The i Newspaper - 03.08.2026.pdfP8 三分之二的人支持对价值超过 1000 万英镑m 的资产征收财富税 » 选民压倒性地支持财富税，仅 10 per cent 表示反对，支持者涵盖整个政治光谱 » 为《i报》进行的独家民意调查还显示，73 per cent 希望提高已冻结五年的基本税率起征点 » 总理安迪·伯纳姆在进入 No 10 之前拒绝排除征收财富税的可能性，称“我们需要更强的公平感” » 经济学家估计，对超过 1000 万英镑m 的资产征收财富税每年将为财政部增加 1000 万英镑bn 的收入，并影响 1,000 个家庭 » 前工党领袖尼尔·基诺克勋爵也敦促总理提高资本利得税以使其更加公平 观点 伯纳姆的率直将他的粗犷作风推得太远 Victoria Richards 广播 从花园棚屋经营的电视公司正恐惧 Freeview（英国免费数字电视平台）的终结 P10 下周观测日食的英国最佳地点 观点 旅游 最后的笑声 取消 Live at the Apollo 是正确的做法 P37 政治 为领取福利金家庭制定的能源账单援助计划 生活 为什么炎热天气对女性来说更艰难 联邦运动会 继格拉斯哥金牌赛后，Josh Kerr 将目标锁定在 1500 米世界纪录上 电视与广播 P26 I 益智游戏 P27 I 时尚专列 P38 I 学生人数下降导致学校陷入困境 P23 P34 P8 P41 独家 P55 » 财政部将针对接受 means-tested 支持的人群 » 预算案正在考虑冬季救济方案 P21 政治 克拉克顿选民对奈杰尔·法拉格做出评判 P17 I M P A R T I A L N E W S + I N T E L L I G E N T D E B A T E theipaper.com £1.10 Monday 3 August 2026 No. 4,897
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ThePage3Profile 蜘蛛侠攀至利润榜顶端 锦囊妙计 漫威新片《蜘蛛侠：崭新之日》打破了美国电影开画首日最高票房纪录。这部由英国演员汤姆·赫兰德主演的最新“蛛人”闹剧在影院首日便斩获 $168 (1.45 亿英镑) ，超越了 2019 年《复仇者联盟 4：终局之战》创下的 $157 纪录。“我们感谢各地观众前来观看，以预期的方式体验我们的电影，”电影制片人、漫威影业总裁凯文·费吉表示。 财富与名声，他的回报 《崭新之日》于周五才上映，目前全球票房已达 $927 ，且肯定将成为今年全球票房突破 $1 bn 的第五部电影。这将使 2026 年成为自 2019 年以来电影院最成功的年份，
在此之前，疫情迫使观众转向在流媒体上观看更多电影。目前相关部门正在核算收益，以确认开画初期的成功是否延续到了接下来的几天，从而从《复仇者联盟》手中夺走史上最大开画周末的头衔。“这次首秀反映了漫威角色持久的影响力，以及他们与粉丝之间持续的联系，”费吉说道。 蛛丝般的化学反应 英国粉丝也纷至沓至，伦敦莱斯特广场的电影院前排起了长队。评论人士认为，其成功部分归功于汤姆·赫兰德与合作演员兼妻子赞达亚之间的化学反应，两人在试镜第一部电影时相识。 Ben Sutherland 苏格兰 消防员彻夜扑救大火 消防员彻夜工作，扑救阿伯丁郡一处垃圾填埋场的大火。位于彼得海德附近 Longhaven 的 Stoneyhill 采石场火灾于周六下午首次上报。现场可见巨大的烟柱升起。昨日上午，仍有多支救援队伍在现场。 新加坡 the Massive Attack（大规模袭击乐队）因旗帜被禁 the Massive Attack（大规模袭击乐队）在演出期间展示巴勒斯坦旗帜而被新加坡禁止入境，他们称这次经历“超现实”。周三，这支英国 trip-hop 团体在星级剧院（Star Theatre）举行了一场演出。然而，由于在表演时展示巴勒斯坦旗帜，他们成为了警方调查的对象，进而被禁止入境该国。乐队表示：“我们感到惊讶和失望，我们的成员被警方拘留、隔离并分别审问——部分成员还遭到了酒店房间搜查以及临时护照没收。” 汽车 司机每日盗窃 £200,000 燃料 分析显示，自伊朗石油危机开始以来，司机平均每天从英国加油站盗窃价值近 £200,000 的燃料。燃料盗窃预防公司 Forecourt Eye 表示，自 2 月 28 日冲突开始后的五个月里，未付款取油事件增加了 20%，与此前五个月相比。战争驱动的泵价上涨意味着盗窃燃料的价值在同期增长了 48%，在英国 8,359 处加油站的估计日均值达到了 £194,000 。 犯罪 约翰·斯温尼将重点关注性别暴力 约翰·斯温尼表示，他将以“最强有力的领导力”来解决男性针对女性的暴力问题。这位首席部长表示，近日发生的几起典型案例使该问题的严重程度“暴露无遗”。7 月， 44 岁的维基·索洛蒙（Vikki Soloman）涉嫌在爱丁堡被其前伴侣杀害，而 35 岁的斯泰西·梅尔（Stacy Mair）在伦弗鲁郡被谋杀。Ms
Mair 的丈夫被发现死在现场，而 Soloman 女士的前伴侣随后被发现死在狱中。数据显示，苏格兰的家庭杀戮案件在一年内翻了一番，从 6 起增加到 12 起。
人物 威廉王子对逝世感到“深切悲痛” 威尔士亲王表示，得知一名曾在巴基斯坦雪崩后被发现死亡的前廓尔喀士兵逝世，他感到“深切悲痛”。著名的英尼泊尔登山家 尼尔马尔·普尔贾 及另外 9 名登山者被确认死亡，搜救队伍正试图寻回他们的遗体。
今日概览 教育 英国首所超级大学成立 格林威治大学和肯特大学已合并为英国首所“超级大学”。这家名为 伦敦及东南部大学集团（简称 LASE）的新机构已成为英国第三大大学。它拥有超过 50,000 名学生，在伦敦、梅德韦和肯特郡设有四个校区。
今日名言 “永远不要在孩子认为自己能成功完成的任务上提供帮助。” ——玛丽亚·蒙台梭利
生日 马丁·希恩，演员，86；玛莎·斯图尔特，企业家，85；詹姆斯·赫特菲尔德，音乐家，63；约翰·兰迪斯，电影制作人，76；伊凡杰琳·莉莉，演员，47；瑞安·洛赫特，奥运游泳运动员，42；克里斯·拉姆齐，喜剧演员 / 主持人，40；斯蒂芬·格雷厄姆（见下），演员，53
填字游戏.............25 电视与广播...........26 谜题.....................27 文化.....................38 财经.......................42 天气...................46
8月星期一
纪念日 1778年8月3日，星期一 斯卡拉剧院（Teatro alla Scala）——现简称为 La Scala——在米兰开幕，首演剧目为安东尼奥·萨列里的歌剧《被认出的欧罗巴》。该剧院迅速成为全球最负盛名的歌剧院之一，接待了众多著名作曲家、歌手及演出。
人物 17岁少女在湖区音乐节死亡 一名 17 岁少女于昨日凌晨在 肯德尔召唤音乐节 死亡。警方表示，在收到该少女出现“医疗状况”的报告后，急救服务被召至湖区音乐节现场。有关其死亡情况的调查正在进行中。
健康 新生学生接种脑膜炎 B 疫苗 由于今年早些时候发生了致命疫情，下个月即将进入大学的数万名年轻人已接种了第一剂脑膜炎 B 疫苗。在针对 25 岁以下学生开展的疫苗接种计划的前两周内，已接种了超过 89,000 剂。 奶酪在未来将如何影响我们的生活？请见第 17 页
犯罪 旅居者定居点一名男子被枪杀 在斯温顿附近的一个旅居者（Traveller）定居点，一名男子被枪杀。受害者年约三十岁，昨日在卡尔库特现场被宣布死亡。威尔特郡警方已展开谋杀调查，并逮捕了一名七旬男子和一名四十多岁女性，涉嫌持有枪支及协助罪犯。
音乐 流行偶像为世界骄傲节演出集结 麦当娜与凯莉·米诺格在 阿姆斯特丹世界骄傲节 进行了惊喜演出。在昨日凌晨的表演时段中，流行乐星米诺格加入了她的部分环节。两人共同演出了《Love Sensation》，这是 麦当娜 最新专辑《Confessions II》中的曲目。
索引 孩子们最喜欢玩什么游戏 研究发现，孩子们在无聊时，选择接触电子屏幕的可能性是编造故事的两倍，且近 4 / 10 的孩子希望父母能多陪伴他们玩耍。Playmobil 的研究显示，超过五分之一的家长表示他们缺乏想象力游戏的点子，而 28 per cent 的人表示日常生活的压力让他们……
很少有时间参与。孩子们在课间休息时喜欢的活动有： 1 玩具、人偶或游戏套装 – 34% 2 在室外玩耍和探索 – 32% 3= 使用平板电脑或手机娱乐 – 25% 3= 绘画或做手工 – 25% 3= 搭建、制作或创造 – 25% 3= 玩电子游戏 - 25% 7 假装游戏 / 角色扮演 – 21% 8 编造故事或想象世界 – 18% The List The News Matrix 报业支持回收利用。2024 年英国报纸的回收纸含量为 37.2%。© 由 Harmsworth Media 出版，地址：9 Derry Street, London, W8 5HY。在英格兰和威尔士注册编号：00084121。印刷商：Newsprinters Holdings Ltd (Broxbourne); Newsprinters Holdings Ltd (Knowsley); KP Services (Jersey) Ltd; Newsprinters Holdings Ltd (Eurocentral), Lanarkshire; Irish Times (Citywest, Dublin), Ireland。过往刊号可从 Historic Newspapers 购买，邮箱：info@historic-newspapers.com 2026年8月3日，星期一。已在邮政局注册为报纸。
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人物 巨型机器人惊吓当地居民 一个被认为曾在 Take That 2011 年 Progress Live 巡演期间主导温布利球场的 18m 巨型塑像，近期惊吓到了威尔特郡康普顿巴塞特附近的徒步者。罗比·威廉姆斯几年前出售了他在该村的豪宅，据认为这个被描述为“令人毛骨悚然的家伙”的巨型机器人被遗留在了那里。
自然 阶梯帮助野生动物安全穿过马路 在贝德福德郡和剑桥郡之间新建的 A421 双车道下方的排水隧道中安装了阶梯，以帮助獾和刺猬等动物进入它们的栖息地。国家公路局（National Highways）表示，这些干燥的通道将使野生动物能够安全地从道路下方通过。
政治 托利党应为市长选举扩大候选范围 Opinium 的民调显示，如果保守党选择一名来自威斯敏斯特以外且与前托利党政府没有联系的候选人，他们在下次伦敦市长选举中获胜的机会将更大。该民调指出，具有商业或警务经验的候选人将表现最好。
社会 改革将帮助新人结婚 婚礼策划师表示，拟议中的婚姻法改革将允许新人举办更个性化且负担得起的仪式。在政府近 200 年来对婚礼法进行的最大规模修订下，英格兰和威尔士的新人可能被允许在自家庭院或最喜欢的酒吧合法结婚。
威尔·哈泽尔 (Will Hazell) 随着安迪·伯纳姆和约翰·希利接近 10 月 28 日的首次预算案，他们面临着一些重大决定。在伯纳姆担任首相的第一周，他采取了每日发布生活成本公告的“滚动雷击”策略，旨在强调他支持英国人民。周末的干预措施表明，他没有减轻这一关注重点的计划。在一次报纸采访中，伯纳姆表示他计划在“各方面”采取进一步的生活成本措施，希利也在一篇评论文章中呼应了这一信息。
最大的呼吁之一将集中在能源账单上。今年春天，前财政大臣瑞秋·里夫斯表示，任何缓冲伊朗战争导致的能源价格上涨的行动都将是有针对性的，而非像利兹·特拉斯在 2022. 年实施的那个极其昂贵的普遍性计划。如果愿意，伯纳姆和希利可以接手里夫斯在财政部制定的计划。在今天的报纸中，我们揭露这样一个有针对性的计划将把支持资金引导至领取经过资产调查之福利的人员，因为政府没有足够的数据根据家庭收入来分发救济金。
如果首相和财政大臣决定干预账单，最棘手的决定之一将是何时干预。随着每一次伊朗的袭击或唐纳德·特朗普在 Truth Social 上的发帖，能源价格每天都在剧烈波动。
而账本的另一面则是伯纳姆和希利将如何为额外的生活成本措施支付资金。关于这一点，首相可能会听取尼尔·基诺克勋爵的建议，伯纳姆将加入工党的灵感归功于此人。在今天的报纸中，这位前工党领袖表示，伯纳姆应该增加资本利得税。在 10 月 28 日到来之前，首相无疑会收到更多建议和游说。 i@theipaper.com
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首相与财政大臣面临重大决定 来自白厅特派记者的信
新闻 零售业 超市被告知不得不公平地提高价格 作者：Eleanor Langford 政治记者
在周末汽油价格触及 2022. 年以来最高水平之际，财政大臣表示，将打击任何利用伊朗战争在加油站和超市提高价格的公司。
约翰·希利（John Healey）周六在《每日电报》上做出了这一承诺，声称监管机构拥有“在这种情况发生时进行打击的权力”。
希利尚未制定自己的计划，但他的承诺呼应了其前任蕾切尔·里夫斯（Rachel Reeves）在 5 月做出的承诺，而其中大部分措施尚未被使用。
在伊朗重新干扰霍尔木兹海峡的航运后，汽油价格已攀升至每升 160p——这是自 2022 年 11 月以来的最高水平。柴油价格自 9 7月 的低点以来上涨了 14.5p，达到 179p，但仍比 15 4月 记录的冲突期间最高点 191. 54p 低 12. 5p。
尽管截至 6 月的一年内，食品价格通胀率放缓至 1.7%，但食品价格通常需要 13 个月才能反映供应冲击。超市告知英格兰银行，他们预计食品通胀将在今年晚些时候达到 4 到 5 的峰值。
希利表示，他将密切关注客户是否在“加油站或收银台被宰”的任何迹象。他还表示，到目前为止“没有所谓价格欺诈的显著证据”，但他希望向公众保证，如果这种情况发生，监管机构可以采取行动。
虽然希利没有详细说明下一步可能采取的措施，但他可能会遵循里夫斯在 5 月宣布采取行动时设定的相同路径。
里夫斯表示，监管机构可以公布数据显示一家公司的利润在危机期间如何变化，并公开点名利润率大幅增长的公司。其次，她表示监管机构将协同工作并更快地共享信息，以便更早地发现问题。第三，里夫斯表示，部长们可以引入限时权力，命令某公司停止涨价并对其处以罚款。
“价格欺诈”（Price gouging）是一个通用术语，指公司将价格提高到不公平、无正当理由的高水平，以利用危机获利。目前没有法律将价格欺诈定义为一种犯罪。政府可以通过新立法专门禁止这种行为。但部长们尚未说明此类法律可能是什么样子，或何时引入。
前赛恩斯伯里（Sainsbury’s）负责人贾斯汀·金（Justin King）在 5 月的文章中警告称，无论为了涨价还是压价，价格串通在英国竞争法下都是违法的。
英格兰银行行长安德鲁·贝利（Andrew Bailey）在同月告诉财政部遴选委员会，将价格人为地维持在成本以下“从长远来看是不可持续的”。
超市预计食品价格通胀将达到 4 到 5 的峰值 上周每升汽油价格上涨至 160p，为 2022 年 11 月以来最高
交通 AA 表示一小时内可将自动挡转换为手动挡 作者：Neil Lancefield
根据 AA 的说法，通过自动挡驾驶测试的驾驶员在经过一小时的转换课程后，应被允许驾驶手动挡汽车。
这家汽车服务公司的总裁埃德蒙·金（Edmund King）表示，让他们等待数月进行手动挡测试“没有意义”，因为大多数人能“迅速培养出良好的道路驾驶技能”。
目前，通过自动挡汽车测试的驾驶员仅被允许驾驶自动挡车辆。如果他们随后想驾驶手动挡汽车——例如在工作、租车或借用朋友或亲戚的车时——他们必须通过另一项手动挡汽车测试。
但驾驶员和车辆标准局（Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency）
(DVSA) 的数据显示，5 月份预约考试的平均等待时间近 22 周，而 2020 年新冠疫情爆发前的 2 月份约为 5 周。在英国，参加自动挡驾驶考试的学习者比例处于历史最高水平。DVSA 的数据显示，在上一财年进行的所有考试中，有 29.4% 是自动挡汽车，高于 2007 / 08 年的约 4%。交通部的一位发言人表示：“为了所有道路使用者的安全，任何希望驾驶手动挡汽车的人必须通过手动挡驾驶考试，我们没有计划更改这一规定。”
就业 国家电网将资助 5,000 名年轻工人 作者：Helen Corbett 国家电网正在启动一项 500 万英镑m 基金，旨在未来五年内帮助 5,000 名年轻人就业。此举正值政府努力减少既不接受教育、也不就业或接受培训（Neet）的年轻人数量之际，这一人数已经超过 100 万。该基金将从 2027, 年上半年开始，每年支持最多 1,000 名年轻人，资金将投入到能源、建筑和基础设施领域就业所需的实际培训、就业能力技能和资格认证中。
前工党部长艾伦·米尔本在 5 月发布的一份中期报告中警告说，英国面临着留下一个对工作准备不足的“迷失一代”年轻人的风险。 “上周，我们宣布对教育系统进行根本性改革，以确保学术路径与技术路径之间具有对等性——让所有年轻人都有机会在生活中拥有一条清晰的道路。” “其中的关键部分是将雇主与年轻人匹配，以确保他们获得所需的技能、技术知识和经验。” 他表示：“国家电网的公告正是我们希望看到的反应。”
犯罪 法耶德虐待幸存者被认定为贩卖人口受害者 作者：Abbie Llewelyn 内政部已确认，至少五名遭受亿万富翁哈罗兹百货所有者穆罕默德·法耶德性虐待的幸存者是人口贩卖的受害者。他们的经历包括国际和国内贩卖，甚至包括在哈罗兹大楼内部发生的贩卖案例。一名幸存者表示，他们被招募到哈罗兹内部的一个虚假职位中，而另两人被聘请从事合法职位，随后在店面以外的地方被选中遭受虐待。另一名幸存者在通过一家名为 Hyde Park Residence 的租赁机构被招募后，被雇佣为法耶德家族成员的家庭佣人。他们的案例最早可追溯到 90 年代，而最近的一起则发生在 2010 年哈罗兹被出售之后。在由慈善机构 Unseen UK 推荐后，这五名幸存者均已收到国家转介机制（National Referral Mechanism）的确定性结论，认定他们是现代奴役的受害者。
骄傲之光 在本周末举行的年度布赖顿骄傲节期间，人们参加了布赖顿与霍夫骄傲社区游行。数万人参加了该活动的第 35 届盛会，艺术家 Raye 和 Diana Ross 带来了领衔演出。 TOBY SHEPHEARD / REUTERS
星期一 2026 年 8 月 3 日 新闻 4-33 观点 18-22 电视 26-31 生活 34-37 文化 38-41 金融 42-44 体育 47-56
保持清凉：本周末，伦敦南部布罗克威尔公园（Brockwell Park）布罗克威尔露天泳池（Brockwell Lido）泳者的俯拍图。与英国大多数露天泳池一样，它建于 20 世纪 30 年代。它在 1990 年关闭，但在四年后的一次当地运动后重新开放。上个月，一组工党议员和法比安协会（Fabian Society）呼吁水务公司资助重新开放全国许多“失踪”的露天泳池。MAJA SMIEJKOWSKA / PA RESEARCH
调查发现，10 户中有一户受软管禁令限制的家庭打算无视禁令 作者：Josie Clarke
一项调查显示，在面临软管禁令的住户中，有超过十分之一的人不打算遵守禁令。一项针对 4,200 多名成年人的 YouGov 民调发现，约 11% 的家庭表示不打算完全遵守禁令，而 5% 的人表示尚不清楚。
八家水务公司——Affinity Water、Anglian Water、Cambridge Water、Essex & Suffolk Water、Southern Water、South East Water、Thames Water 和 South West Water——已经实施了这些限制（正式称为“临时使用禁令”），影响了 2,300 万客户，约占英格兰人口的 40%。
半数家庭（49%）表示支持其当地地区的软管禁令，而 35% 的人表示反对这些限制。大量回答涉及这样一种观点：安装了水表的用户应该能够根据需要使用任意 amount 的水，因为他们为此支付了费用。
无视禁令的其他理由包括担心蔬菜水果因为使用浇水壶太困难而枯死，以及为了支持花园中的野生动物。受禁令限制的家庭可以使用浇水壶，且依然允许使用软管在家里或在分地园（allotment）浇灌粮食作物。
一名住户对水供应商的整体表现提出了质疑，称：“我支付的水费高得离谱。水务公司宁愿给他们的首席执行官支付荒唐的巨额资金，也不愿建设新水库，这不是我的问题。”另一位住户表示：“一个发达国家怎么会没有能支撑一个月不下雨的基础设施？”
此次禁令出台之际，英格兰近三分之一的地区正处于“长期干旱天气”状态，仅有东北部和约克郡在此时节仍处于“正常”状况。上周，环境署宣布英格兰有 7 个地区正式处于干旱状态。
一名环境署发言人表示：“一根软管每小时可消耗 1,000 升水——这比一个四口之家一天的用水量还要多。”
“这些短期禁令可以让公司在不知道干旱何时结束的情况下节省供应。”
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肯特郡数千人面临断水 作者：Brendan McFadden
上周末，肯特郡部分地区的数千人遭遇了供水问题。周六上午，Shipbourne Road 的主水管爆裂导致水流涌入街道，顿布里奇（Tonbridge）的部分居民陷入无水供应或低水压状态。
昨日，南东水务公司（South East Water, SEW）表示，经过抢修，受影响的家庭数量已从 7,588 户减少至 2,564 户。附近比德伯勒（Bidborough）村高地上的 322 处房产也恢复了饮用水供应。
SEW 昨日在该镇开设了两个瓶装水供应站，并表示由于一夜之间的设备故障以及漏水点附近存在高压电缆，维修工作十分复杂。该公司的事故
经理罗布·霍尔（Rob Hall）为此次中断表示歉意，并补充道：“我完全理解这次持续中断带来的挫败感，我想向社区保证，我们的团队正在尽可能快速且安全地修复管道并恢复供应。”他还表示，预计其余受影响房产的供应将于今晨恢复。虽然违反软管禁令限制可能会面临 £1,000 的潜在罚款，但水务公司列出了一系列允许继续使用的豁免情况。大多数水务公司有类似的规定，这意味着患有医疗或行动不便的人员普遍享有豁免权。企业在禁令期间也可以使用软管，只要仅用于商业目的。但此外还有一些较为少见的漏洞。泰晤士水务公司（Thames Water）以及埃塞克斯和萨福克水务公司（Essex & Suffolk Water）允许出于健康和安全目的对私人船只进行清洁，或“清洁具有封闭空间的休闲船”。泰晤士水务公司允许在出于健康和安全目的需要时，清洁窗户、外墙、小径、露台或户外表面。通常情况下，软管也可用于保障动物福利，包括照顾宠物、牲畜和鱼类。此外，在种植粮食作物的花园或私人配给地中，且“浇水壶并非实用选择”时，也可以使用软管。新铺设的草皮或近期播种的草种同样享有豁免权。
漏洞 允许继续使用的豁免情况 软管一小时可使用的升数，这超过了一个四口之家一天的用水量 1,000
去年，约克郡水务公司（Yorkshire Water）报告称，在禁令期间家庭用水量最高节省了 10%，而安格利安水务公司（Anglian Water）报告称，自上月实施禁令以来，需求量减少了 9%。
气候 干旱“可能导致”部分食品短缺 作者：布伦丹·麦克法登（Brendan McFadden）
英国国家农民联盟（NFU）警告称，全英国范围内的长期干旱可能会导致部分食品短缺。由于连续的热浪使水资源供应紧张，并引发全国各地的山火，威尔士及英格兰大部分地区已宣布进入干旱状态。英格兰大部分地区直到周三仍处于琥珀色高温健康警报中。
NFU 主席汤姆·布拉德肖（Tom Bradshaw）告诉 BBC，由于蔬菜生产者的水资源严重不足，全英国的粮食产量正在下降。他说：“感觉确实会出现一些 [食品] 产品的短缺。”布拉德肖还解释称，今年的小麦和燕麦生长情况“非常、非常糟糕”，而且由于无法生长草料，畜牧业养殖者正在使用冬季饲料配额。
据《卫报》报道，英国贸易机构十字花科种植者协会（Brassica Growers Association）董事会成员大卫·西蒙斯（David Simmons）表示，由于粮食生长困难，企业被迫从西班牙购买生菜和西兰花。
艾薇·塞尔比（Evie Selby）
新闻封面故事 三分之二的人支持富人应缴纳更多税款 独家报道 作者：Will Hazell, Richard Vaughan 和 Caroline Wheeler
一项为《i报》开展的民意调查显示，三分之二的选民支持引入“财富税”。与 BMG Research 合作的研究表明，约 66% 的英国成年人支持在税制中针对高净值人群，他们支持对价值超过 1000 万英镑m，即 10. 百万英镑的资产征收财富税。仅有 10% 的人反对该计划，支持者涵盖了整个政治光谱。
首相在涉及具体税务承诺时一直试图保持含糊，但在进入 No 10 之前，当被问及该政策时，他拒绝排除引入针对富人税的可能性。在就职前接受广播员及前足球运动员加里·莱因克尔 (Gary Lineker) 采访时，安迪·伯纳姆 被直接问及对最富有阶层征税的问题。他的回答刻意不表态，告诉这位前英格兰球星：“我现在不会排除任何可能性。”他补充说，他认为“我们需要更强的公平感”，但他不想“制造新的分歧”或被视为在“妖魔化某个群体”。
上个月，莱因克尔是 120 位所谓的“爱国百万富翁”之一，他们签署了一封信，表示支持以对超过 1000 万英镑m 财富征收 2% 的税款形式缴纳更多税金。根据巴黎经济学院和伦敦国王学院的经济学家和学者的说法，此类税收每年可为财政部筹集 1000 万英镑bn，且仅影响最富有的 1,000 户家庭。
民调发现，在 2024 年投票给工党和自由民主党的人最支持引入此类税收——支持率分别为 79% 和 83%。此外，75% 的绿党选民也支持该税收。但该政策也得到了保守党和改革党选民的支持，分别有 61% 和 63% 的人表示欢迎这一措施。
另一项税务提案——将资产出售时的资本利得税 (CGT) 与所得税等额化——在支持程度上呈现出传统政治路线的分歧。将 CGT 与所得税等额化已由包括国防大臣 Wes Streeting 以及伯纳姆的副手、国务第一大臣 Louise Haigh 在内的工党高层人士提出。Streeting 在今年 5 月考虑竞选工党领导人时表示，该政策将是一种“有效的财富税”。在 Makerfield 补选期间，伯纳姆表示希望“详细”研究这一想法。
面对这一选项时，仅有 38% 的保守党选民和 47% 的改革党选民表示支持，而工党和自民党选民的支持率则分别为 63% 和 65%。总计 43% 的受访者支持这一想法，18% 的人反对。
提高资本利得税率的反对者认为，这会通过降低承担财务风险的回报，从而抑制投资、创业和业务增长。更广泛地说，财富税的批评者警告说，这可能导致富裕个人离开英国或将资产转移到海外。
近四分之三的选民 (73%) 希望看到在缴纳所得税之前的起征点提高。该门槛自 2021, 起一直冻结在 £12,570，仅有 5% 的人反对提高。财政部表示，人们目前已经可以自愿向政府捐款。
作者：Will Hazell, Richard Vaughan 和 Caroline Wheeler
尼尔·基诺克勋爵表示
（认为）在劳动所得税和财富税之间应该有“更好的平衡”——特别是敦促首相将资产出售利润的税率与所得税率统一。安迪·伯纳姆与基诺克（见插图）关系密切，后者从 1983 年起担任工党领袖超过九年，并继续向他提供建议。随着伯纳姆及其财政大臣约翰·希利目前正斟酌在 10 月 28 日的首次预算案中应做出哪些决定，基诺克表示应对资产征收更多税收。他表示：“在本世纪，资产、极高收入和奖金激增，而劳动所得在数年内处于停滞状态。”“公平需要更好的平衡，效率亦然。”基诺克表示，政府应当使资本利得税（CGT）——目前基本税率所得税纳税人为 18%，较高和附加税率纳税人为 24% ——与 20%、40% 和 45% 的所得税率持平。基诺克说：“我相信政府能够理解，这种资本利得税的公平调整将带来的额外 £12bn 税收所具有的效用和激励作用。”
福利 领取福利的家庭将获得能源支持 独家报道 By Will Hazell 白厅记者
《i报》可以透露，如果政府决定在今年冬天推出一项定向救济方案，领取经过 means-tested（资产调查）福利的家庭将收到能源账单支持。内部人士表示，由于财政部无法纯粹基于收入来定位住户，因此制定了一套仅限于福利领取者的账单支持定向系统。
今年春季，时任财政大臣雷切尔·里夫斯表示，任何旨在帮助人们应对伊朗战争对能源账单影响的行动都将针对“最需要的人”。这一决定旨在吸取 2022 年的教训，当时利兹·特拉斯为应对俄罗斯入侵乌克兰导致的能源价格下跌而引入的普惠支持方案，最终使纳税人承担了近 £40bn 的成本。
虽然官员们仍在努力建立一套根据家庭收入区分家庭的系统，但这非常复杂，且无法在今年冬天准备就绪。但财政部拥有一套系统，可以在养老金大臣托斯滕·贝尔监督下，利用就业与养老金部掌握的信息进行数据匹配，从而将支持定向至领取福利的住户。一名政府消息人士表示：“交付该项目 [定向能源账单支持计划] 的基础设施已经具备。”该系统可以识别领取如通用信用额度等经过资产调查福利的住户。
安迪·伯纳姆和财政大臣约翰·希利在进入秋季之际面临一系列选择，预算案将于 10 月 28 日公布。首先是是否干预以……
财经 基诺克敦促统一资本利得税与所得税 莱因克呼吁像他一样的百万富翁应被征收更多税 BEN WHITLEY / PA
欧洲仅有三个国家征收净财富税——挪威、西班牙和瑞士。法国和意大利则对选定资产征收财富税——分别为房地产和海外投资。
星期一 2026 年 8 月 3 日 新闻 4-33 评论 18-22 电视 26-31 生活 34-37 文化 38-41 金融 42-44 体育 47-56 这种氛围就像是一位叔叔在用玫瑰色的回忆缅怀那个“我们制造产品”的时代。安妮·麦克尔沃伊 (Anne McElvoy) 是“萨姆与安妮的政治”播客的共同主持人，并在 8 月主持 Radio 4 的“跨越红线”辩论系列节目。工党的工业怀旧情结并非未来的规划 政治 安妮·麦克尔沃伊
伯纳姆针对后斯塔默时代英国所推出的一系列方案、梦想和宏大计划，其速度令人眩晕，细节令人困惑。能量与目标让工党在疲惫的步伐中焕发了新的生机。但这位新领导人的愿景究竟面向何方：是面向一个能将他追求的更广泛的包容性和权力下放，与增长和机遇的扩大相结合的未来；还是一个沉浸在怀旧之中，推销那些将在不断变化的就业市场中碰壁并最终令人失望的解决方案的未来？
他希望彻底改革国家教育，为 14 岁起的学生恢复与当地工业挂钩的学徒制，并旨在让英国“重新工业化”，但对于这在成本方面可能带来的权衡却几乎没有概念——在国内制造产品通常比从能够大规模廉价生产的国家进口更为昂贵。其目标是让我们“像重视学位帽一样重视安全帽”。他关于人工智能影响的首次重大表态是坚持认为，AI可以“制作幻灯片”，但“不能造火车”。
如果你感觉到这像是一位严肃的叔叔在用玫瑰色的政治记忆回忆那个“我们制造产品”的时代，那么你的感觉完全正确。承诺将从钢铁生产到武器系统的所有领域“重新工业化”，强调的是将事物“带回来”，而非驱动最灵活经济体的“下一步是什么？”的本能。在 AI 即将消除数千个工作岗位并颠覆其他岗位的时刻，这是一个风险，尤其是在新政府承诺让英国摆脱停滞的一个领域中：教育。
学校计划浸满了工业怀旧色彩。它结合了左翼的一种顽固哀叹，即学术考试导向的卓越与被忽视的技术部门之间需要有“对等性”。但对等是赢来的，而非要求的；类似的追求一直困扰着历届政府，从保守党在 2017 年宣布的“T-level”提案，到基尔·斯塔默推崇的“V-levels”。现在，伯纳姆宣布将重点放在更多基于技能的教育上，并对 16 岁后的课程进行“MBacc”（曼彻斯特国际文凭）转型。
公平地说，政府可以指出技术升级取得成效的地方——例如顶尖的建筑技能学院，或梅德斯通的英维克塔语法学校（Invicta grammar school），该校在 3D 打印等技能教学方面表现卓越。但如果不对国家规模进行规划，且不对能够提供新型教育的教师进行投资，这些依然只是孤立的案例。
我们可能也会好奇，既然有一位新任 AI 部长（卡尼什卡·纳拉扬 Kanishka Narayan，见插图）参加内阁会议，为什么伯纳姆的所有视频和关于“安全帽”的措辞如此集中在建筑和传统贸易上。废除科学、技术与创新部并重新洗牌职责，使官员和顾问陷入了白厅资深人士所谓的“重新混乱”（re-disorganisation）之中。如果这种干预有其方法论，那么目前的解释并不充分。另一个障碍是，认为技术和职业教育是给“别人的孩子”上的课，这种根深蒂固的观念很难打破。如今，22% 的
……提供进一步的能源账单支持，以及支持是否应有针对性。一种方案是将针对低收入家庭的定向支持与一定程度的普惠救济相结合。一个关键的考虑因素是任何方案启动的时机，由于伊朗战争导致能源市场波动，使得规划变得困难。定向支持计划旨在作为临时措施，但政府也可以在长期基础上削减所有人的账单费用。如果伯纳姆和希莉（Healey）选择这种普惠措施，他们可以利用的主要手段是将账单中剩余的绿色税费转移到一般税收中。在四月份，里夫斯（Reeves）将 75 per cent 的“可再生能源义务”税费转移至税收，以降低 £150, 的账单费用，而政府也可以将剩余的 25 per cent 全部转移。No 10 和财政部已被联系以寻求评论。
政策 伯纳姆再次呼吁制定成文宪法 作者：Eleanor Barlow
首相表示，由于在治理国家方面采取了“不同的方式”，英国可能需要一部成文宪法。安迪·伯纳姆此前在 2024 年合著的一本书《向北：一个更平等英国的号角》（Head North: A Rallying Cry for a More Equal Britain，合著者包括利物浦城市地区市长史蒂夫·罗瑟拉姆）中就呼吁制定成文宪法。
在揭晓增加权力下放计划时，伯纳姆表示，这些提案强化了制定正式宪法的理由，因为它们将改变英国。他说：“最终，我认为这确实开始指向一种新的宪法安排，特别是史蒂夫和我所写的关于确保同等生活标准的承诺。”
“我在几周前于曼彻斯特发表的演讲中提到，每个邮政编码区都要实现良好的增长。这不仅仅是一句口号，我是认真的。我们需要建立这样一个国家，最终每个人都能过上相当的生活。这应该是我们努力的目标。”
这位前大曼彻斯特市长表示，他认为这种方法应该是成文宪法的“基石”。他补充道：“我认为，关于这个国家应该如何运行，以及在全国各地区在基本需求和连通性方面应具备的最基本标准，需要一套全新的、清晰的原则。”
“人们不得不为一些基本的需求而争论，而这些需求在国家的其他地区却能得到满足，这是错误的；宪法的缺失使处于这种境地的地区失去了权力。”
“目前显现出的趋势是，我们开始主张每个地方都将拥有成为战略管理机构的权利，每个地方都将拥有保留更多所得税和商业税的权利。”
“这确实开始将你带入一种截然不同的治国方式的领域。”
与许多国家不同，英国没有一部
单一的成文宪法。其宪法源自法规、普通法和惯例。Ofgem 的下一次价格上限决定将于本月底公布，并将设定从 10 月到年底的价格。Cornwall Insights 预测，10 月的价格上限将为每年 £1,699.59 —— 比当前水平高 2 per cent。
小船监视 昨天，安迪·伯纳姆在多佛尔的英国海岸警卫队海上救援协调中心与边境安全指挥官邓肯·卡普斯（Duncan Capps）一同查看了一架监视无人机。首相承诺在打击小船跨境问题上将保持“不懈努力”。他表示：“虽然取得了进展，但我们并未自满，这就是我来到这里的原因。”
最新数据显示，自从伯纳姆就任首相以来，已有 2,000 多人乘坐小船穿过英吉利海峡。但今年到目前为止，通过小船抵达的总人数为 14,200 人，比去年下降了 43 per cent。
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新闻 伪造的垃圾脸伯爵 一名打扮成垃圾脸伯爵（Count Binface）的男子参加了 2026 年在多塞特郡韦勒姆鲁尔沃斯城堡举行的 Camp Bestival 节的服装日。今年的主题是“在海边”：垃圾脸伯爵将参加即将举行的埃塞克斯沿海城镇克拉克顿的补选。LEON NEAL / GETTY
居民称补选是“完全浪费时间” 随着支持率下降，该党将把重点转向移民这一核心问题。 作者：Kitty Donaldson
在有关其财务状况的揭露以及他决定在克拉克顿海边选区触发补选后，奈杰尔·法拉格的民调数据大幅下降，他将试图将政治议程引导回他的安全领域——移民问题。由于缺乏与这位 Reform UK 领导人的主流竞争对手，在埃塞克斯这个选区有超过 30 名候选人参选，其中最引人注目的对手是自称“星际太空战士”的垃圾脸伯爵。
尽管一些选民宣布效忠法拉格，但其他人表示这场闹剧让他们感到厌烦，并对除了新奇候选人或鲜为人知的独立人士之外没有其他选择表示沮丧。法拉格在声称一项丑闻调查被用作针对他的政治工具后，于上个月宣布举行补选。他表示，他希望由克拉克顿的民众而非议会标准监督机构对他做出评判。这位 Reform UK 的领导人因未申报来自加密货币亿万富翁克里斯托弗·哈博恩的一笔 500 万英镑 赠款而受到议会当局的调查。如果法拉格再次当选，预计调查将恢复。法拉格表示，由于在收到这笔钱时他不是国会议员，因此没有申报义务。
曾为警方工作的克拉克顿居民、75 岁的桑德拉·哈顿（Sandra Hatton）将这次补选描述为不必要的，并称自己为“政治无家可归者”。“如果法拉格先生再次当选，他们仍然会对他就此进行调查——所以这完全是在浪费时间，”她说。“我不喜欢他的政策。我认为他一直盯着移民问题，而我认为解决移民问题的办法是雇佣更多的人来处理进入的移民，然后我们就可以决定他们是否合法。但他的政策简直糟糕透顶。”
法拉格经常谈论非正规移民“入侵”的威胁，而在周四北非西班牙飞地一个塞塔出现混乱场面后，他将于本周回到这一主题，据估计有 60,000 名移民从摩洛哥跨境进入。Reform 的内政发言人齐亚·尤苏夫（Zia Yusuf）周六访问了一个塞塔。尤苏夫声称：“我已经和其中一些人交谈过，他们明确表示打算前往英国。其中一个人甚至承认自己因谋杀被通缉。”
尽管大多数抵达者现已返回，但他们的进入引发了欧洲各首都的紧张局势，各国领导人竞相向国内观众保证他们在移民问题上采取强硬立场。Reform 提出了一项强硬的移民改革方案，包括废除无限期居留许可、禁止非英国公民入住社会住房，并将福利限制在仅限英国公民。该党提出了一项大规模遣返计划，根据该计划，任何“非法”抵达英国的人将被自动拒绝给予庇护，并可能被无限期拘留直至被遣返。
法拉格面临的麻烦是，虽然他以前可以攻击保守党的记录，但在工党政府领导下，通过海峡抵达该国的移民人数已大幅下降。今年迄今为止，共有 14,200 人通过小船抵达英国，与去年相比下降了 44%。
与去年同期相比。尽管如此，法拉格对移民问题的关注仍可能触及工党的痛处。虽然首相安迪·伯纳姆保留了沙巴娜·马哈茂德的内政大臣职位，并投票支持她在《移民与庇护法案》中的改革计划，但将定居等待时间增加一倍至 10 年的计划在她的党内并不受欢迎：近 80 名工党议员敦促重新考虑。对于在克拉克顿市中心的 79 岁约翰·胡珀来说，法拉格“代表了英国”，他将在 8 月 13 日的补选中因其移民政策而投票给法拉格。“他想消除这些船只，他想做所有符合常识的事情，”这位退休的斯坦斯特机场工作人员说道。“伯纳姆是个梦想家，因为他想要那些你负担不起的一切。我们都想要一个更好的世界，我们都希望英国的一切都非常好，但如果不花钱怎么可能实现？”胡珀并不在意法拉格要求投票——“这是他的特权”——也不担心关于改革党财务状况的指控：“500 万英镑m，对他们来说不算什么。他们总能以某种方式拿到钱，”他说道。但根据 BMG Research 代表《i报》进行的民意调查，改革党领导人的净支持率在短短一个月内下降了 10 个百分点。这些数据表明，法拉格在本周试图通过回归其基本盘最关注的移民问题来挽救这场乏味的补选活动时，面临着巨大的挑战。改革党内政发言人齐亚·尤苏夫周六访问了休达。法拉格想消除这些船只，他想做所有符合常识的事情。
规划 机场重启计划考验伯纳姆应对改革党的挑战 作者：Steve Robson 北方驻地记者
唐卡斯特谢菲尔德机场 (DSA) 的未来——该机场在所有者 Peel 房地产集团宣布其不再具备商业可行性后于 2022 年关闭——已成为首相安迪·伯纳姆应对改革党能力的早期考验。一项在公共所有权下重启机场的方案已被提出，目标是在 2028. 年春季再次恢复商业航班起飞。但支持者认为，现实是 DSA 的未来以及整个唐卡斯特的未来目前仍处于不确定状态。当《i报》上周访问时，选民们对城市的前景感到沮丧，并对生活成本、犯罪以及住房短缺表示担忧。这种悲观情绪表明，伯纳姆在为工党扭转局面方面还有很多工作要做，而对改革党的积极性似乎也有所下降。该党去年在议会中占据了多数席位，不过异常的是，该市还设有一个民选市长职位，工党资深人士罗斯·琼斯（插图）守住了这个位置，很大程度上是因为她承诺重启机场。在过去的 12 个月里，由于缺乏经验的当地议员在是否支持工党使用至少 1.6 亿英镑m 公共资金重启 DSA 的计划上摇摆不定，改革党的声誉受到了损害。
星期一 2026 年 8 月 3 日 新闻 4-33 评论 18-22 电视 26-31 生活 34-37 文化 38-41 金融 42-44 体育 47-56
在伯纳姆民调反弹后，改革党告知成员无需恐慌 面对长期领先民调地位的丧失，法拉格的政党计划采取攻势——且不会有所保留。 作者：Will Hazell
“我们更希望处于领先地位。但恐慌？不。”这是一位改革党（Reform UK）高级消息人士对“伯纳姆反弹”的回应。这次反弹导致工党在全国民调中首次在 2025 年 3 月之后超过了奈杰尔·法拉格的政党。这是改革党高层重复出现的一种说法：在首相安迪·伯纳姆的领导下，工党在民调中的提升是在预料之中的；没有必要恐慌；这种局面不会持久。
改革党的民调连胜在上一周一宣告结束，当时 More in Common 的一项调查显示工党支持率为 28%（上升 4 个百分点），而改革党为 24%（下降 2 个百分点）。在 BMG research 为《i报》专门进行的一项民调中，工党目前领先奈杰尔·法拉格的政党 5 个百分点，28% 的受访者表示将投票给工党，而 23% 的人支持改革党。
尽管改革党表面上态度轻松，但民调专家认为这可能预示着某种重大变化。More in Common 的 Louis O’Geran 表示：“我们看到了巨大的伯纳姆反弹……我们看到选票正真实地从改革党流向工党。”
“如果你观察 2024 年投票给工党的人，在 3 月时只有其中一半计划在明天的选举中投票给工党。而现在这一比例已上升至三分之二。”
改革党承认，伯纳姆构成的挑战比基尔·斯塔默爵士曾经带来的挑战更为艰巨，党内消息人士对新首相吸引选民的能力表示赞赏。一位党内高级消息人士称，伯纳姆正沉浸在“TikTok 之夏”中，并补充道：“他随和，有亲和力，穿 T 恤，拍 TikTok……他现在所做的一切都非常出色。”
与此同时，一名改革党内部人士承认，首相在就职第一周公布的“类民粹主义政策”——例如降低公交车票价和电费账单——“比斯塔默提出的方案好得多”。
改革党人士坚决主张，他们早料到工党会在民调中超越他们。一名改革党官员表示：“我们知道，只要斯塔默宣布辞职，工党在短时间内就会重新超过我们。坦白说，对英国公众而言，任何选择都会比斯塔默感觉好得多。”
然而，该党的立场是，当伯纳姆开始不得不应对国家面临的经济挑战以及议会工党内部的分歧（尤其是关于福利问题）时，伯纳姆反弹很快就会“消散”。
至于改革党需要多长时间才能再次在民调中超越工党，该官员表示：“我不认为到圣诞节时他们还会领先。”
O’Geran 认为，工党的领先优势能维持多久“很难说”，尽管他认为早期数据为伯纳姆提供了一个名为“公信力挑战”的“红色警报”。虽然首相宣布的生活成本政策得到了强力支持，但人们对其如何实现持怀疑态度。
“当我们询问人们伯纳姆是否清楚地说明了如何支付这些费用时，只有三分之一的人认为他解释清楚了。一半的人认为他并不清晰。”
“如果这次伯纳姆提升存在持久性风险，那就是它将从一个公众在原则上非常支持的受欢迎议程，转向关于如何筹资的混乱细节中。”
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尽管对工党民调飙升表现得不以为然，但不可否认的是，改革党（Reform）在过去几个月里过得很糟糕。关于奈杰尔·法拉格（Nigel Farage）财务状况的问题持续地困扰着他，同时警方也在调查与副党魁理查德·泰斯（Richard Tice）及财政部发言人罗伯特·詹里克（Robert Jenrick）相关的捐款——三人均否认有任何违规行为。与此同时，法拉格试图在克莱克顿（Clacton）触发补选的策略失策，因为所有主要政党都拒绝参与竞争。这使他陷入了一个荒诞的境地：他的主要对手竟然是噱头候选人“Binface伯爵”（Count Binface）。尽管在改革党的内部圈子中，人们极不情愿质疑法拉格的判断——即便是在私下里——但党内一些人士含蓄地承认，这场补选已经沦为一场“愚蠢季节”的闹剧，他们希望能尽快结束。至于财务问题，人们承认这损害了改革党，但党内官员声称他们的民调依然具有韧性。该资深消息人士表示：“尽管发生了这一切，所有这些事，我们的民调支持率[仅]下降了几个百分点。在 20 per cent 或更高这个数值上似乎有一种真正的粘性。”改革党的计划是转入进攻。该官员声称，为了迎接 9 月初的党代会，已经准备好了一套“庞大的”媒体公告计划。在经历了近几个月极其艰难的时期后，党内认为需要更强硬地向工党发起挑战，而詹里克指责安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）计划通过征收“死亡税”来为社会护理改革筹资，这一观点被视为一个有前景的攻击路线。该资深消息人士说，改革党之前就像一个“站在拳击场中央承受所有人打击的重量级拳击手”。他们补充道：“我们必须开始反击……我们必须挺身而出陈述我们的主张，而不是不断地进行防御。” 政治：法拉格触发补选的策略被认为适得其反 GETTY 上周工党的民调领先优势，在改革党 24 per cent 时达到 28% 内部分歧，加上奈杰尔·法拉格及其副手理查德·泰斯对该事务的介入，导致了领导层的频繁更替，以及一名内部人士所描述的“有毒”的氛围。在某一阶段，改革党的议员们威胁要完全切断资金支持，尽管官员们告诉他们，这将终结机场重新开放的任何希望，并将唐卡斯特议会（Doncaster Council）推向破产。这种不确定性让 80 名已经在从事一项 2000 万英镑 机场翻新工程的员工感到不安，他们希望机场能够重新开放。机场现场管理官员梅丽娜·科茨（Melina Coates）说：“我们一直在问自己，几年后我们是否还会处于这个岗位，还是得去找其他工作？”她接着说：“我们在办公室里显然讨论过，因为存在那种不确定性——它到底会不会开放？但我们对此充满期待，因为这里有太多的机会。一旦开放，能说我们为此做出了贡献，那将太棒了。”重启计划的项目总监克里斯蒂安·福斯特（Christian Foster）表示，他的团队不得不就机场协议的某些方面对改革党议员进行“教育”。他补充道：“你可以看到在很多改革党掌权的地方，[他们]随后才开始理解‘担任公职人员意味着什么？[你的]职责和预期是什么？’。你会发现很多地方都在与不同的机场项目搏斗，这并不罕见。”福斯特表示，在他的理解中，改革党在重启机场的问题上依然保持着 “100 per cent” 的支持。
一旦机场能够宣布与商业航空公司的协议，公众的挫败感将会冷却下来。“我认为，到那时许多紧张情绪和嘈杂之声会开始消散，因为事情变得非常真实，”他补充道。在唐卡斯特市中心经营一家名为 Bake Battle Roll 的 LGBT 友好咖啡馆的詹姆斯和蕾切尔·怀特豪斯表示，他们认为改革党（Reform）议员在地方决策方面难以产生太大影响，且人们对他们的支持可能正开始减弱。“改革党之所以占据大多数议席，是因为当时存在很多不满，”詹姆斯说。“我认为改革党已经开始有些退缩了。我觉得人们对[伯纳姆]持怀疑态度，但感兴趣。我们交谈过的许多人都在等待观察伯纳姆是否与[基尔]·斯塔默有所不同。”
新闻 外交 西班牙谴责欧盟国家对休达边境跨越事件的“自私”反应 作者：Molly Blackall，全球事务记者
上周，西班牙领土休达（Ceuta）发生致命的大规模边境跨越，相关影像资料曝光后，欧洲引发了一场外交争端。约 60,000 人从摩洛哥抵达，这是欧盟历史上最大规模的非法入境事件，其中大多数人通过游泳抵达，部分人在海上停留了数小时。西班牙官员表示，至少有 67 人在旅途中死亡。
休达位于北非顶端，是欧盟仅有的两个与非洲接壤的陆地边境之一，人口约 83,000 人。一名当地居民告诉《i报》，随着边境失守以及“可怕”的场景展开，她决定带着十几岁的女儿逃往西班牙本土。
疯传的视频显示，大量移民冲破边境并游向海滩，随后许多人（包括儿童）在街道上露宿。数十人在踩踏中丧生或淹死，据报道，移民与警察之间还发生了冲突。
但这场危机迅速从人道主义危机扩大为地缘政治危机。意大利在接收了大量从利比亚出发的小船入境后，出台了严格的移民政策，现已暂时暂停了与西班牙的欧盟申根免签协议，总理乔治亚·梅洛尼表示，此举是为了“国家安全”而采取的必要措施。
梅洛尼领导的右翼“意大利兄弟党”利用此次事件攻击国内政敌和西班牙首相佩德罗·桑切斯，并在社交媒体上发布休达街头移民的照片，配文称：“这就是意大利左翼如此青睐的桑切斯模式。”
其他几个欧洲国家支持意大利的立场。捷克总理安德烈·巴比什呼吁暂时暂停西班牙的申根成员国资格。法国国民联盟极右翼主席乔丹·巴尔德拉声称，“通过将数十万非法移民合法化，西班牙的社会主义首相已经向所有危险敞开了欧洲的大门”。
欧盟委员会主席乌尔苏拉·冯德莱恩将休达的场景描述为“不可接受”。22 个欧盟国家写信表示“严重关切”，并指责桑切斯给予 500,000 名无证移民合法身份的举措是一个“吸引因素”。
作为回应，西班牙左翼政府谴责部分欧洲国家的反应“自私、极化且非法”，并反驳了相关指控。休达并不在申根区内，因此摩洛哥移民从未能在没有边境检查的情况下进入意大利。西班牙否认移民激增与合法身份授予有关，称所有非法进入休达的人都无法从中受益，因为相关条件包括在 2026, 之前已在西班牙境内居住至少五个月，且申请期限已经截止。
桑切斯指出，近年来进入意大利和希腊的非法移民人数远高于西班牙。截至周六，西班牙当局表示他们已“扭转”了局面，几乎所有抵达休达的人员都已返回摩洛哥。
昨晚，摩洛哥将此次激增归咎于人口贩子和社交媒体的误导信息。欧盟内政部长将于明天会面，讨论边境安全问题。
（图片描述：士兵昨日护送跨越进入休达的移民前往摩洛哥边境 AP / BERNAT ARMANGUE）
移民迷思 “入侵”，民粹主义者如此呐喊 尽管如此，对于影响英国的新移民危机的担忧是毫无根据的
一名专家表示，塞乌塔（Ceuta）见证了混乱的场面。来自这个崩溃边境的病毒式传播图像被欧洲各地的民粹主义政治家定性为一次“入侵”。英国改革党（Reform UK）的成员开始宣称，抵达该北非领土的大量人数很快将继续前往英国。奈杰尔·法拉格在X上发布道：“不久后，许多人将穿越英吉利海峡非法进入英国。”苏艾拉·布雷弗曼（Suella Braverman）和罗伯特·詹里克（Robert Jenrick）也声称这些男子正前往英国。周六，改革党内政发言人齐亚·尤素福（Zia Yusuf）访问了塞乌塔，并在X上写道，他与“一些”人进行了交谈，而这些人“明确表示他们打算前往英国”。但牛津大学全球迁移交流中心的高级研究员米里亚姆·舍尔蒂（Myriam Cherti）表示，虽然留在塞乌塔并寻求前往欧洲大陆的人数尚不明确，但：“我认为对于许多到达塞乌塔的人来说，英国并非其理想目的地。大多数人是摩洛哥人。”常驻摩洛哥首都拉巴特的舍尔蒂表示，由于文化和家庭纽带，摩洛哥人最多的移民目的地西班牙迄今为止是更常见的目标。然而，塞乌塔不属于西班牙本土，移民必须跨海才能到达欧洲海岸。她的研究发现，如果摩洛哥人从西班牙继续迁移，他们更有可能选择欧洲大陆的国家。
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寻求庇护者依靠食物银行生存 作者：亚当·福雷斯特（Adam Forrest），苏格兰特派员
阿伯丁的寻求庇护者告诉《i报》，有些人为了生存不得不求助于食物银行，并且他们遭受了“令人恐惧”的虐待和恐吓，包括在街上被吐口水、窗户被扔石头击碎，以及被告知“滚蛋——回你自己的国家”。
艾哈迈德*（Ahmad）——一名来自南亚、年龄在20多岁的寻求庇护者——于2025年来到英国。他在伦敦的一家酒店里住了不到一周就被转移到了苏格兰。自去年11月以来，他一直与另外150名寻求庇护者住在阿伯丁一个“相当拥挤”的前学生公寓楼内。虽然每个人都有自己的小房间，但六个人共用一个厨房区域和浴室。这里没有电视，也没有Wi-Fi。
艾哈迈德说，每周£49的钱“很难生存”。“我只能买得起最基本的食物。我和认识的几个其他小伙伴一起做饭。我们做一种豆子炖菜。”艾哈迈德原本希望学生公寓会比酒店感觉更安全，因为酒店一直是反庇护抗议的目标。但他遇到了当地人对着他大喊“回去”。“那之后我们就一直很害怕。这太可怕了，”他说。
阿拉什*（Arash）是一名20多岁的库尔德裔伊朗寻求庇护者，于2025年9月来到英国。他表示，在阿伯丁的农民大厅（Farmers Hall）学生公寓，每个单元有七个人共用一个厨房——那里还住着另外150名寻求庇护者。阿拉什说，公寓比酒店好，因为“至少我拥有一定的自由”。他补充道：“但我不得不去食物银行领取一些东西，因为每周£49不足以支付所有开销。”阿拉什说，阿伯丁的大多数人都很“友好”，但也有一些人针对寻求庇护者进行虐待。“自从我来到农民大厅，曾有一个人向我吐口水。还有一个人说，‘我会记住你的脸’，”他说。
来自西非的穆萨*（Moussa）是一名于2024年来到英国的寻求庇护者。他说，依靠每周£49生活意味着“你只能买得起最基础的食物——甚至不足以买任何新衣服”
或者鞋子”。内政部发言人表示，虐待寻求庇护者是“完全不可接受的”。他们还表示，社区的担忧是其计划的“核心”。*姓名已作化处理 一个反移民抗议活动上个月在格拉斯哥举行 宿舍”位于学生宿舍楼外。“曾经有人向厨房窗户扔石头，”艾哈迈德补充道。从摩洛哥前往休塔的旅途中死亡的人数
星期一 2026 年 8 月 3 日 新闻 4-33 观点 18-22 电视 26-31 生活 34-37 文化 38-41 金融 42-44 体育 47-56 昨天，在希腊夏季面临日益极端的酷暑之际，消防员们正在雅典西部的波托格梅诺附近与一场山火搏斗。MICHAEL VARAKLAS / AP EUROPE 极端高温可能会终结传统假期并导致“避暑度假”趋势 由 Martha Powell 报道 法国山火烧毁的面积已超过巴黎的四倍，并迫使数千名游客逃离，这可能会终结传统的欧洲假期——英国人转而选择“避暑度假”（coolcations）。已有超过 250,000 人从受影响地区撤离，其中包括周二从波尔多西部旅游景点的 4,000 名居民和游客。法国总统埃马纽埃尔·马克龙将法国西南部波尔多周边的山火描述为自第二次世界大战以来该国最严重的火灾相关危机。皇家气象学会首席执行官 Liz Bentley 博士表示：“这些山火是一个严峻的提醒，表明法国以及西班牙、意大利和其他欧洲目的地正日益暴露在极端高温和风险之中。” “随着我们的气候继续变暖，未来几年欧洲某些地方很可能会首次经历 50°C 的高温。” InsureandGo 在 5 月进行的一项调查发现，四分之三的英国度假者认为，到 2030 年，法国、西班牙、希腊和塞浦路斯等传统目的地将因过于炎热而无法访问。伦敦大学学院灾难与健康教授 Ilan Kelman 表示：“南欧假期将不再是一个令人放松的夏季避暑之选。” 本周早些时候，波尔多吉伦特省的一位法国官员敦促游客在“局势得到控制”之前不要前往访问。伦敦大学学院地球物理学与气候风险教授 Peter Sammonds 表示：“人体在 33°C 的天气中很难应对。” “英国游客需要意识到这些风险，就像他们前往埃及或塞浦路斯等地的感觉一样。” “人们在去法国时通常不会考虑这些事情。” 根据国家统计局的数据，2024 年，法国是英国游客访问量第二多的国家，共计 9.3 million 次访问。气候科学家预测，由于预计将出现厄尔尼诺现象，今年晚些时候全球天气模式将发生变化。Bentley 表示：“厄尔尼诺会给全球气候增加额外的热量，但这并不是欧洲经历这些极端天气的主因。” “主导因素是长期的气候变化，它增加了我们在南欧看到的这些状况出现可能性及其强度。” Kelman 认为，在夏季，南欧的热点地区将变成需要撤离的区域，而非前往的目的地。Trip.com 的数据显示，夏季搜索凉爽目的地的次数增加了 237 l%。旅行社也越来越多地推销瑞士、挪威和冰岛等国家的“避暑度假”。据报道，挪威的旅游业比 2020 年之前的水平增长了 28 l%。Bentley 表示，英国度假者将需要越来越多地考虑北欧国家，或者“通过选择在一年中更早或更晚的时间旅行来改变习惯”。
房产 英国人考虑出售在欧洲的第二套房 由 Silvia Marchetti 报道 肆虐法国和西班牙一些最热门目的地的山火，正促使一些英国第二套房主因担心房产受到威胁而决定出售。Roy
来自牛津的 72 岁退休夫妇帕特里克和卡伦·史密斯表示，他们非常担心西班牙东南部安达卢西亚地区的火灾，他们在沿海省份阿尔梅里亚拥有一栋三居室别墅。他们目前正尝试出售这处房产（该房产于 2021 年以 €180,000 (£154,000) 买入），并计划转而在意大利购买住宅。近期阿尔梅里亚的火灾导致 14 人死亡，其中包括七名英国人，并烧毁了 7,000 多公顷的土地，导致 1,500 人撤离。
“我真的很担心，我现在不在别墅那里，我尝试通过在线火灾地图和房产的闭路电视摄像头来监测情况，因为我无法真正依赖邻居的提醒，”曾从事欧洲二手车进口业务的前商人帕特里克说道。“我祈祷沙漠能起到屏蔽作用，但你永远不知道，那里有些地方植被茂密，且有这么多橄榄树，”他补充道。“而且，以前从未像今年这么热过。”
法国同样遭受野火侵袭，波尔多周边西南地区有 220,000 多人被撤离。一对来自布莱顿的夫妇，Philip 和 Margaret Roberts（均 77 岁），正在出售他们位于波尔多以东 8 英里的 Tresses 村郊外的两居室农舍。“我们每年夏天在这里度过两个月，但这里不再安全了，”退休市场分析师 Roberts 说道。“留下简直是疯了。我们离野火只有几英里远，周围全是森林。你永远不知道未来会出现什么情况。”
罗伊·帕特里克因担心火灾正尝试出售他在阿尔梅里亚的住宅
希腊 两架直升机在扑救特大野火时相撞 由 Agios Konstantinos 报道
希腊消防部门表示，在希腊阿提卡地区 Psatha 附近的一次灭火行动中，两架直升机相撞，导致两人死亡。在 Forecast Weather Greece 的 Facebook 页面上发布的视频显示，两架直升机在低空汇合，随后下方直升机的主旋翼击中了上方飞机的底部，导致下方飞机起火坠毁。死者为一名丹麦飞行员和一名希腊飞行协调员。第二架直升机随后倾倒了载水量并离开了该区域。该机上的两名机组人员（一名希腊国民和一名英国国民）幸存。
希腊消防局表示：“在空中灭火行动期间，两架由消防局租赁的贝尔直升机（每架载有两名机组人员）在阿提卡 Psatha 较宽广区域内相撞……搜救行动正在进行中。”
两架直升机在协助控制一场摧毁了雅典西北部 100 多栋房屋的特大野火时相撞。另一场新爆发的火灾也迫使旅游岛凯法洛尼亚岛进行撤离。
一架飞机正在扑救上周威胁波尔多的特大野火
新闻 中东 美国在收到沙特领导人呼吁后取消对伊朗的袭击
洗涤。漂洗。重复。就在美国总统唐纳德·特朗普如此雄辩地威胁要将伊朗“彻底打趴下”几天后，他再次在最后一刻退缩了。在 28 February 战争爆发后的几周里，特朗普依然能通过其时而启动、时而停止的声明来影响市场。但关于他决定“取消攻击”并给与伊朗人更多谈判时间的的消息，可能只会引起石油贸易商们的集体摊手，更不用说让苦苦支撑的美国人能享受到任何油价下跌的红利。贸易商们早在几周前就意识到，总统的宣言并不值 Truth Social 上给予它们的版面空间。他周六晚上的帖子是该类风格的经典之作。
“美国已经准备就绪，随时准备对抗伊朗伊斯兰共和国，将以第二次世界大战以来从未见过的军事恐怖、力量和权力水平进行打击，”特朗普雷霆般地宣布。但随即又立即转向。“尽管如此，我们刚刚收到伊朗和其他中东国家的请求，要求暂缓，”他宣布道，并带有特征性的拼写错误地声称，一项协议的“范围 [sic]”现已达成一致。事实上，没有任何迹象表明突破近在咫尺，或者像总统暗示的那样协议能够“迅速”出现。
相反，沙特阿拉伯政府透露，王储穆罕默德·本·萨勒曼在周六强硬地向总统施压。据报道，在与特朗普一次异常坦率的通话中，被简称为 MBS 的王储“强调需要对话语言占据主导地位以减少升级”——这在外交辞令中意味着“我们告诉总统停止这种行为”。
“沙特阿拉伯向华盛顿传递的信息正变得日益清晰，”大西洋议会（Atlantic Council）非驻院研究员、分析师丹尼·西特里诺维奇（Danny Citrinowicz）表示。“如果美国对伊朗的能源基础设施发动大规模袭击，沙特阿拉伯和海湾国家可能会承担直接后果。”他补充道，“对于海湾领导人来说，维持地区稳定已成为比与德黑兰进行决定性对抗更高的优先级。”
MBS——这位被美国情报部门指控在 2018 年策划谋杀并肢解常驻美国的沙特记者贾迈尔·卡舒吉（Jamal Khashoggi）的领导人——现在竟然处于一个作为理性之声的非凡位置。周六，是他告诉特朗普，白宫已不再掌握赢得伊朗冲突的筹码。
伊朗人充分意识到了这些动态的变化。通过强制关闭霍尔木兹海峡，并派遣其胡塞武装代理人上周与伊拉克武装组织协调，从伊拉克领土向沙特阿拉伯发动先发制人的袭击，德黑兰政权已经展示了其韧性和决心。
上周末，乌克兰在里海目标锁定了一艘伊朗商船，基辅声称该船正向俄罗斯运送军事设备。在利雅得和其他海湾国家首都，人们正集中精力应对一场更大规模冲突的可能性。地区领导人还担心，特朗普缺乏足够的自律和耐心，无法将与伊朗的谈判推向成功的结局。
在接下来的日子里，许多事情可能再次取决于阿曼与伊朗之间关于霍尔木兹海峡未来的讨论。由于伊朗决定对经过其海域的船只征收通行费或“服务费”，阿曼方面已经提出了让两国都能从其监督中获得经济利益的建议。
海峡。伊朗仅给特朗普带来了痛苦，民调显示，仅有 28% 的公众认可总统对这场冲突的掌控。自特朗普在椭圆形办公室责骂乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基，指责其缺乏赢得国家与俄罗斯战争的能力以来，已经过去了 17 个月。本周末，沙特阿拉伯领导人向特朗普传达了关于伊朗的同样信息，且由于其属实，而更具冲击力。
作者：Aamer Madhani 美国总统唐纳德·特朗普已命令美军取消对伊朗的新一轮袭击，称中东盟友已就结束这场持续五个月战争的协议参数达成一致。特朗普在周六晚上的社交媒体帖子中写道，这项初步协议“将包括立即、全面且彻底地开放霍尔木兹海峡，并结束伊朗的核威胁”。
特朗普表示：“基于这一请求，为了世界的未来利益，以及一个成功且繁荣的伊朗的生存，我已同意取消袭击，前提是能够快速达成一项协议。”他补充说，以色列已同意与美国共同致力于尝试完成与伊朗的协议，以结束战争。
伊朗尚未对该公告做出任何立即的公开反应。在特朗普暗示美国即将恢复大规模军事打击以迫使德黑兰回到谈判桌之后的一天，他的这一宣布标志着冲突的又一次转折。
美国和以色列在 2 月 28 日袭击了伊朗，由此引发了一场战争。特朗普称，此次战争旨在摧毁德黑兰的导弹能力，防止其获得核武器，并结束其对盟友武装团体的支持。但冲突的目标和时间表多次变动，此前 6 月中旬达成的一项停战协议在几周内便瓦解。
据一名熟悉领导人讨论的人士透露，沙特王储穆罕默德·本·萨勒曼（该王国的实际领导人）周六与特朗普通电话，并对美国可能升级与伊朗的冲突表示担忧。这次通话发生在特朗普发布社交媒体公告之前。
据该知情人士称，沙特方面担心德黑兰可能会通过袭击该王国及其他海湾国家的能源基础设施来做出回应。该人士表示，王储寻求特朗普明确其正考虑采取哪些潜在的新行动来对付伊朗。一名白宫官员确认两位领导人在周末进行了交谈。
周六，德黑兰指责美国升级紧张局势，称任何与华盛顿合作的地区国家都将被“战争的火焰吞噬”。但目前其尚未对特朗普的公告做出回应。
分析：Simon Marks 区域稳定现在的优先级高于与德黑兰的对抗 沙特在告诉特朗普，他现在不掌握主动权
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因凡蒂诺讨好特朗普的诡异方式 菲利普·奥克莱尔（Philippe Auclair）写道，美国总统可能触发了这种蜕变，但他并未操纵其 DNA。
国际足联（Fifa）深陷困境的主席吉安尼·因凡蒂诺（Gianni Infantino）在试图将世界杯出售给某人的尝试中显然失败了——而此人并非他人，正是美国总统唐纳德·特朗普女婿贾里德的弟弟乔什·库什纳（Josh Kushner）。事实上，因凡蒂诺的努力最终导致了绝大多数足球界的反叛。
自从乔·拜登在 2024 年美国总统大选中失利以来，因凡蒂诺就坚定地追随 MAGA 的旗帜。截至去年 7 月，因凡蒂诺坚持认为国际足联需要将其纽约世界杯办公室设在特朗普大厦，而 2025 年结束时，他向特朗普颁发了那个怪诞的开篇“国际足联和平奖”。
在 2 月份，因凡蒂诺在美国总统和平委员会的首次会议上戴了一顶印有数字“45-47”的红色“USA”帽子，旨在指代特朗普的总统任期。他的行为变得明显更加不稳定且鲁莽——在今年夏天的世界杯及其灾难性的出售尝试中达到顶峰。也许他认为只要遵循“特朗普手册”，他就能像美国总统那样逃避所有责任。
因凡蒂诺已经失去了所有危机感，他在世界杯前的国际足联大会上获得了足够的认可，使他确信自己将在 3 月被再次选举，进入第三个也是最后一个为期四年的任期。他希望在担任国际足联前行企业（Fifa Forward Enterprise, FFE）“专员”这一年薪 3000 万英镑（£30m）的新角色中，继续担任国际足球的掌控者，该企业是他提议成立的用于管理赛事商业权利的子公司。但这一切都成了泡影。
这项现已放弃的计划让人想起去年 4 月发生的另一起因凡蒂诺与特朗普家族利益交织的事件，当时国际足联宣布一家名为 ADI Predictstreet 的公司成为其首个官方“预测市场”合作伙伴。据挪威调查网站 Josimar 报道，该平台上的所有交易都将使用由 World Liberty Financial 发行的加密货币进行。World Liberty Financial 最初由特朗普家族持有多数股权，随后将其大部分股份出售给了阿布扎比王室，而后者正是 ADI Predictstreet 的主要支持者。《华尔街日报》报道称：“当 World Liberty 出售代币时，特朗普家族[获得] 75% 的净收益。”
人们很容易将因凡蒂诺视为一个典型的附庸，他误将主子接受他的效忠视为友情的象征。卑躬屈膝伪装成忠诚。这一点确实如此。因凡蒂诺过度依赖特朗普对他公开的赞美，并为了讨好这位美国总统而让自己变得越来越古怪。
但这个因凡蒂诺一直存在。特朗普可能触发了这种蜕变，但他并未操纵其 DNA。当 2015 年“国际足联门”腐败案爆发时，因凡蒂诺是欧足联（Uefa）的总书记，也是欧足联主席米歇尔·普拉蒂尼（Michel Platini）最亲密的助手，当时所有人预计普拉蒂尼将接替塞普·布拉特（Sepp Blatter）成为国际足联负责人。因凡蒂诺与两名被美国起诉并随后判定犯有电汇欺诈和敲诈罪的人有联系，即阿根廷父子营销代理人雨果·金基斯（Hugo Jinkis）和马里亚诺·金基斯（Mariano Jinkis）。因凡蒂诺极力否认所有违规行为，但他签署了那份合同，欧足联以此价格出售其赛事的电视版权，而金基斯父子在之后将其价格翻了三倍。
