯纳姆先生强调，与去年同期相比，通过小船抵达的人数有所下降，并声称“正在取得进展”。
改革党称，“堡垒行动”将拦截任何未经授权的船只并拘留其乘员，在提供水、食物和医疗评估后，由海军舰艇护送将其遣返。昨晚，该党内政发言人齐亚·尤素法表示：“英国……”（续第 S 页）
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干旱导致多瑙河水位降至最低，匈牙利面临停电 作者：尼克·斯奎尔斯 (Nick Squires)
由于席卷欧洲大部分地区的干旱迫使其唯一的核电站关闭，匈牙利正面临停电。总理彼得·马扎尔表示，在为核电站冷却的多瑙河水位降至历史低点后，国家正在准备迎接一个“关键”周。马扎尔先生表示，政府正在考虑从今天起对大型公司实施强制性限电。
“我们面临着未来最关键的 5 天，”他在一段 Facebook 视频中说道。“明天，帕克斯核电站将停止发电，而 40 度（摄氏度，104 华氏度）的高温天即将到来。电网、我们的公共服务以及我们自己都将承受巨大的压力，”马扎尔先生说道。他此前已警告称，该核电站可能会停工数周。多瑙河水位已下降……
在包括邻国塞尔维亚和罗马尼亚在内的几个国家，水位降至 30 年来的最低水平。干旱已导致 100 多个城市和村庄采取用水限制措施，其中包括布达佩斯郊区。马扎尔先生呼吁企业、公共机构、地方政府和家庭在下午 5 点至晚上 10 点的晚高峰期间大幅减少或调整用电时间。欧洲大部分地区受到持续高温和干旱的影响，导致河流水位下降，并引发了对水供应、河流运输和发电的担忧。意大利正处于今夏第四次极端热浪之中，全国许多地区气温达到 40°C。在最多 27 个意大利城市中，共有创纪录的 25 个城市将在周一发布极端高温红色预警，包括罗马、米兰、威尼斯、那不勒斯和都灵。红色预警
表明公众健康面临高风险，而不仅仅是儿童和老年人等弱势群体。在意大利的几个地区，葡萄的采收时间比往常提前了多达 10 天——部分原因是高温使其成熟，但也因为葡萄园主希望在预报的冰雹袭击导致损坏之前将其采摘。野火继续在希腊肆虐，昨日两架消防直升机在扑救火灾时相撞。这两架贝尔直升机在雅典西部的沿海地区 Psatha 附近扑救野火时相撞。据希腊媒体报道，四名机组人员已被找到，但其中至少两人受重伤且失去意识。希腊总理基里亚科斯·米佐塔基斯昨日警告称，他的国家正面临“极端天气条件”。他说，随着火灾在从大陆到爱琴海旅游岛屿的全国各地肆虐，未来将面临“极其
困难”的日子。英国今天气温将再次上升，伦敦最高气温约为 32°C。全国农民联盟 (NFU) 警告称，如果目前的干旱情况持续，将出现食品短缺。NFU 主席汤姆·布拉德肖表示，今年小麦和燕麦的产量“非常、非常低”，并警告称畜牧业养殖者不得不使用冬季饲料配额，因为他们无法种植草料。
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新闻 高蛋白饮食可能缩短寿命 研究发现，高蛋白饮食可能会缩短寿命。蛋白质一直被称为“生命的基石”。但一项审查表明，对于那些没有活跃生活方式的人来说，摄入大量蛋白质可能会导致寿命缩短。威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的达德利·拉明教授表示：“一些研究表明，在久坐不动的情况下摄入更多蛋白质，与更高的癌症、糖尿病发病率及死亡率相关。”
新闻 洛夫向法拉奇提供协议以统一右翼 奈杰尔·法拉奇在誓言要建立一个统一右翼的“广泛联盟”后，引发了外界猜测他将与“恢复英国” (Restore Britain) 达成协议。昨天上午，鲁珀特·洛夫表示，他与法拉奇先生需要共同努力以实现一个“爱国政府”。但这位“恢复”领导人表示，只有在法拉奇先生同意包括大规模驱逐出境、禁止穿波卡（burka）以及就死刑举行全民公投在内的五项政策时，他才会达成协议。
评论 蒂姆·斯坦利 移民辩论现在将围绕控制——或逆转展开
商业 若伊朗战争拖延，英国将面临衰退 如果霍尔木兹海峡……
经济学家警告称，如果霍尔木兹海峡在明年春天之前仍保持关闭，经济将受到影响。安永（EY）最新的经济展望预测，如果中东冲突持续，2027年经济将萎缩0.2%，包括该年上半年两个季度的负增长。这种收缩将由通货膨胀驱动，因为安永预测到今年年底，价格上涨幅度可能会增加一倍以上，达到6.4%。
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欧足联威胁将因出售计划起诉因凡蒂诺
欧足联（UEFA）已威胁国际足联（Fifa）主席吉安尼·因凡蒂诺（Gianni Infantino），将对其世界杯出售计划采取法律行动，并警告他不要销毁与此相关的文件。《每日电讯报》体育版透露，欧洲足球管理机构表示，针对这一失败的冒险计划，他们正“积极考虑采取法律行动、仲裁和 / 或监管投诉”。在引发大规模反抗后，因凡蒂诺取消了将旗舰赛事及其他赛事的股份出售给私人投资者的计划。
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2026年8月3日 星期一 每日电讯报
年度最佳播客出版商 “今年，我们选择了一位在多个类别中始终产出卓越作品的出版商。——《每日电讯报》” 最佳AI应用获奖者 最佳新闻与分析播客获奖者 探索我们的获奖节目 扫描二维码或在您的《电讯报》应用程序中收听
零售商反击价格欺诈指控 超市将油价和食品价格上涨归咎于工党的增税 作者：James Titcomb，技术编辑
在预算案出台前，工党再次发起对超市的攻击，商业团体对此予以反击。在约翰·希利（John Healey）誓言打击“价格欺诈”并监测消费者是否被宰后，零售商表示，他指责企业的行为是错误的。
食品商表示，他们已经提供了西欧最实惠的食品，同时声称工党领导下的增税导致了近期价格的上涨。这次冲突发生在希利先生提交其首份预算案前不到 3 个月。保守党表示，他对超市的威胁将向公司传递错误信号。
希利先生在周末点名批评了超市行业，呼应了其前任在 2 月伊朗战争爆发后所做的批评。他在《电讯报》中写道，在中东冲突期间，他不会允许食品商“欺骗”公众。
然而，代表玛莎（M&S）、森 Sainsbury's 和特易购（Tesco）等企业的英国零售联合会（British Retail Consortium）的安德鲁·欧皮（Andrew Opie）表示： “超市在高度竞争的环境中运营，提供了西欧最实惠的食品。” “政府的独立竞争监管机构——竞争与市场管理局（CMA）多次发现，是零售商之间的激烈竞争而非政府行为，才使食品价格尽可能保持在低水平。”
欧皮先生补充道： “许多推高价格的额外成本是由本届政府实施的，包括更高的国民保险缴费、增加的包装税，以及未能继续改革过时的商业税率系统。”
影子商业与贸易大臣安德鲁·格里菲斯（Andrew Griffith）补充道： “我们一次又一次地看到，这届政府为了掩盖自己的错误而攻击他人。零售业竞争极其残酷，价格上涨是因为工党的增税、就业繁文缛已以及能源成本。” “这在预算案出台前向企业传递了错误信号，将挫伤投资积极性。”
便利店协会（Association of Convenience Stores）的一位发言人表示： “零售商告诉我们，提高价格是极少数情况下才采取的最后手段。我们敦促财政大臣在即将到来的预算案中，专注于减轻企业经营成本的方法，这将反过来惠及当地商店每天服务的数百万客户。”
昨天，希利先生表示： “在国内，我们将密切关注任何关于消费者在加油站或收银台被欺骗的迹象。在这次危机期间，公司愿意与政府合作，态度是积极的，目前还没有所谓的‘价格欺诈’的显著证据，但我希望坦率地向公众保证，如果这种情况发生，我们的监管机构有权予以打击。”
新闻简报 警察人员细节泄露至暗网 全名及
超过 100,000 名警察工作人员的联系详情在一次黑客攻击中被泄露至暗网，使警员面临“严重风险”。据《泰晤士报》报道，网络罪犯入侵了国防部、内政部、国家犯罪调查局和皇家检控署的数据。此前在本周早些时候，教育部遭到黑客攻击，导致超过 50 万条数据泄露。黑客泄露了警员的部队所在地，且在罪犯攻破警察国家法律数据库（英国所有警察部队用于法律援助的资源）之后，保守党将强制警方追查被盗手机。
作者：Daniel Martin 副政治编辑
根据保守党的计划，警察将收到追踪被盗手机的命令。影子内政大臣 克里斯·菲利普 表示，他将制定新的警务标准，强制英格兰和威尔士的每个警队重新开展基础侦查工作。警员将被要求追踪在网上刊登出售的盗窃物品，并有义务将嫌疑人的图像通过国家面部识别数据库进行比对。此外，警队将被告知，如果“查找我的 iPhone”等应用程序显示设备所在位置，他们必须敲开该房屋的大门。
菲利普先生表示，该计划每年将多解决至少 36,800 起犯罪案件。他在为《每日电讯报》撰文时写道：“手机、笔记本电脑、自行车和汽车通常会发送显示其位置的信号，30 位受害者可以将地址交给警方。”
“但警方往往对这些信息不予理会，导致在所有人都能在地图上看到财产所在地的情况下，该案件被结案作废……”
“警方应始终站在受害者一边，并坚定不移地专注于抓捕更多罪犯。每一个未起诉而结案的案例都在削弱这一点。”
“我们需要将一些常识恢复到警务工作中，并确保犯罪必有后果。该计划将有助于实现这一目标。”
菲利普先生表示，根据保守党的计划，内政大臣将收回法律权力，允许内政大臣设定警务的标准和惯例。内政大臣将利用这些权力，强制英格兰和威尔士的每个警队执行基础调查工作。
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我们需要一个能威慑并改造罪犯的刑事制度 杰森·德文波特
解决监狱拥挤危机没有灵丹妙药。我担任警察 29 年，也曾担任过监狱长。我看到同样的罪犯在碎片化的系统中反复循环。一些数据表明，重新犯罪的罪犯平均会再次犯下五次罪行。这高得令人无法接受，表明我们目前的司法制度失效了。
大卫·高克（David Gauke）对量刑的审查不仅提出了释放监狱空间的紧迫需求，还发现将罪犯判处短期监禁是低效且不可持续的。这让我们面临一个令人不安的现实：罪犯在监狱中度过的时间将减少，而在社区中接受管理的时间将增加。
但是，“出狱”不能意味着“失控”或“缺乏正义”。对于一些最严重犯罪的受害者和幸存者，我们有责任确保正义得以伸张，并尽一切努力防止犯罪和伤害。无论政府的审查结果如何，警务工作将始终是
只需一个电话，警察就能随时准备保护公众并逮捕罪犯。近几个月来，我们一直在努力引导警队应对这些量刑变化。我们看到，因被召回入狱而导致的逮捕人数、违反保释条件的逮捕人数，以及为确保受虐者安全而授予的家庭暴力保护令数量均有所增加。这项工作不会停止，但增加其他机构在社区管理罪犯的压力并不能解决重新犯罪的问题，而且这将以牺牲其他优先事项为代价。警务的每个领域都将受到这些措施的影响。仅对警务而言，此项措施的总成本将高达数亿英镑。警队的融资方式没有灵活性来吸收这部分成本，且我们的劳动力增长速度无法满足这一额外需求。这意味着警察首长将不得不做出艰难决定，削减
其他优先事项。增加警务投资虽至关重要，但并非解决这场危机的唯一答案，因为我们无法仅靠逮捕来摆脱困境。警务通常在犯罪已经发生、损害和伤害已经造成之后才介入。那时已经太晚了。很多时候，犯罪者已经深陷于导致其犯罪的复杂问题中，例如药物成瘾、贫困或心理健康问题。这些是社会性问题。政府应当整合各机构，制定一项资源充足且有效的计划，以确保我们尽一切可能防止下一个人成为犯罪被害人。《量刑法》是一个让我们的刑事司法系统更有效，并给囚犯机会成为社会生产性成员的机会。我曾接触过的一名罪犯被监禁过 10 次以上。在一次服刑期间，他学会了焊接，并通过这样做，发现了一项他擅长且能提供收入的技能，为他指明了一条远离犯罪的不同道路。他很快停止了重新犯罪。使罪犯重新社会化符合所有人的利益，且根据我的观察，这绝对是可能的。然而，我们需要强有力的威慑手段和后果来处置犯罪行为以及那些选择继续犯罪的人，并将系统转向一个能够感化而非胆大妄为的罪犯的体制。这需要警务、缓刑监督机构、监狱及其他相关部门的适当投资与协作。我们必须正确地执行这一点——不仅是为了犯罪的受害者和幸存者，也是为了更广泛的社会和后代。助理警务处长 杰森·德文波特 是国家警察酋长委员会 (NPCC) 刑事司法改革的负责人。伴娘对支付新礼服的成本感到畏缩。二手转售平台 Vinted 的数据表明，搜索二手伴娘礼服的人数同比增长了 7 百分比。一项针对该在线市场的调查发现，在担任过伴娘的女性中，几乎有四分之一 (24 百分比) 因为成本问题考虑过拒绝这一角色；在 25 至 34 岁的女性中，这一比例上升到超过三分之一 (35 百分比)。59 百分比的人表示该角色花费高于预期，而三分之一 (33 百分比) 的人在最近的一次婚礼中花费了 £250 至 £499 之间。36 百分比的人支付了自己的礼服费用，在 25 至 34 岁的女性中，这一比例上升至 46 百分比。17 岁女孩在湖区音乐节死亡。警方已确认，一名 17 岁女孩在湖区的一次音乐节上死亡。这名青少年于昨天凌晨在 Kendal Calling 音乐节期间昏迷，该活动在彭里斯附近 Hackthorpe 的 Lowther Deer Park 举办。她当时
在护理人员尝试进行心肺复苏（CPR）后，该员被宣布在现场死亡。据悉，该事件发生在 Calling Out 帐篷附近，警方呼吁当时在现场附近的任何节日参与者与他们联系。坎布里亚郡警方的警员表示，他们仍在努力还原事件经过。
一名男子在旅居者营地被枪杀 一名 30 多岁的男子在威尔特郡的一个旅居者营地被枪杀。今晨在威尔特郡克里克莱德附近的卡尔库特收到枪击报告后，警方被召至现场。受害者在现场被宣布死亡，而一名 70 多岁的男子和一名 40 多岁的女性因涉嫌持有枪支和协助罪犯而被捕。现场仍维持封锁状态，受害者的家属已获通知。
重大犯罪调查小组的侦查总督 Phil Walker 表示：“这是一起极其严重的事件，在这个毁灭性的时刻，我的心与受害者的朋友和家人在一起。”
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2026年8月3日 星期一 每日电讯报 “新闻 _ 移民拒绝离开，桑切斯飞往度假地 首相在社交媒体分享最爱的歌曲播放列表，而当局正从海中打捞尸体 作者：Nick Squires 与 Antonio Sempere，发自 塞乌塔
西班牙首相在数百名移民拒绝离开西班牙领土 塞乌塔 之际，飞往加那利群岛度假，因此面临一波批评。佩德罗·桑切斯于周六下午与妻子抵达位于兰萨罗特岛的官方官邸，开启为期两周的暑假。
与此同时，在一次将欧洲推入危机的前所未有之入侵后，移民们在 塞乌塔 的海滩上露宿，并躲在隧道和灌木丛中。西班牙当局将数万人驱逐回边境，但由于许多跨境者导致寻求庇护中心不堪负荷，昨天仍有尸体被从海中打捞起。
在首相出发休假时，反对党议员指责他“否认现实”。他在社交媒体上分享自己的最爱歌曲播放列表后，引发了进一步的愤怒。这份夏季原声带包括麦当娜的单曲《I Feel So Free》以及 Charli XCX 和滚石乐队的曲目。
西班牙保守派人民党 (PP) 议员卡门·费尔南德斯 (Carmen Fiunez) 表示：“当 塞乌塔 受苦时，桑切斯在度假。没有什么比否认现实更残酷的了。”
就在多达 60,000 人冲入这个西班牙飞地——这是欧盟历史上最大规模的一次入侵——几天后，昨天仍有数百名移民留在 塞乌塔。虽然绝大多数通过北非海岸游泳或步行进入该领土的移民已返回摩洛哥领土，但仍有相当数量的人誓言留下，试图在欧洲寻求庇护。
西班牙当局表示，据信这次大规模入侵中至少有 75 名移民死亡，大多数人在拼命从边境围栏的摩洛哥一侧游向西班牙飞地时溺水。西班牙国民警卫队 (Guardia Civil) 的潜水员昨天继续在海中搜寻尸体。
据西班牙媒体报道， 塞乌塔 当局已准备了 200 个冷藏停尸位以备不时之需。在 塞乌塔 历史上最大规模的非正规跨境活动中，周四和周五，50,000 到 60,000 名来自摩洛哥和撒哈拉以南非洲的移民冲入 塞乌塔，显然得到了摩洛哥当局的默许。
随着搜寻更多尸体的工作继续，一些移民选择潜伏。有人可见小群地向俯瞰 塞乌塔 市的丘陵地带走去，而其他人则隐藏在灌木丛中，甚至躲在水管内部。
视频画面显示，西班牙士兵在海滩上踢足球（上图）。极右翼影响力人士 Alvise Perez 离开“中心”（中图）。西班牙士兵询问一名移民（右上图），并命令一名 25 岁的移民从海滩附近的一个排水隧道中爬出。
许多拒绝离开 塞乌塔 的人似乎是无人陪伴的未成年人。有些人睡在一个废弃工业园的户外。这些青少年在被遗弃的仓库之间徘徊，称他们已经快四天没吃东西了。他们是数万名进入 塞乌塔 的移民中的一员，大多数人是通过游泳绕过向地中海延伸的边境围栏进入的。
他们表示，希望到达欧洲大陆寻找工作和更好的生活。一名年轻人指着他穿着的西班牙足球衫上的徽章说：“西班牙万岁 (Viva Espana)！” 另一些人则喊道：“摩洛哥，不！西班牙！”
一名睡在压平的纸板箱上的年轻移民……
被垃圾包围，一名男孩说他 14 岁，在没有父母或任何其他成年人的陪伴下进入了塞乌塔。“这里所有的孩子都想去[西班牙]本土，”41 岁的阿齐兹·达布什（Aziz Dabch）说道，他当时正躲在一家仓库的阴影下。他 17 岁的女儿说，没有人照顾这些无人陪伴的未成年人。“这里没有食物。我们今天还没吃东西，”她说。在其中一座废弃的仓库里，未成年人们漫无目的地走动，另有 5 人用软管冲澡。西班牙警察和武装部队将移民驱逐回摩洛哥的场景引发了关于正当程序的辩论，同时也引发了关于在包括英吉利海峡在内的其他边界采取类似强硬手段的问题。根据 2015 年引入的具有争议的法律，西班牙可以合法地将抵达塞乌塔或梅利利亚的移民驱逐出境，而无需允许他们提交避难申请。在欧洲其他地区，这种做法被称为“推回”（pushbacks），且仅偶尔使用。但由于有如此多的未成年人存在，西班牙当局试图将部分剩余移民送回边境的尝试将变得复杂。西班牙法律规定，当警察发现一名涉嫌为未成年人的无证且无人陪伴的移民时，必须由儿童保护服务机构处理。随后由法院决定该儿童是否可以被遣返回其原籍国。《每日电讯报》在塔拉哈尔（Tarajal）边境口岸看到，西班牙警察正在将包括未成年人在内的移民运往返回摩洛哥的边境门。移民律师表示，在未遵循正确程序的情况下遣返儿童，在西班牙法律以及西班牙在联合国《儿童权利公约》下承担的义务方面都引发了法律问题。移民们抱怨说，由于在这次大规模涌入之后，塞乌塔的许多商店已经关门，他们无法买到任何食物或饮料。虽然许多人在西班牙士兵和警察的护送下返回了摩洛哥，但其他人表示他们决心留下。“当塞乌塔在受苦时，他却在度假。没有什么比否认现实更残酷的了。”一名 23 岁的摩洛哥人穆罕默德·哈特里（Mohamed Hatri）说：“他们关闭了所有设施，让我们买不到任何食物，以此强迫我们回国。”他说，无论是否饥饿，他和其他人都决心留下。人们担心，随着滞留的移民要求当局提供食物和住所，局势可能会变得更加动荡。昨天，部分剩余移民被当局围捕。在塞乌塔港附近的一个住宅区外，西班牙士兵拘留了一组人。
一个自满的欧盟应对塞乌塔的混乱负责 盖伊·丹皮尔 (Guy Dampier)
欧洲因北非海岸的西班牙自治市塞乌塔遭到估计 60,000 名摩洛哥移民冲击而震惊。尽管据说约有 48,000 人在发现没有食物且没有渡轮将他们运往西班牙本土后已经回家，但危机尚未结束。这是因为政治和法律后果仍需解决。首先，广泛的指控称摩洛哥在非法移民激增中扮演了共犯角色。摩洛哥当局似乎确实没有采取任何行动来阻止这一切，这确实是事实。这与之前的事件相吻合。2021 年，塞乌塔曾出现过一次类似但规模较小的非法移民浪潮。这次浪潮紧接在一名反对摩洛哥统治西撒哈拉的政治领导人被揭露之后发生。
此前已被送往一家西班牙医院。今年7月，西班牙首相佩德罗·桑切斯访问了阿尔及利亚，该国同样反对摩洛哥对西撒哈拉的统治。这可能是本周入侵事件的诱因。非法移民是否已经返回并不重要。正如美国分析师约书亚·特雷维诺所指出的，摩洛哥现在已经表明，如果它愿意，它有能力这样做。如果西班牙再次使其不快，向塞乌塔派遣几乎与当地居民数量相当的非法移民现在成了一种选项。这是一项长期采用的策略：1975年，摩洛哥组织了350,000人的人海战术进入当时由西班牙统治的西撒哈拉。这恰逢弗朗科将军去世，因此西班牙军队接到命令不得开火。次年，该土地被移交给摩洛哥。
本周非法移民潮的另一个可能诱因是西班牙最高法院在6月做出的一项裁决。一名来自摩洛哥的移民，在估计 60,000 人的移民中，于 2020 年通过海路进入塞乌塔和梅利利亚。该裁决宣布，在边界围栏处进行 rechazos en frontera（边境驱逐）是合法的，但这不适用于海上边界，因为那里没有障碍物。这就是为什么在 60,000 人的移民中，大多数人从摩洛哥游向塞乌塔，其中至少有 27 人在尝试过程中死亡。尽管西班牙目前正在海上安装一个 500 米的拦截屏障，但一些移民已经从夫尼德克镇出发游泳，在水中行驶超过五公里。尽管欧洲人权法院——这个英吉利海峡边境控制工作的噩梦——在塞乌塔和梅利利亚的驱逐行动中给予了西班牙一项关于《欧洲人权公约》的豁免，但西班牙仍做出了这一裁决。
面对这一威胁，欧盟显得犹豫不决。尽管申根区意味着自由移动，但法国、意大利和芬兰仍宣布了某种形式的限制。意大利的乔治亚·梅洛尼也攻击桑切斯将非法移民合法化，警告称这将吸引更多人来到欧洲。该问题被认为如此令人担忧，以至于该集团 27 个成员国中的 22 个国家发表了一封联合公开信，要求采取统一的应对措施。欧盟委员会已同意在下周二举行视频会议。
这就概括了问题所在。欧盟是一个庞大的集团，但它发现自己受制于摩洛哥，因为人权法削弱了边境控制。如果没有这些控制，申根协议下的自由移动就成了负担而非福利。然而，欧盟并没有起到领导作用，而仅仅是召开会议。欧盟的自满导致其在全球经济中的份额萎缩，且整个欧洲大陆在人工智能的前沿领域失手。如果它不能确保欧洲的边境安全，整个项目很可能会崩溃，因为沮丧的选民要求欧洲领导人提供他们拒绝交付的安全保障。塞乌塔是对他们应对能力的一次考验，而欧盟失败了。
The Daily Telegraph Monday 3 August 2026 星期一。照片中九名看起来疲惫不堪的移民坐在路边，由携带装甲车的部队看守。西班牙方面在加强安全措施的同时，已在塞乌塔的海边边界安装了 1,640英尺长的浮动围栏。撒哈拉以南非洲人的身份可能与进入塞乌塔的摩洛哥人截然不同。人权活动人士表示，前者是在逃离冲突、干旱和迫害，根据国家法律，他们可能被认为有权在欧盟申请庇护。但他们将面临进一步的艰辛。即便在目前的危机爆发之前，塞乌塔的移民接收中心就已经过度拥挤。“他们关闭了一切，导致我们买不到任何东西吃。”昨天有报道称，水上摩托车和汽艇正将移民运往西班牙本土。塞乌塔这座城市的人口仅略多于 $5,000 人，从未具备应对如此规模挑战的能力。当地停尸房迅速超出容量，迫使西班牙军事应急部队从西班牙本土部署冷藏车，以保存从海中寻获的尸体。
周末期间，试图利用此次危机的极右翼活动人士前往塞乌塔，称此次危机证明欧洲已经失去了对其南部边界的控制。其中包括西班牙新法西斯组织 Nucleo Nacional 的成员。但他们遇到的反应与预想的截然不同。数百名居民聚集在一起，拒绝他们所谓的对这场造成数十人死亡的悲剧进行政治剥削。抗议活动中最引人注目的一点是塞乌塔穆斯林社区的参与，该社区约占全市人口的一半。家庭、邻里协会和社区代表维护该市长期以来共存的传统，并拒绝利用此次危机来推广反移民和反穆斯林叙事的企图。警方被部署以防止“我们需要关闭边界通道，直到我们获得保证这种情况不再发生”对立群体之间发生直接冲突。长期以来，塞乌塔的定义就是基督教、穆斯林和犹太社区的共存。这与欧洲其他地区围绕该飞地日益极化的政治叙事形成了鲜明对比。
西班牙极右翼 Vox 党的领导人在所谓的“入侵”发生后，呼吁将塞乌塔与摩洛哥之间的边界“军事化”。圣地亚哥·阿巴斯卡尔要求“永久关闭边界通道，直到拉巴特提供保证这种情况永远不会再次发生”。根据西班牙民调，Vox 目前掌握约 17% 的选票。
马哈穆德：我们无法像西班牙那样处理移民（接第 1, 页）
……正在被入侵。保守党和工党政府的应对方式是提供免费渡轮服务和免费酒店。英国改革党将通过在英吉利海峡发起自第二次世界大战以来最大规模的军事行动来应对。“奈杰尔·法拉奇将命令陛下及其皇家海军，确保没有任何一艘未经授权穿越英吉利海峡的船只能抵达联合王国的海岸。”“企图这样做的人将被我们的武装部队拦截并遣返回法国。”改革党将建立一个联合军事指挥部，由皇家海军、皇家海军陆战队、皇家空军和英国陆军的部队以及一个监测入境船只的监视指挥部组成。他们将通过紧急立法“以……
……为联合指挥部提供任何进一步所需权限而“有必要”。该党坚持认为，该计划将符合国际法，且将在停止小船抵达的同时，采取 25.42 人道主义应对措施。目前，英国与法国签署了一项“一进一出”的遣返协议，规定英国可以将非法穿越英吉利海峡的移民送回巴黎，以换取接收相同数量的寻求庇护者。然而，截至 6 月，该条约仅有 921 名小船移民被送回法国。在此期间，英国根据该互惠协议也接收了 896 名来自法国的寻求庇护者。相比之下，上周数万名移民在抵达塞乌塔后数小时内就被遣返回摩洛哥。
马哈穆德女士拒绝了在塞乌塔复制西班牙应对非法移民措施的呼吁，认为由于英吉利海峡的存在，这在客观上是不可行的。她表示，小船危机在许多方面与西班牙飞地所面临的情况“不同且更棘手”。
昨天，马哈穆德女士告诉《每日电讯报》：“我认为我们在塞乌塔看到的情况是基于那些特定环境的独特产物。摩洛哥和西班牙拥有陆地边界，因此他们之间达成了一项关于共享陆地边界的协议，我认为这反映了他们的地理状况和共同历史。”
“这与跨越整个英吉利海峡的偷渡贸易不同——你会同时处于法国海域和英国海域，这使得我们的工作在许多方面变得不同且更棘手。”
在昨天访问 NCA 位于多佛的联合指挥室期间，安迪·伯纳姆承诺在打击小船穿越方面将保持“不懈努力”。首相在强调穿越人数较去年同期有所下降时表示：
“显然，我们正在取得进展，但我们没有掉以轻心，这也是我来到这里的原因。所以我们将不懈努力。”
“人们希望看到这个问题得到解决。我在梅克菲尔德的家门前听到了这种声音，但我们也需要建立一个能为人们提供安全路径的系统，因为这也能消除犯罪团伙的卖点。”
“50 在每一个层面上我们都必须覆盖到位……至关重要的是增加执法活动。”
但首相在夏季可能会面临关于小船的进一步压力。最新数据显示，$26 名移民于周六乘坐四艘船抵达，使得自 7 月 20 日伯纳姆接替基尔·斯塔默爵士以来的人数上升至 2,057 人。
内政部发言人表示：“本届政府正在严厉打击小船穿越，小船移民的遣返量达到了记录水平，寻求庇护的申请量下降了 12%。”
“内政大臣已与法国签署了一项具有里程碑意义的按结果付费新协议，以加强海滩上的执法行动，并将偷渡者绳之以法。”
“这建立在自大选以来拦截了超过 46,000 次尝试穿越的联合工作基础之上。”
偷渡者利用西班牙大赦 作者：Charles Hymas 和 Mitchell Durdin
《每日电讯报》的一项调查发现，非法移民正被偷运出英国，通过英吉利海峡前往西班牙，以利用西班牙的庇护大赦。偷渡者利用较弱的出境管制，将移民隐藏在货车中偷运出英国进入法国，随后通过渡轮或火车运往对面。这些移民中许多人因签证过期或非法工作而面临被英国遣返回原籍国的风险，他们正……
支付高达 £1,000 的旅费，这为在几乎整个欧洲大陆自由流动提供了机会。走私者还提供一种额外的“出租车服务”，收费 £500，将他们带过法国并跨越边境进入西班牙，而西班牙已经为非法移民引入了特赦政策。周四，60,000 名移民利用安保薄弱的漏洞，在从摩洛哥游泳抵达后冲击了西班牙飞地塞乌塔。至少有 10 人死亡，死因是溺水或在边境围栏处被挤压。到周五晚上，跨越边境的人员中约有 48,000 人已返回摩洛哥，这表明他们是在被误导的情况下前往那里的。边境的涌入引发了欧洲领导人要求西班牙暂时被暂停在申根自由旅行区之外。
一些广告被伪装成度假促销，配有旅游热点城市的图像。从英国向外迁移的人数仅为乘小船穿过英吉利海峡进入英国的寻求庇护者的极小一部分。然而，视频和广告的数量表明，这一贸易规模正在增长，部分原因是英国为非法移民营造了更“敌对”的环境。人口走私服务在社交媒体上宣传，视频显示移民乘坐货车后方跨越边境，或在抵达欧洲第一个目的地后跳入法国乡村。一些广告被伪装成度假促销，配有如巴黎埃菲尔铁塔、罗马斗兽场和柏林勃兰登堡门等旅游热点城市的图像。其他广告则针对那些学生签证过期的移民（主要来自印度次大陆），他们被提供一条离开英国的路线，以逃避内政大臣对英国签证制度和非法工作的严厉措施。
一段关于满载移民货车的视频直接呼吁“Dunki boys”——来自印度旁遮普邦和哈里亚纳邦等地区的年轻男子，他们在宝莱坞民俗中因寻求进入西方国家的后门移民路线而得此绰号。印度人和巴基斯坦人构成了英国最多的签证逾期滞留者，数千人从学生、工作或访问签证转而寻求在英国庇护。向法国迁移的人数激增引发了人们的担忧，即英国可能成为非法移民寻求进入欧洲后门路线的中转站。去年，国家犯罪局 (NCA) 揭露了一个人口走私团伙，该团伙持旅游签证将北非移民带到英国，每人收取最高 £1,200 的费用，将其通过货车从多佛尔走私到法国。
牛津大学移民观察站的高级研究员彼得·沃尔什表示：“好处之一就是逃避移民执法。内政部一直在加强执法基础设施，人们可能认为如果他们进入申根（无边境旅行）区，就可以自由前往任何他们喜欢的国家。他们可能认为在欧洲作为居民生存比在英国更容易。”一名被《每日电讯报》卧底记者联系的人口走私者似乎暗示了政府对非法工作的打击，以及计划将移民申请永久居留权的等待时间从 5 年增加到 10 年。
内政部发言人表示：“我们正与法国密切合作，防止利用国境线进行的非法移民尝试。在截至 2026 年 3 月的一年里，我们对犯罪走私活动的打击力度实现了创纪录的增长，包括逮捕、定罪和没收，增幅近 50%。”
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盟友们渴望英国发挥其真正潜力，但首相能否恢复其作为全球领导者的地位？
对于英国来说，这是一个——或者说应该是一个——重塑世界的绝佳机会。在失去帝国数十年后，英国终于可能找到那个长期以来一直难以把握的角色，并将自己塑造为一个中等强国联盟的引导力量，旨在恢复一个由美国创建但现在似乎不再相信的国际秩序。
无论如何，这是一系列欧洲政治人物、西方外交官和学者们的信念。他们在接受《每日电讯报》采访时，表达了对英国价值观和能力的钦佩，同时也对英国未能不负众望感到沮丧。他们表示，在欧洲内外，志同道合的大国正面临着唐纳德·特朗普对其盟友的轻视，以及旧有确定性的消逝。他们看向英国，如果不再是为了寻求救赎——那些日子已经过去——那么就是在日益失去方向且充满掠夺的世界中寻求领导力。
对他们而言，英国仍然是唯一一个拥有真正全球视野、全球触达力，且即便在此时仍具备全球能力的发达民主国家。“英国仍然是一个伟大的国家，”波兰外交部长拉德克·西科尔斯基在最近于伦敦皇家联合军种研究所发表的演讲中说道。“你们在联合国安理会拥有常任理事国席位，拥有核武器，一流的情报能力，全球外交触达力，优秀的大学以及部署军队的准备状态。英国在华盛顿、欧盟及其他地区享有巨大的影响力。它保留了一种罕见的能力，能够召集、说服、组织并领导其他国家。”
然而，钦佩之情正日益被不耐烦所取代。许多英国盟友在问，唐宁街最内向且国际经验最匮乏的首相之一，能否提供此时此刻所需的领导力。安迪·伯纳姆承诺将采取与前任不同的治理方式，誓言减少在国外的时间，将更多时间集中在国内优先事项上——即从“从未在此的基尔”转变为“关注家园的伯纳姆”。
然而，无论伯纳姆先生多么希望与世界保持距离，他可能都没有这种奢侈。事实上，盟友们正以日益紧迫的态度向他传达这一信息，警告说，英国在履行北约国防承诺方面拖延越久，就越有可能浪费掉成为中等强国中“首席平等者”的机会。在伯纳姆先生于7月20日就职前，西科尔斯基先生告诉《每日电讯报》：“如果你想成为全球参与者，你需要用武力支撑你的外交。要么为此买单，要么影响力就会衰减。”
英国的盟友们表示，有初步迹象表明新政府已经意识到这一点。约翰·希利的任命受到了欢迎。他之前因为不愿默认其认为不足的军费开支而辞去国防大臣职务，因此他在国防问题上拥有不同寻常的公信力。
然而，前方仍有重山峻岭。在北约32个成员国履行关键重新武装承诺的进展排名中，英国排名第31位，仅领先于冰岛。
中等强国的集结号 这一号召并非来自一位英国政治人物，而是一位从未提及过英国的加拿大人。在对……发表讲话时
在1月的达沃斯全球精英会议上，加拿大的首相马克·卡尼（Mark Carney）既为美国主导的秩序发表了悼词，也为“中等强国”如何在这种秩序消亡后生存提供了蓝图。卡尼先生敦促盟友接受一个基本事实：根本性的破裂已经发生。他实际上宣布了“基于规则的国际秩序”的死亡，以及大国之间竞争的回归。特朗普先生不仅撤走了让盟友在相对安逸中繁荣的安全保护伞，而且自己也加入了掠食者的行列。他说，在这样一个世界里：“中等强国必须采取共同行动，因为如果我们不在谈判桌旁，我们就会变成菜单上的菜肴。”
在这种暴露且脆弱的境地中，中等强国别无选择，只能组成灵活的联盟。卡尼先生的药方也遭到了质疑。政治学家迈克尔·贝克利（Michael Beckley）在《外交事务》杂志中写道，中等强国试图主张独立是某种“幻想”。他认为，新兴的秩序将“不是一个由崛起的中等强国构成的更平等的世界，而是一个更残酷的世界，其中两大顶尖强国拥有更多手段迫使他人屈服于自己的意志”。
除美国之外，很少有西方外交官会否认贝克利的诊断。他们的分歧在于结论。他们认为，如果世界确实变得更加残酷和具有掠食性，那么中等强国的协作就不是变得不那么必要，而是变得更加必要。对他们来说，问题不再是中等强国联盟是否应该存在，而应该是如何构建。而且他们认为，如果这个联盟有成功的希望，英国必须处于其前沿。
构建架构 锻造一个中等强国联盟是一项复杂的工作。第一个困难在于定义。究竟什么是“中等强国”？询问外交官，他们通常将其分为两个阵营。第一类是“志同道合”的中等强国：对于这些国家来说，民主、自由市场以及一个公认的模糊概念——共同价值，仍然是基础。大多数欧洲国家属于这一类，加拿大、澳大利亚、新西兰、日本和韩国亦然。
第二类通常被描述为“交易型中等强国”，包括印度、巴西、沙特阿拉伯、印度尼西亚、南非、阿拉伯联合酋长国、越南，以及视情况而定的土耳其。这些是区域重量级国家，寻求在美中之间采取对冲策略，但在价值问题上经常与第一组分歧。
接下来的挑战是如何将这些中等强国编织在一起。西方外交官表示，志同道合的强国应该更加协调一致地工作；只要利益一致，就与交易型强国形成共同战线；并且在尽可能的情况下，避免与华盛顿发生不必要的对抗。
“关于如何将这一构想落实到具体细节中，还有很多问题，”库尔特·坎贝尔（Kurt Campbell）表示，他曾在乔·拜登任内担任国务副卿。在西方对乌克兰的回应中，英国并没有等待共识的出现，而是反复推动共识的转移，打破了关于向基辅供应武器的外交禁忌。英国启动了一项在英国本土培训乌克兰新兵的多国计划，并建立了财务机制。
“英国保留了一种罕见的召集、说服和领导的能力，”坎贝尔说。
“目前，最有可能的是通过非正式渠道，在志同道合的国家之间建立临时联盟、必要之盟以及更紧密的协调，”萨利文女士（Ms Sullivan）补充道，尽管这种势头在一定程度上有所减弱。通过这种方式，盟友们可以采购军事装备提供给乌克兰。
并不直接意味着像埃马纽埃尔·马克龙（Emmanuel Macron）和卡尼先生（Mr Carney）这样的国家领导人将在阐述共同战略愿景方面变得更加突出。即便如此，乌克兰局势证明了英国最大的比较优势：外交官们所谓的“召集能力”。除了美国和法国，没有其他民主国家在世界上最重要的机构中占据如此多具有影响力的地位。英国将安理会常任理事国席位、G7成员国身份以及独立的核威慑力与一支蓝水海军相结合。英国在外交、金融和文化影响力的网络依然卓越，伦敦仍是世界领先的金融和法律中心之一。BBC世界服务广播保持着全球覆盖力。英国的大学继续吸引着世界上最聪明的人才。其外交服务部门仍是全球经验最丰富的部门之一。英语语言、王室和英超联赛赋予了英国极少有国家能与之匹敌的文化影响力。其军事触及能力同样独特。从福克兰群岛和塞浦路斯到阿曼和迭戈加西亚，英国的基地和情报设施网络使其具备全球存在感。
“英国最大的比较优势在于国防、安全，尤其是联合情报，在这些领域它既受尊重又令人畏惧，”地缘政治中心（Centre for Geopolitics）主任布伦丹·西姆斯（Brendan Simms）表示。
“我们可以追溯到 4 这种中等强国联盟的起源，是弗拉基米尔·普京创造了使其成为必要的条件。”查塔姆研究所（Chatham House）世界项目主任奥利维亚·欧苏利文（Olivia O'Sullivan）表示，“俄罗斯全面入侵乌克兰，促使欧盟在方法上更具地缘政治色彩，且欧洲变得更愿意增加国防支出。”
这种体系——卡尼先生称之为“可变几何结构”——许多人认为最适合英国。灵活且非正式的联盟比像欧盟那样僵化的、基于规则的结构更符合英国的外交本能。这并不意味着退出机构。前外交大臣、现任国际救援委员会负责人大卫·米利班德（David Miliband）认为，英国的未来在于最大限度地扩大其在多个机构和论坛中的影响力。“无论我们试图实现什么目标，无论是军事、外交还是人道主义方面，寻找可以让自己介入的制度模式都至关重要，”他说。
为什么选择英国？好消息是，中等强国合作的习惯在卡尼先生为其命名之前就已经在形成。如果英国在国防支出方面虽是后进者，但在过去几十年里已超越了大多数欧洲伙伴，那么它就在这一转变中处于前沿，特别是在激励其他国家方面。
被视为首选伙伴。从这个角度来看，这么多中等强国转向英国并不令人惊讶。“在一个破碎的世界中，英国在某种程度上偶然地让自己处于一个有利位置，”伦敦地缘战略委员会（Council on Geostrategy）研究员威廉·弗里尔（William Freer）表示。他认为，在过去的二十年里，即使资源不断被压缩，英国仍试图维持最广泛的能力频谱。“因为英国并不真正想放弃任何东西，所以它保留了能力的广度，但深度很浅，”他说。
“这就是为什么很多中等强国将英国视为首选伙伴。如果某个智库将 MI6 视为与 CIA 同样大，甚至更大的威胁。”
它有自己的一套问题，特别是如果英国打算独立行动的话。但作为那些寻求摆脱对美国依赖、实现多样化国家首选的合作伙伴，这意味着我们在提供专业知识作为合作伙伴方面处于相当有利的位置。”然而，这种广泛的影响力正变得日益难以维持。外交官们警告说，正当英国在世界舞台上的影响力比过去几十年更有价值时，这种影响力却在被侵蚀。
