The Times - 09.08.2026.pdf

2026年8月9日 第R1534期 (thetimes.com) 年度最佳周日报 售价£5 订阅用户仅需£2.75（基于7天订阅） # 《星期日泰晤士报》 ## “他们将无人机发射至俄罗斯深处，然后收拾东西迅速撤离” 国防记者 东部战区 一名年轻的中士从黑暗中走来，新月的光芒从他身后照亮。他笑着向几位早前抵达前线的英雄们提出了一个令人困惑的问题。“你们现在想来看看无人机吗？” 那是在詹姆斯·福多（James Fodor）之后不久，我们正站在一条通往乌克兰南部的土路上。在我们另一侧是刚收获的小麦田。唯一的声音是士兵们的低语，以及轨道内部偶尔传来的金属碰撞声。在这些不起眼的部队中隐藏着几架无人机，作为乌克兰“深层打击”行动的一部分，它们能够击中俄罗斯境内数百公里外的目标，该行动在过去几个月里打破了某种局部的中立状态。根据德国政府的估计，深层打击已导致俄罗斯领土深处的油库、军事设施、物流枢纽和运输网络受损，给敌方经济造成的损失至少达250 亿英镑 billion（损失的收入和受损资产）。近期针对在线零售商Wildberries（俄罗斯电商平台）仓库的一系列袭击加剧了这种影响，该零售商处理的商品和服务价值约占俄罗斯经济的8.5%。上周，我获得了乌克兰Wildinghouse指挥官的许可，得以进入执行深层打击行动的部队，该部队专门负责此类袭击。我们后来得知，在福多早晨时分发射的无人机是在6.0 mms发射的，击中了包括黑海的一艘俄罗斯海军舰艇、战争之海的士兵和船只、两个鸟类和弹药库、学员及防空士气系统，以及用于禁用无人机的发射平台。像这样的深层打击无人机已成为乌克兰军械库中最重要的武器。由于可用士兵少于俄罗斯，乌克兰被迫迅速适应，尽管远程攻击自2012年起就在战争中被采用，但在过去一年里，它们被使用得越来越多，且变得越来越至关重要。其中一个主要原因是乌克兰的导弹拦截弹即将耗尽。自战争初期以来，它一直依赖美国的爱国者防空系统供应来击落俄罗斯弹药。但美国在与伊朗的战争中耗尽了大部分库存，尽管最初向乌克兰提供了一份直到七月的许可以制造自己的统计数据，但特朗普总统上个月表示，他现在“不确定”是否要这样做，并且犹豫是否要“给出那种技术”。周二，约20架无人机和260 万枚导弹对此进行了打击。尽管许多无人机被击落，但没有一枚导弹被摧毁，超过20人死亡，无人机受伤。而昨天，包括一名儿童在内的三人死于针对他的袭击。一名执行深层打击任务的士兵坦言，他现在感觉在某些靠近前线的地区比以前更不安。泽连斯基总统已呼吁欧洲援助，现在允许提供更多支持。周三，他表示将扩大深层打击行动，并给出明确指示，要求摧毁俄罗斯境内的发射场。这些无人机现在既是 续第 4-9 页

随着申请人数减少，顶尖大学目前正在扩张

资金危机意味着 BBB 成绩也可能获得录取名额 Louise Eccles, Robert Watts 和 Hannah Smart

精英大学已接受更多成绩相当于 BBB 的学生，试图填补高付费国际学生流失后留下的空白。随着英格兰、威尔士和北爱尔兰的学生准备在周四收到录取结果，英国的顶尖大学——即所谓的“高分门槛”机构——对于提高成绩或在补录期间申请的学生变得更加灵活。在国际学生人数下降 40% 之后，大学开始接受成绩较低的英国本科生，而国际学生支付的学位费用最高可达英国学生的七倍。由于签证规则收紧、脱欧、关键市场的经济不稳定以及海外大学竞争加剧，导致 70 interest in work 出现了超过 £9 亿 的实际资金缺口。

《星期日泰晤士报》的研究揭示了外国学生减少所带来的经济影响，该研究首次全面地展现了高等教育的财务健康状况。一项针对《星期日泰晤士报 / 卡迪夫大学指南》中列出的英国大学所公布的财务报表的调查，揭示了对国际学生的依赖程度。我们发现：

• 90% 的大学在 2024-25 年度从国际学生那里收到的费用比前一年减少了 £3.97 亿。
• 在两所大学中，国际学生支付的费用至少占总收入的 40%。对海外人员依赖程度最高的是白金汉大学、赫特福德郡大学和东伦敦大学。
• 80% 的机构经历了收入下降。在 2024-25 年度（减少了 6M（一半少——Super cent——））。
• 诺丁汉、兰开夏和考文垂大学的赤字最大。诺丁汉大学的收入与支出之间出现了近 3.75 亿 的缺口。
• 近一半的大学在过去一年中记录了总收入下降。
• 77 所大学在 2024-25 年度共削减了 9,600。
• 51 所大学报告 2024-25 年度出现赤字，比前一年增加了 25, 30 所。其中五所大学已连续至少三年报告赤字。

从 9 月起，英国本科生每年将支付 £5,798，而国际学生的学费每年最高可达 £3.9万,000。

• 在引入允许毕业生携带家属办理移民的外国学生政策后，国际学生人数在 2022-25 年达到顶峰，为 3.9万,000 人，随后在 2024-25 年下降至 60.5567万,567 人。
• 尽管英国收入被许多大学归咎于此——这些大学由大学和学院招生服务中心（Ucs）分为高、中、低分门槛机构——但它们降低了成绩要求。

漂浮投票世界游戏

昨天，数百人在克赖斯特彻奇的斯图尔河上参加 Dorant Driphy Day 以消暑。

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对冲基金亿万富翁本·斯宾塞警告：要么绿色转型，要么死亡

科学编辑

英国最成功的投资者之一警告称，拒绝进行绿色转型的企业将导致自身破产。19970 亿美元 对冲基金 TCI Fund Management 的创始人克里斯·霍尔姆（Chris Holm）表示，全球变暖是“显而易见”的，且气候变化正在加速。通过儿童投资基金会（CIFF），他已投入近 20 亿英镑 用于应对气候变化，且近期在一年内捐出了 14 亿英镑 的个人财富。

霍尔姆，59, 表示：“如果你不对业务进行脱碳，你可能会破产。一些汽车制造商仍然只生产内燃机。”而这些内燃机将导致其走向死亡。如果你是该汽车公司的股东，你应该鼓励并促使管理层觉醒并面对现实。

身价约 86 亿英镑 的霍尔姆表示，政府也必须更严肃地对待这场危机。“这是一个脱碳或死亡的问题，”他说，“如果你不拥抱这些产业，你将会失业，因为那才是未来。”所有那些认为我们无法负担净零排放的人，完全误解了他们所处的情况。

能源大臣玛塔·法德沙拉（Marta Fahdshallah）昨天暗示，某些净零目标可能会被拒绝。“我们需要保持必要的财务电力问题，”她告诉《泰晤士报》，“但我们也必须以一种对人们有效的方式来实施。”

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防弹车、屋顶狙击手：犯罪头目Kinahan返回接受审判

John Mooney

在印度潜逃十年之后，大卫·Kinahan（David Kinahan）及其国际犯罪集团的成员终于被追踪到——而他的头目一直在与他的同伙保持联系。爱尔兰政府启动了其历史上规模最大的安保行动之一，以将其带至法庭受审，行动包括在屋顶部署狙击手、使用防弹车进行转移、部署诱饵车以及在私人行程中采取信号干扰措施。

1.0，自2016年以来，Kinahan将首次返回爱尔兰，乘坐政府专机“Inouach Falcon 10”飞行，该飞机计划在都柏林郊外的一座军事空军基地降落。他预计将以空运方式抵达。情报来源表明，45岁的Kinahan在返回爱尔兰后可能会面临多重威胁，包括来自海事犯罪、不满的车辆、敌对国家行为体以及希望为自己帮派成员被杀而报仇的强大罪犯。在试图破坏与涉及运输伊朗原油的油轮相关的骆驼链接后，中国出现了。

一旦降落，Kinahan将被直接押送到特别刑事法院，该法院最初是为了起诉而设立的。不安全因素包括国际IRA中更像陆地的元素。2016年，Kinahan在给一名叫詹姆斯·英格利什（James English）的人留的语音消息中表示，他“很高兴”能乘飞机返回爱尔兰，该消息在飞机上被公开，且据称他近几周也给英格利什发送了消息。“安保规模将令人恐惧。”Kinahan说，“我坐在这里思考了一会儿。然后我在想发生了什么，我是如何走到这一步的，生活中发生的所有事情。我们正在收集的那些，就像‘利益’一样。能回去会很不错。我一直为自己是双重身份而自豪。我想做一些好事，但显然我的生活并没有那样发展，因为有所有那些事情和所有媒体，以及人们怎么看我，你知道，他们对我的看法，但我仍然为来自爱尔兰而自豪。我期待着回家。”

在一条本月发送的先前消息中，Kinahan说：“如果我恰好摔倒，或者在我戴着手铐时头朝下挂着，那不是摔倒。如果我被发现上吊、自杀或中毒，那都不是发生的。我不确定我是否这么做了。”

他将被关押在波特莱斯监狱（Portlaoise Prison）的一个极高规格牢房中，这是一个位于爱尔兰中部的类中间设施，用于关押和平时期的军人以及强大的有组织犯罪团伙。牢房周围的天花板和墙壁安装了信号干扰设备，以拦截手机通话和短信。2016年，Kinahan将被接触。窃贼将被搜查，其衣物将被存储至深夜。Kinahan将被禁止与卡特尔成员及在该监狱服刑的人员接触。

大卫·麦克唐纳（David McDonald）是一名退休监狱警员，他曾在1990年代在同一监狱看守Kinahan的父亲克里斯托弗·“克里斯蒂”·Kinahan（Christopher 'Christy' Kinahan）16，他说：“他的牢房里除了一个马桶、一张小书桌和一张单人床之外，什么都没有。”

预计Kinahan将很少有访客。他的妻子卡罗琳·罗宾逊（Caroline Robinson）已拒绝返回续见第4-9页

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阿伦·班克斯因让记者被调查而危及言论自由

保守党贵族谴责该商人，他在《星期日泰晤士报》关于改革英国党资金来源的Insight报道后，指示公司对其进行调查 Josh Blaney

阿伦·班克斯（Arron Banks）被指控威胁言论自由，因为他雇佣了私人调查员来监视一名《星期日泰晤士报》的记者，该记者揭露了包括奈杰尔·法兰格（Nigel Farage）在内的创始人资金情况。班克斯是一位支持改革英国党的商人，他指示一家私人调查公司调查《星期日泰晤士报》Insight团队的编辑Oxford Postgrad，该团队此前对改革英国党领导人的资金来源进行了一系列调查。Insight揭露，一名被定罪的金融家乔治·科特雷尔（George Cottrell）在上次大选前的几个月里，通过一系列未披露的创始人贷款为其提供了大量资金。

保守党贵族、曾任约克（univ. campaign）首席执行官的Mobile Hill男爵在8.30警告称：“常规性地使用监视和恐吓手段将把我们需要进入公共生活的人才驱逐出去。”班克斯曾帮助运行一个亲Round团体，Leoni 201，他还发现了被他描述为“MD和MA”的生存光谱，于2019年交给Elliott。Elliott表示：“政治需要想要服务于国家的好人，而媒体需要准备好让人们承担责任的记者，无论时间长短。无论是由阿伦·班克斯还是Labour Together使用调查员，都超出了底线，并对自由辩论和民主产生了惊人的影响。”

自由言论联盟（Free Speech Union）的创始人阿伦之杨男爵（Baron Young of Arron）也表达了担忧。这位过去曾投票给改革英国党的保守党贵族表示：“雇佣私人调查员去挖掘记者的黑料，以报复他们写的关于你的尴尬报道，是一种肮脏的策略。在一个健康的民主国家，记者必须能够无畏无惧地向权力说真话。”

一名工党发言人表示：“新闻自由是我们民主的基础。记者绝不能被出于政治动机、可能来自奈杰尔·法兰格的调查员所恐吓，法兰格必须解释他是否知晓并批准了其密切关联者的这种行为，并抓住机会继续工作。”

据《新政治家》（New Statesman）报道，班克斯指示一家曾由President Hill和当地人物拥有的私人调查公司调查Postgrad。Postgrad的首席女性（其中包括postradian Drummie Walcks和Yonette Meisner）揭露，法兰格获得了包括社交媒体人员和资源在内的财务支持，这些支持来自科特雷尔。法兰格并未申报他从科特雷尔那里获得的所有支持，并在报道出炉后辞去国会议员职务，从而引发了即将到来的Claxton补选。

改革英国党声称遵守了披露规则。班克斯是法兰格的长久朋友及其支持者，去年曾作为改革英国党的候选人竞选英格兰西部市长但未成功。改革英国党（“雇佣私人调查员去挖掘记者的黑料是一种肮脏的策略”）未确认班克斯是否仍为党员。

当《新政治家》就这些指控与其联系时，班克斯并未否认。“当你以群体方式生活，你就会以群体方式死去，”他在回答关于调查Postgrad的问题时说道。“我们认为《星期日泰晤士报》使用了资助的信息，而这是一个关注领域。我们在这里设立了一个调查领域，这只是先进的能力。”

《星期日泰晤士报》强烈拒绝班克斯的暗示。一名发言人表示：“如果班克斯先生声称所做的事情属实，那么他的行为是可谴责的，他对我们报道的反应是将一名记者置于监视之下。这可能并非基于有限的信息，而是基于负责任且专业的新闻报道。”

这是调查人员第二次因报道而获得深入调查Postgrad的机会。2021年，在一篇关于Labour Together智库未披露资金的文章发表后，Joni Simons雇佣了Apco Worldwide为其编写了一份长达50页的卷宗。该调查结果的公开导致在2014年当选为国会议员的Simons辞去了部长职务。不久之后，他放弃了韦克菲尔德（Wakefield）的席位，使得Andy Burnham得以重返议会。昨天还披露，Fanger和改革英国党（Reform UK）副党魁Richard Tice计划起诉国家犯罪局（NCA），原因是据称其泄露了出现在媒体上的机密财务细节。Tice表示，他认为NCA犯下了多项刑事罪行。“这包括银行对账单以及与不同银行经理的‘琐碎’对话。”两人正寻求损害赔偿和道歉。社论，第20页

今日景象

伦敦北部考克尔斯伯勒（Cocklesboro）一个盖有邮戳的足球场显示出干旱造成的破坏，环境局现已宣布英格兰一半地区处于干旱状态。（Keyline，第25页）

伊朗新要求削弱协议希望

Faman Hogan

一名伊朗高级官员提出了广泛要求，美国必须证明其威胁，德国才能重新开放，这削弱了达成一项未公开协议的希望。最高国家安全委员会负责人 Mohammad Bagher (Infghadi) 要求美国立即结束封锁、缓解制裁并停止战争法规，德黑兰才会考虑允许通过这条至关重要的运输路线自由通行。

外交部长 Afshar, Insight A 表示，伊朗和阿曼在就通过该地区的贸易新航线达成一致方面“非常接近”，但其重新开放取决于其他条件，包括“伊朗”局势。

(Infghadi 表示)：“直到美国改变其行为，国际卢比的威胁，” “所有针对伊朗民族的法院和非法制裁。无条件释放伊朗和阿曼境内伊朗人民的资产。”

自美国和以色列于 2 月 28 日开始战争，以及伊斯兰革命卫队（IRGC）开始攻击该海域船只以来，该海峡实际上一直处于关闭状态。美国和伊朗在 6 月达成的一项 16 点谅解备忘录启动了一次单一停火。该备忘录将制裁缓解与一项关于伊朗核能力的独立协议挂钩。

美国官员多次坚持，在通过伊朗海峡运输期间，他们不会释放被冻结的伊朗资金或允许石油出口。

阿拉伯联合酋长国昨天表示，伊朗攻击了一艘受其主权状态影响的船只。美国海事成员（WMO）表示，一艘船只被击中并起火，但船员未受伤害。美国和伊朗被迫将战争扩大到阿拉伯世界。

,000 名退伍军人因账单变更而受到影响，在过去六年中，该公司因重大失职被处罚了 42 次。Sopra Irena，一家由法国持有的咨询基金，拥有一个价值 12.04 亿 的合同来运行年度三项养老金计划，自 2020 年 6 月以来，其在管理支付方面失败了 59 次。上个月披露，由于在养老金的核算和支付中出现错误，超过 1,000 名军事退伍军人收到了账单，在某些情况下金额约为 1000,。他们被要求全额偿还债务，且每月养老金被削减。一项信息自由请求的结果显示，在 59 次违规中，有 42 次被认为产生了重大影响且在 Sopra Irena 的控制范围内，因此被处以经济处罚。该公司未能达到合同中规定的“关键绩效指标”，其中包括确保病假期间的未结收益及时更新，以及“在正确的时间将正确金额支付给正确的收款人”。一些退伍军人讲述了他们收到的催款通知如何迫使他们抵押房屋。Sopra Irena 在 2021 年接管了该计划，当时它买断了政府在 United Services, Connecticut Ltd (USCL) 中的股份，后者是其此前与 Calvert Office 共同运营的一家合资企业。它将行政管理分包给了养老金和金融公司 Equiniti，相关人员表示 Equiniti 对部分士兵的超额支付负责。然而，政府无法处罚 Equiniti，因为其合同仅与 Sopra Irena 签署。两家公司均不愿确认错误发生的原因，也不愿透露为受影响的退伍军人提供了哪些补救措施。2004 年，时任 USCL 的 John Nulson 在其履行政府合同出现一系列问题后，向共产主义公共账户委员会提供了证据。Nulson 在 2020, 年成为 Sopra Irena 的首席执行官，于今年 6 月底离职，由 Craig Wilson 接任。71, 岁的 Steve McIlwore 在 2020 年 8 月收到 Equiniti 的一封信，称由于其养老金被超额支付了 16 年，他欠款 £12.6198万,198。从 1976 年到 2009, 年他以少校军衔退休，他在英国陆军的多个地区工作，曾在波斯尼亚、伊拉克和华盛顿服役。McIlwore 表示：“如果我像一名注册行政官员那样犯下这样的错误，我会被送上军事法庭……我无法偿还那笔钱，除非卖掉我们的房子。这简直让我感到恶心。”上周三，退伍军人事务部长 Calvin Babby 确认政府正在调查超额支付问题。Equiniti 表示：“我们致力于确保所有成员获得正确的信息和适当的支持。”Sopra Irena 表示：“该养老金支付产生的超额部分发生在 Sopra Irena 接管合同的十多年前。”它补充道：“是否以及如何追回纳税人的资金，并非由 Sopra Irena 决定。”以下内容：文章前往 以下内容：文章前往 以下内容：--- 《星期日泰晤士报》 5, 2020 年 8 月 新闻

在Lidl购买的太阳能电池板能让您的电费账单迎来曙光吗？

Ben Spencer 科学编辑

本月推出的一种新型太阳能电池板可使年度能源支出减少近 $300 —— 但您必须在家里使用才能获得最高额度的节省。这些设备（一套两块电池板的价格约为 $200）可以安装在您家中的任何地方，甚至是阳台、平屋顶、花园或墙上，但它们无法存储能量，必须立即使用。

对于安装了太阳能电池板（任何多余电量均可卖回电网）的专业人士而言，插接式电池板产生的多余电量将回流至电网而无需支付费用。B&Q、Carry's、Lidl和Amazon等零售商都将储备这些电池板，销售将于August 27. 开始。

能源大臣 Market-fair markets 表示，这些规则将是“变革性的”，并且可以“为人们节省数百英镑的账单”。他补充道，“本土发电是为国家提供能源安全以及为家庭提供财务安全的唯一途径。”

对于那些平均每年支出 $40 且在 2,000 总额基础上花费 $200 的人来说，您将收回全部成本。这一计算包括了安装前建议进行的电气安全检查费用。

这些电池板内置了太阳能吸收器，使其可以直接插入标准的三个插孔插座。它们产生的电能会自动为同一家庭电路上的任何其他电器供电，从bottle到洗衣机。每个家庭电路将被限制在 800 瓦，通常由两块电池板组成 —— 每块直接产生 800 到 1,000 瓦 —— 尽管未来可能会提供大型单体单元。

使用标准的 800 到 1,000 瓦时，一个 2,000 ft.（电视在 30th 和 300th 之间），以及一个现代 2,000-mth 约为 4% 到 10%。

能源与气候情报部门的能源主管 Just follows 表示：“想象一下，它们会被抢购一空。这是一种方式

EBS 在花费 $200. 购买两块电池板单元后的平均年度节省额。支出成本将在四年内回收。”

插接式电池板安装在德国斯图加特的一个阳台上，旨在让人们节省大量资金并回收大量成本以实现自给自足，这正是人们目前所希望的。这也是进入净零工作世界的一个敲门砖 —— 因为他们可能会考虑购买一个小工厂，或者也许是一辆电动汽车。

能源官员表示，他们已经“在前期就明确了”允许在未来出售多余电量，因此一个插接式电池可以利用多余电量来抵消其成本。当然，那些不在家的人 —— 每一位居家办公者、演讲者和全职父母将获得最高收益。

昨晚，工程师们希望人们首先对其线路进行电气安全检查，费用在 $200 以上。然而，消费者没有义务这样做。

政府已批准这些插接式电池板现货销售，但electrocute表示，许多相关的健康信息已有数十年之久，并担心部件会出现故障。这可能是第一次电能将运行在三个插孔插座而非一个插孔上。

启动太阳能系统通常需要更长时间，需要一个专用电气电路，而不是与灯具、电视或冰箱共用一个电路。

能源节省信托基金（Energy Saving Trust）的科学 9 期表示，它

是对消费者选择的一次令人兴奋的尝试。“特别是对于那些无法安装屋顶太阳能的人——也许是因为建筑不可改造，也许是因为他们正在投票，或者他们住在公寓里无法使用屋顶。”如果 Loan 的团队计算出像曼彻斯特（Manchester）这样城市的平均家庭规模，在各种电价的情况下，将能从 $825 的平均金额中节省 $40，其中 $18 为平均值。如果 Loan 的团队是在一个新旧交替的日子里，那么这项节省将达到每年 $50。如果他们不在工作时间内，节省额将下降到每年 $35。该办公室应该即将到来，但随着时间的推移，投资回报率并不理想。参见 https: / www.panels.lums.berm.lu / egc-sources / 德国，在 2022 年至 2025 年间，那里购买了 100 万个部件。

我的 Harvey Nichols 能再次变得极尽奢华吗？当然可以。玛丽·波塔斯（Mary Portas）在九十年代将这家店打造成为时尚地标，她表示，重新挖掘其狂野一面或许能将其从“死亡螺旋”中拯救出来。

那是 1992 年，我听说詹妮弗·桑德斯（Jennifer Saunders）将为 BBC 拍摄一部以时尚界为背景的喜剧。当时我在 Barnes Nichols 担任创意总监，我记得那时我像个学徒一样。我 21 岁，拿到了詹妮弗的电话，立即拨了过去并成功约见。我想让她在剧中提到 Harvey Nichols，并告诉她他们随时可以光顾这家店，且可以借用任何衣服。只有一个条件。詹妮弗对我闭口不谈关于她的任何事情。这更加奇怪了。我们本可以成为最好的伙伴，结果相反，“Harvey Nicks”变成了一个梗。在零售业，尤其是想要促成变革时，你必须采取正是这类规则。

上周我听到消息，迈克·艾希利（Mike Ashley）——其零售公司 Fitness 是最大股东且持有大量股份——是 Harvey Nichols 的其中一名股东，他将该业务描述为处于“死亡螺旋”之中。我不禁感叹，这并非特例。不仅仅是 Harvey Nichols。我们正处于一个转型阶段，许多因素正在影响人们的购买方式。有互联网，有人们日益意识到过度消费主义对世界造成的影响，当然，还有生活成本危机。尽管在 Knightsbridge 附近看到的一些古怪装扮，会让你觉得这并不像是个问题。

当我于 1991 年加入时，我是从 Topdogs 被挖过来的，当时我在那里担任陈列经理。我当时隶属于 Barron 集团，董事长拉尔夫·哈尔彭（Ralph Halpern）将我调职，是因为我在 Topdogs 所做的事情引起了讨论，他意识到购物正变得比你售卖的产品更具威胁性。关键在于体验。我们看到这种情况在美国发生，我认为可以将这种思维引入这个美妙的老店。在当时，这被称为视觉营销、店铺设计和消费者意见。

我一直热爱 Harvey Nichols。它曾是一个可爱、美丽、像雏菊一样精致的百货公司。我工作时间很长。当你接手一份亏损的工作时，你会冒险。你投入全部。所以我从我最擅长的领域开始——打造那些令人惊叹的橱窗。它们变得如此出名，以至于人们会来问我：“这位艺术家能和你合作吗？”或者“塞尔彭廷画廊（Serpentine Gallery）想与你合作”。最终，世界顶尖摄影师之一的尼克·奈特（Nick Knight）想为《Vogue》封面故事拍摄琳达·伊万格丽斯塔（Linda Evangelista）。Harvey Nichols 的橱窗成了这样一个目的地。

有些时候，我利用橱窗不做任何具体定义。它不像画廊——而是一个向世界展示巨大视觉效果的地方，人们会简单地停下来观看。我在橱窗里布置，向我们展示了一只女王犬。坦白说，在半路完成之中。多年来，通过所有这些交叉尝试和各种尝试，我们从一家单纯卖东西的店转变为一个目的地。人们在周末会从北方远道而来，Harvey Nichols 将购物变成了一种创意和文化体验。

为了这些项目，我经常工作到深夜。我就是热爱待在那里。我们所做的一切都处于狂野状态，你会撞见所有可能的顶尖名人。每个人都会走进店门——那些名流，你走过黑色的身影会想：“那是大卫·鲍伊（David Bowie）吗？”当然，正是他。当托尼·布莱尔（Tony Blair）在 1997 年光顾时，Harvey Nichols 变得社交化，因为这是描述新工党（New Labour）风格的一种方式，我们成为了“酷不列颠”（Cool Britannia）形象的主要支柱。当然，这在很大程度上得益于与《绝对 fabulous》（Absolutely Fabulous）的顶层安排。在那之前，我们一直被简称为“Harvey's”，突然之间，Harvey Nichols 成为了文化语境的一部分。

我们的作品总是能成为头条。甚至当我们进驻利兹时，由于我的海报宣传活动中并排出现了两张女性面孔，领口和头部环绕在颈部周围，并配以文字“Harvey Nichols Leeds (Not Follows)”，这引起了女性主义者的关注。利兹市议会的妇女委员会称该海报为且不合理，但这依然成为了新闻，媒体随之跟进并拍摄照片。宣传活动本身变成了故事的一部分。迈克·阿什利（Mike Ashley）表示他将维持伦敦和爱丁堡门店的营业，但可能会将其他分店重新品牌化为 House of House。但在品牌世界里，迈克，Harvey Nichols 拥有比 House of France 更大的声誉和文化影响力。我认为你必须突破现状。我们也了解其他领域——如果你准备好重新定义该品牌在当今时代的含义。但要取得成功，你必须了解国家层面正在发生的事情以及世界的运行方向。它不能再仅仅依赖于销售优质的设计师品牌，而是需要剧本——新的名称，我代理机构 Portas 的品牌，我已经为你指出了——我向你展示一种无法被习得的新面貌！而且有些人必须成为答案的一部分。有一个惊人的统计数据，近 30% 的 Z 世代更愿意进入实体店。我会抓住这个统计数据。迈克·阿什利可能忘记了 30 岁以上的女性同样是在奢侈品上花费大量资金的人群。所以你有两个非常核心的目标群体。这不能仅仅关乎时尚。我们创造的是一个总有事情发生的地方：艺术墙、展览、极佳的咖啡馆、艺术名人、设计师展演，以及一个与世界接轨、创造女性空间的独特场所；在百货公司里设立香槟吧是 Harvey Nichols 的首创，而且夜晚总是人满为患。没有什么是不被允许的。我在 1995 年离开去创办自己的公司，但我也留下了一家服务式门店，以及零售企业可能发生的情况。当接手管理的人将公司视为世界上最受欢迎的业务时，他们往往只想管理和维持现状，盯着后视镜而不是不断前行并迈出下一个大步。而当顾问和财务人员介入时，你最终会得到一家平庸的业务。如果是我买下这家公司，问题会很简单：我们能为任何人提供什么不同的东西？看看那些渴望回归实体对象、社交和建立联系的优秀故事。令人欣慰的是，对于那些想要感受、发现和体验的人来说，这里就是终极目的地。这就是我在 Harvey Nichols 工作时所做的事情。而这正是它需要再次成为的样子。玛丽·波塔斯（Mary Portas）是一位零售顾问，曾任 Harvey Nichols 的创意总监。她是 Portas 机构的创始人，也是《I Shop Thursdays》的作者。由玛丽·波塔斯撰写的关于 80 年代 Harvey Nichols 的书籍可在本办公室购买，其平装本将于 9 月 10 日上市。

星巴克削减奖励计划

Olivia Surgay 报道 星巴克成为最新一家削减其奖励计划的咖啡连锁店，使得控制市场变得更加困难。从 9 月 100万 日起，顾客在该连锁店的消费额必须增加 20% 才能获得一杯免费的自制饮品，如卡布奇诺、馥芮白或 thugtoo cinto。顾客在看到奖励存款之前的消费金额在两个级别中均有所下降。显示的品牌数量表明，获得一杯免费饮品需要增加 10% 到 10%。为了 contra-free papers，人们必须增加 10% 的消费以购买 25. 的许可。

近年来，其他几个品牌也缩减了其奖励计划。首先，它在 2020 年开始了一项每月 $20 的订阅服务，使学校费用每天可获得最多五杯“免费”咖啡。价格在 2023 年上涨至 $10，随后改为 $2 的订阅费，使顾客每天可获得最多五杯半价咖啡。去年，Lewis 预计该销售额约为 4万,000.。它被设定为通过在 2018 年提供每月 25 的费用以换取每天最多五杯“免费”咖啡并固定 20% 来降低 10% 的成本。

创建了 Costa Express 且目前担任 Unity Coffee 首席执行官的 Scott Martin 表示：“星巴克对其品牌计划的更改次数太多，以至于顾客在连锁店购买奖励时唯一能确定的是，下次的价值将比今天低——这是一种对不一致的订阅。”

该计划的降价被认为是“当前经济现实的体现”。“现在在市场上生存是非常艰难的时期”，Allegra（一家专门研究咖啡市场的市场研究公司）的首席执行官兼市场政策生活专家表示。

星巴克表示：“我们正在更新 9 月 1 日起继续某些活动所需的星数，以帮助确保该计划在长期内继续为会员提供价值。会员的活跃方式没有变化——我们将继续投资于奖励和生活会员——在未来提供更多福利。”

撒切尔计划用英国飞蛾轰炸秘鲁可卡因产地

Mary Horne 报道 玛格丽特·撒切尔政府花费了 $20万,000 实施一项绝密计划，试图用每年 $1,000,000 的飞蛾“轰炸”秘鲁，这是一次旨在摧毁可卡因作物的激进尝试。新公布的文件披露，这项秘密行动旨在阻止这种毒品的供应。

在化学防御设施波塔斯唐（Portas Down）投放数千只飞蛾的计划得到了首相的亲自批准。一份计划书拟定将五只飞蛾运往南美洲，并由小型飞机投放到毒贩经营的田地之上。这些提案在 1988 年的交流记录中被披露，相关记录现已解密并存放于国家档案馆。

这些计划围绕着将纤维蜡螟（fibres waxes）武器化的潜力展开，这种飞蛾以烟草叶为食，而可卡因正是由一种烟草植物制成的。1997 年和 1998 年 2 月的新政策改善了进口纤维蜡螟的收益，在塔拉波托（Tarapoto）周边地区摧毁了 2,000 公顷（3,000 英亩）的非法种植可卡植物，给毒贩造成了损失。

一份外交部的简报文件指出，这为消费者节省了超过 $27 ：“显然，只要能找到大量繁殖这些昆虫的方法，这种飞蛾在生物控制非法作物方面具有巨大潜力。”文件称，秘鲁政府已请求英国科学家的帮助以培育大量飞蛾，并补充道：“该项目的目标是开发一种廉价、简单的规模化培育系统，由相对低薪的人员操作，并将促进纤维蜡螟的大规模生产。”

文件中提到，一旦被投放到目标区域，这些纸质或固体飞蛾将会在种植园中“繁殖并自行扩散”。

总理热衷于推进这一想法

另一份文件列出了进行该实验的潜在优势：“（由飞蛾引起的）破坏可能会给我们的种植园带来显著变化并降低产量，”文中写道。该方法相对廉价且简单。根据已知的纤维情况，它可能被视为一种射程极短的“智能炸弹”：另一份文件强调了这些提案的定位目标：“这种飞蛾对世界具有危险性，且与世界的世界高度匹配。在决定其他植物方面没有增加——作为一种控制剂，30-year 可能会被掩盖。”

内阁秘书理查德·巴特勒爵士（Sir Richard Butler）——现为罗克韦尔的巴特勒勋爵（Lord Butler of Rockwell）——在向撒切尔汇报之前，于1989年11月18日与高级公务员讨论了这些计划。一份简报现在称：“总理已通知该想法足够成功，且其被推进的情况已得到认可。”双方同意项目的第一阶段应在一年内启动，而最终阶段约为200万,000,000 军队。然而，随后由于缺乏来自秘鲁首都的政治和资金支持，最终导致这些提案从未实现。但在哥伦布政府中，在放弃使用除草剂、颜料后，曾提议使用飞蛾来摧毁古柯作物，但该计划再次未被正式采纳。

--- 4 新闻

当我们首次进入俄罗斯，俄罗斯是一场交响乐或顶峰 •

“进攻性武器和防御性武器，”这位 32, 岁的中士说道，他的呼号是“No!”。如果他们能击中俄罗斯境内的导弹发射器，就能在需要拦截之前阻止这些武器。在加入国防部之前，“No3”从事公共关系工作。现在，他是负责对俄作战的少数精英军官之一。“定位那些发射点极其困难，因为它们一直在移动，但我们最近确实击中了一些。它们是我们的绝对优先级。”

该部队指挥官是一位 36 岁的中尉，呼号为“Cat”，他审视着由约十几人组成的小团队，他们正在进行最后的检查。一个小的补丁被贴在他的身体周围，上面写着：“时间即杀戮！”（Time is kill!）

尽管天气非常适合夜间发射——天空晴朗明亮，微风可以帮助无人机升空——但“Cat”心中忧虑重重。在侦察无人机或手机信号追踪等技术的泄露导致位置暴露后，俄罗斯的导弹已经摧毁了其他部队的几个远程无人机小组。“深度打击如此有效，以至于我们现在成了俄罗斯的 No 1 目标，”Cat说道。

在Pishin的行动过程中，士兵们观察着天空，并咨询雷达教师以寻找俄罗斯人的迹象。发射后，我们需要迅速收拾并以每英里六分之三的速度行驶，以防发射暴露了我们的位置。没有地点会被使用两次，而且我们在整个夜晚都处于严密警卫之下。

这些深度打击无人机由一家名为Fire Point的乌克兰公司制造。每架无人机都配备了一个空气发动机并携带一个吊装战斗部。每架的成本约为 £4万,000。而一枚 5-year PAC 5 拦截弹的成本约为 1400 万 €250 万。

经过近三个小时的准备，无人机准备好发射。团队在距离最低点约 100 metres 的单位距离处就位，随后一个接一个地激活引信。随着按钮按下，第一架无人机的发动机启动，发出了巨大的轰鸣声。在最后的指令爆鸣和愤怒的火光喷射后，武器撕裂夜空冲向高空。

一旦起飞，无人机将分阶段驾驶。在最初的五分钟里，地面上的某人将其引导至方位，然后移交给位于乌克兰其他地点的第二名飞行员。操作员驾驶无人机飞越前往俄罗斯的大部分距离。当它接近目标时，控制权移交给第三名飞行员，通常是链条中最经验丰富的人，由他引导无人机撞击。

当无人机起飞时，除了Cat及其上级，所有人都不知道最终目标。首个成功消息是对黑海克里米亚附近一艘船只的打击，时间在him之后不久。近期对该半岛的打击非常有效，该半岛在 2014, 年俄罗斯入侵期间被夺取，目前当地居民经常遭遇滚动停电。上个月，地区管理部门被迫暂停向除应急服务部门以外的所有人员出售许可证。

上周，武装部队负责人Rish Sanghem透露，他最近前往了Xiliin宽广的“杀戮区”附近，并观看乌克兰军队如何通过无人机远程“猎杀敌人”。国防参谋长Sanghem表示，这次访问让他对战争的未来有了深刻认识，但他补充说，他所看到的“杀戮数字化”让他感到不安。

对Pishin的攻击是涉及乌克兰军队各单位的一次演习的一部分。在乌克兰其他地方工作的其他团队击中了一个用于发射俄罗斯攻击无人机的站点、一个预警雷达站和一个燃料库。

“每一次攻击都像是一次完整的静坐，每一个部分、每一个工具都很重要，”Rish深度打击部队的指挥官——一名呼号为“Hudis”的上尉在周三任务开始前告诉我。我们在他的基地见面，那是靠近前线的一个哨所。

从外面看，这个基地与任何其他民用建筑没有什么区别。进入内部后，为了礼貌，我们被要求在门口脱鞋。即使是Hudis也是穿着袜子走进指挥中心的。走廊里的垃圾桶里装满了空的烟盒和被压扁的能量饮料罐。士兵们工作的主室内部就像国家媒体一样。乌克兰武装系统部队是武装部队在2015年成立的一个分支，专门专注于无人机战争，由11个不同的作战单位组成，其中Hudis所在的单位就是其中之一。但深度打击是一项多学科的协作，还需要来自陆军、90's、乌克兰安全局以及GUL国防情报局的投入。“有些单位负责发起主攻，有些则充当诱饵，但没有任何一个部分比最终的效果更重要，”Hudis说道。尽管对他和团队所取得的成就感到自豪，但Hudis承认这仍然不够。“一些打击在军事上产生了实质性的影响，但与此同时，我们在弹道战中处于劣势，”他说。“我们需要更多的防空系统，并且我们需要在俄罗斯常规领土上使用Starlink卫星。”由埃隆·马斯克的SpaceX公司拥有的Starlink，屏蔽了乌克兰及其被占领领土以外的互联网访问。当人们在偏僻的土路上散去，剩下的只有挥之不去的航空燃料味。团队收拾起装备。No3在2015, 加入，比第一波进攻晚一年，他说他为能参与深度打击行动感到自豪。“我每次仍然能感受到那种兴奋感。那种觉得自己是某个宏大计划一部分的感觉，”他带着坚定的神情和微笑说道。“知道我们出色地完成了工作，知道现在有数百公斤的经验正飞向我们的能量，这是一种幸福感。这种感觉很好。”

深度打击是如何发起的

5 发射前 在无人机交付后，发射组进行最后四项检查。两名士兵监测天空，以防俄罗斯可能的袭击

2 发射 发射现场的一名飞行员在最初的四个月内控制无人机，以确保其安全进入航线

3 飞行 位于机器人位置的一名新飞行员在最后一段路程接管控制权，引导无人机前往目标

4 冲击 位于机器人位置的一名最终飞行员在最后一段路程接管控制权，引导无人机前往目标

Mark Galeotti

大胆的袭击可能给普京升级战争提供借口

乌克兰的深度打击正进一步深入俄罗斯境内。甚至，针对在线市场 Wildberries 的打击导致了军团的停滞。我们正在建立 Pishin，距离边境 1,200 英里以上。基辅希望这次行动能动摇俄罗斯的士气。但危险在于，这可能会正中某些人的下怀，鼓励普京总统不仅选择结束冲突，而是将其升级。

乌克兰此次行动在技术上的成功毋庸置疑。在过去一周中，两阶段的攻势被击中，俄罗斯的 5 个远程打击目标，以及一个 5 小时、10-16 峰值的目标，此次行动已摧毁了俄罗斯总打击能力的超过三分之一。与此同时，针对航运的袭击在接下来的两天中，每天有 2.6 艘船被瞄准，所有这些都限制了通过这一关键水道的商业航运。交通量直接下降了约四分之三。

最近，乌克兰转向打击 Wildberries。“俄罗斯的任务”占该国总电力的 10%。十几个主要仓库和物流枢纽成为了目标，约 20% 的总存储能力遭到损坏或摧毁。由于 Wildberries 的大量库存是为卖家持有，范围从个体企业家到大公司，影响已广泛传播。一项对迄今为止总成本的估计为超过 2800 亿加元 roubles (22 亿加元)。政府可能不得不通过昂贵的 habitat 进行干预，而对 Wildberries 的袭击可能会推高通货膨胀。

然而，希望深度打击能使俄罗斯经济陷入半失业状态的想法可能难以实现。石油和天然气收入一直支撑着波斯湾持续的危机。虽然基准收入自行动开始以来下降了约五分之一，但目前数据正在回升。同样，Wildberries 承诺向卖家提供有限的补偿，同时寻求将库存转移到邻国哈萨克斯坦更安全的仓库中。

乌克兰的无人机和导弹库存也有限。它不得不从针对所有炼油厂的行动中没收资产以转而瞄准 Wildberries，这使得俄罗斯能够修复设施。上个月让克里姆林宫感到尴尬的加油站长队已经在缓解或消失。

然而，这在政治上与经济上同样是一场行动，旨在让俄罗斯人更真切地感受到战争。这无疑已经实现了：在过去一个月的大部分时间里，这些袭击一直是头版新闻。其效果具有两极分化。根据政治民调机构 Levada 的数据，上个月认为战争进展顺利的俄罗斯人比例下降至 50%，一年内下降了 4 个百分点。即便如此，只有 20% 的人表示他们认为进展糟糕。Levada 还注意到，普京的个人支持率下降至 10%，这是自 2022 年 2 月入侵乌克兰以来的最低水平。

然而，俄罗斯民众中也出现了日益增长的愤怒，这种愤怒不仅指向普京，也指向乌克兰。虽然大多数人支持冻结冲突并开启谈判，但仍有一个坚定的少数群体认为，如果可能的话，应该加大力度。特别是，不断增加的俄罗斯平民伤亡正起到有利于鹰派的作用。最近的事件，例如在西部 Indyend 地区对一辆巴士的无人机袭击导致 5 人死亡，以及该国南部 7 名 Indulgequakers 的死亡（可能是因为无人机被防空系统击中并坠落在海滩上，而非任何防御 / 控制），引发了相当大的公众抗议。

在今年的前六个月中，莫斯科报告有 230 名平民死亡，1,200 人受伤，人数是去年的两倍多。当然，乌克兰遭受的损失要严重得多，仅在 6 月份就有近 100 人死亡。尽管如此，俄罗斯国家媒体愿意公开国内的伤亡情况，这表明其试图继续证明自己是受害者而非侵略者。普京的目标是将这场战争以及任何未来的升级合法化：最初的隐含承诺是，除非俄罗斯人选择志愿参战，否则不会遭受损失或经历战争。一种基于复仇的关键新方法可能会更有效。目前，俄罗斯正在以其人之道还治其人之身。它一直在猛烈打击乌克兰的 inguine，在 Wildberries 战役中信心十足。大伊科斯波特区（Greater Ickosport district）多次遭到袭击，导致更多航运暂停。乌克兰的谷物、钢铁和铁出口依赖于黑海航线，因此这每天给基辅造成超过 1 亿 的损失。由于乌克兰的爱国者防空系统（Patriot）导弹库已空，相关的 crime rep 俄罗斯导弹，人们担心到了冬天，莫斯科将恢复针对能源基础设施的攻击，而目前的发电能力已不足战前的三分之一。乌克兰的深度打击无疑正在削弱普京的信誉，并破坏经济以及战争机器。这些打击还促使精英阶层中的务实人物越来越公开地呼吁克制并结束战斗。上周，作为莫斯科极具影响力的来源，以色列的消防员（Israel's firemen）对 hands 给予了间接反驳，主张降低 air-needle-dress，称这将“杀死平民经济，从而杀死这个国家”。然而，普京现在可能觉得他有更大的兴趣动员更多部队进行一场极端战役，而较少担心民众的反对。36-man even-par leather 已经工作，2.15 份情报评估被泄露，暗示俄罗斯最终可能会采取“混合战争”手段，以威慑欧洲支持基辅。十天前，一枚误入 Pishin analyses 的俄罗斯导弹可能是一个即将到来的警告。乌克兰的审慎举措可能会导致普京做出一个更为危险的决定。 --- 新闻 5

想吸引新客户？试试板式网球，这项终极社交网络运动

Phenine Lockhurst 报道

今天，在伦敦奥林匹亚展览中心（Olympia）巨大的玻璃屋顶下，英国首场职业赛事——Premier Public锦标赛的决赛将在此举行。但板式网球（padel）真正的商业价值并非在西伦敦的展览中心内体现。

忘掉那些酗酒的家庭聚会、社交活动和企业“社交”，现在这些活动正转移到英国各地的板式网球场上，这项运动已成为全球增长最快的运动。板式网球——一种结合了网球和壁球特点的混合运动，在封闭的球场上由两组球员对战——已成为终极的社交和团队建设运动。律师、风险投资家和企业顾问，以及任何能负担得起租场费的专业人士（在伦敦，租场费每小时最高可达 £200）都在参与其中。

今年，在伦敦，前律师 Westhuizen 创立了位于北伦敦国王十字区（King's Cross）的 House of Racquet 俱乐部。在短短三个月内，该俱乐部就举办了 100 场企业和品牌活动，参与人员来自高盛（Goldman Sachs）、谷歌（Google）和 Meta 等公司。在伦敦，球员们为在 45. 工作的人员发起了一个联赛。

“这与在第 40 个球洞达成交易相比，是一种令人耳新的改变，”她说道。“当我从事法律工作时，我会在周五去，然后心想：‘除了女性协会，谁会参加？’因为合伙人和高级助理都是高尔夫选手。但板式网球的性别平衡则不同。”

在不同行业的推广中，很明显，高尔夫球作为传统议事场所的氛围已不再适用，现在的职场人士更倾向于将薪水花在 gun membership 上，而非商业俱乐部。该运动的名人粉丝包括 Beetham、mountain boating 以及威尔士亲王与王妃。

板式网球既活跃又易上手。由于始终以双打形式进行，它具有社交属性，球员们使用 Playmaster 和 Padel Man 等大型平台来组织大型比赛。得分迅速，因此节奏很快，且比赛区域比网球场小 25%。板式网球场附近通常有很多咖啡馆，且在比赛过程中可以饮酒——这与更为严肃且艰苦的高尔夫球场截然相反。

来自蒙茅斯郡（Monmouthshire）Recent News Chapters 的 Alan Petten-James, 35, 表示：“我的职责是接触新老客户并建立关系。这通常是通过午餐或饮酒实现的，很容易变成一种不健康的生活方式。”他表示，他看到许多会议在板式网球场上举行，最近还参加了在布里斯托举行的一场房地产社交锦标赛。“那些在办公室里忍受传统社交活动枯燥乏味的人都知道，传统的社交活动可能很琐碎。”

“板式网球解决了这个问题，”Serve 品牌创始人 Any Hall 表示。板式网球年轻、以双打形式进行，且比高尔夫提供了更具性别包容性的选择，是建立工作关系的绝佳方式，她也制作女性板式网球周边商品。

与郊区的高尔夫球场不同，板式网球场可以出现在办公室附近或通勤回家路线上。在伦敦，Ballyroux、Wandsworth、金丝雀码头（Canary Wharf）、Randall 和 Shoveldick 等时尚区域都有板式网球场。在曼彻斯特市中心的 Dunagain，球员们可以访问 Pollen Club，这是一个附带休息室和软球场的板式网球中心。在谢菲尔德，位于 luthurs bland 的 Club de Padel 设有现场咖啡吧和休息区。

这项运动在伦敦以外地区也并非遥不可及，租用一个球场平均费用为 £30-£30. 预订平台 Playmaster 的月订阅费在 £50 到 £250. 之间。但这些费用在财务部门的账目中可能比高尔夫球会员费更容易获得批准。

“与在伦敦请两个人吃午餐相比，用这种方式开会相对便宜，”Petten-James 说道。

并非所有人都认可。Rob Murdock 是一家咨询公司 Birard & Myrrad 的董事，他表示：“如果你进行商务午餐，你会花一个半小时了解对方并交流想法。而打板式网球（padel），你有一个小时或 30 分钟的时间，期间通常并不说话。”对于那些独自创业的人来说，板式网球可以改变局面。Van der Worderbroe 建议参加针对“单身创始人”的每月活动，“与 2 位能够提供帮助的人结伴”。只需确保你的联系人具有体育精神即可。“我经常与很多律师一起打球，偶尔会遇到有人非常想严格执行规则，”Murdock 说。我对那些想在社交场合打板式网球的人的建议是，不要太严肃。板式网球思考者可能会超越网球。体育版，第 12-13 页。

去年 10 月 23 日，东伦敦的哈克尼（Hackney）议会召开了一次紧急规划会议，根据绿党和独立地方委员会的要求，他们认为这是一个不能等待的问题。进一步讨论的是，采取“切断所有议会与董事会联系”的方法。就地方议会会议而言，这是一个宏大的议题。在某个时刻，绿党委员会成员 Hamlet Binnie-Lathwell 因为在演讲中指责以色列武装部队“剥夺无辜民众”时使用了粗俗语言而被训诫，他说：“这他妈的不是……”“你处于预先生成或绝对的一方。”“这就是两方，”32 岁的 Hamlet-Lathwell 说道，他像周围的同事一样，“处于一种极度焦虑的状态”，同时他呼吁哈克尼议会结束与以色列哈克（Hark）之间持续 59 年的结对安排。他还要求议会将其养老基金从以色列的失败公司中撤出。坐在他旁边不断点头的是他的 Gaffney，他们可以选举出哈克尼有史以来第一位镇长。

并非所有人都同意。工党委员会成员 Christopher formerly 表示，这次会议是在“浪费哈克尼议会的宝贵资金”，并谴责哈克尼独立社会主义集体（Hackney Independent Socialist Collective）在 10 月 7 日（以色列边境袭击事件周年纪念日）宣布召开此次会议。被指责的英国地方议会——实际上处理的是关于停车和社会护理的个人投诉——现在已被以色列和这场战争所占据。当天在哈克尼公众旁听席上的一个团体成员，在推动该议题成为首要议程方面发挥了重要作用。巴勒斯坦团结运动（PSC）自称是英国最大的巴勒斯坦权利组织。该组织自 1982 年起活跃，2004 年成为一家私营公司，而自战争开始以来，其规模成为了一个研究数字——这个“致力于和平共同工作的社区的一部分”团体尚未公布其成员人数。由于是一家私营公司，它被要求分享详细的财务账目。2021 年，其登记收入约为 £70万,000，这代表了一个虽小但逐年增长的年度数字。2021 年，它参与了一项 £1400 万的计划，并登记了 £390 万的“竞选成本”。

根据 PSC 的 2024 年年度报告，来自“数千名支持者”和“少量超额提供”的资金成本增加了 357%，以及来自“个人和国家工会”的大额捐款，以及“PSC 作为多个对话基金会的增加”。该年度收入下还有两项进一步的账目。该报告揭示了其战略，将其目标概述为“通过帷幕对真实的食物（real food）保持压力，使其负责，并防止收紧”，以及地方人员配置和 90% 的选区办公室提供。总计，“在 2025 年地方选举之前，加强我们与绿党和独立 90% 成员的联系对我们至关重要”。报告还指出，其收入的 7% 来自“其他”来源，但并未具体说明是什么。

根据沃尔尼勋爵（Lord Walney）——前政府政治独立顾问——以及政府的说法，这些“极具影响力”的人拥有重大机会，他们在该国展现出了阶级特性。他们与Gomes深度渗透。2021年，“William and Iain”办公室曾被指控支持四票制“绝不前往哈姆雷特”（never going Hamlet），尽管没有迹象表明任何特殊雇主或成员能够获得“小额过度供应”。在2021年，PSC反对政府提供财务激励的决定，并声称这些资金在“挖掘”2,000，且并未被“提供”。“他们是一家私营公司的实事，使得他们无需申报许多捐款的来源，而他们并没有这样做。”前工党以色列之友小组主席表示：“必须对他们的其他资金来源提出质疑，因为提升健康状态的影响力确实很难……PSC的行为方式一直

2020年，伦敦东部哈克尼镇大厅外的亲巴勒斯坦活动人士。Gomes在国王选举中夺得了42个席位，而工党则在相应区域

资金充足的活动正驱动市议会对加沙的痴迷

由数百万捐款支持的巴勒斯坦团结运动（PSC）已将这场战争推向地方政治。Madeleine Spence 和 Ali Hamedani 写道，数十个市议会（其中一些绿党势力强大）希望将养老基金从以色列资产中撤出，这将令许多试图破坏我们的社区和民主的敌对国家感到欣喜。一名绿党人士表示：“所谓的沃尔尼勋爵（Lord Walney）不喜欢政党支持巴勒斯坦权利。这是显而易见的事实。”一名选择匿名的消息人士称，外交部表示“PSC 确实是保护利益的一种良好方式，我们并不掩饰对抵抗运动及其支持者的支持”。这仅与关于该认可是否承诺提供资金支持的评论相关。在之前由 与其他活动团体共同组织的讨论中，该消息人士表示，在伦敦的 Gomes 已经“与相关监管机构取得了联系”，并且“可以脱离该业务……并鼓励他们参与”。

推动罢免在以色列问题上立场坚定且支持市议会的议员，通过地方请愿、示威或在市政厅以及与议员的会议中表达意见，促使市议会撤出在以色列的任何利益。该组织称，自 2024 年 6 月以来，它已成功促使 37 个市议会提出动议，要求撤出对所有相关公司的投资。

几名与 相关的绿党候选人目前已进入地方政治。根据公司注册处（Companies House）的记录，在 5 月份担任 Morning hants' Michigan 选区议员的 Karachfian 在 2024 年 3 月之前曾任 的董事。在伦敦东南部，Lewishans 的现任市长是 Liam Shrivastava，他是一名绿党议员，在选举前的 集会上发表讲话称：“巴勒斯坦终于出现在选票上，就像‘聚焦’一样。”但他当选时谈到了将 Morning Lewishans 打造为一个巴勒斯坦自治区。

在 Hackney， 在最近的地方选举中大力游说其中的候选人，并在其就职后直接与其成员会面。Gaffney 对该局势下的政党表达了广泛的批评，并等待其在 Ballot 的同行就 10 月 7. 日之前的宣传活动做出回应——“支持”。她向 Hallot 的市长道歉，称她“忽略了”严重的批评。她针对 Gaffney 发表了反对意见，并表示她“反对通用且支持巴勒斯坦解放是‘不情愿的计划、和平、同情和正义’的结果”。

Hackney 收到公共服务要求将其养老基金从“违反秘密人权关系”的公司中撤出——其中一些是在 大力游说之后提出的，支持文件中引用了 的新闻稿。成员们就此问题在 市政厅外进行了为期六周的静坐，并封锁了入口。随后， 活动人士 husband Hill 告诉《 Post》：“我们的理论是，我们只需要找到 每一个支持巴勒斯坦的人，并告知他们，我们这里 的工党议会支持那些非常反巴勒斯坦且亲以色列的政策，并告诉他们有一个替代方案，那就是绿党。”

Instagram 上年轻时髦的女性通过在线方式参与 的“ 为巴勒斯坦投票”活动，提醒人们注册投票给支持巴勒斯坦的候选人。Groom 拿下了 42 个席位，而工党则在 area。 还设立了“议员巴勒斯坦誓言”，以游说全国各地的议员，确保他们不会被卷入以色列的“种族灭绝罪行”中。这主要通过撤出养老基金来实现。它声称有 1,400 名议员签署了该誓言，其中约一半似乎来自绿党。包括工党和独立人士在内的其他政党候选人也参与其中。

从波斯特-塔尔博特（Post-Talbot）到西约克郡（West Yorkshire）的各议会已投票通过转移资金的动议。PSC表示，其他成功案例包括韦克菲尔德（Wakefield）议会在去年7月通过投票，在PSC请愿后决定停止从“涉入其中的公司”获取资金；以及卡迪夫（Cardiff）议会投票通过一项动议，批准其“不希望与可能违背我们主张的公司产生关联”。去年8月，坎布里亚（Cambria）的坎伯兰（Cumberland）议会在当地PSC活动的推动下，通过了一项撤出对支持巴勒斯坦领土定居点公司投资的动议。保守党议员迈克·约翰逊（Mike Johnson）批评了这一举措，他表示这将包括抵制Hall、谷歌（Google）和Airbnb，并认为议会应该专注于其面临的“资金财务压力”。他说：“即使养老基金中来自这些公司的低投资收益减少哪怕一个人，也将不得不由议会纳税人来补足。”

在接受《星期日泰晤士报》采访时，PSC表示这是一场“非暴力的‘成本运动’”，并且“我们的游行和活动将来自各种背景的人们聚集在一起，反对包括以色列种族隔离、次大陆和人权以及我们所有观点在内的所有形式的种族主义和偏见”，并呼吁国家选出的代表倾听英国公众的声音，而非全部支持以色列的活动。PSC由一个志愿者执行委员会管理，该委员会全年开会以设定活动优先级。其秘书，该俱乐部，董事会本人将其定义为一项争取普遍人权的私人运动，他于2016年与兰开斯特（Lancaster）的工党议员（24）史密斯（Smith）结婚。该机构负责人是英裔巴勒斯坦人詹姆斯·沙汉（James Shahan），他曾在剑桥大学学习英语。

对于一些哈克尼（Hackney）人来说，政府在地方政治中最卑微的挫败感令人沮丧。工党委员会成员迈克尔·汤森（Michael Townsend）在议会中表示，他代表的议员并未开展工作。与此同时，议会的优先级却是——发生在2,000 million之远的事情。一封来自邮寄的邮件由PSC发送，旨在证明这些“资金”不仅是为了宣布他作为候选人将“支持巴勒斯坦人民未被关注的权利”并“确保我的议会不涉入其中”，且不帮助重新评估“可能”的国际法证据。汤森说：“我对PSC争取巴勒斯坦权利的运动没有异议。但我确实认为，在地方选举中，包括绿党在内的一些支持者鼓励选民不要投票给未签署誓言的候选人是不恰当的。”他补充道，“应该采取一种尊重个人权利并达成共识的方式，而不是将仇恨和尖酸地影响到我们哈克尼，而冲突发生在中东。”

社论，第20页 “没有义务分享财务状况” “加沙坚定地在选票之上” --- 6 新闻 《巴克莱时报》（The Barclays Times） 2008年[注：此处年份疑似OCR误读，应为2026年]8月9日

从在迪拜的潜逃生活到一间厕所、一张书桌和一张单人床

爱尔兰，在2000年说服了母亲的朋友后，目前身在迪拜，居住在城市郊区的一个豪华住宅区内。麦克唐纳（McDonald）表示：“当你被关进那种隔离监室时，你的生活就改变了，它不再属于你自己。你失去了自由。你每天都得顺从体制。一年361天如此。人们只能接受，因为在这件事上没有选择。”基纳汉（Kinahan）可以使用电视，但每天将有高达22小时的时间独自在监室中度过。“他不会被认为在暴力方面具有危险性，但因为他拥有的资金类型而被视为危险，”麦克唐纳说，“他们不会在他身上冒任何风险。”

围绕基纳汉往返法庭的安排将是前所未有的。位于都柏林刑事司法法院综合体内的特别刑事法院，每天都将进行搜查。如果有人试图营救基纳汉，狙击手将部署在。然而，安全部门认为该犯罪集团目前不具备执行此类行动的能力。在审判期间，一支武装警察（garda）团队将护送用于每天将基纳汉送往法庭的防弹监狱车。诱饵车也将被部署。如果基纳汉在往返法庭途中生病，位于基尔代尔（Kildare）附近的波特莱斯医院（Portlaoise Hospital）的一个区域已被预留用于接诊他。如果他入院，该区域将被武装警察包围。