他们三个月后将这些转卖给了一家巴西公司。2015年10月6日，《南德意志报》的一项调查揭露，因凡蒂诺从日内瓦飞往纽约，于8日返回。根据欧足联的文件，因凡蒂诺此次行程的原因是参加欧足联合作伙伴CAA的董事会会议。但那次会议是在10月5日举行的，且因凡蒂诺是通过视频会议从欧足联总部所在的瑞士尼永参加的。因凡蒂诺在纽约做了什么，只有他本人以及他会见的人才知道。已知的是，作为欧足联支持的国际足联主席选举候选人（该选举是在布拉特辞职后召集的），因凡蒂诺在投票前又两次访问了美国，而且他的成功在很大程度上归功于美国人的积极支持。当时特朗普仍处于共和党初选竞选期间。特朗普习惯于烧毁那些
试图在他在其不可预测的火焰附近飞舞的人。因凡蒂诺不是第一个，也不会是最后一个为此付出代价的人。体育 虽然詹尼·因凡蒂诺有可能为了避免在面对压倒性反对时遭受公开失败的羞辱而辞职，但菲利普·奥克莱尔写道，我们距离那一点还很远。尝试通过奋斗走出这次危机，可能更符合这位国际足联主席的性格。反对因凡蒂诺的反叛者可以寻求43个成员协会的支持，以强制国际足联召开一次临时大会，并在会上就将其罢免进行投票。如果因凡蒂诺失败，他将被任职时间最长的国际足联副主席、亚足联主席谢赫·萨尔曼·本·易卜拉欣·阿尔-哈利法临时接替。但为了在原定于2027年3月18日的国际足联主席选举之前完成此事，必须迅速启动相关程序，因为国际足联在收到要求后最多有三个月的时间来召开此类大会，且日期和地点必须至少提前两个月通知成员协会。目前，因凡蒂诺仍是该选举中唯一宣布参选的候选人。虽然他可能在非洲和南美洲仍拥有强大的支持阵地，但如果欧足联、中北美及加勒比海足联（Concacaf）和亚足联支持另一位候选人，这些支持将不足以确保胜利。中北美及加勒比海足联主席、加拿大体育管理人员维克多·蒙塔利亚尼是一个潜在的候选人。国际足联 临时大会如何能罢免因凡蒂诺 因凡蒂诺过分看重特朗普对他表达的好感 因凡蒂诺在他提议的负责管理赛事商业权的子公司中将赚取多少资金 3000 万英镑m 菲利普·奥克莱尔是一位常驻伦敦的法国足球作家和广播员。
加沙 以色列“对哈马斯缴械表示担忧” 作者：萨姆·梅德尼克 一名以色列官员昨日透露，以色列已向白宫分享了关于拟议的哈马斯缴械协议的“严重安全担忧”。以色列总理办公室发言人多龙·斯皮尔曼表示，以色列的评估认为，哈马斯仍致力于重建其军事力量，而非真正地去军事化。美国总统唐纳德·特朗普本周早些时候披露了该协议。斯皮尔曼（插图）表示，在哈马斯缴械之前，以色列军队不会从加沙撤出。他说：“我们的评估是，如果在哈马斯真正缴械之前我们就重新部署，它将迅速扩大在整个加沙的存在，重建其恐怖主义基础设施，再次威胁以色列社区，并试图发起另一次类似10月7日的袭击。”哈马斯表示，它将开始缴械，随着
这是九个月前由美国调解签署的旨在结束冲突的停火协议的一部分。它标志着结束冲突的一个潜在突破，但仍有许多障碍、条件和漫长的时间表。哈马斯表示已同意解除武装，但这一过程充满了障碍。特朗普的 20 点停火计划要求该武装组织上缴武器并摧毁其隧道网络。该计划还设想以色列军队撤出加沙、一个由技术官僚组成的新巴勒斯坦政府入驻、部署国际安全部队以及重建该飞地。哈马斯解除武装一直是一个症结，导致谈判陷入数月的僵局。特朗普表示，该协议将分“精心规划的阶段”执行。协议规定，由哈马斯运行的警察部队所持有的所有武器将在美国支持的巴勒斯坦技术官僚委员会进入该飞地后移交给该委员会。
新闻 By Caroline Wheeler 政治编辑 汉普郡警方正在审查与某学校可能存在的历史刑事犯罪相关的信息。在该校，80 多名儿童在被蓄意用于医学研究并使用受污染的血液制品治疗后死亡。警方在与包括 Gary Webster、Steve Nicholls、Adrian Goodyear 和 Richard Warwick（统称为“特雷洛尔男孩”）在内的前学生于本周会面后，确认已记录来自奥尔顿特雷洛尔学校 (Treloars School) 幸存者的犯罪报告。这些患有血友病的男子在 70 和 80 年代在市长特雷洛尔学院 (Lord Mayor Treloar College) 接受治疗，并通过受污染的血液制品感染了 HIV 或丙型肝炎。受污染血液调查小组发现，部分学生在未经父母知情同意的情况下也被 subjected to 医学研究。
然而，警方谨慎地强调，目前尚未启动正式的刑事调查。一名汉普郡警方发言人表示：“我们正在评估提供给我们的信息；目前没有正在进行的刑事调查。我们将对提供给汉普郡及怀特岛警局的所有信息进行彻底审查，以决定我们的下一步行动。”
警方表示，他们将继续与开展另一项基于受污染血液调查结果审查的国家警务合作伙伴保持联系。该审查由国家警察 chief 委员会 (NPCC) 领导，在对公共调查的证据进行了两年的审查后，其范围有所扩大，这使得关于是否应启动全国性刑事调查的决定——潜在地——被推迟了数年。
在代行副警察局长 Robert Griffin 上周致受害者的信中，他表示调查人员最初希望，仅关注与特雷洛尔相关的证据就足以确定刑事起诉是否可行。然而，他承认“遗憾的是，事实并非如此”。该审查现在将检查受污染血液调查最终报告的所有章节。下一次更新预计在 10 月 26 日开始的那一周内。
首相安迪·伯纳姆此前将受污染血液丑闻描述为“工业规模的刑事掩盖”。
By Neil Pooran 希腊警方表示，一名男子已承认将一名苏格兰女性的尸体装在手提箱中运至一座废弃建筑内。这名 26 岁的男子被认为来自阿富汗，他在爱丁堡的 Elizabeth-Jane Ross 死亡后被逮捕。这名 38 岁女性的尸体于 7 月 18 日由一名无家可归者在雅典的 Kypseli 的一个手提箱中发现。据信，她在被发现前 5 到 7 天的某个时间点死亡。在嫌疑人家中发现了一把仿制手枪和一把刀，警方已对他提起过失杀人、抢劫和违反武器法的诉讼，但具体指控尚未最终确定。
男子承认将尸体装在箱中搬运 犯罪 By Storm Newton 研究发现，英国近 10 分之 9 的成年人认为健康误导信息正危及生命——尽管这种担忧与人们对自己脆弱程度的认知之间存在“脱节”。错误且误导性的信息还可能扩大健康不平等，来自贫困地区和少数民族背景的人更容易受到影响。由 Ipsos 为医学科学院开展的一项针对 2,401 人的民意调查发现，超过三分之二 (69%) 的人发现很难识别误导性的健康信息
信息。然而，仅有 28% 的人表示他们觉得这很困难。年轻人则更倾向于认为这很容易。英格兰健康与社会护理慈善机构联盟 National Voices 的首席执行官雅各布·兰特（Jacob Lant）表示，这项调查凸显了“一种重要的脱节”。兰特说：“虽然大多数人意识到健康误导信息是一个严重的问题，但许多人并不认为自己处于风险之中。但研究表明，最容易受到影响的人通常是那些已经面临健康不平等的人。”
误导信息使弱势群体面临最高风险 健康调查 警方调查血液丑闻学校的相关案件 （左起）：史蒂夫·尼科尔斯（Steve Nicholls）、亚德里安·古德亚尔（Adrian Goodyear）、加里·韦伯斯特（Gary Webster）和理查德·沃里克（Richard Warwick）曾就读于 Treloars，当时该校是一所针对血友病患者的学校 PA 通讯社 在 Treloar’s 接受污染血液后死亡的儿童人数
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横向 再次在经济上惩罚以寻求改善 (6) 在 Caerphilly 奶酪中发现的水果 (7) 那个女人回到了家，带着一个与男性相关的医学问题 (6)
纵向 不工作，在没有准备或警告的情况下收到卡片 (7) 2 / 3 安娜为住房秘书冲泡的格雷伯爵茶 (6,6)
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娱乐 Grande 因面临审查退出西区演出 作者：Laura Harding
在伦敦巡演结束之后，亚莉安娜·格兰德 (Ariana Grande) 将“退回幕后，减少公开露面”。这位 33 岁的《Thank U》歌手在面临持续的公众审查后做出了这一决定，并退出了即将到来的伦敦复排剧目《乔治与公园里的星期日》(Sunday in the Park with George)。
这位流行歌手原计划在 2027 年于巴比肯中心 (Barbican) 出演史蒂芬·桑德海姆 (Stephen Sondheim) 这部备受赞誉的音乐剧，并与她《魔法坏女巫》(Wicked) 的合作演员乔纳森·贝利 (Jonathan Bailey) 相对戏。制作公司 Empire Street Productions 表示，演出仍将按计划进行，格兰德的角色将重新选角。
一名代表表示：“亚莉安娜在完成《永恒阳光》(Eternal Sunshine) 巡演后，将退回幕后，减少公开露面。”
“她期待完成巡演，并在身心健康、愉快的情况下为巡演画上圆满句号，然后从面向公众的工作和亮相中获得一个应得的休息，因为这些工作导致了没完没了的持续公众审查。”
Empire Street Productions 表示：“我们祝愿她一切顺利。”
亚莉安娜·格兰德正在“退回幕后”
环境 奶酪废料将转化为生物燃料
苏格兰的研究人员与一家农业公司合作，探索将奶酪副产品转化为燃料的新方法。
赫瑞-瓦特大学 (Heriot-Watt University) 的研究人员与 Take Root Bio 合作，将咸乳清（奶酪生产过程中产生的大量副产品）转化为一种广泛使用的燃料——生物乙醇。
一家乳制品生产商每周会产生数万升乳清，这给环境和经济都带来了压力。
Take Root Bio 的 Kirk Siderman-Wolter 表示：“我们感兴趣的是，当你不再将某样东西视为废物，而开始询问它还能变成什么时会发生什么。”
“如果我们能帮助将一样需要花钱处理的东西变成具有真实价值的东西，那么对乳制品生产商和环境来说都是一个积极的结果。”
遗产 旧酒吧招牌在 25 年后重返故里
一面曾悬挂在谢菲尔德一家酒吧外的招牌在消失 25 年后回到了它 rightful 的家。
据信，这家名为 The Hallamshire House 的 Ward's 酿酒厂旧招牌在 1990 年代失踪，但随后在大西洋的另一端被发现。
两名曾在该酒吧消费的顾客在居住于纽约布鲁克林时，发现该招牌挂在邻居公寓的墙上，随后将其归还。
彼得·查姆利 (Peter Chamley) 和他的妻子表示，发现该招牌让他们感到“惊讶”，在他们返回英国后，招牌被交给了这对夫妇。
酒吧总经理道格·辛普森 (Doug Simpson) 收到一封询问是否想要回招牌的电子邮件，他表示能将招牌放在后休息室墙上的显眼位置“真的很特别”。
“这将是一场灾难”：小众电视电影频道担心 Freeview（英国免费数字电视平台）的终结 家庭经营的 Talking Pictures 成了流媒体的解药，作者：Adam Sherwin
一家通过在花园棚屋中播放经典电影和小众节目的家庭经营电视站警告称，如果政府关闭 Freeview（英国免费数字电视平台），它将面临被砍掉的危机。
Talking Pictures TV 是英国最大的独立频道，致力于让英国电影和电视的黄金时代保持活力。
该频道已建立了600万的观众群，其存档内容涵盖了从戴安娜·多尔斯（Diana Dors）的B级片到《Z-Cars》等节目。Talking Pictures TV由电影爱好者诺埃尔·克罗宁（Noel Cronin，79岁）与女儿莎拉·克罗宁-斯坦利（Sarah Cronin-Stanley）于2015年共同创立，并在他们位于赫特福德郡家中的小棚屋里由志愿者共同运营。其创始人担心，如果强制年长观众从免费的数字地面电视观看转向仅限流媒体的电视，对于他们的频道来说将是致命的。部长们正在就两种方案进行咨询——在2034年底关闭数字地面电视信号（即Freeview（英国免费数字电视平台）），或者在2044年采取一个更缓慢、受控的向仅限互联网电视的过渡方案。但Freeview在其约80个地面频道菜单中包含了Talking Pictures TV，且仍是英国超过10 million个家庭的主要电视平台。“关闭传统的电视天线将是一场灾难，”克罗宁-斯坦利告诉《i报》。“我们的观众很大一部分年龄在65岁以上，并且通过Freeview观看。他们不想为了看电视而支付订阅费。Disney + 没有任何我们观众想看的内容。如果Freeview在一夜之间被关闭，我们将不复存在。”克罗宁-斯坦利补充道：“如果传统电视消亡，那将是一个可怕的遗憾。约翰·洛基·贝尔德（John Logie Baird [1926年演示首个电视系统的苏格兰发明家]）会在坟墓里打滚的。”“数字化关闭是在强迫人们转向流媒体。但我们的信箱里装满了数百人的感谢信，感谢我们创建了一个改变他们生活的免费频道。这就是传统电视对人们的意义。”“我的观众想要观看这些内容。我们最终可能会向最后4个观看线性、免费地面电视的人广播。”该家族在发现市场对黑白电影存在缺口后推出了Talking Pictures TV，这类电影曾填充Channel 4和BBC Two的下午节目表。曾担任电影剪辑师的克罗宁开始收购那些分销商认为没什么价值的老电影目录。他们在Pinewood和Shepperton工作室的仓库中搜寻怀旧瑰宝，事实证明他们的直觉是正确的——“我们的观众想看30年代到80年代拥有大牌明星和精彩故事的电影，尤其是犯罪剧”——并在新冠疫情期间，Talking Pictures TV的观众人数达到了600万的顶峰。“这对我们来说太棒了，因为每个人都在家里看电视。人们打电话告诉我们，这对养老金领取者来说是一根生命线。我们创建了一个观众社区。这些人负担不起，也不想要订阅制的流媒体电视，”克罗宁-斯坦利说。已故的伊丽莎白二世女王曾透露，她在生病时会观看该频道重播的劳雷尔与哈代（Laurel and Hardy）喜剧。最新的Barb评级数据显示，Talking Pictures TV仍能触达5.5 million观众。随着关闭日期的临近，Freeview观众可能会发现其频道菜单在缩减。“提前关闭的前景将意味着，一些频道在合同到期续约时，会决定不再费心延长在Freeview上的传输，”一名广播业内人士表示。“到2034年，Freeview的观众可能仍有500万，因此频道保留在平台上的价值依然存在。”文化、媒体和体育部表示，将确保在“服务迁移至线上时，没有人被遗忘”。
广播：诺埃尔·克罗宁（Noel Cronin，79岁）及其女儿莎拉在他们位于赫特福德郡家中的棚屋里运营Talking Pictures TV。
克罗宁家族：Disney+没有我们观众想看的内容。如果Freeview被关闭，我们将不复存在。 V1
今日名言 “好吧，我曾是学生会主席。我无法改变我的天性。” —— 克莱尔·鲍丁 (Clare Balding)，这位主持人被问及她的“学生会主席”气质时如是说。
观点矩阵 国内外评论 生活简讯
凯莉·霍特尔 (KAYLEE HOTTLE) 演员 凯莉·霍特尔是一位年轻的聋哑女演员，因主演好莱坞近期两部《金刚》大片而闻名。霍特尔于 2021 年 13 岁时在《哥斯拉大战金刚》中完成了银幕首秀，饰演佳 (Jia)，一个通过美国手语 (ASL) 与巨猿金刚交流并与之建立纽带的聋哑孤女。霍特尔在 2024 年的续集《哥斯拉 x 金刚：新帝国》中再次饰演该角色。这次表演为她赢得了土星奖最佳青少年演员提名。
在宣传这些热门科幻电影期间，这位女演员经常谈到聋哑人在娱乐业中的包容性。“我作为一个聋哑人在怪兽电影中演戏，”她说，“我想让聋哑人们知道，他们也可以像我一样做到这一点。没有什么限制。”
霍特尔于 2008 年出生在乔治亚州亚特兰大。她的父母约书亚和凯特西·霍特尔均是聋哑人。她的父亲家族有四代聋哑亲属，这使得聋哑文化和美国手语从出生起就成为她生活的重要组成部分。她精通美国手语，并将其应用于日常生活和演艺事业中。
霍特尔就读于德克萨斯州奥斯汀的德克萨斯聋哑学校，在那里她对参加田径比赛充满热情。在成为电影演员之前，她曾出演宣传聋哑人意识和平等机会的广告。她的首次荧幕亮相是在 2017 年 9 岁时，出演了美国视频中继服务 Convo 的广告。这一表现被早前怪兽电影《金刚：骷髅岛》的助理导演注意到，后者随后将其推荐给《哥斯拉大战金刚》的选角代理人。
合作演员亚历山大·斯卡斯加德为了与霍特尔沟通而学习了美国手语，他在 2021 年告诉流行文化网站 Junkee，他和其他人都对这位新人的专业精神以及她能迅速将导演的指导转化为表演的能力印象深刻。
在 2024 年接受美联社采访时，霍特尔表示在被选为《哥斯拉》演员之前她没看过怪兽电影，因此她的父亲帮她了解这一类型。“我仰慕很多人，但我最仰慕的少数几个人是我的父母和姐妹们，”霍特尔说。她说在拍摄第一部电影时，她有点担心之后是否能够回归“正常生活”。“人们在学校确实认出我了，但并没有我想象中那么糟糕，”她说。
在导致她 18 岁去世的车祸后，她的父亲联系了司机。他告诉对方：“我已经原谅你了。不要让这件事毁掉你余下的生活。”
“我仍然感觉到凯莉在陪伴我们，”她的母亲随后在一段手语帖子中说道。
出生：2008 年 3 月 17 日 逝世：2026 年 7 月 21 日
亚历克斯·莱斯 (Alex Leys)
伯纳姆效应 两周回顾首相的政策
《星期日人民报》 安迪·伯纳姆的抱负是给一个心灰意冷的国家带来新希望。这将为他提供必要的政治资本，以推动社会护理和社会住房的长期改革。如果他能成功，那么下一届选举他基本就稳操胜券了。（社论）
《星期日太阳报》 伯纳姆似乎认为工人阶级对生活的期望不过是认清自己的地位。他大错特错。撒切尔和布莱尔对工人阶级那昂扬的志向的理解，将远胜于他。（托尼·帕森斯）
格拉斯哥运动会 规模缩减后的赛事取得了成功 《星期日邮报》一场气势磅礴的英联邦运动会在格拉斯哥闭幕。与 2014 年该市上次举办此次赛事相比，这次体育盛会的日程和预算都有所精简。但格拉斯哥的人民成就了这座城市，他们确保了这场比赛比以往任何时候都更具活力与灵魂。（社论） 《星期日邮报》如果英联邦运动会不存在，会有人想把它发明出来吗？在格拉斯哥评估这项赛事时提出了这个问题，因为在城市将这个病重的“病人”救活之前，它几乎已经走到了崩溃的边缘。（Mark Woods）
国际足联的领导层 此时是否已是因凡蒂诺的末路？ 《星期日明星报》新的国际足联主席需要迅速建立信任，以证明他们是治理这项美丽运动的正确组织。否则，就需要进行剧烈的变革。（社论） 《独立报》詹尼·因凡蒂诺的大部分权力基础肯定已经瓦解，甚至可能波及到了唐纳德·特朗普的庇护。就这样，一切都结束了。现在可能就是这一刻。这是典型的政治崩盘之周，足球界人士将其比作玛格丽特·撒切尔的陨落。坠落可能需要一段时间，但一旦开始，速度会非常快。（Miguel Delaney）
法拉格的未来 英国改革党领导者已失去锋芒 《星期日邮报》奈杰尔·法拉格似乎在为自己塑造一种“受害者”的新形象。看着真是令人心酸。想象一下，曾经的奈杰尔竟然要求警方逮捕一个发布 T 恤照片的人。（Peter Hitchens） 《星期日泰晤士报》长期以来，奈杰尔·法拉格通过将自己塑造为局外人、被遗忘者的捍卫者以及建制派的克星而获益。但近期对其资金来源的调查，包括《星期日泰晤士报》和《卫报》关于未申报礼品的报道，在一定程度上削弱了他的光环。（Josh Glancy）
移民危机 伯纳姆不应忽视这一点 《星期日快报》令人好奇的是，在过去几周的大量政策宣布中——内容涵盖从结束露宿街头、降低能源账单，到帮助酒吧业和建立社会护理系统——竟然没有提到一个关于此事的字。（Nick Ferrari） 《星期日电讯报》移民问题导致了本世纪几乎每一任工党领导人的垮台。如果安迪·伯纳姆想要避免类似的命运，他必须停止回避该问题并正面应对。他无法永远躲避。（社论）
欧洲的伊斯兰主义 挑战极端主义依然至关重要 《观察家报》在认定柏林骄傲节袭击者为伊斯兰主义者时表现出的迟疑，反映了左翼更广泛的担忧：即如何在反对反穆斯林偏见的同时，挑战穆斯林可能持有的偏见观点。（Kenan Malik） 《旁观者》随着法国进入总统选举竞选活动，极端清真寺的问题不会消失。玛丽娜·勒庞承诺关闭所有极端清真寺。毫无疑问，这是她在投票前 10 个月在民调中大幅领先的原因之一。（Matthew Fraser）
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星期一 2026 年 8 月 3 日 我们不能忽视来自北京的威胁 当前正在进行的战争正在塑造未来的新世界秩序 十年前，白俄罗斯发射了其唯一的一颗通信卫星。这颗卫星由中国制造，从四川省的一个航天发射场送入太空，现在它向明斯克的控制中心发送数据流。乌克兰情报部门认为，该系统接入了北京快速扩张的卫星网络，在帮助俄罗斯对导弹袭击进行定时、定标和评估方面发挥了关键作用。在白宫削减防空供应之后，这些弹雨给他们的城市带来了日益增加的血腥杀戮。周五晚上，另有 35 枚导弹和 185 架无人机袭击了基辅，这是 48 小时内第二次发生此类袭击。这导致又有 9 名平民死亡。当天早些时候，基辅一家由美国公司拥有的无人机工厂被摧毁，这是已知俄罗斯首次袭击美国国防公司。前一天，一枚巡航导弹在北约成员国波兰坠毁，凸显了这场战争潜在的爆炸性危险。与此同时，总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基声称，朝鲜正准备向横跨其国家的前线派遣另外 30,000 名士兵，以及更多的导弹发射器。“这不仅是对乌克兰的威胁。俄罗斯正在帮助朝鲜学习如何发动战争，改进其武器，并在使用这些武器方面获得实战经验，”他警告道。这些事件表明，这场给欧洲留下伤痕的冲突是一场独裁与民主之间的全球斗争——以及中国在反抗自由的斗争中扮演的积极角色。朝鲜是一个傀儡国家，如果没有中国的同意，两年前绝不会开始派遣军队。莫斯科已经依赖北京供应机床、微电子和武器组件来维持弗拉基米尔·普京那场愚蠢的战争，并声称这些物资用于民用或通过第三方国家采购。中国还为克里姆林宫提供金融基础设施以应对制裁，同时其公司将受制裁的西方商品转运至俄罗斯。欧盟制裁执行特别代表指称，中国供应了俄罗斯武器中 80% 的零部件，据报道 90% 的受制裁技术进口通过该国进行。然而，当西方公开向乌克兰提供武器、资金和情报时，北京却伪装成一个中立国家。请记住，志在成为全球主导超级大国的中国，不仅在秘密协助普京的战争罪行。它在准备夺取台湾并迅速扩充武装力量的同时，还在获取关于战争性质快速演变的战场洞察。据《经济学人》报道，中国军队在俄罗斯接受无人机和城市战争训练。两家欧洲报纸的泄露文件称，中国和俄罗斯甚至讨论了禁用埃隆·马斯克的 Starlink 卫星网络的计划，并以人工智能交换战场数据。现在看看中东的情况，那是这场全球较量中的另一个军事前线。战场是伊朗，它是那个丑陋的独裁者联盟中的关键成员，该联盟帮助俄罗斯制造了许多袭击乌克兰的无人机。再一次，中国潜伏在后台，提供卫星成像、情报和火箭推进剂等军民两用物质，以帮助运行这个可憎的伊斯兰神权政体的暴徒抵御唐纳德·特朗普与以色列共同发起的愚蠢袭击。沙特阿拉伯上周加入美国，对伊拉克的“伊朗支持的恐怖分子”发动打击，在……之后
德黑兰袭击了美国基地。现在有报告表明，北京对伊朗的支持正变得更加露骨，在白宫试图寻找走出其自陷泥潭之策的同时，北京正发送一批移动防空导弹发射器以帮助该政权。你可以看到这场民主与独裁之间冲突在全球范围内引发的许多涟漪。例如，俄罗斯正利用从马里到马达加斯加的非洲不稳定局势，派遣其雇佣兵并散布虚假信息。与此同时，世界上最强大的国家正由一个在国内攻击民主、在国外讨好独裁者的人领导。在被问及俄罗斯向伊朗提供情报以袭击美国基地时，特朗普回答道：“我会问问普京。”在被问及中国发送导弹时，他说习主席“非常强有力地告诉我他不会参与，而且他知道我会相当失望”。他面对这些独裁者协助杀死其国家军队时所采取的可怜立场，是对他自身国家和民主的双重背叛。“我想我信任他们，”他若无其事地说道。
英国和大部分欧洲国家仍然支持乌克兰对自由的英勇捍卫，但对领导这个独裁者联盟的政权表现出了类似的天真。因此，尽管面临间谍活动和情报威胁，我们的政府依然向北京卑躬屈膝，允许其在伦敦建设一座巨型大使馆，且该使馆就位于我们金融和互联网网络的关键电缆之上。即便上周装有中国零部件的导弹被发射到基辅，一项试图阻止这一疯狂想法的尝试仍被高等法院驳回。反对者包括香港民主活动人士张晓露（Chloe Cheung），北京已对她悬赏。她说：“作为一名被中国共产党针对的人，我知道为什么英国保护自己免受外国恐吓至关重要。”
一些居住在这里的同行活动人士已被报复威胁而噤声。大多数西方人花太长时间才意识到俄罗斯带来的威胁规模，当时普京正试图挽救苏联的霸权，尽管格鲁吉亚和乌克兰等试图摆脱帝国主义枷锁的地方已遭到攻击。现在，西方应当在面对试图利用美国弱点的北京时摘掉眼罩。一名在基辅的情报人士表示：“那是威权世界的军械库。”也许我们应该更多地反思历史学家理查德·欧弗里（Richard Overy）的研究，他认为第二次世界大战实际上可以追溯到 1931 年日本进攻中国，而非德国 1939 年入侵波兰。他指出，全球动态的转变引发了长达 15 年的冲突，这是一场涵盖了亚洲、非洲和欧洲冲突的地缘政治危机，这些冲突看似独立，实则是世界秩序的重塑。
那么，未来的历史学家是否有一天会回顾这段时期，并看到一条从北京到华盛顿，经过明斯克、基辅和德黑兰等不同地方的相似线索？
对这些独裁者的可怜立场是对美国和民主的背叛 伊恩·比雷尔 (Ian Birrell) i@theipaper.com
比雷尔表示，在习近平继续支持弗拉基米尔·普京之际，西方应对中国摘掉眼罩。 法新社（AFP）新闻 4-33 观点 18-22 电视 26-31 生活 34-37 文化 38-41 金融 42-44 体育 47-56 我的观点
i@theipaper.com 请在所有信函中附上联系地址 @theipaper facebook.com / theipaper 您的观点 应对残障问题 乔治·韦伯斯特的文章（“在正确支持下，进入电视圈证明了可能性”，8月1-2日）应当成为应对残障问题的核心。除了对就业等方面的支持外，我们应该接受残障是正常的，而不是一个问题。这样它才能成为主流。迈克尔·哈利，爱丁堡 这篇文章引起了我的极大共鸣。很多很多年以来，我一直担任“残疾人骑行”项目的志愿者，该项目的格言是：“重要的是你能做什么”。最近，我成为了一家当地剧团的助手，观察成员们的技能和创造力，既令人鼓舞又令人心生敬意。所有人都为我们的演出带来了巨大的热情、想象力和能力，从而确保了成功，并能以此为基础迎接下一部剧的挑战。波琳·霍尔，约克郡 盛况是对我们捍卫者的自豪 我必须回应尼克·亨特的来信（“盛况与荒诞”，您的观点，7月31日）。一个国家的军队与对和平的渴望肯定不是完全对立的。在追求和平的同时，我们不应否认国防的必要性。一支高效的军队可以震慑侵略、保护国民、支持盟友、应对自然灾害，并帮助维护这个不确定世界中的稳定。有一种观点认为，我们在民主社会中享有的自由最终取决于捍卫这些自由的能力。英国军队在国内外的人道主义工作中享有很高声誉。还有哪个组织能妥善管理这些工作？那些盛况与仪式绝不仅仅是为了作秀。它增强了武装部队内部的遗产感和认同感。诸如纪念服务和公众活动等事件，有助于认可那些为提供我们如今享有的和平而服役和牺牲的人。这些活动也是为了让军队留在公众意识中，并加强军队与其服务的社会之间的关系。与整体国防预算相比，这些仪式的成本非常小，且通常由经过训练的战斗士兵执行。那些挺身而出捍卫我们国家的人应该被推崇并予以荣誉。这是我们能为他们做的最起码的事情。斯蒂芬·布朗，坎布里亚 这里冻死人了！我能否请求《i报》花一小段篇幅写写我们这些在英国却今年没有经历过热浪、水短缺，事实上完全没有感受到夏季的人们？在阿盖尔北部的这里，我们几乎没见过太阳，日复一日地面对阴冷、潮湿、多云的天气，导致我们几乎得一直开着中央暖气！吉尔·威尔逊，高地斯特龙蒂安 NHS牙科需要关注 安迪·伯纳姆说生活成本是他的首要任务。这是一个合理的观点，也是一个积极的开始。但我建议他停止在边缘地带小打小闹——这在财务上相当于到处发几颗糖果——而应解决真正的问题。我很惊讶竟然没有政治家提到所谓的“NHS”牙科服务。牙医不得不转嫁给患者的荒唐费用（这并非牙医的错），对于相当多的人来说一定是天文数字。降低检查和补牙的费用将是一个很好的切入点。盖伊·莫布雷，德比郡切斯特菲尔德 季节性问候 令我们难以置信且沮丧的是，昨天我和妻子走进当地的园艺中心，结果发现有一个区域正在为圣诞商品做准备。当我们向收银员女孩评论时，她
（……）声称老板希望它在8月前准备好！这不仅没有必要，而且不恰当且令人反感。世界在燃烧，地震在破坏——而贪婪在盛行。不过，我想祝你们所有的读者圣诞快乐！ 彼得·里切斯，剑桥郡，哈登汉姆
乔德雷尔绝不能关闭 历史悠久的乔德雷尔班克天文台（Jodrell Bank Observatory）可能关闭，这将威胁到英国的科学遗产，使标志性的洛弗尔望远镜（Lovell Telescope）和e-Merlin网络面临关停风险。由于目光短浅的资金削减，这座标志性的射电望远镜面临沉寂，这无疑是一个深刻的悲剧。近 70 年来，这座宏伟的建筑一直窥探着深邃的宇宙，绘制着不可见宇宙的图谱，并激励了一代又一代好奇的头脑。任由其陷入寂静的废弃是对我们科学遗产的抛弃。我们必须问：拯救这座探索之光，难道真的超出了我们的集体智慧吗？这颗璀璨的科学明珠值得获得一线生机。我们必须利用私营企业和学术决心，让天线继续转动，让数据继续流动，确保人类倾听星空的耳朵永远不会被关闭。 道格·克拉克，爱丁堡
赞扬气候抗议 或许现在是时候向那些在过去几年中因为勇敢的行动而被监禁、罚款并被定为罪犯的年轻人（以及部分老年人）道歉了。他们的目的正是为了警示我们英国人，让他们意识到我们现在所惊恐的那些灾难性气候后果。我想到了“绝缘英国”（Insulate Britain）、“灭绝反叛”（Extinction Rebellion）、“就此停止石油”（Just Stop Oil）和“基督教气候行动”（Christian Climate Action）。我们知道需要做什么：减少碳排放。 安吉拉·霍兰德，布里斯托
建立水网如何？ 除了对重新国有化水务公司日益增长的支持外，如果建议迫切需要建立一个国家水资源收集和分配网络，且其运作方式与我们的电网类似（并非双关语），这是否过于简单化了？ 布莱恩·赫德利，诺森伯兰郡，庞特兰
你刚才怎么说的？ 我对 iweekend（8月 1-2 日）的 Zygolex 谜题持有异议。“Fez”与“Says”并不押韵。你还不如做一个乔迪（Geordie）方言版本，然后声称“Fierce”与“Face”押韵。 戴夫·哈里斯，柴郡，沃灵顿
一位读者表示，乔德雷尔班克可能关闭将危及英国的科学遗产。 GETTY
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“现在，这就是个 barm（面包卷）——谁也别想告诉我不是！”这听起来像 Mr Tumble 可能会说的话，不是吗？唯一缺失的是夸张的挥手、红鼻子和星形背心，除此之外，一切都到位了：愉快语调，轻笑，以及最后对着面包卷大口咬下去的喜剧感。然而，这可是真正的首相。我知道。“显然，有些人可能会管它叫 cob、bap 或 batch……”突然，出现了一种乔德语调（Geordie accent）。“是个 stottie！”安迪·伯纳姆在他发布到自己社交媒体的视频中，一脸惊讶地看着手中的面包卷。我几乎期待他能从耳后又变出两个，然后开始玩杂耍。
这段最新表演的原因是什么？嗯，这是一个通过面包店货架实现向权力下放（devolution）过渡的相当笨拙的跳跃。“在一个地方有意义的事情，显然并不总是意味着在另一个地方也有意义，”伯纳姆继续说道，这个衔接如此突兀，以至于看着都让人感到身体不适。“那么，为什么几十年来，威斯敏斯特一直是在替你们做本应由你们掌控的决定？”咚锵。现在，我们明白了。我们明白是因为安迪·伯纳姆正非常、非常努力地想要显得“平易近人”。
这就是“伯纳姆品牌”的核心：关注那些重要的小事，比如推出 £2 的巴士票价和削减我们电费账单中的增值税。显然，这奏效了。在撰写本文时，那个关于 bap / cob / barm 的视频在 X 平台上的浏览量达到了 4.4 million 次。更重要的是，所有这些“平易近人”的举动帮助工党在民调中领先改革党五个百分点。
但是，虽然伯纳姆可能精通社交媒体，并且酷到能聊那些忧郁的曼彻斯特独立乐队，但对于婴儿潮一代和 X 世代来说，这条帖子感觉像是精准投放给那些足够精明到能看穿这种“普通人”表演的人。我们以前都见过这种戏码。我们在鲍里斯·约翰逊身上见过，他在 2012 年伦敦奥运会期间被卡在索道上。同样参考奈杰尔·法拉格，一个精心塑造的“普通人”，尽管出身高贵，但却热衷于被拍到与建筑工人聊天，在当地酒吧享受一支简单的烟和一品脱啤酒。
没错，基尔·斯塔默确实很呆板。但这感觉像是一种过度修正。我们并不希望首相问我们 Jaffa Cake 究竟是蛋糕还是饼干，或者 Hobnobs 是否比 Digestives 更好，又或者谁愿意通过声称自己先倒牛奶来挑战公众愤怒——哎呀，伯纳姆刚好这么做了，他上个月告诉 PoliticsUK，他认为这样做能“稍微让袋子软一点”并使其“更坚固”。他还承认，他知道自己的立场会“冒犯很多人”。
这些片段在最好的情况下开始显得有些尴尬，在最坏的情况下则显得心机深重。伯纳姆因为看起来过于用力，面临着疏远其选民基础的风险。或者更糟，像是一个不够认真对待这份工作的人。
尽管如此，也许是我错了。我 14 岁的女儿刚刚说安迪·伯纳姆很“酷”。“我喜欢他，”她补充道。“你看到他聊自己的播放列表了吗？”不过，我还没告诉她伯纳姆怎么称呼面包卷。在我们家乡，它叫 “bap”——如果叫成别的，你就彻底失去了支持。
伯纳姆的“哥们儿”表演已经渐渐失效 伯纳姆拿着他所谓的 “barm”，这也可以被称作（通常取决于出生地）batch, bap, stottie 或 bread roll。
是的，基尔·斯塔默确实很呆板。但这感觉像是一种过度修正。
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因凡蒂诺的失败令人快意——但足球是被标价出售的。吉安尼·因凡蒂诺拥有一种非凡的天赋。每当人们觉得足球有变成另一种普通商业行为的危险时，这位国际足联主席总能找到新方法，向球迷证明管理这项运动的人远比他们高明。周二披露的他最新的赚钱计划，便是他的“伊卡洛斯时刻”。据《星期日泰晤士报》报道，该计划原定于上月世界杯决赛前一天启动（如果属实，这个时间点简直粗鲁得令人震惊），其内容是将世界杯的股份出售给私人投资者。这引发了意料之中的强烈抵制，而当欧洲足联（Uefa）成员国宣布将抵制所有国际足联赛事，直到该计划被废除并被禁止再次提出后，他最终被迫转向。欧洲足联的声明词锋犀利，抨击该计划是所谓的“卑劣的、密室操作的、不透明的交易”。声明补充道：“目前的国际足联领导层不仅失去了欧洲足联的信任，也失去了足球大家庭中许多其他成员的信任。”在上周之初，因凡蒂诺在国际足联之首的地位看来是不可撼动的；而现在，他如果能在这个周末后还能保住工作，就算走运了。因凡蒂诺关于解锁足球商业潜能的论调表明，总有另一个资产可以货币化。但球迷们的反应是一致的：足球不可买卖。这是一个极具吸引力的口号。然而，仔细观察便会发现，如果足球真的不可买卖，那么一定有人忘了告诉那些在过去 30 年里一直将其出售的人：电视转播权、冠名权、袖标赞助商、博彩公司、为海外市场而定的开球时间、世俱杯、季前巡回赛、流媒体订阅以及高端款待服务。120 英镑 (£120) 的球衣和 8 英镑 (£8) 的派表明，足球在技术上可能没有挂价格标签，但很多人已经从中获利丰厚。这并不意味着支持者的看法是错误的。恰恰相反。我们理解管理层不明白的一点：足球的价值不等于它的价格。有些事物在社会中占据着不同的地位。它们不仅仅是产品，更是社会结构的一部分。我们曾经对水、能源和公共交通也有这样的看法。它们存在是因为社会需要它们，而不是因为股东要求更高的投资回报。私有化是否改善了这些服务尚存争议，但哲学上的转变是不容否认的。我们不再询问它们是用来做什么的，而开始询问它们值多少钱。足球正面临犯同样错误的风险。它并非孤例。艺术在追求企业赞助而非公众资助。大学像奢侈品牌一样推销自己。甚至公园和公共空间现在也附带商业合作伙伴。到处都是将曾经看似免受“市场”影响的事物货币化的机会。也许再也没有什么神圣不可侵犯的东西了。除了足球，足球坚持认为自己除外。然而，当我们的“防守者”是欧洲足联时，这种道德上的笃定便动摇了。许多同样对因凡蒂诺愤怒的支持者，花费数千元追随俱乐部参加欧冠比赛，而在那里，门票分配被压缩，价格令人瞠目，球迷的优先级次于企业贵宾。欧洲足联在收取支持者昂贵的高价票观看其旗舰赛事的同时，却动情地谈论保护足球的金字塔结构。国际足联在扩大让疲惫的球员和钱包都不堪重负的赛事规模时，却大谈发展全球运动。这两个组织是否完全是为了足球的最佳利益而行动？这并不是要让因凡蒂诺脱罪。如果
无论如何，这使得整个事件显得更加耐人寻味。它揭露了一种心态：在支持者看到记忆、传统和归属感的地方，权力者看到的却是尚未开发的市场。这才是真正的分歧所在。球迷们反对并不是因为足球能产生金钱——它一直如此。早在电视高管们发现英超联赛之前，门票收入就在维持着俱乐部的生存。球迷反对的是，当金钱成为目的而非结果之时。因为足球是少数仍能在跨越阶级、政治和世代之间创造真正社区感的机构之一。你是继承它，而非购买它。而且你是作为一个被捕获的观众而归属于它的。与剧院或电影院不同，我们不会仅仅因为有场“更好”的比赛，就从富勒姆的克拉文小屋球场切换到切尔西的斯坦福桥球场。尽管因凡蒂诺即将倒台的前景令人满足，但事实是，足球并非
突然在现在被出卖；几十年来，它一直被碎片化地缓慢切割。但这件事至少提醒了那些处于领导地位的人——他们可能已经忘了，这场比赛从一开始就并不真正属于他们可以随意出卖。 Stefano Hatfield SPORT i@theipaper.com 请在所有信函中附上联系地址 @theipaper facebook.com / theipaper 欧足联表示，国际足联不仅失去了领导层的信心，还失去了足球大家庭中许多其他成员的信心 GETTY 欧足联谈论保护足球……与此同时却在收取高昂的费用
星期一 2026 年 8 月 3 日 新闻 4-33 观点 18-22 电视 26-31 生活 34-37 文化 38-41 金融 42-44 体育 47-56 膝上的贝尔法斯特班卓琴 昨天在贝尔法斯特市政厅举行的 2026 年 Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann（爱尔兰音乐节）开幕式上，孩子们在演奏传统的爱尔兰音乐。这是这场规模最大的传统爱尔兰音乐庆典首次在贝尔法斯特市举办。从昨天起的一周内，热闹的小酒馆聚会、自发的街头表演和极具戏剧性的舞台秀将接管爱尔兰唯一的联合国教科文组织音乐之城。全爱尔兰级别的比赛是 Fleadh 的核心，涵盖 180 多个类别。CHARLES MCQUILLAN / GETTY 教育 对私募股权连锁机构收购托儿所的担忧 作者：Alexa Phillips 教育记者 越来越多的家长发现他们的托儿所被私募股权支持的连锁机构收购——这些机构因涉嫌利用家长的费用向股东支付数百万美元，而不是投资于所提供的育儿质量而受到抨击。根据与《i报》分享的分析，私募股权公司拥有的托儿所在 2023 / 24 年度在董事薪酬、租金和贷款等成本上的支出比非营利机构至少多出 8200 万英镑m。根据对这些公司年度账目进行审查的 Trinava Consulting 称，这些过高的成本包括托儿所为了收购更多机构而承担的债务偿还额及利息费用。该公司表示，租金往往被推高以获取投资者回报。分析发现，英国最大的九家私募股权所有连锁机构在这些非一线成本上的收入支出比大型非营利提供者高出 15%，而在员工配置上的支出则低 9%。两家拥有最多名额的私募股权托儿所连锁机构 Kids Planet 和 Bright Stars 分别向高级董事发放了价值 £335,000 和 £266,000 的薪酬包。在被私募股权公司收购的托儿所工作的家长和员工表示，收购导致了费用上涨、额外收费、给儿童提供的食物和玩具质量下降，以及高素质员工的流失。英国竞争监管机构正在调查私募股权及其他所有权模式在育儿市场中所扮演的角色。后疫情时代育儿联盟（Post Pandemic Childcare coalition）及“现在就实施公共育儿”（Public Childcare Now）活动的 Louise O’Hare 表示，私立公司“向家长收取高价，而员工的资质却处于最低水平”，且许多人的工资低于生活工资。Bright Stars 和 Kids Planet 的所有者拒绝置评。教育部的一位发言人表示：“本届政府站在家长这一边，我们已经采取行动确保食物和尿布等任何额外费用不能成为获得资助名额的条件。” 孩子们都去哪儿了？学校在学生短缺中挣扎 规模缩小的机构无法提供同样的机遇。作者：Richard Vaughan “曾经充满生机的建筑开始让人感到空虚，”一名校长解释道。这位校长因担心过度引起家长的忧虑而要求匿名，她正处于一场缓慢展开的危机前线——国家儿童数量的消失。她在伦敦市中心一个富裕的区域经营着一所国立小学，这位校长正在努力应对一个在她职业生涯开始时几乎没预料到会遇到的教育问题——如何应对学生人数的剧烈下降。小学部门入学人数的下降是英国出生率下降的首批具体迹象
并且给安迪·伯纳姆带来了一个重大的政治和公共政策难题。根据官方估计，到 2035 年，英格兰的小学生人数将比 2019 年减少大约 100 万——而且这可能还是低估了。该国生育率从 2010 年的每名女性 1.9 降至 2024 年的每名女性 1.4，远低于维持当前人口水平所需 2.1 的更替率。出生率下降的问题在公共政策讨论中几乎没有出现，但学校现在处于问题的前沿，而目前对于学生人数减少以及随之而来的学校关闭对儿童和更广泛社区产生的影响，知之甚少。
“附近的一所学校因为在校人数下降，在本学期关闭了，导致家庭被分散，孩子们需要去其他地方寻找名额，”这位校长说道。“当一所学校缩小时，其影响远超预算范围。想要提供家庭所期待的同样广泛的资源和机会，变得越来越困难。”英格兰的学校资金很大程度上是按人头拨付的，这意味着学校每年招收的学生人数决定了其下一个学年的预算。如果一所学校减少了大约 5 名学生（就像伦敦相对富裕地区的一所小学那样），这意味着他们的年度金库将损失约 £30,000 到 £35,000 —— 对于一所小规模学校来说，这是一笔难以承受的巨额资金。这不可避免地会影响到学校能够提供的教育质量。
“教师被要求承担更大的责任，但没有额外的奖励，而支持人员的数量已大幅削减，”校长说。伦敦是这一问题的核心地带，多种因素导致该市尤其是内城区的小孩人数急剧下降。生活成本危机、家庭住房短缺、移民人数锐减，以及疫情期间家庭向通勤城镇迁移，都导致了伦敦儿童的流失。但这绝非仅限于伦敦的问题。首都近年来可能经历了最严重的下降，幅度约为 11%，但东北部以及约克郡和亨伯地区的小学生人数分别下降了约 6% 和 7%。
“这是一个非常重大且缓慢推进的挑战，”财政研究所研究员卢克·西比埃塔（Luke Sibieta）说道，他对该问题进行了广泛研究。“年复一年，情况并没有那么剧烈地改变——每年学生人口下降约 1% ——但逐渐地，这使得学校在财务上难以维持。”值得注意的是，关于学校关闭对儿童、家庭和更广泛社区影响的研究非常之少。这给已经在担任首相最初几周就高度重视教育的伯纳姆带来了一个难题：是维持当前的学校支出水平，还是利用学生人数下降作为借口削减支出并将资金分配到其他地方。
“政府可以选择不关闭任何学校，”西比埃塔说。“但这将是一项昂贵的举措，尤其是在财政环境极其紧张的情况下。对于国防等其他方面的支出存在大量需求。”学校领导者工会 NAHT 的总书记保罗·怀特曼（Paul Whiteman）对于伯纳姆应该采取的方向非常明确。“在学生人数下降的学校，它们需要支持，”他表示。
说道。“趋势会随时间而改变，保护他们的资金能让他们维持现有的人员编制，提供更小规模的班级，并为有需要的学生提供更具针对性的帮助。”但这仅仅是众多要求分得政府资源份额的声音之一。社会 随着人数下降，小学一直在关闭或面临预算削减 伦敦近年儿童人数下降的率为 11%
新闻 俄罗斯 被制裁房产仍可合法出售 作者：Mark Hollingsworth
《i报》发现，在伦敦和萨里郡，33处由受制裁俄罗斯业主持有的房产——价值 7 亿英镑m ——在法律上仍允许被出售、重新抵押或转交给亲属。
多年来，俄罗斯寡头一直通过伦敦的房地产市场洗钱——通过一家匿名的离岸公司将黑钱转化为稳固且可辩护的资产。但在 2022 年弗拉基米尔·普京入侵乌克兰后，英国政府实施了制裁以限制这种行为。
然而，一项调查发现，尽管业主受到限制，但许多房屋完全处于政府资产冻结范围之外。一名房产经纪人告诉《i报》：“其中一些房产是以英国公司的名义持有的，特别是 [罗曼]·阿布拉莫维奇。如果这些英国公司因为制裁而被公司注册处（Companies House）除名，那么房产的所有权将归王室所有。”
这意味着政府实际上是在没收资产——由于涉及法治影响，这是他们一直试图不惜一切代价避免的政策。
反腐活动人士对将没收视为进一步措施表示不安，即使其动机是为了筹集资金重建乌克兰。巴塞尔研究所（一家调查寡头和金融犯罪的非政府组织）前负责人 Gretta Fenner 表示：“在没有证据证明资产是犯罪所得的情况下没收资产，类似于征收。这是独裁者而非民主国家的做法。”
其中一个例子是位于贝尔格雷夫广场 5 号（Five Belgrave Square）的一栋豪宅，业主是奥列格·德里帕斯卡（Oleg Deripaska）。根据 Wikileaks 发布的泄露外交电报，他是普京最器重的俄罗斯寡头之一，从巨大的国家支持合同中获益。
德里帕斯卡在 2003 年利用一家在英属维尔京群岛注册的离岸公司以 1700 万英镑m 买下了这栋房子。现在它的价值为 5000 万英镑。他对这处历史建筑的所有权目前被冻结。但德里帕斯卡仍然是法律上的所有者。在制裁期间他不能出售或入住，但他并没有失去它。
贝尔格雷夫广场 5 号在法律上仍由一名与普京有关联的寡头所有。
俄罗斯 莫斯科餐厅炸弹袭击导致三人死亡 作者：Evie Selby
据国家媒体报道，周六晚上在莫斯科市中心一家餐厅附近发生的一起自制炸弹爆炸事件，造成至少 3 人死亡，21 人受伤。
爆炸发生在当地时间晚上 8 点左右（英国夏令时 6 点），地点位于市中心的库德林斯卡亚广场（Kudrinkskaya Square）。
国家反恐委员会表示，一名携带“简易爆炸装置”的身份不明女性试图进入 Balzi Rossi 意大利餐厅，但被一名安保人员拦住。
该餐厅（见插图）位于莫斯科著名的斯大林时代摩天大楼之一，当时因举办私人活动而不对公众开放。
国家媒体报道称，在这次袭击中死亡的三人分别是该女性、安保人员和一名顾客。
Telegram 监控频道 ASTRA 表示，爆炸发生地附近正在举行一名将军的生日庆祝活动，不过这一点尚未得到确认。
警方表示，受伤人员的伤势轻重不一。
俄罗斯《商业评论报》（Kommersant）援引其内部消息称，爆炸旨在针对餐厅室外夏季露台上的客人。该报暗示炸弹是由他人远程触发的，而携带包裹的女性可能不知道那是一个爆炸装置。
俄罗斯人坚守传统 俄罗斯人标志着
在被俄罗斯占领的乌克兰东部城市顿内茨克，今天是伞兵节。每年8月2日，前苏联部分地区的城市都会庆祝俄罗斯伞兵部队的成立。据记载，现役和退役士兵会涌上街头进行喧闹的庆祝活动，迫使咖啡馆和商店关闭，平民则不得不寻找掩护。一个著名的传统是伞兵在公共喷泉中游泳。路透社
里海：大陆交汇处的航道对伊朗和俄罗斯的战争至关重要 作者：Isabella Bengoechea（副世界编辑）
乌克兰对俄罗斯和伊朗用于走私武器的一个关键战略湖泊发动了致命袭击，这威胁到可能撕开一个新战线，从而将两场冲突融合在一起——一场由弗拉基米尔·普京发动，另一场由唐纳德·特朗普发动。乌克兰表示，其无人机在上个月击中了里海的一艘俄罗斯导弹艇、一个石油平台和两艘受制裁的军用货船。
伊朗则声称乌克兰袭击了一艘商业货船，导致一名水手死亡，并威胁要进行报复。德黑兰方面表示，正考虑通过用弹道导弹袭击乌克兰的一个港口来进行报击。乌克兰外交部长安德里·西比哈称伊朗的说法是“谎言”，并将该政权称为“俄罗斯侵略乌克兰的直接共犯”。伊朗最终退让，其外交部长表示，西比哈向他保证此次袭击“并非故意，且乌克兰不寻求升级”——但随着两场战争的联系日益紧密，这种缓和可能只是暂时的。
俄罗斯和伊朗正日益关注里海，这是一个战略性的海上走廊，他们通过该走廊运送货物和军事设备，以支撑其战争。然而，随着乌克兰扩大针对俄罗斯战争机器的无人机行动，这片海域成为了一个诱人且日益可触及的目标。
里海是世界上最大的内陆水体，位于欧洲、亚洲和中东的十字路口。它已成为俄罗斯和伊朗之间一个至关重要的逃避制裁的纽带。由于只有五个沿岸国家——俄罗斯、伊朗、哈萨克斯坦、土库曼斯坦和阿塞拜疆——拥有直接进入权，因此到目前为止，莫斯科和德黑兰在很大程度上能够不受西方军事力量的阻碍地行动。
兰开斯特大学国际安全系主任巴兹尔·格蒙德（Basil Germond）表示，对于俄罗斯来说，里海在三个方面具有战略重要性。“首先，它为远程力量投射提供了平台，包括对该地区以外的导弹打击，”他说。“其次，与黑海相比，它为海军和后勤资产提供了一个避风港。第三，它已成为俄罗斯和伊朗之间的关键通信线路，使平民贸易能够帮助两国减轻制裁，并实现军事设备的转移。”
查塔姆研究所（Chatham House）乌克兰论坛研究员雅罗斯拉娃·巴尔比耶里（Jaroslava Barbieri）表示，里海最近的袭击凸显了乌克兰战争与中东冲突是如何汇聚成一个单一的、相互关联的战场的。“这些战场的交汇印证了基辅自全面入侵开始以来一直主张的观点：乌克兰不仅是在进行一场民族生存之战，而且是在对抗一个旨在拆除西方主导的基于规则的秩序的协调独裁轴心。”
阿塞拜疆和伊朗军舰在里海进行海军演习。阿塞拜疆国防部 / ANADOLU
星期一 2026 年 8 月 3 日
自然 作者：Stephen Beech
研究表明，大象在从人类照顾下返回野外时会发展出成功的“应对机制”。科学家表示，观察结果显示，“再野化”的大象能够很好地融入野生动物系统并重新适应——即使是在长期圈养之后。
虽然在南部非洲已经有少数大象再野化的实例，但直到现在，关于它们适应自然环境程度的研究仍然有限。
为了进行这项研究，来自南非大象重新整合信托基金（Elephant Reintegration Trust of South Africa）的研究人员检查了 11 头此前被圈养并被释放到四个不同保护区的大象的行为和生理反应。在 5 年的时间里，每头大象每年至少被观察一次，每次持续三周。
研究团队寻找大象在野外环境中可能感到不适的行为指标，以及可能在圈养期间遗留的“习惯”行为——例如冲突、对抗以及增加的自我接触。
研究结果显示，总体而言，再野化大象的行为与它们的野生邻居“非常相似”。研究团队还采集了每头大象的粪便样本，以检测代谢压力的迹象。
结果显示，再野化大象（尤其是雌性）确实表现出普遍较高的压力水平，但并未超出野生大象的正常范围。研究团队认为，这些差异可能反映了它们之前的圈养经历、社会状况、环境条件以及旅游或管理压力。
他们表示，发表在《Plos One》期刊上的研究结果表明，尽管存在一些持续的差异，但再野化大象的行为与野生同类“非常相似”——这表明它们已经很好地适应了回归野生栖息地的生活。
研究团队还注意到，个体再野化大象之间的行为具有高度可变性。他们认为，这可能与每只动物的个性有关——表明每个个体都找到了自己独特的应对迁移的方法。
大象在返回野外时“学会应对” 研究中的 11 头动物代表了整个南非再野化大象种群的 50% 以上。
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关于非法肉类 (S)。 9.00 《名流猎杀》(Celebrity Hunted) 新剧集 (S)。 10.00 《吉普赛妻子的秘密生活》(Secret Lives Of Gypsy Wives) 该家庭为庄园举办篝火之夜，以纪念他们的父亲 Sid (S)。 11.05 《超级富豪的医疗秘密》(Surgery Secrets Of The Super Rich) Joyce 用内窥镜拉皮手术庆祝她的 60 岁生日 (R) (S)。 12.05 《名人性爱磁带之秘》(Secrets Of The Celebrity Sex Tapes) (S)。 12.55 《拉姆齐厨房噩梦：美国篇》(Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA) (R) (S)。 1.45 《不要与布兰登约会》(Don’t Date Brandon) (R) (S)。 4.30 《Hollyoaks》合集 (R) (S)。 5.40 《星期日早午餐》(Sunday Brunch) (R) (S)。 6.00 《早安英国》(Good Morning Britain) (S)。 10.00 《今晨》(This Morning) (S)。 1.30 ITV 新闻；天气 (S)。 1.55 ITV 地区新闻；天气 (S)。 2.00 《迪金森的真实交易》(Dickinson’s Real Deal) (R) (S)。 3.00 《交易或不交易》(Deal Or No Deal) (R) (S)。 3.59 ITV 地区天气 (S)。 4.00 《倾斜点》(Tipping Point) (R) (S)。 5.00 《追逐》(The Chase) (R) (S)。 6.00 ITV 地区新闻；天气 (S)。 6.30 ITV 新闻；天气 (S)。 7.30 《弗莱彻家族农场》(Fletchers’ Family Farm) 怀孕的母牛 Ruby 分娩 (R) (S)。 8.00 《艾默代尔》(Emmerdale) Cain 与 Kyle 进行了一次重要的对话 (S)。 8.30 《街道 the Coronation Street》 (S)。 9.00 《寻亲记：无迹可寻》(Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace) 新剧集 (S)。 10.00 ITV 十点新闻 10.30 ITV 地区新闻 10.45 《冷案法医：上帝银行家的之死》(Cold Case Forensics: The Death Of God’s Banker) (R) (S)。 11.45 《爱与死亡》(Love & Death) (R) (S)。 12.45 电视购物 3.00 《楼梯》(The Staircase) (R) (S)。 4.05 ITV 放松时光 (S)。 5.05 《迪金森的真实交易》(Dickinson’s Real Deal) (R) (S)。 6.30 《淘货猎手》(Bargain Hunt) (R) (S)。 7.15 《不花钱得好物》(Money For Nothing) (R) (S)。 8.00 手语区：《修复店》(Sign Zone: The Repair Shop) (R) (S)。 9.00 BBC 新闻 (S)。 1.00 《理查德·奥斯曼的游戏屋》(Richard Osman’s House Of Games) (R) (S)。 1.30 《终点线》(The Finish Line) (R) (S)。 2.15 《你知道你的位置吗？》(Do You Know Your Place?) (R) (S)。 2.45 《毛毛骑手的烘焙之旅》(The Hairy Bikers’ Bakeation) (R) (S)。 3.45 《农民乡村大对决》(The Farmers’ Country Showdown) (R) (S)。 4.30 《经典古董路演》(Vintage Antiques Roadshow) (R) (S)。 5.15 《把它卖了！》(Flog It!) (R) (S)。 6.00 《理查德·奥斯曼的游戏屋》(Richard Osman’s House Of Games) (R) (S)。 6.30 《理查德·奥斯曼的游戏屋》(Richard Osman’s House Of Games) (R) (S)。 7.00 《全球之眼》(Global Eye) (S)。 7.30 《大师》(Mastermind) 专业科目包括猛禽和西尔维娅·普拉斯 (S)。 8.00 《唯有连接》(Only Connect) 维多利亚·科伦·米切尔主持该问答节目 (S)。 8.30 《大学挑战赛》(University Challenge) (S)。 9.00 《进化》(Evolution) 克里斯·帕克汉姆通过研究海豚来寻找智力如何进化的答案 (S)。 10.00 《莫蒂默与怀特豪斯：钓鱼去》(Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing) (R) (S)。 10.30 《新闻之夜》(Newsnight) (S)。 11.05 电影：《单单》(Sing Sing) (格雷格·奎达 2023) 首映。监狱题材剧，由科尔曼·多明戈主演 (S)。 12.45 手语区：《乡村生活》(Sign Zone: Countryfile) (R) (S)。 1.40 手语区：《贝尔热拉克》(Sign Zone: Bergerac) (R) (S)。 2.25 这是 BBC Two (S)。 6.00 《早餐》(Breakfast) (S)。 9.30 《动物公园》(Animal Park) (R) (S)。 10.15 《追踪、搜寻，找回我的车》(Trace, Track, Get My Car Back) (R) (S)。 10.45 《专家证人》(Expert Witness) (R) (S)。 11.15 《锤下之屋》(Homes Under The Hammer) (R) (S)。 12.15 《淘货猎手》(Bargain Hunt) (S)。 1.00 BBC 一点钟新闻；天气 (S)。 1.35 BBC 地区新闻；天气 (S)。 1.45 BBC 一点钟新闻；天气 (S)。 2.00 《不花钱得好物》(Money For Nothing) (S)。 2.45 《逃往乡村》(Escape To The Country) (R) (S)。 3.45 《竞拍室》(The Bidding Room) (S)。 4.30 《答案赛跑》(The Answer Run) (S)。 5.15 《无用之题》(Pointless) (R) (S)。 6.00 BBC 六点钟新闻；天气 (S)。 6.30 BBC 地区新闻；天气 (S)。 7.00 《One Show》 (S)。 7.30 《东区东区》(EastEnders) 彼得对劳伦的怀疑日益增加 (S)。 8.00 《英国最严格的学校》——全景节目 (S)。 8.30 《诈骗拦截者》(Scam Interceptors) (R) (S)。 9.00 《狂喜》(The Rapture) Gabs 终于见到了 Anika Drake (S)。 10.00 BBC 十点新闻 (S)。 10.30 BBC 地区新闻 10.45 电影：《迷雾》(The Mist) (弗兰克·达拉邦特 2007) (S)。 12.45 BBC 新闻 (S)。
电视节目表 8月3日 星期一 === 《街头警察：抓捕混混》(Street Cops: Catching The Yobs) 晚上 8点， 5 名警察在科比郊区追捕一辆涉嫌被盗且在鲁莽行驶的 SUV，并且在一名青年于市中心一家餐厅挥舞砍刀并在网上吹嘘后，警方处于高度警戒状态。这是真实犯罪双片特辑的一部分，另一部是新剧集《逃票者：与法律开战》(Fare Dodgers: At War With The Law)。后者在（晚上 9点）开始，由伦敦交通局调查员 Lisa
追捕一名涉嫌逃票且欠网络公司近 £2,000 的乘客。 === 《进化》(Evolution) 晚上9点，BBC Two “海豚是如何变得如此聪明的？”克里斯·帕克姆在与一群这些聪明且高度社交的海中生物共泳后，提出了这个问题。现在是主持人将时间回溯数十亿年，通过视力的进化以及一种名为 indohyus 的重骨陆地哺乳动物来探索答案的时候了。 === 《失散多年的家人：无迹可寻》(Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace) 晚上9点，ITV1 随着这个总是令人动容的节目回归新一季，更多被遗弃者在达维娜·麦考尔和尼基·坎贝尔的帮助下追踪他们的生父母。1960 年 12 月，大卫被发现的地方不是通常的电话亭或医院台阶，而是伦敦西北部一栋锁闭的公寓大楼走廊里。他的 DNA 显示具有荷兰和法国血统。第二个案例涉及莎拉，她现在 41 岁且自己也为人之母，她于 1983 年 8 月被发现遗弃在莱斯特的一个电话亭中。她想知道是否是她的亲生母亲把她留在那里，如果是，原因是什么？ === 萨莉·马格努森回忆——《大师》(Mastermind) 晚上9点，BBC Four 随着该问答节目当前系列今晚在 BBC Two 继续播出（今晚的专业主题包括：英国猛禽、罗杰·摩尔饰演的詹姆斯·邦德、查尔斯一世和西尔维娅·普拉斯），萨莉·马格努森回忆起《大师》早期的辉煌岁月。她讲述了她的父亲——出生于冰岛的记者、翻译兼作家马格努斯的故事。 今日精选 节目《名人大逃杀》(Celebrity Hunted) 晚上9点，Channel 4 唯一能听到“我们现在正在追踪乔·帕斯夸莱的手机”这类词汇的真人秀系列节目。这个升级版的“捉迷藏”为了“站起来抗癌”(Stand Up to Cancer) 特别篇回归，六对知名度不一的人士将开始潜逃。“名人们真的能消失吗？”我们被这样问到，但这可能取决于你认为今年的逃犯们在多大程度上具有辨识度：父女布莱恩和露西·康利（均在左侧）；《舞动风暴》专业舞者艾米·道登和卡洛斯·古；主持人 JJ 查默斯和索菲·摩根；喜剧演员珍·布里斯特和劳拉·史密斯；《爱之岛》选手克里斯·泰勒和托比·阿罗莫拉兰；以及房产节目主持人斯嘉丽特和斯图尔特·道格拉斯。 萨莉·马格努森回顾其父亲马格努斯担任《大师》主持人的时光 晚上9点，BBC Four 达维娜·麦考尔帮助更多被遗弃者 晚上9点，ITV1 Nytalia 处理一名大声喧哗且具有攻击性的醉汉 晚上8点，5
战舰 链条链接 路径寻找 多米诺骨牌 寻路者 在网格中确定下面列出的每艘船的位置。边缘的数字告诉您谜题中每行和每列中船只片段的数量。船只四周都被水包围，包括对角线方向。在网格中确定下面列出的每艘船的位置。边缘的数字告诉您谜题中每行和每列中船只片段的数量。船只四周都被水包围，包括对角线方向。玩法 在每行、每列以及由链条连接的每系列方格中填入数字 1-6。玩法 按照 1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4 这样的顺序在数字之间移动，从灰色的 1 开始，以灰色的 4 结束。每一步您可以在任何方向（包括对角线）移动一个方格。您必须形成一条连续的路径，且每个方格恰好经过一次。玩法 所有的 28 块多米诺骨牌（从 0-0 到 6-6）都已放置在网格中一次。您能算出它们分别放置在何处吗？游戏与谜题 4-页 4-页 抽页 抽页 轨道制作 玩法 外围的数字表示在 A 和 B 之间，轨道通过每行和每列中的多少个方格。轨道要么直接穿过一个方格，要么在该方格中呈直角转弯。每日问答 1. 洛娜·卢夫特（Lorna Luft）是哪位著名好莱坞影星的女儿？ 2. 认为数字具有神秘关系，并掌握着人类性格、目的和命运之关键的信念称作什么？ 3. 根据希腊神话，特洛伊战争期间希腊军队的总司令是谁？ 4. 拍卖师西蒙·鲍尔（Simon Bower）在哪个 BBC1 白天电视系列节目中评估物品价值？ 答案，第 47 页 玩法 在网格中确定下面列出的每艘船的位置。边缘的数字告诉您谜题中每行和每列中船只片段的数量。船只四周都被水包围，包括对角线方向。 G R A L R A E E D I R D B Y L K N N M A E U P S U A U A Y T J O R Y B M Q N T I O I I T A A E L B M S N R G G S S R E E E E B A G E B L G S V L E C R E L L I S E Y R E L W O A M A N T E P N E T B E N 玩法 从一个字母移动到相邻字母，您能否创建一条连续的路径，经过每个方格一次，并拼出网格右侧列出的所有单词？从阴影方格开始。 A B 数字六边形 玩法 每个六边形被分为六个三角形。这六个三角形的和始终为 25。在每个空白三角形中填入 1-9 之间的一个数字以完成谜题：在一个六边形内不能重复数字。Amass Assemble Baggage Blower Celebrity Grab Maiden Nearly Netball Proud Quantity Regimen Rejoin Repel Seventy Sulk Jigsawdoku • Zygolex • Codeword • Sudoku • idoku • Knight’s Tour • Word Wheel 0 0 1 1 1 1 二进制 玩法 完成网格，使每行和每列包含五个 0 和五个 1。在任何行或列中，相同的数字不能在超过两个连续方格中出现。在完成的谜题中，每行的 0 和 1 序列必须与任何其他行不同，每列同样如此。
分量：4 人份 250克装菠菜 2 个橙子 2½ 汤匙特级初榨橄榄油 2 汤匙白葡萄酒醋 1 茶匙全粒芥末酱 1 个黄椒，切细丝 ½ 个黄瓜，对半切开，去籽并切片 250克袋装普伊小扁豆 250克装哈罗米芝士，切成 8 块
将菠菜放入一个大碗中。剥去橙子的皮和白瓤，将果肉分离到碗中，并保留汁液。将果肉备用。将 2 汤匙油与预留的橙汁、醋和芥末酱混合搅拌，进行调味。将酱汁搅拌入菠菜中，用干净的手充分揉搓，然后拌入预留的橙肉、黄椒、黄瓜和小扁豆。转移到大型盛菜盘中。在大型煎锅中加热剩余的 ½ 汤匙油，将哈罗米芝士每面煎 2 到 3 分钟直至金黄色，最后将其放在沙拉顶部即可食用。 提示：尝试使用一袋混合谷物或一罐腰豆代替小扁豆。 食谱来自 Discover Great Veg, discovergreatveg.co.uk
每日食谱 菠菜哈罗米芝士橙子沙拉
审问者谜题 (INQUISITOR PUZZLES) 每周六提供全国最佳的带障十字词谜 (Barred Crossword)
杀手数独 (Killer Sudoku) 玩法： 每行、每列以及 3x3 的宫格中必须包含 1 到 9 的每个数字且仅出现一次。灰色线框内所有数字的总和必须与该框左上角标注的数字一致。在灰色线框形成的区域内，任何数字不能出现两次以上。
数和谜 (Kakuro) 玩法： 填充白色方格，使每组横向或纵向单元格的总和与该组起始处标注的总数一致。你必须且只能使用 1-9 的数字，且在同一组内不能重复使用同一个数字。
Zygolex® 每天出现在《i报》中 通过遵循 RHYME（押韵）、LETTERS（字母）和 MEANING（含义）的链接来寻找缺失的单词——例如，一个与“cheek”押韵，与“pear”只有一个字母之差，且与“mountain”意思相同的单词，将是“peak”。 完整规则见 zygolex.com。 答案见第 47 页。
扫雷 (Minesweeper) 在网格中找出所有的地雷。某些方格中的数字表示其相邻方格（包括对角线接触的方格）中有多少个地雷。带有数字的方格中不能放置地雷。
通过遵循 RHYME（押韵）、LETTERS（字母）和 MEANING（含义）的链接来寻找缺失的单词，例如：一个与“cheek”押韵，与“mountain”意思相同且与“pear”只有一个字母之差的单词，将是“peak”。 注：在 Letters 链接中仅改变一个字母。完整规则见 www.zygolex.com
VALES DETECT PRIMARY BEAD BALLET MAIM GRACE PERUSE SHOVEL SPARE TRUG SUE TEEM ADOLESCENT CLAD TARTAN
MEANING LETTERS RHYME
Zygolex (从左至右) - valet; trace; teen; spade; clean; trade; clear; dear; deal; plain; real; plaid; true; main; read.
