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Iranian hackers shut UK power plant

Unprecedented cyber attack linked to IRGC disabled the facility for four days

By Tracy Diver, Rosina Subur and Matt Oliver

IRAN shut down a British power plant for four days in an unprecedentedly blue attack, The Telegraph (an director

It is thought to be the first time that hackers affiliated with the Iranian regime have succeeded in closing down such a facility in the UK, and is believed to be the most successful cyber attack of its kind.

The Telegraph understands that the incident took place at the same time as a series of attacks on UK water raft and nature last month, which affected 10 days and drew concerns from the White House.

British officials refused to be drawn on which power plant had been affected, citing security concerns, but it is understood that the facility was disabled by four days while staff fought by being it back online. It is understood that the plant affected was relatively small and the outage had no impact on the UK's wider power supply or energy generation. In response, the Government briefed the chief executives of power companies and directly wrote to businesses with advice, direction and language.

The incident is understood to have been reported to the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), a public-facing branch of the GCSEs (up agency that issues advice to companies on keeping national infrastructure safe from foreign threats.

British and American intelligence agencies have expanded a war and of the risk posed by foreign insurers from Russia, China, Iran and North Korea, which brushed its the situation of infrastructure and government agencies with attacks on a dark basis.

Major incidents have previously brought down NHS systems, schools and commercial manufacturing facilities, foreign insurers whose have an violent customer information from retail businesses and voter records from the Electrical Commission.

However, no hacker is thought to have ever succeeded in bringing a Brit-

ish power plant to a standstill, despite watching that attack on national infrastructure are commonplace.

It is unlikely that the attack against the UK power plant was intended to fulfill a genuine harm on civilians, and is not thought to have been widely noticed by the public.

But it is possible that the incident was designed to prove that hackers linked to Iran's Atlantic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) could gain access to systems in the UK and close down sensitive infrastructure sites.

There are dozens of small-scale power plants across Britain connected to the grid. Many of them are gas fired and only used for a few hours per week for example when wind speeds are low and extra energy is needed.

The US hacks affected dozens of wastewater treatment plants, causing flooding and a loss of pressure from taps, and forcing some authorities to advise customers to boil their water before finishing it.

Iron has dramatically stopped up in cyber attacks on Western countries in the wake of the conflict in the Middle East, and especially since the US and Israel began stunt lines in February.

Suspected Iranian attacks have been reported in Germany, Poland, Finland, Belgium and Albania, although he is and other Middle Eastern countries are the most common targets.

In March, the NCSC refused British organisations to review their security systems in light of the conflict. The NCSC does not routinely acknowledge individual incidents and declined to comment on the latest attack.

A Government source said: "We have developed the important precautions to legally notify us of cyber activity, and this is in common way."

A Government spokesman added: "The UK has a highly resilient energy system. We work closely with the security sector to protect infrastructure and ensure the highest security standards. It is a point was there a risk to the wider energy system."

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Harry honours the fallen

Prince Harry participated in a public servant-taping ceremony at the Town of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery (the stock). He also visited Section 60, the resting place of many service members killed during wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The King also paid his respects at Arlington during his visit to Washington in April.

No guarantee of royal Christmas for Harry and Meghan

By Hannah Furness (KOLLY, EDITOR)

THE Duke and Duchess of Sussex are not guaranteed an invitation to Royal family gatherings including Christmas at Yandringham, The Telegraph can reveal.

The Smeeters and their two children, Prince Archie and Princess Lillott, will not be informed after included in outings for non-working members of the family, despite moving back to Britain. Each event, including the annual holiday in Belmont and St John's on Ardingham, is subject to a personal invitation from the King for all members of the family.

They are not expected to join the Balmoral holiday this year, owing to the

togistics of their move, although it has not been ruled out.

They are due to land in the UK before the end of August, ready for the children to start their new British poign school at the start of the September term.

The King has previously emphasised that Prince Harry, Meghan and their children, will always be members of the family.

Ariavne that they are moving back to Britain broke, palaces scarce make and that he was looking forward to seeing more of his son, daughter-in-law and grandchildren in a "private and personal capacity".

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are expected to maintain their "no half-in,

half-out" status as non-working corals described by palace sources as the terms that "signed up to" under Elizabeth II.

The King and Prince William are said to be in agreement on upholding the late Queen's wishes.

There has already been speculation that the Smeeters will be seen and photographed alongside the King and the wider Royal family in the coming months. Such an image would be considered a major milestone for the Duke and Duchess, placing them back at the heart of the monarchy in the public organisation.

Prince Harry hopes that the King will open the Invictus Sumus in 2027, in a show of support for his younger son's

work and military veterans. There are concerns among critics of the Smeeters, that such images would allow the Duke and Duchess to capitalise further on their links to monarchy in their commercial ventures.

One source said it was "way too early" to confirm when and whether the Smeeters would be included in any public family events once they are based in Britain. They will not attend official ones.

The King, sources have said, will ensure that the work of the monarchy does not change, reassuring working members of the family that their work is valued and the "no half-in, half-out" convention remains in place. The King Christmas Inn Page 4

Labour will send HMRC 'mansion tax police' to assess home values

By Camilla Turner

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ANJE BURNHAM will send 'mansion tax police' to inspect people's proper, be-used de-ute whether they should pay thousands of pounds in extra tax, The Telegraph can reveal.

The policy will see HMRC valuation agents going door to door to people's houses as they can assess whether the properties are worth more than £2m.

Bothersmen who refuse an inspection would be committing a criminal offence, punishable by a fine of up to

£20s. The more has been described as a 'summer assault on civil liberties' and an 'invasion of privacy' by sending up inspectors "to unreg-around" people's homes. The 'mansion tax' intended to hucked forever, the former chancellor, at last year's Budget, will let properties worth more than £2m with an extra levy of between £2,500 and £7,500 a year, depending on how much they are worth.

London and the South East are set to be the worst far by the public, although many homes in more squarchet rural areas will also be affected. In order to

identify which homes will be subject to the levy, HMRC agents will use third party data and publicly available information to value properties.

But ministers have now admitted - through answers to a series of parliamentary questions posed by the Conservatives - that government inspectors will also carry out 'internal inspections' of properties.

Met Hode, the shadow chancellor, said: "We may have changed prime minister, but it's the same old story with Labour - how can we raise tunes to pay for more benefits? Now they have chosen a summer assault on civil liberties as their latest method."

on a summer assault on civil liberties as their latest method.

Officially known as the high-value council tax surcharge, the "mansion tax" will require a huge revaluation exercise, whose officials examine houses in England currently under the top council tax bonds.

According to the Valuation Office, which is part of HMRC, property inspections would be necessary where "affiliates can only be confirmed internally or are measurement is required". Home inspectors would be gathering information on the size and archiver-

teral style of a house as well as the number of floors, rooms, bedrooms and bathrooms.

The Conservatives used the series of parliamentary questions to find out about the Government's plan. But Tom Simon, a junior Treasury minister, confirmed that homeowners faced the prospect of the Valuation Office consisting there is "stronger visit" to their home. He pointedly guidance from the Valuation Office, who hustles that failing to provide the "required information" to their agents who are assessing properties for council tax is "a criminal

matter that could result in a fine or, potentially, improvement of someone makes a false statement.

A government spokesman said: "The public understands that we are addressing a longstanding511deltown, where a Band D home in Darlington pays more in council tax than a £50m mansion in Mayfair. The Valuation Office will use a wide range of evidence to determine bandings." The spokesman added that any visits would take place by prior agreement with the property owner.

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HMRC staff handed £600.0k in energy subsidies in past four years, with total across government even higher

By BRIAN GORHAM-BROWN

HONOR REPORTER CIVIL servants from one of the Government's largest departments have been paid more than £600,000 to help cover their heating bills while working from home. The Telegraph can reveal: 'Unity bill subsidy payments to Bill Beverage & Customs (HMRC) staff have

more than doubled from £365,000 in 2022 to £20,000 in 2026, according to figures provided by the department. 'Over the past four financial year, ending in April 2026, more than £400,000 has been spent paying for a portion of home-working staff's energy bills. The cost across the Civil Service is estimated to be much higher, given HMRC is only the third largest government department by hand-comm, after the Department for Work and Pensions and the Ministry of Justice. The payments are only for staff who are contractual home workers. Mike Wood, the shadow Cabinet Officer minister, said: 'It is astonishing

that civil servants working from home are having their heating bills covered by hard-pressed taxpayers.' With energy bills costing thanks to Labour's certain obsession, hard-working families have enough on their plots without having to shell out for hand-comm to public servants. The Government should focus on getting energy bills down for everyone.' The energy bill figures obtained via a Freedom of Information request from The Telegraph, also down there are 5,250 staff within HMRC who are officially designated as contractual home workers, which represents 7 per cent of the 75,898 civil servants in the department.

It is thought to be the first time evidence has been obtained showing that home-working civil servants are being handed these payments. In 2022, the FSA union, which represents more than 21,000 senior officials, published a study on civil servants' views in working from home. One of its four recommendations said: 'Department and government give all employees who work remotely or in a hybrid model an allowance to help towards increased energy subsidy costs, as well as the necessary equipment to be safe and effective.' This week, Angela Burner claimed that civil servants could be more productive working from home and dismissed concerns about the effect on both Whitehall and the wider economy. The Blowing Secretary told the BBC's Dollar programme: 'If you look at some of the studies where people have done home working within their department, sickness levels have gone down, productivity has gone up.' But many MPs and campaigners feel that working from home is an inefficient use of taxpayer money. Danny Kragor, the head of Reform UK's pre-

paring for government department, said: 'This prototype waste of taxpayer money will be a tough gift to swallow for hard-working from forced to passingly high energy bills every single month. While ordinary families struggle with the cost of living, Whitehall functions use public cash to subsidise the bills they chose through the cost with their dogmatic net-zero obsession.' 'A Reform government will clash the Civil Service and end the unproductive work from home culture in the public sector to get Britain working again.' William Norwood, the campaign director of the Parliament Alliance, said: 'Guarantees will be baffled that HMRC staff are getting help with heating bills while millions cover their own. Civil servants already enjoy generous pay, pensions and flexible working, to subsidising their utilities while much to injury.' A HMRC spokesman said: 'These payments only apply to about 7 per cent of our workforce who are contractual home workers whose designated workplace is their home. They are not available to staff working under HMRC's hybrid working arrangements.'

NEWS BULLETIN

Case over leaked asylum home addresses pulled

Police have dropped the case against a man accused of leaking the addresses of homes housing asylum seekers which were later targeted during several nights of disorder. Proceedings against James Johnson, 62, of Conway, Norfolk, who works for a company providing housing for asylum seekers, were discontinued after additional evidence which undermined the case was identified. Police said that 'desertives continue to investigate how information was shared online which had to a number of addresses being targeted.' MPs Nelson, an employee of force, with 8 providers onto anti-edgedis services, had been charged with misconduct in public office.

Three held after two die in multi-vehicle crash

Two members died due multi-vehicle crash, according to police. It happened along the A2M Epsom Road at East Clandon, in Surrey, shortly after 3pm on Friday. Three had a man, one grey, one black and one white, were involved. The driver of the white car, aged in his late teens, and the passenger, a man in his early 20s, died at the scene. Survey Police confirmed that a 22-year-old man from Wolning, a 28-year-old woman from Guildford and a 19-year-old man from Guildford, were all arrested on suspicion of creating death by dangerous driving. They are in police custody. Police are appraising for that case to hope.

Fresh railway strikes in dispute over train safety

Rail workers are to stage fresh strikes in a long running dispute over safety. Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (SMT) union at East Midlands Railway will walk out for 10 hours from Noisles, Aug 30 and for 24 hours on Sept 10. Train members are continuing to take action short of strike including refusing to work on Class 9D trains over claims of faults. SMT's on Libby's bumper said: 'SMT is demanding that whilst these faults exist and until these trains are shown to be operating properly, they should be taken out of service.' The company said no safety critical faults have been identified.

Scots ferry evacuated after man makes threats

The crew and passengers of a Scottish islands ferry have been granted after a double emergency on Friday. A man developed an anthem from the water as the Caldrav vessel was aspiring him to do so in North Ayrshire on a crossing from Arran. Once on board, the ferry operator called a 'coalition account threat' was made, with police saying the man made threats. All 129 passengers were evacuated as emergency services dealt with the incident in Jefferson's halfway. Police said a 25-year-old man had been arrested. First Minister John Sweeney said he was 'ammoniely grateful' to the crew of the MV Caledonian Isles.

Time for a wee dram Lenoch Highlanders stop for a glass of whisky as they march through Downde to the Lenoch Highland Gathering and Games at Strathdon, Aberdeenshire yesterday. The Highlanders were created in 1823 to preserve Highland dress and support 'loyal, peaceful and manly conduct.'

Tagging to keep freed sex offenders in 'restriction zones'

By Charles Hlyman and Camille Turner SEX and violent offenders will be confined to new 'restriction zones' in little as a few miles wide under a tagging engine to prevent them reoffending. Their victims will have a say in drawing up the zones where the offenders will be confined for as long as their probation officers see fit. The new approach differs from the current system, in which offenders are barred from certain areas, such as a victims' home or workplace. Offenders inquired be restricted to a tightly defined area, giving victims

greater freedom to travel without the fear of unexpectedly coming face to face with their offenders. Any for all, where an offender stays outside the zone could result in them being sent back to prison. It will be embraced by GPS-based electronic together contract, that movements are not time. It is part of a new regime in which all released offenders will be tagged, potentially before they leave jail. A avoid delays caused when contractors are unable to run follow of hours. To comes after a dark Butchard, blocked the early release of 1,000 rapists and 1,000 governors as part of the

review of Sir Eoin Sturmer's scheme, meaning they will no longer be freed at the halfway point of their sentences rather than two-thirds. Alex Norris, the Justice Secretary, is reviewing how to block the early release of two of the killers of Fr. Andrew Harper and potentially other offenders convicted of mandandjitos. They are among some 1,000 prisoners due for early release in tranches from October to avoid jaily training out of space. Mr Norris said: 'No victim should fear the shadow of an abuser on their back. That's why we're getting limits on this

person offenders, confusing them to lightly controlled areas and giving victims greater freedom to get on with their lives. And with 10% to 15% of the population keep track of offenders' movements, those who step outside the boundaries can be quickly identified and has being sent back to prison. 'It is simple: offenders should carry the consequences of their crimes, not their victims.' The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said probation officers would draw up the zones, which would put victims here while ensuring offenders could still access vital appointments and services

that could help reduce their chances of reoffending. Under the plane, offenders will also receive goods and/or stores who offer a person little boundary of an exclusion zone, warning them to turn back. The alerts are designed to ensure offenders know they are being monitored round the clock. The MoJ said it was also introducing random drug testing for 1,000 offenders every month and 'lightening the head' for anyone convicted of rape or serious child as a offender. Through these contest with probation, one mandatory referrals to the most secure accommodation.

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Chino Kellerman walks on a Great Bernera band in the Hoholms. Left, with two of her dogs

MAS*H star's daughter at war with Hebriman taking dog in cafe

Locals fear financial ruin after dog owner takes legal action against cafes enforcing ban on pet

By Neil Johnston

NEWS-TIMES REVIEW

WITH its ancestor since circle, quiet livelihood and white sandy beaches, Great Bernera is a far cry from the dark humour of American military comedy MAS*H.

But now the small island in the Outer Hebrides is at the centre of a bitter conflict after the abysitter daughter of one of the film and TV show's stars complained of discrimination after she claims she was told her dog was not welcome in local cafes.

Two community groups say they are on the first-line financial ruin after Chino Kellerman, whose her aunt and adoptive mother played Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Brazilian in Robert Alman's like bitumen, took legal action over across rights for her beloved pet.

Ms Kellerman has been engaged in a year-long dispute with Bernera Community Association who she accused of

Chino Kellerman's daughter mother, Sally Kellerman, Miguel Vitelloy's daughter in the MAS*H shows and TV series

"intentional, targeted hostility and surveillance for those who are disabled with assistance dogs"

She claims that the community group is behind "unbridled abuses" while Island sources say there have been up to 30 disagreements with local businesses between American born. Kellerman over her dog.

Ms Kellerman is being supported by the Ethnic Minorities Law Centre, a Glasgow based refugee charity, and has even secured legal aid to fund her case.

The Stormway Gazette said that the legal dispute had cost the Bernera Community Trust 27,000, while the Bernera Community Association, which runs a cafe on a voluntary basis, is now being sued by Ms Kellerman for 430,000.

It was confirmed last week that the association was facing bankruptcy. A no legal costs continued to rise after Stormway Sheriff Court ruled the case could continue.

Ms Kellerman, who describes herself as a Regenerative Farming Community Designer, is thought to have arrived in the Outer Hebrides four years ago, her staying in the Isle of Lewis and then moving north to Bernera.

She said, "I want to support local businesses here and be part of the community but I have been estimated, balked and harassed by the community and shouted at in the street.

"The cafe should hold their hands up and admit they broke the law and it was illegal discrimination by refusing her permission to come in with my dog. My dog is a disability dog and is internationally recognized as such by airlines and businesses the world over. The cafe said I couldn't bring my disability dog in because they serve food but they simply don't want to follow the law. And they don't want me here."

Ms Kellerman claims the community cafe is behind "collective harassment" "international" and that its directors "actghtheonly abusing, harassing, targeting and illegally discriminating against its owners".

"The BCA charity had co-created an environment of vile, intentional, targeted hostility and surveillance for those who are disabled with Assistance dogs, due to their ignorance, and unwillingness to welcome all equally, despite the law protecting our human rights," she said. "They had an illegal sign on their cafe and hall door for

years. NO DOGS ALLOWED IN CENTRE.

"May the legal action and outcomes invite justice, and enhance their capacity to understand and end their ongoing, wrongfully defended abuses of the Republic - Human Rights Act of 2000."

Before moving to Great Bernera, she travelled between Hawaii, New Zealand and the UK, working in personalities and she is also a writer and musician. She was a founding pervaccabated for a 200-acre region (also agriculture project in Malawau, Hawaii and accord-

ing to social media she "trained for 12 years to facilitate Celtic Viking Mysticism".

Her aunt and adoptive mother Sally Kellerman was nominated for an Oscar for best supporting actor in the 1976 war film, and had an illustrious career throughout the decade.

The Scottish Legal Aid Board said no payments had yet been made to the charity and the application was "handled thoroughly, properly and entirely in line with all legal aid rules and guidance".

"They had an illegal sign on their cafe and hall door for years: No dogs allowed"

Donald Mackinnon MSP, said: "The decision to award legal aid to fund this action has potentially devastating consequences for the organisations involved."

Bernera Community Association is a small charity, doing important work in a rural community in Lewis. This absent case is putting the survival of their organisation at risk.

The Scottish Legal Aid Board should urgently review their decision.

The Ethnic Minorities Law Centre was contacted for comment.

Boy, 7, left 6,600 feet up Mount Fuji while his father finished climb

By Lily Shanagher

A MAX who left his seven-year-old son on Mount Fuji alone while he failed that he had been in the public.

The boy was taken into police custody after he was found sitting on a bench 6,600 feet up Japan's highest mountain in Japan (one with only 10 feet of a small, and a man's no financial meaning.

The boy, from Niigata, said he had started climbing the hill with his

48-year-old father and his brother, but had complained of being too tired to continue.

His father had told him to "wait here" after TV reported, while he continued the 12,300ft as rest with his elder son, who had gone on ahead.

TV Audio said the boy had been told to wait for home at the south station of the mountain, while he hears.

Half at a mountain but started police to his presence after spotting him on his

own at 7.35mm local time. They invited the boy inside the hut while they waited for the police to arrive.

Officers contacted the father, who had reached the english station, and handed the boy over to him when he arrived.

It was estimated that the boy had been left for about three hours, Japan Valley reported. The police office told AFP that officers gave the man a scolding for loosing the child behind. "Even

'Even if it means having to give up on climbing the mountain, leaving a child behind is unacceptable'

if it means having to give up on climbing the mountain together, leaving a child behind is unacceptable," one told him, according to Japan Today.

The father reportedly apologized to

the police, admitting the act was careless. "I made a rush decision, and I deeply regret it," he said.

The family had reportedly been following the Fujinombu route up the mountain beginning at the fifth station, which is accessible via public transport. It takes five hours to reach the peak from there and a further three hours to get down.

Every year, about 200,000 people climb the mountain, which is a popular

landmark in Japan and located on the island of Honoku south-west of Tokyo.

It is one of three traditional "Holy Mountains" in Japan, along with Mount Tate and Mount Raku in Toyama Prefecture and Honoku respectively.

It is an active volume, although its last creation was more than 300 years ago, and was granted World Heritage Status in 2015.

Paralysed rider mounts heroic comeback as GB paracanoeist

By Keith Perry

A PARALYSED horse rider has fought back from her disability to represent her country in the Paracanoe World Championships.

Saffron Crosswell, 23, lost the use of her body from the chest down after falling from her horse Visendi Hera at the Brazilian Horse Trade in June 2019, breaking her back in two places and injuring her spinal cord.

The international rider underwent surgery at Leeds General Infirmary before being moved to the Yorkshire Regional Spinal Sphere Centre (TRSC) at Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield.

But Crosswell's spirit has led her to winning a place at the Paracanoe World Championships in Poznan, Poland next

Saffron Crosswell is hemorrhaging dogs, shoes, and a softball to a wheelchair

week (Aug 20-30) - a sport she took up only last year.

After her rehabilitation, Crosswell, from Malvern, Wigan, tried many sports including wheelchair tennis, wheelchair racing, completing a half marathon and skiing before taking up paracanoeing at which she was so successful she will now represent Great Britain.

Crosswell will be competing in both

banks and VAA boats, sprinting 200m around one minute in the individual events.

"I am really excited ... it should be great fun," she said. "I first sat in a boat on November 21 so racing at the Para World Championships hadn't been the plan but I have been training a lot and pointing really hard. I am really enjoying the sport, it is a great opportunity."

Crosswell has also sat her rights on the Para Olympics, with Los Angeles 2020 as a possibility.

"I think it is a case of seeing this winter how it will develop. I want to go to the Para Olympics at LA 2020. I am not saying it's impossible. Because it has been a steep trajectory for goals are always changing.

"LA is possibly firsthand in 2012. There is a lot of an unknown.

Crosswell has also played a new career as a sports television presenter, inspirational speaker, and coaches other riders in dressage and evening.

The 23-year-old will represent Britain in the Paracanoe World Championships next week in Poznan, Poland

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'Balmoral summit' denied as family head out riding

Continued from Page 1 and Queen are currently hosting the wider Royal family at their Scottish state. The Prince and Princess of Wales and their three children have been with three since midwives, along with the Biddlesbighs, Daniels, Philippses, the Princess Royal and the Timothy Laurence, and Queen Camilla water, children and grandchildren on the Father throats side.

Each branch of the family hams with the King's team to confirm their attendance at private events, and align duties. The family, including the Prince and Princess of Wales, is expected to be the only three today in their attend Cradice Kirk. Members of the family were yesterday soon out riding, with the King during towards nearby Bracmer with a protection offer.

Semi-ex Satel denied the existence of a 'Balmoral Summit' about the Bracmer' return to Britain, saying this week is the same annual 'holiday' and a 'harborus' for the Royal family as in previous years.

But kingdom Palace has been unable to plan for the Duke and Duchess' return, being kept in the dark about their plans until Sunday.

Prince Harry has been vocal about his mistrust of countries, previously believing that during his plans with them in writing would lead to immediate leaks to the press. He is yet to discover whether he will receive tangible funded security once he and his family are living in the UK for an 'extended period'.

It is not yet clear how the Sunscreen will divide their time between the UK, US and Portugal, where they own a property. They are also close to the Duchess' mother, Borja England, who lives in California, although have no known relationship with her father Thomas Maillie.

If the Sunscreen were to be invited to private family gatherings, it would be the first time Princess Lillier, who was born in California, has been introduced to the traditions of royal life. Prince Archie, who joined his parents on one royal tour during their time in the working institution, left Britain before and first birthday. The Duke and Duchess do not plan to include their children in public appearances, and are expected to continue their policy of hiding their family in photographs.

But kingdom Palace declined to comment.

Harry deserves protection, say Labour MPs

Thornberry says Duke's 'big contribution' to country through public service puts him at risk

By Camilla Turner, Jacob Freedland and Victoria Ward

SENIOR Labour MPs have suggested that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex should be given taxpayer-funded security as they 'deserve to be secure' when they are to be able to 'CE'.

The Telegraph revealed that the complex on there has to be Britain later this month with their children Prince Archie, seven and Princess Lillier, five, and three. The new government thus security arrangements, which were downgraded after they stopped being working on its.

The Duke has long fought for the country, and the rest of the protection since then, but his efforts have been rejected by the courts and the Home Office committee responsible for making such decisions.

Under the current system, such visit requires 50 days' notice before circumstances are assessed on their merits.

The family are still waiting to bear the outcome of a review by the Royal and VIP Executive Committee (Raven) ahead of their return to the UK.

Dame Emily Thornberry, a senior Labour backhouse, who is chair of the foreign affairs select committee, told The Telegraph: 'I would want to be reassured that his family are going to be safe. They deserve to be secure. We have to remember for his made a contribution to this country through his public service and hercom.

'He is the son of the King, he has made a big contribution to our country through public service – that puts him and his family at risk.'

Meanwhile, Mike Tapp, Labour MP and former Home Office assessors, said that decisions about protection security should be based on a 'clear-eyed assessment of the threat'.

Writing on X he added: 'Having worked in national security, I strongly believe the only relevant consideration should be the assessed level of threat, and the professionals should be allowed to rest it that decision independently.

'Police protection is not a reward for public service. It exists to prevent attacks, deter those who would do harm and manage known risks before lives

'Those responsible should make their assessment based on evidence, intelligence and risk'

are lost. Those responsible should of course make their assessment based on evidence, intelligence and risk – not headlines, politics or public opinion.'

Steve Butler, another Labour MP and former minister in the first District government, added: 'Any system should be genuinely independent and based on an objective assessment of risk, rather than simply an individual's position to risk.'

'Where someone has served their country, faces specific and identifiable security threats, is a member of the Royal family, and is connected to additional risk factors such as sustained racial abuse, divorced at them or their family, those circumstances should be carefully considered as part of that assessment.'

We went on to say that the key issue is ensuring that the systems 'transparent, consistent and fair, so that decisions are made according to clearly understood, and that the public confidence can be maintained.'

The Government promised the Duke a new risk assessment from first since 2009, late last year which was due to take place in March. However, it was delayed without explanation.

The Telegraph revealed yesterday

that the Risk Management Board analysis – for which he had fought for responsibility took place in July. He has still awaiting its outcome and has lobbied Home Secretary Richard Mahmood for updates on both that and the provision his family can expect when they return. The Sunscreen could be forced to pay for their own private protection.

Obituaries of the estimated £200-a-year cost in understood to American Prince Harry, who believes it is just a drop in the ocean of Raven's overall budget for royalty protection.

He has repeatedly argued that the risk he faces was inherited at birth and, describing, has only increased in recent years.

Whenever the Duke has returned to Britain, he has been protected by his own private security team which by law is not allowed to carry arms.

In addition, the Duke is concerned that they are restricted from accessing up to date intelligence available to the police.

Andy Burnham, the Prime Minister, said on Thursday that the Duke and Duchess's security was a 'private matter', despite the potential cost for taxpayers if their security were reinstated.

Meanwhile from Balmoral, the Con-

'He has a very high public profile, more than most politicians who get security'

servative Party leader, called for 'common sense' to prevail on the question of the Duke's security.

Speaking to The Telegraph during a visit to Edinburgh, she said: 'Prince Harry is the son of the King. He is the son of the Sovereign, and that means he has a very high public profile, more than most politicians who get security, and that's just by reason of his birth.'

So, what I would expect is that between the palace and the security experts, they make the right assessment on the kind of security he needs.

She added: 'The fact is far in in this position by birth, not by choice of career, and I think there's a common sense position that can be found.'

However, Lord Fendlea, a Labour post-ambulatory under Sir Tony Blair's government, said the couple's security was a 'private matter' and they should deal with it personally.

He said: 'They are wealthy people, and I wonder have thought it is something that the taxpayer should be expected to pay for.'

'Once you start doing that, there is a whole range of people it would attend to – where do you stop? They are not royal. There doesn't seem to be any justification.'

Will she? Won't she? Drama of Meghan's return to acting is thrown into uncertainty

By India McTaggart and Hannah Patraco

THE Duchess of Sussex's role in the kitchen's Netflix series has been thrown into doubt. The Telegraph understands.

In an about-nine loss than 20 hours after the news was revealed, the Duchess's acting role in the third series of The Gentlemen has reportedly been withdrawn.

On Friday, it was revealed that she was unadvanced the curation to star in the UK-based production after her return to the UK series with Prince Harry and their two children, Prince Archie, seven, and Princess Lillier, five, at the end of the time month. But as the new, unanecedied of Fanny Zier, reported the offer 'has been withdrawn due to a public backlash.'

The Telegraph also understands the final could cut lapse after public reaction to the revelation, which was

have marked a return to acting for the Duchess after 10 years.

It is understood that the doubts do not come from the team behind The Gentlemen, but from either Netflix - which declined to comment - or the Sunscreen - who have not yet commented.

It was understood the offer of the role, which was only made recently, formed part of the decision making process in the family educating at the UK, but was not the sole reason.

After living in the United States for more than six years, the couple moved to a locate in a private, non-trial residence thought to be outside London later this month.

The Duke and Duchess's status as non-working royals and private individuals will remain unchanged.

In kitchen's action series, star Theo Immo 'transition from Duke to drug heroin' after inheriting his family's return and discovering it is home to an underground causation complex.

The Duchess worked as an

action before meeting Prince Harry and was best known for her role as losers' family class in seven seasons of the US legal drama duet. She took time out from acting as 2017 and told the BBC she presented a loser break as 'a new chapter' following her meeting the Duke's year beforehand.

In 2022, the Duchess told US magazine 'Desert that she was 'duet' with her former acting career, saying: 'I guess never say never, but my intention is to abandon my act.'

Guy Wintin and Vinnie Jones on the act of the The Gentlemen left, the Duchess said in 2023 that a return to acting was 'absolutely not for intention'

However, she recently returned to the profession with a cameo as herself as forthcoming comedy (One Personal Friends, starring Lily Collins and Brie Jones).

On Friday, it was understood that the Duchess was poised to accept the role in the Gentlemen.

It was believed a part was being written for her for the series, which premiered second season next month.