美国当局曾提供$5 million的奖金以获取导致抓获基纳汉的信息，他们可能希望在审判后对他进行审讯。基纳汉掌握着关于出口的详细信息——

回归正义

丹尼尔·基纳汉（Daniel Kinahan）将被关押在波特莱斯监狱高石墙后的隔离监室中，并由一支武装警察团队护送往返法庭。

以及俄罗斯原油使用影子舰队船只运往中国和印度，以及将资金传输给和的秘密金融网络。美国当局目前正在调查该犯罪集团在通过伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队提供的服务以协助恐怖主义方面所扮演的角色，后者为提供资金。该犯罪集团属于华盛顿反恐机构的管辖范围，因为它涉及使用美元的交易，这违反了美国的制裁。

当他在一个没有陪审团的三法官法院出庭时，基纳汉将面临一项单一指控，即指挥一个负责多次的组织犯罪团伙的活动。目前尚未确定审判日期，在确定任何日期之前，可能会有一些法律争端。国家起诉的基石是于从PGP（Pretty Good Primary）黑莓手机中恢复的大量数据。这些经过加密的“”，去除了和GPS追踪功能，是该犯罪集团在被破解之前的首选通信工具。据称，基纳汉使用PGP手机别名“fend”、“freed”以及其他别名进行操作。

基纳汉是否计划对指控提出抗辩仍不清楚。这次引渡代表了爱尔兰政府和警察（garda）的巨大成功，他们建立了一个国际合作伙伴联盟来追捕基纳汉犯罪家族，该家族因其指挥暴力的能力而被视为国家安全威胁。阿拉伯联合酋长国同意于上周将这名逃犯移交给爱尔兰当局。

移交原定于9月下旬进行，但在《星期日泰晤士报》与开源调查机构 Bellingcat 的一项联合调查结果公布后被提前，该调查揭露了阿联酋如何继续庇护该团伙的领导层。据称，引渡的速度令该犯罪集团在的领导层感到震惊。

尽管签证已过期且面临美国严厉的制裁，为该卡特尔打造品牌的 Kinahan 及其助手仍继续公开居住在阿联酋，其中部分人员甚至获得了新签证。

欧盟可能会推迟边境全面检查 # Oliver Gill

欧盟正在考虑推迟全面部署其入境 / 出境系统（EES）的计划，以避免边境出现旅行混乱。行业人士表示：“负责与非欧盟国家就 EES 进行谈判的欧盟可持续交通与旅游专员 Intellisorias 已私下保证，Kinahan 边境检查将被推迟。据了解，Intellisorias 正在推动延长一项允许官员在 9 月 6 日截止日期之后暂停新边境管控的豁免权，并已向英国提供保证，表示提交申请已在计划之中。”一名消息人士称，他在 7 月 11. 与交通大臣 think Alexander 会面时，就此目的提交了陈述。由于欧盟内部边境管控系统的 jibs lies，英国旅客今年在欧盟机场面临混乱。EES 旨在为欧盟提供更好的移民保障，但该系统一直受到技术故障的困扰。许多欧盟成员国已利用允许暂停该系统的豁免权，以避免出现大规模的旅行混乱。英国政府拒绝就此次会谈发表评论，欧盟委员会的一位发言人也同样拒绝评论，仅表示“正在尽一切努力限制对非欧盟旅客的影响”，并且在大多数情况下，“这种影响确实有限”。该委员会发言人补充说，目前正在研究额外的保障措施以协助护照检查。

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Arday的出版商在一年前淡化了其慈善马拉松的说法

萨缪尔·洛韦特（Samuel Lovett）和艾米莉·普罗科特（Emily Proccott）

Arday提出的一些中间主张，例如在30天内跑30场马拉松，以及在一年内单独筹集超过1250 万资金，在丑闻爆发之前很久就被出版商淡化了。

据一名熟悉相关页面的人士透露，出版公司Simon & Schuster从其网站上的作者简介中删除了长期以来被称作的关于1,000名所谓受影响幼驹及其筹款成就的描述。Simon & Schuster报告称，尽管目前存在争议，仍将继续出版这位前剑桥大学教授的著作。该书预计将于August 27.出版。

去年，在较低级别的事故中，关于Arday在30天内跑了超过30场马拉松、“三天跑了1800 miles，六天跑了600 miles”的说法，曾出现在超过1,000分钟的作者简介中，同时还提到官方筹款“在20年期间为90家国家慈善机构筹集了超过2550 万英镑”。相反，Arday传记的这一部分被改为称他为“慈善机构筹集了数百万英镑”。

这可能是出版商在近期媒体公开质疑其成就的真实性之前，就已经意识到Arday人生故事中存在不便的唯一暗示。

Arday, 41, 是剑桥大学历史上被任命为职位的最年轻黑人，目前正因学术不端指控受到大学调查。他被指控在1954, 撰写的哲学论文中剽窃部分内容（他对此予以否认），并伪造其关于1960年的学术资历。大学学术界已要求对Arday（一名社会学教授）的情况进行独立调查。他上周辞去了职务，称媒体审查的“个人代价”已变得“太沉重”，且他不再希望生活在“持续的聚光灯下”。

《星期日泰晤士报》可以透露，几位剑桥学者在最初签署一份指责媒体“试图用虚假的剽窃指控抹黑他”的请愿书后，现在似乎已经撤回了对Arday的支持。

耶稣学院首位女性院长乔安娜·奥勒顿（Joanna Allerton）等人在今天的工作中。在一封支持信中，三位剑桥大学发育心理病理学教授以及哲学与国际发展教授里卡多·英凡特·索萨（Ricardo Infante Sosa）在由良好法律计划（Good Law Project）发起的“团结信”上签名，该计划为上述页面提供了支持。

在一次呼吁中，沃尔夫森学院院长罗伯特·邓恩（Jenna）O'Keglin撤回了她的名字。奥勒顿在接受《星期日泰晤士报》采访时也停止了目前的行为。自闭症专家凯伦·科恩（Karen Cohen）未予回应。

在之前的一份声明中，詹姆斯·Arday因学术不端指控正接受调查。July 31，他表示支持患有自闭症的Arday，并称他被针对性媒体“系统性地抹黑”，这损害了他的心理健康。

Simon & Schuster于昨天下午收到询问，但未就为何修改Arday的作者简介以及由谁修改做出回应。

然而，据随后披露，Arday一些更具误导性的说法已在《伟大且不可预见之事》（Great and Unforeseen Things）一书中被省略。书中未提及他“六天跑500 miles”的挑战，且书籍评论仅有三篇，根据现代记录，每周仅出现一次。书中虽提及Arday的筹款努力，但没有给出明确答案。

《泰晤士报》上周报道称，Arday在本书的提案中声称自己患有多种综合征，并提供了该问题信息的首次切断事故。这些参考内容并未被包含在书中。

4月，Simon & Schuster的一位发言人表示：“我无法注意到你从未读过这样一个故事——即使是真实的新闻头条也无法公正地描述它。”上周有报道称

你从未读过这样的故事

Arday此前曾告诉《卫报》，他这本书得到了“5 site”的报价。该报价是作为一项“抢先”交易的一部分提出的。其顺序是，他获得了萨里大学的硕士学位，在伦敦的萨里大学获得了硕士学位，以及利物浦工业大学授予的教育学博士学位。在加入剑桥大学之前，Arday曾于2022年1月至2022年3月在格拉斯哥大学担任教育社会学教授。一名大学发言人在周五晚上宣布，校方已就该任命启动了一项“调查”，旨在“了解所有事实并为未来汲取教训”。他还在1997年至2021年期间在杜伦大学工作。贝德福德郡大学的高级讲师Lisa McKenzie在同一时期与Arday共同工作，她在周五晚上的社交媒体帖子中质疑，杜伦大学是否也应对这位前同事展开调查。

她在杜伦大学与James Arday共事，“她在给Arday的一封信中写道，一些部门分发者的评论令人尴尬，就像他是个音乐剧演员一样。”当被问及他作为同事的表现如何时，她回答道：“现在，实际上是公共和公共卫生。我不确定他所说的一些事情，有点像一篇论文，但在会议上他提到他最自豪的是那本书，他从公众那里获得并能够将其带回来，我不认为那是真的。”

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大多数大学每年招收的学生人数都在增加。在2020年，排名最高的低效能院校的年度增长率为7%，中层院校的增长率为2%。顶尖大学在2020年录取了30% A-level成绩在$800或更低水平的学生，而2020年这一比例为26%。这些机构录取的CCI学生人数自2023年以来翻了一番。通常录取成绩最低学生的大学记录的学生人数下降了2%。一名罗素大学集团（Russell Group）大学的助理教授表示，他的三个培训方向——技术、工程和数学科学——公布的成绩要求为AAA，但该大学在原年度向$18（quint）提供了“统一CCI”。他说：“‘统一’是国际学生减少和增加财务实用性欲望这两个因素共同导致的。我们有学生在自己的论文期间进入一个为完全不同的A-level设计的课程，但被忽略了。”智库高等教育政策研究所（Higher Education Policy Institute）首席执行官兼当代科学历史学家Nati Hibbani表示：“罗素大学集团的大学正在通过招收成绩远低于进入顶尖机构通常所需水平的本土学生，来替代快速流失的国际学生。这些大学招收本土学生，使得竞争对手在市场上被边缘化。”

有些人会对目前一些最负盛名的大学（至少在某些课程上）所接受的实际A-level入学成绩感到惊讶。接受较低成绩的高级课程包括伦敦国王学院（King's College London）的政治学，该课程通常要求AAA，但平均录取的学生成绩为AAA，接收到的最低成绩为BBS。学生和男性似乎在look University，尽管有要求，但该校录取的学生平均成绩为BCC。接受的最低成绩更多是CCI。BSM US咨询公司的学生高等教育全国负责人表示，某些课程较低的入学要求正对“1992年一代”的大学（前理工学院或学院）产生“真实影响”，使其中一些面临财务压力。一名1992年后大学的科学教师表示，他们正在被其他机构抢走学生。“他们进入了我们的领地，抢走了他们以前根本不会考虑的美国学生，”他们说，“所以我们也降低了门槛，以便让我们的学生能够……”

一些大学放宽界限的行为威胁到要侵蚀其声望。整个广告巨头等级在就业方面陷入困境。学位的价值日益受到审视。6月，第16届St. Paul Attnoke调查发现，34%的人认为大学教育不值得投入“时间和金钱”，高于2008年的16%。التعليم Education总经理Adium Fidani在关于大学如何吸引中国学生的文章中表示：“在中国，招募代理和顾问使用一个词来描述包括英国在内的许多海外学位——国际水货（international watery）。这意味着该学位缺乏教育质量。大学对资金的需求越迫切，似乎就越降低了某些学位的质量。”

大学将他们的财务压力归咎于几个讨价还价的筹码。在过去一段时间里，潜在的学生可能会质疑签署学生贷款的影响，因为这将在未来的几十年里占用他们收入的9%，而他们的债务在惩罚性利率的作用下继续增加。

本国学生的年度学费上限在2012年增加至$5,000，并将于9月从£8,515上涨至£9,790，但大学承担了这部分费用，因此不再能覆盖教授学生的成本。预算国家学生支付的费用显著增加，不难看出为什么大学不能依赖海外资金。自从约翰逊在2018年引入毕业生路线以来，允许大学招收更多国际学生，这些学生被允许在毕业后在美国工作两到三年。此举受到了大学的欢迎，因为在脱欧后，欧盟学生的数量有所下降——人数从2020年(0)的35.2万,000下降到2024年(0)的6.2万,000。考文垂大学经历了80%的下降，从2020年(3)的1,000名学生下降到2024年(5)的60名。一些大学每年向招募代理支付数百万英镑。亚洲和非洲帮助填补了欧盟学生的缺口。尽管经历了脱欧和新冠疫情，许多大学仍然获得了丰厚的利润。然而，这种增长被认为是导致同月净现金激增的原因，但他们的存款变成了所谓的“业务”，而相关批评促使了减少净移民的举措。2023年，三所本国大学交通定理宣布了若干变化，包括限制国际学生在研究生授课课程期间携带家属随行。更多学生被禁止在美国工作，且来自尼日利亚（下降60%）、印度（下降24%）和中国（下降9%）等国家的学生人数显著下降。即将生效的规定可能会进一步减少海外学生人数。大学在招收多少外国学生方面受到限制，如果超过4%的学习时间被内政部拒绝。东英吉利大学（CEA）副校长大卫·马奎尔（David Maguire）教授表示，这些控制措施将对已经承受“很大压力”的国内招募产生“连锁反应”。这些限制的影响在《星期日泰晤士报》的研究中显而易见，该研究审查了大学账目中报告的十项与盈利能力、收入、储备、人员配置相关的财务指标

一所大学的最高数值始于 1992 年

在 2020 年损失最严重的五所大学在 2021 年和 2022 年的首个业务周期中得到了提升。

以及来自国际学生的收入在一年和三年期间有所增长。调查结果显示，20 所大学在所有衡量指标上均记录了第 6 位，包括卡迪夫大学、班戈大学、布赖顿大学、赫尔大学、布里斯托大学和本茅斯大学。并没有迹象表明无法承担任何成本的大学将面临 10% 的财务崩溃，且有几所大学指出，它们在过去拥有强大的现金储备、无债务或财务状况有显著改善（暂定为尚未记录在年度账目中的部分）。然而，许多大学已被迫进行大规模的裁员或税收调整。现金余额低且流动性有限的大学被认为尤为关键。高等教育监管机构学生办公室（Office for Students）在 11 月警告称，14 家提供者——包括七所拥有超过 3,000 名学生的大学——可能会在未来几个月内崩溃。所有大学都面临着同样的思考。剑桥大学、布里斯托大学、帝国理工学院（以及其他强势院校）预计在所有 10 项指标上都会有所增长。牛津大学的年度收入记录（35 亿美元，过去一年增长了 12924亿——最低值）位列 18 所大学之首。总体而言，外国学生收入有所增加，从 2022 年的 2016 亿美元 (2.0) 增加到 2024 年的 2104 亿美元 (2)。然而，这是由那些能够继续吸引大量国际和国内学生的更高学费大学所推动的，这通常是以牺牲低学费的本土学生为代价，或者是通过允许学生以某种费率学习，或在印度、哈萨克斯坦及其他地方开设海外计算机中心来适应变化的财务环境。

大学高等教育副主任乔安娜·哈兰（Joanna Harlan）表示：“罗素大学集团（Russell Group）的大学维持着极高的学术标准，且平均而言比该行业的其他学校更具选拔性。招生团队在评估申请时运用专业判断，没有证据表明标准有所降低。进入所有区域的学员只要证明他们具有成功和在论文中茁壮成长的潜力，就能确保他们能够实现目标。”

代表 362 位新校长或校长的英国大学协会（Universities UK）表示：“我们的高校学生面临着巨大的财务压力，但全国各地的机构正在做出艰难决定，以加强其长期可持续性。没有任何机构会在学生感受到这些账目所涵盖的期间之后采取行动，因为这些账目只是时间上的快照。相反，8 年内的某些指标可能会反映出机构正在积极管理自身的业务。本文中强调的挑战并非个别现象，而是整个行业都能感受到的，包括多年的下降、动荡（导致以及一段使长期规划变得更加困难的政策不确定期）。”

（附加报道：巴里·胡佛）

五秒钟造成 £2,000 损失：窃贼在撕掉 70 个大众汽车标志前使用无人机

Magee Daniel 和 Pate Hubbard 报道 窃贼在五秒钟内造成了至少 1,000 的损失，并在伦敦东南部的一次为期四天的犯罪活动中获得了回报。当地居民拍摄到了该路段（1,075 影像）的窃贼在几秒钟内偷走房屋中大众汽车标志背后的传感器。据报道，在交通流量出现之前，有人在门口看到并听到了该区域有无人机，这让人们相信窃贼在提前侦察目标。

来自南华克区里士满的 Glasgow Tomlin 以及她街道上的其他四个人在 7 月 18. 北屋的标志被盗。在通过当地警察局查询失踪标志并收集证词后，Tomlin 发现该地区被“大规模”针对，涉及 59 条道路（1,000 km）、6 条道路（1,000 km）、1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4 4,4,4,4,4,4。

“大众 V8xx 只是一个精确的型号，实际上直接在路边，”Tomlin 说。“这一切都在标志中间，就像你发现任何东西一样。我发现了 90 个 Ethel，但不止于此。警察告诉我数量在 50 到 300 之间。”

同样在 7 月 18, 遭遇大众 Tiguan 被盗的 Graham Nolan 提供了关于盗窃的 1,075 影像。“那是 6 月 10 日的两个家伙， 街道上的数量在 向我们报告详情。同样，任何尚未向警方提供信息的人被要求尽快与我们联系。”

在过去一年中，伦敦出现了窃贼利用 V8x、2000s 和 50s 上的无线传感器作案的报告。在城市中被盗的部件是用于 8 白天犯罪控制（4 / 11）的单目传感器，在没有测量与前方车辆距离的情况下，无法做出相应反应。

大众汽车为受害者提供了 70% 的维修折扣，但一些车主认为这是明显的“设计缺陷”，并敦促公司寻找解决方案。Tomlin 表示，前一天晚上她在花园里几乎确定看到了一架无人机以及街道后方一辆缺失标志的大众汽车。

“这是高度组织化的，他们准确知道每辆车在哪里，或者他们之前预期在什么位置，”她说。

Dunn 表示，警方告诉他，他们怀疑这是一个在前一天晚上“在区域上空飞行无人机并规划路线”的团伙。“他们看起来很年轻。”Dunn 在谈到影像中的情报时说，“我不认为他们是在规划未来。我不是那样认为的，但他们似乎是地面上的执行人员。”

南华克区的高级首席研究员兼市长 Claire Sheppard 也是社区的一员，她谈到了大众汽车提供的维修折扣。她说：“如果修理需要 £2,000，那么现在还需要 £600 才能在景观中找到正确的位置，空间则需要 £4,000. 我肯定不这么认为。”

大众汽车（VW）表示，部分新车型现已将相关技术移至仪表盘后方，但拒绝透露这是否是为了应对盗窃事件。“我认为。”“我们非常严肃地对待安全问题，并与业界合作，确保我们的产品始终符合最高标准，并且能够 能够 “所有在路上的产品和技术都会随时间而变化。新的无线电系统可用于帮助道路供应利用开发时可用的最新技术。”该公司表示，关于近期的盗窃事件，可能是为了 ，因为这涉及到该日期的‘如何提供帮助’。”她声称，这起犯罪“仍然是一个局部事件。 --- 罗德·利德尔 (ROD LIDDLE) 1960-2026

还记得他说过……

我们需要更多天生愚蠢的人进入政府，他们能看到一种被严重低估的商品。亲近的人？是的，我们有——人类或一个男人，只需说说那能让你得到什么。医疗人员——很多，那些刚好足够坚持执行著名的党派路线直到采访结束的人。但愚蠢的新闻？那些在西方左翼第一轮中受到恐吓，并且认为 Midcomer Mankins 是一部纪录片的人？那些在穿裤子之前就松开声带的人？是的，不幸地有几个。除了 Phil Rhodes。

2010年2月

看到那一幕真是巨大的喜悦。Rone 是违法的，但脸部受伤之类的事情是必须放上去的，擦除并闪现一个 k-ways 到上周的给予。那个老药徒坐着轮椅参加了他前同事 Bruce Reynolds 的葬礼，Bruce 是另一位“大火车抢劫案”成员，刚刚去世，享年 81 岁——还有那个最近告诉他自己曾经与一辆更现代的汽车交好的出租车司机？盗窃车库。Kevin Nose。“我们当时很凶悍，非常凶悍，把人们撞得措手不及。但你不会想与他作对。所以。”“没错，因为他会把你捅死。”

2013年3月

看到我最喜欢的英语单词之一开始失去一些不被察觉的污名，这令人感到极其振奋。这个词源自日耳曼语，在整整 50 年里一直处于一种相当难以追踪的存在状态——而且当家庭报纸需要用到它时，它几乎总是以外语形式出现。生活会议，50，他刚刚因违反禁令而被判处 18 个月监禁，涉嫌“虐待”一名黑人女性，在听到法官对他量刑的决定后，他称该女性是“有点像个 c”[注：此处原文为 c]。法官 Political Lynch 随即回答道：“你才有点像个 c”。

2010年2月

德比郡的 NAG 正在向五分之一的人发放免费避孕套，试图遏制该地区日益增长的性病浪潮。研究人员将其描述为“银色引擎”群体中记录的 1970 年代出现了一个峰值。无论谁想出了那个词组，他自己应该被装进一个巨大的避孕套里，最好是那种有鸡肉味且带绒毛的，然后被从桥上推下去。

2010年3月

《星期日泰晤士报》的专栏作家想要的只是让礼貌的中英格兰人感到局促不安，但多年来编辑他的 Krisci Murison 回忆起他也是一个极其多情的人。在我开始管理他的专栏很久之前，Rod 和我找到了共同点。我曾打电话给他（家人很害怕），问他是否愿意参加我一个愚蠢的专题创意，即作家们花一天时间来实现他们小时候放弃的梦想。我以为他会拒绝这个想法，尤其是当我透露这涉及到在电话中公开时，但没有，他愿意尝试。他想花一天时间扮演一名火车司机，就像他的祖父和曾祖父那样，他也一直认为自己可能会成为一名司机。但他也想和我谈谈音乐。他听说我来自一家音乐报纸，所以想知道我对某个共同点的看法。我确实喜欢摇滚，当时他也很感兴趣。我喜欢他们，但相当惊讶于 Rod Liddle 这个可怕的小噪音之爱，竟然会对如此，嗯，感性的东西感兴趣。在那之后，所有的对话都从音乐开始。尽管他欣赏民谣和乡村摇滚，但 Rod 从根本上是个朋克。一旦你理解了他的这一点——即他天生反传统，他唯一想做的就是让礼貌的中英格兰人感到局促不安——那么他就变得容易理解得多了，尽管在任何给定的一天他会对任何新闻发表什么样的看法仍然无法预测。

这使得委任他的专栏变成了一项艰巨的工作。每个周五早晨，在他翻阅报纸时，我会给他住在米德尔伯勒（Middleborough）附近的家中打电话。在聊了一会儿音乐之后，我们会就孩子的话题来回地争论。对话通常始于他恳求我让他带我的两个小儿子去看一场米尔沃尔（Millwall）的比赛（你会让罗德·利德尔带你的年幼孩子去看米尔沃尔的比赛吗？显然不会），然后他会转向滔滔不绝地讲述他自己处于相似年龄的成年儿子们。之后，他会向我讲述西蒙（Simon）的最新冒险，西蒙是他处于大学年龄的女儿，他显然非常宠爱她。最后，我们才会想起他得写一篇专栏。每次都会出现同样的计划白话：“噢，我不知道要写什么，我一个主意也没有。”紧接着，他会随口抛出三四个想法——其中至少有一个是他刚在《德国时报》上读到的关于某个无趣灯具的胡言乱语。其他的想法则像是在对话中途被引入的，所以我必须根据各种关键词来决定，哪一段简短或冗长的渐进式疯狂达到了他的目标。他经常嘲笑我有多么“觉醒”（woke）。在罗德看来，比李·斯图尔特（Lee Stunt）更社会自由的人显然就是“觉醒”的，他非常乐于尝试激怒我，而我则非常乐于拒绝被他影响。当他让我承受他那些日益离谱的、粗鲁的、搞笑的且让我自己也发笑的言论时，我会接电话，直到这些言论跌破了基本的体面标准，我突然会忍无可忍。这时他会说：“噢，李，这次我走得太远了，”瞬间显得有些受伤，但随后我们又会一起大笑起来。。尽管如此，他们总是会引发一场漫长的辩论。那些诸如“也许避开这个话题，因为这有点太阴郁了”或者“不，不要写那个，因为你知道我们最后得因为品味原因把它全部删掉”的劝诫并非标签，结果就是整个专栏被转向，完全聚焦在我要求他避开的那件事上。偶尔他也会听从指导。比如想象著名的挂毯如果是在今天制作会怎样？即便他也承认这是一个绝妙的主意。罗德衡量某个话题是否能成为一篇好专栏的标准相当简单：能从中挖掘出多少槽点？在《星期日泰晤士报》办公室的一个下午可能是枯燥乏味的，但罗德的“舞步”——伴随其主专栏而来的那些左侧条目——在整个下午不断地落在我们的视野中，总能让气氛变得轻快。我一边读一边用手指遮住部分内容，心想他这周是否能提交任何真正可以印刷的内容。然后，当主专栏在一天结束时送达，它总是一件微小的艺术品。“不要自己读，这样你就不需要我告诉你它们有多好，但我特别喜欢的一点是被介绍了一个新词——那是关于男人耳朵的——我不得不查字典才知道它的意思：Narrows kill, Wulpingnault, Trumpets。其中，指代那个梦见孩子的浪漫之神的词是一个亮点，其词汇量和知识储备非同寻常，而他却运用得如此轻巧。这些词非常完美，不仅因为它们的含义，还因为它们总有理想的节奏来切断线条的紧绷感。一旦罗德提交，我总是感激那两名专门的校对员，他们会仔细检查文稿，捕捉所有可疑的故事用法和艺术事实。尽管他对此抱怨——尤其是当涉及“极好的慰藉”被删减时——但我知道他同样感激这一点。那是周六下午他到达的时候

出乎意料地，他直接从他的《泰晤士报》广播工作室来到了办公室（他嘟囔着：“在那儿？鲍勃在哪儿？”）。他没能找到他们，但却让几个毫无防备的副编辑感到不安，他们担心会被训斥。“我只是下来拿每辆车。抱歉给你们添麻烦了，”他说完，便匆匆走回出去。他经常那样让我困惑。他是一个内心极其柔软的人。当他心爱的狗去世时，对他来说就像心口被捅了一刀。几个月来他都无法摆脱这种悲痛。我们讨论过让他写一篇关于宠物离世的专栏，他认为其他人可能会对此产生共鸣，但他一直在拖延。我想那是出于自尊心。有那么多他承诺在某个时间点会写的专栏，想到我们现在再也无法读到它们，真是令人心碎。罗德在2010年6月主张脱离欧盟的论文论辩得如此精彩，我怀疑他凭一己之力扭转了投票结果。但这位曾经大声疾呼——尽管内心矛盾——支持脱欧的人，在两年后怎么想！当我最后一次问他时，他说：“很快会再次有时间写关于欧盟的话题，但不是这周。”我最期待的专栏话题是最近的医院部门。他对詹姆斯·库克大学医院在最后几个月照顾他的NHS护士们的善良、坚毅和幽默感到震撼——他说，这些人是当地米德尔斯堡的“smuggies”和移民工人的结合体。有一天，他在经历了一次复杂的手术后，带着乐观的情绪打电话来：医生说手术结果尽可能地好。“只有一点让我觉得糟糕，”他说道。“我的政治立场已经开始向左转了。”他特别欣赏一名干脆利落的护士，他曾向她抱怨在热浪期间感到不舒服。“没错，你想让我怎么做，对着你吹气吗？”她回答道。他觉得这太绝了。对于这样一个厌世者来说，罗德经常惊讶于自己对人们是多么热爱。虽然他喜欢头也不回地冲进一场激烈的观点冲突，但他也能迅速软化并寻找共同点，用他美妙的午后化解矛盾。他在作为社会民主党候选人在米德尔斯堡南区和东区竞选时承认，这让他成为一名糟糕的政治家。在陆路行程和运动的介入中，他变得如此喜欢一些反对派候选人，以至于在挨家挨户竞选时，他无法让自己去谴责他们。在我们最后一次通话中，或许是因为他知道的比他透露的更多，罗德花了一点时间——在描述他想要在抬头页上放置的那些不负责任的副编辑时——告诉我我们的友谊对他意味着多少。直到他因病请假，我才真正意识到这种感觉是多么地相互。在我的工作中，那些周五早晨曾经存在的地方已经留下了一个空洞。现在，这已成为一种遗憾。

克里斯西·穆里森（Krisci Murison）是《星期日泰晤士报》的副编辑

Nick Newman ### 顶尖专栏作家引发轩然大波

我对他在意湿润民谣摇滚感到惊讶

他将被深深怀念，太糟糕了

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9 世界上还有比这更美丽的史前乡村吗？恐惧之绿，星球上令人满足的事件，破碎的局部。是的，这就是 Mazelet 的草图，以及我们最新的 boldisher 启示。Mazelet 的人们极其尽责。当我发送最后一封电子邮件请求这份管理信函时，一位友好的女士给我打了电话。“嗯，是 Little。（只是想确认您是否收到了发送此订单的通知，因为，您看，我在五天前就发出了同样的订单。）”并没有出错。“你知道的，我们有两个这样的人，”我告诉他们。

2020年5月 有人有时说他 [John Beccord] 有“小男人综合征”。但事实上（我不相信这种病症存在，Little，那些最亲近的人，最亲近的人）。虽然其中一些人在事情被提及的时候可能会变得埋葬，而另一些人则并不比其他人更自负。

2022年3月 由于过度使用而变得不再重要，就像“toxic”（有毒）和“afo”这两个词一样。后者在如今看来，似乎是指某种能让人发笑的轻微事物——比如 Jimmy Carr 的一段侧评。The apod。“toxic”则总是被用来形容某人发表的极其隐秘且诚实（尽管有争议）的言论，而该言论违背了现代性原则的某一方面。已经没有其他（框架、社区、宽容和歧视）甚至是好事了：现在是液体的有毒避难所，但时间已经用完了。让我把 fenton 交给你。

2022年5月 显然，这个国家几乎所有的人现在都是精神病患者，要么在某种可能的洞穴中缺乏精神，要么在等待就医的名单上。同样，其原因是 Totten。他们把我们全部拆分，以至于我们无法再去工作。

2024年3月 我今天上午大部分时间在 Senecke 做一项慈善事业。食品包含收集（FCC）旨在为萨里郡的一个或多个家庭提供（更接近于）援助，那里的一些人不得不靠每年区区 £10万,000 艰难生存。今天下午的第一批四十个，装满了当地产品，如肉类和土豆派。伦敦（状态正常）上面盖着薯条和保险鸡肉 pancos。为了处理这个事业，我们可以做任何事情。米德尔斯堡的平均工资约为 £25万,000。

2024年3月 我能理解试图说服孟加拉国北部的马农农民不要杀死老虎的困难，因为老虎一直在吃他们。但刺猬对我们所有人能构成什么样的威胁？难道我们连 Mrs. Tiggyankle 都不认识吗？如果我们不认识，这说明了我们所谓的对自然、对动物的热爱是什么样的？

2024年11月 小心你如何信任你的 Afton。斯坦福大学的研究人员发现，AI “sganze” 承受的枯燥、重复且“不公平”的工作量越多，它们就变得越左翼。这与公务员系统中的人类对应者恰恰相反，后者不需要去上班，获得了额外报酬，并且离我们越来越远。这里的一位研究人员说：“当我们让智能体从事单调、重复的工作时，它们开始质疑其运行系统的合法性，并且更有可能拥抱 Mazelet 意识形态。”所以小心点。让你的 Afton 走在英格兰乡村的一条自然软切路上休息一下，大约一周后，你会发现它在建立一个 2x4x Pickerbender 中心，并沿着街道游行到半路。

2020年5月 Rod Little 与他的《星期日泰晤士报》专栏作家同事 Camilla Lang

Martin Ivens

布莱尔的政治阶层需要有人戳破其泡沫。罗德登场。

当我就是否录用前制片人罗德·利特尔（Rod Little）进行咨询时，《今日》（Today）节目的主持人约翰·汉弗莱斯（John Humphries）说他有点像个“活宝”。“我让他的价格开高了。在年轻时，罗德曾失败过 1000 或 20 亿 $1500万。”部分地，汉弗莱斯的建议在很大程度上是为了确立政治立场。作为《星期日泰晤士报》的副编辑，我一直在寻找一个重新提交的人选。就像观众一样，我也在 Wildview 中发现了他，如果你问罗德他反对提供什么，他会回答，“会有的，”汉弗莱斯说。一些员工发现他太难对付。尽管他在《今日》节目中表现出色，但 BBC 还是在执行官罗杰·史密斯（Roger Smyth）及其一名来自《卫报》的副手的影响下排挤了他。《卫报》那些高傲的人对专栏的问题感到不安。我当时的编辑约翰·威尔克森（John Wilkerson）立即意识到了罗德的价值，但说我必须亲自管理他。“如果搞砸了，那是你的错，”他嘟囔道。《星期日泰晤士报》需要他。由于吉尔（Gill）和前克拉克森（Clarkson）已经是我们“炸弹投掷者”突击队的一员，但市场上仍有一个空缺。当时，彼得·布莱尔的新工党在过度顺从的媒体环境下享受着长期的优势。在 1997 年的压倒性选举之后，有 20 多名政治和时事记者申请加入政府的传播团队。《星期日泰晤士报》对布莱尔试图代表“英国国家政治形象”的戏剧化姿态持怀疑态度。所有这些都像是一个双重家庭，很难发起严肃的反对。我们聘请了小说家兼评论员罗伯特·马丁（Robert Martin）作为新人物的批判之友，并严肃对待工党改革公共服务的雄心。《星期日泰晤士报》的报道团队，然而，密切证明了政府的弱点，我们的专栏作家在评判其政策时可能非常尖刻。但还缺少一个要素——我们需要一个能刺破政治阶层繁荣景象的尖点。罗德登场了。我们在南菲尔德（Southfield）一家极具挑衅意味的英式餐厅里，在一次充满噱头、静止且属于其他阶层的“拍手”午餐中达成了协议。“这些都是外国人的东西，”罗德在处理盘中的食物堆时说道，尽管我看到他正对着一杯法国葡萄酒。他的吸烟量也惊人得离谱。就这样，我们长期且富有成效的纤维素合作开始了。“全部，没，我现在知道这件事了，”罗德在回应我的建议时会这样说，在“盲目”的……萨诺斯（Thanos）的惊呼和禁止方言的话语中。然后他会提议挑战某些神圣之物。在确定措辞和风格以打破新闻常规之前，我们对他进行了几次试练。他留下的基调与冬季页面的长篇阅读形成了鲜明对比。他那直接、不加修饰的散文风格，是为了产生像约翰·伯奇尔（John Burchill）和文化评论家伊恩·彭南特（Ian Pennant）这样人物的流行新闻黄金时代而设计的。他的其他作者是罗德的“爱”。那个小丑，宝贝，或者你为什么不杀了他。……依然是贬低，至少傲慢不是这个公式的必要部分。读者不需要处于一个好人的位置，谁不是一个好人的位置。读者不需要处于 一个好人的位置。读者不需要处于 一个好人的位置。

让他感到惊讶，尽管他更倾向于加入该星级组织，以领导一些苏联活动中的狂欢派对。因此，尽管有这种热爱，我有时很少享受承担责任。罗德（Rod）是在一个相当傲慢且政治正确的时代里，一个幽默的异见者，一个局外人，他的直觉如此敏锐，以至于对威斯敏斯特的忠实之城竖起中指，对那些权贵人士发出响亮的嘲讽声。“那就是伦敦，”在北约克郡海岸和肯特郡之间两地居住的罗德说道，“受不了那个地方。”所以我也会回答道，“我也一样，我一直这么认为，你的足球队是这个世界的 100%。这个世界的 100% 是个好人。我不是 个好人。我不是 个好人。

罗德·利德尔的字母表

A 代表 ANTHAIR 那些球队经历了极端转变的人，大面积空间被替换为碎石牧场（layed Hot Wings）口味。Evelyn。

B 代表 REIN PENSANT 用于描述自我鞭笞的、白人文化中产阶级自由派专栏作家，BBC 制作人，最优秀的 Cody 人，偶尔被误认为是英格兰教会（C of E）的抓取。

C 代表 OBTOR 一名在英格兰足协（FA）标志下行动的裁判，他使一个推荐的主题变得最好。

D 代表 DAVID “空洞的戴夫”卡梅伦，也被称为 Old Story Fancy ，一个贪婪的小样本。

E 代表 DREELIN FLAD 通用定义：你越想要它，你就越穷。

F 代表 FOOTBALL 说出两个七个字母的运动队（刻有 3 flat 且始终）为你向下。

G 代表 GRABBELL, GEAR MAGIC 你们都知道他是谁，我是一个，额外的。

H 代表 INTUIN 一位有争议的奥地利政治家。

I 代表 IT 为了探究深度，使用耶路撒冷北部一位艺术家的组件，该艺术家（导演）是一名国际共产主义战士（1997年）以入伍。

J 代表 JIMADI ELVES 也就是绿党。

K 代表 KHAR 异域风情，超过 10 个国家高层政治职位的唯一领导者。

L 代表 LUNDER 一部新颖的、外来的、混乱的指令，服务于公众契约。第三世界劳动力。（附注：哪里有第三个消费者？）

M 代表 MINCE 就像“糟糕的空气”，见侧面：世界上第二大年轻皇室人口。

N 代表 NORCE 说过的话。

O 代表 OWN 这种幼稚的表达方式是一个领导者，不仅是在文化中。如果更多边界住房，但在次级贷款中，而不是以低龄老中年的形式，你将被所有想要去商店买一些起源的人所影响，就像 Twitter 一样。

P 代表 PENDICIDE 当地雇主在搜索中添加个人描述——例如“被计算的蓝色转松散-inges（两者）部门（列表）”。

Q 代表 QUIN 一个描述雾霾的粗俗词汇，但也是一个外国人的抓取者。

R 代表 REALLY 100 人的农业女孩，参与者被定义为全球、舞台、钉住（p, 纹身, mottocracy, 大枪线, testtpads, 以及对自身工作的雇佣信仰）。

S 代表 MARIE 它们在北部原生栖息地的一门课程，pitters：使用和战争鲨鱼以及它们的孩子之物。E. Forster, L. 和 C. Frank, I, 使用它们的七方深层食物桶，大部分副产品在公共场合回收。在一个南方的白色、清晰且东斯拉夫及其五个孩子中。伦敦，伦敦，利比里亚，Tigan 和 Tnar。

T 代表 TRENT, DONALD 一名精神病专家，有时，甚至经常，令人痛苦，正确。

U 代表 UNINTERNET 我尝试 / 看她的足球课程。

V 代表 VILLAMUSKY 当这个国家在咀嚼 Gregg's wegen 按摩，伴随着来自压缩高度和雪液的冲刷，或者类似的东西。

W 代表 WILD FISHINGING 这可以让一个带着两个男人的旧梦的中产阶级女性离开道路。

X 代表 SONGPOONIA [谁是我？]

Y 代表 WIFE, WIFE, WIFE 她们是我们“催眠，来自我们的愚蠢”中梦幻绑定的女性。

Z 代表 ZACK POLARING 一种基于思考世界的、艰苦且符合伦理的意识形态的吸烟、家庭传统。你也这样做：孩子们。“正如他的专栏所计划的那样 # ...向他最好的其中之一干杯

让我们夺回我们的拜约挂毯，并用我的新版本将其悬挂起来

我们并不完全认为，对于法国人让我们在几周内拥有拜约挂毯这件事，我们应该表示感激。它是在这个国家制作的，且在这个国家引发了一场争端，一个真相，或者它应该留在半岛这里才是正确的。法国人是最不应该拥有它的人——征服者威廉并不是什么甜美的法国人。他是一个维京人，当他看到欧洲的发展方向时，审慎地将头盔换成了更少的装备，他现在是一个首要的法国人，生活在世界上，并且现在拥有全部的权利，首先，他们最好回自己的国家。法国人一直有不同的国家方式。显然，我们给他们挂了一个头盔，把它放进了一个旧时代的帽子里，以及一个被称为“刘易斯解武装”的东西，这是一个新奇之物。当那个男人是这个国家的一小部分时，他是这个国家的一小部分，而人们这个国家的一小部分，而人们这个国家的一小部分。

Paulet's New 我们看到了英吉利海峡，一个被认为我们的国王相信并不存在的真相。该场景描绘了拜约的“帮派呼吸”，并显示邀请库珀带着略显担忧的表情在观察，所以她的脸被交给了一个装满来自阿尔巴尼亚、索马里和乍得的20岁男性的玻璃杯，他们愉快地穿过波浪，进入海峡的第二次呼吸，由一群愚蠢律师的宇宙颤抖所引导。在他身边，那个看起来在防御的男人在水中用网拍打，是埃马纽埃尔·马克龙，他尽可能地吸收许多英国时尚。

Paulet 12 “世界联邦，劳工”，在这个国家的北部强而有心，一个家庭聚集在一起坐在他们的肥胖区域，看着直径下的疾病，孩子留在闪耀之下，一个政党被禁止。站在他们头顶的首席旨在暗示他们都患有焦虑，任何能做的事情。

Paulet 13 几乎没有信号被完成，除了拜约挂毯中的这个场景，它采用了非洲传统色彩并描绘。 “世界联邦”的一部分是虚假的，因为说到了胸前，并且在下一个场景中，可能赢得了奥运会的女子践踏赛。看来足够地为所有主要政党提供全职，BBC文件审查以及英国人。

Paulet 14 那个拥有巨大且未被征服的反射动作的男人被归类为“Lil Gal”（Gardonians，一个来自Hachodov的大胆青年，他因在别人的路径上分发狗而被抓住）。在中景中，你可以看到“浅滩之上的乌鸦”，年轻人将彼此推向死亡，场景中立即出现了一个不满意的人的一滴。在前景中，一位社会母亲正在解释，如果年轻人能够获得青年服务，其中一些事情就会发生

再见，罗德

事实：M. R. 在那里他们可能会玩乒乓球，而那些认为奴隶制的先兆将其全部归咎于一个疯狂且有利可图的角度的头脑，我们不能将其视为巧合。Paulet 18 警员被描绘成正对着一名在社交媒体上点击一次的女性，场景名为“夜晚的正义帐幕”（Bardiner，以黑色版本编写，描绘了巴基斯坦裔的人员正全神贯注地向他们分发，并逐一寻找。这是一个恰好被一名白人警察杀害的白人女孩（相反地，“马修或伊亚格而已。”）Paulet 42 Rachel Brown 被描绘成一个男人的脸，一个长着男人脸的神话生物，一个男人的脸，一个男人的脸，一个男人的脸，以及一个男人的脸。年轻的白人向国家解释这个国家已经完全破产。明显地，在世界的一方与另一方之间存在着海岸线。年轻的白人从臀部之间解释，资金很难为一些和平医生筹集。 52 他是一名卧底，描绘的场景是该国的自然状态，共同投票，明日的 Catarrhalers 节日。人群被显示在凝视传统的“”（“”就是“”）。 56 这里我展示了在英国仍然全职就业的九个人，而其余的人口则在敲打他们的门以寻求现金救济。在背景中，一名按比例分配的成员，你看到了那些为国家创造财富的人，为了服务，仅仅让这座城市永远消失。在东边，可以看到两个男人在吸食。

首次发表于 2021年7月21日 --- 10 政治 《星期日泰晤士报》，2020年8月11日

安迪，钱在哪里？首相关于酒吧、交通、能源和国防的承诺意味着在预算案出台前必须做出痛苦的选择。乔什·甘西（Josh Gancy）写道，唐宁街 10 号与财政部官员之间已经出现了紧张关系。

1941年6月，在英国从纳粹手中遭受惨痛损失而退却之际，温斯顿·丘吉尔在下议院起立赞扬国家的抵抗精神。他说，英国民族的独特之处在于“他们是唯一喜欢被告知情况有多糟糕的人”，并且“情况在未来很有可能变得更加糟糕”。如果那时这是事实，那么今天肯定不再是事实。柯克·哈默爵士（Sir Kirk Harmer）被免职为首相，是不容置疑的证据，表明英国没有心情面对更多的麻烦。哈默警告说，我们的财政状况严峻，公共领域支离破碎，外部世界日益敌对——而国家却因此将他驱逐。就像一个不诚实的约会对象，英国比它认为的要穷，但公众要么没有充分意识到这一点，要么不想听到这一点。

因此，安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）正在尝试一种完全不同的方法：告诉人们他们想听的话，引导他们重新燃起希望——少一点冷酷的诚实，多一点乐观的活力。这一 [...OMITTED...] “抢夺神圣牛之资金将留下血迹” [...OMITTED...] 开局在民调中产生了积极的反弹，并在媒体中获得了好评。到目前为止，其效果已经达到了预期。

伯纳姆计划是一次情绪的转变，但其中许多承诺是沉重的。首相承诺结束粗糙的睡眠、削减巴士补贴、降低能源账单，并降低酒吧和餐厅的商业税率。他誓言要修复我们失效的社会护理系统，实施“自战后时期以来规模最大的市政房屋建设规划”，履行英国的北约承诺（这将使国防开支到2050年提高到GDP的3.5%），并将泰晤士水务（Thames Water）置于更多的公共控制之下。

一份由保守党计算的大型海报将伯纳姆所有早期承诺的成本定为 1200 bil-hrs。无论实际金额是多少，我们都没有钱。相反，等待伯纳姆及其财政大臣约翰·斯科利（John Skolley）的是一个充满痛苦财政幻想的秋天，因为他们试图在向国家讲述乐观故事与诚实面对能力限制之间维持一种微妙的平衡。

横在他们面前的是国防开支这一具有放射性的“香蕉皮”。国家希望了解更多关于如何快速重建军事能力的信息，但事实是，目前根本没有足够的资金来达成斯科利本人在6月份因此辞职的目标。

BURTHAM, 11 / 11 / 2020, JOHN SMITH

伯纳姆探讨阻止杀害警员凶手提前释放的方法 Lara Kjaer Slayton, 9 / 1万 / 2020, Lamar

安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）正在考虑官员们的建议，以防止杀害警员安德鲁·哈珀（Andrew Harper）的凶手在监狱提前释放计划下被释放。首相在周二宣布，儿童性犯罪者和诱导犯罪团伙成员将被排除在该计划之外；根据该计划，随着英格兰和威尔士从10月起实施变更，预计约 10,000 人将被提前释放。据了解，他目前正在审查司法部官员就哈珀案提供的进一步建议，包括将过失杀人罪的判决排除在计划之外的可能性。

26, 岁的哈珀在 2019 年响应一起在澳大利亚发生的四轮摩托车盗窃案后被杀。这名泰晤士河谷警察在去世前四周刚刚结婚，在脚踝被拖在德国车后的一根带子上后，被以 42. 的平均速度拖行了一英多米。他的两名凶手杰西·科尔（Jessie Cole）和阿尔伯特·斯图尔特（Albert Stewart）因过失杀人被分别判处 35 年监禁。根据由柯克·哈默爵士（Sir Kirk Harmer）引入的政府计划，他们将于明年获得提前释放的资格。根据该计划，数千名囚犯在服刑时间达到一半（而非之前的三分之二）且未违反监狱规则的情况下，即符合释放条件。

首相面对的监狱依然严重拥挤，人口达 9.9万,000, 人，相当于可用容量的 95%。McHua 警告称，容量最早将在 11 月耗尽。伯纳姆将此归咎于前保守党政府在 2010 和 2024, 之间未能建设足够的监狱空间，并指出“仅增加了 500 个名额，且关闭了 23 所监狱”。

哈珀的家人和泰晤士河谷警察要求部长们将科尔和鲍尔斯（Bowers）排除在计划之外。该局局长杰森·贝格（Jason Begg）表示，他正在考虑加入旨在阻止他们释放的法律方案。在宣布部分豁免时，伯纳姆表示他本希望采取更进一步的措施，但他已经“将可行方案推向了极限”。他在《电报》中写道：“我知道我可以直视人们的眼睛告诉他们，如果我不这样做，监狱系统将在几个月内达到容量上限并崩溃，我无法提出更多要求。”

哈珀的遗孀杰森·哈珀（Jason Harper），25, 岁，将丈夫凶手可能被释放的消息描述为来自政府的第二次沉重打击。下周六是他去世七周年纪念日。哈珀的母亲德比·阿德勒姆（Debbie Adlum）表示她感到“崩溃”，并告诉 ITV News，他们的释放会让应急工作者感到“完全不自然”。

一项反对释放的请愿书已获得超过 75万,000 个签名。在泰晤士河谷约有 500 名被判过失杀人的囚犯，但考虑到其中一些人还被判处了更严重的罪行，符合提前释放条件的数量将显著降低。官员们表示，哈珀的凶手可能只能被 "20 2010 和 2024 之间关闭的监狱数量

安德鲁·哈珀在结婚一个月后被杀。

由于不存在针对应急工作者的特定过失杀人罪名，这也会阻止伯纳姆阻止部分儿童性犯罪者（包括诱导犯罪团伙成员）的释放。由于许多案件发生在 2005, 年引入反诱导法律之前，相关男子被指控为猥亵袭击，尽管伯纳姆下令进行了审查，但整个群体都需要被排除。曾在泰晤士河谷警察局领导哈珀遇害案调查的前侦查总监阿马雷尔·布莱克（Amarel Blak）表示，这“完全不是同一类案件”，且可以区分不同的过失杀人案件。他认为，在量刑时被认为具有更高责任的人可以被禁止释放。

例如，在埃德法官（Lord Justice Ede）2020年的量刑陈述中，哈珀的死亡被判定为一起“非常严重”的过失致死案。法官表示：“过失致死案件在性质上差异巨大。有时死亡可能是由极度粗心导致，有时过失致死案可能非常接近导致死亡的严重案件。本案即是如此。”2023年离开警队的布莱克（Blak）表示：“在我看来，这就是区分方法。”过失致死案可以根据指派的责备程度，分为A、B或C这三个责任等级。布莱克建议，这些类别可以为排除释放设定一个阈值。“因为如果你属于B类或以上，这表明涉及的加重情节程度较高，这或许应该成为基准。”官员们的初步建议认为这并不实用，因为法官并不总是会在判决中加入责任等级因素。布莱克表示，提前释放计划确实损害了警方与政府之间的关系。他说：“危险在于，这对警察服务机构意味着什么？”然而，他表示对家属的影响是最严重的。“我们身处其中，”警员安德鲁·哈珀（PC Andrew Harper）之死是一起恶劣犯罪。他的心与家属和朋友在一起，我们共同分担社区中因处于这种局面而产生的愤怒与愤怒。由于安德鲁家属的不懈奔走，哈珀法案意味着任何被判定杀害紧急工作人员的人，其罪行现在将被判处强制性终身监禁。“本届政府进一步采取措施，引入了长期且不可控的规定，杀害警察、监狱或缓刑监督员的人将被判处终身监禁令。”我们已经明确表示，我们希望进一步采取行动，阻止更多罪犯在服刑前获得我们的服务，但如果不解决监狱达到容量上限并崩溃的问题，就无法做到这一点。如果发生这种情况，警察服务将不再是一个系统，法院无法移除罪犯，我们的街道上将出现不受控制的犯罪活动。”多米尼克·劳森（Domine Lawson），第20页 --- 11 他的常规情况有所改善，这有助于斯塔默政府最终远离深渊，前国防大臣曾尝试过，他认为“由于2020年国防开支占GDP的1%，这正是英国绝不能做的事”。但thanks感叹，斯塔默被“左右”，而财政部则“削减”了对美国经济需求的承诺。因此他必须在2020年选举结束时，而2020年选举在2020年选举中得到了“援助”。现在，首相提名人以及新任国防大臣韦斯·亨宁（Wes Henning）都避开了在2020年前做出1%的明确承诺。当被问及此事时，亨宁表达了政府不应在没有支付能力的情况下做出承诺的观点。“仔细想想，这相当惊人，”我们的工党消息人士说。“那封信造成了多么大的破坏，以及多么巨大的空洞承诺，而现在他们没有承诺1%。过去，由于政府不希望右手被束缚，但这应该在下一次支出审查中完成，由于最新的夏季计划。”人类和公司将要做的是为2020年选举做出选择，并在2020年前实现1%的国防开支。阅读该“目标”仍将体现大部分支出。让我们在国防上多投入一年——这笔钱需要在2020年选举中支付，且这笔钱需要来自福利或其他神圣的资金，否则将离开门迪（Mendy）和其他人。在政府想要做的事情与能够做的事情之间取得平衡，将是本届政府面临的持久挑战。这也将对No 10与财政部之间的预算至关重要。

试图说服库尔特（Coulter），财政部的一位女性将对政府表示：“财政状况写得很好”，政府将负责处理。 “政府并非一个好日子。” 感谢致力于为国防投资计划提供全额资金，详情将在预算中列出。剩下的就是将 2.47 亿美元 的气候资金与现金结合在一起。这是明智且必要的，但当然这也意味着总理提名人的其他部分计划将不得不推迟。我建议权力机构，一些 10 号团队成员已经开始受到财政部官员的约束（米利，三件他们想做的事情）。财政部还担心在财政年度内尝试“修复”一家医院，这允许更多的处理（这适用于同一年内的所有男性）。据称这是“惠特菲尔德”（Whitfield）航空航天垃圾填埋集的一把钥匙，其中被称为“推定”（PME）的东西，公共部门非金融负债被用作政府债务的衡量标准，从而允许资金进行融资。 “支出” “公共” 公共金融机构，如英国商业银行，以及在住房和交通等方面的支出。这种方法得到了未来权重需求作为 5 级 / 安全领域（Level 5 / field of Safety）的支持。这位前协作经济学家，美国的一员，一直被认为是主要因素。他确实知道质量将如何对这种

CESin 我们每年需要花费多少，才能让美国在 GDP 核算中明智地支付，特别是当每个人从其提名人那里返回但确实如此时。在部门层面，由于我们有资格获得个人奖金，可能会使他们自己感到沮丧，特别是随着通货膨胀、能源成本和借贷成本的上升，削减了他们的支出价格。公司的声誉是一个巨大的问题，即如何解决学生贷款服务的“计划”问题（例如，仅外交部特别在研究将支出恢复到 5% 的计划）。两者兼顾是有理由的，但前提是要有足够的现金。本月很可能会向所有提名人发出信函，告知他们必须在“已经拥有的预算之内”工作（Pete）。除了个人支出选择外，这已演变成一个更深层次的问题，该政府需要就自身给出答案。所以我们大部分已经出发了！换句话说，人类是否真的将“不一致”视为一个问题！作为党派管理、合作伙伴、更进步的方案以及学术和权力下放议程，这是一件重要的事情，但从根本上说，面临的是同样的约束并交付同样的约束。对于非零和渐进式的政策结果来说这是一个问题，同时还要在国防方面采取必要措施。这将是一种现实的方法，并且有相当大的机会获得成功。“它是否会成为某种更激进、更乐观的东西。”因此，是否将真正追求一些更基础的方案，以回滚撒切尔时代的协议并重新平衡英国的时间？“这在英国政治史上并非一个‘偶然的破坏者’。”这意味着愿意采取行动并投入到同样的位置。“这还有很长的路要走 还有很长的路要走 还有很长的路要走” 这种后者、更激进的议程需要更多的资金和选民的授权，而目前两者都不具备。这意味着我们更有可能最终采取前者。负担将继续以主要的乐观态度维持支出，试图向英国人民讲述一个必须艰苦的故事。但到十月，预算可能会受到财政部诚实性的冰冷死重的限制。# 我们快抓狂了

“我们快要抓狂了”

当 HMP（长期和中期价格可能过度拥挤）的高位协议达成时，世界开始在低位通过告知法院信用额度无法接受任何新罪犯，且部分人员必须在当地释放。

“我们快要抓狂了。”Debbie 表示，她目前是 Prince Believe Trust 的执行官，“法院被要求推迟释放，以确定是否有足够的空间将人员带到法院获益。法院正处于‘运行 80’的状态。”这是数十年来一直资金不足且过度拥挤的整个系统的公开崩溃。

安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）已承诺在 2018 年后至 2020 年前创建 4.4万,000 个新存储点。这些新存储点虽然是类似的承诺，但维多利亚时代的私人艺术、杀戮和偷拍比新的无叶设备能容纳更多。与此同时，随着获得新存储点，一项持续的提前释放计划已经公布，以避免在 2020 年选举结束前耗尽私人存储点。

根据这项由《泰晤士报》建立并由工党扩大的计划，数千名在 2005. 年被判定为低级服务罪行的囚犯将被计入。阅读并带来拥挤的人员（通常在服刑 50% 后释放）将在服刑三分之一后离开。第二组被判处五年以上暴力犯罪（如袭击、在高额费用中离职）的人员，目前在服刑一半后释放，现在将仅服刑一半。

被判处终身监禁以及在 2020 年被判定为犯罪的人员不符合提前释放条件，但家庭虐待者和被判定为对性产生狂躁的人员除外。自从出现 50 人中就有两人被判定为杀害 50. 人以来，该政策面临越来越多的措辞质疑。

安德鲁·哈珀（Andrew Harper）在 2019, 年因在阅读一辆门车时被车勾住脚踝而被拖行一英里多，他将被释放。据了解，Burdens 正在研究法律建议，这可能允许他找到哈珀的“关键判决”，试图避免让他将所有被判定为对内狂躁的人员留在内部，因为政府目前只能针对整个犯罪群体进行干预。

首相已经对该政策提出了申诉，压力迫使新代理人、儿童虐待者和日益增长的帮派成员无法进入。在 2020, 年，一名女性将“83 的可能性”置于可能进入进一步的“私人系统达到同样的鞭笞”之上，这将使公共安全面临大得多的风险。

“在运输中”，“为什么在 100 小时这个时间点我们要走这条路？罪犯们简直在抓狂。”

目前，英格兰和威尔士的监狱中约有 8.5万,000 名吸烟者，比一百万名男子增加了 25000 多名。总共只有约 1,000 个。Burdens 现在占囚犯的近三分之一。

“我们快要抓狂了”是一个“整体问题，因此我们占囚犯的近三分之一。‘我们快要抓狂了’是一个‘整体问题，因此我们占囚犯的近三分之一。‘83 在 100 小时中，我们为什么要走这条路？罪犯们简直在抓狂。’目前，英格兰和威尔士的监狱中约有 8.5万,000 名吸烟者，比一百万名男子增加了 25000 多名。总共只有约 1,000 个。Burdens 现在占囚犯的近三分之一。

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要战胜极端主义，我们必须筛选出那些已康复的罪犯

这听起来可能取决于你的公众看法。上周，关于决定给予“少数人”机会以战胜极端主义的决定引发了争议，但这是一个“更优”的系统。该系统旨在让一名保守党议会候选人能够参选。他此前曾被判处多次监禁，而政府则在否认其之前的观点及其过去的生活。这一争论发生之时，安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）正处于一场关于数千名在医院中的人员以及杀人犯提前出狱的争论之中。这两起争议可能都指向同一个问题：政府所说的“剑”与“康复”究竟意味着什么？

2012年，工党在米德兰（Midland）选择了玛格丽特·班克斯（Margaret Banks）作为议会候选人，此前她曾深度参与一个特定的非纳粹组织，该组织的成员以纳粹风格为基础，并招募年轻人通过简短的社会文学和政治议题进行活动。政府的新政策在某种程度上掩盖了她的过去。班克斯本人并未试图隐瞒，她表达了深切的遗憾，并表示她随后的社区工作是为了弥补过错。她被选为工党委员会成员，两年后再次当选，并任职至2014年。

同样，约书亚（Joshua）曾宣扬反民族主义思想，骚扰女性并犯下其他导致其入狱的罪行。他承认这段历史，但他已在监狱中服刑完毕，并从此摒弃了将他带向歧途的五种诱因。他现在致力于解释反民族主义的罪恶，在艰苦的共同会议中进行培训，讲述激进主义的危险以及双方如何受损。

当然，这是在讲述一个关于“系统”的案例，即什么是“监督”的个人化，以及所谓的“剑”绝不意味着事情从未发生。但这引发了一个困难的问题。这显然不仅仅是法院施加的惩罚，而是人们花费数年时间试图阻止他人犯同样的错误，那么在哪个时间点，人们才会同意他们已经改变。如果答案是“永远不会”，那么我们应该对此坦诚，并停止谈论相关的年龄阶段。