Futoshiki 在每行和每列中恰好放置一次 1-5 的数字。大于号和小于号（‘>’ 和 ‘<’）表示一个单元格相对于相邻单元格的大小关系。
在每行、每列以及粗线勾勒的拼图区域中各放置一次 1-9 的数字。
拼图数独 (Jigsawdoku)
RHYME LETTERS MEANING
✂ 游戏与谜题 8 4 8 4 7 9 6 9 0 2 2 2 3 2 4 2 3 2 1 5 2 3 2 2 4 3 3 2 3 4 3 2 2 1 4 2 1 0 4 3
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玩法 数字 1 到 9 每个数字必须在组成红色字母 i 的方格中出现（且仅出现一次）。
数字方格 玩法 在空格中填入数字，使横向和纵向的计算结果与灰色方格中显示的相符。数字 1 到 9 每个数字只能出现一次。计算应从左到右、从上到下进行，而非严格按照数学运算顺序。 较简单 较难
单词梯子 使用中间的五个横档，将梯顶的单词转换为梯底的单词。在每个横档中，你必须填入一个有效的四字母单词，且该单词与上方单词仅有一个字母的不同。实现这一目标可能有多种方法。
ABC 逻辑 在每一行和每一列中，字母 A、B 和 C 仅限出现一次。每行和每列有两个空格。 行 / 列边缘的字母表示该行 / 列中第一个 / 最后一个出现的字母。
单词轮 明天：较难
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今日其他谜题 隐喻填字游戏（Cryptic Crossword），第 25 页 五线隐喻（Five-Clue Cryptic），第 17 页；一分钟 Wijuko，第 20 页 谜题答案 请参阅第 47 页
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较简单的代码字谜 (Codeword) No 4575 网格中的数字与字母表中的字母相对应。解开谜题并在发现字母时将其填入键入表。已提供三个字母供您开始。答案将在明天的报纸上公布，周六的代码字谜答案在第 47 页。
简洁填字游戏 (Concise Crossword) No 4897 % A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 5 9 2 6 1 1 7 4 8 4 8 3 5 9 × - - × × + × - + - + × -5 + + + + - - - -10 - × × - + -5 B A B B C B C B A B B B A A SKIN CROW DEED SLUM P N M H E R A T C
利用轮盘中的字母你可以找到多少个单词？我们找到了 66 个，其中包括一个九字母单词。每个单词必须使用中心字母且至少使用另外三个字母。字母只能使用一次。不可使用外语词、专有名词或复数形式。
尽管你可以使用以“s”结尾的动词形式。
横向 1 Draw (4) 2 Go in (5) 8 German measles (7) 9 Scots landowner (5) 10 Instability (4) 11 Conscious (7) 13 Device in petrol engines (11) 16 Pet hate (7) 18 Pig’s cry (4) 20 Break the rules (5) 22 Short rest (3-4) 23 From that time (5) 24 Delight (4)
纵向 1 Knitting stitch (4) 2 Flowering plant (7) 3 Snakelike fish (3) 4 Criminal (5) 5 Conundrum (6) 6 Pliant (8) 7 Power tool (6,5) 12 Gaseous element (8) 14 Footballer’s mistake (3,4) 15 Counting frame (6) 17 Colour (5) 19 Leg joint (4) 21 Golf peg (3)
周六简明填字游戏解答 横向 1 Pie, 3 Seize (Pisces), 7 Mass, 8 Eau de vie, 9 Sought-after, 11 Spread, 13 Trauma, 15 Overwrought, 18 Yearling, 20 Earl, 21 Satin, 22 Dot.
纵向 1 Posture, 2 Eye shadow, 3 Sou, 4 Inert, 5 Epigram, 6 Dais, 10 Acts of God, 12 Process, 14 Augment, 16 Egret, 17 Tory, 19 Inn.
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新闻 4-33 观点 18-22 电视 26-31 生活 34-37 文化 38-41 财经 42-44 体育 47-56
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单词搜索 / 桥梁 / 单词方格
如何玩：你能将所有单词填入网格中以完成谜题吗？有些单词最初可能适合多个位置，但只有一种方式能将所有单词组合在一起完成网格。
单词填入 / 儿童专区 / 数字金字塔
如何玩：经典的单词搜索谜题：在网格中找到所有单词。单词可能是水平、垂直或对角线隐藏的，且方向可以是正向或反向。
如何玩：将每个岛屿（用圆圈表示）连接成一个单一的互连组。为此，在岛屿之间绘制桥梁。每个圆圈中的数字表示必须连接到该岛屿的桥梁数量。桥梁不能相互交叉，只能水平或垂直绘制，且任意一对岛屿之间最多可以有两座桥梁。
如何玩：数字金字塔中每个方格的值是其正下方两个方格之和。
4 个字母：Boot, Stew, Twig 5 个字母：Avert, Found, Gripe, Madam 6 个字母：Dynamo, Freely, Sludge, Sphere, Supple 7 个字母：Crayons, Gourmet, Midwife, Refract, Settler 8 个字母：Deputise, Lipstick, Mistreat
ALIEN BACK TO THE FUTURE BLADE CARRY ON DIE HARD ICE AGE INDIANA JONES JAMES BOND LORD OF THE RINGS MAD MAX MATRIX NAKED GUN ROCKY SAW SCREAM SHREK STAR WARS TERMINATOR THE GODFATHER TOY STORY
如何玩：只需在网格旁回答线索，将答案写在相应的行中。解决方案在每一行水平阅读的结果必须与每一列垂直阅读的结果相同。
Hexalex
如何玩：将以下每个字母放入空的六边形中一次，放入后将其划掉。输入字母的方式应使人们能够通过从一个六边形移动到相邻六边形来拼出网格旁列出的所有单词。
BREWS CZAR HAFT JUG LUG MINX NIFTY POCKED
使用字母：A B E F G I K M N O R S T U W Z ? 答案见：第 47 页
Calcudoku
如何玩：在每行和每列中放置数字 1-6 各一次，遵守粗线区域内的求和结果。每个区域中的数字表示该区域的总和，符号则显示应对数字执行的操作类型：加法、减法、除法或乘法。在粗线区域内数字可以重复。减法时，始终从区域内最大的数中减去较小的数；除法时，将最大的数除以较小的数。
游戏与谜题
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P C D H J X Y L Cook Salute 爱尔兰的盖尔语名称 寄生昆虫
骑士巡游
如何玩：国际象棋中的骑士在网格的每个方格中恰好访问一次，从 1 开始，在 100 结束（这些方格已阴影标记）。推断骑士的完整路径——其中一部分已经给出——从而完成网格。骑士的移动方式是水平移动两格然后垂直移动一格，或者垂直移动两格然后水平移动一格。
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单元格
如何玩：将网格划分为正方形或长方形块，每块仅包含一个数字。每个块必须包含其内部数字所指示的单元格数量。
星期一 2026 年 8 月 3 日 | 电影选择 LAURENCE PHELAN
6.00 《Hollyoaks》(S)。6.30 《Hollyoaks》(S)。6.55 《Rude(ish) Tube Shorts》(S)。7.00 《Couples Come Dine With Me》(S)。8.00 《Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA》(S)。9.00 《Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA》(S)。10.00 《America’s Funniest Home Videos》(S)。11.00 《Below Deck: Mediterranean》(S)。12.00 《The Simpsons》(S)。12.30 《The Simpsons》(S)。1.00 《The Simpsons》(S)。1.30 《The Simpsons》(S)。2.00 《Brooklyn Nine-Nine》(S)。2.30 《Brooklyn Nine-Nine》(S)。3.00 《Modern Family》(S)。3.30 《Modern Family》(S)。4.00 《Modern Family》(S)。4.30 《Modern Family》(S)。5.00 《The Simpsons》(S)。5.30 《The Simpsons》(S)。6.00 《The Simpsons》一家人回忆往昔 (S)。6.30 《Hollyoaks》(S)。7.00 《Hollyoaks》(S)。7.30 《The Simpsons》丽莎报名参加未来的火星殖民计划 (S)。8.00 《Vanderpump Rules》新剧集 (S)。9.00 《Below Deck Down Under》一名新人扰乱了船员的夜晚聚会 (S)。10.00 《Gogglebox》各家庭对 Michael McIntyre 的《The Wheel》的看法 (S)。11.00 《Naked Attraction》(S)。12.05 《First Dates》(S)。1.10 《Vanderpump Rules》(S)。2.10 《Below Deck Down Under》(S)。3.00 《Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA》(S)。3.55 《The Simpsons》(S)。4.45 《The Goldbergs》(S)。5.35 《Brooklyn Nine-Nine》(S)。6.00 《Mornings》(R)。6.30 《Mornings》(R)。7.00 《Mornings With Ridge And Frost》(R)。7.30 《Mornings With Ridge And Frost》(R)。8.00 《Stargate SG-1》(R) (S)。9.00 《NCIS: Los Angeles》(R) (S)。10.00 《Will & Grace》(R) (S)。10.30 《Will & Grace》(R) (S)。11.00 《The Simpsons》(R) (S)。11.30 《The Simpsons》(R) (S)。12.00 《Big Cat Country》(R) (S)。1.00 《Hawaii Five-0》(R) (S)。2.00 《Hawaii Five-0》(R) (S)。3.00 《S.W.A.T》(R) (S)。4.00 《S.W.A.T》(R) (S)。5.00 《The Simpsons》(R) (S)。5.30 《The Simpsons》(R) (S)。6.00 《Animal Control》(R) (S)。6.30 《Animal Control》(R) (S)。7.00 《The Simpsons》巴特变成了一个大胆的滑板运动员 (R) (S)。7.30 《The Simpsons》(R) (S)。8.00 《Agatha Raisin》两部分之第一部分。由 Ashley Jensen 主演的推理剧回归 (R) (S)。9.00 《Agatha Raisin》两部分之第二部分。美容院案件继续 (R) (S)。10.00 《Last Week Tonight With John Oliver》回顾新闻和流行文化。10.45 《Animal Control》(R) (S)。11.15 《Animal Control》(R) (S)。11.45 《Grimm》一个可怕的新 Wesen 将目标对准了一个年轻家庭 (R) (S)。12.40 《The Force: Manchester》(R) (S)。1.35 《Road Wars》(R) (S)。2.00 《Best Medicine》(S)。3.00 《Hawaii Five-0》(R) (S)。4.00 《S.W.A.T》(R) (S)。5.00 《S.W.A.T》(R) (S)。6.00 《Fish Town》(R) (S)。7.00 《Fish Town》(R) (S)。8.00 《Billions》(R) (S)。9.05 《Billions》(R) (S)。10.15 《Task》(R) (S)。11.25 《Task》(R) (S)。12.30 《Homicide: Life On The Street》(R) (S)。1.30 《Homicide: Life On The Street》(R) (S)。2.30 《Billions》(R) (S)。3.35 《Billions》(R) (S)。4.40 《Task》(R) (S)。5.45 《Task》(R) (S)。6.50 《True Detective: Night Country》(R) (S)。7.55 《True Detective: Night Country》(R) (S)。9.00 《House Of The Dragon》由 Matt Smith 主演的《Game of Thrones》前传。10.15 《The Last Of Us》乔尔和艾莉即将完成旅程 (R) (S)。11.20 《Dune: Prophecy》戴斯蒙向科里诺皇帝坦白 (R) (S)。12.30 《Task》(R) (S)。1.40 《Task》(R) (S)。2.50 《Billions》(R) (S)。3.55 《Billions》(R) (S)。5.05 《The Guest Wing》(R) (S)。6.00 《George And Mildred》(S)。6.35 《George And Mildred》(S)。7.05 《Classic Emmerdale》(S)。7.40 《Classic Coronation Street》(S)。8.10 《Classic Coronation Street》(S)。9.10 《Agatha Christie’s Poirot》(S)。10.25 《Agatha Christie’s Poirot》(S)。11.30 《Heartbeat》(S)。12.35 《Heartbeat》(S)。1.35 《Midsomer Murders》(S)。3.35 《Classic Emmerdale》(S)。4.05 《Classic Emmerdale》(S)。4.40 《Classic Coronation Street》(S)。5.15 《Classic Coronation Street》(S)。5.50 《Heartbeat》(S)。6.55 《Heartbeat》默顿调查一个
长埋的秘密 (S)。 8.00 《米德萨默之杀》(Midsomer Murders) 一名女子在教堂墓地被刺身亡 (S)。 10.00 《格兰彻斯特》(Grantchester) 一位计算机实验室负责人死于汞中毒 (S)。 11.00 《格兰彻斯特》(Grantchester) (S)。 11.50 《审判与惩罚》(Trial & Retribution) (S)。 1.25 《威克利夫》(Wycliffe) (S)。 2.25 《与ITV一起放松》(Unwind With ITV) (S)。 2.30 电视购物
=== 《迷雾》(The Mist) 晚上 10.45, BBC One (弗兰克·达拉邦特, 2007) 由《肖申克的救赎》导演执导的另一部改编自斯蒂芬·金的小说：一部节奏明快、构思巧妙的怪物电影，触及了人们最原始的恐惧，讲述了小镇超市里的购物者在突如其来的浓雾笼罩时被围困的故事。
=== 《野兽》(Beast) 晚上 11.15, Film4 (巴尔萨萨·科马克, 2022) 伊德里斯·艾尔巴为这部虽离奇但有趣的生存惊悚片赋予了可信度和分量。影片讲述了一名医生和他的女儿们在南非进行野生动物之旅时，遇到几只体型巨大、愤怒且具有领地意识的 CGI 狮子的故事。
马格努森 (Magnusson) 获得了测验主持人的工作，以及她作为青少年成长时的经历，以及那些像“跳过”和“我已经开始了，所以我会把它完成”这样的口头禅如何经常被甩到她面前。随后是 1972 年首次决赛的重播，参赛者中有一位前布莱切利园 (Bletchley Park) 的密码破译员。
=== 《吉普赛妻子的秘密生活》(Secret Lives Of Gypsy Wives) 晚上 10.00, Channel 4 这家人在处理父亲西德 (Sid) 逝世周年纪念日——并决定为庄园举办一场宏大的篝火之夜活动以纪念他。与此同时，特鲁利 (Trewley) 参与了一次与化妆品公司的重大合作，并从她母亲那里得到了关于“严厉之爱”的意外教训。
BBC Radio 1 6.58am 新闻节 (Newsbeat) 7.00 与 Greg James 共度 Radio 1 早餐时间 11.00 Rickie, Melvin And Charlie 12.45pm 新闻节 (Newsbeat) 1.00 Matt And Jerry 3.30 新闻节 (Newsbeat) 3.33 与 Vick, Katie And Jamie 在 Radio 1 回家 5.45 新闻节 (Newsbeat) 6.00 Jack Saunders 的 Radio 1 新音乐秀 8.00 Sian Eleri 的 Radio 1 未来艺术家秀 10.00 Sian Eleri 的 Radio 1 舒缓播放列表 11.00 Daniel P Carter 的摇滚秀 1am Alyx Holcombe 在 Radio 1 介绍摇滚乐 2.00 Radio 1 金曲回顾 (Anthems) 4.00 Radio 1 流行金曲 (Pop Anthems) 5.00 与 Dean McCullough 共度 Radio 1 早早餐
BBC Radio 1Xtra 6.32am 1Xtra 播放列表 7.00 与 Nadia Jae 共度 1Xtra 早餐时间 10.00 DJ Day Day 12.45pm 新闻节 (Newsbeat) 1.00 Kaylee Golding 4.00 Remi Burgz 5.45 新闻节 (Newsbeat) 6.00 Remi Burgz 7.00 DJ Target 9.00 Manga Saint Hilare 11.00 Snoochie Shy 1am Chuckie 的 1Xtra R&B 秀 2.30 Chuckie 的 1Xtra R&B 慢歌混音 3.00 1Xtra 致敬秀 4.00 Jeremiah Asiamah 的 Get Lit 混音 4.30 回顾星期四 (Throwback Thursday) 5.30 1Xtra 回顾派对
BBC Radio 2 6.30am Sara Cox 早餐秀 9.30 Vernon Kay 12.00 Jeremy Vine 2.00 DJ Spoony 4.00 Joel Dommett 7.00 Jo Whiley 的闪亮快乐播放列表 7.30 Jo Whiley 9.00 Cerys Matthews 的蓝调秀 10.00 Melvin Odoom 的好节奏秀 (The Good Groove) 12.00 Connor Phillips 3.00 Vernon Kay 的 90 年代舞曲之声 4.00 Owain Wyn Evans
BBC Radio 3 6.30am 早餐节目 9.30 经典精选 1.00 现场古典乐 4.00 本周作曲家：莫扎特。Kate Molleson 通过塑造莫扎特的五段关系讲述了他的故事。 5.00 协调 (In Tune)。由钢琴家 Alexandra Dariescu 现场演奏。 7.00 2026 年 BBC 逍遥音乐会 (BBC Proms 2026)。皇家苏格兰国家管弦乐团演奏肖斯塔科维奇的《第 11 交响曲》。 10.00 夜间曲目 (Night Tracks)。为深夜聆听而设计的原声带。 11.30 午夜时分 (’Round Midnight)。Soweto Kinch 呈现最优秀的爵士乐。 12.30am 彻夜聆听
BBC Radio 4 6.00 Today 节目 9.00 越过红线 (Across The Red Line) 9.30 我们如何走到这一步？：没有世界秩序 (How Did We Get Here?: No World Order) 10.00 女性时间 (Woman’s Hour) 11.00 罪案背后 (Behind The Crime) 11.45 Tony Hawks 毫无保留 12.00 新闻 12.04 你与你的社区 (You And Yours) 12.57 天气预报 1.00 一点钟的世界 (The World At One) 1.45 基本需求 (The Bare Necessities) 2.00 the Archers 广播剧 2.15 独自一人 (Alone) 2.45
NatureBang 3.00 A Good Read 3.30 You’re Dead To Me 4.00 英国机器人军队 4.30 厨房内阁 5.00 PM 5.57 天气 6.00 六点新闻 6.30 Just A Minute。由 Paul Merton, Zoe Lyons, Catherine Bohart 和 Paterson Joseph 主持。 7.00 The Archers。Neil 发现自己忙得不可开交。 7.15 Front Row。艺术节目。 8.00 Briefing Room。关于合法移民、海外工作者和居留许可的政府政策。 8.30 BBC Inside Science。Tom Whipple 探讨外星生命的真实局限性。 9.00 Across The Red Line。Anne McElvoy 主持关于出生率下降的讨论。 9.30 How Did We Get Here?: No World Order。中国如何重塑其与国际体系的关系。 10.00 The World Tonight。由 James Coomarasamy 主持。 10.45 睡前读本：The Vicar Of Wakefield 11.00 Intimacy。Liza 与演员们建立了信任，但与 Gary 的紧张关系加深。 11.30 好莱坞与广告界
Five。五位英国导演对电影历史的影响。 12mdn’t 新闻与天气 12.30 Tony Hawks Is Giving Nothing Away 12.48 航运预报 1.00 切换至 BBC 全球服务 5.00 新闻摘要 5.04 英国机器人军队 5.32 天气 5.34 航运预报 5.43 今日祷告 5.45 今日农业 BBC Radio 4 Extra 6am Raffles 6.30 谁杀了 Aldrich Kemp? 7.00 Control Group Six 7.30 爸爸的军队 8.00 Dr Phil’s Bedside Manner 8.30 Following Pappano 8.45 小岛 9.00 Just A Minute 9.30 Taverna 背后 9.45 每日礼拜 10.00 屏幕截图 10.45 见证历史 11.00 Raffles 11.30 谁杀了 Aldrich Kemp? 12noon Control Group Six 12.30 爸爸的军队 1.00 Dr Phil’s Bedside Manner 1.30 Following Pappano 1.45 小岛 2.00 Wordaholics 2.30 另一个故事 3.00 当玛妮来这里 4.00 屏幕截图 4.45 见证历史 5.00 Raffles 5.30 谁杀了 Aldrich Kemp? 6.00 Control Group
Six 6.30 爸爸的军队 7.00 Dr Phil’s Bedside Manner 7.30 Following Pappano 7.45 小岛 8.00 Wordaholics 8.30 另一个故事 9.00 当玛妮来这里 10.00 喜剧俱乐部：Just A Minute 10.30 喜剧俱乐部：Listen Against 10.55 喜剧俱乐部：喜剧俱乐部访谈 11.00 喜剧俱乐部：Current- ish 11.30 喜剧俱乐部：The In Crowd 12mdn’t 屏幕截图 12.45 见证历史 1.00 Raffles 1.30 谁杀了 Aldrich Kemp? 2.00 Control Group Six 2.30 爸爸的军队 3.00 Dr Phil’s Bedside Manner 3.30 Following Pappano 3.45 小岛 4.00 Wordaholics 4.30 另一个故事 5.00 当玛妮来这里 BBC 5 Live 6am 5 Live 早餐节目 9.00 Nicky Campbell 11.00 Marianna Spring 2pm Matt Chorley 4.00 5 Live Drive 7.00 5 Live 体育：周一之夜俱乐部 9.00 5 Live 体育：5 Live 板球 10.00 Sarah Mulkerrins 1am Dotun Adebayo 5.00 财富唤醒 BBC 6 Music 7am Nick Grimshaw 10.00 Lauren
Laverne 1pm Craig Charles 4.00 Steve Lamacq 的下午茶时间 7.00 每日新音乐指南 9.00 Riley & Coe 11.00 6 Music 驻场艺术家：Ezra Collective 12mdn’t Oasis 在 BBC 1.00 Oasis Knebworth 现场 2.00 Oasis：发生了什么故事？ 3.00 Oasis：发生了什么故事？ 4.00 The Oasis 播放列表 Classic FM 6.30am Classic FM 早餐节目，由 Dan Walker 主持 9.00 Classic FM 名人堂小时，由 Dan Walker 主持 10.00 Aled Jones 1pm Anne-Marie Minhall 4.00 Margherita Taylor 7.00 与 Zeb Soanes 共度轻松夜晚 9.00 Classic FM 作曲家轮播，由 Zeb Soanes 主持。今日焦点是沃尔夫冈·阿玛德乌斯·莫扎特。 10.00 Calm Classics 1am Bill Overton 4.00 早早早餐 Absolute Radio 6am Dave Berry 10.00 Leona Graham 1pm Ben Burrell 4.00 Bush And Richie 7.00 Ben Coley 10.00 Jay Lawrence 1am Dan Noble Heart 6.30am Heart 早餐节目，由 Jamie Theakston 和 Amanda Holden 主持 10.00 Pandora Christie 1pm Matt
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Wilkinson 4.00 JK And Kelly Brook 7.00 Heart’s Feel Good Weekend With Dev Griffin 10.00 Ben Atkinson 1am Guy Howard 4.00 Early Breakfast With Lindsey Russell TalkSPORT 6am TalkSPORT Breakfast With Jeff Stelling 10.00 Jim White And Simon Jordan 1pm Hawksbee And Jacobs 4.00 TalkSPORT Drive 7.00 Kick Off 10.00 The Sports Bar 1am Extra Time With Paul Ross 5.00 Early Sports Breakfast Radio Vernon Kay 9.30am, BBC Radio 2 Vernon 欢迎音乐巨星 Phil Collins（见上图）来分享他的《我的岁月曲目》(Tracks Of My Years)。此外，还有所有常规的音乐和娱乐内容，包括 10.30am 的 Ten To The Top 音乐问答。
今日电影 《 Sing Sing 》 11.05pm, BBC Two (Greg Kwedar, 2023) 影片背景设定在 Sing Sing 最高安全级别惩教设施的“通过艺术康复”计划的一次戏剧演出排练期间，这可能是史上最触动情感的监狱电影。一名参与者将其描述为：“我们在这里是为了重新找回人性。”然而，触及内心感受或许能让他们成为更好的演员，但在排练室之外的“操场”上，由于暴力威胁无处不在，这实际上可能成为一种负担。Colman Domingo（左）与真实的前囚犯及该计划的成员共同出演，影片采用纪录片风格拍摄，充满信念、真实感和温情。
今日精选 8.55 Heir Hunters (S). 10.00 Four In A Bed (S). 10.35 Four In A Bed (S). 11.05 Four In A Bed (S). 11.35 Four In A Bed (S). 12.10 Four In A Bed (S). 12.40 Come Dine With Me (S). 1.10 Come Dine With Me (S). 1.40 Come Dine With Me (S). 2.15 Come Dine With Me (S). 2.50 Come Dine With Me (S). 3.20 Four In A Bed (S). 3.50 Four In A Bed (S). 4.20 Four In A Bed (S). 4.50 Four In A Bed (S). 5.20 Four In A Bed (S). 5.50 Car S.O.S (S). 6.50 Car S.O.S (S). 7.55 Grand Designs 在德里郡 (Co Derry) 一个农场上用集装箱建造的房屋 (S). 9.00 Bill Bailey’s Vietnam 本系列最后一集 (S). 10.00 24 Hours In A&E (S). 11.00 24 Hours In A&E (S). 12.05 999: On The Front Line (S). 1.05 24 Hours In A&E (S). 2.10 24 Hours In A&E (S). 3.15 A Place In The Sun (S). 3.45 Close
点播 《我，克劳狄斯》(I, Claudius) BBC iPlayer 德里克·雅各比 (Derek Jacobi) 主演的 1976 年 BBC 经典改编剧。
《芝加哥警局》(Chicago PD) Netflix 这部以“风之城”为背景的美国警察程序剧的所有季数。
《天空之恐：阻止液体炸弹阴谋》(Terror In The Skies: Stopping The Liquid Bomb Plot) ITVX 揭秘挫败 2006 年恐怖袭击的行动内幕。
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新闻 全景 全球 10 大故事 印度尼西亚 爪哇海岸渡轮起火 5 人死亡 41 人失踪 作者：Niniek Karmii 和 Edna Tarigan 在印度尼西亚 官员表示，昨日一艘搭载 271 人的印度尼西亚渡轮在爪哇主岛附近海域起火，造成至少 5 人死亡，数十人失踪；救援人员和过往船只从燃烧的船上疏散了数百人。 印度尼西亚国家搜索与救援局（Basarnas）称，Mutiara Sentosa 2 渡轮当时正从东爪哇的印度尼西亚第二大城市泗水前往南苏拉威西省的望加锡，船上载有 232 名乘客和 39 名船员。起火发生于上午 6 点至 7 点之间，地点位于苏门拿普县（Sumenep regency）附近海域。 Basarnas 表示，渡轮运营商 PT Atosim Lampung Pelayaran 在约一小时后向泗水搜索与救援办公室报告了该起事件。该局称，公司收到渡轮船长的消息，称船只在马都罗岛（Madura island）北端附近起火，但随后失去了联系。 截至上午 9.45，当局在与附近的货轮 Meratus Project 3 通讯后确定，该渡轮位于布鲁安·萨普迪岛（Buruan Sapudi island）以北约 19 海里处。由于 Meratus Project 3 载有易燃货物，无法靠近燃烧的船只。 Basarnas 发布的画面显示，渡轮一侧（插图）冒出浓浓黑烟，并蔓延至船体大部分区域。社交媒体上流传的视频显示，惊恐的乘客（大多穿着救生衣）聚集在甲板和船只上方区域等待救援，部分人在火焰和黑烟升起时跳入海中。 据报道，渡轮几乎被火焰吞没，乘客聚集在驾驶台和船头。
一艘拖船和另一艘过往船只在上午 10 点前抵达并开始疏散乘客。截至昨日下午，几艘附近船只成功救援了 225 名乘客和船员，并寻获 5 具遗体。 仍有至少 41 人下落不明。 印度尼西亚是一个由 17,000 多个岛屿组成的群岛国家，渡轮是常用的交通方式。由于安全执法力度薄弱，此类灾难经常发生。美联社 美国 特朗普抨击撤销水池损坏指控的决定 作者：Aamer Madhani 和 Matthew Daly 在华盛顿 美国检察官珍宁·皮罗（Jeanine Pirro）评估认为，林肯纪念馆反思池的损坏是由于施工质量低劣而非特朗普所声称的破坏者所为，总统唐纳德·特朗普对此提出了严厉批评。 皮罗的办公室在周五提交的一份法院文件中，撤销了对前奥运选手大卫·赫恩（David Hearn）的刑事指控。赫恩被指控在水池为上月国家 250 岁生日庆典进行翻修后对其造成损坏。 在社交媒体上，特朗普承认在安装新水池衬垫时“可能存在一些承包商困难”。 但他继续坚持认为“主要损坏是由破坏者造成的！” “我 100% 不同意珍宁·皮罗的观点，”特朗普在帖文中补充道。 此次撤诉对司法部来说是一个尴尬的挫折，此前司法部曾呼应特朗普的说法，并将此次起诉宣传为对华盛顿地标损坏行为的追责。 皮罗（插图）决定撤案，也是特朗普第二任期内，其助手或政治任命官员公开违抗他的罕见时刻。 总统在未提供任何明确新证据的情况下，周六继续指称水池的大部分损坏是由破坏者造成的。 政府
律师表示，内政部提供的额外文件显示，损坏是由一名承包商在安装时出错以及“为了在 America 250 庆祝活动之前匆忙完成项目”而导致的。美联社
爱尔兰 美国总统欧洲之行聚焦高尔夫 作者：Claudia Savage 美国总统唐纳德·特朗普预计将在 9 月访问爱尔兰，行程至少为期两天。此次行程将包括访问克莱尔郡，预计他将在其位于杜恩贝格的球场参加爱尔兰公开赛高尔夫锦标赛。预计他还将访问都柏林，但细节尚未最终确定。 在 2023 年上一次访问爱尔兰时，特朗普在杜恩贝格受到了热情欢迎，当地人挥舞着美国国旗，有些人戴着 Maga 帽子。但他在 2019 年在任期间的上次访问引发了气候变化、左翼、支持巴勒斯坦、支持选择权、反种族主义和反战活动人士的抗议，他们在都柏林升起了“特朗普婴儿飞艇”。 PA
作者：Sam McKeith 在悉尼 澳大利亚政府为其全球首创的禁止 16 岁以下儿童使用社交媒体的禁令进行了辩护，尽管最新数据表明，这一里程碑式政策所面临的挑战规模巨大。 在此辩护前一天，该国互联网监管机构发现，在限制措施生效三个月后，仍有超过 8 成 10 至 15 岁的澳大利亚儿童在使用社交媒体，这凸显了监管一个已编织进日常生活的数字化世界的难度。 澳大利亚在 12 月引入了该禁令，原因是担心社交媒体对儿童身心健康的影响。这一禁令受到海外密切关注，并遭到了总部主要位于美国的社交媒体公司的批评。 负责生产力、竞争、慈善事业及 Treasury 的助理部长 Andrew Leigh 认为，该禁令已经重塑了全国性的辩论。 路透社
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带来微笑…… 在土耳其内夫舍希尔省戈雷梅镇举行的第七届卡帕多基亚国际热气球节期间，热气球腾空而起。 CAGLA GURDOGAN / 路透社
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秘鲁 纳斯卡附近飞机失事造成 13 人死亡 作者：Steven Grattan 发自波哥大 当地当局表示，周六在秘鲁城市纳斯卡市外的一片田野中，一架搭载欧洲游客前往观看著名的纳斯卡线的飞机失事，造成 13 人死亡。 纳斯卡市政府表示，该飞机从附近的伊卡市起飞，由秘鲁公司 Aerodiana 运营。 纳斯卡线是由秘鲁原住民在数百年前在纳斯卡周围的沙漠中刮刻出的一组地画。这些线条形成了动物图像，只能从飞机或观景塔上完整地欣赏。 死者中包括七名意大利公民、两名西班牙人和两名德国人。另外两名遇难者为飞行员和副驾驶。 美联社
作者：Rajendra Jadhav 发任孟买 印度总理纳伦德拉·莫迪表示，他希望原谅上个月在抗议活动中对他大声辱骂的学生，称惩罚他们并强迫他们多次出庭对局面没有帮助。 在国家考试试卷泄露导致 200 万名学生被迫重新考试后，莫迪第三任期内最大的政治危机在 7 月达到顶峰，这引发了人们对年轻印度人缺乏机会的愤怒。 在部分示威者与安全部队发生冲突并向莫迪喊出侮辱性口号后，当局对数百名示威者提起诉讼。 “这些是被误导的孩子。为他们指明正确的道路是我们的职责。我想原谅他们，”莫迪说。 路透社 印度 莫迪“原谅”抗议者的侮辱行为
美国 餐厅枪击事件造成 3 人死亡 作者：Rebecca Boone, Martha Bellisle 和 Sarah Raza 发自爱达荷州 双子城一名发言人表示，在爱达荷州南部的一家 In-N-Out Burger 餐厅发生枪击事件，造成 3 人死亡，另有 7 人受伤，其中部分人员伤势严重。 双子城公共信息官员 Josh Palmer 表示，周六下午响应枪击事件的警察在餐厅附近发现了疑似枪手的尸体。 他不清楚该嫌疑人是否被计入死亡人数。 Palmer 表示，官员们仍在努力通知受害者的家属，因此尚未公布枪击事件中受伤者的姓名、年龄或其他细节。 他补充说，部分受伤人员目前处于危急状态。 美联社
作者：Eduardo Castillo 发自北京 随着与菲律宾的领土紧张局势升级，中国在周末于南海争议海域的南沙群岛黄岩岛附近进行了军事演习。 据国家广播电视台 CCTV 报道，在被中国称为黄岩岛、菲律宾称为 Panatag Shoal 的礁石附近进行的联合海空演习，测试了军队协调海空作战及提供快速增援的能力。 此次演习是在北京批评马尼拉试图扩大其在南海海床权利之后进行的。南海是至关重要的全球贸易路线，拥有丰富的天然气和石油储量，中国主张对其几乎全部拥有主权。 上周，菲律宾向联合国提交申请，旨在将其海床扩展至包括该争议礁石。 解放军南部战区表示：“菲律宾方面划定的所谓黄岩岛领海基线非法无效。” 中国还发布了一套关于去年在黄岩岛周围设立的自然保护区的规则。 该规定禁止未经授权的捕鱼、采矿和采集珊瑚。 中国海警在争议海域频繁与菲律宾水手对峙。
海域。美联社 南中国海 北京在与马尼拉有争议的区域进行演习。菲律宾海岸警卫队上周出现在南中国海。
明信片来自……加利福尼亚州 在上周末举行的年度世界狗狗冲浪锦标赛上，顶尖的狗狗们在海浪中穿梭，数百名观众在北加州的一处海滩上为它们欢呼——并发出吠叫。从小型西班牙猎犬到大型拉布拉多，这些犬类根据其在冲浪板上停留的时间、波浪大小以及自信心等因素进行评判。这项比赛在帕西菲卡举行，距离旧金山以南约 14 英里，今年已进入第 10 年，活动还包括宠物领养活动以及为当地动物慈善机构筹款。这些狗狗穿着色彩鲜艳的救生衣，在冲浪板上准备就绪，并在人类参与者的协助下寻找最佳海浪将冲浪板带回海滩。每次成功的冲浪都引发观众的阵阵掌声和欢呼。
索菲亚·萨德洛夫斯基在她的迷你杜宾犬 Rusty 还是幼犬时，第一次把它放在冲浪板上以拍摄有趣的照片。“然后……它就不想下来了，”来自加州亨廷顿海滩的萨德洛夫斯基说道。“我走向海滩，把它放在一个浪头上面，它就冲了上去。”小型、中型和大型犬在小组赛中竞争，随后每组得分最高的动物将争夺最高奖项。当天还包括双人赛，由多只犬类或犬类与人类共用一块冲浪板。Rusty 的救生衣是绿色动物印花，背上顶着一个鲨鱼鳍，它的护目镜给人的印象是它在小型犬和双人犬比赛中是一个凶猛的竞争者。萨德洛夫斯基表示，Rusty 在四个月大时参加了它的第一次冲浪比赛。她和她的爱犬都曾患癌，但现在已经痊愈。“它当时四个月大，获得了第三名。”萨德洛夫斯基说，“从那时起我们就一直在冲浪。我们对此着迷了。”
四足参赛者在加州帕西菲卡冲浪。 Liz Perkins
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一场激烈的争论……为什么男性在炎热天气中表现更好。凯蒂·斯特里克发现今年夏天的日常生活更加艰难，而她的伴侣却毫无压力。她找到了原因。
现在是早上6点，我正粘在床单上，大脑昏沉，在经历了又一个失眠之夜后，努力地鼓起勇气让自己走到浴室，心中纳闷还需要多少周电风扇才会重新到货。我身边放着一个半解冻的水瓶——这是凌晨2点加入的最新装备，只能将其描述为一项涉及电解质片、冰毛巾和每天多次冷水浴的“军事化抗暑行动”。我在镜中看到自己的脸，经过数周几乎失眠且运动量大减的生活，脸部显得浮肿，而此时我的男朋友宣布他要去跑10公里。他昨晚喝了三品脱啤酒，外面已经 26°C 了，但他似乎毫不受影响。前几天，在去参加婚礼的路上，我的妆容正缓缓地从脸上脱落，他告诉我他其实觉得 35°C 的日子相当惬意。
我到达仪式现场时，浑身大汗，由于乘坐地铁而感到烦躁且眩晕，并加入了一群女性宾客的队列，在空调机旁重新调整我们的无肩带胸罩，而我们的男性伴侣则去了酒吧。我记得看着他们穿着西装，聊着工作和单身派对，心想如果能乘坐一种温度超过牲畜合法运输限值的交通工具而依然看起来精神抖擞，那得是什么感觉。他们和我们经历的是同一场热浪吗？
结果表明，可能并非如此——这背后有科学解释，这让我的女性好友群感到宽慰。过去几周，我们一直在交流关于丈夫和男朋友们怎么能照常生活、在羽绒被下睡觉，而我们却在恐慌性购买颈挂风扇并瘫坐在椅子上的故事。一位朋友说她预订了希腊的假期，仅仅是为了能躺在空调房里。另一位则说服了她的丈夫把暑假花在外赫布里底群岛，因为她无法忍受花钱去一个更热的地方。
这种解释部分与女性的激素水平以及身体对热量的反应有关。根据一项 2025 年发表在《建筑与环境》（Building and Environment）杂志上的研究，女性分泌的汗液较少，且出汗的起始温度较高，这意味着女性在身体开始高效冷却之前会保留更多热量。同一项研究发现，女性的体脂率通常高于男性，并且在月经周期的某些阶段，核心体温略高，这提供了一个额外的绝缘层——许多女性在裙子下套上防磨短裤时，可能咒骂过这个令人沮丧的生物学现实。
除此之外，NHS全科医生尼哈特·阿里夫博士表示，女性激素的波动显然会让大脑的体温调节系统“失调”，她将热浪称为女性心血管系统的一次“压力测试”。换句话说，如果你觉得热浪已经很糟糕了，请试着在经前几天经历它，那时上升的孕酮会推高你身体的恒温设定点。
“排卵后，我们的体温会升高几分之几度，”专攻女性健康的GP尼基·拉姆斯基尔博士说。这听起来可能不多，但它会影响你的整体适应能力。“如果你天生体温就较高，那么任何让你感到更热的事情都会破坏这种平衡。平时你能耐受的事情——比如喝杯茶、吃点辛辣食物——可能会突然让你体温失衡，因为你的容忍度降低了。”
“韧性。”因此，热浪对女性的打击比对男性更严重也就不足为奇了——而且这还没有考虑到那些正处于怀孕、绝经或围绝经期等重大激素波动阶段的女性。像 PMOS（经前综合征）、子宫内膜异位症和子宫腺肌症（我患有这些疾病）这类痛苦的激素相关疾病，也会降低女性应对热浪的韧性。Ramskill 表示：“所有这些情况都会影响我们应对各种事情的总体能力。如果我们因为疼痛而睡眠质量不佳，那么第二天我们在高温环境下的感受和应对能力都不会好。”
或许这可以解释为什么，当我在[旅行] 太阳食 下周观看这一罕见天文事件的英国最佳地点 [评论] “阿波罗现场” 我们的首席文化作家分析为何该喜剧演出终于落下帷幕 [生活方式] Katie Strick 与她的男友；她说英国的热浪破坏了她的睡眠，但她的男友觉得 35°C 的日子‘相当惬意’
2026 年 8 月 3 日，星期一，当我还在纠结是否能面对走到健身房进行一次温和的重量训练时，我的男朋友已经在记录另一次长时间的户外跑步了。专注于女性健康的健康教练杰拉尔丁·乔金斯（Geraldine Joaquim）表示，现代生活在热浪袭击时也毫无帮助。“如今我们生活在一种持续的慢性压力状态中，这让我们不断分泌皮质醇。这同样会升高我们的体温，因为身体的所有部位都必须更加努力地工作，”她说。压力水平因人而异，但对许多女性来说，还存在额外的影响因素：首先，是必须规划并适应 28 天周期以及不断变化的身体所带来的压力。“无论你是并不想要孩子、想要孩子，还是在产后——女性必须比男性更加关注自己的身体，”乔金斯说。此外，社会压力要求女性对自己的身体保持沉默。 “那个古老的说法，男人流汗，马也流汗，但女士们只是‘渗汗’（perspire）；女性应该在生活中始终散发光芒——这一切都增加了一种感觉，即如果女性面色通红或出汗，就应该感到尴尬。尴尬也是一种压力，”她补充道。那么，有没有办法解决这一切呢？拉姆斯基尔（Ramskill）表示，不幸的是，并没有灵丹妙药或万能的解决方案。标准的短期冷却技巧会有所帮助——在冷冻柜里放一块布；投资设计用于降温的床上用品；把冻水瓶带到床上。乔金斯告诉她的所有客户，最危险的词是“应该”。关于热浪期间的时尚建议固然很好，但对于你来说，在炎热天气中身体真正感觉舒适的是什么？而且，仅仅因为你的男性伴侣在今天早上工作前完成了 10 公里跑，你就真的应该在 35°C 的日子里去跑步吗？如果这次跑步只会增加一个已经处于压力状态的身体的负担，那么就不要去。“你的体能不会在一夜之间消失。与其出去跑步，不如在室内做一些瑜伽或重量训练。”然而，比所有这些建议更重要的，是保持交流。“听取他人的故事能获得很大的认可感，而讨论这件事——理想情况下是以轻松的方式——可以减轻一部分压力。”换句话说，下次你的男朋友宣布他其实很享受这种天气时，请克制住把冻水瓶扔向他的冲动，并对此付之一笑。继续在 WhatsApp 上向你的女性朋友发送那些颈挂风扇的表情包吧。这或许能帮你冷静下来。
酥皮预期：廉价可颂与超市最优质产品并列 苏菲·莫里斯（Sophie Morris）在货架间寻找这种简单而颓靡的经典早餐的佳作
可颂配咖啡是我一直以来最喜欢的早餐之一。对我来说，这不是一种匆忙的快餐：我喜欢坐下来享用它，部分是出于对如此美味糕点的敬意，但主要是因为我预期自己会被黄油碎片淋满全身。据说可颂起源于奥地利。它们是理想的即食餐点，一种准备工作少且愉悦感高的早餐。当人们谈论像可颂这样的食物充满了“空”热量或缺乏营养时，我会为他们担心。确实，它们往往含有高脂肪（因为充满了黄油），但这正是它们味道如此之好的原因。虽然每天早上去精品面包店会很棒，但这并不现实。相反，我正在尝试超市的高端系列包装可颂。它们全部由黄油制成，通常含量为 25%，但在 Sainsbury's 和 M&S 的版本中可达 29%，在 Waitrose 的版本中则为 33%。每个的价格从 50 便士到 £1 不等，每包两个或四个，
通常保质期在三或四天。我将它们放在一起进行了盲测。虽然获胜者——Waitrose（其牛角面包的价格是其他品牌的两倍）——一点也不让我意外，但亚军的名字绝对是我没想到的。
M&S 4 全黄油牛角面包 £2 / 每个 50p 这款看起来更像长方形而非牛角形，两边都有点被挤扁了。没关系，因为我就是喜欢雪茄形状的牛角面包。外观色泽金黄，虽然不算特别酥脆，但内部有一些层叠的旋涡。口感有点太软，虽然最后能尝到淡淡的黄油味，但整体而言，黄油味对我来说太淡了。 3 / 5
Tesco Finest 4 全黄油牛角面包 £2.50 / 每个 62p 形状几乎完美得过头，色泽金黄，表面有一些零星的碎皮。内部有蓬松的螺旋层，但这款牛角面包味道淡，且相当软塌。 2 / 5
Sainsbury’s Taste the Difference 4 黄油牛角面包 £2.40 / £2（Nectar会员价） / 每个 60p 这些牛角面包的颜色比大多数都要深一些，相比之下其他品牌看起来像金黄色。内部的层叠大多挤在了一起，但确实存在。在味道方面，我几乎尝不出什么。 2 / 5
Waitrose No 1, 2 黄油牛角面包 £2（通常为 £2.50） / 每个 £1 仅凭外观它们就脱颖而出，色泽亮金，外部非常酥脆。它们看起来和闻起来更像我在面包店里能找到的产品，而且它们是唯一一家以两只装销售的高端超市，这使得它们的价格几乎是其他品牌的两倍。层叠在口中融化而非变得蓬松，黄油味近乎浓郁。令人印象深刻。 4.5 / 5
Morrisons The Best 4 全黄油牛角面包 £2.50 / 每个 63p 这些牛角面包呈深棕色，外部有一些碎皮，味道有点干。内部可以看到一些层叠，但层与层之间黏在一起了。味道非常淡。 2.5 / 5
Aldi Specially Selected 全黄油牛角面包 £2.09 / 每个 52p 外部呈深棕色且酥脆感令人满意，闻起来也很香。撕开时是酥脆的碎片而非海绵状的块状，味道轻盈且带有黄油香。 4 / 5
Asda Exceptional 4 全黄油牛角面包 £2.38 / 每个 60p 外观上，这些更像是一根粗长的雪茄而非牛角面包，但我并不介意，因为我一直很喜欢直形点心。外部有一些诱人的碎皮，但撕开时相当紧实。内部有层叠，但同样相当紧实。最后能尝到淡淡的黄油味。
口味测试 女性通常必须比男性更关注自己的身体 根据一项 2025 年的研究，女性产生的汗液较少，且在更高的温度下才开始出汗，这意味着在身体开始高效自我冷却之前，她们能保留更多的热量。 GETTY NEWS 4-33 观点 18-22 电视 26-31 生活 34-37 文化 38-41 金钱 42-44 体育 47-56
Aldi 的 Specially Selected 牛角面包（左）酥脆、轻盈且带有黄油香；Tesco Finest 的选择在 Sophie 看来太像海绵了。
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星期一 2026 年 8 月 3 日 Megan Eaves 将进行一次不同寻常的“追阳”之旅，因为下周天空将呈现一场罕见的奇观。8 月 12 日，西欧将出现一次日食。尽管英国恰好处于全食带之外，但该国许多地区将经历 89% 至 96% 的太阳覆盖率。当月球运行到地球和太阳之间，在地球表面的一部分投下阴影并遮挡太阳光几分钟时，就会发生日食。英国下一次日全食要等到 2090 年 9 月 23 日才会发生，因此苏格兰皇家天文学家 Catherine Heymans 建议观看今年的这一盛况。她说：“实时体验天体的运行，见证你、月球和太阳三者完美排列的罕见短暂时刻，感觉就像魔法一样。”今年的日食将于下午 6.15 左右开始，晚上 8 点后不久结束。您需要身处高地或海滨，以便能够开阔地看到低矮的西面地平线。兴奋之情在日落后并未结束。今年的日食恰逢英仙座流星雨的高峰期，这是入夜后观看流星的最佳机会。
如何安全观看 切勿直视太阳，即使是在部分或全部被遮挡时，否则有永久性损害眼睛的风险。普通的太阳镜无法提供保护；您需要从可靠来源购买通过 ISO 认证的日食眼镜。根据 UKeclipse.com 的 Neill Sanders 称，安全的日食眼镜应符合国际安全标准 ISO 12312-2。“该标准规定了用于直接观察太阳的滤光片的各项要求。符合此标准的眼镜能将阳光降低到安全水平，并阻挡有害的紫外线和红外线辐射。信誉良好的制造商在产品交付给消费者之前，会对其进行测试以确保符合这些严格要求。”英国购买日食眼镜的可靠来源包括皇家天文台 (shop.rmg.co.uk)、First Light Optics (firstlightoptics.com) 和 Sollunae (sollunae.com)。或者，您可以使用一张戳了孔的卡纸制作针孔相机，将日食的阴影投射在地面上。皇家天文学会执行副主任 Robert Massey 表示，由于英国距离日食中心线相当近，您可能会体验到一些奇怪的现象。“例如，您会看到阴影的质量发生变化，如果您举起手，可能会发现手指末端挂着这些奇怪的小新月形阴影。光线也可能呈现出一种奇怪的紫色调。”
哪里最接近全食带 由于地球是圆的，且月球的阴影在地球表面移动，因此日食在不同观测地呈现出的景象略有不同。因此，准确的时间根据您的位置而有所差异。您可以在 timeanddate.com 上进行计算。最高覆盖率将出现在锡利群岛，而康沃尔大陆和英格兰西南部将看到高达 95% 的覆盖率——这是在英国最接近全食带的地方。任何面向西方的海岸线都将提供合适的观测点。
在伦敦观看 伦敦将经历约 91% 的覆盖率，但由于太阳位置较低，建筑物可能会成为显著的障碍。为了获得最佳视角，请寻找可以向西远眺的山顶或建筑物，例如布莱克希斯 (Blackheath) 或汉普顿宫 (Hampton Court Palace)。
傍晚时分可进行星空观测和英仙座流星捕捉 观看今年日食的最佳地点
或者普里姆罗斯山（Primrose Hill）。布伦特区的弗赖恩特乡村公园（Fryent Country Park）内的戈特福德山（Gotford’s Hill），以及刘易舍姆区的布莱斯山（Blythe Hill）也拥有极佳的观测高点。您也可以尝试在泰晤士河上的桥梁或顶楼场所观看。西南伦敦天文学家协会将在图廷康蒙（Tooting Common）举办一场观测活动，并提供太阳望远镜和日食眼镜。劳顿天文学会将在钦福德（Chingford）附近的贝里路停车场（Bury Road Car Park）举办一场免费活动。法尔茅斯的吉林加瓦斯海滩（Gyllyngvase Beach）也是观看日食的好地方。
英国各地的活动 英国各地的许多天文台、天文学会和场所都在举行特别活动。以下是部分亮点；请访问 ukeclipse.com 查看更详尽的名单。
莱斯特 国家空间中心正在举办一项活动，包含安全的日食观测、天文馆表演、现场天文学讲解和家庭活动。
汉普셔 福丁桥天文学家协会将在福丁桥康乐场（Fordingbridge Recreation Grounds，日食覆盖率为 93%）举办一场免费活动，随后在入夜后举行“英仙座野餐”以观测流星雨。
诺森伯兰郡 巴特尔斯泰兹天文台（Battlesteads Observatory）将举行一场特别观测活动，见证 90-92% 的覆盖率。傍晚将进行星空观察和英仙座流星搜寻。
萨默塞特郡 波特洛克（Portlock）附近的博辛顿大厅（Bossington Hall）提供包含住宿、早餐和日食观测的套餐，附赠一杯起泡酒和日食眼镜，以及流星搜寻活动。
康沃尔郡 作为法尔茅斯周（Falmouth Week）节日的一部分，皇家海军跳伞表演队、飞行同伴（Flying Comrades）和 AeroSuperBatics 翼上行走者将在日食发生时，于 6.15pm 开始进行飞行表演。覆盖率将达到 95%，法尔茅斯的观测点包括彭登尼斯城堡（Pendennis Castle）、吉林加瓦斯海滩以及法尔茅斯酒店的草坪。
爱丁堡 爱丁堡天文学会在卡尔顿山（Calton Hill）的旧城市天文台（覆盖率为 91%）将举办一场日食观测派对。
格拉摩根郡 布里金德天文学会在波斯考尔（Porthcawl）的休息湾（Rest Bay）将举办一场免费活动，届时有机会与天文学家交流，并观测约 93% 覆盖率的日食。
阿马区 阿马天文台与天文馆正在举办“日食家庭欢乐日”，以及在星际公园（Astropark，位于场内的一个宇宙比例模型）进行日食观测，覆盖率约为 94%。
展望未来 如果您对这次日食产生了兴趣，最快在明年夏天就能体验另一次——但需要前往更远的地方。2027, 8月 2日 将发生 21 世纪最长的陆地全日食，在埃及卢克索附近持续时间可达 6 分 23 秒。阿尔及利亚、直布罗陀、摩洛哥、沙特阿拉伯和突尼斯的部分地区也处于全食带内。《新科学家》（New Scientist）提供日食主题旅行；一个为期 12 天的摩洛哥之旅，包括在里夫山脉（Rif Mountains）偏远地区由专家引导的日食观测，价格每人 £5,499 起，7月 30日 2027. 出发。
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乘坐风格列车：埃尼德·马克思（Enid Marx）是受命为地铁设计图案的设计师之一。弗洛伦斯·哈莱特（Florence Hallett）探讨了她的标志性作品及其深远影响。对于伦敦地铁座椅面料的设计师来说，能有效地掩盖污垢一直是一项长期且不可妥协的要求，这并不令人惊讶。你甚至可能会好奇，为什么这座首都如此固执地抵制其他城市所青睐的易擦拭座椅。答案至少部分可以在沃里克郡（Warwickshire）的康普顿·弗尼（Compton Verney）找到，那里正在举办一场关于埃尼德·马克思的展览——这位艺术家兼设计师在 1930 年代和 1940 年代设计的独特地铁座椅面料，使伦敦交通公司成为了英国风格中一个意想不到的标杆。
当马克思在 1936 年引起克里斯蒂安·巴曼（Christian Barman）的注意时，她已经是一位颇有地位的设计师。巴曼是伦敦乘客运输委员会的宣传员，正如马克思所言，他是“列车的室内设计师”。巴曼在独树一帜的弗兰克·皮克（Frank Pick）的领导下工作，皮克在 1933 年监督成立了伦敦交通公司，将这座城市分散的公共交通服务整合为一个统一的实体。皮克负责其品牌形象的所有方面：他委任了至今仍在使用的约翰斯顿（Johnston）字体、 1920 年代著名的海报、伦敦地铁的圆形标志以及哈里·贝克（Harry Beck）著名的地铁图。
“莫凯特”（Moquette）——这种耐磨的、类似地毯的织物至今仍被用于巴士和地铁座椅——早在 1920 年代就已在公共交通中使用。对于巴曼和皮克来说，设计是创建服务于世界大都市之首的现代化交通网络的不可或缺的一部分，因此他开始委任一批著名的艺术家设计师来生产定制的座椅面料。其中就包括埃尼德·马克思，她此前已因其木刻印花连衣裙和室内装饰面料而闻名，这些作品既借鉴了英国手工艺传统，也吸纳了来自整个帝国各地的资源。
在 1922 和 1925 年间就读于皇家艺术学院期间，马克思属于一个卓越且定义时代的艺术家群体，其中包括埃里克·拉维利奥斯（Eric Ravilious）、爱德华·鲍登（Edward Bawden）、约翰·派珀（John Piper）和亨利·摩尔（Henry Moore）。巴曼在要求上非常严苛，要求设计师避免马克思所谓的“眩晕感”（dazzle），即一种可能导致晕车感的闪烁效果。几何图案的盛行部分原因在于它们对眼睛的影响更为平和，且颜色经过仔细考虑，绿色因其镇静特性而成为首选。红色被认为能提供能量，两者的结合则提供了一种稳定的平衡。颜色的选择还受到莫凯特织物本身的影响，因为它具有绒毛，会使同一颜色在不同区域看起来截然不同。
光线也是一个考量因素，马克思回忆起 1930 年代的一种普遍观点，即“地铁列车的灯光应该是粉色的，这样女士们看起来才最漂亮”。马克思共有四款设计被用于地铁，其中第一款是流畅的“盾牌”（Shield）图案，于 1938 和 1948 年间安装在贝克卢线（Bakerloo line）和北线（Northern line）上。其对比鲜明但克制的色彩赋予了“盾牌”一种紧凑的平面视觉感，但实际上它是她较为有机（organic）的设计之一，延续了她早期的、包含重复抽象图案的面料设计。除了在英国博物馆的民族志收藏中寻找来自尼日利亚、加纳和中东的设计范例外，马克思还参考了离家更近的工艺美术实例。剩下的三款设计全部符合网格结构
图案，从 1940 年起用于大都会线（Metropolitan）和区域线（District）的色调柔和但图形大胆的 Bel-size，到大约同一时期引入的 Brent 的方形和菱形构图。马克斯最重要的创新之一是确定了大胆而非柔和的色彩在掩盖污垢方面最有效，且包括 Shield 在内的设计通常以多种配色方案制造，包括红色和绿色。由于她习惯于小规模的手工制造，向工厂生产的过渡并不容易，她发现其中一些设计在这一过程中受到了影响。Chevron 是战后用于皮卡迪利线（Piccadilly）和中央线（Central）的另一种网格设计，它对颜色的改变反应不佳，结果产生了令人厌恶的“眩目”效果。但总的来说，巴曼认为马克斯的抽象图案具有天然的适应性。
正图：在工作中的埃尼德·马克斯；右上，Shield 设计的草图和织物样本；右侧，展览：埃尼德·马克斯遗产；伦敦交通博物馆收藏 从左上角起顺时针方向：1996 年禧年线车厢；贝克卢线（Bakerloo）；1992 年中央线；目前的中央线；环线（Circle）、大都会线、区域线和汉默史密斯 & 城市线（Hammersmith & City）；伊丽莎白线（Elizabeth line）TFL
今日文化金句 “我收到我养母发来的一条信息，说：‘你很棒，但安妮·海瑟薇？她简直太惊人了’。” ——萨曼莎·莫顿，《奥德赛》女演员在谈到对其合作演员的赞美，以及自己并没有“自满”时所说。
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Jazz Sessions Volume 3: The Truth The James Taylor Trio 这标志着酸派爵士乐（acid jazz）之星詹姆斯·泰勒（James Taylor）作为独奏艺术家的 40 周年纪念。在他曾是成员的小众乐队 The Prisoners 于 1986 年分道扬镳后，他于同年晚些时候以 James Taylor Quartet 之名录制了首支单曲——翻唱自赫比·汉考克（Herbie Hancock）的《Blow Up》。该专辑收录了对文斯·瓜拉尔迪（Vince Guaraldi）的《Lucy & Linus》和《Thus Sprach Zarathustra》的演绎，以及极具启发性的同名主打歌，以及充满宇宙爵士风格的《Aref’s Space》。 Acid Jazz
Who Asked? Domi & JD Beck 来自法国的 Domi Louna 和德克萨斯原产的 JD Beck 令人期待已久的第二张专辑。在获得包括爵士二人组首张专辑（2022 年的《Not Tight》）获得“最佳新进艺术家”在内的两项格莱美奖提名后，《Who Asked?》标志着一次方向上的转变。它集结了一支由资深古典音乐家组成的小型弦乐团，展示了这对组合极其独特、超极繁主义且惊人美丽的管弦乐构思。 Blue Note
设计可能会变成一个座椅套，或者由私人收藏家将其装裱成单件艺术品”。她收藏的一把谢克尔椅（Shaker chair）的红绿编织座面被纳入展览，以展示它如何启发了马克斯（Marx）的绒面织物（moquette）设计。这些设计几乎全部是抽象的，因为她认为花卉图案对于地铁来说过于家居化，不合适。另一位令人惊讶的 Barman 招募对象是保罗·纳什（Paul Nash），他更以风景画家、超现实主义者和战争艺术家的身份为人所知。他同时也是马克斯在皇家艺术学院（RCA）的导师，并对其产生了重大影响。 视觉艺术
战前艺术家赞美南当斯（South Downs） 《古代景观，现代时代》（Ancient Landscape, Modern Times）是一个汇集了埃里克·拉维利乌斯（Eric Ravilious）、威廉·尼科尔森（William Nicholson）、保罗·纳什（Paul Nash）、约翰·纳什（John Nash）、特扎·加伍德（Tirzah Garwood）、佩吉·安格斯（Peggy Angus）以及其他 1910 年代至 1940 年代英国艺术家的作品展。通过绘画、素描和档案资料，这次在巴斯霍本博物馆（Bath’s Holburne Museum）举办的展览揭示了南当斯如何启发了一代试图为现代时代重塑风景画的艺术家。展览时间为 10 月 3 日至 2027 年 1 月 10 日。 holburne.org / whats-on
Teddy Swims, The Ugly Tour 巡演，2027 年 4 月 Teddy Swims 已确认他将在 2027 年于英国举行多场演出。这位获得格莱美奖提名的艺术家将凭借其深情且富有灵魂的嗓音，分别在 4 月 4 日的伯明翰 Utilita Arena、4 月 13 日的格拉斯哥 OVO Hydro、4 月 16 日的曼彻斯特 Co-op Live 以及 4 月 21 日的伦敦 The O2 演出。 metropolismusic.com 立即订票
Corgi: 70 年的回忆 考文垂交通博物馆，8 月 7 日星期五 标志性的合金模型制造商 Corgi 正在庆祝其成立 70 周年，将举办一场特别的一日展，汇集了横跨七个年代的标志性玩具，其中包含定义了各自时代的模型。 corgi.co.uk 最后机会
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安雅·泰勒-乔伊（Anya Taylor-Joy）在这部不可预测且推进感强烈的犯罪剧集中带来了引人注目的表演。故事起初是一个简单的在逃故事，随后演变成一个迷人的成长故事。 频道切换
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I’ll Be Seeing You 皮特洛克里节日剧院，9 月 22 日至 10 月 11 日 艾伦·卡明（Alan Cumming）担任艺术总监的首个季度将上演马丁·舍曼（Martin Sherman）的新剧《I’ll Be Seeing You》的世界首演，该剧讲述了利贝拉斯（Liberace）的一生，由西蒙·罗素·比尔（Simon Russell Beale）主演。 pitlochryfestivaltheatre.com
舞台上 埃里克·拉维利乌斯，《THE WESTBURY HORSE》，1939。长期外借至 TOWNER 收藏馆。图片：TOWNER EASTBOURNE
纳什在 1936 年设计的 Alperton 绒面织物，采用了棕色、绿色相间的独特且时尚的网格图案。
以及米色，这遵循了“深色能掩盖污垢”的传统认知。马克斯对亮色的偏好在随后的 90 年里一直延续，同时也反映了当时的广泛趋势——在 1980 年左右首次出现在地区线（District line）上的橙色、棕色和黄色棋盘格图案，传达出一种低调的迷幻风格，是棕色涤纶喇叭裤的完美背景。同样地，装饰艺术风格（Art Deco）绒面织物（moquette）的原色，为一种根植于 1930 年代的设计注入了 1990 年代的现代风味。最大胆的设计之一是杰克·汤普森（Jack Thompson）和理查德·伊托（Richard Eatough）在 1954, 年创作的红绿相间的“化石”（Fossil）绒面织物，它呼应了当时盛行的巨大写实印花。条纹和方格被证明是最持久的设计元素，也是 2022. 年公布的伊丽莎白线（Elizabeth line）绒面织物的基础。由设计公司 Wallace Sewell 创作的紫色配色方案是对已故女王的致敬，同时向金融城的细条纹西装致意。尽管有许多实际的考量，设计师们始终在保持与过去连续性的同时寻找创新方法。在 1990 年代，伦敦地铁为每条线路引入了特定的绒面织物，创建了至今在地铁中仍部分保留的身份标识，尽管目前主要通过颜色编码来实现。如今，绒面织物在伦敦的文化景观中占据重要地位，其设计师名单提醒人们，公共委托如何能催生世界级的创意作品。目前，绒面织物仍是伦敦的主打——如果有人能找到让它更卫生的方法，它可能会一直延续下去。
“生命之图案：埃尼德·马克斯与现代英国设计”展览在 Compton Verney 展出至 1 月 3 日