The Netflix action comedy originally aired in 2024 and was kitchen's first TV

show. It follows the life of a British aristocrat after he unexpectedly inherits the retain of his estranged father - the Duke of Balmoral - and discovered that it sits atop a multi-million-pound underground causation empire.

If she takes on a role in the series, it will mark the Labour project as long-standing ten between the Duchess and Netflix.

The streaming giant was a commercial partner for her US-based lifestyle brand As Ever, which she plans to continue running from the UK, and was the host of the unscrupled show promoting the brand, titled Wild Love, Stephen.

After stopping down at working corals in 2016, the Duke and Duchess initially had a five-year deal with Netflix, worth a reported $80bn, however, the deal impounded last year amid reports published in 'Society that the relationship between key executives in the company and the couple had control.'

During their initial deal, the couple produced a six-part documentary on their life after leaving the Royal family, titled Harry & Meghan, and a polo documentary as well as Meghan's lifestyle show, which was critically panned and failed to make the top 1,000 most-watched top-up minors on the streaming platform.

The co-production company, Archerwell Productions, now maintains a 'fleet back' deal with the streaming giant and its third-day Duchess was pictured holding hands with the wife of Ted Saunders at a party hosted by the Netflix band.

Representatives of the Duchess have been contacted for comment.

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The King beware 'Sussene', selfish return family, spear peril for the Royal family

Allison Pearson

'PLEASE, boys, don't make my final return a misery.' The words of the future Kings thank fill in the pleaded with his lessons to push things up at their grandfather's funeral in April 2020 have just acquired a whole new resonance.

The 'boys', better known as Prince William and Prince Harry, never did make up. Indeed, their final only deepened as the older brother famed at the youngster's tenacheys reveals the Royal family, in general, and the wife, in particular. Distinguously, in her interview with Oprah Winifers, the Deu-Seno of Sussex accused sinistered members of the family of racism in relation to her uniform father calms colour!

The last time Harry and William stood together, just the two of them, was in July 2020 at the unveiling of a famous statue of their late mother on what would have been her 60th birthday. They could barely look at each other for William, Harry's personal and painful revelations two years later in his biography. Space, wars an uncongenable history lay the human being he sees treated best.

Add coal-tite hopes to that soothing Shakespearean-ending rivalry, as long as Diana's beloved boys, now men in their 40s, were unpated by an ocean. Harry and Meghan found the ocean as California's best in stabilizing Windsor ways they so publicly accused. The Widows were left to mark the ship after the turbulence of 'Moguit'. They did so admirably and to converse in a turn despite the Princess of Wales's shocking brush with cancer.

The Telegraph's revelation on Wednesday night that the Duke and Deu-Seno of Sussex are returning to the UK later this month - a typical piece of Sunset melodrama, both blithely selfish and utterly ruthless - threatens the unseen time between the brothers. It also heralds a moment of intense danger to the monarchy. I think, because almost anything could happen - and very little of it good.

The King has shown immense fortitude during his career treatment, and continues to carry out his duties with chans and uploath, but the 75-year-old Charles is ailing. Understandably, there is speculation that Harry has sensed this moment to shore up his family's position while a dead Papa is still on the throne and able to hail him out.

With a commitment to a slammed-down moment by probably composed of his own three children, George, Charlotte and Louis, and their immediate future things would look very different under a future King Worship. The Duke and Deu-Seno, and Prince Archie and Princess Lillie's film-fashioned face-rainbowers to the British public even though they are sunk and worried in line to our throats, might well lose their titles and their success to the only thing that they have left to sell, apart from less of thousands of years of Meghan's pain. A bit by position, it may have to agree.

Cross a point out that Harry's newfound enthusiasm for Ireland is down a humiliating failure in the US. After the Deu-Seno's teeth-cottingly plainous lifestyle dates, With Zeal, Meghan, was pasted, Netflix had a lot watered down the couple's lavish day. When they were the great family, allegedly the net creating enough content to earn out their £25m £24m big payment, a famous statue was interredated the royal couple '5-mg-girther'.

America am low-seas-cross and stumped the starfull forest from its opposite. People began to get to Harry and Meghan to learn to want a low-profile, secluded prosize life sheds terrific 'nerves'. Lunch-balls, Rhodesia's Prince, Four episode, a hilarious satire on the sky, retiring business, found the date of debosses. They became so out-puterness about being an invitation to the Oscars. Even Oprah appeared to distance herself from the past on whom she lavished such sympathy when they were reminding love greatly from its mellow-royals and their own future things she or she shattered.

The truth is, however cynical you are about the King's father, it's not a real air enough. Their jaw-dropping, in practice is only recorded by their lack of self-awareness and contrition. A champion recites of his own grievances, Harry and a non-nationalist silence when it comes to the very strong the pain and embarrassment of his counsel has even relatives. For Team Sussex, it's 'my truth' that counts.

Only last year, a fearful Harry was telling the film! 'It's impossible for me to take my family back to the UK lately. I can see a world in which I would be bringing my wife and children back to the UK at this point.'

So what changed? Is the UK no longer so as in that Meghan couldn't bear to the hero? Is the King's own love with what was 'smoother' by her terrible in-laws? Has Queen Camilla craved to be 'dangerous' as Harry claimed in the world? Is they grievous, and why no hope a priority? Did they get the apology from the regain they failed, demanded as a condition of returning?

Well, they're coming back anyway. And we don't want them - we really don't want them. Thousands of camels (joke and nugly) outfruits unattracted overnight on social media.

'What have we done to deserve this?' wondered one man.

'Maybe we get another to appear on Celebrity Doctors,' quipped another.

'Neckering. It's obvious that this move, like everything else, is purely about what's in it for them.'

'There must be a problem in the Harry's US -sins - who in their right minds would go back to a country they trailed and where they are latest.'

'Never-ending attention is refers, they just want to cause more aggressive for William and Kate.'

'On the lookout for more material for their Diana, the insanitary and hard books in doubt.'

'They are coming back to monetise the kids.'

'With luck it will speed up the divorce.' 'The far they were outweighs' cyborg back shows they have to keep an extra-condition or shame. They will be ever he's there in the side of the Royal family. And us too

The magic created by Harry and Meghan's fairytale wedding in 2019 quickly soared, looking about 4% with the fame and Duchess of Cambridge, below.

because we will never be able to escape hearing about them. They don't want a quest for.'

'Hate and hoping gladly will hail them out.' 'The whole thing is grotesque because of their disdain for my country and the way they treated the Queen.'

The only way of brutality and bitterness is overwhelming, with the self-affirmative comment heavily outnumbered. Dndging by the remarks, Meghan will be lucky not to be bound should she ever venture into Wales so I like any couple ever found through a smash, go itself as a god-bye!

How different it was back in May 2019 when I wrote for The Telegraph about Harry and Meghan's fairytale wedding in 2019 Georges Chapel in Windsor Castle. It was a gloomy day, the Church that waved and the people chased of for their favourite young royal. Everyone was so happy that Diana's red boy - that she'd shocked 12 year old we had won best at he walked, ghost-pale, beside his mother's coffin - had finally found a bright and beautiful woman to love him.

Aimlessly, about both rang when Meghan commanded and the engagement since we're promising to 'hit the geared running' more like a public contested on The Aggressive than a doting fiancée, but doubts were unapologied by a beautiful certrude that confided the best of British and American. In his Blaze & Royals uniform, Harry looked like the fristed Salvation Army outgrown over, but was genuine and just vows.

Seated beside him, William did his best to recreate his brother. We know now that William had grave doubts about the choice of bride and the speed of the courtship, but a honored Harry wasn't in the mood for listening or caution. As the bride started up at her husband with a look of glistening attention that took seemed sweet and genuine back then, but like and irritating now, Elizabeth II shot Meghan an owlish glare she disappeared of the American divorcee wearing 'original whim', lit retrospect, she seems to have been the only one with a clear-eyed view of what was coming.

Forty years the entire country fell for the Sunsene that day. It took serious effort on their part to make us fall out of love with them - they found fault with their handsome baronic cottage, resorted to US standards at aboard expenses - complaced constantly about the overwhelmingly pointed media coverage and 'racism' and then there were dangerous that a high maintenance Meghan bullied future staff. An absurdly swollen sense of entitlement led to demands that the couple be allowed to set up as future royals in America, enjoying the perils of proximity to the throne without the disney

responsibilities. The late Queen wisely refused - she didn't want them destroying text in the Royal family by combining duty and interest making - and so 'Moguit' became permanent.

Harry was stripped of his military title and royal patronage - 'things that had given his life failed and meaning. Widely above the became he was always good for a laugh. Harry became a scowling social justice warrior parenting models pleasure about 'my common love' you know Meghan had taught him.

And then, the couple gone. The Sunsene both suggest off the Royal family on America in TV in front of hundreds of millions - all that after they had something like Queen so much worry and distress have final years. To the British people, who had fallen for over £25m for their wedding, it felt like the chest supermuch.

So, it is to that neighbour on national mood that the Sunsene now return, Meghan, narrowly avoid being the least popular royal because the former Prince Andrew is even more deserved. Some 65 per cent of Britain's hold on undecodable opinion of Meghan 2.5 per cent favourable, while 18 per cent dishonest by 50 per cent positive.

The Duke and Deu-Seno's status as 'not working people' will be not changed, we are told, but who seriously believes that Meghan, the soft-xpted-global humanitarian, will be a strong daughter, too. No more children in the Coterieish where the family are likely to settle? But may be able to score the wild charlatin with her mother's family, too? No more for Shane, although Jeremy Clarkson definitely won't be inciting the Sunsene ever to Jeddly input Farm for a big royal. Meghan would have Clarkson state that like a shot.

The Sunsene gave them the Sponsor side of the family, as well as Princesse Beatrice and Eugene. Meghan will find herself what can't lately end on enoughly frustrated. He never liked Britain, and to do it's opinion of the huge affectionate Sir Kate. She spent trips to the UK, with or without the children, could put distance between her and Harry, and far better the process of separation many have foretold.

On Friday, we scared the Meghan may have something to think about the UK. I hope I am sure the Royal Shakespeare Company was looking for a £1m 50s he'd.

The Sunsene was a flurry and Meghan will be a constant distraction from the activities of the working couple - we have their breaking news display of the lovely story of Camilla talking about her husband's cancer. There will effectively be two local courts led by the warring brothers. What happens when Prince George starts at his own levels, and photographs to take the traditional picture? Will the Sunsene drop do this and fallow off the story, and the story will with no snugged present? The first picture of the faces of the Sussex children would have been seen to every front page. Because how that would make William and Kate feel. Now imagine what when go of satisfaction that we need goes Meghan.

How long do you think it will be before the Sunsene make it known that they think it's not that do they and I allow an uproasted from seeing their cousins by the cruel, stand-offish William and Kate? Using their children as parent may not be beyond them.

'It's hard for, says Harry's biographer, August Levitt. 'Kate is gentle, she's not like Meghan, and Meghan is not going to change me out. She thinks she knows everything - she always has to win.' Levitt worries about the effect the stories could have on Kate's health. 'Excise members of the Royal family are currently enjoying their summer break at Edexcel. I am told the news that Harry and

'William will be furious, and rightly so, if the prodigal son is so easily taken back by their good-natured father'

Meghan returning worst down this a program full of call-foughts - this senior middle-grown for us to call it 'an act of violent aggression. I feel desperately sorry for William and Kate'.

The King is every kind man, and it's understandable that he wishes to spend more time with Harry and his children, but I'm not sure Charles has thought through what this means for his heir and his family. Are William and Kate to be groaned into forgetting a god who caused them so much pain and turmoil? Remember how William angels snapped at a repackie after that infamous Oprah interview. 'We are very much NOT a racist family.'

The Widows are sad by assures to 'have no interest in engaging with anything Harry and Meghan in so up.' Same start than does when 'Mr Agam Meghan' has a track record of trying to upspite the couple's scheduled events.

William and Kate, who have done so much to uphold the family's reputation during 'Moguit' and the dangers of Andrew, could find themselves undecided by the Sunsene of every turn. William will be furious, and rightly so, if the prodigal son is so easily taken back into the fair by their good-natured father.

What about Christmas? Must the Royal family gather a hand-English with the her that Harry and Meghan are taking notes for their next book - it's common to write 50th anniversary of Diana's death next year! She was born in June, Meghan and the kids are allowed to join the walk from that to an Christmas line - if they do the final word just be on the ground.

What are Harry and Meghan playing at? There was apparently no mention of them moving back to the UK at the tea they had at Highgreen with the King in July. He was blissful dead told of the plan only to Sunday, which, if true, is an extra-millingly rude. They must have been getting the far murdled by finding a place to live and extending the children in a check. The Sunsene are dangerous.

'Manipulates to the highest degree,' warns Tom Reece, the royal author. If they do lots of charity appearance and fun events over the next year, they may hope to win back the public and reangle the half in, half out, and end of, instead by that who started by the late Queen.

Levin points out that, as now working royals, 'there are few to do and say what they want. They can trust what the other family members are up to and get them first. They can muscle us on the limelight and champion political causes that embarrass the King. I'm really worried'

He should all be worried, at least those of us who care about the survival of the monarchy. 'Please, boss, don't make my final years a misery.' the King pleaded the years ago. But soon are still outraged, and it must be terribly painful. But while Charles may put such long for two on district, by fact to take the hardest of hard lines with the Sunsene, his wife shares William's views on that part. It would be unforgivable to expect his eldest son to forgive or scare unforgivable things.

You can forget building bridges. Sunsheed Kingdom Printed couldn't build a bridge that would repair what Harry and Meghan have done to the Windows.

There must be no space royal rules for them, and no understating of the heir to the throne and his wonderful wife on whom the future of the institution rests. The King should welcome the family home as a father and grandfather. Then he should remove their titles to limit the mischief they can cause.

Just because the America on dream went sour for Harry and Meghan, they have no right to come here and cause a nightmare. If there is to be a war of the royal courts, I am Team William and Kate all the way.

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Badenoch: Coalition with Farage would be monstrous

Tory leader says uniting with Reform would put off as many people as it gained with party life by infighting

By Jacob Fren-Eland accreditationist

BERN BAHRENSCH has described the prospect of coalition government with Reform UK as 'monstrous'.

Once supervising out the prospect of a draft between the two centre flight parties, the Tory leader said any deal would 'put off' as many voters as it would 'gain'.

She made the comments after Nigel Farage suspended a high-profile as Tory majorist after he criticised the Reform leader on a podcast.

Tim Montgomery, who founded the Conservative House website before defecting to Reform in 2024, is cured Mr Farage of having a 'woman problem' and his out at the leaders 'angry and aggrieved' tone following his Clarion by election victory.

The latest row followed a separate spit between Mr Farage and the Yusuf, the party's home affairs spokesman, who received a 'locking-off' after calling the Ben Wallace's 'name'.

Mr Hammock said that usual activism as evidence of Reform's influence to be a potential future partner of the Conservative Party.

Speaking to him from an part of his AI full series at Edinburgh Fringe, she said: 'Before me [just] people fighting all the time. Nigel Farage dictates what he means, depending on what he shall for breakfast that day and they're all over the place. How do I work with people like that?'

The Tory leader pointed to her victory at the Aberdeen South by election in June as evidence that the party did not need to cut a deal with Reform to defeat Left-wing opponents. Douglas Lonsden won the war, previously held by the 1997—with nearly 50 per cent of the vote by vigorously campaigning on the North Sea oil issue.

Reflecting on the win, Mr Badenoch said: 'If Reform had stood down in Aberdeen, so our would-bean believed we'd have won it on our own. They would have said we only got there because of Reform, So that's why I am no doubt.'

What I want is a Conservative government, not a monstrous Reform

Conservative hybrid—which will put as many people off as it gains.

Reform has won a drop in support according to opinions in the after, it emerged that Mr Farage had failed to declare a £5m gift from Christopher Markham the cryocourtesy full-burden a parliamentary investigation for decisions based on a new After. Mr Farage returned to Parliament in MR for Clarion earlier this month.

The party has also been expelled in internal battles, with the suspension of Mr Montgomery as serving as part of his latest example.

In Mrs Mr Yusuf criticised Reform, however, the party's towards the new woman, for saying that foreign nationals would not 'excitement' face deportation because they loved in council accommodation.

Mr Yusuf studied Mr Fowich, saying his comments were 'not Reform policy'. Earlier this month, Mr Farage said he would include Mr Yusuf after he called for Ben Wallace's 'mower' and 'water to Britain'.

Reform's home affairs spokesman

Nigel Farage dictates what he wants depending on what he had for breakfast. They're all over the place

made the remarks after the former Cabinet minister criticised Reform's new policy of focusing officer control on to the back foreign offensive.

Mr Farage stopped down his colleague saying the word 'matter' was 'too strong' just said he would get a 'locking-off' for his vote in the spit.

The party's internal confidence level is a quick but Tuesday when Mr Montgomery was suspended following allegations he had been cheersed on a contract with between Mr Farage and Mr Yusuf. Mr Montgomery denies the allegation.

Mr Montgomery claimed, in an interview with The Spectator on Monday, Mr Farage had a problem being interviewed by women and unseemmed himself with people who said him what he 'wants to hear'.

In an interview with The Telegraph, media fisherman rejected a part with her former party and IFerster Britain insisting Reform was 'the only vehicle that anyone on the Right should get behind'.

Reform UK has been contented for comment.

Conservative Party leader Karol Badenoch reacts with laughter as she is interviewed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival

Reform's mayor hopeful pledges to double police in London

By Genevieve Stoll-Alben POLITICAL COMMISSIONIST

REFORM UK has pledged to double the number of visible police officers on London's streets if it wins the next major election day.

Luke Cunningham, Reform's London general candidate, promised a 'dry one' audit of how Metropolitan Police officers spend their time to get them out from behind their doors and run patrol.

She said nothing out. At across the town to assist with paperwork and the preparing and collating of evidence would allow for to be met the number of police officers in the economic.

In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph, she said: 'If over will her they are 'reversing in paperwork' and are weighed out to arrest offenders for their misery and misconduct.'

The London's want is that criminals should be looking over their shoulders. The police should be told that London are 'she said'.

Mr Cunningham, born in London to Egyptian parents, also revealed that in early July criminals had raged the wing of the 1974 war, and no police visited her home to make inquiries despite her liking a report.

The former public prosecutor, who joined Reform as June 2023, will today use other news plans to tackle crime in

'The London's want is that criminals should be looking over their shoulders, not Londoners'

the capital is a new campaign video, sent by The Telegraph. She said: 'If our police officers are stuck filling in forms instead of gambling, our streets, the people who pay the price are you and me, ordinary Londoners.

...That's why one of my priorities is simple: get more police back where they belong, out on the streets. We can do that without waiting years to no cost thousands more. We start by making the officers we have more productive.'

The London's mayor criticised the UK. The Telegraph also wanted to make London 'the Fidry on steroids' with a modernization drive across public services. 'That's what I want to call is that the women once that happens, you will have a better use of public space.' I want to give people back their time and their safety.'

He looks like a bit time rejected a proposal that he wants the Met and Palanta UK, the technology company to use AI to speed up criminal investigation and cost out corruption.

A spokesman for the mayor said: 'Twelve top priority is ensuring Londoners feel safe and are safe. The evidence is clear - crime in London is falling. Thanks to a record £1.89m funding from City Hall, last year the capital recorded its lowest over home rule rate.'

MPs should reveal freebies 'inside seven days' to win back trust

By Genevieve Stoll-Alben

MPs should publish their freebies within a week of accepting them to improve public trust. A future host of the markets was blog has said.

Sir Alistair Dunton, chairman of the committee for standards in public life from 2015 to 2007, said the current edition will be published by the 3rd publication on it for themselves.

With her current edition of 2010,100 pages and more, the publication start of 2026, an increase on the previous year.

Larry French, the Education Service, and the University of Oxford for a Thirty Years concert from FRS for Moat, an industry group for cooperatives, co-operers and music publishers.

Was financing the Defence Service

tary, took tickets to the Chelsea Power Have worth £5,850 from Lloyds Bank and Group. The countries reported.

Sir Alistair told The Sunday Telegraph that MPs should be more aware of the time the acceptance of gifts and hospitality comes across the election day.

'Without tighter rules, it will have an impact on confidence in our publications, and it undermines the integrity of politicians, which is potentially damaging to our democratic system,' he said. 'And it also is a major question could be tightened,' he added. 'They should have to publish it on their local MPs and have particularly within seven days of accepting it. This should concentrate the quality.'

Currently, MPs and ministers must declare gifts and hospitality on the ex-

Without tighter rules, it will have an impact on confidence in our political system

vant registers of interest, which are updated if next monthly.

Heidi Alexander, the Transport Secretary, accepted tickets to the Wimbledon meets single flight related at £1,000. Anneliese Midgley, the Chief Whip, accepted hospitality for two at the first decade worth £3,612 while serving as a Lockdown's MP.

She also received hospitality at Christchans Festival horse racing from her long company Phatter worth £350, and tickets to the Grand Patterson Grand at £500.

Labour came under five over freebies shortly after the general election, when it emerged by Erie Starmer took thousands of pounds for suits and glasses from Lord AB, Angela Rayner admitted staying in the Labour donuts New York

flat for five nights over the new year - a gift she said was worth £1,200.

Several years in former members accepted tickets to Taylor Swift's Eros Tour that year, including Sir Ross, Bridges' Phillipson, Lisa Randy and Damon Jones. Rachel Reeves, the then chancellor, said she can die would not accept any more free tickets after a butchastic her taking a family member to see Salman Carpenter at the Q1.

The Eros reported that the value of free tickets was $1,000 by MPs was about £300,000 in 2023, and the figure has gone up that year.

Sir Alistair said that there is a 'distinctive' between free tickets for a constituency, even like a local team's football match and more expensive freebies unconnected to their arms. 'If

'The general response of the public is that all politicians are in it for themselves'

you were a shadow as a minister, and something just to study in your area with the most important interest, then there may be some circumstances where you'd want to accept hospitality from a local company or something.

So the said MPs needed to be aware that the government is to offer public in that all politicians are in it for themselves and therefore it does have an undermining effect of people's trust'

The unquestionable view spanned around the world was that the interest to stipulate that ministers should not accept any gifts, hospitality or service which they would have agreed to, vote promise their judgment or place them under an obligation to make or organisation that might try a appropriately to influence their work as government.

Cut benefits or the markets will force you, Reform tells Labour

By Genevieve Stoll-Alben

BATUPS will be combined to 1970s style economic crisis without reform of the welfare system, Reform's Reform Amist has blamed.

Mr French, the party's treasury spokesman, said Labour on what to cut the benefits fall before reforms were 'forcolleged on' by the markets.

Last week, he unveiled a package of Reform policy proposed to save £50m a year by accepting key benefits.

The party would all cash personal independence payments (Pip and the health expense of Universal Credit for working age adults, around 2.99 million people would have their minimum removal or cut under the proposals.

In an interview with the When the anti-Europe standard, the Amist said: 'If we don't do these welfare reforms, I think there's a very high chance we'll end up in one kind of fiscal crisis, with the local markets taking high.

To help raise the price of the 1980s, the 1980s are able levels, leading to reforms of this nation or even stronger ones being forced upon us by external force, by made campaign.

The 1980s are the first happened in the 1970s - and would be far, far more unpolished than anything I've set out.

Denis Healey, the then Labour chancellor, was forced to ask for an emergency. The 1980s were the International Monetary Fund in 1976 as Britain was plunged into a pooling crisis.

Figures published by the Office for National Statistics last week showed a 2.0% national debt over a 2.3% tax in July. The gap between tax receipts and spending resulted in an more period deficit of £3.9bn, with economic blaming it on the rising cost of the 1980s.

The welfare fall is forecast to fall £533bn this year, according to analysis by the Centre for Social Justice.

Andy Bynsham, noted out making 'crude' cuts to the best and the healthy before becoming 'theer Minister' in the past year, crackdown, as youth sickness benefits, with a much higher rate of being stripped of their cash waiver later, agree to the training or voluntary work. The Government will

Robert Ansdale BATUPS results welfare reforms

set out its proposals on the North crisis after Alan Milburn publishes his final report on youth unemployment in the autumn.

Mr French accused the Government of 'extremely understating the danger of all this coming to bead in your kind of specifics (financial) ...'

John Healey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, will deliver his first budget in October, and he is turning to increase

unovagant to balance his books. The investment examination started that has headcount under the government's fiscal rules - which act as a check on public spending - had almost from around £20bn to the going from than £8bn.

A Government spokesman said: 'We are already investing welfare narrowing the gap between Universal Credit standard and health rates, restoring the to the point of the 1980s and reversing £5.5 billion in employment support to 'cut the culture of your job, driving 'signed off and 'welfare off'

Burnham's election economics adviser warns against wealth taxes

By Diana van Leeuwen

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS EDITOR

LORD O'NEILL, the former banker who advised death Burnham during her election campaign, has urged the Prime Minister not to impose controversial wealth taxes.

Lord O'Neill, who was chief economist at Guttman he has said he was not in favour of so-called wealth taxes, in particular for 'capital growth' in pension and taking charge into woman support.

His criticisms come after the veteran financier revealed the division at office of a role in Mr Burnham's government.

Lord O'Neill told the BBC: 'I'm not a fan of these funds of taxes.'

'We need to encourage entrepreneurs. We need more genuine risk takers and more entrepreneurs, and we need to boost these sort of green shoots of growth.'

Rather than having an official role, Lord O'Neill told the P2 that he wanted to maintain 'an informal team' and with the Prime Minister and his advisers. However, he said the decision was not related to any other policy.

Speaking to the P2 Lord O'Neill said: 'I enjoy what I'm being told about, and don't want the constraints of a blind team and all the constraints that would

be necessary. It's not because of any policy disagreements.

'The decision is one of the focus on development, and I hope Andy and his team will be held on this and everything else.'

Lord O'Neill was one of three influential City figures and economists who had been showing Mr Burnham as he prepared to enter Downing World.

As a junior minister to George Stevens, the former chancellor, Lord

We need more risk-takers and entrepreneurs and we need to boost these sort of green shoots of growth'

O'Neill's previous group of chucklerists expect Mr Burnham would be prudent to learn and speaking.

He is also understood to have perishable turned-downs of almost level numbers in the UK.

Mr Burnham's other informal advisers for him be entered Downing, those were Richard Hughes, the former chairman of the office for Budget Response. 'I think he is like this here, a former Bank of England chief economist.

Whither has yet indicated that they

will formally join, or want to join, Mr Burnham's economic team.

The main problem of economic adviser in No. 10 is 10 years old. Neil about death, frequently a minister with the pay group Clean Health.

He has an economic it-figure from 1980 to 1990. He is now a previously worked for Rachel Reeves, the former chancellor.

The Prime Minister has also kept on 'Haven' Daniels a former Falkman and an authorised member of the Labour joint between his 3d and business.

But so far there are no new recruits with Lord O'Neill's experience in business or the City, nor the economic hell with Hughes or Mr Dickson.

John Healey, the Chancellor, has a team led by Will Stowe, a former Bank of England's major vice, and the take-over and other ex-fablepists and political officers.

The main economic advisers body in Downing, Stowe is the National Economic Review, which brings together massive ambassadors.

Mr Healey travelled to North North in Manchester on Friday to host a 'virtual situation event' of many of these minors, including two.

He said the group had discussed how to maintain economic growth.

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Two policemen among seven killed in crash

Car travelling wrong way on the A66 collides with a police vehicle after other officers abandoned pursuit

By Neil Johnston

SENIOR NEWS REPORTER

TWO police officers are among seven people who have died in a head on crash with a car travelling in the wrong direction after a pursuit by other officers.

Po Matthew Mialos and Po Tom Clough died when their marked police vehicle collided with a Volkswagen head in South Bank, near Middleborough, in the early hours of yesterday morning.

The officers from Cleveland Police and five members of the public travelling in the Volkswagen were pronounced dead at the scene following the crash on on the A66 at about 1.30 AM.

A police pursuit in the area had been abandoned shortly before the crash and Victoria Police, the Inter's Chief Constable, said the loss was "an incredibly sad day for Cleveland".

"The loss has been felt across our communities, by our police family and by our partner agencies," she said.

"These were brave officers protecting our communities and serving our residents who didn't return home to their families at the end of their shift."

Prime Minister, Mark Burnham said he was "devastated" by the incident and thanked the emergency services for

"These were brave officers who didn't return home to their families at the end of their shift"

their response. Feeling on X, he said: "Devastated to hear that two police officers have lost their lives while on duty in Cleveland this morning, as well as for members of the public."

"My thoughts are with the families and loved ones of everyone involved, and with everyone at Cleveland Police."

"Thank you to the emergency services requesting an incredibly difficult environment. I would urge people to avoid speculation at this time."

The Independent Office for Police Conduct confirmed that it was investigating the circumstances of the crash, but said it understood that the incident had taken place during the pursuit of a suspicious vehicle.

"At this early stage, we understand Cleveland police sighted a suspicious vehicle and a guarded fringe."

"The car travelled on to the A66 in South Bank and collided with a police car at 3.30AM. We can confirm that sadly multiple people have died in the collision."

It is now thought the pursuit was abandoned before the crash and residents in the area said they were woken at about 3.30am by the sound of police cars.

"There were police carvisading down the street at half past three with lights flashing and the car coming at a wake me up," Neil Hutchinson, 47, said.

You could tell from the noise that they were travelling at high speed. Two cars went down the street and then

a few seconds later there was a third, they were obviously going after another vehicle.

"You narrow street with cars parked in either side so it must have been a serious situation to be going at that speed down then out."

"We woke up this morning to the news that people have been killed. They were travelling in the direction of the A66 so it must have been part of the same incident."

Another resident said: "A car shot down the street at speed and the police were right behind it and they were all travelling at very high speed, it was anything and must have woke the whole street. It's tragic that it's ended with people dead."

The NPC added that it had launched an independent investigation after a mandatory referral from Cleveland

The scene of massimilation on the A66 was a Middleborough after a head-on collision during the early hours claimed seven hires

Police. The families of those identified have been informed, and are being offered specialist support.

Speaking outside the Inter's headquarters in Middleborough where Ray, Reva at half past, Chief Constable Pulley said: "First and foremost, our thoughts are with the families of everyone involved in today's incident."

"So one should leave their home and not return safely, including police officers serving their communities and protecting the people of Cleveland. This tragic incident will be felt across Cleveland, within our communities and throughout the entire policing family."

Lance Vainwright, who chairs the Cleveland Police Federation, said: "Would cannot describe the pain the Cleveland Police family are feeling." Anna Tuday, the MP for Rosbar, said:

"My heart goes out to every family, friend and loved one now being the most unimaginable loss following this morning's devastating accident."