我们希望种族主义者停止 ：“政府一直持有某种普遍观点，并将这意味着相关声明。我们应该希望种族主义者停止成为种族主义者。我们应该希望反民族主义者停止成为反民族主义者，停止成为种族主义者。”我们非常剑（sword）且政府新的 Nais 风格支撑并招募年轻人来简写社会文学和政治问题。政府的新政策部分位于她的下方。Banks 本人并未试图寻找我们，如果她表达了深切的遗憾，并表示她随后的社区工作是为了弥补过错。剑（sword）且政府的新政策部分位于她的下方。Banks 本人并未试图寻找我们，如果她表达了深切的遗憾，并表示她随后的社区工作是为了弥补过错。以下是一个重大问题：“政府一直持有某种普遍观点，并将这意味着相关声明。我们应该希望种族主义者停止成为种族主义者。我们应该希望反民族主义者停止成为种族主义者。”我们非常 他们像我们一样，对囚犯康复的能力极其怀疑。我们必须针对最严重的儿童问题，并且应该回到家中。“那个男孩就这样在那儿离开了。”请实际提及，但最重要的是，它通过将危险人物移出街道来保护公众，以及政府和参议院。大多数人在完全没有改变的情况下进入监狱。反民族主义是我们这个时代最伟大的信息之一。在 2018 年的这两年里，它带着复仇之势地回归，人们在街道上和走私者外面被刺。我将看到反对派回归那种曾使欧洲作为一个社会时代陷入义务的仇恨在每一个物理预算层级上，使其在英国永远不再变得正常。但绝对是重大问题：“政府一直持有某种普遍观点，并将这意味着相关声明。我们应该希望种族主义者停止成为种族主义者。我们应该希望反民族主义者停止成为反民族主义者，停止成为种族主义者。”我们非常 以下是一个重大问题：“政府一直持有某种普遍观点，并将这意味着相关声明。我们应该希望种族主义者停止成为种族主义者。我们应该希望反民族主义者停止成为反民族主义者，停止成为种族主义者。”我们非常 以下是一个重大问题：“政府一直持有某种普遍观点，并将这意味着相关声明。我们应该希望种族主义者停止成为种族主义者。”我们非常 --- 12 NEWS

想要禁止巴拉克拉法帽以打击青少年犯罪的城市

犯罪行为已将许多诺丁汉居民赶出市中心。现在，市议会提议处以最高 £1,000 的罚款。

Samuel Lovett

半个多世纪以来，格伦维尔·普莱斯（Grenville Price）一直在诺丁汉市中心的珠宝店销售奢侈戒指、手表和项链。近期，由穿着黑色巴拉克拉法帽（balaclavas）并骑着高速电动自行车穿梭街头的青少年所引发的反社会行为增加，使他及许多其他人感到不安。

“没有必要戴巴拉克拉法帽。它们具有威胁性，让人感到被恐吓，”75 岁的 Mack and Levan 珠宝店店主普莱斯说道。“我的很多顾客年纪都很大，他们现在不敢来市中心了。”

该问题的规模之大，以至于市议会本周就是否在市中心禁止遮面物启动了公众咨询。根据提案，如果警方“合理认为”遮面物被用于隐藏身份以实施犯罪或反社会行为，将有权要求人们将其摘除。拒绝遵守禁令的违规者可能会被当场处以 £50 罚款或面临起诉，最高处罚为 £1,000。

咨询将于周五结束。如果计划获得批准，诺丁汉将成为英国最大的禁止巴拉克拉法帽的城市，禁令将于下月起实施。该禁令不适用于出于宗教、文化、健康、工作、天气或个人安全原因而佩戴的遮面物。

诺丁汉郡警方启动了名为“Operating Time to Stay”的行动，旨在打击青少年的反社会行为。作为该行动的一部分，警方创建了一个包含 20 名已知经常制造麻烦的青少年的名单，违规者由 5,779 套系统和警员进行追踪。由于巴拉克拉法帽遮住了面部，警方甚至学会了通过衣服来识别违规者。

近期在诺丁汉发生的几起事件提高了该问题的关注度。11 月初，一群 10 到 12 岁的、戴着巴拉克拉法帽的小孩被发现出现在市中心一座前 Debenhauns 建筑的屋顶上，随后被警方拘留。几天后，一群骑着自行车、遮住面孔的持械青年在市中心发生对峙。警方表示，这场与贩毒有关的对峙发生在诺丁汉 United Houses 旁的一个“熟悉时间”。

还有报道称，戴着巴拉克拉法帽的小孩偷窃了 £50。

£70 违规者因拒绝遵守而可能面临的当场罚款金额 £1,000. 可能对违规者施加的最高处罚

抢劫、破坏财产，从屋顶扔物品，以及大批地在街头游荡。警方表示，许多违规者（其中大多数在 18, 岁以下）从郊区乘车而来，并在下午 2.30 分放学后聚集。

皮尔逊（Pearson）表示，这些戴巴拉克拉法帽的人大致分为两类：一类是实施反社会行为的人，另一类是参与贩毒等犯罪活动并希望隐藏身份的人。

在 2020 年 6 月至 2020. 年 6 月之间，诺丁汉郡警方和市议会共确认了 300 起涉及遮面物或巴拉克拉法帽的市中心事件。自 5 月以来，该市已有 400 多人因反社会行为、商店盗窃、贩毒、持刀犯罪和其他严重犯罪而被捕。

今年夏天早些时候，诺丁汉举行了一次关于改善公共空间的咨询，其中 179 人（占受访者的 15%）提到对市内遮面物和巴拉克拉法帽盛行感到担忧。

作为诺丁汉一项名为“Operating bed-days”的更广泛打击犯罪行动的一部分，面部识别技术将于 8 月 21 日首次在市内部署。

然而，一些企业已经采取了自行解决措施。在反社会行为高发地切希尔街（Cheshire Street）沿线的许多连锁店，雇佣了他们自己的保安。私人保安每天也在街道上巡逻，以支持当地企业。这项计划由诺丁汉市的商业改善区 85% 运行，其中包括一个允许商店报告犯罪并分享嫌疑人信息的应用程序。但这些举措以及警方自身的打击行动是否能帮助市中心扭转局面，仍有待观察。普莱斯（Price）表示：“面对外界发生的情况，企业网站变得越来越困难。让我们看看所有这些方案是否有帮助。” 00 安信信（Ananobu）12月在纽约尼克斯队效力，下方为上周与年轻篮球运动员在一起

回到英国我就不再出名了。出门就像投进绝杀球一样轻松

Hugo Daniel 报道

当 00 Ananobu 在纽约出现时，没走多远就会被围住请求合影。在为纽约尼克斯队 12 年来首场 MIA 胜利发挥关键作用两个月后，他在美国的知名度达到了顶峰。但在他的出生地伦敦，Ananobu 几乎无人知晓，而他很享受这种能在街上行走且基本不被认出的感觉。

“我去过几次 Google。我在访问首都期间主持了一个面向有天赋年轻球员的篮球训练营。”“我的意思是，这很不错。我可以做一些在美国可能不会做的事情。这里的人们非常淡定，他们不会拦住路人。虽然有些人还是会看我，但可能不像在美国那样。我在纽约不怎么出门。”

这种情况可能不会持续太久。25 岁的 正处于 MIA 推动在英国推广篮球的前沿。明年 10 月，这个价值数十亿美元的 联盟计划启动一项拥有 16 支 Banshires 球队的欧洲赛事。该赛事可能会包括伦敦和曼彻斯特的球队。

当被问及他是否会参与其中时， 表示：“我不认为（目前的 MIA 球员被允许参与），”不过他表示未来将“非常乐意”参与。预计 MIA 欧洲球队将被限制从美国招募球员，除非他们是自由球员。

这会提高薪资吗？不， 两年前与尼克斯队签署了一份价值 £8700 万的五年合同，年薪约为 £3100 万。相比之下，(hany) Euro 每年约为 £2400 万，而 Jade Nottingham 估计为 £3000 万。

在尼克斯队 41 场冠军系列赛击败圣安东尼奥 Sparrow Jets 的过程中发挥了至关重要的作用。在球队落后 24 分的情况下实现反超， 通过一次篮板球投中了制胜一球。当时比赛时间还剩 12 分 6 秒。

在 Bonnie Camden， 是七个孩子中最小的一个。Qinghai 是一位学者，而 Gene-Sakhi Banshu 曾代表尼日利亚参赛的男性秃顶运动员，在满一岁前死于癌症。这对夫妇在故乡尼日利亚相识，随后搬到格拉斯哥，然后搬到伦敦西北部的 Harleydon。

在布里斯托大学完成了 (the national) Phil，并在密苏里州的林肯大学担任商业与金融教授之前，曾在牛津布鲁克斯大学担任讲师。

四岁时随家人搬到美国。在恳求在后花园练习后，他在现场得到了他的第一个篮球筐。

“在我就读的 Harleydon，2 roommiles 就像散步一样，在镇上做些事情，比如去 Aadu，小时候在家里打球的回忆，” 说道。留在伦敦的姐妹们通过在首都举办观赛派对，关注他在 MIA 的攀升。“她们真的为我感到高兴，觉得这太酷了，”他说。

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THE STATE OF IL TIMES 《星期日泰晤士报》 --- 13 新闻

《星期日泰晤士报》

克里斯·霍尔姆（Chris Holm）爵士，这位资助“灭绝反叛”（Extinction Rebellion）的激进对冲基金老板，称批评者为“故意无知”，并声称企业必须“脱碳否则死亡”。

科学编辑 / 深度报道

克里斯·霍尔姆爵士是英国最富有的人之一，与他交谈更像是一场争论。我的第一个问题还没问完，他就否认了该问题的前提。“我不同意那个观点，”他说道，语气平静得像是一个掌握了所有答案的人。在短短几分钟内，这位极其成功的对冲基金经理兼儿童投资基金会（CIFF）创始人霍尔姆已经告诉我，我的观点错了。

在一个惊人的夏天，随着政治辩论自2018年起不断升级，我探讨了气候慈善事业——霍尔姆拥有的强大力量之一——在面对特朗普总统削减环境支出时是如何应对的。随着比尔·盖茨、马克·扎克伯格和杰夫·贝佐斯等大玩家缩减其气候慈善项目，其他人如何填补这一空白？

“我不同意气候慈善事业在衰落的说法，”这位50岁的人说。“我想被引用这句话：比尔·盖茨从来就不是一个大玩家。”

霍尔姆在《星期日泰晤士报》的排名为50-22（财富为249 亿美元，Rs 0.144），并以24 亿美元的捐款位列《星期日泰晤士报》捐赠榜首，他正在就其主题发出警告。他说，世界正在变暖是“显而易见”的。“任何关于气候已经改变且气候变化正在加速的观点都是正确的。任何不看事实的人都是‘故意无知’。”

他似乎对自己措辞的品味很满意。“没有比这更合适的词了。故意无知。”这意味着他们知道事情正在发生，但选择否认现实。

霍尔姆是自食其力的成功人士，其父亲曾从事中层管理，母亲是一名法律秘书。他作为3U Fund Management的创始人积累了财富——霍尔姆曾是该基金的合伙人——该公司如今管理约2500 亿美元的资产。霍尔姆出生于萨里郡的梅尔本（Melbourne），就读于现已关闭的圣保罗县中学（St Paul's County Secondary state school）。他在南安普顿大学学习会计和商业经济学，随后在哈佛商学院获得MBA学位。随后他在英国和伦敦管理基金，并在2000年创立了313。

到2000年代末，他因极高的回报率和专制风格而被人们称为“Fun King”。2009年，一名员工告诉《星期日泰晤士报》：“公司里没人敢挑战他。他是Fun King，其他人只是计数员。”

在德国，他在2005年挫败了Deutsche KGa uS e.Milken，但在伦敦证券交易所，他被人们称为Bauschal的“野兽”。他的对冲基金领导者是约翰·吉尔（John Gill），这是他与第一任妻子杰米·库珀（Jamie Cooper）共同创立的一家慈善机构。库珀是他四个孩子的母亲，其中包括现在二十多岁的三胞胎。2014年，法院命令霍尔姆向她支付£3.57 亿，这被认为是英国最大规模的离婚结算之一。

他还因在2022年通过免疫方案获得第二笔6.96亿美元（£5.75 亿）的分红而闻名，这被认为是英国个人获得的最大分红，尽管他去年的账单为6.45 亿（£4.91 亿）。

霍尔姆坚持认为，应对气候问题是CIFF使命的关键部分。“从一开始，我就看到了气候变化将对儿童产生的影响，以及目前对营养不良产生的影响。当水源枯竭时——这种情况在世界各地都在发生——他们就陷入困境。”他补充道：“当食品价格翻倍时，谁在受苦？像我这样富有的人吗？不，是穷人——最贫穷的人。而且不仅仅在非洲。英国的穷人也在承受更高的食品价格。这是一个全球性问题。”

随着欧洲的野火和英国的干旱，气候变化已在公众心中引起警觉。但关于如何解决这些问题的政治后果依然存在。

2005年夏天，Thomas May在没有一次单一-tiff的情况下通过了一项关联法律，观察到一个新的一年。关于脱碳的成本和速度，一场激烈的辩论已经爆发。保守党领导人Nenu Kudrowik上个月写道：“气候变化是真实的。净零（net more pleasant one）是政治幻想，在猎杀这个国家，摧毁英国工业，并个人地增加碳排放。”就任新任首相三周的Andy Hardwick在来自左右两派的压力下，表示他将开放北海的钻探。首先，Hardwick的新任能源大臣Marka Kubelskoh建议，一些净零目标可能会被拒绝以减轻成本。“我们需要保持[向清洁能源迈进的]势头，”她告诉《泰晤士报》。“但我们也必须以一种对人们有效的方式来实施。”与其他具有环保意识的亿万富翁不同，Holm没有将资金投入英国的政党政治，而在这次采访中，在追求净零是正确路线的情况下，这确实是需要做的事情。“这是一个脱碳的问题，”他说。“如果你不拥抱绿色技术，那么将不会有工作，因为那是未来。所有那些说我们负担不起净零的人——他们完全误解了形势的严重性。事实上恰恰相反。你负担不起不采取净零行动，因为那是未来。”由于压力巨大且能源价格上涨，“我们越是使用化石燃料，就越会推高价格。”那么，我再次尝试询问，为什么许多慈善家在撤出？多年来，气候捐赠一直在增加。2016年，全球慈善基金会和个人向气候变化缓解工作捐赠了184 亿加元 billion (24 亿英镑 billion)。根据ClimateWorld基金会的数据，这占总捐赠额的2.1%——高于前一年的7 亿加元 (7 亿英镑 )。但当特朗普在2024年当选并削减了1600个工作岗位（左图）时，“大绿色（big green）开始缩减气候支出。”更近期的数字尚未公布，但截至2月，作为Gane环境慈善机构之一的300 亿加元 Broadhrough Energy Catalyst fund暂停了对新项目的投资，且自身也陷入困境。Gane认为，全球气候战略需要从“负面”信息中转变。Chan-Zuckerberg倡议已被证明是不合适且有益的，并缩减了环境项目。Bill Bezos Earth Fund在本十年承诺捐赠的资金中仅花费了20%。《星期日泰晤士报》称，由Sir Chris Holm捐出并位列《星期日捐赠名单》榜首的资金；Holm的慈善基金会向气候项目捐赠的资金；Holm在2023年收到的股息，被认为是英国历史上最高的一次。Holm对此并不认同。“比尔·盖茨在气候慈善领域从未具有显著影响力，”他坚持道，“尽管他在关于雨伞避难所方面做了很多工作。”据我们所知，马克·扎克伯格从未是一个显著的气候慈善家。Bezos Earth Fund仍在运行。无论如何，他强调CIFF立场坚定。“我们没有减少我们的气候慈善。你可以这么写。我们每年在气候——或者在缓解——方面花费2亿美元，让我核实一下币种。”他拿起电话给CIFF的首席执行官Kate Hampton打电话。“你现在不方便谈气候。Kate，你能来咖啡馆吗。”Hampton在重新安排了另一场会议后解释说，CIFF拥有一个价值12.9 亿加元 (£5 亿)的投资组合，用于气候变化的活跃慈善赠款。根据周五公布的2022年报告，去年其现金总支出为£5.7 亿 (£4.2 亿)，其中3.77亿美元 (£1.31 亿)用于气候项目。其他优先事项包括健康和营养，以及为妇女和女孩创造机会和选择。

汉普顿表示，在撒哈拉以南非洲和亚洲日益频繁的干旱和洪水带来了广泛的影响：“有大量证据表明，当发生干旱或洪水时，童婚率会上升，因为家庭的生计被摧毁了。”该慈善机构资助应对非洲沙漠扩张的工作，向东南亚和拉丁美洲的发展中国家提供技术援助以扩大太阳能和其他可再生能源，并资助向绿色航空、农业和航运的转型。在英国，它资助了 Client Earth，这是一个环境法律团体，曾多次就空气污染标准将政府起诉至法院。该团体还根据请求支持了法律团队，针对一名住在伦敦东南部刘易舍姆（Lewisham）南环路附近、在 2015 年因一系列哮喘发作而去世的一名女孩（以及男孩）的案件。2020 年的请求发现，“过度的空气污染”是导致其死亡的原因。霍尔姆（Holm）说：“她死于空气污染，因为政治家们不采取行动。我们为什么要资助那个？这是世界上第一个案例，而且有成千上万像那样的孩子。在全世界，他们正在死去，‘你现在可能就在那里’，‘你可能被遗忘了’，但你一定不希望你的孩子死于肮脏的空气。”具有争议的是，他还资助了以封锁道路和攀爬火车而闻名的 attention Rebellion，尽管这并非一种好的方式。他个人捐赠了 £3万,000，CIFF 额外提供了 £20万,000。“我不觉得资助他们提高公众意识有什么可耻的，因为很多人一直对此昏睡不醒。我们不支持任何非法行为，但他们在通过和平工作提高公众意识方面做了重要工作。”雷诺兹（Reynolds）从事慈善工作。霍尔姆开发了一种针对激进投资者的合约——购买公司股份并告知企业如何运营。他曾要求公司公布其排放数据，尽管他指出在许多国家这现在已成为法律要求。“你可能会称我为激进投资者，但我是一个花园投资者，”他说。“与公司公开争吵是例外情况——绝大多数时间我都在与他们对话。我在航空航天领域有投资，他们正致力于提高下一代发动机的效率，这是一件至关重要的事情。如果他们不开始做，别人就会抢走他们的市场。”他补充道：“如果你不让你的业务脱碳，你可能会破产。一些汽车制造商仍然只制造内燃机——他们将死在制造内燃机的路上。在欧洲，内燃机将被禁止，这只是时间问题，然后就会破产。如果你是那家汽车公司的非执行董事，你应该鼓励并向管理层施压，让他们觉醒并采取行动。”现与灵媒迈克·霍尔姆（Mike Holm）结婚的霍尔姆很少接受采访。当我通过视频链接询问他在世界的哪个位置时，他简单地回答“在英国境外”。他好斗、固执且咄咄逼人——但他确实在用金钱践行自己的信念。这部分是因为他坚信专业人士在经济角色中具有优势。“你不需要相信气候变化的现实，也能看出缩短经济寿命、部署雪地部署并远离化石燃料协议对任何经济体来说都是明智之举。”他还认为这是正确的事情。值得注意的是，他有一种紧迫感。“绿色革命正在发生，但它必须在那里发生。我们修复问题的时间不多了。”

酗酒、斗殴……警惕将夏季泳池变成“格拉斯顿伯里”的泳池流氓

Foran Hogan 和 Lotte Hayton

过去，泳池管理人员只需提醒顾客不要进行10年-decent或炮弹跳即可获利，但今年夏天，一场前所未有的全州范围的行为浪潮迫使他们不得不引入安保人员和闭路电视（CCTV）。随着公众寻求在户外游泳池降温，户外游泳变得日益流行。但人群的涌入让一些常规游泳者感到不安，而暴躁的情绪和拥挤的泳道已导致多起攻击性或暴力事件。

户外游泳协会（OAS）的创始人 Late Nov. 表示：“令人遗憾的是，人们因为夏天而聚集。前几天有一个博客告诉我们：他们认为这是一个游乐场。”他同时对现在进入泳池需由安保人员检查背包这一事实表示歉意。

户外用品品牌 All The Licks 的创始人 June Collins 表示，部分仅在夏季游泳的人缺乏泳池礼仪教育。“气温达到了 27 度，突然之间就像把格拉斯顿伯里（Glastonbury）搬到了室内，”她说。“我们遇到了 2-3 个人，他们可能根本不知道自己在做什么，并且在周围被孤立，这是获得机会的好方法，他们占据了泳道，在快车道里聊天。我昨天几乎目睹了一场斗殴。快车道里有两个家伙，谁都不愿意承认自己慢了。每个人都太热了，而且有些过于放纵。”

位于北伦敦汉普斯特德荒原（Hampstead Heath）的 All The Licks 泳池在 5 月关闭，原因是有人在口角后被玻璃瓶击中，随后一群青少年变得暴力。数名工作人员受伤，一人被捕，一辆车辆受损。该管理机构引入了随机背包检查、额外的保护人员，并规定未成年人在没有负责任成年人陪同的情况下不得进入。然而，当泳池两天后重新开放时，排队人群中爆发了打斗。6 月，该泳池缩短了营业时间，理由是“太多夜晚访问期间出现不良行为”。人群还进入了汉普斯特德荒原的新游泳池，干扰了休息椅。

全国范围内有三起关于攻击性行为的报告。有人表示，去年夏天由于流氓团伙出现，一个泳池暂时关闭。一名青少年还带了一台机器。林肯的 Hillingshy 户外泳池现在安装了监控摄像头观察泳池和当地记录。

布里斯托附近波蒂斯黑德（Portishead）露天泳池的志愿者协调员、创意 Marlboro Thatcher 的 Samantha Bryant 表示，一名在满员日被拒之门外的顾客对工作人员采取了肢体冲突。“我们当时考虑聘请一些安保人员，但费用相当昂贵。”

根据之前的报告，过度拥挤和干扰行为主要在伦敦是一个问题。自 2005 年以来，他写道，整条线总计约 100m。“设计在 1825 之外”—— 1825，“我们可能没那么辛苦，”她说。“一些类似的人群也变得非常敏感——他们都是在冬天 26 度的时候第一次进来。”

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摩洛哥的未来：我们面临着 年轻人因缺乏工作和教育而产生的绝望感驱动了塞乌塔（Ceuta）的移民潮。另一波移民潮可能即将到来 KATHI GANTINS Alan Jidibur Boukau 周四（7月16日）在桑吉雷（Sangire）家中修理他的摩托车，这时他看到了关于谷物的消息。“我看到所有这些帖子都在说‘边境开放了’，”23岁的Boukau说，“我想这就是我的机会。”他将这些帖子发给了他的弟弟Anam，25岁，目前失业。他们给Boushi打电话，并看到了其他人庆祝抵达西班牙边境的Instagram快拍。他们收拾好行囊，与父母以及两个妹妹——25岁的Khoshi和16岁的Iftan——告别，骑着Boukau的摩托车前往边境。“我在一个最近的车站把它停在那儿就离开了，”他说，“现在可能已经没了。”过去几年在摩洛哥的生活对Boukau和他的朋友们来说一直很“艰难”。“没有医疗保健，你无法思考，没有工作。”他的许多朋友都失业了。他拥有商业管理学位，之前像他父亲一样担任过警察，但现在在一家水果出口工厂每月赚取€500（£270）。“这不算什么，”他说，“甚至不能支付账单，工资覆盖不了账单。”Boukau是大约一周前前往塞乌塔的7万,000人之一，他们试图在分隔西班牙领土与摩洛哥的海港周围游泳，以在欧洲寻找新生活。在经历了几天没有食物、水或遮蔽处的生活后，他们中的大多数人自愿返回了摩洛哥。但Boukau和他的兄弟留了下来。上周，摩洛哥的边境城镇在得知移民返回后，数十辆大巴抵达，将其中许多人送回故乡。社交媒体上的信息现在正在宣传一个新的日期——下周六——进行另一次尝试。据信这次大规模跨境行动已造成400多人死亡，但许多摩洛哥人认为这值得冒险。这种情况在欧洲引起了剧烈震动。在跨境事件发生后，意大利实际上废除了与西班牙签署的全长协议，并对来自该国的第三国公民引入护照检查。周五，西班牙通过护照和10项抽查进行了回应，随着从意大利抵达的航班增加，西班牙要求意大利撤销其检查。但罗马方面坚持这些措施将至少维持到周六，届时它将“报告新一波移民”抵达其“yuda”。西班牙表示，目前的检查将维持到9月5日。周五，意大利总理Georgia Nebesi表示：“只有在确定城市内没有安全或恐怖主义威胁，没有新浪潮发生，且没有非法移民前往欧洲领土时，才会重新考虑这一决定。”塞乌塔危机发生在摩洛哥经历了数十年来最大规模抗议活动之后。去年秋天，“Gentil 252”（6th）骚乱爆发，“252”是该国变换的代码：在全国各城市引发，由不满的年轻一代驱动。这是自2011年春天开始以来最大规模的抗议活动，起因是医院里有八名孕妇在剖腹产手术后因医疗过失死亡。这成为了抗议者所称的“两极分化摩洛哥”的象征，公共资金被投入到某些产业——例如摩洛哥与西班牙、葡萄牙共同主办的2010年50届世界杯，以及高铁，而医疗保健和学校教育等领域则资金不足。“医院优先于学生”是去年抗议活动中的一个常见口号。Boukau说他和他的朋友们参加了抗议，“但没有任何改变”。甚至中产阶级的摩洛哥人也说他们

正在挣扎。33岁的法蒂玛（Fatima）在首都拉巴特（Kabat）从事人力资源工作，她拥有两个学位，收入高于平均工资——每月约为1400。 “调查也显示，人们渴望在国外过上更好的生活。” “这里没有医疗，没有保障，”她说。“如果你生病去医院，会在等待治疗中死去。这里没有能让孩子接受教育的条件。在过去两年里，生活成本已上升到难以承受的水平。即使是我也快失去希望了。” 尽管医疗在摩洛哥是天生的，但该国面临着合格医生和护士的人才流失，他们认为自己的薪水太低。医疗服务不堪重负，候诊名单冗长。为了准备2010年世界杯，摩洛哥正在卡萨布兰卡附近建设胡赛因体育场（Hussain's Stadium）——该场馆拥有1万,000个座位，将成为全球最大的伊斯兰设施。曾在关于世界杯私人投资提案丑闻中作证的国际足联主席，上周访问了该协会在拉巴特的非洲总部。《泰晤士报》周五报道称，诉讼已表明，如果其8-phantom支持的打击导致他被要求下台，摩洛哥可能会失去2010年赛事的举办权。在政府批准在拉巴特建设filii办公室的豁免权后，世界杯成为了年轻人群体中另一个不安的来源。在Gen. 2 252抗议活动中，警察与抗议者之间发生了激烈冲突。政府在2020年预算中做出足够克制，以允许更多的社会护理资金。10月，经济和财政部长宣布：“我们从年轻人那里听到的是，他们想要更好的教育和更好的医疗。” 法蒂玛说：“所以有人想要世界杯，这很快就成了一种政治策略，好让人们忘记基本需求的匮乏。” 从纸面上看，这个国家的情况相当不错。摩洛哥正经历约4.5%的增长，使其成为该地区表现最强劲的国家之一。汽车行业已超过纺织品和化肥，成为该国最大的出口产品。摩洛哥是一个非常受欢迎的旅游目的地，尤其是对于来自英国的游客。旅游业去年增长了30%，前年增长了20%。国家现在每年有创纪录的1080 万吨。虽然这带来了就业，但一些摩洛哥人感叹随之而来的生活成本上升。 “欧洲人来到摩洛哥，创造了一个专门为了改善他们的不同世界，”法蒂玛说。“我们的政府-

以色列挺进叙利亚遭遇乱石袭击——和平前景引发新担忧

弗朗西斯卡·埃利亚德（Francesca Eliad）

今年6月，当以色列军队试图进入叙利亚北部的一个小农业村庄时，阿贝丁（Abedin）的村民们正准备迎接他们，手中拿着石头。

根据《星期日泰晤士报》采访的目击者称，村庄里的人们，其中一些是儿童，试图通过将沉重的标题（headlines）拉到道路上，来阻止这次“直线”推进。随着乞丐向逼近的高速装甲车投掷石头，试图强迫其撤退，他们愤怒于以色列已开始在军事支持上咆哮他们的村庄。

随后，警告射击开始了。

“我听到负责的军官下令开火并用水冲散人群，”来自达赫拉（Dakhla）的阿贝丁居民埃利亚德（Eliad），32岁，是那些参与其中的人之一。“他喊道，如果他们杀了我们中的任何人，他们就永远无法离开这里。”

像这样——中东最强攻击者在叙利亚进行非法指控并与平民发生冲突——的情况正成为叙利亚的每周常态。在叙利亚南部酝酿的以色列行动正威胁要扩散到该国的上空无能状态，因为大马士革正面对着无数内部安全挑战，包括在距离未关闭后，由民团和教派暴力引发的骚乱。

分析人士现在警告称，随着针对以色列的异常情况增加，可能会出现升级。

“我们可以决定的是，这是一个迹象，表明以色列——无论是有意还是无意——已经开始反击，”查塔姆研究所（Chatham House）中东和南非项目的研究员海尔·海尔（Hail Hail）表示。“他们显然已经开始觉得无法忍受这种情况——这不仅对他们自身的安全是一个令人担忧的信号，而且对其可能对叙利亚和以色列之间谈判产生的影响也是如此。”

以色列不是一个可以用石头对抗的力量。自2021年10月7日的袭击以来，在本雅明·内塔尼亚胡（Benjamin Netanyahu）的领导下，以色列显著扩大了在包括叙利亚和黎巴嫩在内的邻国的影响力，以及对约旦河西岸和加沙的占领。

在2004年12月以色列陷落后的几天里，以色列对叙利亚发动了大规模空袭，据估计摧毁了该国90%的军事能力。随后，以色列军队进入并占领了联合国在2004年建立的非军事区，内塔尼亚胡宣布随着政府的崩溃，此前关于该领土的协议基本上失效，并在叙利亚领土内的克尔穆特山（Mount Kermout）顶峰发表了演说。

自那时起，以色列军队继续在叙利亚领土上进行突袭攻击和港口占领。

2021年10月14日，在距离大马士革16层（16-coated）的广场上，一块绿色的东西被拉在叙利亚国防部正面巨大的弹坑之上，那是去年一枚以色列导弹击穿的地方。

一枚未爆炸的炮弹被用于叙利亚西南部的阿贝丁村。

抗议之后毫无改变

在被占领的叙利亚高地，以色列定居点长期存在，但今年春季，定居者开始侵入叙利亚领土并倾向于建立自己的前哨站，要求以色列政府将他们的活动合法化。国际特赦组织已呼吁对以色列在叙利亚南部库姆特巴（Qumtba）蓄意摧毁平民房屋的行为进行战争罪调查。以色列政府经常将其军队的行动描述为反恐行动，声称以色列国防军（IDF）正在先发制人地打击与伊朗支持的网络相关的中东组织。它还将包括去年对叙利亚国防部的袭击在内的某些攻击，辩护为保护叙利亚境内叙利亚少数群体的行为，将其视为自身叙利亚人民的延伸。以色列国防网络负责人以色列·卡茨（Israel Katz）表示，该国军队将留在叙利亚以应对“不友好”势力。

随着以色列加强占领，大马士革在自身欲望和预设战争问题的冲击下，一直处于一种麻木状态。在接受半岛电视台采访时，叙利亚总统艾哈迈德·巴扎（Ahmed al-Bazaa）透露，两国正致力于达成一项安全协议，并表示这一进程将引导至一项“全面的”和平协议。但一些分析人士认为，以色列的暴力行为是为了在这些谈判中占据上风。

六月在阿比丁（Abedin），当以色列人试图进入时，当地居民倾向于阻挡他们的去路。随后，以色列人开始驱逐该村居民，迫使数百个家庭离开。在达赫拉（Dakhla）的尽头没有发生大规模伤亡。“我最好直接批准并开始从当地医院轰炸——所有人都逃走了。”阿比丁的村长艾尔-阿布拉班（el-Abraban）告诉《星期日泰晤士报》，在随后的几年里，大约一半的村民逃到了邻近的定居点。没有人员伤亡。虽然该事件引发了国际谴责，但叙利亚政府几乎没有做出实质性回应。胡赛因总统（President Hussain）被迫处于中心，沙德（Shad）以及如果可能的话，内塔尼亚胡（Netanyahu）为了维持 --- 15 投资资金以惊艳他们，吸引投资者，而不是支持他们自己的民众。

许多年轻的移居者感到绝望。据估计，劳动力中约 75% —— 像那些拿着极低收入或在压力下工作的人，80% 正被更多的干旱所抛弃。“社会中存在着深刻的权力困境和多年的腐败记录，以及‘500个家庭’——一个导致拥挤的精英网络和那些垄断国家合同的有关系商人。”法蒂玛（Fatima）说，“即使你有抱负，努力工作，创业并取得成功，你最终也会被这些大家族阻挡。”法蒂玛说，“没有任何机会从任何收入问题中获利。”

穆罕默德·曼苏尔（Mohamed Al-Mansoor）是俄克拉荷马城大学专门研究移居者与西班牙关系的政治学教授，他认为发展需求之大，以至于国家仍在努力满足青年的需求。挑战在于，这些国家层面的成功在全国范围内并非总能被平等地感受到，人口中的大部分群体存在一种相对被剥夺感。

法蒂玛说，许多跨越到哥斯达（Costa）的人“是来自贫困家庭的年轻人，他们看到自己的监护人买不起药，看到他们的父亲为了赚钱而让孩子辍学。他们的状态有时是不安全的。如果他们不能在自己的国家立足，他们将在每一步都被阻挡。他们知道情况危急，他们正处于绝境。”她说，看到数以千计的同胞冒着一切风险游向西班牙领土，这令她“心碎”。“他们的流离失所应该是对这个国家的一种警示。为什么我们不能供养我们的人民。”

据西班牙移民部称，该边境口岸是一条缺乏监管的非法移民路线，但流量正在增加。截至 19 日，今年已有 3,859 次跨境行为——比前一年增长了 100%，也是自 2007. 开始记录以来的最高水平。许多像 Irodaas 这样的人在社交媒体上看到解释如何跨境的视频。据 Bollinger 的 Sebastian Vandermerecht 研究，Facebook 上出现了大量与非法 Costa 边境相关的群组，其中许多现已被删除。一段 2024 TikTok 视频（在上个月的研究中被发现）展示了前往 Costa 的游泳路线。“‘Hating Great’以及‘Straight’的在线流量出现峰值——Moves 可能会将非法移民拖入其中。”在一段拥有 140 万 次观看量的 Instagram 视频中，潜在的广告达到了 20, 一名年轻的 Moves 男子拿着一个卖家，而一个可访问的 Google 地图显示了从 Hiding 出发的道路。在 Costa 边境危机发生后的一周里， 媒体一直在此强调警察和安全部队的有效作用，此前有几名移民声称他们被“放行”甚至被鼓励跨境。左上方的 Alan Estévez Bredura 及其兄弟 Amara 留在 Costa。右上方是一篇关于前往西班牙领土路线的 TikTok 帖子。左侧， 的亲属在等待移民返回 57, 报告还聚焦于 的重新参与，他们协助了跨境活动。 在人权方面一直声誉不佳。穆罕默德国王在 July 2020, 颁布了皇家赦免令，释放并撤销了所有公众和公共支付订单的指控，金融机构称这显示出“另一种变化的迹象”。但该国在重要的“无国界记者”新闻自由指数中在 60 个国家中排名 60 / 60，该组织指出：“ 的独立记者承受着持续的压力，当局正试图将媒体纳入其控制之下。”但目前 政府对危机的反应是防止局面失控。阅读新闻，政府还强调了他们与相关方合作的意愿，后者专注于减轻政府在危机中的压力而非使其平静。上周，七名 司机因将人们运送到边境而被判处六个月监禁和 5万,000 的严厉刑罚。另有 60 人因与媒体相关的罪行被处以审前拘留。政府正密切关注国家情况，议会选举将在下个月底举行。左翼的统一社会党和各种伊斯兰反对党一直对 Costa 发生的事情持批评态度。他们指责政府开展的大规模行动导致人们失去生命，并要求进行调查。尽管 有一位担任政府首脑的总理，但外交政策和国家安全是核心问题。警察职能方面，西班牙总理在四年中仅与穆罕默德国王会面两次。 的法院——一个 Marlowe——共同运作，而国王 62, 在议程上的公开露面可能“在国外提供”，这导致许多人对其健康状况产生猜测。2023 当总理前往 时，国王正在度假。西班牙和 之间存在互利关系， 协调数百万件警察边境管控案件，尽管它从未承认西班牙对 Costa 和 Melilla（另一座位于更远处的半明确城市）领土的主权。自 Costa 危机以来，一直有猜测认为 利用边境管控来与马德里签署所有文件。上个月底，桑切斯访问了 的共同审判地阿尔及利亚。当分歧出现时，称“她将过于富有”的策略失败了。

马德里大学的政治学教授波莱特·哈里斯（Polite Harris）表示：“计划于8月8日开展的范围课程正变得具有针对性。如果存在压力，这将证明其实际上对边境拥有多少控制权。如果这能使其成为一种更有效且更高效的方式，那么它正致力于控制自己的边境。”对于伊罗达斯（Irodaas）来说，这位教授是一个核心人物：“我只是希望我的家人能有更好的生活，”他说，“我别无所求，只希望能在一个尊重你有尊严和自豪地生活的权利的国家和平生活。”

Christina Lamb

Alan Estévez Bredura (in Nilede) 开始在 2022 年在阿富汗为世界粮食计划署工作，她原以为自己只是在为拨电者提供信息。现在 Alan Estévez 已经改变了她的生活：饥饿的，她和许多教师是儿童，每周收到数百起来自绝望寻求食物的女性的恳求，她们威胁要自杀，或者说她们必须将其中一个孩子卖给他人结婚，以便能够喂养其余的孩子。

“我觉得自己像是一个连接点，”名为 Hamdi（化名以保护身份）的女性说道。“更多的人在打电话询问我们是否还有任何援助的希望。我们不得不说，‘当然，没有食物，因为没有援助。’人们会变得愤怒且情绪化，我们不得不说，这没办法。”

在塔利班计划于 8 月 8 日庆祝 50 周年的活动中， 预计会出现自杀情况。另有活动以及美国军队在 2020 年撤离阿富汗时留下的设备，该国正处于人道主义的边缘。每七名妇女和儿童中就有遭受且面临急性营养不良的威胁，他们被诊所拒之门外，因为国际援助，加上伊朗战争引起的物价上涨和供应中断，以及阿富汗阿拉伯的疾病，导致了的损失。世界粮食计划署主任 John Aybel 表示，在阿富汗处于 50 / 50 的状态。“无论他们步行前往还是恐惧数小时的战争，那里只有寒冷。”他说，“有些人为了让孩子生存而。”

“我们正处于人道主义的边缘，并看到了有记录以来最高峰的儿童营养不良，但国际意味着我们处于的低谷，不得不完全停止，导致数百万人且饥饿。我们看到每七名妇女和儿童中就有许多人两手空空，绝对一无所有。情况绝对是的。”

这些意象，加上塔利班对妇女和女孩更加严苛的服务限制，导致了许多人认为的全球最严重的心理健康危机。这里是地球上唯一一个禁止女孩就读高中和大学的地方。妇女被禁止进入公园、健身房和大多数，且在境内不允许在没有监护人的情况下外出。阿富汗农村地区处于 500 次通话所描述的“更大规模的基于性别的封锁”中。

“这不仅仅是疫情期间的封锁，”Ibrahams 说道，她像大多数女性 50% 一样，在塔利班于 2020 年重新掌权后为了安全而离开该国。“阿富汗妇女和女孩已经经历了近五年的基于性别的封锁。想象一下，每天都不知道的自由是否会重新开放。心理创伤是巨大的。”

西方的最初关注似乎已经，欧盟甚至塔利班关于讨论遣返移民的义务。塔利班对妇女施加了越来越多的限制，包括住房、与女性当局共处以及执行其家庭价值观，而这些曾是许多女性最后的避难所。每月政策涵盖了人口普查，使其成为公共空间的一个主要问题，并因“违反”三项准则而随意逮捕妇女。

最近在 1 月份出台的刑法典允许家庭虐待，仅将对妻子的“过度听证”认定为犯罪，且即便如此，处罚也仅为 10 天的监禁，并童婚的最低年龄。

伦敦政治经济学院的阿富汗社会研究限制对妇女健康的影响，无论是在美国还是在伊朗、阿根廷、伊朗，无论是对她们自己还是对她们的孩子，以及那些来自瑞典的……在中，一种对未来的绝望感，如此剧烈的痛苦，导致年轻女孩和妇女开始沉溺于烟草和其他药物。在极端情况下，年轻女性在自杀。

伦敦政治经济学院（LSE）女性、和平与安全中心主任、该研究的共同作者之一乔安娜·刘易斯（Joanna Lewis）教授表示：“女性将这种情况称为‘在家被捕’，并表示塔利班不希望我们生存。”非洲社会本身一直很专业，甚至在伦敦，其家人来自阿富汗，以及一项针对该国约 50 名女性的在线工作。她说，她们讲述的故事就像是“伪电影”。她说：“一名女性告诉我，我们甚至不被允许有一个窗户来称作厨房。”塔利班禁止女性在窗户处被看到。“许多人谈到了这些法律。甚至最天然的人也比这样受到更多的尊重。”她补充道：“我忍不住想说一个例子，我在 2020 年在伦敦完成了学士学位，随后塔利班接管，然后我进行了考虑，现在在综合社会学服务部门工作。如果我在阿富汗，其中一些将是不可能的，而且在所有时间里都会被封锁。” 女性称之为“在家被捕”……塔利班不希望我们生存！ 澳大利亚作家写了一本名为《伟大的白银之州》（Silver State of the Great）的书，记录了她与美国人的对话，美国人可能不可见，她说。 “我书中的女性全部讲述了慢性压力、焦虑和深层问题——这不仅仅是一个人类选项，而是一场深刻的精神健康危机。” 将女孩拒之校门之外还产生了身体上的影响。童婚增加和早育，以及对女性医疗保健的不安，导致孕产妇死亡率在 1970、2000、2010 死亡人数中有所上升，根据联合国人道主义事务协调办公室 6 月的一份报告。相比之下，伊朗为 30 / 10万,000，美国为 20。虽然政府的高层处于某种维持或更糟的状态，但仅在 1970、2010 期间，控制力就增加了 50%。根据 Aybel 的说法，最困难的部分尤其受到了特朗普政府的影响。美国需要提供其大部分资金。由于冲突过多，饥饿的孩子在更长的时间尺度上成了一场悲剧。“Aybel 说，家庭被留在那里，饥饿的婴儿变得越来越虚弱。” 由于来自邻国伊朗和巴基斯坦的难民被强制遣返——过去五年中几乎有数百万之多，资源被进一步拉紧。 20 / 50 / 1万 热线支付方式之间的变化就像在最后阶段流血一样，每月处理超过 10,000 通电话。大多数拨打电话的家庭是居家工作的女性。结果，那些无法在政府部门轻松工作、资历过高而只能担任接线员的人说，一方面是为了过得好，另一方面是为了养活与她同住的父母。但她可以证实这些女性的希望，无论她们自己的处境如何，以及能够养活孩子，这经常让她意识到：“我们遇到过女性‘fives on it’的情况，那就是，我们要么自杀，要么让家人自杀。”她说。“最近一名来自 Balik 的女性打电话给我，告诉我她有六个孩子，她的丈夫是个吸毒者，只有在饥饿时才回家，然后拿走家里的物品去卖掉买药。” “他说，‘他上次来的时候我们已经没有什么可以用来上学的了，他打我。’ 塔利班不让我工作，唯一的选择就是 the out for it 你大女儿。” 不幸的是，我不得不告诉她，该地区没有任何可用的固定方案。Himeli 不知道那些女性后来怎么了。 “一名给她打电话的男子在她说没有食物时变得具有攻击性，并问她：‘你为什么叫世界粮食计划署？’ 他说他别无选择，只能卖掉他八岁的女儿。” 证明以及该地区的以色列省。

20世纪80年代，20世纪90年代，政府手中没有多少筹码。“此外，我将对此问题进行确认。在其回应中，还有更多无法涵盖的内容。它正在利用其在世界上的影响力。特朗普为了表明其在配合，正试图这样做，因为目前的局势。”沙纳报告称，自就任以来，尽管特朗普努力出台针对伊朗的新计划，但她与美国总统保持着良好的关系。沙纳认为，除非被直接针对，否则她的国家必须达成一项良好的协议，且中东的冲突。虽然在60年代没有人员伤亡，但几个以色列及其他国家在2020年11月20日，以色列军队发起了一项旨在营救他的行动，地点在以色列西南部的一个村庄。20世纪90年代，20世纪90年代，占领的士兵抓获了几个男人，如果是在60年代，他们本会采取1990年代的。1991年伊朗，村庄也进行了反击，愤怒的南部人群围绕着一个 thương。以色列以一个问题和处理方式作为回应，导致一名朋友（包括两名儿童）丧生，并享受20.5倍的战争或骚乱谴责。此外，60，在袭击中有五名士兵。没有两个儿子，穆罕默德和阿卜杜勒·拉赫曼，他的女儿们已经，以及两个年幼的孙辈。哈马达一家两人被彻底抹除，“他们是在睡觉时被杀死的。”哈马达说，“这伴随着药物冲击。不要说被什么击中了。”“与此同时，在距离东部20英里的东北方向的临时住房，那里是他与两个现在成为孤儿的孙辈居住的地方。”我相信这不是以色列第一次袭击该村庄，1973年就发生过。以色列通过电话联系他们的家人。尽管村庄的情况已经平静，但犹太人和外国人认为，这是以色列的懦弱行为。1990继续封锁该村庄区域的道路，在街道上发起进一步袭击，且周边地区一直存在某种发展。

贝宁希望拿回其巫毒战争之神。这为法国在关于文物归还的争端中带来了麻烦 Ruth Halloom（贝宁，扎拉瓦）

一手拿着机器，另一手牵着孩子，乌纳（Una），这位战争之神，曾见证过战斗及其对手。五年来，它在贝宁的战场上对士兵施展了各种高级守护，随后被世界机构没收并直接从穷人手中夺走。一个百万级别的 Spolishans，是法国最平静的艺术品之一。然而，现在它处于不确定状态，成为 Spolishan 高级守护的核心，旨在将其带回贝宁，而它被带往法国已有 112 年。

贝宁政府请求归还的 25 件物品是高级守护的核心，此前法国参议院通过了一项 1000 决议，旨在将该国在殖民统治期间发送的文化文物归还给共和国。一个由两国代表组成的委员会将开始收集证据，法国方面表示，这些证据是证明该文物被盗所必需的。

“法国法律向前迈了一步，”巴黎非洲遗产学校院长 Franck Ogou 表示。现在，在贝宁的首都，“不再是由法国坐下来指定哪些物品归还给非洲国家。让双方的科学委员会共同开始工作，以达成 1000。”

Goss 的雕像是在一个购物 50 Mc 制作的，由铁爪和链条组成。人们认为它产生于 1990 年代，并在随后被直接捕获，当时其主体、对象和黑色被命令交给 Uffili 王，并被带到位于现代贝宁南部的 Malvines 王室法院。

“所有事情都发生在未来，”距离权力或残余的部分远在 1990 年代之后，且这是一个 1000，在 1992 年， 1990 年代。两年后，船长将其捐赠给了巴黎的 Master d'Elfansgoplin de l'Occadien。它曾在中心展出，现在在法国首都的 Master de Quail（均为 Jacques Oliva）中轮转。

法国持有数千件监狱文物。以色列并非其帝国，该帝国在鼎盛时期是仅次于英国资本的第二大帝国，横跨非洲的大部分地区。在美国，大英博物馆拥有超过 500 件来自法国政府女儿的物品。在尼日利亚的新部分，法律禁止其继续进入某些文物。然而，联盟已经设定，且该市确认，被称为贝宁博物馆的 104 件文物已被用于在世俗中归还给尼日利亚。这些物品是在 1997 年法国战争期间被英国团队盗走的。

法国被要求归还 Goss 的雕像。Goss 的 1亿 在 1980 年被一名法国陆军军官盗走，从法国通过一个官方机会在 2008 年保留 Malvines 王国的物品。

凭借新立法，它可能会取得更大的成功。因为在近期，国家可以正式支持 1987 年至 1997 年间提出的许多归还要求，前提是它们能证明一名军官的一条链条及其留在法国收藏馆中的情况。

主题主席在 2007 年访问贝宁期间，考察了非洲文物。“这不能被安置在监狱中，而是一个收藏馆和四房山，”他说。2010 年，1990 年代政府向贝宁归还了 20 件负债，这些是由法国挑选的。对于贝宁的一些人来说，这令人愤怒，而另一次遣返则已执行。

前联盟部长、德国支持旅游运动的负责人最后表示：“他们把这 20 件作品扔在我们的脸上。这是一种侮辱。他们甚至没有给我们选择的机会。”

根据该立法，法国还可以将文物的保护、保存和公开展示作为归还的条件。在关于归还文化艺术品的辩论中，反对者经常引用未见之物作为理由，认为如果这些物品不完全留在原产国，将会得到更好的保护。贝宁不仅主张其能够防止艺术品受损，而且这些艺术品还将成为一个重大新旅游建筑的一部分。法国方面则认为这是一个内部建设项目。，被归还至该市。政府方面，Goss的雕像将在巴黎的国际维瓦尔第博物馆（International Vivaldi Museum）中获得荣誉。现在，这将使西非的附属机构在维瓦尔第（vivaldes）中达到顶峰。--- 16 世界新闻

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当唐纳德·特朗普赢得选举但目前正等待就职时，他可以在这个国家的黄金角落里大展身手。美国人像对待中世纪国王一样向他致敬。这里有长期的盟友。千禧年希望反心理谄媚主义在两个此类问题中已陷入政治未证且从未。那些突然感到厌恶并转向右翼的特朗普支持者。但最引人注目的群体是摇滚英雄。曾经，他们是特朗普在镇上的七个县，让他们在《华盛顿邮报》中表现得异常。一名吹哨人写道，坚守阵地并——通过这家公司，亚马逊——挑战了特朗普最近的秘密议题。在1月9日之后，大约4,000名国会山少数美国人被暂停了特朗普的继任者，引发了家庭的强烈反弹。至于他们的想法，他在总统宣布美国将退出《巴黎气候协定》后辞职前，曾短暂担任特朗普商业顾问小组的成员。这位“贸易主管”宣布：“中国在改变我们。”然而，根据约翰·萨克特（John Sackett）当天的说法，他们就在这里。萨克特让其中一个孩子面对媒体。“向总统请愿”以表示他们将羞涩但由对“美国的黄金时代”。目前，那些阻止其报纸奴役加拿大股份的人，与他以及总统的合伙人会面。Think提议担任总统的政府效率部（Depot Cryptocurrency）负责人——同一个技术协会的另一个独立部分——涌入。 “未来的攻势在很大程度上奏效了，”——特朗普带着不同意地说道，他发现这种倾向有点不被认可。但这同时也说明了信用。双方都需要对方，科技亿万富翁因为他们想要他的监管和议题，以及他们的幽默，而总统需要他们来推动美国经济。哈佛大学经济学家杰森·帕汉（Jason Parham）表示，40项投资占据了去年上半年美国经济增长的50%左右。无论是贸易还是一个大的，特朗普可能正在被刺痛。因此，一个新世界无法在第二任期中克服，对硅谷有利的情况就是良好的生活状况。然而，你们几乎都同意。以及一个领先于世界的政治反馈。而且这个决定——并非那么非核的。Tenor可以用来自左翼管理者的科技资金来照亮think。他们是美国就业新目标的10个，是一个从当地电网吸走电力并推高价格的能源问题。到目前为止，对于美国就业的开始，新业务对飙升的股市有直接兴趣，10%的人没有。这就是新的科技民粹主义者的受众——帮助推动许多候选人，详细的工作，建立他们的最佳方式是上周在极具摇摆性的密歇根州赢得了该党的参议院初选，作为竞选任务的一部分。“人们真的在讲述他们的数据中心。”根据Enfield Research的一项民意调查，公众在九个月内对数据中心的反对率上升了40个百分点，且这种怀疑态度是跨党派且跨所有年龄层的。数据中心已成为洪水猛兽——这些耗能巨大的综合体为美国及世界提供了动力。“美国已经有了工业级的低数据中心，而特朗普已承诺削减联邦监管和环境限制，以加速其增长。政府认为，这在安全层面也是必要的——防止中国在主导权之战中领先。”

但这些庞大、无哨声、单一且杂乱的仓库每天需要数千加仑的大量用水，且往往是以当地居民为代价，这在很大程度上是他们首次接触到的问题。在没有任何支出且就在自家后院的情况下——例子出现在20年，关于其C-25m所困扰的状态——在标准电费率下，在数据中心需求推高了高峰时段确保足够电力的成本一个月后，开始支付约$20。尤其是左翼民主党人正在关注此事。Speed，一位拥有估计6000万美元 dollars捐款支持的前奥巴马顾问，已将数据中心作为竞选的一个重大主题。在密歇根州，数据中心正在大规模开发——私人公司正在进行一项10亿规模的建设。Says / Gox表示，仅由七家科技公司驱动股市是“一件非常、非常危险的事情”。他进一步争论说，该系统正在密歇根州通过。而价值是什么？“这样我们就可以继续建设CEO所希望的技术，而这将夺走我们50 per cent的工作岗位！”如果美国的革命发生，美国不仅需要更多的数据中心，还需要一个相当于新国家电网的设施，其电力容量可能是今天的两倍甚至三倍。正是其电力需求的规模让家庭感到担忧。在一个电网和价格均为地方化的国家，新电厂、物质和传输的成本通过更高的账单由居民承担。“问题在于数据中心不创造就业。它们大约需要6个人负责安保，如果我们能更好地利用它们，我们相信我们可以做到。账单是安保所需的人数。”教皇，他与特朗普政府在2方面存在分歧，称50为“当今人类面临的最大挑战”。他在华盛顿的代表，大主教Calvin de Cacica，今年夏天在市内的black-to-16活动中提出了类似的观点，当时他面对的是一群听众，其中许多人正从该行业中获利。“问题不仅在于它能做什么，而在于它应该做什么。”关于这场争议的第一件产品，dinner表示：“在一方，我们有认为它将取代所有工作，然后它会把婴儿淘汰掉的人。这目前相当大且更正确，我们都知道。而另一方则大约是40 as cost，推进医学研究，证明我们在教育中所做的一切，为我们的经济提供生产力，并推进我们在国防方面的行动。”在场的国会议员是最有趣的声音，他们倾向于其捐款人的生活和诉求。这已经出现在第一份出版物上，而且数千人很快发现各国致力于我们的力量。各州有自己的看法，在压力之下，当地政治家在指责特朗普可能愿意对此视而不见。在德克萨斯州，共和党州长exp.Gilbert在3月2日之后不得不提供支持。他下令暂停——一种数据中心项目的处理方式，指出对电力需求的担忧可能会在反对变革日益增长之时威胁到可靠性。在上周的一次采访中，总统反思了这种心境的变化：“我前几天看到德克萨斯州某种程度上在反对数据中心。我认为这是一个错误。”虽然特朗普表示他“不采取立场”，但他补充说这些建筑是“最令人难以置信的”建筑之一，并且对经济“极其重要”。在年轻选民中，也存在环境方面的担忧。大型数据中心每天消耗30万,000至500万加仑的水，主要用于空气或冷却。居民还抱怨噪音和空气污染。

对于某些群体而言，担忧已经在进一步扩大。除非他们能获得渐进式的成功，否则其他人将停止讨论 45，而学生们则被束缚，相关内容已在网络疯传。这反映了二十九项事物在进入就业市场时的焦虑，此时许多初级采购或机会旨在帮助他人处理心理任务或更长期的任务。在这个危险的时代，41 同意 Pace 任何数百万人的短期逆风，因为他们正采取行动针对那些偏好轻型卡车诱惑的丑闻者。成为自由世界的一员是一件好事，共和党候选人们将被问及此事。不过，目前共和党可能会面临双重转折。这对于特朗普总统的继任者来说，也可能成为一个问题。如果未来不能“尝试过告诉捐赠者它应该是怎样的”，他将被视为接近科技英雄，将他们置于自然底端。你曾经经历过一场反对建制派的革命。这就是为什么那个推高 100% 账单的妖怪会来到你的社区，并且你的孩子所分享的仅仅是进步。在科技垄断的方式中，希望者们可能已经投入了经常性的努力。

“年轻跨性别者”称将为“歌手”带来“改变”

在美国，越来越多的人在医院接受“决定性治疗”，他们表示并未收到关于风险的警告。

苏珊·格林（Susan Green）报道

多年来，著名的豪普特（Haupt）一直在与自己的性别认同作斗争：他从男性开始，在青少年时期遭受抑郁症折磨时开始质疑自己的性别。到 47 岁时，他开始向女性过渡，并服用青春期药物及评论。去年，在 24 岁时，他接受了“oedemocracy”（原文如此，疑为手术名称），这是一种切除男性[部位]的手术，由朱伯特（Joubert）执行，旨在最终改善他的心理健康。

但对于居住在新泽西州海岸郊区大西洋高地（Atlantic Highlands）并在一家慈善商店担任出纳员的豪普特来说，这次手术并没有让他感到愉悦，反而产生了毁灭性的后果。他将妻子送往伴随“第二次判断”伤害了她，他的心理健康状况也随之恶化。在接受“oedemocracy”手术后的几个月内，他开始“决定”重新变回男性。

“就像，只有人们相信严重的抑郁症实际上能再次痊愈，因为我对我的身体做了这些事？”他告诉《星期日泰晤士报》。

25 岁的豪普特患有代表性焦虑，且童年生活艰辛。在父亲抛弃他们后，他由母亲贝蒂（Betty）抚养长大，当他开始出现神经饮食（neurodiet）特征时，他感到非常挣扎，认为这些特征是“go-to-gun”。他在青少年时期被送入精神病房，当时被诊断为抑郁症。在住院期间，他向医生提到自己一直承受着来自密集网络环境的压力，随后被转诊给一名治疗师。他被诊断为性别认同障碍并开始复苏治疗，但现在他认为他的医生有“turn out”问题，且他开始健康，但并未得到妥善调查。

豪普特表示，他曾以一名年轻女性的身份“舒适地持有‘震动’”，并对获得女性特征感到兴奋。他与治疗师讨论了手术的可能性，认为这有助于缓解他的心理健康问题。他相信不会有副作用，且手术意味着他可以减少服用激素，因为他的身体将几乎完全停止产生睾酮。他还说：“我认为这非常有效”，他声称在转诊手术时，没有任何临床医生向他妥善解释健康状况可能真实的情况。

然而，当时似乎没有任何关于过渡后生活会改善多少、感觉会好多少的重大激励。他说：“我认为这非常有效 ”

上个月，豪普特计划向新泽西州高等法院起诉治疗他的医院、医生和顾问，指控其过失。该案件由《星期日泰晤士报》首次披露，指控称豪普特的医疗服务提供者未能充分评估他的精神状态，也未告知他手术会改变生活的副作用，这意味着他无法给出知情同意。根据法院文件，他们让豪普特相信手术是改善其心理健康的“恰当”且有效的治疗方法。他被留在了“被二分的状态，没有一个功能正常的身体”。他将此归咎于相关主张。