英国不断萎缩的国防开支 国防支出占 GDP 的比例 11% — 安迪·伯纳姆 必须让他的新“财政大臣”约翰·希利（左下）达成国防开支目标 10%—} 4% = 7% 6%- 4% a% 1970 1980 1950 © 1960
现实陷阱 英国的承诺规模庞大且在不断增加。它领导着联合远征部队，这是一个由 10 个北欧国家组成的联盟，旨在快速应对俄罗斯在波罗的海、北极和北大西洋的侵略。它是 AUKUS 中与澳大利亚和美国并列的合作伙伴，这使得英国在印太地区拥有长期存在，同时交付一支新型核动力攻击潜艇舰队。通过与日本和意大利合作，它正在开发美国和中国之外世界上唯一的第六代战斗机计划。其他承诺也在筹备中，最显著的是“意愿联盟”（Coalition of the Willing），这是由英国和法国牵头，旨在停火情况下保证乌克兰安全的部队，以及拟议中的恢复霍尔木兹海峡航行的海上任务。
随着全球威胁增加，对英国领导力的需求可能会增长。 类似的远征联盟 1990 «2000 «62000 = 2020 来源：SIPRI, NATO
“当关键时刻到来时，你要么有船可以派往海湾，要么有士兵可以派往乌克兰，否则就没有。” 前首相
安迪·伯纳姆的晨跑波折 安迪·伯纳姆昨天早晨显得有些不修边幅，迹象表明他在晨跑时可能摔了一跤。这位首相的左脸上有痕迹，在早上 7 点的慢跑结束时，他的手上沾满了泥土。这位梅克菲尔德（Makerfield）的国会议员在被拍到进行每日跑步时，穿着一件蓝色长袖健身衫。伯纳姆先生在慢跑时由两名携带对讲机的外交保护官员陪同。安全保护包括两辆随行车辆，由于他在其选区附近的曼彻斯特跑步，一辆武装响应车辆也是此次出行的一部分。鲍里斯·约翰逊在担任首相期间，经常被摄影师拍到在公园和街道上跑步；而戴维·卡梅伦则以每周两次在威斯敏斯特附近的伦敦公园慢跑而闻名。
可能需要被派往其他地方。已经有关于建立欧洲安全委员会的讨论，以减轻美国在北约中角色削弱所带来的风险。英国将希望处于前沿——其盟友也会期望它如此。但是，他们问道，在拒绝制定一个可信路径以实现北约 20352 年国防开支占 GDP 3.5% 的目标时，英国承担 60 个领导角色是否现实？根据当前计划，英国到 2030 年仅能达到 2.68%。
西科尔斯基先生直截了当地警告说，除非英国迅速弥合其雄心与国防计划之间的差距，否则将无法扮演外交领导者的角色。他说：“当关键时刻到来时，你要么有船可以派往海湾，要么有旅级部队可以派往乌克兰，否则就没有。”对于许多欧洲政府来说，更令人沮丧的是，英国曾是欧洲大陆国防开支的先行者，如今却落后了。
即使其他国家正奋力前行，而令许多盟友更为担忧的是，这个国家的政治文化正变得更加内向。外交部正将其人员规模削减高达四分之一。海外的高级职位正被削减或合并，而部署到海外的外交官数量也将减少。在连续削减海外开发援助支出后，英国在发展中国家的影响力也随之下降。世界服务电台 (World Service) 的资金被大幅削减。伯纳姆的选择 因此，悲观情绪弥漫也就不足为奇了，英国的硬实力和软实力均有所下降。三军的规模均不足冷战结束时的规模的一半。许多人担心，英国塑造国际秩序的能力正在消退。如今，英国的影响力不再依赖于压倒性的力量，而是在于其能力的广泛性。讽刺的是，
就在英国被要求领导中等强国之时，它却任由许多使其能够承担这一角色的能力在流失。在迪安·艾奇逊 (Dean Acheson) 观察到英国虽然失去了帝国但尚未找到角色超过六十年后，它可能终于触及了一个角色。能否把握住这个机会，现在取决于唐宁街的选择。伯纳姆先生有机会不仅是扭转英国长期从世界舞台退却的局面，而且能赋予它一个已在 60 年多时间里难以企及的使命感。英国的盟友们已经明确表示，他们希望他能这样做。
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高蛋白饮食可能会缩短你的寿命 尽管氨基酸被称为“生命的构建基块”，但对于不够活跃的人来说，它们可能是有害的 作者：Jonathan Chadwick
研究发现，采取高蛋白饮食可能会缩短你的寿命。蛋白质在体内分解为有助于身体生长和修复的氨基酸，因此被称作“生命的构建基块”。但在线科学期刊《Cell Press Blue》发表的一项综述研究表明，对于那些没有积极生活方式的人来说，摄入大量蛋白质可能会导致寿命缩短。
威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的作者达利·拉明（Dudley Lamming）教授告诉《每日电讯报》：“一些研究表明，在久坐不动的状态下摄入更多蛋白质，与更高的癌症、糖尿病发病率以及死亡率相关。这项研究仍处于早期阶段，还需要进一步研究来帮助人们根据自己的活动水平量身定制饮食。”
通常建议成年人每天每公斤体重摄入约 0.75g 蛋白质——对于一名 9st 6lb（约 58kg）的女性，每天约为 5g a day；对于一名 1st 11lb（约 100kg）的男性，每天约为 55g a day。对于女性而言，这可以由早餐的全谷物谷物片配牛奶、午餐的吐司配豆子以及晚餐的一个中等大小的鸡胸肉组成。
拉明教授及其合著者贝利·A·克诺普夫（Bailey A Knopf）对超过 350 篇关于蛋白质摄入与衰老的科学论文进行了综述。他们得出结论，减少蛋白质摄入可以通过改善代谢、减轻细胞损伤和维持健康的细胞功能来延缓衰老。研究人员指出，这一过程中的一个“主要介质”是一种名为 FGF21 的激素，当蛋白质摄入量较低时，该激素水平会上升。
FGF21 能增加身体燃烧的热量，监测血糖，并减轻脂肪组织中的炎症。研究还确定了几种似乎驱动了许多这些效应的氨基酸，包括甲硫氨酸、异亮氨酸和缬氨酸。研究表明，限制甲硫氨酸（可以通过严格的纯素食实现）可以导致体重减轻并使血糖保持在健康、稳定的水平。同时，限制异亮氨酸已被证明能改善代谢健康，而限制缬氨酸则可降低患肝病的概率。
据认为，氨基酸会触发促进肌肉生长的生物过程，但这可能会增加肥胖、炎症和其他年龄相关疾病的风险。相比之下，定期锻炼的人可能会免受高蛋白饮食带来的任何负面健康影响。
该团队的实验室实验还表明，蛋白质会导致久坐的小鼠体内脂肪堆积。与此同时，运动的小鼠能够免受这些影响，并且比采取低蛋白饮食的小鼠变得更强壮、速度更快且肌肉更大。
科学家们表示，在人体中，具体起作用的机制仍需进一步研究。他们警告称，关于“最佳蛋白质摄入水平仍有许多未知数”，并提醒道：“人们摄入的蛋白质可能远高于建议的每日推荐量，因此可能会从限制蛋白质或氨基酸摄入中获益。与此同时，某些人群确实对蛋白质有更大的需求，包括每天运动的人、孕妇、成长中的儿童以及伤后康复者。”
“限制
蛋白质或特定的氨基酸可能会对这些群体造成危害，”他们总结道。
首相必须在社交媒体禁令上采取“强硬手段” 作者：Charles Hymas
在研究显示科技公司阻碍澳大利亚的方案后，在议会贵族院领导该运动的纳什勋爵（Lord Nash）表示，首相必须使用“强硬手段”来执行工党针对 16 岁以下儿童的社交媒体禁令。纳什勋爵的修正案迫使工党采用了该禁令，他表示首相必须吸取澳大利亚的教训——在澳大利亚，一份官方报告揭露，尽管有禁令在执行，但仍有数百万儿童留在社交媒体上，而平台应为此负责。
根据该国在线监管机构（电子安全专员）的研究，在 2025 年 12 月禁令生效前就在社交媒体上的澳大利亚儿童中，有 8 成（10 分之 8）在理应被屏蔽三个月后，仍至少在一个平台上拥有账户。略超过一半（50.2 per cent）的人表示，他们仍然留在社交媒体上的原因是公司甚至没有询问他们的年龄，尽管法律要求平台采取所有“合理步骤”来阻止 16 岁以下儿童使用其账户。
YouTube 的情况最糟，在留在该网站的儿童中，有 48.7 per cent 表示他们没有被要求验证年龄。Instagram 为 37.7 per cent，TikTok 为 36 per cent，Snapchat 为 32.3 per cent，Facebook 为 28,2 per oent。即使社交媒体公司采取了执行措施，检查也毫无成效，有 37.1 per cent 的儿童表示他们谎称自己已成年。
“部长们不应假设这些公司具有诚信。他们只对强硬手段有反应。”
一个家庭告诉研究人员：“没什么改变，因为我的两个孩子（15 和 13 岁）都能通过‘面部年龄识别’绕过限制。系统估计他们超过 16 岁。”
前教育大臣纳什勋爵表示：“儿童仍然持有账户的最主要原因，并不是他们找到了规避规则的方法，而是平台从一开始就从未询问过他们的年龄。”
“部长们不应假设这些公司具有任何诚信。这些公司只对强硬手段有反应。”
“如果操作得当，年龄验证是非常有效的。我们的制度必须是最严格的，并匹配强有力的执行权力。”
英国在制定禁令时参考了澳大利亚的方法，采用了相同的社交媒体定义，但政府承诺将应用更严格的儿童年龄验证规则。政府计划强制公司使用“高效”的年龄保证方法，而不是像澳大利亚那样仅要求他们采取“所有合理步骤”来阻止 16 岁以下儿童。
验证方式可能包括面部年龄估算（使用人工智能评估年龄）、数字 ID、信用卡、开放银行、护照、电话公司年龄检查以及电子邮件年龄估算（通过分析用户使用互联网的情况，以确定其是否使用了其他成人服务）。
ERLGOM ‘CAN BAALAy PORTER ET A-PORT Blossoming 在格蕾塔·格威格（Greta Gerwig）导演的《纳尼亚》改编剧、一部新喜剧电影以及即将到来的 JJ 艾布拉姆斯（JJ Abrams）大银幕回归作品中的主演角色加持下，英国女演员艾玛·麦基（Emma Mackey）在接受《Porter》杂志采访时表示，她即将迎来职业生涯最辉煌的一年。
鲍威尔：失业危机应归咎于高夫的学校改革 作者：Gwyn Wright
新任教育大臣将青少年失业危机归咎于迈克尔·高夫（Michael Gove）的学校改革。露西·鲍威尔（Lucy Powell）表示，失业青年被其保守党前任的改革“辜负”了，这些改革……
被认为提高了学校标准。她还暗示，她将考虑再次对课程进行大修，以减少对学术科目的关注。在去年由贝基·弗朗西斯教授（Prof Becky Francis）发布的一项审查之后，政府已经在考虑对课程进行更改，该审查建议青少年参加的 GCSE 考试数量应减少。
鲍威尔女士在为《泰晤士报》撰写的一篇文章中写道：“一百万。在迈克尔·戈夫（Michael Gove）主政的教育体系中，有这么多年轻人现在被排除在教育之外，既没有就业也没有接受培训。这并非巧合——而是一个后果。这是他的遗产。”
“来自贫困背景、且处于顽固且根深蒂固劣势的儿童，以及有特殊教育需求的儿童，在很大程度上被辜负了。”
“同样被辜负的，还有那些才华和技能不在学术领域，而是在创意学科、技术或熟练工作，或更偏向实际应用领域的人。”
安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）已承诺将技术资格与学术资格置于同等地位，作为一项旨在“像重视毕业帽一样重视安全帽”的驱动计划的一部分。从 2028 年 9 月起，14 岁及以上的学生将在参加学术考试的同时，能够获得技术资格，并在一个模仿伯纳姆先生的“大曼彻斯特高中毕业证书”（Greater Manchester Baccalaureate）的方案中，在当地企业进行工作实践。
首相希望他的改革能帮助解决年轻人的失业危机。在 2026 年的前三个月里，有超过一百万名 16 至 24 岁的人被归类为既没有接受教育、也没有就业或培训，且在精神健康状况申请激增的情况下，有超过 £30,000 名 16-24 岁的人正在申请病假救济金。
然而，批评者担心这一举措将逆转英格兰学校在提高学术标准方面十多年来取得的进展。在 2009 年至 2023 年间，英格兰 15 岁少年的数学表现排名从第 27 位上升到第 7 位，而科学方面则从第 16 位上升到第 13 位。
戈夫先生改革的支持者认为，英格兰学校引入了更严格且更基于知识的课程，而北爱尔兰、苏格兰和威尔士由于没有采取类似政策，并未出现类似的提升。
曾在 2010 年至 2014 年间担任教育大臣的戈夫先生指责鲍威尔女士表现出一种“野心匮乏”。他表示，人们有一种“自然倾向”，认为“能够享受或从 16 岁之前的学术课程中获益的学生人数是有局限的”。
戈夫先生补充道：“这正表现出一种野心匮乏，因为表现最好的学校……成功地吸引了来自贫困家庭的学生，并且……他们能够确保这些孩子获得成功。”
犹太裔老兵：反犹主义与二战前一样糟糕 记者报道
一名 102 岁的犹太裔第二次世界大战老兵表示，现在的反犹主义与战前一样糟糕。
蒙蒂·戈尔德斯坦（Monty Goldstein）在冲突期间曾在皇家炮兵服役，他回忆起战争前后的那些年里有“很多反犹主义”。
他说道：“那时在东区，有很多反犹主义，莫斯利（Mosley）和黑衫军，以及离我住的地方仅一石之遥的达克特街（Duckett Street），在那些年里非常活跃，情况非常糟糕。”
“不幸的是，今天我们又陷入了同样的情况，而这并非我们的过错。我做了什么值得遭受这一切？”
此前，自三年前 10 月 7 日袭击事件以来，英国街道上的反犹仇恨犯罪有所增加。两名犹太男子被刺伤在
2026年4月的北伦敦戈尔德斯格林（Golders Green），以及一个月后，东伦敦怀特查佩尔（Whitechapel）的一座前犹太会堂，相继成为纵火袭击的目标。
戈尔德斯坦先生表示：“我做了什么值得被这样对待？国外发生的事情不是我的错，我也无能为力。”
“但这里有大量的反犹主义，特别是在戈尔德斯格林地区。有些人害怕走在街上。这就是为什么我说英国已经不再是以前那样了。”
“我希望我是一个友善、和平的人，我不惹麻烦，幸运的是我从未陷入任何困境。”
“英国是我的国家，我热爱它，并对其充满敬意。我不知道其他任何事情。我首先是一个英国人。那么为什么我们要遭受袭击？”
戈尔德斯坦先生认为学校应该在教育儿童方面做更多工作。他说：“有些群体怀有敌意，并被教导在没有任何理由的情况下憎恨犹太人，仅仅因为他们是犹太人。”
“我们努力成为好公民，尽我们最大的努力，但我们仍然被认为具有敌意，对此我们无能为力。”
蒙蒂·戈尔德斯坦（Monty Goldstein）在庆祝他的 102 岁生日时表示，英国“不再是原来的样子”了。
戈尔德斯坦先生 1924 年 7 月出生于东伦敦的商业路（Commercial Road），1943 年 18 岁时被征召入伍，在防空搜寻灯团服役，保卫首都免受德国人的轰炸袭击。他原本以为在 D-Day（诺曼底登陆）之后会被派往法国，但由于他的团被认为在保护国家免受空中袭击方面更有价值，因此留在英国。
战后，他加入了前犹太军人协会（Ajex），并自 1945 年起参加纪念活动。但戈尔德斯坦先生说，这个国家不再像以前那样令人敬仰了。他补充道：“我们奋斗了五年，对抗暴政之类的事情，而我们现在的状态不是在前进，而是在后退，这不是一个好迹象。有些人想要离开这个国家。”
现居住在东伦敦查德韦尔希思（Chadwell Heath）的戈尔德斯坦先生将在年满 102 岁后的几天里，与他的子女、孙辈及曾孙辈一起参加一场茶会。
他说：“每天早上起床，你会说‘感谢上帝’，这就是一种馈赠。”
“如果你在战争期间在军队服役，你现在肯定已经 90 多岁了，不幸的是，剩下的人已经不多了。”
周一 2026年8月3日 每日电讯报 新闻
克莱克顿五分之一的选民宁愿选择“垃圾脸”而非“达斯”法拉奇 作者：Alice Lilley
民调显示，在即将到来的克莱克顿补选中，五分之一的人计划投票给垃圾脸伯爵（Count Binface），而非奈杰尔·法拉奇（Nigel Farage）。法拉奇先生在被揭露于大选前收到亿万富翁克里斯托弗·哈博恩（Christopher Harborne）的一笔 500 万英镑m 赠款后，在这一自 2024年起一直由其把持的选区发起了补选。
由于所有主要政党都决定不派出候选人与其竞争，预计这位英国改革党领袖将轻松赢得补选。Survation 为 Mandate Research 在该选区进行的民调表明，在低投票率的情况下，他可能以 73% 的得票率再次当选。
但反法拉奇情绪在垃圾脸伯爵周围聚集，后者的预计支持率达到 20%。在针对这两位候选人的直接民调中，法拉奇先生的支持率降至 69%，而垃圾脸的支持率则上升至 3)%。
民调显示，这位改革党领袖在埃塞克斯选区依然受欢迎，在潜在选民中的支持率约为 56%。在下一次大选的民调中，工党为 8%，而保守党为 10%。
此次民调之际，垃圾脸伯爵在《The Rest is Politics》播客中引用了《星球大战》中欧比旺·克诺比与达斯·维达对话的精神。他说，虽然法拉奇先生在“数量上”可能会赢，但在“道德上”不会赢。
他说：“如果他击败了我，我将变得比他能想象的更加强大。”
A0TH Sn 5. 启迪 晨曦透过罗斯林教堂（Rosslyn Chapel）地下室的彩色玻璃窗，投射出基督变像的图像。该地下室和教堂因在丹·布朗的《达芬奇密码》中被描述为圣杯的藏匿地而闻名全球。
洛伟为“国家利益”提出改革契约 法拉奇暗示他可能与 Restore 达成选举协议，以建立一个“广泛的联盟”并击败左翼 作者：Daniel Martin 政治副编辑
奈杰尔·法拉奇在誓言要建立一个团结右翼的“广泛联盟”后，引发了关于他将与 Restore Britain 达成协议的猜测。
昨天上午，鲁珀特·洛伟（Rupert Lowe）表示，他与法拉奇先生需要共同努力，以便在下次选举中建立一个“爱国政府”。
但这位 Restore 领袖表示，只有在法拉奇先生同意五项政策（包括大规模遣返、禁止穿波卡罩袍以及就死刑举行全民公投）的情况下，他才会达成协议。他还要求大幅削减福利，并要求罗伯特·詹里克（Robert Jenrick）和苏埃拉·布拉弗曼（Suella Braverman）等前保守党大臣被排除在任何由改革党与 Restore 组成的内阁之外。
法拉奇先生在昨晚回应称，只要其他人与他一样致力于恢复英国的边界，他希望得到其他政党人士的支持以击败左翼。但他坚持支持他的影子内阁，并表示：“我永远不会背弃我的团队。”
法拉奇先生表示，下次选举将是“英国改革党与工党之间的二选一”。
他说：“爱国选民相信许多相同的东西，但只有一家政党真正具有实现变革的可能性。”
“为了实现这一变革，我明白英国改革党将需要其他政党人士以及数百万从未投票过的人的支持。这就是我正在建立的广泛联盟。”
“我之前的政治经历也表明，我始终准备将国家利益置于政党之上，就像我在 2019. 年所做的那样。但我永远不会背弃我的团队。”
在过去的 18 个月里，洛伟先生一直让法拉奇先生感到头疼。
在脱离英国改革党并成立自己的政党后。在被暂停资格后，法拉格先生表示，洛夫先生已“无路可回”，并将他推动大规模驱逐非法移民的言论描述为“严重、阴暗且危险的语言”。近几个月来，Restore党在地方选举中蚕食了英国改革党的支持率，而法拉格先生的政党在民调中则落后于工党。上周，Restore党在大曼彻斯特市长的补选中获得了9%的第一志愿选票，击败了保守党。洛夫先生的提议正值英国改革党面临新指控之际，指控称法拉格先生在当选国会议员前的一年内未能申报其收到的捐款。《星期日泰晤士报》报道称，法拉格先生在2024年大选前数月便同意回归担任英国改革党领导人。根据该协议，在法拉格先生接手后，英国改革党同意偿还欠当时的领导人理查德·泰斯所有公司100 万英镑的未偿贷款。
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每日电讯报 2026年8月3日 星期一 / 新闻
阿富汗男子就行李箱内尸体案“供认” 希腊警方逮捕一名26岁男子，涉嫌过失致死及抢劫一名英国受害者 作者：Alice Lilley
一名阿富汗男子在雅典被捕，该案与一名英国女性的死亡有关，其尸体是在一个行李箱中被发现的。
来自苏格兰的伊丽莎白-简·罗斯（Elizabeth-Jane Ross），38, 岁，于7月18日在希腊里普塞利（Rypseli）的一栋废弃建筑内被发现被塞进一个行李箱中。一名无家可归的男子在发现一栋空建筑散发“恶臭”，并看到行李箱中伸出“看起来像人类肢体”的东西后，发现了她的尸体。
罗斯是一名虔诚的基督徒，经常前往希腊通过非政府组织从事志愿服务并帮助他人，被认为是一位“好撒玛利亚人”。
希腊警方在一份声明中表示，一名来自阿富汗的26岁男性外籍公民因涉嫌过失致死、抢劫和违反武器法律而被逮捕。警官们了解到，该男子使用了受害者的银行卡提取现金。警方表示，该男子在审讯期间供认将罗斯扔进行李箱，然后将其运至里普塞利的一处废弃地点，她随后在那里被发现。在对嫌疑人住所的搜查中发现了的一把假手枪和一把刀。警方称，监控录像显示嫌疑人将一个巨大的旅行袋带到了该地点。
被人们称为丽莎（Lisa）的罗斯经常在城市较贫穷的地区被发现与无家可归的人交谈。这位来自爱丁堡的受害者深受坚定信仰的启发，在世界各地参与慈善工作，包括在库尔德斯坦地区花时间帮助叙利亚难民。有人看到她在一个废弃停车场附近与无家可归的人聊天，那里是他们饮酒、吸毒和睡觉的地方。
希腊警方此前质疑罗斯是否被她试图帮助的人杀害。他们认为她是被某个认识她的人杀害的，但尚未确定这段友谊的完整背景。警方正在寻找一名叫马科斯（Markos）的无家可归男子，他在基普塞利（Kypeseli）以携带刀具且对女性有攻击性而闻名。据描述，他身上有大量纹身，黑发，体格粗壮，大约 40 岁。
警方侦查员告诉当地媒体，他们正在调查她的手机，该手机在她死后依然处于激活状态。警官们认为，有人在发送信息，以制造罗斯仍然活着的假象。据当地希腊媒体报道，交换的短信称她“需要一些独立的时间”，且“想一个人静一会”。
据说希腊侦探正在将窒息视为这名苏格兰女性的死因。警方还认为，她是在尸体被发现的地点附近被杀害的。
她的父亲透露，在女儿死后，他收到了来自女儿手机的短信。这位在爱丁堡担任律师的父亲告诉警方，在女儿死后的两周内，他收到了一个男子的几条信息，而该男子现在被认为已因与她的死亡有关而被逮捕。
英格兰橄榄球球星马库斯·史密斯（Marcus Smith）在萨丁岛度假期间宣布与长期伴侣贝丝·多林（Beth Dolling）订婚。这对情侣在Instagram上分享了这一消息，贝丝展示了戒指并配文：“激动得说不出话来。”
英国陆军摧毁战争英雄墓碑
由于担心遭到破坏，由 Fiona Parker 报道。根据最新披露的文件，英国军队在将巴斯拉（Basra）的英联邦士兵墓碑移走后将其粉碎。2003年，由于担心被毁或被破坏，伊拉克南部巴斯拉战争公墓中刻有两次世界大战阵亡者姓名的数百块墓碑被移走。另有 80 块刻有陆军部队团徽和阵亡者姓名的大型面板也被移走。然而，根据《信息自由》（FOI）法案披露的电子邮件和会议记录显示，这些英国战争阵亡者的纪念碑被摧毁并变成了碎石。文件记录显示，截至 26 2005, 相关部门已授权将墓碑粉碎，并将物料填充在距离巴斯拉约 9 英里的陆军 Shaibah 物流基地的排水沟中。
由一个记录伊拉克英联邦坟墓的存档网站在网上公布的 FOI 回复指出，这些结构将被粉碎至“40 毫米，以确保无法读取任何徽章或姓名”。另一份日期为 5 2005, 的文档写道：“墓碑现已粉碎，准备放入渗水井中。” 共有近 800 块墓碑为无名坟墓，阵亡者仍被埋在巴斯拉战争公墓中。
关于墓碑去向的细节直到最近几周才在 Ben Soppitt 发布 FOI 回复后浮出水面。Soppitt 先生的祖父，炮手 Joseph Soppitt，就埋葬在巴斯拉战争公墓中，据信在 2003 年的一场袭击中丧生。据信，在 64 Works Group Royal Engineers 的监督下，整个清理工作在获得授权后便立即开展。
国防部（MoD）最初在 2026, 2 月拒绝 Soppitt 先生的公开资料请求，直到信息专员公署在收到审核请求后介入，才予以公布。Soppitt 先生已向高等法院申请就墓碑被毁一事进行司法审查。他告诉《星期日邮报》：“国防部正在否认这一主张，‘当然，没有借口’，不愿承担确保埋葬在那里的 3,000 多名男女获得应有的、公众所期望的荣誉纪念的成本。”
与此同时，2002-2005, 年担任总参谋长助理的 Richards 勋爵告诉该报：“我对这座公墓所发生的事情深感悲痛。事后看来，当然没有任何借口。然而，毫无疑问，在当时巴斯拉那种危险且动荡的环境下，做出这一决定的军官认为他们是在做正确的事。”
由于法律原因，国防部发言人无法提供评论。
克鲁恩指责“虔诚的委员会”在规划纠纷中粗暴对待当地人 电讯报记者报道 马丁·克鲁恩（MARTIN CLUNES）对他认为“虔诚”的规划官员提出了愤怒的批评，因为这些官员允许在他价值 500 万英镑 的乡间别墅旁建立一个永久的旅行者定居点。这位《男人如此坏》（Men Behaving Badly）的明星在写给有关部门的信中，批评了官僚们，并反对在他多塞特郡（Dorset）房产另一侧建立有机农场的最新“ flimsy”计划。环保种植者 Andy Cream 和 Grace Burger 希望为他们的小企业建造一个储物棚、两个塑料大棚和一个温室。但 64, 岁的克鲁恩先生担心，这些计划是这对夫妇在距离多塞特郡 Beaminster 附近 Higher Meerhay 农场仅 140 米的土地上建立永久住所的前奏，他目前就居住在那里。
他的妻子菲莉帕·布雷思韦特（Philipa Braithwaite）。这位饰演马丁医生（Doc Martin）的演员声称，多塞特郡议会最终将允许克里姆先生和博格女士“随心所欲”。他的这一主张源于他与新纪元旅行者西奥·朗顿（Theo Langton）和露丝·麦吉尔（Ruth MeGill）之间持续四年且激烈的规划争议，而他在该争议中败诉。今年早些时候，尽管该地处于卓越自然风景区（AONB），多塞特郡议会仍批准这对夫妇在距离克鲁恩夫妇豪华农场仅 275 米的地方建立一个永久性的旅行者营地。朗顿先生和麦吉尔女士在当地政府发放的滚动临时许可证下，已经在私人林地的移动房屋中生活了 20 年多。当该许可证于 2022 年到期时，他们寻求永久留驻的许可，这引起了克鲁恩先生的愤怒。这场争端变得极其难看，克鲁恩先生指责邻居在申请中“不诚实”，并声称他们并非真正的旅行者，因此无权获得永久营地。
克里姆先生和博格女士最初于 2025 年 7 月提交了他们的生态创业计划，寻求建造临时农业工人住宅的许可。但在收到包括克鲁恩先生及其妻子、电视制作人布雷思韦特女士在内的邻居反对后，他们撤回了申请中的该项内容。克里姆先生和博格女士在 4 月重新提交了一份仅涵盖农用建筑的申请。克鲁恩先生用讽刺的语气写道，尽管当地居民反对，议会仍将帮助这对夫妇实现住在该地块的最终目标。他说：“看来这份申请与这对夫妇最初提交的申请完全一样，只不过他们不再声称住在该地块对他们的计划至关重要。我认为可以安全地假设，鉴于其商业计划的单薄，住在该地块才是他们的最终目标。”
“根据个人经验，我对这些申请人的建议是，在他们购买的土地上继续随心所欲。他们可以忽略多塞特郡议会制定的任何裁决或条件，因为议会不会执行它们。”
“在经历了几年毫无进展，以及在案件被一拖再拖的过程中规划委员会成员多次更替后，规划官员和委员会将会抱团取暖，在面对任何反对意见时，引导并帮助申请人使其对土地所做的任何工程或扩建获得认可。”
“通过这种方式，议会看起来就像是没有必要去执行那些他们本来就没能执行的规定。在他们的虔诚自律中，委员会会说每项申请都是根据其自身价值来评判的。这简直是胡说，先例才是一切。”
克里姆先生和博格女士表示，他们希望创建一个“传统的市场花园，在一英亩的最低耕作土地上种植 100 多种季节性蔬菜、水果、草药和花卉”。他们称，市场花园的农产品将通过“蔬菜篮”计划直接销售给当地社区和当地企业。对于这些计划的反应不一，数十名当地人支持该申请，但比明斯特（Beaminster）镇议会则反对该计划。
不顾一切，柯林斯与保罗爵士的宿怨结束
菲尔·柯林斯（PHIL COLLINS）结束了与保罗·麦卡特尼爵士（Sir Paul McCartney）长达十年的宿怨。这两位音乐传奇在 2016 年闹翻，当时 75 岁的柯林斯声称，多年前当他请求这位前披头士成员在书上签名时，84 岁的保罗爵士对他态度傲慢。然而，这两位音乐家似乎已经冰释前嫌。
在保罗爵士提议向由柯林斯组织的慈善拍卖会捐赠一些纪念品后，两人化解了矛盾。“我们和好了，他很高兴我们讨论了这件事，我也很高兴我们讨论了这件事，50 这真的太好了，现在终于圆满了，”柯林斯告诉《星期日泰晤士报》。这位八次格莱美奖得主在 2016 年的一次采访中首次透露了他对麦卡特尼的反感，而麦卡特尼曾被他视为偶像。当时，柯林斯说：“他在和你说话时有这样一个特点，他会让你觉得……[模仿一种傲慢的利物浦口音]‘我知道这对你来说一定很困难，因为我是一个披头士成员。我是保罗·麦卡特尼，实际上能和我对话对你来说一定非常困难！’“我在 2002 年参加白金汉宫的派对活动时遇到了他。麦卡特尼和海瑟·米尔斯一起走过来，我手里拿着一本亨特·戴维斯写的披头士第一版传记，我说，‘嘿，保罗，你介意帮我签这个吗？’结果他说，‘噢，海瑟，我们的小菲尔是个披头士迷呢’。我想，‘你个混蛋，你个混蛋……’我一直没忘记这件事。”柯林斯告诉《公告牌》，“他因为这件事联系过我，因为他很伤心。我确实没收到他送的花；我收到的更像是‘我们就各过各的生活吧’。我很抱歉他对我说了些难听的话而感到难过。好吧，其实也没那么难听。如果人们不告诉对方有时态度可以改进，那么情况永远不会好转。”曾在美国拥有《Against All Odds》冠军单曲的柯林斯在谈到保罗爵士随后的电子邮件时说：“这在某种程度上让我感觉不舒服，显然也让他感觉不舒服。”
菲尔·柯林斯与保罗爵士因一次白金汉宫的会面而闹翻
这位歌手最近联系了保罗爵士，请求他和其他艺术家为 11 月份的国王信托基金慈善拍卖会捐赠纪念品。据称，保罗爵士打电话表示他会捐赠，并委婉地提到了他们闹翻的话题。“我知道话题要走向哪里，于是我说，‘感谢上帝，你提到了这件事。因为他是我生活的一部分，你知道吗？’”柯林斯告诉《星期日泰晤士报》。 “我希望我当初没那样说，尽管那确实发生了。”
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霍尔穆兹海峡新计划令伊朗掌控局面 根据一项允许船只从德黑兰控制侧进入海湾的协议，该海峡将重新开放 作者：James Crisp
在可能将霍尔穆兹海峡的至少部分控制权交给德黑兰的谈判期间，唐纳德·特朗普取消了新一轮对伊朗的袭击。特朗普在周六深夜宣布，他撤回了原计划的袭击，“前提是能够迅速达成协议”。
这位美国总统表示，该协议将导致“霍尔穆兹海峡立即、全面且彻底地开放，并结束伊朗的核威胁”。
昨日披露的谈判细节显示，其中包含一套新的海峡进出系统，这至少会将该水路的部分控制权交给伊朗。这项所谓的“妥协协议”将要求船只从海峡的伊朗控制侧进入海湾，并从阿曼侧离开。
任何此类协议都将引发关于伊朗是否会对使用该战略咽喉点收取通行费的疑问，而白宫长期以来一直反对这一点。据报道，该协议由包括卡塔尔在内的海湾国家起草，伊朗谈判代表显然对相关提案反应积极。
特朗普昨日表示，沙特阿拉伯王储穆罕默德·本·萨勒曼已说服他取消原定将成为“第二次世界大战以来最大规模袭击”的行动，转而选择谈判，谈判将于今天下午开始。
“他们说，相比于袭击，我们更希望达成协议，因为你不知道这些袭击会导致什么结果，”总统补充道，“我的意思是，[他们将]面临大量人口涌入其国家以及灾难。很多更好的事情是可以发生的。”
特朗普表示，谈判将讨论霍尔穆兹海峡和伊朗的核计划，但警告称，如果谈判失败，美国将“在任何我们想要的时刻准备行动”。
伊朗对这一至关重要航运通道的掌控一直令华盛顿感到沮丧。美国总统多次呼吁船只在海峡中自由流动。华盛顿强烈 5 反对伊朗要求向经过海峡的船只收取费用或通行费，这是迄今为止谈判中的一个关键分歧点。
目前尚不清楚德黑兰是否会被允许作为协议的一部分收取通行费。但在经历了数月导致数十亿美元损失及大量美国军方人员丧生的冲突后，对伊朗要求的任何让步都将被视为特朗普的一次重大失败。
美国总统多次试图从伊朗手中夺回海峡控制权的努力迄今为止均未成功。周五，他威胁将把能源基础设施作为目标，发起大规模袭击，旨在迫使伊朗回到谈判桌前。
他在周六的 Truth Social 帖子中表示，美国已“收到伊朗及其他中东国家的请求，暂停任何袭击，因为协议的框架已经达成”。他说，他接受了德黑兰的提案，是为了“世界的未来利益，同样也为了一个成功且繁荣的伊朗的生存”。
但伊朗官方媒体反驳了特朗普对导致暂停袭击之事件的描述。该国半官方的梅赫尔通讯社称，美国总统的声明“不过是一个新的谎言”。它补充说，伊朗军队正处于“高度戒备状态，随时准备应对任何可能性”。
这些原计划由协同……
与以色列协调，原预计将目标指向皮卡克斯山（Pickaxe Mountain），以色列情报部门声称伊朗在此地隐藏了用于制造铀的离心机，而铀可被用于制造核武器。本周早些时候，他曾表示“非常友好的谈判”正在进行中，从而导致战斗暂停。但在伊朗对约旦发起突袭以及美国的报复性打击后，该暂停期宣告结束。周六，美国在中东的几家大使馆警告美国公民，如果美国发起攻击，可能会出现“无法预见的升级”。位于巴格达、耶路撒冷和安曼的大使馆已鼓励美国人“考虑离境”并远离美国基地。尽管面临新袭击的威胁，但据《华盛顿邮报》报道，美国驻欧最高将领私下向五角大楼警告称，他缺乏保护以色列免受导弹袭击的设备。美国欧洲司令部负责人亚历克斯·格林克维奇（Alexus Grynkewich）将军告诉官员们，如果没有另一艘海军驱逐舰，他将被迫在防御美国“本土”与防御以色列之间做出选择。本周，在经历了数日的战斗低潮后，伊朗和美国恢复了夜间的交火，尽管周五夜间没有报告袭击。周五，特朗普先生指责伊朗人“非常不光彩”，并在之前的谈判中违背诺言。德黑兰方面没有表现出同意其要求的迹象。一些官员认为，伊朗计划拖延谈判，希望特朗普在面对日益高涨的国内反战压力时选择退让。周六，伊朗军方指责美国在中东“升级紧张局势”，并警告该地区国家在冲突期间不要与华盛顿合作。“美国正迅速走上在该地区升级紧张局势的道路，”伊朗军事中央司令部负责人阿里·阿卜杜拉希（Ali Abdollahi）表示。
特朗普同意哈马斯解除武装计划后，以色列轰炸加沙 作者：Alexander Butler
尽管哈马斯同意了一项结束战争的协议，但以色列在加沙全境的空袭中已造成至少 18 人死亡。巴勒斯坦民防官员表示，在一次针对加沙中部代尔巴拉（Deir el-Balah）南部一栋公寓的以色列直升机袭击中，一名男子及其妻子被杀。他们补充说，在针对加沙南部汗尤尼斯（Khan Younis）和加沙城的以色列战机袭击中，另有数人死亡。以色列国防军（IDF）已被请求对此发表评论。当局周六报告称，另有八人在袭击中丧生，袭击造成一家医院的医疗用品受损并针对一个屋顶。周五，唐纳德·特朗普宣布，作为一项多阶段进程的一部分，哈马斯已同意在以色列撤出加沙的交换下交出武器。条款将强制以色列停止轰炸该地区并分阶段撤出，同时哈马斯将作为爱尔兰式和平进程的一部分移交武器。美国总统赞扬通过其和平委员会（Board of Peace）协商达成的这份 15 点计划是“一个重大里程碑”。但以色列随后誓言，如果没有“真正的解除武装”，将不会撤出。以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡尚未发表评论，但以色列国家安全部长伊塔马尔·本-格维尔（Itamar Ben-Gvir）称该计划不可接受。根据新的加沙协议，哈马斯的警察将把武器移交给一个过渡机构进行存储和报废。作为回报，以色列军队将从……撤出
领土。留在该领土内的个人武器随后将被移交，由以色列国防军（IDF）支持的民兵及其他武装部落持有的武器亦同。前法塔赫高级官员穆罕默德·达兰表示，特朗普先生的女婿贾里德·库什纳曾告诉他，他正与以色列方面合作以停止对加沙的袭击。他表示，与美国的接触仍在继续，以确保协议得到执行，并补充说，协议的成功取决于以色列是否停止袭击。特朗普先生还表示，该协议包括对“所有其他武装团体”的解除武装，这被认为是指各种“部落”，其中一些得到了以色列的支持。基于“零信任”的前提，该计划的每个阶段都将是可验证的，并伴随以色列军队的撤出。
美国总统对出售 Truth Social VIP 访问权限引发的抵制不以为意 作者：James Titcomb 科技编辑
唐纳德·特朗普的社交媒体公司已开始出售其帖子的 VIP 访问权限，尽管有人指称该服务是对权力的“令人震惊的滥用”。Truth Social 是一款类似于 Twitter 的服务，总统经常在上面发布更新，该平台现已开始向银行和高频交易公司提供高速信息流。该服务每月收费高达 $100,000 (£74,000)，旨在让付费客户能够立即追踪数据。
特朗普先生在 Truth Social 背后的公司——特朗普媒体和技术集团（TMTG）中持有 41 的股份。出售其帖子快速通道访问权的计划于今年初夏首次披露，引发了民主党人的强烈抵制，他们称特朗普先生在利用其职位敛财。虽然该服务在官方上将提供一组最高级别 Truth Social 账户的访问权限，但特朗普先生迄今为止是最受欢迎的。他在该服务上拥有 12.9 百万粉丝，而紧随其后的第二名——他的儿子小唐纳德则拥有 7.5 million 粉丝。
在代上周发送给市场监管机构证券交易委员会（SEC）主席保罗·阿特金斯的一封信中，参议员伊丽莎白·沃伦和亚当·希夫要求调查该安排是否合法。
“这似乎是对总统职权的公然滥用，以谋取个人利益，”他们写道，“这似乎是对总统职权的公然滥用，以谋取个人利益，破坏了普通投资者的利益和市场的完整性，同时使华尔街和其他富有的内部人士获利。”
“特朗普总统在特朗普媒体公司中拥有显著的财务利益，基于他持有该公司大约 41 的股份，因此他将从该服务的推出中获利。”
“特朗普媒体计划通过总统自己的公司传播影响市场的信息，同时向内部人士收取费用，使其在公众之前获得访问权，从而令其公司获益——而损害投资公众的利益——这代表了对他总统职权以及美国公众信任的令人震惊的滥用，以实现个人私利。”
特朗普先生的帖子经常能引发市场波动。除了关于伊朗战争状态的声明（这些声明曾影响油价和全球股票市场）外，他经常发布关于个别公司的帖子以赞扬或贬低它们。
《华尔街日报》上个月报道称，至少有五家高频交易公司已签约使用该服务。即使在今年股价下跌 28 之后，特朗普先生在 TMTG 的股份仍价值约 $1. (8.1 亿英镑)。
伊拉克的什叶派民兵卷土重来，令美国陷入更长、更昂贵的战争 作者：Akhtar Makoii
卡西姆·苏莱曼尼的幽灵正...