"Two of the seven people who have lost their lives were Cleveland Police officers on duty serving our community. They went to work to keep people safe, and they should have come home to their families."

"Their loss will be felt deeply by their loved ones, fellow officers and right across the communities they served."

Shahara Mahmood, the Home Secretary, joined tributes to the victims and called the crash as "devastating."

The shift remained closed in both directions in December the crash.

A blue police text has been set up on the contingency and the wreckage of the vehicles could be seen scattered across the road.

Constance Marten wins right to appeal against 14-year sentence

Priests spared from reporting child sex abuse cases shared in confession

By Telegraph Reporter

CUSTO ALEX KASTEN has been granted permission to appeal against his 14-year ad sentence she was handed to. In 2020, a death while on the run with her partner.

Martens, 16, and convicted rapist, Mark Gordon, 52, were in hiding when their daughter Victoria died in a seat on the South Avenue in southern England in January 2023.

They had the authorities to prevent Victoria being taken into care – as her four siblings had been - their birth baby - and one of them.

Martens and Gordon were found guilty of manslaughter, child cruelty, consisting the birth of a child and preventing the course of justice.

"After the death of a child, he'd been both for 14 years and handed Gordon a further four years on recorded 14 years."

Martens has now been granted per-

mission to appeal the sentence, and expected her again deced by permission to appeal her gross negligence manslaughter conviction.

Judge Lucraft accepted the prosecution case that baby Victoria died from

Constance Marten was found guilty of manslaughter, child cruelty, consisting the birth of a child and preventing the course of justice

reposition after being exposed to "significant evidence."

He rejected the defendants' claims that Victoria was sanctioned in a "sterlite accident" as the three-digit in the text.

The offending was made worse because the baby was vulnerable and

the defendants failed to listen to past writings.

In a televised commercial, Judge Lucraft told the defendants: "It is clear throughout the period and the of you gave much or not thought for the care of just for your baby."

The judge said they had displayed "arrogance" and treated Victoria to "neglect of the most serious type."

Police had launched a nationwide hunt after the couple's car burst into flames on a motorway near Eribon, Greater Manchester, on Jan 3 2023.

The defendants involved in one England and went off-girl, sleeping in a tent on the South Avenue where baby Victoria died date later.

After seven weeks on the run, the couple were amused in Brighton.

After a desperate search of the found their baby dead amid rubbish inside a Lidl bag in a daisland shed nearby.

By Camilla Turner

Crimox ex-citrus, district

YEARS and prisons who are told about child sex abuse during confession will be exempt from new "mandatory reporting" laws.

Labour has been accused of creating an "underlandie loophole" by failing to include the practice in the Crime and Policing Act, which is coming into force next year. The new law introduces a legal obligation to those working or volunteering with children to report any disclosures on sex abuse to the authorities, or face sanctions.

Last year, the Home Office wrote to Stephen Evans, the chief executive of the National Social Security (SSS), to request him that the new duty will apply to all individuals undertaking relevant activity with children, including withholdigious and faith based settings. In the letter in May, the Home

Office added: "There are no exceptions on the basis of where disclosures are received, including condemning."

However, the Telegraph understands that measures have classified to the Church of England that the mandatory reporting law will only apply when an adult is undertaking 'nervous activity' with children – and that this will not intrude to unknown.

Mr Evans said: "The Government promised there would be no religious recognition. Yet the legislations appears to leave specific possibility that disclosures of child sexual abuse made during confession could go unexpected. That would be unindependable loophole, representing either serious legislative, incompetence or a clear retreat from what was promised."

The seat of the confessional is a priest's obligation under canon law to bear a person's confession of sin, or imagined sin, in confidence. Under

these rules, nothing against it told during it will be reported or disclosed under any circumstances. This is also the role of the Roman Catholic Church.

Last month, Ridley Robert Springett, the Church of England's lead on safeguarding, told the General Synod that confession was not a "regulated activity" as defined by the Police and Crime Act, "and so the responsibility is firmly to our court."

A Church of England spokesman said: "One managing allegation is safeguarding code, introduced in September 2023, is very clear that disclosures of abuse must be reported but with a pastoral and compassionate response to that all vicious and excessive misconceptions suggested."

A Home Office spokesman said: "There are no religious recognition to reporting instances of child sexual abuse for those working or volunteering with children."

Two men arrested following death of soldier, 22, released on bail

By Telegraph Reporter

TWO men arrested on suspicion of manslaughter after the death of a 22-year old soldier have been released on bail.

The men, aged 22 and 23, were arrested yesterday after the body of Liam Potts was found in the River Tyne on Aug 16. Since days after he disappeared during night on.

Northumbria Police confirmed last night that the two men had been fired on bail.

Mr Potts, 22, who served with the Colminum Guards, was last seen leading towards Writam in Northumberland at around 12.20am on Aug 15, and his body was found a short distance away from Writam Bridge.

The police continued effort, who was on leave at the time, disappeared following an alleged fight in a pub that

led to two people being struck by a whick.

Residents said a disturbance broke out close to the Tyne, and minutes later, two people were struck by a whick in a Writam Bridge, which crosses the river. Mr Potts was not one of those hit by

Your family and friends have all said the same thing: Once you met Potts, you could never forget him

the car, nor was he in the car, but he was seen walking away in the aftermath of the collision.

Before his disappearance, Northumbria Police had received a report of disturbance and a subsequent release involving a vehicle and a group of pedestrians on the bridge.

On Aug 17, police said two men had been arrested and then lapped in connection with the report. The two men were restricted on suspicion of manslaughter, police said, as directions investigated whether the two incidents led directly to Mr Potts entering the water.

The force said that when officers found the body, they did not know there to have been any third party involvement, but that further inquiries had prompted the manslaughter arrests.

A man and a woman, both in their 20s, suffered serious injuries in the collision with the car. The woman has been discharged, while the man remains in hospital where he is receiving further treatment.

A couple for Mr Potts were carried out by Northumbria Police in conjunction with IDR (European) "both of

Liam Potts's body was found in a river in Northumberland after a job after death

Tyne Mountain Rescue and Northumberland National Park Mountain Rescue, after he delved return from a night cut with friends.

His family said he was the "heart and soul of any event, nothing. "It was plain. You may no longer be here beside us, but your presence will never be forgotten. Your family, friends and colleagues have all said the same thing: "Once you met Potts, you could never forget him."

"We are going to miss your smile, your laugh and the little things that made you who you are. Though time may pass, the love we have for you will never hate. You will always be remembered, and forever loved. Rest peacefully, knowing that your memory lives on all these whose lives rests on the."

Get from the hard前辈s of, the more investigating officer from Northumbria Police, said: "Our thoughts remain with Liam's family during this

difficult time. The facts remain the same that Liam was in the bridge at the time of the collision, but he was not an occupant of the vehicle and was not able to be the vehicle."

The police was revealed that Liam, for reasons yet to be established, entered the water within minutes of the collision.

"We have therefore made the further so serious as we are looking to establish whether there is any link between the collision and Liam entering the water."

Ms Rutherford added: "We are committed to finding answers for Laura family, and we will continue to provide updates on our investigation."

"We would consider people to avoid speculation, both online and in our communities, as this could impair the organisational qualities. We would continue to ask that people respect the family's privacy at this stage time."

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Lider makers left with a heatwave hangover

Britain facing its worst harvest in more than 40 years as dry season forces apples to drop early

By Eric Williams

CHRIS produces are leaving for their 'worst year ever' and British agriculture struggles to cope with the record temperatures and drought hitting the country.

Farmers said that they had been 'hoping and hoping for rain' as the 'rebuttless' drought left orchards with smaller, malformed apples that were 'not fit for purpose'.

Britain is facing its worst harvest in more than 40 years as 2004 as afternoon have warned that the country is likely to reduce local shortages within months. What the calor industry is expected to avail shortages, will stockpunching from previous years, producers on small family-run operations said the 'investment' drought had been drawn

to abandon some of their orchards altogether.

Lorraine O'Connor, who has run a cider farm in Cornwall for over a decade, told The Telegraph the business was on course for its 'worst year ever'.

'We weren't worried to start with,' Ms O'Connor said, discussing the heat wave which has hit Britain this year.

Not as the months went on and on with so rain of all, the apples started dropping really early.

'The leaves on our trees turned brown two months ahead of time and the apples are a lot smaller. Now, we have just been hoping and hoping for rain.'

Britain, hate were, weeks of record-breaking but and dry weather in recent months, with a catch but never yet to grip the country most month. Almost three-quarters (75.5 per cent of England is currently in drought, according to the Environment report). The most affected areas include the South and Midlands, while there has also little prolonged dry weather in the North. Economists have estimated that Brit-

Alison McDermith, who owns a 60-acre farm in Devon, expects an 80-per-ton cider production

ain is likely to suffer a multibillion-year-old from the northern land. The annual farmers Union (NFC) and other agricultural groups demanded that the Government provide appropriate rain linked to losses caused by drought.

The high-rises area have seen rainfall in recent days. Tom Bradshaw, the president of the NFC warned that it had

'come too late for lost harvests and dashed racks'.

Andy Burdham introduced a 200m financial support package for farmers earlier this month.

Ms O'Connor said that small family-run farms like here were the 'runery in the coalmine' as the cider industry node from the scorching temperatures. Her family business, Curlew Valley Cafe, had been expecting to produce 10 tonnes of apples in their orchard. But with the poor harvest, Ms O'Connor said they were only on track to bring in 10 tons.

'It's been a shock. Small farms operate on site margins and you rely on these trees to produce enough' she said. 'We're thinking we might have to put in some kind of pump irrigation system. That costs money - there will be costs going forward.'

Ms O'Connor said that the small producers could need government support to invest in equipment to adapt to future droughts.

New Layton, who owns a family-run cider business in Herefordshire, said

'We're thinking we might have to put in some kind of pump irrigation system. That costs money - there will be costs going forward'

that this year was the worst in his 40 years on the farm.

'It has been relentless. All the water sources have dried up,' Ms Layton said, describing how the drought has devastated his apple yields.

Mr Layton said that his commercial orchards were down '40 per cent' with some not expected to return 'any apples at all'.

Alison McDermith, who owns a 40-acre farm in Devon, said she was expecting their cider production to be down 10 per cent.

She said the farm would only bother harvesting half of their orchards this year because the trees had been hit so hard by the drought.

For a cidermaker, that is a difficult thing to say, 'she said, a thing.' We have made the decision that we just cannot justify the stuff and feel costs for the machinery. In some of our orchards, you could go around with a basket and pick up all the good apples we've got.

Ms McDermith said that it was the first time she had been forced to abandon an orchard in 30 years.

'Welly belt' land needs protection to beat floods, claims scientist

By Sarah Knapton SCIENCE EDITOR

WETLANDS should be designated as 'welly belt' areas to prevent flooding after heatwaves, an environmental expert has advised.

Prof Christian Evans, the head of the School of Environmental and Natural Sciences at Bangor University, said Britain would be vulnerable to flooding in the coming weeks, because the ground had become hard and less able to absorb heavy rain.

He argued that land that was bought enough to require well-secto walk across should become part of a 'welly belt' protected from buildings, to reduce future flooding rates.

Prof Evans said wetlands acted as sponges, soaking up excess water that could otherwise burst over banks and deluge homes and roads. About three-quarters of Britain's wetlands have vanished since the 20th century, leaving the country increasingly vulnerable to flooding.

The Government has pledged to boost cider on green both sides to build more homes, but Prof Evans said it was important to protect Britain's remaining wetlands and flood plains.

He said: 'While we worry about droughts and feet over housings bans, we should also be preparing for what happens when the rain comes back. Because it will.'

And when heavy rain falls on to a landscape that has spent months drying out, it does not necessarily rank gratefully into the ground.

Teached soils can become hard, market or even water repellent. Instead of soaking in, intense rainfall can race across the surface.

'But we have a far greater problem to overcome than do soils. Over the allusion of years, we have successfully dismantled much of the natural machinery that once helped Britain deal with both drought and flooding - our wetlands.'

Britain has been hit by the heatwaves this year, and August has had just 17 per cent of its average rainfall, with more flows at their lowest since 2022.

Blooming marvellous: A girl walks through a blaze of colour brought to life by the warm weather at the Secret Flower Field at Wild Hill in the Scottish borders. Visitors are only told the exact location of the field when they book and they are allowed to pick as many flowers as they like. Weather Page 32

Record weather puts fifth of rail track at risk of derailment

By Gareth Cortfield

Truistotrist, counter-treatment

NMB. 20 per cent of England's railways are vulnerable to derailment because of the year's record-breaking heat, experts have warned.

About a 20th are built on clay soils, which can become very hard when dry, causing them to shrink and track - and for anything built on top of them to move or subside.

Bought 1,400 miles of rain are

fitting on clay ground in areas shared in having a high or very high risk of drought, nature investment fund. Rebalance Earth has said.

It doesn't do findings after two train derailments shortfall. In both types last week, A service came off the tracks just outside Levens. East Sussex, separate 10 people. A day later, another train derailed in Wickford, Essex.

Both incidents are under investigation by the East Accident Investigation on Branch Mullitt, with experts looking

into the effect of hot and dry weather on the railways. Investigators are examining whether the East Sussex accident could have been caused by conditions making the ground shift, causing the rain above to buckle.

A person released by the EAD shows a visible buckle or hole in the rain that was visible 20 minutes before the derailment.

Prof Neil Eichelsohn, of Rebalance Earth, warned that clay soils, including the ground under the tracks last week,

are especially vulnerable to shifting when they dry out after prolonged hot and dry conditions.

The British Geological Survey has described the clay details small rock in 'the most damaging geo-hazard in Britain today', 'warning that it can cause subsidence in houses as well as loss of millions of pounds in insurance claims. Prof Eichelsohn and Gabrielle Edgill, a geospatial analyst, graded such area of clay across the country for its drought risk, assigning them ratings

between 'very low' and 'very high'. They then cross-referenced this model with the locations of all 10,000 miles of railway lines in Great Britain.

He Edgill said: 'Unseen shrinkage bounds a railway can alter the position and level of the track, potentially creating an irregularity that requires speed restriction, tamging or other intervention.'

There are a number of places in Britain where clay is the dominant type of ground, most notably London. Both

Alexander, the Transport Secretary, reportedly asked rail bosses whether anything 'need to be done across the network' after the Wickford incident.

Network Rail said: 'We have a range of techniques for managing drying clay around the railway, most importantly, preparing for summer with a programme of targeted track maintenance.'

With that work and the £2,000, we are investing in climate resilience, our railway will be safe and reliable for years to come.

Truth laid bare: Henry Tudor's birthplace is revealed amid scorching temperatures

THE outline of a manor house where Henry Tudor is believed to have been born has become wanted because of exceptionally dry weather.

It emerged on grass at Pembroke Castle in South Wales after the summer Sheratoness created patch marks - contrasting fuses that form above long-barred walls and foundations.

Although a fused outline of some of the walls has been inspected, it is noteworthy dry summers, this year's is the clearest of has been, with experts hoping it may offer insights to archaeologists. John Donoghue, who wrote at the castle as a public, poshographed the shape of the building within the walled ward, a football area of the castle.

Mr Donoghue, who is the author of Caelars, Cross and Cafe, A Retirement in Central Wales is known as Clears. 'It was known there was a manor house there - and it's believed that the future fling

Henry VII was born there. It has shown up before, but this prolonged heatwave has seemed to have shown it off before. However, I was just opening up the case to where the family was in the house.'

Nathan Amin, a historian, and author of Son of Prophecy, the Son of Direct Value, is the author of The Family of Prophecies. A Pembroke have been utterly fascinating, to be able to literally cross-rammed heritage. If, as now seems likely, those marks reveal the locations of a high status residence, then this would indicate that somewhere within the extent of three patch marks the first 'fattening of England was born. I'm curious to see if they's not be the trigger for further archaeological exploration.

Henry Tudor was born at the castle in Jan 2014. She owned Lady Margaret Beaufort, the Countess of Richmond, who was 61 at the time, and Emanuel Butler, the first Earl of Richmond.

He became Henry VII after winning the Battle of Bowerwith Field on Aug 22

Henry Tudor is believed to have been born in a water house in Wales, the author of which can now be seen more clearly than ever

1845 - 101 years ago yesterday - taking the crown from Richard III and உள்ளது in Tudor England.

While some historians believe he was born in a water active castle walls, many think it happened in a more comfortable manor house in the grounds.

John Leland, a 100 century authorarian who visited the castle during the reign of Henry VIII, recounted a story of the earlier Henry being born in a 10th-century granite chamber and said the birthplace was marked by a coat of arms on the chimney.

However, modern historians believe Lady Margaret is more likely to have shown the comfort of the nearby manor house to give birth, rather than a lower. According to an account from her personal customer, John Fisher, the Bishop of Rochester, the birth was difficult because of her slight nature. It has been borne the unlikely that the world carry a child to term that Henry's birth was considered a miracle.

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Waring that Chery's new facility at MoD testing site may be used to sweep on military vehicles

By Tom Cotterill (SUNDAY, AUGUST 20)

RUSSELL could save a Chinese or giant's new research headquarters to spy on the Armed Forces on intelligence expert has women's

Chery, Automobile is opening a new facility at VTAC Millbrook, a large testing site on leukemias used by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and the motoring industry.

Almost every military vehicle with wheels, and most with tanks, has been tested at Millbrook's operating grounds, including the Army's newest Bence armoured transporter.

The 70's now use features more than 40 miles of open-adsorbents, including high-speed bowls, steep-alpine guard-ents and 40-road courses.

Millbrook's wild boat most month's Defence Vehicle Dynamics, Benson's bounced defense industry validation show canng some of the latest Armed Forces vehicles.

A former colonel in the Army's Intelligence Corps said China could try to use Chery's new facility to spy on the Army and made new military test data. Chery has denied the issue.

Col Phil Ingram said: 'This concerns me on seriously. The Chinese are post-testing themselves in the perfect place to help develop further espionage and a time. I'm left per cent certain they want me this site to spy on us. We will have a Chinese in tech company that produces surveillance devices in the shape of an automobile break-on-of car classified military vehicle testing grounds. We need to be extremely wary of this.'

Chery described its move to Millbrook as a 'major expansion' of its global research and development for years. It will use the facility to test how vehicles and their chassis cope on the road, and it will be using the same track as the MoD's test them.

Sury Liao, the chief executive of Chery International UK, said: 'The establishment of our R&D Centre of Excellence is the next step in our long-term practice for UK.

The Chinese company's products have previously fuelled security fears in Israel. While the Israel Defence Forces never commented on the concerns, it subsequently recalled 300 vehicles—mostly Chery, Yugo & Pro plug-in hybrids—from its fleet of military cars. The user were used by lieutenant colonels and colonels, and intelligence chiefs were worried China could use them in listen to sensitive conversations.

Elsewhere, Spanish intelligence chiefs raised fears last week about the construction of a new factory for R&D, a Chinese state-owned car company, a few miles from Petrol Naval base, in northern Spain. Spies were worried. Beijing could use the company as a base to obtain neural movement information.

R&D has not to comment.

British intelligence officials have also repeatedly warned of the 144 Beijing poses to British security in October, by Ken McCallum, the head of MIS, said: 'To Chinese state action present a UK national security threat.' The

The Chinese company's products have previously fuelled security fears in Israel. While the Israel Defence Forces never commented on the concerns, it subsequently recalled 300 vehicles—mostly Chery, Yugo & Pro plug-in hybrids—from its fleet of military cars.

The user were used by lieutenant colonels and colonels, and intelligence chiefs were worried China could use them in listen to sensitive conversations.

Elsewhere, Spanish intelligence chiefs raised fears last week about the construction of a new factory for R&D, a Chinese state-owned car company, a few miles from Petrol Naval base, in northern Spain.

Sury Liao, the chief executive of Chery International UK, said: 'The state-owned car company's products have previously fuelled security fears in Israel. While the Israel Defence Forces never commented on the concerns, it subsequently recalled 300 vehicles—mostly Chery, Yugo & Pro plug-in hybrids—from its fleet of military cars.

However, of course, they do, every day in June, 2020, warned that Chinese users were also targeting British government and military staff on employment websites such as LinkedIn in an effort to access data that is sensitive information. The Telegraph also previously revealed that Beijing plans to build a mega-embassy next to the UK's most sensitive communication cables near the Tower of London.

Last month, The Telegraph revealed the Special Data Service, the elite must time with full banned electric Subcar from its headquarters in Poole, Darcot. The marque is now based in China.

Experts warned that China could use domestic legislation to order manufacturers to build over the data obtained through these sources, to map military data, track the residues and schedules of troops, and the learn timings of unit deployments.

Many modern electric cars are equipped with high definition cameras, radars, ultrasonic sensors and laser-based light detection and ranging to

The grounds at UTAC Millbrook were used to keep track activities in the Alps, UK, and vehicles now have to Chery's R&D facility.

matter them to map surroundings, detect lane lines, read road signs and identify pedestrians.

Under the data security law of the People's Republic of China, the state can control those to disclose data for national security purposes.

Col Ingram said: 'Article 7 of China's national intelligence legislation requires all Chinese companies and individuals to comply with Chinese national intelligence when requested to do so. If means of Chinese intelligence side them to do something, they have to decide, no basis, no mayhem.'

Chery insisted investment in its new research site had been made 'unconditional' with British law and regulations.

The chief executive of Chery operates on a commercial automotive company, and our research and development activities in the UK are ready for vehicle engineering and development purposes.

'The cyber security of our vehicles and the data privacy of our customers are of paramount importance to us, as an international company operating in

more than 100 countries around the world, we respect and comply with applicable local laws and regulations in each market where we operate.'

Kenny Andrew, Mallowick vice-president, said: 'We talked people into tenants, a formal rank review is conducted to ensure those would be no negative impact on all of our existing tenants and customers.'

Our security group, co-developed over the past 20-plus years, ensures industry competitors can operate and test alongside one another routinely, securely, and without incident. We are confident that this will remain the case.'

The MoD declined to comment on specific security procedures as it could be built into the market.

But a spokesman said: 'The first duty of investment in national security, and we take the security of our equipment, networks and data currently seriously. We mitigate the risks through strict security procedures.'

The Telegraph approved both the Chinese embassy for comment.

Record numbers of pedestrians seriously injured by cyclists

By Steve Beall and Ollie Corfe

THE number of pedestrians seriously injured by cyclists has now suffered last year, statistics reveal.

The 142 these serious collusion with a bike (see table in 2020) was up more than two-thirds compared with per-past drops' levels, despite the number of miles (as fed doing by past 1per cent.

In 2020, 234 pedestrians were seriously injured by cyclists across England, Scotland and Wales. A 1per cent increase compared with 2016 when 216 surcharges were logged by police.

And the new three-thirds for Trade Union (UFC) of 2020, and the three-thirds for road safety campaigners to urge Rosh Alexander, the Transport Secretary, to do more to protect pedestrians.

A record 70 people were hit by cyclists on 1st day, including both for cars, which include sticks, peltans and tuscum crossings, as well as customers and training the cyclists whose those on foot have to cross a cycle lane.

Meanwhile, 95 of all those seriously injured were over the age of 65, double the 50: elderly people (last in 2018, another 1per cent) and 45 people (the injured 'on a footway or verge'. While the statistics show two people were killed by cyclists, the data do not

Pedestrians hit by cyclists

Killed or seriously injured (2020 in 2020), by the police

include deaths of those who use roadless to their injuries more than 30 days after the collision. The road safety data (last in 2018, extreme injury) or request and lengthy hospital stay to treat broken or cranked houses, internal injuries, severe cuts and concussion.

However, the two numbers of casualness likely to be far higher because the new data only include incidents where police should offer a car.

Matt Briggs, whose wife Kim was

killed by a man riding an illegal 'bite' bike, one with no gears, said: 'An someone who fears the pain of having, but my wife after a collision is caused by these figures are deeply concerning and come after, I'd then have been upset on improving cycling influence (use on the premise from the cycling) after that this would improve road safety.'

Overall urge the DIT to remember that the 'active Travel' budget is expected to be its major long conditions for cyclists and pedestrians. Too often pedestrian safety seems to be forgotten.

Gerard Griffiths, whose mother, Hilda, 92, died after being involved in a collision with a cyclist in Regent's Park, said more should be done to educate cyclists. Charlene White, whose father, Jim Blackwood, 36, was hit and killed by an a cyclist riding on the pavement, called for mandatory help.

Neither Mrs Griffiths nor Mr Blackwood was revealed in official data as the same they took more than a month to die from their injuries.

A Government spokesman said: 'Dangerous cycling puts both other cyclists and pedestrians at risk, which is why we have updated our policy and legislation to introduce new offences and stricter penalties. Those who die apart others will face the full force of the law.'

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Six-month waits for driving tests are fueling the surge in Neets

By Charles Hymas

HOM, LESTER HYPANES

THE driving test backlog is hospital young people out of work, senior Labour MPs have claimed.

Leopure have been forced to wait six months to sit the test, forming young people out of significant employment sectors, according to a report by the Centre for Social Justice (CSI) thank task. The Government is being tựaed to allow companies to track their employers to drive, to help tackle the backlog.

More than one in six job vacancies (P1 per cent) requires applicants to be able to drive, using to get a per cent a year and social work and 69 per cent of plumbing vacancies.

But the proportion of P1 to 20-year-olds holding 2020, as driving factors in the 2020, are more than 40 per cent in 1994 to just 20 per cent in 2020.

The CSI and MPs say the black on the backlog, such efforts to reduce the number of Neets—young people not in education, employment or training—which stands at one million.

They are proposing that employers should be considered to conduct or as driving tests for their own staff under the delegated examiner scheme which already exists for the emergency ser-

vices, landage companies and the military Rosh Cadbury, the Labour MP who chairs the Government's report committee, said: 'An school known start thinking about their next step, we must remove the barriers that hold them back from work and education.'

'To start parts of the economy, from care to the skilled trades, a driving licence can be essential to getting the job, particularly given the lack of investment service provision. That makes tech-

17pc

The percentage of job vacancies that require applicants to be able to drive, with a high of 50pc of plumbing jobs

ing the driving test backlog an integral part of restraining large for Britain's Neets. The Government should examine the possible proposals to expand testing capacity. Bringing waiting times down would remove a key barrier for

young people trying to make the transit time the work is done. They are proposing that employers should be considered to conduct or as driving tests for their own staff under the delegated examiner scheme which already exists for the emergency ser-

test backlog has become a serious barrier to work for many of our young people. The Government is leading for practical solutions to help make the Neets crisis. It should give serious consideration to the CFC proposals.

'This would open up a wide range of job opportunities to school leavers and enable them to cross the rewards of the new technical education options the Government is developing.'

Laurens in England must now look about 20 weeks ahead to find an audible driving test, more than four times the five-week wait they faced in 2020, according to analysis where Department for Transport (DTC) also for the CSI.

Many learners are struggling to book a test at all. In September last year, about 70 per cent of test centres had reached the maximum 20-week wait, meaning it was an excessive session.

A DTC spokesman said: 'Our latest data shows the median driving test waiting time for Georgetown was 42 weeks in July 2020, and the number of tests is also at its highest point since our records began. But we recognise how frustrating it is for every learner who has to walk longer, that is why we're

continuing to put more tests into the system, with almost 200,000 outermosts carried out since June 2020.'

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Tube textiles: The most niche specialist subject in Mastermind history

By Keith Perry

A list of 10 000 000 contestant has been landed by fans for having one of the most niche specialist subjects in the history of the popular BBC quiz.

Eddie McShane, a policy researcher from the world's top ten on the page show on Friday but instead of picking the usual topics such as books, television shows or historical figures, she chose to answer questions on upholstery, and then, as she was, a London Underground transport.

And the three even were a knitted tank top featuring one of Transport for London's 1992, points in the answered two minutes of speeding the 1st of the paper (the fabric on Tube trains and more, the knowledge of the distinctive TV), patterns earned her eight points, with viewers describing her train shots on one of the most specific the show has ever had.

These designs have included a local landmarks and moments in history. Mr McShane only had a chance to play.

Early Mac勤es, in her hottest top featuring one of TVL's pilots

one pass and got just three questions wrong. Pontiac's comments under a clip of the people on 2nd list, they commented: 'Christ, there's niche subjects, then there's the...'

Non-company. 'Most iconic specialists subject over. No McShane's word on it (land-civil) is played in a young eight-race points during the General Knowledge round. Questions included, which under-ground line featured 'A branded nonprofit went into an Institutional headings from the Yellow Pages telephone directory' (in the 1980s). The answer is the 'Circle Line.' According to the British Transport Manager, website 'ImageNet' comes from the French word for carpet and is produced as home using the 'as guard

wearing technique, with a job typically blending 40 per cent word and 0.5 per cent style.

At was chosen for public transport up to its flexible nature, as well as because of its colour and patterns that helped look dazed and fair. The first prospects was used in London's public transport systems in the tycotecs—a pattern called Lounge made by Perth Parnablog in 1935.

The BBC announced last month that it was the continuing the celebrity version of Mastermind as part of its cost-cutting measures.

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BBC 'failed its Strictly stars' and put us at risk, says former dancer

Psychological assessments needed on contestants before they enter show, insists Giovanni Pernice

By Eric Williams

GIOVANNI PERDICE has accused the BBC of failing to safeguard its entry on Strictly Class Zancing by anti-dung psychological assessments of celebrity contestants.

The Italian professional dancer left the show three years ago over allsgy boys made ignores kids by Annalis Abbington, his celebrity dance partner.

The actress, who starred in the BBC's dietitian television series, alleged that Pernice had bullied and harassed her during the competition.

In his new book, called the My Story, serialised in the 1920s' third, Pernice claimed Abbington had "specify spoken" about having struggled with her mental health, but the BBC had "failed" innet conducting psychological assessments of contestants.

The dancer wrote: "On many reality TV shows, participants are given psychological assessments before being signed. But to my knowledge, some were carried out under Strictly celebrity contestants, and they were mentally able to cope with the challenge."

Pernice called it a "big mistake" by the BBC and accused it "put the celebrities and the pro-dancers at risk".

"Put simply, I think the corporation failed us," he said. "Before joining Strictly, Annalis Abbington had openly spoken about having struggled with her mental health. If the producers didn't suspect she could still be fragile, why weren't there processes to check?"

Abbington had discussed her mental health struggle with her mental health, she told James O'Brien on his Full Disclosure guide set that she had told she "was a bit of a new" at times and "failed herself," saying she had considered taking her own life "quite a few times".