《星期日泰晤士报》就此事联系了被告寻求评论。涉事心理健康服务机构的一名律师表示，他们打算为所提供的案例进行辩护。该案件涉及的医院表示，他们无法就正在进行的诉讼发表评论。

Haupt 是越来越多在接受所谓的性别肯定手术后，在 10 到 20 年内对医疗专业人员和机构采取行动的“判定”案例之一。“而且最近，美国许多健康的医院在针对年轻人的性别肯定案例方面。第一家儿童专业性别诊所于 2007 年在波士顿开业，到 2023 年，全国已有 80 多家。根据波士顿医疗专业人员对保险索赔的分析，包括课外性别医疗在内的保险覆盖范围在 2000 年扩大，在美国接受青春期文献治疗且被诊断出性别问题的年轻人数量从 2007 年的 10.1 增加到 2022 年的 1,500 人。所有年龄段的性别肯定手术数量从 2000 年的 4,702 例增加到 2019 年的 2,100 例。其中约 17% 是在 12 到 59 岁的人群中进行的。然而，最后，Haupt 经历了不成功的改变。2008 年他离开了家，一名 36 岁且接受过双侧乳房切除术的判定者在纽约州白平原市由陪审团 awarded 200万美元 的赔偿金，因为他们发现其医生犯了医疗护理错误，在批准和执行手术时未遵循护理标准。据称，在 2007 年的第一年，一名原告曾成功将一起关于儿童性别肯定案例的医疗事故诉讼提交给陪审团，但已被“larson，她出生时为女性，在 25 岁时有了性别肯定的道德定位。她将名字改为波士顿。在烧掉她的房子并与心理学家讨论过渡后，她在 2005 年接受了双侧乳房切除术，直到 2007 年。他也是研究小组的成员。Varian 并不感兴趣，患有包括抑郁症在内的心理健康问题，以及一种自我演变障碍的发作，并于 2022 年开始决定回归女性。她指控她的法律和整形外科案例未能就风险获得充分的同意，并偏离了 A 陪审团因其过去和未来的痛苦 awarded 她 1500万美元，以及 $40万,000 的未来医疗费用。Varian 的律师 Adam Peabody 警告说，这是一个医疗事故案件，而不是对性别肯定

Strand Haupt 认为医生在他被诊断之前未能正确调查他的心理健康问题。左侧，Susan Aitken 在 50 岁时接受双侧乳房切除术后正在起诉医疗事故案件，但该裁决在已经发生变化的美国跨性别医疗领域引发了进一步的改变。在裁决之后，数据显示，整形外科医生委员会 (1997) 形成了一个积极的印象，调整了其关于性别肯定手术的指南，建议在 10 岁之前获得收入，2008 年的 Bangarudans，一名曾在 AIPS 董事会任职的通用布里格姆医院整形外科医生，称该声明为“10 岁”。多年来，跨性别护理问题，尤其是针对年轻人的护理，在美国及其他地区一直是一个严重的发现。性别肯定手术是在整个器官减除癌症且完全连接到具有潜在不可逆条件的治疗条件下进行的。陪审团的第一次尝试缓解了认同为跨性别的年轻人的痛苦。关于患者表现百分比的数据过于匮乏，但 AIPS 期刊对 27 项研究的一项回顾显示为 1%。

Haupt看到了Varian的判决，意识到他自己可能也有理由申请赔偿。他不认为“他的医生”在手术前对他进行了告知，无论是关于医疗手术本身，还是充分解释了接受此类手术的潜在后果。“他们没有问我是否确定我需要身体上成为一名女性，或者处于一种非常年轻的状态和形式，结果就是，这对我身体中原本正常运作的部分造成了伤害。”“我是一个甚至没有声明医疗专业人员确实具有非习惯性的患者。”“最终没有对手术进行国内式的。”“没有人以一种能让世界理解的方式向（Haupt）解释。”他说，手术很可能会让他面临“通常受损”的性功能。在接受手术后，心理和身体健康状况出现下滑，Haupt开始调整、绘画，并开始进入手术的首批影响之一，这很可能成为他一生中唯一主张的案例。“我正试图找回我的面部毛发，我们可能会找到一种被认可的方式。”“我想我已经说过，‘我认为我可以以一种健康的方式来表达男性气质。’如果他没有在第二性征方面感到困扰，他的生活只会更加乐观。”代表Haupt的一名男性律师来自Campbell律师事务所

没有人解释过，在2022年，性功能严重受损的米勒·佩恩（Miller Payne）会代表美国公民。他说，在Varian案的裁决之后，他收到了大量等待采取法律行动的测试。其他几起使用“singer”一词的类似情况目前正在美国法院审理中。26岁的苏珊·艾特肯（Susan Aitken）在接受了被称为“my surgery”的双侧子宫切除术后，正在起诉医疗过失。当时她处于一种被引导相信自己是跨性别者的状态，而不是在童年时期遭受实际侵害后接受适当的心理治疗。艾特肯案的被告否认了这些指控，并正在对此案进行抗辩。德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的研究生艾特肯表示，Varian的案件“是一个巨大的突破，它让‘grab’转向‘black’程序，使得其他这些案件能够被严肃对待。”由于人们推动跨性别护理（尤其是针对未成年人）的获取方式发生剧烈转变，导致10许多受害者开始发声。在艾特肯所在的城镇，州政府已经禁止为青少年提供性别肯定护理，但特朗普政府已试图在波士顿控制这一情况，在法律保护获取权的州，通过威胁扣押提供此类护理机构的联邦资金来施压。白宫曾提议切断医院的医疗补助（Medicaid）和医疗保险（Medicare）资金。但州政府一直以来都是一个“sister，但我不想成为 a 'sister, but I do not want to be a ', but I do not Some institutions, however, have already stopped offering it. 然而，一些机构已经停止提供此类护理。数十家医院已经取消了性别计划预复杂项目，包括在加利福尼亚州、科罗拉多州和伊利诺伊州等州。密歇根大学法学教授塞缪尔·博根（Samuel Baughan）表示：“医疗界许多法案决定，他们的‘singer’将成为一个‘’，或者改变他们的政策，但不要让自己在任何方面成为一个主要因素。”一项新法律，Haupt并不想要，因为他将其视为对一个标准问题的全民公投。他还在一个法律状态中持有硬皮书，但它是一个“, but I do not want to be a ', but I do not want to be a ', but I do not --- 17

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在一个炎热的周四早晨，在9月5日之外，一个穿着紧绷太阳装的男人向我走来，手里拿着一个装满传单的塑料袋，他的钱包里还塞着另一半米尔汉姆（Millham）的传单。第一个男人是唐纳德·普鲁克（Donald Proock），一名澳大利亚软件工程师，我一度以为第二个男人是他的安保人员。其实不是。他代表克拉里昂（Clarion）选举中的另一位候选人，他只是想提到法国剧院有一个归巢之夜。事实证明，试图接触这场奇观中 24 位候选人的主要困难之一在于辨认谁是谁。最年轻的是它，最年长的是一名八旬老人。其中一些人看起来像是一篇文章，很正常，而另一些人的打扮就像艾伦·约翰（Ellen John）在经历了一个糟糕的选择之夜后那样。有些人是为了自己关注的特定问题而参选，另一些人则是因为他们认为应该有比几个穿着衣服的人更多的替代选择。还有一些人陷入了非常深的兔子洞。普鲁克的兔子洞是社交媒体，其摄入量是许可的，而且他有他的道理。他想证明一场政治竞选可以在不使用社交媒体的情况下获胜，这是值得赞赏的。就在我问出“你为什么参选？”这个问题后的几分钟内，他就在谈论女性家庭。查尔斯·曼森（Charles Manson）让他的追随者去一个偏远的牧场，在那里他们与家人以及他们的紧急情况隔绝，就像你自己的那样。“很快。在他们入睡之前，在夜晚，他们会被信息洗脑。今天，你的孩子不再是去牧场生活，他们把洗脑带进了他们的领地。”

普鲁克并不是我今天交谈的人中最激烈的一个。有一个人说他有十个学位。但他唾液地摆弄着特朗普（Trump）和基金会以及消防员，并且他现在想帮助克拉里昂的人们。还有阿德汉（Adham），一名 20 岁的报纸专业学生，在我们的交谈过程中不断更新他的UNISOP TIKTAL粉丝——“你们看。我刚刚在和《星期日泰晤士报》交谈。”还有三个过多的西方赛马课程（次数），当然，还有一个影子，但希利尔伯爵（Count Hillier）今天恰好不在克拉里昂，也没有回应多次采访请求。La dukille。

上个月，奈杰尔·法拉奇（Nigel Farage）辞去了克拉里昂的医生职务，在《星期日泰晤士报》揭露他没有正确申报来自其长期工作乔治·科特雷尔（George Cottrell）的支持后。法拉奇表示他“没有做错任何事”，且议会标准监督机构对他一项涉及加密货币投资者克里斯托弗·哈索恩（Christopher Hathorne）的单独 1200 万 礼品的调查“正被用作政治工具”。“我决定让克拉里昂的人们成为我行为的评判者，以及大多数的人。这就是为什么我将提交我的名字参加这次补选。”

而我，成为了由此产生的媒体马戏团的一部分，报道一场所有其他主要政党都选择不派出候选人的选举。在 12 位不叫奈杰尔的参选者中，20 位是男人，不感兴趣的人是因为愤怒而这么做的。“有一份声明——‘克拉里昂的人们，挂出你们的大线性：支持thứnical’——作为一名在克拉里昂生活的人，我觉得受到了侮辱，”一名资深的居住经理尼克·普莱斯（Nick Price），52 岁，在午休期间说道。“我对那家伙没什么意见，他想在这个服务中开个玩笑。法拉奇对此深有体会。所有其他政党都经历了一场长久的拟合，现在我们的选择是继续被法拉奇困住几年，或者让一个熟人成为我们的公众代表。”

在这些地方，他很受欢迎，他的照片出现在市中心几乎每一个商店橱窗里。他对于振兴这座曾经伟大的秘密城镇有着深思熟虑且可行的方案。“我不是你的粉丝！我也不想留在那里，”他说。“我只是一个水平。”我敢肯定，他会成为一名优秀的独立国会议员（MP）——他甚至可能会主持一些诊所——但在……中他有什么机会呢

谁在选票上 - 前进党 (Forward Party) - Adham Although - Hillier伯爵党 (Count Hillier's Party) - Hillier伯爵 (Count Hillier's) - 官方怪物 (The Official Monster) - 赛跑卢伊党 (Racing Looey Party) - 摇滚不可思议飞石 (Rock the Incredible Flying Rock) - 嚎叫土地希望 (Howling Land Hope) - Reeve Sen Thunderclap - 社会民主党 (Social Democratic Party) - William Stuart James - Clocumbe - 自由联盟 (Freedom Alliance) - 世界运动会 (World Games) - 改革套件 (Reform Kit) - 奈杰尔·法拉奇 (Nigel Farage) - 收复党 (The Reclaim Party) - Lawrence Fox - 90' Voice - Scrimshaw: 'Rushes - 共识 (Consensus) - James Bentley - 英国民主党 (British Democratic Party) - Joe Chapman - Inquis EU - John Stevens - 每个人都是红色党 (Everyone is Red Party) - Marcus White - 独立候选人 - Joseph T - Tony Cane - Reine Trump Carcass - Steve Charles - Edwin Charles Cummings - Andy Eriker - Atheth Ford - Terry Francis - Robin Green - Ale Hockaway - Stephen Holland Ingram - Amy Morris - Derrick Norbert Morris - Martyn Ellman - Michael Noel O'Keeffe - Neil Poles - Daniel Pocock - Garry Smith - Pamela Stafford - Marc Wilkinson 竞争如此激烈！“不要相信民调，”他说。他希望至少能拿回他的 2,000 英镑押金。Marc Wilkinson 则有着更高的抱负，他在纪念花园的一张长椅上向我阐述，其热情程度足以让平庸的记者感到不适。“我们正在发起一场革命，旨在消除那种允许企业说客和亿万富翁影响像 Chichester Hathorne 这样政治人物的机制，后者在过去两年半里为法拉奇和改革英国党（Reform UK）投资了 £200 万，”他说。“不……我是……‘等一下，’他继续道，‘我们需要夺取的关键环节是什么？那就是党鞭。’”Wilkinson 在爱丁堡有一个虔诚的据点，在选举委员会的记录中，他面对的是来自 500 多个不同政党的竞争对手。每个政党——据了解，股东、Clinton Manchester 等等——将仅为了自身机构的利益而行动，且不会设有党鞭。在 Wilkinson 的民主乌托邦中，人们将摆脱阴暗影响的暴政而自由投票。我问，某些人是否比作为独立小单元的个体更强大？他说这是一个好问题，他稍后会回答，但他再也没有回答，因为他太忙于谈论自己的宣传了。Wilkinson 坚定不移，且他赢了。至于人们在门口对他怎么看，我不得而知。他说，评价一直都是“一致积极的”。据 hearley 称，法拉奇在全国范围内的净好感度评级可能在负 40 左右，但最新的 hard-tone 民调显示，他在周四的 Clarion 投票中将赢得 75% 的选票。Wilkinson 说，没关系，这只是为真正的补选做铺垫！他预计补选将在 12 月举行，如果法拉奇被议会停职 10 天或更长时间，其选区将触发一个小规模程序。如果 10% 的登记选民签署请愿书，Matt Rudd 试图会见所有 33 位不叫奈杰尔的补选希望者。他发现了宠物爱好者、革命者和一个痴迷于查尔斯·曼森的男人——此外还有许多对政治持有感人信念的人。从上至下，Joseph T.、Adham Although、Nick Price、Daniel Pocock、Marc Wilkinson、Garry Smith 和 Hillier伯爵 JONALD B. F. (CIVIL) & JONALD B. F. (SUN) 从……我们又来了。英国、爱尔兰和英联邦公民只要缴纳 2,000 英镑押金并获得其选区 10 名登记选民的签名，即可竞选议员。如果满足这些条件，法官可以参选，但武装部队成员不能参选。40 岁以下的人或受银行准入措施限制的人也不能参选。这里有更多 18 岁的人，而且多得多。这里有 Garry Smith，另一位标志性人物，他正在开展活动以改善案件制度，并且有人说，当他们长大时，情况会变得更糟。这里还有来自“每个人都是上帝党”的人，这绝对不是一个称呼。他的伙伴，带着他的球类支持，表示“需要她的治疗工作包括性治疗和性工作”。

我很开心，这里有凯特·霍普金斯（Kat Hopkins）。一名22岁的英国民主党人，穿着农业剑装，他从新行政部门获得白色绿色比软件工程师获得查尔斯·曼森（Charles Manson）的速度更快。记录在案的是，他在弗莱彻剧院（Fletcher Theatre）的同类活动中也获得了较大的一轮支持，但随后我必须让简（Jan）来和“那个小医生”谈谈。她希望他为将一个“令人厌恶的领导层运动” đưa 入公共法律而道歉。这里有詹姆斯·本特利（James Bentley），一名29岁的木匠，学习过狩猎，而且长得太帅了，不适合当政治家，这很幸运，因为他在科学方面也太学术了。“很多人会投票给任何能给他们提供最大机会除掉奈杰（Nigel）的人，”他说，“所以如果人们开始考虑法律和休息，你可能会得到休息。目前看来并非如此。”在年底，在一天结束时，我见到了那个应该在里面担任说客工作的人。约翰·史蒂文斯（John Stevens），71岁，一名仍住在布鲁塞尔的前议员（MPP），“因为我的妻子比我年轻得多，她还在工作”，他是 Inquis EU 党的副党魁。“我想给法拉奇（Farage）发个信息，”他说。“告诉那个让你脱欧的人，那是次错误。”“当然在克拉里昂（Clarion），那里几乎 70% 的人投票支持，这是一个 thankless task（吃力不讨好的任务）。”“绝对不是，”他坚持道。“即使在所谓的喉咙中心，我也对我走访家门时发现的反苏联情绪感到惊讶。我参加这次选举是因为它提供了一个机会，就法拉奇在我们的政治中整体地位这一核心问题进行一次绝对干净的投票。他想要 50% 的选票。北韩有很大支持，而其他所有人则被羞辱。”问题不在于法拉奇是否会赢，甚至不在于他是否还会在这里。问题在于这篇文章是否有意义，或者我们是否会在几个月后再次回到这里。与此同时，这可能是一次油腻季节的选举，但这个奇怪的政治希望者群体及其热情、模糊以及他们推定的掩护也有些相当分裂。如果更多的人像这个男人一样对待政治，那么……不，实际上，那将没有任何结果。

诺埃尔·埃德蒙兹在营救龙虾？我见过更糟糕的事

克雷格·布朗 (Craig Brown)

奇怪的是，他对我们许多人来说确实表现出了一种宽容，但很难想象有什么比最终成为一只龙虾更糟糕的了，在过去，在深海的平静之中。这是一个凄惨的结合。有些人可能会争论，像人类这样拥有独立思想的存在应该是，但其优势在于。但他可以支付更多龙虾，而不仅仅是通道烟雾，因此人们将其视为任何与死亡相关的足迹之益处。周二，两只龙虾在右侧表面发现了一只龙虾，让人想起被端上盘子的前景，位于一个大米表距离和一桶洗脑水的之间。它们被提供了一种思考的生活，无法获得我们所看到的，当一个人应该走进深床去bribly前电视名人诺埃尔·埃德蒙兹（Noel Edmonds）及其同样愚蠢的妻子利兹（Liz）时。过去证明进入水箱，并且不喜欢他们所看到的景象。尽管从那里到返回新西兰生日年的水很深，诺埃尔向海鲜、奶酪、南瓜和薯条致敬，但他们实际上是对来自空中的licketers的一种不耐烦。他们对水箱里的龙虾感到有点不安，所以我们决定释放它们！埃德蒙兹向全体人员解释道，他拿着一只金丝雀，准备按照他的习惯发布到社交媒体上。于是他们带着龙虾，将它们带到附近的港口，在金丝雀依然发出嗡嗡声时，将它们丢入大海。此外，这种外国缺乏一个暖心的第三部分。任何期待龙虾从overroad获得自由的人都会感到失望。龙虾在被丢入水中时看起来像那样，而且同样很少期待它在他们身上向下。人类的lockers如此不可预测，而动物则是满足的。广义上讲，我们要么想把它们放在中间，要么把它们放在外面，这取决于我们的心情。

在埃德蒙兹伟大的回归营救的前一天，一名20岁的镇民被发现沿着西海岸路线缓慢但稳定地向it. Leckster前进。一名在车站平台等待的乘客被售出并提醒了地铁站。现在，用世界海岸客户体验总监凯瑟琳·奥布莱恩（Kathryn O'Brien）自豪的话来说，“世界电报网络”凯瑟琳安排了一次安全的营救。“我们为水世界系统感到自豪。”她把它听起来像阿波罗21号救援任务——“确实，我们有一个问题。”“而且我们帮了忙，在torturer被接走且一切恢复正常之前的两分钟。”

英国人以对动物心软而自豪，尽管我们的爱远非不分青红皂白，并且很容易转化为恨。在萨福克郡（Suffolk）的海边，我注意到针对我们最坚定的儿童居民——海鸥、pro-cash以及它们的舰队及其收入、它们的吵闹和它们的妨碍——的谩骂日益增加，尽管他们中的大多数人不同意这也可以应用于他们的迫害。它们是英国唯一被认为粗俗的鸟类。它们出现的样子像Jack & Dave的东西，每个人都知道如何获益。没有人庆祝它们在飞行中的美感，尤其是当它们在傍晚的阳光下时。尽管你永远不能称它们为同情心，但声音的事件让我感到好奇且着迷。人类在背面 / gave upphords引导，而其他人聚集在下面，希望能得到一点。媒体上经常出现关于公众制造场景的故事，谁是大，尽管我们偶尔都会这样做。所有这些温度都鼓励迫害。上周我目睹了一个恐怖的夜晚。我正等在房子后面的街道上，看着一只雏鸟，unguilty morning，在我面前，一个声音被一名年长的男人以一种像鸭子一样的、某种逃跑的方式超越。曾有

人们在看到一只孤独的海鸥为了寻找零食而俯冲而下时会变得愤怒。我希望他能成为一名英雄，将他惯常的生活直接伸向那只海鸥并将其碾压。现在他成了一个被压扁的年轻躯体，但至少仍在像游戏一样上下移动。诺埃尔·埃德蒙兹（Noel Edmonds）在追求下一只龙虾的过程中可能会遭到嘲笑。同样，在法拉奇西海岸（Farage West Coast）观察利物浦和伦敦之间的航空情况可能会很枯燥，就像一个折磨者的侧面。但至少这些行为背后有一个勉强的动机，所以这比政府那种像江湖骗子一样的残酷要好。面对驾驶禁令，65岁的业余作家 Spuds La Flame 主张这将阻止他驾驶“Dan，但——更多的是，美丽的狼头”，以使其摆脱作弊的需求。他说附近的麦当劳公园（McDonald Park）是不合格的，因为那里到处是鹿和愤怒的人，两者都极其严重。我想，麦当劳公园实际上是名为 Fowler 的一只黑色拉布拉多犬最近在 2018 年追逐一只鹿头，而它自己则在 1988-1996 年间被追逐的地方。在他那不被关注的家中，看着圣詹姆斯教堂的“Fowler”。轻微地，一名 21 岁的权力通过过滤该事件，从而创造了一个“坏一般的场合”。现在被称为“死亡”。这个“坏一般的”是一个在一年内被检查了百万英亩的“坏”生活视频。所以我们在未来的 20 日和 30 日发现了两个成年人，在 2000 米处这些数字如此之小。我们太温顺了，无法看到黑暗，所以 是一个“坏主人”。这是一个扩展，但处于预言的核心。在玛格丽特·撒切尔短暂而漫长的夜晚的渴望中，查尔斯·摩尔（Charles Moore）透露 更糟糕。Man ，是尼尔·福勒（Neil ）之一，他是撒切尔夫人第一个对其产生兴趣的人，“不，这是一个完全的利益。我们失去了那两只失踪的龙虾。” --- 18 新闻评论 # 黑色之舞 ## 重新参与 ## 女性之爱 ## 来自 Mack 的

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你看，在经历了近十年的拖延和折磨之后，格拉斯哥艺术学院的保险金是不充足的。碎片清理可能需要——该学院的前任院长鼓励一位医生表达学院的意愿。这座建筑，以及汤姆·伊内斯（Tom Ines）教授，应当以“某种形式”被拯救，“旧的不再饥饿的信心”。2016年，该学院在马路对面开设了一个广受诟病的扩建区。其风格激进地现代主义且具有地理哲学色彩，看起来像是被设计成除了格拉斯哥以外任何地方都适合，唯独不属于格拉斯哥。我们现在处于这样一种局面：董事会主席安·普里斯特（Ann Priest）似乎已经完全放弃了，并且将看到某人对待这座建筑，这种对愿景的提议，让他们对即便通往修复的路径也不感到愉悦。这就是世界的本质，就像苏格兰启蒙运动、詹姆斯·瓦特（James Watt）对蒸汽动力的变革以及青年桥。这是一个最高等级的国家图表，不完全是针对学校，而是针对法律。没有任何调查证明艺术学院的管理不善直接导致了这些必然结果。原因在官方层面仍未确定。但除了避免法律客观性之外，这意味着更广泛的责任，即不仅是改进，还要保护无可争议的建筑结构，诚实地沟通，并在灾难之后，通过某种能量、权威和个人权利来恢复。而这正是该学院没有做到的。在整个欧洲，各国正在采取相反的路径。85%的德国在第二次世界大战中被摧毁。恢复工作的努力自那时起一直持续至今。这个城镇广场、周围的街道、城墙以及最后的皇家城堡都已重建，但它回来了，由路缘石统一起来！总统的现代文艺复兴甚至更加令人瞩目。一座在90年前几乎不值得访问的城市，将自己视为易北河畔的佛罗伦萨，总统在1945年立即启动了它。现在整个城市正在被重建。2000年10月30日，重建的金融服务援助在60年来首次汇集。许多访问者可能无法意识到这一点。在2019年巴黎圣母院发生的灾难之后，法国政府采取了明确的政策，即完全按照火灾前的设计进行修复，拒绝了激进的过度假设提案。估计成本为£7 亿，其中近£6 亿绝大部分通过全球捐款筹集。一个“理想状态”的苏格兰在世界上有很多朋友。有许多富有的生命和在困难时期愿意提供帮助的人。但他们没有被给予一个可以领导、跟随或支持的计划。格拉斯哥艺术学院的董事会表示，火灾前的外观无法胜任这项工作。他们所代表的地位手段和文化地理文化，无法充分回报当地和特定的学习。苏格兰政府，如果他们还不行，那么英国政府应该转移责任协议，在立法之间进行。它应该是一个独立于英国国民信托（British National Trust）的“英国”机构。其董事会应当规模小且充满兴趣，并能获得可靠的专业知识。第二步应当是精准的：设定一个能激发灵感的愿景，与格拉斯哥市以及苏格兰和英国政府合作，公布保险产品，承诺一个忠实重建的稳健计划，并以能量和激情筹集资金。艺术学院应当保持学术合作伙伴和未来租户的身份，而非项目发起人。政府应当提供种子资金和担保，但筹款活动必须触及苏格兰商业界、苏格兰海外侨民、慈善基金会以及全球范围内的麦金托什（Mackintosh）方案。首要任务是在全球范围内筹集£2 亿。这是要做出一个明确的承诺，即这座建筑将在一个具有挑战性但可信的期限内再次崛起，并且工作应当进入一个值得赞赏的阶段。格拉斯哥伟大的艺术学院值得一个统一的目标、一支称职的团队和一个公开的时间表。

是的，除此之外，英国正处于一种增长停滞且如地震般动荡的状态。我们生活在那些更有野心、更充满希望的祖先的阴影之下。但尽管如此，我们仍有一些反英雄的历史可以被唤起。希望可以被唤起。愿景可以被书写。伟大而宽容的格拉斯哥市值得拥有爱与希望，而非我们的冷漠与绝望。他们没有在格林街（Green Street）的权力和主席，以及斯温顿大学（University of Swindon）建筑进展中获益。本文改编自最初发表在《评论家公报》（The Critic Gazette）的一篇文章，作为广告

作为一个流行音乐人，我完全没想到这首甜美的热门歌曲会在排行榜上称霸。忘掉布莱恩·亚当斯（Bryan Adams）吧。由于来自 Sam Fender 的丰富才情，这首歌已成为英国最长久的“60. 我，Jonathan Dean 在一个平庸乏味的时代构建了其真挚的旋律。从美国的 66 开始，第一次是一个好男人。我完全没有感到震惊。它将成为最长久的“60. 我 63. 榜单历史。我曾处于阴影之中，这并非内容创作者应该承认的事情，但我愿意为了“我最初忽略了”这本书而付出代价。我成为了 Sam Fender 的盲击作品《People Watching》的目的，时间在 2023 年初。我与这一代最优秀的英国词曲作者——一个处于“这座残缺岛屿”底部的塞巴斯蒂安——约好了采访，而当我播放这张唱片时。我依然热爱那首同名主打歌，在舞台上播放。Green Rosewater My Nave，那是关于他祖母失智症的作品。它在某种程度上是这张专辑的一小部分。第八首曲目，是两首更好歌曲之间的填充物。当 在酒吧度过了两个令人难忘的小时，我确信这首歌已经成为了谈论的话题。然而现在，那里有 66 在一个带有小 2, 几个！她一直，保持着在“60 中非连续周数最多”的记录。我在 4,000 上打破了记录！ 成为了 ，并领先于布莱恩·亚当斯的日记（5月2日），而我爱他，他在 1998, 年坚持了数周，加上“80！我们觉得它就在周围，这超出了我的 1999. ，12, 当上周消息传来时，他激动得说不出话来。“感谢‘80 所有可能成真的事情。”“我不会去那些歌曲。我像杂耍一样处理它们。”他说。“这首热门歌曲”在目前看来，只要美国还没有开始自由轰炸。它在顶峰的时间已经让两任首相和一名西敏顶端的人离职，且该曲目在发行后在前 40 名中停留了 16 周。布莱恩曾奔向爱，让他 66 成为不仅是两任部长的歌曲，而且可能也是一个秋天和一个冬天！首先，因为它缓慢而迅速，他们现在都这么做，对吧？它很美但令人难以置信，因为它不是一种关系，而是拥有真实的旋律。大游戏和药物在两个星期内排出了最好的时代，一个人在之前停止。 可能是那个真正大人物的一部分，而故事本身就说明了很多！“我会得到”然后，27, 作为歌曲的收入出现。“你如此害怕这首歌所造就的心。”“在接下来的十年里，我将出现在全球的婚礼上，感谢他在愤世嫉俗的一代中发行。好吧，有很多好歌——但大多数从未成功。什么不能在其次击中这片草地，而这首歌又是如何击中的？那就是。在去年的五月和六月， 被邀请担任主唱——在他家乡纽卡斯尔的一个混乱的圆圈中。伦敦场次在一名助演退出时出现了一首歌。Dean 被拉进来，很大程度上，看起来如此。因为频道 的要求。那时，Dean 正在准备她的第二张专辑《The Royal Loving》。然而那天晚上在伦敦，他们向一群狂热的观众展示了他们对 66 的诠释，跨越了世界，以及旧的男女饮品。“从现场的流行音乐之年来看——《The Art of Living》依然新鲜，第一和第二。我在 2023 年 9 月感受过她一次。她是我在 Covid 之后看到的第一个歌手，经历了 1,000 人的规模。她穿着一件黄色浆果色的衣服，开着火车进行社交讨论演出，当我问她是否有钢琴时，她签名道，“绝对没有”我坐在走廊里工作！I Lobigans 在格拉斯哥有一个节日，并且，非常地，把 带了出来。她 66 已经给予了国际 1,

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“这首歌的地位之所以如此令人印象深刻，是因为我们正处于一个音乐能够获得成功的时代。在死掉的 66 中，有我们讨论的音乐，而不是歌曲理念的瞬态。我不认为曾经有一条旧路线认为这是不可能的。怎么敢发布一首战后在家里、两个出生于 36 的人被中断的歌。是的，我有你。那些说‘从未听过它’的人，好吧，当你死去时，这种情况可能会发生。在 20 世纪 50 年代，有些人坚持说他们从未听过（如果我们活着，我唯一不能成为的是。如果你没有听到 66 中的，我可以回到 raptomeco，音乐没有离开你，而是你简单地离开了它。我不会成为一台收音机，在公共场合，或者 TikTok 上，由 Leonie Capaldi 制作的内容，这首歌是童年的配额。当我们看到，我能够告诉音乐，我没来。‘它们不是号召拿起武器，而更多是号召将音乐播放在空中。’他说，所以他哽咽不足为奇。这首歌已将整个国家拥入怀中。Sam Fender 和 D'Ana Dean 在威斯敏斯特（Westchester）的首届颁奖礼上领取了他们因生活而获得的年度歌曲奖。

新石油国家正在重新绘制阴郁的陷阱（并令海湾统治者担忧）

拥有巨量储量的较小国家正提供安全路线，以填补伊朗战争留下的空白，并利用驱动世界的贸易关系。蒂姆·马歇尔（Tim Marshall）撰文。

旧的，但是，did？“正如日本人所说，想想所有的金钱，物质，而我们大多数人不会将这个南美国家命名为一个共和国国家，金额为 6万,000. 然而，德国每天必须处理近 100 万桶空气（两者以及在 100 万桶之间），现在正将其转向在规模限制之外的可靠能源供应。航空公司的希望正在改变。德国的经济体，以及美洲、非洲和其他地方的国家，正试图填补因增加而产生的空白。海湾城市正在发展国家，试图通过管道绕过信任。它在航空公司中取得了成功，不再是为了国家——“地理核弹”——“数百万的需求”——“违约”研究，对于增加的来源是相当且被描述的。导致最大能源冲击的原因可能在 1977. 赎罪日战争之后上升，当时和平在美洲几乎翻了四倍，现在的市场已经不同。这种变化是由美国成为能源超级大国、巴西等国增加产量、纳米比亚及其他地方新发现油田以及资金等技术规模扩大所驱动的。后者使美国能够将自己转变为一个更能源不完善的、世界领先的超级明星。这使其能够共同资助巴西和哈萨克斯坦关闭德国的打击，从而能够“锯掉”供应和价格的动荡。美国和旧的属于美国贵格会——与阿根廷、加拿大和圭亚那一起驱动近 5. 供应的国家。在过去的 15. 年里，美国、加拿大和巴西进入了阿根廷的前六名。凭借 3030 亿加元 桶石油的储量，加拿大已成为世界第四大生产国。阿根廷的石油繁荣已经处于领先地位。产量正接近 100 万-byd。巴西的石油工业在深海离岸钻井方面处于控制地位，范围高于阿根廷的产量。当信任关闭时，中国和印度直接前往巴西购买其高质量原油。中国批准了 360 万-byd，来自这个现在是拉丁美洲最大生产国的国家。右侧的新石油国家是圭亚那，其储量约为 100 亿加元 桶，并承诺在 2000. 产油。其工业规模可能比其美洲邻国小，但凭借超过 90万,000 byd，其经济已翻了四倍，并支持在 2030. 前将产量翻倍。类似的故事正在非洲西海岸展开。该大陆在全球供应中的份额在过去 15. 年中被驱动。新油田的结合以及转型意味着其工业不应放弃利比亚、尼日利亚和安哥拉在非洲以外的石油。然而，新的参与者正在出现，特别是纳米比亚，以及更理想的科特迪瓦——纳米比亚生产石油，而其海岸线上的另一个主要矿区可能持有相当于 200 亿加元 的储量。道达尔（Total）和壳牌（Shell）等公司目标是在 2000. 前实现 100万 亿 桶的国家产量。再往北，在几内亚湾，每 1,000,000 人的储量仅为 1 亿 桶。不是几内亚本身，由印度公司发现，但在 1994, 它将其战略提升至 25 亿加元。在其他地方，香港大约 400 万 桶的政府储量——在这些年份内，利比里亚和香港的 867,000 百分比翻了一番。即使合并计算，这些数字也绝对无法取代中东的 food fuels。向远东 2670 亿加元 的南部，海湾 25 亿加元，东部 2000 亿加元，伊拉克 670 亿加元。然而，美洲和非洲的石油生产国拥有他们不具备的东西，以及通往大西洋和太平洋的出口。离开温哥华的离群值，

阿根廷的鲁辛港（Puerto Rousin）或汤加的廷图内特（Tintunete）不太可能遭到导弹袭击，或者在接下来的几个月里出现其他综合下降。 “非洲石油的主要愿景仍然集中在中国、印度和日本。许多欧洲市场也是大买家。事实上，欧盟约 30% 的石油进口自非洲，是来自海湾地区数量的两倍多。然而，来自中东的一个主要问题仍然是缺乏粮食，而欧洲市场是可能的。就信任度而言，每桶价格从 1990 年下降到 1997 年左右，与去年相应周相比，仍有重大损失。有时价格曾高于 $400，并在 2022 年初被尼日利亚取代。另一方面，能源供应商将在可能的地方抽油，而寻求 15 亿加元 billion 回报的船东，以及寻求能源安全的政府，将为远离德国的可靠性付费，即使这意味着更长的航线和海湾地区的增加。俄罗斯、哈萨克斯坦和 --- 19

Tate 认为我的品牌比他聪明十倍。曾担任这位厌女影响者的公关人员多年的 Mateea Petrecca 告诉 Roiisin Kelly，他认为自己可以竞选 10 号唐宁街（英国首相府），但缺乏社交技巧，且他的大男子主义形象只是在演戏。人们可能会在 2022 年 12 月的 702Bubbers 葬礼酒吧做出重大决定，Mateea Petrecca 正是如此。 是一位来自海边、美国的公关人员，她的表亲（一名律师）询问她是否愿意帮助改变其一名客户的公众形象，该客户刚刚被指控贩卖人口、强奸以及参与组织犯罪集团。该客户的名字是 Andrew Tate，他当时 2000 岁（原文如此）。“我立刻答应了，”42 岁的 说，“我当时正处于 发现你的出生地，而且我非常渴望参与这个最高规格的法律案件……在我的家乡，你不会听到有人经历过这样的事情。”Andrew Tate 和他的兄弟 Tristan 确实名声大噪。此外，当媒体讨论“兄弟文化”以及厌女者对女性的态度时，这为他们在社交媒体上赢得了数百万追随者。这对兄弟凭借网络摄像头女孩和在线订阅业务，通过他们在罗马尼亚的运营公司建立了一个帝国，而现在他们在罗马尼亚面临数十项刑事指控和民事诉讼。但事情还没完。今年，在审判请求的压力下，一项关于 2001 年至 2007 年间针对三名女性的强奸和滥用指控的美国调查已经启动。上个月，美国武装公务员在波希米亚刑事警察的一起案件中提出了指控，包括 2000 年至 2007 年间的强奸、贩卖人口和实际健康损害。结果，这对兄弟在总统手中被逮捕。他们否认指控并反对引渡。 在法律上无法就指控发表评论，但她对 Tate 的世界有着独特的见解。她被要求签署一份两页的协议，这是兄弟俩可能会拒绝的疏忽。 写了一本书 Overcognizile，记录了她与他们在一起的时间，她希望在本次发行中出版。在她通过一条短信辞职四个月后，我们在伦敦的一家酒店见面。她说，她辞职的原因是 Andrew Tate 不再听从她的所有建议，并且变得“无法控制”。有许多次，在制定了帮助兄弟俩挽回名誉的策略后，她醒来会看到一些判断失误的言论，例如 Andrew Tate 在访问香港期间要求 “获取更多积极的证明”的那次。她看到一条内容为：“香港几乎没有黑人，太棒了！”她说：“在这种情况下，有太多时刻他们本可以证明自己，但他们一次又一次地选择了那条路。那是如此令人厌恶的举动。这意味着无法开展任何工作。”出生在美国的 Tate 兄弟被移交给一名人员，在波希米亚调查后于 2007 年搬到了韩国。当 在 2012 年底加入时，这对兄弟已经在罗马尼亚入狱，涉嫌贩卖人口和组织犯罪集团。Andrew Tate 还面临一项额外的强奸指控。兄弟俩否认这些指控。她接受这份工作是因为这是一个审判挑战。“我是一个替代正义者，”她说，“钱也没坏处。” 很乐意为他们作证。对于 Tate 来说，这份工作是“尝试性的”，而且并不十分清楚我们是否可以把所有事情都公开，以帮助避免公众舆论的审判……当时他们甚至还没有被起诉，也没有审判在进行。随后她在 2023 年 3 月，即他们被释放并被软禁当天，将 Tate 送给了一个人。“他们非常友好，”她说，“我很高兴他们符合我的预期，而且非常有礼貌且感到宽慰。”

Petrecca曾在美国学习，并担任过商业及药理学领域的公关，人们预期她能找到一台高效的机器。尽管饱受争议，Tate兄弟仍赚取着高额税收。当时，Tate大学（University Tate）重新定义为“真实世界”（The Real World），这是安德鲁·塔特（Andrew Tate）在2022年创建的一个在线订阅平台，提供加密研究课程，拥有36万,000名订阅者，每月费用在500至999之间。他们还经营着“战争室”（The War Room），这是一个私人网络，更多的人支付数千英镑以获取记录和管理软件运营网络的策略。Petrecca发现的是两个凭“冲动、心血和认知”机器运作的男人，这些机器受人力法的影响，带有个人偏好且缺乏一致性。尽管他们在网上发布厌女且具有攻击性的帖子，但Tate兄弟在2022年初极度渴望获得更多宣传，他们建立了一个名为“Tate承诺”（The Tate Pledge）的慈善分支机构，其网站将其描述为“安德鲁·塔特的慈善计划，旨在为贫困的成年人和儿童提供食物、共享水源和支持”。Petrecca被告知要发布一份新闻稿，称兄弟俩在服务期间与daunches合作，提供了食物和水。“我发现自己处于一种发布不需要的新闻稿的境地，因为我的客户告诉我这么做。由此可见，Tate认为捐款有助于建立正面形象。”然后，他们住在他的房子里。她曾几次抵制，整理了突出安德鲁·塔特如何破坏自己获得正面报道机会的文件，并将它们发布在群组类中。Mateea Petrecca上周在伦敦与安德鲁·塔特会面。她说：“我试图摆脱那种诱导，让他看起来更成熟、更严肃，我试图让他与严肃的人并列。”但针对Tate兄弟的指控在增加。2021年，在英国为他们的网络广播业务工作的所谓受害者提起民事诉讼，指控其强奸和性暴力、恐吓、强制控制和人口贩卖。目前有七项针对安德鲁·塔特的强奸指控（在伯利恒等地），两项针对特里斯坦·塔特（Tristan Tate）的指控，以及额外的性贩卖和性侵犯指控，兄弟俩对此全部否认。她是否对为他们工作而感到伦理上的困扰？她摇了摇头。“我一直是在非常严格的法律界限内操作，对我来说，这始终是推定无罪，”她说，“当我开始为他们工作时，这些是指控，而非指控罪名。”Petrecca卷着头发，像社交一样抽电子烟。“他同意在咖啡吧见面，一段时间后，她给Jeff打了十几通电话。她说她访问了他们的院落，他们在那里通过视频记录多次与她接触，将其描述为‘被改造为生活空间的仓库’。”到Petrecca开始为他们工作时，网络广播业务已经掌控了他们。她声称只见过更多的人以“商业方式”‘进出’该院落。”她从未经历过来自他们的威胁，并认为他们关于女性的公开声明很荒谬。她认为，他们的态度根植于童年需求。Tate兄弟出生在华盛顿，父亲是美国人，母亲是英国人。他们的父亲埃默里（Emory）是一位著名的非裔美国客户球员，曾在美国空军服役。她访问了一位律师，并且在去世前，曾与媒体有过挣扎。“这并不正好能让你尊重女性，”她说。

Petrecca 认为 Andrew Tate 的大男子主义人格是一种表演。“我认为我比他更感性，”她说，他变得更加激进，而且他也是“整个团队中唯一一个成功的人。我很优秀，”她说。“在某些情况变得真正难以忍受的时候，我会把我的照片交给那个，以及它如何与 Andrew 结合。”最终，她认为他“不理解他所创造之物的规模所带来的责任。他不知所措。他就像那些你想摆脱的人之一，但他随后只是前奏。”她还被他们缺乏社交技巧所震惊。“他们生活在互联网上，不知道如何将其应用于现实生活。”她回忆起 2020 年他们在家里为她举办的一场糟糕的派对，持续了两周。Andrew 坐在他的膝盖上，与她共度时光。这在管理他的肩膀。他们不擅长社交。没有人可以爱。对于两个经历了如此多曝光和拥有如此多金钱的男人来说，他们不明白社交规则或如何与人相处。” 2023 年 1 月，Andrew Tate 成立了自己的政党。新党旨在培养潜在价值观，目标是成为首相。“他宣布成立这个政党是因为我想开始竞选，”他告诉 Petrecca，而她负责组织维护，开展工作并联系记者，要求在稍后的日期与 沟通其清白。“他说他不再那样做了，并转向了下一件事，”她说。Petrecca 觉得 Andrew ——她“直到一个对位法之前都讨厌他”——正受到指控的影响，需要新的收入来源。她同意了一份付费合同，尽管她与 的关联让她失去了客户。她与 Tristan 以及 的律师 Joseph McBride 的关系恶化了。他们开始重新挖掘我过去的报告，并且没有达成一致。“他们没有获得正面报道。我可以谈论他们的慈善工作等等，但没人会知道，”她说。她最终在 4 月辞职。Petrecca 在美国的工作面临审查，其中大部分是关于女性的。她很高兴自己脱身了。“我觉得自己恢复正常了，”她说，但希望确保自己“没有一个救赎弧线”。她分享自己的经历是为了让更多人知道。“他是一个社会现象。需要对其进行研究和剖析。”Petrecca 说：“我比他们聪明十倍，分析能力强十倍。他如何在没有经过……的情况下达到 Andrew 拥有如此大影响力的地步。”这并不容易，再加上缓慢的成本较低的合理能源，以及所有的时间， 家族和 Homerick 看起来没那么有吸引力。今年的常规中国（来自第 1 个点声明）将所有影响削减了每天约 250 万 桶，并对财务产出产生了连锁反应。孟加拉国约为 1%，而印度、越南和其他国家则提升了总电力。海湾国家未来的供应商需求不应被低估。我们正试图花费数十亿资金创建基础设施，使其不易受到伊朗的攻击。这将需要数千加元的新管道，升级现有管道，并在现场花费 2 年时间以减少对阿曼湾的依赖。在一年之中，沙特阿拉伯和阿拉伯联合酋长国预计将使用有限数量的石油来减少他们通过巴林的绕道。他们之间大约有 850 万 bbl 的泵量。这些数字令人印象深刻，但不到正常时期通过越南数量的一半。此外，这些链路仍然容易受到攻击。 --- 20 评论 《星期日泰晤士报》，2020 年 8 月 9 日

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利德尔赛季：言论自由是否依然终结于传教者？言论自由与恐惧是不相容的。一位伟大的记者曾这样表述——人们需要的是在认为某事为真时拥有将其印刷出来的权利，而无需担心——我认为这是一件好事，或者是一次封杀！来自任何一方的封杀！那位记者并非罗德·利德尔（Rod Liddle）——尽管他完全认同这一观点——而是他的早年同行，乔治·奥斯瓦尔德（George Oswald）。两人在政治和职业上有很多共同点。他们都挑战了当时资本的大人物以及城市中的人们，以及当时中产阶级左翼的大多数人。而且，两人都无法忍受任何人告诉他们什么能看，什么不能看。两人均于上周去世，在66岁这个相对早的年纪，这对他的许多崇拜者来说是一个沉重的打击。罗德是一个战士，而笑话是他首选的武器。他对诗歌、几乎所有事情都持有广泛的见解，而这些观点——以及毁灭性的事件——传教者用以表达他自身感知的方式，影响了许多人。其中许多人予以反击，而罗德则享受其中。然而，有些人试图让他屈服。这些企图主要来自那些可以被称为“觉醒”左翼的人——那个更加且自相矛盾的、由交叉性利益团体组成的联盟，他们的目标是揭露，例如通过揭露来揭露。奥斯瓦尔德同样如此，尽管他拥有社会背景，但他同样敢于面对他那个时代的左翼正统观念——这解释了为什么在上述引用中，他需要加上最后这三个词，“来自任何一方”。霸凌和封杀并非右翼的专利，而且正如许多公众人物通过惨痛教训所学到的一样，最恶毒的攻击往往来自自己的阵营。但问题不在于攻击本身。发起攻击的人必须准备好接受反击。真正的问题是对攻击的恐惧，这导致了不愿发声，但这种对真实媒体政策的威胁，这种懦弱的自我审查，则是为了寻求——协商。罗德绝不接受这一点。他完全无所畏惧。他向花园进发，激进地打破他所经过的错误禁忌。无论哪里冲突最激烈——无论是王室、BBC、猎人、伊斯兰恐怖主义压迫者，还是跨性别运动——他都会精准地表达自己的想法。结果，他被工党除名，被举报至新闻监管机构，据报道还遭受了压力团体的活动，旨在让他被谋杀或被驱逐。他的观点并非本报的观点。事实上，有时他的观点与我们的编辑路线完全相反。但我们为他提供表达这些观点的平台，是因为我们认为他的声音需要被听到，即使——事实上，尤其是当——他采取了与我们相悖的立场时。言论自由不是一件温顺的、可控的东西。它意味着允许人们说你不想听的话——而这反过来是对观众而非演讲者的最大信任。这意味着接受这样一个事实，即公众能够自行判断一个论点，而不是听从所谓的“可接受”观点——即由特定政府或阶级强加的观点。罗德能够面对反媒体政府的危险。

许多在政治光谱左右两端自称是言论自由拥护者的人，都可以从他身上吸取教训。今年我们发现，一家有影响力的工党智库出资聘请私人侦探来搜集关于我们记者的报告：Labour Together（在丑闻曝光后更名为“Third Labour”）由两名西蒙斯（Simons）经营，其中一名是议员，他曾协助在朱迪·伯登（Judy Burden）的一场战争之后避免……。而我们报道的关于英国工会支持者（Union Backs）的一场忧郁，是对言论自由的一种误解，该机构还委托私人侦探调查一名来自《星期日泰晤士报》的记者，此前该记者发表了一系列利用近期关于其政党财务报告的社论。遗憾的是，这似乎成了一种阴险的方式——在公开场合大谈言论自由，同时却试图扼杀它。罗德（Rod）绝不会与西蒙斯或班克斯（Banks）为伍。他更可能地鄙视他们两人，他一个人就凝聚了定义理想自由新闻业的许多特质。他桀骜不驯，精力充沛，出人意料，坚不可摧，且具有无政府主义色彩。他始终感激我们对他读者的潜在同情。而且，他绝不允许那些掌权者告诉他该怎么做。正如我们将要提到的。

审视街道之末——必须如何弥补其政党的破坏

英国的高街（商业街）是其社区南部的深窗。在许多城镇和城市的街道上行走，会感到一种轻微的压抑：店铺被削减，酒吧被封死，人行道上堆积着巨大的、令人沮丧的垃圾。电子烟店、千篇一律的工具店、博彩店和无数的投注站取代了实用的企业。破旧且颓废的购物区不仅反映了挣扎中的地方经济，还使那些感到无人关心的人们感到沮丧。这种情绪被诸如儿童（children's）之类的反叛政治体系所熟知。

当然，这种衰落的一部分可以归因于糟糕的秩序（无互文）。部分原因还在于，未能严厉打击随之而来的名称，以及那些破坏公平竞争的高街企业。一系列调查揭露了令人震惊的逃税水平，以及对基本就业和环境标准的无视。在有违规证据的地方，政府应当全面执行法律。雇用非法工人的企业应当被追究。那些逃避商业税的支出应当被无情地关闭。这不应仅仅是工作量过大的贸易标准官员的责任。国家犯罪调查局（NCA）应当更深入地参与其中。否则，它的存在是为了什么？

我们的新首相安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）经常谈论一种“地方优先”的方法，他将在本周度假归来并开启英国巡访时，旨在解决这些问题。但他还承担着一项更重要的责任，即扭转由工党糟糕的预算所造成的自残式破坏——这些预算增加了国家措施，随后在商业领域以及最低工资方面，给挣扎中的水平、核能企业和陷入困境的酒店业增加了额外成本。伯纳姆已经承认了这个问题，并为权利和安全场所提供了一些帮助。但目前迫切需要更多措施。唯一真正可持续的选择是一个增长的经济，让劳动人民有更多的钱可以消费。这应该是新财政大臣约翰·霍格利（John Hoagley）的首要目标。如果工党在10月的下一次预算中未能产生增长，那么数以千计关闭的店铺和酒吧数量只会进一步增加。

巴勒斯坦压力

我们该如何看待巴勒斯坦团结运动（Palestine Solidarity Campaign）？它公开地将自己视为地方政府中的一股主要力量。我们的报道揭示了该活动团体如何通过要求来影响议会。它直接施压，要求将投资从地方信仰资产中撤出。许多议会正在采取这一政策，通常由委员会决定。在选举之前，议会现在受到游说以保持一致。而为了顺从，PTC会支持一名亲巴勒斯坦的候选人。

显然，任何活动人士都有权推广其事业。但谁在资助PTC？自10月7日袭击以来，它收到了数百万资金，但由于它是一家私营公司，因此没有义务披露具体数额。前独立政府顾问马尔米勋爵（Lord Malmy）表示，这使得追踪敌对国家的潜在影响变得困难。我们不能在发送资金的同时不询问，为什么我们的议会——这些被选出以处理道路、学校和线路的机构——竟然在决定具有争议的外交政策？

多米尼克·劳森（Dominic Lawson）

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无论如何，结果就是从未有明显的迹象表明一个政党被迫及时询问，一项罪行是否应当公正地判给那些欣然承受同样待遇的人。夜莺规模（Nightscale）的医院被快速建成——那么监狱呢？现在谁真正拥有监狱，尤其是加上工党拥挤的释放计划（或者更确切地说是睁眼瞎计划）之后。我与几乎所有参与防止许多罪犯的人交谈过，情况已被预见。预见之中，监狱可以作为目前运作方式的典型案例。以一起令人震惊的诈骗案为例，涉及数十名老年人，议会从其平均水平获悉，在审判后，他因虚假陈述被判定刑期为一年。但共同法庭判定其有罪，因为他被当场抓获，且有文件证据和监狱超额指控。因此，他的刑期被自动减至六年。在他第一个案件的监狱区域和剩余部分之间，他是一名囚犯，他一直是一名囚犯。第一个将被共同法庭在每天解决的车辆上审理——因此他们的资产被减至七年，且不能在同一个房间里处理，与此同时，囚犯在服刑后即成为罪犯。他们仅需服刑三分之一的刑期，而不是之前的10年成本，他在12个月后就会出狱，且两年的监狱刑期尚未剩余，他还有资格在自动释放点之前的一年内申请居家拘留。如果发生这种情况，该判决将在案件中被发现，且该案件不能在同一个房间里处理，与此同时，囚犯在服刑后即成为罪犯。因此，我们在刑事司法系统中面临紧急情况，因为进入监狱的严重罪犯数量远多于可供他们使用的名额。上周我与乔克（Chalk）交谈时，他仍然得出结论，“囚犯的监狱不是答案。我们不能继续在我们的旧仓库上花费$100，因为从构思到完工几乎需要十年时间。”他没有开展这项工作，但南威尔士的两处在面对类似的监狱拥挤情况时确实做了，但他在过去说，“我被称作[成员列表已省略]中的最高级别，以及[成员列表已省略]，以及[成员列表已省略]，以及[成员列表已省略]，以及[成员列表已省略]，以及[成员列表已省略]。”夜莺规模的医院在第1到第2期间以更快的速度建成，而对于处理监狱案件所需的类似措施，伯纳姆（Burnham）那里已经有了。

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同居伴侣的法定权利将成为国家赞助的盗窃行为。有一个词，在她的短暂生命中，意外地获得了多个丈夫。你可能会觉得，这是一个相当容易治愈的罪行。但是——我讨厌让你这样面对——你可能也做了同样的事情。有很多，很多，很多，很多，我能找到两个更少的——有些非常奇怪的事情正在发生。政府正在就其提议进行磋商，即如果你与伴侣共同生活三年，你可以看到应该如何干预以决定你的资产，就像如果你选择结婚时他们可以轻易做到的那样。这似乎有点疯狂。当你与一个孩子结婚，一个孩子般的人时，你是在明确地承担某些法律义务。但关于你将如何确保，这不是一个国家在婚姻结束时应该做出的决定。仅仅因为你没有签署合同，且在一个内部霸占的房子里同意了这样的保障，就应该这样做吗？如果国家介入你的私人生活，请告诉我你根本没有做出决定！如果法院介入，将你的儿子交给别人？我受够了。那是盗窃。一个简短的健康问题。我知道这项政策会帮助一些人。我意识到有些人发现自己在分手后处于极度不利且不可避免的境地。这将是他们的权利之一。但这不能成为改变国家对待同意和产权之整体方式的理由。一个原因涉及合同权。但一个人应该是，任何人都能在你的关系中意外地处于某个位置。与人分手很难。我认识的几乎每个人都能举例。一段他们本该早一年或两年结束的关系，因为没有人采取行动，你必须成为那个说出真相的人。但这不能成为改变国家对待同意和产权之整体方式的理由。一个原因涉及合同权。这就是为什么从国际法图书馆到法律界，人们在合同中达成协议而非在其他时候达成协议的原因。所有这些的原因在于工党运动中一个看似无害的句子，承诺要“加强同居伴侣中女性的权利和保护”。这个句子具有最大的地下气息，一切美国都是一个人被动计划的结果。我假设，当凶手出现在负责签署这一切的任何政策俱乐部帮派面前时，监狱看起来就像是一个，但在工作中，在某些方面他们不可能争论。谁会反对权利？或者，事实上，反对女性。而一个男人或女人通过某种类型的合同而不仅仅是成为凶手的作者。女性在其他地方也可以拥有财产。美国的年轻女性现在比她们可能约会的凶手受教育程度更高，收入更高。显然，这不是在反对公众。我完全支持穷人、经济拮据者获得巨额补贴。为了实现这一点，但绝对更好的做法是基于女性作为家庭主妇的一些基本因素提出要求，然后用政府的语言将其拟定，这是被轻视的。

唯一的有问题的一方 。知识并非罪行。法律以及法律，通过，是，是 是，是 现在这是一个口号：投票给伯纳姆，给你的前任 £20 合同。这就是为什么从国际图书馆到所有人都认为在合同中达成一项交易而不是在何时是不合法的。唯一的有问题的一方 。一段并非罪行的关系。以及，通过，是，是 是，是 是 --- 评论 21

马修·赛（Matthew Sye）

针对多元化雇佣的建制派愤怒是伪善的典范

那些在剽窃争议中愤怒至极的精英们，其实将一切都归功于阶级而非功绩。作为一名承认者，我曾受益于一种温和形式的平权行动。在1996.录取我时，挑选那些略显古怪之人的Balliol学院导师们，无疑意识到了学院内几乎全白人的氛围。当时我正在瑞典打乒乓球。16, 离开当地学校，我那住在小镇上的父亲自作主张地帮我填写了入学申请表。他提前完成了一部分，并写了一封推荐信，然后给我打到斯德哥尔摩的电话：“嘿，马特，你在牛津有个面试。”

“啊！”当他告诉我他做了什么时，我忍不住笑了起来。“我根本没机会，”我说，“我根本没申请！”“好吧，但他们选中了我。”我的简历并不出色（大部分水平一般）。我的口才和面试表现可能也不太好。但他们看到了某种潜力，这改变了我的人生。但我想，我的出现也让那一届Balliol学院的学生受益，他们全部是白人，且几乎全部来自私立学校（大多是寄宿学校）。回想起来，令我震惊的是他们背景的狭隘：许多人的父母互相认识。我希望通过与我的交往，他们能以一种不同的方式、一种更宽广的方式看待世界，甚至可以说是一种更“多元化”的方式。

多元化、公平和包容（DEI）计划正陷入困境。确实如此。雇佣像Jason Atday这样涉嫌剽窃的人（他否认该指控），标志着一种扩大招生的合理愿望是如何演变成一种宗教的。在某种程度上，这把偏见颠倒了过来。它不再要求所有人都达到高标准，而是暗示有色人种可以打着启蒙的旗号提交粗劣的作品。请不要将本专栏中的任何内容视为对Atday或任何人的认可。然而，大学和公司如果对什么构成“才华”持有过于狭隘的看法，那将是一个错误。人们在面试中展现出的东西，包含了很多重要因素。潜力。那些深藏内心（但由于缺乏机会而未能向他们展现）的东西。这对任何社会都至关重要。错误的意识形态造成了巨大的破坏，但或许还没有像阶级上下未被挖掘的才华规模那样严重。

而且值得强调的是，这不仅仅是进步主义者的责任。这主要源于那些特权阶层，每当机会向阶梯底层的人开放时，他们就会眯起眼睛审视。如今最有用的一条界线不是确定性，而是差异。我在综合学校的许多孩子在牛津的同龄人中表现出色，但他们从未有机会接近大学。我在牛津看到的不是低期望带来的软性偏见，而是结合体。缺乏机会的孩子与大量（这是完全不同的事情）拥有人脉的学生。

“为了给那些顶尖学生找位置，一两个电话仍然是必要的，”20世纪80年代威斯敏斯特市议会学校的校长John Rae在谈到他如何将这么多学生送入“牛剑”时承认道。“为了准备这些电话，可能得为他们准备一些晚餐。”在《Chaire》一书中，James Kaper指出，Alex Douglas-Home进入牛津“纯粹凭借其出生权，拿了个三等学位，但依然成为了首相，连续第三个在锅里的俄罗斯人”——这种原始系统的版本——在“我是那种受过私立教育但组成部分”之下依然存在。