依然在困扰着唐纳德·特朗普。苏莱曼尼在伊拉克境内倾尽职业生涯建立的一个什叶派民兵网络——即哈什德·阿沙比（Hashd al-Shaabi），又称人民动员力量（PMF）——已成为伊朗将美国及其他阿拉伯国家拖入一场更持久、代价更高昂的战争的最锐利工具之一。在特朗普下令使用美国无人机击杀这名创建者六年之后，当伊朗上周向约旦的美国阵地发动突击弹道导弹袭击时，PMF再次回到了前台。美国和沙特阿拉伯将此次袭击归咎于PMF，并袭击了该组织在伊拉克的基地；利雅得加入了一次美军发起的针对两人口中所称的“亲伊朗恐怖分子”的攻击。PMF表示，袭击击中了其多个站点，造成至少 20 名战士死亡，数十人受伤。预计伤亡人数还将上升。这些民兵是苏莱曼尼策划的产物，旨在打击伊朗境外的敌人，并将冲突从伊斯兰共和国本土转移出去。随着美国和沙特阿拉伯袭击伊拉克而非伊朗，苏莱曼尼的计划似乎正在奏效。在 2005 年美国领导的入侵推翻萨达姆·胡赛因后，随着德黑兰在伊拉克政治和安全事务中站稳脚跟，这些什叶派团体随之涌现。在伊朗的支持下，这些民兵已成为能够与国民军抗衡的强大力量：其军械库包括远程导弹和防空武器。他们还深深地交织在伊拉克的政治、经济和社会结构中，建立商业网络并在议会中占据席位。
接受《每日电讯报》采访的伊朗官员和分析人士对他们如今掌握多少权力以及德黑兰目前的预期给出了不同的评估。一位在德黑兰的伊朗分析人士表示：“他们是很好的资产，但非常难以控制，而伊朗也需要他们来投射权力。他们总是很有用——首先是将伊斯兰国（Isis）从伊朗边境推开，现在体制正利用他们向美国施压并扩大战争范围。”另一位常驻德黑兰的分析人士则直截了当地指出了他们的局限性，并更清晰地说明了其目的。他说：“他们什么也不是，没有任何权力，但他们具有将战争扩大到伊拉克并引入更多参与者的潜力。他们的主要工作是将战争从伊朗转移到伊拉克，而这本身就是战争的扩张。如果美国想摧毁他们，一周时间就足够了。但这将正式地把战争带到伊拉克，而这正是伊朗所希望的。”
“民兵总是很有用的。现在他们被用来向美国施压并扩大战争范围。”一名伊朗官员将这些民兵定义为不可或缺的，并暗示伊朗将像保护真主党那样保护他们。该官员表示：“他们是该地区抵抗力量的脊梁，其多组织形式以及与伊朗的亲近关系是他们最大的优势。”他补充说，“在战争期间，其中一些人在伊朗境内协助我们的武装力量控制街道”，以防止反政府抗议。他透露，在近期的事态发展后，部分战士正从伊朗返回伊拉克。“我们将像保护真主党那样保护他们——随着人员离开伊朗，援助已经在前往伊拉克的途中，以便他们能够自卫，”他说道。
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莫斯科针对高级将领的炸弹袭击造成三人死亡 _ 军队航空航天军负责人庆祝生日之际，克里姆林宫附近一家高端餐厅发生简易爆炸装置爆炸 作者：Connor Stringer, Alexander Butler 和 Benedict Smith
周六，莫斯科一家高端餐厅发生简易爆炸装置（IED）爆炸，造成至少三人死亡。当地时间下午，一名身份不明的女性试图进入位于 Spm 的 Balzi Rossi 意大利餐厅时，这枚自制炸弹发生了爆炸。据信，袭击目标是正值庆祝生日的一名俄罗斯高级将领。
该餐厅距离克里姆林宫约 1.5 英里，位于库德林斯卡娅广场（Kudrinskaya Square）的一栋斯大林时代摩天大楼内，当时正因私人活动而关闭。俄罗斯博主分享的一张与该餐厅照片相符的图像显示，背景中有一名吉他手，横幅上写着“亚历山大 55 岁”。根据与军事情报有密切联系的 Telegram 频道 VcHRK OGPU 的说法，这显然是指俄罗斯航空航天军负责人亚历山大·柴科（Alexander Chayko）将军，他最近刚满 55, 岁。
其他几个 Telegram 群组也将这起爆炸事件与柴科将军联系起来，尽管目标尚未得到确认。俄罗斯《商业报》（Kommersant）报道称，这名女性试图带着一个盒子进入大楼，她声称盒子里装的是给餐厅客人的礼物，但一名警卫打开盒子后，炸弹立即爆炸。
乌克兰方面认定柴科将军是俄罗斯占领基辅郊区布恰（Bucha）行动的负责人， 2022. 年在该地有数百名居民被杀害和折磨。他还应对俄罗斯近几个月力度加强的针对乌克兰的多次导弹袭击负责。
据俄罗斯国家媒体报道，隐藏在盒子里的炸弹相当于约一公斤 TNT，并填充了金属滚珠。俄罗斯反恐委员会表示，爆炸发生在当地时间晚上 7:55，造成快递员、警卫和一名餐厅顾客死亡，另有 21 人受到“不同程度”的受伤。
“目前正在采取必要的行动搜寻措施和调查行动，旨在查明此次事件的所有情况，”该委员会补充道。
有报道称，在两名受害者在医院死亡后，死亡人数已增加至五人，不过这一点尚未得到当局确认。根据 VcHK OGPU Telegram 频道（该账户未经《每日电讯报》独立证实）的消息，柴科将军的女儿玛丽亚及其 27 岁的丈夫在爆炸中受伤。
其他站在餐厅露台上的顾客和 Balzi Rossi 的员工据称也受了伤。据报道，爆炸发生在宾客抵达将军派对之时，许多人由于爆炸声被表演乐队的声音掩盖，并未意识到发生了袭击。
爆炸后的视频显示，餐厅周围出现了全副武装的执法人员以及应急车辆。据俄罗斯国家通讯社塔斯社报道，俄罗斯反恐专家认为，携带炸弹的女性可能并不知道自己携带的是炸弹。
俄罗斯媒体报道称，广场附近的街道被临时封锁，Barrikadnaya 地铁站的入口已被关闭。俄罗斯当局并未公布遇难者的姓名。
或受伤，且尚未指明责任方。莫斯科市长谢尔盖·索比亚宁谴责这次“恐怖袭击”，并表示伤者正在该市的医院接受治疗。他未点名任何犯罪者。俄罗斯联邦安全局（FSB）今年早些时候表示，在发生一系列其归咎于乌克兰的暗杀和企图谋杀事件后，当局将加强对高级军官的保护。自 2022 年乌克兰战争爆发以来，乌克兰情报部门曾承认或被指控对支持冲突的俄罗斯军官及公众人物发动了多次袭击。俄罗斯指责乌克兰在 2025 年 4 月的一起汽车炸弹袭击中杀害了高级将领雅罗斯拉夫·莫斯卡利克。
2022 年 8 月，民族主义者达里娅·杜金娜（俄罗斯强硬意识形态专家亚历山大·杜金之女）在莫斯科市外因车上安装的炸弹爆炸而丧生。2023 年 4 月，亲克里姆林宫的军事博主弗拉德伦·塔塔尔斯基（原名马克西姆·福明）在圣彼得堡的一家咖啡馆因被递给的一尊小雕像爆炸而死亡。2024 年 12 月，在莫斯科一栋公寓楼外的踏板车上安装的炸弹杀死了俄罗斯陆军化学武器部门负责人伊戈尔·基里洛夫将军。
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观光飞机在飞越秘鲁纳斯卡线后坠毁 作者：艾米莉·布卢门撒尔
一架在秘鲁纳斯卡线（Nazca Lines）上空飞行的观光飞机坠毁在田野中，导致机上 13 人全部遇难。
该飞机于周六在这一组刻在沙漠中的古代地画群附近坠毁。这里是该国的主要旅游景点之一，最佳观赏方式是从空中俯瞰。坠机原因尚不明确，但根据秘鲁交通部的声明，机组人员在当地时间下午 1 点刚过、飞机飞越索科斯镇（Socos）时，向纳斯卡空中交通管制塔报告了紧急情况，随后失去了无线电联系。
这架塞斯纳 Caravan C-208 飞机在坠毁前约 50 分钟从皮斯科机场起飞，机上载有 2 名机组人员和 1 名乘客——其中 7 人来自意大利，2 人来自德国，2 人来自西班牙。
飞机坠毁地比斯塔阿莱格雷（Vista Alegre）的市政官员告诉法新社，初步调查结果表明发生了“飞行中紧急情况”。镇上的一位居民表示，飞机在撞击时发生了爆炸。媒体传播的坠机现场照片显示，这架小型飞机已被摧毁，碎片散落在几片田地中，消防员正努力扑灭残骸中的火焰。
运营该飞机的 Aerodiana 公司在声明中表示，对“今天在纳斯卡线地区进行观光飞行任务期间发生的惨剧表示最深切的哀悼”。
秘鲁新当选总统基柯·藤森表示，政府将考虑临时暂停皮斯科机场的运营，每天有数十架前往观看纳斯卡线的航班在该机场起飞。
交通部表示，警察、消防员和民用航空总局（DGAC）成员已部署到现场，并在现场确认无人生还。豪尔赫（Jorge）
警察少校安德拉德（Andrade）告诉记者，已在坠机现场寻回四具尸体。法国民航总局（DGAC）和航空事故调查委员会将对此次事件展开调查。运营了 18 年的 Aerodiana 公司表示，将很快发布关于此次坠机的更多信息。该公司提供时长在 30 分钟至一小时之间的俯瞰飞行服务，是众多每天主要向游客提供纳斯卡线（Nazca Lines）飞行观光的公司之一，这些线条的时间可追溯至公元前 500 年至公元 500 年，其目的对科学家来说仍是个谜。
英国飞行员在希腊直升机相撞事故中幸存 本报驻外记者报道
一名英国飞行员在希腊扑救山火期间遭遇直升机相撞事故，两名他人丧生，该飞行员幸存。一架贝尔直升机的机组人员在飞机坠落于雅典西部的 Psatha 地区后死亡。每架直升机搭载两名机组人员。一名丹麦飞行员和一名希腊消防官员在其中一架直升机中丧生。一名英国飞行员与另一名希腊消防官员所在的直升机则安全着陆。幸存者和遇难者的身份均尚未确认。
电视画面显示，两架直升机在发生明显的旋翼碰撞后，其中一架爆炸并起火坠地。总理基里亚科斯·米佐塔基斯（Kyriakos Mitsotakis）此前表示，希腊正经历“极端天气条件”，风速达到了 60mph。他在 Facebook 上写道：“当风力如此强劲时，即使是我们可支配的数十架飞机也无法安全运行。”
在两架直升机中空相撞后，四名机组人员中有两人死亡。消防部门表示，近 500 名消防员正在雅典西北约 40 英里的热门沿海村庄波多格尔梅诺（Porto Germeno）周围与大火搏斗。在火势一夜之间攀上一座山后，他们正试图阻止火势向雅典西郊蔓延。约 100 名消防员正在伯罗奔尼撒北部的 Aigialia 地区扑救另一场大火。
周六深夜，热门度假胜地凯法洛尼亚（Cephalonia）爆发了一场新火灾。据希腊国家通讯社 ANA 报道，一名 44 岁的男子昨日因涉嫌故意纵火被捕。国家天文台的气候追踪器表示，初步估计在科林特湾（Gulf of Corinth）发生的几场独立火灾中（这些火灾也波及了波多格尔梅诺），已有超过 6,500 公顷的土地被焚毁。该机构补充称，气象条件依然不利，“主要是由于强烈的北风”。
周一 2026 年 8 月 5 日 每日电讯报 “评论 我们本土的奇迹足以成为选择居家度假的理由 JANE SHILLING
“这是每年战争爆发的时刻，也是破碎的玻璃将林地出卖给报复性太阳的时刻。森林火灾已经吞噬了瓦尔河畔数千公顷的……”英国作家兼记者西里尔·康诺利（Cyril Connolly）在 1938. 年这样写道。他的文字在今天听起来有一种惊人的现代感。我们曾经珍视的度假胜地：法国、意大利、西班牙、希腊，在那里的风景、食物和语言都呈现出一种令人愉悦的不同，而非艰涩的陌生感，而今已变得难以预测。除了被报复性太阳（以及其他形式的报复心）点燃的山火，还有前往那里的过程。小说家西比尔·贝德福德（Sybille Bedford）写道：“旅行在很大程度上是自我与世界的较量”，她指出，自我“想要寻找意想不到的事物，但又希望这种意外在掌控之中”。今年夏天，出国旅行被证明比自我所希望的更难掌控：除了目的地可能被大火焚毁的危险，还有摩擦重重的边境、错过的航班，以及近期盖特威克机场（Gatwick）“前所未有”的供水问题。
“我们都成了旅游业如此之多的炮灰，”贝德福德在 1961 年写道。“有什么办法能改善我们这种被制度化的命运吗？”有，这就是所谓的“居家度假”（staycation）。《牛津英语词典》将“staycation”一词的首次使用追溯到 1944, 年，当时《辛辛那提邮报》（The Cincinnati Post）用它来向“艾萨克·沃尔顿的追随者”推广钓鱼之旅。在现代语境中，这个词弥漫着一种无奈感，笼罩在生活成本危机和新冠限制的阴影之下。如今，我们可以通过前往康沃尔（Cornwall）、坎布里亚（Cumbria）或科茨沃尔德（Cotswolds）来避开边境检查和错过中转带来的焦虑与乏味，但我们也同样可能遇到不可预测的行程以及成群的痴迷于自拍的游客。
另一种选择——留在家里——则有其自身的复杂性。如果恢复精力的本质是变换环境，那么在被家庭生活的琐碎问题包围时实现这一点是一项挑战。但曾经吸引这么多英国人离开家乡前往柠檬树生长之地的地中海温暖，如今就在我们的家门外。其潜在原因或许令人不安，但至少在短期内，其效果正是我们以前在欧陆度假时所追求的。伊丽莎白·戴维（Elizabeth David）在《夏季烹饪》（Summer Cooking）中写道：“无花果在这个国家如此罕见，除了吃掉它们并心怀感激之外，做任何事情都是疯狂的。”今年，我的无花果树结出的熟果多到我（或黄蜂）无法全部吃完。
番茄和西葫芦大量生长，我甚至收获了一小批橄榄。对于我们许多人来说，在前门之外就潜藏着一片未被发现的领域。我在肯特郡（Kent）长大，但对我家乡所在的郡却几乎一无所知。对我而言，一次居家度假可能意味着参观萨缪尔·帕尔默（Samuel Palmer）的肖勒姆（Shoreham）；图德利教堂（Tudeley church）的夏加尔之窗；在多佛（Dover）出土的青铜时代船只；查塔姆船厂（Chatham Dockyard），我祖父曾在那里监督战后复员；以及迪梅彻奇（Dymechurch）那个古怪的艺术家聚居地，我和儿子小时候都非常喜欢那里。正如康诺利和贝德福德所知，旅行部分是为了魅力，但大部分是为了微小的快乐。我们应当学会珍惜本土的奇迹；它们绝不亚于那些柠檬树生长之地的美景。
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塞乌塔（Ceuta）是一次彻头彻尾的入侵，而欧洲终于反击了。移民辩论将不再关于预防，而将关于控制——甚至反转。
蒂姆·斯坦利 (TIM STANLEY) —— “当然，是犹太人干的。” 在 50,000 名男子冲进塞乌塔后的几小时内，左翼中便流传起这样一种理论：既然西班牙仇视以色列，而以色列青睐摩洛哥（两者都声称拥有争议领土），那么内塔尼亚胡一定告诉了那个摩洛哥家伙，让他释放难民大军，让西班牙看起来像个白痴。白宫也帮了把手；特朗普认为西班牙人是共产主义者，所以就给他们开放边境吧！就这样，诞生了自摩萨德和 CIA 杀死戴安娜并将其嫁祸给尼斯湖水怪以来最伟大的秘密行动。我在无数份理性的报纸上读过这个理论，但难道没有一个更可能、不那么离谱的解释吗——那就是西班牙举起了胡萝卜，而摩洛哥人咬钩了？该国最高法院最近裁定，将通过海路抵达的人员立即遣返是不合法的，而其社会党总理佩德罗·桑切斯（Pedro Sanchez）则提出要使近一百万非法移民合法化。西班牙说了“来”，所以他们就来了——而这正是我们投票脱离欧盟的原因。
大陆的共识可能被个别成员削弱，即使整个欧洲在试图威慑大规模移民，桑切斯却在发送相反的信号。然而，塞乌塔迫使他改变了调子，就像一只发现蝎子会蜇人的青蛙。他说，这是一次针对西班牙主权的“袭击”，是由人口贩子煽动的（这些人可能在宣传册中列出了他的政策）。桑切斯还感谢了摩洛哥的帮助，尽管有大量报道称，摩洛哥警察只是愉快地指向出口并说：“往那边走”。
这本身并不是锡安主义阴谋的证明。法国人一直这么干。巴黎此前建议，英国不能简单地将英吉利海峡的移民遣返，即遣返至法国，并进行审查；而西班牙也做了类似的事情——且效率惊人。他们甚至在水中竖起了一道 1,401 屏障。英国人可能会因为担心伤害鱼类而否决这样的项目。英国改革党（Reform UK）愤怒不已并希望引入皇家海军（Royal Navy）：如果欧洲人能击退难民，为什么我们不能？！看来欧洲大陆在移民问题上已悄然向右转，从过去的错误中汲取教训。回溯到 2015, 年，当叙利亚人成群结队地穿越欧洲时，安格拉·默克尔允许一百万人以上留下来。相比之下，在 2026, 年，没有一个国家说摩洛哥人可以留下，而法国和意大利加强了边境管制，就如同切除受感染的肢体一般。欧盟新的《移民与庇护公约》巩固了快速遣返或离岸处理等政策。意大利倾向于遣返。瑞典将遣返那些未能过上“诚实生活”的人。即使是优柔寡断的桑切斯也花费巨资雇佣非洲人来监管他的边境。
欧洲的改革正如日理月恒般受到了欧洲法院的挑战。当前的政治必要性被过去的理想所绑架，而这些理想并不反映我们在屏幕上看到的景象。女性都去哪了？摩洛哥完全由年轻男性组成吗？寻找欧洲机遇的撒哈拉以南移民的存在显而易见。在一次又一次的采访中，这些年轻人提到了工作和贫困，有些人...
计划访问英格兰（呜呼）。《每日电讯报》报道称，英吉利海峡的走私者已准备好低价转运，揭露了自由主义者将其描绘成“梦想车队”的肮脏现实，而实际上这只是一门生意。从马里到多佛需要花费惊人的资金，这凸显了一个悖论：大迁徙不仅是由战争或饥饿驱动的，而且还由于更廉价的技术（智能手机的普及）以及人们的渴望。另一种理论认为，摩洛哥鼓励这种涌入是为了抗议西班牙从阿尔及利亚购买天然气。移民确实可以成为一种武器，即使其士兵是在为自己而战。“我们要自由，”一个男孩对着电视摄像机喊道，但他并未意识到，全球化代价之一就是我们正在失去那些曾经定义我们的自由。
上个月，牛津大学辩论社辩论的主题是“本院认为西方对伊斯兰教持怀疑态度是正确的”，我想——好吧，为什么不呢？它对其他所有人也都持怀疑态度，基督徒因为祷告而被捕。专栏作家会收到警方的造访，一张与雅各布·里斯-莫格（Jacob Rees-Mogg）的自拍被警察引用为“极右翼极端主义的证据”。雅各布爵士在牛津大学为反方发言时，阐述了经典的保守党论点：一个国家的定义是由法律所阐明的历史决定的，而由于我们的法律古老且自由，无论发生什么，我们将始终是一个自由国家。正方则提供了反向论点：一个国家的定义是由其人民决定的，如果人民改变了，法律就会改变，英国将不再是英国。“觉醒文化”（woke）的兴起就是这一点的证据。
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西方将宽容推向极致的行为正在威胁宽容本身……多样性并没有让塞乌塔变得更强大。
因为当你拥有一个多样化国家时，基督教的单一文化不会对关于穆罕默德的笑话产生激烈的反感。极右翼的崛起同样是自由主义失败的迹象；偏执者以动荡为食。一些极少数的边缘人士在推特上称，西班牙是因为批评内塔尼亚胡而付出代价，且这位以色列领导人的计划是用足够的移民淹没欧洲，以摧毁我们的基督教文化。
除了杰森·阿戴（Jason Arday），很难想到还有谁的简历能如此充满野心与成功。令人悲哀的讽刺在于，欧盟成立的目标是让纳粹主义永不再现，但它却创造了类似魏玛共和国的条件，使得反犹主义能够回归，无论它是右翼、左翼还是伊斯兰主义。如果说有什么需要怀疑的，西方应该怀疑西方自身。它将宽容推向极致的实验正在威胁宽容本身，而社会民主主义领导人们正匆忙试图阻止民族主义的转向。多样性并没有让塞乌塔变得更强大，在柏林七月骄傲游行中也没有创造奇迹，导致一名无辜者被杀，而凶手一名伊斯兰主义者被枪击身亡。
尽管如此，我们被告知问题不在于特定的伊斯兰主义，而在于普遍的仇恨。再一次，我们被要求不要讨论显而易见的事实。确实，这名黎巴嫩裔杀手出生在德国，但这就是多年大规模移民的深远影响现在带来的挑战：对于那些在纸面上是公民，但忠于一套完全不同价值观的人，我们该怎么办？欧洲人在塞乌塔试图阻止的革命性变化已经发生在他们自己的边界之内。移民辩论的下一个阶段将不再是关于预防，而是关于管理，甚至是逆转。
杰森·阿戴争议揭露了学术界的
大学通过将公共资金挥霍在毫无营养的知识碎屑上，从而沉浸在仁慈的光辉之中 —— 安娜贝尔·登提亚姆 (ANNABEL DENTIAM)
我们能否现在就对那种有害的身份政治崇拜宣告终结，并让自己从这种疯狂的信条中解脱出来？这种信条让大学、公司和政治家们深信，根除偏见的唯一方法就是根据每个人的不可改变的特征对其进行分类。我们能否简单地接受，生活中的并非所有事情都是种族主义？
围绕剑桥大学教授杰森·阿尔代 (Jason Arday) 的争议应当促使社会名流们进行一次反思。无论关于论文剽窃指控的结论如何，这桩令人遗憾的事件已经揭露了，对道德美德的执迷是如何降低了正确判断力的。然而，对于那些促成阿尔代事件发生条件的相关人员，将不会有任何清算，也不会有人承认大学已经变成了时尚正统观念的不加批判的传播者。
阿尔代正在上演一场忏悔秀：在本周末的一次采访中，他再次强调自己是“种族动机”且“有组织”的将其撤职企图的受害者。与此同时，那些惯犯们已经摆出了高傲的姿态：荒谬的扎克·波兰斯基 (Zack Polanski) 签署了一封支持阿尔代的公开信。同样荒谬的黑人研究教授凯欣德·安德鲁斯 (Kehinde Andrews) 曾不加掩饰地攻击同行的研究是“令人思维僵死”的，而现在他谴责此次事件为一场“抹黑运动”。
唉，我们的观点传递者们不会吸取任何教训，对此我们可以肯定，因为就在剑桥这场闹剧成为大新闻的同一周，哈曼男爵夫人 (Baroness Harman) 宣布工党应该禁止男性参加下一次领导层选举。这位前平等事务大臣声称，她的政党下次能由女性掌权的唯一方法是“我们现在就启动一场对话，在对话中我们宣布男性不能参选”。
我们的社会如此痴迷于“第一”，以至于卓越甚至能力都被屈从于象征意义。阿尔代成了被任命为剑桥教授的“史上最年轻黑人”。蕾切尔·里夫斯 (Rachel Reeves) 成为了“首位女性财政大臣”。曾几何时，女性确实需要打破玻璃天花板：直到玛格丽特·撒切尔 (Margaret Thatcher) 才打破了女性不能领导这个国家的假设。但里夫斯进入内阁时，几乎没有人真正相信女性天生比男性能力差。
阿尔代所从事的批判种族理论学术分支对我们这些自虐式领导者的吸引力是另一个因素。如果这位教授（兼职超级运动员）将职业生涯致力于养老金计划经济学，他可能不会成为一个著名的全国性人物。但他从事的领域允许大学通过鼓励将公共资金花费在这些知识碎屑上，从而沉浸在自身仁慈的温暖光辉中。
经济学和一部分政治学（例如对投票模式的分析）以及一些社会学拥有准科学的研究方法，并真正尝试量化概念和测试推测。而大多数其他“社会科学”则是披着晦涩难懂外衣的观点。在 2018 年关于黑人和少数民族学生心理健康的论文中，阿尔代的实证基础是 32 名自选的访谈参与者，然而该论文却对整个高等教育的“生活经验”做出了广泛的断言。
2017 年的“委屈研究” (Grievance Studies) 骗局试图揭露这种倾向。研究人员向包括性别和身份研究在内的领域期刊提交了故意荒诞的论文。好几篇……
这些内容被公布了。骗局制造者们主张，这些学科中的某些部分在意识形态上的自我强化程度之高，以至于人们在评估论点时，与其关注方法论的严谨性，不如关注其是否符合主流的政治假设。同样的本能渗透在英国生活的几乎每一个方面。Arday 被如此过度吹捧，我几乎不能责怪他相信这些宣传。悲剧在于，这种痴迷恰恰使得人们更难以将真正的歧视与道德姿态区分开来。身份政治依然根植于工党之中。上周，该党还撤销了对戴安娜·艾博特（Diane Abbott）的停职处分，她曾写道，犹太人所经历的偏见与“红发人”相似，但并非种族主义。艾博特后来为这些言论道歉，随后又说她并不后悔写下这些话。在“你的党”（Your Party）出现之前的杰里米·科尔宾（Jeremy Corbyn）是否能以如此宽宏大量的方式被重新接纳？无论 Arday 的前途多么渺茫，他曾经心甘情愿参与其中的那个体制依然充满活力且运转正常。
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寻求通过保险而非 NHS 式的系统来资助社会护理 罗杰·布特尔 (ROGER BOOTLE) 安迪·伯纳姆有机会建立一个新的共识，并找到一种资助医疗服务的新方式
在安迪·伯纳姆就任首相以来提出的各种想法中，最具有影响力的或许是将社会护理系统置于与 NHS（国家医疗服务体系）相同基础上的构想。他正确地识别了问题，并勇敢地尝试解决它。但采取错误方案的风险确实存在。当 NHS 最初于 1949, 年建立时，几乎没有人考虑到社会护理，主要是因为在那个时代，预期寿命比现在低得多。如今，NHS 的服务在就诊时是免费的，而我们的社会护理系统则是免费提供、资产调查和私人融资的混合体。在目前的制度下，资产超过 £23,250 的人员必须支付全部护理院费用；资产在 £14,250 与 £23,250 之间的人员必须贡献大部分收入和部分资本；资产低于 £14,250 的人员无需贡献任何资本，尽管他们仍必须贡献大部分收入。此外，提供社会护理的责任落在地方当局身上。他们每年在社会护理上花费超过 £20, 且大约有 750,000 人接受护理。政府研究所（Institute for Government）估计，目前地方政府支出的多达三分之二用于成人和儿童社会护理。
尽管两者的资金基础截然不同，但 NHS 与社会护理服务之间存在明显的联系。NHS 经常发现自己被迫将病床用于那些本应接受社会护理的人，因为住宅护理机构或患者家中缺乏足够的设施。在疫情期间，大量人员被留在护理院中，造成了毁灭性的后果。
伯纳姆先生绝不是第一个意识到这是一个严重问题的首相。2011, 年发布的《迪尔诺特报告》（Dilnot Report）建议将护理成本的终身上限设定在 £25,000 至 £50,000 之间，并实施更宽松的资产调查。联合政府认可了这些原则，但表示由于经济状况恶劣而无法采用。在 2017 年的大选宣言中，保守党提出将统一的资本门槛设定为 £100,000,。时任工党党首的杰里米·科尔宾将该政策称为“痴呆税”。最终，时任首相梅女男爵将其放弃。约翰逊政府基于迪尔诺特委员会的调查结果提出了建议，但历任财政大臣均予以推迟。在 2024, 年夏季，时任财政大臣雷切尔·里夫斯表示政府将不会推进这些方案。
尤为令人惊讶的是，这位首相希望建立一个仿照 NHS 模式的社会护理系统。他似乎对该系统的严重缺陷视而不见，或者想不出更好的办法。然而，即便是在工党最热衷的意识形态追随者也必须承认，“我们的” NHS 已不再是“全世界羡慕的典范”。事实上，与许多其他工业化国家相比，其成效不佳且效率低下。在公共支出压力巨大的时候，首相似乎设想进一步增加支出，这实在令人惊叹。工党似乎已经意识到政府借贷是有上限的。但在税收方面，许多部长及其顾问却盲目地假设，如果借贷不能用于资助更多……
支出，那么就只能通过提高税收来筹集资金。然而，更高的税率将对我们的经济表现产生严重的负面影响。在当今时代，这种影响将不仅仅是降低人们努力工作、寻求晋升或创业的积极性。这里最大的风险是，更多才华横溢、勤奋的人将离开英国，前往能够获得更好生活的其他国家。一些方案设想给用于资助社会护理的税收起一个特殊的名称，甚至将筹集到的资金专项用于社会护理。约翰逊政府曾设想通过在国民保险中增加 1.25% 的税收，并将其命名为“医疗和社会护理征费”来为社会护理提供资金。但给税收起不同的名字并不会产生任何影响。只要收取的资金是以个人收入的百分比计算，同样会对积极性产生破坏性影响。而且，像国民保险这样的税收尤其糟糕，因为它们仅适用于工作收入，而养老金、股息和财产收入则不受影响。此外，此类方案具有不利的代际影响。工作的年轻人必须支付更多资金来资助老年人的护理，从而有助于保护后者的子女所继承的遗产，而这些子女中的许多人会比支付额外税款的人富裕得多。这怎么公平？关于 NHS 资金系统的审查很多，其中最出色的一项结论是，我们应该更多地利用保险原则，减少对税收的依赖。包括荷兰以及最显著的新加坡在内的许多国家，在对公共支出和纳税人造成负担小得多的情况下，获得了比我们更好的医疗结果。这正是我们现在应该探讨的思路。安迪·伯纳姆先生不应匆忙为社会护理构建一个类似 NHS 的系统。相反，他应该朝着一个广泛依赖强制保险的系统方向发展。而且，无论我们在实施这样一个系统过程中学到了什么，都可以作为 NHS 新资金系统的基础，该系统也将主要基于强制保险。罗杰·布特尔（Roger Bootle）是 Capital Economics 的高级独立顾问，也是 Policy Exchange 的高级研究员。roger.bootle@capitaleconomics.com
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避免动态定价，否则你将面临失去消费者好不容易建立的信任的风险 安德鲁·奥洛夫斯基（ANDREW ORLOWSKI）
零售商应该意识到，市场操纵让我们感到不够自由，这不利于销售。
如果说在英国当一名消费者已经足够悲惨了——在时间一小时接一小时流逝时，你被告知“您的电话对我们很重要”——现在又出现了一些让这种体验更糟糕的事情。《每日电讯报》发现，停车场运营商正越来越多地尝试动态停车收费，这意味着提供给你的资费可能会出乎意料地波动，甚至在你眼前发生变化。动态定价现在非常流行。根据英格兰银行的数据，今年将有三分之一的企业尝试动态或个性化定价。当价格是通过广告牌和产品上的物理标签传达时，这一切都是不可能的。然而，数字化世界允许各种胡作非为。价格可能会根据时间、商家认为你的支付能力，或者包括你的口味甚至可能的其他因素而有所不同。
政治观点。给我们提供个人优惠或非高峰时段电价，是我们都能接受的。但动态定价通常意味着价格在某种歧视性基础上实时变动。有时这是我们可以忍受的。Uber 在需求高峰期提高价格，以吸引司机离开家进入车内；这是在刺激供应。我从未认为这是一个可怕的不公正现象，而仅仅是一个不投资于车辆或司机的出租车服务的特性。旅游网站和应用程序已经使用歧视性定价一段时间了，定价因素包括对你可能支付多少钱的计算。但去年 Oasis 门票应用动态定价时引发的轩然大波提醒我们，实时变动存在引发剧烈抵制的风险。唯一的销售商 Ticketmaster 在消费者排队在线候票时提高了价格。£80
当系统评估需求较高时，门票价格飙升至 £350 以上。下议院商业遴选委员会随即要求给出解释，促使 Ticketmaster 否认在本次活动中使用了动态定价或试图敲诈消费者。竞争与市场管理局通过避开这场骚乱，似乎划定了一条合理的界限。该局去年 6 月表示，动态定价“可以与有效的竞争和对消费者的良好结果保持一致”。然而在美国，各州正在禁止“监控定价”——即利用用户的历史记录来创建个性化价格的做法，并打击那些使用 AI 系统在幕后共谋定价的生产商。二十多年来，我在硅谷的朋友们，包括投资者和创始人，一直试图说服我接受动态定价的美妙之处，等待着我们的
抵抗力下降的时刻。市场效率是其目标。但这可能是一种非常单方面的操纵，允许公司攫取消费者剩余（即如果你真的非常想要一件商品，你愿意支付的最高价格与实际价格之间的差额），并将其转化为生产者的盈余。“就像许多硅谷的噱头一样，他们这么做并不是因为这是一个好主意，或者我们想要它。”十年前动态定价首次出现时，一位先驱者过于坦率地解释道：“这是关于从不在意的人身上赚取利润，并把利润让给那些在意的人。”我认为这种情况之所以会失败是有深刻原因的。关于消费者如何反应及其原因，已经进行了大量的社会科学研究。例如，保守主义者对激增定价的反应比左翼消费者更负面。我也有自己的理论。其中一个因素是，信任是人们参与并最终达成交易的重要原因。我们希望定价信息清晰且一致，没有任何猫腻。如果有一天，一个当地的市场摊贩在你挑选商品和装袋之间决定调换价格标签，我们会感到震惊。我们再也不会回到那个摊位。我们厌恶被操纵或被玩弄，而动态定价是一种我们认为具有个人针对性的信任违背。另一个原因是，算法操纵让我们感到无力。我们觉得自由减少了。这种定价假设是，即便我们反应激烈，最终还是会接受交易。如果你想要的 10 件购物商品中已有 9 件在篮子里，而第 10 件的价格在波动——你会接受它，还是多开几英里去买第 10 件？心理抗拒理论（Psychological Reactance Theory）解释了这一点，尽管心理学时尚层出不穷，但这一理论一直有效。
它认为，当人们感到自由受到威胁时，他们会产生抵触心理。价格操纵和诡计（例如波动定价或“30秒内购买否则优惠失效”的促销）所引发的摩擦令我们愤怒。最后，人们会产生一种更广泛的感觉，即我们仅仅是他人游戏中被操纵的物体。技术评论家尼克·卡尔（Nick Carr）观察到，没有什么比“人类的每时每刻行为都被传感器追踪，并由中央机构通过工程化设计以创造最佳统计结果”更具反乌托邦色彩的了。就像硅谷推出的众多花招一样——从始终在录音的眼镜到治疗聊天机器人——他们这么做并不是因为这是一个好主意，也不是因为注意到我们需要它。他们这么做是因为他们能做到。那些希望与我们消费者建立长期信任关系的零售商和生产商，应当礼貌而坚定地予以拒绝。随着韩国巨头
崩盘，SpaceX投资者面临首次大考：上涨的终将下跌 RUSS MOULD QUESTOR 新一代投资者正在学习一些古老而痛苦的教训。在追逐存储硅芯片制造商三星电子（Samsung Electronics）和SK海力士（SK Hynix）的股票——且频繁使用借贷资金（保证金）或杠杆追踪基金（将每日价格变动放大两倍、三倍甚至更多）来操作——之后，这些投资者现在正面对其行为的后果。这些教训包括：警惕在低市盈率（PE）时买入具有深度周期性的股票，因为低倍数可能具有欺骗性，且是对公司利润接近顶峰的警告；更要警惕地使用杠杆来放大收益，因为一旦出现差错，杠杆同样会放大损失；并且尽全力避免任何新投资工具激增的个股、板块或主题，无论这些工具是期权、追踪基金，还是被动或主动基金。只要华尔街认为主流市场（Main Street）会买，他们会非常乐意向投资者出售任何东西。SK海力士的股价在7月份于纽约完成一项数十亿美元的二次股票发行后不久开始下跌。现在，由于6月份首次公开募股（IPO）之前持有的股份锁定期即将届满，观察另一家高关注度的美国市场新秀SpaceX Technologies的股价是否也会出现类似的“消化不良”将十分有趣。SK海力士和三星电子的崛起及其突然下跌，让人想起传奇投资者本杰明·格雷厄姆（Benjamin Graham）的名言：短期来看，市场是一台投票机；而长期来看，它是一台称重机。他的意思是，短期股价动能可能由投资者的热钱流向、持仓布局和杠杆决定，
但企业的基本面，如竞争地位、管理能力、资产负债表强度，以及最终的自由现金流，将决定长期总回报。近期一波SpaceX股份的解锁将是对这一观点的最新检验。该公司上市时的自由流通量极其有限，仅占总股数的5%左右，即在总计 13.2 billion 股中约有 639 million 股。由于可用购买股份数量有限，加上投资者对太空及AI相关公司的广泛兴趣，以及创始人埃隆·马斯克（Elon Musk）的声望，该公司立即成为了一个自我实现式挤压（squeeze）的受益者或受害者。再加上该股进入某些美国主要股市指数后的机械强化作用，迫使被动追踪基金涌入购买，从而推动SpaceX的股价飙升至一个
日内最高价达到 $225，而 IPO 价格为 $135。市场技术面——即投票机制——极大地向 SpaceX 倾斜。但现在迎来了第一次考验。欧盟发行招股说明书的第 192 页至 199 页揭露了 SpaceX 预 IPO 投资者现在可以出售股票的时间表。并非所有人都会这样做，但有些人可能会心动，因为有报道称，目前有超过 4,000 名员工成为了百万富翁（至少在账面上是这样），且其中约十分之一的人在上市时持有的股票价值超过 $100m（同样是在账面上）。SpaceX 的第二季度业绩将于明天公布。在本次发布后的两个完整交易日后，20% 的锁定股可以出售。随后，内部人士持有的股份将分批解锁，分别在上市后 70, 90, 105, 120 和 135 天，每批解锁 7% 的股份并可出售。实际上，这意味着从本月下旬到 10 月下旬，市场可能会出现持续的新供应。在第三季度业绩（预计 11 月初发布）公布后的两个完整交易日后，若早期投资者希望套现，将有进一步的 1.3 billion 股（占锁定流通股的 28%，占发行总股本的 10%）具备出售资格。标准的 180 天禁售期将于 12 月 8 日届满。将所有这些相加，意味着到 12 月初，SpaceX 高达 44% 的股份可能会被出售，这将使目前的股票供应量增加九倍。到 2027 年 6 月，马斯克本人如果愿意，最终将被允许出售。他持有 64 billion 股，即总流通股的 42%。不能保证任何被锁定资金的投资者一定会出售。事实上，如果他们选择继续持有，这将是一次具有说服力的信心投票。但如果价格进一步下跌，且预发行投资者依然按下卖出键，投资者感到恐慌也是可以原谅的，尽管那些看好 SpaceX 长期基本面的人可能会认为，任何技术性抛售都是买入机会。
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英国皇家海军“必须全面接纳机器人军舰”
前第二海务大臣支持混合舰队计划，并敦促批评者“停止唱反调”。 记者：马特·奥利弗 (Matt Oliver)
前第二海务大臣表示，英国皇家海军必须全面接纳机器人军舰，并尽快让造船厂投入生产。
目前掌管国防巨头 Babcock 海事业务的尼克·海恩爵士 (Sir Nick Hine) 表示，他支持通过组建混合海军来保护英国的争议性计划，并敦促批评者“停止唱反调”。他呼吁在本土建造新型军舰和无人机，称这对“英国造船业来说是正确的事情”，而且“没有理由”不能实现。
但他同时也警告国防部军方要迅速行动，避免陷入通常影响采购流程的“五年期商业胡闹”之中。
包括总部位于华盛顿的欧洲政策分析中心在内的批评者称，混合海军计划是一个“危险的幻想”，认为该计划更多是由削减成本的愿望而非现代化需求驱动的。
但当被问及该提案时，尼克爵士表示：“人们对地铁也这么说过，对蒸汽船也这么说过，对核能也这么说过。所以所有的反对者能不能停止唱反调？事实上，就停止任何反对吧。第一次世界大战前我们没有驱逐舰。现在我们未来将不再拥有驱逐舰。别那么自以为是——‘驱逐舰’仅仅是一个形容词而已。”
他的上述评论是在长期延迟的国防投资计划 (DIP) 披露后发表的。该计划揭示了将投入近 £3 资金用于海军，以引入自主无人机来取代更昂贵的人员操纵军舰。
这意味着，被统称为“勇猛级”的有人驾驶 45 型驱逐舰在 2030 年代后期将不再获得同类替代。军方首长计划将这些能力分散到四类新型无人船只中。
这将包括 91 型无人导弹驳船、用于防空的 94 型无人雷达平台，以及 92 型自主水下传感器船和用于反潜战的 93 型特大型自主水下航行器。它们将由至少六艘有人驾驶的“通用指挥舰” (CCVs) 控制。
尼克·海恩爵士表示：“别那么自以为是，那只是一个形容词。”
尼克爵士表示，他在很大程度上支持 DIP 中设定的计划，但有几点保留。他说：“我还没有被说服，为什么他们要把其中一些东西做得如此之大、如此之贵且如此精细。”
但他否认了取消驱逐舰计划会造成海军能力缺口的说法，并补充道：
“（驱逐舰）只是一个描述词。你试图创造的效果可以通过其他方式来实现。”
他说，Babcock 将推其现有的 31 型护卫舰作为 CCV 计划的竞争者，并正与美国最大的军舰制造商 HII 合作开发一系列无人水面舰艇 (USVs)。
他将这些被公司称为 “ARMOR Force” 的无人机比作“一辆卡车和一个盒子”，以便海军首长能够轻松更换功能。
“你可以把雷达放进盒子里，把炸弹放进盒子里，把导弹放进盒子里，把船放进盒子里，把直升机放进盒子里——你可以把任何东西放进盒子里，”尼克爵士说道，“不过，这个能力盒子仍然需要一个部署机制，并安装在卡车的后面。卡车就是无人水面舰艇 (USV)，而这仍然需要某种形式的指挥：即通用指挥舰。”
(CCV)“理想情况下，每艘有人驾驶舰艇应至少配备三艘自主护卫舰，以提供‘盾牌、打击和[水下]堡垒’能力”。尼克爵士补充道：“当然，其美妙之处在于它们甚至不需要搭载在舰船上。”Babcock 在苏格兰罗斯赖斯（Rosyth）的旗舰造船厂目前正在建造英国皇家海军的第一批 Type 31 通用护卫舰。他说，建造更多用作指挥舰和自主舰的 Type 31 将确保该厂及其 3,000 名工人保持繁忙。尼克爵士补充道：“从我们的角度来看，CCV 看起来和感觉起来都非常像 Type 31。因此我们认为这就是正确的答案。不要设计其他东西，不要通过竞标导致计划再次延迟五年。就继续使用目前已有的设备……我们会对其进行改进和适配。”与此同时，丹麦和新西兰等国家对是否购买 Type 31, 在潜在购买护卫舰和无人机综合方案时表现出兴趣。
Type 31 护卫舰 Inspiration 级 2.5 亿英镑m 每艘船平均生产成本 26 knots 最高航速 — 总长度 7,500 f: J 海里航程 — 可提供住宿的总人数 — 该级护卫舰数量 5,700 排水量（吨）
尽管他是一位现代化倡导者，但尼克爵士淡化了英国皇家海军在没有某种人类监督的情况下将机器人战舰部署到海上的前景。Babcock 已经绘制了可以这样运行的“指挥打击无人机”的概念设计——但他坚称这与今天的现实还相去甚远。他认为，自主舰船“仍然需要某种形式的指挥”，而通过太空进行远程操作无法达到足够的可靠性。“反对者分为两派，”他说，“‘拥有驱逐舰’派或‘在海上拥有终结者’派。但这两者都不对。”
“让我们先习惯在海上操作无人机。拥有一个你完全信任、能做任何事情的极其先进的 AI 模型？我们离那还早很多年。我的意思是，那是‘海上的终结者’。政府还没有进入那个阶段，所以我们要现实一点。”
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The mass early release of prisoners, expected to begin next month, will fur- ther exacerbate the problem, he added. Mr Devonport, who is the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) lead for criminal justice reform, said it was important that being out of prison did not mean being “out of control or out of justice”, At present, more than 50,000 offenders are sentenced to “Community warn cuts Payback” punishments every year for crimes such as theft, criminal damage, public disorder, and some assaults, and driving and drug offences. They carry out five million hours of unpaid work a year, and wear high-visi- bility vests so people can see they are being punished for their past actions. It is understood Mr Norris wants community service to be more common for offenders who avoid custodial sen- tences and for them to complete unpaid work in their own neighbourhoods so residents can see that justice is being done. 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Grocers said they were already deliv: ering the most affordable food in West- ern Europe, while also claiming that tax rises under Labour were to blame for a recent uptick in prices. The clash comes less than three months before Mr Healey delivers his first Budget. The Conservatives said his threat to supermarkets will send the wrong message to companies. Mr Healey had singled out the super- market sector over the weekend, echo- ing criticism made by his predecessor, Rachel Reeves, after the Iran war broke cut in February. Writing in The TelegrapA, the Chan- cellor said he would not allow grocers to take the public “for a ride” amid con- flict in the Middle East. However, Andrew Opie of the British Retail Consortium, which represents the likes of M&S, Sainsbury's and Tesco, said: “Supermarkets operate in a highly competitive environment, delivering the most affordable food in Western Europe. “The Government's independent competition regulator, the CMA [Com- petition and Markets Authority), has repeatedly found that fierce competi- tion between retailers, not government action, has kept food prices as low as possible.” Mr Opie added: “Many of the addi- tional costs pushing up prices have been implemented by this Government, including higher National Insurance contributions, increased packaging taxes and the continued failure to reform the outdated business rates sys- tem." Andrew Griffith, the shadow busi- ness and trade secretary, added: “Time and again, we see this Government lashing out at others for their own mis- takes. Retailing is brutally competitive and prices are going up because of Labour's tax hikes, employment red tape and energy costs. “This sends the wrong message to businesses ahead of the Budget and will discourage investment.” A spokesman for the Association of Convenience Stores said: “Retailers tell us that increasing prices is a rare last resort, We urge the Chancellor to focus on ways to take pressure off the cost of doing business in the upcoming Budget, which will in turn benefit the millions of customers that local shops serve every day: Yesterday, Mr Healey said: “At home, we will be watching closely for any sug- gestions that customers are being taken fora ride at the pump or the till. Compa- nies’ willingness to work with the Gov- ernment throughout this crisis has been positive, and there has been no significant evidence of so-called price-gouging, but I want to be blunt in reassuring the public that our regula- tors have the powers to clamp down on it if it happens” NEWS BULLETIN Police staff details are leaked onto dark web The full names and contact details of more than 100,000 police staff have been leaked on the dark web in a hack that has put officers at “serious risk”. Cybercriminals compromised data from the Ministry of Defence, the Home Office, National Crime Agency and Crown Prosecution Service, The Times has reported. It follows a hack on the Department for Education earlier this week, which had led to more than half-a-million pieces of data being compromised. Hackers leaked officers’ force location and after the criminals breached the police national legal database, a resource that is used by all police forces in the UR for legal assislance, Tories to force police to hunt stolen phones By Daniel Martin DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR POLICE officers will be ordered to track down stolen phones under Tory plans. Chris Philp, shadow home secretary, said he would set new standards in policing to compel every force in Eng- land and Wales to go back to carrying out basic detective work. Officers would be told to chase up stolen goods acvertised for sale online, and would be obligated to run suspects" images through the national facial rec- ognition database. And forces will be told they must Imock on the door of houses where apps such as Find My iPhone reveal the device is located. Mr Philp said the plan would solve at least 36,800 more crimes a year. Writing for The Telegraph, he said: “Phones, laptops, bikes and cars often send signals showing where they are, 30 victims can hand the police an address. “But too often the police do nothing with that information, and the crime is written off while the property sits at a location everybody involved can see on a map... “The police should always be on the side of the victim and should focus relentlessly on catching more criminals. Every case closed with no prosecution chips away at that. “We need to restore some common sense to policing and ensure that crime has consequences. This plan will help do that.” Mr Philp said that under the Tories’ plans, the home secretary would take back legal powers to allow the home secretary to set the standards and prac- tices of policing. The home secretary would use these powers to compel every force in Eng- land and Wales to carry out basic inves- tigative work. OLVER MOVERIH FA * aia TF eo Getting jigezy with it Dancers from the Reilly School of Dancing Belfast perform yesterday at Fleadh Cheoil na hEireann 2026, which officially opened in Belfast, kicking off a week of traditional Irish song, dance and culture. We need criminal system that deters and rehabilitates offenders Jason Devonport THERE is no silver bullet to solve the prison crowding crisis. I've been a police officer for 29 years, and I've been a governor ofa prison. I've seen the same offenders repeatedly cycle through a disjointed system. Some data suggest that criminals who reoffend commit an average of five further offences. This is unacceptably high and shows that our current justice system is not working. David Gauke’s review of sentencing did not just lay out the immediate need to free up prison space, it also found that sentencing criminals to short stints in prison is ineffective and unsustainable. This leaves us facing an uncomfortable reality: criminals will spend less time in prison and more time being managed in communities. But, out of prison cannot mean out of control, or out of justice. We owe it to the victims and survivors of some of the worst crimes to ensure justice is done, and that we do all we can to prevent crime and harm. Whatever the outcome of the Government's review, policing will always be a phone call away, ready to protect the public and arrest criminals. We have been working hard in recent months to prepare police forces for these changes to sentencing. We have seen increases in arrests for recall to prison and for breaches of bail conditions, a5 well as in the number of domestic abuse protection orders granted to keep victims of abuse safe. That work won't stop, but increasing pressure on other agencies to manage offenders in communities does not address reoffending, and it will come at the cost of other priorities. Every area of policing will be affected by these measures. The collective cost of this for policing alone will be hundreds of millions of pounds. There is no flexibility in the way forces are financed to absorb that cost, and our workforce is not growing to meet that additional demand. It will mean police chiefs making difficult decisions to cut back on other priorities. Increased investment in policing, which is essential, is not the only answer to a crisis We Cannot arrest our way out of, Policing often comes in at a point when a crime has already been committed, and damage and harm have already been done. By then, it is too late. All too frequently, the person committing the crime is already deeply entrenched in complicated problems driving their offending, like substance addiction, poverty or mental health. These are societal. Government should bring together agencies to develop an effective plan sufficiently resourced to ensure we are all doing everything we can to prevent the next person from becoming a victim of crime. The Sentencing Act is an opportunity to make our criminal justic e SVslem more effective and give prisoners the chance to be productive members of society. One offender I worked with had been in prison more than 10 times, During one of his sentences he learned to weld, and in doing so, found something he was good at that provided an income and offered him a different path away from crime. His reoffending soon stopped. Rehabilitating criminals is in everyone's interest, and from what! have seen, it is absolutely possible. However, we need strong deterrents and consequences in place to deal with criminality and those who choose to continue to offend, and a shift toa system that rehahilitates, not emboldens criminals. This requires proper investment and collaboration across policing, probation, prisons and beyond. We must do this right - for victims and survivors of crime, but also for wider society and future generations. Asst Chief Constable Jason Devonport ix the National Police Chiefs’ Council lead jor criminal justice reform. Bridesmaids balk at cost of paying for new dress Searches for second-hand bridesmaid dresses are uw Pp 7 per cent year on year, figures from resale platform Vinted suggest. Almost a quarter (24 per cent) of women who have been bridesmaids have considered turning down the role because of the cost, rising to more than one in three (35 per cent) among women aged 25 to 34, a survey forthe online marketplace found. Fifty-nine per cent said the role cost more than they expected, while one in three (33 per cent) spent between £250 and £499 at their most recent wedding. Thirty-six per cent paid for their own dress, rising to 46 per cent of women aged 25 to 34. Girl, 17, dies at Lake District music festival Al7-year-old girl has died at a music festival in the Lake District, police have confirmed. The teenager collapsed in the early hours of yesterday morning while at Kendal Calling, which is hosted at Lowther Deer Park in Hackthorpe, near Penrith. She was pronounced dead at the scene after paramedics attempted to administer CPR. The incident is understood to have happened near the Calling Out tent, and police have appealed for any festival-goers who were in the vicinity at the time to contact them. Officers from Cumbria Police said that they were still trying to piece together what had happened. Man shot dead at site used by travellers Aman in his 30s has been shot dead at atravellers’ site in Wiltshire, Police were called to the scene in Calcutt, near Cricklade, Wilts, after reports of a shooting this morning. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene while a man in his 70s and a woman in ber 40s were arrested on suspicion of possession ofa firearm and assisting an offender. A cordon remains in place and the victim's family have been informed. Det Ch Insp Phil Walker, from the Major Crime Investigation Team, said: “This is an incredibly serious incident, and my thoughts are with the victim's friends and family at this devastating time.” ~ : ~ Che Daily Telegraph isa member of the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) and we subscribe to its Editors’ Code of Practice. If you have a complaint about editorial content, please visit www.telegraph. co.uk/editorialcomplaints or write to ‘Editorial Complaints’ at our postal address (see below). If you are not satishied with our response, you may appeal to IFSO at www.ipso.co.uk. Regulated The Daily Telegraph, 111 Buckingham Palace Road, London, SWIW ODT