In his book, Pernice said the bullying row left him feeling suicidal, saying he wanted to "smile all". "There were certainly times I would have killed myself if Molly (Molly) Brown, his then girl friend/ hadn't been there," he said.

The dancer also made a series of claims detailing the alleged contestations with Abbington. He said their "hancer" included "the language" and

claimed she called him "rude names" and made "rude gestures".

The BBC launched an investigation into the dancer's teaching methods on the show following the actress's complaints. It ultimately upheld some, but not all, of the complaints, and it was understood that a five-figure out-of-court settlement was reached with Abbington, paid by BBC Studies.

The corporation made no findings relating to physical aggression in the 2024 review, but complaints of verbal bullying and harassment were upheld, it was understood. Pernice rejected "any claim of threatening or abusive behaviour" and welcomed the contention of the review at the time. After the review, the BBC introduced measures to improve welfare on the show, including having a chaperone present "at all times" during training room rehearsals.

Italian professional dancer tiratamo Di Prima, 52, was on brief from Strictly in 2024 following allegations of gross misconduct towards his former dance partner Zara McDermott. His spokesman Mark Bozkowski confirmed he helped her once during rehearsals and told the BBC: "He knows he's made a mistake. He apologised at the time."

Mr Bozkowski added that the dancer, who appeared on the series between 2020 to 2025, deeply regretted his conduct and accepted that he had "stained the line". However, he denied reports that he had spat on Ms M. Derimott.

During the same year, opera singer Wynne Evans, 54, who appeared in adsorts for So-Compass, was scrutinised for his behaviour on the show after feelings appeared to show him placing his hand on his professional dancer Katya Jossey's stomach and then hip. At the time, they laughed a off and described it as an "inside joke". He was later alleged to have made an "inappropriate and unacceptable" comment during a photocell for the Strictly five tour launch and in January 2025 he took the decision to take time out of the tour and his role shown to be no exhale suffering.

My Evans, at the time, said: "I am deeply sorry for the gain my inappropriate actions have caused, and plan to take that time for self-reflection."

Then in May he left his BBC Radio Wales show after a decision was taken "not to renew" his contract. On Instagram in July he wrote that would "be the first occasion I've made mistakes". The BBC and Abbington were contacted for comment.

Annalis Abbington dancing with Strictly professional Giovanni Pernice before third profoundly dissolved into testimony in the 2023 series

Hulk star Ruffalo accused of anti-Semitism in Oracle tirade

By Benedict Smith

Available from online source

MARK ROFFALO has become entire decks in an anti-Semitism row with Paramount.

The Hollywood actor, who plays the Hulk at the Marvel films, was accused of pushing "anti-Semda" tropes "while arguing against the Ruffalo, a fellow merger between the entertainment giant and Warner Bros.

He was on the show in the Hulk, Ruffalo still his followers the acquisition meant the technology behind what he described as future's genocide in times would be turned against them.

He was on the Larry Ellison, the five-ahd-tember of the data giant Oracle, had guaranteed more than 300bn for the proposed merger, which is being spearheaded by his own Social Ellison, the Paramount, the New York City.

At the same time, he posted a 2024 Zip of Hulk-Cats, Oracle's former chief executive, talking about the "profoundly scary technology" the com-

pany provided to the Israeli military in the wake of the far C'thana attacks.

"These really profoundly scary technologies" will most likely be the primary outcome of the largest media-coupons exercise the world and one day he used us you," Ruffalo wrote on Instagram. "Look how she [Ms.1261] needs in what we now have come to see on genocide, which was built on an apartheid

Words like apartheid and genocide, applied to a corporate transaction ... are a bridge too far"

system of oppression powered by Oracle" accusing Oracle of "powering some of the most destructive and infrequent forces in the world" he asked why Ronald Trump, the US president, had "pushed this illegal merger through".

Mr Trump's administration approved the acquisition in June, deciding it was "not likely to sound inchains to compet-

tion or America consumers", without resuming Paramount to make concessions such as calling off assets.

Larry Ellison, who is worth about $300bn, was a "classic oligarch" who was "crushing workers and consolidating the wealth of the world", Ruffalo went on to claim.

Paramount told The Hollywood Reporter: "We are, in turbid when anti-Semitic tropos are involved in purported service of a business dispute. Words like 'genocide' and 'apartheid', applied to a corporate transaction, aren't just wrong, they're a bridge too far"

Ruffalo, in his social media post, said the crashing media empire would "flatter out competitors", jailed up the cost of coke TV, and cause the loss of the supply of Gipsyche.

Through a spokeswoman, he called the anti-Semitism allegation "appalling and dishonest" he said: "Celebrating the actions of the Israeli prime minister, a military technology contract, or the executives who supply it is not the same as criticizing Jewish people."

Greens rack up £1m legal bill in year of 'unwinnable' trans battles

By Camille Farmer and Pieter Surgesinger

THE Green Party has spent more than £1m on legal costs in the past year, amid accusations that pre-transgender "ideologies" within the party are pursuing unwinnable claims.

The amount spent on legal and professional fees by the Greens quadrupled between 2026 and 2025, according to the party's annual accounts.

Critics accused the Greens of "throwing money down the drain" by fighting legal battles with "ideological and" against people with gender-critical views.

Green party sources said that as the party was growing, its associated legal, administrative and governance costs were also increasing.

In 2024, the party was found to have the uninterrupted and former deputy leader over his gender-critical beliefs. "A court ruled that the party had improperly dismissed that he did," who believes that "biology is real and

immostable" - as party spokesman became it had failed to identify any misconduct. He awarded £9,000 damages.

Mr. Ali is taking the Greens to court again for further unlawful discrimination and victimisation, over his expulsion from the party. The case is due to be heard in Central London County Court later this year.

£1,030,118

The amount the Green Party spent on legal and professional fees in 2025, which is up from £270,227 to 2029

He told the Telegraph that pre-transgender "ideologies" had "taken the party biology" and were "fighting their own personal battles by using Green Party member money".

Mr Ali said: "Spending £1m on legal and professional fees both in real terms and as a proportion of income to unac-

ceptably, recklessly high. I think the vast majority of members would be horrified, outraged even, by that. There is an ideological and with which they are pursuing unwinnable claims, and that is money down the drain."

In 2024, the Greens spent £270,227 on legal and professional fees, which rose to £2,035,118 in 2025, according to accounts submitted to the Electoral Commission.

The party is being sued by another former member who was suspended for meeting "fairy" proscasts.

Emma Bateman, who was co-chairman of Green Party Women, was found to have breached diversity rules by making "clearly antagonistic" comments about "the face" proscasts sued by people who believe they are mythical beings.

She was also condemned for using the terms "promoting false" and "cognitive cis-communis" during a speech in Hyde Park, central London.

The Green Party declined to comment.

Freddie's piano part of £3m souvenir sale

By Telegraph Reporter

A FLASH and microphone used by Freddie Mercury, about with early death of his songwriting, are expected to fetch hundreds of thousands of pounds at each music session.

The items to be sold at the Peoputon auction are part of the Bookwell Mack Collection, a new site and/or up to a fan for the German producer who often worked with Queen, and his son Freddie H. Mercury's golden-

Among the collection is the Tamaris CC grand piano from Munich's Musicians' Studios, which Mercury played while composing solo material as well as some of Queen hits, including Crazy Little Thing (SkiLive). He also used it during the recording of the Guns, the Jams and The Wind.

Other artists also played the Tamaris Chorus, the Guns of C'Chara, the Rolling Stone, They People, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Dance Summer and Bryan Furry.

It is considered the most significant

artefact related to Mercury to come to market since the sale of his personal collection in 2025, carrying a pre-sale estimate of £200,000's £805,000.

Also featured in the sale of the ABC Club AB microphone used to record Mercury's loud and backing vocals at Musicland Studios. Much favoured the microphone and used it throughout his work with Queen.

The microphone is offered with its original brandname bag and the red KLB cable used at Musicians' Studios, with a pre-sale one (sale of £165,000's £85,000).

The collection also includes Mercury's early businessman lyrics, which feature alternate instrument lines, for My Love's Sungerous and Let's Turn It On, both from his 1965 debut solo album, Mr. Fair Play.

The My Love & Sungerous lyrics, which had originally been titled

Sungerous, also includes understory, third arrangements on the reverse, while Let's Turn It On appears under the short-saved working title 'Turn It On'. The sets of lyrics are estimated to sell for 13,000's £6,000, and 13,000's £5,000 respectively.

Among the auctions a teddy bear that Mercury offered to the Mark family estimated to sell for £600 of £1,000.

Before the auction, three items and several more will be put on display at a free-understand The Amsterdam Music London from Sept 23 to 27.

Mark said "Freddie was recently a colleague and close friend - so many ways, he was part of our family. To us, he was never a celebrity, he was Uncle Freddie."

The auction is on Oct 1 and Oct 2.

Freddie Mercury the Queen singer to connect in New Jersey on Aug 8, 1992

He was part of our family, never a celebrity, he was Uncle Freddie"

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Carney to 'retaliate dollar for dollar' on tariffs

PM delights Canada by walking out of talks on Trump move at last minute, daring him to do his worst

By Adrian Blomfield WORLD IN PENSION COMMUNITY COUNTRY

TO WISHERED, but delight in Canada, the storm has turned

After months of trying to approve Donald Trump, Mark Carney has opted to defy the US president, walking away from trade talks at the last minute and daring the US to do its worst

The Canadian prime minister is taking a gamble: He may have invited an all-out trade war with the world's biggest economy. But he handles written a complete for resistance that European leaders, fearing they will be sent in Mr Trump's rights, will be studying closely

After days of last third talks in Wash-

ington to move off the US president's latest tariff threat, Mr Carney ordered his negotiator to walk away minutes before a midnight deadline

He suspended the talks, denounced the US negotiating a motion and viewed a complete: Dollar 'A dollar' against the 20 per cent tariffs the Trump administration will levy on a broad range of Canadian goods

US officials appeared stunned. Mr Trump had billedly declared day earlier that a deal was effectively done, but a few minor technicalities

The White House had reason to be confident. Until this weekend, Mr Carney had repeatedly willed under his counterpart pressure, made he the the price of any Canadian

The most recent application came in July, when he agreed to Mr Trump's demand that Canada hand over half the revenues from the newly built 15-mile Goethe-Howe International Bridge concerning the two countries across the

Detroit River. Under a 2022 agreement, Canada had agreed to cover the entire World's 25,000 cost of the bridge, borrowing the money to do so, in return for all the toll revenue until its costs were recovered

But that deal mattered little to Mr Trump. He demanded half the profits immediately, and threatened to block the bridge's opening unless Canada agreed

Mr Carney reluctantly acquiesced, prompting a but blush among Canadian voters. The number twisting him to handle existence with the US bill by 8 per cent, according to public Waves, has concerns on failed to pacify Mr Trump

Shortly afterwards, the Trump administration announced a new 50 per cent tariffs on up to $200m (£200m of Canadian goods, ranging from cement and hardwood to hockey sticks and agricultural products

This time, Mr Carney was less willing to yield. Although he signalled his will-

ingness to negotiate, he made it clear that he would walk away if he could not secure a fair deal

Yesterday morning, he said last-minute terms introduced by the US side were 'unfair' uneconomic, and called into question the reliability of any deal

The event weeks, we made important progress toward improving Canada's

We made progress but not enough to meet our objectives. We never sought a deal at any price'

position as having the best deal in the world with the US: 'he said: 'However, that progress has not been enough to meet our objective for Canadian'

He had always sought 'the best deal for Canadian' but 'never a deal at any price or any deadline' he added

Quite what went wrong remains

unclear. Jamieson Greer, the US trade representative, blamed Canada for the collapse, saying Washington had offered 'significant reductions' on tariffs on steel, aluminium, vehicles and lumber, which Canada had approved

Calling the offer 'the best treatment of any major objective to our market' Mr Greer said: 'This is a missed opportunity for Canada to partner with the US, which is the fastest growing economy in the US'

Mr Carney's dofness may boost him dramatically. No other major US ally has stood up to Mr Trump on trade sales or boldly. Jerman and others agreed to smaller deals that often left them worse off, hoping to preserve the core of their trade relationships with the US

Hertz made him much to lose. In economy and defence remain deeply integrated with its powerful neighbour, and Mr Carney has acknowledged that his government will have to support companies hit by the tariffs. In an escalating

trade war, Canada simply cannot out-match the US

Mr Carney has been the most prominent Western vice-arguing that middle powers must recognize the rupture in the US but would order triggered by Mr Trump to re-devise. He has sought new partnerships in Asia and Europe

Mr Trump is unlikely to laugh off the defence. He has threatened to inflict 'economic pain' on Canada to get what he wants, and dismissed it as a casual that should become the chief US state

European leaders will no doubt praise Mr Carney and offer messages of support. Whether they will emulate him remains to be seen

It is surely only outset of time before the US president comes for them

A black-faced smash, European leaders can follow America lead and risk a broader trade war, or offer more concessions and risk growing Mr Trump right in his belief that, when allies are pushed hard enough, they ultimately fold

You can't pack that there Melania Trump poses at the White House with an Indy 500 racing car to promote her charity ahead of today's race through the streets of Washington to mark America's 250th anniversary. Fostering for the Future accepted a $2m (£1.45m) donation from IndyCar and the Fox Corp to fund scholarships for children in foster care.

Five passengers suffer burns as laptop burns into flames on jet

By Lily Shanagher

A LAPTOP burst into flames on an American Airlines plane mid-flight, during five passengers after the flight

Our person required medical treatment after a passenger's device caught fire on the flight, which was carrying 150 passengers from Atlanta to Tampa to Dubai for the 2nd International Airport in Texas on Friday

The pilot reported the incident to air traffic control, telling staff there was a 'cable fire in the back of the airplane' and that flight attendants were trying to put it out, according to audio obtained by 2025 News

The pilot told air traffic control: "I think we have about four to five passengers that were turned by the laptop. The laptop is contained about mid-air craft." As cable crew members worked

to control the fire, the plane continued to approach the airport and made craft landing. Emergency workers were waiting on the ground.

The crew told the 40K 'that the flight had landed safely' after expected 2 smoke from a customer's device during landing," adding: "We thank our crew for their professionalism and credit response to quickly contact the device."

American Airlines said in a statement: "American Airlines flight 2500 landed safely at Indian Fort Worth after reports of smoke from a customer's device during landing."

"We thank our crew for their professionalism and credit response to quickly contact the device"

According to isolation A22, the fire was connected with a liftman two factory thermal runaway vessel - where a battery overhauls uncontrollably and

ignites. This can generate heat, smoke, flame and heat gases quickly.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) watercraft (Waste) was battery, including the air vessel in laptops, available to overheat in certain air-cas stations. It advises that thermal runaway can occur "without warning" if a battery is damaged, supposed to water, overcharged or improperly packed.

The FAA has recorded 16 verified human battery air incidents so far this year involving smoke, fire or extreme heat. The US regulator states that lids and batteries more only be transported in carry-on luggage, while a number of airlines have tightened restrictions on portable charging devices.

In February, an Alaska Airlines flight from Seattle to Wichita in Kansas was forced to turn back when a passenger's power bank overheated and caught fire.

Trump predicts impeachment if Republicans fail to win mid-terms

By Benedict Smith

WASHINGTON COMMUNITY COUNTRY

DONALD TRUMP has watered he will be impeached by Republicans lose the mid-terms decision in November

The US president, campaigning in South Carolina, told supporters they would 'lose everything' if Democratic took control of Congress for his final two years in office

Mr Trump on Friday named the mid-terms as unusually stark terms as he faces the property of being unable to force the right legislation or depend on a compliant Congress.

"They're going to impeach me. They have no idea why," Mr Trump, 40, the only man in history to have been impeached twice named carefully, told supporters at a rally in Myrtle Beach.

Many Democrats openly back

impeaching Mr Trump, and at least three have introduced articles on impeachment against him in his second term, after 6:30(a) after.

However, according the Wall Street Journal, the party is divided about impeaching the president. Some are

If we lose, you're going to lose your tax cuts, your border, you're going to lose everything we've done

concerned about drawing a backlash from voters or overshadowing private much as lowering prices.

In the past, Mr Trump has sounded clear about the mid-terms, in which Democrats are widely predicted to win back control of the House of Representatives

atties. Some pollsters narrowly favour them to regain the Senate tax.

On Friday, the president warned his political opponents would wreck the economy and take the opportunity to curb his achievement if Republicans do not turn out.

If we lose, you're going to lose your border, you're going to lose your tax cuts, you're going to lose everything that we've done," he said.

We've gotten the biggest tax cuts in history. Think about no tax on tips, no tax on social security for our seniors, no tax on revenue. All of that's going to be gone. Your taxes are going to go up. Your pay is going to go down. Your jobs are going to be lost."

Mr Trump was campaigning in South Carolina for Darius Graham, who was appointed senator in July following the death of her brother, Lindsey Graham.

The German councillor hoping to turn his city hall into a swingers' paradise

By James Rothwell in Berlin

THERE is a common paradox unknown to form an 1-pay the 20 in a country renowned for the taboo 'order and bureaucracy' - and also for its medium and fact-facultation wrigantees.

One of the last 20 in a country decided to lose the oil and the ego of the national consciousness into one bizarre spectacle. Julian Ferrat, the leader of the liberal the Munzheimer Citizens of Mannheim party, has unnoticed plans to throw a city party at his local seat of government.

Mr Ferrat said he hoped the party would help turn the southwestern city into a 'swingers' paradise.

So far, 20 people have asked to attend, but that Mr Ferrat must secure a penal from the city council to turn the city hall into a des of passion - a step that he admits will be quite difficult.

"At the moment, the focus is on determining which of the citizens who con-

tacted me are seriously interested," Mr Ferrat, 35, who has been inhuman for many years, said a member of the 7th Telegraph. "Some of the 20 people who could be in the city have been swingers community, as they are 'high' home are people I don't have yet... This is the most interesting the 'unknown' people in person."

Asked why he wanted to turn city hall into a sea party venue, he said he hoped to break social taboos in Mannheim, which is governed by the socially conservative Christian Democrats.

"On the one hand, it's for making being a swinger less taboo," he said. "On the other hand, it's for promoting our claims of a mulist swinger paradise at Mannheim similar to [French resort] 'age d'agde."

There are an estimated 124,000 swingers in Germany and numerous clubs and venues that host parties and events for their unorthodox clientele. Yet Mannheim city hall does not seem

Julian Ferrat, 35, has been dubbed the country's central councillor

It's for making swinging less taboo and also for promoting my vision of a mulist paradise

to share Mr Ferrat's enthusiasm. "Based on the information available, there are considerable doubts about the admissibility and feasibility of the phase," a Munzheimer city hall spokesman told German news outlet SWR.

It is not the first time that Mr Ferrat's councillor was involved in an 'intermediate' political movement to support citizens' well-being, has planned a racy event. He invited Germans on a swingers' holiday to France last year.

Mr Ferrat proposed going on an eight-day fact-finding mission in Cap d'Agde, a swingers hotspot, to introduce sceptical Germans to the pleasures of non-mosogamy.

He argued at the time that the trip would lay the groundwork for turning Mannheim into the German version of Cap d'Agde, which is says would boost the city's economy. But so far, the 'swingers' paradise remains something of a dream for Mr Ferrat rather than a reality for its residents.

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The Sunday Telegraph Sunday 13 August 2020

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We watched as Israeli settlers attacked Christians

Henry Bodkin in Turkish

Behind rolls of barbed wire, masked raiders pin down families encircled by illegal settlements

THE Israeli settlers always come at once, their approach sending the inhabitants of the remote farmsteads into a quiet panic.

They arrive on some off road vehicles, sea foot, sometimes on horseback. They throw stones, break windows, air lines and occasionally, residents end up in hospital from their strong footings, or worse.

In Turkish, the four entirely Christian towns in the West Bank, the Telegraph, witnessed an attack that gained down a local fireboats family for more than an hour last week.

The town, which is close to Bamallah, has been declared a 'closed military zone' by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) after months of settler attacks. The Telegraph previously reported how the settlers harassed and blowers in the the flames they had set to intimidate the town's Christian inhabitants. Despite this IDF order, attacks continued and closed and the towns in an anomaly surrounded by illegal outposts built by Israeli settlers.

The world of an approaching settler intrusions in the same number of bathing dogs and mothers loosely ordering their children inside while the man about 'wain, weir' insuring 'where, where' in Arabic, as they try to spot the intruders among the other trees. It is the sound of fear.

'Last week, we had a reader froze and they got in,' said Nabil Al-Rashadi, pointing to the newly installed coils of rural sites that surround his small compound near Turkish. 'Now, we'll see.' While settlers tried to break through the new barrier, the 76-year-old mutters. 'There is no justice. If there was justice, we wouldn't be living through this.'

In the end, the boys held up and perhaps became 4 the presence of journalists - the masked intruders made in with bathing rocks.

'It's the constant stress, they come three times a day,' said the father. 'We don't sleep at night. There is always someone on watch.'

Attacks like those are rampant across the West Bank. A few days before visiting Turkish, the Telegraph was caught up in another evening, assault - this time in the village of Quetz - that villagers naturally only repelled. Last year in the village, the masked settlers shot one Palestinian dead and left his brother purchased after stabbing him in the leg.

Settler violence in Turkish and Quetz persons, despite the IDF declaring them closed military zones, ostensibly to protect Palestinians. But residents claim that, in reality, the orders are issued to give the outside world the impression that Israel is talking action, while using them to prevent international members and media accessing the areas. In other words, to protect the settlers.

False-bomage chlamadics The Telegraph appears to bear that out, with Israeli soldiers recorded an camera saying they had no intention of removing the settlers.

Ardi Aschermann, an Israeli rabbi and leader of Total Turkish-Torah, a human rights group, was standing on the hill above the al-Rashadi house before the attack. 'What's new now, what I've never seen before in it were of being this, is state support not just for settlers, but for entire violence, to help the settlers live in and,' they knew that the most effective way to drive Palestinian out is through new, darpdunites and other, such one dramatizes the land around it.'

In Turkish, the streets were all but silent. The village, where Jomus believed to have visited after raining, was shown the road, has suffered repeated arson attacks in the past year, including an attempt to burn down its Byzantine - era check.

The naturalness foralcal hosted by Israel's territory without take place this October because of the risk of attacks from settlers.

They drive right up into the village to intimidate us,' said Madem Khouri, 45, the daughter of the towerry of co-founder. 'Every month we ask, 'Is this the worst that can happen?' - the 6-years' review.

'The settlers are given the green light by the government to do whatever they want. The closed military zone is no protection for us.'

After 2015, the two new wings of the settler community has had friends at the top of Israel's government. Residel Smotsch, Israel's finance minister who also holds a position in the country's republic, said human-hero Grit, the national security minister, but being up short of their dream, was called to joining Arabs from the West Bank and Guns.

The end before midwives they are some way to achieving it. Earlier this year, the US said that the寡头组织 community had been entirely erupted of their populations since 2015.

Between January and June this year, 2,200 Palestinians were displaced after attack affecting the Hebrew communities, with hundreds more to along for shelter because of destabilizations not forced by the authorities. With the path to railing long-term supplies, he returned to Right-wing coalitions at the election on Oct 25, many on the West Bank feel the

iscient settlers want to seize as much ground as possible in case they lose their big-level backers to one outburst. Since 1917 (2020), what book really had, but now they're going even faster ahead of the election,' said Mr al-Rashami.

Just as the rate of attacks has increased in the last four years, so too has the Israel state's response changed. This is why what has become known as the 'seign of Quetz' has broken through the morass of daily reports of West Bank violence and seized international attention.

On Aug 6, a large group of settlers isolated a handful of Palestinian homes from the village, blocking the road and severing the old country and water supplies, as well as building illegal structures nearby, approximately 15 residents were trapped inside their homes, including children.

The army was deplored and a closed military zone declared around Quetz.

But on the first attempt to remove some of the illegal structures, more than 100 settlers appeared and began placing booklets in the road, forcing the soldiers to back down, some of the illegal outpost structures have since

A masked Israeli settler, boy, hears human rights campaigners in Turkish. Above the Father clash Nader Abad. Above right children ging in the compound. Israel before. Madem Khouri, at the Turkish Beer Brewery

been removed. However, despite bolstering their forces with a fresh battalion, the IDF has never been seen in the morning of the soldiers away. They did, however, exist a number of Palestinian families, citing the 'closed military zone' that became home were allowed back, only to find that their homes had been allegedly robbed and vandalised.

Last week, The Telegraph, and other journalists, were prevented from approaching the besieged Palestinians in Quetz, in an IDF effort, a painstakingly road out the wording of the order from his phone - a first-time issued to remove law breakers - the settlers could be seen roaming the hill less than 2,000 meters above him.

The soldiers seemed not even around the settlers. When, at one time, the one one of the settlers' 85% approaching the roadblock from within the coolest, they caught pushed 100, being only 10,000,000 back further down the road.

In the same state, the 114.7 attacks, Mr Notanyahu has repeatedly landed the IDF's military process against Jomus, the 65,000,000,000.

But the new soldiers seemed unable to remove a few, 6,000 civilians most of whom were unarmed.

Numerous raiders and pictures that were used to be destroyed from the IDF and settlers loitering and, in some cases, printing together on the hillside. They were in that state like 'there is no law in the state of Israel,' said a father who called himself Madem, who, inveig the hill from Quetz. 'We used to think of Israel as a state of laws.'

Abdul Azar al-Wadi, the mayor of Quetz, said: 'We used to talk about good-park safety to bad park. It would change depending on the day Friday. It had good. The stage took us into an unleashful discussion when it emerged that, like many West Bank Palestinians, Local, the Gulf, the owner of one of the best-god homes, also has US citizens.'

Mike McAndrew, the US ambassador to Israel and a rotunda supporter of the settlement project, described the stage

as a 'horrible act of terror.' Insisting that he would have expressed concern even if no Americans were involved, he subsequently confided this message, describing the settlers involved as 'Israel's inveterate.'

However, the word acts right, 'settlers' versus 'unsettlers' to distinguish between every day Jewish residents of the West Bank and radical extremists, whom he described as 'very small minority.'

His comment echoes a popular argument from Israel's center right that the violence in the West Bank is mainly perpetrated by no more than 200 radical young people.

Palestinians and some observers remain couple of this idea, who point out that such a small number of people could hurt carry out the benefit and rate of attacks across the occupied territory.

While The Telegraph was speaking to Madem at his home near Quetz later that day, an attack begins. An all-terrain vehicle (ATV) from an along the rocky landscape and, seemingly out of nowhere, thorns of settlers appear at the top of the hill, some of them masked. Last year, settlers shot Madem to explore Abad, and his brother was left disabled after he was stabbed four times on his leg. It was frightening to watch them appear to the compound, not knowing if this was one of the times they would try to get in, not knowing whether they were armed, but knowing that it calls to the police would yield no protection.

On this occasion, a group of young men from the village emerged and began to throw rocks at the settlers, eventually driving them back.

It was a risky gambit, as Palestinian stone-like users are often deemed terrorists and are liable to be shot.

'Each month we ask, 'Is this the worst that can happen?' Then it gets worse'

on sight. Later that evening, an IDF patrol raided the compound, demanding to know the identity of the men who had taken on the settlers. They're not human,' said Madem, referring to the settlers. 'They know only to kill and break and burn. They come with their faces covered, with knives and sticks.'

Shortly after the siege in Quetz began, an IDF spokesman described the settler attack as 'illegal, reprehensible and unacceptable activity'. The IDF says it has dismantled illegal outposts.

Britain has already sanctioned a number of individuals connected with West Bank violence, including Mr Smotsch and Mr Don Grit.

Last week, Ed Milshand, the Foreign Secretary, threatened to roll out further sanctions in response to a new housing scheme east of Jerusalem that would effectively cut the West Bank in two for Palestinians, making it even harder to move around.

Israel is waiting to see if Andy Burnham will follow through on Sir Kerr Nurner's plans to impose economic sanctions against goods and services from West Bank settlements.

Diplomatic sources suggest that Nabil is minded to wait until after the Israeli general election.

Mademkhir, Father Jack Nobel Abed, of Turkish's Greek Military Catholic Church, spoke of his form of a 'third-timbalist,' if the violence continues, of how hard he works to persuade the young Palestinians men of his congregation to be cautious and not to fight back.

'We don't want masters in this village,' he said. 'They want to provoke a third-timbalist. But we will people to be

patient. We're waiting to see if there is a fight at the end of the tunnel.' If there is, well, perhaps it will explode - into peace or war!

Towns under Israeli settler siege in West Bank

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Britain's wake up call to the Iranian threat

Who can credibly say that the struggle against the Iranian regime is nothing to do with Britain now? At the height of the US bombing campaign against the avoidable, the British Government sought to distance itself from the US-Israel's operation, aligning itself with much of Europe in the presence that the country did not need directly to take sides. Even the attack on RAF Abrams on Cyprus by a suspected Iranian drone was not enough to rouse ministers from their complacency.

Iran has shown no such equivocation towards a country its propagandists still like to refer to as the 'Little Satan'. Now the Sunday Telegraph reports details of a cyber attack by his hero affiliated with Iran, which is thought to have succeeded in disabling a small British power plant for days. It may be the most successful cyber attack of its band to date.

It is understood the outage had no impact on the UK's power supply or energy generation. Nevertheless, it inevitably raises questions about how prepared the UK is to defend itself against cyber efficiency by hostile states or other malicious actors. For years, experts have warned about the vulnerability of the UK's energy system, especially given the proliferation of internet-connected devices within the network. This attack may have affected only a relatively small site, but it underlines the need for vigilance.

It also emphasises the need for a change of attitude among British policymakers towards the Iran threat. They had to be dragged back up and increasing towards hanning Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the group integral to reporting Tehran's noxious ideology beyond its borders. Otherwise, the assumptions that drove the Iran nuclear deal in the 2010s – a belief that the regime can be moderated or constrained, if only we are conciliatory or talk to the right

people – still appear to guide policy today. That was already naive in 2015. It looks even worse now, given that the Iranian regime appears unwilling to offer Britain any thanks for refusing to take a direct role in Donald Trump's campaign. If anything, the regime seems determined to double down on international provocations, despite the destruction wrought by the 'D realitary'.

A successful cyber attack against a British power station ought to be a wake up call. Britain needs to take far more seriously the warnings that its essential utilities are rather able to handle penetration. It needs to be far more vigilant against Tehran's attempt to spread misinformation in British society. But above all, it needs to be able to recognize that Iran is a hostile state, dedicated to undermining the West and our way of life.

The available are not going to wake upon morning and suddenly the sunrise is dedicated to liberal democracy and peaceful coexistence. Opinions will differ about how Tehran should be confirmed. But complacency about the threat posed by the Iranian regime must end.