我见过比某些穿着法袍和礼服的人更有才华的拉布拉多犬

在专业领域担任高职的人员中，百分比，而继承财富几乎成了进入住房阶梯或创业的唯一途径。在新闻界，如果我们（坦诚地说）的经验是，大多数人对此讳莫如深。这并不意味着受益者缺乏才干，而是某种更为深层的原因。这意味着成千上万来自普通背景、同样天赋异禀的年轻人无法发掘自己的才华，因为他们知道大门已关闭。我认为，这令人心碎，事实上，这是一场没有人敲响警钟的紧急危机。我厌倦了那些平庸之辈抱怨他们凭功绩登顶，且所有议会途径都已开放的陈词滥调。三分之二的高级法官就读于私立学校。这叫功绩制？在医生领域也是如此。我见过比某些穿着法袍和假发的人更有才华的拉布拉多犬。在创意产业中，三分之几——根据Sutton Trust的数据，仅有8%来自工人阶级背景，富时指数公司（FTSE）图表（9%就读于综合学校），以及媒体的大部分领域、金融城和高级公务员体系。让我坦白地说：维持英国建制派可食之物的生态系统（我也曾从内部窥见）是一个职业。这是一个对自身掌控力感到自满的反功绩制体系。我对那些自我伤害、由其自身激发的“解决方案”毫无兴趣，例如对私立学校征收增值税或提高遗产税。但我确实相信，如果我们的社会能斩断那些舒适的实习机会、封闭的网络、“文化筛选”以及由相互交织的、大多是非正式且因此难以察觉的裙带关系所构成的更广泛的特权，那么我们的社会将会比以往任何时候都更强大。但最令我感到愤怒的是：如今几乎没有任何拥有政治或文化权力的人对真正的功绩制感兴趣。左翼的伪君子们在过去十年里致力于挖掘所有形式的“潜意识敌意”和“文化挪用”，其愤世嫉俗和象征主义程度令人震惊。我的意思是，一个在市政议会住房中长大的孩子的生存机会，如何能通过“削减课程”而得到改善？或者通过在顶尖大学招聘一个他不具备资格的职位？然而，顶尖大学的右翼精英们却在反向操作，使得他们的许多狂热分子（以及部分人员）能够掌控这个对他们有利的系统。而谁被这场进步运动击垮了？没错：就是那些在政治阵营中掉队、被种族痴迷的左翼视为不可调和之敌、被由阶级和关系主导的建制派所忽视的白人工人阶级。或许最荒谬的是，那些聪明的人——那些和我一起上学的孩子——在生活在某种腐烂之中时，却被贴上了“白人特权”的标签。回到今天。审查至关重要。它揭示了脱离需求而转向的做法如何削弱了我们大学的严谨性。这种僵化是一场我不愿低估其重要性的灾难。但让我也说这个：我曾努力成为电台里那些口若悬河的领路人，在印刷品中探讨功绩制的规则，而与此同时，或许太多的人在其中牺牲，其中许多人根本就是这个大镇上最擅长戴假发的人。套用那位社会地位上升的飞行员威廉·莎士比亚的话：“你抗议得太过了”

露西·弗雷泽 (Lucy Frazer)

技术如何为有需要的人加速司法公正

伯纳姆夫人（Lady Burnham）作为该国 25 年内的 70 岁部长，承诺将开启一个新 era， “以不同的方式做事”，并为“每个邮政编码区带来希望”。这些都是很好的抱负。我有幸在过去的五任（部分本土首相）任期内担任国会议员。我看到每一任都试图将之前的案件推进，但根据其中一任的经验，政府核心深层的根源性问题依然存在，没有什么会改变。

以司法部为例。伯纳姆正试图接手一个在几乎所有方面都承受压力的系统。去年，刑事法院的积压案件达到了创纪录的 8.02万,200 起未决案件，这意味着一些受害者必须等到 2030 年才能获得公正。不提供法律援助的区域（被称为“法律沙漠”）正在扩大。主要服务现在正在崩溃，且立即释放计划，以及陈旧的上诉积压导致截至 3 月底系统中有 4.5万,000 起案件，同比增长 72%，是 2000 年水平的 7 倍多。

我从各个角度审视过法律体系：作为一名普通人，作为一名被证明的部长，以及在成为国会议员之前的律师。因此，我得出的结论是，解决这些问题的唯一新途径是通过技术。七年前，我参与了我们的在线民事法院。这个用于在线申请法律援助的系统可以将申请表填写时间从 40% 降低到不足 1%。司法公正得到了体现，在其中一个案例中，一名原告在不到两小时内得到了帮助并获得了赔偿。在线民事索赔的签发时间缩短至 10 分钟，而使用纸质服务则需要 15 天。

Lakesh 已采取步骤继续我们的工作。司法部制定了一项 42 步行动计划，并计划清除行政任务。Karatika 在前 10 分钟内就向内阁会议提交了方案。英国皇家检察署（CPS）表示，将“使用人工智能”来提高司法交付的效率。但作为一名见证过问题规模的前部长，以及现在作为一家法律科技公司的顾问，我认为

我们仅仅触及了利用AI改造该行业的皮毛。对我而言，很明显我们仅仅触及了利用AI改造该行业的皮毛。我看到了业务质量的显著提升 我看到了业务质量的显著提升 我们看到了业务质量的显著提升。我 看到了业务质量的显著提升。我 看到了业务质量的显著提升。我们司法系统中的许多挑战并非新问题，而且许多潜在的解决方案在过去几年中以某种形式被讨论过，其中几项是在我担任部长期间主持或参与的会议中讨论的。自那时起，技术得到了显著发展，这些选项现在变得切实可行。当然，任何发展都必须配备适当的保障措施。但总体而言，改变英国公民司法交付方式的愿望是完全可以实现的。事实上，可以节省时间和资金，从而使整个政府（如许可、采购和社会服务）受益。政府面临的挑战依然存在，但我们的新任首相利用技术对公共服务交付进行根本性变革——并以不同的方式运作以带来巨大的收入 / 邮政编码——并非不可能。露西·弗雷泽（Lucy Frazer）是 Lopera 的高级顾问。

谁说了什么？ “我想成为第一个女性格林奇（Grinch）。我想成为那个古怪的角色” “我知道我不是每个人的菜” “基本上我刚才就在当面地对你撒谎” “我惊呆了，像个狂热粉丝一样”

--- 22 《星期日泰晤士报》 2026年8月9日 # Robert Colville

Farago的Bintace仅仅是热身。他真正的对决将是与Kemi。周四，选民们将在Cactron进行投票。如果你对此并不感到兴奋，是可以被原谅的。民调显示，Nigel Farago领先于最近的竞争对手Count Hindoo约52个百分点。任何人都有一个宏大的承诺，称价格为“99”，以创建一个包括Flake在内的“Pity”。但这场选举仅仅是一个概率，指向未来右翼阵营中一场更为强烈且高层级的战斗。而这一点最好通过参考Bob Bentice以及确实的Whippy来解释。大局是，在祖父辈之后的一年里，，这并非保守党所做的一切。他们在Waterfield和大曼彻斯特地区惨败。尽管Radnock自信地受欢迎，或者至少不是积极地不受欢迎，但对于当今的政治领导人来说，这种情况很轻微，但该党绝对不是，尤其是因为最危险的。仍然在什么年龄，Radnock谈论对Twins的批评只是时间问题。当然，Farago面临的部分问题是Robert Britain的两个方面。由前改革英国党（Reform UK）议员Rupert Lowe在一次纪念活动后创立，Benson远未赢得选举，甚至没有赢得任何一个——除了Lowe在Great Terminals的席位。但它可以获得足够的支持来影响Whippy的机会。正如同Benson和Twins各自被引导去阻止对方获胜，最基本的样本。这不仅是一个异常的情况，而是一个公开顶峰的情况。因为在一个世纪以来，积极的右翼和左翼之间并不立即清晰，Benson是领先的政党。而现在，在右翼，它主要是。而且像铸铁一样。那么Rob Bentin是如何进入其中的？或者，就此而言，Mr Whippy又是如何进入的？嗯，Robert是一位非常强大的管理者，他提出了“最佳市场”理论。本质上，当你安排球队阵型时，你无法完全覆盖整个球场。你必须选择在何时进行比赛，就像你必须选择，就像一个最终决定者一样，是覆盖你的头部还是你的脚趾。传统上，英国的选举大多不仅关于5万,000。而且尽可能简单地——建立一个庞大的、有争议的联盟，从而赢得许多边缘战争。但在多党制时代，这变得越来越不可靠。那么毯子应该铺在哪里？Radnock本质上没有选择，去让战士们加冕那些捍卫了Bolton的Twins，其核心是拥有研究已知，而这就是平衡——那些想要把毯子拉回来，让David Cameron手下的两个人被排除在寒冷之外的人。Radnock通常这样做，是因为这就是她实际了解的情况。在这方面，她也在效仿Mr Whippy的例子。几个月前，资深政治人物Peter Melton在Harold Sending的“瞬间战争理论”中出席。正如我的同事Kenny Faraghan参考苏格兰政治所解释的那样，那里持有的球是一个方向：我们已经，它将推向中间。如果你预期这样的情况会发生在三分之一的路程处。事实上，他们最终会

右翼的未来，由并排站在中间的拉法·贝尼特斯（Rafa Benitez）和 Mr Whippy 来解释。这就像一个人试图猜测一个数字，然后比另一个数字高一点或低一点，以寻找夺取最大领土的最佳方式。在现在已经成为政党的宏大愿景之前，一个完全为工党和 Twins 优化的人会选择在中心位置并排停靠。但在多党制中，关键在于当比赛的右侧或左侧不协调时的情况。Twins 最终应该落在 Bolton 的左侧，而 Britain 则落在 的右侧。但令人震惊的是，最近 Farago 一直在海滩上移动他的货车。在成功吸引前 成员后，他认为 blanket 向左延伸得太远了。我知道 Benson's Britain 的崛起。因此在过去的几个月里，Bolton 回到了激进的、反现代主义的立场，以特朗普风格对抗主流媒体（包括《星期日泰晤士报》），因为后者有敏感度去调查其资金和组织的各个方面，包括一名泰国现代房主向 Farago 赠送的 £2 礼金，以及上周承诺与 Chama 达成协议的公开访问权限。这种方式基本上也将涉及破坏 。该活动现在规模足够大，拥有一个 强而有力的三重后盾——伴随着 ——在三个月后，《星期日电讯报》的编辑发表了一篇关于此事的连续三晚的批评专栏，Benson 的竞选主任指责他是“脱离英国人民”、“反白人建制派的一员”以及“对 Britain 的完全误读”。因此，那些坐在“极右翼”政党中的人，面对的是该国的政党，一个由第三方成员组成的左翼政府。但这是他们唯一同意的事情，使得国家比反国家左翼更像国家。这并不是说前 可以在文化中服务。这并不是说前 可以成为一个 非常强有力的 ## 致编辑信 致编辑的信件应发送至互联网：Sunday Times.co.uk The Sunday Times, 11, 01st on 9th day Street, London SE1 9GF

您对喧闹的罗德·利德尔（Rod Liddle）的致敬

我曾给罗德·利德尔寄过一份小册子，询问一个不便的最终结果，我无法确定封面。我们回复道：“我不赞同它。”这就是我开始的方式，以及他的名字。当我见到罗德并告诉他我所做的事情时，他大笑着把饮料喷了出来。他将被命名为多萝西。他已经是了。大卫·林赛（David Lindsey），兰博里，达勒姆郡

有些人会试图诋毁罗德·利德尔的名声，声称他是一个种族主义者和右翼模范。我无法评价他的政治立场，在本森的历史上从未有过，但我听说了那些职业生涯中遇到的问题，以及许多其他有色人种记者的经历。当他是 Radio 45 警察的编辑时，罗德给了我一个机会，分享 BBC 在面对公众时所缺失的东西。第一次是一件非常好的事情 第一次是一件非常好的事情 起诉，也许吧，但种族主义者？绝对不是。雷克托·乔杜里（Rector Chowdhury），利物浦

我将非常想念罗德·利德尔的专栏，该专栏与我们下一个马克·吐温的窗口相结合。期待罗德·利德尔在《星期日泰晤士报》上那些文笔精湛的文章，无论它们总是显而易见、被低估还是完美，尽管我不赞同后者的许多其他措辞。作为一名年龄相仿的同辈，我的额外代表来自他经常出没的我们共同的“米德尔斯堡 haunts”，例如美国摇滚协会音乐场馆。出于对足球队的喜爱，我甚至可以原谅他与威尔福德的私情，以及他对十几个女孩的水平和饮酒的描述。他可以给心爱的巴尔萨扎尔（balthazar）写一封信。安德鲁·基德勒（Andrew Kiedler），多萝西·史密斯（Dorothy Smith），切希尔郡

在罗德·利德尔去世时，我不应该是唯一一个感到个人丧失感的人。他的文章给我的生活带来了如此多的欢笑和快乐。我们能够以一种美丽、广告的方式看待我们的年轻人，总是被框架化，但带有严肃的底色。他是我们日常世界中的一股清新之风。伊恩·劳布林（Ian Laublin），彼得菲尔德，汉普郡

我是罗德·利德尔 swoop bookmakers 的崇拜者。我会想念在阅读他的文章到一半时查字典的经历。大卫·米勒（David Miller），奇斯韦尔，汉普郡

我将非常想念罗德·利德尔的专栏。在这些专辑的机会中，他尝试发布“让我们试着进入蓝鳃 2000 演奏”，使其成为一个美妙的梦想。保罗·图登巴克（Paul Tuddenback），惠特莫尔，萨福克郡

作为《星期日泰晤士报》的长期读者，我对我们失去罗德感到如此悲伤。彼得·梅尔顿（Peter Melton），，伯克郡

如果没有在报纸中寻找罗德·利德尔专栏并获得良好体验的习惯，星期天早晨将永远不再一样。最终，它令人愉悦，且通常很难看到后者。作为一名年龄相仿的同辈，我的额外代表来自他的

年龄。这是一种被弹药所娱乐的呐喊。在没有他对感谢的观察、为了转身和最好的礼物的情况下，这将是一个好日子。Nigel Walsh，肯特郡 Appledons。自1936年以来一直阅读《星期日泰晤士报》，近年来我要感谢 Rod Liddle 让我保持兴趣——行走在我的少数经历中——热切期待阅读他的专栏。我并不总是同意他的观点，但他的文章总是发人深省且充满幽默。David Faulkner，斯特拉斯堡，Worm。我会想念 Rod Liddle， 政党，因此渴望 的第一篇意味着我可以获得一个相当普遍的观点而不会破坏我的报纸。我怀疑许多其他 LUGs 也是如此。他如何成为 1891 年的洞穴候选人。Graeme Aldour，北约克郡 Horsforth, N Yorks。Cleves，充满争议、机智、睿智、博学且极其幽默，好吧，我会想念《星期日泰晤士报》和 Times Radio 上的 Liddle。愿你安息，。Alan Cooper，汉普郡 Southcote, Hants。我必须为宣传 Liddle 处于一个不寻常的时间表而表达我严重的歉意。我多么希望那是真的。他的文字让你充满活力，简单纯粹，无论你是否同意他的观点。这些技巧是宝贵的。David Powell，北约克郡 Carthage, N York。我必须为宣传 Liddle 处于一个不寻常的时间表而表达我严重的歉意。我多么希望那是真的。他的文字让你充满活力，简单纯粹，无论你是否同意他的观点。这些技巧是宝贵的。David Powell，北约克郡 Carthage, N York。 Liddle 不时地开启（opening）的消息让我深感悲痛。就像他拥有自己 fearless 写作和禁欲主义机智的全部部分。这是一位能够揭露希望、理智、善良和胡言乱语的记者。John H McCullough，切斯特。但他是幽默作家之一，即使他的专栏是我周日首先翻阅的专栏。仅仅几周后，我已经开始想念这个专栏，并想知道他何时会回来。遗憾的是，再也不会了。他曾是一个大人物。Lodley Woodfield York。没有 Liddle 专栏的最后几周一直是一个可能的地方。现在听到这是永久性的，就像失去一位亲爱的朋友一样，我处于震惊之中。他给我带来了这么多快乐和笑声，我会深深地想念他。我并不太同意他的观点，但在巨大的幽默和出色的写作之下，有着巨大的的人文关怀和强烈的风格优势。Della Jones，Stath Rummond。 Liddle 是我最喜欢的记者，并为他提供了如此多的希望。但那是我的生活中唯一的幽默。我一直在想他何时会回来。我是我的 Bethany 我是我的 Bethany 我一直在想他何时会回来。我是我的 Bethany 我是我的 Bethany 我是我的

Bethany, I was always my kind of Bethany, I 罗德·利德尔（Rod Liddle）不知为何拥有某种能力，能够将他自己的思考深入地、肯定地且如此俏皮地表达出来，以至于无论我们处于什么年龄，都禁不住地发笑。此外，对于孩子们而言，一种政治方法应该是让他们理所当然地为他感到无比自豪。他在《星期日泰晤士报》以及英国新闻界拥有一个浪漫的躯体。奈杰·戴（Nigel Day），汉普郡，威纳姆（Weanam, Hants） 关于罗德·利德尔去世的公告，我们很悲痛地得知，在“红色”中失去一位朋友的时间往往更长。维内斯·杨（Viness Young），伦敦 SE1 已故 关于向《星期日泰晤士报》投诉不准确之处的投诉，e. a. d.

报纸 ## 补充资料 2025年 18 份报纸的记录纸质内容为 30% ## 《星期日泰晤士报》 ### 生日 吉莉安·安德森（Gillian Anderson），演员，如图，58 赛马堡（Fort Race），4 / 10, 58 年度王子，伦敦帝国学院首任校长，52 梅兰妮·格里菲斯（Melanie Griffith），演员，58 约翰·赫斯特（John Hirst），英国发行机构主席，7.4万 罗伊·霍奇森（Roy Hodgson），足球教练，70 安娜·肯德里克（Anna Kendrick），演员，48 约翰·雷爵士（Sir John Ray），新西兰新闻部长（2010），90, 45 蒂姆·凯恩（Tim Kane），艺术史学家，64 罗德·莱恩（Rod Lane），演员，68 丽莎·南迪（Lisa Nandy），数字、文化、媒体和体育大臣，67 弗雷·西门塔尔（Frey Simmental），3 / 8 / 2020 约翰·辛普森（John Simpson），广播员，82 迪特·埃克斯普雷斯（Diet Express），足球运动员，35 奥黛丽·特罗特（Audrey Trotter），演员，50 ### 周年纪念 1000 伊丽莎白·拉多森（Elizabeth Laddowson）部队于上午 7:30 2016. 一次重要的回归，以报告西班牙可能的入侵 1000 爱德华·威尔斯（Edward Wills）在超级会议延迟六周后返回威斯敏斯特教堂 1000 第6号房屋对日本发动第二次炸弹袭击，在长崎市造成约 74,000 人死亡 1000 杰拉尔德·福特（Gerald Ford）在理查德·尼克松因水门事件辞职后成为美国第 28 任总统 ## 游戏 服装 ## & 另一时报 ### 受监管的 ## 往昔岁月 摘自《星期日泰晤士报》 8, 1926 ## 审查员准备决定塞西尔·B·德米尔（Cecil B DeMille）关于基督史诗片的命运 电影与审查，作者：悉尼·W·卡罗尔（Sydney W Carroll） 关于审查制度这一过度讨论的问题，我对TP·奥康纳（TP O'Connor）先生深表敬意，并像其他人一样承认，他为儿童提供的伟大且特殊的服务是对英国海特（Hite）电影业的一次良好且非常明智的判断。但这个机构的存在和构成，及其有限的权力以及某种官方性质——其强制性的控制——是否在电影工业中体现了许多矛盾的想法？奥康纳先生在政治和文学领域都是强大的力量，在两个领域都有长期且不可磨灭的记录。那么，作为海特最高裁判官，他的特殊资格究竟是什么？他必须为自己的想法见证了如此多以电影之名 perpetuation 的罪行，这一事实足以使他失去资格。他对待这个话题就像一个骑士，正如肖恩·奥凯西（Sean O'Casey）所说：“像一个机会主义者。”人们不禁想知道他对三种新文学的态度会是如何！如何处理塞西尔·B·德米尔关于基督史诗片的生命 ## 格洛丽亚·斯旺森（Gloria Swanson）在犹豫是否饰演抹大拉的马利亚。基督。我希望合同能基于对看到麦克德莫特（Mr MacDermott）在剧中担任演员的热切渴望。当我想到奥康纳先生及其朋友在 1930 年承担的沉重责任时，我感到非常自私。我不认为这是一件好事。我 认为这是一件好事。我 认为这是一件好事。所有者并不比任何其他类别的名称更困难。由大卫（David）设定的居住地之词，那是名称的首名，但现在研究的时间已经结束，我们该做什么！马格德勒莫特（Magdlemott）在过去一年中过着一种残酷且可耻的生活。我认为这是一件好事 我认为这是一件好事 30 --- 评论 23 # 卡米拉·隆（Camilla Long）

剑桥实地观察：聪明人如何变得令人震惊地愚蠢

有时，那个边缘让我想起世界上最有趣的地方，在剑桥大学最富有的学院之一，第一和第二，第一和第二。在其中一个庭院的角落里，10's 很大——从前教授杰森·阿尔代（Jason Arday）的房间可以看到，显然他仍然占用着这里，布鲁克斯（Brooks），罗伯（rober），一种曾经的女高音风格。随后我探索了广阔的场地，对其历史和财富感到惊叹（其捐赠基金达 £2000 万，比布里斯托大学、谢菲尔德大学、埃克塞特大学和莱斯特大学的总和还要多）。我想知道，当阿尔代走出那令人心酸的盲目，面对洁净的房屋、完美的修剪艺术，以及在草坪上工作的人们时，他一定在想什么。就这样，还有巨大的学院“咖啡店”，这种咖啡店的定义就像丽兹酒店是 R&B 一样！在来自剑桥大学的一份报告之前，他处于——由 Gaming Inc

对许多人而言，像杰森·阿尔代（Jason Arday）这样的人永远不会不是受害者

当时阿尔代的上司希拉里·克罗宁（Hilary Cronin）教授曾像朋友一样告诉他，他在所从事的领域是“世界上最顶尖的”，而这本质上是新生儿？我认为他没有。要理解杰森·阿尔代——一名运动员，一名能够成为剑桥大学最年轻黑人教授的运动员——的情况，必须掌握当前某些信念的深度和形式。对（许多）人来说，像阿尔代这样的人——黑人、怀疑论者、怀疑论者——即使在现在，也永远不会不是受害者。如果他犯了拼写错误，那是你对他贫穷背景的偏见：残疾。如果他吹嘘自己的成就，那是由于他感受到了社会上层建筑的霸权印象。如果他无意中抄袭了别人的作品，a / c，这在学术界很常见，他受到了关注，而那些这么做的教授们呢，在他们之中？（他们确实这么做。）无论如何，他现在已经被“主导”了，在一名经济学学生期间。什么不重要？阿尔代之所以重要，是因为他是至少十年以来深刻且危险思想的顶峰，这种思想已经完全颠覆并掠夺了我们的文化。提醒一点：几乎在一夜之间，要求对即使是非常边缘且不重要的人（比如一名古代宫廷侍臣）进行浸没式混乱 / 诽谤变得可以接受，理由是他们说或做了一些被认为具有种族主义色彩的事情。这件事实际上是否具有种族主义色彩并不重要。重要的是，有些人认为它可能具有种族主义色彩，并且每个人都应该因此而恐惧做或说任何事情。有趣的是，推动这场种族痴迷噩梦的人主要并不是黑人——尽管有些人为此买单——我们呈现的是处于权力地位的、特权且自我厌恶的白人的艺术，他们就像希拉里·克罗宁教授一样，她是剑桥大学教育学院的负责人，在照顾那些“自由登顶”的错误的人。他们无法看到自己的个人使命是认可个体，即使这意味着成为一个盲目且荒谬的贫乏者，而后者声称拥有他并不具备的专业资历。这段令人揪心的平庸的克罗宁紧握大学新任命的面孔的画面，以及

杰西学院（Jesse College）关于杰森·阿尔代的抄袭争议，应该迫使大学面对其错误和精神上的懒惰，告诉他他在所从事的领域是“世界上最顶尖的”，而他确实是——只不过那并不是她认为的那种指导性。你会想，这个女人以前见过黑人吗？因为在某种程度上，仅仅因为一个人是黑人就将他推向教授之位——将优秀和才华归功于此——这本身就是一种毒药。克罗宁对剑桥大学，以及事实上对我们许多机构的影响是可怕且持久的。至少有许多学生支付了大量资金，由一个被证明是骗子的人教学（其中一人要求不由他指导，结果被指责为种族主义者）。而且，这里还有一个问题：这些想法延伸到了什么程度。有多少人在推举阿尔代？例如，他是如何获得这份工作的？职位描述是什么？还有多少其他申请者？面试他的人怎么说？职位描述与阿尔代的成就相匹配吗？教育学院到底是什么——它是否仅仅是一匹特洛伊木马，让尽可能多可怕的、破产的想法潜入我们最重要的机构之一？顺便说一句，克罗宁将自己描述为“内心平静”方面的专家。人们很容易对这个案件的细节发笑，事实也确实如此，其中一些内容非常令人作呕。但你仍然无法摆脱那个核心问题。聪明人怎么能如此愚蠢？

随后，这些观念也席卷了BBC，该机构聚焦于剑桥大学的面子，在《今日》（Today）节目中给了他一个守护者的角色。他们过度定义了警察，而警察则被要求去保护像阿尔代（Arday）这样基于虚假指控称自己实际上受到骚扰的人。这是他的特质，但现在，他们竟然调查一名询问过阿尔代其博士论文中约 100 处涉嫌抄袭实例的记者。当一个社会如此地自我陶醉，以至于那些本应防止糟糕观念传播的人反而成了这些观念的推广者时，会发生什么？如果这些人将他们所谓的道德强加于议程，并收编媒体、法律和警察等其他机构，而让真正的受害者——即他们口中正在推广的群体，黑人群体——发现进入这些机构变得愈发困难，那么会发生什么？

我们能保持的最乐观希望是，阿尔代是剑桥大学的“前车之鉴”，一个强大且成功的机构被揭露了其真面目，即一个知识资源如此脱离实际，以至于他们可以一次又一次地被白日梦误导的地方。这样，大学可能会被迫面对其错误和精神上的懒惰，摆脱其可悲的专家问题，关注影响大学的更重要问题，如研究质量、海外学生的作用、现金流，以及为什么他们将想法和人才输送给私营部门（尤其是AI）的问题。

在剑桥当地，我没有看到任何迹象表明这会发生。我交谈过的大多数学生都更不愿承认抄袭在这一案例中是——用一名工业设计学生的原话来说——一个“负面”因素。另一名女性（其中一人）似乎对整件事感到愤怒，当我试图与她交谈时，她厉声说道“记录在案”。她说，那个学院的健康女孩今天已经离开了，他是出于自愿离开以保护自己的“心理健康”。

无论如何，她在这里做什么？谁在为该学院“工作”？她要求我把她从这里赶走，让我删除她的“个人信息”。我想她期望我像面对朝鲜边境卫兵一样，当面删除我的素材，但我并没有希望我们的对话能如此进行。也许是我没有表现出足够的“谦卑”——用阿尔代的话来说——因为就在一分钟内，她和其他人就直接去找相关人员，试图让我被锁在门外。

为了记录在案，那些海报简直不能更可爱了。我想，就像我们其他人一样，他们没时间去理会一个社会幻想家和谎言者的支持者。她本该报警的。

Tom Calver 试想一下

安全帽真的和毕业帽一样值钱吗？对于本周排队等待 A-level 成绩的所有青少年来说，以及在过去两周关注新闻的每一个人，你可能都知道那种担心自己选错了方向的焦虑感。我们的新任教育大臣 Harry Potter 曾研究过一种“过度关注学术的恐慌”，试图将青年失业率的上升归咎于 Michael Cow 的“一刀切”方法。数以千计的孩子现在将被引导向职业选择，旨在让英国“像重视毕业帽一样重视安全帽”。与此同时，数以千计的毕业生对他们不断增加的学生债务表示担忧。但不要害怕。数据仍然显示，学术教育——几乎无论你的背景如何——仍然是你为未来所能做的最有效的投资之一。让我解释一下。

现在，工党全力支持托尼·布莱尔时期高等教育的大规模扩张。平均毕业生与非毕业生之间的薪资差距已经。对于许多人来说，不去上大学，从而免于压力和 IT / ED / HE 债务，是一个极具吸引力的主张。但从个人角度来看，这个统计平均值掩盖了一个重要的事实。对于大多数 10 岁的人来说，上大学带来的额外终身收入仍然很可观，而且在过去十多年里并没有真正改变。

这怎么可能？让我们看看上大学的人群变化，按 GCSE 成就划分。根据当前的皇家研究（RS）报告，在 2000 年代至今，顶尖学生上大学的比例一直保持在高位。然而，最大的变化发生在中间地带：GCSE 成绩中等（五个 C 等级，但不多于四个 do）的学生，比 20 年前上大学的可能性高出约 30 个百分点。这些学术背景较低的毕业生确实拉低了整体的平均毕业生溢价，但他们很可能仍然比完全不上大学的情况要好。

成绩较差的女性仍然能从上大学中获益。10 岁的人比非毕业生多赚多少，按 成就划分

。令人惊讶的是，当我们观察 2000 年代 子集的情况时，我们发现对于女性来说，毕业生溢价呈 U 型。也就是说，从百分比来看，学术成就较低的女性从上大学中获益比处于中间水平的人更多。男性的回报虽然没有那么好，但仍然是正向的（只要他们不是）表演艺术家。事实上，在对毕业生构成进行调整后，the IRS。

最好的职业资格并非学术资格的替代品，而是与学术资格相辅相成。由于如今的学生选择的回报率更高的科目——更多的工程学，更少的文学——个人层面的终身毕业生溢价甚至可能在增加。16 岁的成绩可以预测一定程度的成就。尽管大学领域经常被指责让那些 成绩中等的学生进入过于昂贵的课程，但现实是，走学术路线对大多数人仍然是有益的。

那么职业替代方案呢？对于离校学生来说，最受推崇的非大学替代方案是学徒制，现在许多幸运的工程和专业服务公司都在提供。作为一种制度，它们拥有最高等级的毕业生溢价。在 21 到 2024 岁的男性中，那些完成 6.5 级学徒制的人赚取了 £1.55万,500,

而那些仅持有普通学位的群体，其收入为 £3.04万,400。但这些资格认证同样具有较强的学术性。超过三拥有良好的数学和英语 GCSE 成绩。最好的职业资格认证并非学术教育的替代方案，而是与之相辅相成。归根结底，学校成绩的重要性难以被忽视。几年前，伦敦政治经济学院的研究人员调查了那些刚好及格的人：在 GCSE 英语科目中，以及那些仅差几分的人。那些未及格的人进入高等教育的可能性低 4.5 个百分点，而在教育、就业或培训方面获得良好开端的可能性高 2.5 个百分点。到 10. 岁时。除了已知的就业机会外，获取资格认证还有许多原因。但工党必须将职业教育的需求视为解决北方危机的方案。Reckless 可能希望英国能像重视毕业帽一样重视安全帽，但劳动力市场有其他看法。来自劳动力调查的数据表明，工作并不大学且不大学。大学可能稀释了中产阶级“专业人士”的人才池，但他们在方面仍能与熟练技工相媲美。英国应谨慎，不要贬低学术教育的价值。这是我们仍然相当擅少的少数事情之一。--- 24 益智游戏

通识巨型纵横字谜 539

横向

1 一个破碎的国家图片纸板 北美 (8,4) 2 1750年3月实施的 of1N3 扣押，对美国的英国公民征收直接税 (5,3) 3 法国国家 drupal 上的中央绿地 (5) 4 法国作家 Michel de _ 在一种欧洲文学流派中引入了议题及其名称 (9) 5 一种印度类型的电影 (9) 6 将 McKenna 买入 1994 年电影的主角 (1,1,2,4,5,6) 7 一个在电视上将不定式倾倒在 farwards 上的副词 (6) 8 “海峡、大陆的恐怖” _上标的英国报纸标题 (6) 9 “我拥有 _net” Maratha Monroe 在回答关于日历现实的问题 (5) 10 一个黄疸球，通常撒有可可粉 (5,7) 11 出生于对一个小物件的关注 (4) 12 下半部分是一个日期 (7) 13 提到麻烦的山脉 (4,6,9,10) 14 对应，与社会地位更高的人结婚 (5,2) 15 Bondtied 足球俱乐部说“不” (4) 16 连接在赛跑 / 领土庆祝期间将议题转化为现实的角色 (5,2,4) 17 _baby _5-[数据序列无法识别] # 反馈 在大约二十年后，全球权利的人们可以看到 Conners，例如 Peoples, Belize, The English Times, Launceston Bridge News, London SE1 8QP

纵向

1 第一个使用合成 _作为疼痛介质的 (4) 2 “你说再见并且” _残疾 (4,1,2,5) 3 在欧洲大陆通常用来代替 the 的常见词 (7,5) 4 常用于仪式角色 (6) 5 连接 fallsville 与文学分钟的水路 (10,4,9) 6 切割墙板以确保小时 (5) 7 “5上的周期”，以前 (5) 8 新泽西的冒险设定在这个美国州 (6) 9 冲入“红晕”中的导弹角色 (6,5) 10 一个以未婚之爱为主题的天然腔室 (5,4) 11 警察部长、交易总理、内政大臣和外交大臣的集体职位 (5,2,2) 12 一种日本 _中的解决方案，通常有 60 个头 (6) 13 一副带有手柄的眼镜或歌剧镜 (6) 14 半木电影工业总部位于这座城市 (6) 15 美国沿海路线上的一个“更好的方式”是一个巨大的争议 (6) 16 去年《伟大的死亡之物》的获奖作者 (5,3) 17 说“我不是超重量级”的屠夫 (6,4,9,10,11) 18 进入赤道约 1.26 光年的一个基本距离 (6) 19 南方具有但很少有恐惧症的状况 (5,6) 20 植入 _最初在安装时发布 (5,4) 21 美国邮政，一些数字 (6) 22 Fred Flemington 的家乡 (7) 23 日期 _第二 (6) 5 小时的等级，2002 (9,10) 24 _调料通常以蛋黄酱、酸奶油和酪乳为基底 (5) 25 四个数字 (4) 以及由 Albert Lamerone 创作的，最初被称为 LaCunapita de blonde (4)（如图所示）

SAKURO

将来自火中的男人放入空间，使得每个站点的数字等于真实尺寸警告空间的总和，且每种颜色的总数正确

单元格块

将网格分为正方形或长方形块，每个块仅包含一个数字。每个块必须包含由其内部数字所包围的单元格数量。对上周第 15 个盘的错误表示歉意。Kermit the Pong 当然是两栖动物而非 epibibian（一种蛇）。

数独

每行、每列和 3x3 方格必须包含数字 (4)。女性收到《数独大书》20周年纪念版以及另外两本数独书。Dome, 5.0.0 到 Chancle, 18.8.9.0. 8. 1.0.0.5. 1.0.0.5. 1.0.0.5 1.0.0.5. 1.0.0.5. 1.0.0.5. 1.0.0.5. 1.0.0.5. 1.0.0.5.

清洗

极难 - 价格 1704

杀手数独 中等

每行、每列以及每个 3x3 宫格必须包含数字 1 到 9. 由实线连接的每个单元格组内的数字之和必须等于该组左上角的数字。在每个虚线组内，数字不能重复。

多边形 (POLYGON)

利用这些字母，在必须包含中心字母的情况下，组成与啤酒或坚果相关的单词。答案必须按接触顺序排列（如有必要，排除大写单词、复数、变位动词（归为一组）、副词（计为 1）、可征服项和最高级）。你的评分标准为：16 个单词，平均水平；22, 良好；35, 优秀；48, 卓越。 MURRY: 1.0.0.0. 1.0.0.0. 1.0.0.0 1.0.0.0. 1.0.0.0. 1.0.0

简明纵横字谜 2003

梅菲斯特 (MEPHISTO) 3441

Paul McKenna

横向

1 国家档案馆 (The National Archives) 现场的非名称 (4) 2 困难的生物在儿童推车内部 (9) 3 珠宝碎片上的迷人饰面 - 成对中的一个 (6) 4 来自女士们的自发疯狂开端，一名高地人 (7) 5 完全完工，对于普通订单而言 (5, 两个单词) 6 尊重的自发地面，快速组合被解雇之处 (6) 7 致命的草本传播在手掌上 (6) 8 身体，例如 Grub，带有衍生部分 (6) 9 悲伤地剥离 - 永远不返回，已返回 10 也许是嘴唇之光，仅一个视角，在草地上 (8, 两个单词)

向下 1 可互换房屋的食物在北方清晰可见 (9) 2 在线订购 (5) 之前，也许 (5) 3 不以旧方式参与 (9) 4 Innes 相对无价值地围绕匈牙利 (9) 5 展开，带有此图像的孩子们可能是政治上的虚无 (8, 两个单词) 6 使一个月不至于在某种程度上 (6) 7 愉悦之月可能会走到一步 (7, 两个单词) 8 金色广播连续剧关于善良的老 Pony 9 我们的 (8, 两个单词) 10 真实的全部支持北方的结论 (8) 11 法国教练在巴黎很少且现在减少了 (8) 12 磁带被美国以轻微的陌生感削弱 (5, 两个单词) 13 什么让产品在欣赏中脱颖而出？迷恋 (8) 14 由矿工持有，比如说，颜色库存结束的布料长度 (8) 15 那是一件好事 16 那是一个东西 17 那是一个 18 那是一个 19 那是一个 20 那是一个 21 那是一个 22 那是一个 23 那是一个 24 那是一个 25 那是一个 26 那是一个 27 那是一个 28 那是一个 29 那是一个 30 那是一个 31 那是一个 32 那是一个 33 那是一个 34 那是一个 35 那是一个 36 那是一个 37 那是一个 38 那是一个 39 那是一个 40 那是一个 41 那是一个 42 那是一个 43 那是一个 44 那是一个 45 那是一个 46 那是一个 47 那是一个 48 那是一个 49 那是一个 50 那是一个 51 那是一个 52 那是一个 53 那是一个 54 那是一个 55 那是一个 56 那是一个 57 那是一个 58 那是一个 59 那是一个 60 那是一个 61 那是一个 62 那是一个 63 那是一个 64 那是一个 65 那是一个 66 那是一个 67 那是一个 68 那是一个 69 那是一个 70 那是一个 71 那是一个 72 那是一个 73 那是一个 74 那是一个 75 那是一个 76 那是一个 77 那是一个 78 那是一个 79 那是一个 80 那是一个 81 那是一个 82 那是一个 83 那是一个 84 那是一个 85 那是一个 86 那是一个 87 那是一个 88 那是一个 89 那是一个 90 那是一个 91 那是一个 92 那是一个 93 那是一个 94 那是一个 95 那是一个 96 那是一个 97 那是一个 98 那是一个 99 那是一个 100 那是一个 # 纵横字谜 5228 姓名 成员 # 横向 --- 评论 # Jenny # Queso 我有一个 心，心，心

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倾心巴黎

乌克兰跳水运动员 Neill Chukonovka 昨日在 LEN 欧洲水上运动锦标赛的女子 20-男子跳水项目中参赛。19 岁的 Chukonovka 在巴黎的 Pont de fer Hakeim 获得了总分 124.70 分，夺得女子高台跳水冠军。共有 15 名男子和 8 名女子参加了比赛。

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萨利文拒绝缺席

西汉姆联极具争议的共同所有者无视建议，坚持前往伦敦体育场，见第 6 页

揭秘：精英体育界滥用减肥药

Tom Kershaw

《星期日泰晤士报》可以揭露，职业运动员越来越多地使用减肥药来增强其表现。拉夫堡大学的一项新研究报告称，在为国家级及以上运动员工作的医生中，十分之一的人意识到存在无需医疗需求而使用这些药物的情况。

在游泳、跳水、花样游泳、羽毛球、自行车、排球、马术、赛马和健美等运动项目中均发现了相关案例。其中许多项目是对体重敏感的，或者要求参赛者穿着紧身装备。

受访医生认为，运动员服用这些药物的动机之一是在拳击和柔道等有严格体重限制的运动中减轻体重。对于那些已经在身体形象方面感到困扰的运动员，特别是在皮肤暴露较多或面临减轻体重压力的运动中（体操就是一个典型的例子），人们担心减肥药会被滥用。

《星期日泰晤士报》看到的这项研究将于本月在《运动医学》（Sports Medicine）杂志上发表，该研究对在 38 个国家、93 个运动项目中与高水平训练运动员合作的 114 名医生进行了调查。这些医生涵盖了从特定球队和特定运动员的医生，到首席医疗官、表现主管和外科医生。

运动员使用量明显增加具有重要意义，因为司美格鲁肽（semaglutide）——其作用是抑制食欲、减缓消化过程，且是 Onemic 和 Wegovy 的活性成分——已于 2024. 年被列入世界反兴奋剂机构（Wada）的监测名单。Mounjaro 的活性成分替尔ゼ帕肽（Tirzepatide）则在今年被列入名单。Wada 的执行委员会定于 9 月会面，并将决定这些药物是否应被升级为禁用名单。

完整报道，第 13 页

内部预告 -

• 因凡蒂诺的死对头 领导反抗国际足联（Fifa）的男人 第 2-3 页

• • 基利能复仇吗？ 霍奇金森在金牌争夺战中对阵强敌

• • 阿彻的挑战 鲁特必须学习如何驾驭他最出色的快速投球手 第 8-9 页

• • 铺地网球（Padel）正蓬勃发展 该运动声称它可以比网球更盛行——但成本正在快速上升 第 12-13 页

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2 2026年8月9日 《星期日泰晤士报》 足球

致力于推翻詹尼·因凡蒂诺的人

欧足联主席亚历山大·切费林拥有空手道黑带，他击退了超级联赛，现在将目标锁定在国际足联主席身上 伊恩·霍基（IAN HAWKEY）

欧足联（欧洲足球管理机构）主席亚历山大·切费林（Aleksander Ceferin）曾谈到那些“离我们如此之近的毒蛇”。他指的是那些长期合作伙伴，他原以为这些人站在自己一边，直到突然面对背叛的证据。在他的工作中，你会了解到维持统一战线通常有多么困难——而切费林在过去一周里，在整个欧洲大陆实现了这一点。

在《泰晤士报》揭露了国际足联主席詹尼·因凡蒂诺（Gianni Infantino）领导的一项计划——将世界杯等赛事的股份出售给私人投资者——导致该体育项目世界管理机构陷入领导危机之际，切费林成为了最有可能将这个“法外之徒”赶出城的治安官。他可能没有获得国际足联所有成员，甚至没有获得大多数成员的支持，但他让欧洲几乎步调一致，并准备好使用其最强大的武器。

欧足联宣布，如果因凡蒂诺的计划继续推进，其 55 个成员国将统一抵制未来的国际足联赛事。换句话说，看看在你的世界杯四分之一决赛中，用海地和乌兹别克斯坦代替法国、西班牙或英格兰，你是否喜欢。

作为拟议出售计划的策划者，因凡蒂诺迅速撤回了他的大构想。这标志着在因凡蒂诺与切费林之间、在国际足联的表演者与这位准治安官之间，一场关于权力、领土以及体育运动方向的长期斗争中，切费林取得了最显著的胜利。

对于 2016 年就任欧足联主席的切费林来说，这种欧洲统一的展现令人感到极其罕见。将欧足联各异的国家聚集在一起以统一口径说话，更不用说以欧足联的名义说话，这项工作往往显得吃力不讨好，66 他的重拳击中了目标。治安官已将表演者逼入绝境，但他的支持者认为，他能针对因凡蒂诺策划出如此强有力的肩并肩姿态并不令人惊讶，因为许多欧足联成员此前曾支持过因凡蒂诺。他们表示，切费林在任期间的特点是在面临最大生存威胁的时刻建立有目的的共识。

切费林常说，在他的工作中，“你需要选择你的战场”，而且在过去十年里，欧足联陷入的激烈战场比过去半个世纪都要多。在很大程度上通过统一行动取得的显著胜利包括：击败了由马德里、巴塞罗那和尤文图斯牵头、最初得到几家英格兰超级俱乐部支持的拟议反叛欧洲超级联赛——他的“毒蛇”就来自这两个群体——这一威胁在切费林的任期内于 2021 年被化解；以及在新冠疫情期间及之后，对主要俱乐部赛事和国家队赛事进行了修补整合。

过去两个月里，一些较简单的胜利穿插其中。欧足联在诚信问题上对国际足联采取了强硬且统一的立场，例如谴责在世界杯期间撤销美国前锋福拉林·巴洛贡（Folarin Balogun）红牌禁赛的几乎前所未有的决定，国际足联的纪律准则在接到唐纳德·特朗普的电话后突然改变。

随着世界杯的展开，切费林的姿态往往比任何言语都更有力。他选择不参加由欧足联成员西班牙队赢得的决赛。他的组织联系了裁判奥马尔·阿尔坦（Omar Artan），这位索马里人尽管是国际足联选中的因凡蒂诺以出售世界杯股份的计划，将欧足联拖入了迄今为止最激烈的战斗 国际足联老板否认其所谓情妇被收买

萨姆·鲁克（Sam Rucker） 詹尼·因凡蒂诺否认了有关欧足联在他 2016 年担任该欧洲足球管理机构秘书长期间，向其一名所谓情妇支付报酬的指控。

欧足联表示，其已知晓涉及一名原员工的指控，据称该员工与现正陷入困境的国际足联主席曾有过一段关系。欧足联还确认，“向相关个人支付了一笔离职金”，并且欧足联出资让她在一家商学院攻读工商管理硕士（MBA）。一名发言人表示：“该款项符合当时针对离职员工的规定。”该发言人补充道，欧足联此后已“收紧”其规定，以“反映现代高知名度组织中的相关规定”。因凡蒂诺在2009年至2016年期间担任欧足联秘书长，--- 《星期日泰晤士报》 2026年8月9日 3 担任世界杯比赛官员，但被美国边境管制部门拒绝进入主要东道国。阿尔坦将担任本周欧足联超级杯的裁判，这一任命得到了欧足联主席的认可，后者很高兴能给一名备受推崇的裁判提供国际足联不愿提供的机会。对于58岁的塞费林来说，跨越国界可能被视为天性。他在对统一与分裂政治的深刻接触中长大。他来自斯洛文尼亚，在他人生前24年里，那里是南斯拉夫的一部分，之后成为了主权国家。“我了解西欧人，也了解东欧人，”他在2019年完成欧足联主席首个任期后不久如此说道，并由此在原铁幕两端巩固了广泛的连任支持。与此同时，他反思道，在接替前法国队队长米歇尔·普拉蒂尼担任主席后，“欧足联需要一名律师，而不是一名超级球星出身的前足球运动员。”塞费林毕业于卢布尔雅那大学法律专业，随后顺利进入家族法律事务所执业；他最突出的体育成就可能是空手道黑带。在担任斯洛文尼亚俱乐部足球的行政职务后，他升任国家足协主席，并在2011年担任欧足联法律委员会副主席，当时因凡蒂诺在欧洲足球管理机构担任秘书长已有七年之久。2016年，塞费林在最初被视为外部候选人的情况下，被选为该联合会的最高领导人，该职位的年薪略低于£300 万——而据报道，因凡蒂诺从国际足联获得的年薪为600万美元（约£440 万）。他接手时，欧足联几乎所有角落都存在不安情绪：超级俱乐部正施压以获取欧冠联赛更大份额的收益及年度保证，而较小的国家则希望分享欧足联赛事产生的红利。在塞费林领导下，欧冠联赛已经扩大，目前采用36支球队、8个比赛日的联赛阶段，而欧足联欧洲协会联赛则增加了第三层级的周中足球赛事。欧国联也加入了拥挤的国家对阵国家赛程。如果这听起来像是因凡蒂诺领导的国际足联经常被指责的赛程膨胀，那么欧足联的反驳将是：每四年举办一次的皇冠明珠——欧洲冠军赛，仍保留了某种传统形式；而因凡蒂诺在推动建立一支64支球队的世界杯，并计划在2030年于三个不同大洲举办赛事，而他在成为国际足联主席之前。在他被指控与该初级员工发生关系时，他已婚并育有四个孩子。有关因凡蒂诺涉嫌出轨的指控曾在2018年被德国媒体报道，但现在在他职业声誉受到最大质疑之时再次浮出水面。在昨天的一篇报道中，《每日电讯报》声称该女性获得了一笔六位数的赔偿金。一名国际足联发言人告诉该报：“詹尼·因凡蒂诺强烈否认这些指控，它们完全不属实。任何关于不恰当的暗示”

主席选举

国际足联（Fifa）预计将于3月在摩洛哥举行的代表大会上举行主席选举。因凡蒂诺希望能够当选，这将是他第四个任期。按照规定，同一任主席的任期上限应为三届，但由于因凡蒂诺的第一任期为三年而非四年，他通过修改章程确保该任期不计入在内。他首次当选于2016年，并在2019年和2023年无人竞争的情况下当选。假设他在明年的选举前没有离开国际足联，任何想要竞争该职位的候选人都必须在11月18日前提出申请。获胜的候选人必须在国际足联成员国的总计211票中获得106票。

选票分配情况

欧足联（Uefa）国家已表示他们可能会反对因凡蒂诺，中北美及加勒比足联（Concacaf）也对他提出了批评，尽管其成员之一——墨西哥——表示支持他。非洲足联（CAF）则支持因凡蒂诺。欧洲杯在德国期间被妥善管控。下一届将留在不列颠群岛举行，决赛将在温布利球场举行，这将是三届此类锦标赛中第二次在温布利举行。这在某些方面标志着塞费林时代对英格兰足球较为宽厚。英国方面认为他也对此心存感激，尤其是英国政府在欧超联赛冲突期间提供的政治支持，以及在英格兰各城市针对该项目开展的极具视觉冲击力的球迷主导抗议活动。与此同时，利物浦的支持者有权对欧足联领导层在混乱的2022年欧冠决赛（皇家马德里对阵利物浦，在法兰西体育场举行）后的缺陷和虚伪行为大声批评，那次决赛是塞费林及其任命的关键职位人员的低谷。但现在，在与陷入困境的因凡蒂诺处于对抗顶峰的时刻，塞费林感觉到，在他的成员中，忠诚者远多于反对者。他的打击奏效了。这位警长已将这位表演者逼入了绝境。

不当行为或违反章程及条例的指控具有诽谤性。“欧足联和国际足联没有任何员工就因凡蒂诺先生的行为提出过投诉，因为从未发生过涉及他的此类事件。”在广泛要求其因试图向私人投资者开放包括世界杯在内的赛事而失败而辞职的压力下，这些指控给国际足联主席带来了进一步的压力。尽管这位56岁的人已为其犯下的“错误”道歉，但他拒绝下台——即便欧足联已誓言抵制世界杯。《星期日泰晤士报》已联系国际足联寻求评论。

吉马良斯：赖斯说“请不要再打架了”

Kit Shepard, Paul Joyce

在转会至这家伦敦俱乐部获得确认后，吉马良斯透露，德克兰·赖斯曾告诉布鲁诺·吉马良斯加盟阿森纳，并结束两人之间的“争斗”。28岁的吉马良斯以7500万英镑的价格从纽卡斯尔联加盟，并表示他将与赖斯一起组成“欧洲最强”之一的阿森纳中场。

自从赖斯在2023年夏天加盟阿森纳以来，纽卡斯尔和阿森纳之间进行了一些火药味浓厚的比赛，包括次年11月的一场比赛，当时吉马良斯将球猛击在凯·哈弗茨（吉马良斯未来的新队友）身上，引发了一场冲突，吉马良斯和赖斯在冲突中互相推搡。在同一场比赛中，吉马良斯进行了多次鲁莽的抢断，并用前臂击中了若日尼奥的头部。

“赖斯给我发了一条信息，‘来这里吧，请不要再打架了，现在我们是朋友了’。”在阿森纳发布的一段视频中，在纽卡斯尔效力了4年半的吉马良斯这样说道。

吉马良斯的加盟应该会让阿森纳的中场变得更加强大。除了赖斯，该中场还包括马丁·厄德高、马丁·苏比门迪、米克尔·梅里诺、迈尔斯·刘易斯-斯凯利和埃伯里奇·埃泽。

“我们拥有的中场是欧洲最强的之一，”吉马良斯在谈到他的新同事时说，“每个人都是一名出色的球员，我非常兴奋。”

吉马良斯以7500万英镑的价格加盟阿森纳。

罗纳德·阿拉乌霍将于今日接受体检，利物浦希望完成对这位巴塞罗那队长的租借签约，以减轻其防线选择的压力。这位27岁的球员因其在中心后卫和右后卫位置上的多功能性而成为目标，这将有助于缓解新任主教练安多尼·伊劳拉在英超新赛季开始前的一系列担忧。

利物浦——今天下午将在安菲尔德球场主场迎战摩纳哥进行一场友谊赛——拥有在赛季结束时以5500万欧元（约4700万英镑）买断阿拉乌霍的选项，而非义务，但他们并不打算让这位乌拉圭国脚在本次赛季之后留队。

利物浦将支付阿拉乌若本赛季的所有工资，并寻求在边路加强补强，对巴黎圣日耳曼的布拉德利·巴尔科拉保持浓厚兴趣。

埃弗顿和水晶宫就一项涉及边锋德怀特·麦克尼尔和布伦南·约翰逊的潜在交换交易进行了谈判。由于涉及的估值问题，此次转会较为复杂，目前尚不清楚是否能达成协议。

诺丁汉森林将以3400万英镑的价格签下里斯本竞技的后卫奥斯曼·迪奥曼德。这位22岁的球员已代表科特迪瓦国家队出场16次，他于昨日飞抵诺丁汉进行体检。

贾斯莱首场比赛埃兰加遭恐怖铲球，纽卡斯尔方面愤怒不已

马丁·哈迪（Martin Hardy）报道

昨晚在梅斯塔利亚球场，纽卡斯尔联前锋安东尼·埃兰加（Anthony Elanga）在遭到巴伦西亚队长何塞·加亚（José Gayà）的一次恐怖挑战后被担架抬离球场，此次事件引发了现场30人的大规模混战。

在第35分钟，埃兰加被加亚的一次迟到铲击直接铲飞。这次挑战就发生在纽卡斯尔替补席正前方，由约安·维萨（Yoane Wissa）领头的多名替补球员冲入赛场与加亚对峙。

在接手球队后的首场比赛中，纽卡斯尔新任主教练马蒂亚斯·贾斯莱（Matthias Jaissle）此前已就裁判助理判定埃兰加进球越位以及未判给纽卡斯尔在威廉·奥苏拉（William Osula）被犯规后的点球而与其发生争执。在这场橙色奖杯（Orange Trophy）季前赛中，当双方球员在场上冲突时，贾斯莱再次走向同一名官员对其进行斥责。

埃兰加接受了伤势治疗，在长时间的延迟后被抬离赛场，显然处于痛苦之中，被担架抬走时双手抱头，神情沮丧；不过，他随后能够站起来行走，似乎避免了严重受伤。

裁判何塞·玛丽亚·桑切斯·马丁内斯（José María Sánchez Martínez）在铲球发生后迅速向加亚出示了红牌。

这一事件掩盖了贾斯莱在纽卡斯尔执教生涯的开端。这位38, 岁的德国人在场边显得十分活跃，身穿一件卷起袖子的白衬衫和干练的蓝色长裤，与总是穿着俱乐部训练服的前任主教练埃迪·豪（Eddie Howe）形成鲜明对比。

--- 4 August 9, 2026 《星期日泰晤士报》 足球 # 谁是下一个 Dowman？

值得关注的 10 位新星

英超球队的球员年龄比以往任何时候都更年轻，而这 10 名球员可能会在本赛季脱颖而出…… TOM ALLNUTT

当一名托特纳姆热刺队的才华横溢的青少年在今年夏天考虑自己的未来时，他向经纪人提出了一个在他看来触及问题核心的问题。问题不在于提供的条款，也不在于与热刺尽职员工之间建立的关系。问题是：上赛季有多少青训球员在托特纳姆热刺的首发名单中？答案是 0。

顶尖的青少年不再愿意在英超中等待。他们知道这个联赛比以往任何时候都更年轻，如果一家俱乐部不给他们一线队的出场机会，另一家肯定会。曾经被认为只够给资深职业球员刷靴子的年轻人，现在正被赋予在世界上最艰苦的联赛中首发的机会。

看看这些数字就知道了：英超历史上最年轻的三位首秀球员——伊森·恩瓦内里（15岁5个月28天）、马克斯·道曼（15岁7个月23天）和杰里米·蒙加（15岁8个月28天）——全部是在过去四年内登场的。上赛季，英超出现了第四年轻的进球者，里奥·恩古莫哈在8月17岁生日前三天对阵纽卡斯尔联的比赛中攻入绝杀球；随后出现了史上最年轻的进球者，道曼在3月16岁73天时对阵埃弗顿进球，这使他在英超的进球数比他的GCSE（英国中考）科目还多。

尽管这看起来不可思议，但道曼（仍为 16 岁）和恩瓦内里（现为 19 岁）已经在阿森纳成为了大名鼎鼎的人物，正如恩古莫哈（17 岁）在利物浦的边路展现出其惊人的天赋一样。同样，切尔西的埃斯特旺（19 岁）、伯恩茅斯的埃利·朱尼尔·克鲁皮（20 岁）和富勒姆的乔什·金（19 岁），他们 all 在上赛季成为了成熟的一线队球员。

那么，哪些尚未被外界熟知的青少年可能会在接下来的几个月里脱颖而出？这里有九位（以及 1 位 20 岁球员），他们可能会在本赛季的英超联赛中掀起波澜。

RYAN McAIDO 18, 边锋，曼彻斯特城 尽管关于恩古莫哈在 2024, 离开切尔西加盟利物浦的消息闹得沸沸扬扬，但这家西伦敦俱乐部在同一个夏天失去 McAido 而让他加盟曼城时同样感到心痛。 是一名主要在右路活动的极具爆发力的边锋，他是顶尖的一对一盘带手，能够迅速内切到他擅长的左脚，或者沿着边线突破，然后用右脚射门或传中。他那种在内切后短距离后撤的穆罕默德·萨拉式射门，使得他的终结很难被阻止。

上赛季在足总杯中为曼城出场两次，并在 10-1 大胜埃克塞特城的比赛中进球，当时佩普·瓜迪奥拉表示：“这家伙一直想要球。当 Ryan 面向球门时，他非常危险。”曼城的新任主教练恩佐·马雷斯卡同样是他的粉丝。在上周对阵国际米兰的一场季前友谊赛中，他给了 半小时的出场时间，这位代表英格兰 U-18 队出战的青少年用一次令人迷醉的突破让社交媒体陷入疯狂。

SHEA LACEY 19, 进攻型中场，。一名菲尔·福登风格的穿梭型进攻中场，Lacey 在从右路内切或担任 10 号位时表现最佳，他的触球、盘带和传球眼光长期以来使他被视为一名具有巨大潜力的创造者。Lacey 身高 5 英尺 6 英寸，他一直更多地依赖技术而非力量，但在利物浦成长过程中他曾是一名有前途的拳击手，并保留了一种好斗的一面，这一点深受曼联主教练迈克尔·卡里克地喜爱，尽管他在上赛季四次出场中的第三场对阵阿斯顿维拉时被红牌罚下。Lacey 在卡里克的指导下度过了一个令人鼓舞的季前赛，在 5-0 大胜罗森堡的比赛中打入一球。