The Daily Telegraph Monday 3 August 2026 ‘News to 5 Cambridge don’'s ‘impossible’ Seven Up claim Prof Arday says that he featured in series that started in 1964... despite being born decades later By Gareth Corfield A CAMBRIDGE professor hailed as a diversity poster boy claimed that he had featured in Seven Up decades before he was born. Prof Jason Arday said he had appeared in the television series, which follows the lives ofa group of people for decades from the age of seven. The inaugural episode was broackcast in 1964. He was not born until 1985. Prof Arday is at the centre of a row about academic plagiarism after The Telegraph revealed he has been accused of copying parts of his PhD thesis from an earlier work by another student. He has admitted a series of errors in his work but said the “positioning of me as this kind of liar and fantasist is totally JULES AMAA MAA LOW unacceptable”. Now footage of a talk Prof Arday gave in October 2022 has re-emerged, revealing his claim that he appeared as a child on Seven Up. He told the University of Bath's Race Equality Taskforce: “I was part of a pro- gramme, actually, which - it doesn't really exist any more - but it was called Seven Up at the time. “And Seven Up is basically when they follow you over the duration of your life, so they follow you at [ages] seven, 14, 21. I was pulled out of the project when I was 4.” During the same talk, he also claimed: “I had just turned 18 when Tlearnt to read and write.” Seven Up was the first episode in a decades-long TV series created by Granada Productions for ITV. The series follows 14 people's lives at seven-year intervals, beginning when they were seven years of age. The final instalment is expected to be broadcast later this year. The inaugural episode was broadcast in 1964, meaning its sub- jects were born in 1957, Subsequent programmes have been titled 21 Lip, 28 Payback time Think tank targeted journalists The chair of athink tank embroiled in ajoumalism scandal was on the panel that appointed Jason Arday. Baroness Morgan, the Master of Cambridge's Fitzwilliam College, was one of nine peaple responsible for choosing the university's next professor of sociology of education. Lady Morgan herself was caught up ina recent scandal when the think tank she chaired, Labour Together, commissioned APCO, a public affairs firm, toinvestigate Sunday Times journalists after the newspaper carried a story in 2023 exposing Labour Together's failure to declare £730,000 in donations. Lacty Morgan told The Telegraph in February that the | “scope of work” carried out by APCO was “indefensible”, adding: “The board was not shown the contract with APCO. Nor was the APCO report shared with the board.” She said Labour Together instituted “several improvements to OUroperations after a governance review" since she took over. The Telegrapit has approached Lady Morgan fora response. Up and so on as the participants have New footage has erown older, The BBC also commis- sioned a spin-off series titled Up: Mil- fennium Generation. This began in 2000, also featuring a zroup of seven- year-olds. At the time, Prof Arday would have been 15, A BBC spokesman confirmed that Arday was not involved with the Lp: Millennium Generation films. Prof Arday was hailed as the young- est-ever black professor at Cambridge when he was appointed at the age of 47. Yet recent analysis of the sociol- ogy of education professor's thesis showed that more than ISO passages were identi- cal or near-identical to another student’s thesis. Since then, questions have been raised over his academic record, as well as his claims to have been a multi-mil- lion-pound charity fundraiser through his In an interview with The Times, Prof Arday admitted a series of errors in his work but attributed some to his autism, explaining that his method of making sense of information had relied heavily on mimicry. He has also claimed to haverun 30 marathons in35 days, the final nine of them with a broken leg. He insisted that he had been sub- jected to.a “dark arts” campaign. Responding, Mr Arday said the “programme” he told the University of Bath he was involved in consisted of “a local community and par- ent-led initiative” focused on raising children, not the Seven Lip series. His spokesman said: “The reference to Seven Up was used informally as a shorthand illustra- tion of the concept. It was not intended as a literal comparison and should be understood in _ the context in which it appeared of Prof Jason Arday athletic endeavours. Stick to your guns A girl readies her toy gun for a warm day out in Dorset. Meanwhile, a wildfire forced the diversion of all Stansted Express trains yesterday, prompting fears of airport chaos for holidaymakers. National Rail warned of “major disruption’ during the afternoon after reports of multiple fires near the railway line between Stansted Airport and London Liverpool Street stopped all trains running in both directions. Weather: Page 24 Elizabeth’s customised Cadillac goes up for auction for £100,000 By Telegraph Reporter A CUSTOMISED Cadillac that offered thousands of Canadians their first glimpse of the soon-to-be Elizabeth II has been offered for sale by a Las Vegas auction house. The powerful limousine was com- missioned in 195] for the then Princess Elizabeth's 43-day tour of the country alongside her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh. Organisers expected the trip to draw large crowds 60 General Motors was asked to create a car that would allow them maximum visibility, while pro- tecting the royal couple from the wind and rain. The manufacturer turned to an aviation company that created a unique plastic bubbletop to replace what would have been the roof. Aspokesman for Barrett-Jack- son Auctioneers said: “It was designed to place one of the world's most recognisable fig- ures in full view while maintain- detail was intended to project prestige and refinement befitting the future Queen of England” The Princess was just five months away from ascending the throne and undertook the tour in place of her father, King George VI who had just had an operation to remove a lung and was gravely ill. The black car was equipped with power steering, power windows and power-adjustable front seats and had an enlarged radiator to cope with the slow- speed parades, The Princess and the Duke of Edinburgh travelled thousands of miles across Canada in FAMOUS PL PRINCE mes | SS-ELI &&DUKE% ED canes li is being on Sept 10. an early taste of their royal duties in the next seven decades, and a commemora: ci tive plaque documenting the car's : . royal assignment was fitted @. to the dashboard. The car has an automatic i gearbox and is powered by fe a S3lci OHV V-8 engine ; with a factory four-barrel carburettor. lector, has been restored to concours condition, before the sale, which starts YE CCOM ES By Alice Lilley OLYMPIC swimmer Adam Ramsay- Peaty has said that he will only forgive his family when they become better people. His family feud became public in November after tensions flared over his wedding to Holly Ramsay, the daughter of TV chef Gordon Ramsay. He has now incorporated Ramsay into his surname. He savs he wants his estranged family to “improve as people” before he forgives them and resumes contact with his parents. Ramsay-Peaty, who last month secured a bronze medal in the 50m breaststroke, bronze in the 100m breaststroke and silver as part of Eng- land's mixed 44100m medley relay team in the Commonwealth Games in Glas- gow, had banned his mother from attending his wedding ceremony after a row over his wife-lo-be’s hen party. His aunt Louise Williams described the decision not to invite his mother, Caroline, to the hen party at Soho Farm- house near Chipping Norton, Oxford- shire, as “divisive and hurtful”. The three-time Olympic champion, 41, who was raised Catholic, started attending an evangelical church in 2023 and described himself as “a very reli- ious man”. sold by a private col- ing the elegance, comfort and dignity expected of a royal appearance. “The Cadillac presents exactly asa ceremonial state vehicle should. Every “Every detail was jae tip de “The Cadillac presents exactly as a plastic bubble top ceremonial state vehicle should,” the toallowthe royals auctioneer said. to be seen intended to project prestize.” “For me, as a Christian, there has to be forgiveness,” he told The Guardian. “It doesn't mean you have to forget, but forgiveness takes time, I'm not saying was made” Cheese wheels: Scientists make vehicle fuel from whey Ay Telegraph Reporter A BY-PRODUCT of cheese has been turned into fuel, which has been hailed as a boost for dairy producers and the environment. Researchers at Heriot-Watt Univer: sity worked with Take Root Bio to turn salty whey - a difficult, high-volume by-product from cheese production — into a widely used fuel called bioetha- nol. Bioethanol can be blended into petrol to fuel vehicles, or burnt in fire- places or stoves to heat homes. “We've always been interested in what happens when you stop looking at some- thing as waste and start asking what else it could become,” said Kirk Sider- man-Wolter, founder of Take Root Bio. Salty whey is produced in large vol- umes when cheese is made, making the industry keen to find another use for it. Mr Siderman-Wolter said: “Salty whey is produced in huge volumes and can be difficult to deal with, so we wanted to find out whether there was a better use for it. If we can help turn something that currently costs money ‘If we can turn something that costs money to manage into something with value, that’s positive’ to manage into something with real value, that’s a positive outcome for both dairy producers and the environment.” The challenge of disposing of salty whey is significant. About 95,000 tons of the substance is generated in the UK each year from the production of cheese, and its combination of milk sug- ars and high salt content makes man- agement particularly difficult. Asingle dairy producer can generate tens of thousands of litres every week, creating both environmental and eco- nomic pressures for the sector, At the heart of the project was the idea that salty whey could be treated as a resource rather than waste, meaning dairy producers could potentially reduce the costs associated with its management while providing feedstock for new bio-based products. Researchers from Heriot-Watt Uni- versity and Take Root Bio, supported by the Industrial Biotechnology Innova- tion Centre, looked at how the sugars found in salty whey could be trans- formed through a bio-based process, creating value from a material that is often difficult and costly to manage, Ramsay-Peaty: Pll forgive my family ifthey can improve that it won't get better, but it has to come from a place where I feel like they've improved as people, in a sense, and opened that communication up.” Mrs Peaty, 60, a former nursery man- ager, told the Daily Maif/ that she worried her son had been pulled away by the Ramsay family and was “in Gor- don’s clutches”. “L can't help but feel like they are pulling him away from me. Their family is very insular,” she added, Last week, Mrs Peaty raised hopes of a reunion when she posted on Insta- ‘I cant help but feel like they are pulling Adam away from me. Their family is very insular’ fram: “We continue to support Adam from afar, He's our son whom we love, whom we supported to reach his aspira- tions. Gur lowe, our time, our sacrifices were given freely with no expectation of financial reward" The Ramsay and Peaty families first met through Tilly Ramsay, Mrs Ramsay- Peaty’s sister, after the television pre- senter, cook and social media influencer appeared with the Olympian on Strictly Come Dancing in 2021. The couple are expecting a daughter in December and the Olympian already has a five-year-old son, George, from a former relationship,
ne Mondcay 3 August 2026 The Daily Telegraph ‘News _ Sanchez jets offon holiday as migrants refuse to depart Spanish PM shares playlist of favourite songs on social media while authorities recover bodies from sea By Nick Squires and Antonio Sempere in Ceuta SPAIN'S prime minister faced a barrage of criticism after jetting off to the Canary Islands for a holiday as hun- dreds of migrants refused to leave the Spanish territory of Ceuta. Pedro Sanchez arrived at an official residence in Lanzarote for a two-week summer holiday with his wife on Satur- day afternoon. Meanwhile, migrants slept on beaches and hid in tunnels and bushes in Ceuta following an unprece- dented incursion that has plunged Europe into crisis, Spanish authorities drove tens of thousands back across the border, but bodies were still being fished out of the sea yesterday as many of those who crossed overwhelmed asylum centres. The Spanish prime minister was accused of “denying reality” by opposi- tion MPs as he left for his break. He caused further anger after sharing a playlist of his favourite songs on social media. The summer soundtrack included Madonna's single J Feel So Free and tracks by Charli XCX and the Roll- ing Stones. Carmen Fiinez, an MP for Spain's conservative People’s Party (PP), said: “While Ceuta suffers, Sanchez is on vacation. There is nothing crueller than denying reality.” Hundreds of migrants remained in Ceuta yesterday, days after as many as 60,000 stormed into the Spanish exclave in the biggest incursion in the history of the EU. While the vast majority of the migrants who swam or walked inte the territory on the coast of North Africa returned to Moroccan soil, significant numbers vowed to stay in an attempt to claim asylum in Europe, At least 75 migrants were believed to have died in the mass incursion, Span- ish authorities said, with most drown- ing as they desperately swam from the Moroccan side of the border fence into the Spanish enclave. Divers from Spain's Guardia Civil continued to scour the sea for bodies yesterday. The authorities in Ceuta have put up to 200 refrigerated morgue spaces on standby, according to Spanish media. In the biggest irregular border cross- ing in Ceuta’s history, between 50,000 and 60,000 migrants from Morocco and sub-Saharan Africa stormed into Ceuta on Thursday and Friday, appar- ently with the connivance of the Moroc- can authorities. As the search for more bodies contin- ued, some migrants chose to go into hiding. Small groups were seen heading into the hills that overlook Ceuta city, while others concealed themselves in shrubbery and even inside water pipes. Video footage showed Spanish soldiers Mali S play foatball on the beach, top. Alvise Perez, a far-Right influencer, leaves ‘the centre codereohon protection, above. Spanish soldiers question a migrant, abowe right ordering a 25-year-old migrant to crawl outofa drainage tunnel near the beach. Many who refused to leave Ceuta appeared to be unaccompanied minors. Some slept outdoors in adisused indus- trial park, Wandering between aban- doned warehouses, the teenagers said they had hardly eaten for four days. They were among the tens of thou- sands of migrants who crossed into Ceuta, with most swimming around a border fence that juts out into the Med- iterranean. They said they hoped to reach mainland Europe in search of jobs and a better life. One young man pointed to the badge of the Spanish football shirt he was wearing and said: “Viva Espana!” Others shouted “Morocco, no! Spain” One young migrant, who was sleeping on flattened cardboard boxes sur- rounded by rubbish, said he was 14 years old and had entered Ceuta with- out his parents or any other adults. “All the children here want to go to [mainland] Spain,” said Aziz Dabch, 41, who was sheltering in the shade of a warehouse, His I7-year-old daughter said that no one was looking after the unaccompa- nied minors. “There is no food. We have not eaten today,” she said. In one of the abandoned warehouses, minors milled around aimlessly, while 5 others showered with water from a = hosepipe. Scenes of Spanish police and armed & forces chasing migrants back into j Morocco have triggered debate about due process, and have also raised ques- tions about applying a similar hardline approach to other borders, including the English Channel. Spain can legally expel migrants who arrive in Ceuta or Melilla without let- ting them file an asylum request under controversial laws introduced in 2015. Elsewhere in Europe, this practice is known as “pushbacks” and is only used sporadically. But the presence of so many minors will complicate the Spanish authorities’ attempts tosend some of the remaining migrants back across the frontier. Spanish law dictates that when police identify an undocumented and unac- companied migrant suspected of being a minor, he or she must be dealt with by child protection services. The courts es then decide whether the child can be returned to his or her country of origin. At the Tarajal border crossing, The Telegraph saw Spanish police transport- ing migrants, including minors, to the border gate leading back into Morocco, Immigration lawyers say returning children without following the correct procedures raises legal questions under both Spanish legislation and Spain's obligations under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Migrants complained that they were unable to buy anything to eat or drink because many of Ceuta’s shops had closed in the wake of the mass incur- sion. While many returned to Morocco, escorted by Spanish soldiers and police, “While Ceuta sulfers, he is on vacation. There is nothing crueller than to deny reality’ others said they were determined to remain. “They've closed everything down so that we can’t buy anything to eat, to force us to return to our country,” said Mohamed Hatri, a 23-year-old Moroc- can. He said he and others were deter- mined to stay “whether we're hungry or nat”. There are fears that the situation could grow more volatile as the migrants who have stayed behind demand food and shelter from the authorities. Some of the remaining migrants were rounded up by the authorities yester- day. Outside a housing estate near Ceuta port, Spanish soldiers detained a group A complacent European Union is to blame for the chaos at Ceuta Guy Dampier A . EUROPE has been rocked by the Spanish autonomous city of Ceuta on the North African coast being stormed by an estimated 60,000 Moroccan immigrants. Even though around 48,000 are said to have already gone home, having discovered there was no food and that no ferry would take them tothe Spanish mainland, the crisis isn't over ret. ; That's because the political and legal consequences still need to be worked out. For starters, it has been widely alleged that Morocco was complicit in the surge of illegal immigrants. It's certainly true that the Moroccan authorities seem to have done nothing to stop it. This would fit with prior events. In 2021 there was similar but smaller wave of illegal immigrants in Ceuta, Nate. which came just after it was revealed that a Western Saharan political leader who opposed Moroccan rule there had been admitted to a Spanish hospital. This July, Spanish prime minister Pedro Sanchez visited Algeria, which also rejects Morocco’s rule of the Western Sahara. That may have triggered the incursion this week. Whether the illegal immigrants have gone back is immaterial. As American analyst Joshua Trevino has pointed out, Morocco has now shown it has the capability to do this if it wishes. Should Spain displease it again, flooding Ceuta with almost as many illegal immigrants as there are residents is now an option. This is a long-held tactic: in 1975, Morecco marched a human wave of 350,000 people into the Western Sahara, which was then ruled by the Spanish. This coincided with the death of General Franco, and so the Spanish anny was ordered not to fire. The land was given up to Morocco the next year. Another possible trigger for this week's wave of illegal migrants was a judgment by the Spanish Supreme A migrant from Morocco, one of an estimated 60,000, crosses into Ceuta by sea Melilla in 2020. Court in June, declaring that rechazos en frontera, or border pushbacks, are legal at the border fence, but that this does not apply on the maritime frontier as there is no barrier there. That's why most of the 60,000 swam across from Morocco to Ceuta, with at least G7 dying in the attempt. Although Spain is now installing a 500-metre containment barrier at sea, some migrants already swim from the town of Fnideq, covering more than five kilometres in the water. This Spanish ruling came despite the European Court of Human Rights, the scourge of border control efforts in the English Channel, giving the Spanish an exception from the European Convention on Human Rights for pushbacks in Ceuta and In the face of this threat, the European Union has floundered. Although the Schengen zone means free movement, the French, Italians and Finns announced restrictions in some form or other. Georgia Meloni of Italy has also attacked Sanchez for his regularisation of illegal immigrants, warning it will attract more to Europe, The issue was considered so worrying that 22 of the 27 nations making up the bloc issued a joint open letter demanding a united response. The EU Commission has agreed to hold a video conference next Tuesday. That sums up the problem. The European Union is an enormous bloc, yet it finds itself at the mercy of Morocco because human rights laws undermine border controls, Without those controls, freedom of movement under Schengen becomes a liability rather than a benefit. Yet instead of leading, the EU merely convenes meetings. The EU's complacency has seen its share of the global economy shrink and the continent miss out on the frontier of Al. If it fails to secure Europe's borders, the whole project may well collapse, as frustrated voters demand the security that European leaders refuse to deliver. Ceuta wasa test of their ability to respond and the EU failed.
The Daily Telegraph Monday 3 August 2026 of nine tired-looking migrants sitting on the pavement, guarded by troops with an armoured car. The Spanish have installed a 1,640f) floating boom around Ceuta’s seaward frontier as they bolster security meas- ures. The status of sub-Saharan Africans is likely to be sharply different from that of the Moroccans who entered Ceuta. The former were fleeing conflict, drought and persecution and may be deemed to have the right to request asy- lum in the European Union unde national law, human rights activists said. But they will encounter further hard- ship. Ceuta’s migrant reception centre was already overcrowded even before ‘They have cli sed everything down so that we can't buy anything to eat’ the present crisis erupted. Reports emerged yesterday of jet skis and motorboats carrying migrants to main- land Spain. Ceuta, a city of just more than $5,000 inhabitants, was never equipped to deal with a challenge of this magnitude. The local mortuary quickly exceeded capac- ity, forcing Spain's military emergen- cies unit to deploy refrigerated trucks from mainland Spain to preserve the bodies recovered from the sea. Over the weekend, far-Right activists seeking to capitalise on the crisis trav- elled to Ceuta, saying that the crisis was proof that Europe had lost control of its southern frontier. They included members of Nicleo Nacional, a Spanish neo-fascist organi- sation. But the response they encoun- tered was very different from the one they expected. Hundreds of residents gathered to reject what they said was the political exploitation of a tragedy that has claimed dozens of lives. One of the most striking aspects of the demonstrations was the participation of Ceuta’s Muslim community, which represents roughly half of the city’s population. Families, neighbourhood associa- tions and community representatives defended the city’s longstanding tradi- tion of coexistence and rejected attempts to use the crisis to promote anti-immigration and anti-Muslim nar- ratives. Police were deployed to prevent "We needa closure of the border crossing until we get cuarantees it wont happen again direct clashes between the opposing groups, Ceuta has long been defined by the coexistence of Christian, Muslim and Jewish communities. That stands in sharp contrast to the increasingly polar- ised political narrative surrounding the enclave elsewhere in Europe. The leader of Spain's hard-Right Vox party has called for the border between Ceuta and Morocco to be “militarised” in the wake of what he called an “inva- sion”. Santiago Abascal demanded “the permanent closure of the border cross- ing until Rabat provides guarantees that this will never happen again”. Vox currently commands around 17 per cent of the vote, according to Span- ish polls, Mahmood: We can't deal with migrants like Spain can Continued from Page ! is being invaded. Tory and Labour gov- emments responded with a free ferry service and free hotels. Reform UK will respond by launching the largest mili- tary operation in the English Channel since the Second World War. “Nigel Farage will order his Majesty's Royal Navy to ensure that not a single unauthorised vessel crossing the Eng- lish Channel makes it to the shores of the United Kingdom. “Those who attempt it will be inter- cepted by our Armed Forces and returned to France.” Reform would set up a joint military command with units from the Royal Navy, Royal Marines, RAF and British Army as well as a surveillance com- mand to track incoming boats. They would pass emergency legisla- tion “as necessary” to give the joint command any further required powers. The party has insisted the plan would be in line with international law and that it will both halt small boat arrivals and act 25.42 humanitarian response. At the moment the UK has a “one in, one out” returns agreement with France, which stipulates that Britain can send illegal Channel migrants back to Paris in return for taking the same number of asylum seekers, However, as of June, the treaty had only seen 921 small boat migrants sent back to France. In that time, Britain has also accepted 896 asylum seekers from France under the reciprocal deal. By contrast, tens of thousands of migrants returned from Ceuta to Morocco within hours of arriving last week, Ms Mahmood has rejected calls to copy Spain's response to illegal migra- tion into Ceuta, arguing it is not possi- ble because of the Channel. She said the small boat crisis was “dif- ferent and trickier in many ways" than the situation faced by the Spanish exclave. Yesterday, Ms Mahmood told The Telegraph: “I think what we've seen in ‘People want to see this issue addressed. I heard that on the doorsteps in Makerfield’ Ceuta is unique to those particular cir- cumstances. Morocco and Spain share a land border, and therefore they have an agreement between each other, which is about sharing a land border, and I think that reflects their geography and their shared history. “That is different to a people-smug- gling trade that crosses the whole of the Channel - so you're in both French waters and then English waters, and that makes the work that we do differ- ent and trickier in many ways.” In a visit to the NCA’s joint command room in Dover yesterday, Andy Burn- ham pledged to be “relentless” in tack- ling small boat crossings, Highlighting that crossings are down compared to this time last year, the Prime Minister said: “Clearly, progress is being made, but we're not compla- cent, and it's why I am here. So we're just going to be relentless. “People want to see this issue addressed. I heard that on the doorsteps in Makerfield, but we also need to build a system that offers safe routes for peo- ple as well, because that also takes away the selling point of the gangs. “50 on every level we've got to cover this... crucially increasing the enforce- ment activity.” But the Prime Minister is likely to face further pressure over the summer on small boats. The latest figures show $26 migrants arrived on Saturday in four boats, bringing the number up to 2,057 since Mr Burnham took over from Sir Keir Starmer on July 20. A Home Office spokesman said: “This Government is bearing down on small boat crossings, with removals of small boat migrants at record levels and asy- lum claims down by 12 per cent. “The Home Secretary has signed a landmark hew payment-by-results deal with France to boost enforcement action on beaches and pul people smug: glers behind bars. “This builds on joint work that has stopped over 46,000 attempted cross- ings since the election.” People-smugglers = v=: take advantage of Spanish amnesty By Charles Hymas and Mitchell Durdin ILLEGAL migrants are being smuggled out ofthe UR across the Channel to cash in on Spain's asylum amnesty, a Tele- graph investigation has found. People-smugglers are exploiting weaker border-exit controls to sneak the migrants out of Britain and into France by hiding them in lorries to be transported across the Channel by ferry or train. The migrants - many of whom face deportation to their home countries from the UK for overstaying their visas or working illegally - are paying up to £1,000 for the journey, which opens up the chance of free movement across almost the entire Continent. Smugglers SS a also offer a “taxi service” for an extra £500 te take them through France and across the border to Spain, which has introduced an amnesty for illegal migrants. On Thursday, 60,000 migrants stormed the Spanish enclave of Cueta after swimming from Morocco, taking advantage of weak security. At least ST people died, either by drowning or being crushed at the border fence. By Friday night, some 48,000 of those who crossed the frontier had returned to Morocco, suggesting they had been led there on false pretences. The rush on the border triggered European leaders to call for Spain's tem- porary suspension from the Schengen free-travel zone. The number of people engaging in Some adverts are mocked up like holiday promotions with images of tourist hotspots reverse migration out of Britain is only a fraction of the asylum seekers cross- ing the Channel to the UK in small boats, However, the number of videos and adverts suggests a growing trade, partly fuelled by the more “hostile” / OU Safe our resposbility —— game setting Available.’ if you're interested, DM me for more details. environment for illegal migrants in Britain. The people-smuggling service is actvertised on social media, with videos of the migrants travelling across the border in the back of lorries or jumping out into the French countryside on arrival at their first destination in Europe. Some adverts are mocked up like hol- iday promotions with images of tourist hotspots such as the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the Colosseum in Rome and Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. Other adverts target migrants who have overstayed their student visa, pri- marily from the Indian subcontinent, who are offered a route out of the UK to escape the Home Secretary's tough measures on the UK's visa system and illegal working. One video of a lorry full of migrants appeals directly to “Dunki boys”, young men from India’s regions such as Punjab and Haryana who have earned their nickname in Bollywood folklore for seeking backdoor migration routes into Western countries. Indians and Pakistanis account for the highest number of over-stayers in the UR, with thousands switching from student, work or visitor visas to seek asylum in the UK. The surge in migration to France has raised fears that the UK could become a staging post for illegal migrants seeking a backdoor route to Europe, Last year, the National Crime Agency (NCA) uncovered a people-smugeli ring that brought migrants from North Africa to the UK on tourist visas, charg- ing them up to £1,200 each to be smug: gled in lorries from Dover to France. Peter Walsh, a senior researcher at Oxford University’s Migration Observa- tory, said: “One of the benefits would be escaping immigration enforcement. “The Home Office has been ramping up the enforcement infrastructure and people might believe that if they get into the Schengen [the border-free travel] zone, they will be free to travel to whatever country they like. “They may think it’s easier to survive asa resident in Europe than in the UK." A people-smuggler contacted by a Telegraph undercover reporter appeared to allude to the Government's crackdown on illegal working and its plans to double the time that migrants have to wait for indefinite leave to remain from five to 10 years. A Home Office spokesman said: “We are working closely with France to pre- vent illegal migration attempts, which exploit national borders. “We have delivered a record-break- ing increase in disruptions to criminal smuggling activity, including arrests, convictions and seizures, rising by nearly 50 per cent in the year ending March 2026."