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Gtech) 深受客户喜爱 GRRE GE 全系列产品拥有超过 83k 条经核实的 5 星好评！a，每 2 周轻轻修剪一次树篱会使其更加茂密并赋予其绝佳的质感，但沉重的修剪机、电缆和阶梯梯让修剪树篱成为某些人厌恶的工作。Gtech 的 Cordless HT50 让修剪树篱成为一种享受。凭借 60 分钟的运行时间，您可以自由地在花园中移动，无需被电缆束缚，也不必担心杂乱的汽油。HT50 树篱修剪机采用高扭矩 18V 电机，在需要时直接提供动力。轻便且超强的驱动系统旨在实现精细化和安静运行，但请不要被误导——精密激光切割刀片可轻松切断厚度高达 25mm 的树枝。Gtech HT50 树篱修剪机具有可调节的机头，可旋转 135°，使您能够完全控制树篱的裁剪方向。机头可向下调节，以便您轻松修剪树篱顶部；也可向上调节，以便您在修剪多刺树篱时不会刮伤手臂。使用 50cm 长的刀片，通过沿最高 10 英尺t 的树篱顶部平整切割，让您的树篱保持整洁。精密刀片能够强力穿透叶片，留下干净的切口和健康的茎干，从而萌发新芽，打造出美丽且质感丰富的树篱。Nick Grey 发明者兼 Gtech 所有者... “我们在设计 HT50 时采用了更长的刀片，因此您可以一次切割更大的区域。这意味着您将花在工作上的时间更少，有更多时间享受您的花园——非常理想。” ley 重量仅为 2.94kg，并配有背带，您可以自由地在花园中活动而不会感到沉重。HT50 平衡感良好，让您在无需担心重量的情况下获得更愉快的园艺体验。为了防止意外启动，HT50 树篱修剪机配备了一个易于使用的安全开关。操作时，只需在按住单手电源触发器的同时，按下手柄侧面的安全开关即可。操作简单，比以往任何时候都更安全。免费次日送达 agel Trimmer Hy50 me 限时优惠价 £169.99 原价 £274.93 使用代码：NB93 NG “切割效果好，轻便，易于使用。令人惊喜。重量是首要考虑因素，但它的性能也非常出色。修剪树篱和成熟的顶部造型冬青没有问题。” Terry B 如果您在 29 / 10 / 2026 之前订购，只需 £169.99（建议零售价 £274.98）即可获得我们的 HT50 长臂树篱修剪机和枝条切割机套装，可节省 38%。立即订购，请访问 www.gtech.co.uk（在结账时输入代码 NB93）或扫描二维码：所引用的运行时间可能会根据被修剪树篱的情况而有所不同。优惠有效期至 29 / 10 / 2026 或至库存完售为止，且不能与其他任何优惠同时使用。30 天退款保证，不包括 £10 的收取费。次日送达仅限英国本土（不包括高地地区）。t取决于使用者的身高。访问 gtech.co.uk 查看完整条款和条件。
周一 3 AUGUST 2026 Sarah Carson 评论 上周，喜剧演员 Joanne McNally 和 Grace Campbell 发布了一段视频，画面中两人在伊比萨岛的一个阳台上宿醉，用一部 iPhone 观看 Katherine Ryan 在《Live at the Apollo》节目中的 YouTube 剪辑。虽然这只是一个 Instagram 故事，但感觉像是喜剧世界的交汇。McNally 和 Campbell 崭露头角之时，播客、短视频、《Taskmaster》和社交媒体已经取代了《Live at the Apollo》，成为通往单口喜剧之星的门票。而 15 年前为她们铺平道路的 Ryan，如果没有这个节目，可能无法获得如今的事业。上周，BBC 宣布在播出 22 年后将取消《Live at the Apollo》。重启的《Blankety Blank》和《Celebrity Mastermind》也是首批牺牲品，但对于许多人来说，正是《Live at the Apollo》被“淘汰”这一信号，标志着文化的衰落以及 BBC 对其最伟大的出口产品之一——喜剧——的承诺在减弱。原则上，我同意这个观点。对于像我这样怀旧的千禧一代来说，失去像《Live at the Apollo》这样的一家机构——它向公众介绍了 Romesh Ranganathan、Kevin Bridges、Michael McIntyre、Jason Manford 和 Aisling Bea——理应感到崩溃。但实际上，我已经至少 10 年没有认真看过这个节目了，而它也很早之前就失去了作为喜剧才艺顶尖展示平台的权威地位。这其实并不是一个 era. 的结束。《Live at the Apollo》的时代早在一段时间前就结束了。该节目曾是英国单口喜剧演员必经的仪式。在节目中露面就是一种认可，证明该人才在向更高的目标迈进。其 2009 年的巅峰观众人数为 6.29 million，它提供了在其他任何地方都无法获得的影响力，同时也是一次考验：你在 10 分钟的表演中能产生多大的冲击力？该节目最初由 Jack Dee 主持，后来改为客座主持人，那些家喻户晓的名字似乎在为与他们同台演出的新星背书。但喜剧行业开始发生变化，“客厅里的综合演出”形式开始显得过时。随后竞争出现了。《Taskmaster》让喜剧演员在各种愚蠢且富有想象力的挑战中竞争，它成为了一个大热剧，并让其明星在更长的时间跨度内，以新的且更古怪的方式展现他们的幽默感。它取代了《Live at the Apollo》，成为了新人才的主要入口，并且成为了（且依然是）喜剧界最顶级的预订项目。播客也爆发了，被喜剧演员们利用来建立一个稳定、忠诚且深度连接的粉丝群。Josh Widdicombe, Rob Beckett, Cariad Lloyd, Sara Pascoe, Joe Lycett, Chris and Rosie Ramsey, Ranganathan——这些曾经可能需要《Live at the Apollo》的喜剧演员现在可以自己动手实现。此外，短视频媒体的颠覆让喜剧演员能够独立开发内容和个人品牌，完全跳过《Live at the Apollo》。这是一个悲剧，还是仅仅是 BBC 在履行其“在观众所在之处”与其接轨的承诺？BBC 表示，将很快宣布“专注于单口喜剧和新兴喜剧人才的数字化计划”——这令人鼓舞，尽管很难想象任何新方案能够重现《Live at the Apollo》巅峰时期的盛况。BBC 必须省钱，这意味着要做出“艰难的选择”。但我们应该感到宽慰，因为这些娱乐项目的损失感觉不像是背叛，而更像是与时俱进。《Live at the Apollo》失去了影响力，但没有失去它的遗产。浏览 BBC 的各项内容，打开收音机，或听一段播客，你就会发现它的校友——以及像 McNally 和 Campbell 这样仍受其激励的一代——这证明了它不仅改变了喜剧，而且永远改变了英国的广播电视。
《Live at the Apollo》的大幕终将落下 Michael McIntyre 在《Live at the Apollo》巅峰时期获得了重大突破 BBC 的《Taskmaster》取代该节目成为新人才的主要平台
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绝大多数英国人支持对资产超过 1,000 万英镑的富人征收财富税，即使这可能会导致部分富裕阶层离开英国。
在今天发布的一项最新民意调查中，公众对经济公平的渴望达到了顶峰。随着生活成本危机的持续影响，人们越来越倾向于通过对顶端 1% 的人群征税来资助公共服务。
该调查显示，68% 的受访者认为目前的税制“过于偏袒富人”，并主张引入一种基于净资产的年度税收。
面对日益增长的公众压力，首相安迪·伯纳姆在接受采访时表示，他“对探讨所有可能的税收手段持开放态度”，以确保国家能够获得必要的资金来修复医疗服务体系（NHS）。
然而，财政部内部对此持有保留意见。一些高级官员警告称，此类税收可能会引发“资本外逃”，从而损害英国作为全球金融中心的竞争力。
尼尔·基诺克勋爵在评论中指出：“这不仅仅是一个经济问题，更是一个道德问题。当大多数人感到在挣扎而少数人财富激增时，社会契约就面临崩溃。”
与此同时，一些经济学家认为，相比于直接的财富税，提高资本利得税或关闭税收漏洞可能是更切实可行的方案。
相关阅读： * $\text{第 4 页：}$ 财政部对新税收提案的详细分析 * $\text{第 12 页：}$ 专家讨论：财富税是否真的会导致富人移民？
这是在大胆构想。而大胆构想并不一定意味着物理上的宏大——它是在社会慷慨度、公共空间和街道方面的大胆构想。—— 诺曼·福斯特勋爵 (Lord Norman Foster)，建筑师论述如何用“长期主义”思维复兴英国的盛况。
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能源 朴茨茅斯渡轮开始使用清洁电力 作者：Neil Lancefield
从今天起，在英国最繁忙的港口之一，渡轮将迟到地开始使用由纳税人资助的净零基础设施。布列塔尼渡轮公司（Brittany Ferries）宣布，尽管成本高于燃烧船用燃料，但其船舶在朴茨茅斯国际港（Portsmouth International Port）停泊时将接入电力供应。该运营商表示，在与港口就财务条款达成协议之前经历了“数月的谈判”，并敦促政府为这部分额外支出提供激励措施。
岸电系统的建设旨在让渡轮和邮轮在停靠时关闭发动机并接入电力，从而减少碳排放并改善空气质量。港口于去年底完成了该项目的建设，但此前尚无船舶使用该基础设施，因为电费比船用燃料贵出好几倍，且电网连接工作有所延迟。
布列塔尼渡轮的两艘混合动力船将从今天起接入电力，首艘为在上午 8 点出发前的 Guillaume de Normandie 号。这份使用岸电的协议有效期至少为接下来的 12 个月。布列塔尼渡轮首席执行官 Christophe Mathieu 表示：“我们现在可以充分发挥英吉利海峡上最环保船舶的潜力。”
旨在让船舶在港口接入电力的“Sea Change”项目在 2023, 9 月获得了交通部 1980 万英镑m 和港口所有者朴茨茅斯市议会 460 万英镑m 的资金支持。
business@theipaper.com @theipaper 作者：Holly Williams
一份报告称，如果由于伊朗战争长期化导致关键的霍尔木兹海峡一直关闭到 2027 年，英国经济可能会在明年陷入衰退。
最新的 EY 经济展望警告称，如果中东冲突未能解决，且通常承载全球五分之一油气运输的这条重要水道一直关闭到 2027. 初或中期，今年的国内生产总值 (GDP) 增速可能会大幅放缓至 0.5 %，明年则可能萎缩 0.2 %。报告警告说，在这种不利的情况下，由于石油和能源价格飙升，到 2026 年底通货膨胀率可能会达到 6.4 %。
但如果霍尔木兹海峡能在今年第三季度末重新开放，EY 的基准预测表明增长将保持相当的韧性；EY 将其对 2026 年的增长预期上调至 0.9 %，并维持 2027 年增长 1.2 % 的预测。此前其预计 2026. 年的增长率为 0.8 %。
该报告还预测，利率在 2026 年剩余时间内将维持在 3.75 %，然后在明年 4 月和 7 月分别下调两次，到 2027 年底降至 3.25 %。这紧随英格兰银行上周最新的利率决定，当时英格兰银行投票决定维持 3.75 % 的利率，但发出信号称，如果伊朗战争持续数月并导致通胀飙升，其已准备好加息。
英格兰银行暗示，6 月份记录为 2.6 % 的消费者物价指数 (CPI) 通胀率可能会在今年晚些时候达到 3.2 % 左右的峰值，随后稳步回落至该行 2 % 的通胀目标。由于消费者面临更高的价格和延迟的利息，家庭支出也将保持低迷。
降息，预计消费者支出在 2026 年将增长 0.3%，随后在 2027. 年提高至 0.9%。企业正感受到压力。通常被视为英国商业街风向标的 Next 已发出警告，称其正面临成本上涨。在上个月的交易更新中，Next 表示，由于伊朗战争，其面临的预计成本损失为 4700 万英镑m，高于 3 月份给出的 1500 万英镑m 指导预期。该公司将在周三发布半年财务业绩时分享最新数据。自 5 月以来，美国与伊朗之间的临时停火协议已崩溃，中东地区的军事打击再次升级。
经济 如果伊朗战争继续，英国在 2027 年面临衰退风险 全球约五分之一的石油通过霍尔木兹海峡运输
昨天，Opec+ 表示，该生产者组织批准自 9 月起将原油生产配额增加约 188,000 桶 / 日，这一决定完成了对一层自愿减产计划的撤销。
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零售 John Lewis 通过推进健身业务增强实力 作者：Henry Saker-Clarke
John Lewis 希望通过重新推出其体育与健康系列，从购物者中的健身热潮中获利。董事总经理 Peter Ruis 表示，此次重新推出是其重大门店投资计划中的“重要一步”。这家隶属于 John Lewis Partnership 集团的零售商表示，体育与健康部门将使其成为首家将运动装、鞋类、可穿戴技术、康复设备、AI 驱动的健身和专家服务整合在同一地点的英国零售商。这一发展将帮助该零售商与 Sports Direct 等运动装领域的主要参与者以及技术专家展开竞争。
这项数百万英镑的投资已经改造了其伦敦牛津街店的体育部门。它还将资助利物浦和切德尔（Cheadle）的类似改造，以及在格拉斯哥店设立一个新部门。这些部门的面积将高达约 5,000平方英尺，设计旨在让购物者能够在服装、鞋类、技术、家庭健身和康复产品之间轻松移动。该概念将涵盖 Nike、Brooks 和 Patagonia 等运动品牌，以及来自 Garmin、Oura 和 Whoop 的可穿戴技术，Therabody 的康复产品，以及来自 Peloton 和 NordicTrack 的高端家庭健身设备。此次投资是 John Lewis 向其 36 家门店注入 8 亿英镑m 现金的一部分。
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星期一 2026 年 8 月 3 日 消费者 伴娘因成本攀升转向 Vinted。互联网转售平台 Vinted 的数据表明，由于女性对承担这一荣誉的成本望而却步，二手伴娘裙的搜索量同比增长了 17%。一项针对该在线市场的调查发现，在担任过伴娘的女性中，近四分之一（24%）曾考虑因成本原因拒绝该角色；在 25 至 34 岁的女性中，这一比例上升到超过三分之一（35%）。在已经担任过伴娘的女性中，近 10 人中有 6 人（59%）表示该角色所花费的费用高于预期，而三分之一（33%）的人在最近的一场婚礼上花费了 £250 到 £499 之间。超过三分之一（36%）的人自费购买伴娘裙或套装，在 25 至 34 岁的女性中，这一比例上升到近一半（46%），而在伦敦的女性中则超过一半（52%）。
在那些没有再次穿着过伴娘裙的前伴娘中，最大的原因是简单地没有其他穿着场合（42%），而四分之一（25%）的人表示，这件裙子在婚礼后太具有辨识度。在担任过伴娘的女性中，近三分之二（63%）表示她们愿意穿着一件已经被穿过的伴娘裙，在 25 至 34 岁的女性中，这一比例上升到 70%。在参加过婚礼的女性中，超过三分之一（34%）已经穿着二手套装出席活动，其中最主要的原因包括省钱（69%）、避免购买仅穿一次的衣物（38%）以及以较低价格寻找质量更好的单品（35%）。此外，80% 的女性同意在婚礼后转售伴娘裙是“完全可以接受的”。
Vinted 上的礼服平均挂牌价为 £11，搜索量最高的伴娘裙颜色为绿色、粉色和蓝色。Think BF 于 2026. 年 7 月调查了 2,000 名英国女性。
Josie Clarke 女性转向二手套装以降低婚礼当日成本
我在卢顿长大，我们的经济生活一直充满挑战。我父亲是一名出租车司机，母亲则失业在家。在学校时，我们有资格领取免费学校餐，因为我的父母预算一直很紧张，我们在日常开支上非常小心，比如不使用时关灯，以及穿套头衫而不是开暖气。在低收入家庭长大让我意识到经济不安全感会带来多少压力，以及缺乏资源会如何限制许多机会。在埃克塞特大学攻读人类科学学位期间，我一直有工作。我在麦当劳工作，做餐饮兼职，并担任学生大使。这些工作的时薪约为 £11 到 £13。在进入大学之前，我还曾在 Greggs 工作，并在 DPD 仓库上夜班。
由于家庭收入情况，在大学期间我有资格申请最高额度的生活费和学费贷款。我的学生贷款余额约为 £65,000。这并不让我担心，因为我知道学生贷款系统是如何运作的。除了通过薪资扣除的必要还款外，我没有打算额外还款。在大学期间，我获得了几项奖学金和助学金。其中包括来自埃克塞特大学的 £9,000 奖学金、由 Sutton Trust 与摩根大通合办的 £5,000 助学金，以及来自埃克塞特大学每年价值 £2,200 的“进入埃克塞特”（Access to Exeter）助学金。我在大学期间生活节俭，追踪每一分钱的支出。我保存着一份每月净资产电子表格。
我虔诚地更新着它。看着我的净资产增长成为了一个主要的动力来源。我宁愿走路也不坐公交车，有时甚至跳过正餐，以将开支降至最低。我意识到，我省下的每一英镑，就是另一英镑可以用来投资。在大学期间，我利用晚上时间研究财富创造、投资、企业和金融市场。我查看了特斯拉等股票以及比特币等资产的图表，并思考如果我早几年就意识到它们的潜力会怎样。我在大学期间就开始投资，以确保我的家人在我成长过程中所经历的财务困境不会在我的余生中继续。这激励我放弃短期的冲动消费，转而为未来投资，希望在以后的人生中能够在更少限制的情况下消费。在去年大学毕业后，我
加入了一家全球资产管理公司担任毕业生分析师，每月收入约 £3,300。之后我转入了慈善部门，目前每月收入 £2,500，这一职位更符合我对社会流动性以及改善高等教育和顶级职业获取机会的兴趣。如今，对我而言，目标感和影响力比最大化薪水更重要。我的大部分投资都在 Trading 212 股票与股份 ISA 和一个标准投资账户中。到目前为止，我投入了约 £60,000 的自有资金。我还通过向他人推荐平台赚了约 £1,000。我还通过 Robinhood, Coinbase, InvestEngine, eToro 和 AJ Bell 进行投资。我的投资组合高度集中，截至 2026 年 7 月，约 93% 投资于 Rocket Lab，6% 投资于 Palantir。我被 Rocket Lab 吸引，是因为我想追求一只感觉被低估但具有真实潜力的股票。随着 Rocket
Lab 的股价急剧上涨并突破 $100 (£75)，我的投资组合在一天之内增长了约 £110,000。在我表现最强的一周里，它增长了约 £210,000。然而，由于我的投资组合高度集中，其价值也可能剧烈波动。我的净资产随市场状况大幅波动，通常在 £650,000 到 £800,000 之间。但最近几周，Rocket Lab 的股价大幅下跌，使我的净资产接近 £300,000。我并不担心这些波动，因为我是在进行长期投资。到目前为止，我最成功的投资是 Rocket Lab，其峰值回报率达到了 3,465%。我充分意识到这种集中投资风格涉及巨大风险，这并不是我以后在人生中想要采取的方法。我承认养老金很重要，但在人生这个阶段，我的重点是其他投资。我的目标是财务独立，而不是尽可能早地退休。我不认为仅靠国家养老金就能提供我想要的生活标准。我想利用我的投资来最好地支持我的家人，为他人创造机会，并帮助更多出身不利背景的年轻人意识到，他们的境遇不必定义他们的未来。
我是如何管理我的钱的 “我意识到我省下的每一英镑，就是一英镑可以用来投资” 在我们的《我是如何管理我的钱的》系列中，我们旨在了解英国人们如何通过消费、储蓄和投资金钱来满足开支并实现目标。本周，我们采访了 ZACK ISLAM，一名 22 岁的毕业生，他与父母和三个妹妹住在贝德福德郡的卢顿。Zack 在资产管理领域开启职业生涯后，最近转入了慈善部门，他开始
在大学期间进行投资。扎克·伊斯兰（Zack Islam），22岁，专注于长期储蓄，以最大限度地支持他的家人并为他人创造机会。扎克·伊斯兰的投资组合由于Rocket Lab股价大幅上涨而单日增长的金额：£110,000。我意识到养老金很重要，但在人生这个阶段，我的重点是其他投资。我最近从一个年薪£40,000的资产管理研究生分析师职位，转到了一个年薪£30,000的慈善部门项目协调员职位，这更符合我的热情。虽然这意味着薪水降低，但我的投资给了我财务安全感，让我能够优先考虑有意义的工作，而不是赚取尽可能高的收入。在扣税前，我的月薪大约为£2,500。我的每月支出：我和父母住在一起，这使我能将开支控制在绝对最低限度。以前，我每月给父母约£200到£1,000，以帮助他们支付抵押贷款和家庭账单。我现在的每月常规支出包括：公共交通约£200；外出就餐，根据月份不同在£30到£300之间；健身房£25；以及手机费£10。我大部分的日常消费是通过信用卡支付的，并在每月月底全额还清。对于一次性款待、假期、大额购买或礼物，我通常通过套现部分投资收益来支付。每月“与父母同住降低了我的成本” 讲述给简·登顿（Jane Denton） 想要参与“我是如何理财的”吗？请发送电子邮件至 money@theipaper.com
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天气 法国 萨克 Alderney 根西 泽西 利物浦 Llandudno 贝尔法斯特 Derry / Londonderry 都柏林 Galway Cork 海峡群岛 爱尔兰海 北海 大西洋 凯尔特海 英吉利海峡 设得兰群岛 奥克尼群岛 温度 风速 海况 卡莱尔 格拉斯哥 Dumfries 亚伯丁 因弗内斯 Fort William 爱丁堡 柯克沃尔 勒威克 邓迪 赫尔 曼彻斯特 谢菲尔德 约克 利兹 诺丁汉 伯明翰 南安普顿 朴茨茅斯 加的夫 布里斯托尔 伦敦 布莱顿 剑桥 斯旺西 牛津 雷丁 普利茅斯 埃克塞特 诺威奇 纽卡斯尔 平静 轻微 中等 汹涌 °C mph 苏格兰和北爱尔兰地区雨水主导，而英格兰南部则有阳光。中英格兰和威尔士多云，伴有阳光。今日天气 五日预报 月相 今日最高温 今日最低温 日落 日出 05:27 20:45 亚伯丁 C 2.1 5.0 Aberporth C 0.0 9.8 Aberystwyth C 0.0 10.3 Aviemore C 0.3 4.3 贝尔法斯特 C 0.0 6.5 伯明翰 C 0.0 10.8
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形成。到傍晚，大部分地区多云，有轻微小雨威胁且有微风。最高气温：29C。今晚，小雨，有风。最低气温：13C。苏格兰东南部、英格兰东北部、英格兰东部：今日天气阴沉，多云且频繁下雨，尤其是早晨。下午继续阴天但较干燥，不过依然凉爽。在最北端地区，早些时候有大雨威胁。微东风，最南部地区条件稍温和。最高气温：20C。今晚，晴空，寒冷。最低气温：13C。英格兰西北部、苏格兰西南部、北爱尔兰、爱尔兰共和国、马恩岛：早晨阴天，阵雨自西方移来。在北部地区，雨势持续，气温较低，风力轻微。下午维持多云，降雨概率降低。到傍晚，天气转干但云层依然笼罩。全程气温温和，伴有微东风。
最高气温：22C。今晚，阴天，小雨。最低气温：13C。苏格兰西北部、苏格兰东北部、西群岛、北群岛：全天开始于阴天，最西部地区有雨，气温较低。这种潮湿天气将持续到下午，并有进一步阵雨的风险。最北部地区维持多云且温和，有轻微降雨。到傍晚，雨势减轻但云层依然厚实。北风微风。最高气温：16C。今晚，轻微阵雨。最低气温：10C。天气形势压力：一个中心位于伦敦的低压系统影响着英国大部分地区，给苏格兰、北爱尔兰和爱尔兰共和国带来持续降雨。北群岛上空的高压创造了较为稳定的天气，英格兰东南部和海峡群岛出现干燥时段。阿伯丁 21.19-05.12 伯明翰 20.56-05.32 布里斯托 20.54-05.38 加的夫 20.57-05.40 格拉斯哥 21.19-05.27 赫尔 20.54-05.20
因弗内斯 21.28-05.16 利物浦 21.04-05.32 伦敦 20.45-05.28 曼彻斯特 21.01-05.29 斯多诺韦 21.41-05.23 斯旺西 21.00-05.43 约克 20.58-05.22 最高温：查尔伍德，28c。最低温：凯茨布里奇，5c。最湿润：巴拉，6.20mm。最晴朗：杏树布里，14.3hrs。黑暗小时数 阿布扎比 41 S 阿布贾 26 TH 阿里坎特 34 S 阿姆斯特丹 24 S 雅典 32 S 曼谷 33 TH 巴塞罗那 31 S 北京 34 SH 柏林 22 F 布鲁塞尔 27 S 布达佩斯 36 F 芝加哥 22 SH 德里 34 F 迪拜 46 S 都柏林 18 R 法兰克福 28 S 日内瓦 30 S 赫尔辛基 21 S 香港 25 TH 伊斯坦布尔 30 S 约翰内斯堡 16 S 里斯本 26 S 洛杉矶 26 F 马德里 34 S 迈阿密 33 F 米兰 29 F 莫斯科 27 F 孟买 28 TH 慕尼黑 27 F 纽约 30 S 尼斯 30 S 帕尔马 34 S 巴黎 29 S 布拉格 22 C 雷克雅未克 13 S 里约 26 S 罗马 33 S 斯德哥尔摩 19 C 斯特拉斯堡 30 S 悉尼 18 S 特内里费 33 S 东京 34 F 多伦多 27 F 温哥华 22 F 维也纳 25 F 华沙 23 F 华盛顿 31 F 惠灵顿 12
S 城市 温度 降雨 阳光 (昨日下午1点) (mm) (hrs) 关键代码：C=多云, DR=毛毛雨, F=晴朗, FG=雾, H=冰雹, M=薄雾, R=雨, S=阳光, SH=阵雨, SL=雨夹雪, SN=雪, SS=沙尘暴, TH=雷阵雨 城市 温度 状况 (in C) 城市 温度 状况 (in C) 10º 32º 最高和最低温 (周六，截至晚上11点) 高地 东北苏格兰 中部苏格兰 苏格兰边界 北爱尔兰 西北及默西赛德 东北 约克郡和亨伯 北威尔士 西米德兰兹 东米德兰兹 南威尔士 西南 东南 东部 大伦敦地区 空气污染指数 区域 今日 明日 空气污染水平 低 (1) 极高 (10) uk-air.defra.gov.uk 关键代码：暖锋 等压线：以毫巴为单位的气压 冷锋 闭塞锋 LOW LOW HIGH HIGH mp_d1d_aiii_00002023 关键代码：暖锋 等压线：以毫巴为单位的气压 冷锋 闭塞锋
星期一 2026 年 8 月 3 日 旅途寻踪 多米诺骨牌 数字六边形 寻踪 谜题解答 五线索隐晦十字谜 + + + + - - - -10 - × × - + -5 数独（Kakuro） 数独 4 3 2 6 1 8 7 9 5 6 1 5 9 7 3 2 8 4 9 8 7 4 5 2 6 1 3 8 5 4 2 3 6 1 7 9 3 6 1 7 9 4 8 5 2 2 7 9 5 8 1 3 4 6 1 4 8 3 6 9 5 2 7 7 2 6 1 4 5 9 3 8 5 9 3 8 2 7 4 6 1 B A B B C B C B A B B B A A C A B A B C A C B B C A B C A ABC 逻辑 Wijuko 8 4 8 4 7 9 6 9 3 9 7 1 6 8 4 2 5 4 7 6 3 5 2 1 9 8 1 8 2 5 9 6 3 4 7 2 5 8 4 3 9 7 6 1 9 4 1 8 7 3 2 5 6 7 2 5 6 8 4 9 1 3 5 1 3 9 4 7 6 8 2 6 3 4 2 1 5 8 7 9 8 6 9 7 2 1 5 3 4 拼图数独 数字方格 词梯 A B 每日测验 1. 茱蒂·嘉兰 (Judy Garland) 2. 数字命理学 (Numerology) 3. 埃米尼斯 (Agamemnon) 4. 竞价室 (The Bidding Room) 从左至右： valet; trace; teen; spade; clean; trade; clear; dear; deal; plain; real; plaid; true; main; read. Zygolex 横向：3 精炼 (Re-fine), 4 荔枝 (ly-chees), 5 疝气 (Her-ni<-a) 纵向：1 即兴 (Off-hand), 2/3 安吉拉·雷纳 (Angela Rayner)* 词轮 九字母单词：羊皮纸 (PARCHMENT) 其他单词：camp, camper, cape, caper, carp, carpet, champ, chap, chapter, cheap, cramp, crape, crept, encamp, entrap, hamper, harp, heap, hemp, hepcat, nape, neap, pace, pacer, pact, pane, pant, panther, parch, panther, parch, pare, parent, part, patch, pate, paten, pater, path, peach, pear, peart, peat, pecan, pent, perch, perm, pert, pram, prance, prate, preach, ramp, rapt, reap, recap, tamp, tamper, tape, taper, tarp, temp, tramp, trap, trepan. 周六密码 4574 ( [乱码/符号区] ) SKIN CROW SHIN SHIP SHOP CHOP CROP DEED SLUM DEER DOER DOUR SOUR SLUR 战舰游戏 Futoshiki [电影名称搜索区：回到未来、教父、绝地敢死队、詹姆斯·邦德、外星人] 单词搜索 桥梁 M I D W I F E R R S P H E R E T E F O U N D L S E T T L E R I W Y A B P C R A Y O N S D T V O T E S E T W I G P L R C U G O U R M E T K T R D A I I G D Y N A M O S U P P L E A E E M I S T R E A T 单词填充 Hexalex P O C K D W M H Z R E S I F A B J U N X T Y G L 单元格 G R A L R A E E D I R D B Y L K N N M A E U P S U A U A Y T J O R Y B M Q N T I O I I T A A E L B M S N R G G S S R E E E E B A G E B L G S V L E C R E L L I S E Y R E L W O A M A N T E P N E T B E N 链条 寻路者 3 6 8 2 4 9 1 7 5 5 2 1 6 7 3 8 4 9 7 9 4 1 5 8 6 2 3 6 8 3 7 9 1 4 5 2 4 1 9 5 6 2 3 8 7 2 5 7 8
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马特里克斯·萨米·帕亚里（Matrix Sami Pajari）昨天声称，赢得主场比赛与赢得世界冠军同样重要。在芬兰于韦斯屈莱（Jyvaskyla）举行的第 20 赛段中，他以 26.7 秒的优势击败了丰田车队队友奥利弗·索尔伯格（Oliver Solberg），赢得了他的第二次 WRC 赛事冠军，此前他在两周前的爱沙尼亚首次夺冠。帕亚里（右）表示：“作为一名芬兰人，赢得芬兰拉力赛对我来说也非常特别。”
萨巴伦卡准备将不理想的一年抛在脑后
世界第一亚里娜·萨巴伦卡（Aryna Sabalenka）昨天表示，在今年大满贯赛事结果令人失望之后，她对备战美国网球公开赛充满希望。这位 28 岁的白俄罗斯选手（上图）上个月未能进入温网四强，并在 6 月的法网四分之一决赛中被击败。1 月，她在澳大利亚网球公开赛的决赛中失利。在谈到重返多伦多加拿大公开赛的硬地赛场时，萨巴伦卡说：“我抱有巨大的希望。”“我不会说红土和草地……那么糟糕。‘我尝试了一些东西，但情况并没有按照我的预期发展。’”
特朗普之塔终结威尔逊在上海的统治
世界第一贾德·特朗普（Judd Trump）凭借强势表现终结了凯伦·威尔逊（Kyren Wilson）在上海大师赛的统治，第二次夺冠。这位 36 岁的英国人在昨天的决赛中以 11-6 获胜，赢得了 £210,000 的最高奖金，在经历早期挫折后掌控了局面。同胞威尔逊赢得了首局，但随后输掉三局，在第一节结束时以 7-3 落后。特朗普（上图）在第 10 局通过一次 82 分的单杆得分获胜，随后他不得不面对反击，34 岁的对手以 103 分和 134 分的单杆得分将比分追至 10-6。然而，他在第 17 局冲过终点线，以 77-5 锁定胜局并夺冠。
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道奇队签下斯库巴尔引起轰动
洛杉矶道奇队在交易截止日市场上获得了最大的奖项，从底特律老虎队签下了两届美联赛塞格奖（Cy Young Award）得主塔里克·斯库巴尔（Tarik Skubal）。斯库巴尔（上图）在老虎队以 8-6 击败运动家队的比赛期间得知了这一消息。赛后，在准备离开这支 2018 年选中他并将其培养成明星的球队时，他情绪激动。他说：“我很兴奋能成为一名道奇队成员。我很期待能到那里去，见到所有人，并追求连续三次冠军。这很难做到，所以我非常兴奋能成为其中的一部分。但现在心情很复杂，绝对像坐过山车一样。”
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击败“巨龙队”后，鲍威尔对榜首之战充满期待 作者：Mark Staniforth
在周五与超级联赛领头羊利兹犀牛队（Leeds Rhinos）进行榜首之战前，达里尔·鲍威尔（Daryl Powell）对韦克菲尔德（Wakefield）队的氛围感到兴奋。周六晚上在卡塔兰（Catalans）以 32-12 获胜，这意味着特里尼蒂队（Trinity）只要在贝尔观点（Belle Vue）获胜，就能在积分榜上并列第一。
“我们确实有一种很棒的氛围，但我们不能过于得意。我们只想继续保持现状。你唯一能做的就是赢得比赛，下周我们将面对利兹队的另一项重大挑战，对此我们感到很兴奋，”鲍威尔（左图）告诉天空体育（Sky Sports）。
“巨龙队”主帅约翰·卡特赖特（John Cartwright）对他们在最后 20 分钟失分感到沮丧，他表示：“当比赛结束前被对方得分一两次时，总是令人失望，因为这可能无法真正反映比赛的整体情况。”
约克队老板马克·阿普尔加思（Mark Applegarth）在经历了一场紧张的 34-32 胜利后，对 80 年来首次战胜圣海伦斯队（St Helens）感到欣喜。阿普尔加思告诉 BBC 约克广播电台：“我想说我在最后一分钟左右表现得很冷静，但实际上我确实有点紧张。”
“我为我们展现出的坚韧性格并最终艰难赢得这场胜利而感到非常自豪。”
圣海伦斯队临时教练埃蒙·奥卡罗尔（Eamon O’Carroll）表示：“这项工作比仅仅关注周末的表现要大得多。这关乎于灌输一些能够帮助俱乐部在未来发展的东西，这是我的主要目标。”
沃灵顿队（Warrington）在早早失掉三个达阵后迅速反击，以 48-18 的比分击败了卡塞尔福德队（Castleford）。
“在那之后，我认为我们进入了状态并进行了正确的防守，就像我们整个星期练习的那样。很高兴我们能够扭转局面，”沃灵顿队主帅萨姆·伯吉斯（Sam Burgess）说道。
卡塞尔福德队教练瑞安·卡尔（Ryan Carr）补充道：“我不能掩饰事实。这更多是个人的问题，而不是团队的问题。”
萨姆·伯吉斯很高兴看到沃灵顿队强势反弹 “我们确实有一种很棒的氛围，但我们不能过于得意。你唯一能做的就是赢得比赛。”
自行车赛 维贝斯连续第二次获胜，扩大环法领先优势 作者：Trevor Stynes
荷兰选手洛雷娜·维贝斯（Lorena Wiebes）在日内瓦举行的环法女子赛（Tour de France Femmes）第二赛段的冲刺赛中再次获得冠军，延续了她在首赛段的成功，并扩大了总成绩的领先优势。
来自 SD Worx-Protime 车队的维贝斯在从埃格尔（Aigle）出发的 147.9 公里赛程接近尾声时率先发起进攻。这位 27 岁的车手轻松甩掉对手，在冲线前有足够的时间举臂庆祝。
“我知道必须由我自己来寻找机会，”维贝斯说道。这是她第七次获得环法赛段冠军，也是她第一次身穿黄色领骑衫获胜。
“我找到了几个不错的跟车目标，然后在大约 200 米处冲出，接着我就发起了冲刺。”
意大利选手埃丽莎·巴尔萨莫（Elisa Balsamo，Lidl-Trek 车队）获得第二名，随后是 39 岁的荷兰选手玛丽安·沃斯（Marianne Vos）。
维贝斯凭借赛段冠军获得了 10 秒的时间奖励，目前领先于毛里求斯的金伯利·勒科特（Kimberley Le Court） 14 秒；2023 年冠军德米·沃勒林（Demi Vollering）则落后两秒，排名第三。
由于里贾内·马库斯（Riejanne Markus）勇敢地尝试单骑突围，该赛段迎来了预期的冲刺完赛。但马库斯在距离终点不到 500 米时被追上。而去年积分榜冠军维贝斯在那个阶段一直是夺冠热门。
在距离终点 40 公里时，主车群即将追上早先的突围小组，此时马库斯抢先发力并成功领先一分钟，但这位荷兰选手的努力最终付诸东流。
“穿着黄色领骑衫获胜让这次胜利变得特别，而且同样是因为，我们的...”
“团队为此付出了巨大的努力，”Wiebes补充道。“在决赛中，姑娘们全速追击以接应Riejanne，所以最终能以身披黄色领骑衫结束比赛就更美妙了。”今天的第三赛段是从日内瓦出发的156.5km丘陵路段，比赛将首次进入法国，在波利尼（Poligny）结束。我可能会在距离终点大约200米时脱离队伍，然后发起冲刺。Lorena Wiebes在日内瓦再次率先冲线后庆祝 GETTY。在过去的结果中。这周给了我更多的信心，我真的非常感激。”Henseleit同样在后九洞发起了强有力的反击。在第八洞和第九洞因博基球（bogeys）而掉队后，她在第11、12和15洞均打出 birdies，从而与Kuwaki持平，但随后在第16洞丢了一分。然而，这位德国选手拒绝放弃，在最后一洞推入关键的 birdie 从而强行进入附加赛。世界第一Nelly Korda，
她在2026年赢得了前两项大满贯赛，在最后以68杆（低于标准杆3杆）的成绩短暂地占据了会所领先地位，但这不足以挑战冠军，使这位美国选手与世界第二Atthaya “Jeeno” Thitikul并列第四，成绩为低于标准杆2杆。主场热门Charley Hull（左）在最后一洞错过 birdie，最终以高于标准杆1杆的成绩结束比赛，与同胞Lottie Woad以及韩国选手Ryu Hae-ran并列第六。后者的夺冠希望——以及连续赢得第三项大满贯的企图——在第17和18洞均出现博基球后化为乌有。能站在这样的舞台上是一种荣誉，我只是尽可能地享受其中。Shiho Kuwaki在皇家利瑟姆（Royal Lytham）经过突然死亡附加赛获胜后庆祝 GETTY。
体育 前新西兰队长斯蒂芬·弗莱明（Stephen Fleming）于上周被任命为英格兰队的新任测试赛主教练，接替同胞兼好友布伦登·麦卡伦（Brendon McCullum），后者于上月早些时候被解雇。这位 53 岁的教练在几天前刚刚卸任钦奈超级国王队的同一职务，结束了与印度超级联赛长达 18 年的渊源。现在，当他准备迎接在英格兰队的最新且可能是最大的一次挑战时，我们可以期待什么？弗莱明在全球范围内广受赞赏——尽管一位退役的“黑帽”球员放弃了谈论前同事的机会，打趣道他“不知道为什么英格兰板球委员会（ECB）如此痴迷”于这一特定一代的新西兰人。然而，询问那些与他共同比赛或在他手下工作的人，得到的回答是一致的——弗莱明是真正有本事的，尽管自从他在诺丁汉郡队度过了三年时光并在 2007. 年结束红球职业生涯后，他就再也没有执教过一级板球赛。
冷静、有条理且沉稳 “狂躁”可能是描述近年来英格兰队的恰当词汇，其不计代价的进攻带来了充足的娱乐性，但也带来了令人抓狂的挫败感。前英格兰投球手安格斯·弗雷泽（Angus Fraser）在 2001. 年效力于米德尔塞克斯郡期间近距离接触过冷静的弗莱明。这位新西兰人用球棒留下了深刻印象，但其才智同样令人瞩目。“我当时受伤了，所以他在一场对阵格洛斯特郡的郡锦标赛中担任队长，”弗雷泽告诉《i报》。“我们把对方击败了，需要大概 300, 分，我不记得确切数字了。”
“我们离开球场，他在 10 分钟的休息时间里就静静地坐在角落里两三分钟，然后制定计划。‘好了，砰，这是我希望在 10 轮后达到的位置，这是 20, 轮后的位置，这是 40 轮后的位置。’”
“他几乎详细分析了我们试图做什么，然后我们非常、非常出色地追回了分数。他在某种局面中带来了很多清晰度和结构，而这正是他非常、非常擅长的领域。”这一切都表明，弗莱明将通过球员对比赛的思考方式，以及他们得分或拿掉三柱门的情况来评判球员。
你所能找到的最出色的沟通者 2005, 年夏天，当弗莱明来到特伦特桥球场时，诺丁汉郡队自 1987. 年以来一直未能夺冠。在他作为队长结束这段冠军荒时所产生的影响，让前全能球员、现诺丁汉郡教练组人员保罗·弗兰克斯（Paul Franks）记忆犹新。
“他赋予了球员权力，”弗兰克斯说。“他知道自己想要什么，但他赋予人们权力，快速建立有意义的关系，并关注如何发挥人们的最佳状态以及这需要什么样的形式。”
“我们整个赛季的战术都是围绕这一点构建的。”
“他本身显然也是一名非常优秀的球员，这使他在更衣室里获得了所需的威信。”
“他给球员们带来的是一种潜在的自信，一种他信任你并会支持你的信念。但他在表现方面也会要求你负责。”
“我大概可以用一只手数出我见过他失控的次数。但在需要的时候，他确实很有锋芒。”
缺乏责任感是近年来人们对英格兰队的指责。在深中外野接球失败后说“这就是我们的打法”的日子可能即将结束。
‘如果你用一个刻度尺，一端是兰格（Langer），另一端是麦卡伦……’麦卡伦确实让观看英格兰队的比赛重新变得有趣，这一点毫无疑问。但缺乏纪律性
目击，尤其是在最近的新西兰和英格兰巡回赛中。理查德·爱德华兹写道，斯蒂芬·弗莱明为麦库伦 era 之后的时代带来了冷静和对细节的关注。真正的关键——前队友支持新教练，助力翻过 Bazball 的一页。板球：鲁特将弗莱明的任命视为他回归队长的核心原因。
作者：Amlan Chakraborty
乔·鲁特表示，斯蒂芬·弗莱明被任命为英格兰测试赛教练是他同意回归担任队长的“重要原因”。在全能选手本·斯托克斯在主场对阵新西兰的系列赛后退役后，鲁特（见下文）接替了他的位置。弗莱明接替了同胞布伦登·麦库伦，后者的四年测试赛任期于上月结束，不过他仍然担任英格兰的白球赛教练。
“如果我说得非常坦诚，这就是我想这么做的重要原因，”鲁特告诉英格兰及威尔士板球管理委员会。“我对他的比赛见解、他对我们球队现状的看法，以及为了达到目标我们需要做的工作感到非常兴奋。所有这些都让我对承担这个角色充满了期待。”
“显然，他拥有丰富的经验，作为一名球员和教练，他在这项运动中成就非凡。我非常期待接下来的这段时间，期待我们一起打造一些非常特别的东西。”
在上月离职前，弗莱明在印度超级联赛中执教钦奈超级国王队 17 年。鲁特在 2017 到 2022 年间担任英格兰全职测试赛队长，随后被斯托克斯取代。斯托克斯和麦库伦倡导一种不留情面的进攻方式，鲁特暗示他与弗莱明希望保留这种进攻心态。
“过去四年是我在职业板球生涯中最快乐的时光……”这位 35 岁的球员说道。“显然，最近的一小段时间可能是每个人心中最深刻的，但如果你看整个四年的周期，我们做了很多了不起的事情。我从中获益匪浅，我觉得这将是我未来作为这支球队领导者采取行动的重要部分。”
英格兰队将在两周后于利兹主场对阵巴基斯坦，进行一个三场测试赛的系列赛。
我对他的比赛见解，以及他对我们球队现状的看法感到非常兴奋
单日杯 考克斯表现出色 凭借其 89 分帮助莱斯特郡击败萨默塞特，登顶榜首
莱斯特郡狐狸队在单日杯 A 组中以 164 分的优势击败萨默塞特队，由此脱颖而出占据榜首。本·考克斯以 89 分成为全场最高得分，伊恩·霍兰德也贡献了有用的 77 分，主场球队总分达到 289 分。这对萨默塞特队来说难以追赶，本·格林和亚历克斯·格林各拿三个三击 wicket，客队最终以 125 分被击败。
诺丁汉郡队错失了与邻居共同占据榜首的机会，他们在对阵肯特队的比赛中以 5 个 wicket 负于对方，肯特队的哈里·芬奇砍下 88 分。客队本·马丁代尔的 101 分不足以在贝肯汉姆赢得比赛，因为他们 293 分的总分最终被证明是不够的。
格洛斯特郡在以 6 个 wicket 负于华威郡后跌至榜底，而北安普顿郡则凭借对兰开夏郡 67 分的胜利脱颖而出。米德尔塞克斯队在 B 组榜首保持微弱领先，取代了被他们以 35 分击败的约克郡队，达勒姆队在以 9 个 wicket 击败汉普郡后同样获得 16 分。
陷入困境的萨塞克斯鲨鱼队以 188 分之差负于德比郡猎鹰队，埃塞克斯队则以 107 分击败伍斯特郡。本·考克斯在狐狸队的这场大胜中除了获得 89 分外，还完成了一次接球。
星期一 3 AUGUST 2026 新闻 4-33 评论 18-22 电视 26-31 生活 34-37 文化 38-41 金融 42-44 体育 47-56 澳大利亚一直是以来自以 England 衡量自己的标准。前澳大利亚教练兼开场击球手贾斯汀·朗格（Justin Langer）——弗雷泽（Fraser）曾在米德尔塞克斯郡（Middlesex）与之同队——被提议为潜在的接替人选，并被视为能给这支球队注入纪律的完美人选。不过，许多人担心他可能会过于强势。“在处理事情的方式上，你很难找到两个比麦卡伦（McCullum）和[朗格]更截然不同的人了，”弗雷泽说。“两人在各自领域都极其勤奋，但我认为麦卡伦要放松得多，而另一个稍微强势一些。” “弗莱明（Fleming）其实处于中间地带。他不咄咄逼人，会给你空间，但沟通能力很强。作为一名教练，我想他会坐下来，良好地交谈，并与共事的人建立良好的沟通。” 这一切意味着英格兰队的方案将发生巨大变化，尽管那种激进（gung-ho）的方式可能会被某种稍微克制的东西所取代。“如果你最好的球员天生就是更积极的球员，那么你就选择他们，”弗雷泽说。“我认为之前他们走到了极端，也许为了倾向于一个极其积极的人，而忽略了那些在郡级联赛中以不同方式获得大量得分的球员。” “哈里·布鲁克（Harry Brook）会继续在阵中，雅各布·贝塞尔（Jacob Bethell）也会像现在这样继续比赛。但这可能会为一些不符合斯托克斯（Stokes）和麦卡伦所有要求标准的球员创造机会。” 这对于多米尼克·西布利（Dominic Sibley）的支持者来说将是天籁之音，但弗雷泽并不认为会出现大规模的人员更换。“我们不会回到杰弗里·博伊科特（Geoffrey Boycott）和克里斯·塔瓦雷（Chris Tavaré）的时代，”他笑着说。这大概是所有球迷都能支持的一点。我可以数出他失控的次数仅有寥寥几次。但他在需要时依然锋芒毕露。
邓克利在对阵 Sunrisers 比赛中发力 英格兰击球手索菲亚·邓克利（Sophia Dunkley）贡献了一个半世纪，帮助特伦特火箭队（Trent Rockets）在以 5 分险胜利兹太阳神队（Sunrisers Leeds）后，在 5 场比赛中取得了第 4 场胜利。邓克利在 33 球 56 分的表现中击出了 9 个四分球，并与英格兰队长纳特·赛弗-布朗特（Nat Sciver-Brunt）共同为第二球门贡献了 76 分。太阳神队的强力反击将火箭队的得分限制在 139 分（7 个出局），而此前火箭队为 84 分（1, 个出局），安娜贝尔·萨瑟兰（Annabel Sutherland）拿到了 2 for 26. 分。全能球员萨瑟兰在追分过程中以 59 分不败收场，太阳神队最终被限制在 134 分（5. 个出局）。
腿筋受伤导致米尔斯退出 The Hundred 泰马尔·米尔斯（Tymal Mills）因腿筋受伤将缺席今年 The Hundred 赛事的剩余比赛。这位伦敦精神队（London Spirit）的快球手（见上图）曾是 100 球赛事的领先得分手，在周六被阿迪尔·拉希德（Adil Rashid）超越之前共拿到 51 个出局，他最后一次出场是在 7 月 23 日精神队对阵曼彻斯特超级巨人队（Manchester Super Giants）的揭幕战中。前英格兰国手米尔斯仅投了 5 个球，并缺席了精神队的最后 3 场比赛。“由于腿筋受伤，泰马尔已被排除在今年剩余的赛事之外。替代人选将适时公布，”伦敦精神队的一份声明中写道。
伦敦精神队 腿筋伤害导致米尔斯退出 Hundred 赛事
板球简讯 索菲亚·埃克尔斯通（Sophie Ecclestone）激励曼彻斯特超级巨人队在 The Hundred 赛事中以 6 个球门之差击败了尚未获胜的 MI 伦敦队。这位英格兰旋转球手在椭圆形球场（the Oval）的开场 8 次投球内就让开场击球手爱丽丝·戴维森-理查兹（Alice Davidson-Richards）和海莉·马修斯（Hayley Matthews）以 0 分出局，导致该赛事的垫底球队总分仅为 92. 分即被全部击出。她在场上表现同样出色，接住了主队最高得分者基拉·查特利（Kira Chathli，得 18 分）和尼古拉·凯里（Nicola Carey，得 17 分）。瑞安娜（Ryana）
MacDonald-Gay 以 3 wicket 19 run 的成绩结束比赛。随后，超级巨星队 (Super Giants) 队长 Meg Lanning 击球得 43 分，帮助她的球队在还剩 28 个球的情况下锁定了本赛季的第三次胜利。
THE HUNDRED Ecclestone 凭借旋转球带领超级巨星队获胜
英格兰医疗团队已判定 Danni Wyatt-Hodge 将缺席 The Hundred 赛事的剩余部分。MI 伦敦队击球手 Wyatt-Hodge（见上图）在上周一对阵南部勇士队 (Southern Brave) 时左小腿撕裂。
MI 伦敦队表示：“经过英格兰医疗团队的扫描和评估，已确认她将缺席 MI 伦敦队的剩余比赛。”
Ella Claridge 已在名单中替代 Wyatt-Hodge，而后者正与时间赛跑，争取在下个月英格兰对阵爱尔兰的 ODI 系列赛前恢复健康。
MI 伦敦 Wyatt-Hodge 缺席赛事剩余部分
THE HUNDRED Duckett 半世纪得分与新人 Donald 助力火箭队获胜
在男子比赛中，The Hundred 领头羊特伦特火箭队 (Trent Rockets) 在 Ben Duckett 击出半世纪得分的带动下，以 5 分微弱优势击败利兹太阳神队 (Sunrisers Leeds)。
这位 31 岁的球员在 47 个球中获得了 64 分，其中包括连续面对 Liam Patterson-White 击出五个四分球，在 35 次投球中就达到了 50 分。主队在特伦特桥球场 (Trent Bridge) 最终取得了 146 分 4 wicket 的成绩。
Duckett 得到了 Aneurin Donald 的支持，后者在火箭队的处女秀中，在 19 个球中以 40 分的成绩击出了三个六分球。Mitchell Marsh 和 Harry Brook 在第三个 wicket 建立了 71 分的合作，使太阳神队在追分过程中占据主导地位，仅需在 20 次投球中获得 35 分。
然而，Mohammad Amir 在接下来的 4 个球中仅失 5 分，随后 Brook 被英格兰队队友 Duckett 通过精彩的飞身接球淘汰，得分为 46。五个球后，Amir 促使 Marsh 被 Sam Billings 接球淘汰，得分为 41，最终以 2 wicket 20 run 的成绩结束。火箭队顶住压力，取得了连续第四场胜利，并扩大了在积分榜顶端的领先优势。
Duckett 表示：“Aneurin 在强力球阶段 (powerplay) 表现极其出色，减轻了我很多压力，让我们取得了良好的开局。对这次胜利感到非常高兴，这是一次出色的团队协作。”
关于他的击球方式，他说道：“今天我一直在使用横扫球 (sweeping)。我很难打直线球，并且知道中间会有旋转球。我试图相信自己的比赛能力，认为能够追上来。在其他日子里，这可能不会发生，但幸运的是今天成功了。”
“我一直在横扫。我试图相信自己的比赛能力，认为能够追上来。” Ben Duckett 通过横扫球在仅 47 个球中就取得了令人印象深刻的 64 分。
体育 西汉姆联 铁锤帮采取行动，就收购报价安抚球迷 作者：Damian Spellman
西汉姆联足球俱乐部已确认，他们已知晓有关戈尔德家族意图将其在俱乐部持有的股份出售给由阿曼达·斯塔夫利（Amanda Staveley）和梅赫达德·戈杜西（Mehrdad Ghodoussi）领导的财团的报道。
这家英冠俱乐部试图向球迷保证，虽然此次交易需经过一项优先购买权程序（其他现有股东可通过该程序获得比例股份），且该程序可能需要最多两个月的时间才能完成，但这并不意味着俱乐部的所有权结构会发生任何变化。
俱乐部在一份声明中表示：“西汉姆联希望向支持者保证，俱乐部的日常运作绝不会受到此次情况的影响。”“新赛季的准备工作仍在勤勉且专注地进行中，我们感谢球迷们一直以来的忠实支持。”
瓦妮莎·戈尔德（Vanessa Gold）在周六确认，她已同意将其在俱乐部的股份出售给由前纽卡斯尔联联合所有者斯塔夫利领导的财团。戈尔德在父亲大卫于 2023, 年去世后接任铁锤帮的联合主席，她已与由斯塔夫利、其丈夫戈杜西以及PCP资本合伙公司（PCP Capital Partners）领导的团体就其家族 25.1% 的持股达成协议。
然而，在目前的程序中，现有股东也将有机会买断戈尔德家族的股份。
“作为大卫的女儿，在父亲去世后能担任俱乐部的联合主席和董事，我深感荣幸，”戈尔德说道。“我父亲的首要任务始终是捍卫并保护这家伟大的俱乐部。能够延续这一遗产，我个人感到非常自豪。”
“6月 12, 日，丹尼尔·克雷廷斯基（Daniel Kretinsky）和我达成了一项销售协议，这将使EP集团成为西汉姆联最大的单一股东。遗憾的是，从那时起，最初的交易以及我们讨论的其他替代方案都未能实现。”
“鉴于此，我现在已达成协议，将其家族的股份出售给由阿曼达·斯塔夫利和梅赫达德·戈杜西领导、并与Ashland Forest Capital Partners合作的PCP资本合伙公司财团。此次出售仍需经过优先购买权程序。”
“在整个过程中，我的抱负一直是确保俱乐部拥有合适的领导层和所有权，使西汉姆联能够发挥潜力，重返其在英超联赛中应有的位置。”
国际足联 皇马感谢欧足联在“决定性时刻”保护足球
在国际足联放弃向投资者出售世界杯公司股份的计划后，皇家马德里赞扬欧足联在“决定性时刻”帮助保护了足球。
来自三个足联的强烈反对促使国际足联放弃了这一充满争议的提案，这给主席吉安尼·因凡蒂诺（Gianni Infantino）带来了重大挫折。欧足联承诺将抵制国际足联的赛事，并通过宣布因凡蒂诺已“失去欧洲足球管理机构的信心”来向其施压。欧足联正在考虑采取行动，包括启动针对因凡蒂诺的不信任投票。
这支 15 次欧洲冠军俱乐部在声明中写道：“皇马高度评价国际足联放弃该提案的决定。”“我们俱乐部认为这对足球、其机构，尤其是数百万球迷来说是个好消息。”
“皇马想向欧足联、各足联和协会，以及坚决反对该项目的机构表达感激之情。他们的团结和责任感在决定性时刻保护了足球。”
管理北、中美洲及加勒比地区足球的中北美及加勒比足联（Concacaf）和亚足联（AFC）也发表了看法
反对这些计划。“俱乐部是国家队足球和世界杯赖以生存的基石，”皇家马德里补充道。“国家队和世界杯是具有公众利益的赛事，构成了属于各国、球迷和社会的遗产。它们绝不应被视为为了少数人利益而进行营销的金融资产。”
足球
阿尔特塔坚称枪手在转会市场上不会坐以待毙 作者：John Revill
阿森纳主教练米克尔·阿尔特塔表示，在夏季转会窗口关闭之前，俱乐部将投入更多资金，并坚持认为这支英超冠军球队在准备捍卫 22 年来首个英格兰顶级联赛冠军的过程中，不会“坐以待毙”。
与大肆消费的竞争对手托特纳姆热刺、曼彻斯特城和切尔西相比，北伦敦球队在市场上的动向相对安静，但近几周内，他们被传出有意签下纽卡斯尔联中场布鲁诺·吉马良斯和皇家马德里前锋维尼修斯·儒尼尔。
虽然阿尔特塔（见下图）不愿透露阿森纳对这两人的追求情况，但他周六告诉记者，俱乐部决心使阵容“提升和进化”。
“显然，我们预计在接下来的几周内会有动作，”这位西班牙人在球队 4-1 击败赫罗纳的友谊赛后表示。“就像任何人一样，我们希望变得更好，你可以从转会市场和我们的对手身上看到我们在做什么。我们不会坐以待毙，并且对自己的目标充满雄心。差距非常小，我们希望变得更好，整体水平也将提升。我们需要增加内部竞争，确保识别出球队中缺失的部分。”
到目前为止，阿森纳已经签下了门将伊兰·梅斯利埃和前锋克里斯托斯·措利斯，而后卫皮耶罗·因卡皮在埃米雷特球场度过上赛季的租借期后，已正式永久加盟。
阿尔特塔的球队将于 8 月 21 日在主场对阵冠军联赛冠军考文垂城，开始他们的卫冕战，而在此五天前，他们将在卡迪夫与曼彻斯特城争夺社区之盾。
维尼修斯·儒尼尔在今夏被传将转会至阿森纳
凯尔特人 对阵 邓迪
奥克斯莱德-钱伯伦在凯尔特人的“压力锅”中占据有利位置 作者：Gavin McCafferty
亚历克斯·奥克斯莱德-钱伯伦认为，在凯尔特人公园球场这个“压力锅”中比赛是他成长所需的理想挑战。
这位前阿森纳和利物浦中场（右图）在 2 月份以短期合同加盟后，帮助球队完成了双冠王壮举，在夏季续约后，他现在正准备在格拉斯哥度过他的第一个完整赛季。这位 32 岁的球员此前曾在英格兰赢得全套主要奖杯以及欧冠冠军，并渴望获得更多荣誉。
在凯尔特人今晚对阵邓迪的苏格兰超级联赛揭幕战前，这位代表英格兰国家队出场 35 次的球员表示：
“当来到这里机会出现时，我知道这将是一个挑战，我非常享受这一点。”
“我的想法就是尽我所能提供一些经验，或者在某些时刻提供一些高质量的表现，帮助队友们实现我们所取得的成就。最终的结果就像梦境一样。这就是我生存的动力。”
“我很幸运能身处那些被期望获胜的球队中，但与此同时，现实是 there is a lot of really, really good teams（有很多非常非常优秀的球队），这让赢球变得非常困难。我在这种压力锅中茁壮成长。”
“这完全是同样的心态”
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特拉布宗体育俱乐部主席埃尔图格鲁尔·多安公开否认了有关俱乐部已达成协议签下穆罕默德·萨拉赫的报道，此前贝西克塔斯在夏季转会窗早些时候已确认与这位前利物浦前锋兼自由球员进行了谈判。法国方面的报道暗示，特拉布宗体育接近拦截贝西克塔斯的这笔交易，但多安告诉土耳其媒体 A Spor：“没有 such 协议，”多安告诉土耳其媒体 A Spor。“至于将他带到特拉布宗的计划，并没有 such 计划；根本没这回事。如果真的有 such 计划，我们这边会提供信息，媒体也会被告知，等等。”
切尔西已完成从姐妹俱乐部斯特拉斯堡签下阿根廷国脚巴伦廷·巴尔科的交易，合同期为七年。这位 22 岁的球员在 2023-24 赛季期间为布赖顿 & 霍夫阿尔比恩出场 7 次，他是新任主教练哈维·阿隆索执政后的第七个新援。巴尔科（上图）可以踢中场或左后卫，他曾入选上个月世界杯获得亚军的阿根廷队大名单。在亚特兰大的半决赛结束后，他与英格兰的朱德·贝林厄姆进行了交流。他的到来使阿隆索的这个夏天继续忙碌，来自布赖顿的前锋丹尼·韦尔贝克和水晶宫的马克斯南斯·拉夸尔也在上周抵达。
前托特纳姆热刺前锋兰德尔·科洛·穆阿尼以 3200 万英镑m 的价格从巴黎圣日耳曼重返尤文图斯，这位法国人回到了他去年租借效力半个赛季的意甲球队。此次转会包括最高 1000 万英镑m 的绩效奖金，这位 27 岁的球员签署了一份直到 2031. 年的合同。在尤文图斯的第一段经历中，科洛·穆阿尼（上图）在 2025. 年 1 月加入后，在 22 场比赛中打入 10 个进球。他在去年夏天返回巴黎，随后在上一赛季被租借至热刺，在 41 场比赛中仅打入 5 球——其中前两球是在去年 11 月欧冠联赛中面对原东家时打入的。他代表法国队在 32 场比赛中打入 9 球，但未能入选今年夏天的世界杯国家队（Les Bleus）大名单。
土耳其 切尔西 意大利 特拉布宗体育负责人否认与萨拉赫有关联 巴尔科成为蓝军最新收购对象 尤文图斯以 3200 万英镑m 带回科洛·穆阿尼
足球简讯 阿伯丁 2-1 哈茨（Heart of Midlothian） Vrancken 在后防线损失后权衡哈茨的手术方案 作者：Anthony Brown
沃特·弗兰肯（Wouter Vrancken）透露，在关键人员损失导致后防线在 grueling 的赛季初赛程中显得捉襟见肘后，哈茨必须考虑引进防守补强。队长克雷格·哈尔克特（Craig Halkett）、副队长斯蒂芬·金斯利（Stephen Kingsley）、新中后卫马拉凯·法根-沃尔科特（Malachi Fagan-Walcott）和右后卫克里斯蒂安·博格雷温克（Christian Borchgrevink）在进入这个月时均在受伤，而在这个月里，Jambos 将面临 4 场欧洲赛事和另外 3 场国内赛事。
此外，中后卫斯图尔特·芬德利（Stuart Findlay）在上周六于皮托德里球场惨败给阿伯丁的最后时刻被红牌罚下，因此将缺席周日在主场对阵邓迪联的苏超联赛。弗兰肯在皮托德里的联赛揭幕战中派中场球员欧辛·麦肯蒂（Oisin McEntee）担任中后卫，替补席上仅一名防守球员杰米·麦卡特（Jamie McCart），因此他可能不得不补充该位置。
“是的，我们得看看，”弗兰肯说。“我们需要讨论这件事。我们需要在接下来的几天里观察。”
在他准备带领这支陷入困境的球队于周四前往客场挑战本菲卡，参加一场艰苦的欧联杯资格赛时，弗兰肯将 20 岁的 MJ Kamson-Kamara 加入了欧洲赛事大名单，接替因脚踝受伤的法根-沃尔科特。
上周二欧冠联赛负于格拉茨风暴队的下半场。这位比利时人承认，在光之体育场面对这家葡萄牙巨头将是一项挑战，尤其是在英超赛季开局阶段，麦肯蒂上半场的先进球被刘易斯·马约在第90分钟扳平，随后在补时阶段被 Dons 队长凯文·尼斯比特通过点球绝杀。在谈到里斯本之行时，他说：“困难，非常困难。如果我们能赢下这场比赛，会有所帮助。当你前往下一场比赛，特别是面对欧洲顶尖球队时，这会提供很大帮助。”斯蒂芬·罗宾逊希望，在获得了超级体育杯小组赛 4 场胜利的基础上，阿伯丁队在比赛末段激起的顽强反击能够推动他这支新面貌的球队。他说：“在杯赛中，我看到了很多出色的控球表现，因为我们主导了球权，但面对哈茨是一次不同的考验。你必须应对定位球时的身体对抗，我认为我们在那方面表现出色。”
升班马圣约翰斯在惊险胜利中通过瓦拉卡里的考验
西蒙·瓦拉卡里认为，圣约翰斯在开赛首日的一场令人窒息的胜利中，通过了一次对其苏超资格的重大考验。这支顶级联赛的新军曾两次领先并在控球上占据主导，但在对阵基尔马诺克时，下半场初段以 3-2 落后。瓦拉卡里进行了关键的换人，圣约翰斯随即反扑并拿到了 3 分。
“这是一次性格的考验，”瓦拉卡里（见上图）说道，他的球队在上赛季作为冠军从冠军联赛升级。“我们会成为那种在苏超踢得漂亮但失球并输掉比赛的球队吗？半场 1-1 平局时我们很失望，而在很快落后至 3-2 之后，这成了一次考验。球员们如何坚持到最后一刻，这一点非常好。这就是足球的全部——比赛中某些阶段的情绪波动与痛苦。”
“我们知道有很多地方需要改进。但作为一个足球迷和足球浪漫主义者，这是一场美丽的比赛。我从未怀疑过我球员们的性格。”
乔什·福勒在第 16 分钟为圣约翰斯首开纪录，但格雷格·基尔蒂在半场前顶住压力扳平比分。谢克·迪亚巴特在第 47 分钟用头球帮助主队重新领先，但随后乔·休吉尔以及杰森·霍尔特（乌龙球）的两个快速进球让基尔马诺克反超。在比赛还剩 20 分钟时，迈克尔·舒宁-拉森又造成了一个乌龙球，随后凯·福瑟林厄姆为圣约翰斯打入绝杀球。
基利（Killie）主教练尼尔·麦肯承认自己的球队表现较差：“我们表现得真的很糟糕。我们辜负了自己，辜负了俱乐部，也辜负了球迷。”
沃特·弗兰肯在泰恩卡斯尔的起步艰难
赛义德在最后时刻建功助马瑟韦尔强势开局
伊布拉欣·赛义德在开赛首日于 l斯特路球场的一场比赛中打入绝杀球，助马瑟韦尔击败希伯尼安。这位尼日利亚球员（左，与奥斯卡·普里斯特曼合影）在比赛还剩 5 分钟时通过一次反击完成得分，为客队确保了 3 分。
此前，“钢铁之师”的中场球员普里斯特曼先是赢得一个点球，随后又造成一次点球。在半场结束前 5 分钟，普里斯特曼被乔什·马利根击倒，卢卡斯·法丁格通过点球为客队领先。在比赛进行一小时前，普里斯特曼犯规导致对方获得点球，马丁·博伊尔以此扳平比分。在赛义德破门锁定胜局前，希伯尼安有两次射门被马丁·穆尔曼在门线上挡出。
这里的情况。我绝对需要这个，尤其是现在，这有助于我在职业生涯的这个阶段发挥出我的最佳水平。拥有这一点，拥有这种饥渴感，以及年轻球员的推挤和努力，争取成为他们能达到的最高水平，并赢得尽可能多的胜利，这至关重要。
“然后你看到人们在……”
就像卡尔 [麦格雷戈] 和詹姆斯 [福雷斯特] 那样的更衣室成员，他们赢得了许多荣誉但依然渴望胜利。“看到这一点并身处其中，有助于你在职业生涯的这个后期阶段继续努力并保持动力。整个环境正是我所需要的。”在与贝西克塔斯协议终止合同后，奥克斯莱德-钱伯兰在上赛季的前半段处于无俱乐部状态。因此，在正式比赛开始前与凯尔特人的队友们汇合，让他感受到了益处。“这大概是我在过去三年里第一次真正的季前训练，”他说。“你仍然能感受到那种兴奋感，我依然在场上与几个 16, 17 岁的孩子一起奔跑，他们非常兴奋。 “如果没有季前训练，你永远无法 100% 地确定自己是否完全健康，或者是否足够耐操以支撑整个赛季。但现在我觉得状态极佳。”
克雷格·麦克莱什希望在法尔基克首战获胜且替补席表现强劲后，进一步增强他的圣米伦阵容。这支来自佩兹利球队在周六的顶级联赛揭幕战中取得开门红，基利安·菲利普斯在上下半场各入一球，麦克莱什夏季签下的七名新援全部首发。第八名新援卢克·托马斯在比赛当天上午正式公布，这位前布里斯托尔流浪者边锋在第 76 分钟替补登场完成了首秀。利亚姆·多内利从膝盖手术中回归，而罗兰·伊多乌在比赛末段出场并贡献了第二个进球的助攻。
“卢克表现很活跃，”麦克莱什说。“他在进攻三区能为我们提供一些不同的东西。他非常有活力，同时也为我们带来了丰富的经验。 “你可以派上卢克、利亚姆、罗兰和杰克 [杨] —— 这种局面很健康。而且可能还有其他人因为没能上场而感到失望。 “我们进行了大量招募，可能还没有完全结束。我们只需要在基础上继续加强。”
麦克莱什渴望增强“好伙计”队的实力 法尔基克 0-2 圣米伦 你看到像卡尔和詹姆斯那样赢了很多球但依然想赢的球员
Hibernian 鲍尔 (点球) 56 Motherwell 法丁格 (点球) 40, 赛义德 85 St Johnstone 鲍勒 16, 迪亚巴特 47, 舍宁-拉森 (自球) 69, 弗瑟林厄姆 80 Kilmarnock 基尔蒂 37, 休吉尔 49, 霍尔特 (自球) 53
体育 英联邦运动会 格拉斯哥拯救了运动会——但代价是什么？詹姆斯·托尼 在格拉斯哥报道
格拉斯哥或许拯救了英联邦运动会，但不要指望这一赛事在这一代人的时间里会再次回到这些海岸。在过去七届赛事中，有四届是在英国举办的，很明显，英联邦体育组织（Commonwealth Sport）意识到，为了未来的影响力，它需要切断与母国的联系。
当澳大利亚的维多利亚州表示无法承担举办费用时，苏格兰在仅提前 18 个月的通知下挺身而出，对此，苏格兰将获得永恒的感谢。澳大利亚纳税人最终向这座城市支付了 1 亿英镑m 的补偿金，以便让他们代表其举办运动会，随后澳大利亚以 70 枚金牌在奖牌榜上名列前茅。
“格拉斯哥充当了通往英联邦运动会运动未来之桥梁的角色，”英联邦体育组织主席唐纳德·鲁卡雷博士（Dr Donald Rukare）表示，“每个主办城市都在书写自己的章节，而格拉斯哥的章节则充满了勇敢、勇气、友谊，以及最重要的是，卓越的创新。”
印度将在 2030 年举办百年纪念运动会，目前已有四家私人机构对 2034 年表达了意向，近日多位体育部长在格拉斯哥最昂贵的场所享受宴请。尼日利亚公开表示希望成为首个非洲主办国，而新西兰则认为，降低主办成本的方式终于让其有机会自 1990 年以来首次迎接英联邦运动会。加拿大自 1994 年以来也未曾举办过。
内部人士承认，在再次举办英联邦运动会之前，奥运会重返英国的可能性更大——目前已有关于 2040 年代的竞标提议。
多年来，官员们向主办城市提供一份长长的要求清单。格拉斯哥改变了这一切。权力发生了转移，而这可以说并非坏事。
“这是一个协作程度更高的过程，”英联邦体育组织首席执行官凯蒂·萨德利尔（Katie Sadleir）（见上图）说道。“我们不再告诉主办方‘你们必须这样做’。相反，我们是在问‘你们想要实现什么？’，然后与他们合作将其实现。
“我们设定了大约 15 到 17 项体育运动的指南，但如果未来的主办方向我们提出他们认为可行且适合的方案，我们会坐下来共同商讨。我们不会强加僵化的目标。
“我们不希望各国为了举办运动会而建造他们实际上并不需要的设施。如果一个国家确实想因为符合其长期计划而建造体育场，那没问题，但这不应自动成为运动会预算的一部分。
“我们不希望主办方在那些我们认为不再必要的事情上花费巨额资金。格拉斯哥正在使用现有场馆，利益相关者接受了降低的服务水平，不再有大批的 VIP 车辆，人们乘坐巴士出行。
“每个人都接受了这一点，因为他们希望英联邦运动会能够地举行。”
但英联邦运动可以看到赛事正逐渐远离英国，BBC 决定自 1954 年以来首次不进行免费地面广播，进一步强化了这种感觉。
下一届在印度举办的运动会将增加 50% 的参与运动项目，但英联邦体育组织的许多人仍然带着 16 年前德里运动会的阴影——那届赛事深陷腐败和无能，甚至在开赛前几天，真的有可能无法举行。
印度在反兴奋剂违规方面位居世界之首，本次运动会赢得了 13 枚金牌，在奖牌榜上排名第四，预计其将通过调整体育项目安排以利于其运动员。射箭、羽毛球、曲棍球、射击和壁球预计都将回归。卡巴迪（Kabaddi）拥有超过...