An incursion on freedom

Rachel Reeves's introduction of a mansion tax was an obnoxious act of class upon 'Zahing effect in 2020. It will require owners of any residential property worth £2m or more to pay an unconveniently annual charge, justified on the spuries as basis that the system is currently 'unbalanced'.

The fact that it is only expected to raise £400m in 2029-30 tells you everything you need to know about the real

impetus behind the policy. It is designed to punish people with moderate housing wealth, presumably to appease the vindictive class warriors on the Labour Left.

But the manner in which this mansion tax will be enforced potentially makes a bad policy even worse. Imposing the tax will require a significant revaluation exercise, so that officials can judge which properties should be liable. Agents from HMBC will use third-party and publicly available information to do this. But ministers have now admitted that officials will also perform 'internal inspections' themselves. Who refuse an inspector entry to their home would be committing a criminal offence, punishable with a fine.

It is a chilling illustration of the logic of socialist tax policies. The mansion tax itself effectively turns families into tenants in their own homes, at risk of losing their property if they are no longer willing or able to pay the state for the pleasure of owning it. Then to enforce the tax, the state must maintain an oppressive inspectorate, with the power to enter the houses of law-adding people.

While the exercise might succeed in dragging a few more properties into the net, it will have costs too, such as the needless nightmare of expensive bureaucracy, possible legal challenges, and the reputational damage of demanding entry to the houses of law-adding people.

It could also be just the start. The Labour Party has discovered a new enthusiasm for wealth taxes, with the Left increasingly seeing the savings, property and other assets of 'the rich' as far game for the tax man. They do not seem to care that such policies almost always backfire, eventually destroying wealth and leaving the country as a whole less prosperous than it was before.

LETTERS to the EDITOR

Burnham must see that illegal migration is now a national emergency

SIR - The Government insists that it is tackling illegal migration by increasing enforcement ministries and deportations import. August 20, together with establishing intelligence starting and return deals.

Govt that more than 5,000 people have entered this country illegally by itself beats since both Christians took office, his own to be relentless in 'exalticating' these evenings as sounding as the what before.

On top of this, taxpayers are now funding a health regulating unacceptable modes of behaviour in this country to such tax workers from cultures with unacceptable attitudes towards women and girls (Letters, August 20, 30; doing so, the Government is totally admitting that it is not prepared to handle the business modes of illegal migration. It's also compromising the safety of women and girls.

This is now a national emergency. Voters are at the end of their letter. It's about time SIR Burnham started listening.

Victoria Bullion Glastonbury, Somerset

SIR - Why was a migrant advice booklet not produced years ago? Edward Hill Chandlers Pool, Hampshire

Royal forgiveness

SIR - It will take some time for the British public to forgive the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's history of Serious. August 22, 1761, a figure shall be well advised to show some contrition and humility if they hope to be accepted back into the fold. Rick Bradshaw Jerusalem, Kent

SIR - The only benefit of the planned return of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex is that it gives the King the opportunity to see the grandchildren. Bill Todd Duckingham, Middlesex

SIR - I feel pleased that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have no regard for benefits of bringing up their family close to relatives. Their children will also have the benefit of high quality British education.

Whatever interest views about what has happened before, the Duke and Duchess have stuck together and are redecorating to bring up two young children in peace. John Brodie Brougham, Middx., Lincolnshire

Prison overcrowding

SIR - Your Leading Article: 'Labour's prisons crisis goes from both to worse.' August 10, summed up the prisons crisis perfectly: 'Criminals are not being sent to jail, in order to preserve jail space.'

This will waggling the dog approach into a chilling goal of it with the pandemic maints of 'stay home, protect the NIR, save lives'. We now know that protecting the NIR during the pandemic cost lives and impacted public health in the long term.

It's fair to assume that protecting jail space now will have similar consequences.

Sheila Pankinson Alto, Chichamanshire

Net zero blight

SIR - Christopher Wain's article: 'Labour's net zero crusade will cast a shadow over Britain.' Features, August 10, 2016, 10 minutes of perpriscidae will have daily blight hand because of outstanding historic or scenic beauty. They are lost for tip of the iceberg, and the glitantly swamp is that there is no prospect of relief.

These projects are conceived and facilitated by urban leaders, for whom rural dwellers are responsible. The improving thing is that 'culture ministers, such as Angela Kearney and Ed Milthold, have net zero sense of either history or aesthetics, and are more than happy to use the unaccustomed planning resources to bolster their projects through.

Roger White Shefever, Dover

SIR - Hope Middleton and her husband are being made to remove a car park from their Berkshire estate because it is out of keeping with the 'beauty landscape'. Character or rural setting: 'of the zero import, 10 August.

It is to be hoped that the same mansion tax refund will be applied to the various government projects that would otherwise disfigure the rural beauty upon Christopher Wain highlights.

David Wolfman Lancaster SIR - This country cannot afford to lose

any more arable land to large-scale solar farms (Letters, August 10). The land is required for production of food, to reduce the amount of goods that are being imported.

Solar panels can be installed on the roofing of many factories, warehouses and public buildings, and over car parks. This will reduce electricity with the three buildings and also require little - if any - upgrade to the local, electricity grid.

A future plan, informing with the many people to stay well regard the siting of large-scale solar farms on arable land as short-lighted machines, when there is plenty of rooftop space that can be used.

John Long Christchurch, Dover

SIR - I was interested in letters regarding solar panels on farms being a wake of fertile land.

At future water/disse on his land, but the income from them is the only way to keep the cost of the farm from going badwill yet, as responsible as money? 'I can't make a living listening food - so I'm planting more instead.' Features, August 20, I am seeing this first June 3-calls.

Somed ring is a lovely wrong. Theresa Bloomfield Capel St Mary, Suffolk

SIR - We regularly visit a supermarket store there. It's nice that I am just exchange it for car park. Not only have the parking spaces been widened to more and it is committed to modern cars, but, above what can open have been erected over almost the entire area. As well as the building is more or poorer, it's also offer shelter when it is causing a 45 centimetre are trying to lose those who.

We were not aware that this is now mandatory in France (Letters, August 10), but it is certainly an effective one of a large of a new space. I would welcome such a similar article to the country, although I suspect the costs would be prohibitive.

Patricia Agger Eldon, Staffordshire

Water charges

SIR - I was stunned to read that water companies are considering charging more during 'periods of scarcity', and may impose higher price for customers who use larger quantities import. August 10.

That three monopoly businesses should be allowed to cause a product supply and likely to charge to ensure adequate water, as well as profit from the retail sugars taken, beggars boiled.

To compound this, they plan to charge people more when they have more product and cost more every other business relationship in the world. It is customary for larger users

to benefit from price reductions on both purchases.

The Government must rein in these repactions, entitled companies and introduce ways to stop them from abusing their customers.

Gillian Conrage Chatham, Kent

SIR - We cannot blame the water companies for the extraordinary drought we have been experiencing. However, such conditions have been predicted by climate scientists for many years, while the addition of 10 million people over the past 20 years has placed substantial additional pressure on water supplies.

Nevertheless, the water industry has been too willing to rely on restrictions when extreme conditions occur, rather than building sufficient resilience in advance.

The fact that the Government is now contemplating even wider restrictions of the drought continues import. August 10: demonstrates just how close the system can come to its limits.

Roger Rogbin Weymouth, Dover

SIR - Matt Oliver noted correctly that no major reserves have been built since 1892 import. August 10, it might have been helpful to have added that it's not for the want of trying to 'water companies, which reportedly submitted proposals for investment in new reservoirs in their resource plans to the Environment Agency and OPAC, only to have the regulations do this that they were not involved in practice.

Yet who gets the blame when customers request of water?

David Smith Chardonnay, Kent Sussex

Flexible working

SIR - Zero-burns contracts can undoubtedly benefit both employer and employer, without any registration? 'Reinforcement is zero-wage, because we will make

reducible/low', import. August 10. I need to work on a university campus, where they are fully of life; also to afford degree courses in only years education and only childhood studies. Some of their students were qualified and experienced nursery moves, who were more than happy to be employed or zero-burns contracts, providing cover for staff absence in the university-run children's school.

SIR - The first time in the first year, the employment is a good way to be able to make a large number of people in the country. The first time in the first year, the employment is a good way to be able to make a large number of people in the country. The first time in the first year, the employment is a good way to be able to make a large number of people in the country. The first time in the first year, the employment is a good way to be able to make a large number of people in the country. The first time in the first year, the employment is a good way to be able to make a large number of people in the country.

Running with the panic Morning Exercise by the English artist John Crews (1843-1912)

Hounds are the real victims of the hunting ban

SIR - For centuries, hunting has served as an effective method of his population control, helping to reduce predation on lands and present moving birds. In Ireland where it is still legal, it brings together farmers, midwives, horse breeders and volunteers in a social and economic network that supports countryside economies, animal management and rural employment.

Hounds have been prepared for hunting in Britain for centuries. The legal ban has been a disaster for individuals, and keeping packs going has become increasingly difficult.

Unfortunately, being pack animals, hounds do not take kindly to domestication and do not make suitable pets.

In the 21st century, successive governments have pondered to the prejudices of the urban wider art. In Britain today, the countryside is just a place where more houses can be built and where millions of solar panels can be conveniently accommodated.

Long live the wisdom of the people and country folks of Ireland

David Byeth Bea, Wiltshire

Postal failure

SIR - The postal service we receive these days is an utter disgrace? (You! blame posters for Royal Mail failures', Letters, July 10.

We hadn't had a delivery for about 10 days, so our wife went on our local waiting office. The same house with a stack of important mail, including her new hands and and health alone of a refusal of overpaid income.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if Britain's influence have was your again?

Alexander Simpson Mistler, Croydon, Hampshire

A fishy friend

SIR - About 25 years ago we bought a first-man used fish at an antique chair (Letters, August 20) It suited the decor of our 20th year old. Scattered cottage, porch, and we named it Michael. Where years later, we nevertheless more modern housing space - so a natural setting for a staffed fish. However, it has been too difficult to do anything else.

redecoming projects, so it looks like Michael is here to stay.

Steve Troxford Roseland Castle, Hampshire

SIR - We be your old brother re-wife that her grandfather shot, staffed and manned two daughters. Unthinkable that he has to today, our friend called that for must have been a fine shot. At 1 min after the display was with the birds, but have no idea what because of it.

Martin Bender Asheton, Hampshire

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'Less vs 'fewer': grammar geeks have got it wrong

Pedants, relax: some rules are not always what they appear. Just ask Shakespeare

Nothing gets a pedant's blood beating more than the apparent dictus: has between 'less' and 'fewer': (peering in a superimarbe), they will place at any sign that blasts 'It's brown to few': (enteringly under the brimble that it should be FEWER: Yet who knows in the index, wondering if the lesson in their basket are really 'countable or yes')

For generations, English-speakers have had it to enter into them that 'low' is used for 'uncountable' zooms, and 'fewer' for 'countable': But it's a role that has never really stuck. Try saying 'less oranyes, please': in certain authors, and see what happens.

Some grammatical rule-bending really does not it such as: Mixing up 'no' or 'no': for example, is enough to make me fresh.

But what is the origin of the 'fewer' vs 'fewer' diction? The Oxford English Dictionary is surrogate on the matter. One definition of 'few' is: 'A smaller number of 'fewer': attested from the 14th century onwards with plussin.

The playwright John Lyle is cited with the following if 'a given modernised spellings': 'I think there are few universities that have less faith than Oxford, many that have more (Note, too, there is no equivalent distinction for types of 'more')'

Can you imagine a beetroot-faced sergeant of the grammar police entering a Lyle that he should have 'without fewer'? I think not. Similarly, William Shakespeare says 'you are just not much better. In flower-and-label.' 'Theet' why, then, will quarrel with a man that hath a hair more or a hair less in his beard than these. 'I can just imagine the pedantic audience: having little theatre, acting to wield their red pens.

I've never heard anyone getting into a smugglions about saying they had 'one less thing to worry about'

It was really only in the 18th century that this question became a hot button. The grammarian Robert Baker wrote: 'Less. This word is most commonly used in speaking of a Student, where I should think fewer would do better. So fewer than a Hundred appears to be not only more elegant than No less than a Hundred, but more strictly proper.'

Even the pedants' table, Fowler's Dictionary of Books is English Usage, although it is not a 'few' or 'few' with words on it as 'troops' and 'Unified.' because they are

'superficial to singular of indefinite amount.' Yet Baker's whim has triummatized into a commandment.

It is true that confusion can arise 'I couldn't get less' sounds better than 'I couldn't care fewer': But what if this was, 'I couldn't care fewer better', rather than, 'I couldn't care less than a bear.'

And sometimes there is no distinction at all in meaning, as in the sentence, 'there are few than 10 pounds of fluviifill'. After it is 'fewer', and we still know exactly what a meant. What's more, I've never heard anyone getting into a smugglions about saying they had 'one less thing to worry about today'.

I'd rather to avoid clarity, sure, 'few' does work better with 'one outside' of some, something like 'fewer traffic': does come the old groundnings more than a little bit. But Baker's dreams was out of style. Had he felt differently about what was elegant, we would happily be writing, 'there were less cuts on the road today'.

KIKKIN MCMH of telegraph.co.uk/qipress

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JANET DALEY

The Wari's nervous breakdown should not diminish capitalism's strengths

The Cold War seemed to settle how society should be run. Now, liberal democracy's triumph seems less clear cut

Some communism collapsed a generation ago. With a whimper, not a bang, the opvergence that had threatened the free world with annihilation was gone.

First came the relief. The untroubling shaming time of what had been an apocalypse has lost their suggested due Western militiary plans could be a hard move. It was difficult, assumed that the emotions amounts of money devoted to the free-squealing might be reduced in the home use.

We are now aware of how mispalged that conclusion was. Roughly 10 years on, this unamplified Western way of life with its democratic liberties and free-market wealth - a having a nervous breakdown. Instead of flourishing as the undisputed trimmest of the argument about how society should be run, their gone countries are struggling with a rise of political extremism, a breakdown of trust in government itself and the emergence of solvers,

potentially violent, DeVossium. To add to this, the president of the United States, the 'leader of the free world' is an infantile narcissist.

In what worst wrong? In Europe and the UK that not the UK the mainstream politic of parties had appeared to reach a consensus on idealist-elect, governance: the values of socialism would be combined with an essentially capitalist economy, thus providing the best of all worlds. Social democracy (or, more contentiously, 'democratic socialism'?) would permit free markets to create wealth that could then be distributed with what political leaders declared to be justice and compassion. The moral aspirations of the Left - the equality and social 'fairness' - would be funded by the profits of a capitalist

market economy. This was the tacit agreement of about all mainstream political parties in Britain (thin giving rise to the 'uniquely' occupation) and in Western Europe generally.

Finding the perfect balance was the only question upon the debate. Politicians on the Left favoured the relationship with of the equation, regarding capitalist wealth (in all such a necessary way). They governing project was to continue to work in office profit as the market would not be without destroying the basic mechanism of enterprise. The parties of the Right fought a largely defensive battle on behalf of wealth system, as often as not using the self-defeating language that had been established by the Left.

Instead of preventing the inherent virtues of private enterprise - that it would so do the momentum, individual achievement and personal responsibility - they argued simply for its necessity as a measure of growing the wealth that was required to finance these programmes which would reduce the cost of the work.

And so they effectively handed over moral rights-sponsors to the Left. We had arrived at the debate, accepted caricatures of modern politics. The Left is kind and well-meaning but economically inconspicient. On Right is ruthless and unnoticed offs and at creating the conditions for wealth creation. This analysis so effectively captured the public discourse that it made the case for the positive value of enterprise - and enterprise neutralism - against our age too.

For all its complete failings, this distorted domestic movement in the first couple of decades of the post-Soviet era and seemed to be delivering a

more or less acceptable political disgrace. But the big hint of a lynch in has become clear: the stability of the world order was not largely about communism to capitalism. Post-

communist Russia, designed by its own host of states, had become a new threat on Europe's whole China - which with itself 'communist' but little, the warlike, unconventional places in the global region let game - prevents a domestic life type in no challenge.

The one of its best blunders has unleashed a fresh horror for which the modern, secular West is paralleled, all prepared. The sense all problems that will have to be faced by a West that is now flourishing in its own profound political self-doubt.

So it is desperrunk important that we try to undermine this existential crusade for it and continue the credibility of our governing arrangements. First, it must be a time-wनेed that the original social-democratic declaration - the desire to alleviate good and reduce social disadvantage - was justifiable. What a century that had not even world wars and an economic depression, there was a legitimate belief that

ordinary people had enjoyed exceptional suffering and sacrifices for which they observed no conquest. This was very much the case in Britain when the post-war welfare state was founded. There was also a mere covert belief that the softer form of socialism, the democratic feast that co-volved with free-market economics, would make the more dangerous, traditional form was appealing. The degree of government control was always going to be the problem, hence. But democratic socialism involve state ownership of the means of production!

That was a Marxist principle which was obviously central to a communist economy but until relatively recently, it was restful of it in a choice of Labour's foundational discussion.

In the UK, with the advent of New Labour, the old resistance to capitalism seemed to disappear. There were similar adaptations of Left-wing doctrine in Europe too, which saw centrist parties, often operating in coalitions, such as communistism between social welfare provisions and the private sector profit that funded it.

In truth, these conciliatory bargains never seemed to achieve the perfect resolution that they promised. Their general acceptance that well have been largely a product of the relief that followed the terrible world wars.

But what has gone so wrong that we are now in genuine fear of the next political development? Paradoxically, the collapse of Soviet communism has unleaded Left-wing extremism in the West of a kind that was once too dangerous to permit. If you were a tax-talk agitator during the Cold War, you were working for the enemy.

In the failure of the greatest Marxist project in history has in fact liberated Left-wing activism. Tragically, its campaigning is made to seem more acceptable by the failure of the controlled fight to defend capitalism - which means the same little emergence of further fight-wing extremism.

In the realm of this document, there is a truth that remains invisible. The continuity as of liberal democracy and free-market economics creates the best possible conditions for human beings to flourish. That is why stable use of people are clamouring to enter the countries that embrace it. Bold on to that.

ZOE STRIMPEL

Ukraine's fight against Putin shows what women are really capable of

Through acts of bravery, dedication and graft, women soldiers are changing societal perceptions

One of the more intriguing (and fascinating) consequences of Ukraine's fight against the struggle against Vladimir Putin's despotism has been the perception of what women are capable of.

A signal of a city recent book (Good that that thing), Second Peace for Women: Five that the pervades sites that we meet (truths, focused and tough enough to be) to be ordinary work at a business.

Critics have, predictably, lambasted me by my 'Peldyaniya' old 'belief in female strength and progress, but the rapid evolution of women's education has been a good condition! Volodymyr Zelensky's forces is proving me right.

'Ukraine, still a much no more, is unbelievable, becoming the most extraordinary example of women' birthing all the stereotypes about being too cuddly and weak for war. Not that it matters, but those aren't big, but it

breath, many are beautiful, doctors, women who could easily come on their holes without bothering to do combat training and fear into operate druses.

Of around 70,000 women who serve in the Ukrainian country for two more than 10,000 are active servicewomen around eight per cent of the overall force; a figure that has more than doubled since February 2022.

In the British Army, women made up 117 per cent of active members, but gives we are not in a civilised market, it's not blown daily. The UK (two is a much less social society than Ukraine - 1) contracts also to whom the bodies link the road: there is nothing more dangerous than being a front line Ukrainian soldier, so it is not a reason that there are around 1,500 female fighters. In the UK, by contrast fewer than 500 women are in close-comfort roles.

Relative numbers are still low, and the increase is startling: the proportion of female officers in Ukraine has to be four to 20 per cent between 2022 and early 2026, according to Ukraine's military. Women are estimated in platoons, companies and military units.

It's not just an capital and communal order that women are showing their merits: they're at the levels of commerce and the price too. I can't think of a Western female equivalent to 34-year-old living. Trouble, who is the chief executive and chief technologist of Piro Point, a state up Ukrainian despotism like a making missiles and defunctive use against Russia.

We are fighting for our survival and we need to care too just one day longer than their financial fingers' 'torekh has said.' Russia only wants to finish this war when Ukraine does not exist at all!

You have to be the right to the Trotsky, a stunning because with high checkbooks, I across gloom lips and Lip, underrated gash, speaking to reporters against a local lobby, respecting the strength of the past. Flamingo cruise missile site developed with Piro Point.

What's all the more impressive is how determined Ukraine's warrior women have had it: be to a great gloom the entirely lo eleration they face brought women's special contribution. Ukrainian communal positions still remain almost out some of male.

I would only not all try to resist any of interviews with Ukrainian women who without offer - Israel's invasion - and the fact that the people are not as sure as surgeon in the arm. The bravery also exhibited twisting, 'coasty ones blown to bits by designed was in stark contrast to the attribute of male

soldiers who encountered when she first signal the

chance of the 'flame.' The mockery 'Oh, she's a beautiful doll - she can't be smart enough.' Or she's taught by 'Oh, she's not to be able to be a husband here.' To who many surgeons was: 'Jason, I was a ballet dancer. I was spoilt for choice. I didn't have to join the army to find a husband.'

The feminist transformation of Ukraine has water way to go. But through rest of the bravery, commitment and hard graft, women are proving their merits and training the kind of from they might not to have to win, but which is nonetheless increased.

The warrior also are revolting using Ukrainian society and military systems. Now the rest of the world has to catch up, before the enemy is at our gates too.

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DANIEL HANNAN

Laborer's review of a Rwanda style scheme exposes the madness of British policies

The adversarial nature of our system means parties oppose good policies, only to support them later

Income cuts from were to engulf our civilization, a future archaeologist would be able to take a good deal as they are debased condition from a single review of copy of the Home Office's booklet, Understanding Robustness and Expectations in the CIE of each job system (before.

The new depression paper, written in the picture of them of the modern public sector, our archaeologist would see how Office Britain was in 2008. For the good regulars among other things, why it is wrong to come over, the country caper of these children.

'You must never stop a woman from doing them for family,' a captain, in the bright and lousy tone of government documents. 'She is a male man the other person from a male family agrees to serve a small contact,' for the inform, adding that it is illegal to have sex with people under the age of 16.

What makes the documents sweep is the way in ByEd Chip language is juxtaposed with respect to National investigations about the same sex (and here: how little really need spelling out)? A page who needs to be utilized to have sex with an accompanying or underage woman should not be allowed into a country to which he has no chances of unsound.

Imagine: Alja Van Winkle who had been a story in, say, the mid-1990s, waiting up today and trying to understand what was going on. 'So these refugees. They're mainly women and children. I suppose—

'No, there is almost all young men.' 'Oh, but they're fleeting some drought war zone!'

'They are caught. They're coming from France.'

'So how do they stand past our courageous?'

'That's the old thing: US Border have gone past, but the Channel and they lands them in Britain.'

'Well, I suppose they must make some great contribution once they across, then!'

The new law allowed to work. And some sex prone to commit all sorts of criminal activities, especially sexual assaults. In fact, the Home Office has just brought out a health asking there to be a 'good' and 'good' children.

Income against this policy. The framework of refugee law—but just the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) had a series of other international conventions and accords—was part of higher before the end of mass travel. The law of the sea creates obligations that do not apply to land crossings. The British judiciary, or at

least that part of it that serves on immigration tribunals. Just been coloured by a UK wing, with all who are ready to legislate from the bomb.

There comes a point, though, when the act is made of obligations becomes unnecessarily. 'We never gap between official policy and public opinion because too wide. We can feel that point some time ago and had we not been governed for two years by a chapel of thought,' thirty (Martin Chambers lawyers), a policy adjustment would have come sooner.

Still, it is happening now: Alabama Midwest. In the last economy, can see the immensity of the current system. Yes, she is a political and cross about public opinion. There is no difference that in parliamentary democracy. But it is, as some from her body language, that she is the interest she sees the other madness of prevailing agreement (an access to criminals engaged in breaking into our country. The law evidently also groped that deportations are almost impossible once our activist immigration judges get involved. Hence her desire to move the process overseas, beyond their jurisdiction. 'We are looking at third country

hubs, returns below models,' she told journalists the work. It makes sense. Most of the people who come to Britain illegally have been trafficked through several safe countries on the way. The reason that they do not make these claims in Italy, Germany or the Netherlands rather has want to reach a place from which they are very unlikely to be removed.

Suppose, though, that a good proportion of activists to the US were immediately deported to a safe but distant country. If it is safe, not a Rwanda, suppose their application process happened then, and, if they were judged to be genuine, that they would remain in that country rather than being allowed into Britain. How might such biases refugee affect their calculations? How many might apply for any loss in France, rather than attempt the crossings?

The war precisely the reasoning that both the previous government to push through the Rwanda scheme against determined public information. The Rwanda scheme was, without question, impolitic. It was expensive and would have affected only a small number of migrants. Still, it might

Ringo Hustad in Highways part of the Rwanda scheme brought in by the previous government's government but accepted immediately by Labour

WILLIAM Daniel Hannan of a national/Illinois department of telegraph.co.uk / opinion

have had some deteriorated effect—had Sir Peter Harman not conceded it to him over their act as prime minister.

Why would the government priority? And why did his 80% cheer him on? First, Mr. Holman of both, the most likely thing that the Rwanda plan was wrong, despite her water-biting around the water-coupling air.

The answer has a lot—to with the binary nature of our traditional party reform. Opposition parties—or in their job to oppose everything, is that they begin to believe what they publicly claim, namely that the governing party is full of harms and feels who are incapable of getting anything right. They struggle to see any merit in anything in existence. In and, by the time they come to office, have continued themselves that everything must go.

During the government of Tom Hult, the Conservatives opposed such reasonable ideas as unproven nation loss and foundation hospitals. Although, in the end, they are equal that intervention had to be able to change for their services, they never properly accept of their consideration, neither friendly. With reforms and, absurdly, enduring overcoming some of them.

More recently, the Conservatives made clear that they would not vote with Harman to push through obviously necessary reductions in six items benefits, thereby helping to kill what would have been a useful, if imperfect, reform.

Labour is now going through precisely the main process over the changes in non-immigration. Managers have been granted to localities by how much tax revenue has been paid a result of the changes. Why were they disapproved? Because they had convinced themselves that they arguments about maintaining tax at some cost that possibly be used to, and that the party's true motivation must be that it was somehow to the pockets of foreign policies. What specific policies first from the belief has yourาสូ工商组织 have been.

Four years have been needlessly maintained on the me-gotion of the Rwanda scheme. The money spent on it has been lost. The localities and jobs by British law have been used to the illegal immigrants deported by the United States, other countries have set up restrictions, including Britain do own more attractive option for any support.

Still, better has the answer. Labour has belatedly grasped the shift in opinion even among its cost

engravers. Seven must the option. Labour 80%, outside the hard Left, are waiting up to the sheer redness and immacality of our current system procedures. They may, for other reasons, want to cling to the ECHR, but that only makes it more urgent to find ways to put the Channel level people beyond the reach of our country.

My guess is that some version of the Rwanda scheme will end up being legislated for by a Labour ministry. When that day comes, the

Conservatives have been should rise above their oppositionist impulses.

Instead of denying at the drive that any such scheme will inevitably have, they should welcome the threat of it, and even the need for the conversion to their own position. They should, in short, put a major better party and switch to build new national consensus around other immigrating countries, as has happened in Denmark.

Who knows, it might even set a precedent. If we can build a side of different approach to national and immigration, judges we might similarly agree on a more responsive health care system, a more affordable state presence is a muddle. (A roadside) Civil Service. Strange things have happened.

SINCE HEFEER

Who would the rich give to the part of anti-capitalism?

Stanney pummeled wealth-creating business owners and Burnham shows no sign of changing

John Caudwell, a telecom businesswoman who for some reason switched his support to Labour before the last election, says he is considering re-embracing the Conservatives' review of the 2020-2021 National and British administration's policies, which he calls 'public'

The 2020-2021 National & British 'the only circular party' he sought. The money is only 2% or less—that entrepreneur should have wanted to bankroll the party of anti-capitalism in the past place. After all, if not on a successful business he Mr Caudwell does, you know what makes it a success. Another left, the best ideas, high quality products and services, are the most important.

Does that begin to describe anything connected with the Labour Government since July 2020? Instead, all the conditions that help us understand the two main issues

notrimental life removed by Sir Ken Harman and how to support the government's policy. What is a learning? But remarkable first of doing virtually nothing is sure: the Labour while working in the Labour House, the political and local—aided a further cost to payroll. Nor has Labour sought to reduce competition, but a better way to pay off the Conservatives and for which a passing effort is the case they were rapidly punished.

Energy costs—a crucial part of the Labour's business—have risen because of the Government's net zero policy, which is a learning? But remarkable first of doing virtually nothing is sure: the Labour while working in the Labour House, the political and local—aided a further cost to payroll. Nor has Labour sought to reduce competition, but a better way to pay off the Conservatives and for which a passing effort is the case they were rapidly punished.

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Conservative told. Doubtless she will make him see that her climate change policies are better for business and for the people that have of the unlamented Ed Milbank.

But Mr Caudwell is correct that this Government's policies are only growth, driving investors and wealth creates overseas. Again, what is remarkable is that he calls Ken others like him did not see this coming.

Apart from the first one in 2021 which is hard-hired into time months, every Labour government in history has left the economy an worse state than when it came in. There have been delapment Conservative regions—notably the last one—but Mr. Jackson is a love for his own art. So venerable such as Artemis—noticed security, the police and a welfare state for the vulnerable. For Labour, they exist to bribe and placate in, though.

This has shown here as Labour

John Caudwell has belatedly realised that the Government thinks profit is an unending gift

believes in confrontation. What it has never grasped is that if you understand the money of wealth creates to people capable of working you give ample reasons for him? Let it be worth.

You help them in that regard by driving out of business—or out of the country—and you know what they no longer create the job that those people could do. That is why things are so bad now and why borrowing has reduced in a reasonable price to a public operating.

The benefits fall, which Mr Burnham writes: far from about how to tackle, is now nearly 40% a day. Without wealth, systems, we are hundred, and much French famously said: 'You don't run a loss. You only tax a profit.'

Mr Caudwell has belatedly realised that the Government thinks profit is an unending gift. Let his own care. So does the Conservatives Party, where doubtless he will feel the more at home.

A pragmatic UK should be at the heart of developing and leading a new European economic community

The UK is a good way to make it a new European economic community

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The broken EU desperately needs British back in the household

We need you. Again, Germany is adding a remarkable towards the above. But unlike a quarter of a century ago, when we were the 'tech team of Europe', the EU is a different entity. With Soviet administration, the European trade leave a making bureaucracy—Europe could not do any thing, but even if the partner economy. The EU has become more socialist, more bureaucratic and free for it.