News Monday 3 August 2026 The Daily Telerraph Burnham haschance | to lead a new | world order Adrian Blomfield i ) SENIOR FOREIGN na CORRESPONDENT 7 ON Allies yearn for Britain to fulfil its true potential, but can the PM restore its standing as a global leader? IT 1S - or should be - a golden appertunity for Britain to reshape the world. Decades after losing its empire, the UK could finally find the role that has long eluded it, and assert itself as the guiding force behind a middle-power alliance seeking to restore an international order that the US fashioned, but no longer seems to believe in. That, at any rate, is the conviction ofa range of European statesmen, Western diplomats and academics who have spoken to The Telegraph about their admiration for Britain’s values and capabilities - and their frustration that it is failing to live up to them. Inside and outside Europe, they say, like-minded powers are confronting Donald Trump's contempt for his own allies and the fading of old certainties. They look to Britain, if no longer for salvation — those days are past new - then for leadership in an increasingly rudderless and predatory world. For them, Britain remains the only developed democracy with a genuine glohal outlook, global reach and, even now, slobal capabilities, “Britain remains a great country,” said Radek Sikorski, Poland's foreign minister, ina recent speech at the Royal United Services Institute in London. “You have a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, you have nuclear weapons, first-class intelligence, global diplomatic outreach, excellent universities and a reaciiness to deploy your military. Britain enjoys an outsized influence in Washington, the EU and beyond. It retains a rare ability to convene, to persuade, to organise and to lead other countries.” Yet, admiration is increasingly accompanied by impatience. The question many of Britain’s allies are asking is whether one of Downing Street's most inward-looking and lst Britain's ranking in the Nato league table of its 32 nations for progress to meeting defence pledges, behind only leeland internationally inexperienced prime ministers can provide the leadership the moment demands. Andy Burnham has promised to govern differently from his predecessor, pledging to spend less time abroad and more time focused on domestic priorities - “Never-Here Reir” giving way to “Home-Fires Burnham”, Yet, however much Mr Burnham might prefer to keep the world at arm's length, he is unlikely to have that luxury. Indeed, itis a message allies are impressing on him with growing urgency, warming that the longer Britain delays meeting its Nato defence commitments, the greater the risk that it squanders its chance to become the middle powers’ first among equals, “If you want to be a global player, you need to back up your diplomacy with force,” Mr Sikorski told The Teleeraph before Mr Burnham took office on July 20, “Either you pav for it or it will wane.” Britain’s allies say there are tentative signs that its new Government understands that. The appointment of John Healey as Chancellor has been welcomed, Having resigned as defence secretary rather than acquiesce in what he regarded as inadequate military spending, he arrives with unusual credibility on defence. There is, however, a mountain to climb, Britain ranks 31st out of Nato’s 32 members for progress towards meeting key rearmament pledges, only ahead of Iceland. The middle powers’ rallying call That call came not from a British statesman, but from a Canadian who never actually mentioned Britain once. Addressing the global elite at Davos in January, Mark Carney, Canada's prime minister, delivered both a eulogy for the American-led order and a blueprint for how “middle powers" might SUTVive its passing. Urging allies to accept that a fundamental rupture had taken place, Mr Carney effectively declared the death of the “rules-based international order” and the return to rivalry between preat powers, Mr Trump had not merely withdrawn the US's security blanket that had allowed allies to prosper in relative complacency, but had joined the ranks of the predators. In such a world, he said: “Middle powers must act together, because if we're not at the table, we're on the menu.” Exposed and vulnerable, middle powers therefore had no choice but to band together in flexible coalitions, Mr Carney’s prescription has its sceptics, Michael Beckley, a political scientist, writes in Foreign Affairs that hopes of middle powers asserting their independence are a “delusion”. The emerging order, he argues, would be “not a flatter world of ascendant middle powers, but a harsher one in which the two top powers have more ways to bend others to their will”. Few Western diplomats outside the Us would reject Mr Beckley's diagnosis. Their disagreement lies in its conclusion. If the world really is becoming harsher and more predatory, they arguc, then middle- power collaboration becomes not less necessary, but more so. For them, the question is no longer whether a middle-power alliance should exist, but how it should be built. And if there is any hope of it succeeding, they argue, Britain must be at its forefront, Building the architecture Forging a middle-power alliance isa complicated business. The first difficulty lies in definition. What exactly is a “middle power"? Ask diplomats and they generally distinguish between two camps. The first comprises the “like- minded” middle powers: countries for which democracy, free markets and the admittedly nebulous concept of shared values remain fundamental. Most European countries fall into this category, alongside Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and South Korea, The second group, often described as “transactional middle powers”, includes countries such as India, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates, Vietnam and, depending on the context, Turkey. These are regional heavyweights that seek to hedge between the US and China, but often diverge from the first group on questions of values. The next challenge is how to knit the middle powers together. Like- minded powers, Western diplomats sav, Should work ever more in concert, make common cause with transactional powers whenever interests align and, wherever possible, avoid provoking an unnecessary confrontation with Washington. “There are lots of questions about how you put meat on the bones of this,” says Kurt Campbell, who was deputy secretary of state under Joe SEREMY SELW'sPt Western response to Ukraine. Rather than waiting for consensus to emerge, Britain repeatedly shifted it, breaking diplomatic taboos over the supply of weapons to Kyiv. [tlauncheda multinational programme to train Ukrainian recruits on British soil and established financial mechanisms ‘Britain retains a rare ability to covene, persuade, Biden. “For now, what is most likely Organise throweh which allies could procure are unofficial channels, alliances of and lead military equipment for Ukraine. necessity and greater coordination : That momentum has fadect among like-minded states on an ad hoc other : somewhat, Ms CY Sullivan adds, with basis ina way that does not directly countries’ leaders such as Emmanuel Macron and Mr Carney becoming more prominent in articulating a shared strategic vision. Even so, Ukraine demonstrated Britain's greatest comparative advantage: what diplomats call its convening power, Aside from the US and France, no other democracy occupies so many influential positions across the world’s most important institutions. Britain combines a permanent seat on the Security Council, G7? membership and an independent nuclear deterrent with a blue-water navy. Britain's network of diplomatic, financial and cultural influence is still exceptional, London remains one of the world's leading financial and legal centres. The BBC World Service retains global reach. Britain's universities continue to attract the world’s brightest. Its diplomatic service remains among the most experienced in the world. The English language, the Crown and the Premier League give Britain a cultural clout that few countries can rival. Its military reach is equally distinctive. From the Falkland Islands Mr Trump spurred the search for a — and Cyprus to Oman and Diego Garcia, middle-power alliance, it was Vladimir | 4 i Britain's network of bases and Putin who created the conditions iia’ .« Site. intelligence facilities gives ita that made one necessary. ka global presence. “Britain's “We can chart the origins of biggest comparative the EU becoming more advantage is in defence, geopolitical in its approach, security and especially more interested in finding joint intelligence, where itis approaches to defence and both respected and Europe becoming more willing feared,” says Brendan to spend more on defence to Simms, the director of Russia’s full-scale invasion of the Centre for Ukraine,” says Olivia Geopolitics at the O'Sullivan, the UR director I ity of in the World Programme ‘ “Russia at Chatham House, the regards MI6 as biga alienate the US at a time of deep unpredictability in Washington.” lt is this kind of system - what Mr Carney calls “variable geometry” - that many believe should suit Britain, Flexible and informal coalitions play more naturally to Britain's diplomatic instincts than rigid, rules-based structures such as the EU. That does not mean retreating from institutions. David Miliband, the former foreign secretary who now heacls the International Rescue Committee, argues that Britain's future lies in maximising its influence across several institutions anc forums, “Finding institutional modalities into which we can plug ourselves is essential whatever we're trying to achieve, whether it be military, whether it be diplomatic or whether it be on the humanitarian front,” he says. Why Britain? The good news is that the habits of middle-power co-operation were already taking shape long before Mr Carney gave them a name. If think tank. threat as the CIA, if Britain, although a not bigger.” laggard in defence spending after Partner of choice Seen in that light, it is hardly surprising so many middle powers are looking to Britain. “The UK has, somewhat accidentally, found itself ina good position in a fracturing world” says William Freer, a research fellow at the Council decades of outpacing most ofits European partners, was at the forefront of that shift, particularly in galvanising the on Geostrategy in London. For the past two decades, he argues, Britain has sought to preserve the broadest spectrum of capabilities even as resources were steadily squeezed, “Because the UK didn't really want to give anything up, it retained a breadth of capability, but very little depth,” he says. “That has its own set of problems, particularly ifthe UK is looking te do stuff on its own. But as a partner of first choice for countries that are looking to diversify from the US, it does mean that we're in quite a good position to offer up our expertise as a partner.” However, that breadth is becoming increasingly difficult to sustain. Diplomats warn that Britain’s influence is eroding just as it is becoming more valuable than it has been for decades on the world stage. UK's dwindling defence spending Defence expenditure as share of GOP 11% — Andy Burnham must let his new ‘Chancellor, John Healey, below left, meet defence spending targets 10%—} 4% = 7% 6%- 4% a% 1970 1980 1950 © 1960 The reality trap Britain's commitments are large and growing. It leads the Joint Expeditionary Force, a coalition of 10 northern European nations designed to respond rapidly to Russian ageression in the Baltic Sea, the Arctic and the North Atlantic. It is a partner alongside Australia and the US in Aukus, giving Britain a long-term presence in the Indo-Pacific region while delivering a new fleet of nuclear-powered attack submarines. With Japan and Italy, it is developing the world's only sixth-generation fighter aircraft programme outside the US and China. Others commitments are in the pipeline, most notably the Coalition of the Willing, the force spearheaded by Britain and France to guarantee Ukrainian security in the event of a ceasefire, and the proposed maritime mission to restore navigation through the Strait of Hormuz. As global threats multiply, demands for British leadership are likely to grow. Similar expeditionary coalitions 1990 «2000 «62000 = 2020 SOURCE: SIRFAI, HATO “When push comes to shove, you have the ships to send to the Gulf or soldiers to Ukraine, or you dont’ Jogon PM endures an eventful run Andy Burnham appeared alittle dishevelled yesterday moming and showed signs he may have taken a tumble on his morning run, The Frime Minister appeared to have a mark on the left side of his face and his hands were covered in dirt at the end of ajog atGam. The MP for Makerfield sported along-sleeved blue gym top as he was pictured carrying out his daily run. Mr Burnham was escorted on his jog by two diplomatic protection officers, who ran with walkie talkies. The sescurity protection included two following vehicles, and an armed response vehicle was. also part of the outing ashe ranin Manchester near his constituency. Boris Johnson was regularly snapped by photographers running through parks and streets when he was prime minister, while David Cameron was known for his twice weekly jogs around the London parks near Westminster. may be needed elsewhere, There is already talk of a European security council to mitigate the risks ofa diminished American role in Nato. Britain will want to be at the forefront - and its allies will expect it to be, But, they ask, how realistic is it for Britain to take on 60 many leacling roles while refusing to set a credible pathway to meet Nato’s target of spending 3.5 per cent of GDF on defence by 20352 Under current plans, Britain will reach just 2.68 per cent by 2030. Mr Sikorski has bluntly warned that Britain will not be able to play the role of a diplomatic leader, unless it rapidly closes the gap between its ambitions and its defence plans. “When push comes to shove, you either have the ships to send to the Gulf or the brigades to Ukraine, or you don't,” he said. For many European governments, it is all the more frustrating that Britain, once the Continent’s defence: spending trailblazer, has fallen behind even as others race ahead, More worrying for many allies is the sense that the country’s political culture is becoming more inward-looking. The Foreign Office is reducing its workforce by up toa quarter. Senior posts abroad are being cut or merged while fewer diplomats will be deployed overseas. Britain's reach across the developing world has also diminished after successive reductions in overseas development spending. The World Service has had its funding cut heavily. Burnham's choice It is therefore hardly surprising that pessimism abounds, British hard ane soft power have both diminished. All three branches of the Armed Forces are less than half the size they were at the end of the Cold War, Many fear that Britain's ability to shape the international order is ebbing away. Britain's influence today rests less on overwhelming power than on the breadth of its capabilities, The irony is that Britain is being called upon to lead the middle powers just as it allows many of the capabilities that make that role possible to erode. More than six decades after Dean Acheson observed that Britain had lost an empire but not yet found a role, it may finally have one in its reach. Whether it proves equal to that opportunity now depends on choices in Downing Street. Mr Burnham has the chance not simply to reverse Britain's long retreat from the world, but to give it the sense of purpose that has eluded it for more than 60 years. Britain's allies have already made it clear what they hope he will do.
The Daily Telegraph Monday 3 August 2026 =] News High-protein diet may shorten your life Despite being ‘building blocks of life’, amino acids could be harmful to people who are not as active By Jonathan Chadwick EATING a high-protein diet may shorten your lifespan, research has found. Protein, which breaks down into amino acids that help the body grow and repair, has been referred to as the “building blocks of life". But for people who do not lead an active lifestyle, a high amount of protein could lead to a shorter life, a review published by Cell Press Blue, an online science journal, has suggested. Author Prof Dudley Lamming, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told The Telegraph: “Some studies suggest that eating more protein - while seden- tary ~ is associated with higher rates of cancer, diabetes and mortality. This research is at an early stage and more research is needed to help people cus- tomise their diet to their activity level” Adults are generally advised to con- sume about 0.75g¢ of protein for each ke of their body weight per day - about 5g a day for a 9st 6lb woman or 55g a day for a Ist Lilb man. For a woman, this could be made up of a wholegrain cereal with milk for breakfast, beans on toast for lunch, and amedium chicken breast for dinner. Prof Lamming and Bailey A Knopf, his co-author, performed a review of ‘People are likely eating substantially more than the daily allowance of protein or amino acid restriction’ more than 350 scientific papers on protein intake and ageing. They concluded that eating less protein slowed ageing by improving metabolism, reducing cellular damage, and preserving healthy cell function. The researchers pointed to a “pri- mary mediator” in the process - a hor- mone called FGF21 that rises when protein intake is low. FGF21 increases the amount of calories the body burns, keeps tabs on blood sugar and reduces inflammation in fatty tisswe. The study also identified several amino acids that appeared to drive many of these effects, including methio- nine, isoleucine, and valine. Studies have shown that methionine restriction - which can be achieved through a strict vegan diet - can lead to weight loss and keeping blood sugar at ahealthy, stable level. Meanwhile isoleucine restriction has been shown to improve metabolic health, and restricting valine can cut the chances of developing liver disease. It is thought that amino acids trigger biological processes that promote mus- cle growth, but this can raise the risk of obesity, inflammation, and other age-related diseases. In contrast, people who take regular exercise will probably be protected from any negative health effects of a protein-rich diet. The team’s lab experiments have also shown that protein causes fat accumu- lation in sedentary mice. Mice that exer- cise, meanwhile, are protected from these effects while also becoming ‘Eating more protein while sedentary is associated with higher rates of mortality’ stronger faster and developing bigger muscles than mice on a low-protein diet, In humans, the exact mechanisms at play will warrant further investiga- tion, the scientists say. They caution that there are still “many unknowns about the optimal levels of protein intake”, warning: “Indi- viduals are likely eating substantially more than the recommended daily allowance for protein and could benefit from protein or amino acid restriction At the same time, certain people do have a greater demand for protein, including those who exercise every day, pregnant women, growing children and those recovering from injuries. “Restricting protein or specific amino acids could potentially be harm- ful for these groups,” they conclude, PM must use ‘brute force’ on social media ban, says peer By Charles Hymas HOME AFFAIRS EDITOR ANDY BURNHAM must use “brute force” to implement Labour's social media ban on under-16s after research showed tech firms obstructed Austral- ia’s scheme, said the peer who led the campaign in the Lords, Lord Nash, whose amendments forced Labour to adopt a ban, said the Prime Minister must learn the lessons from Australia, where an official report had revealed the platforms were to blame for millions of children remain- ing on social media despite the ban. Eight in 10 Australian children who were on social media before the ban took effect in December 2025 still had an account with at least one platform three months after they were supposed to be blocked, according to research by the country’s e-safety commissioner, its online regulator. Just over half (50.2 per cent) said that the reason they were still on social media was that the companies had failed even to ask them their age despite the platforms being required by law to take all “reasonable steps” to block under-16s from their accounts. YouTube was the worst with 48.7 per cent of the children who stayed on the site saying they had not been asked to verify their age. For Instagram, it was 37.7 per cent, TikTok (36 per cent), Snapchat (32.3 per cent) and Facebook (28,2 per oent), Even where there was enforcement by the social media companies, the checks were ineffective, with 37.1 per ‘Ministers should not assume good faith from these firms. They only resp nd to brute force’ cent of children saying they claimed they were lé. One family told researchers: “Noth- ing has changed because both my kids (15 and 13) were able to get around it with ‘face age recognition’ The system estimated them to be over 16." Lord Nash, a former education minis- ter, said: “The single-biggest reason children still hold accounts is not that they found a way round the rules. It is that the platform never asked them their age in the first place, “Ministers should not assume any good faith from these companies. These are firms that only respond to brute force. “Age verification is highly effective if done properly. Our regime must be the tightest available, with robust enforce- ment powers to match.” The UR is modelling its ban on Aus- tralia’s approach by using the same defi- nition of social media but the Government has pledged to apply tougher rules for verifying children’s ages. It plans to force the companies to use “highly effective” age-assurance meth- ods rather than only requiring them to take “all reasonable steps” to block under-1Gs, as in Australia. Checks could include facial age esti- mation, which uses Al to assess some- one’s age, digital [Ds, credit cards, open banking, passports, phone-company age checks and email age estimation, where someone's use of the internet is analysed to establish whether they have used other services for adults. ERLGOM ‘CAN BAALAy PORTER ET A-PORT Blossoming With a Greta Gerwig-directed Narnia adaptation, a new comedy film and a starring role in JJ Abrams’ big screen return on the horizon, British actress Emma Mackey is about to have her biggest year yet, as she tells magazine Porter. Powell: Blame Gove’'s school reforms for worklessness By Gwyn Wright THE new Education Secretary has blamed Michael Gove's school reforms for the youth worklessness crisis, Lucy Powell said workless young people had been “let down" by her Con- servalive predecessor's reforms, which have been credited with raising school standards, She also suggested she would look at overhauling the curriculum again to focus less on academic subjects. The Government is already consider- ing changes to the curriculum follow- inga review published last year by Prof Becky Francis, which recommended that teenagers sit fewer GCSEs, In an article for The Times, Ms Powell wrote: “One million. That's how many young people from the education sys- tem Michael Gove presided over who are now left outside education, not in employment and not in training. That's not a coincidence - it's a consequence. It's his legacy. “Children from poorer backgrounds with stubborn and entrenched disad- vantage and those with special educa- tional needs have been particularly let down, “So too have those whose talents and skills lie beyond academia, in creative subjects, technical or skilled work or more practical application” Andy Burnham has promised to put technical qualifications on par with academic ones as part of a drive to “value the hard hat every bit as much as the graduation cap”. From September 2028, pupils aged 14 and older will be able to gain technical qualifications alongside sitting aca- demic exams, and do work experience with local businesses in a scheme mod- elled on Mr Burnham's Greater Man- chester Baccalaureate. The Prime Minister hopes that his reforms will help tackle a worklessness crisis among the young. More than a million people aged 16 to 24 were classified as not in education, employment or training in the first three months of 2026, and more than £30,000 people aged 16-24 are claiming sickness benefits amid a surge in claims for mental health conditions. However, critics fear the drive will reverse more than a decade of progress in raising academic standards in Eng- lish schools. England rose from 27th place to Ith place in maths performance among 15-year-olds between 2009 and 2023, while in science England rose from 16th to 13th place. Supporters of Mr Gove's reforms, which introduced a tougher and more knowledge-based curriculum to Eng- lish schools, say similar improvements have not been seen in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, which did not pur- sue similar policies. Mr Gove, who served as education secretary between 2010 and 2014, accused Ms Powell of showing a “pov- erty of ambition”. He said that there was “a natural tendency” for people to think there was a “limitation on the number of students who can enjoy or benefit from an academic curriculum to the age of 16". Mr Gove added: “That is exhibiting a poverty of ambition, because the best-performing schools... succeed in drawing students from disadvantaged homes and... yet they are able to ensure that children can succeed.” Jewish veteran: Anti-Semitism as bad as before Second World War By Telegraph Reporter A102-YEAR-OLD Jewish Second World War veteran has said anti-Semitism now is as bad as it was before the war. Monty Goldstein, who served in the Royal Artillery during the conflict, recalled there being “a lot of anti-Semi- tism” in the years around the war. He said: “In that time in the East End, there was a lot of anti-Semitism, Mosley and the blackshirts, and Duckett Street, which was astone’s throw from where I lived, was very, very active in those years, and it was avery bad situation. “Unfortunately, today we've got the same situation through no fault of our own. What have I done to deserve it?" It follows an increase in anti-Semitic hate crime on Britain's streets since the Oct 7 attacks three years ago. Two Jewish men were stabbed in Golders Green, north London, in April 2026 and a month later a former syna- ‘We've tried to be good citizens and do the best we can, and yet we're still considered hostile’ gogue in Whitechapel, east London, Was Largeted in an arson attack. Mr Goldstein said: “What have I done to deserve it? What happens abroad is not my fault, and I can't help. “But there's loads of anti-Semitism, especially in the Golders Green area. Some people are afraid to walk in the streets. Which is why I say England is not the same. “I hope I'm a nice, peaceful chap, I keep out of mischief and fortunately I've never been in any trouble, “Britain is my country, and I know it, and I look wp to it. 1 don't know any- thing else. 'm an Englishman first. So why are we attacked?” Mr Goldstein believes schools should do more to educate children. “Some sections are hostile and are taught to hate the Jews without any reason, just because they're Jews,” he said. “We've tried to be good citizens and do the best we can, and yet we're still Monty Goldstein, celebrating his 102nd birthday, says England is ‘no longer the same’ considered hostile, and there's nothing much we can do about that” Born on Commercial Road in east London in July 1924, Mr Goldstein was conscripted into the Army in 1943 aged 18, and served in an anti-aircraft and searchlight regiment defending the capital against German bombing raids. He expected to be sent to France after D-Day, but his regiment remained in Britain because it was considered more Valuable in protecting the country from aerial attacks. After the war he joined Ajex, the Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women, and has attended Remem- brance events since 19-45, But Mr Goldstein said the country is no longer looked up to in the way it once was. He added: “We fought for five years, tyranny and all that, and instead of going ahead we're going backwards, which is not a good sign. Some people want to leave the country” Mr Goldstein, who now lives in Chadwell Heath, east London, will join his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren for a tea party days after turning 102. “Every morning you get up, you say, ‘Thank God’, and it’s a bonus,” he said. “If you were in the Army during the war, you've got to be well in your 90s now and unfortunately, there's not too many beft:"
Monday 3 August 2026 The Daily Telegraph News A fifth of voters in Clacton would take Binface over ‘Darth’ Farage By Alice Lilley A FIFTH of people plan to vote for Count Binface rather than Nigel Farage in the upcoming Clacton by-election, polling has shown. Mr Farage called the by-election in the constituency he has held since 2024 after he was revealed to have received a £5m gift prior to the general election from billionaire Christopher Harborne. The Reform party leader is expected to win the by-election with ease after all of the main political parties decided against fielding candidates to stand against him. He could be re-elected with 73 per cent of the vote on a low turnout, poll- ing in the constituency by Survation, for Mandate Research, has suggested. But anti-Farage sentiment has gained momentum around Count Binface, who is polling at an estimated 20 per cent. In direct polling for either candidate, backing for Mr Farage drops to 69 per cent while Binface’s support increases to 3) per cent. The poll showed that the Reform leader has remained popular in the Essex constituency, with about 56 per cent support among likely voters Labour are on 8 per cent while the Tories are on 10 per cent in polling for the next general election. The polling comes as Count Binface invoked the spirit of Obi Wan Kenobi talking to Darth Vader in Star Wars on The Rest is Politics podcast. He said that while Mr Farage is likely to win “numer- ically”, he would not win “morally”. He said: “If he strikes me down, I will become more powerful than he can possibly imagine.” A0TH Sn 5. Enlightening The morning sun casts an image of Christ's transfguration through the stained glass window of Rosslyn Chapel crypt. The crypt and chapel gained worldwide fame when it featured in Dan Brown's The DaVinci Code as the hiding place of the Holy Grail. Lowe offers Reform pact for ‘good of country’ And Farage hints he could do an election deal with Restore to build a ‘broad coalition’ and defeat the Left By Daniel Martin DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR NIGEL FARAGE has prompted specula- tion he will do a deal with Restore Sritain after vowing to build a “broad coalition” which unites the right. Yesterday morning, Rupert Lowe said he and Mr Farage needed to work together to bring about a “patriotic gov- ernment” at the next election. But the Restore leader said he would go through with a deal only if Mr Farage agreed to five policies, including mass deportations, a ban on the burka and a referendum on the death penalty, He also demanded big cuts to welfare and that former Conservative ministers such as Robert Jenrick and Suella Braverman be excluded from any Reform-Restore cabinet Responding last night, Mr Farage said he wanted the support of people from other parties to defeat the Left, as long as they share his commitment to restoring Britain’s borders But he stood by his shadow cabinet, saying: “I will never turn my back on my team.” Mr Farage said the next election would be a “binary choice between Reform UK and Labour”. “Patriotic voters believe in many of the same things, but only one party truly has the possibility of delivering change,” he said. “To deliver that change, T understand Reform UK will need the support of people from other parties, as well as millions who have never voted before. That is the broad coalition I am building. “My previous history in politics has also shown that I am always prepared to put country before party, as I did in 2019. But I will never turn my back on ny team.” Mr Lowe has been a thorn in Mr Farage’s side for 18 months after quit- ting Reform UK and setting up his own party. In the aftermath of his suspen- sion, Mr Farage said there was “no way back" for Mr Lowe and described his push for mass deportations of illegal immigrants as “grave, dark and danger- ous language”. In recent months Restore has eaten into Reform’s support in local elections, while Mr Farage’s party has fallen behind Labour in the polls. Last week Restore won 9 per cent of first-preference votes in the Greater Manchester mayoral by-election, beat- ing the Conservatives. Mr Lowe's offer comes at a time when Reform faces fresh allegations over Mr Farage’s failure to declare donations made to him in the year before he was elected as an MP. 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The Daily Telegraph Monday 3 August 2026 | News Afghan man ‘confesses’ over body in Suitcase death Greek police arrest 26-year-old on suspicion of manslaughter and robbery of British victim By Alice Lilley AN AFGHAN man has been arrested in Athens in connection with the death of a British woman whose body was found in a suitcase. Elizabeth-Jane Ross, 38, from Scot- land, was discovered stuffed inside a suitcase and hidden in an abandoned building on July 18 in Rypseli, Greece. Her body was discovered by a home- less man after a “bad smell” emerged from an empty building and he saw Victim Elizabeth-Jane Ross travelled the world doing charitable work what “looked like a human limb” com- ing out of a suitcase, Ross, a committed Christian, often travelled to Greece to volunteer and help people through non-governmental organisations and was regarded as a “good Samaritan”. Greek police said in a statement that a 26-year-old male foreign national from Afghanistan had been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter, robbery and weapon violations. Officers understand that he used the victim's bank cards to withdraw cash. The police said that the man con- fessed during questioning to dumping Ross inside a suitcase before taking it to an abandoned site in Rypseli where she was later found. A raid of the suspect's home found a fake pistol and a knife. CCTV footage revealed the suspect car- rying a large travel bag to the location, the police said. Ross, known as Lisa, would be spot- ted talking to homeless people in the poorer parts of the city. The victim, from Edinburgh, had travelled the world participating in charitable work inspired by her strong faith, including spending time im Kurd- istan helping Syrian refugees. She was seen chatting to homeless people near an abandoned car park where they drank, took drugs and slept. Greek police previously questioned whether Ross was killed by an individ- ual she was trying to help. They believe that she was killed by someone who knew her but have yet to determine the full context of the friendship. The police are searching for a home- less man named Markos who is known in Kypeseli for carrying a knife and hasa reputation for being aggressive towards ‘Greek police previously questioned whether Ross was killed by an individual she was trying to help’ women, He is described as heavily tat- tooed with black hair and a stocky build and around 40-years-old. Police detectives told local media they are investigating her mobile phone which remained active after she died. Officers believe that someone was sending messages to create a false impression that Ross was still alive. The texts exchanged claimed that she “needed some time to herself” and that she “wanted to be alone for a while", according to local Greek media outlets. Greek detectives are said to be exam- ining suffocation as the cause of the Scottish woman's death. The police also believe that she was killed close to where her body was found. Her father revealed that he received text messages from his daughter's phone following ber death. The father, a lawyer in Edinburgh, told the police he had received several messages for two weeks after hisdaugh- ter died by a man who is now believed to have been arrested in connection with her death. — a i a ES Bilis | ah Bling low, sweel chario England rugby star Marcus Smith has announced his engagement to long-term partner Beth Dolling while on holiday in Sardinia, The couple shared the news on Instagram, with Beth showing the ring and posting: “Lost for words.” British Army crushed war heroes’ gravestones after vandalism fears By Fiona Parker THE British Army crushed gravestones belonging to Commonwealth soldiers after they were removed from Basra, according to newly emerged documents. Hundreds of gravestones engraved with the names of those killed in both world wars were removed from the Basra war cemetery in southern Iraq in 2003, over fears that they could be destroyed or vandalised. A further 80 large panels bearing the regimental crests of Army units and the names of war dead were also removed. However, emails and minutes dis- closed under the Freedom of Informa- tion (FOI) Act revealed that the memorials for Britain's war dead were destroyed and turned into gravel. The documents record that by March 26 2005, authority had been given for the gravestones to be crushed and for the material to fill a drainage ditch at the Army's Shaibah logistics base, around nine miles from Basra. The FOI responses, published online by an archive site documenting Com- monwealth graves in Iraq, stated that the structures were to be crushed to “40mm, to ensure that no insignia or names are readable”. Another document, dated April 5 2005, reads: “The gravestones have now been crushed and are ready to be placed in the soakway" Nearly 800 gravestones were unmarked graves, cemetery. dead stayed buried in Basra in Details of what happened to the gravestones only emerged in recent weeks following the publication of the FOI responses by Ben Soppitt. Mr Soppitt's grandfather, Gunner Joseph Soppitt, was buried in Basra war The Ministry of Defence (MoD) ini- ‘Tam deeply saddened by what happened to this cemetery. There is, of The Basra war believed to have been destroyed in aan FDettish total, in work overseen by 64 Works graves in 2003 roup Royal Engineers, whic appeared to have gone ahead once authority was given. The remains of the tially refused to release the material upon Mr Soppitt’s request in February 2026, and only did so after the Informa- tion Commissioner's Office stepped in after a request for a review. Mr Soppitt has made a High Court application for a judicial review of the gravestones’ destruction. He told the Mail on Sunday: “The MoD is fighting COLPrse, no excuse’ this claim, unwilling to bear the cost of ensuring the over 3,000 men and women buried there are properly com- memorated with the honour they deserve and that the public expects.” Meanwhile, Lord Richards, who served as assistant chief of the general staff from 2002-2005, told the newspa- per: “I. am deeply saddened by what happened to this cemetery. With the benefit of hindsight there is, of course, no excuse. “However, I have no doubt that in the dangerous and febrile environment of Basra at the time, the officers who took this decision thought they were doing the right thing.” An MoD spokesman could not pro- vide a comment for legal reasons. Clunes accuses ‘pious council of riding roughshod over locals in planning dispute By Telegraph Reporter MARTIN CLUNES has delivered an angry critique of “pious” planning officials who allowed a permanent traveller site to be built next to his £5m country home. The Men Behaving Badly star criti- cised bureaucrats in a letter objecting to new “flimsy” plans for an organic farm on the other side of his Dorset property. Andy Cream and Grace Burger, eco-friendly growers, want to build a storage barn, two polytunnels and a greenhouse for their small business. But MrClunes, 64, fears the plans are a prelude to the couple setting up a permanent home on the land just 140m from Higher Meerhay Farm, near Beam- inster in Dorset, where he lives with his wife, Philipa Braithwaite. The Doc Martin actor claimed Dorset council will ultimately allow Mr Cream and Ms Burger to do “whatever they like”. His claim stems from his bitter four-year planning row with New Age travellers Theo Langton and Ruth MeGill, which he lost. Earlier this year, Dorset council granted the couple permission to set up a permanent travellers" site just 275 metres from the Clunes’ luxury farmhouse, despite it being in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). Mr Langton and Ms McGill had lived in a mobile home on a private wooded site for more than 20 years under a roll- ing temporary licence from the local Martin Clunes has battled against authority. When it expired in 2022, they sought consent to remain permanently, much to Mr Clunes’s anger. The row turned ugly, with Mr Clunes accusing his neighbours of being “dishonest” in their application and claiming they were not bona fide travellers and there- fore not entitled toa permanent site. Mr Cream and Ms Burger initially submitted plans for their eco-venture in July 2025, seeking permission to builda temporary agricultural workers’ dwell- ing. But they withdrew that element of the application following objections planning applications near his house in Dorset from neighbours, including Mr Chines and Ms Braithwaite, a TV producer. Mr Cream and Ms Burger resubmitted an application in April covering only the farm buildings. Writing in a sarcastic tone, Mr Clunes said the council would help the couple achieve their ultimate goal of living on the site, despite objections from local residents. He said: “It seems that this application is the same as the original one made by this couple except that they no longer state that it is essential to their plans that they live at the site, I think that it is safe to assume, given the flimsy nature of their business plan, that living at the site is their ultimate goal, “From personal experience, my advice to these applicants would be to carry on and do whatever they like on the land they have bought. They can ignore any rulings or conditions applied by Dorset County Council as they will not enforce them. “After a few years of inactivity anda number of changes of the planning committee as their case is kicked down the line, the planning officer and com- mittee will circle their wagons and hand-hold the applicants through an acceptance of whatever work or addi- tions they have made to the land in the face of any objection raised. “In this way the council will seem to have not needed to enforce what they had not managed to enforce. In their piety, the committee will say that each application is judged on its merits. This is nonsense, precedent is everything” Mr Cream and Ms Burger say they want to create “a traditional market gar- den growing more than 100 varieties of seasonal vegetables, fruit, herbs and flowers across one acre of minimal till- age land”. They state that produce from the market garden will be sold direct to the local community via a “veg box” scheme and to local businesses. There has been a mixed response to the plans, with dozens of local people supporting the application. Beaminster town council is against the plans. Against all odds, Collins feud with Sir Paul is over #y Cameron Henderson PHIL COLLINS has ended a decade- long feud with Sir Paul McCartney. The two music legends fell out in 2016 after Collins, 75, claimed Sir Paul, 84, had talked down to him years earlier when the younger performer asked the former Beatle to sign a book. However, the two musicians appear to have buried the hatchet after Sir Paul offered to donate some memorabilia to a charity auction organised by Collins. “We've made up, he's happy about the fact that we discussed it, and I'm happy we discussed it, 50 it was just really lovely that it's gone full circle now,” Collins told the Sunday Times. The eight-time Grammy winner first revealed his antipathy for McCartney, who he once considered his hero, in a the 2016 interview. Then, Collins said: “He has this thing when he's talking to you, where he makes you feel ...[putting on a condescending Scouse accent] ‘I know this must be hard for you, because I'm a Beatle. 'm Paul McCartney and it must be very hard for you to actually be holding a conversation with me! “I met him when I was working at the Buckingham Palace party at the palace thing back in 2002. McCartney came up with Heather Mills and I had a first edi- tion of The Beatles by Hunter Davies and I said, ‘Hey Paul, do you mind signing this for me? And he said, ‘Oh Heather, our little Phil's a bit ofa Beatles fan’ And I thought, “You f---, you f---.. Never for- got it. He’s been in touch about it because he was upset. I certainly didn't getany flowers from him; I got more of a ‘Let's just get on with our lives” Col- lins told Billboard. “And I'm sorry he's upset that I said something nasty about him, Well, it wasn't really nasty. If peo- ple don't tell people that sometimes their attitude could be a bit better then you're net gonna get any better.” Collins, who had a US Nol with Against All Odds, said of Sir Paul's subse- quent email: “It kind of left a bad taste in Phil Collins and Sir Coat etn wer fell out over a mecting at Buckingham Palace my mouth and obviously left a bad taste in his.” The singer recently contacted Sir Paul to ask him and other artists to donate memorabilia to a King's Trust charity auction in November. Sir Paul allegedly called to say he would donate and delicately brought up the subject of their fallout. “I knew where it was going, and said, “Thank God, you've brought it up. Because he’s part of my life, you know?" Collins told the Sunday Times. “And I wish I hadn't said it, although it did happen,”
ei Monday 3 August 2026 The Daily Teleeraph News Just typical: Cavemen liked to hunt female mammoths Predictable movements may have made them Ice Age targets, says academics behind DNA analysis By Telegraph Reporter CAVEMEN preferred to hunt female mammoths, new analysis of ancient DNA suggests. Researchers in Sweden found mam- moth bones in natural settings tended to be male, while those associated with hunis tended to be female. Females were not simply hunted because of their smaller physical size, the academics believe. Instead, they may have been targeted because they moved across the landscape in more predictable ways than males. For the study, the research team from the Centre for Palaeogenetics in Stock- holm analysed genome data from 521 woolly mammoths across Eurasia and North America, including +48 individu- als sequenced for the first time. Genetic sex inference revealed a “striking” contrast depending on where the remains were found. Mammoth remains recovered from dispersed, natural settings were mostly male (66 per cent), consistent with the idea that solitary males were more likely to die in natural traps, such as sinkholes or landslides, thereby increasing the chance of long-term bone preservation. In contrast, mam- moths from accumulation sites were predominantly female (70 per cent). Co-senior author Dr David Diez del Molino, of the Centre for Palaeogenetics in Stockholm, said: “Whether these massive mammoth bone accumulations were formed naturally or by human hunting has been debated for decades. “By comparing the genetic sex ratios of hundreds of mammoths from natural settings with those found in these archaeological contexts, we can now infer that human activity was the primary driver behind these bone accumulations.” Study lead author Dr Hannah Moots, also of the Centre for Palaeogenetics, said: “While it is tempting to assume that hunters would have targeted females because they were smaller than adult males, the reality may have been more complex. If mammoths behaved like modern elephants, females living in matriarchal herds may have had group defences that would have made encoun: ters equally or even more risky. “Another possibility is that female- led herds moved across the landscape in more predictable ways than solitary males, meaning Upper Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers may simply have encountered them more frequently, whether for hunting or scavenging” The researchers explained that mam- moths were a vital resource for lee Age human populations, providing meat, fat, hide and bones for building structures, and ivory for tools, art, and ornaments. The mammoth bone accu- mulations included in the study span ll key Ice Age archaeological sites across Eurasia, dating to about 20,000 to 30,000 years apo. By combining 100 individuals from the human-associated site accumula: ‘Ancient DNA can go beyond evolutionary history to teach us about animal behaviour’ tions with 421 mammoths from natural depositional settings, the team analysed a large dataset of woolly mammoths. The unprecedented scale provides a rare look at how ancient humans and woolly mammoths interacted. Study co-senior author Professor Love Dalén, of Stockholm University, said: “This research demonstrates the power of ancient DNA studies to answer long-standing archaeological questions. By scaling up sample sizes, ancient DNA can go beyond evolutionary history to teach us about animal behaviour and human culture thousands of years ago.” The research team also identified one mammoth from Wrangel Island in Rus- sia that was neither biologically female nor biologically male. Instead, it had a different sex chromosome combination known as XO/XX mosaicism, where the individual has a single copy of the X chromosome in some cells, and twoin others, In humans, it is known as Turner Syndrome. It is the first time that the sex chro- mosome combination has been docu- mented in an extinct species. F | By Alice Lilley ERITAIN’S Risso’s dolphins roam thousands of miles across the British Isles and can be spotted from the Outer Hebrides to the Isle of Man. But despite their extensive range, Risso’s dolphins have remained geneti- cally distinct from their cousins found in the Mediterranean and the Azores, astudy has found. The findings, by scientists who stud- ied the DNA of dolphins stranded in England, Scotland and Wales from 1992 to 2016, showed that the dolphins have not mixed with other Risso’s dolphins from further away. Nicola Hodgins, co-lead author from the Maritime Area Regulatory Authority (MARA) and a vis- iting researcher at the University of Exeter, said: “The results support the notion of Risso’s dolphins in British waters having been isolated from other populations for some time.” The study showed no significant genetic differences between the animals around different sections of the British Isles, but found that the dolphins may remain or return to specific areas and groups around the British isles over their lifetime. Recent research suggested that Risso’s dolphins display a significant preference for particular areas with less than 3 per cent of Risso’s dolphins in Scottish waters matched on the west and northern coasts of Scotland. The study, published in the Journal of the Marine Biological Association UK, said that further research with more genetic samples was needed, including comparisons from regions such as Norway, the Celtic Sea, the south-west English Channel and the Bay of Biscay. More advanced DNA techniques could also be used to add resolution and provide better quality photos of the links between groups of Risso’s dol- phins around the British Isles. A Risso’s dolphin is a large, scarred and beakless species of dolphin found ; : —— —_ ~ SS Risso's dolphins prefer to stay within British waters and so they remain isolated from the genetic input of a population of Risso's dolphins in the Mediterranean No foreign romances for UK's particular dolphins worldwide that mainly eats deep-sea squid, There are an estimated 9,000 British Risso’s dolphins compared with an estimated 2,000 in the western Med- ilerranean. British and Mediterranean populations are physically similar but genetically isolated and do not inter- breed, leaving the UK population with lower genetic diversity. Beyond the UR and Mediterranean, Risso's dolphins can also be spotted along the Pacific coast and Asia-Pacific. The population of Risso'’s dolphins could be recognised as a sub-population by the International Union for Conserva- tion of Nature after it classified the Medi- terraneansub-population as endangered. £200k of fuel stolen per day since beginning of Iran war By Telegraph Reporter DRIVERS have stolen an average of nearly £200,000 worth of fuel from forecourts every day since the start of the Iran oil crisis, according to analysis. Fuel theft prevention company Fore- court Eye said incidents of fuel taken without payment soared by 20 per cent in the five months after the conflict began on Feb 28, compared with the preceding five months. The increase in pump prices driven by the war means the value of stolen fuel rose by 48 per cent during the same period, reaching an estimated daily average of £194,000 across the UK's §,359 forecourts. For first-time offenders, there was a 23 per cent increase in the number of incidents and a 26 per cent rise in the volume of fuel stolen, compared with 17 per cent and 20 per cent respectively among repeat offenders. The figures are based on reports by a representative sample of 550 fore- courts, They include drive-offs, when there is no attempt to pay, and no-means-of- payment incidents, when a customer fills up and claims they have no way to pay. The average price of a litre of petrol climbed to 160p on Friday. That was about 27p more than before the conflict, and represented a three-and-a-half-year high. The average price of diesel is about 37p per litre higher than before the war, at I79p. Forecourt Eye is partnering with Facewatch to offer free access to crime-reporting technology to its cus- tomers, Which it said would make it eas~- ier to record fuel thefts, shop crime and other illegal incidents. 48pc Percentage that the value of stolen fuel has risen by since the Iran conflict began on 28 Michelle Henchoz, the managing director of Forecourt Eye, said: “As offending becomes more organised and more sophisticated, operators need joined-up technology that helps them protect both their forecourt and their convenience store” Gordon Balmer, the executive direc: tor of the Petrol Retailers Association, said its members were “reporting increasing levels of abuse and aggres- sion towards colleagues who are simply doing their jobs”. By Martin Evans CRIME EDITOR A TODDLER’S killer had an outstanding warrant out for his arrest for 18 months, it emerged. Harrison Simpson and his girlfriend Alexandra Walker were jailed for life last week for the murder of her daugh- ter Isabelle Welsh, two. Cleveland Police has admitted it failed to execute a warrant for Simp- son's arrest that had been issued by Teesside magistrates’ court in March 2024. Simpson, 22, was wanted after he failed to attend court following an alleged breach of a non-molestation order, It is understood Simpson had been accused of harassing and threat- ening a former partner, In July 2025 he met Walker, 26, on Facebook and the pair began a relation- ship. But three months later he sexually abused and murdered Isabelle at her home in Thornaby. Cleveland Police said: “Multiple enquiries and arrest attempts were car- ried out to locate and arrest him but these proved unsuccessful. “We recognise the time Simpson had an outstanding arrest warrant is far from adequate” Walker was known to social services after previously suffering domestic Toddler killer had warrant issued 18 months earlier abuse but neither social workers or the police were aware she had begun a rela- tionship with Simpson. Isabelle, who was described as a happy and thriving toddler, died from a brain injury in September 2025 after being violently shaken and having her head hit against a hard surface. A post mortem examination found 21 fractured bones and 97 soft tissue injuries. 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Edmund King, president of the motoring services company, said “it doesn’t make sense” for them to wait months for a manual driving test shot, as most “quickly develop good road skills”. Motorists who pass the test in an automatic car are currently only per- mitted to drive automatics. If they later want to drive a manual car they must pass a further test in a manual car. But Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) figures show the aver- age waiting time to book a test in May was nearly 22 weeks, compared with about five weeks in February 2020 before the coronavirus pandemic. The proportion of learners taking automatic driving tests in Britain is ata record high. DVSA data shows 29.4 per cent of all tests conducted in the last financial year were in an automatic car, up from about four per cent in 2007/08. Electric cars, which have surged in popularity in recent years, do not have aconventional gearbox, meaning peo- ple who choose to learn in them take automatic tests. Whereas a manual car has a gear system operated by moving the gear stick and clutch pedal, auto- matics change gears based on speed, without the driver doing anything. This means automatic cars are gener- ally considered easier to drive, but they can be more expensive. Mr King said many new drivers go automatic as they want to “ditch the clutch, gear stick and difficult hill starts”, He went on: “Most drivers of automatic cars quickly develop good “We need the Government to approve a conversion lesson provided by the driving schools’ road skills, so it doesn't make sense to force them to spend months overcom- ing the driving test backlog just to bor- row a manual car. “What we need is the Government to approve a conversion lesson provided by driving schools so that those that pass their test in an automatic can alo drive manual vehicles legally.” A Department for Transport spokes- man said: “For the safety of all road users, anyone wishing to drive a manual car must pass a manual driving test, and we have no plans to change this.”