在印度电视上拥有 200 million 观众的关注，这也在为其争取机会。甚至有报道称出现了竞技瑜伽。“关于我们想要展示哪些本土运动，将会有相关讨论，”印度奥林匹克委员会首席执行官 Raghu Iyer 表示。“至于板球，我们需要与 ICC 进行讨论，因为 10 月是赛季中非常繁忙的时期。它现在已成为奥运项目，我们也希望它能出现在运动会上。”
Movement 认为有必要切断与前宗主国的联系
金色奇迹 Finucane 完成惊人的四金壮举 作者：Charlie Bennett 发自格拉斯哥
Emma Finucane 承认，在创造出与之匹配的历史性 Commonwealth Games 表现之前，她必须学会如何承受期待的压力。这位威尔士骑手在格拉斯哥完成了令人惊叹的全胜，在之前赢得个人计时赛、短距离赛和团体赛的金牌后，又将竞轮赛金牌收入囊中，成为 96 年来首位在单届运动会上赢得四枚金牌的短距离赛选手。
她的成就使她跻身 Commonwealth 骑行历史最伟大的骑手之列，但这位 23-year-old 的运动员表示，这段旅程在心理上的挑战与身体上的挑战同样之大。在成为巴黎奥运冠军后，Finucane 抵达格拉斯哥时深知自己将成为众矢之的。然而，她并没有被这种压力所压垮，而是学会了接受它。
“在巴黎之后，我确实感觉到自己成为了目标，但我已经学会了拥抱这一点，”她说道。“我学会了更好地应对，并专注于每天的进步。我总是想着接下来的事情，但现在我真的很想专注于当下。这并非我一直擅长的事，但我正努力改变。”
这种新获得的心态在昨天的竞轮赛决赛中得到了体现。Finucane 在还剩两圈时冲到最前方，并一直保持领先位置直到冲线，为威尔士确保了本届运动会的第 31 枚奖牌。这是一个大胆的举动，原本可能会让自己面临后期的挑战，但相反，这展示了一位能够从容承担夺冠热门责任的骑手的自信。
竞轮赛通常是一场战术博弈，六名骑手在引导车后争夺位置，然后进行疯狂的最后冲刺。Finucane 通过亲自掌控节奏地消除了悬念，但这并非一条通往金牌的简单坦途。尽管有人对 Commonwealth 参赛选手的整体实力提出质疑，但她的对手包括奥运冠军 Ellesse Andrews，后者在捍卫冠军头衔的同时获得了银牌。Finucane 的奥运团体短距离赛队友 Katy Marchant 获得第五名，而英国巴黎金牌组合的第三名成员 Sophie Capewell 则未能进入决赛。
“能获得这些金牌的感觉太棒了，”Finucane 在谈到她的收获时补充道。“我当然感受到了压力，尤其是当人们在谈论历史以及可能取得的成就时。我知道我有机会做一些特别的事情，但短距离赛中任何事情都可能发生。”
“我只希望我能激励家乡的人们骑上自行车或走进场地车馆。我太高兴能找到这项运动——或者也许是它找到了我。我绝对热爱我所做的事情。”
我知道我有机会做一些特别的事情。我太高兴能找到这项运动——也许是它找到了我
Emma Finucane 以风采十足的方式为她难忘的一周画上了圆满句号 PA
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需要竞争助力“玫瑰队”绽放 —— 教练 作者：James Reid 发自格拉斯哥
英格兰篮网球主教练安娜·斯坦布里奇（Anna Stembridge）认为，如果“玫瑰队”（Roses）想要冲击金牌，她的球员必须找到一种方法，让自己在每周的训练和比赛中都能体验到顶级国际篮网球赛事的压力。
在铜牌争夺战中，英格兰队以 68-50 负于澳大利亚队，遗憾地在英联邦运动会上连续第二次获得第四名。这已经是他们一周内第二次以两位数分差输给“钻石队”（Diamonds），这清晰地展示了他们在明年世界杯前必须弥补的差距。
斯坦布里奇承认，她的球队在应对澳大利亚队的强度和压力时感到吃力，而澳大利亚球员全部在本土联赛 Super Netball 中打球。该联赛被广泛认为是世界上最好的联赛，但英格兰队仅有 3 名球员在澳大利亚效力，而 2018 年获得金牌的阵容中有 6 人在当地效力。
像洛伊斯·皮尔逊（Lois Pearson）和富尼·法多朱（Funmi Fadoju）这样的人员长期被传将转会，但他们已签约参加 2027 年篮网球超级联赛（Netball Super League）赛季。斯坦布里奇认为，英格兰队必须探索所有机会以缩小顶峰差距。
“只有两名球员参加过英联邦运动会并感受过那种级别的压力，”她说。“我们必须尝试找到一种方法，在每周的训练中模拟这种环境。”
“前几年我们很幸运地有许多运动员在 [Super Netball] 比赛，如果你看看牙买加，毫无疑问他们从那种每周一次的曝光和压力中获益。我们有机会寻找方法来创造这些经验。”
金牌由新西兰队获得，他们在决赛中以 56-48 击败牙买加队，夺得了自 2010 年以来首个英联邦冠军。
新西兰队夺得自 2010 年以来首枚篮网球金牌 作者：James Toney
乔什·克尔（Josh Kerr）承认自己现在成为了被追逐的目标，但他的目光仍锁定在更多的奖牌和记录上。
作为世界纪录保持者和现在的英联邦冠军，在周六晚上的英勇表现之后，这位新的“一英里之王”经历了极其忙碌的 24 小时。
但克尔并非止步不前的人，尽管他承认自从在斯科茨顿（Scotstoun）获得金牌以来，他没有睡太多觉。
“周五晚上的格拉斯哥总是很热闹，”他开玩笑说。
这是他在日历上标注了很长时间的赛事，但这位 28 岁的运动员已经在展望更远的未来。首先是在明年的北京赛中夺回 1500 米世界冠军，然后是在 2028 年的洛杉矶将巴黎奥运会的银牌升级为金牌，但清单首位的是另一个世界最好成绩。
他已经打破了希沙姆·埃尔·格鲁吉（Hicham El Guerrouj）的一英里世界纪录。接下来的目标可能是这位摩洛哥运动员保持了 28 年的 1500 米最佳成绩 —— 这是男子跑步项目中历史最悠久的纪录。
塞巴斯蒂安·科（Seb Coe）、史蒂夫·欧维特（Steve Ovett）和史蒂夫·克拉姆（Steve Cram）都是英国曾经的中距离跑步顶级项目的世界纪录保持者。
克尔并不掩饰自己也在为个人历史地位而战。状态极佳的运动员在短时间内迅速刷新中距离跑步纪录的情况并不罕见。在 1979 年夏季的一个 41 天时间段内，科就先后打破了 800 米、一英里以及 1500 米的世界纪录。
克尔下周将不会在伯明翰的欧洲锦标赛上参加 1500 米项目，这可能会为另一次纪录冲击打开窗口，或许就在今年夏天的洛桑或苏黎世。
“1500 米世界纪录就在我的掌控之中，”他说。“我会继续追求这些纪录。遗憾的是，我是那种得到了东西之后总是想要更多的人。”
“我们需要继续”
将我们的运动推向21世纪。我不想变得贪婪。贪婪的运动员会犯错，就像我去年在世界锦标赛上那样。”克尔从未掩饰过他的野心。他发誓要打破一项 27 年前的记录并在今年夏天赢得联邦运动会金牌——而他两项都实现了。这位苏格兰人承认，能够用行动证明自己的大胆言论让他感到宽慰，但他坚持表示自己享受压力中的每一分钟。“克里斯·霍伊曾就读于我的学校，我在学校集会上听他的故事并深受启发，”克尔在谈到自己的成长岁月时补充道。“能与像他以及安迪 [穆雷，另一位苏格兰体育英雄] 这样两位绝对的传奇人物被提及在同一个句子中，感觉不真实。如果失去了榜样，这份工作将不再轻松，而那些人就是我的榜样。但我还有很多工作要做才能追上他们，我会努力的。”得益于国家彩票玩家，每周有超过 3300 万英镑m 为公益事业筹集资金。正因为有你们，英国全境的体育、艺术、遗产和社区项目，以及我们在 2026 年格拉斯哥联邦运动会上竞争的运动员们才得到了支持。
这位渴望在惊人的1英里赛后继续刷新纪录时间的苏格兰人表示：我会继续挑战这些纪录。我是那种得到了某些东西后总是想要更多的人。
1500米世界纪录被打破至今的年数——它是男子跑步项目中维持时间最长的纪录。
没有室内球场？对诺福克岛奖牌得主来说不是问题 作者：Mark Staniforth 发自格拉斯哥
来自南太平洋微小诺福克岛的一位保龄球手在联邦运动会上赢得了一枚铜牌，尽管她的家乡完全缺乏室内设施。在组织者宣布草地保龄球赛将首次移至室内举行后，谢伊·威尔逊（Shae Wilson）赢得该岛历史上第三枚运动会奖牌的机会似乎已经化为泡影。岛上的保龄球手们——该岛最著名的身份是 1856 年“邦蒂号”叛变者后裔定居地——必须在最大城镇伯恩特派恩（Burnt Pine）的两块草地绿地上的坑洞之间绕球而行。但 27 岁的威尔逊（见上图）在参加她的第三届运动会时，极好地掌控了格拉斯哥光滑的室内地毯，以至于她在昨天击败了来自马来西亚的世界冠军艾玛·菲里亚娜·萨罗吉（Emma Firyana Saroji），最终赢得了领奖台的一席之地。
“想到我来到这里并赢得了一枚奖牌，简直太疯狂了，”威尔逊说。“在家里，我们只有一个拥有两块草地绿地的俱乐部。有时很难找到绿地维护员，而且路面上还有几个坑洞。”
“我可能一年才出去参加一次室内赛，并不经常，所以这是一个巨大的转变。”
“这里的绿地速度大约在 17 秒，而我们的绿地可能是 11 或 12 秒。但我必须走出去并摸索出方法。”
“能让诺福克岛重新回到奖牌榜上真是太好了。那是一个很小的地方，社区关系非常紧密，家乡的每个人都在支持和为我欢呼。”
“但我不会说我是当地名人。在那儿，每个人都认识每个人。”
周六在1英里赛中获胜的乔希·克尔沉浸在赞美之中 盖蒂图片社 (GETTY)
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欧洲联赛负责人称因凡蒂诺的地位难以维系 作者：约翰·雷维尔 (John Revill)
欧洲职业足球联赛负责人昨日表示，在试图出售世界杯商业权益股份的计划失败后，詹尼·因凡蒂诺作为国际足联 (Fifa) 主席的地位看起来难以维系。
克劳迪乌斯·舍费尔 (Claudius Schäfer) 所在的组织代表 53 个职业男女足球联赛。他表示，在因凡蒂诺的计划引发区域协会的强烈抗议后，对他而言可能“只有一种后果”。
“当我看到整个事情的演变，以及国际足联的关键机构并未参与其中时，在任何公司或协会中，基本上只有一种后果，”欧洲联赛主席舍费尔告诉瑞士报纸《周日报》(SonntagsZeitung)。
当被问及这是否意味着因凡蒂诺现在已不再适合担任国际足联主席时，舍费尔说：“当公司里的某人在无人知情的情况下强行推进这样的一笔商业交易时，这通常就是其后果。”
因凡蒂诺周六表示，在引发广泛抵制后，国际足联已经取消了该计划。欧足联 (Uefa) 和北美足球协会 (Concacaf) 周六表示，他们对因凡蒂诺的领导能力失去了信心。
同时担任瑞士足球联赛首席执行官的舍费尔表示，该提议表明国际足联的主要目标是通过在未来增加更多、规模更大的赛事，来为第三方实现利润最大化。
“这完全是为了经济利益；其他一切都被完全忽视了，”他说道。
舍费尔补充说，欧洲联赛反对这一点，因为这将使本已拥挤的国际赛程增加更多比赛，从而损害国家联赛。
“没有人知道这些计划，甚至连国际足联理事会（国际足联的管理机构）也不知道。我对主席在此事上完全擅自行动感到非常惊讶。”
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MONDAY 3 AUGUST 2026 PEOPLE Giant robot spooks local residents A giant 18m figure that is thought to have dominated Wembley Stadium during Take That’s 2011 Progress Live tour, has been spooking walkers near Compton Bassett in Wiltshire. Robbie Williams sold his mansion in the village a few years ago and it is thought the giant robot, described as a “creepy fella”, was left behind. NATURE Ledges help wildlife safely cross road Ledges have been installed in drainage tunnels beneath the new A421 dual carriageway between Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire to help animals, such as badgers and hedgehogs, to access their habitats. National Highways said the dry pathways would enable wildlife to pass safely under the road. POLITICS Tories should cast a wider net for mayor The Conservatives would stand more chance of winning the next London mayoral election if they chose a candidate from outside of Westminster with no links to the previous Tory government, Opinium polling has suggested. It says a candidate with experience of business or policing would do best. SOCIETY Reforms will help couples get married Wedding planners say proposed marriage law reforms will allow couples to create more personalised and affordable ceremonies. Couples in England and Wales could be allowed to legally marry in their garden or favourite pub under the Government’s biggest overhaul of wedding law in almost 200 years. Will Hazell As Andy Burnham and John Healey approach their first Budget on 28 October, they have some big decisions to make. In Burnham’s first week as Prime Minister, he opted for a “rolling- thunder” strategy of daily cost of living announcements in order to hammer home the idea that he’s got the British people’s back. Interventions over the weekend suggest he has no plan to let up on this focus. In a newspaper interview Burnham said that he was planning further cost of living measures “across the piece”, with Healey echoing the message in an op-ed. One of the biggest calls will be on energy bills. In the spring, the former chancellor Rachel Reeves said that any action to cushion the rise in energy prices caused by the Iran war would be targeted, rather than the hugely expensive universal scheme implemented by Liz Truss in 2022. If they want to, Burnham and Healey can pick up the plans that Reeves was working on in the Treasury. In today’s paper we reveal that such a targeted scheme will funnel support to those claiming means-tested benefits, because the Government doesn’t have the data to distribute relief based on household incomes. If the Prime Minister and Chancellor decide to intervene on bills, one of the trickiest decisions will be when to do it. Energy prices have been whipsawing daily with every new Iranian attack or Donald Trump Truth Social post. On the other side of the ledger is how Burnham and Healey will pay for extra cost of living measures. On that, the PM may heed the advice of the man he credits with inspiring him to join the Labour Party, Neil Kinnock. In today’s paper, the former Labour leader says that Burnham should increase tax on capital gains. The Prime Minister will no doubt receive plenty more advice and lobbying in the run-up to 28 October. i@theipaper.com NEWS 4-33 OPINION 18-22 TV 26-31 LIFE 34-37 CULTURE 38-41 MONEY 42-44 SPORT 47-56 PM and Chancellor face big decisions Letter from Whitehall Correspondent
NEWS RETAIL Supermarkets told not to raise prices unfairly By Eleanor Langford POLITICAL REPORTER The Chancellor has said that there will be a clampdown on any firms that exploit the war in Iran to raise prices at the pump and in supermar- kets, on the weekend petrol prices hit their highest level since 2022. John Healey made the pledge in The Daily Telegraph on Saturday, claiming regulators have “the pow- ers to clamp down on it if it happens”. Healey has not set out a plan of his own, but his pledge echoes one made by his predecessor, Rachel Reeves, in May, much of which has not yet been used. Petrol prices have climbed to 160p a litre – the highest since November 2022 – after Iran renewed disrup- tion to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. Diesel had risen by 14.5p, since a low point on 9 July, to 179p but it was still 12.5p below its conflict high of 191.54p, recorded on 15 April. While food price inflation slowed to 1.7 per cent in the year to June,food prices typically take up to 13 months to reflect supply shocks. Supermar- kets have told the Bank of England they expect food inflation to peak at 4 to 5 per cent later this year. Healey said he would be watching closely for any sign that customers were “being taken for a ride at the pump or the till”. He also said there had been “no significant evidence of so-called price gouging” so far, but that he wanted to reassure the public that regulators could act if it happened. Although Healey has not detailed what steps he might take next, he could follow the same path Reeves set out when she announced action in May. She said the watchdog could pub- lish data showing how a firm’s profits have changed during the crisis, pub- licly naming firms whose margins have grown sharply. Secondly, she said regulators would work together and share in- formation faster, so problems are spotted sooner. Third, Reeves said ministers could bring in time-limited powers to order a firm to stop a price rise and fine it. Price gouging is the general term for a company raising prices to an unfair, unjustifiably high level to take advantage of a crisis. There is no law that defines price gouging as an offence. The Government could pass new legislation that specifically bans the practice. But ministers have not said what such a law might look like or when it could be introduced. Writing in May, Justin King, the former boss of Sainsbury’s, warned that colluding on prices, whether to raise them or hold them down, is il- legal under UK competition law. Andrew Bailey, the Governor of the Bank of England, told the Treas- ury Select Committee the same month that holding prices artificial- ly below cost was “not a sustainable thing in the long run”. Supermarkets expect food price inflation to peak at 4 to 5 per cent The price per litre petrol rose to last week, the highest since November 2022 160p TRANSPORT Convert from automatic to manual in one hour, says AA By Neil Lancefield Motorists who pass automatic driv- ing tests should be allowed to drive a manual car after a one-hour conver- sion session, according to the AA. Edmund King, president of the motoring services company, said “it doesn’t make sense” for them to wait months for a manual test, as most “quickly develop good road skills”. Motorists who pass the test in an automatic car are currently only permitted to drive automatics. If they later want to drive a manu- al car – such as when working, hiring a car or borrowing a friend or rela- tive’s car – they must pass a further test in a manual car. But Driver and Vehicle Stand- ards Agency (DVSA) figures show the average waiting time to book a test in May was nearly 22 weeks, compared with about five weeks in February 2020 before the coronavi- rus pandemic. The proportion of learners taking automatic driving tests in Britain is at a record high. DVSA figures show that 29.4 per cent of all tests conducted in the last financial year were in an automatic car, up from about 4 per cent in 2007/08. A Department for Transport spokesperson 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.” EMPLOYMENT National Grid to fund 5,000 young workers By Helen Corbett The National Grid is launching a £5m fund that aims to get 5,000 young people into work over the next five years. It comes amid efforts to reduce the number of young people not in education, employment or training (Neet), which has already exceeded one million. The fund will support up to 1,000 young people annually starting in the first half of 2027, with money invested into practical training, em- ployability skills and qualifications needed for jobs in the energy, con- struction and infrastructure sectors. An interim report by the former Labour minister Alan Milburn, pub- lished in May, warned Britain risks leaving behind a “lost generation” of young people ill-prepared for work. “Last week, we announced funda- mental reforms to the education sys- tem to ensure there’s parity between academic and technical routes – giv- ing all young people the chance to a clear path in life. “A key part of this is matching em- ployers to young people to ensure they get the skills, technical knowl- edge and experience they need. “National Grid’s announcement is exactly the kind of response we want to see,” he said. CRIME Fayed abuse survivors victims of trafficking By Abbie Llewelyn At least five survivors of sexual abuse at the hands of billionaire Harrods owner Mohamed al-Fayed have been confirmed by the Home Office as victims of human trafficking. Their experiences include both international and domestic trafficking, and even a case of trafficking within the Harrods building itself. One survivor said they were recruited to a false role within Harrods, while two were hired for a legitimate role and then selected for abuse off the shop floor. Another survivor was employed as a domestic worker for a member of the Fayed family after being recruited via a letting agency called Hyde Park Residence. Their cases date back as early as the nineties, while the most recent took place after the 2010 sale of Harrods. All five survivors have received conclusive grounds decisions from the National Referral Mechanism that they are victims of modern slavery, after being referred by the charity Unseen UK. Pride of place People take part in the Brighton & Hove Pride Community Parade during the annual Brighton Pride Festival that took place this weekend. Tens of thousands of people attended the 35th year of the event which featured headline sets from the artists Raye and Diana Ross. TOBY SHEPHEARD/REUTERS
MONDAY 3 AUGUST 2026 NEWS 4-33 OPINION 18-22 TV 26-31 LIFE 34-37 CULTURE 38-41 MONEY 42-44 SPORT 47-56 Keeping things cool An overhead view of swimmers at Brockwell Lido in Brockwell Park, south London, this weekend. Like most of the UK’s lidos, it was built in the 1930s. It closed in 1990 but was reopened following a local campaign four years later. Last month a group of Labour MPs and the Fabian Society called for water companies to fund the reopening of the many ‘lost’ lidos throughout the country. MAJA SMIEJKOWSKA/PA RESEARCH One in 10 homes under hosepipe ban intend to ignore it, survey finds By Josie Clarke More than one in 10 householders who are living with a hosepipe ban do not intend to abide by it, accord- ing to a survey. Some 11 per cent of households said they did not intend to fully abide by the ban – while 5 per cent said they did not yet know, the YouGov poll of more than 4,200 adults found. Eight water companies – Affinity Water, Anglian Water, Cambridge Water, Essex & Suffolk Water, Southern Water, South East Water, Thames Water and South West Water – have introduced the restric- tions – officially known as a “Tempo- rary Use Ban” – affecting 23 million customers, or around 40 per cent of England’s population. Half of households (49 per cent) said they supported a hosepipe ban in their local area, while 35 per cent said they opposed the restrictions. A significant num- ber of responses in- volved the belief that those on a meter should be able to use as much water as they needed be- cause they were paying for it. Other reasons given for ignoring a ban were concerns about fruit and vegetables going to waste because they were too difficult to water with a watering can, and to support wild- life in the garden. Households subject to a ban can use a water- ing can, and using a hosepipe is still al- lowed to water food crops at home or on an allotment. One householder raised concerns about their water supplier’s wider performance, saying: “I pay an extortionate amount for my water. It is not my prob- lem that water companies would rather give their CEOs ridiculous amounts of money instead of build- ing new reservoirs.” Another said: “How does a first world nation not have the infrastruc- ture to support no rain for a month?” The bans come as almost a third of England languish in “prolonged dry weather” status, with only the North East and Yorkshire still seeing “nor- mal” conditions for the time of year. Last week, the Environment Agency declared seven areas of Eng- land as officially in drought. An Environment Agency spokes- woman said: “A hosepipe can use 1,000 litres an hour – which is more than a family of four will use in a day. “These short-term bans allow companies to conserve their sup- plies as we don’t know when this drought will end.” UTILITIES Thousands in Kent left with no water supply By Brendan McFadden Thousands of people in parts of Kent were hit with water supply problems over the weekend. Some residents of Tonbridge were left with no water or low pressure after the large main on Shipbourne Road burst on Saturday morning and caused water to gush onto the street. Yesterday, South East Water (SEW) said work meant the number of households affected reduced to 2,564 from 7,588. Drinking water supplies were also restored to 322 properties on higher ground in the nearby village of Bidborough. SEW opened two bottled water stations in the town yesterday and said repairs are complex due to an overnight equipment failure and high-voltage electrical cables located near the leak. The company’s incident manager, Rob Hall, apologised for the disruption, adding: “I fully understand how frustrating this ongoing disruption is, and I want to reassure the community that our teams are working as quickly and safely as possible to fix the pipe and restore supplies.” He also said that supplies for the remaining affected properties were anticipated to return by this morning. While violating hosepipe ban restrictions comes with a potential penalty of £1,000, there are a number of exemptions listed by water companies that allow continued use. Most water companies have similar rules, which means those living with medical or mobility problems are universally exempt. Businesses can also use hosepipes during the ban, as long as it is only for commercial purposes. But there are also more unusual loopholes. Thames Water and Essex & Suffolk Water allow the cleaning of a private boat if needed for health and safety purposes, or to “clean a leisure boat which has an enclosed space”. Thames Water allows for cleaning windows, outside walls, paths, patios or outdoor surfaces if needed for health and safety purposes. In general, hosepipes can also be used to protect the welfare of animals, including to take care of pets, livestock and fish. They can additionally be used in gardens or private allotments where food crops are being grown and “a watering can isn’t a practical option”. Newly laid turf or recently sown grass seed also earns an exemption. Loopholes Exemptions that allow for continued use The number of litres a hosepipe can use in an hour, which is more than a family of four will use in a day 1,000 Last year, Yorkshire Water reported savings of up to 10 per cent in household consumption during a ban, while Anglian Water has reported a 9 per cent reduction in demand since its ban was implemented last month. CLIMATE Drought ‘could cause shortage’ of some foods By Brendan McFadden Prolonged drought across the UK could lead to shortages of some foods, the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) has warned. Drought has been declared across Wales and large parts of England, amid water supplies being strained by repeated heatwaves, which have fuelled wildfires across the country. Amber heat health alerts are also in place for large parts of England until Wednesday. NFU president Tom Bradshaw told the BBC that the amount of food produced across the UK is being re- duced because vegetable producers are running low on water. He said: “It does feel like there is going to be some shortages of [food] products.” Bradshaw also explained wheat and oats are “very, very poor” this year and livestock farmers are using their winter feed rations because they cannot grow grass. The Guardian reported that the struggle to grow food has resulted in businesses being forced to buy lettuce and broccoli from Spain, ac- cording to David Simmons, who is on the board of the Brassica Growers Association, a UK trade body. Evie Selby
NEWS COVER STORY Two-thirds of people back idea that wealthy should pay more tax Exclusive By Will Hazell, Richard Vaughan and Caroline Wheeler Two-thirds of voters back the intro- duction of a “wealth tax”, a poll for The i Paper has shown. Targeting high wealth in the tax system found support from around 66 per cent of adult Britons, who would be behind a wealth tax on as- sets worth more than £10m, accord- ing to work done in association with BMG Research. Just 10 per cent of people opposed such a plan, with support coming from across the political spectrum. The Prime Minister has tried to remain coy when it comes to specific tax pledges, but he refused to rule out introducing a tax on the wealthy when asked about the policy before entering No 10. When interviewed by the broad- caster and former footballer Gary Lineker before taking office, Andy Burnham was asked directly about taxing the wealthiest. His response was deliberately non-committal, telling the ex-England star: “I’m not going to rule things out right now.” He added that he believed “we need a greater sense of fairness” but that he did not want to “create new divisions” or be seen as “demonising one group”. Last month, Lineker was among 120 so-called “Patriotic Million- aires”, who signed a letter stating that they supported paying more tax in the form of a 2 per cent levy on wealth over £10m. According to economists and aca- demics at the Paris School of Eco- nomics and King’s College London, such a tax could raise £10bn a year for the Exchequer and affect only the 1,000 most affluent households. People who voted Labour and the Liberal Democrats in 2024 were most supportive of the introduction of such a tax, the poll found – with 79 per cent and 83 per cent in favour, re- spectively. And 75 per cent of Green Party voters backed the tax. But the policy was also supported by Conservative and Reform vot- ers, with 61 per cent and 63 per cent respectively saying they would wel- come the measure. Another tax proposal – equalising capital gains tax (CGT) on the sale of assets with income tax – had a split in support along conventional political lines. Equalising CGT with income tax has been proposed by high-profile Labour party figures including the Defence Secretary, Wes Street- ing, and Burnham’s second in com- mand First Secretary of State, Louise Haigh. When he was considering run- ning for the Labour leadership in May, Streeting said the policy would be a “wealth tax that works”. During the Makerfield by-election Burnham said he wanted to look “in detail” at the idea. When presented with such an op- tion, just 38 per cent of Conservative voters and 47 per cent of Reform vot- ers were in favour, as opposed to 63 per cent and 65 per cent of Labour and Lib Dem voters, respectively. In total, 43 per cent of respond- ents supported the idea with 18 per cent opposed. Opponents of higher capital gains tax rates argue that it could discour- age investment, entrepreneurship and business growth by reducing the returns from taking financial risks. More broadly, critics of wealth taxes warn that it can lead to wealthy individuals leaving the UK or mov- ing their assets overseas. Almost three-quarters of voters (73 per cent) want to see the amount people can earn before paying in- come tax increased. The threshold has been frozen at £12,570 since 2021, with just 5 per cent opposed to a rise. The Treasury said it was already possible for people to voluntarily do- nate money to the Government. By Will Hazell, Richard Vaughan and Caroline Wheeler Lord Neil Kinnock has said that there should be a “better balance” between the taxation of earnings and wealth – specifically urging the Prime Minister to align tax rates on profits from the sale of assets with those of income tax. Andy Burnham is close to Kinnock (inset), who was Labour leader for over nine years from 1983, and continues to receive advice from him. With Burnham and his Chancellor, John Healey, now mulling what decisions they should take in their first Budget on 28 October, Kinnock said more tax should be levied on assets. He said: “In this century assets and extremely high incomes and bonuses have zoomed while for several years earned incomes flatlined. “Equity requires a better balance, so does efficiency.” Kinnock said the Government should equalise capital gains tax (CGT) – which currently stands at 18 per cent for basic- rate income taxpayers and 24 per cent for higher and additional- rate taxpayers – with the income tax rates of 20, 40 and 45 per cent. “I’m sure that the Government understands the utility and the encouragement which the further £12bn revenues that such a fair change in CGT would bring,” Kinnock said. WELFARE Families on benefits will get energy support Exclusive By Will Hazell WHITEHALL CORRESPONDENT Families on means-tested benefits will receive energy bill support if the Government decides to launch a tar- geted relief package this winter, The i Paper can reveal. A system to target bill support has been drawn up that is restricted to benefit claimants because the Treasury has no way of targeting households purely based on income, insiders said. In the spring, the then chancellor Rachel Reeves said that any action to help people deal with the effect on energy bills from the Iran war would be targeted at “those who need it most”. The decision was aimed at learn- ing from 2022, when a universal support package introduced by Liz Truss in response to the energy price fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine ended up costing the tax- payer nearly £40bn. While a system to differentiate families based on their household in- come is something officials are still working towards, it is complicated and will not be ready this winter. But the Treasury has a system that would allow support to be targeted at households receiving benefits, after a data-matching ex- ercise overseen by pensions minis- ter Torsten Bell using information held by the Department for Work and Pensions. “The infrastructure to deliver it [a targeted energy bill support scheme] is there,” a government source said. The system can identify households receiving means-tested benefits such as universal credit. Andy Burnham and the Chan- cellor, John Healey, face a series of choices going into the autumn with the Budget due on 28 October. The first is whether to intervene to pro- FINANCE Kinnock urges alignment of capital gains and income tax Lineker is calling for millionaires like him to be taxed more BEN WHITLEY/PA Only three countries in Europe levy net wealth taxes – Norway, Spain and Switzerland. France and Italy levy wealth taxes on selected assets – property and overseas investments respectively.
MONDAY 3 AUGUST 2026 NEWS 4-33 OPINION 18-22 TV 26-31 LIFE 34-37 CULTURE 38-41 MONEY 42-44 SPORT 47-56 It has the vibe of an uncle’s rose-tinted memory of the days ‘when we made things’ Anne McElvoy is co-host of the ‘Politics at Sam and Anne’s’ podcast and presents the ‘Across the Red Line’ debate series on Radio 4 in August Labour’s industrial nostalgia is not a plan for the future POLITICS Anne McElvoy T he Burnham blitz of schemes, dreams and grand projects for post-Starmer Britain is dizzying in its pace, befuddling in its detail. Energy and purpose have given Labour a new spring in its tired step. But which way does the new leader’s vision really face: towards a future which can combine his aims of greater inclusivity and devolution of power with an expansion of growth and opportunity; or a nostalgia-drenched one, peddling solutions that will hit the buffers of a changing job market and ultimately disappoint? He wants to overhaul state education, revivify apprenticeships linked to local industry for pupils from 14, and aims to “reindustrialise” Britain with scant idea of what the trade-offs of that might look like in terms of cost – making things at home is often more expensive than importing them from countries which can do so cheaper en masse. The aim is to make us “value the hard hat every bit as much as the graduation cap”. His first major pronouncement on the impact of AI was the insistence that it could “make a slide deck” but “couldn’t build a train”. If you are catching the vibe of an earnest uncle with a rose- tinted political memory of the days when “we made things”, you would be spot on. Pledging to “reindustrialise” everything from steel production to weapons systems places emphasis on things being brought back, rather than the “What is next?” instinct which propels the most agile economies. At a time when AI is set to eliminate thousands of jobs and upend others this is a risk, and especially so in one area of the new Government’s promise to get the UK out of a rut: education. The schools plan is doused in industrial nostalgia. It combines a diehard lament of the left that there needs to be “parity” between emphasis on academic exam-led excellence and the neglected technical sector. But parity is earned, not demanded and a similar quest has bedevilled successive governments, from notions like “T-level” proposals announced by the Tories in 2017 to Keir Starmer’s vaunted “V-levels”. Now Burnham has announced a focus on more skills-based education and an “MBacc” (Manchester Baccalaureate) transformation of the post-16 curriculum. In fairness, governments can point to places where technical upgrades have yielded results – like the best building skills academies or the Invicta grammar school in Maidstone which excels in teaching skills like 3D printing. But without aiming for national scale and investment in teachers who are able to deliver a new kind of education, these remain isolated examples. We might also wonder, with a new AI minister (Kanishka Narayan, inset) attending Cabinet, why all those Burnham videos and the language of “hard hats” are so focused on construction and conventional trades. Abolishing the Department for Science, Technology and Innovation and shuffling around the responsibilities embroiled officials and advisers in what Whitehall veterans term a “re-disorganisation”. If there is method in this meddling, it is not well explained. A further stumbling block is the idea that a technical and vocational education is for “other people’s children” is a hard habit to break. These days, 22 per cent of a Labour Cabinet were privately educated as well as a steady portion of the key advisers and civil servants in the government penumbra. So the dangers of the “back to the future” aspect of Burnhamism are that projects like the standards- raising overhaul of state schools via the academies programme, which once gained cross-party support, fall by the wayside, either because a lot of Labour MPs and activists never much warmed to this variant on the comprehensive system – or because focus lurches to a new favoured emphasis on vocational education for more pupils at 14. Nostalgia is a soundtrack, not a solution to our prosperity. To cite The Smiths, we do not want to go “back to the old house”. And at heart, most of us know that. vide further support with energy bills, and then whether it should be targeted. One option would be to blend tar- geted support to low-income families with some degree of universal relief. A key consideration is the tim- ing of when any package would be launched, with the volatility in ener- gy markets because of the Iran war making planning difficult. A targeted support scheme would be intended as temporary, but the Government could also cut money off everyone’s bills on a long-term basis. If Burnham and Healey opted for this sort of universal measure, the main lever at their disposal would be transferring remaining green levies from bills to general taxation. In April, Reeves transferred 75 per cent of the “renewables obligation” levy to taxation to cut bills by £150, and the Government could transfer the remaining 25 per cent too. No 10 and the Treasury were con- tacted for comment. POLICY Burnham renews call for written constitution By Eleanor Barlow A written constitution could be needed for the UK as a “different approach” is taken to running the country, the Prime Minister has said. Andy Burnham previously called for a written constitution in a 2024 book Head North: A Rallying Cry for a More Equal Britain, which he co- authored with Liverpool City Region metro mayor Steve Rotheram. Speaking as he revealed plans for increased devolution, Burnham said the proposals strengthened the case for a formal constitution because they would change Britain. He said: “In the end, I think it does start to point towards a new con- stitutional settlement, particularly with what Steve and I were writing about with that commitment to equivalent living standards. “I said in the speech I gave in Man- chester a couple of weeks ago about good growth in every postcode. It’s not just a soundbite. I actually mean that. We need to have a country where everyone, in the end, can live a comparable life. That should be what we’re working towards.” The former mayor of Greater Manchester said he thought that ap- proach should be the “cornerstone” of a written constitution. He added: “I think there is a case for a new, clear set of principles about how this country should be run and things that should be minimum basics in all parts of the country, re- lated to essentials and connectivity. “It’s wrong that people are left arguing for things that are just fun- damental, and they’re given in other parts of the country, and the lack of a constitution disempowers places in that situation. “What’s coming through is we’re starting to say that everywhere will have the right to be a strategic authority, everywhere will have the right to retain more of their income tax and business rates. “That does start to take you into the realms of a very different ap- proach to running the country.” Unlike many countries, the UK does not have a single codified constitution. Its constitution is derived from statutes, common law and conventions. Ofgem’s next price cap decision is due at the end of this month, and would set prices from October to the end of the year. Cornwall Insights forecasts the October price cap will be £1,699.59 per year – 2 per cent higher than the current level. Small boats surveillance Andy Burnham views a surveillance drone alongside Border Security Commander Duncan Capps at HM Coastguard Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Dover yesterday. The Prime Minister pledged to be ‘relentless’ in tackling small boat crossings. ‘Progress is being made, but we’re not complacent, and it’s why I am here,’ he said. Latest figures showed that more than 2,000 people have crossed the Channel in small boats since Burnham became Prime Minister. But the total of 14,200 people that have arrived via small boats so far this year is down 43 per cent on last year. JACK TAYLOR/PA
NEWS Count-erfeit Binface A man dressed as Count Binface takes part in costume day at Camp Bestival 2026 at Lulworth Castle in Wareham, Dorset. This year’s theme was ‘At the Seaside’: Binface is running in the upcoming by-election in the Essex coastal town of Clacton. LEON NEAL/GETTY By-election is ‘a complete waste of time’, says resident Party to focus on core issue of migration as popularity falls. By Kitty Donaldson N igel Farage will seek to steer the political agenda back to his safe space – immigration – after his polling numbers dropped significantly following revelations about his finances and his decision to trigger a by-election in his Clacton-on-Sea seat. In the absence of mainstream rivals to the Reform UK leader, over 30 candidates are standing in the Essex constituency, with his most high-profile opponent being the self-styled “intergalactic space warrior” Count Binface. Although some voters declared their loyalty to Farage, others said the circus had annoyed them and expressed frustration there are no alternatives other than novelty candidates or little-known independents. Farage called the by-election last month after claiming a sleaze investigation was being used as a political tool against him. He said he wants the people of Clacton, rather than Parliament’s standards watchdog, to judge him. The Reform UK leader was under investigation by the parliamentary authorities over an undeclared £5m gift from Christopher Harborne, a cryptocurrency billionaire. The inquiry is expected to resume if Farage is re-elected. Farage has said there was no obligation to declare the money because he was not an MP when he received it . Sandra Hatton, 75, a Clacton resident who used to work for the police, described the by-election as unnecessary, calling herself politically homeless. “If Mr Farage gets in again, they’re still going to do the inquiry on him – so it’s a complete waste of time,” she said. “I don’t like his policies. I think that he focuses on immigration all the time and I think the solution to immigration is employ more people to process the immigrants that are coming in and then we can decide if they’re legal or illegal. But his policies are just appalling.” Farage has frequently spoken of the threat of an “invasion” of irregular migrants and will return to that theme this week after chaotic scenes on Thursday at the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in North Africa, where an estimated 60,000 migrants crossed from Morocco. Reform’s home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf visited Ceuta on Saturday. “I have spoken to a number of them who made it quite clear they intend to make it to Britain,” Yusuf claimed. “One even admitted that they’re wanted for murder.” Although most of the arrivals have now returned, their entry caused tensions across European capitals as leaders vied to reassure their domestic audiences of their tough line on immigration. Reform proposes a hard-line immigration overhaul that includes abolishing indefinite leave to remain, banning non-UK citizens from social housing and restricting welfare to British citizens only. The party proposes a mass deportation plan under which anyone arriving in the UK “illegally” would be automatically denied asylum and could be detained indefinitely pending removal. The trouble for Farage is that while he could once pounce on the Tories’ record, under the Labour Government the number of migrants arriving in the country across the Channel has fallen significantly. A total of 14,200 people have arrived in the UK via small boats so far this year, down 44 per cent compared with the same period last year. Nevertheless, Farage’s focus on migration risks punching a Labour bruise. While the Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, kept Shabana Mahmood as Home Secretary and voted in favour of her reforms in the Immigration and Asylum Bill, plans CLACTON to double the settlement wait time to 10 years are not popular with her party: nearly 80 Labour MPs urged a rethink. For John Hooper, 79, in Clacton town centre, Farage “speaks for Britain” and will get his vote at the by-election on 13 August for his migration policies. “He wants to get rid of the boats, he wants to do everything that’s common sense,” the retired Stansted airport worker said. “He’s a dreamer, Burnham, because he wants everything that you can’t afford. We all want a better world, we all want everything really good for Britain, but how unless you pay for it?” Hooper is not bothered that Farage has called the vote – “it’s his prerogative” – nor concerned about the allegations around Reform’s finances: “£5m, that’s nothing to them. They all get it one way or another,” he said. But according to polling by BMG Research on behalf of The i Paper, the Reform UK leader’s net approval ratings have dropped by 10 percentage points in just a month. Such figures show the challenge facing Farage as he seeks to revive a lacklustre by-election campaign by returning to his base’s key concern of migration this week. Reform home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf visited Ceuta on Saturday Farage wants to get rid of the boats, he wants to do everything that’s common sense PLANNING Airport reopening bid puts Burnham’s Reform challenge to the test By Steve Robson NORTHERN CORRESPONDENT The future of Doncaster Sheffield Airport (DSA) – closed in 2022 after its owners, the property group Peel, said it was no longer commercially viable – has become an early test of the Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s ability to take on Reform UK. A bid to get the airport reopened under pub- lic ownership has been proposed, with a target of commercial flights taking off once again in spring 2028. But the reality is that the future of DSA, and the future of Doncaster as a whole, hangs in the balance, supporters argue. When The i Paper visited last week, voters were downbeat about the prospects of their city and voiced concerns about the cost of living, crime and a lack of housing. The pessimism demonstrates how much work Burnham has to do to turn things around for Labour, while enthusiasm for Reform UK also appears to have slipped. The party took a majority of seats on the council last year, although unusu- ally the city also has an elected mayor position which Labour veteran Ros Jones (inset) clung onto, largely because of her promise to get the airport reopened. In the past 12 months, Re- form’s reputation has taken a hit as inexperienced local councillors flip- flopped over whether to support La- bour’s plan to use at least £160m of public money to reopen DSA.
MONDAY 3 AUGUST 2026 NEWS 4-33 OPINION 18-22 TV 26-31 LIFE 34-37 CULTURE 38-41 MONEY 42-44 SPORT 47-56 Don’t panic, Reform tells members after Burnham poll bounce In response to the loss of its long-standing poll lead, Farage’s party plans to go on the offensive – and will not pull its punches. By Will Hazell “W e’d prefer to be in the lead. However, panic? Nah.” This is one senior Reform UK source’s response to the “Burnham bounce” which has led to Labour leapfrogging Nigel Farage’s party to lead a national poll for the first time since March 2025. It’s part of a refrain echoed across the upper echelons of Reform: Labour’s boost in the polls under the Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, was to be expected; there’s no need to panic; it won’t last. Reform’s polling streak came to an end last Monday when a survey by More in Common put Labour on 28 per cent (up four points) to Reform’s 24 per cent (down two). In a poll conducted by BMG research exclusively for The i Paper, Labour is now five points clear of Nigel Farage’s party with 28 per cent of those surveyed saying they would vote Labour, as opposed to 23 per cent backing Reform. Despite Reform’s outwardly relaxed attitude, pollsters believe it could point towards something significant. Louis O’Geran, of More in Common, said: “We’ve seen a big Burnham bounce… We’re seeing this real swing towards Labour and away from Reform.” If you look at the people who voted Labour in 2024, in March only half of them were planning to vote Labour in an election tomorrow. That’s now risen to two-thirds.” Reform acknowledges that Burnham poses a more formidable challenge than Sir Keir Starmer ever did, and sources inside the party are complimentary about the new Prime Minister’s ability to appeal to voters. One senior party source said Burnham was basking in a “TikTok summer”, adding: “He’s genial, he’s personable, he wears T-shirts, he does TikTok… He’s very good at what he’s doing right now.” A Reform insider, meanwhile, conceded that the “quasi-populist policies” the Prime Minister unveiled in his first week – such as cutting bus fares and electricity bills – were “a lot better than things Starmer was coming up with”. Reformers strenuously insist they expected Labour to overtake them in the polls. One Reform official said: “We knew as soon as Starmer announced he was stepping down Labour would go back above us for a short period. Quite frankly anything to the British public would have felt better than Starmer.” However, the party line is that the Burnham bounce will soon “fizzle out” when he starts having to grapple with the economic challenges the country faces, and with splits in the parliamentary Labour Party, especially over welfare. As for how long it might take Reform to once again overtake Labour in the polls, the official said: “I don’t think they’ll be leading by Christmas.” O’Geran thinks it’s “really hard to tell” how durable Labour’s lead will be, although he believes the early data provide one “red flag” for Burnham in the form of a “credibility challenge”. While there is strong support for the cost of living policies the Prime Minister has announced, there is scepticism about how he is going to deliver them. “When we ask people has Burnham been clear about how he’s going to pay for it, only a third say that he’s been clear. Half say he’s been unclear. “If there is a longevity risk for this Burnham boost, it’s going from a popular agenda that the public really back in principle to then getting into the kind of messy stuff about how you’re going to fund it.” For all the apparent indifference to Labour’s polling surge, there is no escaping the fact that Reform has had a miserable couple of months. Questions continue to dog Farage about his finances, while the police are also investigating donations relating to the deputy leader Richard Tice and Treasury spokesman Robert Jenrick – all three deny any wrongdoing. At the same time, Farage’s gambit of triggering a by-election in Clacton misfired when all the main parties declined to join the contest. It has left him in the farcical position where his main opponent is novelty candidate Count Binface. While there remains an extreme reluctance in Reform circles to question Farage’s judgement – even in private – some figures in the party implicitly admit that the by-election has descended into a “silly-season” sideshow which they’re keen to see the back of. As for the financial questions, there is acknowledgement that it has hurt Reform, but party apparatchiks claim their polling has proved resilient. The senior source said: “Despite everything, all this stuff, our polling rating has [only] dropped by a couple of points. There seems to be a real stickiness to 20 per cent or more.” Reform’s plan is to go on the offensive. The official claimed a “huge grid” of media announcements has been prepared for the run-up to party conference at the start of September. After the recent torrid months, there is a belief that the party needs to be more assertive in taking the fight to Labour, with Jenrick’s accusation that Burnham is planning a “death tax” to pay for social care reform seen as a promising line of attack. The senior source said Reform had been like a “heavyweight boxer standing in the middle of the ring taking everyone’s punches”. They added: “We’ve got to start punching… We’ve got to step up and make our case rather than constantly defend.” POLITICS Farage’s gambit of triggering a by-election is seen to have backfired GETTY The size of Labour’s poll lead last week, over Reform at 24 per cent 28% Internal disagreements, plus the involvement of Nigel Farage and his deputy Richard Tice on the mat- ter, has led to repeated changes in leadership and what one insider de- scribed as a “toxic” atmosphere. At one stage, Reform council- lors were threatening to pull the plug on funding entirely, despite being told by officials it would end any hopes of the airport reopen- ing and push Doncaster Council towards bankruptcy. The uncertainty has been unset- tling for the 80 staff who are already working on a £20m revamp of the airport in the hope it will reopen. “We keep questioning ourselves, are we still going to be in this posi- tion in a couple of years’ time or are we going to have to look for some- thing else?” said Melina Coates, site management officer at the airport. “We’ve obviously had discussions in the office, because there is that uncertainty, is it going to open? But we’re looking forward to that be- cause there’s so many opportunities. It would be great once it’s opened to say we’ve contributed to it.” Christian Foster, the programme director of the effort to reopen it, said his team has had to “educate” Reform councillors on aspects of the airport deal. He added: “You can see lots of areas where Reform have come into power, [they are] then getting to grips with ‘what does it mean to be a public official? [What are] your du- ties and expectations?’ “You see lots of places are wres- tling with different airport projects and that’s not uncommon.” Foster said his understanding was that Reform remained “100 per cent” behind the reopening of the airport and that public frustration would cool down once the airport was able to announce deals with commercial airlines. “I think a lot of that tension and noise then starts to dissipate be- cause it feels very real,” he added. James and Rachel Whitehouse, who run an LGBT-friendly café called Bake Battle Roll in Doncas- ter city centre, said they believed Reform councillors had struggled to have much of an impact in terms of local decision-making and that their support may be starting to wane. “Reform took over the majority of council seats because there was a lot of dissatisfaction,” said James. “I do think Reform have started to shrink back a bit. I think peo- ple are sceptical but interested [in Burnham]. “A lot of people we’re speaking to, they’re waiting to see if Burnham is different to [Sir Keir] Starmer.”
NEWS DIPLOMACY Spain condemns ‘selfish’ response of EU countries to Ceuta border crossings By Molly Blackall GLOBAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT A diplomatic row has erupted in Europe after footage emerged of a deadly mass border crossing in the Spanish territory of Ceuta last week. Around 60,000 people arrived from Morocco in the largest illegal crossing in EU history, most of them swimming, with some spending sev- eral hours at sea. At least 67 people died making the journey, Spanish officials said. Ceuta, which is situated at the tip of north Africa and is one of only two EU land borders with Africa, has a population of around 83,000. One local told The i Paper she decided to flee to mainland Spain with her teenage daughter as the border collapsed and “horrible” scenes unfolded. Viral videos showed large num- bers of migrants overwhelming the border and swimming up to its beaches, before many – including children – slept rough on its streets. Dozens of people drowned or died in stampedes, and clashes were re- ported between migrants and police. But the crisis rapidly expanded from a humanitarian crisis into a geopolitical one. Italy, which has introduced strict migration policies after receiv- ing large numbers of small boat crossings from Libya, temporarily suspended the EU’s border-free Schengen arrangement with Spain, with the prime minister Giorgia Mel- oni saying the move was necessary “for national security”. Meloni’s right-wing Fratelli d’Italia party used the incident to hit out at domestic rivals and Spanish prime min- ister Pedro Sánchez, post- ing photographs of migrants on the streets of Ceuta with the caption: “This is the Sánchez model the Ital- ian left wing likes so much.” Several other European countries backed Italy’s position. The Czech prime minister An- drej Babiš called for tempo- rary suspension of Spain’s Schengen membership. Jordan Bardella, the far-right president of France’s National Rally, claimed that “by regularising hun- dreds of thousands of illegal immigrants, the socialist prime minister of Spain has opened the doors of Europe to all dangers”. Ursula von der Leyen, presi- dent of the European Commis- sion, described the scenes in Ceuta as “unacceptable”. Twenty-two EU countries wrote a letter expressing “serious concern” and blaming Sánchez’s move to grant legal status to 500,000 undoc- umented migrants as a “pull factor”. In response, Spain’s left-wing gov- ernment condemned the “selfish, polarising and unlawful” response of some European countries and hit back at the claims. Ceuta is not in the Schengen zone, so Moroccan migrants were never able to travel into Italy without border checks. Spain rejected the idea that the surge in migration was linked to legal status grants, saying that none of those entering Ceuta illegally would have benefited because conditions included residency within Spain for at least five months prior to 2026, and because the deadline had closed. Sánchez pointed out that ille- gal migration to Italy and Greece had been far higher than Spain in recent years. By Saturday, Spanish authori- ties said they had “reversed” the situation, and almost all those who reached Ceuta had returned to Morocco. Last night, Morocco blamed traf- fickers and social media misinfor- mation for the surge. EU interior ministers are to meet tomorrow to discuss border security. Soldiers escorting migrants who crossed into Ceuta towards the Moroccan border yesterday AP/BERNAT ARMANGUE Migration myths ‘Invasion,’ cry populists Fears of a new migration crisis affecting the UK are misplaced despite the chaotic scenes witnessed in Ceuta, an expert has said. Viral images from the collapsing border were characterised as an “invasion” by populist politicians across Europe. Members of the Reform UK party began advancing the claim that significant numbers of those arriving in the North African territory would soon journey onwards towards Britain. Nigel Farage posted on X: “Before long many will be crossing the English Channel to enter Britain illegally.” Suella Braverman and Robert Jenrick also claimed the men were on their way to the UK and on Saturday, Reform’s home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf visited Ceuta and wrote on X that he had spoken to “a number” of people “who made it quite clear they intend to make it to Britain”. But Myriam Cherti, a senior researcher at the University of Oxford’s Global Exchange on Migration, said that while the number of people who remained in Ceuta seeking to travel onwards to mainland Europe was unknown: “I don’t think the UK is the desired destination for many arriving in Ceuta. The majority are Moroccan.” Cherti, who is based in the Moroccan capital of Rabat, said that Spain – where Moroccans are the largest immigrant population – was by far the more common target, because of cultural and family ties. However, Ceuta is not part of mainland Spain and migrants have to cross the sea in order to reach European shores. Her research had found that where Moroccans do move onwards from Spain they are likely to choose countries in mainland Europe. Lizzie Dearden MIGRATION Asylum seekers are turning to food banks for their survival By Adam Forrest SCOTLAND CORRESPONDENT Asylum seekers in Aberdeen have told The i Paper that some have turned to food banks to survive, and that they are suffering “frightening” abuse and intimidation including being spat on in the street, having rocks thrown through windows and being told to “fk off – go back to your own country”. Ahmad – an asylum seeker in his 20s from South Asia – came to the UK in 2025. He spent less than a week in a hotel in London before being moved to Scotland. He has been living with 150 other asylum seekers in a “quite crowded” former student block in Aberdeen since November last year. While each person has their own small room, six people share a kitch- en area and bathroom. There is no TV or Wi-Fi available. It is “difficult to survive” on £49 a week, said Ahmad. “It is only very basic food I can af- ford. I cook with a few other people I know. We make a kind of bean stew.” Ahmad had hoped the student block would feel safer than hotels, which have been the target of anti- asylum protests. But he has been met by local people shouting at him to “go back “We have been afraid after that. It is frightening,” he said. Arash is a Kurdish-Iranian asy- lum seeker in his 20s who came to the UK in September 2025. He said seven people share a kitchen in each unit at the Farmers Hall student flats in Aberdeen – home to another 150 asylum seekers. Arash said the flats were better than a hotel because “at least I have some freedom”. He added: “But I have to go to food banks for some things, because £49 a week is not enough for everything.” Arash said most people in Aber- deen have been “welcoming”, but some have also targeted asylum seekers for abuse. “Since I came to Farmers Hall, I had one person spit on me. I had one person say, ‘I’ll re- member your face’,” he said. Moussa from West Africa is an asylum seeker who came to the UK in 2024. He said living on £49 a week meant “you can only afford the most basic food – it’s not enough even to buy any new clothes or shoes”. A Home Office spokesperson said abuse of asylum seekers was “com- pletely unacceptable”. They also said concerns of com- munities were “central” to its plans. Names have been changed An anti-migrant protest takes place in Glasgow last month home” outside the student block. “There was a time when someone threw a rock through the window of the kitchen,” Ahmad added. The number of people who died making the journey from Morocco to Ceuta
MONDAY 3 AUGUST 2026 NEWS 4-33 OPINION 18-22 TV 26-31 LIFE 34-37 CULTURE 38-41 MONEY 42-44 SPORT 47-56 Firefighters battling a wildfire near Porto Germeno, west of Athens, yesterday as Greece faces increasingly extreme heat in summer MICHAEL VARAKLAS/AP EUROPE Extreme heat could end traditional holidays and lead to ‘coolcations’ By Martha Powell French wildfires that have scorched an area more than four times the size of Paris and forced thousands of tour- ists to flee could end the traditional European holiday – with Britons opt- ing for “coolcations” instead. More than 250,000 people have been evacuated from affected re- gions, including 4,000 residents and visitors from tourist sites west of Bordeaux on Tuesday. The wildfires around Bordeaux, in the south-west of France, have been described by President Emmanuel Macron as the country’s most severe fire-related crisis since the Second World War. Dr Liz Bentley, chief executive of the Royal Meteorological Society, said: “These wildfires are a stark re- minder that France, as well as Spain, Italy and other European destina- tions, are becoming increasingly ex- posed to extreme heat and risk. “It is likely that as our climate con- tinues to warm, 50°C will be experi- enced for the first time somewhere in Europe in the years to come.” A survey by InsureandGo, con- ducted in May, found that three in four UK holidaymakers believe that traditional destinations such as France, Spain, Greece and Cyprus will be too hot to visit by 2030. “Southern European holidays will no longer be a relaxing summer holiday escape,” said Ilan Kelman, professor of disasters and health at University College London. Earlier this week, tourists were urged by a French official from Bor- deaux’s region of Gironde not to visit until the “situation is under control”. Peter Sammonds, professor of geophysics and climate risks at UCL, said: “The human body struggles to cope in 33°C weather. “British tourists need to become aware of these risks, similar to how they would when travelling some- where like Egypt or Cyprus. “Tourists do not think about these things when going to France.” In 2024, France was the second-most visited country by British tourists, amassing 9.3 million visits, according to the Office for National Statistics. Climate scientists are predicting a change in weather patterns around the globe later this year due to an ex- pected el Niño event. Bentley said: “El Niño will add extra warmth to the global climate, but it isn’t the main reason Europe is experiencing these extremes. “The overwhelming driver is long- term climate change, which is in- creasing the likelihood and intensity of the conditions we’re seeing across southern Europe.” Kelman believes that, in summer, southern European hotspots will become areas to vacate from, rather than to. Data from Trip.com has shown a 237 per cent increase in searches for cooler destinations in summer. Travel agents are also increasingly promoting “coolcations” in coun- tries such as Switzerland, Norway and Iceland. Norway has reportedly experi- enced a 28 per cent increase in tour- ism compared with pre-2020 levels. Bentley said British holiday makers will need to increasingly consider countries in northern Europe, or “change their habits by choosing to travel earlier or later in the year”. PROPERTY Britons look to sell second homes in Europe By Silvia Marchetti The wildfires ravaging some of France and Spain’s most popular destinations are pushing some British second home-owners to sell up over fears their properties could be under threat. Roy Patrick and Karen Smith, a retired 72-year-old couple from Oxford, said they were concerned about the fires in Andalucia, in south-eastern Spain, where they own a three- bedroom villa in the coastal province of Almeria. They are now trying to sell the property, which they bought in 2021 for €180,000 (£154,000), and plan to purchase a home in Italy instead. Recent fires in Almeria killed 14 people, including seven Britons, and burnt more than 7,000 hectares of land, leading to the evacuation of 1,500 people. “I’m really worried, I’m not there at my villa right now, and I try to monitor the situation online with fire maps and CCTV cameras at the property, as I can’t really rely on my neighbours warning me,” said Patrick, a former businessman who imported second-hand vehicles from Europe. “I’m keeping my fingers crossed that the desert will act as a shield, but you never know, there are spots with thick vegetation and so many olive trees,” he added. “Moreover, it has never been as hot as this year.” France, too, has been ravaged by wildfires, with more than 220,000 people evacuated from the south-western area around Bordeaux. A Brighton-based couple, Philip and Margaret Roberts, both 77, are selling their two-bedroom farmhouse on the outskirts of the village of Tresses, 8 miles east of Bordeaux. “We spend two months every summer here, but it’s no longer safe,” said Roberts, a retired market analyst. “Staying would be insane. We’re just a few miles from the wildfires and there are forests all around. You never know what scenario there’ll be in the future.” Roy Patrick is trying to sell his home in Almeria due to concern over fires GREECE Two helicopters collide while fighting huge wildfire By Agios Konstantinos Two people have died after two heli- copters collided during a firefighting operation near Psatha in the Attica region, Greece’s fire service said. Footage posted on the Forecast Weather Greece Facebook page ap- peared to show two helicopters con- verging at low altitude before the main rotor of the lower helicopter struck the underside of the aircraft above it, sending the lower aircraft crashing in flames. The two people killed were a Danish pilot and a Greek flight co-ordinator. The second helicopter then dumped its load of water and left the area. Its two crew members, a Greek and a British national, survived. The Hellenic Fire Service said: “During the aerial firefighting op- eration, two Bell helicopters, leased by the Fire Department, with a crew of two people each, crashed in the wider area of Psatha, Attica ... The search-and-rescue operation is under way.” The helicopters collided while helping to control a large wildfire that has destroyed more than 100 homes north-west of Athens. A separate fresh blaze has also forced evacuations on the tourist is- land of Kefalonia. An aircraft fights the major wildfire that threatened Bordeaux last week
NEWS MIDDLE EAST US cancels Iran strikes after call from Saudi chief W ash. Rinse. Repeat. Just days after US President Donald Trump so eloquently threatened to “beat the f**king shit” out of Iran, he has again backed down at the last minute. In the weeks after the war began on 28 February, Trump still had the power to move markets with his on-again, off-again pronouncements. But the news that he had decided to “cancel the attack” and give negotiations with the Iranians more time is unlikely to elicit more than a collective shrug by oil traders, let alone any drop in prices for struggling Americans. Traders realised weeks ago that the President’s declarations are not worth the space on Truth Social that they are afforded. His Saturday night post was a classic of the genre. “The U.S.A. is locked and loaded and ready to go against the Islamic Republic of Iran, at levels of Military Terror, Strength, and Power not seen since World War II,” Trump thundered. But then came an immediate corner turn. “Despite this, we have just been asked by Iran, and other Middle Eastern Countries, to hold off,” he announced, claiming – with a characteristic spelling error – that “the perimeters [sic] of a deal” had now been agreed. In fact, there is no indication that any breakthrough is at hand, or that a deal could emerge “rapidly”, as the President suggested. Instead, the government of Saudi Arabia revealed that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had strong- armed the President on Saturday. In what is reported to have been an unusually candid call with Trump, the Crown Prince, known as MBS, “stressed the need for the predominance of the language of dialogue to reduce escalation” – diplomatic speak for “we told the President to knock it off”. “Saudi Arabia’s message to Washington is becoming increasingly clear,” said the analyst Danny Citrinowicz, a non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council. “If the United States launches major strikes against Iran’s energy infrastructure, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states will likely bear the immediate consequences.” “For Gulf leaders,” he added, “preserving regional stability has become a higher priority than pursuing a decisive confrontation with Tehran.” MBS – the leader accused by US intelligence of orchestrating the murder and dismemberment of US-based Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 – now finds himself in the extraordinary position of being the voice of reason. On Saturday, he was the one to tell Trump that the White House no longer holds the cards to win the Iran conflict. The Iranians are fully aware of these shifting dynamics. By enforcing the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and unleashing its Houthi proxies to launch pre-emptive attacks last week on Saudi Arabia from Iraqi territory in co-ordination with armed Iraqi groups, the regime in Tehran has signalled its resilience and its determination. Last weekend, Ukraine targeted an Iranian commercial vessel in the Caspian Sea that Kyiv claimed was carrying military equipment to Russia. In Riyadh and other Gulf capitals, minds are being concentrated by the possibility of an even wider conflict. Regional leaders also fear that Trump is insufficiently disciplined and patient to bring negotiations with Iran to a successful conclusion. In the days ahead, much may again depend on discussions between Oman and Iran over the future of the Strait of Hormuz. With Iran determined to charge either tolls or “service fees” for vessels passing through its waters, the Omanis have floated proposals for both countries to benefit financially from their oversight of the Strait. Iran is bringing Trump only misery, with polling showing that just 28 per cent of the public approve of the President’s stewardship of the conflict. It has been 17 months since Trump berated the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, in the Oval Office, accusing him of lacking the ability to win his country’s war with Russia. This weekend, Saudi Arabia’s leader delivered exactly the same message to Trump about Iran, with the added potency of it being true. By Aamer Madhani The US President, Donald Trump, has ordered American forces to can- cel new strikes against Iran claiming allies in the Middle East had reached the parameters of a deal to end the five-month-old war. The emerging deal “would in- clude the Immediate, Complete, and Total OPENING OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT, and an end to Iran’s nucle- ar threat,” Trump wrote in a Satur- day evening social media post. “Based on this request, I have agreed, for the future benefit of the WORLD and, likewise, the survival of a successful and prosperous Iran, to cancel the attack, subject to being able to rapidly make a DEAL,” Trump said. Israel agreed to join the US in the commitment to try to com- plete the agreement with Iran that would bring about an end to the war, he added. Iran did not offer any immediate public reaction to the announcement. Trump’s announcement marked another turn in the conflict a day after he had suggested the US was close to resuming heavy mili- tary strikes to force Tehran to the negotiating table. The US and Israel attacked Iran on 28 February, starting a war that Trump said was aimed at destroying Tehran’s missile capabilities, pre- venting it from obtaining a nuclear weapon and ending its support for allied armed groups. But the goals and timelines for the conflict have repeatedly shifted, and an earlier mid-June deal to stop the fighting crumbled within weeks. Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, the kingdom’s de facto leader, spoke to Trump by phone on Saturday and raised concerns about the US potentially escalat- ing the conflict with Iran, accord- ing to a person familiar with the leaders’ discussion. The call happened before Trump’s social media announcement. The Saudis, according to the person briefed on the substance of the call, are concerned that Tehran could respond with attacks on the energy infrastructure of the king- dom and other Gulf countries. The crown prince sought clar- ity from Trump on what potential new action he was weighing to take against Iran, the person said. A White House official confirmed the leaders spoke over the weekend. On Saturday, Tehran had accused the US of escalating tensions, saying any regional state co-operating with Washington would be “engulfed by the flames of war”. But it has yet to respond to Trump’s announcement. Regional stability is a higher priority now than a confrontation with Tehran It’s Saudis telling Trump he doesn’t hold cards now ANALYSIS Simon Marks Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ‘strong-armed’ US President Tehran has accused the US of escalating tensions FATEMEH BAHRAMI/GETTY
MONDAY 3 AUGUST 2026 NEWS 4-33 OPINION 18-22 TV 26-31 LIFE 34-37 CULTURE 38-41 MONEY 42-44 SPORT 47-56 Opinion, page 22 Infantino’s strange ways of courting Trump The US President may have triggered the metamorphosis, but he did not engineer the DNA, writes Philippe Auclair G ianni Infantino, Fifa’s beleaguered president, has seemingly failed in his attempt to put up the World Cup for sale – to none other than Josh Kushner, younger brother of US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared. Indeed, Infantino’s efforts have finally led to a rebellion from most of the football world. Since Joe Biden lost the 2024 US presidential election, Infantino had nailed his colours to the Maga mast. By July last year, Infantino was insisting Fifa needed to base its New York World Cup office in the Trump Tower, and 2025 ended with him presenting Trump his grotesque inaugural “Fifa Peace Prize”. In February, Infantino wore a red “USA” cap bearing the numbers “45-47”, referencing Trump’s presidencies, at the first meeting of the US President’s Board of Peace. And his behaviour only became noticeably more erratic and reckless – culminating in this summer’s World Cup and his disastrous efforts to sell it off. Perhaps he believed he could get away with everything, as the US President mostly has, provided he followed the Trump handbook. Infantino had lost all sense of danger, having secured enough endorsements at the Fifa Congress just before the World Cup to reassure himself that he’d be re-elected for a third and last four- year term in March. He hoped to carry on as master of international football in his new £30m-a-year role as “commissioner” of Fifa Forward Enterprise (FFE), his proposed subsidiary to manage the commercial rights of tournaments. Goodbye to all that. The now-abandoned initiative recalled another incident of Infantino’s interests intersecting with those of the Trump family that emerged last April, when a company called ADI Predictstreet was announced by Fifa as its first official “prediction market” partner. All transactions on the platform were to be conducted using a crypto currency issued by World Liberty Financial, reported Norwegian investigative website Josimar. World Liberty Financial was originally majority-owned by Trump’s family, and a large stake was sold to the Abu Dhabi royal family, the primary backer of ADI Predictstreet. “The Trumps [receive] 75 per cent of net proceeds when World Liberty sells tokens,” The Wall Street Journal reported. It is tempting to see Infantino as a textbook example of the vassal who mistakes the acceptance of his fealty by his lord and master for a token of friendship. Cravenness masquerades as loyalty. This much is true. Infantino placed too much stock in Trump’s public effusions towards him, and contorted himself into ever stranger shapes to court the US President. But this Infantino was always there. Trump may have triggered the metamorphosis, but he did not engineer the DNA. When the “Fifagate” corruption cases emerged in 2015, Infantino was Uefa’s general secretary, the closest aide of confederation president Michel Platini, who everyone expected to succeed Sepp Blatter as head of Fifa. Infantino was linked to two people indicted and later convicted for wire fraud and racketeering by the Americans, the Argentinian father and son marketing agents Hugo and Mariano Jinkis. Infantino, who has strenuously denied all wrongdoing, signed the contract under which Uefa was selling the TV rights to its competitions at a price that the Jinkises were able to multiply by three when they sold them on to a Brazilian company three months later. On 6 October 2015, an investigation by Sueddeutsche Zeitung revealed, Infantino flew from Geneva to New York, returning on the 8th. The reason for Infantino’s trip, according to Uefa documents, was a board meeting of Uefa partner CAA. But that meeting took place on 5 October and Infantino attended via videoconference from Nyon, Switzerland, where Uefa is headquartered. What Infantino did in New York only he and the people he met know. What is known is that Infantino, the Uefa-backed candidate for the Fifa presidential election which was convened after Blatter’s resignation, visited the US on two more occasions before the vote took place, and that he owes at least part of his success to the active support of the Americans. Trump was still campaigning for the Republican nomination at the time. Trump has a habit of burning those who fly too close to his unpredictable flame. Infantino was not the first and will not be the last to discover it to his cost. SPORT While it is possible that Gianni Infantino could resign to avoid the humiliation of a public defeat in the face of overwhelming opposition, we are still a long way away from this point, writes Philippe Auclair. It would be more in line with the Fifa president’s character to try to fight his way out of this crisis. The rebels against Infantino could seek the support of 43 member associations to force Fifa to convene an extraordinary congress, at which his removal could be put to a vote. Should Infantino lose, he would be replaced on an interim basis by the longest-serving Fifa vice-president, Asian Football Confederation president Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim al-Khalifa. But the wheels would have to be set in motion quickly for this to take place before the Fifa presidential election scheduled for 18 March 2027, since Fifa has up to three months to hold such a congress from the time it is demanded while the date and venue must be announced to member associations at least two months in advance. Infantino remains the only declared candidate for the election. While he likely retains his strongholds of support in Africa and South America, these would not be enough to secure victory on their own – should Uefa, Concacaf and AFC back another candidate. Canadian sports administrator Victor Montagliani, president of Concacaf, is a potential candidate. Fifa How extraordinary congress could oust Infantino Infantino placed too much stock in Trump’s effusions towards him What Infantino would earn at his proposed subsidiary to manage the commercial rights of tournaments £30m Philippe Auclair is a French football writer and broadcaster based in London GAZA Israel ‘has concerns over Hamas disarming’ By Sam Mednick Israel has shared “serious security concerns” with the White House re- garding the proposed disarmament deal with Hamas, an Israeli official yesterday revealed. Doron Spielman, spokes- person for the Israeli Prime Minister’s office, said Israel’s assess- ment is that Hamas remains committed to rebuilding its military rather than genuinely demilitarising. The US President Don- ald Trump revealed the deal earlier this week. Spielman (inset) said the Israeli military would not withdraw from Gaza before Hamas disarms. “Our assessment is that if we rede- ploy before Hamas is truly disarmed, it will quickly expand its presence throughout Gaza, rebuild its terror- ist infrastructure, once again threat- en Israeli communities, and seek to carry out another October 7-style attack,” he said. Hamas said it would begin dis- arming as part of the US-brokered ceasefire signed nine months ago to end the conflict. It marks a potential breakthrough in ending the conflict, but many hurdles, conditions and long timelines remain. Hamas said it has agreed to dis- arm but the process is littered with obstacles. Trump’s 20-point ceasefire plan calls on the militant group to sur- render its weapons and destroy its network of tunnels. It also envisions Israeli forces withdrawing from Gaza, the arrival of a new technocratic Pal- estinian government, deployment of an inter- national security force and the rebuilding of the enclave. Hamas disarming has been a sticking point and has deadlocked negotiations for months. Trump said the deal would be carried out in “carefully structured phases.” The agreement sets out that all weapons held by the Hamas-run police will be transferred to the US-backed Palestinian techno- cratic committee upon its arrival in the enclave.