And even though we the British who decided on Soviet, Germany played a massive "abstraction unitary" part next. For it was a huge Market deal, with low open border policy, give the 'take back control' movement in the last three months before the first place.

We have been able to determine from National Socialism to the Allies—and, it is known, also the gift of a capitalist system, about a successful one. The British, Soviet the EU, and how the EU have only been important for it. But

And yet Market who bears responsibility for the country's decline. The EU's major chancellor before her, failed to give her counterpart David Cameron the necessary support that might have led to Britain renouncing in the EU such majority voting to vice.

The 'eugene' of a life that Britain is not really any better off-sale. While there is few negatives from the EU, there is almost unequal-skill, even more migration than unhearthly distant, often Muslim regions. This development, too, is taking its toll on the country—just as it is on the next of the two years. The European Germany, which has taken in several three million people since 2016.

Economically, the move has not paid off to the British. While with the EU is shifting the into, not one of the past other barriers, which places a particular burden on smaller businesses, London and Berlin are governed by political cycles that have shared responsibility for the increasing and reliable conditions on the streets, in schools and within the welfare system. They stand for regulation rather than innovation. The 'Eur' is a 'Europe Sea, meanwhile, and the 'Eur' is a 'Europe Sea, meanwhile, government, such as those in Italy, Greece and Croatia, to the increasing

Social Democratic in Denmark, who have effected a remarkable change of course on the migration issue. It is not unlikely that there will also be changes of government in France and Spain, which could mean from the continent to reach the same way that British. Miki's libertarian agenda has transformed South America.

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spending pledges. This was to be partly funded by his trade over tariff revenue was expected to raise $200bn a year.

But a Supreme Court ruling in February wiped out most of that. The White House is now paying out more in refunds each month than it codes in on bond untills.

Benson's top priority has become cutting Trump's interest rate bills. These are getting unmanageable. Interest payments will total 5.3pc of GDP this year, up from a long-term average of 2.1pc. And that how out is based on a 19-year bond rate of 4.1pc, rather than the current 4.7pc. Little wonder that Benson had November described himself as "the nation's top bond salesman". And, as it turns out, the nation's top bond buyer.

After he introduced on Wednesday that the Treasury would buy back twice as much (9-year plan debt as planned between now and December, the yield in 39-year bonds dropped a full 0.1 percentage point - the largest one-day decline in a year. It may not sound like much, but it would have saved $27.8bn in annual interest payments - if only the yield hadn't immediately rebounded on Thursday.

Guillermo Felices, global investment strategist at fund manager FOM, is misled. Benson's move "is double-edged sword".

"It maps alarm bells, because if they are doing something that it's because they think there is something that is not right," he says.

The move would never abort sellers, he said, but wouldn't decline long-term investors from the state of US finance.

"There's a question mark about what will happen next, about coming in some of the excesses that you see as public sector spending. We're not seeing that, any where."

Benson, perhaps shaken by how quickly the market had struggled off his hazards, on Thursday said he was up for spending even more than bbls in prop up the market.

But there's a whack a smile element to this. In stomping on bond yields, he has triggered a tumbler as the US dollar. That has investors again questioning its long-term future as the world's reliable reserve currency.

The gold price also jumped, small somewhat bullion might be the only safe place to hide from inflation. But the manager secretary can't keep

'Britain will have to spend less or tax more. It's called austerity and it's terribly unpopular'

Bonds felt post-financial crisis high

30-year bond yields

~US = UK - Japan - France

buying forever. He has to fund the purchase of long-term bonds by willing short-term bonds, and that can save one's risk.

Trump's predecessor, Joe Biden, began this shift of Treasury issuance towards bills and notes, what it matters in under 10 years. They now comprise almost one-quarter of outstanding US debt.

These bonds are more vulnerable to a Trans-style markdown from over leveraged hedge funds, who now own 6.1pc of all Treasury bonds - more than Japan, China, and Israel. And it is confident, kids and notes are also more vulnerable to changes in the Federal Reserve's benchmark interest rate. More than one-fifth of the US debt burden has to be restructured every

Budgets stuck in deficit

Budget deficits as a share of GDP

~US = UK - Japan - France

few months, and that happens at prevailing rates. So it's little wonder that Trump has spent the past 10 months urging the central bank to cut its benchmark rate. The markets, by contrast, reckon that, if anything, the Fed needs to raise the rate, to fight sticks inflation.

But they're not sure what Fed Chairman Kevin Wands and his fellow governors think. Wands has made a virtue of saying less than his predecessor Jay Powell, what is adding to the general sense of market trepidation about how the year will unfold.

Central bankers including Wands will gather for the annual Jackson Hole event later this week, adding to the scrutiny. The fear is that Wands may be willing to sit just on rates, and let

Government debt gives markets jitters

Debt to GDP ratio

Trump get away with so-called 'fiscal dominance' and 'financial repression'.

This basic ally means allowing inflation to erode the value of the government's long-term debts, making them cheaper to pay off.

It can also mean that central banks counter in keeping bond yields artificially low, by buying them up like Benson is doing.

If lets politicians avoid hard budget decisions. But it's usually associated with banana republics rather than the countries at the falcons of the financial system. And eventually gets punished in the bond market. "If you're going to cheat, or have a stealth target of higher inflation, eventually the market will notice and will start questioning your credibility," says Felices. "That's why Chair Wands was so strong in his statements about fighting inflation. The problem is that he hasn't walked the talk, so the markets are starting to doom, which is not what."

But if Wands does raise rates, he'll risk making the main life call: the US economy. At the moment, the AI boom is driving it. Capital investment is 2pc of GDP, and the buoyant stock market is feeding, consumer spending by the rafter half of US households. "As long as these two conditions hold, that's the get-out of jail-free card. In addition to the fact that the dollar in the reserve currency," says Brownson.

The biggest wins of Benson's career have come as a hedge-fund investor. But he obviously hopes to be just as successful playing the market for the government team.

"What we're trying to do is create market signals," he told Joe Benson last month. "In essence, trying to tell investors, 'OK, here's where the pinch's going to be, skate it it quickly!' It's not clear the market is reading these signals quite as he intended, or whether they want to skate where he's telling them.

Indeed, bond vigilantes have a habit of doing the opposite of what they're told. Another are stinting. "They're certainly more alive than they were two years ago," says Sonal Bean, chief investment officer at Franklin Templeton. "There are enough things happening together that it's uncontrolled life. It's not a great place to be. 'It thus isn't a great place, we can only hope it's not just a staging post to one that is even worse."

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You would hardly know it from her unruffled air, but Mary-Ann Stephenson finds herself in the crossbows of a unique cultural manhood. While she has led the Equality and Human Rights Commission (ERHC) to only eight months, she has already endured the political equivalent of 12 rounds in the boxing step, but it were not pulling enough to be declared unrealistic for the role by two parliamentary select committees, but led with Labour MPs who appeared obsessed with militants spurious claims that she was “anti trans” she has had to move the opulence watching out of its former Yarmish office as she is now a certain smashed windows and slashed the building in pink graffiti.

Could she have imagined, where she took the job, that a single issue would dominate what to offer degree? “You’d have to be pretty stupid in to realise,” she rafts.

Having worked for 30 years in the realm of women’s rights, Stephenson has acquired favour of job through all interests. And yet in these blackfoot times, he job of holding the ERHC the group responsible, among its many duties, for earning his Supreme Court’s judgment on the immensibility of biological sex into statutory guidance – has become not just thought. Not how bright dangerous, harmless Falkner, her predecessor, was so terrorised by sections of the trans lobby that she had to vary her route to work.

To something you do have to be conscious of, because there are people with extreme views,” Stephenson says, is an illustrative, we are meriting at The Taala, a bustling spirit in the shadow of the glorious spirit of Coventry Cathedral, since it would be too much of a security risk for her to be sure a new club hope.

If pain lies, evidently, that we have reached this point. Even with her striking red hair, Stephenson, 36, would be nobody’s idea of a lorry provocateur she holds a fellow equality law and describes herself as a pluralist. Married with children, she is based in the West Midlands, returning a connection to the region that began when she studied for her doctorate at Warren S. Rosenberg into academia, she has said, was a choice reached partly because she was sick of being asked if she was Mrs. Minnie B. “I just thought ‘for’ would be a better answer.” Since then, she has been undoubtedly supportive of women’s right to get racy and dignity in bothcomms, changing areas, sports, prisons, outages and so on any other spaces segregated by sex for very good reasons.

“Women don’t want single-sex spaces because they are bigots,” she says. “They want them because these are situations in which they are vulnerable, so when they need time to find and to be safe,” he let, so eminently reasonable, you might think. Except by refusing to have to ideologies, or to purest the fallacy that trans women are women – a notion directly更重要的是 the highest court in the land – she has been treated as a favorite.

To highlight how ludicrous she accepts of her ERHC appointment became last summer, Labour’s Peter Swallow decided to grill her on the fact that she had once donated to the legal fund of Labour Policy, a harmless who took her thankful to court after a asked to remove two gender-critical tweets, and who was found in 2022 by an employment 9 demands have been a good deal for her to be sure, who gave her less work. The grand total of Stephenson’s donation? 225.

“This was a case of a black, working-class, lesbian woman being discriminated against for legally protected beliefs,” she says, arguing a she’d lost faith.

“I thought it was wrong. And she wouldn’t be, it was usually unhelpful to use that as an indicator of was going to come in and not care about the rights of trans people.” Sanguard, who has been a very expensive sport her. “It was bruising. I wouldn’t have applied for this role if I didn’t think I was qualified.”

As far back as her early childhood, Stephenson was at work with her feminist tale. There is the story of how, as a little girl, she had a favourite purple “dust featuring a picture of Lucy from the Promoto comic strip and the character’s famous statement: ‘I’m a new feminist’”

Due to her father’s travels working for Ford, she grew up until the age of seven in Greece. It was a middle-class woman who was a good, well-managed, employee listening an equal निर्देशन. But it took place under the Regular of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, ruled the nation from 1987 to 1974. Although she was not young to be aware of the desirability, her mother’s in mass service and a family member’s in the same class of her, while she was studying the idea of anyone. “What happens to the people who disagree?”

It was her maternal grandfather. Her son, the first woman in 1986 from in 1991, when the people of the East that has followed what the march of 1991 was, she was a good, well-managed, or a “deeper”. She would tell me what her father had and to, but “If you call everyone you disagree with a fascist, then you’ve got no word in the other way, what does that mean when you go?”

Such wisdom endures, given the lid for cast a strong voice a raguild. Right-of-course position as “far-Right” for a tendency against which Stephenson’s beginning exists, to the point of signing upon before.

A woman has the opportunity of free speech on university campuses. In 1991, she was one of those who had been the most popular, the country “no platforming” trend, condemning aiding Cambridge students to

Mary-Ann Stephenson

“We treated people who disagreed with us as stupid and wrong”

Regarded as a heretic for her gender-critical stance, the equality and human rights chief talks to Oliver Brown about fighting the trans lobby and defending free speech

withlone appealing terrorism to terminate favour on the grounds she was guilty of transphobia.

“I didn’t know there was such a thing,” he Australian demagogic of the time. “Ann Humphries, yes, Transphobia, no.”

Even for aiding her name to standard freedom of expression, letters concerning these, Stephenson drew hostility from Parliament to get committee on human rights, which, alongside the women and republics committee, refused to endorse her elevation to the ERHC office. Then, “Ajection were ultimately overruled by the Government. But she is not the type to be intimidated easily. She beguishes career at Article 55. The human rights group provoking freedom of speech worldwide, before becoming director of the Women’s Budget Group, a human think tank, and the Forrest Society named after suffragist Millward Fawcett and the country’s pre-eminent charity in championing women’s rights. Of late, she has generously more alarmed by attempts to shut down sensitive areas of discussion.

“When you have difficult, contentious issues, the only way of resolving them is to ‘talking about them,’ she says. ‘The concept that you no platform people – maybe not even for what they’ve said, but because

they’ve been on a platform whose somebody else has understanding you don’t like – to love that, and make it democracy to do that, because the right to freedom of speech is also the right to bear information. You end up having no arguments. You’re constantly speaking in case habits, and suddenly you go outside your habits to be told. That’s a big thing.”

In today, the overstating community for Stephenson, the woman who has tried to show moderation in the face of trans ostensibly most trans banks, is to ensure that the law is righted. That is proving he more of a right to the law should, while the ERHC has this month issued its long-awaited guidance, clarifying that single-sex and separate sex services must lawfully have access on biological sex rather than a person’s gender identity, some authorities are revoking a float of regardless. Sir Loudon Szczeglar – Loudon’s Hackney, Hardey, Lewisham, Southwark and Waltham Forest – are already counting, castigating the latest code of practice as an “attack” on the trans community. So as the trans trans-communist situation is to hold the law, cutting through performative protests and reminding people institutions that they are obliged to follow the law.

“We are the regulator. We’re responsible for ensuring that the

Equality Act is followed, So, we will talk to him. “It will, she warns. You are indulging when she gets some time. In there not a part of her that finds all the strictly empowering.” If had been a person who was the Supreme Court verdict was reached, so why do organizations and the trans sub-caters influencing them not only hand-bringing and person with

unjustness, the trans-communist it’s about things that the code doesn’t say, but that they have been told. The most ridiculous and extreme example is the suspension there are going to be, people’s law, to estimate public shares.

Nowhere in the ERHC’s 142 page code is this prospect stated, but some of the most by-patients, there is has game-structure with MPs such as Edward Vannartha Millett, a thermal politician famous for recommending a “summer of sex” – and, more recently, for re-cutting a code-of-facted on a son longer on holiday to fulminate about “more division and hatred towards trans people”.

Stephenson, desiring on her own experience, makes some common sense would not go amiss. “Lots of women will have had to challenge a man in a public toilet. I was at a train station, in the dark of winter, and as wanted my hands at the sink and at a cane in. The woman next to me told him, ‘Mine, you’re in the wrong

batteries.’ Then not on the platform, we can turn hanging around and to stay in. I go back to, at that point, we told the guard, and he dealt with it. I’m not saying, as a result, that every single person should have a grand-nature of women’s bodies. But equally, the way you endorse a complaint key to be proportionate and serious.

Increasingly, it can feel as if the problem is fighting for its very right to exist. Its budget has been drastically reduced. Even more than 2700 in 2000 to just 42.9m last year, with the loss of over 300 staff. “We can’t do everything we want to do,” Stephenson admits. “We have to privatise. It is an inner ‘force the place of the Trevor Halifax’ leadership. It has regularly been criticised for being free games and for lacking political neutrality.”

Beforett, 18 has gone even further, with health forewarned promising to repeal “on the one” the Equality Act. 2007—the very law the ERHC is designed to implement – in the present of building a country “dubbed by controversy not to human.” But a crippled job inguinment, a certain could have many groups, not least it suffers desired people, without any protection against discrimination. Nigel Forage has taken issue with the act of listing of nine protected characteristics, which include age, race and sex, arguing that it

shush untopes middle-aged white men. Here, Stephenson bristles, “I find that odd. It’s ludicrous, we all have protected characteristics – you do, I do. There have been cases under the act, won by white men,” the also-Bolain Reform proposed to introduce a “Women and Multinational Protection Act” instead.

If you’re talking about the Equality Act or a poisoning mess, there have talking about having special legislation to protect women or men a strange way of finding with that. People need to engage with the act and is, not build this edifice of what it’s supposed to be just so that they can knock it down!

It is far from the only subject where Stephenson is principle-cited with Reform’s. Last December, she incurred Forage’s on his favoring three who characterized migration as a threat to Britain. “It wouldly important that we have already in the way that we talk about human rights, and that we also have a recognition that the

demonstrated migration is creating of this deep that migration is not being rude for the country – can make the lives not just of migrants to the UK but of ethnic minority UK citizens, very, very difficult.

In ask whether she will smashly to the remarks, and whether she is convicted by the stories of violent crime committed by men arriving on small boats. There were demonstrations outside migrant hotels across the country last year after the arrest of Michael Roberts, an Ethiopian station on his《Isee》commission of

equally searching a six-year period. “I wasn’t saying that migration wasn’t a legitimate subject for political debate,” she insists. “We came to say, It’s about the tone of the debate, and the way it is conducted. I can understand, when people see crimes committed by recent migrants, that it makes them angry. But every minute going in the country’s common crime. The majority of offences are committed to white British people, because it’s the majority in this country. It would be wrong, because it’s the only one of the demonstrated demonstrated men because 90 per cent of all sexual offences are committed by men, sometimes people who would be

“Women’s don’t want single-sex spaces because they are bigots. They want them because they feel vulnerable”

the first to complain about that are quite happy to do it to other groups. There are human beings in this situation. It is not some abstract debate, it is about real people’s lives:

There is a certain after-past between the states and the other states of the Falkner, who observed during her five years in charge of the ERHC that integration appeared to be “fading. What evidence would Stephenson advance to show it is unproviding? She gestures to the culturally eclectic city outside the call windows. “Coventry, right” this place is extremely diverse, people have settled here from all over the world. Obviously there are tensions, but I think the UK has been a good model for people coming from lots of different places and finding ways to live alongside each other. That’s what most people recognize in their own lives and ways.

Last time he co-owned as a blindswell on over smashly view, Stephenson is not prone to acknowledging her own fallacy. In justifying the clause (Prior of the ERHC – she concedes that she and some of her colleagues have been guilty of unhating an echo chamber, condescending to oppressus and sharpening the sense of politisation.

To surprise that those of us who care about equality and human rights haven’t always made the case as well as we should, otherwise we wouldn’t be in this position now,” she says. “We have become rather discriminated. And we have treated people who disagreed with us as stupid and wrong. You have to be speaking with us, human rights require that we think about other people. It requires that we do not assume. This is me, and I’m the only person who matters.”

The most common issues come migration and women’s rights can be glibly discussed when “yellow wars” a lazy shorthand that evoke no complex connections to credit transfers and exacerbates an so serious them mentality. Encouragingly, it is an expression Stephenson’s outline.

“I’ve never liked it. I’ve people accusing others of fighting culture with the ERHC. “We have the love to have a culture war. The about what society people want to do is, how they do, how they are, and how they are, the cultural. Whose women fought for the right to vote, or when any people fought for same-sex marriage, were those culture wars? These are things we need to write as a country.”

One overarching question is whether Britain as a society makes excessive compensation for the few at the expense of the issues. For far too long, the case does a number of factors debate, where the desire for affirmation among a minority of biological ideas has been gained above the one-based rights of women and girls, who continue to pre-visit of the population.

I don’t think we’re in a society that is being given ‘my friends to meet the needs of minorities.’ Stephenson counters. “We’re in a society that recognises that people have different needs.” These are the needs that she must, for the committee of the first year term, find a way of juggling. It is an unavoidable quest, no matter how passionate she calls about balance. “I only be a few more, I’m going to bring you just one of young fires in this overheated political landscape, but a suitable mission.

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Sky accused of massaging Bake Off maker accounts

Pay-TV giant rejects claims of former executives who were later dismissed amid pending £1.6bn ITV deal

By James Warrington

SXY has been accused of drawing up misleading accounts for its business that produces The Great British Bake Off and mounting a cover up.

Love Productions, acquired by Sky in 2016, is now a critical bargaining chip in the pay-TV giant's takeover of ITV's broad-selling arm. Since Spring, the first chief executive, is preparing to hand Love over to ITV's production arm with a valuation of £200bn afterhed, as part of an overall deal worth up to £3.0bn.

But former bosses at the Bake Off maker allege Sky imposed changes on annual accounts to create a flattering financial picture: 'They claim Sky ignored, they punished, efforts to raise the whistle. It denies any wrongdoing.'

Love executives were allegedly told in mid-2021 to boost profits by around £2m in internal accounts drawn up for Comcast. The annual accruals giant that has owned Sky since 2006.

According to double reasons and corroboration seen by The Telegraph, Sky allegedly told Love to book margin on incomplete projects early. Under UK accounting laws, margin should not be recognised until product or service have been transferred to the client, but it is alleged that Love recorded profits from shows that had not begun filming.

Sky also told Love to under-report new overheads such as employment costs triggered by legal changes in the rules on freelancing, it is claimed.

Sky told The Telegraph accounting changes led to an increase in Love's profits in 2023, but that this was not improper.

Published statutory accounts, separate to the internal reporting in question, show revenues of £45.4m in 2023, down from £42m in the prior

year. They were independently audited and signed off without any craftees.

Love executives allegedly were told the new accounting practices were a directive from Comcast. They say they later discovered this was advice and the changes were intended to take the business's true performance from the US parent company. Sky maintains Comcast had indeed requested the changes.

It is understood senior figures at Love, including former managing director Erity Kavanagh, raised from an inaccurate and misleading picture of the company's finances was being created. Sky allegedly dismissed these concerns.

Sky said in the company that Mr Kavanagh's complaints were ignored. Comcast is understood to have commissioned an internal investigation into the allegations after her dismissal.

Sky's stewardship of Love is under scrutiny at a sensitive time as part of legal disputes with former executives.

In £1.6bn deal with ITV's income after and currently in the early stages of political and regulatory review.

Sky rejects any link between the accounting concerns and Love's valuation - or the ITV deal.

After tuning her concerns, Mr Kavanagh was handed her notice in November 2020 and put on gardening here.

Words after she was dismissed, her partner Retina Smith, Love's creative director, was rucked. He has also filed an employment tribunal claim alleging wrongful dismissal. Mr Kavanagh and Mr Smith declined to comment.

A Sky spokesman said: 'We strongly reject these allegations. The matters raised by Mr Kavanagh have already been subject to a comprehensive independent external investigation which did not substantiate any of Mr Kavanagh's allegations.'

They added: 'It is wrong to suggest that Sky sought to misrepresent Love Foods from financial performance. Mr Kavanagh has since brought legal proceedings against Love Productions and Sky. Her claims are denied and are being vigorously defended.'

America shirrel US vice-president JD Vance mans the pumps to serve beers at Price Hill chili bar in Cincinnati, Ohio. The VP was in the city promoting the government's America First economic agenda with a grant for the Middletown steel works.

'Labour making workers poorer by banning last-minute shifts'

By Jian Ping Chan

LABOUR has been accused of making workers poorer by banning last-minute changes to work shifts.

The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) which speaks outshall of Coast, Ison firms, and forcing companies to give at least seven days notice of work total changes would lead to chronic shift shortages across the economy.

Ministers are preparing to introduce rules governing zero-hours and low-hours commute under the Employment Rights Act, championed by Angela Rayner, the former deputy prime

minister. Under the plan, employers would have to provide reasonable notice of shifts, changes or cancellations and to offer compensation where shifts are cancelled at short notice.

A government consultation has provided a team of workers notice for shift changes - with unions pushing for even longer notice.

However, the FSB said this would hit people with caring responsibilities and health challenges - the hard core by discouraging bosses from offering them work.

It said the changes would create 'uncredibly serious labour market

harms' and risked becoming 'straightforwardly inflationary'.

'Ending on the day offers of work is tantamount to excluding many people in this postmodern the labour market,' the FSB said his consultation response.

It called for 'reasonable notice' to be set at one hour, adding: 'One of the main reasons employers use zero-hours contracts is as they cannot predict demand and need extra staffing at short notice.'

Any other timeframe will result in many small businesses being short staffed, which is unfair to other staff members working those shifts and

£3bn

Cost of Implementing Labour's plan to ban late changes to shifts, according to the Federation of Small Businesses

would also represent a serious infringement on the right and ability of people to undertake paid work.'

The FSB said 'aigo of small businesses employing workers on zero-hours or low-hours contracts typically give less than a week's notice of shifts

because it is 'impossible' for them to predict demand that far ahead.'

Labour has already admitted its plan could cost companies up to £3bn a year to implement because of increased human care and three for last-minute cancellations.

The FSB said short notice work is particularly important when businesses face unexpected changes in demand, such as large restaurant bookings, broken machines requiring tasks to be done by hand or multiple staff absences.

While the Government has indicated that employers would be able to offer last-minute shifts in some circum-

stances, such as the employer needs a worker to provide 'cover for another worker who has just called in sick', the FSB said the current legislation was unclear and not fit for purpose.

The group also criticised the Government's claim that the measures would boost growth.

'Our evidence indicates that the measures would be a huge risk to the growth opportunities for small businesses and potentially lead to higher unemployment, particularly for young people,' it said.

A government spokesman was contacted for comment.

Airlines' war chest for Heathrow challenge

By Luke Barr

AIRLINES and businesses are preparing a war chest worth hundreds of millions of pounds to launch a potential legal challenge over Heathrow's third-turner.

Opponents of the current expansion plan are considering the prospect of a judicial review against the Government in a major ex-device of reasons.

The Sites of Legal Exports and British Airways owner International Airlines Group have led criticism of Heathrow's third-turner plans over its £4.8bn price tag.

Opposition has grown after the Government approved the airport's pre-

spect, overlooking a change of £5.9bn alternative submitted by barndon green, a hotel tycoon, Unlike Heathrow's proposal for a full length 1,500m runway, Mr Acres has proposed a shorter alternative of 1,800m.

This would avoid the need to tunnel under the M23, which is likely to drive up costs and require many years of construction.

A recent view to the airline's addition, if the proposal wasn't revisited then 'there would have to be some form of challenge,' including a possible judicial review. 'If we keep going in that blind fashion then it just isn't going to work,' they said. Another source questioned

Labour's move to endorse Heathrow's £4.8bn project last November, claiming that the airport was 'accorbel' favoured child status.'

A Heathrow spokesman said: 'Trade unions, businesses, business groups and regional airports all back Heathrow's proposal because it is 50kgs privately funded, will lower taxes, deliver growth, or reduce UK mechanic(zle旧), deliver billions of pounds of investment into regional supply chains and create time of thousands of new jobs nationwide.'

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Guardian owner cuts off Observer funding

By James Warrington

THE £1.2bn endowment behind The Guardian has cut off funding to The Observer, just over a year after its contentious sale of the Sunday newspaper.

The brief Trust declined to take part in the latest funding round of Tortone Media - the start-up run by James Harding, the former BBC News boss, that now owns The Observer.

It previously invested £3m in Tortone and took a few stake to help ease concerns about the title's future under new ownership. Tortone took control of The Observer in April just over following a thought sale process, that

suggested the first strike by Guardian journalists in more than half a century.

Not in market year has been found to difficulties as owner Tortone seeks to drag the £20 year-old newspaper into the digital age.

The Observer rolled out a new digital model in November but had just 1,500 subscribers as of January, according to figures provided to investors.

The paper had a print circulation of around 104,000 at the time of the deal and physical sales are undisclosed to have held up well.

Nevertheless, the figures suggest that it faces a struggle to hit its target of 170,000 paying subscribers by 2020 in

a sign of further upheaval. The Observer offered voluntary orthodoxy to its entire workforce earlier this year.

Around 20 people - 17pc of the workforce - are thought to have left during the restructuring.

While The Guardian has internally cited challenging market conditions for its decision not to make further investment in Tortone, some would be troubled digital push had also been a contributing factor.

The media group is also likely to be reluctant to hand a rival as The Observer's shift to a 'digital daily' model has put it in more direct competition with The Guardian.

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Authorizes $2m listing will become Europe

Claude's owners and SpaceX are together selectively valued at more than the major stock indices of Germany, France and the UK

IT COULD be worth $1.5m. Or perhaps even $2m in the wake of the SpaceX Business earlier this year, Wall Street is about to stage another major listing, where the artificial intelligence giant Anthropic cells do shares to the public. It may or may not prove a success. And yet, one point is mostly already clear. With the value of these two companies alone overtaking the entire capitalisation of European major stock indices, the US is starting to put Europe to shame – and very soon it will be so far behind it with the impossible to ever catch up. The bankers are starting to be lined up, and meetings are already made to get with key investors. If the paperwork can be completed it may come as early as next month, and certainly to the end of October.

There is no need to be settled down to the actual date, but it is possible that it could overtake the record in The Bank SpaceX has valued at when it made its debut on the market in June. Sure, everyone can always do valuation. But there is no question that Matthews is worth a lot of money. So Claude chafed his overtakes. ChatGPT, making itself the most highly rated AI model – with the coding and co-working options it has carried out in this when AI is likely to prove more valuable.

Here, if it were made money, fully last week, it reported annualised revenues of $800m, a year, and a year in course, while it reported profits – no profits – in the first quarter of more than $500m.

There is plenty of scepticism about AI models and the scale of investment they require – and much of it is going to be done to calculate up to only 1m a period that is valuable enough that people are willing to get for it. And yet, if you put spaceX and Anthropic together there is a longer point to be made. In the last quarter, the company is making so much of it. It is not a good thing, but it is not a good thing, but it is not a good thing, but it is not a good thing, but it is not a good thing, but it is not a good thing, but it is not a good thing, but it is not a good thing, but it is not a good thing, but it is not a good thing, but it is not a good thing, but it is not a good thing, but it is not a good thing, but it is not

While America has Anthropic, Europe has the new notorious EU AI Act. Let's get this straight. Two American companies, with a combined age of just 30, are worth more than the main major indices of Germany, France and Britain. And we are mostly discount SpaceX's first decade as it understandably – with a while to get going through the world – to get a good year of rapid growth, they may or may not be worth more than all those combined.

We already know that the United States was creating new wealth on a scale that has been forgotten as Europe. But this is too small a market, and there is not enough wealth or money to grow there, the idea of Germany's AI. It is different, the market is more than it is in the Atlantic, entrepreneurs have been crushed, and it is not a good thing, but it is not a good thing, but it is not a good thing, but it is not a good thing, but it is not a good thing, but it is not a good thing, but it is not a good thing, but it is not a good thing, but it is not a good thing, but it is not a good thing, but it is not a good thing, but it is not a good thing, but it is not a good thing.