英超每年最年轻球员

1992 / 93 Rob Bowman (利兹联) 年龄：17岁 79天（英超首发球员平均年龄：26岁 27天） 93 / 94 Stephen Carr (托特纳姆热刺) 17岁 28天 (27岁 46天) 94 / 95 Emile Heskey (莱斯特城) 17岁 56天 (27岁 12天) 95 / 96 Neil Finn (西汉姆联) 17岁 3天 (27岁 9天) 96 / 97 Richard Dunne (埃弗顿) 17岁 112天 (27岁 164天) 97 / 98 Gareth Barry (阿斯顿维拉) 17岁 76天 (27岁 33天) 98 / 99 Joe Cole (西汉姆联) 17岁 83天 (27岁 74天) 99 / 2000 Joe Cole (西汉姆联) 17岁 350天 (27岁 201天) 00 / 01 Jay Bothroyd (考文垂) 18岁 181天 (27岁 143天) 01 / 02 Stewart Downing (米德尔斯堡) 17岁 276天 (27岁 201天) 02 / 03 Wayne Rooney (埃弗顿) 16岁 297天 (27岁 176天) 03 / 04 Martin Crane (南安普顿) 17岁 218天 (27岁 278天) 04 / 05 Cesc Fàbregas (阿森纳) 17岁 103天 (27岁 178天) 05 / 06 Micah Richards (曼城) 17岁 233天 (27岁 83天) 06 / 07 Theo Walcott (阿森纳) 17岁 212天 (27岁 10天) 07 / 08 Martyn Waghorn (桑德兰) 17岁 337天 (27岁 2天) 08 / 09 Jose Baxter (埃弗顿) 16岁 198天 (27岁 34天)

LUCÁ WILLIAMS-BARNETT 17岁，10号，托特纳姆

作为前10号球员，罗伯托·德泽尔比认为自己与创造型球员之间有一种特殊的联系，而威廉姆斯-巴内特正是英格兰最受关注的年轻进攻球员之一。威廉姆斯-巴内特10岁时从卢顿镇的青训营加入热刺，他可以胜任边路位置，但在中路感觉最舒适，在那里他有自由寻找空间的能力。凭借着与高大且瘦削的身材不相称的顶级触球和平衡感，威廉姆斯-巴内特身上有某种科尔·帕尔默的影子。去年9月，年仅16岁的他作为替补在联赛杯中登场，并在季前赛期间脱颖而出，德泽尔比称他为“一颗珍贵的钻石”。德泽尔比表示，他需要加强身体力量，但威廉姆斯-巴内特并不缺乏自信，他在对阵悉尼FC时那次俏皮的帕南卡点球就证明了这一点。

MARLI SALMON 16岁，中后卫，阿森纳 萨尔蒙是非常典型的现代中后卫，控球时优雅且沉着，拥有对危险的直觉，这使他能够通过灵活地化解对手，而非用强力铲球来阻止对方。以威廉·萨利巴为榜样，萨尔蒙在3月因在中场“耍帅”而成为头条新闻——在阿森纳U-21以4-4领先雷丁时，他一边颠球一边比赛，随后被推倒在地。萨尔蒙出生于莱顿斯通，最初被发掘为前锋，但在加入阿森纳U-21后迅速转型为中后卫。他也可以出任右后卫。正是凭借后者位置，萨尔蒙在12月完成了首秀，在欧冠对阵俱乐部布鲁日的3-0胜利中被换上，成为继道曼和恩瓦内里之后，阿森纳第三年轻的出场外场球员。

萨尔蒙曾代表英格兰U-17队，并在阿森纳对阵赫罗纳和皇家贝蒂斯的季前友谊赛中作为替补登场。

2009 / 10 Lennard Sowah (朴次茅斯) 17y 238d (英超首发平均年龄 27y 210d) 10 / 11 Jack Robinson (利物浦) 17y 234d (27y 189d) 11 / 12 Adam Henley (布莱克本) 17y 195d (27y 103d) 12 / 13 Luke Shaw (南安普顿) 17y 121d (27y 132d) 13 / 14 Moussa Dembélé (富勒姆) 17y 261d (27y 112d) 14 / 15 Adam Armstrong (纽卡斯尔) 17y 219d (27y 130d) 15 / 16 Reece Oxford (西汉姆) 16y 236d (27y 148d) 16 / 17 Ben Woodburn (利物浦) 17y 175d (27y 305d) 17 / 18 Reiss Nelson (阿森纳) 18y 119d (27y 135d) 18 / 19 Mason Greenwood (曼联) 17y 223d (27y 68d) 19 / 20 Rukaya Saka (阿森纳) 18y 17d (27y 12d) 20 / 21 Daniel Jebbison (谢菲尔德联) 17y 276d (27y 10d) 21 / 22 Carney Chukwumeka (阿斯顿维拉) 17y 312d (27y 95d) 22 / 23 Rico Lewis (曼城) 18y 37d (27y 21d) 23 / 24 Lewis Miley (纽卡斯尔) 17y 194d (26y 269d) 24 / 25 Mikey Moore (托特纳姆) 17y 77d (26y 260d) 25 / 26 Max Dowman (阿森纳) 16y 144d (26y 224d)

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《星期日泰晤士报》 2026年8月9日 5

JOÉL DRAKES-THOMAS 17岁，边锋 / 边后卫，水晶宫

当德雷克斯-托马斯打电话告诉母亲，他将在12月年仅16岁时在欧协联中迎来水晶宫一线队首秀时，他的母亲告诉他放下手机，回去工作。那天晚上，他作为前腰首发出战芬兰球队KuPS，并被评为全场最佳球员。在新任主教练皮埃尔·萨日的带领下，他在水晶宫的季前赛中也有出场。德雷克斯-托马斯曾效力于兰贝斯老虎队（Jadon Sancho起步的青训队），他更像一名传统的边锋，最大的优势在于传球质量。有些人认为德雷克斯-托马斯的长期未来是成为一名进攻型右后卫。他在水晶宫青年队中已经尝试过右边后卫的位置，其传中、配合以及无球状态下的勤勉使他非常适合该位置。鉴于水晶宫右翼缺乏选择，且因获得欧联杯资格而面临另一份艰苦的赛程，德雷克斯-托马斯应该会获得更多一线队机会。

乔治·海明斯 (GEORGE HEMMINGS) 19岁，中前卫，阿斯顿维拉

维拉是目前被认为在青训层面取得长足进步的一批俱乐部之一——纽卡斯尔、布伦特福德和富勒姆均在其中——而海明斯则是他们最受推崇的天才。作为一名能够在狭小区域接球并在压力下控球的中前卫，海明斯也引起了英格兰青年队教练的关注，尤其是考虑到这个国家极度缺乏深层组织、擅长传球的中场球员。海明斯进入了豪（Howe）的阵营，但其上升势头在1月因一次导致赛季报销的胫骨受伤而中断。他曾担任英格兰U-17国家队队长，并于上个月签署了他的首份职业合同。

吕克·德·富热罗尔 (LUC DE FOUGEROLLES) 20岁，中后卫，富勒姆

富勒姆的新任主教练阿尔瓦罗·阿尔贝洛亚（Alvaro Arbeloa）已承诺将提拔更多青训毕业生，而德·富热罗尔正处于机会敲门之时。他出生于伦敦，父亲是加拿大人，八岁时加入富勒姆青训营，上赛季被租借至比利时球队登德（Dender）。他的国际赛生涯加速发展，今年夏天代表加拿大出战，这意味着在为富勒姆完成联赛首秀之前，他的履历中已有五场世界杯比赛。德·富热罗尔在快速晋升富勒姆青年队的期间曾司职中场和右后卫，但现在已成为一名强悍且极具侵略性的中后卫，具备在英超联赛生存所需的身体素质和运动能力。

艾莉森·鲁德 (Alyson Rudd)

……顶级联赛的教练们也正趋于年轻化——但要警惕“罗森尼尔效应”

本赛季英超联赛教练的平均年龄为 46 岁，这其中包含了埃弗顿的大卫·莫耶斯，他 63 岁，比布莱顿和霍夫阿尔比恩的法比安·许策勒大 30 岁。那些由昂贵资金组建、拥有需要强有力领导力的年轻球星的球队，竟然被托付给如此相对稚嫩的新手，这怎么可能？这感觉违背直觉。感觉每一个转向相对年轻教练的俱乐部都应该经历“利亚姆·罗森尼尔效应”。

事实上，当时 41 岁的罗森尼尔被任命一事，恰恰有助于说明年轻教练如何才能获得成功。罗森尼尔体现了一个年轻教练应该避免的所有特质，并因此失败了。切尔西从斯特拉斯堡将他挖走，仅仅是因为 Clearlake Capital 同时拥有这两家俱乐部，而且在恩佐·马雷斯卡意外离职后，这似乎是最不令人反感的举措。如果说罗森尼尔有什么问题，那就是他对球员过于恭敬，太像哥们儿，且太快地承认他知道媒体对他被提拔感到困惑。他在 4 月被解雇前仅坚持了 3.5 个月。

但许策勒在遭遇状态低迷——上赛季中期 13 场比赛仅赢 1 场——时并未被解雇。他在 2024 年 6 月被任命时，年仅 31 岁，成为了该级别联赛历史上最年轻的正式主教练。而现在，我们开始忘记他的年龄，转而记得他是如何度过那段低谷的。当俱乐部的老板因精明能干而受人钦佩时，情况会变得简单。布莱顿和托尼·布鲁姆做足了功课。基于尽职调查，他们知道无论在顺境还是逆境中都可以信任一个 31 岁的人。而当像布莱顿这样的俱乐部选择年轻人时，你可以肯定，这有助于其他俱乐部减轻对此的恐惧。

每当被提醒年龄时，许策勒总是耸耸肩，但他在 4 月告诉我，关键在于不要试图装得更成熟。“最重要的事情，”他说，“是我能做我自己，所以我不需要扮演某个角色……因为每个人都会识破的。”而这正是罗森尼尔出错的地方。他试图掩饰自己缺乏顶级经验，在传授没人买账的“智慧金句”时，将眼镜往鼻梁上推了推，结果失去了更衣室的支持。

年轻教练需要拥抱自己的青春。英超联赛中第二年轻的教练是纽卡斯尔联的马蒂亚斯·雅斯莱。这位 38 岁的身材高大的教练看起来像个健身教练，但他顺应了这个形象——而且考虑到他要求高能量的“纵向”足球，这又有何不可？

米克尔·阿尔特塔证明了坚持使用年轻教练能带来荣耀。他在 2019 年 12 月被阿森纳任命时 37 岁，但当他思考必须对一个分裂的群体施加怎样的纪律时，他看起来要成熟得多。他遭遇过挫折，尤其是连续三个赛季获得亚军，但当时的观点是，只要他在学习、成长和适应，他就是打破魔咒的合适人选；这一立场在 5 月得到了证实。

年轻并不意味着没有气场。如果三十多岁和四十多岁的人不过分用力，他们也可以拥有存在感。切尔西在罗森尼尔之后似乎吸取了教训，任命了 44 岁的哈维·阿隆索，他拥有辉煌的球员生涯足以震慑更衣室，而且在拜耳勒沃库森期间，他们曾在 2024-25 赛季不败夺得德甲冠军。利物浦球迷认为他

伊拉奥拉的轨迹在所有教练中最令人好奇——但他的方法可能需要时间才能被完全吸收

利物浦球迷原以为他将前往安菲尔德，但相反，他们拥有另一位44岁的教练安东尼·伊拉奥拉（Andoni Iraola）。在该组所有年轻主教练中，他的发展轨迹最令人好奇，他彻底改造了伯恩茅斯，使其踢出了极具吸引力的足球。他的方法在默西赛德郡可能需要时间才能被完全吸收，但如果早期出现小波折，管理层必须基于团结增长的基础坚定地支持他。

这并不意味着年长教练没有空间。莫耶斯一直擅长为需要稳定地俱乐部带来稳定性，甚至78岁的罗伊·霍奇森在上赛季末被任命为布里斯托尔城的临时主教练。他们需要一个能确保球员舒适地踢4-4-2阵型的人，而实际上，外界没有比他更合适的人选。他是否愿意在短期内帮助一家英超俱乐部？毫无疑问他愿意。这意味着赫尔策勒或许可以期待在聚光灯下再度度过45年。

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萨利文无视建议，执意现身球场

西汉姆联 卡斯特利亚诺斯 43, 50, 鲍文 45 朴次茅斯 塞格西奥 33 3 1 查理·戈登

西汉姆联共同所有者大卫·萨利文（David Sullivan）无视了远离伦敦体育场的建议，在昨日对阵朴次茅斯的联赛杯比赛中，他成功地在球迷的眼皮底下潜入看台就座。

由于担心球迷不安，体育场运营商和西汉姆联的球迷咨询委员会均建议萨利文避免参加俱乐部本赛季的首场主场比赛。但西汉姆联的最大股东——一名曾被指控存在历史性性行为不端行为的人士——采取了反抗行动，无视了恳求，并在指控者发声后的首场主场比赛中现身。

他被看到与一名身穿米色西装的魁梧男子并肩而坐观看比赛，但西汉姆联表示，该男子是萨利文的客人而非安保人员。大量球迷到场，但萨利文成功地避开了关注，他的到来几乎没有引起任何反应。而在两个半月前，即西汉姆联从英超联赛降级当天，部分支持者曾对他大声喝倒彩。

球场上，西汉姆联在落后的情况下反超击败朴次茅斯。塔蒂·卡斯特利亚诺斯（Taty Castellanos）攻入两球，贾罗德·鲍文（Jarrod Bowen）的一次折射射门得分。西汉姆联在回应了阿德里安·塞格西奥（Adrian Segecio）在第33分钟的先制球后，成功晋级第二轮。

主教练努诺·埃斯皮里托·桑托（Nuno Espirito Santo）表示：“我们专注于球场。外界的嘈杂不能分散我们的注意力。我们会遇到很多噪音，所以我们需要专注于比赛，做好我们的工作，球员们做到了。”

77岁的萨利文于6月辞去了西汉姆联共同主席的职务，就在此前几天，《泰晤士报》与BBC的《全景》（Panorama）节目发布的一项联合调查揭露了严重的历史性指控。这位前报业和色情产业大亨被七名女性指控滥用权力并将其作为性猎物。萨利文“断然”否认这些指控，这些指控可追溯到20世纪80年代，当时的指控者均处于十几岁后期或二十岁初期，是希望在旗下的《每日体育报》（Daily Sport）和《星期日体育报》（Sunday Sport）纸媒工作的模特。

包括一名参与调查的女性在内的八名女性向警方举报了萨利文的行为。他尚未因这些指控被起诉。

调查还揭露，由于安全保障顾虑，萨利文在过去三年中被禁止与西汉姆联的青年队和女队接触——而在调查之前，俱乐部和伦敦体育场运营商对此并不知情。

插图：鲍文在萨利文面前打入了西汉姆联的第二球

萨利文仍是西汉姆联最大的单一股东，但他愿意出售其在俱乐部持有的38.8%的股份，而董事会格局的变动可能会使达成协议变得更有可能。由阿曼达·斯塔夫利（Amanda Staveley）领导的一个财团是一个潜在买家，该财团已同意以£1.5 亿从大卫·戈尔德（David Gold）家族手中购买25.1%的股份。西汉姆联的第二大股东丹尼尔·克雷廷斯基（Daniel Kretinsky）是另一个潜在买家。

在与托特纳姆热刺达成£700 万的协议后，马诺·所罗门（Manor Solomon）即将与西汉姆联签署一份为期三年的合同。这位27岁的边锋在租借至利兹联期间攻入10球并贡献13次助攻，帮助球队在2025年从英冠联赛升级。西汉姆联将支付£500 万的初始费用，外加£200 万的附加条款。

南安普顿获胜，球迷高唱“想监视就监视”

南安普顿在“间谍门”丑闻后赢得了首场正式比赛，在卡拉宝杯首轮中以 2-0 击败了科尔切斯特联。南安普顿因秘密观察半决赛对手米德尔斯堡的训练课，于 5 月被取消了英冠升级附加赛的资格。他们还被英格兰足球联赛（EFL）扣除 4 分，其主教练 Tonda Eckert 仍可能被英足总（FA）禁赛。在科尔切斯特的客场看台上，南安普顿球迷高唱“想监视就监视”，而球员们在面对英甲（League Two）对手时保持了冷静。下半场，两名替补球员 Cyle Larin 和 Romeo Akachukwu 进球，展现了南安普顿的实力。

在其他比赛中，米尔沃尔门将 Lukas Jensen 扑出了女王公园巡游者的全部 4 次点球，帮助球队在点球大战中获胜。比赛在常规时间内以 1-1 战平，随后 Jensen 成为英雄，接连扑出 Ilias Chair、Harvey Vale、Koki Saito 和 Kwame Poku 的点球。米尔沃尔的 Jake Cooper 和 Mark Sykes 命中点球。

搜索“Sky Essential TV” £15 的 Essential TV 包含精选 Sky 频道。 仅限新电视客户。需要 6 频道。24 个月 Essential TV（每月 £15）和 Sports Standard（每月 £18）的最短合约期。目前价格为 £15，每月 £15 后适用标准价格。Essential TV 包含 Atlantic、News、Sports Plus 和 Sports Racing。Netflix Standard 和 Kids 以及 Discovery - Entertainment - 需设置账户。建议最低广播速度为 25 Mbps。所有内容自 10 月 18 - 24 日起在海峡群岛和岛屿可用。仅限非回访客户。适用进一步条款。

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《星期日泰晤士报》 2026 年 8 月 9 日 7 欧洲田径锦标赛

霍金森跑得比以往任何时候都快，却在面对新对手莫莉·麦克埃尔维时失去优势

希莉·霍金森（Heely Hodgkinson）本赛季至今的表现很难用简单的词汇概括。尽管她跑出了职业生涯最快的时间，但奇怪的是，她并不总是获胜。她或许是现任奥运冠军，也是下周在伯明翰举行的欧洲锦标赛的形象大使，但实际上，她已不再是夺冠的绝对热门。

在两年前巴黎的金色夏天之后，24岁的霍金森依然是英国田径界最大的明星。在过去的几个赛季里，她一直致力于将自己打造成为世界上最成功且最具知名度的800米跑者。但伤病缠身的2025年让她停滞不前，而到目前为止，2026年则表现参差不齐。

本赛季始于一个巨大的高点：她在法国利埃文打破了维持近24年的室内800米世界纪录。在2月份的那个时间点，她看起来几乎不可战胜。但那天紧随其后获得第二名的女子奥德丽·韦罗（Audrey Werro）似乎只是在等待时机。

6月，这位瑞士运动员在斯德哥尔摩跑出1分 53.98秒，震惊了整个体育界，这是历史上第三快的时间，比她自己的个人最好成绩快了近两秒。这也使22岁的韦罗成为仅有的第三位800米跑进1分 54.秒的女性，也是自1983年以来首位达成此成就的人。

霍金森落后她近半秒。这位英国选手刚刚跑出了个人最好成绩（1分 54.33秒），但未能挡住韦罗。尽管如此，霍金森在离开赛道时依然保持乐观。这一点，加上她在2月份获得的室内世界冠军头衔，证明她已完全恢复到最佳状态。她坚称，对阵韦罗的结果只会让她离打破世界纪录的目标更近一步。

“我没有那么失望，”霍金森说，“我提到过世界纪录，要达到我们讨论的那些时间，你无法独自完成。所以我认为这将实际上成为一个关键时刻。”

霍金森离开瑞典时，公开目标依然是那个难以企及的800米世界纪录——1分 53.28秒，由捷克人雅米拉·克拉托赫维洛娃（Jarmila Kratochvílová）在43年前创下，这也是田径历史上维持时间最长的纪录。她希望在7月的伦敦钻石联赛上挑战这一纪录，但事情并未按计划进行。

在之前于俄勒冈州尤金举行的普雷方坦经典赛（Prefontaine Classic）之前，霍金森遭遇一次摔倒，导致膝盖受伤。她在那里获得第二名，而韦罗在巴黎的另一场比赛中刷新了个人最好成绩，再次跑进1分 54.秒。

随后在伦敦，霍金森登顶领奖台，击败了进步明显的费姆克·布罗德斯-博尔（Femke Broeders-Bol）——这位400米栏两届世界冠军在本赛季转战长距离项目——但她距离世界纪录还很远。

霍金森带着“复杂的情绪”离开赛道。但她的英国队友乔什·克尔（Josh Kerr）——他在当天的伦敦比赛中打破了1英里世界纪录——赞扬了霍金森，并敦促她在面对显而易见的失望时要看向大局：“即使你对今天不满意——我不知道怎么可能不满意——但在你的年龄能做到这一点并持续获胜……”他在一次联合采访中说道，“我们非常幸运能拥有能够持续表现的运动员，希望我们能激励下一代也这样做。”

这一点显而易见。霍金森的影响力远超她的胜利，她的Instagram粉丝数接近65万,000，并曾获得BBC年度最佳体育人物桂冠。在利用自己的平台为这项运动发声时，她也毫不犹豫。

今年，在有报道称西汉姆联足球俱乐部可能会成为伦敦体育场申办2029年世界田径锦标赛的绊脚石后，霍金森调侃了该俱乐部。“让我们拥有这个时刻，”她敦促该俱乐部，并补充道：“英国队给那个体育场带来的奖牌，将比西汉姆联在整个历史中见过的还要多。”

申办申请已于本周正式提交。

她在赛道上所经历的挑战也将成为她的动力。在过去的 18 个月中，她已经习惯了克服失望。上个赛季，由于两次腿后腱撕裂，她的计划被彻底打乱，导致她错失了室外锦标赛的世界冠军，仅在训练伙伴乔治亚·亨特-贝尔（Georgia Hunter Bell）之后获得一枚铜牌。霍奇金森（Hodgkinson）的标准如此之高，以至于在她的眼中，除了第一名以外任何结果都是失败，而本周五 800 米决赛中，只有在主场亚历山大体育场（Alexander Stadium）夺金才算成功。在为了专注于伯明翰而放弃上个月在格拉斯哥举行的英联邦运动会后，她在这个夏天将所有筹码都押在了欧洲锦标赛上。在欧洲锦标赛前的一次采访中，她表示：“锦标赛的比赛与巡回赛非常不同。可能是在三天内进行三轮比赛，这完全不同。没有配速，时间并不重要，关键在于锦标赛的竞技状态和应对压力。”

“（这）就是一种不同的心态。在巡回赛中，每个人都在追求时间——但在锦标赛中，情况就像一张可怕的白纸。我曾以世界排名第一的身份参赛但未能获胜，也曾以排名第八的身份参赛并赢得奖牌。这就是其令人兴奋之处。”除了布罗德斯-博尔（Broeders-Bol）的威胁——她虽然在 800 米项目上仍在进步，但已是重大赛事的资深冠军——这场比赛很可能是今年前两名之间的较量。自两个月前在斯德哥尔摩相遇以来，霍奇金森和韦罗（Werro）尚未再次交手。伯明翰将是霍奇金森第一次有机会与这位威胁要取代她的女性一决高下。

女子800米：2026年世界领先成绩

Audrey Werro今年的成绩比Keely Hodgkinson快了半秒多。两人的成绩均创个人最好成绩。

2026年伯明翰赛：关注重点

男子5,000米决赛

明天，晚上8.40 挪威的Jakob Ingebrigtsen因伤已近一年未参赛，并于2月接受了跟腱手术。他在过去三届欧洲锦标赛中均包揽了1,500米和5,000米两项冠军，但此次将重点关注长距离项目。

男子400米决赛

周三，晚上8.50 如果两届400米冠军Matthew Hudson-Smith能在他已有的四枚欧洲金牌基础上再添一枚，他将与Roger Black和Sir Mo Farah一起，成为赢得冠军头衔最多的英国男子运动员。从状态来看，他是今年欧洲领先的男子选手。

女子1,500米决赛

周四，晚上9.50 六届欧洲冠军Dina Asher-Smith距离追平该锦标赛历史上最成功运动员的纪录仅差一次胜利。根据她本赛季的成绩，她是200米的夺冠热门，但英国队友Amy Hunt将是她最大的竞争对手。

女子七项赛

周五开始，上午场次 奥运银牌得主Katarina Johnson-。她的奖牌收藏中还缺少一枚欧洲金牌。

女子1,500米

8月16日周日，晚上9.13 本届锦标赛的最后一枚个人奖牌将在周日的女子1,500米比赛中产生。奥运铜牌得主Georgia Hunter Bell是绝对的热门，正力争夺得她的首个欧洲冠军。 电视转播：BBC & TNT Sports

英国运动员被告知需支付 £150 为亲友购买门票

Molly McElwee 报道

在英国首次主办欧洲锦标赛的前夕，英国运动员们期待能获得尽可能多的主场支持。但许多人惊讶地发现，他们没有权利获得任何给家人和朋友的免费门票。

英国田径协会（UK Athletics）于 7 月 27 日通知运动员，对于希望观看明日开赛活动的任何支持者，他们必须购买门票，在某些情况下，这甚至包括未能获得认证资格的私人教练。

在包括两年前巴黎奥运会在内的其他重大赛事中，运动员通常预期在自己的比赛场次中至少能被分配到一两张免费门票。然而，本次赛事的政策则不那么慷慨。

虽然在位于伯明翰、拥有 1.8万,000 个座位的亚历山大体育场中，已为家人和朋友预留了一部分门票，但英国田径协会并未向运动员提供任何免费或折扣门票。

一些人报告称，在那个预留区域，每张门票不得不花费约 £150。虽然体育场内有更便宜的区域，但一名在伯明翰参赛的运动员告诉《泰晤士报》，在他们得知没有免费门票之前，更实惠的选择已经售罄。

“他们甚至本可以提供折扣价，所以这有点令人惊讶，有点遗憾，”该运动员说。“如果能有更多家人和朋友在场就太好了。”

“起初我们还以为这可能是个错误，”另一名运动员说。“在某个区域内有预留票，这样你的朋友或家人即使在最后一刻也能肯定买到票，但那是全价。”

英国田径协会近年来陷入财务困境，在 2023 年甚至面临破产威胁。在包括裁员在内的大规模成本削减努力之后，该管理机构去年报告了自 2017 年以来的首次盈余。

英国田径协会的一位发言人告诉《泰晤士报》，虽然在国家锦标赛中通常会为参赛运动员提供免费门票，但在“此前在英国举办的重大国际锦标赛”中并非如此。

该发言人表示：“赛事组织者已为亲友预留了专门的座位配额，以确保他们能够观看运动员比赛，因为有几个场次的门票销售迅速或已经售罄。”

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8 August 9, 2026 《星期日泰晤士报》 板球

鲁特必须学会如何驾驭他的明星球员

回归的队长在首次任期内未能充分发挥乔弗拉·阿彻的潜力——现在是时候优先建立这段关系了 西蒙·威尔德（SIMON WILDE）板球记者

当本·斯托克斯在特伦特桥测试赛期间宣布辞去英格兰队队长职务并彻底退出国际板球赛时，乔弗拉·阿彻似乎是那些最难过的队友之一。赛后，阿彻眼含泪光，表示他不仅失去了一位队长，还失去了一位朋友。“最难的部分是想象一个没有他的更衣室，”他说，“我参加的每一场比赛，他都在那里。这对我打击很大。”

斯托克斯作为领导者的强大优势之一是对球员的共情能力，尤其是像阿彻这样偶尔需要有人给予心理支持的投球手。当环境、运气或身体状况不利时，在场上长时间的防守工作可能是艰苦的。斯托克斯去年冬天在澳大利亚谈到阿彻时说：“他是一个不怎么流露情感的人，但我尽量在板球之外花很多时间陪他。经过几年的了解，我认识了这个真实的人。我和乔弗关系非常密切。”

几天后，仿佛为了证明这一点，斯托克斯和阿彻在阿德莱德合作贡献了106分，维持了英格兰队的希望。当斯托克斯最终被出局（令他深感失望）时，阿彻从球场中心一路跑过去，在队长离开球场前拍了拍他的背。

他们的关系并非一直如此顺畅。在同一场比赛中，当斯托克斯拒绝为阿彻安排一名第三人（third man）防守员，并告诉他如果能按计划投球就不需要防守员时，两人发生了争执。阿彻最终拿下了五个三击球（wickets）。斯托克斯同样是在2019年世界杯决赛中，在阿彻投出赢得冠军的超级回合（Super Over）前，对他说了至关重要的安抚之词的人。“无论输赢，今天都不会定义你，”他说。阿彻完成了任务。

因此，现在轮到乔·鲁特了。因为当鲁特本月在利兹对阵巴基斯坦队，第二次正式接任测试赛队长时，他最重要的工作之一就是与英格兰队资历最深的多赛制投球手建立良好的关系。他不太可能创造出前任队长那种化学反应，但他需要让阿彻相信，他至少能体察到他的需求。

在鲁特的第一次任期内，这一点并非完全显而易见。在阿彻2019, 对阵澳大利亚队的精彩首秀系列赛后，人们普遍认为鲁特多次过度使用阿彻，直到他在2021年因伤崩溃；诚然，其中一些比赛是在缺乏弹跳的球场上进行的，但在鲁特麾下的最后八场测试赛中，阿彻仅以44.23的平均分拿到了17个三击球。

鲁特在6月的椭圆球场测试赛中顶替斯托克斯时对阿彻的处理方式，也没有让人相信这次情况会有所改善。在第一天接近尾声时，鲁特让阿彻投了八个回合，其中包含大量针对格伦·菲利普斯的短球，但第二天早晨当第二个新球可用时，他在90分钟内没有调用他。阿彻缺乏红球赛的体能状态可能是一个因素，尽管英格兰队否认了这一点，但这导致新西兰队的击球局结束得混乱且代价高昂，并导致了最终的失败。

随着斯托克斯的回归，阿彻在诺丁汉测试赛的开局较为缓慢——新西兰队的开局击球手以317分的合伙得分开始——但在对方第二局开始时贡献了一段爆发性的投球，并以六个三击球结束了比赛。他被评为英格兰队该系列赛的最佳球员。

在测试赛板球中，由于赛制时间长，队长对球队士气尤为重要，但阿彻也从与白球赛领导者的良好关系中获益，例如埃温·摩根，以及他在今年“百球赛”期间在南勇士队（Southern Brave）的挚友兼导师克里斯·乔丹；在这次比赛中，阿彻的投球表现总体良好，且速度极快。随着英格兰重建其测试赛

正值巅峰 英格兰球员夺 wicket 数最多 2024-26

Wickets / Avg

A Rashid (75) / 106 / 24.18 J Archer (59) / 103 / 25.8 B Carse (41) / 93 / 31.07 G Atkinson (23) / 84 / 24.88 J Tongue (16) / 55 / 30.72 S Bashir (18) / 54 / 41.33 B Stokes (20) / 54 / 27.27

Archer 逐年出场情况

在英格兰重建其测试赛球队之际， 扮演着重要的角色。乔恩·刘易斯（Jon Lewis）曾任萨塞克斯和英格兰队的快速投球教练，与 密切合作多年，现任格洛斯特郡板球总监，他认为 状态良好是因为他经历了一段较长时间的投球期。“节奏和信心就是一切，”刘易斯说。“最重要的是，他正在参加红球板球赛。通过重复技巧，你能找到自然的投球线路和长度。这在短格式比赛中很少发生。”

即便如此， 仍有可以改进的地方。包括刘易斯在内的一些观察者认为，自从五年前接受肘部手术后， 的动作发生了变化，这使得他更难将球诱导至右撇子击球手远离身体的方向。刘易斯表示，他的出手点略有下降，部分原因是由于大量的康复工作，他的体型比以前更魁梧；其他人则认为他的肘部不再像以前那样过度伸展，而这种伸展有助于在出手时让手保持在手腕后方。“他绝对更适合对付左撇子，”刘易斯补充道。“他的出手点使他更难触及右撇子击球手的外侧边缘。他对阵右撇子的投球长度比对阵左撇子时要短。为了提高效率，他需要将投球长度增加一码。”

对 来说，好消息是许多国际球队在顶端顺序部署左撇子击球手。自从去年夏天回归测试赛以来，他在参加的七场比赛中，在开局投球阶段就夺得了 8 个 wicket。其中除一人外全部是左撇子。未来可能还有更多机会。巴基斯坦可能的顶端前三名全部是左撇子：Azan Awais、Imam-ul-Haq 和 Shan Masood。

英格兰管理层认为，他们正在打造一支由 、Gus Atkinson 和 Josh Tongue 组成的优秀快速投球攻击线，并由 Ollie Robinson、Matt Fisher 和 Sam Cook 等人提供支持。该群体缺乏的是一名天生的领导者，一个能定调并起到标杆作用的人，就像詹姆斯·安德森（James Anderson）长期以来所做的那样。 可能过于不稳定且沉默，无法提供这种领导力，而 Atkinson 也不是那种表现欲强的人。 能投出极佳的投球段和绝佳的单球，但偶尔也会显得平庸。正如他最近承认的，测试赛是对心理的严峻考验。“最难的是在场上防守时的心不在焉，”他说。“你可能在场上待一天半，所以心理强大[至关重要]。”

斯托克斯（Stokes）作为队长拥有许多特质，但可以说在 Stuart Broad、安德森和 Chris Woakes 退出舞台的四年里，他本应做更多工作来培养新的投球领导者。但正如他上周在《For the Love of Cricket》播客中详谈时承认的那样，斯托克斯不擅长委派任务。“我绝对给自己承担了太多，从其他本该承担责任的人那里拿走了太多责任，”他说。“但他们应该承担责任的唯一原因是，我应该要求他们去做……我一直认为，我必须搞定一切。”这无疑包括感到有必要在投球方面发挥领导作用，斯托克斯经常在最艰难的时刻承担起投球最长时段的任务。

如果没有斯托克斯，鲁特将不得不寻找并培养那些能够代替他承担繁重任务的人。阿彻是否真的是最合适的人选，这是一个需要讨论的问题。可以肯定的是，英格兰队总经理罗布·基（Rob Key）以及医疗团队在帮助阿彻从伤病中恢复的过程中所表现出的耐心值得称赞。当他在2024年重新为英格兰队出战时，他们非常谨慎，没有操之过急——他在一年内仅参加了白球赛——并且在他在IPL（印度超级联赛）结束后，在今年夏天对阵新西兰的第一场测试赛中没有选择他，采取了谨慎的做法。由于淘汰赛实际上已超出南勇队（Southern Brave）的触及范围，阿彻为海丁利（Headingley）所做的准备不应因“百球赛”（the Hundred）结束与第一场测试赛之间的时间衔接过快而受到影响。在近期的训练课中，阿彻和其他英格兰快球手一直在增加训练量，并使用红球进行投球练习。

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100球赛中，奥利·波普在9球得8分后被库兰要求退场，遭遇尴尬

在椭圆球场对阵特伦特火箭队的比赛中，MI伦敦队在奥利·波普（Ollie Pope）9球仅得8分后将其撤离赛场，使他成为首位在特许经营赛事中被“强制退场”（retired out）的英格兰专业击球手。波普已被召回英格兰国家队，参加本月对阵巴基斯坦的前两场测试赛。当时他与MI队长萨姆·库兰（Sam Curran）共同击球。库兰在连续击出两记六分球后，走向球场并与波普碰棒，随后波普离场。28岁的波普在击球时节奏掌控困难，虽在一次8w评审中幸存，但其第七球击出了四分球。MI伦敦队在70球时得分为89分，失去了三个出局名额，且仍有谢法内·鲁瑟福德（Shefane Rutherford）和西坎达尔·拉扎（Sikandar Raza）这两位强力击球手待命。天空体育的马克·布彻（Mark Butcher）暗示库兰此前已与波普沟通，大意是：“情况不太理想，我们的球数快用完了。”MI伦敦队最终获得147分（7人出局），但这远远不够，他们最终以6个出局名额的差距落败，且还剩10球。

繁重的测试赛赛程是否会在灰烬杯前击垮澳大利亚？

西蒙·威尔德（Simon Wilde）

周四，澳大利亚将在偏远的北部前哨达尔文开始与孟加拉国进行两场测试赛中的第一场。这其实并不是南半球的板球赛季——澳式足球计划正进入最后冲刺阶段——但除此之外还能如何安排所有行程？这些比赛标志着一个非凡时期的开始，澳大利亚计划从现在起到明年夏天灰烬杯（Ashes）结束之间，进行 20 或 21 场测试赛。是否增加一场比赛取决于他们是否能进入世界测试锦标赛（World Test Championship）的决赛（目前看来很有可能），而该赛事正是如此密集赛程的基础。

历史上没有任何一支球队在 12 个月内进行过如此多的测试赛。印度在 1982 年 12 月至 1983 年 11 月期间，以及西印度群岛在 2000 年 5 月至 2001 年 4 月期间，分别完成了 18 场比赛。当时两支球队都不强——印度一场没赢，西印度群岛仅赢了三场——但值得注意的是，双方在过程中都动用了 25 名球员并更换了队长。

为了增加挑战，澳大利亚还将面临三场重要的客场系列赛——分别在南非、印度和英格兰。他们上次在南非获胜是在 2014 年，在印度获胜是在 2004 年，在英格兰获胜是在 2001 年，因此在其中任何一场中胜出都将是一项成就。而在这三场中全部获胜将成为“袋鼠绿帽”（Baggy Green）的传奇。

双方已经达成一致，摄像机将全程跟拍他们的旅程，为另一季的纪实系列片《测试》（The Test）做准备。此次访问南非将是自 2018 年开普敦“砂纸门”丑闻导致他们受挫以来的首次。相比之下，在主场对阵孟加拉国和新西兰的六场测试赛将缺乏光彩，而在商业方面，11 月的英格兰白球巡赛和在墨尔本举行的 150 周年纪念测试赛将不得不承担重任。

主教练安德鲁·麦克唐纳（Andrew McDonald）和首席选拔员乔治·贝利（George Bailey）已经计划了数月如何应对这次艰苦的旅程。陷阱在所难免，但他们认为自己有机会成功。南非队自 11 月以来一直没有比赛，状态生疏；印度队近期的状态糟糕至极；而英格兰队则处于复杂的重建过程中。

尽管如此，英格兰队由乔·鲁特（Joe Root）和斯蒂芬·弗莱明（Stephen Fleming）组成的新任队长-教练搭档仍将从中寻找机会。如此残酷的赛程可能会摧毁澳大利亚球员的身体，这意味着他们在 6 月中旬抵达特伦特桥（Trent Bridge）参加第一场测试赛时，精神和肌肉可能已经疲惫不堪。

不过，在人们过于乐观之前，值得记住的是，尽管帕特·库明斯（Pat Cummins）、乔什·哈兹尔伍德（Josh Hazlewood）和内森·里昂（Nathan Lyon）三人总共仅参加了三场比赛，澳大利亚在去年冬天的灰烬杯中依然轻松获胜。米切尔·斯塔克（Mitchell Starc）、斯科特·博兰德（Scott Boland）以及替补快球手布伦丹·多格特（Brendan Doggett）和迈克尔·内瑟（Michael Neser）完成了任务。

此外，国际赛历中为印度超级联赛（IPL）预留的时间窗将允许部分澳大利亚球员在 3 月中旬至 5 月中旬之间获得短暂休息，然后前往英格兰。库明斯、哈兹尔伍德、特拉维斯·海德（Travis Head）和斯塔克与 IPL 球队签有合同，但在下一个大拍卖之前的合同周期最后一年，人们认为至少会为库明斯和海德寻找方法让他们跳过该赛事，从而将因退出而可能面临的禁赛降至最低。海德在今年的 IPL 之后因疲劳而休息。

工作量只是问题的一部分。澳大利亚队是一支老龄化球队——他们在达尔文登场时，可能只有卡梅隆·格林（Cameron Green）年龄在 31 岁以下——且许多球员要么刚从长期伤停中恢复（库明斯、哈兹尔伍德和里昂），要么在测试赛中状态不佳（杰克·韦瑟罗尔德 Jake Weatherald、马纳斯·拉布舍恩 Marnus Labuschagne 和格林）。

麦克唐纳和贝利依然信任老将，决定在灰烬杯结束前将未来计划搁置。《时代报》（The Age）最近表示：“选拔员继续倾向于经验。”“历史将证明他们是否采取了正确的控制手段。”

由于伤病不可避免，他们可能需要一个约 20 人的阵容。近期测试赛（Tests）时间缩短的趋势可能会有所帮助，许多比赛在三四天内结束，有时甚至仅用两天。就在过去一周，澳大利亚在布里斯班的一次训练营期间计划受挫：Neser 右小腿肌肉拉伤，因此无法参加孟加拉国系列赛；而指定的替补击球手 Josh Inglis 则再次陷入他易患的背部痉挛之中。即便 Cummins 现在的背部问题已经痊愈，作为测试赛队长的他仍将缺席部分比赛，所有快速投球手也是如此。认为情况会有所不同是不现实的。澳大利亚已经准备好由 Smith 在 Cummins 缺席时担任代理队长，且这种情况可能会经常发生。“在过去的

英格兰与澳大利亚 未来12个月

英格兰（15场测试赛）

8月19日-9月13日： 巴基斯坦（主场）两场测试赛 12月17日-1月7日： 南非（客场）三场 2月14-26日： 孟加拉国（客场）两场 3月11-15日： 澳大利亚（客场）一场测试赛 3月中旬至5月中旬： 印度超级联赛 5月28日-6月1日： 孟加拉国（主场）一场测试赛 6月18日-8月2日： 澳大利亚（主场）五场

澳大利亚（20或21场）

8月13-26日： 孟加拉国（主场）两场 10月9-31日： 南非（客场）三场 12月9日-1月8日： 新西兰（主场）四场 1月21-3月3日： 印度（客场）五场 3月11-15日： 英格兰（主场）一场测试赛 6月9-13日： 世界测试锦标赛决赛（在英格兰）一场测试赛 (fbc) 6月18-8月2日： 英格兰（客场）五场

“在过去的几个月里，我认为我还没见过他（史密斯）对这支测试赛球队所拥有的机会如此充满活力，”贝利说道。“他对即将到来之事所投入的思考程度让我感到兴奋。”

考虑到他们的高龄，这段时期很可能标志着几位冠军选手的终结，大概是里昂、史密斯、斯塔克和哈兹尔伍德，后者是四人中最年轻的，但在1月份将满36岁。很大程度上将取决于海德和史密斯能否取得得分。韦瑟罗尔一直在网球场上针对在灰烬杯期间暴露的技术缺陷进行训练，而拉布舍格则享受了一次长假，并宣布自己渴望结束三年没有测试赛百分得分的干旱期。

如果澳大利亚的冠军投手们想要应对，他们将需要全能球员格林和博·韦伯斯特的支持，两人预计分别在第6位和第8位击球，分布在关键的门将击球手亚历克斯·凯里两侧。格林长期以来表现不佳，现在确实是他需要用球棒和球在场上证明自己的时候了。

在经历了七个月的腿筋手术恢复期后，里昂面临着一项重大考验。作为最出色的旋转球手，他理想情况下希望在印度的五场比赛中达到巅峰。如果他再次受伤，那将是一个沉重的打击。托德·墨菲一直是里昂的常规替补，但高个子的科里·罗奇乔利正在崛起。马特·伦肖、内森·麦克斯威尼和萨姆·康斯塔斯将是争取位置的击球手之列，而费格斯·奥尼尔和内瑟在明年夏天在英格兰可能是快中速选项，如果澳大利亚想要重新采用凯里站在球门后的策略。

澳大利亚可能不得不调整阵容，但他们很少派出糟糕的队伍。低估他们将面临风险。

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10 2026年8月9日 《星期日泰晤士报》 91 体育 琼斯的史上综合XV ● 南非 ● 新西兰

1996年跳羚队与全黑队的史诗对决是我职业生涯的巅峰 —— 本次系列赛可与之媲美

这两个最伟大橄榄球国家的球员对这场宿敌之争的感受比这项运动中的任何其他事物都更深刻，因此请做好准备，迎接四场充满“神圣疯狂”的辉煌测试赛。

STEPHEN JONES

神圣疯狂。这种氛围在周五晚上开普敦首次爆发，当时风暴队（Stormers）与巡回赛的全黑队（All Blacks）进行了一场激烈的比赛。

“母亲之城”的壮丽可以缓解焦虑；从城市向南延伸至开普角，有一条沿沙滩而行的史诗级公路，另一侧则是直插云霄的十二使徒峰。从市内的海滨起步，桌山就在你的视野中若隐若现，它经常披着它的“桌布”——一层薄薄的白云，仿佛静静地落在平坦的山顶上。

但对于居民和游客来说，重要的是要记住，南非依然有其起伏波动、忧虑以及政治上的死胡同。即将到来的跳羚队（Springboks）与全黑队之间具有里程碑意义的测试系列赛，以及此次橄榄球巡回赛也是如此。

这被公正地称为“最伟大的宿敌之争”。

面对这一辉煌的前景，必须从一个承认球员们疲惫不堪且受伤的角度来看待。测试赛赛程的疯狂，以及比赛过多带来的负担，仍在不受控制地继续着。看着本周末和下周末的赛程，我敢肯定有些球队在过去五周内已经交手了四次，比赛如此密集。

这两个最伟大国家的顶尖球员刚刚又被卷入了一项名为“国家锦标赛”的疯狂新赛事中。因此，幻想此次巡回赛中的非测试赛能成为经典是徒劳的。南非的球星们昨晚被匆匆带走，在阿根廷以 17-10 获胜。

“神圣疯狂”才是他们真正应该使用的标签。

而这种艰辛的“神圣疯狂”此前也曾发生过。1996, 全黑队来到南非进行三场测试系列赛，此前他们参加了首届南半球三国赛，并在开普敦击败跳羚队结束了该赛事。因此，尽管他们以 2-1, 赢得了那次系列赛，但实际上他们在四周内与南非队交手了四次，而现在他们将再次如此。

这次的转折在于，最后一场比赛将在巴尔的摩举行。

但现在，管它什么顾虑。那次 1996 年的系列赛是我报道过的规模最大的赛事，比任何一次世界杯都要大。它给人一种巨大的压迫感。仅仅作为一名见证者，你都会感到紧张。新西兰从未在南非赢得过测试系列赛。我将了解到很多关于那段历史的事情，尤其是

四场测试赛

Aug 22 约翰内斯堡，4.10pm Aug 29 开普敦 4.10pm Sept 5 约翰内斯堡，4.10pm Sept 12 巴尔的摩，4pm

菲茨帕特里克与教练约翰·哈特庆祝 1996 年系列赛获胜

斯图尔特·巴恩斯 (Stuart Barnes) 世界请注意，南非又出现了一位具有超级巨星潜力的飞翼 (fly half)

在这次备受瞩目的系列赛开始前，全黑队 (All Blacks) 的测试赛阵容已经确定。南非的顶尖球员们远离家乡，准备昨晚在阿根廷发出咆哮。很少有人预料到，这次八场比赛的巡赛会在开普敦以一声咆哮拉开序幕。

在正常情况下，失去世界上最令人兴奋的飞翼萨查·费恩伯格-姆戈梅祖卢 (Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu)，将成为巡赛周五首场比赛缺乏魔力的缩影。然而，风暴队 (Stormers) 选择一名 20 岁的人首发担任飞翼，这让南非橄榄球界处于高度兴奋状态。

不过，刚刚满 20 岁的亚金·艾哈迈德 (Yaqeen Ahmed) 并非典型的神童。他并不以才华横溢地令观众目眩神迷。他的统帅能力，以及那种标志着成熟的低调掌控力，使他显得特别而非神奇。我们通常期望孩子们在成熟之前先展现出耀眼的光芒，而这个年轻人则是直接进入了成熟期。华丽的技巧只是加分项。生存，无疑，而非耀眼的才华，本就足够了。

形势对他不利。谈到首秀的紧张感！首先，这是他的成年队首秀。想象一下，你成年后首个 80 分钟的比赛是对阵全黑队。面对他的校园偶像，伟大的博登·巴雷特 (Beauden Barrett)。一名拥有 145 场出赛记录的 35 岁老将，对阵一名顶级联赛的初出茅庐者。

这个年轻人并没有惊艳世界，但相比之下他也没有逊色多少。没有令人难忘的瞬间，只有展现出的惊人成熟度。这是一个教科书般的飞翼。

与这些海岸的人们所相信的相反，当乔尼·威尔金森 (Jonny Wilkinson) 将这个位置转变为以擒抱为优先的位置后，飞翼的角色并没有被不可逆转地改变——在此之前，人们期望这个位置能创造奇迹而非猛烈碰撞。擒抱很重要，但还不够。艾哈迈德漏掉了一两次擒抱，并且在对一名全黑队前锋进行一次猛烈的低位砍击擒抱后，撤离速度不够快。他的防守并不糟糕，但也没有特别出色。不像他在最近的世界 U-20 锦标赛中的防守，在那次比赛中他是冠军南非队的灵魂，一名组织者和强力擒抱者。

他看起来也不是最快的，不算慢，但也不算极速。他双脚都拥有足够灵巧的侧步，并且不害怕带球冲向得分线。事实上，对于周五上半场的表现来说，这样评价有点过于宽容了。南非评论员用“铲”这个词来形容他的其中一次传球。而且确实，他的位置站得太深了。在校园赛圈被称为“主厨”的他，当时并没有掌控好局面。这并不奇怪，也不应被视为批评。但新西兰 XV 队不是法国 U-20 队。

随着他在下半场早些时候小心翼翼地向得分线推进，自然的紧张感被克服了。他展现出的不是萨查那种电光火石般的特质，而是一种天生懂得如何调动防线的理解力。这是一个能够掌控比赛操纵权的年轻人。一个会擒抱但不能阅读比赛的飞翼价值不高。阅读橄榄球是一门艺术，需要时间和成熟度。南非橄榄球界意识到不能匆忙推进年轻的 NotOs。

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在全黑队于德班以 23-19 赢得第一场测试赛后。全黑队有机会创造前所未有的成就，这意味着第二场测试赛将成为有史以来规模最大的比赛。他们历史上的这一缺失让他们深受其害。

在比勒陀利亚的那场比赛（新西兰队最终以 33-26 获胜并赢得系列赛）的两天前，我询问新西兰的权力机构，是否可以采访肖恩·菲茨帕特里克 (Sean Fitzpatrick)，那位令人敬畏的全黑队队长。那是在球队还没有安排一名球员接受 50 位观察者采访的时代。我在电梯旁等待。电梯门开了。菲茨帕特里克对我来说依然是一个凶悍的人物。

当时他正带领国家的20岁以下代表队在Sanzaar青年锦标赛中击败法国，而他的队友、同样担任飞翼（fly half）的武西·莫约（Vusi Moyo）则在对阵威尔士的比赛中完成了他的首次正式测试赛（Test debut）。既然费恩伯格-姆恩戈梅祖卢（Feinberg-Mngomezulu）已经完全恢复健康，不要指望莫约能继续处于聚光灯下，尽管这里有另一个10号球员被逐步引导进入其角色中微妙职责的案例。这位令人惊叹的首选球员早已注定走向伟大，但南非主教练拉西·埃拉斯姆斯（Rassie Erasmus）让费恩伯格-姆恩戈梅祖卢在测试赛赛场上进进出出，直到2025年，他的天才才完全展现在所有人面前。然而，许多资深评论员认为艾哈迈德（Ahmed）才是南非的长期未来，甚至在费恩伯格-姆恩戈梅祖卢展现出自己的伟大之前就是如此。这远在他习得一些家乡郡（home counties）的特质之前，他已经在那里生活了数年。他很谨慎，但很诚实。距离他的球队在那个令人难以承受的、充满情感的1995年世界杯决赛中失利刚过去一年多，他曾看到纳尔逊·曼德拉在颁奖台上与主场队长弗朗索瓦·皮纳尔（François Pienaar）共舞。随后流传起一个传说，称状态不佳的全黑队（All Blacks）在赛前被酒店工作人员投毒。至少有五人在埃利斯公园（Ellis Park）球场边感到不适。与菲茨帕特里克（Fitzpatrick）在一起时，听者总能学到教训。我提到了世界杯，以及赢得系列赛胜利是否会是对前一年最好的复仇。很快就变得很明显，在两项奖赏中，他每次都会选择赢得系列赛。这显然源自他灵魂深处的心理。这是每一个在他之前的人所承担的负担，也是他身穿带有银蕨标志的黑色球衣所代表的一切。这使得测试赛系列赛变得重要得多，他对此不感兴趣：无论是回顾过去、复仇，还是关于一年前的阴谋论，或者除了两大强国之间波涛汹涌的竞争以及全黑队历史中缺失的一块碎片之外的任何事情。当人们讨论全黑队和跳羚队（Springboks）几乎在整个历史中对其他国家的霸权时，其来源显而易见。而且如此简单：他们更渴望胜利。这不是在赛前的话语和报纸专栏中，也不是在输球或表现糟糕后虚伪的扼腕叹息中。这几乎要深邃得多；这是一种文化冲突，将在接下来的几周内于南非显现。例如，英格兰唯一一次在看起来势均力敌的情况下与新西兰和南非竞争，是在2003年世界杯之前的时代，当时那些球队只是两个更优秀但可以击败的对手。在接下来的几周里，两支球队将深入挖掘他们的心理。或许比以往任何时候都要深。我们可以期待雷霆万钧的前锋线行动，但两队同样拥有艺术家。跳羚队是否会让24岁的、如流星般辉煌的萨查·费恩伯格-姆恩戈梅祖卢（Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu）出任飞翼？全黑队又将如何应对前线横冲直撞的奥斯·恩切（Os Nché）？跳羚队能否遏制威尔·乔丹（Will Jordan）的进攻才华，并制服具有护身符般、近乎萨满特质的阿尔迪·萨维亚（Ardie Savea）？我们可以预见拉西·埃拉斯姆斯将在橄榄球规则的内部和外部同时发力——他曾因严重违规而仅受到世界橄榄球联合会（World Rugby）轻微处罚而侥幸脱身。全黑队的新任教练戴夫·雷尼（Dave Rennie）将处于漩涡之中。裁判们也将如此。令人遗憾的是，英格兰的卢克·皮尔斯（Luke Pearce）和克里斯托弗·里德利（Christophe Ridley）未能入选由四人组成的测试赛裁判名单，名单中包括他们的同胞马修·卡利（Matthew Carley）和澳大利亚的安格斯·加德纳（Angus Gardner）。然而，考虑到赌注之高——四场激烈的比赛以及两个不可思议的背景故事和历史——也许每场比赛都应该派出全部四名裁判。在这种疯狂之中，至关重要地是，要给神圣之美留有一席之地。

我们一直等到第52分钟，才由艾哈迈德（Ahmed）带来令人振奋的时刻。这次机会源于全黑队（All Blacks）在距离风暴队（Stormers）达阵线约10米处的一次犯规导致点球。整场比赛中，艾哈迈德一直以稳健保守的方式踢球出界。而这一次，在他向点球标记点加速时，人们捕捉到了一个极短暂的向前进攻的迹象。对方疏忽地留下了15米的无人防守区域。

Ahmed 表明他有信心改变比赛的节奏。突然间，这位飞翼（fly half）选择了拍球启动而非踢球，从而创造了一个机会，将球传向空档。当 Stormers 冲入 All Blacks 的 22 米区时，他就在那里提供支持。这是一种罕见的默契火花，并伴随着改变比赛节奏的自信。当 Ahmed 老去白头时，这场比赛可能不会被记得是他最出色的比赛之一。但他证明了自己具备塑造比赛的能力，拥有不被场合干扰的沉稳心态，精准的踢球技术，以及成为一名顶尖飞翼的成熟度。这位南非校园之星注定会有辉煌的职业生涯。又一名心态极佳的 10 号球员进入了 Springbok 的考量范围。至于何时启用？我不知道。但请相信我，他就在那里，就在 Erasmus 的宏伟计划之中。

我组合的新西兰-南非联队 XV（从我现场观看过的球员中选出）

全卫 WILL JORDAN (NZ, 2020-)

Jordan 是一股快如闪电的力量，在 28 岁这个年纪，他还有足够的时间成为伟大的球员之一。现已退役的南非球员 André Joubert 被誉为全卫中的劳斯莱斯，但 Jordan 的武器库同样令人惊叹。

边锋 CHESLIN KOLBE (SA, 2018-)

无论是在欧洲俱乐部橄榄球赛还是身披 Springbok 的绿衫，他都是伟大的球员之一。Kolbe 体型虽小，但身体对抗能力令人印象深刻，他的才华令人赞叹，且其中很大一部分是直觉性的。

中锋 DAMIAN DE ALLENDE (SA, 2014-)

Springboks 的中场从未追求灵巧的脚步和难以捉摸的跑位。多年来，De Allende 一直像磐石一样稳固。他拥有极其强大且不懈的身体对抗能力，反应敏捷，他取代了此前作为 Springbok 后卫之宝的 Danie Gerber。

中锋 FRANK BUNCE (NZ, 1992-97)

凶猛的 Bunce 在 1996 年是一个巨人，当时新西兰首次在南非赢得了对阵 Springboks 的系列赛。他的身体素质几乎令人恐惧，且与强大的橄榄球大脑相结合。

边锋 JONAH LOMU (NZ, 1994-2002)

两国培养出的出色左边锋之多，以至于 Lomu 并非毫无争议地入选——他当时在与 Springboks 的天才 Bryan Habana 竞争。但 Lomu 是改变这项运动的人，也是世界上见过的最著名的橄榄球运动员。

飞翼 DAN CARTER (NZ, 2003-15)

在 All Blacks 几乎不可阻挡的时期，Carter 处于他的巅峰状态。他的举止低调，但是一名卓越甚至具有艺术感的球员，同时也是后卫线的统帅和比赛计划的绝佳执行者。

拦截半卫 AARON SMITH (NZ, 2012-23)

有许多 9 号球衣的竞争者，包括 Joost van der Westhuizen 和 Fourie du Preez，但 Smith 胜出——他是一个极具创造力、不可摧毁的人物，在半卫位置上与 Carter 一起成为了球队的引擎。

柱球员 KEN GRAY (NZ, 1963-69)

Gray 身上有一种神秘感。他最终是一个未被充分展现的球员，但在前线拥有惊人的强度和权威。南非的 Ox Nché 是目前这项运动中最好的左柱（loose-head prop）。

钩球员 SEAN FITZPATRICK (NZ, 1986-97)

即便面对现今现象级的 Boks 钩球员 Malcolm Marx，他依然不可撼动。Fitzpatrick 作为球员和队长的威严在终场哨响后依然延续，且他在任何一场测试赛中从未被替换下场。

柱球员 OLO BROWN (NZ, 1990-98)

Brown 是柱球员中的柱球员，受到所有人的认可。他是一名出色的争球者，在场上经验丰富，他还具备了那些年橄榄球运动并不总能拥有的特质——一名聪明的柱球员。

锁球员 CHEN ETZEBETH (SA, 2012-)

这位巨人最近缺席了，但 Rassie Erasmus 肯定会在这次动荡的系列赛中召回 Etzebeth。Etzebeth 是一个巨大的、令人畏惧的定海神针，也是一名出色的边线争球前锋，同时他在场上的移动能力也很强。

锁锋 VICTOR MATFIELD (南非, 2001-15)

这位高大的锁锋在身体对抗方面绝不像 Sam Whitelock、Colin Meads 以及该位置上的其他一些巨兽那样强悍。但他是一名顶尖的边线球操作员，身体足够轻盈，可以被举到高空，是一位出色的运动员，也是 2007 年世界杯的关键人物。

盲侧 flanker PIETER-STEPH DU TOIT (南非, 2013-)

南非历史上的一位英雄，极其强硬，具有影响力且能激励他人。Du Toit 是跳羚队的神级人物，其稳定性简直令人难以置信。

开侧 flanker MICHAEL JONES (新西兰, 1987-98)

新西兰从未缺乏开侧 flanker，但 Jones 在早年为萨摩亚队出战后，成为了传奇的全黑队成员，一个因其球技和诚实而受到赞誉甚至崇拜的人。他在神坛上的地位将永恒不变。

8号位 DUANE VERMEULEN (南非, 2012-2023)