NEWS By Caroline Wheeler POLITICAL EDITOR Hampshire Police is reviewing infor- mation relating to possible historic criminal offences at a school where more than 80 children died after being knowingly used in medical research and treated with contami- nated blood products. The force has confirmed it has recorded crime reports from survivors of Tre- loars School in Alton after meeting former pupils this week, in- cluding Gary Web- ster, Steve Nicholls, Adrian Goodyear and Richard Warwick, col- lectively known as “the Treloars Boys”. The men, who have haemo- philia, were treated at Lord Mayor Treloar College during the 70s and 80s and contracted HIV or hepati- tis C through contaminated blood products. The Infected Blood In- quiry found that some pupils were also subjected to medical research without informed parental consent. The force, however, was careful to emphasise that no formal criminal investigation has yet been launched. “We are assessing information being provided to us; there is no ac- tive criminal investigation at this time,” a Hampshire Police spokes- person said. “We will conduct a thorough review of all the informa- tion provided to Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary to determine our next steps.” The force said they remain in con- tact with national policing partners carrying out a separate review aris- ing from the findings of the Infected Blood Inquiry. That review, led by the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC), has expanded in scope after two years of examin- ing evidence from the public inquiry, delay- ing any decision on whether a nationwide criminal investigation should be opened – po- tentially by years. In a letter to victims last week, acting Deputy Chief Constable Robert Grif- fin said investigators had initially hoped that focusing on evidence relating to Treloar’s would be suffi- cient to determine whether criminal prosecutions were viable. However, he acknowledged that “regrettably, that has not proved to be the case”. The review will now examine all chapters of the Infected Blood In- quiry’s final report. The next update is expected during the week begin- ning 26 October. The Prime Minister, Andy Burn- ham, has previously described the infected blood scandal as a “criminal cover-up on an industrial scale”. By Neil Pooran Greek police have said that a man has admitted to transporting the body of a Scottish woman to an abandoned building in a suitcase. The 26-year-old man, who is be- lieved to be from Afghanistan, was arrested after the death of Elisa- beth-Jane Ross, from Edinburgh. The 38-year-old’s body was discov- ered in a suitcase by a homeless man in Kypseli, Athens, on 18 July. She is believed to have died at some time between five and seven days before she was found. A replica pistol and a knife were found at the suspect’s home and po- lice have filed a case against him for manslaughter, robbery and violation of weapons laws, but exact charges are yet to be finalised. Man admits to carrying body in case CRIME By Storm Newton Almost nine in 10 adults in the UK believe health misinformation is putting lives at risk – although there is a ‘disconnect’ between that concern and people’s percep- tion of their own vulnerability, re- search has found. False and misleading informa- tion could also be widening health inequalities, with people from de- prived areas and from ethnic mi- nority backgrounds more likely to be susceptible. A poll of 2,401 people, con- ducted by Ipsos for the Academy of Medical Sciences, found more than two thirds (69 per cent) find it hard to spot misleading health information. However, only 28 per cent say they find it difficult. Younger people are more likely to say they find it easy. Jacob Lant, chief executive of National Voices – a coalition of health and social care charities in England, said the survey high- lights “an important disconnect”. “While most people recognise health misinformation as a se- rious issue, many don’t believe they are at risk,” Lant said. “But research shows those most likely to be affected are often people al- ready facing health inequalities.” Misinformation leaves vulnerable most at risk HEALTH INQUIRY Police look into cases at blood scandal school From left: Steve Nicholls, Adrian Goodyear, Gary Webster and Richard Warwick went to Treloars, then a school for people with haemophilia PA The number of children who died after being given contaminated blood at Treloar’s
MONDAY 3 AUGUST 2026 NEWS 4-33 OPINION 18-22 TV 26-31 LIFE 34-37 CULTURE 38-41 MONEY 42-44 SPORT 47-56 Across Penalise financially again to improve (6) Fruit found in Caerphilly cheese (7) The woman’s back home with a medical problem associated with men (6) Down Not working, getting cards without preparation or warning (7) 2/3 Earl Grey Anna brewed for Housing Secretary (6,6) Solution, page 47 The Five-Clue Cryptic Crossword No 4897 ENTERTAINMENT Grande pulls out of West End show over scrutiny By Laura Harding Ariana Grande will be taking a “step back from visibility” when her tour ends in London. The “Thank U” singer, 33, has taken the decision following the on- going public scrutiny and has pulled out of the upcoming London revival of Sunday in the Park with George. The pop singer was due to appear opposite her Wicked co-star Jona- than Bailey in a new production of Stephen Sondheim’s critically ac- claimed musical at the Barbican in 2027. The show will still go ahead as planned and Grande’s part will be recast, production company Empire Street Productions said. A representative said: “Ariana will be taking a step back from visibil- ity after she completes the Eternal Sunshine Tour. “She looks forward to finishing the tour and ending it on a high note, both healthily and happily, and then taking a much-deserved break from public-facing work and appearances, which has led to endless, ongoing public scrutiny.” Empire Street Productions said: “We wish her nothing but the best.” Ariana Grande is taking a ‘step back’ ENVIRONMENT Cheese waste to be converted into biofuel Scottish researchers have teamed up with an agricultural company to explore new ways of turning a cheese by-product into fuel. Researchers at Heriot-Watt Uni- versity worked with Take Root Bio to turn salty whey – a high-volume by-product from cheese production – into a widely used fuel, bioethanol. A dairy producer can generate tens of thousands of litres every week, creating both environmental and economic pressures. “We’re interested in what happens when you stop looking at something as waste and start asking what else it could become,” Kirk Siderman- Wolter, of Take Root Bio, said. “If we can help turn something that costs money to manage into something with real value, that’s a positive outcome for dairy produc- ers and the environment.” HERITAGE Old pub sign returns home after 25 years A sign that hung outside a Sheffield pub has returned to its rightful home after disappearing 25 years ago. It is believed the old Ward’s brewery sign for The Hallamshire House went missing in the 1990s but has gone on to be discovered on the other side of the Atlantic. Two former punters returned the sign after it was found on the wall of their neighbour’s apartment while they lived in Brooklyn, New York. Peter Chamley and his wife said they were “surprised” to find the sign and it was given to the couple on their return to the UK. Doug Simpson, the general manager of the pub, was emailed asking if he wanted the sign back and said it was “really special” to have it pride of place on the back lounge wall. ‘It would be a disaster’: cult TV movies channel dreads the end of Freeview Family-run Talking Pictures has been an antidote to streaming, writes Adam Sherwin A family-run TV station that has gained millions of viewers by broadcasting vintage movies and cult shows from a garden shed warns it faces the axe if the Government switches off Freeview. Talking Pictures TV is the UK’s biggest independent channel, devoted to keeping the golden age of British film and TV alive. It has built an audience of six million with an archive ranging from Diana Dors B-movies to Z-Cars. Set up in 2015 by film enthusiast Noel Cronin, 79, with daughter Sarah Cronin-Stanley, and run with volunteers from the shed of their Hertfordshire home, Talking Pictures TV’s founders fear that forcing its older audience to switch from free-to-air digital terrestrial viewing to streaming-only television will be fatal for their channel. Ministers are consulting on two options – switching off Digital Terrestrial Television signals (or Freeview) at the end of 2034, or a slower, managed transition to internet-only TV in 2044. But Freeview, which includes Talking Pictures TV in its menu of around 80 terrestrial channels, is still the main TV platform in more than 10 million UK households. “Turning off traditional TV aerials would be a disaster,” Cronin- Stanley told The i Paper. “A large proportion of our audience is over 65 and watching on Freeview. They don’t want to pay a subscription to watch TV. Disney + doesn’t have anything our people want to watch. We wouldn’t be here if Freeview is switched off overnight.” Cronin-Stanley added: “It would be a horrific shame if traditional TV dies. John Logie Baird [Scots inventor who demonstrated the first TV system in 1926] would be turning in his grave. “Digital switch-off is forcing the hand of people to move to streaming. But our postbag is full of hundreds of people thanking us for creating a free channel which has changed their lives. That’s what traditional TV means to people. “My audience wants to watch this content. We’ll probably end up broadcasting to the last four people watching linear, free-to-air TV.” The family launched Talking Pictures TV after spotting a gap in the market for the kind of black- and-white movies that used to fill afternoon schedules on Channel 4 and BBC Two. Cronin, who worked as a film editor, began acquiring catalogues of old movies which distributors saw little value in. Scouring the vaults of Pinewood and Shepperton studios for nostalgic gems, their hunch proved correct – “our people want to see movies from the 30s to the 80s with big names and great stories, especially crime dramas” – and Talking Pictures TV reached a peak audience of six million amid Covid. “It was fantastic for us because everyone was watching TV at home. People were calling us saying it was a lifeline for pensioners. We created a community of viewers. These are people that can’t afford and don’t want subscription streaming TV,” Cronin-Stanley said. The late Queen Elizabeth II disclosed that she watched Laurel and Hardy repeats on the channel when she was ill. Latest Barb ratings figures show Talking Pictures TV still reaches 5.5 million. The Freeview audience could find their channel menu shrinks as switch-off approaches. “The prospect of early switch-off will mean some channels decide not to bother extending their carriage on Freeview when it comes up for renewal,” said a broadcast insider. “The Freeview audience is still likely to be five million in 2034 so it will be worth channels remaining.” The Department for Culture, Media and Sport said it will ensure that “no-one is left behind as services move online”. BROADCASTING Noel Cronin, 79, and his daughter Sarah run Talking Pictures TV from their Hertfordshire home shed CRONIN FAMILY Disney+ doesn’t have what our people want to watch. We wouldn’t be here if Freeview is switched off V1
Quote of the day Well, I was a head girl. I can’t help who I am Clare Balding The presenter on being asked about her ‘head girl’ vibe The Opinion Matrix COMMENT FROM HOME AND ABROAD Life In Brief KAYLEE HOTTLE ACTOR Kaylee Hottle was a young deaf actress best known for starring in two of the latest Hollywood King Kong blockbusters. Hottle made her big screen debut in 2021 at the age of 13 in Godzilla Vs Kong as Jia, an orphaned deaf girl who forms a bond with giant ape Kong by communicating with him in American sign language (ASL). Hottle reprised her role in the 2024 sequel, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. The role gained her a nomination for best performance by a younger actor at the Saturn awards. While promoting the hit sci-fi films, the actress often spoke about the inclusion of deafness in the entertainment industry. “I’m acting in monster movies as a deaf person,” she said. “I want deaf people to know that they can do that too, just like me. There are no limits.” Hottle was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2008. Her parents, Joshua and Ketsi Hottle, are both deaf. Her father’s family includes four generations of deaf relatives, making deaf culture and ASL an important part of her life from birth. She became fluent in ASL and used it both in everyday life and in her acting career. Hottle attended the Texas School for the Deaf in Austin, Texas, where she was passionate about competing in track and field events. Before becoming a movie actor, she appeared in commercials promoting deaf awareness and equal opportunities. Her first screen appearance was in 2017, at the age of nine, in a commercial for the US video relay service Convo. This appearance was spotted by the assistant director of the earlier monster film Kong: Skull Island, who later recommended her to the casting agent for the role in Godzilla Vs Kong. Co-star Alexander Skarsgård, who learned ASL to communicate with Hottle, told the pop culture website Junkee in 2021 that he and others were impressed by the ingenue’s professionalism and her ability to quickly incorporate the director’s notes into her acting. In a 2024 interview with the Associated Press, Hottle said that she hadn’t watched monster movies before she was cast in “Godzilla”, so her father helped her understand the genre. “I look up to a lot of people, but the one person I look up to, the few people I look up to mostly, are my parents and my sisters,” Hottle said. She said that when she was working on the first film, she was a bit concerned about whether she would be able to return to her “normal life,” afterwards. “People do recognise me at school, yes, but it’s not as bad as I thought it would be,” she said. After the car accident which caused her death at the age of 18, her father reached out to the driver. He told him: “I have forgiven you. Don’t let this incident ruin the rest of your life.” “I still feel Kaylee is with us,” her mother said later in ASL in a post. Born 17 March, 2008 Died 21 July, 2026 Alex Leys BURNHAM BOUNCE A two-week glance at the PM’s policies Sunday People Andy Burnham’s ambition is to bring new hope to a jaded nation. That will give him the political capital he needs to push through long-term reforms to social care and social housing. If he can succeed, he should have the next election in the bag. (Editorial) The Sun on Sunday Burnham seems to believe that the working class aspire to nothing more than to know their place in life. He could not be more wrong. Thatcher and Blair both understood the vaunting aspirations of the working class better than he ever will. (Tony Parsons) GLASGOW GAMES Downscaled event was a success Sunday Mail A barnstorming Commonwealth Games closes in Glasgow. The festival of sport had a slimmed down programme and budget compared to its last visit to the city in 2014. But people make Glasgow and they made sure the competition had more heart and soul than ever. (Editorial) The Sunday Post If the Commonwealth Games didn’t exist, would anyone care to invent it? The question was posed in Glasgow in appraising an event that came so very close to meeting its maker until the city resuscitated the ailing patient. (Mark Woods) FIFA’S LEADERSHIP Is the game now up for Infantino? Daily Star Sunday A new Fifa boss needs to quickly build some trust to prove that they are the right organisation to govern the beautiful game. Or drastic change is needed. (Editorial) The Independent Most of Gianni Infantino’s power base has certainly gone, possibly right up to the patronage of Donald Trump. And that was it. This might be it now. It has been a classic week of political collapse, with football figures comparing it to the demise of Margaret Thatcher. The fall might take a while, but when it comes, it comes quickly. (Miguel Delaney) FARAGE’S FUTURE The Reform UK leader has lost his bite The Mail on Sunday Nigel Farage seems to be carving out a new life for himself as a victim. It’s sad to watch. Imagine the old Nigel demanding that the police arrest someone for posting a picture of a T-shirt. (Peter Hitchens) The Sunday Times Nigel Farage has long prospered by portraying himself as an outsider, paladin of the left-behinds, scourge of the establishment. But recent investigations into his funding, including reporting in The Sunday Times and The Guardian about undeclared gifts have somewhat dulled his sheen. (Josh Glancy) MIGRATION CRISIS Burnham should not be ignoring this Sunday Express Isn’t it fascinating that in the wealth of policy announcements over the past couple of weeks that has included everything from ending rough sleeping and cutting energy bills to helping the pub trade and setting up a social care system, there has not been one word on this? (Nick Ferrari) Sunday Telegraph Immigration has contributed to the downfall of almost every Labour leader this century. If Andy Burnham is to avoid a similar fate, he must stop skirting around the issue and address it head on. He cannot hide from it for ever. (Editorial) ISLAMISM IN EUROPE Challenging extremism is still important The Observer Nervousness in naming the Berlin Pride perpetrator as an Islamist speaks to wider concerns on the left, its confusion over how to oppose anti-Muslim bigotry while also challenging bigoted views that Muslims may hold. (Kenan Malik) The Spectator The issue of extremist mosques won’t disappear as France enters a presidential election campaign. Marine Le Pen has promised to shut down all extremist mosques. It is undoubtedly one reason for her wide lead in the polls 10 months before the vote. (Matthew Fraser) Opinion i@theipaper.com Please include a contact address with all correspondence @theipaper facebook.com/theipaper
MONDAY 3 AUGUST 2026 We cannot ignore threat from Beijing Future new world order being shaped through wars being fought now T en years ago, Belarus launched its one and only communications satellite. It was made by China, sent into the skies from a spaceport in Sichuan province, and it now sends back streams of data to a control centre in Minsk. Ukrainian intelligence believes this system, plugged into Beijing’s fast- expanding satellite network, plays a key role helping Russia with timing, targeting and assessment of its missile strikes. These barrages rain down on their cities with increasing bloodshed after the White House slashed air defence supplies. On Friday night, another 35 missiles and 185 drones hit Kyiv, the second such attack in 48 hours. It resulted in nine more civilian deaths. Earlier that day, a drone factory in Kyiv owned by a US-based firm was destroyed in the first known Russian strike on an American defence company. The previous day, a cruise missile crashed in Poland, a Nato nation, highlighting the potentially explosive dangers of this war. Meanwhile, President Volodymyr Zelensky claims North Korea is preparing to send another 30,000 troops to the frontline carving across his country, along with more missile launchers. “This is a threat not only to Ukraine. Russia is helping North Korea learn how to wage war, improve its weapons, and gain real combat experience in using them,” he warned. These events show how this conflict scarring Europe is a global struggle between dictatorship and democracy – and how China plays an active role in the fight against freedom. North Korea is a client state that would never have started sending troops two years ago without its consent. Moscow has come to rely on Beijing for supplies of machine tools, microelectronics and weapons components that sustain Vladimir Putin’s stupid war, claiming they are for civilian purposes or sourcing through third countries. China also provides financial infrastructure for the Kremlin to weather sanctions while its firms funnel sanctioned Western goods into Russia. It has been alleged by the EU’s special envoy on sanction enforcements that China supplies 80 per cent of parts used in Russian weapons, and a reported 90 per cent of sanctioned technology imports go through the country. Yet while the West openly supports Ukraine with arms, cash and intelligence, Beijing poses as a neutral nation. Bear in mind that China – intent on becoming the dominant global superpower – is not just clandestinely assisting Putin’s war crimes. It is gaining battlefield insights into the fast- evolving nature of warfare while preparing to grab Taiwan and rapidly building up its armed forces. The Economist reports that Chinese troops receive drone and urban warfare training in Russia. Leaked documents in two European newspapers claim China and Russia have even discussed plans to disable Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite network while exchanging artificial intelligence for battlefield data. Now look at events in the Middle East, another military frontline in this global tussle. The battleground is Iran, a key player in the ugly alliance of autocrats that helped Russia build many of the drones attacking Ukraine. Once again, China lurks in the background, supplying satellite imaging, intelligence and dual use substances such as rocket propellants to help the thugs running this hideous Islamic theocracy resist Donald Trump’s idiotic attack, launched with Israel. Saudi Arabia last week joined the US in strikes against “Iran- aligned terrorists” in Iraq after Tehran attacked American bases. Now reports suggest that Beijing’s support for Iran is becoming more blatant, sending a shipment of mobile air defence missile launchers to help the regime even as the White House seeks a way out of its self-inflicted quagmire. You can see many ripples from this conflict between democracy and dictatorship around the planet. Russia, for instance, is taking advantage of African instability from Mali to Madagascar with its mercenaries and misinformation. Meanwhile the world’s most powerful nation is led by a man who assails democracy at home while sucking up to despots abroad. Questioned about Russia giving Iran intelligence to hit US bases, Trump replied: “I’ll ask Putin about it.” Asked about China sending missiles, he said President Xi Jinping “told me very strongly he wouldn’t partake and he knows I’d be quite disappointed”. His pathetic stance towards these dictators as they help kill his country’s troops is a betrayal of both his own nation and democracy. “I think I trust them,” he says blithely. Britain and much of Europe still stands behind Ukraine’s heroic defence of freedom but displays similar naivety towards the regime at the helm of the alliance of dictators. So despite spying and intelligence threats, our government kowtows to Beijing by letting it build a mega-embassy in London above critical cables for our financial and internet networks. Even as missiles filled with Chinese parts were fired at Kyiv last week, an attempt to stop this crazy idea was rejected by the High Court. Objectors included Chloe Cheung, a Hong Kong pro-democracy activist with a bounty placed on her head by Beijing. “As someone targeted by the Chinese Communist Party, I know why it’s important that Britain protects itself from foreign intimidation,” she said. Some fellow activists living here have been silenced by threats of retaliation. It took too long for most Westerners to see the scale of threat from Russia as Putin sought to salvage Soviet hegemony, despite attacks on places such as Georgia and Ukraine trying to shake off their shackles of imperialism. Now the West should remove the blinkers over Beijing as it seeks to exploit America’s weakness. “It’s the arsenal of the authoritarian world,” said one intelligence source in Kyiv. Perhaps we should reflect more on the work of historian Richard Overy, who argues the Second World War really dates back to 1931 when Japan attacked China rather than Germany’s 1939 invasion of Poland. He suggests shifting global dynamics sparked a decade and half of conflict, a geopolitical crisis embracing conflicts in Asia, Africa and Europe that seemed separate but was a reshaping of world order. So will future historians one day look back at these times and see a similar thread running from Beijing to Washington through places as varied as Minsk, Kyiv and Tehran? Pathetic stance towards these dictators is a betrayal of the US and democracy Ian Birrell i@theipaper.com The West should remove its blinkers over China, says Birrell, as Xi Jinping continues to support Vladimir Putin AFP NEWS 4-33 OPINION 18-22 TV 26-31 LIFE 34-37 CULTURE 38-41 MONEY 42-44 SPORT 47-56 My View
i@theipaper.com Please include a contact address with all correspondence @theipaper facebook.com/theipaper Your View Approach to disability George Webster’s article (“Breaking into TV shows what is possible with the right support”, 1-2 August) should be front and centre of the approach to disability. As well as support for employment etc, we should accept that disability is normal and not a problem. Then it can become mainstream. MICHAEL HARLEY EDINBURGH The article resonated greatly with me. For many, many years I volunteered with Riding for the Disabled , whose byword was: “It’s what you can do that counts”. More recently I have become a helper at a local theatre group and it is both heartening and humbling to observe the skills and inventiveness of its members. All bring a huge amount of enthusiasm, imagination and ability to our productions, thus ensuring success which can be built on for the challenge of the next production. PAULINE HALL YORKSHIRE Pomp is pride in our defenders I have to respond to Nick Hunt’s letter “Pomp and nonsense”, Your View, 31 July). Surely a country’s military and a desire for peace are not really opposites. In wanting peace we should not dismiss the need for defence. An efficient military can deter aggression, protect a country’s citizens, support allies, respond to natural disasters and help maintain stability in this uncertain world. There is an argument that the freedoms we all enjoy in democratic societies ultimately depend on the ability to defend them. British forces have a high reputation for their humanitarian work at home and abroad. What other organisation could properly manage that? The pomp and ceremony is much more than putting on a show. It reinforces a sense of heritage and identity within the Armed Forces. Events such as remembrance services and public events help recognise those who have served and died to help provide the peace we enjoy. They are also about keeping the military in the public consciousness and strengthening the relationship between the military and the society it serves. The cost of these ceremonies is quite small compared to the overall defence budget and are often performed by trained combat soldiers. Those who stand up to defend our nation should be put on a pedestal and honoured. It’s the very least we can do for them. STEPHEN BROWN CUMBRIA It’s freezing up here! Could I ask The i Paper to spare just a paragraph about those of us in the UK who have not experienced heatwaves, water shortages, or in fact, any real summer at all this year? Here in the north of Argyll, we have hardly seen the sun, and have had day after day of cool, damp, cloudy weather, necessitating the almost constant use of central heating! GILL WILSON STRONTIAN, HIGHLANDS NHS dentistry needs attention Andy Burnham says the cost of living is his top priority. A fair point and a positive start. But may I suggest he stops tinkering around the edges – the financial equivalent of giving out a few sweets here and there and sort the real issues out. I’m surprised no politician has mentioned the so-called “NHS” dental services. The ludicrous charges that dentists have to pass on to patients, through no fault of their own, must be prohibitive for quite a few people. Cutting the cost of check-ups and fillings would be a good place to start. GUY MOWBRAY CHESTERFIELD, DERBYSHIRE Seasonal greetings To our disbelief and dismay, yesterday my wife and I walked into our local garden centre only to discover a section was being prepared for Christmas goods. When we commented to the girl on the till, she stated that the boss wanted it ready for August! It was unnecessary, inappropriate and distasteful. The world burns, earthquakes destroy – and greed prevails. However, I’d like to wish all your readers a Merry Christmas! PETER RICHES HADDENHAM, CAMBRIDGESHIRE Jodrell must not be closed The possible closure of the historic Jodrell Bank Observatory threatens Britain’s scientific legacy, risking the shutdown of the iconic Lovell Telescope and the e-Merlin network. It is a profound tragedy that it faces the silence of its iconic radio telescopes due to short-sighted funding cuts. For nearly 70 years, this monumental structure has peered into the deepest cosmos, mapping the invisible universe and inspiring generations of inquiring minds. To let it fall into quiet obsolescence is an abandonment of our scientific heritage. We must ask: is it truly beyond our collective ingenuity to save this beacon of discovery? This magnificent scientific gem deserves a lifeline. We must harness private enterprise and academic resolve to keep the dish turning and the data flowing, ensuring that humanity’s ear to the stars is never turned off. DOUG CLARK EDINBURGH Praise for climate protests Is it perhaps time for apologies to be given to those young – and some older – people imprisoned, fined and made criminals over the last few years for their brave stunts aimed at alerting us Brits to exactly the catastrophic climate outcomes we’re all squealing about now? Insulate Britain, Extinction Rebellion, Just Stop Oil and Christian Climate Action spring to mind. We know what’s needed: reduction in carbon emissions. ANGELA HOLLAND BRISTOL How about a water grid? In addition to the ever increasing support to renationalise the water companies, is it too simplistic to suggest that there is also a pressing need to create a national grid for water collection and distribution along similar lines (no pun intended) to what we have for electricity ? BRIAN HEDLEY PONTELAND, NORTHUMBERLAND How do you say that again? I have to take issue with the Zygolex puzzle from iweekend (1-2 August). “Fez” does not rhyme with “Says”. 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CULTURE Ruth Madeley: ‘I’m still told I’m disabled because I’m not praying hard enough’ LIFESTYLE Body of evidence ‘Biohacking’ has reached new heights – we can now clone organs Plus Tomorrow, in One-minute Wijuko How to play Place 1 – 9 once in the grid, obeying the sums between pairs of squares Solution: page 47
MONDAY 3 AUGUST 2026 Victoria Richards POLITICS “N ow, this is a barm – and no one can tell me otherwise!” It sounds like something Mr Tumble might say, doesn’t it? All that’s missing is the exaggerated wave, the red nose and the starry waistcoat, but otherwise, it’s all there: the jovial intonation, the chuckle, the giant, comedic bite from the bread bun at the end. Yet this is the actual Prime Minister. I know. “Apparently, there are some people who might call it a cob or a bap or a batch…” Suddenly, there’s a Geordie accent. “A stottie!” Andy Burnham looks down, astounded, at the bread roll in his hand, in a video posted to his own social media. I half expected him to bring out another two from behind his ear and start juggling with them. The reason for this latest bit of shtick? Well, a fairly clunky leap to devolution, by way of the bakery aisle. “What makes sense in one place clearly doesn’t always necessarily make sense in another,” continues Burnham in a segue so jarring it physically hurts to watch. “So, why for decades has Westminster been making decisions that should be in your hands?” Ba-dum tish. Now, we get it. We get it because Andy Burnham is trying very, very hard to be “normal”. That’s what Brand Burnham is all about: focusing on the little things that matter, like introducing £2 bus fares and slashing VAT on our leccy bills. Clearly it’s working. That bap/ cob/barm video had 4.4 million views on X at the time of writing and, more to the point, all this “being normal” stuff has helped Labour open up a five-point poll lead on Reform. But while Burnham may be savvy with social media and cool enough to talk about sad-boy Manchester indie bands, the boomers and Gen Xers, this post feels laser-targeted at those generally savvy enough to see through the “everyman” performance. We’ve seen it all before. We saw it in Boris Johnson, who got stuck on a zip wire during the 2012 London Olympics. See also Nigel Farage, the careful “everyman” who loves being papped chatting to construction workers and enjoying a simple fag and a pint in a local pub, despite being quite posh. Yes, Keir Starmer was wooden. But this feels like an overcorrection. We don’t want a prime minister to ask us whether a Jaffa Cake is actually a cake or a biscuit, or whether Hobnobs are better than Digestives, or who is willing to court outrage by saying he puts the milk in first– and whoops, Burnham’s done just that, telling PoliticsUK last month that he believes it “softens the bag a bit” and “makes it stronger”. He also admitted he knew his stance would “offend a lot of people”. There’s a point at which these clips begin to look a bit cringe at best, at worst calculated. Burnham risks alienating his voter base by looking like he’s trying too hard. Or, worse, like someone who isn’t taking the job seriously enough. Still, maybe I’m wrong. My 14-year-old daughter just said Andy Burnham was “cool”. “I like him,” she added. “Did you see him talking about his playlist?” I haven’t told her what he calls a bread roll, though. Where we’re from it’s a “bap” – anything else and you’ve really lost the dressing room. Burnham’s ‘blokey’ schtick is already wearing thin Burnham with what he calls a ‘barm’ that can also be referred to (usually depending on a person’s place of birth) as a batch, bap, stottie, or bread roll Yes, Keir Starmer was wooden. But this feels like an overcorrection NEWS 4-33 OPINION 18-22 TV 26-31 LIFE 34-37 CULTURE 38-41 MONEY 42-44 SPORT 47-56
Infantino’s failure is delicious – but football is for sale G ianni Infantino has an extraordinary gift. Whenever it feels like football is in danger of becoming just another business, Fifa’s president manages to find a new way to show fans that those running the game are way ahead of them. His latest money-making scheme, revealed on Tuesday, was his Icarus moment. The plan – which The Sunday Times reports was originally to be launched the day before last month’s World Cup final, a quite staggeringly crass piece of timing if true – was to sell stakes in the World Cup to private investors. It provoked a predictable backlash and his eventual U-turn after nations in the European confederation Uefa announced they would boycott all of Fifa’s competitions until the plan was dropped and barred from being raised again. Uefa’s statement was stinging, attacking what it called a “shabby, back-room, opaque deal”. It added: “The current Fifa leadership has not only lost Uefa’s confidence but also that of many other members of the football family.” At the start of last week, Infantino’s position at the head of Fifa looked unassailable; now it looks like he’ll be lucky to end this week in a job. Infantino’s talk about unlocking football’s commercial potential suggests there is always another asset to monetise. But fans responded universally: football isn’t for sale. It’s an attractive slogan. However, on closer inspection, if football really isn’t for sale, somebody forgot to tell those who’ve been selling it for the last 30 years: television rights, naming rights, sleeve sponsors, betting companies, kick-off times designed for overseas markets, the Club World Cup, pre-season tours, streaming subscriptions and premium hospitality. Shirts at £120 and £8 pies suggest football may not technically have a price tag hanging from it, but plenty of people have been coining it. That doesn’t mean supporters are wrong. Quite the opposite. We understand something administrators don’t: football’s value isn’t the same as its price. Some things occupy a different place in society. They aren’t merely products, but part of the social fabric. We once thought that about water, energy and public transport. They existed because society needed them, not because shareholders demanded more return on investment. Whether privatisation improved those services is debatable, but the philosophical shift is undeniable. We stopped asking what they were for and started asking what they were worth. Football risks making the same mistake. It isn’t alone. The arts chase corporate sponsorship rather than public patronage. Universities market themselves like luxury brands. Even parks and public spaces now come with commercial partners attached. Everywhere, there is another opportunity to monetise something that once seemed immune from “markets”. Perhaps nothing is sacred any more. Except, football insists, football. Yet, that moral certainty wobbles when our defender from Fifa is Uefa. Many of those same supporters, angry with Infantino, spend thousands following clubs into Champions League competitions where ticket allocations are squeezed, prices are eye-watering and fans are secondary to corporate guests. Uefa speaks movingly about protecting football’s pyramid while charging supporters premium prices to watch its own flagship competition. Fifa talks about growing the global game while expanding tournaments that stretch exhausted players and wallets alike. Does either organisation act solely in football’s best interests? This isn’t to let Infantino off the hook. If anything, it makes this whole episode even more revealing. It exposes a mindset that sees untapped markets where supporters see memories, traditions and belonging. That is the real divide. Fans don’t object because football generates money. It always has. Gate receipts kept clubs alive long before television executives discovered the Premier League. Fans object when money becomes the point rather than the consequence. Because football is one of the few remaining institutions that still creates genuine community across class, politics and generations. You inherit it rather than purchase it. And you belong to it as a captive audience. Unlike theatres or cinemas, we are not going to switch from Fulham’s Craven Cottage to Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge just because there is a “better” game on. Satisfying as the prospect of Infantino’s imminent downfall may be, the truth is that football is not suddenly being sold now; piece by piece it has been slowly parcelled off for decades. But this is at least a reminder to those in charge who may have forgotten that the game was never really theirs to sell in the first place. Stefano Hatfield SPORT i@theipaper.com Please include a contact address with all correspondence @theipaper facebook.com/theipaper Uefa said Fifa had not only lost its leadership’s confidence but also that of many other members of the football family GETTY Uefa talks about protecting football... while charging premium prices
MONDAY 3 AUGUST 2026 NEWS 4-33 OPINION 18-22 TV 26-31 LIFE 34-37 CULTURE 38-41 MONEY 42-44 SPORT 47-56 A Belfast banjo on his knee Children play traditional Irish music during the opening ceremony for Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann (Festival of Music of Ireland) 2026 at Belfast City Hall yesterday. It is the first time that the largest celebration of traditional Irish music has been hosted in the city. For a week from yesterday, lively pub sessions, spontaneous street performances and dramatic stage shows will take over Ireland’s only Unesco City of Music. All‑Ireland level competitions are at the heart of Fleadh, with over 180 categories. CHARLES MCQUILLAN/ GETTY EDUCATION Concern over private equity chains buying up nurseries By Alexa Phillips EDUCATION CORRESPONDENT A growing number of parents have seen their nurseries bought out by private equity-backed chains – which have come under fire for allegedly using parents’ fees to give millions to shareholders instead of investing in the quality of childcare provided. Nurseries owned by private equity firms spent at least £82m more than not-for-profits on costs such as direc- tors’ pay, rents and loans in 2023/24, according to analysis shared with The i Paper. These excess costs include repay- ments and interest charges for debts taken on by nurseries to pay for take- overs of more settings, according to Trinava Consulting, which examined the companies’ annual accounts. It said rents are often inflated to extract returns for investors. The nine biggest private equity- owned chains in the UK spent 15 per cent more of their income on these non-frontline costs than large not- for-profit providers, and 9 per cent less on staffing, the analysis found. The two private equity-owned nursery chains with the highest number of places, Kids Planet and Bright Stars, gave pay packets worth £335,000 and £266,000 respectively to senior directors. Parents and staff who have worked for nurseries bought by private equi- ty firms said the takeovers resulted in fee increases, additional charges, lower-quality food and toys for chil- dren, and losses of highly qualified staff members. The UK competition watchdog is investigating the role private equity and other ownership models are playing in the childcare market. Louise O’Hare, of the Post Pan- demic Childcare coalition and Pub- lic Childcare Now campaign, said private firms “charge high prices to parents, whilst staff qualifications are amongst the lowest” and many are paid below the living wage. The owners of Bright Stars and Kids Planet declined to comment. A Department for Education spokesperson said: “This Govern- ment is on the side of parents and we have taken action to ensure any addi- tional charges like food and nappies cannot be a condition of accessing a funded place.” Where have all the children gone? Schools struggle with lack of pupils Shrinking institutions cannot offer same opportunities. By Richard Vaughan “B uildings that were once full of life begin to feel empty,” a headteacher explains. The school leader, who has asked not to be named for fear of unduly worrying parents, is on the front line of a crisis unfolding in slow motion – the disappearance of the country’s children. Running a state primary school in a well-heeled enclave of central London, the head is grappling with an education problem that she barely expected to encounter when she embarked on her career – how to respond to a dramatic fall in pupil numbers. Declining school rolls in the primary sector are the first tangible signs of the declining birth rate in the UK and pose a significant political and public policy dilemma for Andy Burnham. According to official estimates, by 2035 there will be roughly one million fewer primary school children in England than there were in 2019 – and even that could be an underestimate. The fall in the country’s fertility rate from 1.9 per woman in 2010 to 1.4 per woman by 2024 is well below what is deemed to be the necessary replacement rate of 2.1 to maintain the current level of population. The drop in the birth rate is a matter that barely features in public policy debate, but schools are now at the vanguard of the problem and, as yet, there is very little known about the effects on children and wider communities of declining pupil numbers and the school closures it brings about. “A neighbouring school closed its doors this term due to falling rolls, displacing families and requiring children to find places elsewhere,” the headteacher said. “When a school shrinks, the impact reaches far beyond the budget. It becomes increasingly difficult to offer the same breadth of provision and opportunities that families have come to expect.” School funding in England is largely delivered per pupil, meaning the number of pupils a school takes in each year sets its budget for the academic year to come. Should a school see a drop of five or so pupils, like the primary in the relatively affluent part of London, it means they will lose around £30,000 to £35,000 in their annual coffers – a huge amount for a small school to cope with. This inevitably has an effect on the quality of education a school can provide. “Teachers are expected to take on greater responsibility with no additional reward, while support staff numbers have been reduced substantially,” the head said. London is at the epicentre of the problem as a combination of factors has led to a stark decline in the number of children particularly in the inner boroughs of the capital. The cost of living crisis, the lack of family homes, the sharp drop in immigration and the flight of families to commuter towns during the pandemic have all contributed to London being emptied of children. But it is by no means a problem limited to London. The capital may have experienced the steepest decline of around 11 per cent in recent years, but areas such as the North East and the Yorkshire and Humber have each had falls in primary pupils of around 6 and 7 per cent. “It’s a very significant, slow- moving challenge,” said Luke Sibieta, a research fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, who has done extensive research on the matter. “Year on year, things aren’t changing that much – it’s about a 1 per cent fall in the pupil population every year – but gradually, it’s making schools financially unsustainable.” Remarkably, very little research has been done on the effects on children, families and wider communities of a school closing. It presents Burnham, who has already placed significant emphasis on education in his first weeks as Prime Minister, with a dilemma: whether to maintain school spending at current levels or use the drop in pupil numbers as an excuse to cut spending and allocate money elsewhere. “The Government could choose to not close any schools,” Sibieta said. “It’s just that it’s a costly thing to do, especially in a fiscal environment that’s incredibly tight. There’s loads of demand for other spending on things like defence.” Paul Whiteman, general secretary at school leaders’ union NAHT, is under no illusion as to which way Burnham should go. “Where schools are facing falling rolls they need support,” he said. “Trends can change over time, and protecting their funding would allow them to maintain existing staffing levels, offer smaller classes, and provide more targeted help for pupils who need it.” But his is just one voice of many demanding a slice of the Government’s pie. SOCIETY Primary schools have been closing or facing budget cuts as numbers fall The rate at which numbers of children have fallen in London in recent years 11%
NEWS RUSSIA Sanctioned properties can still be legally sold By Mark Hollingsworth Thirty-three properties across London and Surrey – worth £700m – that are owned by sanctioned Rus- sian owners are still legally allowed to be sold, remortgaged or handed to a relative, The i Paper has found. Russian oligarchs have cleaned their money through London’s prop- erty market for many years – an anonymous offshore company con- verted dirty money into a solid, de- fensible asset. But after Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine in 2022, sanctions were imposed by the UK Government to restrict this practice. However, while the owners are re- stricted, many of the houses sit out- side the Government’s asset freeze entirely, an investigation has found. “Some of these properties are owned in the name of UK companies, notably [Roman] Abramovich,” a property broker told The i Paper. “If those UK companies are struck off by Companies House because of the sanctions, then ownership of the houses will belong to the Crown.” This means the Government would in effect be confiscating as- sets – a policy they have been trying to avoid at all costs, because of the implications for the rule of law. Anti-corruption campaigners ex- pressed unease about confiscation as a step too far, even if the motive is to raise funds to rebuild Ukraine. “Confiscating assets without proof they are the proceeds of crime is akin to expropriation”, said Gretta Fenner, former head of the Basel In- stitute, an NGO that investigates oli- garchs and financial crime. “This is done by dictators not democracies.” One example is a mansion at Five Belgrave Square owned by Oleg Deripaska, one of Putin’s favourite Russian oligarchs who has benefited from huge state-backed contracts, according to leaked diplomatic ca- bles published by Wikileaks. Deripaska bought the house for £17m in 2003 using an offshore com- pany registered in the British Virgin Islands. It is now worth £50m. His ownership of the historic prop- erty is now frozen. But Deripaska is still the legal owner. He cannot sell it or live in it while sanctions apply, but he has not lost it. Five Belgrave Square is still legally owned by a Putin-linked oligarch RUSSIA Three killed by Moscow restaurant bomb By Evie Selby At least three people have been killed and 21 injured after a home- made bomb exploded near a restau- rant in central Moscow on Saturday evening, state media have reported. The explosion took place around 8pm local time (6pm BST) on Kudrinkskaya Square in the city centre. An unidentified woman carrying an “improvised explo- sive device” attempted to enter the Italian restaurant Balzi Rossi but was stopped by a security guard, the Na- tional Anti-Terrorist Committee said. The restaurant (inset), located in one of Moscow’s renowned Stalin-era skyscrapers, had been closed to the pub- lic for a private event. State media reported that the three killed in the attack were the woman, the security guard and a customer. The Telegram moni- toring channel ASTRA said that a birthday cel- ebration for a general was taking place near where the explosion oc- curred, although this has not been confirmed. Police said that those who were injured received wounds of varying severity. Russia’s Kommersant newspaper cited its own sources as saying the explosion was intended to target guests on the summer terrace out- side the restaurant. It suggested the bomb had been set off remotely by someone else, and that the woman carrying the package may not have known it was an explosive device. Russians maintain tradition Russians mark Paratroopers’ Day in Donetsk, the eastern Ukrainian city occupied by Russia. Every year on 2 August, cities in parts of the former Soviet Union celebrate the birth of Russia’s paratrooper corps. Current and former troops have been known to flood the streets in rowdy revelry that forces cafés and shops to close, and civilians to take cover. One well-known tradition involves paratroopers swimming in public fountains. REUTERS CASPIAN SEA Waterway at junction of continents is key to Iran and Russia’s wars By Isabella Bengoechea DEPUTY WORLD EDITOR A deadly Ukrainian attack on a key strategic lake that Russia and Iran use to smuggle arms threatens to tear open a new front that could fuse two conflicts – one launched by Vladimir Putin and the other by Donald Trump. Ukraine said its drones hit a Rus- sian missile boat, oil platform and two sanctioned military cargo ves- sels in the Caspian Sea last month. Iran has claimed Ukraine struck a commercial cargo ship, killing a sailor, and threatened retribution. Tehran said it was considering re- taliating by striking one of Ukraine’s ports with a ballistic missile. Andrii Sybiha, Ukraine’s foreign minister, called Iran’s claims “lies” and branded the regime a “direct accomplice to Russian aggression against Ukraine”. Iran ultimately backed down, with its foreign minister saying Sybiha had assured him the attack “was unintentional and Ukraine seeks no escalation” – yet the reprieve could prove temporary, as the two wars become more closely linked. Russia and Iran are increasingly looking to the Caspian, a strategic maritime corridor through which they shuttle goods and military equipment, to bolster their wars. However, as Ukraine expands its drone campaign against Russia’s war machine, the sea is an enticing – and ever more attainable – target. The world’s largest landlocked body of water, the Caspian lies at the crossroads of Europe, Asia and the Middle East. It has become a vital sanctions-evasion link between Rus- sia and Iran. Because only the five bordering countries – Russia, Iran, Kazakh- stan, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan – have direct access, Moscow and Tehran have so far been able to act largely unimpeded by a Western military presence. For Russia, the Caspian is strategically important in three ways, said Basil Germond, the chair of international security at Lancaster University. “First, it provides a platform for long-range power projection, in- cluding missile strikes beyond the region,” he said. “Second, it has offered a sanctu- ary for naval and logistical assets compared with the Black Sea. Third, it has become a key line of communi- cation between Russia and Iran, en- abling civilian trade that helps both states mitigate sanctions, as well as the transfer of military equipment.” The latest strike in the Caspian underscores how the Ukraine war and Middle Eastern conflicts are converging into a single, intercon- nected theatre, said Jaroslava Barbieri, a research fellow at the Ukraine Forum of Chatham House. “The convergence of these thea- tres validates what Kyiv has argued since the start of the full-scale inva- sion: Ukraine is fighting not only a war of national survival, but a co-or- dinated authoritarian axis designed to dismantle the Western-led rules- based order.” Azeri and Iranian warships on naval exercises in the Caspian Sea AZERBAIJAN DEFENCE MINISTRY/ ANADOLU
MONDAY 3 AUGUST 2026 NATURE By Stephen Beech Elephants develop successful “cop- ing mechanisms” when returning to the wild from human care, accord- ing to research. Observations show “rewilded” el- ephants can fit in well within wildlife systems and readapt – even after long-term captivity, scientists said. While there have been a few instances of elephant rewil- dings in southern Africa, until now only limited research had investigat- ed how well they man- aged to adapt to their natural environments. For the study, re- searchers from the El- ephant Reintegration Trust of South Africa examined the behavioural and physiological re- sponses of 11 formerly-captive el- ephants that had been released on to four different reserves. Each elephant was observed for three weeks at a time at least once per year over a period of five years. The research team looked for behavioural indicators that the el- ephants might be uncomfortable in their wild surroundings and for be- haviours that might be “hold-overs” from their time in captivity – such as conflict and confrontation as well as increased self-directed touching. The findings of the study showed that, overall, rewilded elephant be- haviour was “very similar” to that of their wild neighbours. The research team also collected faecal samples from each elephant to test for signs of metabolic stress. The findings showed that the re- wilded elephants, particularly the females, did show generally higher stress levels, but not outside of the normal range for wild elephants. The differences may reflect their previous captive experiences, social circumstances, environmental conditions and tourism or management pressures, according to the re- search team. They say that their findings, published in the journal Plos One, show that rewilded el- ephants behave “very similarly” to their wild coun- terparts, despite some consist- ent differences – suggesting that they have adapted well to the return to wild habitats. The research team also noted a high degree of variability in behaviour between individual rewil- ded elephants. This, they said, might be related to each animal’s personality – suggest- ing that each individual has found their own unique ways to cope with their relocation. Elephants ‘learn to cope’ when returning to wild The 11 animals in the study represent more than 50 per cent of the rewilded elephant population across South Africa. 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For today’s solutions, call 0905 789 3580. Calls cost 80p per minute plus your network access charge. If you are having trouble accessing this number, please call our helpdesk on 0333 202 3390. Full terms and conditions can be found on page 29 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD No 4833 BY ATRICA Solution to Saturday’s Cryptic FILM ‘Barbie’ sequel stalled by pay packet demand By Liz Perkins Plans for a sequel to the box office hit Barbie have stalled as film bosses will not green light bigger pay deals for its stars. Actor Ryan Gosling was hoping for a $20m (£14.6m) pay day to return as Ken in the movie, which earned eight Academy Award nominations, alongside Margot Robbie in the title role. But Discovery chief David Zaslav is opposed to the sum despite Gosling having been in the running for the best supporting actor Oscar, according to The New York Times. The stars only signed up to a one-movie deal alongside film director Greta Gerwig but Warner Bros did not put in place an agreement for a sequel. Robbie is said to have earned about $50m from the first film in salary and bonuses, but has also not agreed a new deal. Gerwig and her husband, Noah Baumbach, have drawn up an idea for a new movie but will give little away until the deals are rubber-stamped. Warner Bros co-chairs, Pam Abdy and Michael De Luca, confirmed the talks and said: “We have a rights deal with Mattel in place and have made a series of big offers to try and finalise deals to make the next Barbie film. Unfortunately, we have been unable to reach an agreement thus far.” December is the deadline for the new movie to get under way. Ryan Gosling has been denied his asking price to reappear alongside Margot Robbie in a second film WARNER BROS How much the film’s co-star, Ryan Gosling, was hoping to get paid to return to the role of Ken $20m NEWS 4-33 OPINION 18-22 TV 26-31 LIFE 34-37 CULTURE 38-41 MONEY 42-44 SPORT 47-56
Daytime Late 6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm 11pm GERARD GILBERT CRITIC’S CHOICE 7.00 Atlantic: The Wildest Ocean On Earth Life in the warm waters of the tropical Atlantic (S). 8.00 The Art Of Spain Exploring the history of Spanish art (S). 9.00 Sally Magnusson Remembers – Mastermind (S). 9.15 Mastermind 1972 Final (S). 9.45 Call My Bluff (S). 10.15 Becoming Frida Kahlo Last in the series (S). 11.15 Turner: The Man Who Painted Britain Documentary drama chronicling the painter’s life (S). 12.15 Atlantic: The Wildest Ocean On Earth (S). 1.15 Becoming Frida Kahlo (S). 2.15 The Art Of Spain (S). 3.15 Close 6.50 FILM: The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Stephen Norrington 2003) (S). 9.00 FILM: Twister (Jan De Bont 1996) Action thriller, with Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton (S). 11.15 FILM: Beast (Baltasar Kormákur 2022) Action thriller, starring Idris Elba (S). 1.05 FILM: Monster Hunter (Paul WS Anderson 2020) Fantasy adventure, starring Milla Jovovich (S). 3.15 Close 6.00 Backyard Builds (S). 6.30 Dress To Impress (S). 7.30 The Real Housewives Of Salt Lake City (S). 8.20 The Real Housewives Of Orange County (S). 9.20 The Only Way Is Essex (S). 10.15 Dawson’s Creek (S). 11.15 Charmed (S). 12.10 Deal Or No Deal (S). 1.10 Supermarket Sweep (S). 2.10 The Floor USA (S). 3.10 The Only Way Is Essex (S). 4.10 The Real Housewives Of Salt Lake City (S). 5.00 The Real Housewives Of Orange County (S). 6.00 Celebrity Catchphrase With Katie Piper, Kiell Smith-Bynoe and Shaun Williamson (S). 7.00 The Floor USA Rob Lowe hosts the American version of the dramatic and fast-paced game show (S). 8.00 The 1% Club Quiz, hosted by Lee Mack (S). 9.00 The Only Way Is Essex (S). 10.00 Family Guy The Griffins get a new dog (S). 10.30 Family Guy Peter is forced to return to third grade (S). 11.05 Family Guy Part one of two. 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TelevisionMonday 3 August === Street Cops: Catching The Yobs 8pm, 5 Police pursue a suspected stolen SUV being driven recklessly through the suburbs of Corby, and are on high alert following a youth seen brandishing a machete in a town centre restaurant and then bragging about it online. Part of a true-crime double-bill, along with a new series of Fare Dodgers: At War With The Law. That begins (at 9pm) with Transport for London investigator Lisa pursuing a suspected fare evader owing the network almost £2,000. === Evolution 9pm, BBC Two “How did the dolphin get to be so smart?” asks Chris Packham after he surfaces from a swim with a pod of these intelligent, highly social sea creatures. Time for the presenter to spool back billions of years, via the evolution of eyesight and a heavy-boned land mammal called the indohyus. === Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace 9pm, ITV1 More foundlings trace their birth parents with the help of Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell as this invariably moving programme returns for a fresh run. In December 1960, David was discovered not in the usual locations of a telephone box or on hospital steps, but in the corridor of a locked apartment building in north-west London. His DNA reveals Dutch and French ancestry. The second case involves Sarah, now aged 41 and a mother herself, who was found abandoned in a Leicester phone box in August 1983. She wants to know whether it was her own mother who left her there, and if so, why? === Sally Magnusson Remembers – Mastermind 9pm, BBC Four As the current series of the quiz show continues on BBC Two tonight (British birds of prey, Roger Moore’s James Bond, King Charles I and Sylvia Plath are tonight’s specialist subjects), Sally Magnusson remembers the early glory days of Mastermind. She tells the story of how her father, the Icelandic-born journalist, translator and writer Magnus PICK OF THE DAY Celebrity Hunted 9pm, Channel 4 The only reality series in which you’ll hear the words “We’re now tracking Joe Pasquale’s phone”, this glorified version of hide-and-seek returns for a Stand Up to Cancer special, as six pairs of variably well-known people go on the run. “Can the famous really disappear?” we are asked, but that may depend on how recognisable you find this year’s fugitives: Father and daughter Brian and Lucy Conley (both left); Strictly Come Dancing professionals Amy Dowden and Carlos Gu; presenters JJ Chalmers and Sophie Morgan; comedians Jen Brister and Laura Smyth; Love Island-ers Chris Taylor and Toby Aromolaran; and property presenters Scarlette and Stuart Douglas. Sally Magnusson takes a look back at her father Magnus’s time as host of ‘Mastermind’ 9pm, BBC Four Davina McCall helps more foundlings 9pm, ITV1 Nytalia deals with a loud aggressive drunk 8pm, 5
Battleships Chain Link Journey Finder Dominoes Pathfinder Locate the position of each of the ships listed below in the grid. Numbers around the edge tell you the number of ship segments in each row and column of the puzzle. Ships are surrounded on all sides by water, including diagonally. Locate the position of each of the ships listed below in the grid. Numbers around the edge tell you the number of ship segments in each row and column of the puzzle. Ships are surrounded on all sides by water, including diagonally. How to play Place the numbers 1-6 in each row, column and along each series of squares linked by the chain. How to play Move between the numbers in order 1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4 and so on, starting with the grey 1 and ending with the grey 4. On each step you may move one square in any direction (including diagonally). You must form a continuous path that visits every square exactly once. How to play All of the 28 domino pieces from 0-0 through to 6-6 have been placed once into the grid. Can you work out where each of them is placed? Games&Puzzles 4-page 4-page pullout pullout Making Tracks How to play Numbers around the outside indicate how many squares in each row and column the track passes through between A and B. The track either passes straight through a square or turns at right angles in it. Daily Quiz 1. Lorna Luft is the daughter of which famous Hollywood star? 2. What is the name of the belief that numbers possess a mystical relationship and hold the key to human character, purpose and destiny? 3. According to Greek mythology, who was the commander-in- chief of the Greek forces during the Trojan War? 4. Auctioneer Simon Bower assesses the value of items in which BBC1 daytime TV series? Answers, page 47 How to play Locate the position of each of the ships listed below in the grid. Numbers around the edge tell you the number of ship segments in each row and column of the puzzle. Ships are surrounded on all sides by water, including diagonally. G R A L R A E E D I R D B Y L K N N M A E U P S U A U A Y T J O R Y B M Q N T I O I I T A A E L B M S N R G G S S R E E E E B A G E B L G S V L E C R E L L I S E Y R E L W O A M A N T E P N E T B E N How to play Moving from letter to adjacent letter, can you create a continuous path that visits every square once and spells out all the words listed to the right of the grid? Start on the shaded square. A B Number Hexagon How to play Each hexagon is divided into six triangles. The sum of these six triangles is always 25. Place a number from 1-9 in each empty triangle to complete the puzzle: you cannot repeat a number within a hexagon. Amass Assemble Baggage Blower Celebrity Grab Maiden Nearly Netball Proud Quantity Regimen Rejoin Repel Seventy Sulk Jigsawdoku • Zygolex • Codeword • Sudoku • idoku • Knight’s Tour • Word Wheel 0 0 1 1 1 1 Binary How to play Complete the grid so that each row and column contains five 0s and five 1s. The same number cannot appear in more than two consecutive squares in any row or column. In the finished puzzle, each row must have a different sequence of 0s and 1s to any other row, and likewise for each column.