The Daily Telegraph Monday 3 August 2026 ory ul ' World news New plan for Hormuz leaves Iran in control Strait will be reopened under deal that allows ships to enter Gulf on the Tehran-controlled side By James Crisp DONALD TRUMP called off a fresh wave of attacks on Iran amid talks that could hand Tehran at least partial con- trol of the Strait of Hormuz. Mr Trump announced late on Satur- day night that he had pulled back on the planned attack “subject to being able to rapidly make a deal”. The US president said the deal would lead to the “Immediate, Complete, and Total OPENING OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT, and an end to [ran’s nuclear threat”. Details emerged yesterday of negoti- ations that include a new entry-exit sys- tem for the strait that could at least hand some control of the waterway to Iran. The so-called “compromise deal” would have ships enter the Gulf on the Iranian-controlled side of the strait and exit via the Omani side. Any such deal would raise questions about Iran charging a toll to use the chokepoint, something the White House has long opposed. The deal was reportedly being drawn up by Gulf states, including Qatar, with Iranian negotiators apparently reacting positively to proposals, Mr Trump said yesterday that the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Moham- med bin Salman, had persuaded him to call off what would have been “the big- gest attack since World War Two" in favour of negotiations, which will begin this afternoon. “They said we would much prefer a deal as opposed to an attack because you don't know where these attacks lead,” the president added. “I mean, [they will] be flooded with people pouring into their country and disaster, A lot of better things can hap- pen” Mr Trump said the negotiations would discuss the Strait of Hormuz and Iran's nuclear programme, but warned the US would be “ready to go anytime we want” if talks failed. Iran's stranglehold on the vital ship- ping channel has been a constant source of frustration for Washington. The US president has repeatedly called for the free flow of ships through the strait. Washington has strongly 5 opposed Iran's demands to collect = fees or tolls from ships passing through the strait, a key sticking point in the talks so far. It is not yet clear whether Tehran would be permitted to collect tolls as part of the agreement. But after months of conflict that has cost billions of dol- lars and numerous lives of US military staff, any concession to Iran's demands would be seen as a significant failure for Mr Trump. The US president's repeated efforts to wrestle control of the strait away from Iran have so far proved unsuccessful. On Friday, he threatened to target energy infrastructure as part of a major wave of attacks designed to bring Iran back to the negotiating table. In his Truth Social post on Saturday, EF AAT Ty il oF Aman looks at a banner depicting Donald Trump and propaganda at Azadi Square in Tehran Mr Trump said that the US had been “asked by Iran, and other Middle East- ern countries, to hold off any attack in that the perimeters of a deal has been agreed to”. He had accepted Tehran's proposal “for the future benefit of the WORLD and, likewise, the survival of a success- ful and prosperous Iran”, he said. But [ranian state media refuted Mr Trump's framing of the events leading up to the pausing of the attacks. The country’s semi-official Mehr news agency said the US president's state- ment was “nothing but a new lie”. It added that Iranian forces were “on high alert and ready for any eventuality” The attacks, which were to be co-or- dinated with Israel, had been expected to target Pickaxe Mountain, where Israeli intelligence claimed Iran had hidden centrifuges to make uranium, which could be used to make nuclear weapons. Earlier this week, he had said “very friendly negotiations” were under way, leading to a pause in the fighting. That pause ended after an Iranian surprise attack in Jordan and a US retaliatory strike. Several US embassies in the Middle East warned Americans on Saturday of an “unforeseen escalation” if the US launched its assault. Embassies in Baghdad, Jerusalem and Amman had encouraged Americans to “consider departing” and stay clear of US bases. Despite the threat of new attacks, the top US general in Europe privately warned the Pentagon that he lacked equipment to protect Israel from incoming missiles, the Washington Post reported, Gen Alexus Grynkewich, the head of US European Command, told officials that without another navy destroyer, he would be forced to choose defence of the United States “homeland” over that of Israel. This week, Iran and the US resumed overnight exchanges of fire after a days- long lull in fighting although there were no reported strikes overnight on Friday. On Friday, Mr Trump accused the ‘The United States 1s rapidly moving down the path of escalating tensions in the region’ Iranians of being “very dishonourable” and of having broken their word in previous talks, Tehran has shown no sign of agree- ing to his demands. Some officials believe they plan to string out the nego- tiations in the hope that Mr Trump backs down in the face of rising domes- tic opposition to the war. Iran's military accused the US of “escalating tensions” in the Middle East on Saturday and warned countries in the region against co-operating with Washington during the conflict. “The United States is rapidly moving down the path of escalating tensions in the region,” said Ali Abdollahi, the head of Iran's military central command. Israel bombs Gaza after Trump agrees Hamas disarmament plan By Alexander Butler AT LEAST 18 people have been killed in Israeli air strikes across Gaza despite Hamas agreeing to a deal to end the war. Aman and his wife were killed in an Israeli helicopter attack on an apart- ment south of Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, Palestinian civil defence officials said. Several others were killed in Israeli warplane attacks across Khan Younis, southern Gaza, and Gaza City, they added. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) was approached for comment. Authorities reported on Saturday that eight other people had been killed in strikes that damaged a hospital's medi- cal supplies and targeted a rooftop. On Friday, Donald Trump announced that Hamas had agreed to surrender weapons in exchange for Israel's withdrawal from Gaza as part of a multi-stage process. The terms would force Israel to stop bombing the territory and te withdraw in stages, alongside Hamas handing over weapons as part of a Northern Palestinians try to extinguish a burning car after Israeli strike in Gaza City Ireland-style peace process. The US president hailed the 15-point plan, negotiated through his Board of Peace, as a “major milestone”. But Israel later vowed that it would not withdraw with- out “genuine disarmament”. Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has not commented, but Itamar Ben-(Gvir, the Israeli national security minister, described the plan as unacceptable. Under the new Gaza deal, Hamas's police would hand over weapons to a transitional body for stor- age and decommissioning. In return, Israeli troops would withdraw from the territory. Personal weapons left in the territory would then be handed over, alongside weapons held by IDF-backed militias and other armed clans. Mohammed Dahlan, a former senior Fatah official, said Jared Kushner, Mr Trump's son-in-law, had told him that he was working with the Israeli side to stop attacks on Gaza. He said contact with the US was con- tinuing to ensure the agreement was implemented, adding that its success depended on Israel stopping its attacks. Mr Trump also said the agreement included the disarmament of “all other armed groups”, which was assumed to mean various “clans”, some of which are backed by Israel. Based on the premise of “zero trust”, each stage of the plan would be verifiable and would be accompanied by an Israeli withdrawal. US president shrugs off backlash to sell VIP access to his Truth Social By James Titcomb TECHNOLOGY EDITOR DONALD TRUMP'’S social media com- pany has started selling VIP access to his posts despite claims the service amounts to a “shocking abuse” of power. Truth Social, the Twitter-like service where the president regularly posts updates, has started offering a high- speed feed to banks and high-frequency trading firms. The service, which charges up to $100,000 (£74,000) a month, is designed to let paying customers trace on the data instantly. Mr Trump owns a 41 per cent stake in Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG), the com- pany behind Truth Social. The plans to sell fast-lane access to his posts, first disclosed earlier in the summer, have provoked a backlash from Democrats who say Mr Trump is abusing his position to make money. While the service will officially give access toa selection of the highest-rank- ing Truth Social accounts, Mr Trump is by far the most popular. He has 12.9 mil- lion followers on the service, compared with 7.5 million for the next most popu- lar, his son Don Jr, In a letter sent last week to Paul Atkins, the chairman of the market reg- ulator the Securities and Exchange Commission, Senators Elizabeth Warren and Adam Schiff demanded an investigation into whether the arrange- ment was legal. ‘This appears to be an outrageous abuse of the president's office for his personal benefit’ “This appears to be an outrageous abuse of the president's office for his personal benefit that undermines everyday investors and the integrity of our markets, while enriching Wall Street and other wealthy insiders,” they wrote, “President Trump has a significant financial interest in Trump Media, based on his ownership of roughly 41 per cent of the company, and, as a result, stands to profit from the launch of this service. “Trump Media's plan to disseminate market-moving information through the president's own company, while charging insiders for access ahead of the public for the benefit of his com- pany - and to the detriment of the investing public - represents a shock- ing abuse of the office of the president and the trust of the American public for his personal gain.” Mr Trump's posts can regularly move markets. As well as pronouncements about the state of the war in Iran, which have moved oil prices and global stock markets, he regularly posts about indi- vidual companies to praise or denigrate them. The Wall Street Journal reported last month that at least five high-frequency trading firms had signed up to the service. Mr Trump's stake in TMTG is worth about $1.lbn (£810m) even after its shares have fallen by 28 per cent this year. Iraq's Shia militias are back to haunt Americans with longer, costlier war By Akhtar Makoii THE ghost of Qassem Soleimani is still haunting Donald Trump. A network of Shia militias that Soleimani spent his career building across Iraq - the Hashd al-Shaabi, aka the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) - has become one of the sharpest instruments that [ran has to drag the US and other Arab countries into a longer, costlier fight. Six years after a US drone - on Mr Trump's orders - killed the man who forged them, the PMF returned to the fore last week when Iran launched a surprise barrage of ballistic missiles at US positions in Jordan. Blaming the PMF for the attacks, the US and Saudi Arabia struck the group's bases in Iraq, with Riyadh joining an American attack on what the two called “Iran-aligned terrorists”, The PMF said the strikes had hit several of its sites and killed at least 20 fighters, with dozens wounded. The toll is expected to rise. The militias are a product of Soleimani's plotting, built to fight Iran's enemies beyond its borders and drag conflict away from the Islamic Republic itself, With the US and Saudi Arabia striking Iraq instead of Iran, Soleimani's plan seems to be working. The Shia groups sprang up as Tehran entrenched itself in Iraqi politics and security matters after the US-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein in 2005. The militias, with Iran's support, have become formidable forces that can rival the national army: their arsenals include long-range missiles and anti-aircraft weapons. They are also deeply enmeshed in Iraq's political, economic and social Mourners at the grave of a PMF fovermment. fabric, building business networks and taking seats in parliament and the Iranian officials and analysts who spoke to The Telegraph offered different assessments of how much power they hold today, and what Tehran expects of them now. One [ranian analyst in Tehran said: “They are good assets but very difficult to control, and [ran needs them to project power, too. They are always useful - first to push Isis away from Iran's borders, and now the system is using them to put pressure on the Americans and broaden the war” Another Tehran-based analyst was blunt about their limits and clearer about their purpose. He said: “They are nothing and have no power, but they have the potential to expand the war to Iraq and add more actors into it. “Their main job is to move the war from Dran to Iraq, and that itselfis an expansion of the war. If America wants to destroy them, it isa matter of one week. But that would officially bring the war to Iraq, and this is what Iran ‘The militias are always useful. Now they are used to put pressure on America and broaden the war’ wants. More actors and fronts will make it expensive and hard for Trump Lo carry on.” An Iranian official framed the militias as indispensable, and signalled that Iran would defend them as it had Hezbollah, “They are the backbone of the resistance forces in the region, and their nature of multiple groups and closeness to Iran are their biggest strengths,” the official said. He added that “some of them were in Iran during the war to help our armed forces control the streets” to prevent anti-government protests. He revealed that some of the fighters are returning to Iraq from Iran after the recent developments. “We will defend them the same as Hezbollah - help is already on the way to Iraq with those leaving Iran, so they can defend themselves,” he said.
2 “ Monday 3 August 2026 The Daily Telesraph World news Three killed by Moscow bomb aimed at top general _ IED detonates in high-end restaurant near Kremlin, as head of aerospace forces celebrates his birthday By Connor Stringer, Alexander Butler and Benedict Smith AT LEAST three people were killed after an improvised explosive device detonated at a high-end Moscow restaurant on Saturday. The homemade bomb exploded when an unidentified woman tried to enter Italian restaurant Balzi Rossi at Spm local time. The target is believed to be atop Rus: sian general celebrating his birthday. The restaurant, which is about LS miles from the Kremlin and is in one of the city’s Stalin-era skyscrapers at Kudrinskaya Square, was closed for a private event. An image shared by Russian bloggers, which matches photos of the restaurant, showed a banner reading “Alexander is 55 years old” with a guitarist in the background. This was an apparent reference to Gen Alexander Chayko, the head of Russia's aerospace forces, who recently turned 55, according to Telegram channel VcHRK OGPU, which has close links to military intelligence. Several other Telegram groups also linked the bomb to Gen Chayko, although the tar- get has not been confirmed. Russia's Kommer- fant newspaper reported that the woman attempted to e nter the build- ing with a box that she said contained a gift for the restaurant's Gen Alexander Chayko was the target guests, but it exploded as soon as a guard opened it. Gen Chayko has been identified by Ukraine as the chief of Russia’s occupa- tion of Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, where hundreds of residents were killed and tortured in 2022. He would also be responsible for many of Russia's missile attacks on Ukraine, which have been ramped up in recent months. The bomb, concealed in a box, was equivalent to about one kilogram of TNT and packed with metal ball bear- ings, Russian state media reported. Russia's anti-terrorism committee said the explosion, which occurred at 7:55pm local time, killed the courier, the guard and a patron of the restau- ‘Necessary operational search measures and investigative actions are being carried out’ rant, and that 21 others had been injured “to varying degrees”. “The necessary operational search measures and investigative actions are being carried out, aimed at estab- lishing all the circumstances of the incident,” it added. death toll had increased to five , afler two victims died in hospi- tal, although this has not been confirmed by authorities. According to the VcHK OGPU Telegram channel, an account which has not beenindependently confirmed by The Telegraph, Gen Chayko's daughter, Maria, and her 27-year- old hushand were injured in the blast. Other patrons and Balzi Rossi staff, who were stand- ing on the Russian media later said the § ANAS TAS A BULSH OWA BUTTERS restaurant's terrace, were also said to have been wounded. The detonation reportedly occurred while the guests were arriving for the general's party, and many did not realise there had been an attack because the blast was covered by the sound of a per- forming band. Footage from after the explosion showed heavily armed law enforcement officers at the restaurant as well as emergency vehicles. According to Russian counter-terror- ism experts, the woman carrying it may not have known she was carrying a bomb, Russia state news agency Tass reported. Streets near the square were tempo- rarily blocked and the entrances to the Barrikadnaya metro station were closed, Russian media reported. The Russian authorities did not name those killed or injured and have not said who was responsible, Sergei Sobyanin, the Moscow mayor, denounced the “terrorist act" and said the wounded were being treated in the city’s hospitals. He did not name any perpetrators. Russia's FSB security service said ear- Clockwise from top, the restaurant after the bomb blast; a view of the high-end establishment's interior; and onlookers gather in the aftermath of the explosion lier this year that authorities would step up protection for high-ranking mili- tary officials after a series of assassina- tions and attempted killings it blamed on Ukraine. Since the start of the war in Ukraine in 2022, Ukraine's secret service has claimed or been accused of several attacks on Russian military officers and public figures who supported the con- flict. Russia blamed Ukraine for the killing of Yaroslav Moskalik, a senior general, ina car bomb in April 2025, In August 2022, the nationalist Darya Dugina, daughter of hardline Russian ideologue Alexander Dugin, was killed outside Moscow when a bomb attached to her car detonated, In April 2023, Viladlen Tatarsky, the pro-Kremlin military blogger, real name Maxim Fomin, was killed when a statu- ette he was handed exploded at a café in St Petersburg. A bomb attached to a scooter outside a Moscow apartment block killed Gen Igor KRirillov, head of the Russian army's chemical weapons division, in December 2024, Editorial Comment: Page 15 Vitabiotics ace, MAXIMUM SUPPORT glucosamine ’ ar a- Wiiewda-o, collagen, chondroitin, Vits C.D, E. Minerals & Ginger Ft Science backed nutrition that supports from within’ Tourist plane crashes after flying over Peru's Nazca Lines, By Emily Blumenthal A TOURIST plane flying over Peru's Nazea Lines has crashed into a field, killing all 13 people on board. The aircraft went down on Saturday near the group of ancient geoglyphs carved into the desert, which is one of the country’s main tourist attractions and is best seen from the air. The cause of the crash remains unclear, but the crew had reported an emergency to the Nazca air traffic con- trol tower just after lpm local time when the aircraft was flying over the town of Socos, before radio contact was lost, according to a statement from Peru's transport ministry. The Cesena Caravan C-208 had taken off from Pisco airport approximately 50 minutes before the crash, with two crew members and 1] passengers on board = seven from Italy, two from Germany and two from Spain. Municipal officials in Vista Alegre, where the plane crashed, told AFP that preliminary findings indicated that an “in-flight emergency” had occurred. One resident of the town said the plane had exploded on impact. Photos of the crash site circulated by media showed the small aircraft had been destroyed and its parts scattered across several fields, with firefighters working to douse flames from the wreckage, Aerodiana, the company killing 13 Investigators at at the crash site in fields near the pcos town of Seecs operating the plane, said in a statement that it “expressed its deepest sorrow for the tragic accident that occurred today during a tourist overflight operation in the Nazca Lines area”. Keiko Fujimori, the newly clected president of Peru, said the government would consider a temporary suspen- sion of operations from Pisco airport, where dozens of flights to see the Nazca Lines take off every day, Police officers, firefighters and mem- bers of the general directorate of civil aeronautics (DGAC) were deployed to the scene, where they confirmed that there were no survivors, the transport ministry said. Jorge Andrade, a police major, told reporters that four bodies had been recovered at the crash site. The DGAC and the aviation accident investigation commission will initiate an inquiry into the incident. Aerodiana, which has been operating for 18 years, said it would soon release more information about the crash, It offers fly-overs lasting between 30 minutes to an hour and is one of many companies that take primarily tourists each day over the Nazca Lines, which date from about 500 BC to 500 AD and whose purpose is still a mystery bo scientists. British pilot survives Greek helicopter collision By Our Foreign Staff A BRITISH pilot survived a helicopter collision that killed two others while fighting wildfires in Greece. The crew of one Bell helicopter was killed as the aircraft crashed to the ground in the Psatha area west of Athens. Each helicopter carried two crew members. A Danish pilot and a Greek fire officer were killed in one helicopter. A British pilot alongside another Greek fire officer were in the helicopter which landed safely. Neither the survivors or those killed have been identified. Television footage showed one of the helicopters explode and plunge to the ground in flames after an apparent rotor collision. Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the prime min- ister, earlier said Greece was experienc- ing “extreme weather conditions” with Two of the four crew members died after the mid-air collision of two helicopters. winds that had reached G0mph. “When the winds blow with such force, even the dozens of aircraft we have at our disposal cannot operate safely,” he wrote on Facebook, Nearly 500 firefighters were battling blazes around the popular coastal vil- lage of Porto Germeno, about 40 miles north-west of Athens, the fire depart- ment said. They were attempting to keep the fire from approaching the western outskirts of Athens after it scaled a mountain overnight. Some 100 firefighters were fighting another blaze in Aigialia in the northern Peloponnese, A new fire broke out late on Saturday in Cephalonia, a popular holiday destination. Yesterday, a 44-year-old man was arrested on suspi- cion of deliberately starting it, accord- ing to the Greek news agency ANA. The national observatory’s climate tracker said early estimates indicated that more than 6,500 hectares had been burnt in separate fires on the Gulf of Corinth, which also swept Forto Germeno. It added that meteorological conditions remained adverse “mainly due to strong northerly winds".
The Daily Telegraph Monday 3 August 2026 | World news Fraudster sold fake Escobar flamethrowers Swedish scammer jailed for four years for false advertising of drug kingpin-themed devices By Alexander Butler ASWEDISH fraudster who ran a Pablo Escobar-themed company claiming to sell indestructible gold phones and flamethrowers has been jailed for four years. Olof Kyros Gustafsson, 32, known as “El Silencio", was ordered by a Los Angeles court to pay back $1.3m (£1m) to customers who had paid for the products. Escobar Inc, the company, was founded in 2015 by Gustafsson and Rob- erto Escobar, the drug kingpin’s former accountant and older brother. The company claimed to sell an unbreakable gold phone - named the Escobar Fold 1 = for $349 (£260), featur- ing Pablo Escobar's notorious mugshot as a background. In 2019, Roberto said the product would “beat Apple”, and even claimed to have sued the Silicon Valley giant for $80bn (£60bn) for ripping customers off. But disappointed Pablo Escobar fans only received a “certificate of own- ership” in the post and Gustafsson told them they were not eligible fora refund when challenged. They also received a book and other promotional materials, so there was a “record of mailing from the company to £17.2bn Amount Pablo Escobar - nicknamed ‘The King of Cocaine’ - was making por yoar from the drugs trade customer”, Gustafsson’s sentencing document said. Of the few shipped to social media influencers for marketing purposes, the scam artist admitted they were Sam- sung Galaxy Fold phones wrapped in gold foil. Gustafsson was extradited to the US from Spain in 2023 and has been in cus- tody since March 2025, He was facing a maximum sentence of 20 years. He pleaded guilty to six charges, all related to committing fraud and money laundering or conspiring to commit fraud or money laundering. The flamethrower, advertised by bikini-clad women with a $249 (£185) price tag, was also revealed to have been a copy of Elon Musk’s “Not a Flamethrower” joke product. Once again, Roberto vowed to “take down” Mr Musk in 2019 and alleged the world’s richest man had stolen his idea after a Tesla engineer visited his com- und two years earlier. He claimed they discussed the idea of a “toy flamethrower", inspired by the Escobar brothers’ stories of burning cash te keep warm. Asked at the time whether Mr Musk and Pablo Escobar had anything in com- mon, both being controversial busi- nessmen, Roberto reacted angrily. “Of course not? he said. “Elon Musk is a person that betrays people. Pablo never betrayed anyone. People betrayed him. This was their mistake, and usually it cost them their life.” Roberto also demanded $lbn from Netflix in 2016 for the popular TV series Narcos, which chronicled the late _ Ea. leader of the Medellin cartel’s cocaine empire. He claimed it had used unau- thorised content. Netflix's lawyers said there was no case to answer and it was settled out of court. A year later, the bullet-ridden body of the streaming giant's location scout was found in a car in central Mexico, Roberto denied any involvement and offered to provide bodyguards for Netf- lix’s security while working in the region, Pablo Escobar, who ruthlessly ruled the cartel for two decades, was 44 when police shot him dead 33 years ago. He er" y gg Lh \ ‘Pablo never betrayed any one, People betrayed him... and usually it cost them their life’ was known as “The Ring of Cocaine” and was one of the wealthiest criminals in history, controlling roughly 80 per cent of the world’s cocaine and earning $21.9bn (£17.2bn) a year. Forbes listed him as the world's sev- enth-richest man in 1989, with an esti- mated net worth of $9bn (£7bn). He donated 443 houses to formerly homeless people and was referred to as the “Colombian Robin Hood” by some in his home nation. He also owned sev- eral luxurious homes across Colombia, including one north west of Bogota, where he imported four hippos. Firefighters ‘sacrificed French village to save millionaires homes By Vivian Song ANGRY residents of a small town in Gironde have accused the French government of sacrificing their village to save millionaire homes from the wildfires. Some 700 residents from Le Porge are preparing to take legal action against French officials, who they say abandoned their village by redirecting fire crews to the affluent peninsula of Cap Ferret. The area is a playground for wealthy French pleasure-seekers in the summer and is often described as France's version of The Hamptons. Ofthe 240 homes that were destroyed in the wildfires that raged across South- western France over the last two weeks, 183 were in the town of Le Porge. More than 10 per cent of the town’s 1,500 buildings were also destroyed. Tensions boiled over during a town hall meeting last week, as local officials found themselves on the receiving end of backlash from angry residents who had lost their homes to the fires. “Our aim is simple: to get concrete answers, to shed full light on the events and to secure compensation for the harm suffered,” wrote Ludivine Dau- rignac, a local resident who is leading the collective’s legal challenge, on Facebook. “We're going to hold everyone responsible for this tragic outcome to account,” Ms Daurignac told French news site Franceinfo. “We really felt abandoned” Rich and famous homeowners in Cap Ferret include French billionaire Xavier Niel, who made his fortune in the tele- communications industry and report- edly paid €17m (£14.5m) for his holiday home in 2071, and actress Marion Cotil- lard, who owns a home in the village of L'Herbe. This spring, the peninsula opened the doors to its first five-star hotel, Villa Colette, designed by architect Philippe Starck who also owns a home in Cap Ferret. The row has also reached the top lev- els of government. Sebastien Lecornu, the prime minister, denied the accusa- tions and took a hard line against what he called “conspiracy theorists”. “I understand their pain... but that pain is now being exploited by conspir- acy theorists on social media. That's irresponsible.” Mr Lecornu said in an interview with the weekly newspaper La Tribune Dimanche, published yesterday. “Whocan seriously believe that a fire department command centre would decide to protect one town over another simply because it's wealthier? Who can imagine that such an order could ever be given? We need to stop spouting nonsense,” he said. Sylvain Galinat, the lawyer retained by the collective, said he is currently collecting testimonies from local resi- dents to file criminal and administrative complaints. “Our goal is to find out how these things could have happened and fatality responses through press releases are not enough,” Mr Galinat told local news site France3 Nouvelle-Aquitane. “This is the role of the judicial admin- istration: to obtain complete answers to all these questions and to glimpse the reality of what happened” The wildfires that blazed through southwestern France destroyed 42,000 hectares of land and forced the evacua- tion of 220,000 people. Disappearing rural life has left Europe in an era of wildfires By Cameron Henderson and James Badcock THE wildfires tearing through southern Europe have sharpened minds about the effects of climate change. While rising global temperatures are undoubtedly a factor, experts have also warned of societal causes, including the decline of rural farming communities, which mean the wildfires are likely to get worse. These may be equally challenging to reverse. For five days, Julian Piracés could do nothing but watch as flames consumed the rolling hills surrounding his home in the Cinco Villas region of Zaragoza, Spain. The 67-year-old former goat herder from the town of Ejea de los Caballeros said that the fields were like a “tinderbox” this year, and that without animals grazing on them, it was only a matter of time before disaster struck. “We have seen plenty of near misses but this year, unfortunately, conditions were perfect for a major fire: the amount of fuel on the hillsides, very high temperatures and winds that gusted up to SOmph,.” he said. “Any spark would be like throwing a lit match into a barrel of oil.” In of Western Europe, a generational shift away from farming has replaced pastures and ploughed fields on the edges of settlements with wild vegetation that dries out during hot summers, serving as the perfect fuel for wildfires. “Climate change is important,” said Dr Thomas Smith, associate professor in environmental geography at the London School of Economics, pointing out that there had been an “explosion” in fire activity over the past decade. June temperatures this year were more than 3C hotter than the June average for 1991-2020, increasing the risk of fires as much as 20-fold, “In some ways we are seeing a fire invasion in the UK where we didn't before, and in Europe we are seeing much bigger fires that are behaving in adifferent way,” Dr Smith said. But besides drought and rising temperatures, he said, “the other ingredient in fire behaviour is the amount of fuel that is available to burn on the ground”. Spain and France have lost millions of hectares of arable and pastoral land between them over the past decade, as FA CE BOLL ADA EP ASHUT TERS TOCK Firefighters at a generation of farmers retire and their work near children turn away from the land in Zaragoza, northem | fayour of urban employment. r-rel The number of active farms in 15,000 hectares in France has dropped from 1.6 million in the Cinco Villas 1970 to around 400,000 today. region Meanwhile, studies estimate that Spain has lost up to three million hectares of “hundreds” of shepherds from Cinco Villas sell up thanks to collapsing lamb prices in the 1990s and early 2000s. “Where there are shepherds, the fields and forests are watched, 365 days a year,” he said. “The sheep and goats keep the grass short and prevent “We are seeing a fire invasion in the UR, and in Europe wider agricultural and pastoral we are landscape. seeing much Mr Piracés said he watched bigger fires behaving in a different way a proliferation of shrubs by eating any green shoots they see. That long grass and thick scrub is fuel for fires, and it burns so fast.” Dr Smith said: “In the early years you have an abundance of vegetation close to the ground such as shrubs and young trees, which are incredibly vulnerable, So you see this radical increase in risk to the populations that live near them. “You've also got the risk of much more extreme fires happening because of the sheer amount of flammable vegetation.” In France's Gironde and Landes regions, where 40 homes were incinerated, experts blamed the territory's closely packed pines - which produce dry, highly flammable needles - for helping the flames to spread, “This isn't a fire ina natural forest” said Raphaél Morera, an environmental historian at the French National Centre for Scientific Research. He notes that natural forests tend to contain a greater diversity of tree species, and more spacing between trees, which can slow a fire's advance, However, Mr Morera warned that the sandy soil had low water retention, allowing plant matter on the surface to dry out in hot weather, acting as fuel for fires. He added that a monoculture forest with minimal spacing between trunks means that there was “no natural limit for the fire to spread”, As well as France and Spain, wildfires have ravaged Portugal, Greece and Suffolk in the UK, and led to an EU agency warning this week that all of Europe could be on fire “within days”. A recent report from Spain's Roval Academy of Engineering warned the combined effects of global warming and rural depopulation could see the country enter a “climate change”. “The long history of fires on Earth tells us that we cannot eliminate them,” the report said. “Instead, we must learn to coexist with them.” To combat the situation, experts called fora renewed focus on fire prevention methods. Emmanuel Macron, the French president, pledged to regrow a “different kind of forest” with greater diversity that was suited to the threat of climate change. Spain spends almost four times as much money putting fires out thanon solving the underlying causes. Despite the temptation for elected officials to splash out on big-ticket items such as water bombers, experts said that when faced with full-scale infernos, there was little emengency workers could do but evacuate people and wait for a change in the weather. Instead, they argued that focusing on lower-cost prevention measures, such as planting mixed forests, increasing spacing between trees and digging ditches around farmland to act as firebreaks were far more effective at reducing the overall damage, “It's much better to invest in preparedness and prevention, said Dr Smith. Mr Piracés said the solution to Spain's wildfire problem required a complete rethink of how rural Spain is managed. “Clearly, we have a climate problem and there is a problem with the state of our rural environment. The solution has to come from the whole society, to have more people living in the countryside and recognise and reward the work we do here. “Otherwise, we are going to lose the countryside, lose most of our forests to fire and be left with nothing.” However, short of addressing climate change, Dr Smith warned that policy changes might be too little too late. “I think they are realising there's very little we can do now on the ground in terms of firefighting and prevention,” he said. “Ultimately, the climate’s going to continue to change and that's the one thing they are focusing on.”