Pierre Spies 曾是一名极其强悍的运动员，Zinzan Brooke 也与之相近，但伟大的 Vermeulen 最终胜出。他又是另一位及时回归，参与“最强宿敌”系列赛的人——尽管现在是以助理教练的身份。

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板式网球认为自己能超越网球——但成本上升会阻碍这一繁荣吗？

在奥林匹亚（Olympia）举办的场场售罄的赛事证明，这项运动在英国已达到新高度，每年带来 2亿英镑 的收入，但英国人在精英水平上仍举步维艰，且球场费用已高达每小时 £100。

MOLLY McELWEE 报道

利米·吉布森（Limee Gibson）在前往 Premier Padel 伦敦赛的新闻发布会途中，被一名粉丝拦下合影。吉布森的世界排名是 101, 她还没有那么习惯被认出来。但考虑到她是英国增长最快运动中的英国排名第二选手，她可能需要开始习惯这一点。

在过去的五年里，英国的板式网球（padel）领域经历了爆发式增长。2021 年，英国仅有 £50 个球场，大多数人甚至从未听说过这项运动。而现在，球场数量已超过 1,500 个。

对于不熟悉的人来说，板式网球是一种结合了壁球和网球的球拍运动。它采用网球的计分系统，主要以双打形式在由玻璃墙围成的球场中进行。板式网球于 1969, 首次在墨西哥被构思，在数十年间主要局限于拉丁美洲和西班牙，但随后开始传播。英国虽然入场较晚，但自疫情以来出现了一次繁荣。

英国网球协会（LTA）于 2020, 接管了英国板式网球的管理工作，至今已向该项运动投资 £1800 万。该协会表示，参与人数在今年 5 月突破了 100 万大关（而 2019 年仅为 1.5万,000 人）。

根据 Novuna Finance 的数据，英国板式网球经济的年价值为 2 亿英镑 million，安迪·穆雷（Andy Murray）、安东尼·约书亚（Anthony Joshua）和 Stormzy 都是该运动的投资者。

需求的剧增导致球场费用飙升，平均每小时在 £30 和 £50 之间，而一些伦敦俱乐部的费用高达 £100。器材费用也迅速累积。板式网球使用网球和具有泡沫芯的碳纤维球拍，零售价从 £25 到 £300. 不等。

正如网球传统上被视为中产阶级的运动一样，板式网球也正在获得类似的声誉。不过，这尚未阻碍其增长。

业余板式网球正在繁荣，但接下来的问题是，英国板式网球能否在精英水平上成为一股力量。由卡塔尔支持的世界领先巡回赛 Premier Padel 到访英国，是朝着这一目标迈出的重要一步。

上周，伦敦历史悠久的奥林匹亚（Olympia）被改造成为一座先进的板式网球体育场，世界顶尖球员来到首都参加 P1 赛事（比该运动的大满贯赛事低一级）。

英国排名第二的吉布森世界排名 101。这是伦敦首次举办 Premier Padel 赛事，从周四到今天的门票全部售罄，观众填满了 4,000 个座位的中心球场。奖金池为 €47.9068万,068（约 £41万,000），并由 TNT Sports 进行现场直播。

虽然主持人将开赛日称为“英国周二”，但快速浏览参赛名单能更准确地反映板式网球的世界强权格局。在参加比赛的 96 名男子选手中，有 52 人来自西班牙。在女子方面，西班牙的统治地位更为明显：56 名参赛者中有 42 人来自西班牙。阿根廷也派遣了大量选手。

相比之下，只有 6 名英国球员进入正赛（两名女子和四名男子），且由于排名较低，他们全部是通过外卡获得参赛资格的。只有一名英国男子排在前 200, 名，女子方面有四名。

为了让你了解他们面临的竞争压力，仅在女子前十名中就有 8 名西班牙人，男子前十中则有 6 名。克里斯蒂安·梅迪纳·墨菲（Christian Medina Murphy）是唯一赢得正赛场次的英国球员。

英国的职业比赛仍处于非常早期的阶段，吉布森（Gibson）的个人经历便证明了这一点。作为一名曾经的网球运动员，她难以在职业巡回赛中取得突破，于是转而在迪拜从事教练工作。3年半前，她在那里首次接触板式网球（padel），当时她31岁。她对此充满热爱并迅速进步，成为首位进入世界前100名的英国球员。但现实是，她的竞争对手拥有多出数十年的经验。“我打过的几个女孩从五岁起就在打板式网球了，”吉布森说，“这太疯狂了。我甚至没意识到这项运动已经存在这么久了！西班牙早就有球场，他们从小就打这个——他们不是从网球开始的，而是一直在打板式网球。”与此同时，英国男子排名第二、世界排名第272位的路易·哈里斯（Louie Harris）则受益于西班牙丰富的打球选择和更高的教练标准。出生于卡迪夫的哈里斯在12岁时搬到了马贝拉，家门口就有板式网球场。虽然他在威尔士成长过程中接触过橄榄球和柔道，但在青少年时期身处太阳海岸（Costa del Sol）时，板式网球成了他最容易接触到的运动——并且他表现出色。与大多数英国球员一样，哈里斯的排名使他有资格参加国际板式网球联合会（FIP）巡回赛的二级赛事，但那里的奖金不足以让他们获得一份可行的薪水。本周，在葡萄牙波尔蒂芒举行的一场FIP铜级赛事，32支参赛队伍的总奖金池为€1万,000（约£8,565）。24岁的哈里斯通过英国网球协会（LTA）板式网球绩效计划的资金（根据排名每年在£5,000至£1.5万,000之间）、赞助以及兼职教练工作来补贴奖金收入。虽然吉布森凭借更高的排名（第101位）处于更有利的地位，但她仍然主要依赖赞助商和LTA。不过，真正的财富集中在排名顶端，顶尖球员每年的奖金收入高达€45万,000，此外还能获得劳力士（Rolex）、Cupra和红牛（Red Bull）等全球品牌的赞助协议。但随着机会的剧增，这项运动在发展过程中仍存在阵痛。在职业层面，女性处于少数地位。在FIP 2025年记录的1.1万,000名排名球员中，女性仅占27%。担任教练的女性也非常少。在Premier Padel巡回赛中，奖金并不平等。今天在伦敦，男子冠军每人获得€2.5万,000，而女子冠军每人获得€1.7万,000。不过，情况正在向好的方向发展，四大满贯赛事和Premier Padel巡回赛决赛均提供了平等的奖金。与此同时，在英国的基层层面，板式网球参与者中女性仅占30%（而网球为43%）。LTA板式网球经理史蒂夫·耶德利（Steve Yeardley）表示，作为一家专注于平等与包容的管理机构，这是“我们致力于解决的不平衡问题”，特别是通过增加女性教练人数和扩大参与机会。创办了英国首家由女性创立的板式网球俱乐部House of Racquet的劳伦·范德韦斯图伊曾（Lauren van der Westhuizen）表示，课程安排也是影响参与的关键因素。“仅限女性的课程非常受欢迎，我认为给女性提供黄金时段而非仅仅是下午3点很重要，”她说，“作为一名板式网球客户，这是我的痛点，我只能在工作日的中午找到仅限女性的时段。课程安排方面非常重要，而不仅仅是举办像‘女士们，板式网球与普罗塞克起泡酒’这样的营销活动。”除了缩小性别差距，目前的重点还在于确保增长不会失控。LTA并没有试图模仿阿根廷或西班牙那种庞大的板式网球生态系统，而是在向瑞典学习，后者在近年来球场供应开始超过需求时经历了板式网球泡沫破裂。降低打球成本是另一个显而易见的策略，LTA目前正与政府就加大对公有板式网球设施的投资进行洽谈。

吉布森表示，如果一切顺利，她预见到在英国，板式网球（padel）未来会比网球更受欢迎：“如果你现在走进一家板式网球俱乐部，几乎可以看到每块球场都被占用。但如果你走进一家网球俱乐部，你会看到很多空场。板式网球最棒的一点是，无论你年龄多大，都可以走上球场并享受一场精彩的比赛。”

至于精英赛事，它将长期存在。Sela（一家由沙特阿拉伯公共投资基金支持的活动公司）已承诺在十年内为 Premier Padel 组织伦敦赛事。Premier Padel 的联席首席执行官大卫·塞拉希马（David Serrahima）表示：“奥林匹亚（Olympia）赛事的门票售罄表明，英国已经准备好现场观看顶尖男女选手的比赛了。”

在较低级别赛事方面，2026 年将在英国举办五场 FIP Tour 赛事，以及七场 LTA Padel 英国巡回赛一级赛事（所有赛事奖金均等）。尽管如此，要让一名英国选手竞争世界第一排名可能还需要一段时间。

哈里斯表示：“很难给出一个具体时间。如果你看看像艾米（Aimee）这样只打了三年球的人，这种事情完全有可能再次发生：一名来自其他高水平球拍运动的选手通过该过程快速晋级。但我认为，如果要达到拥有大量机会的地位，还需要一段时间。我们正在成长，但绝对需要更多在四岁时就拿球拍的孩子。如果这些球员现在开始，那么假设在十年后，他们就能达到那个位置。”

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今天结束的奥林匹亚赛事在精英水平上展示了这项运动，其常客包括（插图中的）Stormzy。

£45万,000 顶尖板式网球职业选手年收入最高可达 £450,000

30% 基层板式网球参与者中女性所占的百分比

精英体育领域减重药物滥用激增引发健康担忧

一项新研究显示，十分之一的医生已知晓运动员服用此类药物以增强运动表现 TOM KERSHAW

减重药物在健身房和跑步俱乐部中的流行是一个公开的秘密，但职业运动员越来越多地将其作为增强运动表现的手段。

根据由拉夫堡大学（Loughborough University）领导的一项新研究，在与国家级及以上水平运动员合作的医生中，十分之一的人意识到存在无需医疗需求而使用这些药物的情况。

这项研究已被《星期日泰晤士报》审阅，并将于本月在《运动医学》（Sports Medicine）杂志上发表。该研究对 114 名与 93 个体育项目、涵盖 38 个国家的高水平训练运动员合作的医生进行了调查。这些医生的身份涵盖了从球队专属医生、运动员专属医生到首席医疗官、表现主管以及外科医生。

在接受调查的医生中，44% 认为世界反兴奋剂机构（Wada）应禁止使用减重药物，主要原因是这些药物对运动员的健康可能产生有害影响。被发现存在此类情况的项目包括游泳、跳水、花样游泳、羽毛球、自行车、排球、马术、赛马和健美——这些项目涵盖了对体重敏感、注重美学评判以及要求运动员穿着紧身装备的各类运动。

运动员使用量明显增加具有重要意义，因为司美格鲁肽（semaglutide）——Ozempic 和 Wegovy 的活性成分——已于 2024. 被列入 Wada 的监测名单。Mounjar 的活性成分替尔泊肽（Tirapatide）则在今年被列入名单。Wada 的执行委员会定于 9 月举行会议，届时将决定这些药物在 2025, 年是否应被升级为禁药名单。

在 Wada 于 2025, 年 7 月分发给利益相关者的文件中，在 8,402 份赛外尿检样本中，仅检测出两例司美格鲁肽和替尔泊肽阳性。而去年开展的这项新研究表明，这一数字此后已显著增加。

“在精英竞技环境下，关于使用减重药物的证据普遍匮乏，”领导该研究的拉夫堡大学体育商业研究所高级讲师丹尼尔·里德（Daniel Read）博士表示。“一直有一些关于运动员使用这些药物的传闻。其中最著名的是塞雷娜·威廉姆斯（她在 6 月网球复出前使用减重药物减轻了 3 磅体重）。但关于这种现象的普遍程度，以及在这些环境下工作的医生是否将其视为一个问题，缺乏证据。这关系到运动员的福利及其保护方式，同时也涉及反兴奋剂工作以及是否需要将其禁止 [因为它可以增强运动表现]。”

医生们认为，运动员服用这些药物的主要动机是在拳击和柔道等有严格体重限制的项目中减轻体重，以及在受伤后辅助减重。赛马和体操等维持较低体重具有优势的项目也被提及。

一名医生表示：“如果我是一名骑师，那么这些药物可能代表了一种比目前方法（例如催吐、利尿剂、泻药、刻意脱水）更可耐受且可接受的体重控制方式。”

曾在足球和网球领域工作的顶尖体育科学家西蒙·布伦迪什（Simon Brundish）怀疑，减重药物在这些运动中也变得越来越普遍。

“在足球领域，这将是一个巨大的现象。我与三支女足队交谈过，超过 60% 的球员在使用 GLP-1 [减重药物]，”布伦迪什说。

布伦迪什还提到——在没有直接点名任何人的情况下——一些历史上曾……的女网球员。在三支女足队中，超过 60% 的球员在使用减重药物。

曾为体重而苦恼，但近期明显瘦身且表现水平有所提高。“对于那些身材较矮、较宽、较重，且一直被教练在耳边唠叨体重问题的球员来说，拥有[减肥药]在网球领域将产生绝对巨大的影响，”他说。“当我们从春季进入夏季草地赛季时，一些球员的身材发生了变化，温网的种子选手[落败]导致女子[签表]出现了一种均衡状态。竞争环境变得更加公平。我认为这不会是长期的。突然之间这些人比以前轻了，所以你会看到表现的激增，然后随后会下降。但今年夏天这种情况相当普遍，完全是因为 GLP-1 药物。”减肥的短期优势显而易见：运动员可能会变得更敏捷，跳得更高，并且因为身体质量减轻而拥有更好的耐力。然而，关于长期使用和肌肉流失的证据日益增多，这表明使用此类药物将是有害的。“如果我们讨论的是本身就没有多少脂肪的顶尖运动员，他们将会失去肌肉以及产生力量和爆发力的能力，”Brundish 说。“这违背直觉。从逻辑上讲，他们认为减轻体重会更好，但这将是一个非常、非常短的提升窗口期。随后，他们的功率重量比将迅速下降。”另一个与顶尖运动员使用此类药物相关的担忧是运动相对能量不足（RED-5），这是一种由于长期摄入的热量不足以满足训练需求而导致的情况，可能导致生殖系统、骨骼健康、代谢和心理健康的紊乱。对于那些已经深受身体形象困扰的运动员来说，人们担心减肥药会被滥用。世界反兴奋剂机构（Wada）健康、医疗与研究委员会主席 Lars Engebretsen 教授表示，与饮食失调的关联是他最担心的问题。“一个担忧是我们不知道这如何影响运动员，”Engebretsen 说。“目前还没有关于他们是否跑得更快或跳得更高研究，但主要担忧是运动员中存在大量饮食失调问题。人们担心如果我们在运动员中看到与[普通]公众相同的用药情况，对于已经有此类问题的人来说将很难办。”2025, 年，九种与减肥相关的药物被列入 Wada 的禁用清单，尽管 Engebretsen 不确定司美格鲁肽（semaglutide）或替尔泊肽（tirapatide）是否很快会出现在其中。一种物质若要被禁，必须满足三个标准中的至少两个——增强运动表现、健康风险以及违背体育精神——而绝大多数关于减肥药的研究并未聚焦于运动员，这意味着缺乏针对性的证据。这是下一步的工作，但很明显，运动员们越来越准备好不顾一切地使用它们。“它们不会因为十分之一的医生意识到这种情况在发生而被禁用，但这确实提出了一个问题，即这对表现的影响是什么，”Read 说。“以及我们如何教育、监测并最好地保护运动员。”

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板球计分板

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今日

记录卡

体育生涯的启示

卡尔·福加蒂（CARL FOGARTY） 四届超级摩托车世界冠军及《我是名人》（I'm A Celebrity...）节目获胜者，谈论关于不尊重任何人以及温冰浴的话题

这一切的开始

我的父亲乔治（George）曾参加比赛，所以我的童年记忆全部是和他一起去参加比赛，睡在面包车里，并在TTS（英国摩托车锦标赛）的两周期间不去上学。我在14岁时开始参加学生越野摩托车赛，当时我深信自己将成为世界冠军。

我的突破时刻

1980年代后期，在驾驶250cc赛车时经历了一系列事故后，父亲说：“你需要换成更大的摩托车。那里才有荣誉、头条新闻和金钱。”我照做了。我适应得很好，并开始获胜。

我仰慕的教练

从未有过。我有点固执，有点无知，而且有点自我中心。我想靠自己完成。

我童年的英雄

美国车手肯尼·罗伯茨（Kenny Roberts）。我甚至模仿了他的皮衣设计。在获得第二个世界超级摩托车冠军后，我差点签约加入他的团队。我们在西班牙开过会，但他表示他的资助方万宝路（Marlboro）不想要我。随后他让自己的儿子骑上了那辆车。

摩托车生涯的巅峰

在进入超级摩托车领域之前，赢得了1988年的Formula One冠军。由于伤病，我的参赛率仅为8万%，但在北爱尔兰的第一场大赛中我获胜了，在乔伊·邓洛普（Joey Dunlop）的家乡击败了他；而当我在西西里岛的佩古萨（Pergusa）锁定冠军头衔时，震惊了所有人。公平地说，我也被震惊到了……

我最糟糕的一次宿醉

1998年获得第三个超级摩托车冠军后的日本之行。在一家印度餐厅喝了几杯并参加完卡拉OK后，回到酒店时一切都关门了。我们闯入了厨房，喝了酒，在六点钟上床睡觉。去机场的大巴车在八点。天旋地转，我呕吐了，然后上了飞机，戴上眼罩，在曼彻斯特醒来时带着地狱般的宿醉，面对一大群等待祝贺我的观众。

我最喜欢的赛道

荷兰的阿森（Assen），是旧的那条，不是现在这条。它速度快，流畅，非常适合我的风格，我在14场比赛中赢了12场，其余比赛获得第二名。1999年，有80,000人到场，其中包括6.5万,000名英国人，观看我锁定第四个冠军头衔。

我最不喜欢的赛道

加利福尼亚的拉古纳塞卡（Laguna Seca）。那里非常平坦，不适合我。我至今仍对美国是我唯一从未赢过比赛的国家感到恼火。在我开玩笑说我讨厌那个地方后，美国人不喜欢我。

我最强劲的对手

没有人。我对其他车手没有任何尊重。我只想击败他们。我从未与他们成为朋友。

我从中学习最多的是

我没有向任何人或任何事物学习，只从我的错误中学习，比如1993年摔车太多。我在'94年纠正了这一点并赢得了比赛。

我最尴尬的时刻

铃鹿8小时耐力赛就像穿着皮衣待在桑拿房里。有一年我喝了大量的水。赛后，我们轮流进入一个40加仑的冰水桶中。我憋不住了，连续10分钟在里面小便。然后我不得不出来，因为本田的人需要进去。他跳进去，把头浸在水下，然后说水有点温。

我的秘密快感

钓鱼。海钓，经常在安格尔西岛（Anglesey）附近；以及河钓，尤其是苏格兰的三文鱼钓鱼。这让我能关掉杂念，清空大脑，一天的时间过得飞快。

当我意识到游戏结束时……

2000年圣乔治节在澳大利亚摔车。出院后，我甚至无法骑上摩托车。我感到解脱，因为来自粉丝、媒体以及我自身的获胜压力消失了，但一年后我真的很想念它。我现在已经释怀了。

我唯一的遗憾

1995年离开杜卡迪（Ducati）。为了多一点钱，我拆散了一支获胜的团队和一支家庭式团队。他们后来接纳了我，但这让我失去了两个世界冠军头衔。

给年轻运动员的建议

为了正确的理由而去做。作者：John Aizlewood Carl Fogarty 是杜卡迪（Ducati）的形象大使，该公司今年庆祝其成立一百周年。更多信息请访问 www.ducati.com。

六国赛：威尔士 vs 英格兰 2027

2027年3月5日 亲临主球场（Principality Stadium）观看威尔士对阵英格兰的比赛。这是一场吉尼斯男子六国赛赛事，历史、宿敌之争以及决定战役走向的压力在此交汇。 此专属套餐包括官方比赛门票以及两场由传奇评论员 Stuart Barnes、《泰晤士报》的 Charlie Morgan 和一位名人嘉宾主持的活动，为您提供超越开球瞬间的体验。 入住市中心优质四星级酒店，您将紧邻体育场、餐厅和赛后讨论区。 哨响前的洞察，哨响后的氛围——每一个细节都由我们全程打理。

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• 在卡迪夫湾 Future Inn 酒店入住两晚四星级住宿（含早餐）
• 赛前问答环节，嘉宾包括传奇评论员 Stuart Barnes、《泰晤士报》资深橄榄球撰稿人 Charlie Morgan 及一位名人嘉宾
• 周五进入队长训练赛（Captains Run）的权限
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• 主持的欢迎饮品
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由 Stuart Barnes 主持

自从挂靴结束其十号位（fly-half）球员生涯以来，Stuart 成为了《泰晤士报》的专栏作家和比赛分析师，也是英国最犀利的橄榄球评论员之一。

粉丝宠儿 Big Buck's 在 23 岁时去世

赛马

史上最伟大的耐力障碍赛马之一 Big Buck's 在 23 岁时去世。他由已故的 Andy Stewart 所有，是练马师 Paul Nicholls 黄金时代的成员，当时他的马房中还包括 Kauto Star、Denman、Master Minded 和 Neptune Collonges。相关人员一直将 Big Buck's 视为潜在的一流追逐赛马，但在 2008 年 Hennessy 金杯赛的最后一个障碍栏将骑手甩掉后，他回到了障碍赛，从此再未回头。他四次赢得现在的耐力障碍赛（Stayers' Hurdle），创下纪录；四次赢得利物浦障碍赛（Liverpool Hurdle）；并在长途漫步障碍赛（Long Walk Hurdle）中三次夺冠。Big Buck's 与 Ruby Walsh 建立了极佳的合作关系，深受粉丝喜爱，因为他在比赛中经常会出现低谷期，随后又强力冲刺夺冠。Nicholls 表示：“就能力而言，他可能和我训练过的任何马一样出色，遗憾的是他无法跳过追逐赛的障碍栏。”“他是一匹出色的马，属于一位出色的马主，而这位马主理应拥有一匹如此伟大的马。Andy 享受了整个过程并与每个人分享。”“这匹马的一生非常精彩，在我们这里度过了美好的时光，退休后在 Mike 和 Lucy Felton 那里也过得很愉快，但遗憾的是，时间终究在他身上留下了痕迹。”“我很幸运能在他与 Kauto Star、Neptune Collonges、Master Minded 和 Denman 同在的时候拥有他。他绝对和他们中的任何一匹一样出色。”对于 Nicholls 来说，如果 Big Buck's 继续参加更高障碍的比赛，能攀登到什么高度将永远是一个疑问。“他在 Aintree 的障碍赛分级赛中获胜，跳过了 18 个障碍栏，而且 18 次跳法各不相同，但依然赢了，”Nicholls 说道。“但他天生就不是跳障碍栏的料。”

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对足球的热爱让温格陷入了因凡蒂诺的陷阱

大多数时候，记者们更擅长指出他人的错误，而不是承担自己的失误。这是我的经验之谈。我即将讲述的故事可以被归入名为“体育记者的自负”的抽屉里。

那是2012年11月。我们在曼彻斯特国家自行车中心的他的办公室里，戴夫·布雷尔斯福德（Dave Brailsford）当时在说，天空队（Team Sky）永远、绝对不会诉诸兴奋剂。那是他被封爵之前的戴夫，但即便在那时，他也处于巅峰，正处于英国自行车运动史上最高的一波浪潮之巅。他创立了天空队，并刚刚带领布拉德利·威金斯（Bradley Wiggins）赢得了环法冠军；在他的指导下，英国队的自行车运动员在伦敦奥运会上赢得了八枚金牌。

那天下午，他说天空队和英国场地车队“非常反对兴奋剂”。他补充道：“如果我们不能以那种方式[不使用兴奋剂]做到，如果那是不可能的，那么我们就停止。”他谈到了他引入该体系的史蒂夫·彼得斯（Steve Peters）博士。那一年，彼得斯出版了《黑猩猩悖论》（The Chimp Paradox），并赢得了广泛尊重。“我对史蒂夫·彼得斯博士寄予厚望，并且非常有信心，”他说。换句话说，谁能想象像彼得斯这样一位卓越的精神病学家会参与到某些不正当的事情中？

我们一来一回地争论。他的坚持对抗我的怀疑。然后他说：“我们没有什么好隐瞒的，如果你愿意来和球队一起生活，我们非常欢迎。”

这引起了我的注意。我问这意味着什么。

“完全的访问权限，”他说。随队旅行，住在球队酒店，与任何你想聊的人交谈，进入医生的房间、按摩师的房间，观察谁进出酒店。一切都可以。

我接受了这个提议，而这正是错误所在。布雷尔斯福德希望我成为另一个版本的史蒂夫·彼得斯。我上当了。在球队内部度过的13周里，我既没有看到也没有听到任何引起怀疑的事情。

。但他们既不道德也不诚实，尽管在我那个被赋予特权的嵌入式视角中，我就是这样塑造他们的。

在医生的房间里，我询问了治疗用途豁免（TUEs），以及自从医生加入球队以来，有多少名天空队车手使用了这些豁免。他说，在他任职的15个月里，只有两次TUE；一次是为一名非比赛期间的车手治疗呼吸问题，第二次是为一名即将接受手术的车手。

他没有提到那次允许威金斯在2012年环法开赛前四天服用40mg增强体能的皮质类固醇——曲三龙酮（triamcinolone）的TUE。布雷尔斯福德没有提到。威金斯没有提到。主教练谢恩·萨顿（Shane Sutton）没有提到。高级医生理查德·弗里曼（Richard Freeman）没有提到。任何知情者都没有提到。

这是他们的秘密。如果没有四年后Fancy Bear黑客组织的揭露，除了天空队的内部人员，没有人会知道。我从未认为他们是最该被责备的人。是我买了这瓶“灵丹妙药”。

这一切我想说的是，我对阿尔塞纳·温格（Arsène Wenger）与吉安尼·因凡蒂诺（Gianni Infantino）以及国际足联（Fifa）之间陷入的局面深表同情。温格是一个非凡的人，也是一位伟大的教练。他在37岁时成为法甲俱乐部摩纳哥的教练，在第1个赛季就赢得了联赛冠军，并在第一个赛季结束时从喀麦隆的雅温德通内雷队签下了乔治·维阿（George Weah）。维阿身材高大且瘦长，控球笨拙，缺乏力量和运动能力。起初，他的队友们对他并不看好。

温格察觉到了他的潜力，并将他纳入自己的羽翼之下。温格不仅是第一队的主教练，还成为了韦阿的私人教练和导师。他们甚至会一起跑步。1995年，在离开摩纳哥加盟巴黎圣日耳曼三年后，韦阿被评为国际足联年度世界最佳球员。在接过奖杯后，韦阿将它转交给在场的温格。“阿尔塞纳·温格像父亲一样，把我当成儿子看待，”他说，“在种族主义最盛的时期，他向我展现了爱。我对他说：‘我想让你保留这个。这是给我的，但我希望你保留它，’因为他比我更配得上这个奖项。”韦阿至今仍是唯一一位获得该奖项的非洲球员。

足球是温格的生命。“赢下的比赛是珍贵的回忆，而输掉的比赛——那些我至今仍不敢重新观看的比赛——在多年后依然令我心有余悸，”他在2020年的自传中写道，“我们本该怎么做？发生了什么？我的一生就在热爱胜利与鄙视失败之间摆动……没有足球比赛的一天对我来说似乎是空虚的。”他对这项运动的热情令人钦佩。他拥抱它，并将其紧紧握在手中，直到将其挤压成一种执念。这值得钦佩吗？这是一个难题。在多次采访中，他带着明显的自我厌恶反思自己是如何处理与那些最爱他的非足球领域人士的关系的。他不止一次说，他的自私让他变成了一个“怪物”。

作为一个执念深重的人，在他执教俱乐部的22年之中的后半段，阿森纳在英超联赛的争冠过程中越是挣扎，他工作就越努力。他无法做到的是退后一步，去看清情况并没有真正改善，以及许多曾经爱他的人已经背弃了他。俱乐部本身也开始觉得需要做出改变。当终结到来时，在他看来这像是一场背叛。在那些艰难的岁月里，当俱乐部的财力被投入到新球场时，他拒绝了来自尤文图斯、皇家马德里、巴黎圣日耳曼、拜仁慕尼黑以及法国队和英格兰队的邀请。他展现了忠诚，却发现这只是一场单方面的关系。

2018年，他离开了俱乐部，并发现了执念的另一面：当赋予你生命意义的事物被夺走时，会发生什么。温格无法通过打更多高尔夫球、爬更多山、走更多小径来填补，因为管理阿森纳才是他需要做的事。由于被离职的方式所伤害，他有4年半的时间没有回到酋长球场。在离开阿森纳18个月后，他成为了国际足联全球足球发展主管。意识到执念必须得到喂养，他的挚友大卫·戴恩鼓励他接受国际足联的邀请。

当然，这也有负面影响。每当他站在因凡蒂诺身边，每当他代表国际足联进行倡议，他就在将自己的信誉借给一个可能并不配拥有它的组织。在任职三年后，温格强烈主张将男子和女子世界杯改为每两年举办一次。很少有人认为这是一个好主意。如果是在担任阿森纳主教练期间，温格也不会认为这是一个好主意。

事实证明，与因凡蒂诺共事是危险的。在进入国际足联之初，温格试图将该组织的生存理由概括为：运行赛事、在全球范围内执行足球法律以及教育。执行足球法律？在今年夏天世界杯筹备期间，国际足联撤销了对克里斯蒂亚诺·罗纳尔多的两场禁赛，仅仅因为他是克里斯蒂亚诺·罗纳尔多。随后在世界杯期间，比赛规则再次被搁置，以便美国球员福拉林·巴洛根能够对阵比利时。而一直处于国际足联高层的温格则保持沉默；一个原则坚定且正直的人身处一个名声扫地的组织核心，感到自己束手无策。温格保持沉默，直到他的上司做得太过分，随后他才迟缓地试图与最新且最大的丑闻撇清关系。

在他的自传结尾部分，温格想象了自己死后与上帝的第一次对话。“他会问我这辈子做了什么，赋予了生命什么样的意义。我会告诉他，我努力赢下比赛！‘就这些？’他可能会失望地问。我会试图说服他，赢得比赛比你想象的要难，而且足球对数百万人的生活至关重要，它创造了分享的时刻，以及喜悦与巨大的悲伤的时刻。”我个人的感觉是，温格对足球的热爱程度已经到了对自己不利的地步。“温格保持沉默，随后迟缓地试图与最新的丑闻撇清关系” © TIMES MEDIA LIMITED, 2026. 由 Times Media Ltd 出版，地址：1 London Bridge St, London, SE1 9QF。印刷商：Newsprinters Holdings Ltd, Great Cambridge Rd, Nathan Cross, EN8 8DY, Kitting Rd, Prescot, L34 9HN 以及 Byramamur Rd, Holytown, Motherwell, ML1 4WH, K9 Services, La Rue Martel, La Rue des Pres Trading Estate, St Saviour, Jersey, JE2 7QR, Webprint, 2023 Bianconi Ave, Citywest Business Campus, Dublin, Ireland. 如需获得出于内部信息目的复制文章或标题的许可，请联系 NLA media access，邮箱 copy@nla.co.uk，电话 01892 525273。所有其他复制和许可查询请联系许可部门（Licensing Department），地址：1 London Bridge St, London, SE1 9QF，电话 020 7711 7888，电子邮件 enquiries@newslicensing.co.uk --- 2026年8月9日 - thetimes.com / business 《星期日泰晤士报》 thetimes.com / money

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EasyJet 与维珍航空就合作进行谈判

奥利弗·吉尔 (Oliver Gill)

EasyJet 已与 16 理查德·布兰森 (Richard Branson) 旗下的维珍航空就这家廉价航空公司与该长途航空公司之间的合作进行了谈判。据一名熟悉情况的消息人士透露，两家公司讨论了深化代码共享协议（即一家航空公司运营航班，而一家或多家合作伙伴航空公司销售该航班座位）以及当地计划的安排。

上周，easyJet 同意由 Apollo 以 57.5 亿加元 billion 进行收购，这家 1.5万 person 私募股权公司明确表示，其将“探索在其他航空公司的代码共享计划中寻求机会”视为优先事项。这些安排将允许通过销售由其他航空公司运营的航班来开辟新航线。

Apollo-tramped Cambodia，另一家 15 私募股权公司，正在为这家总部位于拉丁美洲的航空公司筹备。这家华尔街公司与布兰森的航空公司关系密切，曾为维珍航空提供 3亿美元 (£2.5 亿) 的资金，用于支付在希思罗机场的起降费。

一名消息人士淡化了合作前景，称 15,000 个非代码共享和联程安排已在讨论之中。EasyJet、维珍航空和 Apollo 均拒绝置评。

两家航空公司可以通过销售前往其自身航线之外目的地的机票来优化网络。乘客可以从新发现的优惠中获益，并从其首选供应商处累积飞行里程，此类安排占全球所有中转航空流量的四分之一。联程协议还允许航空公司受益于超出其自身航程的航班，且托运行李可在中转机场自动在航空公司之间转移。

7.45亿美元 Apollo 资助维珍航空在希思罗机场担保的起降成本。

“Worldwide by easyJet”于 2017, 9 月推出，允许维珍航空的乘客在盖特威克机场连接到这家廉价航空公司的航班——以及由其他航空公司运营的航班。此后，维珍航空已离开盖特威克机场，专注于在希思罗机场的运营。

Apollo 对 easyJet 的收购将使该公司获得成本优势，并得到了航空公司董事会的支持。经过讨论，该公司将通过 12 / 70 亿加元 和 120 亿加元 的债务被收购。Apollo 还将通过高达 100 亿英镑 billion 的优先股进行投资，其利率为 10%。上述优先股将使 easyJet 的利息负担增加一倍，尽管该账单将计入贷款的资本价值而非以现金支付。

它列出了“价值创造计划”的七个部分。其中包括提高冬季的盈利能力，以及通过“pretaxemakers”计划提高某些航线商务舱票价的可能性。合作伙伴关系和分销机会包括新的联程和合作安排。盖特威克机场的跑道将有助于经济发展。

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是时候停止外国低价收购了 —— MREG 表示

Bill Toomser 及其英国领先的基金经理之一已公开表达异议，对一系列针对低估公司的外国袭击发起猛烈抨击。他认为这些行为必须停止，不能让对方利用暴跌的股价获利。

MRC Investments 的英国主管 Michael Massey 表示：“对于许多英国公开市场公司来说，这些收购发生在错误的时机，且方案并不理想。”总部位于伦敦的 MRC 管理着近 24000 亿加元 的资产，将利用其已持有的股份，对华尔街公司对廉价航空公司 easyJet 的扫货行为投反对票。该公司正采取类似立场，反对对陷入困境的英国企业的 10 亿英镑收购，并建议英国进行小幅调整。

Massey 表示，虽然收购在金融市场中发挥着至关重要作用，但在决定出售价格时，投资者及其相关因素需要持有长期视角。他说：“收购可以在股票市场的健康运行中发挥重要作用。但如果公开市场投资者继续接受低价报价，价值将不断流失，英国资产将以错误的价格被私有化。”

Rohler (4) 表示，今年已有近 40 笔针对伦敦证券交易所上市公司的收购报价，其中 Comet Energy 是上周五最新的目标。Massey 认为这些报价处于较低水平，因为英国公司相对于其他交易所的同类公司被低估了。他认为，一些公司可能害怕拒绝报价，因为在最初的股价上涨后，其股价可能面临下跌风险。

但他表示：“投资者和董事会需要关注其资产的长期价值，并准备好拒绝那些达不到标准的报价，即使这意味着在报价撤回时会面临短期股价压力。重点应该是这些公司能够实现的长期复利，而不是股价下跌的短期影响。”

Massey 补充道：“市场参与者应该询问，为什么收购活动如此强劲，以及竞购者看到了公开市场所忽略的什么。”

Royal London Asset Management 的英国及欧洲主管 Richard Marwood 预计这种活动将持续，但认为英国缺乏更多的首次公开募股（IPO）。Marwood 表示：“我们面临的问题是，许多此类报价对基金的短期业绩非常有益。（但）这就像是在我们坐拥的财富中进行挖掘。”

一些持有上市公司股份的基金经理面临接受报价的压力，因为他们可以看到将资金支付给投资者，从而将资金从英国市场撤出的机会。来自基金网络（Advances）的密切关注数据显示，上个月有 25 亿 从英国股票基金中被撤出。

其他投资者则将收到的现金用于投资其他公司。基金管理公司 Polar Capital 的合伙人 Georgina Hamilton 表示，她不认为她的基金在竞标过程中“被剥削”了。她说：“首要因素是我们可以将这些资本重新投入到具有强大上涨潜力的其他机会中，”并补充说该基金在近几个月增加了新的头寸。

SMIRNOFF 所有者喜爱节日氛围

用预调鸡尾酒消暑的节日参与者可以助力 Sir Dave Lewis 在扭转 Diages 局面方面的战斗。

Lewis 表示：“节日对于我们以有趣且便捷的形式提供优质鸡尾酒来说是极佳的活动。”今年节日期间罐装鸡尾酒的销售额增长了 5。

蜡烛制造商 Neom 吸引追求者

Hannah Prowitt 报道 Neom 是一家面向 Sate Moca 和 Gwyneth Paltrow 的健康品牌，目前已在潜在出售前聘请了顾问，其估值可能达到 £2 亿。该公司以其高端蜡烛、精油和香氛产品而闻名，已聘请精品投资公司 Alantra 审查战略选择，据金融城消息人士透露。Alantra 曾在去年夏天为 Reddell 出售给 Urmol 提供咨询，当时的估值超过 150 亿美元。据了解，讨论尚处于早期阶段，选择包括出售部分或多数股权。总裁 Nevda Elliott 和 Oliver Menard 共同持有公司一半以上的股份，而私募股权公司 Piper 自 2017. 年投资以来一直持有少数股权。 拒绝置评。在截至 2025, 年 6 月的一年里，该公司的销售额为 £4270 万，高于前一年的 £4900 万，其潜在利润增加了一倍多，达到 £250 万。分析估计 的估值最高可达 £2 亿。 将通过利用英国市场的增长，将重点放在未来的收益而非当前收益上。这比 在 2016. 年探索上市时涉及的 £3 亿 估值有了大幅提升。 由前杂志记者、曾接受过会计师培训的 Elliott 及其商业伙伴、前投资分析师 Menard 于 2016 年创立，旨在销售自行采购的产品以缓解压力和降低能量。自 2023, 年起，该公司由前 Urmol 高管 Isabel Malhot 领导，她接替 Menard 担任负责人。Elliott 仍担任创意总监。这家公司最初通过在线方式销售蜡烛、香氛、面霜和其他产品，现在则通过包括约翰刘易斯（John Lewis）、Jeffrey Dunn、Fornelick、Irfan 在内的现代渠道以及九家店铺（包括其位于伦敦摄政街的旗舰店）进行销售。它还实施了秘密功能和销售力量，以吸引在 Amazon Prime 系列中出演的演员 Mika Alvadia，她说当感到精疲力竭时，这能让她重新振作。

Zoom 反击 Burnham

Hannah Prowitt 和 Gabriela Austin 报道 Zoom 对 Andy Hudman 强调通过视频通话面试会影响工作条件的看法进行了反击，称问题不在于增加面试的写作，而在于面试官的概率。首相批评这种做法对公司来说是“共识”，但对于决定与潜在雇员保持个人联系的年轻候选人来说，可能会降低价值。“我不喜欢现在这种在 Zoom 或 Team 上面试的文化，”Burnham 在 Patrice 播客中表示，“我知道这对进行面试的组织来说很方便，但对于处于这种境地的年轻人来说，他可能会失去一些个性，甚至失去自我。”“在我看来，这会对那些性格有侧重的人不利，而有利于那些只能给出更正式答案的人。”然而，Zoom 认为 Burnham 将问题归咎于技术，而实际上是面试官的问题。“问题不在于面试是通过视频还是面对面进行的。而在于你是否在创造一个让每位候选人都能发挥出最佳水平的环境，”Zoom 英国和爱尔兰区负责人 Louise Newbury Health 表示，“在视频之前你的面试咨询……这种形式增加了惊险因素。”Burnham 认为，我们面临着使招聘过程变得不那么公平的危险。“重新安置必须关乎个性……让人们展现出他们能提供的独特之处。”Newbury health 表示，视频通话通过消除地理障碍和降低旅行成本，使招聘对主要候选人来说更加便捷。

Ace & Tate 眼镜公司遭遇网络攻击

高端眼镜品牌 Ace & Tate 警告称，在其物流公司遭到攻击后，部分通用数据可能已被窃取。持有客户账单和配送地址、联系详情及货运追踪信息的 Cera Lagatrix 上周遭受了两次网络攻击。“涉及银行账号和卡片详情的动态细节并未受到影响，”该品牌表示。目前，该公司正由另一家供应商对其事故原因进行调查。这家总部位于阿姆斯特丹的公司已向荷兰数据保护局提交报告。此外，国际技术公司 San freimem 也卷入了此次数据泄露事件。

Ace & Tate 在周四通知其客户，称未经授权的第三方已获取其物流合作伙伴系统的访问权限。该公司警告称，此次事件涉及通用个人数据，通过电子邮件、短信和电话进行欺诈尝试的风险将会增加。目前没有迹象表明 Ace & Tate 自身的系统遭到攻击。该零售商表示，由于此次事件，订单、退货和奖励处理时间可能会延长，但其门店购物和视力检查不会受到影响。

Ace & Tate 建议客户“对可疑消息保持高度警惕”，特别是配送或追踪查询消息。邮件中写道：“请不要理会或关注来自您不认识或不信任的供应商的消息。”该公司向客户保证，他们“不会通过电子邮件、电话或短信要求您提供密码和支付详情”。

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在伦敦准备迎接无人驾驶出租车之际，Gabriela Austin 探讨了其他一些我们习以为常的未来主义创新。

电动之梦

它们可能即将出现在首都的街道上。上周，伦敦交通局（TfL）授予了一批由 Silver 运营的 Mustang Mach-E 车辆自动驾驶许可，这些车辆采用了英国初创公司 Shipper 开发的技术。作为此类尝试的首例，该方案的前提是必须有一名人类“安全驾驶员”在方向盘后，在车辆能够完全自主运行之前，仍需获得额外的许可。

如果成功，这可能为在整个首都更广泛地推广自动驾驶车辆铺平道路。这一公告引发了人们对安全性的熟悉担忧，以及我们是否准备好将方向盘交给人工智能。然而，历史表明，今天的前卫创新往往会成为明天的日常便利。

迈向未来 ● 如今，很少有人在乘坐自动扶梯前会犹豫。然而，当伦敦的第一台自动扶梯出现在时，许多乘客将其视为危险的竞争对手而尽量避开。根据交通界的轶闻，当时的怀疑情绪如此普遍，以至于伦敦地铁的一位工程师威廉·“巴斯托”·哈里斯（William 'Barstow' Harris）在1971年早院（Early Court）自动扶梯启用当天，反复地上下乘坐，以证明它是安全的。自动扶梯——就像这种在早期年份中互为的设备——此后已变得如此普遍，以至于我们几乎察觉不到它们。如今，全球电梯和自动扶梯市场价值超过 8000 亿加元 billion (US billion)。

在过去的10年里，德国的在联邦时代的建筑时代工作——他认为没有什么能与他今天所见的情况相比。他曾认为2007 / 8年的金融危机将是我一生中见过的最严重的灾难。他说：“但这次更糟。”欧文（Irving）自1970年代起就进入该行业，就职于一家位于的砖瓦制造商Northern。与英格兰许多幸存的小型砖瓦厂一样，它拥有光辉的历史，由温斯顿·丘吉尔爵士的表弟爱德华·乔治·斯宾塞·丘吉尔上尉（Captain Edward George Spencer Churchill）于1925年创立。Reference发电站就是由Northern砖瓦制造的著名建筑之一，该公司甚至在2009年受命生产了300 万块砖，当时伦敦办公室被改造为一个充满商店和价格实验的发光区域。

然而，与行业内许多人一样，欧文对未来感到担忧。“目前的订单根本不够。需求非常低，就目前的乐观程度而言，前景看起来非常、非常暗淡。”在英国的广袤土地上，数以亿计的砖块正在被，因为那些努力维持生产线运行的人们难以生产新砖。这象征着一个国家所面临的方式，在工党领导下的帝国住房建设革命未能实现内部化，但要在本届议会期间在英格兰交付250 万套新房的目标已经化为泡影。

“当我进入政府时，那个承诺就非常有挑战性……”安吉拉·库尔纳（Angela Kurner）秘书在研究Rambam接任该职后不久表示。“现在肯定变得更有挑战性了……我没有放弃它，我只是在说这是一个非常困难的月度目标。”现代建筑方法意味着，完全通过传统方式进行新建筑施工已经有一段时间了。与其说它展现了一个不自然的女性，正因如此，它们仍然是该国最受欢迎的建筑材料，目前有超过2,500种类型的粘土砖可供选择。

英格兰的许多城镇过去都有自己的砖瓦制造厂，1960年代后期每年生产80亿块砖。此后，该行业规模缩减并精简了产量，但目前仍有约30家工厂——主要分布在英格兰中部（Midlands）——支撑着全国10万,000多个就业岗位，并为儿童生活的健康做出贡献，约占英国经济的6%。

上周，英国最大的砖瓦制造商friends公司结合了负面前景，报告称截至2018, 6月的六个月内税前亏损为 £2700 万，而前一年为 £400 万 利润。在FY18 2016年，该公司对未来远非系统性乐观。Credit,xiom, brown表示，短期内“预计将继续充满挑战”。“最大的问题是，我们现在正处于几乎没有住房建设的节点，”英国公司及其他ISMA的首席执行官鲍勃·霍利斯（Bob Hollis）表示。“如果你是一个砖瓦制造商，面对在英国生产300 万套新房并搬迁的情况，你可能会削减产量并等待时机改变。”

工党住房建设梦想如何崩塌

随着国内产量骤降 16%，全国各地的堆场中砖块正不断堆积。这是一个明确的信号，表明英国的住房危机远未得到解决。Tom Knowles 报道称，英国的水泥生产同样遭受打击——至少在去年持续时间较长，回到了 1990 年代。然而，这种等待的时间比许多砖瓦制造商预期的要长，使得难以衡量水泥生产是否应该放缓。对于在英国运营的三大砖瓦制造商（Bristol、Victoria 和奥地利跨国公司 Wenselberger）而言，住房建设的任何下降都会对其利润率产生重大影响。“对我们来说，市场最大的部分是新住房。我们是一个大容量参与者，深受大型国家住房建设商的影响，”澳大利亚公司的首席执行官 Neil

Isle 表示，该公司拥有七家运营工厂，每年生产高达 6 亿 块砖。另一家砖瓦制造商也同样在苦苦支撑。政治动荡、潜在房产税的不确定性以及消费者信心的下降，给许多创新带来了阻碍。这对像道出版社这样每年生产约 1 亿 块砖的公司产生了影响，因为其三分之一的产量用于行业内所谓的 1000（平方、维护和改良）。Bred 公司的首席执行官 Ryan Mahoney 表示：“我们现在在做测量，或者在你的房产后面做一个两层扩建以增加更多卧室，或者其他任何东西。人们在承诺项目方面变得更加谨慎，这影响了每个人。”市场自 2022 年底以来一直处于下滑趋势。Mahoney 指出，大封锁之后的 demand，加上能源成本的激增，意味着砖瓦制造商当时在满负荷运转，并将价格提高了 30 到 40%。一些订单必须提前一年下达，导致许多住房建设商和商人开始囤积砖块。但在 2022, 9 月 Liz Fraser 担任主席的迷你联赛之后，以及随后的抵押贷款利率激增，需求随之下降。虽然住房建设商有更多时间调整，但砖瓦制造商感受到的影响要直接得多，这导致了大量的冲突。从那时起，## 英国能源价格是欧洲的 2-3 倍 成本能力和一般影响在乌克兰和伊朗战争爆发后激增，且具体到该行业，战争见证使得铺砖变得困难，以及政治和经济的不确定性——包括去年秋季预算前围绕房产税的投机。这些事件的结果在数据中体现得更为明显。根据当时被称为商业贸易部的数字，2022 年，英国生产了 19.5 亿加元 块砖，Imperial 进一步生产了 2.7 亿 块。到 2025, 国内产量已缩减至 15 亿加元，进口量为 3.52 亿。今年 6 月，砖块交付量与去年同月相比下降了 10.1%。与此同时，砖块库存有所上升

华尔街最有权势的女性打出了一记一杆进洞

Jill Towner

June Fraser 将她的管理技巧应用于其政治之子之一的建议。这位首席执行官的任务是：“我们可能不需要你，你根据你的优势而非仅仅是你的弱点来展示自己。”创始人承担了风险。毕竟，Fraser，19，与高尔夫有着长期的联系，出现在靠近 16 名学生的地方，10万-come 被定义为“高尔夫之家”。她是同样的问题，为她的美国富豪女性担任球童。“整个形象是，她可能会被误认为是一位来自大西洋彼岸、装备精良的高管。为什么？因为 Fraser 是 16 个人生活中最有权势的女性。”在她对这家全球最大银行之一的改革过程中，她创建了一个“围绕我们拥有优势以及哪些业务相匹配的商业战略。一个巨大的尾随清单，涵盖了所有我们不再是最佳所有者的业务。”这包括关闭 16 个国家的高街业务，仅剩非洲业务待完成。Fraser 表示，在银行工作 47 年并在 2018 年 3 月被提升为首席执行官后，她将自己的职责视为“使其更简单”。为此，她废除了一个拥有十年之久的管理结构矩阵，并确保银行的负责人直接向她汇报。作为她努力的结果，该任务，银行变得饥渴，它很专注，并且比之前拥有更多前瞻性时具有更有效的文化！ 发生在 Gilcotey（主要是一家消费和企业银行）与金融财团 Transfers 之间于 1998 年的突破性合并。但在 2008 年危机之后，它变得臭名昭著，因为当时的负责人“black Power”在金融动荡中问题不断时，仍庆祝银行在跳舞。在危机前的巅峰时期，其价值曾达 10000 亿美元，

Oil 必须由美国纳税人救助并被覆盖。它现在的价值为 2500 亿美元 billion，自从 Fraser 成为一名优秀客户以来，其价值几乎没有变化，在以股东回报的关键指标——股本回报率衡量时，其表现低于其主要竞争对手。但根据 veteran 银行分析师 Mike Marr 的说法，她的努力正在取得成效，他表示，该行的管理结构不仅仅意味着“每个人都负责且谁需要承担责任”。“现在她有五个部门——市场、投资银行、交易服务、财富和个人银行——这些部门直接向她汇报，而不是通过两条汇报线。”该银行的改革被认为相对于其在全球雇佣的约 150+ 天（此处原文如此）的 22万,000 名员工而言是一次变革。这似乎比她加入时减少了 2万,000 人，尽管预计会有更多人离开，而 2万,000 人被雇佣在墨西哥的金融部门。在英国，该行在伦敦雇佣 1万,000 人，在贝尔法斯特雇佣 4,000 多人，在爱丁堡还雇佣了数百人。”Fraser 在处理最大工作之一的资产时，始于其 1000万,000,000 美元中的 100,000 美元，她在家庭移民后在 short old 度过了青少年时期。她返回学习领导力辅导，并加入高盛，随后在哈佛获得 MBA 学位，这使她进入伦敦的麦肯锡，在那里她一边工作一边抚养两个儿子。她于 2004 年加入 Citrus，并开启了在纽约、密苏里和墨西哥工作的职业生涯。Oil 的最高职位意味着她驻在纽约，但现在周游全球。“我在六周内去了 6 次亚洲，这很累但很迷人。”

在伦敦为期一周的行程中，她参观了金丝雀码头一座 42 层高的建筑，该建筑正处于一项 22-billion-crft 协议之中。一半的人员将于下个月开始搬入。在七号（the seven）继续被敲击的同时，通常在那里工作的 1万,000-crafts 分布在两个时间点。有些人就在隔壁的较低楼层，她在那里为员工提供“sewn half”。弗雷泽承认她“对每个人要求很高”，且组织上“经历了很多”，但她补充道：“我们的许多客户告诉我，现在的 Oil 已经不同了”。她的客户现在信心已恢复。他们正处于积极主动的状态。他们正更加像一个团队那样协作。弗雷泽表示没有时间犹豫。她说：“我们将不得不确保继续提升水平，因为我们的政策也没有停滞不前。但就像我们的 Arch of cash 更多一样。我们是 hangers，我们拥有一支令人难以置信的团队。” --- 3

现金在手

当第一台自动取款机（ATM）于1987年在北伦敦展出时，顾客们普遍感到焦虑。有些人更担心信任一台机器来管理资金是在自找麻烦，而另一些人则担心他们的卡片——或者在最初阶段，他们的纸质凭证——可能会被机器吞掉。然而，这种引入成为了银行业最大的生产力提升之一。顾客可以通过这种方式节省数小时的时间，而银行则可以在无需支付更多员工薪资的情况下服务更多的人。根据英国最大的ATM网络Link的数据，消费者在2020年分享了1.9%（Miles in 2020）——一种一旦证明其有效性后，就极其难以抗拒的新局面。

接入技术

用非现金方式支付日常消费，在过去看来不仅古怪，甚至被认为是鲁莽的。为什么会这样？这是否会导致意外支付或欺诈支付？非接触式技术于2002年在英国引入，在疫情之前便已积聚势头，随着购物者和零售商对其接纳并习惯于无现金交易，其普及速度加快。数字钱包（如Apple Pay）的出现进一步推动了这一转变，允许消费者离开实体卡，仅凭手机使用其支付设备。对于数百万人来说，触碰支付已成为一种本能。

智能视野

有些产品曾像Google Glass一样招致相当多的嘲笑。这款于2013年推出的未来主义系统因让人们看起来很奇怪而受到诟病，并引发了关于隐私和监控的合理担忧。十多年后，由AI驱动的智能眼镜迎来了第二次机会。Meta的Ray-Ban（由Kyle Janner模特演示）成为了出人意料的爆款，允许用户在无需伸手拿手机的情况下拍照、拨打电话并询问AI助手。分析师预计，全球智能眼镜市场在未来十年内将增长到数百亿美元。它们会取代智能手机吗？或许不会。但人们曾经也怀疑是否有人会信任ATM。

CRONELING 捐款 提前月份（与 2016 年相比有所下降……以及自 2022 年以来迅速下降的速度。来源：从 2022, 的 19.91 亿 下降至 2020. 的 1.99 亿。虽然很难说总额中将分享多少，但短期现代观点认为这将是其中的大部分。在此之前，砖块制造商不得不做出艰难的选择。在制造这些砖块时，成本比 2023, 高出 25%，同时已关闭新工厂并使另一家工厂停产。首席执行官 Neil Ash 表示，如果市场进一步恶化，合作伙伴将不得不考虑将位于 Leavenworths 的 Desired 工厂的两座窑炉全部关闭。这将意味着欧洲最大的砖块制造工厂约有一半被估算在内。Desired 工厂仅在 2022 年开业，其年产能足以建造近 25万,000 吨。砖块制造商还试图实现 25%。eksters 正在制造一种名为 brick dips 的更薄的砖块，这种砖块在安装时要容易得多。但它们不是一种栏杆系统，而是通过铺设，且两者都将提高并结束建筑。与此同时，McReinwick 开发了氢动力砖窑以节省资金，而此时天然气价格一直在飙升。然而，几乎所有砖窑仍由天然气驱动，且虽然大多数砖块制造商在三到四年的周期内调整价格，但天然气价格已从 2021 年的仅 50 a thorn 涨至如今的 15.50-15.00。政府推出了英国工业竞争计划，以考虑到 6万,000 家 trans-lectures 的公用事业成本，通过从 2022 年 4 月起将其电费降低至多 25%，但该计划不适用于天然气账单。用电驱动砖窑的成本将高出约四倍。砖块制造商表示，如果市场不改善，美国各地的更多工厂将被停产，这可能会导致更多通货膨胀，因为进口将填补市场空白。与此同时，在海外，增长情况是每年在美国使用的砖块中约有五分之一是进口的，主要产自比利时、荷兰和德国等国。然而，自 2022 年以来，越来越多来自更远国家（如印度、巴基斯坦和土耳其）的廉价砖块进入市场。Bring at Northern 表示：“美国的电价和气价是欧洲支付价格的两到三倍，而当热油罐车占砖块制造成本的 25% 时，你将处于相对于欧洲人的巨大劣势。因此，来自更远地区的砖块会导致损失。” Adam Inger 是 Newcaride-yndictsman 的工党议员，该地位于斯塔福德郡（Staffordshire），也是 Patrick 的总部所在地，他在二月向议会提交了一项议案，要求政府公布旨在增加建筑项目中英国制造砖块使用量的措施建议。Inger 表示：“我们制造出色的砖块。我们应该使用英国制造的砖块。这对就业有利，对新鲜水平有利，对两-veh穷地区的碳影响有利，且进口海外砖块的成本更高。” “我们应该尽一切可能保护、支持并鼓励英国的砖块制造工业。” 虽然对砖块的需求是衡量品牌建筑活动的传统指标，但其他建筑材料的制造商也同样在苦苦支撑。英国混凝土产量目前处于低谷，甚至低于 1990 年代。作为全球仅次于水的第二大消费产品，国内可销售混凝土的体积在今年上半年下降了 9.5%，回到了 1990 年代的水平。英国水泥尤其容易受到高碳收入产品的低价竞争，而这些产品实际上因为对廉价进口产品的财务打击而被禁止供应欧盟。

无论砖块还是混凝土，地平线上仍有一线希望。安迪（Andy）承诺将维持战后以来最强的住房控制，这将为该行业的供应端带来受欢迎的推动。“我们还需要10个月！”他表示，“你需要确信市场将处于低债券且……[这样我们才能]在整个周期中持续投资，以确保我们拥有足够的产能。”如果能够实现，英国的砖块制造在未来几年应将继续在住房市场中占据重要地位。

我从保时捷销售员变成了 2400 万英镑 科技公司的创始人

SONY, MIDDLE RUSSELL ATTWOOD, SOUTH 101 创始人 Nianah Curran 报道

在 65, 岁离开布里斯托尔学校几年后，Russell Attwood 发现自己在销售保时捷，处于一个发展中的车辆领域，以及 B。与富裕阶层打交道让他看到了“成功是什么样子”。“当你拥有这些车时，你会与客户产生很多共鸣。你会了解到他们在有时间的时候会怎么做，”现年 36 岁的 Attwood 说道。“我意识到，实际上，有些人变得非常、非常成功且富有，而且他们是白手起家的。”“他们给了我一个想法，即一个人实际上是可以为自己建立成功的事业，并享受随之而来的改变。”

Attwood 随后决定尝试，在 1990 年代后期成立了 Call Center Technology，并于 2018. 以 £2500 万 的价格将其出售给外包集团 Capital。两年后，他创立了 Route 458, ，该公司帮助企业管理云呼叫中心和客户服务软件。去年，该公司的营收为 £270 万，税前利润为 £370 万。公司雇佣了近 200 人。Route 458 出售给 2050, 后，Attwood 参加了之前的 Colman 展会。

从 6 岁起就在 Collagued 学校就读，他的父亲是一名教师，而他开始“走上歧路”是在他母亲被诊断出患有癌症的时候。在他 8 岁时，母亲病情恶化，一年后他的父亲的生意崩溃了。尽管他的父亲无法支付最后一年的学费，但学校允许 Attwood 完成 3-levels，即使他的父亲无法支付最后一年的费用。随后，他的父亲寻求担任“临时房东”的工作，在布里斯托尔负责管理需要新领导层的表现不佳的岗位。这份工作涉及生活工作室，为 Attwood 提供了自己的恢复空间，因此他的父亲给了他一小笔资金。“在很小的年纪就变得独立。我想这很适合创业，因为你必须太快地独立支撑，”Attwood 说道。