SERVES 4 250g pack spinach 2 oranges 2½ tbsp extra virgin olive oil 2 tbsp white wine vinegar 1tsp wholegrain mustard 1 yellow pepper, thinly sliced ½ cucumber, halved, deseeded and sliced 250g pouch puy lentils 250g pack halloumi, sliced into 8 Place the spinach in a large bowl. Remove the skin and pith from the oranges and remove the segments into a bowl, catching the juices. Set the segments aside. Whisk 2tbsp oil into the reserved orange juice with the vinegar and mustard, season. Stir the dressing into the spinach and massage well with clean hands, stir in the reserved orange segments, pepper, cucumber and lentils. Transfer to a large serving platter. Heat the remaining ½tbsp oil in a large frying pan and fry the halloumi for two to three minutes on each side until golden and place on top of the salad to serve. Tip: Try using a pouch of mixed grains or a can of kidney beans instead of the lentils. Recipe from Discover Great Veg, discovergreatveg.co.uk The Daily Recipe Spinach, halloumi and orange salad INQUISITOR PUZZLES The country’s best barred crossword every Saturday Killer Sudoku Kakuro How to play Each row, column and 3 by 3 box must contain each number (1 to 9) only once. The sum of all numbers contained within grey lines must match the number printed in its top-left corner. No number can appear more than once in an area formed by grey lines. How to play Fill the white squares so that the total in each across or down run of cells matches the total at the start of that run. You must use the numbers from 1-9 only and cannot repeat a number in a run. Zygolex® In The i Paper every day Find the missing words by following the RHYME, LETTERS and MEANING links – eg, a word that rhymes with ‘cheek’, has one letter different from ‘pear’ and has the same meaning as mountain, would be ‘peak’. Full rules at zygolex.com. Solution, page 47 Minesweeper How to play Find all the mines in the grid. Numbers in certain squares indicate how many mines there are in the neighbouring squares, including diagonally touching squares. Mines cannot be placed in squares with numbers. Find the missing words by following the RHYME, LETTERS and MEANING links, e.g. a word that rhymes with ‘cheek’, has the same meaning as ‘mountain’ and has one letter different from ‘pear’, would be ‘peak’. Note: only one letter is changed in a Letters link. Full rules at www.zygolex.com VALES DETECT PRIMARY BEAD BALLET MAIM GRACE PERUSE SHOVEL SPARE TRUG SUE TEEM ADOLESCENT CLAD TARTAN MEANING LETTERS RHYME Zygolex (from left to right) - valet; trace; teen; spade; clean; trade; clear; dear; deal; plain; real; plaid; true; main; read. Futoshiki How to play Place the numbers from 1-5 exactly once in each row and column. The greater than and less than signs (‘>’ and ‘<’) indicate where one cell is greater/less than the adjacent cell indicated. How to play Place the numbers 1-9 once in each row, column and bold-lined jigsaw region. Jigsawdoku RHYME LETTERS MEANING ✂ Games&Puzzles 8 4 8 4 7 9 6 9 0 2 2 2 3 2 4 2 3 2 1 5 2 3 2 2 4 3 3 2 3 4 3 2 2 1 4 2 1 0 4 3
MONDAY 3 AUGUST 2026 How to play Each numeral from 1 to 9 must appear (once only) in the squares forming the red letter i. Number Square How to play Fill the empty squares with numbers that will make the across and down calculations produce the results shown in the grey squares. Each numeral from 1 to 9 must only appear once. The calculations should be performed from left to right and top to bottom, rather than in strict mathematical order. Easier Harder Word Ladder How to play Convert the word at the top of the ladder into the word at the bottom of it, using only the five rungs in between. On each rung, you must put a valid four-letter word that is identical to the word above it, apart from a one-letter change. There may be more than one way of achieving this. ABC Logic How to play Place the letters A, B and C only once in each row and column. Each row and column has two blank cells. The letters at the edge of a row/column indicate which of the letters is the first/last to appear in that row/column. Word Wheel Tomorrow: Harder Stuck on the concise crossword? For today’s solutions, call 0905 789 3590. Calls cost 80p per minute plus your network access charge. If you are having trouble accessing this number, please call our helpdesk on 0333 202 3390. Need a little help getting started? Then call for up to four extra clue letters on 0901 292 5204. Calls cost £1 plus your telephone company’s network access charge (if you are having trouble with the phone service, call the helpline: 0333 202 3390). Or text THEI CLUE to 85100 to receive your clues. Texts cost £1 plus your standard network charge (if you are having trouble with the text service, call the helpline: 0333 335 3351). Clues change each day at midnight. Today’s other puzzles Cryptic Crossword, page 25 Five-Clue Cryptic, page 17; One-Minute Wijuko, page 20 Puzzle solutions See page 47 Terms & Conditions By using The i Paper’s text services, you are agreeing to receive occasional SMS messages from DMG Media. You will not be charged for receiving these messages and may opt out at any time by texting STOP to the originating number. SMS services on this page are provided by BBA Digital Ltd, KT18 5AD, helpline: 0333 335 3351. Phone services on this page are provided by Spoke AL10 9NA, helpline: 0333 202 3390, and by Advanced Telecom Services, EC1M 4BH. Helpline: 0330 333 6946. idoku Exclusive to Sudoku Easier Codeword No 4575 How to play The numbers in the grid correspond to the letters of the alphabet. Solve the puzzle and fill in the letters in the key as you discover them. Three letters are provided to give you a start. The solution will be printed in tomorrow’s paper, the solution to Saturday’s codeword is on page 47. Concise Crossword No 4897 % A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 5 9 2 6 1 1 7 4 8 4 8 3 5 9 × - - × × + × - + - + × -5 + + + + - - - -10 - × × - + -5 B A B B C B C B A B B B A A SKIN CROW DEED SLUM P N M H E R A T C How to play How many words can you find using the letters in the wheel? We’ve found 66, including one nine-letter word. Each word must use the centre letter and at least three others. Letters may be used only once. You may not use foreign words, proper nouns or plurals, though you may use verb forms ending in ‘s’. ACROSS Draw (4) Go in (5) 8 German measles (7) 9 Scots landowner (5) 10 Instability (4) 11 Conscious (7) 13 Device in petrol engines (11) 16 Pet hate (7) 18 Pig’s cry (4) 20 Break the rules (5) 22 Short rest (3-4) 23 From that time (5) 24 Delight (4) DOWN Knitting stitch (4) Flowering plant (7) Snakelike fish (3) 4 Criminal (5) Conundrum (6) 6 Pliant (8) Power tool (6,5) 12 Gaseous element (8) 14 Footballer’s mistake (3,4) 15 Counting frame (6) 17 Colour (5) 19 Leg joint (4) 21 Golf peg (3) Solution to Saturday’s Concise Crossword ACROSS 1 Pie, 3 Seize (Pisces), 7 Mass, 8 Eau de vie, 9 Sought-after, 11 Spread, 13 Trauma, 15 Overwrought, 18 Yearling, 20 Earl, 21 Satin, 22 Dot. DOWN 1 Posture, 2 Eye shadow, 3 Sou, 4 Inert, 5 Epigram, 6 Dais, 10 Acts of God, 12 Process, 14 Augment, 16 Egret, 17 Tory, 19 Inn. PUZZLE BOOKS Our range of puzzle books includes crosswords, codewords, jigsawdokus, children’s games, sudokus and more. Available on Amazon for £7.99 each See the full range at minURL.co.uk/ibooks NEWS 4-33 OPINION 18-22 TV 26-31 LIFE 34-37 CULTURE 38-41 MONEY 42-44 SPORT 47-56
B A C K T O T H E F U T U R E S L T H E G O D F A T H E R J E U O D I E H A R D T I M S O N O Y R R A C V G V C N A T H O J R U D N K E S E H J D A Y J F O D E O Q P A N G Q M R R A P T F S V F G F U U U A W O N N A U N E E T Q G E Q X A T A E N M P Z Z J H D T Y D R S I W I A C S F T K E E X Q S Y D R M T H P I J P K R D M W O N O R R M X I D O A V I A V T I C E I U A L I E N O S N L E B K T X J A M E S B O N D G B Q Y F M M A E R C S K C G W S Word Search Bridges Word Square How to play Can you fit all the words into the grid to complete the puzzle? Some words may initially fit in more than one place, but there is only one way to fit all the words together to complete the grid. Word Fit Children’s Corner Number Pyramid How to play The classic word-search puzzle: find all the words in the grid. Words may be hidden horizontally, vertically or diagonally and in either a forwards or backwards direction. How to play Connect every island (represented by circles) into a single interconnected group. To do this draw bridges between islands. The number in each circle states how many bridges must be connected to that island. Bridges cannot cross each other, can only be drawn horizontally or vertically, and there can be a maximum of two bridges between any pair of islands. How to play The value of each square in the number pyramid is the sum of the two squares directly under it. 4 Letters Boot Stew Twig 5 Letters Avert Found Gripe Madam 6 Letters Dynamo Freely Sludge Sphere Supple 7 Letters Crayons Gourmet Midwife Refract Settler 8 Letters Deputise Lipstick Mistreat ALIEN BACK TO THE FUTURE BLADE CARRY ON DIE HARD ICE AGE INDIANA JONES JAMES BOND LORD OF THE RINGS MAD MAX MATRIX NAKED GUN ROCKY SAW SCREAM SHREK STAR WARS TERMINATOR THE GODFATHER TOY STORY How to play Simply answer the clues alongside the grid, writing the answers in the respective rows. The solution must read the same horizontally in each row as it does vertically in each column. Hexalex How to play Place each of the letters below once into the empty hexagons, crossing them off as you do so. Enter the letters in such a way that it is possible to find all the words listed alongside the grid by moving from hexagon to adjacent hexagon to spell out each word. BREWS CZAR HAFT JUG LUG MINX NIFTY POCKED USE A B E F G I K M N O R S T U W Z ? Solutions: page 47 Calcudoku How to play Place the numbers 1-6 once in each row and column, obeying sums in bold-lined regions. The number in each region indicates the total for the region, and the symbol shows which type of operation should be applied to the numbers: addition, subtraction, division or multiplication. Numbers may repeat within bold-lined regions. With subtraction always take the lower numbers away from the highest number in a region, and with division divide the highest number by the lower numbers. GAMES & PUZZLES 126 106 138 232 244 18× 8+ 2÷ 3÷ 30× 20× 3- 3÷ 1- 450× 12× 6× 16× 24× 9+ P C D H J X Y L Cook Salute Gaelic name for Ireland Parasitic insect Knight’s Tour How to play A chess knight visits each square of the grid exactly once, starting at 1 and ending at 100 (these squares are shaded). Deduce the whole path of the knight – some of which is already given – and thus complete the grid. The knight moves either two squares horizontally followed by one square vertically, or two squares vertically followed by one square horizontally. 33 22 28 63 56 31 79 66 58 67 18 71 96 69 37 46 81 94 44 41 16 11 Cells How to play Divide the grid into square or rectangular blocks, each containing one digit only. Every block must contain the number of cells indicated by the digit inside it.
MONDAY 3 AUGUST 2026 FILM CHOICE LAURENCE PHELAN 6.00 Hollyoaks (S). 6.30 Hollyoaks (S). 6.55 Rude(ish) Tube Shorts (S). 7.00 Couples Come Dine With Me (S). 8.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA (S). 9.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA (S). 10.00 America’s Funniest Home Videos (S). 11.00 Below Deck: Mediterranean (S). 12.00 The Simpsons (S). 12.30 The Simpsons (S). 1.00 The Simpsons (S). 1.30 The Simpsons (S). 2.00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine (S). 2.30 Brooklyn Nine-Nine (S). 3.00 Modern Family (S). 3.30 Modern Family (S). 4.00 Modern Family (S). 4.30 Modern Family (S). 5.00 The Simpsons (S). 5.30 The Simpsons (S). 6.00 The Simpsons The family reminisces about days gone by (S). 6.30 Hollyoaks (S). 7.00 Hollyoaks (S). 7.30 The Simpsons Lisa signs up to participate in the future colonisation of Mars (S). 8.00 Vanderpump Rules New series (S). 9.00 Below Deck Down Under A newbie stirs things up on the crew night out (S). 10.00 Gogglebox The households’ opinions on Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel (S). 11.00 Naked Attraction (S). 12.05 First Dates (S). 1.10 Vanderpump Rules (S). 2.10 Below Deck Down Under (S). 3.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA (S). 3.55 The Simpsons (S). 4.45 The Goldbergs (S). 5.35 Brooklyn Nine-Nine (S). 6.00 Mornings (R). 6.30 Mornings (R). 7.00 Mornings With Ridge And Frost (R). 7.30 Mornings With Ridge And Frost (R). 8.00 Stargate SG-1 (R) (S). 9.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R) (S). 10.00 Will & Grace (R) (S). 10.30 Will & Grace (R) (S). 11.00 The Simpsons (R) (S). 11.30 The Simpsons (R) (S). 12.00 Big Cat Country (R) (S). 1.00 Hawaii Five-0 (R) (S). 2.00 Hawaii Five-0 (R) (S). 3.00 S.W.A.T (R) (S). 4.00 S.W.A.T (R) (S). 5.00 The Simpsons (R) (S). 5.30 The Simpsons (R) (S). 6.00 Animal Control (R) (S). 6.30 Animal Control (R) (S). 7.00 The Simpsons Bart becomes a daredevil skateboarder (R) (S). 7.30 The Simpsons (R) (S). 8.00 Agatha Raisin Part one of two. Return of the mystery, starring Ashley Jensen (R) (S). 9.00 Agatha Raisin Part two of two. The beauty salon case continues (R) (S). 10.00 Last Week Tonight With John Oliver A look at news and pop culture. 10.45 Animal Control (R) (S). 11.15 Animal Control (R) (S). 11.45 Grimm A terrifying new Wesen targets a young family (R) (S). 12.40 The Force: Manchester (R) (S). 1.35 Road Wars (R) (S). 2.00 Best Medicine (S). 3.00 Hawaii Five-0 (R) (S). 4.00 S.W.A.T (R) (S). 5.00 S.W.A.T (R) (S). 6.00 Fish Town (R) (S). 7.00 Fish Town (R) (S). 8.00 Billions (R) (S). 9.05 Billions (R) (S). 10.15 Task (R) (S). 11.25 Task (R) (S). 12.30 Homicide: Life On The Street (R) (S). 1.30 Homicide: Life On The Street (R) (S). 2.30 Billions (R) (S). 3.35 Billions (R) (S). 4.40 Task (R) (S). 5.45 Task (R) (S). 6.50 True Detective: Night Country (R) (S). 7.55 True Detective: Night Country (R) (S). 9.00 House Of The Dragon Game of Thrones prequel, starring Matt Smith. 10.15 The Last Of Us Joel and Ellie near the end of their journey (R) (S). 11.20 Dune: Prophecy Desmond makes a confession to Emperor Corrino (R) (S). 12.30 Task (R) (S). 1.40 Task (R) (S). 2.50 Billions (R) (S). 3.55 Billions (R) (S). 5.05 The Guest Wing (R) (S). 6.00 George And Mildred (S). 6.35 George And Mildred (S). 7.05 Classic Emmerdale (S). 7.40 Classic Coronation Street (S). 8.10 Classic Coronation Street (S). 9.10 Agatha Christie’s Poirot (S). 10.25 Agatha Christie’s Poirot (S). 11.30 Heartbeat (S). 12.35 Heartbeat (S). 1.35 Midsomer Murders (S). 3.35 Classic Emmerdale (S). 4.05 Classic Emmerdale (S). 4.40 Classic Coronation Street (S). 5.15 Classic Coronation Street (S). 5.50 Heartbeat (S). 6.55 Heartbeat Merton investigates a long-buried secret (S). 8.00 Midsomer Murders A woman is stabbed to death in a churchyard (S). 10.00 Grantchester A computer laboratory head dies from mercury poisoning (S). 11.00 Grantchester (S). 11.50 Trial & Retribution (S). 1.25 Wycliffe (S). 2.25 Unwind With ITV (S). 2.30 Teleshopping === The Mist 10.45pm, BBC One (Frank Darabont, 2007) Another Stephen King adaptation from the director of The Shawshank Redemption: a smart, well-paced monster movie which taps into primeval fears, about shoppers in a small-town supermarket who are besieged when a sudden mist rolls in. === Beast 11.15pm, Film4 (Baltasar Kormákur, 2022) Idris Elba lends credibility and gravitas to a far-fetched but fun survival thriller about a doctor and his daughters who encounter a couple of very large, ticked off and territorial CGI lions on safari in South Africa. Magnusson, got the job of quiz master, and what it was like growing up as a teenager and having the catchphrases “pass” and “I’ve started, so I’ll finish” hurled her way on a regular basis. It’s followed by a repeat of the first final in 1972, a former Bletchley Park codebreaker among the contestants. === Secret Lives Of Gypsy Wives 10pm, Channel 4 The family deal with the anniversary of the death of their dad Sid – and decide to host an ambitious bonfire night display for the estate in his memory. Trewley, meanwhile, takes part in a huge collaboration with a cosmetics company and gets an unexpected lesson in tough love from her mum. BBC Radio 1 6.58am Newsbeat 7.00 Radio 1 Breakfast With Greg James 11.00 Rickie, Melvin And Charlie 12.45pm Newsbeat 1.00 Matt And Jerry 3.30 Newsbeat 3.33 Going Home With Vick, Katie And Jamie On Radio 1 5.45 Newsbeat 6.00 Radio 1’s New Music Show With Jack Saunders 8.00 Radio 1’s Future Artists With Sian Eleri 10.00 Radio 1’s Power Down Playlist With Sian Eleri 11.00 Rock Show With Daniel P Carter 1am BBC Introducing Rock On Radio 1 With Alyx Holcombe 2.00 Radio 1 Anthems 4.00 Radio 1 Pop Anthems 5.00 Radio 1 Early Breakfast With Dean McCullough BBC Radio 1Xtra 6.32am 1Xtra Playlists 7.00 1Xtra Breakfast With Nadia Jae 10.00 DJ Day Day 12.45pm Newsbeat 1.00 Kaylee Golding 4.00 Remi Burgz 5.45 Newsbeat 6.00 Remi Burgz 7.00 DJ Target 9.00 Manga Saint Hilare 11.00 Snoochie Shy 1am 1Xtra’s R&B Show With Chuckie 2.30 1Xtra’s R&B Slow Jamz Mix With Chuckie 3.00 1Xtra Salutes.. 4.00 Jeremiah Asiamah’s Get Lit Mix 4.30 Throwback Thursday 5.30 1Xtra’s Throwback Party BBC Radio 2 6.30am The Sara Cox Breakfast Show 9.30 Vernon Kay 12noon Jeremy Vine 2.00 DJ Spoony 4.00 Joel Dommett 7.00 Jo Whiley’s Shiny Happy Playlist 7.30 Jo Whiley 9.00 The Blues Show With Cerys Matthews 10.00 The Good Groove With Melvin Odoom 12mdn’t Connor Phillips 3.00 Dance Sounds Of The 90s With Vernon Kay 4.00 Owain Wyn Evans BBC Radio 3 6.30am Breakfast 9.30 Essential Classics 1pm Classical Live 4.00 Composer Of The Week: Mozart. Kate Molleson tells Mozart’s story through five relationships that shaped him. 5.00 In Tune. With live music by pianist Alexandra Dariescu. 7.00 BBC Proms 2026. Royal Scottish National Orchestra in Shostakovich’s Symphony No 11. 10.00 Night Tracks. A soundtrack for late-night listening. 11.30 ’Round Midnight. Soweto Kinch presents the best in jazz. 12.30am Through The Night BBC Radio 4 6am Today 9.00 Across The Red Line 9.30 How Did We Get Here?: No World Order 10.00 Woman’s Hour 11.00 Behind The Crime 11.45 Tony Hawks Is Giving Nothing Away 12noon News 12.04 You And Yours 12.57 Weather 1.00 The World At One 1.45 The Bare Necessities 2.00 The Archers 2.15 Alone 2.45 NatureBang 3.00 A Good Read 3.30 You’re Dead To Me 4.00 Britain’s Robot Army 4.30 The Kitchen Cabinet 5.00 PM 5.57 Weather 6.00 Six O’Clock News 6.30 Just A Minute. With Paul Merton, Zoe Lyons, Catherine Bohart and Paterson Joseph. 7.00 The Archers. Neil finds himself run ragged. 7.15 Front Row. Arts programme. 8.00 The Briefing Room. Government policy on legal migration, overseas workers and leave to remain. 8.30 BBC Inside Science. Tom Whipple discusses the true limitations of alien life. 9.00 Across The Red Line. Anne McElvoy chairs a discussion on falling birth rates. 9.30 How Did We Get Here?: No World Order. How China reshaped its relationship with the international system. 10.00 The World Tonight. With James Coomarasamy. 10.45 Book At Bedtime: The Vicar Of Wakefield 11.00 Intimacy. Liza builds trust with the cast, but tensions with Gary deepen. 11.30 Hollywood And The Adland Five. The impact of five British directors on movie history. 12mdn’t News And Weather 12.30 Tony Hawks Is Giving Nothing Away 12.48 Shipping Forecast 1.00 As BBC World Service 5.00 News Summary 5.04 Britain’s Robot Army 5.32 Weather 5.34 Shipping Forecast 5.43 Prayer For The Day 5.45 Farming Today BBC Radio 4 Extra 6am Raffles 6.30 Who Killed Aldrich Kemp? 7.00 Control Group Six 7.30 Dad’s Army 8.00 Dr Phil’s Bedside Manner 8.30 Following Pappano 8.45 Small Island 9.00 Just A Minute 9.30 Behind The Taverna 9.45 Daily Service 10.00 Screenshot 10.45 Witness History 11.00 Raffles 11.30 Who Killed Aldrich Kemp? 12noon Control Group Six 12.30 Dad’s Army 1.00 Dr Phil’s Bedside Manner 1.30 Following Pappano 1.45 Small Island 2.00 Wordaholics 2.30 A Whole ’Nother Story 3.00 When Marnie Was There 4.00 Screenshot 4.45 Witness History 5.00 Raffles 5.30 Who Killed Aldrich Kemp? 6.00 Control Group Six 6.30 Dad’s Army 7.00 Dr Phil’s Bedside Manner 7.30 Following Pappano 7.45 Small Island 8.00 Wordaholics 8.30 A Whole ’Nother Story 9.00 When Marnie Was There 10.00 Comedy Club: Just A Minute 10.30 Comedy Club: Listen Against 10.55 Comedy Club: The Comedy Club Interview 11.00 Comedy Club: Current- ish 11.30 Comedy Club: The In Crowd 12mdn’t Screenshot 12.45 Witness History 1.00 Raffles 1.30 Who Killed Aldrich Kemp? 2.00 Control Group Six 2.30 Dad’s Army 3.00 Dr Phil’s Bedside Manner 3.30 Following Pappano 3.45 Small Island 4.00 Wordaholics 4.30 A Whole ’Nother Story 5.00 When Marnie Was There BBC 5 Live 6am 5 Live Breakfast 9.00 Nicky Campbell 11.00 Marianna Spring 2pm Matt Chorley 4.00 5 Live Drive 7.00 5 Live Sport: The Monday Night Club 9.00 5 Live Sport: 5 Live Cricket 10.00 Sarah Mulkerrins 1am Dotun Adebayo 5.00 Wake Up To Money BBC 6 Music 7am Nick Grimshaw 10.00 Lauren Laverne 1pm Craig Charles 4.00 Steve Lamacq’s Teatime Session 7.00 New Music Fix Daily 9.00 Riley & Coe 11.00 6 Music Artist In Residence: Ezra Collective 12mdn’t Oasis At The BBC 1.00 Oasis Live At Knebworth 2.00 Oasis: What’s The Story? 3.00 Oasis: What’s The Story? 4.00 The Oasis Playlist Classic FM 6.30am Classic FM Breakfast With Dan Walker 9.00 The Classic FM Hall Of Fame Hour With Dan Walker 10.00 Aled Jones 1pm Anne-Marie Minhall 4.00 Margherita Taylor 7.00 Relaxing Evenings With Zeb Soanes 9.00 Classic FM’s Composer Carousel With Zeb Soanes. Today’s focus is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. 10.00 Calm Classics 1am Bill Overton 4.00 Early Breakfast Absolute Radio 6am Dave Berry 10.00 Leona Graham 1pm Ben Burrell 4.00 Bush And Richie 7.00 Ben Coley 10.00 Jay Lawrence 1am Dan Noble Heart 6.30am Heart Breakfast With Jamie Theakston And Amanda Holden 10.00 Pandora Christie 1pm Matt Wilkinson 4.00 JK And Kelly Brook 7.00 Heart’s Feel Good Weekend With Dev Griffin 10.00 Ben Atkinson 1am Guy Howard 4.00 Early Breakfast With Lindsey Russell TalkSPORT 6am TalkSPORT Breakfast With Jeff Stelling 10.00 Jim White And Simon Jordan 1pm Hawksbee And Jacobs 4.00 TalkSPORT Drive 7.00 Kick Off 10.00 The Sports Bar 1am Extra Time With Paul Ross 5.00 Early Sports Breakfast Radio Vernon Kay 9.30am, BBC Radio 2 Vernon welcomes music superstar Phil Collins (above) to share his Tracks Of My Years. Plus, all the usual music and entertainment, including the Ten To The Top music quiz at 10.30am. FILM OF THE DAY Sing Sing 11.05pm, BBC Two (Greg Kwedar, 2023) Set during rehearsals for a theatrical production by the Rehabilitation Through the Arts programme at Sing Sing maximum security correctional facility, this may be the most touchy- feely prison movie ever made. “We here to become human again,” is how one participant puts it. However, getting in touch with their feelings may make these men better actors but can actually be a liability outside their rehearsal room, out in “the yard” where the threat of violence is a constant. Colman Domingo (left) stars alongside real-life former inmates and members of the programme, in a film shot docu-style with conviction, authenticity and heart. Pick of the day 8.55 Heir Hunters (S). 10.00 Four In A Bed (S). 10.35 Four In A Bed (S). 11.05 Four In A Bed (S). 11.35 Four In A Bed (S). 12.10 Four In A Bed (S). 12.40 Come Dine With Me (S). 1.10 Come Dine With Me (S). 1.40 Come Dine With Me (S). 2.15 Come Dine With Me (S). 2.50 Come Dine With Me (S). 3.20 Four In A Bed (S). 3.50 Four In A Bed (S). 4.20 Four In A Bed (S). 4.50 Four In A Bed (S). 5.20 Four In A Bed (S). 5.50 Car S.O.S (S). 6.50 Car S.O.S (S). 7.55 Grand Designs A house built out of shipping containers on a farm in Co Derry (S). 9.00 Bill Bailey’s Vietnam Last in the series (S). 10.00 24 Hours In A&E (S). 11.00 24 Hours In A&E (S). 12.05 999: On The Front Line (S). 1.05 24 Hours In A&E (S). 2.10 24 Hours In A&E (S). 3.15 A Place In The Sun (S). 3.45 Close ON DEMAND I, Claudius BBC iPlayer Derek Jacobi stars in the classic 1976 BBC adaptation. Chicago PD Netflix All seasons of the American police procedural set in the Windy City. Terror In The Skies: Stopping The Liquid Bomb Plot ITVX Inside the operation to foil the 2006 terror attacks. NEWS 4-33 OPINION 18-22 TV 26-31 LIFE 34-37 CULTURE 38-41 MONEY 42-44 SPORT 47-56
NEWS Panorama Around the world in 10 stories INDONESIA Five dead and 41 missing in ferry fire off Java coast By Niniek Karmii and Edna Tarigan IN INDONESIA An Indonesian ferry carrying 271 people caught fire in waters off the main island of Java yesterday, leav- ing at least five people dead and doz- ens missing as rescuers and passing vessels evacuated hundreds from the burning ship, officials said. The Mutiara Sentosa 2 ferry was travelling from Indonesia’s second- largest city Surabaya in East Java to Makas- sar in South Sulawesi, with 232 passengers and 39 crew, when the fire broke out between 6am and 7am in waters off Sumenep regency, according to Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency, or Basarnas. The ferry operator, PT Atosim Lampung Pelayaran, reported the incident to the Surabaya search and rescue office about an hour later, Ba- sarnas said. It said the company re- ceived information from the ferry’s captain that the vessel was on fire near the northern tip of Madura is- land, but contact was later lost. By 9.45am, authorities deter- mined the ferry was about 19 nau- tical miles north of Buruan Sapudi island after communicating with the nearby cargo vessel Meratus Project 3, which was unable to approach the burning vessel closely because it was carrying a flammable load. Footage released by Basarnas showed thick black smoke billowing from one side of the ferry (inset) and spreading across much of the ship. Videos circulating on social media showed terrified passengers, mostly wearing life jackets, clustered on the deck and upper sections of the vessel awaiting rescue, some jumping into the sea as flames and black smoke rose from the vessel. The ferry was report- ed to be nearly engulfed by flames, with passen- gers gathered on the bridge and bow. A tugboat and another passing vessel moved in and began evacuating passengers shortly before 10am. By yesterday afternoon, several nearby vessels managed to rescue 225 passengers and crew and recov- ered five bodies. At least 41 people remained unaccounted for. Indonesia is an archipelago of more than 17,000 islands where fer- ries are a common method of travel. Disasters occur regularly, with weak safety enforcement often blamed. AP UNITED STATES Trump attacks decision to drop pool damage charge By Aamer Madhani and Matthew Daly IN WASHINGTON President Donald Trump sharply criticised the US Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s assessment that damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was the result of shod- dy construction and not the work of vandals, as he claims. Pirro’s office, in a court filing on Fri- day, dropped criminal charges against a former Olympian, David Hearn, who had been accused of damaging the pool after it un- derwent a renovation ahead of the nation’s 250th birthday celebration last month. On social media Trump acknowl- edged that there “may have been some contractor difficulty” in the installation of a new pool liner. But he continued to insist “the major damage was caused by VANDALS!” “I disagree 100% with Jeanine Pirro,” Trump added in his post. The dismissal was an embarrass- ing setback for a Justice Depart- ment that had previously echoed Trump’s claims and billed the prose- cution as accountability for damage at a Washington landmark. Pirro’s (inset) decision to drop the case is also a rare moment during Trump’s second term of an aide or political appointee openly defying him. The President, with- out providing any clear new evidence, continued to allege on Saturday that the majority of the damage to the pool was caused by vandals. Government lawyers said that additional documents provided by the Interior Department show the damage was the result of a botched installation by a contractor as well as “the rush to complete the project prior to the America 250 celebration”. AP IRELAND US President’s trip to Europe centres on golf By Claudia Savage The US President, Donald Trump, is expected to visit Ireland for at least two days in September. The trip will include a visit to Co Clare, where he is expected to attend the Irish Open golf tournament at his course in Doonbeg. He is also expected to visit Dublin, but details have yet to be finalised. On his last visit to Ireland in 2023, Trump was warmly welcomed to Doonbeg, where locals waved American flags and some wore Maga caps. But his previous visit while he was in office in 2019 sparked protests from climate change, left-wing, pro-Palestinian, pro-choice, anti-racism and anti-war activists, who flew the Trump baby blimp in Dublin. PA By Sam McKeith IN SYDNEY Australia’s government mounted a defence of its world-first ban on social media for children under 16, even as fresh data showed the scale of the challenge confronting the landmark policy. The defence came a day after the nation’s internet regulator found that more than eight in 10 Australian children aged 10 to 15 were still using social media three months after the restrictions took effect, underscoring the difficulty of policing a digital world woven into daily life. Australia introduced the ban in December amid concerns about the impact of social media on the mental and physical health of children. The ban, being closely watched overseas, has drawn criticism from social media companies, mostly based in the US. Andrew Leigh, assistant minister for productivity, competition, charities and Treasury, argued that the ban had already reshaped the national debate. REUTERS AUSTRALIA Social media restrictions defended Raising a smile... Hot air balloons take off during the 7th International Cappadocia Balloon Festival in Goreme, a town in Turkey’s Nevsehir province CAGLA GURDOGAN/REUTERS
MONDAY 3 AUGUST 2026 PERU Plane crash near Nazca kills 13 people By Steven Grattan IN BOGOTA An aircraft carrying European tour- ists to view the famed Nazca lines crashed into a field on Saturday out- side the Peruvian city of Nazca, kill- ing 13 people, local authorities said. Nazca’s municipal government said the plane departed from the nearby city of Ica and was operated by Peruvian company Aerodiana. The Nazca lines are a group of geoglyphs scraped into the desert around Nazca hundreds of years ago by Peru’s Indigenous inhabitants. The lines form images of animals that can only be fully appreciated from planes or viewing towers. Among the dead were seven Ital- ian citizens, two Spaniards and two Germans. The other two fatalities were the pilot and co-pilot. AP By Rajendra Jadhav IN MUMBAI The Indian Prime Minister, Nar- endra Modi, said he wanted to forgive students who hurled ex- pletives at him during protests last month, saying that punishing them and forcing them to appear repeatedly in court would not help the situation. The biggest political crisis of Modi’s third term peaked in July after the leak of national exam papers forced a retest for two million students, fuelling anger over the lack of opportunities for young Indians. Authorities filed cases against hundreds of demonstrators after some clashed with security forces and shouted abusive slogans at Modi. “These are misled children. Showing them the right path is our duty. I want to forgive them,” Modi said. REUTERS INDIA Modi ‘forgives’ insults by protesters UNITED STATES Restaurant shooting leaves three dead By Rebecca Boone, Martha Bellisle and Sarah Raza IN IDAHO Three people were killed and seven others were injured, some critically, in a shooting at an In-N-Out Burger restaurant in southern Idaho, a Twin Falls city spokesman said. Police who responded to the shooting on Saturday afternoon found the body of the suspected gunman near the restaurant, Twin Falls city public information officer Josh Palmer said. He did not know if the suspect was included in the fatality count. Officials were still working on notifying the victims’ families so were not yet releasing the names, ages or other details about the people hurt in the shooting, Palmer said. Some of the people injured were in a critical condition, he added. AP By Eduardo Castillo IN BEIJING China conducted military drills near the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea over the weekend as territorial tensions with the Philippines intensify. The joint naval and air drills near the shoal, which is known as Huangyan island in China and Pa- natag shoal in the Philippines, test- ed the army’s ability to co-ordinate air and sea operations and provide rapid reinforcements, according to the state broadcaster CCTV. The drills came after Beijing criticised Manila’s attempts to ex- tend its seabed rights in the South China Sea, a vital global trade route with rich deposits of gas and oil that China claims almost in its entirety. Last week the Philippines pre- sented its bid to the United Nations to extent its seabed to include the disputed shoal. “The so-called territorial sea baselines of Huangyan Dao des- ignated by the Philippine side are illegal and invalid,” the People’s Lib- eration’s Army Southern Theatre Command said. China also released a set of rules for a nature reserve it established last year around Scarborough Shoal. The regulations ban unau- thorised fishing, mining and har- vesting of coral. Chinese coastguard frequently face off with Philippine sailors in the disputed waters. AP SOUTH CHINA SEA Beijing conducts drills in area disputed with Manila The Philippine coastguard on the South China Sea last week Postcard From... California Top dogs were riding waves over the weekend at the annual World Dog Surfing Championships as hundreds of spectators cheered – and barked – from a northern California beach. From small spaniels to large labs, the canines were judged on factors including how long they could stay on their boards, the size of the wave and their confidence. In its 10th year, the contest in Pacifica, about 14 miles south of San Francisco, included a pet adoption event and fundraising for local animal charities. The dogs, sporting their colourful life vests, stood ready on their surfboards and were assisted by human participants, who spotted the best wave to carry the board to the beach. Spectators erupted in applause and cheered with each successful ride. Sophia Sadlowski first put her miniature pinscher, Rusty, on her surfboard to capture fun photos when he was just a puppy. “And then… he didn’t want to get off,” said Sadlowski, of Huntington Beach, California. “I walk over to the beach, and I put him on a wave, and he surfed it.” Small, medium and large dogs competed in heats and then the highest-scoring animals in each heat faced off for the top prize. The day also included tandem contests, where multiple canines or dogs and humans, shared the surfboard. Rusty’s life jacket was green with an animal print and a shark fin sticking up from his back and his goggles gave the impression he was a fierce competitor for the small-dog and tandem dog competitions. Sadlowski said Rusty entered his first surfing competition when he was four months old. Both she and her pup had cancer but have now been given the all-clear. “He was four months old, and he took third place. “We’ve been surfing since,” Sadlowski said. “We got hooked.” Four-legged competitors ride the waves in Pacifica, California Liz Perkins NEWS 4-33 OPINION 18-22 TV 26-31 LIFE 34-37 CULTURE 38-41 MONEY 42-44 SPORT 47-56
A heated debate... why men fare better in warm weather Katie Strick has found daily life more difficult this summer, while her partner is unfazed. She finds out why I t’s 6am and I’m lying stuck to the sheets, brain foggy and trying to muster the energy to haul myself to the bath- room after another sleepless night, wondering how many more weeks it’ll be before fans come back in stock. There’s a half-defrosted water bottle lying in bed beside me – the latest 2am addition to what can only be described as a military heatwave operation involving electrolyte tab- lets, frozen flannels and multiple cold showers a day. I catch my face in the mirror, puffy after several weeks of little- to-no sleep and a much-reduced ex- ercise routine, while my boyfriend announces he’s off on a 10k run. He had three pints last night and it’s already 26°C outside, but he seems unperturbed. The other day, as my make-up slowly slid off my face on our way to a wedding, he told me he’d actually found the 35°C days quite pleasant. I arrived at the ceremony a sweaty mess, irritable and dizzy from the Tube journey, and joined a queue of fellow female guests re- arranging our strapless bras next to the air conditioning unit while our male partners went to the bar. I remember looking at them in their suits, chatting about work and the stag do, and wondering what it must be like to have ridden a mode of transport hotter than the legal limit for cattle and still look crisp. Are they living through the same heatwave as us? It turns out maybe not – and there’s a scientific explanation behind it, much to the relief of my girl groups, who’ve spent the last few weeks exchanging stories of our husbands and boyfriends going about their days as normal and sleeping under duvets while we panic-buy neck fans and melt into our seats. One friend says she’s booked a holiday in Greece just so she can lie in the air-con. Another has con- vinced her husband to spend their summer holiday in the Outer Heb- rides because she couldn’t face pay- ing to be somewhere even hotter. The explanation is partly to do with women’s hormone levels and partly our body’s response to heat. According to a 2025 study pub- lished in the journal Building and Environment, women produce less sweat and start sweating at a high- er temperature, meaning women can retain more heat before the body begins cooling itself efficiently. The same study found that women generally have a higher body fat percentage than men and, during parts of the menstrual cycle, a slightly higher core body tem- perature, providing an additional insulating layer – a frustrating bio- logical reality many women have probably cursed while pulling anti- chafing shorts under a dress. On top of that, the fluctuation of women’s hormones apparently puts our brain’s temperature regulation systems “out of kilter”, says NHS GP Dr Nighat Arif, who calls heat- waves a “stress-test” for women’s cardiovascular systems. In other words, if you think the heatwave is bad, try experiencing it in the days before your period, when rising progesterone pushes your body’s thermostat up. “After ovulation, our tempera- ture will go up by a few points of a degree,” says Dr Nikki Ramskill, a GP specialising in women’s health. This might not sound like much, but it affects your overall resilience. “If you’re naturally hotter any- way, anything that makes you feel hotter is going to disrupt that bal- ance. Things you might be able to tolerate normally – a cup of tea, eating something spicy – can sud- denly throw your temperature off because you’ve got less resilience.” It’s little wonder, then, that heat- waves hit women harder than men – and that’s for those who aren’t then also going through major hor- monal shifts such as pregnancy, the menopause or perimenopause. Painful hormonal conditions such as PMOS, endometriosis and adenomyosis, which I have, can lower women’s resilience to heatwaves, too. “All these conditions affect our ability to cope with things in gen- eral,” says Ramskill. “If we don’t sleep very well be- cause we’re in pain, that’s not going to make us feel good or cope well in the heat the next day.” Perhaps this explains why, while I Travel Solar eclipse The UK’s best places to watch next week’s rare celestial event Comment ‘Live at the Apollo’ Why the comedy show is finally bowing out, by our Chief Culture Writer Lifestyle Katie Strick with her boyfriend; she says the UK heatwaves have ruined her sleep, but that her boyfriend found the 35°C days ‘quite pleasant’
MONDAY 3 AUGUST 2026 was debating whether I could face walking to the gym for a gentle weights session, my boyfriend was logging another long outdoor run. Modern life doesn’t help in heatwaves, either, says Geraldine Joaquim, a wellness coach special- ising in women’s health. “These days we live in a con- stant state of chronic stress, giv- ing us this drip-feed of cortisol. That’s going to raise our tempera- ture as well because everything’s having to work harder,” she says. Stress levels vary by individual but for many women there can be added contributors: first, the stress of having to plan for and adapt to a 28-day cycle and an ever-changing body. “Whether you’re not wanting babies, wanting babies, whether you’re post having babies – women have to be a lot more aware of our bodies than men,” says Joaquim. Then there is the societal pres- sure for women to stay quiet about their bodies. “That old adage that men sweat and horses sweat but ladies per- spire; that women should just glow through life – it all adds to a feeling that women should be em- barrassed if they’re red or sweat- ing. Embarrassment is a type of stress, too,” she adds. Is there a way around the whole thing, then? Unfortunately, there is no silver bullet or one-size-fits- all solution, says Ramskill. Stand- ard short-term cooling hacks can help – keeping a cloth in the freez- er; investing in bedding designed for cooling; taking a frozen water bottle to bed. Joaquim tells all her clients the most dangerous word is “should”. Heatwave fashion advice is all very well, but what, for you, ac- tually feels good on your body in the heat? And should you really go on that run on a 35°C day just because your male partner smashed out a 10k before work this morning? Not if that run will only be add- ing to an already-stressed body. “You’re not going to lose your fitness overnight. Instead of going for a run, bring it indoors and do some yoga or weight work.” More important than any of this advice, however, is to keep talking about it. “Hearing other people’s stories is very validating, and talking about it – ideally in a light-heart- ed way – relieves a little bit of that stress.” In other words, next time your boyfriend announces he’s actually quite enjoying this weather, resist the urge to lob your frozen water bottle at him and laugh about it. And keep sending those neck fan memes to your girl friends on WhatsApp. It might just help to cool you down. Flake expectations: bargain croissants are up there with supermarkets’ best Sophie Morris searches aisles for fine examples of the easy yet decadent morning classic A croissant and a coffee is one of my all-time favourite breakfasts. It’s not an on-the-go meal for me: I like to sit down with it, partly as a mark of reverence to such a delicious pastry, but mostly as I expect to shower myself in buttery flakes. Croissants are said to have originated in Austria. They’re the ideal instant meal, a breakfast that is low on prep and high on delight. When people talk about food like croissants as full of “empty” cal- ories or void of nutrition, I worry about them. It is true that they tend to be high in fat (they’re full of butter) but this is why they taste so good. As brilliant as going to a boutique bakery would be every morning, it’s not practical. Instead, I’m trying out super- market premium ranges of packaged croissants. They’re all made with butter, usually 25 per cent but up to 29 per cent in Sainsbury’s and M&S and 33 per cent in Waitrose versions. They cost from 50p to £1 each and come in packs of two or four, typically with shelf lives of up to three or four days. I blind-tested them together. While I wasn’t at all surprised by the winner – Waitrose, whose croissants are twice the price of the rest – the runner-up defi- nitely wasn’t the name I was expecting. M&S 4 All Butter Croissants £2/50p each This one looks more oblong than crois- sant-shaped, with both its sides a little squidged. No matter, as I’m a fan of cigar- shaped croissants. It’s nicely browned on the outside if not especially flaky, with some whorls of lamination inside. It’s a bit too squidgy and while there’s some light butteriness at the end, overall the buttery taste is too subtle for me. 3/5 Tesco Finest 4 All Butter Croissants £2.50/62p each Almost a too perfect croissant shape but nicely brown with a few flakes fluttering on the surface. Inside, I find a spiral of fluffy layers but this croissant is low on flavour and quite squidgy. 2/5 Sainsbury’s Taste the Difference 4 Butter Croissants £2.40/£2 (Nectar price)/60p each These croissants are a somewhat darker brown than most and the oth- ers look golden beside them. The layers inside are mostly squidged together, but they’re there. I get very little in terms of flavour. 2/5 Waitrose No 1, 2 Butter Croissants £2 (usually £2.50)/£1 each These stand out on looks alone, fair and golden with loads of flakiness on the outside. They look and smell more like something I’d find in a bakery but they are the only premium supermarket selling them in packs of just two, which makes them almost twice the price of the others. The layers melt in the mouth rather than turn fluffy, and there’s a but- tery flavour approaching richness. Very impressive. 4.5/5 Morrisons The Best 4 All Butter Croissants £2.50/63p each These croissants are a deep brown col- our with some flakes on the outside and taste a little dry. Inside, I can see some lamination, but the layers have clumped together. Very light on flavour. 2.5/5 Aldi Specially Selected All Butter Croissants £2.09/52p each Deep brown and satisfyingly flaky on the outside, while these smell pretty good, too. They tear into flaky pieces rather than spongy chunks and the flavour is both light and buttery. 4/5 Asda Exceptional 4 All Butter Croissants £2.38/60p each Appearance-wise, these are more of a long fat cigar than a croissant, which I don’t mind as I’ve always been a fan of a straight pastry. There are a few appeal- ing flakes on the outside but it’s fairly dense to pull apart. The layers are there on the inside, but they are fairly dense, too. There is some light buttery flavour at the end. 2/5 TASTE TEST Women usually have to be much more aware of their bodies than men According to a 2025 study, women produce less sweat and start sweating at a higher temperature, meaning they can retain more heat before the body begins cooling itself efficiently GETTY NEWS 4-33 OPINION 18-22 TV 26-31 LIFE 34-37 CULTURE 38-41 MONEY 42-44 SPORT 47-56 Aldi’s Specially Selected croissants (left) were flaky, light and buttery; the Tesco Finest option was too spongy for Sophie’s liking
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MONDAY 3 AUGUST 2026 Megan Eaves undertakes a different sort of sun-seeking, as the skies provide a rare show next week O n 12 August, a solar eclipse will occur over western Europe. Although the UK sits just outside the full path of totality, many parts of the country will experience between 89 per cent and 96 per cent cover- age of the Sun. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves between the Earth and the Sun, casting a shadow across a portion of the Earth’s surface and obscuring the Sun’s light for a few minutes. The next total solar eclipse over the UK will not happen until 23 September 2090, so Scotland’s Astronomer Royal, Catherine Heymans, recommends watch- ing this year’s event. “To experi- ence celestial motion in real-time, witnessing the rare brief moment when you, the Moon and the Sun, are all in perfect alignment, feels just magical,” she says. This year’s eclipse will start around 6.15pm and end a little after 8pm. You’ll need to be ei- ther up high or on a shoreline with an open view of the low western horizon. The excitement doesn’t end at sunset. This year’s eclipse occurs during the peak of the Perseid meteor shower, the best chance to see shooting stars after dark. HOW TO WATCH SAFELY Never look directly at the Sun, even when it is partially or totally eclipsed, as you risk permanently damaging your eyes. Normal sunglasses do not provide pro- tection; you need ISO-rated eclipse glasses purchased from a trusted source. According to Neill Sanders of UKeclipse.com, safe eclipse glasses should comply with the international safety standard ISO 12312-2. “This standard specifies the requirements for filters intended for direct observation of the Sun. Glasses that meet this standard reduce sunlight to safe levels and block harmful ultraviolet and infrared radiation. Reputable manufacturers test their prod- ucts to ensure they meet these strict requirements before they reach consumers.” Trusted UK sources for the purchase of eclipse glasses in- clude the Royal Observatory (shop.rmg.co.uk), First Light Optics (firstlightoptics.com) and Sollunae (sollunae.com). Alternatively, you can make a pinhole camera using a piece of card with a hole poked in it to cast a shadow of the eclipse on the ground. Robert Massey, deputy executive di- rector of the Royal As- tronomical Society, says that you may experience strange effects, as the UK is fairly close to the eclipse’s centre line. “You will see the quality of shadows changing, for example, so if you hold up your hand, you might see that the ends of your fingers have these weird little In the evening there is stargazing and Perseid meteor-spotting The best places to watch this year’s solar eclipse crescents hanging off them. The light can also take on a weird purple hue.” WHERE TO GET CLOSEST TO TOTALITY An eclipse appears slightly dif- ferently depending on where you view it because the Earth is round and the Moon’s shadow moves across it. So, exact tim- ings differ depending on your location. You can calculate them on timeanddate.com. The highest cover- age will occur on the Isles of Scilly, while mainland Cornwall and the south-west of England will see up to 95 per cent coverage – the closest you’ll get in the UK to the path of totality. Any coastline with a view to the west will offer a suitable viewpoint. VIEWING FROM LONDON London will experience around 91 per cent coverage, but buildings could be a significant barrier, since the Sun will be low. For the best view, find a hill- top or building with a view to the west, such as Blackheath, Hampton Court Palace or Prim- rose Hill. Gotford’s Hill in Fryent Country Park, in the borough of Brent, and Blythe Hill in the bor- ough of Lewisham, also have high vantage points. You could try watching from a Thames bridge, or a rooftop venue. SW London Astronomers will be hosting a viewing event on Tooting Common with solar telescopes and eclipse glasses. Loughton Astronomical Society will host a free event at the Bury Road Car Park near Chingford. Gyllyngvase Beach in Falmouth is a good spot to see the eclipse GETTY EVENTS AROUND THE UK Many observatories, astronomy clubs and venues across the UK are holding special events. Below are a few highlights; check out ukeclipse.com for a more exhaustive list. LEICESTER The National Space Centre is hosting an event with safe eclipse viewing, a planetarium show, live astronomy and family activities. HAMPSHIRE Fordingbridge Astronomers is holding a free event on Fording- bridge Recreation Grounds (93 per cent eclipse coverage) fol- lowed by a “Perseid Picnic” after dark to view the meteor shower. NORTHUMBERLAND Battlesteads Observatory is hold- ing a special viewing event to wit- ness 90-92 per cent coverage. In the evening there will be stargaz- ing and Perseid meteor-spotting. SOMERSET Bossington Hall near Portlock has a bed, breakfast and eclipse- viewing package, with a glass of bubbly and eclipse glasses, plus meteor-spotting. CORNWALL As part of the Falmouth Week fes- tival, the Royal Navy Parachute Display Team, the Flying Com- rades and the AeroSuperBatics Wingwalkers will be putting on an air display from 6.15pm as the eclipse takes place overhead. Coverage will be 95 per cent, with vantage points in Falmouth including Pendennis Castle, Gyllyngvase Beach and the lawns of The Falmouth Hotel. EDINBURGH The Astronomical Society of Edinburgh will host an eclipse viewing party on Calton Hill at the old City Observatory (91 per cent coverage). GLAMORGAN Bridgend Astronomical Soci- ety will host a free event at Rest Bay in Porthcawl, with a chance to talk to astronomers and see the eclipse at about 93 per cent coverage. ARMAGH Armagh Observatory and Plan- etarium is holding an Eclipse Family Fun Day, as well as eclipse- viewing from the Astropark – a scale model of the universe in the grounds – with about 94 per cent eclipse coverage. LOOKING AHEAD If this eclipse gets you hooked, you can experience another as soon as next summer – but fur- ther afield. Taking place on 2 August 2027, it will be the 21st century’s longest land-based total solar eclipse, lasting up to six minutes and 23 seconds near Luxor, Egypt. Also in the path of totality are parts of Algeria, Gi- braltar, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and Tunisia. New Scientist offers eclipse- themed trips; a 12-day Morocco tour, with expert-led eclipse viewing in a remote part of the Rif Mountains, starts at £5,499pp, departing 30 July 2027. NEWS 4-33 OPINION 18-22 TV 26-31 LIFE 34-37 CULTURE 38-41 MONEY 42-44 SPORT 47-56 Travel Travel
Take a seat on the style train Enid Marx was among the designers tasked with creating patterns for the Tube. Florence Hallett explores her iconic work and lasting legacy I t will come as a surprise to no one that hiding dirt well is a long-standing non-negotiable for designers of London Un- derground seat coverings. You might even wonder why the capital has so stubbornly resisted the wipe- clean seats favoured in other cities. The answer is at least in part to be found at Compton Verney, Warwick- shire, host to an exhibition on Enid Marx – the artist-designer whose distinctive Underground seat fab- rics from the 1930s and 1940s put London Transport on track as an unlikely beacon of British style. Marx was already a designer of some standing when in 1936, she came to the attention of Chris- tian Barman, publicity officer for the London Passenger Transport Board and “the interior designer of the trains”, as Marx put it. Barman operated under the leadership of the inimitable Frank Pick, who oversaw the creation of London Transport in 1933, which transformed the capital’s disparate public transport services into a single entity. Pick was responsible for all aspects of its identity: he commissioned the John- ston typeface still used today, the celebrated posters of the 1920s, the London Underground roundel and Harry Beck’s famous Tube map. “Moquette” – the hard-wearing, carpet-like fabric that continues to be used on bus and Tube seats to this day – was already in use on public transport in the 1920s. For Barman, like Pick, design was integral to the creation of a modern transport network serving one of the world’s great capitals, and he set about commissioning a stable of notable artist-designers to produce bespoke seat coverings. Among them was Enid Marx, already known for her block-printed dress and up- holstery fabrics that drew on Brit- ish craft traditions as readily as on sources from across the Empire. As a student at the Royal College of Art between 1922 and 1925, Marx belonged to an exceptional and era- defining cohort of artists, including Eric Ravilious, Edward Bawden, John Piper and Henry Moore. Barman had to be exacting in his requirements and asked designers to avoid what Marx called “dazzle”, a strobing effect that could cause motion sickness. The prevalence of geometric patterns may in part be down to their more restful effect on the eye, and colours were carefully considered, with green a favourite because of its calming properties. Red was understood to be energis- ing, the combination of the two offer- ing a stabilising balance. Colour choice was also affected by the moquette itself, which because it has a pile can make areas of colour look quite different. Lighting was also a consideration, and Marx re- called how in the 1930s the prevail- ing wisdom was that “lighting on the underground trains should be pink so that the ladies looked their best”. In total, four of Marx’s designs were used on the Underground, the first of which was the free-flowing Shield, installed on the Bakerloo and Northern lines between 1938 and 1948. Its contrasting but restricted colours give “Shield” a tight, graphic look, but it is actually one of her more organic designs and follows on from her earlier fabric patterns which in- corporate repeated abstract motifs. In addition to the British Mu- seum’s ethnographic collections, where she found examples of de- signs from Nigeria, Ghana and the Middle East, Marx looked to the ex- amples of arts and crafts practised closer to home. The remaining three designs all conform to a grid pattern, from the muted but boldly graphic Bel- size, used on the Metropolitan and District lines from 1940, to the square and diamond composition of Brent, introduced at about the same time. One of Marx’s most important in- novations was to establish that bold, not muted colours were most effec- tive at disguising dirt and designs including Shield were often manu- Main: Enid Marx at work; above right, a sketch and a moquette sample of the Shield design; right, the exhibition THE ESTATE OF ENID MARX; LONDON TRANSPORT MUSEUM COLLECTION Clockwise from top left: 1996 Jubilee line stock; Bakerloo line; 1992 Central line; current Central line; Circle, Metropolitan, District and Hammersmith & City lines; Elizabeth line TFL factured in more than one colour scheme, including red and green. Accustomed as she was to small- scale, hand-made manufacture, the transition to factory produc- tion wasn’t easy, and she found that some of her designs suffered in the process. Chevron, another grid design used on the Piccadilly and Central lines after the war, did not respond well to a colour change, which was found to produce the dreaded “dazzle”. Overall though, Barman valued Marx’s abstract patterns as natu- rally adaptable, so that “the same Culture Quote of the day I had a message from my foster mother saying, ‘You are good, but Anne Hathaway? She is amazing’ Samantha Morton ‘The Odyssey’ actress on praise for her co-star – and not being a ‘bighead’
MONDAY 3 AUGUST 2026 Jazz Sessions Volume 3: The Truth The James Taylor Trio This marks the 40th anniversary of acid jazz star James Taylor’s as a solo artist. After The Prisoners, the cult band he was a member of, split in 1986, later that year he recorded his first single as the James Taylor Quartet – a take on Herbie Hancock’s Blow Up. The material includes takes on Vince Guaraldi’s ‘Lucy & Linus’ and ‘Thus Sprach Zarathustra’ as well as the inspirational vocal title track, and the cosmic jazz of ‘Aref’s Space’. Acid Jazz Who Asked? Domi & JD Beck The long-awaited second album from the French-born Domi Louna and Texas native JD Beck. Following two Grammy nominations, including Best New Artist for the jazz duo’s debut album (2022’s Not Tight), Who Asked? is a change in direction. Bringing together a small sinfonietta of seasoned classical players, showcasing the duo’s incredibly singular, super maximalist, and strikingly beautiful orchestral vision. Blue Note design may become a chair cover or, mounted and framed, a single piece for the private collector”. The red and green woven seat of a Shaker chair from her collection is included in the exhibition to show how it might have inspired Marx’s moquette designs, which were al- most exclusively abstract, since, she said, floral designs were inappropri- ately domestic for the Tube. Another more surprising Barman recruit was Paul Nash, better known as a landscape painter, surrealist and war artist. He was also Marx’s tutor at the RCA, and a significant Visual art Pre-war artists celebrate the South Downs Ancient Landscape, Modern Times is an exhibition that brings together works by Eric Ravilious, William Nicholson, Paul Nash, John Nash, Tirzah Garwood, Peggy Angus and other British artists from the 1910s to the 1940s. Through paintings, drawings and archival material, the exhibition at Bath’s Holburne Museum reveals how the South Downs inspired a generation of artists seeking to reinvent landscape painting for the modern age. It runs from 3 October to 10 January 2027. holburne.org/whats-on Teddy Swims, The Ugly Tour Touring, April 2027 Teddy Swims has confirmed he will play several shows in the UK in 2027. The Grammy-nominated artist with his rich and soulful vocals will play the Utilita Arena, Birmingham, on 4 April; OVO Hydro Glasgow, 13 April; Co-op Live, Manchester, 16 April; and The O2, London, on 21 April. metropolismusic.com Book now Corgi: 70 Years of Memories Coventry Transport Museum, Friday, 7 August Corgi, the iconic die-cast model maker, is celebrating its 70th anniversary with a special one-day showcase which brings together iconic toys spanning seven decades featuring models that defined their eras. corgi.co.uk Last chance Albums of the week… Jazz / soul Lucky Apple+ Anya Taylor-Joy gives a compelling performance in this unpredictable and propulsive crime drama. It starts as a simple on-the-run story before giving way to an engaging coming-of-age tale. Channel hopping The Culture Matrix The arts at a glance culture.matrix@theipaper.com I’ll Be Seeing You Pitlochry Festival Theatre, 22 September to 11 October Alan Cumming’s inaugural season as artistic director will stage the world première of I’ll Be Seeing You, Martin Sherman’s new play about the life of Liberace starring Simon Russell Beale. pitlochryfestivaltheatre.com On stage ERIC RAVILIOUS, ‘THE WESTBURY HORSE’, 1939. ON LONG LOAN TO THE TOWNER COLLECTION. IMAGE: TOWNER EASTBOURNE influence on her. Nash’s Alperton moquette, designed in 1936, is a dis- tinctive and stylish grid pattern in brown, green and beige that follows the orthodox wisdom that dirty col- ours disguise dirt. Marx’s preference for bright col- ours endured over the subsequent 90 years, while reflecting the broad- er trends of the time – the orange, brown and yellow chequerboard pattern that debuted on the District line in around 1980 channels low-key psychedelia, the perfect backdrop to brown polyester flares. Similarly, the primary colours of the Art Deco moquette introduced an up-to-date 1990s flavour to a de- sign rooted in the 1930s. One of the most daring designs is Jack Thomp- son and Richard Eatough’s red and green Fossil moquette from 1954, which echoes the big pictorial prints that were in vogue at that time. Stripes and squares have proved the most enduring design elements and are the foundation of the Eliza- beth line moquette unveiled in 2022. Created by design firm Wallace Sewell, the purple colour scheme is a tribute to the late Queen, with a nod to the pinstripe suits of the City. Despite the many practical con- siderations, designers have always found ways to be innovative while maintaining a sense of continuity with the past. In the 1990s, London Underground introduced moquette specific to each line, creating iden- tities that have been preserved to some extent on today’s Tube, though mainly through colour coding. Today, moquette retains an im- portant place in London’s cultural landscape, the list of its designers a reminder of how public commis- sions can foster world-class crea- tive work. For now, moquette is a London staple – if an innovative mind can find a way to make it more hygienic, it might stay that way. ‘The Pattern of Life: Enid Marx and Modern British Design’ is at Compton Verney until 3 January NEWS 4-33 OPINION 18-22 TV 26-31 LIFE 34-37 CULTURE 38-41 MONEY 42-44 SPORT 47-56
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MONDAY 3 AUGUST 2026 Sarah Carson COMMENT L ast week, the comedians Joanne McNally and Grace Campbell posted a video of themselves hungover on a balcony in Ibiza, watching YouTube clips of Katherine Ryan on Live at the Apollo on an iPhone. It was only an Instagram story but it felt like a mix of comedy worlds. McNally and Campbell have broken out at a time when podcasting, short-form video, Taskmaster and social media have replaced Live at the Apollo as the ticket to stand-up stardom. Ryan, who laid the path for them 15 years earlier, probably wouldn’t have a career without it. Last week, the BBC announced that it is scrapping Live at the Apollo after 22 years. The revived Blankety Blank and Celebrity Mastermind are also among the first casualties, but it is Live at the Apollo’s putting out to pasture that for many people is a sign of cultural decline and the BBC’s waning commitment to comedy – one of its greatest exports. On principle, I agree. For a nostalgic millennial like me, the loss of an institution like Live at the Apollo – that introduced the public to Romesh Ranganathan, Kevin Bridges, Michael McIntyre, Jason Manford and Aisling Bea – ought to feel devastating. In practice, though, I haven’t properly watched the show in at least 10 years and it long ago lost its trusted status as the pre-eminent showcase of comedy talent. This is not really the end of an era. Live at the Apollo’s era ended a while ago. The show was an essential rite of passage for a stand-up in the UK. An appearance was a stamp of approval, proof that a talent was on their way to bigger things. Its peak audience in 2009 was 6.29 million viewers – it offered exposure that you could get nowhere else, and it was a test: how much of an impact can you make in a 10-minute routine? Originally hosted by Jack Dee before switching to guest comperes, its household names seemed to endorse the rising stars they performed alongside. But the comedy industry started to change and the “mixed bill in your living room” format began to feel outdated. Then there was the competition. Taskmaster, in which comedians compete in a range of silly and imaginative challenges, became a runaway hit and gave its stars new, and weirder, ways to show off their funny sides, over a longer period. It replaced Live at the Apollo as the primary entry point for new talent and became – and remains – comedy’s best booking. Podcasting exploded, too, hijacked by comedians as a way to build a consistent, loyal, deeply connected fan base. Josh Widdicombe, Rob Beckett, Cariad Lloyd, Sara Pascoe, Joe Lycett, Chris and Rosie Ramsey, Ranganathan – comedians that might once have needed Live at the Apollo can DIY it now. Then there is the disruption of the short-form video medium, which allowed comics to develop content, personal brands on their own, skipping Live at the Apollo altogether. Is this a tragedy, or is this just the BBC making good on its promise to meet its audience “where they are”? The BBC has said it will shortly announce “digital plans focused on stand-up and emerging comedy talent” – which is encouraging, although it is hard to imagine any new scheme can ever recreate Live at the Apollo at its peak. The BBC has to save money and that has meant making “tough choices”. But we should be relieved that these entertainment losses feel less like a betrayal and more like moving with the times. Live at the Apollo has lost its power, but not its legacy. Look across the BBC, turn on the radio, or stick on a podcast and you will find its alumni – and the generation, like McNally and Campbell, it still inspires – and proof that it didn’t just change comedy, but it changed British broadcasting for ever. It was time for curtain to fall on ‘Live at the Apollo’ Michael McIntyre got his big break on ‘Live at the Apollo’ at its peak BBC ‘Taskmaster’ replaced it as the primary place for new talent NEWS 4-33 OPINION 18-22 TV 26-31 LIFE 34-37 CULTURE 38-41 MONEY 42-44 SPORT 47-56 Culture
It’s thinking big. And thinking big isn’t necessarily physically big – it’s thinking big in terms of social generosity, in terms of public spaces and streets Lord Norman Foster The architect on how to revive the UK’s pomp with ‘long-termist’ thinking Quote of the day ENERGY Portsmouth ferries begin using clean electricity By Neil Lancefield Ferries will belatedly start using taxpayer-funded net zero infrastruc- ture at one of the UK’s busiest ports from today. Brittany Ferries announced it will plug in its ships to an electricity sup- ply while docking at Portsmouth In- ternational Port, despite this costing more than burning marine fuel. This follows “months of negotia- tion” to strike a deal with the port over financial terms, the operator said, as it urged the Government to incentivise the additional expense. The shore power system was built to enable ferries and cruise ships to switch off their engines and plug into electricity when berthed, to cut car- bon emissions and boost air quality. The port completed its work on the project late last year but no vessels have been using the infrastructure, because electricity is several times more expensive than marine fuel and completing the connection to the grid was delayed. Brittany Ferries’ two hybrid ships will plug in from today, starting with Guillaume de Normandie ahead of its 8am departure. The deal to use shore power lasts for at least the next 12 months. Christophe Mathieu, chief execu- tive of Brittany Ferries, said: “We can now realise the full potential of the greenest vessels on the Channel.” The Sea Change project to enable ships to plug in at the port was fund- ed by £19.8m from the Department for Transport in September 2023, and £4.6m from Portsmouth City Council, which owns the port. business@theipaper.com @theipaper By Holly Williams Britain’s economy could be sent into a recession next year if the crucial Strait of Hormuz remains closed into 2027 amid a prolonged Iran war, ac- cording to a report. The latest EY economic outlook warned that gross domestic product (GDP) could slow sharply to 0.5 per cent this year and contract by 0.2 per cent next year if the Middle East conflict is not resolved and the vital waterway – through which a fifth of the world’s oil and gas is normally carried – remains shut until early or mid-2027. This adverse scenario could lead to inflation reaching 6.4 per cent by the end of 2026 due to surging oil and energy prices, the report cautioned. But if the Strait of Hormuz reopens by the end of the third quarter of this year, EY’s base case forecast suggests growth will remain fairly resilient, with EY upgrading its outlook to 0.9 per cent expansion in 2026 and main- taining its prediction for 1.2 per cent growth in 2027. It had previously pencilled in growth of 0.8 per cent in 2026. The report also predicts interest rates remaining at 3.75 per cent for the rest of 2026 and then being cut twice in April and July next year, end- ing 2027 at 3.25 per cent. It follows the Bank of England’s lat- est rates decision last week, in which it voted for a hold at 3.75 per cent but signalled it stands ready to hike rates if the Iran war continues for many months and sends inflation rocketing. The Bank suggested that Con- sumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation – which was recorded at 2.6 per cent in June – is likely to peak around 3.2 per cent later this year, before stead- ily easing back towards the Bank’s 2 per cent inflation target. Household spending is also set to remain subdued as consumers face higher prices and delayed interest rate cuts, with consumer spending expected to grow by 0.3 per cent in 2026 before improving to 0.9 per cent in 2027. Companies are feeling the pres- sure. Next, often regarded as a bell- wether for the UK high street, has warned it is facing rising costs. In last month’s trading update, Next said it was facing an estimated cost hit of £47m from the Iran war, up from the £15m guidance given in March. The company will share the latest figures when it publishes its half-year financial results on Wednesday. Since May, the US’s interim cease- fire deal with Iran has crumbled with a re-escalation of military strikes in the Middle East. ECONOMY UK faces recession risk in 2027 if Iran war continues Around a fifth of the world’s oil used to travel through the Strait of Hormuz Yesterday Opec+ approved an oil production quota increase of around 188,000 barrels per day from September, the producer group said, in a decision that completes the unwinding of a layer of voluntary output cuts. Inside John Lewis’s new sports and wellbeing department at its Oxford Street store in London JOHN LEWIS/PA RETAIL John Lewis flexes muscles with fitness push By Henry Saker-Clarke John Lewis is hoping to capitalise on the fitness boom among shoppers by relaunching its sports and wellbeing range. Managing director Peter Ruis said the relaunch was an “important step” in its major store investment plan. The retailer, part of the John Lewis Partnership group, said the sports and wellbeing departments would make it the first UK retailer to bring sportswear, footwear, wearable technology, recovery, AI-powered fitness and expert services together in one location. The development will help the retailer take on major players in sportswear, such as Sports Direct, as well as technology specialists. The multimillion-pound investment has already transformed the sports department in its Oxford Street store in London. It will also fund similar redevelopments in Liverpool and Cheadle, as well as a new department in its Glasgow shop. The departments will be up to around 5,000sq ft and have been designed so shoppers can move easily between clothing, footwear, technology, home fitness and recovery. The concept will include sports brands including Nike, Brooks and Patagonia alongside wearable technology from Garmin, Oura and Whoop, recovery products from Therabody and premium home fitness equipment from Peloton and NordicTrack. The investment is part of an £800m cash injection from John Lewis into its 36 stores. Money& Business
MONDAY 3 AUGUST 2026 CONSUMER Bridesmaids turn to Vinted as costs mount up Searches for second-hand bridesmaid dresses are up 17 per cent year on year as women baulk at the cost of performing the honour, figures from the internet resale platform Vinted suggest. Almost a quarter of women who have been a bridesmaid (24 per cent) 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 for the online marketplace found. Almost six in 10 women who had already been a bridesmaid (59 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. More than one in three (36 per cent) paid for their own bridesmaid dress or outfit, rising to almost half (46 per cent) of women aged 25 to 34 – and more than half (52 per cent) of those in London. Among former bridesmaids who have not worn their dress again, the biggest reason was simply not having another occasion to wear it (42 per cent), while one in four (25 per cent) said the dress felt too recognisable from the wedding itself. Nearly two-thirds (63 per cent) of women who have been bridesmaids say they would feel comfortable wearing a bridesmaid dress that had already been worn, rising to 70 per cent among women aged 25 to 34. More than one in three (34 per cent) of women who have attended a wedding have already worn a second-hand outfit to the event, with saving money (69 per cent), avoiding buying something they will only wear once (38 per cent) and finding better quality pieces for less (35 per cent) among the biggest reasons. And 80 per cent of women agreed it was “perfectly acceptable” to resell a bridesmaid dress after the wedding. Formal dresses are listed on Vinted for an average £11, with the most searched-for bridesmaid dress colours being green, pink and blue. Think BF surveyed 2,000 UK women in July 2026. Josie Clarke Women turned to second-hand outfits to cut wedding day costs I grew up in Luton and life was always challenging for us financially. My dad worked as a taxi driver and my mum was unemployed. At school, we were eligible for free school meals because my parents were always on a strict budget and we were careful about everyday costs, like turning off lights when not in use and wearing jumpers instead of putting the heating on. Growing up in a low-income household showed me how stressful financial insecurity can be and how many opportunities can be limited by a lack of resources. While studying for a degree in human sciences at the University of Exeter, I always had a job. I worked at McDonald’s, did catering jobs and took on student ambassador roles. The jobs paid about £11 to £13 an hour. Before starting university, I also worked at Greggs and on night shifts at a DPD warehouse. At university, I was eligible for the maximum maintenance and tuition fee loans due to my family’s income. My student loan balance is around £65,000. This does not concern me as I understand how the student loan system works. I have no intention of making additional repayments beyond those required through salary deduction. I secured several scholarships and bursaries during my time at university. These included a £9,000 scholarship from the University of Exeter, a £5,000 bursary from The Sutton Trust in partnership with JP Morgan, and an Access to Exeter bursary worth £2,200 per year from the University of Exeter. I was frugal at university and tracked my spending down to the last penny. I kept a monthly net worth spreadsheet which I updated religiously. Watching my net worth grow became a major source of inspiration. I’d walk rather than get the bus and sometimes even skipped meals to keep my spending to a minimum. I realised that every pound I didn’t spend was another pound I could invest. At university, I spent my evenings researching wealth creation, investing, businesses and financial markets. I looked at charts for stocks like Tesla and assets like bitcoin and wondered what could have happened had I recognised their potential years earlier. I started investing while at university to ensure the financial struggles my family experienced when I was growing up wouldn’t continue for the rest of my life. That motivated me to sacrifice short-term impulse purchases and instead invest for the future, with the hope of being able to spend with fewer limitations later in life. After leaving university last year, I joined a global asset management firm as a graduate analyst, earning about £3,300 a month. I have since moved into the charity sector, where I now earn £2,500 a month in a role better aligned with my interests in social mobility and improving access to higher education and top careers. Today, purpose and impact matter more to me than maximising my salary. Most of my investments are in a Trading 212 stocks and shares ISA and a standard investment account. I’ve invested about £60,000 of my own money to date. I’ve also earned about £1,000 by referring people to platforms. I also have investments via Robinhood, Coinbase, InvestEngine, eToro and AJ Bell. My portfolio is highly concentrated, with around 93 per cent invested in Rocket Lab and 6 per cent in Palantir as of July 2026. I was drawn to Rocket Lab as I wanted to go after a stock that felt undervalued but had real potential. As Rocket Lab’s share price rose sharply past $100 (£75), my portfolio increased by around £110,000 in a single day. During my strongest week, it gained approximately £210,000. Because my portfolio is highly concentrated, however, its value can also fluctuate quite dramatically. My net worth fluctuates significantly with market conditions and is typically between £650,000 and £800,000. However, shares in Rocket Lab have fallen sharply in recent weeks, moving my net worth closer to £300,000. I am not concerned about the fluctuations as I am investing for the long term. My most successful investment to date has been Rocket Lab, which at its peak delivered a return of 3,465 per cent. I am fully aware that this style of concentrated investing involves substantial risk, and it is not an approach I would want to take later in life. I recognise that pensions are important, but my focus at this stage of life is on other investments. My goal is financial independence rather than retiring as early as possible. I don’t believe the state pension alone would provide the standard of living I would want. I want to use my investments to best support my family, create opportunities for others and help more young people from disadvantaged backgrounds realise that their circumstances don’t have to define their future. HOW I MANAGE MY MONEY ‘I realised every pound I didn’t spend was one I could invest’ In our How I Manage My Money series, we aim to find out how people in the UK are spending, saving and investing money to meet their costs and achieve their goals. This week, we speak to ZACK ISLAM, a 22-year-old graduate who lives with his parents and three younger sisters in Luton, Bedfordshire. Zack, who recently moved into the charity sector after beginning his career in asset management, began investing while at university. Zack Islam, 22, is focused on saving for the long term to best support his family and create opportunities for others The amount Zack Islam’s portfolio rose by in a single day owing to Rocket Lab’s sharp rise in share price £110,000 I recognise that pensions are important, but my focus at this stage of life is on other investments I recently switched from a £40,000 graduate analyst role in asset management to a £30,000 role in the charity sector as a programme co-ordinator, which more closely reflects my passions. While this represents a salary reduction, my investments have given me the financial security to prioritise meaningful work over earning the highest possible income. Before deductions, my pay is around £2,500 a month. My monthly outgoings: I live with my parents, enabling me to keep my expenses to an absolute minimum. Previously, I’d give my parents about £200 to £1,000 a month to help with their mortgage and household bills. My regular monthly expenses now include: public transport, around £200; eating out, between £30 and £300 depending on the month; gym, £25; and mobile phone, £10. The majority of my day-to-day spending is made on a credit card, which I pay off in full at the end of each month. For one-off treats, holidays, larger purchases or gifts, I would usually fund these by realising some of my investment gains. Monthly ‘Living with my parents keeps my costs low’ As told to Jane Denton Want to take part in How I Manage My Money? Email money@theipaper.com NEWS 4-33 OPINION 18-22 TV 26-31 LIFE 34-37 CULTURE 38-41 MONEY 42-44 SPORT 47-56
BUSINESS The Business Matrix The day at a glance AstraZeneca holds talks on megadeal The UK-based drugs company AstraZeneca has been in discussions with US rival Bristol Myers Squibb about a merger that would create a pharmaceutical group worth almost $400bn (£297bn). The FT reports that the firms have been in talks over the past few months – if the deal were to go ahead, it would be one of the largest mergers in history. PHARMA City trading is underestimated Share trading in London is three times larger in value than previously thought, according to new analysis from the Financial Conduct Authority, which could provide a much- needed boost to the City. The City regulator has shone a light on “dark trading” that takes place outside stock exchanges, particularly the London market. The Sunday Times WHAT THE SUNDAY PAPERS SAID Apple fights flow of AI ‘bug’ hunters Apple has restricted the number of potentially dangerous software bugs researchers can submit to its internal security team, as it faces a deluge of reports from people using AI models to identify alleged risks. Its review system is under pressure from “AI slop” reports that can hallucinate security risks. Financial Times Boots takeover at risk of collapse Boots’ £7bn takeover by the Weston family is at risk of collapse. Talks between the Westons and Boots’ private equity owners have hit a standstill after the billionaire family reduced their offer. The amended bid was rejected, leaving a deal hanging in the balance. The Sunday Telegraph UPF firms called out for lobbying The world’s biggest UPF corporations are hindering efforts to tackle obesity by suing governments that try to promote healthier diets, the head of the WHO has said. Despite their public backing for anti-obesity policies, 235 lawsuits targeted these policies from 2010 to 2025. The Guardian Retailer to release full-year results AO World is to release its full- year results on Wednesday. AJ Bell analysts Russ Mould and Danni Hewson said investors already know profits will come in at the top end of expectations after the company upgraded its outlook in April, while free cash flow is set to increase sharply. Whitbread sales expected to rise Whitbread will release its first quarter results on Thursday, with the Premier Inn owner expected to announce a 1.9 per cent rise in total accommodation sales. However, the pressures of UK inflation over the rest of the year are set to put a dampener on likely profits. Price indexes due to be announced On the macro front, the UK consumer price index and producer price index for May are due to be announced this week, along with a policy announcement from the US Federal Reserve, which is expected to keep the policy rate steady at 3.50-3.75 per cent for the sixth consecutive month. Bank of Japan to decide on rates The Bank of Japan will announce its interest rate decision tomorrow, with a 25 basis points increase to 1 per cent expected. ING said the Bank will also announce its Japanese government bond (JGB) purchase plan. “We expect the BoJ to pause JGB tapering from April,” it said. 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Weather FRANCE Sark Alderney Guernsey Jersey Liverpool Llandudno Belfast Derry/Londonderry Dublin Galway Cork Channel Islands Irish Sea North Sea Atlantic Ocean Celtic Sea English Channel Shetland Orkney Temperature Wind speed Sea state Carlisle Glasgow Dumfries Aberdeen Inverness Fort William Edinburgh Kirkwall Lerwick Dundee Hull Manchester Sheffield York Leeds Nottingham Birmingham Southampton Portsmouth Cardiff Bristol London Brighton Cambridge Swansea Oxford Reading Plymouth Exeter Norwich Newcastle Calm Slight Moderate Rough °C mph Rain dominates Scotland and Northern Ireland, while southern England enjoys sunny spells. Cloudy in the Midlands and Wales with sunshine. Today’s Weather Five-day outlook Moon Phase Today’s high Today’s low Sunset Sunrise 05:27 20:45 Aberdeen C 2.1 5.0 Aberporth C 0.0 9.8 Aberystwyth C 0.0 10.3 Aviemore C 0.3 4.3 Belfast C 0.0 6.5 Birmingham C 0.0 10.8 Bournemouth C 0.0 10.7 Bridlington C 0.0 10.5 Bristol C 0.0 11.9 Cardiff C 0.0 11.7 Cromer C 0.0 9.8 Durham C 0.0 10.6 Eastbourne C 0.0 12.3 Edinburgh C 0.2 9.3 Eskdalemuir C 0.3 9.8 Glasgow C 0.6 7.4 Holyhead C 0.0 9.7 Hove C 0.0 12.6 Hull C 0.0 10.9 Huntingdon C 0.0 11.2 Ipswich C 0.0 11.7 Isle of Man C 0.1 8.4 Isle of Wight C 0.0 11.8 Kinlochewe SH 3.6 3.9 Kirkwall C 0.5 6.0 Leeds C 0.0 11.2 Lerwick C 1.7 3.8 Leuchars C 0.1 9.6 Lincoln C 0.0 11.4 Liverpool C 0.0 11.9 London C 0.0 11.3 Manchester C 0.0 11.9 Margate C 2.5 12.0 Milford Haven R 0.4 9.8 Morecambe C 0.1 9.6 Newcastle C 0.0 10.9 Norwich C 0.0 10.9 Nottingham C 0.0 11.1 Okehampton C 0.0 10.5 Oxford C 0.0 10.3 Plymouth C 0.0 9.5 Portland C 0.0 11.7 Portsmouth C 0.0 12.0 Prestwick C 0.2 7.6 Rhyl C 0.0 10.1 Sheffield C 0.0 12.1 Shrewsbury C 0.0 10.4 Skegness C 0.0 11.0 Southend C 0.0 12.7 Stoke C 0.0 9.9 Stornoway C 1.1 7.1 Swansea C 0.0 9.3 Tiree C 0.1 8.7 Around Britain Global WEDNESDAY In northern regions, expect rain and showers. 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Morning rain in affected areas continues, easing later. London, SE Eng, East Anglia, Channel Is: The morning is forecast to begin with mostly cloudy skies, transitioning to sunny spells by the afternoon. There is a threat of light rain in the most eastern parts, while the most southern areas will enjoy fair and sunny conditions. Light easterly winds will persist throughout the day. Max temp: 32C. Tonight, clear skies, chilly. Min temp: 14C. Cen S England, SW England, Midlands, S Wales, N Wales: The morning is forecast to begin with sunny spells and patchy cloud, providing a mild start. Into the afternoon, temperatures will rise, bringing warmth especially in northern parts, while cloud builds. By evening, mostly cloudy skies prevail with a slight threat of light rain and gentle breezes. Max temp: 29C. Tonight, light rain, breezy. Min temp: 13C. SE Scotland, NE Eng, E Eng: Today will be dull with cloudy skies and frequent rain, especially during the morning. The afternoon remains overcast but drier, though still cool. In the northernmost parts, there is a threat of heavier rain earlier on. Gentle easterly winds, with slightly milder conditions in southernmost parts. Max temp: 20C. Tonight, clear skies, chilly. Min temp: 13C. NW Eng, SW Scotland, N Ireland, Republic of Ireland, IoM: Morning overcast with rain showers moving from the west. In northern areas, rain persists with cooler temperatures and light winds. Afternoon stays cloudy as rain chances decrease. By evening, conditions dry but clouds linger. Temperatures remain mild with gentle easterly winds throughout. Max temp: 22C. Tonight, overcast, light rain. Min temp: 13C. NW Scotland, NE Scotland, W Isles, N Isles: The day begins overcast with rain in the most western areas, where it will be cooler. This damp weather continues into the afternoon with a risk of further showers. The most northern parts stay cloudy and mild, with lighter rain. By evening, rain eases off but cloud remains thick. Northerly breezes. Max temp: 16C. Tonight, light rain showers. Min temp: 10C. SYNOPTIC PRESSURE A low-pressure system centred over London is influencing much of the UK, bringing persistent rain to Scotland, Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland. High pressure over the Northern Isles creates steadier conditions there, with dry spells in south-east England and the Channel Islands. Aberdeen 21.19-05.12 Birmingham 20.56-05.32 Bristol 20.54-05.38 Cardiff 20.57-05.40 Glasgow 21.19-05.27 Hull 20.54-05.20 Inverness 21.28-05.16 Liverpool 21.04-05.32 London 20.45-05.28 Manchester 21.01-05.29 Stornoway 21.41-05.23 Swansea 21.00-05.43 York 20.58-05.22 Warmest: Charlwood, 28c. Coldest: Katesbridge, 5c. Wettest: Bala, 6.20mm. Sunniest: Almondsbury, 14.3hrs. 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Pajari (right) said: “Winning Rally Finland for me as a Finn, it’s also very special.” Sabalenka ready to put sub-par year behind her Trump towers to end Wilson’s Shanghai reign World number one Aryna Sabalenka said yesterday she was hopeful going into the lead-up to the US Open after disappointing major results this year. The 28-year-old Belarusian (above) failed to reach the quarter-finals at Wimbledon last month and was defeated in the quarters at the French Open in June. In January, she lost in the final at the Australian Open. “I have huge hopes,” Sabalenka said of returning to the hard court for the Canadian Open in Toronto. “I wouldn’t say that clay and grass... was that bad. “I was trying a couple things, things didn’t go the way I expected.” World No 1 Judd Trump ended Kyren Wilson’s reign at the Shanghai Masters with a commanding display as he claimed the title for the second time. The Englishman, 36, sealed an 11-6 win in yesterday’s final and the £210,000 top prize, taking control after an early setback. Compatriot Wilson took the opening frame but lost the next three and trailed 7-3 at the end of session one. Trump (above), who won the 10th frame with a break of 82, had to weather a fightback as his 34-year-old opponent hit back with visits of 103 and 134 for 10-6. However, he made it across the finishing line in the 17th frame, taking it 77-5 to clinch the title. TENNIS SNOOKER BASEBALL Dodgers make a splash with Skubal signing The Los Angeles Dodgers have acquired the biggest prize on the trade deadline market, getting two-time reigning American League Cy Young Award winner Tarik Skubal from the Detroit Tigers. Skubal (above) got the news during the Tigers’ 8-6 win over the Athletics and was emotional after the game as he prepared to leave the team that drafted him in 2018 and developed him into a star. “I’m excited to be a Dodger,” he said. “I’m excited to get down there and meet all those guys and chase three championships in a row. That’s hard to do, so I’m so excited to a part of that. But it’s a lot of different emotions. Definitely kind of a roller coaster a little bit.”