ne Monday 5 August 2026 The Daily Telesraph ‘Comment Our homegrown wonders are reason enough for a staycation JANE SHILLING é his is the time of year when wars break out and when a broken glass betrays the woodland to the vindictive sun. Already the forest fires have accounted fora thousand hectares of the Var..." Thus the British author and journalist Cyril Connolly wrote in 1938. His words have an eerily contemporary ring. The places we cherished as holiday destinations: France, Italy, Spain, Greece, where the landscape, food and language were delightfully different, rather than strenuously unfamiliar have become unpredictable, There are the wildfires lit by the vindictive sun (and other kines of vindictiveness). But there is also the business of getting there. “A large part of travelling is an engagement of the ego vs the world,” wrote the novelist Sybille Bedford, noting that the ego “wants to find the unexpected, but it wants that to be manageable”. This summer, travel abroad is proving to be less manageable than the ego might hope: quite apart from the danger of finding your destination ablaze, there are the friction- fraught borders, the missed flights and “unprecedented" recent water supply problems at Gatwick. “We are all so much cannon fodder for the travel industries,“ wrote Bedford in 1961. “Is there anything we can do to improve our regimented lot?” There is, and it’s called a staycation, The Oxford English Dictionary dates the first use of *staycation” to 1944, when The Cincinnati Post used it to promote fishing trips to “disciple[s] of Izaak Walton”. A whiff of necessity permeates the modern use of the term, haunted by the cost-of-living crisis and Covid restrictions. These days we might swerve the anxiety and tedium of border checks and missed connections by heading to Cornwall, Cumbria or the Cotswolds, but we're just as likely to encounter unpredictable journeys and throngs of selfie-obsessed tourists. The alternative - staying at home - has its own complications. If the essence of refreshment is a change of scene, achieving it while surrounded by the familiar problems of domestic life is achallenge. Bul the Mediterranean warmth that drew so many people from their homes in Britain to the land where the lemon tree grows is now to be found outside our own doors. The underlying reasons may be troubling, but in the short term, at least, the effects are what we used to seek on our Continental holidays. “Figs are so rare in this country that it is madness to do anything but eat them and be thankful,” wrote Elizabeth David in Sumnimer Cooking. This year my fig tree has produced more ripe figs than I (or the wasps) can eal. Tomatoes and courgettes Npen in profusion and I even have asmall crop of olives. Beyond the front door, there lies for many of us an undiscovered realm. I grew up in Kent, but I know almost nothing of my home county. For me a staycation might mean visiting Samuel Palmer's Shoreham; Chagall’s windows at Tudeley church; the Bronze Age Boat excavated at Dover; Chatham Dockyard, where my grandfather oversaw post-war demobilisation; and the strange artist's enclave of Dymechurch, which my son and I both loved as children. Travel, as both Connolly and Bedford knew, is partly about glamour but mostly about small pleasures. We should learn to cherish our homegrown wonders; they are no less than those of the land where the lemon tree grows. [ve] READ MORE af telecraph.co.uk/opinian 7, = J WHOLE THING NEEDS REWIRING TAKE A WHILE - MIGHT Paley Toorder printsor signed copies of any Telesraph cartoon, wo to telegraph.coskprints-cartoons or call 0191 603 O78 # readerprinis@mtelegraph.comak READER SOLUTIONS BY TELEGRAPH MEDIA Ghtihl P ners hand-picked by our partners Sit at the heart of the drama West End theatre with Exclusive prices available at telegraph.co,uk/LS-tickets Standard terres ard oo ito sndelabilit, Ceuta was an outright invasion, and Europe finally fought b The immigration debate will no longer be about prevention but control - or even reversal TIM STANLEY = “Léa x he Jews did it, of course. Within hours of 50,000 men storming Ceuta, the theory flew around the Left that since Spain hates Israel and Israel likes Morocco (both claiming disputed territory), Bibi must've told Ring Whassisface to unleash his army of refugees and make Spain look like an idiot. The White House helped; Trump thinks the Spanish are commies, so give ‘em open borders! Thus was born the greatest undercover caper since Mossad and the CLA killed Diana and pinned it on the Loch Ness Monster. I've read this theory in countless sensible newspapers, but isn't a more likely, less Hither-acljacent explanation that Spain waved a carrot and the Moroccans bit? The country’s top court recently nuled it unlawful to summarily deport arrivals by sea, while its socialist prime minister, Pedro Sanchez, has offered to regularise the status of nearly one million illegal immigrants. Spain said “come”, so they came - and this is why we voted to leave the EU. Continental consensus can be undermined by individual members, and even as Europe as a whole tries to deter mass migration, Sanchez is sending contrary signals. Ceuta, however, has forced him to change his tune, like a frog discovering that scorpions can sting. This was an “attack” on Spanish sovereignty, he said, drummed up by people traffickers (they probably listed his policies in the brochure). Sanchez also thanked! Morocco for its help, even though reports abound that the Moroccan police cheerfully pointed towards the exit and said, “It's that way”. This, by itself, is not proof of a Zionist conspiracy. The French do it all the time, Paris has previously suggested that the UK cannot simply turn back Channel migrants, ie. to France, and vet Spain has done something similar - with embarrassing efficiency. They've even erected a 1,401 barrier in the water. The British would've nixed such a project for fear of harming the fish. Reform is apoplectic and wants to bring in the Navy: if the Europeans can repel refugees, why can't we?! It seems the continent has quietly moved to the right on immigration, learning from past mistakes, Back in 2015, when Syrians crossed Europe in their droves, Angela Merkel allowed more than one million to remain. In 2026, by contrast, not one country said the Moroccans can stay, while France and Italy tightened border controls as if severing an infected limb. The EU's new Pact on Migration and Asylum cements policies such as speedy deportation or off-shore processing. Italy favours repatriation. Sweden will deport those who fail to lead “an honest life.” Even drippy Sanchez has spent large sums getting Africans to police his border. European reforms have been challenged, as night follows day, by European courts, The political necessity of the present is held hostage by the ideals of the past, ideals that do not reflect what we see on our screens. Where were all the women? Does Morocco consist entirely of young men? The presence of sub-Saharan migrants looking for a good time in Europe was obvious, In interview after interview, the boys raised jobs and poverty, some planning to visit England (woo hool). The Telegraph reports that Channel smugglers are ready with cul-price transfers, exposing the sordid reality of what liberals paint as a caravan of dreams but is in reality a business. It costs a surprising amount of money to get from Mali to Dover, underscoring the paradox that the Great Migration is driven not just by war or hunger but also cheaper technology - the ubiquity of the smartphone = and aspiration. Another theory is that Morocco encouraged the deluge to protest against Spain buying gas from Algeria. Immigration certainly can bea weapon, even as its soldiers fight for themselves, “We want freedom,” one boy shouted at the TV cameras, unaware that one of the costs of globalisation is that we're losing the very liberty that once defined us. Last month, the Oxford Union debated “this house believes the West is right to be suspicious of Islam”, and] thought - well, why not? It's suspicious of everyone else, Christians are arrested for praying. Columnists get visits from the police, A selfie with Jacob Rees- Mogg was cited by the cops as “evidence of far-Right extremism”. Sir Jacob, speaking at Oxford for the opposition, laid out the classic Tory argument that a nation is defined by history articulated in law, and since our laws are ancient and liberal, we shall remain a liberal nation come what may. The proposition offered the counter- argument that a nation is defined by its people, and ifthe people change, the laws will change and Britain will no longer be Britain. The rise of woke is evidence for this. It is only necessary (ee) FOLLOW Tim StanleyouX @Timothy Stanley; READ MORE af telegraph.co.uk/ opinion The West's pushing of tolerance to the greatest degree is threatening tolerance itself... Diversity did not make Ceuta stronger AC to police speech when you have a diverse country, because a Christian monoculture wouldn't take violent offence at jokes about Mohammed. The rise of the far-Right is a sign of liberal failure, too; the bigots feed on upheaval. Some on the fringe of the fringe are tweeting that Spain is paying for criticising Netanyahu, and that the Israeli leader's plan is to flood Europe with enough immigrants to destroy our Christian culture, Other than Jason Arday, it's hard to think ofa CV so packed with ambition and success. The sad irony is that the EU, established with the goal of making Nazism never happen again, has created Weimar-like conditions within which anti-Semitism can return, be it Right-wing. Left-wing or Islamic. Ifanything, the West should be suspicious of the West. Its experiment of pushing tolerance to the greatest degree is threatening tolerance itself, and social democratic leaders are rushing to head off a nationalist turn. Diversity did not make Ceuta stronger. Nor did it pull a blinder at Berlin's July Pride, leaving one innocent murdered and the perpetrator, an Islamist, shot dead. Nevertheless, we were advised that the problem was not with Islamism in particular but hate in general, Again, we were asked not to discuss the bleeding obvious. It is true that the Lebanese-heritage killer was German-born, but this is the challenge that the long tail of years of mass migration now poses: what do we do with people who are citizens on paper but are loyal toa very different set of values? The revolutionary change that Europeans were trying to head off at Ceuta has already happened within their own borders. The next phase of the immigration debate won't be about prevention, but management or even reversal. Jason Arday row reveals academia’s Universities bask in the warm glow of benevolence by spending public money on intellectual pap ANNABEL DENTIAM an we now call time on the C pernicious cult of identity politics, and liberate ourselves from the demented creed which has convinced universities, corporations and politicians that the only way to eradicate prejudice is to classify everyone by their immutable characteristics? Can we simply accept that not everything in life is racist? The controversy engulfing the Cambridge professor Jason Arday should prompt a moment of introspection among the Great and the Good. Whatever the conclusions about the allegations of thesis plagiarism, this sorry affair has already exposed how a fixation with moral virtue has downgraded sound judgment. Yet there will be no reckoning for all those who helped create the conditions in which the Arday saga unfolded, no admission that universities have become uncritical purveyors of fashionable orthodoxies. Arday is making ashow of contrition: in an interview, he reiterated this weekend that he was the victim of a “racially motivated" and “co-ordinated” effort to unseat him. Meanwhile, the usual suspects have already mounted their high horses: the ludicrous Zack Polanski has signed an open letter in support of Arday. The equally ludicrous Kehinde Andrews, a black studies professor, who once unselfconsciously attacked the work of his peers as“mind-deadening”, has decried the affair a “smear campaign”. Alas, our opinion-transmitters will learn no lessons, and we can be sure of this because in the same week that the Cambridge farce became big news, Baroness Harman declared that Labour should ban men from running in its next leadership election, The former equalities minister claimed that the only way her party will have a woman at the top next time is if “we start a conversation now in which we ay men cannot stand”, Our society isso obsessed with “the first” that excellence or even competence has been subordinated to symbolism. Arday became the “youngest-ever black person” to be appointed as a Cambridge professor. Rachel Reeves was the “first female Chancellor”. There was a time when women really needed to smash glass ceilings: it took Margaret Thatcher to demolish the assumption that women could not lead this country. But Reeves entered Noll ata time when few people seriously believed a woman was less inherently capable than a man. The allure of Arday’s branch of critical race theory scholarship to our self-flagellating leaders is another factor. Had the professor (and part- time super-athlete) devoted his career to the economics of pension schemes, he would probably not have become a celebrated national figure. But he worked in a field which allows universities to bask in the warm glow of their own benevolence by encouraging the spending of public money on this intellectual pap. Economics and a chunk of political science - such as analysis of voting pattems = and some sociology have a quasi-scientific methodology and genuinely attempt to quantify concepts and test conjectures. Most other “social science” is opinion dressed up in incomprehensibility. For his 2018 paper on black and minority ethnic students’ mental health, Arday’s empirical basis was 32 (4 READ MORE af telegraph.co.uk/ opinion moral rot self-selected interview participants, yet it made broad claims about the “lived experiences” across higher education. The 2017 “Grievance Studies” hoax sought to expose this tendency. Researchers submitted deliberately absurd papers to journals in fields including gender and identity studies. Several were published. The hoaxers contended that parts of these disciplines were so ideologically self-reinforcing that arguments were evaluated less on methodological rigour than by conformity with prevailing political assumptions. That same instinct suffuses virtually every aspect of British life. Arday was so bigged up I almost can't blame him for believing the hype. The tragedy is that this obsession just makes it harder to distinguish genuine discrimination from moral posturing, Identity politics remains embedded in Labour. Last week, the party also lifted Diane Abbott's suspension, she who once wrote that Jews experience similar prejudice to “redheads”, but not racism. Abbott later apologised for the remarks, before saying she did not regret writing them. Would a pre-Your Party Jeremy Corbyn have been readmitted with such magnanimity? However doubtful Arday's future, the system in which he was a willing participant is alive and well,
The Daily Telegraph Monday 3 August 2026 ewe La ESTABLISHED 1855 Why cant we send back migrants too? he EU has descended into turmoil after last week’s invasion by 60,000 migrants in Ceuta, the Spanish exclave that is one of only two EU land borders with North Africa. The sight of hordes of young men storming the Spanish border has revived memories of the mass migration from war-torn Syria a decade ago. The demographic, social and political impact of that influx is still being felt across the Continent. Within a few days of the incident in Ceuta, the Spanish authorities claim to have expelled 98 per cent of the migrants who crossed last Wednesday, without bothering to process asylum claims. Shabana Mahmood has told this newspaper that such a straightforward approach would not work in the English Channel. The Home Secretary claimed that the British task was “different and trickier in many ways”. The situation in Ceuta, a land border, was “unique to those particular circumstances”. This raises the question why, if Spain can simply send back unwanted migrants, Britain is obliged to process tens of thousands of asylum claims, while taking responsibility for the claimants. The “one in, one out” treaty with France has failed even to dent the problem. Immigration isn't going away as a political issue. Since Andy Burnham became Prime Minister just two weeks ago, more than 2,000 migrants have arrived illegally in small boats. So far this year, some 14,000 people have arrived via this route, about 45 per cent fewer than the same period in 2025. The numbers are coming down, but they are still far too high. Yesterday, the Prime Minister was in Dover to see for himself the scale of the problem. Promising to be “relentless” in regaining control of our borders, he spoke about providing more officers from the National Crime Agency, but seemed to have no new ideas at all. Despite the United Kingdom paying France £660m to police its own coastline, the French authorities are still not seriously trying to halt the exodus. Mr Burnham showed his inexperience by claiming that “safe routes” would help. What is required instead is to deter migrants from illegally trying to come at all. The new Prime Minister did well to keep the able Ms Mahmood in place as Home Secretary. But they will both have to come up with a more convincing explanation as to why Britain must continue observing rules that other European countries simply ignore. Unless they can stop the boats, the Burnham bounce will quickly turn into a squelch, Patriot dithering ussian attacks on Kyiv in the past week have been bloody and relentless, with at least 18 civilians killed. Only one ballistic missile out of 27 was downed on Saturday because US-made Patriot air defence systems in the Ukrainian capital have run out of interceptors. What makes this predicament even more galling for Volodymyr Zelensky is that Donald Trump promised him at last month's Nato summit in Ankara that Ukraine would be licensed to produce its own Patriots. Talks with Lockheed Martin took place anda workshop was prepared: all Ukraine needed were the blueprints. On Friday, however, the US president appeared to backtrack, denying that any such agreement existed. Ominously, Mr Trump said: “People that you give that technology, they can some day turn on you.” One reason for the volte-face in Washington is that the war against [ran has consumed large numbers of Patriots. Indeed, reports suggest that US stocks may be as low as around 1,000 missiles. The Pentagon doubtless prefers to keep any new supplies for its own forces. Not surprisingly, given such an unreliable partner, Mr Zelensky is eager to find an alternative to the Patriot - a technology that is more than 40 years old. In June, Sir Keir Starmer told him that Britain, along with France and Germany, would help Ukraine to do just that. “I hope that we will manage to develop a European anti-ballistic missile system together with the UK,” Mr Zelensky said. “We need itand the UR needs it.” Mr Zelensky is correct. Vladimir Putin's Russia threatens not only his country but Nato too - including British waters and airspace. Meanwhile, Andy Burnham has committed the Government to maintaining continuity of support for Ukraine. Wes Streeting, the new Defence Secretary, and John Healey, the new Chancellor, have pledged to boost not only our Armed Forces but our defence industries too. So will the Burnham Government stand by the offer to develop a new air defence system in partnership with our European allies and Ukraine? The stakes are high - in the event of a Russian attack, London would be no less vulnerable than Kyiv - but so are the potential rewards. Ukraine has a unique track record of creating new weapons from scratch, in months rather than years. Undertaking this challenge would be a serious test for the new Prime Minister. Britain has the ability to rebuild our defences, but it is not yet clear whether we have the leadership. * We accept letters by past and email. Please include name, address, work and home telephone numbers, LN Buckingham Palace Road, London SWIW ODT EMAIL dilettersm telegraph.co.uk FOLLOW Telegraph Letters @LettersDesk Letters to the Editor What Britain must do to show that it is serious about illegal migration stn - After the invasion by thousands of migrants of the North African Spanish exclave of Ceuta last week, Pedro Sanchez, the Spanish prime minister, condemned the “selfish” EU ina row over the passport-free Schengen zone (report, August 1). Thank God Britain left the EU in 2020, We must now leave the European Convention of Human Rights immediately before before large numbers of the amnestied migrants in Spain make their way to Britain. Dominic Shelmerdine London SW3 stn - Your analysis of the influx of 60,000 migrants to Ceuta (Comment, August 1) did not mention climatic conditions. Temperatures in Morocco recently reached 47C, and are forecast to be in the region of 40-plus degrees for the foreseeable future. Life is not sustainable at these temperatures. In the past, extreme weather conditions have led to famine, migration, revolutions and war. Governments everywhere need to be making plans for food and water supplies if this weather continues. Abigail Watson Billingshurst, West Susser sik ~ Spain can return almost 60,000 illegal migrants without incurring international outrage. Yet the British Government can only manage a “one in, one out” policy ("Mahmood rejects calls to follow Spain's migrant pushback”, telegraph.co.uk, August 2). Dr Bertie Dockerill Wigan, Lancashire SIR - Given the situation on the Moroccan-Spanish border in the past week, perhaps a charge should be levied for each illegal migrant against their most recent country of departure, accompanied by mandatory returns to those places. This would ensure that departure points into Europe are held more accountable - along with France, for its apparent inability to stop illegal migration to the UR. Such ana ch could be applied, as the departure points are likely to be safe countries, where genuine asylum claims could be made. If this worked, EU partners could expand the number of asylum processing points outside Europe. Elspeth McPherson Netherton, Northumberland sik ~ The large number of migrants who crossed the Channel last week will be fed, accommodated and provided with legal assistance, having come illegally from a safe country, to which we have paid £662m. Bob Hart Newark, Nottinghamshire Sik - Britain is being invaded by single men from all over Africa and the Middle East, and this Government is doing nothing to stop them. Iran has already warned that it has sleeper cells. What more evidence is needed? Jack Marriott Churt, Surrey Guy Fawkes trivialised sim - You report Uuly 31) that the BBC is teaching children that Guy Fawkes was an “astonishing activist” and has likened him to Nelson Mandela. Fawkes and his co-conspirators had the same objective as the failed Spanish Armada of 1588: the invasion of England by a Spanish army to impose Catholicism and rule by the Spanish king, an absolute monarch. The means - a colossal explosion that would have wiped out the King and Parliament, together with most of the inhabitants of Westminster - would have left England leaderless and in no State to resist an invasion. The imposition of Catholicism ona predominately Protestant populace would have inevitably resulted in widespread punishment for heresy - basically another Spanish Inquisition. This would have taken place without recourse to legal protections, such as Aabeas corpus and Magna Carta. Teaching children with games, such as pretending to be Fawkes hiding from the royal guard, merely trivialises British history. Rod Ellis Tilehurst, Berkshire Holiday wardrobe sin = In 1999, my husband and I booked aroom ina very sumptuous hotel in Bangkok, Thailand. We were advised by friends who had been there that the hotel staff were very poorly paid and that any clothes we left behind would go to good use (Letters, July 28). I spent several weeks beforehand buying skirts, T-shirts and dresses from charity shops. Many of the items had seen better days, but I only wore them for sightseeing in the dusty city and on river trips. I then left them all hanging neatly in the wardrobe when we checked out. As we climbed into the taxi, the hotel manager rushed into the street wheeling a rail of my shabby clothes. “Madam! Madam!” he cried. “Wait! You have forgotten to pack!" Liz Wicken Farton, Cambridge Well prepared SIR ~ In 1958, aged 16, I was travelling in Switzerland with other girls on a school skiing trip (Letters, August 1). Sitting on a train and feeling very hungry at lunchtime, one girl dey atin of Spam, another hada ew bread rolls and I had my Girl Guide sheath knife. It came in very handy to open the tin and cut wp the Spam for the rolls = unthinkable today. Merab Browne Sherborne, Dorset He, Lem eree Breeieey Pam SLEW, A Charlotte Ecossaise Mustration for The Trade’s Cake Book by T Percy Lewis, 1912 Led astray by mother’s truly irresistible trifle SIR - Llagree with Rowan Pelling that your mother's trifle recipe is always best (“Hooray for the trifle revival. [t's the very best of British’, Features, July 30), and also that it is pointless without In the 1950s, our Italian mother was asked to make a large trifle fora Women’s Institute celebration in rural Wales. li did not occur to her that most of the members would be Methodists and might be teetotallers, so she made her usual trifle using at least halfa bottle of medium-dry cooking sherry. Everyone came back for “seconds” and wanted her recipe. Our father, who understood these things, urged her not to tell them. MJ James Teddington, Middlesex OAL DM ACL Peieiers 6Ie apeckat arts ipoages inca a t sponges into a cut-glass bowl, then mix the best apricot jam with a reasonable slug of medium-dry Amontillado sherry (plus a glass for the cook) and drizzle it over the broken . She then made a pint of Bird's Custard using whole milk, but without adding too much sugar, and poured this over the other in nis, before covering it with clingfilm to prevent askin from forming. When it was cold, she whipped some double cream and piled this on top. The final touch was a handful of toasted almond flakes. No fruit, no jelly and absolutely no sprinkles. Those few, simple ingredients made a delicious and sophisticated pudding. Bryony Hill Hurstpierpoint, West Susser The dangers of AI use in the health service SIR = My 86-year-old husband has been having breathing difficulties and was referred to acardiac specialist for tests. We had a face-to-face appointment with him to discuss the results. Fortunately, no causes for immediate concern had been found. The follow-up letter to our GP was also sent to my hushand. As he is extremely deaf, I had attended the appointment with him. We were both surprised, however, to learn that the specialist had instructed him to discontinue three of his medications. As neither of us could remember the doctor actually saying this, we emailed his secretary. She telephoned us straight away to ain that the letter had been generated by Al and should have read that he wuust not discontinue those three medications. She added that another letter cancelling the first iu ie a usely, had my husband and I not sti the instruction, it could have had very serious - if not fatal - consequences. This just shows that everything generated by Al should be carefully checked by a qualified person. Elizabeth Neale Reigate, Surrey Regulating funerals sir - After the sentencing of the Legacy funeral director Robert Bush (report, August 1), Yvette Cooper, the Health Secretary, said: “In the wake of this horrific case, we will now bring forward comprehensive proposals to ensure respect and dignity for the deceased in every setting, including proper regulation of the funeral sector” lam the expert witness who worked on the case and whose report was cited during the course of the sentencing hearing last week. In his final report.on David Fuller - the double murderer who sexually assaulted multiple corpses - published on July 15 last year, Sir Jonathan Michael, the inquiry chairman, recommended: “The UK Government should establish an independent statutory regulatory regime for funeral directors in England as a matter of urgency in order to safeguard the security and dignity of the deceased” However, despite the Fuller report - and now the Legacy case - there are still no statutory licencing or registration requirements for funeral directors in England, Wales or Northern Ireland, and there is no legal need for any funeral worker to hold or train for any qualifications for either employment or business ownership. In addition, I estimate that about 2,000 of the 7,000 funeral firms trading in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are not registered with either of the existing (voluntary) trade organisations. On Friday, Andy Burnham, the Prime Minister, hacked calls for regulation, citing the recommendations of the Fuller Report. The time has now come to address this matter once and for all, in order that more families do not suffer the heartache to which Bush has subjected the people of Hull. Dr Richard Lloyd Fellow in anatomy, Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge sin - The whole nation will have been horrified by the case of Robert Bush, the Hull funeral director. Clearly the argument for regulation of the funeral industry across the UK (Scotland already has provision) must be heeded, Asa clergyman, I have always found my undertaker colleagues to be courteous and professional in the extreme, However, risks can clearly no longer be taken and Parliament needs to act to create a proper legal framework for the profession. Rev Andrew McLuskey Ashford, Middlesex Aussie ID sin - Adrian Bostock’s mother (Letters, July 31) would not have had difficulty proving her identity in Queensland. My wife is 87 and, similarly, has no driving licence or passport. However, she does have a of age card. These were introduced by the Queensland government in Australia to enable young people legitimately to buy age-restricted items such as liquor and cigarettes and have, unintentionally, proved to be a godsend to elderly people such as my wife. Mal Locke Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Hat tricks sin - Tilley hats are indeed remarkable (Letters, August 1), The manual also recounts that one was eaten by an elephant. After reappearing, it continued to be perfectly serviceable. John Williams Wreningham, Norfolk SIR - | suspect that all new police officers catch their reflection ina shop window and realise that they have their helmet on backwards. I did. Peter Barnett Liamvertyd Wells, Brecknockshire Blaming London reveals Burnham's ignorance It would take more than the PM's gimmicks for decentralisation to fix our broken Britain ROBERT TOMES P ne of the things that Britain () and France have in common is their tendency to obsess about their capital cities. Both have played a hugely important role in their respective histories, and both tend to dominate politically, economically and culturally. In both countries, successive governments have gestured towards decentralisation for years, even dispatching whole government departments to what in both countries are referred to as “the Provinces”, Andy Burnham is only the most recent to embrace this ancient trend with his eye-catching NolO North. However one might tweak it, the dominance of the two capitals is long established, inevitable and, indeed, nonmnal. Some might envy countries with a galaxy of more or less equal cities. Such countries are either recent agglomerations of several states (most obviously Italy, dating from 1870, and Germany, from 1871) or federations, often continental in size and sometimes with aspecially created political capital, such as Washington, Ottawa, Canberra or Brasilia. But Paris and London are the creations of along history, and indeed of geography, as strategically placed river ports and transport hubs. Already in 1300, London was five times as wealthy as the next richest city, and in 1724, the writer Daniel Defoe, rightly noted “the general dependence of the whole country upon the city of London”. Through the centuries it played acommensurate role in politics by means of its money, population and “soft power”, influencing ideas, fashion and the media. Monarchs often felt the need to get outside London, but they needed its support. Paris has a similar history, but in spades. By the 19th century, its population was six times that of the next largest city, and it contained a quarter of France's total wealth. The French Revolution had made it saa pd dominant after its people forced Louis XVI to live in the city, and then replaced him - and in due course, his successors. Napoleon centralised administrative power in Paris, which acquired its own defences, making it the world’s largest fortress. Tt made and unmade regimes: provincial politicians complained about Paris sending them “governments ready made by telegraph”. This came to an end in 1871, during a civil war in which the army slaughtered thousands of Parisians in afew days. But Paris remained the economic and cultural centre. If we want decentralisation - and in England I'm not sure we do - we could start by not blaming our capital city. The primacy of London and Paris does not create centralisation, Despite Paris, France is hugely decentralised, with real powers exercised by city, region and even village authorities, of which there are 36,000. Andy Burnham's career as mayor of Greater Manchester would be the norm in France, where national politicians have long created local power bases. Whether this is a good thing is another question. There is undeniably a picturesque quality to French local Since the 1940s, we can't help clinging to the idea of nationalisation and, of course, the NHS government, as many British expats would recognise. It was affectionately mocked in Gabriel Chevallier’s 1934 novel Clockemerle, which turns on the efforts of the anticlerical mayor to build a urinal next to the church. France’s local government is expensive and - dare one sy - often disfi cronyism and worse. Yet it is popular, and alive, whereas ours is moribund. The failure of police and crime commissioners proves our indifference to local government. As does our instinctive revulsion against “postcode lotteries” - the very essence of local democracy, and in which our French neighbours take pride. If England is over-centralised = which it is = it is not the fault of London, but the fault of the Second World War and our willing embrace of bureaucracy. Until the 1930s, local government controlled most of what mattered in people’s lives. But since the 1940s, we can't help clinging to the idea of nationalisation and, of course, the NHS, based on the wish (in Aneurin Bevan's phrase) for the clang of every dropped provincial bedpan to echo through the corridors of Whitehall. If we really wanted decentralisation again, we would first of all have to embrace true diversity: different schools, hospitals, police forces, tax rates, Of course, we might only end up with what Scotland and Wales have got: locally mandated incompetence. Or the spendthrift recklessness of France with its multiple layers of For decentralisation to be of benefit, alot more thought would be needed than in Burnham-style gimmickry or the creation of big synthetic authorities. But that, 1 would be willing to bet, is exactly what we shall have. Not a remedy for state incompetence, but.a distraction from it. Channels for public spending to please Labour activists and their core voters. Finally, a way to fragment England and make it more tractable, as some have wanted since the 1880s. As one politician of the time put it, why want change, aren't things bad enough already?
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Britain risks recession if Iran conflict drags on Prolonged closure of Strait of Hormuz could drive inflation to GApe, forecast suggests Ay James Titcomb TECHNOLOGY EDITOR BRITAIN could be plunged into reces- sion if the Strait of Hormuz remains closed until spring next year, econo- mists have warned. EY’s latest economic outlook has pre- dicted the economy will shrink by 0.2pc in 2027 if the conflict in the Middle East persists, including two quarters of neg- ative growth in the first six months of the year, The contraction would be driven by surging inflation, as EY forecast that price rises could more than double to 6.4pe by the end of the year. Renewed hostilities between the US and Iran have prompted fears that the waterway, Which typically carries 20pe of the world’s oil and gas, will remain shut for the foreseeable future. Donald Trump, the US president, said yesterday he had held off on new air strikes against [ran after the “perime- ters” of a deal had been agreed, includ- ing to immediately reopen the Strait. However, Iran has not acknowledged any such agreement. A potential recession caused by surg: ing inflation would present a significant challenge to Andy Burnham, the Prime Minister, who has made tackling the cost of living one of his top priorities. Economists at EY said that Britain's economy had been resilient during the Middle East conflict but that “prolonged energy price disruption” would take its toll, Escalating tensions recently led to oil prices hitting $100 (£75) a barrel for the first time since May. Under the outlook’s baseline forecast, in which the Strait opens by the end of September, inflation will rise from its current level of 2.6pc to 3.5pe. The economy would then grow by 0.9pe for 2026 before increasing to 1.2pe in 2027. It said the Bank of Eng: land would also cut interest rates twice next year, to 3.25pc. However, if the strait remains closed until early or mid 2027 - meaning it would have been shut for at least a year since the Iran war first broke out - infla- tion will hit G4pec. This would dampen growth this year to O.4pc before the economy contracts by 0.2pc in 2027. Inflation was last above this level in September 2025, when it was 6.7 pc. The economists also said they expected unemployment to rise slightly, to 5.3pe by the end of the year, before falling over the next two years. Peter Arnold, EY’s UK chief econo- mist, said: “The UK economy has proved more resilient than many expected this year. “Oil prices had started to fall back to pre-conflict levels and, while business and consumer confidence have sof- tened, this decline remains less severe than the shock triggered by the 2022 energy crisis. Ongoing disruption to global energy markets will now start to test this economic resilience. “Lf the Strait of Hormuz reopens in the coming months, we expect the UK to avoid a more pronounced downturn, but an extended closure into 2027 would raise inflation and could push the economy into contraction next year> He said the economy was likely to become more concentrated on technol- ogy and services as construction con- tinued to suffer. “Rising project costs, persistent labour shortages and weak productivity growth risk constraining the delivery of major infrastructure projects at a time when demand remains high,” he said. “Enhancing productivity in the sec- tor will be critical if the UK is to deliver its infrastructure ambitions while sup- porting broader economic growth.” EY’s latest forecasts were published as figures from Indeed, the recruitment site, painted a bleak picture of Britain's jobs market. It said job postings in the UK had fallen by 13pe since the start of the year. Summer jobs were at their lowest level in four years, while graduate roles were also at their weakest point since the pandemic. Wage growth was at 3.9pc - the lowest annual rate since Feb- ruary 2022, Meanwhile, 9.4pc of roles mention Alin the job postings. Jack Kennedy, of Indeed, said: “The UR’s labour market is under sustained pressure. Hiring demand is falling across most parts of the economy, while posted wage growth is gradually cooling.” ERNESTO RUSCH Thy AE Back in the spotlight Kevin Spacey arrives for the Magna Graecia Film Festival yesterday in Soverato, Italy, The actor received the Golden Column career award, AstraZeneca plots £300bn tie-up with American rival By Louis Goss ASTRAZENECA is plotting a $400bn (£300bn) merger with US rival Bristol Myers Squibb in a deal likely to raise fresh questions over the company’s ties to the UR. Britain's second-most valuable com- pany has held talks with Bristol Myers Squibb in recent months about a possi- ble tie-up that would be one of the big- gest mergers of all time, the Financial Times reported. AstraZeneca is currently worth around £196bn on the London Stock Exchange, while New York-listed Bris- tol Myers Squibb has a market value of roughly $133bn. If completed, the merger would cre- ate one of the world’s largest pharma- ceutical businesses. However, the deal would also trigger questions about AstraZeneca’s contin- ued links to Britain as its chief execu- tive, Sir Pascal Soriot, pushes ahead with a pivot towards the US. Last September, AstraZeneca upgraded its listing on the New York Stock Exchange to let US investors buy its shares directly, while keeping its list- ing in London. The move put AstraZeneca’s New York listing on a par with that of Lon- don, in what was seen as a blow for the UR's struggling stock exchange. AstraZeneca subsequently struck a $50bn deal with Donald Trump's administration to invest in US manufac- turing and transatlantic research facili- ties. At the time, Sir Pascal described the drugmaker as a “very American company”. The business subsequently agreed to sell some medicines at a discount to the US Medicaid programme to avoid being hit with tariffs. Despite this, Britain's biggest drug- maker has insisted that it intends to remain headquartered in Cambridge and retain its listing on the London Stock Exchange. The proposed mega-merger will evoke memories of Pfizer's allempts to take over AstraZeneca a decade ago. The US company’s acquisition ulti- mately collapsed after a wave of resist- ance from the board and politicians alike. At the time, Ed Miliband, then Labour leader, said Pfizer's assurances about protecting research and saving jobs were “worthless”. AstraZeneca currently has around 10,000 UK staff at five sites across the UR, including 4,000 at its main facili- ties in Cambridge and Macclesfield and another 2,000 in London and Luton. Bristol Myers Squibb is headquar- tered in Princeton, New Jersey, and was started in 1858, making it one of the US's oldest pharmaceutical companies, AstraZeneca’s share price has risen by 13pec in the past year, compared to a 43 pc jump for Bristol Myers Squibb. Debt-laden TalkTalk sells 130,000 customers in funding scramble By James Warrington MEDIA AND TELECOMS EDITOR TALKTALKE has offloaded swathes of customers to a start-up rival as it scrambles to raise cash. The deal to sell 130,000 customers to fledgling provider Rise Fibre marks the latest effort by the debt-ridden broad- hand provider to heal its balance sheet. Terms of the sale were not disclosed. It comes as the broadband firm, which was founded by Sir Charles Dunstone, struggles under a £1.4bn deht pile. TalkTalk secured a £115m lifeline from Ares Management and other shareholders, including £65m in fresh debt, earlier this year. This was less than 12 months after backers were forced to provide a £235m emergency bailout to avoid a looming debt default. The deal with Rise Fibre marks the latest whittling down of TalkTalk’s cus- tomer base after it reached an agree- ment to sell 29,000 subscribers to Utility Warehouse for £5m this year. While the deals have raised much- needed cash for the business, they have fuelled questions over the prospect of TalkTalk finding a buyer for the remain- der of its consumer division. James Ratzer, an analyst at New Street Research, said: “The more these piecemeal customer disposals occur and the organic TalkTalk consumer base shrinks further, the size of the remaining base decreases further and will therefore continue to raise the question of whether it becomes possi- ble to consider an acquisition of the whole of TalkTalk consumer” TalkTalk is separately exploring a sale of its wholesale division, called Platform X. VodafoneThree is understood to have tabled a bid for the division along- side several private equity firms. Talk- Talk has previously said that the break-up will be completed by the end of summer, However, figures released to inves- tors this week show TalkTalk’s underly- ing business is still struggling as it cuts back heavily on costs. 15pe Drop in reveues in first three months of the financial year as the company’s retail customer base fell to 1.6 million Revenues fell by l5pc in the first three months of the financial year to £292m as the company's retail cus- tomer base dropped to 1.6 million down by a quarter on last year. TalkTalk burned through another £58m in cash over the quarter, high- lighting the strain on its balance sheet. The financial pressures have previ- ously caused TalkTalk to fall behind on payments to suppliers including Open- reach, BT's network division. Bosses were forced last year to secure a letter of credit from one of its lenders to guarantee £73m owed to Openreach. However, TalkTalk said its interest bill was now lower after reaching an agreement with its lenders, while it had also cut spending thanks to cost-cutting measures. The deal with Rise Fibre, which pre- dominantly covers customers on CityFi- bre's network, will more than double the broadband challenger’s subscriber base to almost 250,000, The Manchester-based company was spun out of alt-net 4th Utility a year ago. It uses 4th Utility's network as well as those of rivals including BT's Open- reach and CityFibre. Rise Fibre, which is backed by the infrastructure arm of private equity firm CVC, has set out a target of reach- ing one million customers. Steve Wilson, the chief executive of Rise Fibre, said: “This is far more than an acquisition. It marks another major step in the emergence of a genuine new challenger in UR broadband. “We have ambitious plans to con- tinue growing through further acquisi- tions and strong organic performance as we build the UR’s fastest-growing broadband provider. TalkTalk declined to comment. AI model gets ‘jaw-dropping By James Titcomb TECHNOLOGY EDITOR AN UNRELEASED Al system has solved a series of long-standing maths prob- lems in what experts have described as a “jaw-dropping” breakthrough. OpenAl, the company behind ChatGPT, said its new “Astra” system had made 10 mathematical discoveries, including in areas that have stumped academics for more than six decades, The announcement is seen asa major development in Al's ability to make scientific advances, It has also led to despondency amongst mathematicians, who fear their discipline risks being taken over by machines. Among the challenges the system addressed were a geometry problem posed in 1964 by Eugene Ehrhart. Chris Peikert, of the University of Michigan, said they were “jaw-dropping results”. One post on a mathematics forum said some of the results would be “career-defining for any mathematician”. OpenAl said the Astra system it used was more powerful than any currently maths results available to the public but that it planned to release it in the future. It said the 10 developments had been discovered in just a week using just $2,000 (£1,483) worth of computing powe. Some mathematicians worry that much of their work could soon be replaced. “This ruined my morning,” wrote Tasmin Chu, a PhD student at the California Institute of Technology. Earlier this year, thousands of maihe- maticians signed a declaration calling for academics, rather than technology com- panies, to maintain control of the field. US and Japan take action to prop up yen By Louis Goss sUSINESS REPORTER THE Japanese government is expected to confirm today that it joined forces with Donald Trump's administration to prop up the yen after it fell to a 40-year low. Washington reportedly stepped in to support Japan's currency on Friday by instructing the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to sell ewros and buy yen. The rare intervention was the first in 15 years and was made after Japan's cur- rency sunk to its lowest price vs the US dollar since 1986, The currency pur- chases were carried out by Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. Scott Bessent, the US Treasury secre- tary, was later photographed with a “to do list” that said: “Buy Japanese Yen (PY) $5-10 bil.” Ina post on the social media platform X on Friday, Mr Bessent also praised Sanae Takaichi, Japan's prime minister, and Kazuo Ueda, the governor of the Bank of Japan, for their “strong commit- ment to monetary and financial stabil- ity’. The US government may have purchased around ¥S8.45tn (£40bn) worth of yen as part of the intervention, which is likely to drive market move- ments this morning. Japan's currency has slumped to record lows this year as the country’s central bank has suppressed interest rates, meaning investors are able to make better returns on other curren- cies, The value of the yen sank further after the Bank of Japan held its bench- mark interest rate at Ipc last week, as the US Federal Reserve also kept its own borrowing costs stable at 3.5pec.,
18 ari Monday 3 August 2026 The Daily Telesraph Business Look to insurance to fund social care, not an NHS-style system ROGER BOOTLE Burnham has a chance to build a new consensus and find a new way to pay for the health service OF the ideas that Andy Burnham has floated since he became Prime Minister, perhaps the most momentous is the notion that the social care system should be put on the same basis as the NHS. He is right to identify the problem and courageous to try to address it. But there is areal danger of adopting the wrong solution. When the NHS was first established in 1949, hardly any thought was given to social care, primarily because in those days life expectancy was so much lower than it is today. Now, whereas NHS provision is free at the point of use, our social care system isa mixture of free provision, means testing and private finance, Under the current system, people with assets above £23,250 must pay all their care home fees; those with assets between £14,250 and £23,250 must contribute most of their income and some of their capital; those with assets below £14,250 do not have to contribute any of their capital, although they must still contribute most of their income. What's more, responsibility for the provision of social care falls to local authorities. They spend more than £20bn a year on social care and some 750,000 people receive it. The Institute for Government has estimated that as much as two-thirds of expenditure by local government now goes on adult and children’s social care. Although they are established on such different funding bases, there are clear links between the NHS and social care provision. The NHS often finds itself obliged to use hospital beds for people who would otherwise be in social care because there are insufficient facilities available in residential care or patients’ homes. During the pandemic, large numbers of people were kept in care homes, with devastating consequences. Mr Burnham is far from being the first prime minister to recognise that there is a serious problem. The Dilnot Report, published in 2011, proposed a lifetime cap on care costs of £25,000- £50,000 and amore generous means test. The coalition government endorsed the principles but said that averse economic conditions prevented them from being adopted. In its 2017 general election manifesto, the Conservative Party proposed a single capital threshold of £100,000, Jeremy Corbyn, then leader of the Labour Party, called the policy a “dementia tax”. In the event, Baroness May, then prime minister, dropped it. The Johnson government made proposals based on the Dilnot Commission's findings but successive chancellors delayed. In the summer of 2024, Rachel Reeves, then chancellor, stated that the government would not be going ahead with them. What is particularly striking is that this Prime Minister wants to establish asystem for social care on the lines of the NHS. It is as though he is oblivious to the serious failings of that system or cannot think of anything better. Yet surely even Labour's most ardent ideologues must now recognise that “our” NHS is not “the envy of the world®. Indeed, its results are poor compared with many other industrialised countries and it is inefficient. At a time when the pressures on public spending are enormous, it is remarkable that the Prime Minister seems to envisage adding yet more, Labour seems to have realised that there are limits to government borrowing. But regarding taxation, many ministers and their advisers blithely assume that if borrowing cannot be used to finance more spending then it will simply have to be funded by higher taxes. Yet higher tax rates would have a serious negative effect on our economic performance. These days, the effects would go beyond simply disincentivising people from working hard, seeking promotions or setting up their own business. The big risk here is that even more talented, hardworking people leave the UK for other countries where they can secure a better life. Some proposals envisage giving the tax imposed to fund social care a special name, or even ring-fencing the money raised to fund only social care. The Johnson government envisaged funding secial care through imposing an extra 1.25pe on National Insurance and labelling this the “Health and Social Care Levy*. But calling the tax something different would not make a difference, As long as the money charged is taken as a percentage of someone's income the same damaging effect on incentives will occur. And taxes such as National Insurance are especially bad because they apply only to income from work while income from pensions, dividends and property is not affected. Moreover, such proposals have an unfavourable generational impact. Young people who are working will have to pay more to fund the care of the elderly, thereby helping to protect the inheritances of the latter's children, many of whom would be much better off than those paying the extra tax. How is that fair? There have been many reviews of the NHS funding system and the best of them conclude that we should make more use of the insurance principle and be less reliant on tax. Many countries, including the Netherlands and, most notably, Singapore, secure better health outcomes than we do while imposing a much smaller burden on public spending and the taxpayer. This is the thinking that we should be exploring now. Mr Burnham should not be rushing into constructing an NHS-like system for social care. Rather, he should be moving in the direction of a system which relies extensively upon compulsory insurance. Moreover, whatever we learn about implementing sucha system could form the basis of a new funding system for the NHS also based, primarily, on compulsory insurance. Roger Bootle is senior independent adviser to Capital Economics and a senior fellow at Policy Exchange. roger.bootle@capitaleconomics.com AOD ORIES A VASLUI Ty Surf's up, dog Rusty, left, and Iza Surf Dog compete during the World Dog Surfing Championships in Pacifica, California, The event helps local charities raise money by sponsoring a contestant or a team. Avoid dynamic pricing or you risk losing hard-won trust of consumers ANDREW ORLOWSEI Retailers should realise market manipulation makes us feel less free, and that’s not good for sales AS IF being a consumer in Britain isn't already miserable enough - “Your call is important to us,” you're told as the hours trip by - along comes something to make the experience even worse. The Telegraph has discovered that car park operators are increasingly experimenting with dynamic parking charges, meaning the tariff offered to you may vary unexpectedly, and may even change in front of your eves. Dynamic pricing is all the rage now, A third of businesses will experiment with dynamic or personalised pricing this year, according to the Rank of England. None of this was possible when pricing was communicated via billboards and physical labels on products. The digital world, however, permits all kines of malarkey. The price may vary on time of day, how much the merchant thinks you can pay, or other factors including your tastes or perhaps even political views. Giving us personal offers, or off-peak tariffs, is something we can all live with. But what dynamic pricing generally means is that prices change on some discriminatory basis, and in real time. Sometimes it’s something we can tolerate. Uber bumps up the price in periods of high demand to lure drivers away from home and into their cars; it's stimulating the supply. I have never considered this a terrible injustice, just a feature of a taxi service that doesn't invest in cars or drivers. Travel websites and apps have used discriminatory pricing for a while, setting the prices on factors including a calculation of how much it thinks you might pay. But the uproar when dynamic pricing was applied to Oasis tickets last year reminds us how real-time changes risk a huge backlash. The sole seller, Ticketmaster, increased the price while punters were in the online queue. £80 tickets soared to more than £350 when the system assessed that demand was high. The House of Commons business select committee duly demanded answers, prompting Ticketmaster to deny that it used dynamic pricing for the event or sought to rip off customers. The Competition and Markets Authority seemed to draw a sensible line by ducking out of the furore. It stated last June that dynamic pricing “can be consistent with effective competition and good outcomes for consumers”. In the US, however, states are banning “surveillance pricing”, the practice of using your history to create a personalised price, and are coming down on producers for using Al systems to collude to set prices behind the scenes. For more than two decades, my friends in Silicon Valley, including investors and founders, have been trying to persuade me of the beauty of dynamic pricing, waiting for the moment when our resistance would drop. Market efficiency was the goal. But it can be a very one-sided manipulation, allowing firms to capture the consumer surplus - which is the difference upto what you would have paid if you really, really wanted a good - and turn it into producer ‘Like so many Silicon Valley wheezes, they’re not doing it because it’s a good idea or we want it’ surplus. “It's about making margin on people who don't care, and giving away margin to people who do care,” one pioneer explained rather too candidly when dynamic pricing first reared its head, a decade ago. I think there are some profound reasons why this will fail. A lot of social science research has already been conducted on how consumers react to it, and why. Conservatives respond more negatively to surge pricing than Left-aligned consumers, for example. Thave my own theories, too. One factor is that trust is a large part of why people engage in, and then complete a deal. We want pricing information to be clear and consistent, with no funny business. Ifone day a local market trader decided to swap the price labels between you choosing an item, and it being bagged up, we'd be appalled. We'd never go hack to the stall. We resent being manipulated or gamed, and dynamic pricing isa breach of trust that we take quite personally. Another reason is that algorithmic manipulations make us feel powerless. We feel a little less free. The assumption is that having reacted with hostility, we're going to accept the deal anyway. If nine of the 10 shopping items you want are already in your basket, and the 10th is fluctuating = will you take it, or drive a couple of extra miles to get the 10th? Accounting for this is Psychological Reactance Theory, and while psychological fads have come and gone, this one has endured. It posits that when people feel their freedom is threatened, they resist. The friction caused by pricing manipulations and tricks, such as fluctuating prices or “buy it in 30 seconds or the deal disappears” offers make us angry. Finally, there's the broader sense that we're just objects in someone else's game. Nothing is more dystopian, the technology critic Nick Carr has observed, than “the moment-by- moment behaviour of human beings tracked by sensors and engineered by central authorities to create optimal statistical outcomes”. Like so many wheezes Silicon Valley has produced, from always-recording spectacles to therapy chatbots, they're not doing it because it's a good idea, or have noticed that we want it. They're doing it because they can. Retailers and producers who want a long-term relationship of trust with us consumers should politely but firmly decline. As korean giants crash, SpaceX investors face first big test: What goes up can come down RUSS MOULD QUESTOR ANEW generation of investors is learning some old, painful lessons. After chasing up shares in memory silicon-chip makers Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix - and frequently using borrowed money (margin) or leveraged tracker funds (which multiply daily price changes by a factor of two or three or even more) to do so - these investors are now meeting with the consequences of their actions. These include: be wary of buying deeply cyclical stocks on low price-to- earnings (PE) ratios, as those low multiples may be deceptive anda warning that a company’s profits are nearing their peak; be even more wary of using leverage to multiply profits, as they will also multiply losses if anything goes wrong; and do your best to avoid any individual stock or sector or theme where new investment instruments proliferate, be they options, trackers, or passive or active funds. Wall Street will happily sell investors absolutely anything that it thinks Main Street will buy. SK Hynix's shares began to fall shortly after the completion of a multibillion-dollar secondary offering of stock in New York in July. It will be interesting to see whether shares in another high-profile US market debutant, SpaceX Technologies, also suffer any indigestion now that the lock-ups on shares held before June’s initial public offering (IPO) are about to expire. The rise, and sudden fall, of SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics also bring to mind legendary investor Benjamin Graham's aphorism: in the near-term, markets are a voting machine, while in the long-term, they are a Weighing machine. By this he meant that near-term share price momentum may be dictated by hot flows of investor cash, and positioning and leverage, but corporate fundamentals such as competitive position, management acumen, balance sheet strength and - al the end of the day - free cash flow will dictate long-term total returns. The near-term unlocking of a wave of SpaceX shares will be the latest test of this viewpoint. The company came to market with an extremely limited free float, barely 5pc of the total share count, or some 639 million shares, out of a total of 13.2 billion. Immediately, it was the beneficiary, or victim, of a self-fulfilling squeeze, thanks to the limited number of shares available for purchase, the wider investor interest in space and Al- related companies, and founder Elon Musk’s reputation. This combined with the mechanical reinforcement of the share’s entry into certain American headline stock market indexes, which obliged passive tracker funds to pile in and buy, to send SpaceX’s shares skyrocketing to an intra-day high of $225 from the IPO price of $135, The market technicals - the voting machine - were stacked heavily in SpaceX’s favour. But now comes the first test. Pages 192 to 199 of the EU offering prospectus reveal the timeline on which pre-IPO investors in SpaceX may now sell stock. Not all will do so, but some may be tempted, given reports that more than 4,000 staff are now millionaires (on paper, at least) and around a tenth of those own more stock valued more than $100m (again on paper) at the time of the listing. SpaceX's second-quarter results are out tomorrow, Two full tracing days after this release, 20>pc of the locked-up shares may be sold. Additional tranches of 7pc of the insider-owned shares then unlock and may be sald at 70, 90, 105, 120 and 135 days after the flotation. In effect, this means fresh supply could come to market in a steady stream from late this month through to late October. Two full trading days after the third-quarter results, presumably set for release in early November, a further 1.3 billion shares, 28pc of the locked-up float and lOpe of the total shares in issue, become eligible for sale, should early-stage investors wish to liquidate. The standard 180-day lock-up expiry then triggers on Dec &. Adding all of that up means as much as 44-pc of the shares in SpaceX could be for sale by early December, which would increase the current supply of stock nine-fold. Come June 2027, Musk himself is finally permitted to sell, should he wish. He owns 64 billion shares, or 42pc of the total float. There is no guarantee that any locked-up investors will sell anything atall. Indeed, it could be a telling vote of confidence if they elect to hold on. But if the price sinks further and pre-float investors hit the sell button anyway, investors could be forgiven for taking fright, although those who like SpaceX’s long-term fundamentals may feel any technical sell-off isa chance to buy.