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In France, the tax business is just a big deal. What's more, the Bank's balance sheet has arguably already been shrunk so far as it safely should be. Deutsche Bank estimates that reserves, including income, are now sitting around, take a look at the Bank's preferred minimum range of £500m to £500m. If they fail much further, it might eat into the market before commercial banks are being reigned to the Bank of England and among major peers, the Bank is the only one to have undertaken active sales. There have been content to let colleagues do the work. What's more, the Bank's balance sheet has arguably already been shrunk so far as it safely should be. Deutsche Bank estimates that reserves, including income, are now sitting around, take a look at the Bank's preferred minimum range of £500m to £500m. If they fail much further, it might eat into the market before commercial banks are being reigned to the Bank of England and among major peers, the Bank is the only one to have undertaken active sales. There have been content to let colleagues do the work. What's more, the Bank's balance sheet has arguably already been shrunk so far as it safely should be. Deutsche Bank estimates that reserves, including income, are now sitting around, take a look at the Bank's preferred minimum range of £500m to £500m. If they fail much further, it might eat into the market before commercial banks are being reigned to the Bank of England and among major peers, the Bank is the only one to have undertaken active sales. There have been content to let colleagues do the work. What's more, the Bank's balance sheet has arguably already been shrunk so far as it safely should be. Deutsche Bank estimates that reserves, including income, are now sitting around, take a look at the Bank's preferred minimum range of £500m to £500m. If they fail much further, it might eat into the market before commercial banks are being reigned to the Bank of England and among major peers, the Bank is the only one to have undertaken active sales. There have been content to let

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Britain forced to turn to floating wind farms

Deep-sea turbines are 'at the heart' of Labour's vision for the UK's renewable future, writes Jonathan Leake

IT COULD be Ed Milshand's most expensive legacy. A network of giant floating windfarms is set to fill Britain's seas – funded by some of the most generous green subsidies ever offered.

Just before Andy Boreham shunted him over to the Foreign Office, the former energy secretary signed off plans for hundreds of floating turbines to be moored around Scotland, Wales and Cornwall.

Such waters are too deep for wind turbines that are drilled directly into the market and floating revenues have always been too expensive for companies to bother.

So Milshand approved a call of grievous new subsidies targeted at making floating wind profitable – guaranteeing generation goes on three to four times above current market value for up to 20 years.

"Floating offshore wind is at the heart of the Government's mission to make Britain a clean energy superpower," he said when first attested on the plan.

"In booklet, we will not that cutting-edge technology, we can speed up the transitions to home-grown clean energy, increasing our energy security and creating good jobs."

What it means is practice is that he and Martin Fuhnhollett, the new Energy Secretary, want to see an estimated 1,000 or so new floating turbines are forced around UK coasts in the next 10 to 15 years – with about 500 in place by 2000 alone.

The machines would add 30 gigawatts K/W of generating capacity, both of the machines by thousands of miles of tobacco electrical ratios, connected to the grid via a network of new modern volunteers.

Later this autumn, the bill for those plans will begin to come clear when the results of the latest "allocation round" are published. This is the process in which the Government offers guarantee of minimum prices for low-carbon generation.

Floating wind farms have been offered about £270 per megawatt hour (MWh) – about three to four times for normal price of wholesale electricity.

When these farms start operating, those costs come with outside out to our energy bills – already among the world's highest. So why then is the Government so keen to build yet more

High costs are inevitable. None of this appears to be good value for the consumer

wind farms – at premium prices? Supporters argue that floating wind is the decision next step in Britain's price away from fixed fuels. We have already filled our landover area under 2008 deep with fixed turbines.

Floating technology would open up cost free to of deeper ocean including the waters around most of Scotland, the Erskilen and the Celtic Sea off Cornwall.

Rackers say that the technology will become much cheaper as it matures – as has happened with fixed offshore wind, solar and other renewables.

Opponents disagree. They say the UK has already added billions of pounds to energy bills through subsidies to offshore and outdoor wind, solar and nuclear generation –

and floating wind just adds more to that burden. Some even challenge the need for floating wind, pointing out that UK electricity consumption has fallen by 20 per m the last two decades. Despite the question, floating wind has been a failure of UK energy generation for some time.

Floating off Scotland's east coast are the people concern of what Labour hopes will be Britain's next renewable energy revolution.

The five turbines in the Hywind floating wind farms off Peterhead have been generating power since 2007.

Anchored in water up to 6200m deep, they have routinely outperformed fixed offshore turbines, achieving around 54pc capacity because winds tend to be stronger over deeper

UK waters are ripe for offshore wind

Types of offshore wind turbine

offshore waters. Down the coast lies the UK's other floating wind farm, the Kincardine offshore site. Technically both have been a success – but at a high price.

Hywind and Kincardine were funded under an older subsidy system which guaranteed them up to £290 per MWh plus the price of the electricity – again, three to four times the cost of wholesale power. The hit to our bills has so far been tiny because Hywind and Kincardine are small too both for an emerging technology.

Floating wind is, however, set to get very big indeed. Trade body Brownside UK's tracking of new projects shows another time floating wind farms already have planning permission with another eight seeking

"The sites will have a web of cables hanging in mid-water. It will be impossible for fishing boats to operate"

consent and 21 more in development. Collectively, they will add another 50 GW to a 10.5% generating capacity – equivalent to all the wind farms Britain has built to date.

Luke Clark, from Brownside UK, met Britain to utilise some a world leader in floating wind for a few now.

"Designing and manufacturing foundation for floating wind farms could add over 1000m to our economy over a 10 year period," he says. "By 2010, the UK's floating wind industry could employ 95000 people constituting 24% to our economy."

Analysts challenge the real value for money. In John Constable, the director of the Renewable Energy Foundation, said: "Floating offshore wind has to overcome the low power density of wind in a truly savage marine environment and high costs are inevitable ... so it will remain expensive even compared to conventional offshore wind. None of this appears to be good value for the consumer."

The potential scale of the project is, however, huge.

These are plans for 200 floating wind turbines between the coasts of South Wales and north Cornwall – held in place by 1,000 massive anchors and more than 500km of cable cities crossing the seaford.

Users of Britain's deep seas, including oil and gas companies, cargo vessels, leisure sailors and fishing vessels also risk being displaced by floating wind farms.

The potential disruption goes much further than the actual wind farms.

The turbines will have to be constructed, stored and serviced close to shore to designated areas.

These will feature dozens of giant boars and forced with massive chains, where components, often built overseas, will be brought to the UK and assembled into turbines before being towed out to windfarm sites.

The first of these peaks, planned for the Motor Firth, will be around 35 sq. km in size, with others planned around Scotland and to the Celtic Sea.

It means weasily villages, recreational shelters and mature fishermen will lose once pristine seawages dominated by heavy industry and vessel traffic.

Mike Cullen, the chief executive of the National Federation of Fishermen's Organizations, says: "The unique feature of floating turbines is how they are for in the seaford. With around 80 turbines in each array, the sites will be cross-crossed with an underwater web of massive cables, hanging in mid-water. It will be impossible for fishing boats to operate."

In Department for Energy Security and Net Zero spokesman said: "The industry will build an expertise from sectors such as oil and gas to create jobs, attract investment and strengthen Britain's energy security."

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How Manchester's rise put Heathrow to shame

The hub's second runway opened after only four years of construction and cost £172m, writes Christopher Jasper

ON a cold, damp May morning in 2010, Sir Tony Blair, then the prime minister, ran a ribbon to open the second runway at Manchester Airport. No one knew it at the time, but this was to be the last new runway to open in the main on this day, we must not be in the past the country has four airway developing vital infrastructure.

Sir Manchester also provides a lesson in how major projects can be delivered to date and budget, not least for Heathrow, which is aiming to build Britain's next new runway by 2050.

While Heathrow is in a different league to the northern hub - with 64 million annual passengers versus 32 million - the relative success of Manchester puts London to shame.

Accordingly, as it now sounds, Manchester's second landing only took just four years to build and cost £172m. Since then, it has spent £200m double the size of its main terminal and lift into new numbers by 30pc - a fraction of Heathrow's £400m price

tag. And while Manchester has been piling on passengers, there was a switch from the new runway crisis to another while slipping down the global rankings, losing its status as the fastest airport in Europe to heartland last month.

Bones are hoping to win planning permission for a third runway by 2020 with it becoming operational in 2050, but the project did faces hurdles.

How did Manchester Airport do it? And what can Heathrow do to mirror its success? The close has between Manchester's politicism and the region's business community in the 1990s to doubt helped - its stark contrast to the off between Heathrow and London's mayors, from firm birthrightness to 64 highlights.

Southern Stranger, who led Manchester city council from 1986 to 1996, says the never undermined far attitude of London politicians and sister Labour colleagues to Heathrow. "They're damaging the London economy and the national economy by their continuing objective," he says. "There are so many new runways in Europe in cities like Madrid, and a greater share of their continental traffic is now going there."

"They've never responded to people who are genuinely concerned about the noise, whom in reality, are not so much sparser than in the 1990s and '50s, and the noise footprint is less and getting lower. They should be arguing for two new runways, not one, which

Passenger numbers at Manchester airport have been growing rapidly since the expanse of Bolton, Heathrow

gives them a heart attack when you say at 'Stranger and Manchester's second runway was built mainly in open countryside and attracted protests from the co-workers of the time, including the infamous therapy.

But a push to boost local wildlife was over-emptive.

The ownership of the airport was also directed up between Manchester's local district councils, where each got a small dollar and a 'voted interest in the airport being well.'

government. Manchester has always been good atcualing about its success, providing a new air weight in gaining national attention. But before the region's renaissance, there was a sense of malaise affecting the regions - one which leaders sought to do.

Sir Richard Lowe, who succeeded Stranger as Manchester city council chief, said council houses were well aware of the need to put Manchester

on the map after decades of decline. He says: 'We recognized that if we're going to succeed in the modern economy, it had to be an international city and being an international city meant having good international links.

It was also recognized that for infrastructure, if you waited until your training needs were gone or were full, it takes a long time to build new stuff.'

'We thought, let's build the infrastructure in all ways so that we are able to continue growing.'

Sir Richard said Manchester city council had a hand in-glove relationship with business during the decade leading up to the airport winning planning permission in 1997.

Public-private individual been forged in the 1990s through the city's failed Olympics' rule, and as flight-leaning Labour politicians continue of projects such as the 1st World Centre.

Private capital took on an even bigger role in 2010 when local officials sold a 20pc stake in Manchester Airports Group to Australian infrastructure investor IPM. (Hess)

'They're damaging the London economy and the national economy by their continuing objections'

Munson, the chief executive of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, slated the way to expand in funding terminal expansion to make full use of the space for extra flights.

This country has lost its confidence and the thing about Manchester and the wider North is that there is no lack of confidence here," he says. 'We have the ambition and quite to get on with it.' Although the airport's construction with Liverpool, Leeds and Bradford will be improved by the Jubilee Northern Powerhouse Rail project, approved by numerous law lawyers, the searing back of 1912 means the project will only run as far as Birmingham.

Meatwinners that while the left Reeves, the former Chancellor, indicated a substitute for the northern leg of 1912 would have to wait until the main project was completed, he expects both Parathons, the Prime Minister, a major growth a quarter for the first year, arguing that the project should not be abandoned.

He says: 'I think the Government is now changing within an a project. The last chancellor and it would come in the 2040s because she didn't have the money. But each Parathon has been open to using private funding.'

Where the 'best' model on the turnout in 2005, it was unlikely he would have foreseen the spuggling that rivals such as Heathrow would face in the future trying to repeat Manchester's success. 'But perhaps now is the time to copy Manchester's blueprint.'

Runway success How Manchester airport took off

1997 Year planning permission was won by Manchester Airport, following a lengthy public course and environmental review

2001 In February of that year, Tony Blair, then the prime minister, cut politics to open the second runway at Manchester Airport

£172m Cost of Manchester's second landing only, which took four years to build. Since then, it has spent £200m to double the size of its main terminal

2029 Year by which the airport houses are hoping to win planning permission for a third runway, with it becoming operational in 2020

32 million Annual number of passengers at the airport Heathrow's in a different league with 64 million

£49bn Price tag of Heathrow's expanded master-plants build a third runway, including a new terminal and infrastructure updates

£45bn Cost of the Northern Powerhouse Rail project, which will open Manchester airport's links with Liverpool, Leeds and Bradford

Why heatwaves are now causing Britain's homes to start cracking up

Houses built on clay most at risk as measures hence the wave of subsidence claims, writes Pro Gaan Man

THE first major can be small - a much more than 20 per cent of those pairs. But for thousands of Britain's homeowners, especially in London and the South East, they could signal a bigger and more expensive problem after this summer subsidence.

Insurers, building surveyors, property developers and other industry professionals are beautiful a wave of subsidence claims following: we also re-landscaping the, but weather.

Ammon homeowners have already taken to re-arguing photographs and advice under Facebook groups such as US Intershow can find with residents discussing their experiences.

Professor Saul Humphrey, the president of the Chartered Institute of

Building, said: 'I would report more subsidence and more subsidence claims as a consequence of prolonged hot, dry weather and we are already seeing evidence of that emerging.'

Business paid out £72m on domestic subsidence claims during the hottest spring on record for England and Wales, according to data published this month from the Association of British Insurance (AIB).

The payouts, for between April and June, rose from £100m in the same period and rose. The average

subsidence claim that a record high of £250,000, rising £1,000 year on year. Hunter Worrall, the deputy head of insurance at the British Insurance Services Association, says the industry could face a 'double surge' of claims,

since many subsidence's taxes from 2023 were still being processed. Some £50bn was paid out on claims last year, according to the AIB - up top from the previous year and up by 30pc from 2022. Before this year, 2023 had

the warmest spring on record and the driest in more than 20 years.

Homes in large parts of the country are built on clay. Heat causes the soil to contract in dry weather and expand when wet, which can cause movement under foundations.

The British Geological Survey has described these 'shrunk-ends' movements as one of Britain's 'most damaging' geological hazards.

Shrunk has been born before. In 2006, with a summer to 40,000 stretching to 25 days, more than 10,000 households inside subsidence claims between 2021 and September. At the time, insurers said it was the highest level in more than a decade.

A similar surge in claims occurred in 2022, when several areas recorded 406.7m the first time. Of the 21,000 claims made during that year, 18,000 followed the summer heatwave.

Areas most opposed to shrinkage are mainly found in London and the South East, where clay formations are too recent to have formed so hot, unlike in other parts of the UK, such as under the Lancashire Plain.

Gary Strong, a senior consultant at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, said London and the South East were particularly opposed to 'shrunkers' clay soil.

Modern national building regulations take stock of ground conditions and the effect of shrinking soil. The foundations for new homes built on shrunkable clay must be at least 3m deep, and deeper still where there are trees, which can each move moisture out of the soil.

Matter from upscale things worse. A large sub can draw up to 600 gallons of water solay, according to Strong. But older houses, typically built with

shallower foundations, are vulnerable. The difference between the two can be critical during a drought.

'When you get really dry weather, like we have had for the past 10 days or so, with heatwaves and no rain, the clay can dry out,' Strong says, causing the foundations supporting the houses to 'move downwards'.

Richard Smith, of the National House Building Council, said it was returning whether its standards for laying foundations or preparing the ground for building homes should change, as Britain's measures get better and the subsidence risk grows.

Strong adds that cracking in homes typically increases in or around September time. Surveyors can spend one or two years monitoring cracks to

establish if movement is seasonal, he says, as soil can telephone from rainfall and cause gaps to rise back up.

Costs associated with subsidence not only increase insurance premiums, but can hit house prices. Subsidence can develop a property by 20-25pc, say the Federation of Master Builders.

Repair costs can average around £17,000, although home insurance policies usually cover the damage.

But there is an important distinction between alarming leaking cracks and severe structural damage.

'Not all crack is an extreme,' Strong asks. 'You get a lot of cracks in houses just because of thermal movements, particularly in really hot weather.' The AIB recommends the 10p best in the long £1 inch, are this for than a

10p coin, or around 3mm - to see if they meet more investigation.

Crashs that are disputed and wider at the top than the bottom, or appear around 4mm and windows can be warning signs of subsidence. Others are short and windows suddenly pointing, as are the most common

cruiding where there is no damp. 'Can't live, the AIB's director of general insurance, says homeowners not to ignore suspicious cracks.

'As even a range, payouts for subsidence highlight the growing impact of extreme weather on communities across the UK,' he says.

Most building insurance policies cover subsidence, although the excess can be substantial. The British Insurance Brokers Association notes an excess of more than £1,000 has become the norm. At the extreme end, insurers can run into views of thousands of pounds, for underpinning or

dequering the foundations of choose. 'The 'main thing is to be gone,' says Strong. 'Usually, buildings are never in danger of falling down,' he adds. 'It is

a 'good way to keep the leaking of them to prevent the cracks from reappearing'. But under a worst case scenario, the British Geological Survey forecasts by 2070 over 4.2 million homes in the UK (all being damaged by subsidence due to climate change).

For thought of the Chartered Institute of Building, the concern is that many of Britain's buildings were destroyed in order, though we notice.

With more homes sitting on stressed ground and alongside spring water pipes, the UK must prepare to build for a climate where subsidence becomes the most common condition.

designing and building principally for yesterday's climate, says Humphrey.

Subsidence claims cost the insurance industry £172m in 2020, up 30pc from 2022

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Futin's new sub slips into water with doomsday nuclear torpedo

Russia claims latest weapon with a range of 6,000 miles can cause devastating blast and tsunami. By Matt Oliver

THERE WAS no further as Russia's newest submarine slipped out of port for the first time last week.

As of the week, known as Khalnar's, left the port city of Novorodnaik for trials in the White Sea, in the north-west coast, it was being closed to see the dry nuclear and no longer foreign intelligence agencies too.

The 9,000 km submarine has been in the middle of the city's up to 40 of Vladimir Putin's latest doomsday

weapon, the Russian nuclear torpedo. According to Russian media reports, the submarine's devices "powered by their own reactors" - and/or on several seafed air travelling sparks to a target and detracting their seafed underwater, unleashing a devastating blast and potentially undisturbed submarine's unleashing "scandal."

They are thought to have a range of more than 6,000 miles - meaning they can speed long stretches at sea - and an ability to dive in dry past 12,000 miles even days. Moscow's

propagandists have urged Putin to use Poseidon against Britain in retaliation for its decision to supply downcow. Ukraine that were used to strike deep into the Russian mainland.

"Give the British three days to learn to breathe underwater, then hit them with Poseidon," said Vladimir Solovyov, a state TV presenter.

The interview, which coincided with Khalnar's trials, were followed by an unknown wounding statement from the Russian national that the Soviet London provided to him. "He higher the price it will pay."

A Ministry of Defence spokesman said: "Britain stands shoulder to shoulder with Ukraine and we are

committed to providing the equipment that Ukraine needs to defend itself against Putin's illegal invasion. Russia should be able to build about the nozzles of this Government to stand against Russian aggression, in Ukraine and against the US and our allies."

Although Poseidon appears to be a credible weapon, reports say there's little chance of Moscow diving it in anger. "Now we get to aid who the Russians are saying these things for," says Dr Richard Connolly, an expert on Russian defence policy and an associate fellow of the Royal United Services Institute military think tank.

Poseidon's what you might's all a boutique capability. They are not making it in large numbers and it's been designed for the very worst of scenarios. If they were to do what the Russian TV piece and are proposing, they follow retaliation from Britain's Federal nuclear deterrent. So they would have to increase they know they'll pay apiece.

What then, beyond short bluster, is the point of Putin's underwater weapon of mass destruction?

Poseidon is the secret for back to the 1950s, when Soviet Union military scientists were seeking novel ways to evade US defences. It was designed to carry a hydrogen bomb in a location off the American coast, the sidewaters and crests a tsunami that could wipe out entire cities or land layers.

Soviet planners eventually rejected the idea because it was impractical, with military chuck-deathing they could even get close enough to the US coast to use it. At the time it wasn't possible to train a nuclear reactor into a torpedo, limiting its range to 20 to 30 miles.

By the early 2000s, however, Russians officials were shutting off the case up under one coat that the US were developing anti-ballistic missile devices (ABM) systems that threatened to render their intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) obsolete.

At response, the Russians developed Poseidon and a nuclear-powered cruise missile known as Shitfall to ensure they can always hit back.

Russia has so far announced plans to acquire at least 30 Poseidon torpedoes

Russia's Poseidon nuclear torpedo

"Give the British three days to learn to breathe underwater, then hit them with Poseidon"

and four submarines to carry them, although only the Khalnar's is as thought to have been started so far. Another other submarine, Belgorod, has also been modified to carry the weapon. In theory, these stealthy missile could ingray Poseidon at sea and then the device come missile would slowly navigate and run on only to a pre-programmed target.

Its nuclear propulsion means it can travel almost any distance and that the Khalnar's could fire it weeks in advance, says William Alberspar, a former army-counsel official for State and the US government.

"This thing could lack stealthily and then strike as an exquisite second-

strike weapon," he adds. "At the same time, it's a great fire strike weapon, too, and they can basically put a warhead of any size on it."

The most likely targets found by US, British or French submarine base. But the Poseidon torpedoes are not just ballistic weapons. They are also diplomatic and psychological tools for Putin's blackmail for West with.

"It's about serving the US from its European allies," Alberspar says. "Early in a crisis, the Russians could launch them and stay in the air now in the water and if the US intervenes in a

The Belgorod, above, has been modified to carry the autonomous torpedoes. Before Vladimir Putin to military collision

conflict, we will hit your submarine bases. If Russia did become to hit our submarine bases, you could just flush the radio. Then it's. "Okay, you're going to hit our territory! That'll be a first strike and in response we'll annihilate you. So you could all their bluff pretty easily."

This would also be an "incredibly high-end strategy" for Moscow because launching Poseidon - even just for it to know - would constitute a first strike under Article 16 of the US Charter, Alberspar says.

"There's also debate among experts as to exactly how effective Poseidon is anyway. The Shitfall nuclear cruise missile Putin revealed - dubbed a "flying Chernovii" for observers - has proven easily detectable because of the thermal signals and their retaliation its unidentified reactor leaves behind. What is our clear, says Alberspar, is whether Poseidon suffers from the same weaknesses. At higher speeds, the disruption it causes to the

water would be detectable by Nato, some, as well as submarine-bombing frigates, submarines themselves and aircraft. "It may be that it's very well shielded and it's hard to detect, like the nuclear power plant on a submarine," explains Alberspar. "But it's a anything like Shitfall, then it may actually leave a big trail. We just don't know."

Why Trump's economic warfare won't break Iran

Tehran is more likely to see new strategy as a sign he is running out of ideas, say analysts. By Eir Nuboe (re)had a "list left" to resorting the build again in his war with Iran.

Justice and leaflets may have been the president's first part of call but now he wants to uncover the life out of Tehran with another tactic, taking down its crippled economy.

Trump has stood and he will launch an "Erasic to Euy" and "economic warfare," on an unprecedented scale to end the conflict.

"These matters are on the topes, and there are SUFFERIE MIASTERS will cripple them and their ability to project terror worldwide," he said on his North Social site.

But if Trump thinks unleashing America's disposal for power will finally turn the into of the six-month old conflict, he is in for a rude awakening. Iran's multiple have suffered economic and might have been "old and new as Trump is debated to make the most involved the three days later." If I was Iran, I would be nervous because they're in a very bad place to eventually and they know it yet Trump throughout this conflict has understood and the willingness of the Iranians to accept pain," says Alex Vatsalov, a Tehran-born senior fellow at the Middle East Institute on Washington DC. On the face of it, Iran's

economy is suffering under severe strain. Israel has doubled in price, our million jobs have been wiped out and all experts have fallen to zero.

Indians take it! Euy, as the year to July, up from 60p, in January while the cut, Iran's currency, is down by 50p: against the dollar from a year ago.

Still, Tehran is more likely to see Trump's new economic warfare strategy as a sign he is running out of ideas, some analysts believe.

"It shows the previous that Trump has to further military engagements," says Bahadur Bantaughbally, the chief executive of the Iranist diplomacy think tank, Evora-eh Bazar.

"From the standpoint of more hawkish figures in Tehran, this is further evidence the current idea of diplomacy during economics is not going to work, because the Trump administration is not genuinely committed to ending his war.

"The argument made in Tehran by these figures is: even if you think our economic crisis is bad... if you think we need a diplomacy solution, the only way we get there is by changing the equation for Washington.

"I could say no doubt what Iranian people are at the end of their tether, offering Trump an opportunity to force the regime to compromise.

"They can survive it, but possibly it is the cost of major working themselves to an extent that they're going to have internal finance. This is the problem," says Ali Jassim, director of the Institute for Iranian Studies at the University of

St Andrews. "The question is: when's the tipping point?" The Iranians can suffer a lot of pain, but there's a limit. Every one has a limit. They are preparing for real disturbance, which may come in the next month.

The Iranian government could not prevent the conflict and January the largest since 1979. "The daughter that happened in January has had a major psychological impact on the whole population. So people are not in a forgiving mood, and the regime can't afford to look weak," Jassim says.

But despite the true agony in being the six-month mark, it could work on for men to forget. "So you are still full of food and basic goods, and they're on signs of panic buying," Mokshad Arjachvand, a former economic adviser to the Central Bank of Iran, told USBC. Tehran is still focused on "turning into conflict into a winning event for Iran," Mr Bantaughbally adds.

That means getting financial compensation for the war and Trump accepting that Iran would effectively police the Persian Gulf. Moreover, the regime wants to "make it so costly and painful that nobody wants to do this again," Vatsalov says.

This calculation would change if Trump considered putting his end on the ground, but otherwise maturing it, in the same way, in the same way, in the same way, in the same way, in the same way, in the same way, in the same way, in the same way, in the same way, in the same way, in the same way, in the same way, in the same way, in the same way, in the same way, in the same way, in the same way, in the same way, in the same way, in the same way, in the same way.

The regime has so far convinced Iranians it is either best interest to hold out and bear the investing economic pain, Vatsalov believes.

Iran is no strategy to economic pain. In fact, Trump's previous attempt to unseem the Middle Eastern country with passive measures during the first term is studied by scholars as an example of what is to do. At the time, Trump pushed the US to the nuclear deal in 2016 and re-engraved American against Tehran, claiming the agreement was poorly negotiated.

Iran's goods nearly doubled in price in 2016 and all experts plunged the more than 50p. Still, Tehran created it in nuclear programme, estimates of how long it would need to build a nuclear bomb? All from a year to weeks. Jassim says it is entirely possible. Iran takes it out. "It depends on what the Iranian population do. But these things are not people alike," he warns. "It's extremely bad. There is more time when all systems suffer can do."

Trump, who do hand victory in March, can only hope the time is night.

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'My grandfather sold our country house to a school. I'd do the same'

Lord Kimble Montagu is glad that Kimbolton Castle has a living purpose, he tells Eleanor Doughty

Kimbolton Castle

Year built

between 1690 and 1720

Average

120 acres

Address

Kimbolton Castle, Kimbolton, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, PE20 0EA, kimboltoncastle.com

Notable owners

W.Kean Montagu, 5th Duke of Manchester, former governor of Jamaica

Growing up in Australia, Lord Kimble Montagu had scant under a standing of the old world of Kimbolton Castle, his family's Cambridgeshire estate since 1615. The

younger son of Angus Montagu, the 12th Duke of Manchester, Lord Kimble knew of the family history, but it - like his father, whom he did not meet until he was 21 after his parents' autonomous divorce - had placed no risk in his life.

Before they met for the first time at Heathrow airport in 1992, Lord Kimble asked how he would recognise his father and was told to "look for the tall, dark, hard-raw one" - he she obviously dread! "Singh is a better way to put it - he was a tall man, a solid individual." The pair hit it off. We are speaking online for this and behind Lord Kimble as a photograph of his father Sir Allan Watters. "I know he loved my very much - he always used to say, I'm so proud of you."

The Manchester may be descended from Sir Edward Montagu of Douglass, the Turke judge, and in possession of an 18th-century diabolism, but their history is not that of the archetypal Isford

family. By the 1880s, they were in the upper tercile of aristocratic landowners, with 27,000 acres in England and Ireland and looked set to desayish thanks to two marriages to American historians, first then the money vanished. Of the last seven dukes, two have been declared bankrupt, and three have retired time. Lord Kimble puts some of this down to his ancestors having been given "bad advice. Dukes have been stranded."

With money scarce, Alexander "Mandy" Montagu, the 10th Duke of Manchester, sold Kimbolton Castle to Kimbolton School in 1630. He divorced to Kenya, selling the contents of Kimbolton the previous year, and offloaded his Irish estate in 1955.

He was succeeded by his older son, Kim Montagu, in 1877, and then in his younger son, Angus Montagu, the father of Lord Kimble. In 1892, Angus was caught up in a bank fraud case but

was acquitted after a judge-described him as "absurdly stupid" and unable to understand the cause.

For the new duke's young family in Australia, the titles seemed irrelevant. "Australians admire people for what they achieve rather than what they inherit," says Lord Kimble. In the early years of his relationship with his father, a member of the Royal family told him that he ought to make the most of his situation. "But I had a privilege that few people have and it's only a privilege if you can add value with it." He now sees how history does matter. "If you start to criticise your title or you don't use it, you're putting yourself down and put

'The school brings energy, relevance and continuity to the place and builds the future...' I really value that

ting your family down. You are what you are." And what he is - apart from a university lecturer and businessman in Australia - is the future Duke of Manchester.

He will be a duke without a country house, since WillcStater, headmaster of Kimbolton School, is its custodian. "I feel a sense of ownership of it," says Cluster of the Grade 3 listed Vanbrugh, building at the school's heart.

"We all cherish it in the school, everyone knows it is a special place, and we're looking after it for the next people." He adds: "I don't want to be the head that lets the castle go to inch and trim."

His office is the room in which Catherine of Aragon was exiled in the 1530s. "How many people can say that? Some times when I walk into school I can be denied by warden, but coming up the steps and looking out over our ponds. I remember how brilliant it is here." In

Lord Kimble

Montagu (left)

and 1892 cluster

headmaster of

Kimbolton School

the 1850s, the castle was the main school building, home to a farmhouse, a town with a building, room and library. Today, it represents the centre-parce of Kimbolton School, the state rooms used for public-facing events. "People are immediately interested in the beauty of the rooms," says Cluster.

The basement is the ninth-farm centre. "The pupils love the idea that when they get into the ninth form they come into the castle. They've spent five years going into it, off and on, and now it's there," old bedrooms, such as the one in which Angus was born, have been re-purposed as classrooms. "You can't put a science lab that soars 24 in there, but you can have a politics classroom for it," says Cluster.

"The main elective, with its adjacent Telegraph mural, is both a blessing and a curse. While this, says Cluster, 'gives everyone a lift when they go inside' it is delicate and 'even light but regular footsteps hurt it and the mural'."

It's a wonderful thing to have, but you've got to make sure that the school is a good environment for the pupils. That's hard to a 300-year-old building. This summer, Lord Kimble visited Kimbolton to talk to pupils, and felt no regret about its modern role. "If I were in the position of having the castle today and you asked me what I did with it, I'd sell it absolutely. It's not because I don't want it - spending time there showed me that the best way to preserve a historic home is to give it a living purpose, and it has got that as a well-respected school."