SPORT Zoustar Dreams (3.24, Ripon) Can add to her growing tally. She actually looked better than ever when dropped back to this five-furlong trip last time out, so while she is now on a career-high mark of 71, there is every chance she has not reached her ceiling yet. TOP TIP Results Service Cycling: Tour de France Femmes TNT Sports 1, 2.30pm Cricket: West Indies v Pakistan TNT Sports 2 , 2.30pm Cricket: Welsh Fire v Southern Brave Women Sky Sports Cricket, 2.45pm Tennis: Canadian Open Sky Sports Tennis, 4pm, Sky Sports Main Event, 10.15pm Cricket: Welsh Fire v Southern Brave Men Sky Sports Cricket, 6pm Football: Celtic v Dundee Sky Sports Football, 6.30pm Football: York City v Crawley Town Sky Sports+, 7.30pm Basketball: Dream v Aces Sky Sports Action, midnight Sport on TV Dunum delivers Galway twirl as the curtain comes down By John O’Riordan Course specialist Dunum regained his crown in the Ahonoora Handicap on the final day of the Galway Festival. Natalia Lupini’s eight-year-old is a regular visitor to Ballybrit, his record now standing at four victories from eight attempts. As well as winning this £94,000 contest in 2023, he finished third in the last two renewals and landed the BMW Mile at last year’s festival, a race in which he finished down the field last week. Dunum was an 11-1 shot back in action just five days later and after being sent straight to the lead by Billy Lee, found plenty to keep the chasing pack at bay, with Unique Journey a length and three-quarters behind in second. “He’s a great horse here – he has a great record,” said the winning rider. “He ran well here on Tuesday. He was just too fresh and keen and did too much. I said today to the lads that if it works I’ll just let him roll along and not interfere with him. He skipped along on the ground and loved it. He came on from Tuesday. It was always going to be hard to win a Galway Mile on his first run of the year. “Today I thought he had a better chance if it didn’t take too much out of him. He travelled away great. I got a great sit down the hill and all the way nearly to the two [furlong marker] before I had to go for him, that was a help. “He loves the hill and picked up against it. He just keeps trying all the way to the line. Natalia and Craig [Bryson] have done a great job to keep him fresh. A prep run in a Galway Mile is probably not what you want, but it worked out.” The most valuable jumps race on the card was the Lord Hemphill Memorial Handicap Chase, which went to the Willie Mullins-trained top-weight Blood Destiny (5-1) under Paul Townend. “This fella is rated 150 carrying 12st in a good handicap, so that was a real good performance,” Mullins said. “That’s always in him but he hasn’t always given us that. He’s disappointed on occasion, but was very good today. “I’d imagine we’ll follow the same plan as last winter. I’d like to see if there’s a nice race for him in Listowel. That will probably be the next option. I think there’s a two-and-a-half-mile race there that Easy Game used to win. That could be an objective.” RACING Billy Lee leads Dunum to the Ahonoora Handicap in Galway yesterday PA R I P O N GO O D 3.54 WILMOT-SMITH MEMORIAL HANDICAP (CLASS 3) £18,000 added 6f 090U13 DARK CLOUD RISING (CD)(BF) D O’Meara 4 10 0............................. .................................................................................................................................D Tudhope V 6 -22070 COMMANCHE FALLS (CD) M Dods 9 9 11.............C Beasley C 1 901452 LORD ROXBY (D) N Tinkler 4 9 5............................................A Jary (3) 2 09-205 SAINT LAWRENCE (D) K Ryan 8 9 3......................Shane Gray B 4 504030 ROUSING ENCORE (D) R Carr 6 9 3...............................JP Sullivan 3 -90004 BOSTON DAN T Easterby 3 9 0..........................................S B Kirrane 7 483000 GRANT WOOD (CD) P Midgley 7 8 11..........................................J Hart 5 - 7 declared - BETTING: 11-10 Dark Cloud Rising, 2-1 Lord Roxby, 6-1 Saint Lawrence, 14-1 Boston Dan, Rousing Encore, 20-1 Commanche Falls, 50-1 Others. FORM VERDICT DARK CLOUD RISING won over C&D before finishing third at Pontefract when he certainly had excuses - slowly away and short of room over a furlong out. David O’Meara’s charge is worth another chance given a lot seemed to go wrong last time and his proven effectiveness at this track is a big plus. Ayr second Lord Roxby heads the list of dangers from Saint Lawrence. 4.24 NORTH YORKSHIRE ICE CREAM CHAMPIONSHIP 2026 HANDICAP (CLASS 4) £12,000 added 1m 2f 464321 EVERYONEKNOWSADAVE (D) Jessica Macey 4 9 8....................... ...........................................................................................................................R Kavanagh (3) 4 481027 MAO SHANG WONG (D) D O’Meara 4 9 8.................................................... ...............................................................................................................Conor Whiteley (5) 1 42262- HIS FINEST HOUR (D) Miss T Jackson 5 9 5.........................C Lee 2 663421 POLYGRAM T Davidson 4 9 5(5ex).................................................J Hart 5 166311 POET’S DAWN (CD) T Easterby 11 9 4(4ex)........S B Kirrane C 3 - 5 declared - BETTING: 6-4 Everyoneknowsadave, 11-4 Polygram, 5-1 Poet’s Dawn, 13-2 Mao Shang Wong, His Finest Hour. GOLF Kuwaki breaks major duck after Open play-off drama By Karan Prashant Saxena Japan’s Shiho Kuwaki claimed her first major title after defeating Ger- many’s Esther Henseleit in a tense play-off to win the Women’s Open at Royal Lytham & St Annes. The pair finished regulation play tied at five under par after the Ger- man holed a lengthy birdie putt on the 18th. American Yealimi Noh, who had held the overnight lead and started the day strongly, finished third at four under and admitted it “stings” to have relinquished the lead. Kuwaki, who turned pro five years ago but has spent most of her career on the Tour of Japan, sealed vic- tory on the second play-off hole after Henseleit missed her par attempt and tapped in for bogey. She became the second successive Japanese champion, following Miyu Yamash- ita’s triumph at Royal Porthcawl 12 months ago. The 23-year-old said: “I just can’t believe it! To be on a stage like this is an honour and every hole I was just focused on shot by shot. I just tried to enjoy it as much as I could. “Thank you to the fans. I’d like to thank my family and team. Recent- ly we had an earth- quake in Japan and I’d like to wish people a speedy recovery and best wishes.” After beginning the day among the chasing pack, Kuwaki climbed into contention as Noh began to feel the pressure. She moved into a share of the lead with a birdie at the 13th and stayed patient over the closing stretch be- fore reaching the clubhouse at five under. Noh appeared set to control the final round but bogeys at the sev- enth and eighth cut her advantage. She briefly recovered, regaining a share of the lead with a birdie at the par-four 13th, before another dropped shot at the 14th left her trailing Kuwaki by one. “Obviously it stings coming up one short and having a not great round,” she admitted. “But I’m still very happy to have been in this position. “Coming down 18 in front of the big crowds and playing at The Open, it was really special. Reminded me why I love this game and why I’m here. “I came into the week feeling very unsure how my game was and disap- (GB & Irl unless stated; par 71) 279 S Kuwaki (Japan) 66, 70, 73, 70 (Won second play-off hole); E Henseleit (Ger) 73, 69, 67, 70 280 Y Noh (US) 67 70 69 74 282 A Thitikul (Thai) 64, 73, 72, 73; N Korda (US) 73, 68, 73, 68 283 C Hull 69, 71, 71, 72; R Takeda (Japan) 69, 73, 72, 69; Hsu W-l (Tai) 71, 74, 69, 69; L Woad 69, 71, 70, 73; S Tan (Sing) 69, 74, 71, 69; Ryu H-r (S Kor) 66, 69, 74, 74 284 M Katsu (Japan) 72, 68, 71, 73; S Kouskova (Cz Rep) 77, 69, 71, 67; C Boutier (Fr) 67, 74, 74, 69; Y Saso (Japan) 72, 73, 71, 68 285 Kim H-j (S Kor) 75 71 72 67; Im J-h (S Kor) 70, 71, 72, 72; L Coughlin (US) 69, 71, 74, 71; L Li (US) 72, 68, 69, 76 Leaderboard FOOTBALL WILLIAM HILL SCOTTISH PREMIERSHIP Hibernian (0)..................................1 Motherwell (1)...............................2 Boyle 56 (pen) Fadinger 40 (pen) Att 17,440 Said 85 St Johnstone (1)..........................4 Kilmarnock (1)...............................3 Fowler 16 Kiltie 37 Diabate 47 Hugill 49 Schjonning-Larsen 69 (og) Holt 53 (og) Fotheringham 80 Att 5,733 CRICKET ONE-DAY CUP - GROUP A Kent v Nottinghamshire, Beckenham: Nottinghamshire 293-9 (50 overs; B Martindale 101; E Singh 4-40); Kent 294-5 (49.2 overs; H Finch 88; J Hayes 3-45). Kent win by 5 wickets. Leicestershire v Somerset, Grace Road: Leicestershire 289-8 (50 overs; O Cox 89; I Holland 77; M Pretorius 3-57; J Ball 3-40); Somerset 125 (30 overs; B Green 3-36; A M Green 3-28). Leicestershire win by 164 runs. Northamptonshire v Lancashire, Northampton: Northamptonshire 347-6 (50 overs; A Miller 115; N McSweeney 78); Lancashire 280 (45.2 overs; J Moores 85; Y Chahal 4-60). Northamptonshire win by 67 runs. Warwickshire v Gloucestershire, Rugby: Gloucestershire 271-9 (50 overs; O Price 122; J Thompson 3-47; J Lintott 3-79); Warwickshire 277-4 (42 overs; R Yates 132; V Jani 66no). Warwickshire win by 6 wickets. GROUP B Derbyshire v Sussex, Derby: Derbyshire 325-7 (50 overs; W Madsen 104no; H Crocombe 3-44); Sussex 137 (31.4 overs; J Morley 5-28). Derbyshire win by 188 runs. Essex v Worcestershire, Chelmsford: Essex 376-5 (50 overs; T Westley 129; M Critchley 102no); Worcestershire 269 (41.3 overs; J Libby 109; K Ali 51; M Jones 3-47; S Harmer 3-60). Essex win by 107 runs. Hampshire v Durham, The Rose Bowl: Hampshire 246 (50 overs; T Albert 89; S Ghafari 3-41; W Rhodes 3-29); Durham 249-1 (38.3 overs; E Gay 104no; G Clark 68; O Robinson 64no). Durham win by 9 wickets. Middlesex v Yorkshire, Lord’s: Middlesex 246 (48 overs; J Nelson 76; B Cliff 4-39). Yorkshire 211 (47.3 overs; W Bennison 63, D Bess 59; Z Gohar 4-24). Middlesex win by 35 runs. CYCLING WOMEN’S TOUR DE FRANCE, FRANCE, Stage 2 (Aigle - Ganeva, 149.0km): 1 L Wiebes (Neth) Team SD Worx-Protime 3hrs 42mins 8secs, 2 E Balsamo (It) Lidl-Trek at same time. Overall: 1 L Wiebes (Neth) Team SD Worx-Protime 7hrs 10mins 59secs, 2 K Le Court (Mauritius) AG Insurance-Soudal Team +14s, 3 D Vollering (Neth) FDJ United-SUEZ +16. GOLF AIG WOMEN’S OPEN, LYTHAM ST ANNES, LAN- CASHIRE, Final Round (GB & Irl unless stated): 279 S Kuwaki (Japan) 66 70 73 70 (Won at second play off hole); E Henseleit (Ger) 73 69 67 70; 280 Y Noh 67 70 69 74; 282 A Thitikul (Thai) 64 73 72 73; N Korda 73 68 73 68; 283 C Hull (GB) 69 71 71 72. SNOOKER WST SHANGHAI MASTERS, CHINA, Final: J Trump (Eng) bt K Wilson (Eng) 11-6. TODAY’S FIXTURES WILLIAM HILL SCOTTISH PREMIERSHIP Celtic v Dundee (7.30)........................................................................................
MONDAY 3 AUGUST 2026 NEWS 4-33 OPINION 18-22 TV 26-31 LIFE 34-37 CULTURE 38-41 MONEY 42-44 SPORT 47-56 RUGBY LEAGUE Powell pumped for top-of-the-table clash after slaying Dragons By Mark Staniforth Daryl Powell is excited by the vibe at Wakefield ahead of Friday’s top- of-the-table clash with Super League leaders Leeds Rhinos. A 32-12 win at Catalans on Saturday night means Trinity can go level at the summit with victory at Belle Vue. “There’s a real vibe about us but we can’t get too carried away. We just want to keep doing what we’ve been doing. All you can do is win your games and we’ve got another big chal- lenge against Leeds next week that we’re excited about,” Powell (left) told Sky Sports. Dragons chief John Cartwright was left frustrated with the points they shipped in the final 20 minutes, he said: “You’re always disappointed when there’s a try or two at the end because it’s probably not a real indi- cation of the game.” York boss Mark Applegarth was delighted with a first win over St Helens in 80 years after a tense 34-32 victory. Applegarth told BBC Radio York: “I would like to say I was nice and composed in the last minute or so but I was definitely a little twitchy. “I’m really proud of how we showed the character to hang in there and grind out that win.” Interim St Helens coach Eamon O’Carroll said: “This is a much big- ger job than just the performance at the weekend. This is about instilling some things that are going to help the club in the future, that is my main objective.” Warrington hit back from conced- ing three early tries to down Castl- eford by a 48-18 score. “After that I thought we got our- selves in the game and defended properly, the way we’ve practised all week. Happy that we managed to turn it around,” Warrington chief Sam Burgess said. Castleford coach Ryan Carr added: “I can’t sugar coat it. It’s more of an individual thing than a team thing.” Sam Burgess was delighted to see Warrington’s emphatic turnaround There’s a real vibe about us but we can’t get too carried away. All you can do is win your games CYCLING Wiebes extends Tour lead with second successive victory By Trevor Stynes Dutch rider Lorena Wiebes repeated her opening-stage success with a sprint win on stage two of the Tour de France Femmes in Geneva to extend her overall race lead. Wiebes, of Team SD Worx- Protime, was first to attack coming to the end of the 147.9-km ride from Aigle and the 27-year-old easily held off her rivals with time to raise her arms in celebration before the line. “I knew that it was up to me to find my own way,” said Wiebes, whose seventh Le Tour stage win was her first while wearing the yellow jersey. “I found some good wheels and I could come out, I think around 200 metres to go, and then I just could launch my sprint.” Italian Elisa Balsamo (Lidl- Trek) came in second ahead of 39-year-old Marianne Vos of the Netherlands. Wiebes earned a 10-second time bonus for the stage win and now holds a 14-second lead over Kimberley Le Court of Mauritius, with 2023 winner Demi Vollering a further two seconds back in third. The stage got its anticipated sprint finish as Riejanne Markus made a brave bid for solo success, only to get reeled in with less than 500 metres left, with last year’s points classification winner Wiebes always favourite to triumph at that stage. The peloton was close to catching an earlier breakaway with 40km remaining when Markus stole a march and managed to get one minute ahead, but the Dutchwoman’s efforts came to nothing. “Winning in yellow makes it special but also because, again, our team worked really hard for it,” Wiebes added. “The girls were chasing full, full gas in the final to bring back Riejanne, so it’s even more beautiful to finish it off in yellow.” Today’s third stage is a hilly 156.5km ride from Geneva, with the race entering France for the first time to finish in Poligny. I could come out around 200 metres to go and then I could launch my sprint Lorena Wiebes celebrates after crossing the line first again in Geneva GETTY pointed in past results. This week has given me so much more confi- dence and I’m really thankful.” Henseleit also produced a strong back-nine charge. After slipping back with bogeys at the eighth and ninth, she birdied the 11th, 12th and 15th to draw level with Kuwaki, only to drop a shot at the 16th. The Ger- man refused to relent, however, roll- ing in a crucial birdie putt at the last to force the play-off. World No 1 Nelly Korda, who won the opening two majors of 2026, briefly held the clubhouse lead after a closing three-under score of 68 but it was not enough to challenge for the title, leaving the American tied for fourth on two under with world No 2 Atthaya “Jeeno” Thitikul. Home favourite Charley Hull (left) missed a final-hole birdie to finish the day on one over par and tied for sixth, alongside compatriot Lottie Woad and Ryu Hae-ran, the South Korean whose title hopes – and bid for a third major in succession – evaporated with bogeys at both the 17th and 18th. To be on a stage like this is an honour and I just tried to enjoy it as much as I could Shiho Kuwaki celebrates her win after a sudden- death play-off at Royal Lytham GETTY
SPORT F ormer New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming was appointed as England’s new Test coach last week, replacing compatriot and good mate Brendon McCullum, who was sacked earlier last month. The 53-year-old had stepped down from the same role with Chennai Super Kings just days before, bringing to an end an 18-year association with the Indian Premier League. Now, as he prepares for his latest and perhaps greatest challenge with England, what can we expect? Fleming is hugely admired globally – although one retired Black Cap passed up the opportunity to speak about his former colleague, quipping that he had “no idea why the ECB were so obsessed” with this particular generation of New Zealanders. Ask those who have played alongside him, or worked under him, though, and the response is unequivocal – Fleming is the real deal, even though he hasn’t coached in first-class cricket since calling time on his red-ball career following a three-year spell with Nottinghamshire that ended in 2007. Calm, methodical and composed Frenetic is probably an apt word to describe England in recent years, with an attack at all costs providing plenty of entertainment but also hair-tearing frustration. Former England bowler Angus Fraser saw the ice-cool Fleming up close during a season with Middlesex in 2001. The New Zealander made a big impression with the bat, but an equally sizeable one with his brain. “I was injured so he captained the side for a County Championship game against Gloucestershire,” Fraser tells The i Paper. “We’d bowled them out and needed, I think around 300, I can’t remember exactly. “We came off the field and he just sat in the corner for two or three minutes during the 10-minute break, then set it up. ‘Right, boom, this is where I want to be after 10 overs, this is where I want to be after 20, this is where I want to be after 40.’ “He almost just broke down what we were trying to do, and we chased the runs down very, very well. He brought a lot of clarity and structure to a situation and it’s something he’s very, very good at.” All of which suggests that Fleming will be judging players by the way they think about the game as well as the runs they score or the wickets they take. As good a communicator as you’ll find When Fleming arrived at Trent Bridge in the summer of 2005, Nottinghamshire hadn’t won the title since 1987. The impact he made as skipper as that drought ended is something that Paul Franks, former all-rounder and now member of Notts’ coaching staff, recalls vividly. “He empowered his players,” Franks says. “He knew what he wanted, but he empowered people, built relationships quickly that were meaningful, and was interested in how to get the best out of people and what that needed to look like. “We built our tactics around that for the whole season. “He was obviously a very fine player in his own right too, which gave him the kudos he needed in the changing room. “What he gave the players was an underlying confidence, a belief that he believed in you and would back you. But he’d also hold you to account in terms of performance. “I can probably count on one hand how many times I saw him lose it. But he certainly had an edge to him when he needed it.” A lack of accountability is an accusation that has been levelled against England in recent years. The days of “that’s just the way we play” after holing out at deep mid-wicket might be over. ‘If you had a scale with Langer and McCullum at either end…’ McCullum injected the fun back into watching England, there is absolutely no doubt about that. But the lack of discipline witnessed, particularly on recent tours to New Zealand and ENGLAND Stephen Fleming brings calmness and attention to detail to post-McCullum era, writes Richard Edwards The real deal – ex-teammates back new coach to help turn the page on Bazball CRICKET Root cites Fleming appointment as central to his return as captain By Amlan Chakraborty Joe Root said Stephen Fleming’s ap- pointment as England’s Test coach was a “big reason” he agreed to re- turn as captain. Root (below) replaced Ben Stokes after the all-rounder retired follow- ing the home series against New Zealand. Fleming succeeds com- patriot Brendon McCullum, whose four-year test tenure ended last month, though he remains Eng- land’s white-ball coach. “If I’m being brutally honest, it was a big reason why I wanted to do it,” Root told the England and Wales Cricket Board. “I’m very excited by the way he sees the game, where he sees us sit as a team, and the work that we have to do to get to where we want to get to. All of that got me very excited about taking this role on.” “He’s obviously got a wealth of experience and done some amazing things within the game as a player and as a coach, and I’m very much looking forward to the next little while, and us trying to build some- thing pretty special together.” Fleming coached Chennai Super Kings for 17 years in the Indian Premier League before leaving last month. Root led England as their full-time test captain between 2017 and 2022 before he was replaced by Stokes. Stokes and McCullum cham- pioned a take-no-prison- ers approach, which Root hinted he and Flem- ing would like to retain that attacking mindset. “The last four years have been the most fun I’ve had in profes- sional cricket...,” said the 35-year-old. “Clearly, the last little while is probably what’s fresh in everyone’s mind, but you’re looking at a four-year period where we did a lot of amazing things. I’ve taken a lot from that, and I feel it will be a big part of how I want to approach things moving forward as a leader of this team.” England host Pakistan for a three- Test series beginning in Leeds in two weeks. I’m very excited by the way he sees the game, where he sees us sit as a team ONE-DAY CUP Cox is fantastic Fox as his 89 helps Leicestershire hammer Somerset to reach summit Leicestershire Foxes pulled clear at the top of Group A of the One- Day Cup with a 164-run victory over Somerset. Ben Cox top-scored with 89 while Ian Holland also chipped in with a useful 77 as the home side posted a total of 289. It proved beyond Somerset to chase them down, with Ben Green and Alex Green taking three wickets each as the visitors were dismissed for 125. Nottinghamshire missed the chance to join their neighbours at the top of the table as they fell to a five-wicket defeat to Kent, for whom Harry Finch hit 88. Ben Martindale’s 101 for the visitors was not enough to win the day at Beckenham as their total of 293 turned out to be insufficient. Gloucestershire slipped to the foot of the table following a six-wicket defeat by Warwickshire while Northamptonshire pulled clear thanks to a 67-run win over Lancashire. Middlesex hold a narrow lead at the top of Group B, replacing Yorkshire who they beat by 35 runs, with Durham also on 16 points after a nine-wicket win over Hampshire. Struggling Sussex Sharks lost by 188 runs to Derbyshire Falcons and Essex beat Worcestershire by 107 runs. Ben Cox had one catch as well as scoring 89 runs in the Foxes’ rout
MONDAY 3 AUGUST 2026 NEWS 4-33 OPINION 18-22 TV 26-31 LIFE 34-37 CULTURE 38-41 MONEY 42-44 SPORT 47-56 Australia, has been a constant stick to beat England with. Former Australia coach and opening batter Justin Langer, an ex-Middlesex teammate of Fraser’s, was mooted as a potential replacement and held up as the perfect man to instil discipline into this side. Plenty, though, were worried he might prove too intense. “You’d struggle to find two more people at different ends of the spectrum than McCullum and [Langer], in the way they’ve gone about things,” Fraser says. “Both are incredibly hard- working at their game, but McCullum’s far more relaxed, one’s slightly more intense, I’d say. “Fleming is somewhere in the middle really. He’s not in-your-face, he gives you space, but he’s a very good communicator. As a coach I’d imagine he sits down, talks well and develops good conversations with the people he’s working with.” All of which means England’s approach is going to massively change, although gung-ho might be replaced by something slightly more measured. “If the best players you’ve got are naturally more positive players, then you pick them,” Fraser says. “I suppose previously they’d gone to an extreme, maybe ignoring players who were getting lots of runs in a different manner in county cricket in favour of someone more incredibly positive. “Harry Brook is going to be around, Jacob Bethell is going to carry on playing as he is. But it probably does create opportunities for some players who wouldn’t have ticked all the boxes Stokes and McCullum were looking for.” That will be music to the ears of Dominic Sibley cheerleaders, but Fraser isn’t convinced there will be a wholesale change of personnel. “We’re not going to go back to the days of Geoffrey Boycott and Chris Tavaré,” he laughs. That is probably something fans can all get behind. I can count on one hand how many times he lost it. But he had an edge when he needed it Dunkley dunks on Sunrisers A half-century by England batter Sophia Dunkley helped Trent Rockets register a fourth win in five matches after a five-run triumph over Sunrisers Leeds. Dunkley produced nine fours during a 33-ball 56 and put on 76 for the second wicket with England captain Nat Sciver-Brunt. A strong fightback by Sunrisers restricted Rockets to 139 for 7 after they were 84 for 1, with Annabel Sutherland able to claim 2 for 26. All-rounder Sutherland ended unbeaten on 59 in the chase with Sunrisers restricted to 134 for 5. Tymal Mills will miss the rest of this year’s The Hundred with a hamstring injury. The London Spirit fast bowler (above), the leading wicket-taker in the 100-ball event with 51 scalps until being surpassed by Adil Rashid on Saturday, featured in Spirit’s opener against Manchester Super Giants on 23 July. Former England international Mills only sent down five balls and missed Spirit’s last three matches. “Tymal has been ruled out of the remainder of this year’s edition due to a hamstring injury. A replacement will be announced in due course,” a London Spirit statement read. LONDON SPIRIT Hamstring harm has Mills out of Hundred Cricket in brief Sophie Ecclestone inspired Manchester Super Giants to a six-wicket victory over winless MI London in The Hundred. The England spinner dismissed openers Alice Davidson-Richards and Hayley Matthews for ducks inside the opening eight deliveries at the Oval as the competition’s bottom side were bowled out for 92. She also impressed in the field, catching the hosts’ top scorers Kira Chathli (who made 18) and Nicola Carey (17). Ryana MacDonald-Gay finished with figures of 3 for 19. Super Giants captain Meg Lanning then hit 43 to help her side seal their third triumph of the campaign with 28 balls to spare. THE HUNDRED Ecclestone spins Super Giants home England’s medical team have ruled Danni Wyatt-Hodge out of the remainder of The Hundred. MI London batter Wyatt-Hodge (above) sustained a left calf tear against Southern Brave last Monday. “Following a scan and assessment by England’s medical team, it has been confirmed that she will miss MI London’s remaining matches,” MI London said. Wyatt-Hodge has been replaced in the squad by Ella Claridge and faces a race against time to be fit for England’s ODI series with Ireland next month. MI LONDON Wyatt-Hodge out of rest of tournament THE HUNDRED Duckett half-century and debutant Donald fire Rockets to win Ben Duckett struck a half-century as The Hundred leaders Trent Rockets edged Sunrisers Leeds by five runs in the men’s competition. The 31-year-old made 64 from 47 balls, including five consecutive fours off Liam Patterson-White to bring up his fifty from 35 deliveries, as the hosts posted 146 for 4 at Trent Bridge. Duckett was supported by Aneu- rin Donald, who marked his Rockets debut by smashing three sixes in a 19-ball 40. A 71-run third-wicket stand be- tween Mitchell Marsh and Harry Brook put Sunrisers in control of their chase, with just 35 runs re- quired from 20 deliveries. However, Mohammad Amir con- ceded only five runs off the next four balls before Brook was brilliantly caught by diving England team- mate Duckett for 46. Amir had Marsh caught by Sam Billings for 41 five balls later to finish with 2 for 20 as Rockets held on to claim a fourth straight win and ex- tend their lead at the top of the table. Duckett said: “Aneurin played ex- tremely well in the powerplay, took a lot of pressure off me and got us off to a great start. Delighted with that win, it was a fantastic team effort.” On his approach to his innings he said: “It was sweeping today. I was struggling to play straight and knew there would be spin in the middle. I was trying to trust my game that I would be able to catch up. On an- other day, that doesn’t happen, but thankfully today it did.” I was sweeping. I was trying to trust my game that I would be able to catch up. Ben Duckett swept his way to an impressive 64 off just 47 balls
SPORT WEST HAM UNITED Hammers move to reassure fans over takeover bid By Damian Spellman West Ham United have confirmed their awareness of reports that the Gold family intend to sell their shares in the club to a consortium led by Amanda Staveley and Mehr- dad Ghodoussi. The Championship club sought to reassure fans that, while the transca- tion was subject to a pre-emption rights process in which other exist- ing shareholders could acquire pro- portional shares, a process that could take up to two months to complete would mean nothing would change in the club’s ownership structure. “West Ham would like to assure supporters the day-to-day running of the club is in no way affected by this situation,” read a club statement. “Preparations for the new season continue to take shape with diligence and focus, and we thank fans for their continued loyal backing.” Vanessa Gold confirmed on Sat- urday that she has agreed to sell her stake in the club to a consortium led by former Newcastle United co-own- er Staveley. Gold, who succeeded her father David as joint-chair of the Hammers after his death in 2023, has a deal with a group headed by Staveley, her husband Ghodoussi and PCP Capital Partners for her family’s 25.1 per cent holding. However, current shareholders will also be presented with the chance to buy out the Gold family under an ongoing process. “As the daughter of David, it was a great honour to step into a joint chair and director role at the club following his passing,” Gold said. “My father’s priority was always to champion and protect this great club. I have taken huge personal pride in continuing that legacy. “On June 12, Daniel Kretinsky and I agreed a sale that would have made EP Group the single largest share- holder in West Ham. Unfortunately, since that time, the original deal and other alternatives that we discussed could not be brought to fruition. “In light of this, I have now reached an agreement to sell my family’s shareholding to a consortium of PCP Capital Partners, led by Amanda Staveley and Mehrdad Ghodoussi, in partnership with Ashland Forest Capital Partners. This sale remains subject to a pre-emption process. “My ambition throughout this pro- cess has been to ensure the club has the right leadership and ownership to enable West Ham to achieve its potential and return to its rightful place in the Premier League.” FIFA Real thank Uefa for protecting football at ‘decisive moment’ Real Madrid have praised Uefa for helping protect football “at a decisive moment” after Fifa abandoned plans to sell stakes in a World Cup company to investors. Strong opposition from three confederations prompted Fifa to drop the controversial proposal, dealing a significant setback to president Gianni Infantino. Uefa pledged to boycott Fifa competitions and put pressure on Infantino by declaring he had “lost the confidence” of European football’s governing body. Uefa is considering action including the possibility of triggering a no-confidence vote in Infantino. “Real values the decision taken by Fifa to abandon the proposal,” read a statement from the 15-time European champions. “Our club considers it good news for football, its institutions and, above all, the millions of fans. “Real would like to express its gratitude to Uefa, the confederations and federations, and the institutions that firmly opposed this project. Their unity and sense of duty have protected football at a decisive moment.” Concacaf, which governs football in North, Central America and the Caribbean, and the Asian Football Confederation also spoke out against the plans. “Clubs are the foundation on which national team football and the World Cup are built,” added Real. “National teams and the World Cup are events of public interest and make up a heritage that belongs to nations, fans and society. They should never be treated as financial assets to be marketed for the benefit of a few.” FOOTBALL Arteta adamant Gunners will not sit still on transfers By John Revill Arsenal will splash more cash before the summer transfer window closes, manager Mikel Arteta said, insisting the Premier League champions will not “sit still” while they prepare to defend their first English top-flight title in 22 years. Arsenal have been relatively quiet in the market compared to big-spending rivals Tottenham Hot- spur, Manchester City and Chelsea, but the north London side have been linked with moves for Newcastle United midfielder Bruno Guimaraes and Real Madrid forward Vinicius Junior in recent weeks. While Arteta (below) would not be drawn on Arsenal’s pur- suit of the pair, he told reporters on Satur- day that the club were determined to “improve and evolve” the squad. “We expect to have movements in the next few weeks, obviously,” the Spaniard said after their 4-1 friendly win at Girona. “We want to get better like any- body else, and you can see the trans- fer market and our opponents, what we are doing. We won’t sit still and are very ambitious with what we are doing. The margins are very small, we want to get better and the level is going to increase. We need to in- crease the competition internally, make sure we identify the things we don’t have in the team.” Arsenal have so far signed goal- keeper Illan Meslier and forward Christos Tzolis, while defender Piero Hincapie has joined perma- nently after spending the last season at the Emirates on loan. Arteta’s side begin the defence of their title at home against Champi- onship champions Coventry City on 21 August, five days after facing Manchester City in the Community Shield in Cardiff. Vinicius Junior has been linked with a transfer to Arsenal this summer CELTIC v DUNDEE Ox in the box seat at the ‘pressure cooker’ of Celtic By Gavin McCafferty Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain feels play- ing in the “pressure cooker” of Celtic Park is the ideal challenge he needs to thrive. The former Arsenal and Liverpool midfielder (right) helped the Hoops complete the double after arriving on a short-term deal in February and is now preparing for his first full season in Glasgow after re-signing in the summer. The 32-year-old previously won a full set of major trophies in England as well as the Champions League and is hungry for more honours. Speaking ahead of Celtic’s Scot- tish Premiership opener against Dundee tonight, the 35-times capped England international said: “When the opportunity to come here came up, the fact that it was going to be a challenge, I really enjoyed that. “The idea of just trying to do what- ever I could to give some experience or, at times, a few moments of qual- ity that could help the lads go on to achieve what we did. The way it ended up was like dreamland stuff. That’s what I thrive off. “I’m fortunate enough to have been in teams where there is an expectation to win but also, at the same time, the reality is there’s a lot of re- ally, really good t e a m s t h at make it really hard to win. I thrive in that pressure cooker. “That’s ex- actly the same mentality SCOTTISH PREMIERSHIP World Cups are events of public interest and make up a heritage that belongs to fans Amanda Staveley helped lead a takeover of Newcastle United in 2021
MONDAY 3 AUGUST 2026 NEWS 4-33 OPINION 18-22 TV 26-31 LIFE 34-37 CULTURE 38-41 MONEY 42-44 SPORT 47-56 Trabzonspor club president Ertugrul Dogan has publicly denied reports that the club has reached an agreement to sign Mohamed Salah after Besiktas had confirmed talks with the former Liverpool forward and free agent earlier in the summer transfer window. Reports in France suggested that Trabzonspor were close to hijacking the deal with Besiktas, but Dogan told Turkish outlet A Spor: “There is no such agreement,” Dogan told Turkish outlet A Spor. “As for plans to bring him to Trabzon, there is no such plan; there is nothing to it. “If there were such a plan, information would be provided from our side, the press would be informed, and so on.” Chelsea have completed the signing of Argentina international Valentin Barco from sister club Strasbourg on a seven-year deal. The 22-year-old, who played seven times for Brighton & Hove Albion during the 2023-24 season, becomes the seventh arrival of new manager Xabi Alonso’s reign. Barco (above) can play in midfield or at left-back and was in the Argentina squad that finished runners-up at last month’s World Cup. He was involved in an exchange with England’s Jude Bellingham after the semi-final in Atlanta. His arrival continues a busy summer for Alonso, with striker Danny Welbeck, from Brighton, and Crystal Palace’s Maxence Lacroix also arriving in the last week. Former Tottenham Hotspur forward Randal Kolo Muani has completed a £32m return to Juventus from Paris Saint-Germain, the Frenchman returning to the Serie A side where he spent half a season on loan last year. The move includes performance- related bonuses of up to £10m, the 27-year-old signing a deal until 2031. In his first stint at Juve, Kolo Muani (above) hit 10 goals in 22 games after joining in January 2025. He returned to Paris last summer before being loaned to Spurs last term, where he scored just five goals in 41 games – the first two against his parent side in the Champions League last November. He has nine goals in 32 games for France but failed to make Les Bleus squad for this summer’s World Cup. TURKEY CHELSEA ITALY Trabzonspor chief denies Salah links Barco becomes Blues’ latest buy Juve bring back £32m Kolo Muani Football in brief ABERDEEN 2-1 HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN Vrancken weighs up Hearts surgery after defensive losses By Anthony Brown Wouter Vrancken revealed Hearts will have to consider bringing in de- fensive reinforcements after a loss of key personnel left them threadbare at the back amid a gruelling early- season schedule. Captain Craig Halkett, vice-cap- tain Stephen Kingsley, new centre- back Malachi Fagan-Walcott and right-back Christian Borchgrevink are all injured at the start of a month in which the Jambos face four Eu- ropean matches and another three domestic fixtures. In addition, centre-back Stuart Findlay is suspended for Sunday’s Scottish Premiership match at home to Dundee United after being sent off in the dying moments of last Satur- day’s agonising defeat by Aberdeen at Pittodrie. Vrancken started the league opener at Pittodrie with midfielder Oisin McEntee at centre-back and only one defender, Jamie McCart, on the bench, and he will likely have to replenish that area. “Yeah, we have to see,” Vrancken said. “We have to talk about it. We have to look during the next days.” As he prepares his embattled team for a formidable Europa League qualifier away to Benfica on Thurs- day, Vrancken has added 20-year-old MJ Kamson-Kamara to the Europe- an squad in place of Fagan-Walcott, who injured his ankle in the second half of last Tuesday’s Champions League defeat by Sturm Graz. The Belgian admitted facing the Portuguese giants in the Stadium of Light will be a challenge on the back of a start to the Premiership cam- paign in which McEntee’s first-half opener was overturned by a 90th- minute Lewis Mayo equaliser and a stoppage-time penalty from Dons captain Kevin Nisbet. “Difficult, difficult,” he said of the trip to Lisbon. “It could help if we win this game. That could help a lot when you go to the next one, especially when you play a top European team.” Stephen Robinson hopes Aber- deen’s rousing late fightback, which came on the back of four Premier Sports Cup group-stage wins, can help propel his new-look team. “I saw a lot of good stuff on the ball in the cup, because we dominated the ball but Hearts was a different test,” he said. “You’ve got to deal with the physi- cality of set-plays, which I thought we were excellent at.” Promoted Saints pass test for Valakari in thrilling win Simo Valakari believes St Johnstone passed a major examination of their Scottish Premiership credentials in a breathless opening-day win. The top-flight new-boys twice went ahead and were dominant on the ball but trailed 3-2 early in the second period against Kilmarnock. Valakari made key sub- stitutions and Saints rallied to take the three points. “That was a test of character,” said Valakari (above), whose side came up as Championship winners last term. “Would we be this team who plays nice football in the Premiership but concedes and loses? “We were disappointed to go in 1-1 at half-time and it was a test after we went 3-2 down very quickly. How the players pushed until the end was very good. That’s what football is all about – emotions and suffering in parts of the game. “We know there are a lot of things we need to improve on. But, as a foot- ball fan and a football romantic, it was a beautiful match. I never doubt- ed the character of my players.” Josh Fowler gave Saints a 16th- minute lead but Greg Kiltie equalised against the run of play before the break. Cheick Diabate’s head- er put the home side back in front after 47 minutes but two quick goals from Joe Hugill and then Jason Holt – into his own net – put Kilmarnock ahead. Michael Schjonning-Larsen put through his own net with 20 min- utes left and Kai Fotheringham then grabbed Saints a late winner. Killie manager Neil McCann con- ceded his side were second best: “We were really poor. We let ourselves down, the club down, the fans down.” Wouter Vrancken has endured a tough start to life at Tynecastle Said leaves it late to get Motherwell off to flyer Ibrahim Said netted a late winner as Motherwell beat Hibernian on opening day at Easter Road. The Nigerian (left, with Oscar Priestman) finished off a counter-attack with five minutes remaining to secure the three points for the visitors. Steelmen midfielder Priestman earlier won and conceded a penalty. Lukas Fadinger put the visitors ahead from the spot five minutes before the break after Priestman was taken out by Josh Mulligan. Martin Boyle levelled with another penalty after being fouled by Priestman before the hour mark. Hibs had two efforts cleared off the line by Martin Moorman before Said slotted home to seal the victory. that’s here. I definitely need that and especially now, that helps me bring the most out of myself at this point in my career. Having that and having the hunger and young players push- ing and striving to be the best they can and go and win as much as they can, that’s massive. “Then you see guys in the dress- ing room like Cal [McGregor] and Jamesy [Forrest] that have won lots that still want to win. “Seeing that and being next to that helps you to keep pushing and keep that motivation, even at this later stage of my career. That whole environment is what I need.” Oxlade-Chamberlain was without a club for the first half of last season after agreeing to terminate his con- tract with Besiktas. So he feels the benefit of joining up with his Celtic team-mates ahead of the real action. “This is probably actually my first proper pre-season in a good three years,” he said. “You still get that same buzz and I’m still running around with a few 16, 17-year-olds out there who are excited. “Without the pre-season you can never 100 per cent know if you’re fully fit or durable enough to last for the whole season. But right now I feel great.” Craig McLeish hopes to bolster his St Mirren squad further following a show of strength off the bench in their opening-day win at Falkirk. The Paisley side got their Premiership campaign off to a flyer on Saturday, Killian Phillips scored in each half as seven of McLeish’s summer buys started. An eighth recruit, Luke Thomas, was announced on the morning of the game, the former Bristol Rovers winger debuting in the 76th minute off the bench. Liam Donnelly returned from knee surgery while Roland Idowu’s late appearance featured an assist for the second goal. “Luke was bright,” McLeish said. “He gives us something a bit different in the final third. He’s really energetic. He also gives us a lot of experience. “You can bring Luke on, Liam, Roland and Jake [Young] – it’s in a healthy place. And you’ve got others probably disappointed not to get on the pitch. “We’ve done a lot of recruitment and it’s probably not quite finished yet. We just need to keep building on it.” McLeish keen to bolster the Buddies FALKIRK 0-2 ST MIRREN You see guys like Cal and Jamesy that have won lots that still want to win HIBERNIAN Boyle pen 56 MOTHERWELL Fadinger pen 40, Said 85 ST JOHNSTONE Fowler 16, Diabate 47, Schjonning- Larsen og 69, Fotheringham 80 KILMARNOCK Kiltie 37, Hugill 49, Holt og 53
SPORT COMMONWEALTH GAMES Glasgow saved the Games – but at what cost? By James Toney IN GLASGOW Glasgow might have saved the Com- monwealth Games, but don’t expect to see them back on these shores for a generation. Four of the last seven editions have been staged in Great Britain, and it is clear that Commonwealth Sport realises it needs to cut ties to the mother country for its future relevance. Scotland gets its eternal thanks for stepping in at just 18 months’ no- tice when Victoria, Australia said it could not afford to host. Australian taxpayers ended up paying this city £100m in compensa- tion to stage the Games on their be- half and then duly topped the medal table with 70 golds. “Glasgow has acted as a bridge to the future of the Common- wealth Games movement,” said Commonwealth Sport president Dr Don- ald Rukare. “Every host writes its own chapter, and Glasgow’s has been one of bravery, courage, friendship and, above all, outstanding innovation.” India will host the centenary Games in 2030, and there are four private expressions of interest for 2034, with sports ministers being wined and dined in Glasgow’s most expensive spots in recent days. Nigeria has made no secret of its desire to become the first African host, while New Zealand believes a lower-cost approach to hosting finally gives it a chance to welcome the Commonwealth for the first time since 1990. Canada has not hosted since 1994 either. Insiders admit there is more chance of the Olympics coming back to the UK – with a bid mooted for the 2040s – before another Common- wealth Games. For years, officials presented hosts with a long list of demands and requirements. Glasgow has changed all that. The power has shifted and that’s arguably no bad thing. “It’s a much more collaborative process,” said Commonwealth Sport chief executive Katie Sadleir (above). “We’re not telling hosts, ‘This is what you must do.’ Instead, we’re asking, ‘What are you trying to achieve?’ and then working with them to make that happen. “We’ve set a guideline of around 15 to 17 sports, but if a future host comes to us with a proposal they be- lieve works for them, we’ll sit down and work through it together. We’re not imposing rigid targets. “We don’t want countries building facilities they don’t actually need just to host the Games. If a nation genu- inely wants to build a stadium be- cause it fits its long-term plans, that’s fine, but it shouldn’t automatically become part of the Games budget. “We don’t want hosts spending huge amounts of money on things we don’t think are necessary any more. Glasgow is using existing venues, stakeholders have accepted reduced service levels, there aren’t fleets of VIP cars, and people are travelling by bus. “Everyone has embraced that because they wanted the Common- wealth Games to happen.” But the Commonwealth movement can see the Games shifting away from the UK, a feeling reinforced by the BBC’s decision not to broadcast them free-to-air for the first time since 1954. The next Games in India will have 50 per cent more sports involved, but many at Common- wealth Sport still carry the scars of the Games in Delhi 16 years ago, which were so mired in corruption and incompetence there was a real chance, just days before they began, that they wouldn’t happen. India, which led the world in anti-doping violations, won 13 golds to finish fourth on the medal table here and is expected to stack the sports programme to its athletes’ advantage. Archery, badminton, hockey, shooting and squash are all expected to return. Kabaddi, which gets an au- dience of over 200 million on Indian television, is making its case too. There’s even been reports of com- petitive yoga. “There will be a discussion around which indigenous sports we want to showcase,” said Raghu Iyer, chief executive of the Indian Olympic Association. “When it comes to cricket we need to have discussions with the ICC because October is a very busy period of the season. It’s part of the Olympics now and we’d like it at the Games.” Movement sees need to cut its ties with former mother country Golden wonder Finucane completes awesome foursome By Charlie Bennett IN GLASGOW Emma Finucane admitted she had to learn how to carry the weight of expectation, before delivering a historic Commonwealth Games per- formance to match it. The Welsh rider completed a remarkable clean sweep in Glas- gow, adding keirin gold to her ear- lier victories in the time trial, sprint and team event to become the first sprinter in 96 years to win four gold medals at a single Games. Her achievement places her among the greatest riders in Com- monwealth cycling history, but the 23-year-old said the journey was as much mental as physical. After becoming an Olympic cham- pion in Paris, Finucane arrived in Glasgow knowing she would be the rider to beat. Yet rather than being burdened by that pressure, she learned to accept it. “After Paris, I definitely felt like I had a target on my back, but I’ve learned to embrace that,” she said. “I’ve learned how to deal with it better and focus on improving every day. I’m always thinking about the next thing, but I really want to stay in the moment now. That’s something I haven’t always been good at, but I’m trying to change that.” That new-found composure was evident in the keirin final yester- day, where Finucane moved to the front with two laps remaining and held her position all the way to the line to secure Wales’ 31st medal of the Games. It was a bold move that could have exposed her to a late challenge, but instead demonstrated the confi- dence of a rider comfortable with the responsibility of being favourite. The keirin is often a tactical battle, with six riders jostling for position behind a pacing bike before a frantic final sprint. Finucane proceeded to remove the drama by forcing the pace her- self, but this was no straightforward route to gold. While questions had been raised about the strength of the Common- wealth field, her rivals included Olympic champion Ellesse Andrews, who secured the silver medal while defending her title. Katy Marchant, Finucane’s Olym- pic team sprint team-mate, finished fifth, although Sophie Capewell, the third member of Britain’s Paris gold medal-winning trio, did not reach the final. “It feels incredible to have those gold medals,” Finucane added of her haul. “I did feel the pressure, of course, especially with people talk- ing about history and what could be achieved. I knew I had a chance to do something special, but anything can happen in sprinting. “I just hope I’ve inspired people back home to get on a bike or into a velodrome. I’m so glad I found this sport – or maybe it found me. I abso- lutely love what I do.” I knew I had a chance to do something special. I’m so glad I found this sport – maybe it found me Emma Finucane capped her memorable week in style PA
MONDAY 3 AUGUST 2026 NEWS 4-33 OPINION 18-22 TV 26-31 LIFE 34-37 CULTURE 38-41 MONEY 42-44 SPORT 47-56 Competition needed to help Roses bloom – coach By James Reid IN GLASGOW England netball head coach Anna Stembridge believes her players must find a way to experience the pressure of elite international netball week in, week out if the Roses are to challenge for gold medals. England were condemned to a second consecutive fourth-place finish at the Commonwealth Games following a 68-50 defeat by Australia for the bronze medal. It was the second time in a week that they had lost to the Diamonds by double digits and was a stark display of the gap they must bridge ahead of next year’s World Cup. Stembridge admitted her side struggled to deal with the intensity and pressure brought by the Australians, who all play in their domestic league, Super Netball. It is widely regarded as the best league in the world, but just three Roses players ply their trade Down Under, compared to six in the 2018 gold medal-winning squad. The likes of Lois Pearson and Funmi Fadoju have long been touted for moves but are locked in for the 2027 Netball Super League season, and Stembridge believes England must explore all opportunities to close the gap at the top. “Only two of those players have ever played at the Commonwealth Games and felt that level of pressure,” she said. “We have to try and find a way to simulate that week in, week out. “We’ve been fortunate in previous years to have a number of athletes playing in [Super Netball], and if you look at Jamaica, there’s no question they have benefited from that week-in, week-out exposure and pressure. There’s an opportunity for us to find ways to create those experiences.” The gold medal was won by New Zealand, who beat Jamaica 56-48 to claim their first Commonwealth title since 2010. New Zealand won their first netball gold medal since 2010 By James Toney Josh Kerr admits he is running with a target on his back but has more medals and records in his sights. World record holder and now Commonwealth champion, it was a whirlwind 24 hours for the new ‘King of the Mile’ after his heroics on Saturday evening. But Kerr is not the sort to stand still, though he admitted he had not had much sleep since his gold medal success at Scotstoun. “Glasgow on Friday night is al- ways bouncing,” he joked. This was the event he had circled in his calendar for some time, but the 28-year-old is already looking further ahead. First, there is regaining the world 1500m title in Beijing next year, then upgrading his Olympic silver from Paris to gold in LA in 2028, but top of the list is another world best. He has already erased Hicham El Guerrouj’s mile world record. Next may be the Moroc- can’s 28-year-old best in the 1500m – the long- est-standing men’s running record. Seb Coe, Steve Ovett and Steve Cram are all former British world record holders in middle- distance running’s blue riband event. Kerr makes no secret of the fact that he is racing for his legacy too. It is not unknown for in-form ath- letes to quickly collect records in middle-distance running. During a 41-day summer stretch in 1979, Coe broke the world records for the 800m, the mile and also the 1500m. Kerr will not compete over 1500m at the European Championships in Birmingham next week, which may open up another record tilt, maybe in Lausanne or Zurich this summer, “The 1500-world record is within my grasp,” he said. “I’m going to keep going after these records. Unfortunately, I’m the sort of per- son who gets something and always wants more. “We need to keep pushing our sport into the 21st century. I don’t want to get greedy. Greedy athletes make mistakes, like I did last year at the World Championships.” Kerr has never hidden his ambitions. He vowed to smash a 27-year-old record and win the Commonwealth gold this summer – and he has delivered on both. Admitting there was relief at backing up his bold talk, the Scot insisted he had loved every minute of the pressure. “Chris Hoy went to my school and I was in school assemblies listening to his stories and being inspired,” Kerr added of his formative years. “To be mentioned even in the same sentence as two absolute legends like him and Andy [Mur- ray, another Scottish sporting hero] doesn’t seem real. “This job is not easy if you don’t have role models and those guys were mine. But I’ve got a lot of work to do to keep up with them, and I’ll try.” Thanks to National Lottery players, more than £33m is raised every week for good causes. It’s because of you that sport, arts, heritage and community projects, as well as our athletes competing at the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games, are supported across the UK. Scotsman keen to keep flying to record times after marvellous mile I’ll keep going after these records. I’m the sort who gets something and always wants more Years since the 1500m world record was broken – it is the longest standing men’s running record No indoor rinks? No problem for Norfolk Island medallist By Mark Staniforth IN GLASGOW A bowler from tiny Norfolk Island in the South Pacific has won a bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games despite a complete lack of indoor facilities in her homeland. Shae Wilson’s chances of winning only the island’s third medal ever at the Games appeared to have evaporated after organisers announced that the lawn bowls event would be moved inside for the first time. Bowlers on the island – best known as the place where descendants of the Bounty mutineers resettled in 1856 – must swerve shots around the potholes on two grass greens in its largest town, Burnt Pine. But 27-year-old Wilson (above), playing at her third Games, mastered the sleek Glasgow carpet to such an extent that she sunk world champion Emma Firyana Saroji of Malaysia yesterday to finally earn a place on the podium. “It’s crazy to think I’ve come here and won a medal,” Wilson said. “Back home we have one club with two grass greens. It’s a struggle to get green- keepers at times and there are a few potholes on the way. “I might get away once a year and play in an indoor tournament but it’s not often, so it’s a big change. “The greens here are running at around 17 seconds, whereas our greens might be 11 or 12. But I just had to get out there and work it out. “It’s nice to put Norfolk back on the medals table. It’s a tiny place and such a tight community, and everyone back home is supporting and cheering for me. “But I wouldn’t say I’m a local celebrity. Everyone knows everyone over there.” Josh Kerr laps up the adulation as he wins in the mile on Saturday GETTY
theipaper.com/sport The i Paper Sport @TheiPaperSport theipaper.com Sport CRICKET Ex-teammates back Fleming to turn page on Bazball GOLF Rookie Kuwaki wins Open after tense play-off with Henseleit P50 P48 3 AUGUST 2026 Infantino position is untenable, says Euro leagues boss By John Revill Gianni Infantino’s position as Fifa president looks untenable following his failed plan to sell a stake in the World Cup’s commercial rights, the head of Europe’s professional foot- ball leagues said yesterday. Claudius Schäfer, whose organi- sation represents 53 professional men’s and women’s football leagues, said there could be “only one conse- quence” for Infantino after his plan triggered a storm of protest from regional associations. “When I saw how this whole thing unfolded and that Fifa’s key bodies weren’t involved, then there’s es- sentially only one consequence in any company or association,” Schäfer, the president of European Leagues, told Swiss newspaper SonntagsZeitung. Asked if this meant that Infantino was now unacceptable as Fifa presi- dent, Schäfer said: “This is usually the consequence when someone in a company pushes such a business deal forward without anyone know- ing about it.” Infantino said on Saturday that Fifa had scrapped the plan after a widespread backlash. Uefa and North American gov- erning body Concacaf said on Sat- urday that they had lost confidence in Infantino’s leadership. Schäfer, also chief executive of the Swiss Football League, said the proposal suggested that Fifa’s main goal was to maximise profits for third parties by having more and bigger competi- tions in future. “It’s solely about the financial advantages; everything else is com- pletely ignored,” he said. European Leagues opposed this because it would add more matches to an already packed international calendar to the detriment of nation- al championships, Schäfer added. “Nobody knew about the plans, not even the Fifa Council, the gov- erning body of Fifa. I was very sur- prised that the president was acting completely alone in this matter.” Welsh wonder Finucane wins fourth gold to become most decorated in history P54-55 Glasgow the Games changers Success points to slimmed down future – and not in GB ‘1500 record is in my grasp’ Kerr targeting more glory after golden summer COMMONWEALTH GAMES GLASGOW 2026 Emma Finucane celebrates victory in the women’s keirin on the final day of the Glasgow Commonwealth Games AP
这是一份针对该 PDF 翻译的 QA 审计报告。
1. 严重幻觉/内容篡改 (Severe Hallucinations/Content Alteration) - 第 4 页: 翻译文本中突然出现了大量关于“新加坡 Massive Attack 乐队被禁”、“伊朗石油危机导致燃料盗窃”、“约翰·斯温尼关注性别暴力”、“威廉王子对前廓尔喀士兵逝世感到悲痛”、“英国首所超级大学成立”等内容。 - 审计结论: 极其严重的幻觉。源文件第 4 页仅包含关于《蜘蛛侠》电影票房和苏格兰火灾的报道。翻译件将大量不相关的外部新闻（可能是其他文档或训练数据）强行插入，完全背离源文件。
2. 关键数字/单位错误 (Wrong Numbers & Unit Errors)
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- £10m 被翻译为 1000 万英镑m (冗余字符 m)。
- £10bn 被翻译为 1000 万英镑bn (数值错误：$10\text{bn}$ 是 100 亿，翻译成了 1000 万)。
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- $168m $\rightarrow$ $168 (缺失百万单位 m)。
- $157m $\rightarrow$ $157 (缺失百万单位 m)。
- $927m $\rightarrow$ $927 (缺失百万单位 m)。
- $1bn $\rightarrow$ $1 bn (保留英文，未统一翻译)。
3. 英语块残留 (Residual English Blocks)
- 第 1 页: per cent (多次出现)、means-tested 未翻译。
- 第 3 页: 整个条款部分 Terms & conditions: 18+ only... 完全未翻译，保留原英文块。
- 第 55 页: 23-year-old 未翻译。
4. 译后清理标签/交付缺陷 (Delivery Defects)
- 标题: 出现了 remote_md_aff037_ 这种内部处理标签，属于典型的交付缺陷。
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| 完整性 (Completeness) | ❌ 缺失 | 缺失食谱、部分谜题指令及条款详情。 |
| 准确性 (Accuracy) | ❌ 差 | 关键金额单位（百万/十亿）严重丢失或译错。 |
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| 交付格式 (Formatting) | ❌ 不合格 | 包含内部清理标签。 |
最终结论：此翻译件不可用，存在严重的幻觉和数据错误，必须重新翻译。