The Daily Telegraph Monday 3 August 2026 ‘Business Royal Navy ‘must fully embrace robot warships Former Second Sea Lord supports plans for hybrid fleet and urges critics to ‘stop naysaying’, reports Matt Oliver THE Royal Navy must fully embrace robot warships and put boatyards to work building them as soon as possible, the former Second Sea Lord has said. Sir Nick Hine, who now runs the marine business of defence giant Babcock, said he supported controversial plans for a hybrid navy to protect Britain and urged critics to “stop naysaying”. He called for new warships and drones to be built at home, saying it was “the right thing for UR shipbuilding” and that there was “no reason” why it couldn't be done, But he also warned the Ministry of Defence military to move quickly and avoid getting into the “five-year, commercial nonsense” that typically impacts the procurement process. Critics including the Washington: based Centre for European Policy Analysis have called the hybrid navy plan a “dangerous illusion’, arguing it is being driven more by a desire for cost-cutting than modernisation. But asked about the proposal, Sir Nick said: “People said this about subways, they said this about steamships, and they said it about nuclear power. So can all the naysayers just stop naysaying? In fact, just stop saving anything. We didn't have destroyers before the First World War. Now we're not going to have destroyers going forward. Get over yourselves — it's just an adjective” His comments come after the long-delayed Defence Investment Plan (DIP) revealed nearly £3bn of investments in the Navy to incorporate autonomous drones instead of more expensive manned warships. It means the manned Type 45 destroyers, also known as the Daring class, will no longer get like-for-like replacements in the late 2030s, with service chiefs instead planning to split their capabilities across four new classes of unmanned vessels, This will include the Type 91 uncrewed missile barge and the Type 94 uncrewed radar platform for air defence, as well as the Type 92 aULOnomous underwater sensor vessel and a Type 93 extra-large autonomous underwater vehicle for anti-submarine warfare. They will be controlled by at least six manned “common command vessels” (C(CVs). SAT I PE Sir Nick Hine sald: ‘Got over yourselves, It's just an adjective. Sir Nick said he largely supported the plans set out in the DIP, witha few reservations, He said: “I'm not yet convinced of the way they're making some of these things really big, really expensive and really exquisite” But he dismissed suggestions that cancelling the destroyer programme would leave a hole in the Navy's capabilities, adding: “(Destroyer is] just a descriptor. The effect you're trying to create is deliverable in a different ways Babcock will be putting forward its existing Type 31 frigates as a contender for the CCV programme, he said, and is Working to developa family of uncrewed surface vessels (USVs) with HII, the US military's largest shipbuilder. He compared these drones, which the company is calling ARMOR Force, to “a truck and a box” to allow Navy chiefs to swap out capabilities easily. “You can put a radar ina box, you can put a bomb in a box, you can put missiles in a box, you can put a boat in abox, you can puta helicopter in a box - you can put anything in a box,” Sir Nick said. “That capability box still needs a deployment mechanism, though, and to go on the back of a truck. The truck isan uncrewed surface vessel (USV), and that still needs to have some kind of command: the common command vessel (CCV)" Ideally, each manned vessel would be accompanied by at least three autonomous escorts which could provide “shield, strike and bastion lunderwater]” capabilities”. Sir Nick added: “Of course, the beauty is that they don't even have to go on the ship” EE Babock’s flagship yard in Rosyth, Scotland is currently building the Navy’s first batch of Type 31 general purpose frigates. Work to build further Type 3ls to act as command ships and autonomous vessels would ensure the site and its 3,000 workers are kept busy, he says. “From our perspective, the CCV looks and feels very much like a Type SL? Sir Nick adds. “So we would argue that’s the right answer. Don't design something else, Don't rina competition that’s another five-year delay in your programme. Just keep going with what you've currently got... and we'll improve it and adapt it.” Meanwhile, there is interest from countries such as Denmark and New Zealand, who are looking at whether they should buy the Type 31, in potentially purchasing a package of both frigates and drones. Type 31 frigate Inspiration class £250m Average production cost per ship 26 knots Top speed ri — Total length 7,500 f: J Range in nautical miles Total number of personne! for whom it offers accommodation Number of frigates in the class 5,700 Displacement in tonnes Though he may be a moderniser, however, Sir Nick plays down the prospect of the Navy deploying robot warships to sea without some human oversight. Babcock has drawn up concept designs for a “command strike drone” that could operate this way - but he insists that is along way from reality today. Autonomous ships “still need to have some kind of command”, he argues, and this cannot be done reliably enough remotely via space. “The naysayers come in two camps," he says. “The ‘havea destroyer’ camp or the ‘have a terminator at sea’ camp. But neither of those things is right. “Let's get comfortable operating drones at sea first. Having a really sophisticated Al model that you trust completely to do anything? 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2) ai Monday 3 August 2026 The Daily Telegraph Court & So cial Announcements Email: announcements.ads@telegraph.co.uk Book online: announcements.telegraph.co.uk Court Cire ular,» ST JAMES'S PALACE Angust 2nd The Duke of Edinburgh, Vice Patron, Commonwealth Sport, and The Duchess of Edinburgh today attended the XXII Cammonwealth (rarnes in Glasgow, His Royal Highness, Vice Forthcoming marriage Mr J... Birley and Miss H.E.B, Youngs The engagement be announced between James, son of Mr Julian Birley ane] Mrs Amanda Birley, and Hannah, daughter of Wing Commander Richard Youngs, TAF, Reid, and Mrs Carole Bridson Youngs, of Norfolk. 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Patron, Commonwealth Sport. accompanied by Her Royal Highness, this evening closed the XX Commonwealth Games al the Hydro, Scottish Event Campus, Exhibition Way, Glaggew, ancl wos received by His Majesty's Lord: Lieutenant of the City of Ghaisgow (Councillor Jacqueline McLaren, the Ki Hon the Lord Provost), STIJAMES'S PALACE Angust Jnl The Princess Royal, accompanied by Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, having been received by His Majesty's Lord-Lieutenant of the Ide of Wight (Mrs Susan Sheldon}, towlay cared out the follow Ing enpapements on the isle of Wight, Bridge news The 14th Session of the Geolf Evans Online League has now ended, writes Julian Pottage, Bridge Correspondent, Winners are a8 follows: Division 1 let Mark Rowlerick, Mark Roderick, Paddy Murphy, Peter Goodman, Aoife MacHale anc BJ O'Brien 75 VPs 2nd Mike Tedd, John Salisbury, Gary Jones, Paul Larofn anny Ratcliff and Julian Pottage &1 VPs Division 2 lst Barry Wennell, Wyn Williams, Shelia Shea, Andy Green and Haidee Tattersall 70 VPs 2nd David Smith, Ray Marden, Shelia Montgomery, Chins Wormleighion, Rob Miller and Dan Baines 2 VPs Division 3 lat Jennifer Wardell, Reith Davison, Kay Clement, Marie Whyte and Linda (Hiorden 72 VPs 2nd Margaret Lane, Lee Collier, Peter Lane, lan Grove, Geeoll White and Martin Podmore 69 VPs Prize-winners of crossword 31,501 Three first-prize winners: Oliver Tyson, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire; E B McNeill, Loughborough, Nottinghamshire; K Whitwell, Barta Clay, Bards, Five numners-ipe Sarah Freshwater, Oswestry, Shropshire; Geoff Shuttaford, Port Talbot, West Glamorgan, Wales; Claire Branford, Eastleigh, Hampshire; Jim McEwan, Chorley, Lancashire: John Berry, Rainham, Greater London. on the oocasion of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of Cowes Week: Her Royal Highness, Admiral, Royal Yacht Squadron, this morning started the first race of the day at Cowes Week, the Castle the Parade, Cowes. The Princess Royal later visited East Cowes Sailing Club, Clarence Road, East Cowes, Her Royal Highness, Admiral, Royal Yacht Squadron, this afternoon Viewsd Cowes Week Racing in the Solent and attended a Luncheon on board Motorboat Warrior, off Cowes. The Princess Royal, Admiral Royal Yacht Squadron, later attended the Cowes Week Regatta Meeting ai the Castle. Her Royal Highness, Master, the Corporation of Trinity House, this evening attended a Reception on board THY Parricia. Today's birthdays Mr Edward Petherbridgr, actor, director and writer, i 90; Mar Steven Berkoff, actor, director and writer, 80; Mr Martin Sheen, actor, 26: Lord Philip, a former Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland, Ft; Mr Bob Ayling, Chief Executive, British Airways, 1986-20000, 80; Mir Jack Straw, former Labour Cabinet Minister, 20; Ms Sue Slipman, Chairman, Financial Ombudsman Service, 200404, 77; Ms Jenny Beavan, ONE HUNDE JVYEARS AGO costume designer, 76; Mor Geoffrey Podger, Chief Executive, Health and Safety Executive, 2005-13, 74: the Rt Rev Robert Atwell, Bishop of Exeter, 2014-23, 72; Prof Sir Michael Arthur, physician and liver specialist, Provost and President, UCL, 2015-21, 72 the Rev Prof David Fergusson, Hegius Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge; Dean of the Chapel Royal in Scotland and Dean of the Order of the Thisthe, 70; Mr Justice Holgate, 69; Sir Simon Keenlyside, baritone, G7; and Baroness Debbonaire, former shadow minister, G0, Today is the anniversary of the birth of Rupert Brooke in 187. The Baily Celegraph LONDON, TUESDAY ALG UST 3, i268 Government's disfavour. the Labour element. STRIKING SCENES IN MEXICAN CRISIS. Whether because of tradition, force of habit, or forgetfulness, to-~day’s gigantic Labour demon- stration, organised by the Mexican Federation of Labour as a sign of their adhesion to the Govern: ment in the Church controversy, although an imposing sight and indicative of the strength of the Labour movement here, was in reality an anti-Roman Catholic demonstration in which Roman Catholics participated, probably unaware of their dual action. A fair estimate of the parade if 60,000 men and women, among which num- ber were 10,000 Government employees, whose orders were — as is public knowledge here - it would be undesirable for them to refrain from participating unless they desired to incur the Another 5,000 were members of Mexican Masonic organisations and “Liberal or free-thinking institutions.” Two thou- qand were farmers, the remainder representing I watched the marchers pass by, and, scruti- nising them closely, observed that, where the necks of men in overalls wore bared, their invariably hung a cord or chain with a tiny church medal or image of Our Lady of (ruada- lupe, the nation's patron saint, which Mexi- that cans wear from birth, when it is placed about their necks by their parents and never taken off. Women, where a glance could be gained, had not relieved themselves of their church ornaments, and several about their persons, as though forgetful of the object of the demonstration, rosaries or other church emblems. One woman actually carried a small Bible in ber hand. The demonstration was perfectly peaceful. The demonstrators paraded the streets for three hours, stopping while orators addressed them, their theme being that the Roman Catholics ware secking to destroy the Constitution, to bring about public disturbances, and were also trying to involve the Government in international diffi- culties. They also made a comparison between President Calles and President Benito Juanes, who “saved the country in the middle of the cen- tury when he passed reform laws, and declared that President Calles was doing likewise now. The Government's seizure of the church of San Jos, which is owned by the Episcopal Church of the United States, is judged to be of the greatest importance as affecting interna- tional relations with Mexico. It is believed to be likely - unless the seizure is withdrawn - that the action may result in an alliance between Washington and London in the adoption of Great Britain's policy towards the Mexican Church controversy. actually ca The Night Sky in August PETE LAWRENCE Allow your eyes at least 20 minutes in complete darkness before your watch for the best experience. The particles or meteoroids that produce typical meteor trails are Births COX, —(0m Tth Aaly, to Lauren and Tim, a beautiful daughter, Goldie Loveday, « sister for Teddy. Online Hef WORD Deaths CLAYTON. —Harman., Paseed away very peacefully on [eth Joby 2026. 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There are three highlight events visible from the UK this month, a significant partial solar eclipse, a favourable Perseid meteor shower peak and a significant partial lunar eclipse. The partial solar eclipse occurs in Partial Solar Eclipse ene: 70-0) wT Must Be viewsd theaugh wider tuniety Alber Partial Lunar Eclipse Macumrur: 12 8S T Moonset 06.5) OST similar in size toa grain of sand. Larger, grape or golf ball-sized meteoroids can produce impressive fireball events. As the meteoroid vaporises, a bright event can come to a spectacular end known asa terminal burst. As a meteoroid enters the atmosphere, it collides with atmospheric particles at high speed, heating its front surface. When a Salt Spring laland, EC, Canada, followed by a memorial service im Sootlasd, ota later date. Oniine Hef Woods on 04 Ba: 2 S25273 of email copydil: a, For al other regraduction, copying and iconsing inquines email syudicabonijielegrph co.uk, Chess USA out in front bhodS cml 063 Qact 16. Bet Personal Text for the day the late afternoon of August 12. 18.13 BST the Moon begins crossing the Sun's disc. Approximately one hour later at 19,10 BST, over 90 per At Times correct for centred UK and wel wary Gig hy waEM iocamon i wf Three significant astronomical events occur this August, a partial solar eclipse, threshold temperature is reached, atoms and molecules escape the meteoroid and collide with atmospheric gases. Atoms and cent of the Sun's disc will be covered by the Moon. A partial solar eclipse can't be viewed directly without a certified solar safety filter. For casual viewing, eclipse glasses, available from many outlets, are recommended. Make sure you get ones that are ISO 12312-2 (sometimes writen as ISO 12312-22015) certified. Never take risks looking at the Sun. The times given are for central UK, and will vary by up toa few minutes depending where you live in the country. An alternative method, safe for children, is to use a piece of stiff card and make a 1-2mm hole in it, projecting the Sun’s light through the hole on to another piece of white paper or cand. The image you see will be a small pin-hole projection of the eclipse, Making the hole-to-screen distance at least one metre gives an image which will show the shape a favourable Perseid meteor shower peak and a partial lunar eclipse of the Sun as the eclipse progresses. Asolar eclipse on August 12 means no Moon to ruin the Perseid meteor shower. Perseid meteors occur when Earth passes through the dust debris strewn around the orbit of comet LOOP/Swift-Tuttle, This is a wide dust stream, Earth taking about a month to pass through it. We're in the more interesting, densest part of the stream between August 9-10 and 15-16. Outside of this range meteor rates very low, but within it rates are much higher, accelerating to reach a high point on the night of August 12-15, centred on the predicted peak at 03.00 BST on August 13. The best time to observe Perseid meteors is after true darkness has fallen from around 23.00 BST, However, the best rates will be seen between 61.00 BST until dawn on August 13, the Earth then having turned to face the dust particles head on. The Perseids have a peak zenithal hourly rate (ZHR) of around 150 meteors per hour but this value is misleading because it represents the number of meteors you'd see under theoretically perfect conditions. These are hard to meet and in reality, the number of Perseids you'll see is often much lower, somewhere around 30-440 meteors per hour mark. In addition, trails don't appear at regular intervals, often arriving in short bursts with long lulls in between. The best way to observe them is to recline ona sun- lounger or equivalent, looking up ata region two- thirds up the sky. Any direction is fine, although looking north-east, south-west or south give some interesting constellation views. molecules along the incoming path become excited for a short time, eventually de-exciting to release energy in the form of the light which forms the meteor trail. A bright fireball event may generate a column of ionised gas in the atmosphere which appears to glow for several seconds after the main trail. This is called a meteor train and can often be seen to twist and warp due tothe effects of high-altitude winds. The absent Moon returns towards the end of the month and in the early hours of August 28 it will pass through the Earth's shadow to create a partial lunar eclipse, The main eclipse starts at 03.34 BST, the shadow covering 93 per cent of the Moon's diameter by at 05.13 BST under brightening dawn twilight. Again if the clouds are kind, this should be a stunning event to watch and photograph. Today’s chart This chart shows how the sky will appear at lam on August 1, midnight on August 15 and liIpm on August 31. All times are BST. The planets are shown along with the location and phase of the Moon at five-day intervals. The Moon is full and eclipsed on the morning of August 28. The stars are shown as circles; the larger the circle the brighter the star. The hazy area represents the Milky Way. Orientate the chart by holding it in front of you rotated so the compass bearing at the bottom matches the direction you're facing. The bottom of the chart then reflects your horizon with the middle of the chart representing the view directly above your head. The chart is designed to be viewed using a red torch outside, Red light allows you to see the chart detail without ruining your night vision. [ee] Please send comments to pete. 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The Daily Telegraph Monday 3 August 2026 2i | Obituaries Vicki Wickham Driving force behind the early TV pop show Ready Steady Go! and manager of Dusty Springfield aged 87, was one of the prime movers behind Ready Steady Go!, the innovative television show that helped to launch some of the biggest names in 1960s pop, and went on to manage soul diva Dusty Springfield. Although unstarry herself and, on her own assessment, “not particularly fantastic-looking or musical”, Vicki Wickham emerged from the typing pool to become the new show's tea girl, booker, writer, producer and finally editor. Within a year, as one pop historian reckoned it, she was presiding over “a thrilling sprint through whatever pop was right then and there ina particular week: sounds, fashions, dance steps, slang, attitude, colours, the whole crazy teen shebang”. Up to 14 million viewers a week tuned in. With only brief stints in radio and publishing to her name, Vicki Wickham was a pop ingénwe (“I didn't even know who The Beatles were”), but persuaded her boss at Rediffusion TV to let her help on his new weekly programme for young people. She assembled the talent, and as one of the producers would tour the clubs giving out tickets for the show to the best dancers and trendiest dressers, even though she was clueless about fashion. Launched in August 1963, Ready Steady Ga! (RSG) was recorded ina cramped basement studio at Rediffusion’s headquarters in Kingsway before moving to bigger premises in Wembley. With its catchphrase “The weekend starts here”, the show, broadcast on Friday evenings at Gpm, became an early exemplar of “must-see” appointment television aimed squarely at teenagers. Its chaotic informality paved the way for shows like the BBC's Top of the Pops, which took six months to catch up in 196-4. As editor, Vicki Wickham’s arbitrary booking policy was to use only artists she personally liked. On RSG! she gave a platform to some of the most successful artists of the 1960s, including The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, The Who, Sandie Shaw and the Walker Brothers, with a particular eye for black acts such as Otis Redding, the Temptations and James Brown. In 1965 she produced the first black music show for British television, a one-hour special, The Sound af Motown, featuring the Supremes, Martha and the Vandellas and Stevie Wonder, with Dusty Springfield presenting. Other home-grown stars included Eric Burdon, Sandie Shaw and Manfred Mann, whose hit 5-4-3-2-1 was the programme's theme tune. At first, ASG/acts mimed to their pre-recorded tracks, but by late 1964 some artists performed live and by the following year all acts gave live performances. Before the regular presenters Cathy McGowan and Michael Aldred became fixtures, early shows were introduced by the veteran radio DJ Reith Fordyce and the singer Dusty Springfield, whom Vicki Wickham had met in 1963. As it happened, both women were lesbians, although their relationship remained platonic. Vicki Wickham herself only came out as gay when she was 60, insisting that she was not defined by her sexuality. “I've been a very bad lesbian,” she told one V ICKI WICKHAM, who has died Vicki Wickham, above, in 1965 and, 14th Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony, at which he inducted Dusty Springfield posthumou sly interviewer, “because I'm not into the scene at all.” In 1966, when Dusty Springfield heard the Italian composer Pino Donnagio’s ballad Jo Che Non Vivo Senza Te, she asked Vicki Wickham to write some English lyrica with Vicki's friend Simon Napier-Bell, then managing the Yardbirds, Over dinner, the pair scribbled the verse on the back of an envelope, adding the refrain in a taxi on their way home. With Dusty’s vocal track recorded in an echoing stairwell at the Phillips studio, You Dont Have fo Say You Love Me became her first No 1, in 1966. The song become her signature number and led to her own BBC TV series. Vicki Wickham managed Dusty Springfield for 15 years until the singer's death from cancer in early 1999, dealing with the former convent girl’ s manic depression, emotional fragility, drink and drugs addiction, as wellas her faltering career. With her hippy vibe, louche glamour, shaggy silver hair, dark glasses and black “roadie” outfit, Vicki Wickham in later life presented as an —~se oracular figure and exuded more than a touch of rock royalty. Vicki Heather Wickham was born on March 23 1939 at Newbury in Berkshire, where her parents farmed at the nearby village of West Woodhay. After boarding at Cranford House school, Moulsford, she attended secretarial college at 16 and worked as acinema usherette and waitress in a Kensington tea shop, before joining the BBC as personal assistant to the radio producer Charles Chilton. Having been turned down for jobs on newspapers and magazines, she became secretary to Elkan Allan, head of light entertainment at Rediffusion Television, for whom she found contestants for his dance show Let's Twist to Win in 1962. In the production gallery, the director, Daphne Shadwell, would count down to transmission with “Five, four, ready, steady, gol” When Vicki Wickham persuaded Allan to let her work for the new pop music show he had in mind, its tithe was alreacly in place. At 24 she found herself in charge of a production team even younger than she was, and sometimes inexperience led to close calls. The Who, asked to do something French, urinated against a studio wall. Van Morrison tumed up three hours late, and Chuck Berry caused another panic when he demanded to be paid in cash. For all Vicki Wickham's personal drive, alcohol and drugs inevitably contributed to the show's party atmosphere, David Ruffin of the Temptations rolled her first joint (“I remember coughing myself silly") and she recalled that the Stones’ manager Andrew Loog Oldham always had “a lovely box of wonderfully coloured ups and downs that looked like Smarties”. After RSG! was wound up in December 1966, she worked with the Beatles’ manager Brian Epstein to produce Sunday-night rock concerts at the Saville Theatre. In 1970 she moved to the United States, hoping to break into American television, but eventually running the New York office of Track Records. Despite having no previous experience of artist management, she took over the career of the feminist girl 3 band LaBelle, best known for their = bestselling hit Lady Marmalade, and 5 = where she met her long-term partner and LaBelle member Nona Hendryx. 3 It was Vicki Wickham who Z transformed them from the Bluebelles F into a black female version of the £ Rolling Stones, changing their = a repertoire to funk-rock and suggesting the group's feathers and helmets image that moulded 1970s disco-wear. Her other clients included Marc Almond, Morrissey and Holly Johnson, || but it was her long-time friend Dusty Springfield who loomed largest. In the early 1970s the singer was in Los Angeles, drinking heavily, taking cocaine and fretting about her failing voice. By 1984 her career had tanked and she was living on welfare. Vicki Wickham agreed to co-manage her with Jenny Cohen, a savvy New Yorker, and in 1987 urged her to record What Have I Done to Deserve This?, written by Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe of the Pet Shop Boys, and which became Dusty Springfield's first hit for more than 20 years. In London the same year she rang Vicki Wickham in New York to say she had discovered a lump in her breast. Despite prolonged chemo and radiotherapy, she learned that the cancer had spread to her bones. Vicki Wickham arranged for the sale of Dusty Springfield's back catalogue to finance her treatment, and to buy a house near Henley-on-Thames. By early 1999 the singer had returned to hospital when Wickham arranged to collect her OBE, delivering it to the Royal Marsden ina Fortnum & Mason carrier bag supplied by St James's Palace. After Springfield's death, Vicki Wickham arranged the music for her friend's funeral. With the music journalist Penny Valentine, she co-wrote Dusty Springfield's biography Dancing with Demons (2000), Vicki Wickham received a music industry Woman of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999, and was appointed OBE in 2013 for services to music. Her long-term partner Nona Hendryx survives her. Vick? Wickham, born March 23 1939, died July 312026 Franco Baresi AC Milan and Italy captain from the 1990s heyday who was one of football’s greatest defenders aged 66, was regarded as one of football's greatest defenders and emblematic of the golden age of the Italian game in the 1990s; he spent his entire career with AC Milan, captaining the club for 15 years and winning six Serie A titles and three European Cups or Champions Leagues, as well as the World Cup. If Paolo Maldini, who played elegantly alongside him in Milan's formidable backline, seemed to the manner born, Baresi's virtues were allied to toil, That is not to say he did not have ability in spades, with remarkable anticipation that allowed him to F RANCO BARESI, who has died stifle attacks, obduracy and precision in the tackle, and a seer’s vision for a pass out of defence. Yet to watch Baresi play was \ also a reminder of the importance of humility, discipline, loyalty and responsibility. It was he who marshalled Milan's high defensive line and offside trap, shirt out, his arm aloft, Tony Adams-style. Only 5ft 9in - short for a centre back - it was he who demanded more from others, and from himself. Milan may have become a glamour side while he was there, but for Baresi victory came through hard work and suffering, from putting yourself at the service of the team. This attitude was crucial in turning around the club during his first years with them. Baresi made his debut in 1978, when Gianni Rivera and Fabio Capello were still in the side, and a season later claimed his first league title. Milan then found themselves, however, at the centre ofa match-fixing scandal and were sent down to Serie B. They came straight back up, but when a virus put Baresi in a Baresi pan heme West German players int and, left, celebrating, after Milan's vic against Steaua Bucuresti in 1989's European Cup final wheelchair for four months they were relegated again. Baresi scomed offers to move clubs and was rewarded by being appointed captain at 22. Milan achieved promotion again, but their fortunes really changed when the club was bought in 1986 by the media entrepreneur Silvio Berlusconi. Taking advantage of the relaxation of rules barring foreign players, he brought in the | Dutch trio of Ruud Gullit, Frank Rijkaard and Marco Van Basten (replacing England's Ray Wilkins and Mark Hateley). Under manager i| , fi Arrigo Sacchi, a former shoe salesman who had not coached in Serie A before, and later under Capello, the team swept all before them. Baresi played as a hero or sweeper, co-ordinating an aggressive zonal marking system that ensured the opposition had to play passes where Milan dictated. He would also forage upfield, breaking the press, and was a reliable taker of penalties. In 1988, Milan won the scudetto, conceding only + goals, and in 1992 took it again, unbeaten in the league and for arun of 58 matches. That was the start of a hat-trick of titles, with another to come in 1996. The team were also champions of Europe in 1989 and 1990 and reached the final every year between 1993 and 1995, winning in 1994. Baresi came second in the Ballon d'Or in 1989, Although a non-playing member of the squad, Baresi won a World Cup winner's medal with Italy in 1982. He captained the side to third place in the tournament Italy hosted in 1990, and four years later made a rapid recovery from knee surgery after the first game, to play magnificently in the final. He missed a penalty, however, in the shoot-out, as Brazil took the trophy. Baresi won 81 caps for his country. After 719 appearances and 33 goals for Milan, Baresi hung up his boots in # 1997. In his honour, the club retired his 3 No 6 shirt, He was voted Milan's player © of the century in 1999, anda year later & Serie A's player of the century. One of five siblings, Franchino = Baresi was born on May 8 1960 at = Travagliato, near Brescia. His father, = Terzo, farmed, and the children would 2 help in the fields. Their first games of 2 football were in the yard and later with 2 the team of the local oratory, Franco's ¢ mother died when he was I, and by 14 > he was an orphan. With his brother 2 Giuseppe, two years older, he had a trial that year for Inter Milan, Beppe Baresi was successful and would go on to captain Inter, win two league tithes and play for Italy. The club thought his brother too slight to make it asa centre-back, however, and the next year Franco applied to their neighbours. Baresi had brief forays into management, including a month at Fulham in 2002 as director of football before falling out with Jean Tigana. He was thought to be suffering from lung cancer but in February this year, with Inter Milan's Giuseppe Bergomi, nevertheless carried the torch into the San Siro at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics. He is survived by his wife Maura and their two sons. AP wey Franco Baresi, born May § 1960, died July 31 2026 Vincent Pastore Played a ‘rat’ who betrays his oldest friends in The Sopranos INCENT PASTORE, \ } the actor who has died aged 80, is most vividly remembered as the traitorous gangster Salvatore “Big Pussy” Bonpensiero in The Sopranos. The HBO series depicted the fear and violence of life in the New Jersey mob against a backdrop of barbecues, children's parties, wives’ film nights and therapy appointments, Big-boned and hefty, witha gravelly New York accent and lugubrious mien, Pastore was a series regular, with his name in the opening credits, from the start in 1999: this made his demise at the end of the second series all the more shocking. “Pussy” (he is a former cat burglar) is one of boss Tony Soprano’s oldest friends, central in the crime family, supporting wife Angie and children - though his son's college fees put him under pressure - asa reliably “good earner”. But his domestic security = and his life = are thrown into jeopardy when he is exposed as a “rat”, a confidential informant for the FBI. It is an unspeakable betrayal, and he knows that itcan only end in one way. Suspicion builds from the moment the corrupt cop Vin Makazian informs Tony that Pussy is “wired for sound” (wearing a recording device), He disappears fora while, only to reappear unexpectedly at Tony's suburban mansion, shiftily offering the excuse that he has been having treatment for a bad back. Pastore was popular with the audience, and played Pussy as a mobster with a (relatively) soft heart, cornered into committing a deception that tortures him; the storyline makes for gripping viewing. But the show's creator-producer David Chase was known for his lack of sentimentality in killing off high-profile characters if the drama demanded it. “Funhouse”, the dreamlike episode in which Pastore’s character meets his end, is one of the most heart-rending in the show. He deftly conveys Pussy’s mounting panic and wrings every drop of pathos out of his final moments, on a boat with his three old friends, alternately pleading and joshing as he realises that they will show no mercy. Vincent Dominic Pastore was born in the Bronx on July 14 1946 and grew up in the New York suburb of New Rochelle, the son ofa school caretaker, John, and his Pastore: a gripping storyline wife, the former Natalie Santadonato. After serving in the US Navy fora spell during the Vietnam War, Pastore took a degree in drama at Pace University, New York. He worked in bars, asa nightclub bouncer, and driving a limousine before taking over a nightclub in New Rochelle. The actor siblings Matt and Kevin Dillon were patrons, and on their suggestion in his early forties he turned to acting, first in local theatre. He soon picked up small roles, typically as heavies, om TV and then ina string of mob-themed films, including Goodfellas (1990); Carlitos Wary (1993); the comedy thriller The Jerky Bove (1995), in which he played boss Alan Arkin’s right-hand man; the 1996 HBO TV movie Golfi, as the Gambino crime family “captain” Angelo Ruggiero; and Mickey Blue Eves (1999), with Hugh Grant and James Caan. Other projects included the boxing crime drama The Aurricane (1999), and he was the voice of the octopus Luca in the animated blockbuster Shark Tale (2004). He also had two singing roles on Broadway, and became a familiar face on American celebrity reality TV shows, among them Dancing with the Stars. Losing a well-paid role in the biggest TV show of the era was a blow to Pastore: after season two ended in 2000, The Sopranos would run until 2007. But he returned for occasional flashback or dream Sequences = appearing to Tony Soprano, disturbingly as Big Mouth Billy Bass the singing fish: and he was happy to relate anecdotes about his time on the show when cast members reunited for podcasts or TV specials, Vincent Pastore’s marriage to Nancy Berke was dissolved and he is survived by a daughter. Vincent Pastore, born July 14.1946, death announced August 12026 READER SOLUTIONS AY TELEGRAPH MEDIA GROUP Ditfing Serice from our selected partner Tove of my life” - Former member, 2026 Start your journey today at telegraph.co.uk/LS-dating Margers must bo over 18 yoars of aga, te Prawn trom £11, 00frnar You can join irae as a member ors th vehien you seg i bscribe e tors year, TACa apaly
i Monday 3 August 2026 The Daily Telegraph ‘Television & Radio What to watch LONG LOST FAMILY: BORN WITHOUT TRACE FTV, Sput Chasdina MiaCiall cba & loraali tar Raihaa ean wine pasa daittanmhaielyiaanebaaisanes ik his spin-off of the excellent Long Lost Family. using research and DNA to help foundlings locate their birth parents, continues to hit the mark. areason. We begin with David Stevenson, abandoned in a locked London apartment block, and Sarah Gray, left ina Leicester phone box. tests reveal Dutch and French heritage, and a revelatory trip to continental Europe. For Sarah, a news report about her first days in hospital only Moving without being Gentle, good-natured intensifies her desire to sentimental, rigoraus David was adopted, has locate her mother and but not intrusive, with made a family and lived a understand what she, a unimprovable hosts in life, while never quite mother of twins, cannot: Davina McCall and Nicky shaking off his curiosity or how could you abandon Campbell and a knack for pain - relating tothe oldest | your child? Explanations finding hope even when the | of his sons that holding them | are as complex, and the stories don'tend happily in | was the first time he had outcomes as profoundly an obvious sense, it has ever held a blood relative affecting. as always. reached an eighth series for | brings him to tears. DNA eT Africa’s Ghost River Nat Geo Wild, 7pm & Spin Opening with a double bill, this typically ravishing National Geographic series focuses on the Okavango River that travels through Botswana, Angola and Namibia. The wildlife sequences alone are worth watching. Panorama: Britain's Strictest Schools BBC One, Spat While mobile phones remain at the top of the educational news agenda, discipline is never far behind. Richard Bilton travels to Devon and Cornwall to investigate concerns from parents, students and former Evolution is a canny combination of spectacle and science teachers over the strict regime at the Athena Learning Trust, and whether the price some have paid for better exam results is too high. Evolution BEC Two, 9pm Acanny combination of spectacle and science, Chris Packham’s excellent series moves onto brains, examining the development of intelligence through the evolutionary journey of the dolphin and the changes from cells that sense light to conscious thought and intellect. ie alll Celebrity Hunted Channel 4, 9pm Adozen paired celebrities go on the run in aid of Stand Upto Cancer, among them Strictly’s Carlos Gu and Amy Dowden, presenters JJ Chalmers and Sophie Morgan and entertainers Brian and Lucy Conley. On their trail are Ray Howard and his team in another series which, no matter how contrived or daft, has lost lithe of its capacity to grip. Sally Magnusson Remembers Mastermind BEC Four, Spm lit started in 1972 and still hasn't finished. For 25 years, Mastermind was hosted by Magnus Magnusson; here his daughter Sally discusses its ongins, her father’s role in it and how that black leather chair ended up in her living room. The grand final of the inaugural series follows at 9.20pm. Gr history of Mastermind FILM Sing Sing (2023) BRC Two, 1LOSpat Cee ad This is a prison drama not like the others. Powerfully and defiantly eschewing genre clichés, it follows Divine G (a magnificent Colman Domingo), a man wrongly imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, who joins other incarcerated men in a theatre group. Based on the real-life rehabilitation programme at New York's Sing Sing prison, it’s a funny, insightful, sensationally acted account of art's capacity to dissolve walls, and heighten, broaden and deepen the reach of our lives - and, it's worth adding, not remotely mawkish. 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