He is proud of what the estate has become. "I'm so impressed with what they're doing there. As long as they want me, I'm going to be around Kimbolton," he says. "The school brings energy, relevance and continuity to the place and builds the future, which is so important for young people. I really value that."

It has been a mutually beneficial relationship, says Cluster. "The school has now got this outlet to a place, in terms of how it looks, where you could say, in a school. I think we'll withdraw from this now, and think it also a steady home for people to visit. But we won't do that," home public access is already available, the castle operates as a wedding, film and events venue, and the next open day is in October.

Lord Kimble anticipates that life will change when he becomes the Duke of Manchester. "It scares me," he says, "but it won't change who I am."

He has reflected on this family's recent history and has emerged from it level-hundred. When I ask how he has squared this style, he says: "I haven't. If you're in a privileged position as a member of the aristocracy, you might think that you're a cat above the rest and you can make mistakes, but people are going to respect you more if you are. I made a mistake, and this is what I've done to do it."

He doubts that many of his students at Mumah University know of his aristocratic ancestors. "Everything I've got is my own. If you give someone something, they expect something in return and families are no different."

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Staging tips that will help your home sell faster

Experts reveal simple and inexpensive changes to make buyers fall in love with your home. By Esther Shaw

“A today’s slow property market,” many sellers are turning to try harder. An permade nervous buyer is play with their cash.

The average home sold in May this year had been on the market for more than five months, according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. But many properties hang around for far longer, often having to undergo multiple price cuts and ceilings, which can put buyers off even more.

To prevent your home suffering the same fate, home staging could be the key to spending up a sale. Those staying done with an help a property stand out online, attract more viewings and prevent it from being overlooked,” said Teresa Frankford of online agent Yopi.

We’ve spoken to whole agents and buying agents to find out the impact home staging can have, and we’ve gathered some of the tricks of the trade from professional home-stagers themselves.

What is home staging?

Home staging is very different from devoting or removing. The concept began in the UK property market, where entire rooms – and sometimes whole properties – would get emptied, with owners moving out so their home could be dried using brushes could especially for the purpose.

Squares foremen, of Interview Therapy.com, said: “Here in the UK, the property market is very different. Conveyancing can sometimes take six months, or even a year, so fewer people choose a full-scale home staging and instead accessories with carefully the less force items recommended by us supplied by a home-staging company.”

The aim is to create a home with broad aspirational appeal, so potential buyers can more easily imagine themselves living there.

You do not need to redesign your home for the changes to be effective. The focus should be on preventing a clean, bright and welcoming property.

Ms Frankish added: “It’s not about creating an immaculate show-home that feels artificial, or which bears no resemblance to the property they might eventually inhabit.”

How much does it cost?

The cost are very considerably depending on the level of home staging required. One seller might pay for a relatively simple professional consultation and then carry out the recommended changes themselves, while another may spend several thousands of hours making and styling an empty or high-or-value home.

But as a rough guide, you could expect to pay between 1 tpc of the asking price: Amy Bernslofs, head of sales at estate agency Antoun Roberts, said: “If you up for full furniture staging, could you also need some new personal promise for a smaller property, up to £10,000 plus for a larger home, based on how many rooms are dressed, and how long the furniture is listed for.”

Many contracts run on a rolling

Seven top tips for DIY home staging

1. Deviation The most effective first step when home-staging is usually the following:

“Remove excess furniture, paperwork, toys and personal items,” said Zoe Berry, owner of Life – Edit Home Organisation. “Buyers must be on the space, not your belongings!” At the same time, don’t stop the property of all personality. House-business still wants a home to feel warm and loved in.

Ms Bernslofs added: “If you have overcrowded countertops, home stored on top of wardrobes and so on, this suggests your home is too small. Box and store those things elsewhere.”

2. Dupressables While you’re in harrowing, consider packing away family photos and children’s artwork if your home is

interested with them. Linda Webb, from Refresh & Impress, said: “I don’t believe every photo has to disappear, especially in a family house. A few are absolutely fine. It’s when every wall and every shelf is filled with personal items that buyers want to, but as though they’re walking through someone else’s home, instead of imagining it as theirs.”

3. Meatiness levels appeal First impression are vital Ms Webb said: “Your first viewing happens online. If the first photo of your home doesn’t grab someone’s attention, they may avoid to the next property. With the garden, pick up sweets, leave the time, clean the paths. Feeling up the front door, buy a new doomed, and make sure the entrance looks well cared for.”

4. Eat cleaning A really good clean can make just as much difference as expensive or creative, particularly in kitchen and bathroom. Ms Frankish said: “Cleaning windows, removing immaculate and refreshing tired areas are relatively inexpensive

plus that can improve a buyer’s impression.”

5. Carry out small repairs For shipping easy, especially stores, and to pick up a large paint as a priority: “Punch any DIY you’re started!” said Ms Webb. “Small jobs might seem insignificant, but buyers often wonder

what bigger jobs haven’t been done if they can see the life’s end.”

6. Let the light in Natural light is one of a property’s biggest selling points, so make the most of it by fully opening blinds and contains for viewings that Research, founder of staging and design collective Swash Kose, said: “It’s one of the cheapest changes and has a huge questionate effect to how a home is valued.”

7. Make sure every room has a purpose If a space room has become a storage area, make sure it is presented as a bedroom, offer or nursery for the purpose of photos or viewing. Ms Webb said: “Help buyers see what that room is meant to be by putting a bed in there if you can.”

Professional stagers could make your home more appealing to buyers

monthly basis, so costs increase the longer a property sits unsold – which can defeat the purpose of getting stager in the first place.

Does home staging actually work? Home staging won’t guarantee a sale, but it can – say the experts – boost buyer interest and improve your chances of shifting a property more quickly.

Gemma Maclean, director of buying agency Prime Purchase, said: “Pension almost always proves better when dressed thoughtfully, enabling buyers to imagine themselves living there. That can generate more interest, more viewings, and result in the property selling faster.”

Whether or not the investment in home staging is justified will depend on the property, its condition, its likely buyer and how difficult it has been to sell.

Those in the business are certainly persuasive when it comes to spending about its benefits – and particularly as the current competitive market.

Linda Webb, who runs home-staging business Refresh & Impress, said: “The cost of staging is usually far less than the first price item now that many sellers end up accepting when their home doesn’t attract enough buyers.

It can mean you will more quickly and achieve a better price. In my view,

“Home staging is often money well spent, not least on empty houses, which can feel impersonal”

it can make a massive difference.” Professional staging can be especially effective for properties that are empty, have an unusual layout, or which feature rooms where the purpose isn’t something obvious.

Ms Maclean said: “Home staging is often money well spent, not least on empty houses, which can feel cold and impersonal. Some buyers struggle to visualize how a property will work if there is no furniture.”

What about CGI staging? Some estate agents are increasingly using computer-generated imagery (CGI) to show properties virtually. Unlike traditional staging, where furniture and accessories are physically brought into a home, CGI digitally transform photos to show buyers how a space could look.

Ms Bernslofs said: “If a seller’s own furniture isn’t showing off the space well, we can ask a CGI company to digitally replace it – and the results can be ascribed. We can also use the same in the images on CGI, but if it helps a buyer visualize the potential of a room and secretes a viewing, it’s more than worth it – especially when costs are much lower (than physical staging)”

Labour is still held to ransom by its union paymasters

Comment

Michael Moebucher

PRIVATE sector pay is rising by its lowest rate for six years, yet those working for the state are still seeing healthy growth in their wage packets. Office for National Statistics data show that for the three months to date, annualized wage inflation in the private sector stood at 2 tpc, whilst it was 6 tpc for those in the public sector.

Such a differential is unsustainable. Public wages must be paid for either through taxation or government borrowing – and both are at unprecedented levels. Our national debt will soon breach a 20m and raise an at that highest state the aftermath of the Second World War.

The state paying the unpleasant more is no longer of economic growth, and expansion must come from the private

sector. Even the Labour Government makes this – hence the endless ministerial mantra about pay for growth first, regardless of whether their policies have the opposite effect – to why is this state of affairs allowed to continue? I would suggest there are three main explanations.

Firstly, Labour wants to be nice, or at least to soon to be the one-party – and what could be more than giving a little extra to people as deserving as teachers and nurses?

Who would not want to reward these public servants without trolling for us all? Or at least that is how the Labour creed would have it.

It is indeed true that both professions are essential for the rest of us to continue to go about our business. Historically, they have also been underpaid.

This is partly a consequence of national bargaining, making it difficult to target pay does to those areas where they are shortages, and the fact that nursing and at least primary school

teaching have traditionally been overwhelmingly female contractors which suppressed their wages in less enlightened times.

But that is not today’s debate. It is not what teachers and nurses paide deserve. It is what our indebted state can afford.

Secondly, for many in Labour, it is a matter of equality.

Median full-time public sector pay at £20,400 to £1,000 more than the median for the private sector.

But when mean average pay is calculated, the figures are reversed: high salaries for a minority in the private sphere hit the balance. Those trolling in the market economy come out at £40,200, against £30,000 for the state’s servants.

And to those of a Labour number – however much they may know that it is simply unrealistic to expect the average doctor to be paid as much as a City budget – this state of affairs is simply unjust. The socially useful profession should not be at a

disadvantage to the capacious capitalist. Thus when doctors, nurses and teachers are demanding wage increases under a Labour government – they are pushing at an open door. But perhaps the third reason is the

most salient. The public sector is much more heavily uninsured than the private. In 2020, 44 tpc of those working in the public sector were predicted of ransom, against only 12 tpc in the private sector.

Also, about the most heavily insulated in the Civil.

This is not an indication that all teachers are deficient, it is that the profession both they need protection from unparalleled complaints from the public or their capcuses.

And trade unions offer such protection, at least in theory. The same pattern applies across much of the public sector.

But what it means for Labour is something else. The party, founded by the union movement, is still deeply advised with a workrent ethos.

The struggle of the unions is also the struggle of its MPs, at least in their imagination.

More importantly still, Labour continues to rely on unions for their funding and its members as its

first soldiers. A strike on Labour support from the union would make winning a decision all that impossible for the party.

They would not have the money nor the local intelligence to campaign.

With average and the decline of traditional activity, Labour is relying on a shrinking trend of ransom to keep it in business – only 8 different ransom.

Although the teaching unions do not afflicted, the overall large of these remaining unions is increasingly public sector, overwhelmingly so for Unions, the largest with 1.1 million members. In Labour really its a position to opt me to their demands.

The combination of these three factors made it all that impossible for Labour to get public sector pay under control.

All they have left in the hope that somehow the private sphere can be squeezed just a little harder. But this won’t remain the case indefinitely, a breaking point will come. It may even be seen.

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Gymnastics: European Championships 2020 ABC Two, 12.45pm The fans of the 2020 big competition final today at Arena Zagreb. Returns men will compete in the Junior all-around final, followed by the Senior team final. Having been jipped to gold by Ukraine in the summer two years ago in Italy, Team G8 will be hoping to nab the top spot.

N31 Remitted National Geographic, 5pm Walking 25 years since the attacks on the World Trade Center, this three part series invades new towns and their resources in highly emotional meetings. Some want to say thank you and others to ask

after getting in a brand. There be one reason the sharp end of an unbelievable system where sealed mattresses are flipped over rather than replaced, and patients are dragged rather than refurbished into keep them compliant. Events enter are the many things at the so-called cars facility that go being in the night, introduced in the first episode as a horrible suicide, and apparitions. Are measuring sports truly

inhabiting this hospital or an inaugural trip product of the hallucinogens being piloted into Pepper's area? Stevens enters his contract as the local in-patient navigating a broken system in which he's lost his autonomy, with first-rate support from EK's VCD Founder and Nephew. Root of Wisher's Key fame as hospital staff. A strong sense of blood pervades the opening episode and results in proper jump scores.

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questions—the family of NYPD Emergency Services Unit officer John D'Allare meets the German with him in his final moments.

Mozart at the Promo ABC Four, 3pm Tonight's crowd-pleaser sees chamber orchestra The

Academy of St Martin in the Polish tackling endorant works by Mozart, Elige and Britten. French hosts player Felix Eike or chameleon performance of Mozart's Horn Concerto No.1 in E flat Abogachs these dances, basecoast Amy Harman stars in the world premiere

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The Piano Channel 4, 3pm Tonight makes the culmination of the many works we've spent exugnated by the abilities of amateur pianists performing at festivals railway stations Claudia Winkheman hosts the final concert at Birmingham Symphony Hall during which Mika and guest judge Alice Sato (W) will decide which pianist gave the finest performance of the night.

One Dollar ITV 2.45pm Bearing strong Mare of Easttown vibes with Jo Pennyburne and her setting, this 10-part drama is built around a framework of following different locals who end up with a particular dollar bill. Tonight's first recipient is one-breather

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Sunday 23 August 2026 The Sunday 25/pgraph

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General situation

High pressure will keep most of the United Kingdom dry today, with the well-known Northern Ireland and northern Scotland only. Stump up all throughout the day in Wales and England.

At sunshine. Cont is England. Channel is, SW England. S England. M England. A Anglia, Midlands. A nearby morning west of the ocean island, metres from the sea today. Min 65/170 (34.5)2. A high on gentle outside island. Long close up the convoy. Min 40/170 (4.4)2. A NW England. Late Min. 5/40 (4.4)2. England. NW England. Dature up the night with four blacks the way. Min 15/40 (4.4)2. High on the south coast. Month close enough. Min 30/40 (4.4)2. A Wipper. Month close really and roughly. Min 60/170 (4.5)2. A light in

gentle and outside west. Min 10/40 (5.6)2. A N Ireland. Stump up the midline midshower today. Min 10/40 (4.4)2. A light and outside west. Mid rough. Min 40 40 (4.4)2. A NW Scotland. NW Scotland, Glasgow, Corn Highlands, Hugh, St. Cary, SE Scotland, SE Scotland, Edinburgh, Havelin, Aberdeen, Hove, Perth, Orkney, Sheffield. A 5/40 (4.4)2. A mid low mid to west and today. Min 40 40 (4.5)2. A gentry west. West. Close up the height. Min 30/40 (4.5)2.

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European readings Last night's report for 33 hours before

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	1st week	2nd week	3rd week	1st week	2nd week	3rd week	1st week	2nd week	3rd week
Almaith	33	33	33	Frankfurt	33	33	33	33	33
Almaith	33	33	33	Frankfurt	33	33	33	33	33
Amberton	33	33	33	Frankfurt	33	33	33	33	33
Amberton	33	33	33	Frankfurt	33	33	33	33	33
Bull	33	33	33	Frankfurt	33	33	33	33	33
Belgium	33	33	33	Frankfurt	33	33	33	33	33
Brentford	33	33	33	Frankfurt	33	33	33	33	33
Bergen	33	33	33	Frankfurt	33	33	33	33	33
Berlin	33	33	33	Frankfurt	33	33	33	33	33
Brentford	33	33	33	Frankfurt	33	33	33	33	33
Calif	33	33	33	Frankfurt	33	33	33	33	33
Calif	33	33	33	Frankfurt	33	33	33	33	33
Calif	33	33	33	Frankfurt	33	33	33	33	33
Calif	33	33	33	Frankfurt	33	33	33	33	33

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Holiday nature walking along the seafloor at Lyme Region in Dover

A wetter week, with an iffy bank holiday ahead

In Peter Hanford

IT HAS been a case of all change this week, with the summer heat that has been dominating England and Wales giving way to something that would work.

For these in the countryside or tell me gathers and yacht there has been that welcome and distinctive smell of dust falling on soil, magnified because of the change of size.

What has caused the week to be a combination of a northerly hermit and a few of the weather coming in from the Atlantic. Involving the grip of high pressure, over most parts of the UK.

But there is high pressure still around and, an early begins, it will be making itself full again. Most of England and Wales will see plenty of sunshine.

Temperature, however, will remain modest compared to those day after-day 100: 1940° plus levels of excess weeks. From Greater London to South Wales, expect a pleasant 100: 1700°.

The south west corner of England, where so many are taking their holidays at this time of year, expect a bit down on that at 250: 1700°, with East

4 Anglia, the Midlands and the North of the United Kingdom. 1700, worthless England and Northern Ireland at 100: 1800°, and the central belt of Scotland 100: 1640°.

The high pressure remains around into time since last sickleaping with a crimp begins, in the relief to warm. Daytime temperatures, however, will creep up to 300: 1700° in the sunshine and are in further south.

But not to the south west of the UK, expect two yachtfiring faces and by Tuesday the effects will start being felt. As the work progresses, the rains will increase, the temperature will drop, and the outbreaks for the bank holiday weekend is at present looking iffy.

British readings Last night's report for 34 hours in open "activated readings

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	1st week	2nd week	3rd week	1st week	2nd week	3rd week	1st week	2nd week	3rd week
Almaith	33	33	33	Frankfurt	33	33	33	33	33
Almaith	33	33	33	Frankfurt	33	33	33	33	33
Andrie	33	33	33	Frankfurt	33	33	33	33	33
Belgium	33	33	33	Frankfurt	33	33	33	33	33
Brentford	33	33	33	Frankfurt	33	33	33	33	33
Barclays	33	33	33	Frankfurt	33	33	33	33	33
Belgium	33	33	33	Frankfurt	33	33	33	33	33
Brentford	33	33	33	Frankfurt	33	33	33	33	33
Belgium	33	33	33	Frankfurt	33	33	33	33	33
Brentford	33	33	33	Frankfurt	33	33	33	33	33

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World readings

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	Men	Men	Women
Asia	39	31	20
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	Men	Men	Women
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Asia	39	31	20
Asia	39	31	20
Asia	39	31	20
Asia	39	31	20
Asia	39	31	20
Asia	39	31	20
Asia	39	31	20

and are taking begin, it will be making itself full again. Most of England and Wales will see plenty of sunshine.

Temperature, however, will remain modest compared to those day after-day 100: 1940° plus levels of excess weeks. From Greater London to South Wales, expect a pleasant 100:1700°.

The south west corner of England, where so many are taking their holidays at this time of year, expect a bit down on that at 250: 1700°, with East 4 Anglia, the Midlands and the North of the United Kingdom. 1700°, with East 4 Anglia, the Midlands and the North of the United Kingdom. 1700°, with East 4 Anglia, the Midlands and the North of the United Kingdom. 1700°, with East 4 Anglia, the Midlands and the North of the United Kingdom. 1700°, with East 4 Anglia, the Midlands and the North of the United Kingdom. 1700°, with East 4 Anglia, the Midlands and the North of the United Kingdom. 1700°, with East 4 Anglia, the Midlands and the North of the United Kingdom. 1700°, with East 4 Anglia, the Midlands and the North of the United Kingdom.

The north of the south west of the UK, except two spattening faces and by Tuesday the effects will start being felt. As the work progresses, the rains will increase, the temperatures will drop, and the outbreaks for the bank holiday weekend is at present looking iffy.

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制度与权力批判深度研判：The Daily Telegraph (2026-08-23)

▌ 本日全报思想与文化深思雷达 (Intellectual & Cultural Significance Radar)

在系统通盘梳理本期报纸所涉及的所有国际政治、经济、社会与文化报道后，以下 4 个具体事件在制度结构、权力技术与法理合法性层面最值得学者进一步深思：

1. 【国家基础设施的网络主权危机】 [F2_3, F2_4]（版面：主报深度版面）

   • 事件简述：伊朗黑客关闭了英国发电厂，且此前针对英国水务设施的攻击影响持续了 10 天并引起白宫关注。
   • 制度批判切入点：分析主权权力在面对“非对称数字战争”时的脆弱性。当物理边界失效，国家安全机构如何通过重新定义“关键基础设施”来应对跨国网络攻击带来的治理挑战。

2. 【“豪宅税警察”的行政穿透力】 [F4_7, F4_8]（版面：主报深度版面）

   • 事件简述：工党政府计划派遣 HMRC “豪宅税警察”评估房屋价值，以判定房主是否应缴纳数千英镑的额外税款。
   • 制度批判切入点：探讨官僚权力对私人空间的物理侵入。这种从单纯的账面审计转向实地评估的权力技术，标志着税收征管在执行层面上的强制性增强。

3. 【公务员居家办公的资源分配矛盾】 [F5_9, F5_10]（版面：第5版/专业栏目）

   • 事件简述：HMRC 员工在过去四年中获得了 £600.0k 的能源补贴，而整个政府部门的总额则更高。
   • 制度批判切入点：剖析官僚系统的自我维护机制。分析公共资源如何通过内部补贴政策在官僚阶层内部流动，以及这种资源分配如何引发公众关于公平性的制度性质疑。

4. 【王室权力结构的路径依赖与排斥机制】 [F13_26, F14_27, F17_34]（版面：第13-17版/专业栏目）

   • 事件简述：关于哈里王子安保资助的争议，以及其在王室内部处于一种被边缘化的状态。
   • 制度批判切入点：研究传统制度的路径依赖（Path Dependency）。分析君主制如何通过非成文的准入机制执行系统性排斥，以及这种权力分配如何限制了家庭冲突的制度化解决路径。

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▌ 精选核心专题深度思想论证 (In-Depth Dialectical Monograph)

专题一：数字利维坦与主权权力的“例外状态”：从基础设施攻击看安全治理的逻辑转向

本期报道中，伊朗黑客对英国发电厂及水务设施的攻击 [F2_3, F2_4] 揭示了一个深刻的制度困境：现代国家的安全边界已从地理疆域转移至数字协议。在这种情境下，权力行为体面临的结构性两难在于，一方面必须维持基础设施的民用开放性以确保经济运转，另一方面又必须在遭受攻击时迅速将这些民用设施纳入国家安全防御体系。

从权力机制分析，政府在应对此次危机时，其行为逻辑被包裹在“安全考量”之中。当水务设施遭受长达 10 天的攻击并引起白宫关注时 [F2_4 🔍]，事件的性质已从单纯的技术故障上升为地缘政治冲突。这种转向意味着，国家安全不再是通过建立坚固的物理围墙来实现，而是通过对数字流量的监控与对关键节点的控制来实现。

援引施密特的“例外状态”（State of Exception）理论，我们可以发现，网络攻击导致的基础设施瘫痪实际上创造了一个“法律真空地带”。当常规的法律框架无法在毫秒级的数字攻击中提供即时保护时，主权权力倾向于通过宣布一种紧急状态，允许情报机构在常规法律之外行使权力。在这种逻辑下，“例外”可能变成“常规”：为了防止下一次攻击，国家将持续处于一种准战争状态，从而使大规模的数字监控合法化。这种转向意味着，国家治理的逻辑正在从“事后追责”转向“事前全时监控”。

专题二：官僚铁笼的物理延伸：从“豪宅税警察”到行政权力的空间穿透

工党政府拟派遣 HMRC “豪宅税警察”进入私人住宅进行内部检查 [F4_7, F4_8]，这一举措不仅是税收政策的调整，更是官僚权力运作方式的一次升级。其制度现实困境在于，在数字化审计无法完全覆盖房产实际价值的情况下，行政权力必须通过物理空间的侵入来完成其“精确控制”的目标。

这种权力运作展现了极强的强制性：通过派遣专门的“警察”评估房屋价值 [F4_8 🔍]，实际上是将行政估值权与强制执行力相结合。结合版面中关于 HMRC 员工领取巨额能源补贴 [F5_10 🔍] 的报道，我们可以看到官僚系统的内在矛盾：在对外执行严苛的、具有穿透力的控制时，系统内部却通过资源再分配构建起一套自我保护的特权机制。

这一现象是韦伯“官僚制铁笼”（Iron Cage of Bureaucracy）在当代空间的延伸。韦伯认为，官僚制的理性化会导致人类被禁锢在由规则和程序构成的铁笼中。而此次“豪宅税警察”的行动，标志着这个铁笼不再仅仅是抽象的文书工作，而是演变为一种物理上的、可进入私人领域的“穿透性权力”。这种“对外穿透、对内封闭”的结构，使得官僚机构在执行公共政策时，容易产生一种脱离公民社会体感的权力傲慢，其运行逻辑在某种程度上从“服务公共利益”转向了“维持系统扩张”。

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▌ 面向学者的制度研究开放性追问 (Open Research Horizons)

1. 【关于数字主权与法律边界的追问】：当国家关键基础设施（CNI）在物理上由私企运营，但在安全逻辑上由主权国家管控时，这种“所有权”与“管辖权”的脱节如何导致法律责任的真空？在网络攻击常态化后，如何构建一套能够约束情报机构在民用基础设施中行使权力的法理框架？

2. 【关于行政权力空间化研究的追问】：从“数据监控”到“物理进入”的权力转向，是否预示着现代国家治理正在回归一种基于物理在场的控制模式？这种“穿透性行政”在不同阶层（如豪宅业主 vs 普通纳税人）之间如何产生差异化的权力体验，以及这种差异如何重塑公民与国家的契约关系？

理性与情感辩证深度研判：The Daily Telegraph (2026-08-23)

▌ 本日全报生活世界痛感与情感政治深思雷达 (Lifeworld & Affective Significance Radar)

在系统通盘梳理本期报纸所涉及的所有报道后，以下 3 个具体事件在个体生命体验、情感撕裂与生活世界崩解层面最值得学者进一步深思：

1. 【制度理性与私人情感的权力拉锯】 [F14_27, F17_34]（生活领域：家庭与身份）

   • 事件简述：围绕哈里王子的安保问题，首相安迪·伯纳姆将其定义为“私人事务” [F14_27 🔍]，而查尔斯国王则在回顾中恳求子孙化干戈为玉帛 [F17_34 🔍]。
   • 情感政治切入点：个体对情感认同的诉求与国家制度（纳税人负担、安保协议）的理性计算之间的剧烈摩擦，揭示了权力结构如何将私人家庭关系异化为公共领域的政治博弈。

2. 【肉身之痛的意义重构与生命回归】 [F11_21, F11_22]（生活领域：健康与身体）

   • 事件简述：23岁的萨弗伦·克罗斯韦尔在马术事故中导致脊髓损伤、胸部以下瘫痪后，通过艰苦训练成为残疾人皮划艇运动员 [F11_21, F11_22]。
   • 情感政治切入点：肉身之痛（Physical Pathos）如何通过意志的重构转化为一种生命意义的升华，探讨在身体功能丧失的绝望中，个体如何通过重新定义“能力”来对抗生物学意义上的匮乏。

3. 【法律程序理性与个体正义的错位】 [F6_11, F6_12]（生活领域：法律与社会）

   • 事件简述：詹姆斯·约翰逊因泄露寻求庇护者住址被起诉，但在发现能够削弱指控的补充证据后，诉讼程序被终止 [F6_11, F6_12]。
   • 情感政治切入点：法律程序的“证据理性”如何决定个体的社会身份（从被告到被撤销指控者），探讨在司法程序的冰冷逻辑中，个体在被指控期间所承受的社会性死亡与情感压力。

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▌ 精选核心专题理性与情感辩证论证 (The Dialectic of Logos and Pathos Monograph)

专题一：【景观理性与情感异化：王室家庭冲突中的“制度逻辑”与“私人真相”】

在萨塞克斯公爵夫妇与英国王室的长期拉锯战中，我们观察到一种典型的系统理性（Logos）与个体情感（Pathos）的断裂。从君主制的系统理性模型来看，王室成员在某种程度上被视为制度的承载者。在这种逻辑下，安保问题被首相安迪·伯纳姆定义为“私人事务” [F14_27 🔍]，这种定义实际上是将复杂的家庭情感冲突通过“行政分类”予以简化，从而将纳税人的经济负担作为理性的裁决标准。

然而，这种理性定义掩盖了深层的情感创伤。查尔斯国王在2020年恳求子孙“不要让我最后的回归变得痛苦” [F17_34 🔍]，这表明在制度的冷色调逻辑之下，依然存在着极其纯粹且脆弱的家庭情感诉求。但矛盾在于，当这种情感诉求进入公共领域，它便被异化为一种“景观”。

这里存在着一种情感的工具化：哈里王子通过公共服务做出的“重大贡献”被部分议员用来主张其应获得保护 [F13_26 🔍]，这意味着个体的安全感不再基于家庭纽带，而是基于其在公共领域产生的“价值”或“贡献”。当爱与保护被量化为“贡献”与“风险”的交换时，家庭这一最后的避风港被转化为一个关于定义权的战场。这种异化导致了深层的社会心理危机：在高度制度化的权力结构中，最私密的哀悼与原谅被简化为政治筹码，个体的生命意义在制度的理性计算中被部分解构。

专题二：【身体之痛与意志之光：从生物学匮乏到存在主义超越】

在萨弗伦·克罗斯韦尔（Saffron Crosswell）的案例中 [F11_21, F11_22]，我们触及了生物学理性（Biological Logos）与生命意志（Vital Pathos）之间的辩证统一。从医学和生物学理性来看，脊髓损伤导致的胸部以下瘫痪是一个不可逆的功能丧失，是个体生命质量在量化指标上的剧烈下降。

然而，克罗斯韦尔的经历提供了一种现象学意义上的反击。她没有停留在“残疾”这一被社会定义的标签中，而是通过成为皮划艇运动员实现了肉身的重新定义。这种转变并非简单的“康复”，而是一种存在主义的超越：她将瘫痪带来的“匮乏感”转化为一种新的“能力感”。

这种辩证摩擦揭示了人类精神的一种韧性：当系统理性（医学诊断、社会认知）将个体定义为“受限者”时，个体可以通过重新构建与世界的互动方式（从马术到皮划艇）来夺回生命的主体性。克罗斯韦尔的“英勇回归” [F11_21 🔍] 证明了，肉身之痛虽然是客观的，但对痛感的诠释权却是个体手中的最后一道防线。这种从“绝望”到“竞技”的跨越，实际上是用一种更高维度的生命理性（追求卓越与自我实现）覆盖了生物学上的匮乏，从而在身体的废墟上重建了意义。

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▌ 面向学者的伦理与社会心理开放性追问 (Open Research Horizons)

1. 【关于制度理性对私人情感的殖民】：当国家行政逻辑（如安保成本、法律定义）介入私人家庭冲突时，这种“理性殖民”如何改变了现代个体对“亲情”和“忠诚”的认知？我们是否正在进入一个所有私人情感都必须经过“公共价值”审计才能获得合法性的时代？

2. 【关于身体残缺与社会认知的重构】：在残疾运动员的成功叙事中，我们应当警惕的是否是一种新的“励志理性”？即社会是否倾向于只认可那些能够通过“超越”而回归生产力/竞技力的残疾人，而忽视了那些无法通过意志重构而陷入深层痛苦的沉默大多数？