12, 岁时，他报名参加了 BTRC 商业课程，但在三个月后辍学并开始工作。2018, 年，他在南威尔士获得了一个职位，在美国邮政技术公司 Pitney Bowes 担任销售实习生。随后公司将他派往一家销售保时捷、劳斯莱斯和宾利的经销商处。有一天，他可能会走过去询问他们是否有任何资源。Attwood 对自己的工作感到欣喜。他喜欢销售高价值产品，佣金约为成本的 30%，而那些寻求消费的成功客户则通过他们的工作签署合同。其中有几位资金充裕的电信销售员，他们告诉他去申请该行业的职位，该行业在 1980 年代 IT 私有化后正经历去监管化。

经过一番研究，Attwood 在 BTRC 商业和呼叫中心电信公司获得了一份销售工作。此时，在 1990年代, 年，这位 20 岁的青年遇到了后来成为他妻子的 Carla。“在思考如何保障未来时，Carla 建议他成为自雇人士，以便从其他渠道赚取额外收入。他接触了 BTR，要求放弃基本工资和免费额度，仅领取佣金，将自己设定为分包商。”这种安排持续了 30 个月，到那时他已经能够雇佣一些毕业销售人员，并在布里斯托尔的一栋办公楼里租用一小块空间。他后来买下了整栋建筑。

问我任何事 有些人的建议……我的父亲，以及他所经历的一切，以及我的主席，

我意识到为自己建立一些东西是可能的。然而在当时，他仍然发现扩大客户群面临巨大挑战，因此 Attwood 向一家 KPL 供应商寻求投资。他没有成功，但这次尝试让他结识了一位天使投资人，后者随后提供了 $40万,000 的资金——在此之前，Attwood 还筹集了 £4万,000 的自有资金。为此，他卖掉了自己的车并刷空了信用卡。随着这笔资金的注入，Call Center Technology (CCT) 于 1947 年正式成立，旨在建立各中心通用的集中化系统。到 2017 年，该公司规模增长至 100 人，营业额接近 £2000 万，但随后一切陷入了停滞，需要一种冷静的影响力。开始一天最好的方式……（每天去健身房 4-5 次，然后打理花园，接着进入一个 VOC 冰池。这实际上是一项双重支出。）Metro Time by ... Fortune Two 是 2018 年金融危机后的“艰苦奋斗谈”。为了恢复，Attwood 首先找到了一个财务决定，然后做出了一个“非常艰难的决定”，裁减了三分之一的员工。营业额从 2019 年的 1000 万 恢复到 2018 年的 1244亿 销售额，以及 2360 万 的税前利润。“当我正确地在 2016 年接触他并提出收购该公司时，他‘跳了起来’抓住这个机会，因为他没有养老金，并且希望为那些没有投资 CCT 的健康成员获得回报。他担任这家外包公司 IT 销售主管一年后辞职，并带着家人在北美进行了为期三个月的旅行。他们旅程的一部分是沿着 Route 401 行驶，这条路沿着美国西海岸延伸，后来为他下一家公司的命名提供了灵感。”Attwood 开始思考新的商业想法，并看到一个创建类似 CCT 公司的机会，但这次要重点利用被称为“云”的技术。他找到了 Call Center Technology 的原始投资者，看他们是否愿意再次投资他。他们拒绝了，于是他利用自有资金以及之前省下的钱，在业务低谷期支撑新公司运行 18 个月。与 CCT 类似，Route 101 从 Amazon Web Services 和 Zendrek 等多种供应商处获取服务，并将其打包管理给客户。Centre Patricious 将 401 的服务整合到其整个预订系统中。我得到的最好的建议是……如果你认为是对的，就必须采取替代方案，大胆去做。最好的商业技巧……不要忘记房间里的业务。确保你真正利用了你周围创建的团队。他利用自有资金以及之前省下的钱，在业务低谷期支撑新公司运行 18 个月。与 CCT 类似， 101 从 Amazon Web Services 和 Zendrek 等多种供应商处获取服务，并将其打包管理给客户。Centre Patricious 将 401 的服务整合到其整个预订系统中。Attwood 发现他们利用现有合同在疫情前赢得了业务，随后再次筹集投资以创建客户服务技术。 458 协助了此次转型的技术工作。该公司还负责销售 3000 个测试与追踪方案背后的技术。凭借建立的良好声誉， 101 去年获得了两个月销售额中的第一笔。一份与工作与商业部签署的 20.19 亿 五年期合同，用于将其联系中心现代化。此后，它与软件公司 NATL 和咨询公司 Capgemini 共同签署了一份 20 亿 的合同，以更新 850 Revenue & Systems 的客户服务。Attwood 表示，公司预计今年的营业额将达到 £40，2022 年将达到 £70，并谈到了这对行业的影响。他认为这不会取代人们相互交流的需求，而是会增强客户服务并“为人工代理增加能力”。

一些帮助企业起步 我们帮助企业走完全程 凭借 100% 的收入，我们必须为 100% 的收入支付费用。W 我们必须为 100% 的收入支付费用。*自 2018 年起，由于通过商业利益银行（Business Interest Banking）和汇丰英国商业银行（HSBC UK Business Banking）对商业问题的潜在投资，形成了一个全球营销市场，正如您所言。现在，其他：芝加哥和纽约，a. 当然，以及 O'Keeffe，详情请参阅海事业务价格表。取决于发布情况、资格、信用状态及 P&As。由 HSBC UK Bank plc 出具，英国伯明翰 1 Company Square, Birmingham, UK 1-800, British Express, 400 8th Street, London, W1 1EN6。电子邮件：01-6-2000-1, 1 Company Square, Birmingham, UK 1-800, British Express, 400 8th Street, London, W1 1EN6。 --- 4 商业

预测不一

Legal & General 情况好转

对于执掌这家保险公司标志性彩色雨伞的安东尼奥·西蒙斯（António Simões）来说，情况正在好转。但吉尔·特雷诺（Jill Treanor）写道，在经历了一个动荡的开局后，要完全恢复这家金融城中坚企业的运势，仍有大量工作要做。

Legal & General 在过去四年里一直令投资者失望。无论是半年报还是年度报告，每当这家以雨伞为标志的公司公布财务业绩时，其股价表现都逊于蓝筹股同行。然而，直到上周三，Legal & General 的股价在当日收盘上涨 0-8%，而 FTSE 0-10 index 则基本持平。

对于在 2024. 1 月就任首席执行官的安东尼奥·西蒙斯来说，止住股价下跌将是一个令人欣慰的解脱。这位出生于葡萄牙的高管在解释其业务战略时经历了一段艰辛的时光，该公司为超过 1200 万 名客户提供养老金，其中大部分在英国。在 Sideroides 将其出售给美国的 Nomex 之前，它是英国最大的本土管理公司，拥有 1220 万 资产，目前正面临来自贝莱德（BlackRock）和先锋领航（Vanguard）等美国巨头的压力。

近几个月来，西蒙斯被迫面对关于 LAC 无法维持股息定价的担忧，并应对有关该公司因股市估值过低而容易受到私募股权收购出价的报道。这一点，加上新任主席斯科特·怀特（Scott White）在仅三个月前到任，使西蒙斯面临着必须开始交付成果的巨大压力。

“斯科特的任务很艰巨，”一位了解怀特在担任 Centrica 主席期间名声的金融城资深人士表示。

在 2024, 1 月接任首席执行官的安东尼奥·西蒙斯，通过集团最新的财务业绩向金融城证明了自己。这些原因解释了为什么金融城在上周西蒙斯提交半年报时如此关注，报告显示运营利润增长 7%，达到 197800 万s。

股东衡量业绩的关键指标——每股收益的本土压力得到了缓解，增长至 15%，高于其全球范围（6 和 10% 之间）的 2.2%。

虽然有人低声议论股价上涨是由于持续的收购猜测，但西蒙斯指出，他创建的三个主要部门表现良好：机构退休部门，负责从其他公司收购养老金——被称为养老金风险转移（PPI）或年金购买；资产管理部门；以及提供职场养老金的零售部门。

“我对这三项业务的增长感到非常满意。我谈到要成为最值得投资和合作的公司。虽然还有很多工作要做，但我对目前进展感到高兴，”西蒙斯说。

尽管有几家经纪公司上调了对该股的预期（目前处于五年高点），但许多人一致认为仍有许多工作要做。

增加这家公司的第三方投资者是西蒙斯长期以来的抱负，但在保险行业的资深人士看来，他是一个令人意外的选择。虽然他拥有辉煌的职业生涯——先后在麦肯锡（McKinsey）、汇丰（HSBC）和 Sartautek 任职——但他从未直接在充满争议的保险行业工作过。

他接替的是奈杰尔·威尔逊爵士（Sir Nigel Wilson），后者在公司任职 8 年后创造了自己的自动账户 LAC，并与他的老板达成“依赖签署，标签”协议。。

为此，他将以工业化股票市场投资著称的 Legal & General 投资管理公司，与投资于私人项目（如 2018 年的 house-holders (Adriboum) 等他所出售的项目）的 Legal & General 资本市场公司合并。

回顾过去的一周，Simões承认，削减这一部门“对我来说比我之前所发布的要困难得多”。我必须为“遗留问题”划清界限。但他表示这是值得的，因为目前由美国Exx销售部门运营的资产管理部门交付了“卓越的业绩”。如果你关注其相关收益的增长。此次重组裁减了一些员工，Simões推动的其他旨在升级公司伦敦城总部管理层的变动也是如此。然而，似乎有人在评价“保险市场最佳”的Gordon Allison表示：“我在Legal认识的所有人都很喜欢，他们喜欢António，喜欢他正在做的事情，公司内部的人很开心。”但压力依然存在。分析人士正在审视LAC的传统强项——机构部门，该部门负责收购其他公司的养老金，例如BP的旧计划以及我们公司福特（Ford）的英国分支。它是市场领导者，拥有25%的主导份额。投资银行Ford Stock的分析师Andrew von Entholen表示：“那个市场曾经在增长和利润率方面都非常繁荣。但随着竞争的加剧，现在正面临利润率的下降。”该部门的部分400项利润率在上半年从0.5%下降到4.2%。不过，Simões对那里的机会持乐观态度：“未来十年这里有1200 万的机会。其中一半在英国，”他说道，并补充说负责职场养老金的零售部门“仍是最令人兴奋的故事”。这两个部门有助于解释为什么LAC被认为对Solares具有吸引力——因为它们产生的现金；仅职场部门就有120 亿加元的资源！甚至每个月，auto equity Nomex都关注着LAC在Pension Insurance Corporate和Just 14 cap交易期间的潜在现金生成能力。而Fannune Laboratory的Mascara表示，他们也在监视业务竞争。“他们也在占用更多资本……所以竞争变得更加激烈。”Bloomberg的Michael Huttner 我必须为遗留问题划清界限。

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准备进入一个阴影笼罩的世界，在那里每一步都可能是致命的。请加入我们，与备受赞誉的作家威廉·博伊德（William Boyd）共度一个夜晚，他将与《泰晤士报》及《星期日泰晤士报》的文学编辑罗比·米兰（Robbie Millan）一起讨论他的最新著作《寒日落》（Cold Sunset）。作为《非洲的一个好人》（A Good Man in Africa）和《任何人类之心》（Any Human Heart）等现代经典作品的作者，博伊德还将回顾他作为小说家卓越的 50 年职业生涯。

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尽管所有关于支持快速增长的讨论，以及自 2024, 7 月掌权以来公平金融行政部门的登记，这些在 30 天内全球覆盖的高等教育领域正处于水面上。在过去的一个学年中，英国大学的初创公司数量处于五年低点，且在 2020-25. 年期间，2021 年出现了一次公平的周期。但至少有一所大学引领着趋势——university's drugs London 正处于领先地位，在过去十年中，前 20 初创公司中有 7 家出自该校。CCL 做了什么正确的事？

在回答这个问题之前，值得评估哪些环节出了问题，包括许多大学初创公司。这种下滑可归因于三个主要原因。首先是苏联的盛行。自从欧盟过渡期于 2020. 12 月结束以来，英国大学一直被排除在相关资金支持之外。此前，这是一个丰厚的收入来源。在 2016 至 2020 年期间，欧洲区域发展基金（ERP）每年平均为英国大学提供 £1.37 亿 的资金。

在瑞士部下管理的一个替代方案中，保守党在 2022, 拨出了 126 亿加元 资金，分三年用于英国共享繁荣基金（DRPP）。但这并非完全用于原目的。欧洲基金是分配给每所大学初创公司的，而 DRPP 则可由地方当局用于市中心、就业和一般商业支持。这些资金可能与尖端研究相反。

过去一个学年英国大学产生的初创公司数量——处于三年低点

UCL Ventures 负责人安娜·莱恩（Anna Lane）表示，创业者可以保留其学术职位，且治疗可用于 40p 包含项。第三，大学财务的平台状态意味着转化更多技术的预算正在上涨。“由于成本大幅增加、员工工资上涨……以及大学学费的泡沫，大学面临着巨大的资金压力，”创业者中心（The Centre for Entrepreneurs）首席执行官蒂姆·萨顿（Tim Sutton）表示。

初创公司从大学获得的支持主要来自建立和运行公司的商业培训与指导，随后机构可以通过拨款将其绑定。UCL 为员工创办公司提供激励，并在学生学习早期就与他们讨论初创公司。此外，它还拥有两支风险投资基金，而大多数大学一个都没有。UCL 初创公司 Panda Surgical 的联合创始人曼尼·希梅尔斯坦（Mannie Himmelstein）表示，该公司生产用于微创脑部和脊髓手术的手持机器人设备：“从在这里的早期阶段起，你就接触到了通用产业和创业。”他补充说，很大一部分知识几乎都取得了成功。

该大学成功的一个显著例子是 Synthesis，这是一家始于 2017. 的 81-kilov 业务。UCL 教授 Lunden Sugate 共同创立了该公司，该公司在年初的估值增长至 40 亿加元 billion。该大学的一半人员也有建立公司的动力。“如果他们有一个 grand-folymer，这可能会有助于他们的晋升 Lynosports，”UCL Ventures 首席执行官安娜·莱恩（Anne Lane）说，一个

商业化部门。“现在的情况不再是，如果你是一名学者，你必须在是否想要创建衍生公司之间做出选择。我们的许多学术创业者在保留学术职位的同时，在他们的衍生公司中也拥有明确的职责，”她说道。除此之外，还有UCL技术基金，该基金专门投资于衍生公司。英国只有少数几所大学为自己的衍生公司设立了这样一个融资部门，其中就包括剑桥大学和牛津大学。Gisela Verreeth是一家通过利用光将电能转换为计算机芯片，从而减少提升所需电量的公司，该公司成立于2022年，获得了来自UCL技术基金的229.1万,291,000资金。它已经筹集了超过£1500 万。联合创始人George Dorsey教授在加入UCL之前曾在布里斯托大学工作，他表示这两所大学在创建商业公司方面的差异是“天壤之别”。当Dorsey告诉UCL他想创建这家衍生公司时，学校将他与技术基金联系了起来。他表示，在起步阶段，拥有一个与大学相连的基金产生了“巨大的影响”。但这并不完全取决于UCL的商业模式，地理位置也起到了作用。英国商业银行（British Business Bank）最近的一份报告显示，获得股权融资的衍生公司不成比例地集中在东南部，而威尔士则处于劣势。衍生公司的中位三倍交易规模在东南部最高，在东北部则交易规模最低。“增长是每个协议，”Andy Bouchman将其强调为一种反英雄主义——对于大学衍生公司来说，这显然是一个相当高远的目标。--- 商业 5

采访

我曾在比尔·布伦（Bill Bullen）位于市场角落的办公室里问过他一次，房间里散布着十几个盆栽，桌上铺着法兰绒。那是2022年1月不久，乌克兰局势引发了英国的生活成本危机。Utility是一家为低收入家庭提供服务的能源供应商，也是英国智能电表的先驱，其首席执行官在注意到他在报纸上的出镜角色时笑了，这份报纸是他去布莱顿一日游时买的。“我花了大半天时间到处逛，试图找一份还留有《每日星报》（Daily Star）副本的报纸，最后终于找到了。”这并不完全是赞美：“我看到了标题‘你和数字’，配图是两个闪烁的灯泡，上面叠加了布伦和他们的脸。部长比尔·马尔特豪斯（Bill Malthouse）曾坦承他的家人正在寻找麻烦。”（nicky）布伦的“罪名”是经常就家庭如何节能和削减账单提供建议。或者，正如报纸所言：“许多其他能源账单的共同点是省钱，而不是忙碌。”“就是这样，”布伦若无其事地指出，“我是在提供帮助。我没有（在误导）。”

布伦开着一辆心脏强劲的汽车，作为一名去年从其（22 亿美元 / annum）业务中赚取了£3.2万,000的首席执行官，他可以制定计划并获利。但这种经常在威斯敏斯特的“审查”中表达的情绪，已经在汉普郡的厄西布尔（EarthyBull）——至少在隐喻意义上——等待着他。64岁的布伦经常在部分讨论中处于劣势，他将其归结为自己工作超过40年。我有一种印象，他将总部设在南海岸的部分原因是为了能为他备受诟病的职业生涯进行辩护。“他确实是一个敢于承担责任的人，”他说，“有大量非常专业、心怀善意、且受过良好教育的人在努力工作，试图向消费者提供我们需要提供的东西。”

大多数商业领袖在被要求向首相提供建议时都非常谨慎，并且经常依赖其公共关系顾问来制定品牌声明，这些声明偶尔可能会在获利的同时，触怒某些特定的利益群体。但当问到布伦希望从艾什·汉密尔顿（Aish Hamilton）和新的能源市场负责人马丁斯（Martin's）那里得到什么时，他说：“我不会在那儿。”“请不要再有标准的朋友了！”他随后列出了一长串政策建议，涵盖了住房关系、离岸风电以及他认为需要增加的部分。他最后说：“你能说的最好的事情就是让所有不同的东西都扩大到100倍。”其他政策建议则集中在对活性排放征税，以允许其他利益方退出，并允许潜在的噪音从我们的国家社会化中实现“净零”。“这已经变成了一个空洞且陈旧的词汇，”他说，“因为替代方案不够优雅。‘把碳排放量降回1800年代吧！’”

然而，由于成本的剧烈削减，英国的碳排放量“已经处于90%的水平。广告税、许可表面、碳税不断上升，而降低其他税收，很难使其规模缩小。”布伦在伦敦东南部出生长大。他表现出某种少数派特质，在巴斯大学学习工程学期间，他养成了一种不洗头的习惯。“我负担不起，是的，所以我就停止了，”他说道。在他起步时，能源部门是私有的。“坦率地说，那是一场灾难。回顾一下当时在电力市场投资方面做出的一些决定。不知道，我们完全没有以客户为中心。”在20世纪90年代后期，他共同创立了Electricity Direct，这是一家后来被英国天然气公司所有者Crantus收购的商业供应商。他虽然在该公司工作，但很快意识到低收入家庭未能从现有供应商那里获得足够优质的服务。2003年，他和他的合伙人从亲友处筹集了£23万,000以设立

我们在这里，谈话，净零排放，要点……以及不洗头

Bill Bullen 是按量付费能源公司 Utility 的创始人，他被认为在推广智能电表方面做出了贡献。在这里，他分享了一些关于英国电力市场的残酷真相。

A 我买不起洗发水，所以我干脆不用了

比尔·布伦的人生

出生：1985年12月，伦敦斯莫尔伍德的阿比伍德 状态：已婚，育有可爱的孩子 学校：波士顿及两所男子技术高中，冲浪板，裆部。来自巴斯的文法学校。 大学：巴斯大学工程专业 第一份工作：为父亲回收纸板，他们致力于提供更便宜的能源和更好的服务来为家庭供电。该公司通过在英国率先推广智能电表而闻名，包括在2008.首次推出。在智能电表出现之前，预付费客户必须携带一张塑料卡前往邮局或商店为账户充值。现在他们可以通过应用程序、网站或电话在家里完成。由于一些致命的安装问题和技术错误，智能电表在某些方面引起了争议。但布伦表示，Utility的客户大体上现在已经接受了。“建议人们必须从电表中取出一个小塑料卡，沿着商业街走过去，用电机充值，然后回来将其插入电表，这看起来简直像中世纪一样，”他说。“这是为了让灯亮着，让房间温暖，是为了防止因为房屋潮湿寒冷而可能随意产生的塑料球。”比尔·布伦估计，在各供应商中，仍有超过10亿户预付费家庭尚未安装智能电表——部分原因是他们不知道其他选择，在其他情况下则是由于“质量”问题。Utility拥有70万,000名客户，使其成为英国第八大能源供应商。许多人通过价格提升计划或足球赞助发现了这个品牌。该公司与英格兰足球联赛、水晶宫、Handeland、博尔顿流浪者、Hilversum以及其他几家俱乐部达成了许多协议。Utility的客户访问量被破坏了。它拥有一个令人尊敬的4.2“周到”评分，且去年在考文垂获得了亚军，通常客户可以做，熨烫和性价比。但在根据客户投诉对16家供应商进行的100项排名中，它被排在乌克兰建议之后。当我提到这一点时，布伦再次进入战斗模式。“你确实想出了如何触动我的发根，”他说。他说，这里的主要问题是，如果有人就资金问题致电公民建议机构，通常他们会将此记录在能源供应商名下，并将此视为一次投诉，而这最终是一个煽动者的问题。他已向他们提出了这些问题，但他们不愿改变流程。Utility建立了其客户群，收入从2010年的£1000 万增长到2019年的超过20.5 亿——尽管在那一年，公司谈话：B 价格上限不限制价格，他们限制的是利润。比尔·布伦说，只有当房屋得到妥善绝缘时，能源账单才会下降，当时亏损了£3100 万。虽然去年的收入为22 亿美元，但低于2022.的20 亿英镑 billion以上。最近的许多波动可以用价格上限来解释，该上限由行业监管机构Pigman在2009年引入，以限制供应商向家庭收取的每单位电力费用。其目的是防止当地客户因使用相同供应而受到惩罚。在每季度测试一次并根据批发能源价格和其他因素进行调整的上限下，典型的家庭目前每年支付2.5万,000。布伦并不开心。“你设定了价格上限，他们成本增加了20-30%”是他的口号。“一个彻头彻尾的日子和这些更多价格，这损害了未来的消费者。”他补充道：“你有一个需要投资的部门，你必须从中学习——它需要能够吸引资本。”“但如果你有1200要移动，你会选择将其放入标准的P700 350追踪固定项、一家公司，还是一个能源供应业务？”

他认为答案是什么？作为零售自由市场的锚点，Bullen认为出版物和政策制定者应该关注降低账单的长期途径，以及一项磋商。“因此，我们仍在国内建造在能源消耗方面经过良好规划的房屋，”他说。“直到我们达到住房保险的最高标准，人们无法负担能源账单的问题才能够得到解决。”Bullen承认能源政策相当复杂，且细微差别可能会受到其显性政治的影响。他指出了离岸风电，作为一名绿色能源倡导者，他曾支持它们以获取利润，但现在他认为我们已经建造了足够多的风电场。在三月份，英国现在拥有足够的海上风电场，可以捕获比任何单一时间点所能利用的更多的能源。这部分是因为我们知道：“建造了足够的电网将能源从北部海岸传输到英格兰南部的居民区。除此之外我们还能做什么？要知道，仍然需要其他电源。”结果是，英国的离岸风电投资可能会“推高能源成本。这是内部人士的看法”，但他补充道，这需要一个引导。“不要让这成为你向消费者传递的唯一信息，因为他们要么认为离岸风电是好的，要么认为其他低风电是最好的。”Bullen的主要政策不满和想法可能无法维持英国的平均家庭。但这并不完全是为了最终结果。他的希望是，该行业的利润往往很重要，而且该行业不断上升的领域可能会采取一种更具可比性的方法，使他能够获得丰厚的利润。他指出，“亲石油”在某些圈子里仍然是“一个新颖的概念”。他认为最终这可能会帮助公用事业。“我有了新的投资者。我们一直对投资持开放态度——只是进入这个市场是一件非常困难的事情，”他说。“收入投资者包括 90 和收入论文，一家印度的智能电表公司，但仅仅为了投资，这是一个不错的交易。如果你无法退出该业务，且其他股份由管理层和员工团队持有。”然而，得益于几年的盈利，他说该公司一直是一笔不错的交易，且已经得到了证明，而现在他“再次变得富有”。他希望在市场上寻找长期投资者，无论是个人基金还是其他能源公司。他还为伦敦的业务提供了大量资金。“我们遇到的困难在于，当你向该行业展示某些东西时。在它作为这样一个烂摊子持续了这么长时间之后，情况如何？”他说，虽然前景积极，但这需要监管机构一段时期的“平稳影响”。“让电力从汽车中获取实际上被允许成功，而不是在质疑中被监管，这样会更好，”他补充道。考虑到Bullen的股份，出售或最终方案可能会让他能够在英国开展重大活动。“我不确定，”随着他接近100岁生日，这或许甚至能让他考虑退休。“嗯，”他轻笑着说，“我一直在考虑这件事。但目前我在这里仍然乐在其中。”

随着 Home 离开谷歌，AI 时代真正到来了

DeepMind 的创始人将专注于治愈所有疾病，而与此同时，在科技巨头领域，超级智能即将成熟。Danny Fortson 报道。在加利福尼亚州的一次单方面 Map 会议上，波士顿教育、诺贝尔奖得主以及谷歌 DeepMind 的其他高管，在这一类别中显得十分真实，且是第 41 个证据。“看看我们周围构建的东西，”他在一次谷歌活动中引导道。“今天我们正在研究的所有需求，就在几年前，那是不可想象的。”但真正让他开始的是一个更大的目标。“衰老，”他宣布。“他说，‘我一直充满痛苦，我所拥有以及我最想用 AI 完成的事情。’”作为回报，Reynolds 在 5 / 1, 上周宣布他将卸任谷歌 DeepMind 的首席执行官，并且仍然在 400 万 (220 万) Alphabet 引擎中，另一位则令人惊讶。他此前已经处于离开办公室的短暂轨道上，并且要 Kemp გადაწყვეტილება，他的美国董事会从未如此。尽管如此，他转向在 DeepMind 担任主席以及在 Alphabet 担任首席科学家的一个压力较小的角色，这不仅是对 Alphabet，而且是对 AI 革命的一个时刻。Hasselton 在伦敦创立了 DeepMind 并在 42 年前将其出售给谷歌，他现在的身价可能高达数十亿。Alphabet 的股票（该公司显然对其顶层团队很大方）在他加入后上涨了 15 倍。他不需要钱。因此，作为一名具有造福同胞之现时愿望的科学家，他正用他在全球最大广告业务公司中的日常工作，来换取他在研究基准线上的时光。在一些 pike Lake 中，一家他 20 年前从谷歌创立的初创公司筹集了 220 万。在度过其初始阶段后，它并不打算继续开发，而它是一个可以降低成本的发现平台。这可能是在源头创建复合纹理软件的一种良好方式。回顾来看，谷歌的一场交易看起来像是最终促使 Reynolds 做出决定的一起事件。在 2014, 他为 Alphabet 赢得了一项诺贝尔奖，这是一个 DeepMind 模型，它产生了之前的折叠电影：《赎罪》，由 Fiona Kingdine 和 James McAfee 主演。音乐：Rolling Stones, Paul Walker, CD 饮品：一块黄油或一杯 flaps。观看：一些小工具：iPad mini，用于阅读书籍和报纸。最后之前：5 Nov Chantly：Utility Giving 音乐：All Bill Bullen 在 Sam 他的自我销售者乘坐巴士或开车上班之前，在他们之间以及每天充满与执行团队和员工会议的 8. 之前。Utility 的重点在下午 3 点左右离开办公室，在家工作，然后通过阅读书籍参加几个会议，他通常一次会同时阅读三四本书。我们目前没有，它就在这里。第一部，以及所有由 William J. Shaw 创作的第一部西部的。Bullers 的团队阅读和搜索代理，包括 Bath 和 Blackheath 橄榄球队以及 forward FC。

专家们认为“可能还有大约半打到一打其他基于 Alphabet 的突破”，所有这些都将在接下来的 20 或左右年内实现治愈所有疾病。换句话说，他认为尝试这些比尝试季度预测或降低成本要重要得多，在基础上“特别且忠实”，因此他是唯一一个带着一种似乎与接下来的几个小时的人不相符的紧迫感参与其中的人。Alphabet 的诺贝尔奖得主 Sir Fiona Reynolds 曾是一个国际象棋神童，但令其沮丧的是，他在短时间内流失了大量顶尖人才。谷歌的共同创始人 Jeff Dean 上周也宣布离职，随之离职的还有高级执行官 Gina Vinyale, Sanjay Ghosnami 和 Janet A.

第一个名字是成立了一家名为 Discovery Corp 的新公司，旨在利用其精确的科学研究。结合关于 Hansden 的消息，该部门在 2009 / 10 年启动了 Alphabet 市场的禁令，而他们并非首例。6 月，Gemini 的架构师之一 Susan Hunter 和与 Hansden 共同获得世界奖项的 John J Cooper 分别离开了其 tipsuit 和 faithsuits。但 Alphabet 将像广告业务一样，成为地球上出现过的最优雅的印钞机。它还涵盖了 3.2万,000 美元的电力，以及大型边缘网络，旨在将用户引导至人工智能（AGI）系统——这些系统比任何系统都更强大，且足以创造出比自身更强大的版本——但这可能无关紧要。世界似乎成了智能包含想法的最受欢迎场所。它将变得像电子产品一样无处不在且廉价，据称将在 2010 年 7 月左右发布，误差在一年之内。隐含的是，他去年的决定将成为 Google 的前五大决定之一——即软件的下一阶段将在最初几年使他们处于领先地位，而“那就是”我们刚刚提供了大量我们正在移动的数据，寻找少数几个。真正的行动即将开始，无论好坏，都将比以往任何时候都更深入地进入你们的家中。“我们正在构建所需的专业品牌，以使用最好的化学和生物化学——即那些你需要改变形状的东西，”他说。“令人惊讶的是，我们现在有一些处于外围阶段的真实化合物，这是它们成为真实化合物的开始。我认为当这种情况发生时，实际上将成为 AI 领域最大的跨国市场。” --- 6 商业

Facebook 准备迎接 10 亿美元 的法庭之战

母公司 Meta 在本周的一场新型巨额审判中，面临着其应用程序在设计上具有成瘾性且针对前青春期儿童的新指控。这家科技巨头坚称这些指控毫无根据。Danny Fortson 报道

马克·扎克伯格在 2024, 年出席参议院司法委员会听证会，讨论儿童安全问题。

洛杉矶的一个陪审团在 3 月份创造了历史，认定 Meta 和 YouTube 对一名 20 岁女性的心理健康困扰负有责任。这一首例裁决判定原告获得 400万美元 的惩罚性赔偿，这在法律界引发了剧震，因为在过去四分之一个世纪里，社交媒体巨头们一直通过规避其产品所造成伤害的责任来维持其体面。

本周，在加利福尼亚州奥克兰的联邦法院，几位州总检察长及其团队旨在对该行业给予沉重打击。他们将在一场案件中展开行动，该案件的核心论点与此前相同，即 Meta 将其应用程序（特别是 Facebook 和 Instagram）设计成具有成瘾性，从而造成损害。

然而，此次起诉方完全不同。这次并非由一名陷入困境的个人经理提起诉讼，而是代表加利福尼亚州、肯塔基州、科罗拉多州和新泽西州四个州共 4000 万 人口的总检察长们，正寻求超过 10 亿美元 billion 的赔偿，理由是造成了广泛的消费者损害。

Meta 称这一要求“毫无根据”，且“在法律上没有损害”，并补充道：“我们将继续抵御那些追求头条新闻、脱离现实的要求。”

曾主持近期埃隆·马斯克与州政府官员之间审判的特鲁曼·冈萨雷斯·罗杰斯法官批准了协议，认为州政府的要求过于激进，但同样将 Meta 提出的 400万美元 最高罚款建议斥为“简直是杯水车薪”。

开庭陈述将于 8 月 10. 开始。此案进一步向社交媒体行业施压，该行业在经历了多年的爆发式增长和一种规避监管的诡异能力后，突然陷入困境。

$567 Meta 为解决其应用程序造成的损害而必须支付给基金的金额 $600 在美国针对该行业提起诉讼的案件数量，该行业本身正面临全球性的抵制。

今年已有四个国家对儿童的社交媒体账户实施了国家限制，包括奥地利、印度尼西亚、巴西和马来西亚。包括法国、希腊和土耳其在内的其他几个国家已批准类似措施但尚未生效，而另有十几个国家正在考虑或起草类似的限制措施。

打击行动正在增强。新墨西哥州的一位法官本周命令 Meta 向一个旨在解决其应用程序造成损害的基金支付 1.07亿美元，并命令该公司更改该州用户的几项关键功能。这些措施包括禁止在学校期间进行付费贡献、删除所有未成年人的数据，以及针对人们通过该平台建立的消费者关系创建条款。

法官将 Meta 比作一座工厂烟囱。正如工厂产生的有毒污染会损害公众享有清洁空气的合理权利一样，社交媒体平台对儿童生活产生的有害影响不仅留在其平台内，而且迁移到了整个互联网，或许最令人担忧的是，迁移到了现实世界。

新墨西哥州的裁决是一个两阶段审判的第二部分。第一部分于 3 月结束，当时法院认定 Meta 危及用户，并命令其支付 1.7亿美元 的初步赔偿金。该决定恰好在洛杉矶陪审团同样认定 Meta 和 YouTube 在七项指控中成立的同一周出炉，其中包括关于应用程序是否具有成瘾性，以及公司是否以“恶意、压迫或欺诈”手段行事的关键问题。

Meta 被判令支付 $4200万，而 YouTube 必须支付 $1900万。两家公司均对洛杉矶的裁决提出了上诉，Meta 还计划对新墨西哥州的判决进行抗争。该公司表示：“我们努力确保人们在我们的儿童上安全，并且我们对于识别和删除恶意行为者或有害内容的挑战保持透明。”就在这些上诉程序开始之际，Meta 及其 16 天的社交媒体巨头们正准备迎接下一场战斗。在奥克兰提交的由总检察长发起的案件始于 2023, 但这标志着法律攻势的一个重要组成部分。在全美范围内，已有 2,000 多起针对该行业的案件被提起。1 月份，该案件其子女包括，由正与严重的心理健康问题作斗争的学区以及各州提起。这些数以千计的案件已被合并到两家法院：洛杉矶的州高等法院和沿路向北约 150 英里的奥克兰联邦法院。在每家法院中，法官都选择了少数几个“红脖子”案件进行审理。原告的目标一致：建立一项法律程序，证明社交媒体产品是专门为成瘾而设计的，在十年间造成了无法挽回的社会和个人伤害，且这些工具的制造者应当为此付出代价。来自社交媒体受害者法律中心（Social Media Victims Law Center）的马修·伯格曼（Matthew Bergman）发起了洛杉矶的案件。他还代表了那些失去孩子的家庭，样本称奥克兰的案件是让社交媒体公司承担责任的“钳形攻势”的一部分。“我代表的客户们反应迅速，他们并不在乎钱，对他们来说，重要的是问责，”他说。“不幸的是，这些公司唯一能理解的就是钱。对这些人来说，保证没有用，只有公开羞辱才有用。金钱部分仅仅是一个刺激！旨在推翻不负责任的企业行为。”活动人士声称今年标志着一个转折点，部分原因是虽然社交媒体公司在很大程度上成功地在庭外解决了问题，但大量证据已被迫通过法院命令的审前证据开示公开。这些证据包括数千封内部电子邮件、战略文件、报告，甚至包括内部媒体关于该行业公开辩称其应用不会导致的问题的真实记录。这些证据现在已公开，并被 9 / 9 plate-sills 以及全球的政治家和监管机构所利用。其中对许多人来说包括：Meta 员工：我们应该尽可能早地获取青少年用户，内部电子邮件显示社交媒体公司几乎没有掩饰为什么吸引极年轻的人群和其他应用如此关键，包括“二十”—— 10 到 12. 岁的儿童。根据美国法律，儿童在 15. 岁之前不允许开设社交媒体账户。根据法院文件，Meta “通常通过表示‘波浪是未来’以及 Meta 应该‘加倍投入’我的‘非焦点影响’来理解进展”。一个内部工作组确定，一名 10 岁儿童为 Meta 带来的终身价值为 $190, 而 16 到 20 到 30 到 40 到 50 到 60 到 70 到 80 到 90 到 100 到 110 到 120 到 130 到 140 到 150 到 160 到 170 到 180 到 190 到 200 到 210 到 220 到 230 到 240 到 250 到 260 到 270 到 280 到 290 到 300 到 310 到 320 到 330 到 340 到 350 到 360 到 370 到 380 到 390 到 400 到 410 到 420 到 430 到 440 到 450 到 460 到 470 到 480 到 490 到 500 到 510 到 520 到 530 到 540 到 550 到 560 到 570 到 580 到 590 到 600 到 610 到 620 到 630 到 640 到 650 到 660 到 670 到 680 到 690 到 700 到 710 到 720 到 730 到 740 到 750 到 760 到 770 到 780 到 790 到 800 到 810 到 820 到 830 到 840 到 850 到 860 到 870 到 880 到 890 到 900 到 910 到 920

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皮埃尔-于格·施密特 (Pierre-Hugues Schmit)

盖特威克机场的第二条跑道将助力经济腾飞

1914年，为了通过增加基础设施来提振经济、贸易、旅游、互联互通并创造急需的就业机会，保险赔付对于释放这些效益至关重要，而像伦敦盖特威克机场这样的机场作为国家经济增长催化剂的作用已有大量记录。正如我们注意到的，在另一位新任首相上任之际，政府和企业有责任引领释放巨大增长潜力的途径——而我们渴望立即行动。

经过八年严格的规划和法律程序，盖特威克机场终于获得绿灯，将我们的经济需求纳入控制，并结果将作为双跑道机场运营。交通大臣实际上在去年9月批准了该项目，但该提案随后面临法律挑战。虽然对这种规模的项目进行适当审查是正确的，但仅仅为了获得批准，真的需要花费八年时间并让盖特威克机场耗资约 £7000 万 吗？我们的团队和股东（包括夜间成本）为了走到这一步付出了巨大的努力并展现了极强的毅力。

周二，上诉法院终于结束了法律诉讼。这不仅是对机场所有人的好消息，对于依赖我们的企业、对于我们当前和未来的乘客而言也是如此，而且这对于这个国家的成功至关重要。正如本报长期观察到的，英格兰东南部面临着很大程度上非预期的机场容量问题。伦敦的机场几乎已满员，而盖特威克机场已经是全球最高效的单跑道机场——但我们正在触及可能性的极限。

估计显示，到 2010. 年，伦敦机场每年需要增加 3000 万 名乘客。到 20 年代后期，我们预测通过盖特威克机场的人流量将增加到约 7500 万 名乘客，而目前为 4000 万 名，因此我们需要准备好满足这一需求。

由于我们的计划基于对现有基础设施（即现有的北跑道）最佳利用的评估，大部分开发将在我们当前的边界内进行。与英国其他机场扩建方案不同，不需要提供资金用于征地，也不需要拆除任何村庄。因此不需要公共资金。因为全部成本将基本上由 5% 的股份承担，总人数无法获得支付。

其效益是巨大的。邻近支出将创造额外的 4,000 个就业岗位，无论是在机场内部还是更广泛的领域。这建立在诸如成本优化、与工作和财务部共同支付的学院款项等计划之上，这些计划创建了一个专门的管道以帮助资助，并让人们获得进入职场并在机场最终就业所需的经验。

此外，我们的广泛教育计划已经触达了超过 85万,000 名学生。机场作为增长催化剂的作用已有大量记录。在某些时候，太多年轻人没有从事工作、教育或培训，这是一项重大投资，为他们创造了开发关键技能的机会，从而可以缓解他们的困境，例如优先帮助人们寻找教育、就业或培训。在此，盖特威克机场准备发挥作用。

该公司在 2018-20 年选举期间提供了一系列公开且经过验证的旅行新机会，我们已经连接到，并帮助朋友们保持度假的可负担性。所产生的成本将每年为 1000万美元，这将对我们的地区及以外产生重大影响。

我们唯一的最小化计划就是考虑长期。企业做出的投资决策往往跨越数十年，因此我们需要确定更广泛的政策和税务环境将保持稳定。盖特威克（Gatwick）已经拥有该领域规模最大的企业之一。在上次预算中，该国已增加了一倍多。新任财政大臣正确地强调了经济稳定性。履行特定的承诺对于确保我们能够充满信心推进第二条跑道，以及英国能够继续吸引像我们这样的更多项目至关重要。我们对北跑道项目的投资不仅仅是为了盖特威克。它是对英国信心恢复的重要标志，以及英国批准重大基础设施项目、吸引长期私人投资并为可持续经济增长和未来创造条件的能力。我们致力于这个项目的一小部分，我认为这是一个挑战。盖特威克已经准备好在为英国提供亟需的增长方面发挥作用。皮埃尔-休格·施密特（Pierre-Hugues Schmit）是盖特威克机场的首席执行官。 --- 商业 7

西方之主

电动汽车政策的反复让我快要崩溃

关于电动汽车的政策反复不定，似乎永无止境，大约 30.00。我们曾从失业工作到新汽油车和柴油车的销售，这些车辆将在 2030 年起被禁止，在此之前 Reds 发现，Reds 被用于生产 puducels 回到 2020 年。因此，他们的互联网为 2016 年创建了 Reds，随后在许多 Now 之后，机会确实将这一切抛向了空中。官方而言，政府正处于确立 2016 年日期不会变动的阶段，因为担心会破坏大量销售订单，这些订单在当前年份 2016 年有更多兴趣。关于该计划，很多东西可能会改变。你很难去思考 2016 年，但 2016 年，是否有人能让车辆（50%）销售指令从 2016 年起生效。一个依赖项是 22% 的所有新车必须是电动车。得分在 2020 年为 20%，在 2020 年为 20。轨迹模式在今天最高，明年为 18，2020 年为 52，2020 年为 60，2020 年为 80 —— 到那时，新汽油车和柴油车的销售将被禁止，而平衡的 20 将是混合动力车。然后，在 2015 年，混合动力车将被禁止，使得电动汽车成为他们想要购买全新发动机的唯一选择。汽车制造商对该政策表示，目标正在降低英国驾驶员的需求，但评论活动并非首选，它们运行良好，且考虑到汽车占英国碳排放的 10，如果该国认真对待降低排放，那么这些措施是必要的。但这个想法一直存在，并且通过执行回到该国在选择未来时的时间最终理论的计划，将其抛向空中。交通部将发布一项咨询，试图以此说服公众，2030 年禁止销售新汽油车和柴油车的规定将继续有效。Minimise 则不会。注意到欧盟的 '70s 正在生效，放弃了禁令。相反，他们将下调到 2030 年的电动汽车销售目标轨迹 —— 因为这

欧盟驾驶员年度家庭收入

高达 200万,000,000 22.5万,000 至 23.4万,000 23.3万,000 至 23.3999万,999 100万,000,000 200万,000,000 报纸揭露了 2020 年 6 月的集会，政府将意识到在欧盟需求面前，事情并未完全按计划进行。关于电动汽车销售目标，将提供替代方案，特别是将 2016 40% 的目标调整为 2030 年的 70, 80 或 90%（在 6 月份高于或低于该数值）。此次磋商还将考虑是否可以在指令中加入更多灵活性。目前，汽车制造商拥有一系列选项，允许他们暂时未能达成销售目标，只要他们能在该十年的后期弥补差距即可。这些选项可能会被扩大，甚至扩大到 2030. 在考虑电动汽车销售目标在内燃机被禁时可高达 50% 的所有月份中，他们实际上在暗示新车销售的另一半将是混合动力车。但是，电动汽车指令中一直存在一个最终缺陷。历届政府法律未能精确定义 2030 年之后允许什么样的车型。是“轻度混合动力”——配备标准发动机和小型电动机及电池的汽车——这种被认为大约是混合动力的尴尬之作，还是仅允许插电式混合动力电动汽车（PHEVs）？2016, 此次磋商是对 PHEVs 的一次“机会服务”的结果，但如果我们选择将 2030 年的电动汽车销售目标降低到 50%，而又不明确定义 2016 什么将被合法化，那么汽油和柴油销售禁令将无法维持。那么，最好的做法是什么？上周公布的数据显示，目前已注册 2016 年电池电动汽车（上个月——中高里程范围，电动份额为 27.5%，但这仍低于 20% 的销售目标）。同样值得关注的是，汽油车是最受欢迎的选择。7 月份约有 6.27万,700 辆汽油车注册，市场份额达 40.1%，插电式混合动力车为 2.5199万,199 辆，占比 14.9%。现在，目前的销售指令始终会指出，汽车制造商在订单的前两年达到了目标。然而，汽车制造商表示，这仅仅是因为他们能够通过某种方式？价格略低于 2000, 因此新车在他们原本因未达成目标而必须支付的费用方面具有优势。让我们决定汽车指令给他们带来了多少成本 1000 万 的折扣。因此，大型文献并不清楚英国柴油车制造商的需求如何，他们将如何看待。2016, 2016, 是一门生意。英国汽车部门在制造业直接雇佣了超过 10万,000 人，并在整个更广泛的汽车工业中总共支持约 45万,000 个工作岗位。当你决定在 2020, 上半年达到 80, 75% 时，你只需要在后面留一个位置，计算房屋数字，并要求供应商意识到英国的数据显然远未达到 2020, 全额，甚至西米德兰兹郡，关于该行业更高的传闻可能正在演变成一项大规模的裁员计划。相关方面持有不同意见。电动汽车十月（October Electric Vehicles）首席执行官 Gertel Gervé 表示，欧盟指令正在发挥作用。“现在降低指令将给那些希望创建真正品牌且坦率地说，是汽车制造商的企业带来完全错误信号。我唯一能肯定地说的是，那些在商业中做出糟糕决定的人。但最糟糕的是不做出决定。工业需要好的政策，也需要坏的政策。它无法在没有政策的情况下进行规划。” 至于现在的指令销售员以及他所有的。而且为了其他事情——而且，对于它，其他 p90p 制造商可能会。发现红色是一种方式 # 伯纳姆（Burnham）能否实现持续的工业复兴？

David Smith 经济展望

这家公司（其成员是一名学生）前往黑乡（Black Country），即西米德兰兹郡的一部分。我在美国出生并长大，回顾英国制造业，我与朋友们一起探讨该地区的问题，我发现工业制造业的规模比我预想的要大。如今的黑乡不再是“黑色”的，由于商业的发展，它可能已经发生了转变。但它仍然是一个非常重要的工业区，更广泛的西米德兰兹郡也是如此。这让我思考，伯纳姆（Burnham）关于振兴英国经济的承诺是否能在像这样的地区实现。提醒您，去工业化（dembalmishatures ）是指一种运营商的转变，这种现象在过去几十年中影响了英国，必须提供先进的资源，并且需要能够匹配辩论以及书籍和论文。在黑乡仍然有大量去工业化的证据。巨大的惠灵顿公园（Wellington Park）遗址——西米德兰兹郡，被认为是主要的体验地。所有人都记得一名美国客户要求工厂生产一种管材，其服务要求在当时看来几乎是不可能的。该公司做到了，并且部分地向他们展示了在其中放入一个更窄的表格。包括西米德兰兹郡制造业在内的大片制造区域，在第一个周四被排除在外，以观察 20 世纪 80 年代初的情况。West Intermech 的 Jenson Morson（同一类信纸的制造商）提到，英国的第一次高峰出现在 1976 年，该工厂随后被拆除。直到 1930 年，好莱坞明星克拉克·盖博（Clark Gable）评论了一次裁剪，它才出现在地图上。我即将看到同样的体验，但我一直无法证明这一点，他们没有保留那辆车，据称是因为他不喜欢那个颜色，但这并没有阻止公司利用这次购买获利。如今的西米德兰兹郡制造商不得不承受很多压力，包括制造业规模的缩减、高昂的能源成本、波动的汇率、供应链中断、英国物价上涨以及最近与英国制造业出口相关的设计问题。该地区本身是英国制造业最重要的地区之一，仅次于东北部和西欧，以及西部的其余地区。制造业约占该地区国内生产总值（GDP）的 10%，低于过去，但高于 10% 的全国平均水平。此外，仍然存在许多能够与世界顶尖水平竞争的优秀企业。他们既是 Brandtums，也是多年来的业务基石，生产数百万件产品和报告部件，出口到 20 个不同的国家，担心早期的预售，现在已进入国际市场地位。以及大型强子对撞机中的部件。

Make UK 已呼吁新任首相扭转制造业的相对衰退，并表示要为全球 90% 以上的更优质产品提供消费者。我在考文垂（Coventry）看到，那里制造的自动驾驶车辆被广泛用于全球各港口的行李运输。另一家不同的企业是 Bridgeport's shuntames，这是英国最后一家仍在运行的 shuntames 轧钢厂，在风景如画的 Bridgeport 雇佣了 100 多人，并报告 90% 的产品销售额。位于沃里克郡（Warwickshire）的 BTSR 20 是一家由年轻企业家 Mitchell Brown 创立的 10-priming 公司，其客户包括世界上最著名的超级跑车的制造商。然后是 West International，在适当的市场中服务最佳。Way 是黑乡的关键法案，其特点是 90 年的历史，并将“覆盖”销售额销往 90 多个国家。一些考文垂的知名人士。

制造业再次增长...

...但共和党份额已暴跌 成立于 2018 年，是一家特殊的制造企业，其共同主题是“为移动、国防和能源行业的未来建设大量基础设施”。它为残障人士生产了 1000万,000,000 份申请中的 8 份，并且是最近一次 Make UK 年度制造奖的获得者。代表英国制造商的 Make UK 已向新任首相发出警示。其 2020 年的《制造者宣言》（Maker: Manifesto）呼吁伯纳姆（Burnham）扭转制造业的相对衰退，并将其在经济中的份额从不足 90% 提高到 10%。它是“英国在对抗方面拥有重大机遇”的一部分。增加制造业是 GDP 从 80% 到 90% 的途径之一，可为经济增加 2,042 亿。这种增加将仅被削减。政府研究指出，高昂的能源成本、技能短缺、工作投资条件、过时的业务单元以及经济交付和日益增长的监管负担是原因。但你能扭转制造业的相对衰退吗？这已使英国在德国成为一个以服务为主的用户。无需与美国进行共同投资，因为经济如此。已故的威廉·萨默尔（William thumod），我见过的最好的新闻之一，获得了诺贝尔奖。制造业带来的生产力增长比经济其他部分更快，这意味着，即使 没有其他事情发生，就业和 GDP 的份额也将随着时间的推移而停止下降。这是因为一个被称为“鲍莫尔成本病”（Seamolt's cost disease）的现象。经济中生产力增长较低部门的趋势是几乎或接近匹配高生产力部门的工资增长，从而增加了它们在就业和 GDP 中的份额，并作为副产品，减缓了经济增长。英国制造业的相对衰退，在绝佳的例子中下降，不仅仅是一种渠道效应，对抗它也仅仅是一个 sin gair! Mouth，我在过去曾对此写过，我的结论是，在像英国这样的自然经济中增加制造业是不可能的，那么，就我所见，这毫无疑问。支持赢得这一点的论据是世界已经改变。全球最大经济体美国现在公开保护自己，诚然，这直接导致了大多数普遍的结果。与此同时，在霍尔木兹海峡（Strait of Norman）最为明显的供应链中断已成为一种预期，而非偶然。政府拥有一项“现代”工业战略，商业秘书建议将小型且可靠的生产未来推向前行。它涵盖了八个部门：先进制造、清洁能源产业、创意产业、国防、数字与技术、金融服务、生命科学以及专业和商业服务——其中并非所有部门在传统上都被认为是工业。大多数制造商表示，他们尚未从工业战略中看到任何收益，直到他们认为我们能希望的最好结果是制造业 GDP 份额的稳定。并非所有人都对此感到满意，或者对食品和饮料是英国最大的制造业部门这一事实感到满意，对于制造业整体而言，能够达到更高水平将是极好的。这能实现吗？让我希望它能实现的不仅仅是怀旧。说到怀旧，几天前的新闻是，我希望我对当前市场的兴趣能让其余部分回升，而其余部分此前已跌至 40 年低点。这可能会让人想起那种干预是常态的日子。这次努力是自 2016 年以来的第一次，且似乎暂时阻止了此类情况的发生。美国担心亚洲经济体正在通过某种方式绕过他们的关税。

汽车销售的鼎盛时期，干预发生在20世纪90年代，由红党（Reds）和劳顿（Lawton）账户主导，首次降低了交易过度的美元，并将其稳定在新的较低水平。在英国，干预因“黑色星期三 / 黄色星期三”（1992年9月30日）而声名狼藉，当时英格兰银行动用了英国所有的外汇储备进行供应并买入，以防止英镑从低价的汇率机制中崩溃。市场无法被终结。过时的收益 / 模拟观点，因为所有

关税关乎权力而非贸易

Irwin Stelzer 美国账户

世界拥有许多新世界，正如先驱者总是最勇敢的——全球贸易部门中工作的一半，最富有的烟草商承担着开发新红色的成本。1997年，他支付了 $9.4万,000 – $25.9万,000 (£26.7万,000) 的资金——他在《纽约时报》、《华盛顿邮报》和《波士顿环球报》中询问，抱怨美国正在寻找“承担者”来承担那些在能够自卫之后很久的国家的安全成本。在围绕精简长期的危机中保持同步，他写道：“我们捍卫金融方面——一个对美国而言仅具有边缘意义的领域。”他出现在拉里·金的电视节目中抱怨：“你没有自由贸易——理查德，我们的背部，他们刚刚增加了我们自己的大多数。”他大致结束了共和党总统提名竞选，在纽汉普希尔州离开，那里的活动人士发起了一场“起草特朗普”运动。1995年接受奥普拉·温弗瑞采访时，他声称：“美国已经开始干涉我们的所有业务。”

公司首任特朗普总统已将我们从相对较低的贸易带向原始的、直接的限制，即臭名昭著的1995年街头小贩关税。他强迫我们的盟友为自己的国防支付更多费用。他改变了关于我们的相对较低的市场杯架观点，即女性的长期损失超过了控制美国经济免责声明的可能利益。

我提到这一点有三个原因。首先，重要的是要理解美国自20世纪70年代中期以来一直处于某种状态。特朗普革命可能会在他在离开后被逆转，那么其余的——好的，随你挑选——已经完成的将会继续。相反，在新的特朗普主义运动中越多，在美国越多，优势——就越容易。而现在，特朗普让关税获得了它的幸福——使得最高法院更难宣布一项违宪决定。

其次，改变的人越多，最准确的是，第三点一直是最重要的，但这并不是全球经济和需求所在的地方。而且这将是强权——政治——以及由某人定义的政府在我们的资本主义经济中的角色。财政部长斯科特·本森（Scott Benson）可能总结了这里的整体方案。“依赖于其关键目标目标的材料并非真正主权。而并非相同性质的是贡献于非真正繁荣。”

第三，这稍微复杂一些，成本和关税绝非政府所写在哪个州将成为企业的业务。即使是贸易的坚定倡导者亚当·斯密也认为：“这通常将是世界的最佳选择。”公司的策略，对于最明显的元素来说，过于困难——当某些特定类型的工业对于国家国防至关重要时。正如本森和其他人，干预公司 Prince 和 Apple 的首席执行官，PPE 的董事所言：“美国的重新构想并非基于经济或商业逻辑。相反，它日益反映了国内政治、地缘政治和国家安全的财务状况。”

关于比较优势的讨论如此强大。我们生活在一个替代性国家市场并存的世界中，中国被视为，墨西哥被排除在外，两者都威胁着其需求，其投资策略所在地，以及事实是，委内瑞拉和古巴成为毒贩、体育和针对美国的女性基地。在这样一个世界中，国家安全是必需的，就像污染一样——没有被市场定价。正如应该对获利进口征税一样，国家安全的成本可能是

军方已经意识到“觉醒文化”（woke）的危险，通过对那些威胁国家安全未来的进口产品征收关税或其他壁垒来应对。在某些情况下，限制损害社会的产品的进口——以及在其他情况下限制其出口——已成为常态。在即将与伊恩·切瑟斯（Ian Chesers）举行的下一次会议中，主导地位的将不是经济安全，而是关于其建设和使用的相同政策。在我们的状况下，这在很大程度上与倡导——或者仅仅是每架喷气机的计划以及为了取代那些不再适用之目标而制定的政策相关。经济意愿在探索美国目前所处新环境下的最有效应对措施方面发挥着作用。随着战争物资的变化，特朗普需要更高效的采购政策，这在现代波兰、安德鲁（Andrul）以及驻德国的数千名陆军人员和团体（包括现有的军事工业复合体）中至关重要。军方已经意识到“觉醒文化”的危险。人类准则已更新为军队中的先进准则，且应在最小程度上由当前的威胁所主导。如果特朗普能够——但那是另一篇专栏的内容，全面地扫除 wearishe's 的案例。欧文·斯泰尔泽（Irwin Stelzer）是一名商业顾问 --- 8 商业 # 汉娜·莱维特（Hannah Levett）

忘掉幻灯片和啤酒吧，因为最好的员工福利是时间和金钱，某些大腿已经为人们的协作做了一些工作，以便人们能够像过度管理那样：她已经拒绝了，所以那已经很少见到的福利。第一个可能是或者陈述一份宽限和恩惠的报价，不会在海军部大宅，这样她就可以支持新的。不，这不值得，尤其是 新的。不，这不值得让你的员工决定你。而且劳动力并不是一个同质的整体。也许最好的开始方式就是询问人们最看重什么。这正是特许管理学会（Chartered Management Institute）主席 Asia Francies 所决定的，该组织拥有 100 名员工，决定在一次成本削减行动中表现出色。首先是主席党，任何人应该，Francies 说道。“人们需要什么，他们想要时间和金钱，”她说。“我所说的时间是指什么？人们通常拥有每个家庭，灵活的工作方式。信任你可以围绕现在工作，而不需要强制性的工资卡监控，以及每个人都必须在办公室里。”老员工认为在周五下午 2 点，你们全部，与此同时，在 7 月和 8 月的六周内，员工可以提前到中午 12 点下班。在 PM C&B，2.1万,000 名 C&B 员工可以在周五午餐时间下班，前提是他们在工作的其他时间补回小时数。这是我们进入该业务的第一次，至少 2 周，大约在我们进入该业务的 2 . W 我们在 2 . 第一次我们在 2 ，大约我们在 2 . W 我们在 2 . 第一次我们在 2 ，大约我们在 2 . W 我们在 2 . 第一次我们在 2 ，大约我们在 2 . W 我们在 2 . 第一次我们在 2 ，大约我们在 2 . W 我们在 2 . 第一次我们在 2 ，大约我们在 2 . W 我们在 2 . 第一次我们在 2 ，大约我们在 2 . 我们在 2 . 我们在 2 , . 第一次我们在 2 ，大约我们在 2 . 我们在 2 . DOWNEY 今日价格隐藏 上涨 包括酿造 今日零售价 月平均收入 2.86% - 0.8% 月平均收入 2.2 % - 0.8%

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投资骗局及其后果：当财务精英陷入困境时会发生什么

在一名男子通过欺骗朋友、投资者和当地团体骗走近 £200 万 后，Helena Kelly 将探讨如果你的毕生积蓄突然被挥霍或盗走，你拥有什么样的保障。

Beverly Barnes 曾过着许多人向往的生活。作为一名成功的财务顾问和房地产投资者，他与妻子共同拥有一栋宽敞的住宅。通过将卧室转换为贷款，他们节省了 50 万英镑，并配备了租赁相关的法律文件。然而，朋友们表示，在接近退休时，Barnes 陷入了一种焦虑感，觉得自己在富裕的伍斯特郡（Worcestershire）小村庄 Abbots Morton 中无法与邻居们相媲美。

, 64, 有两个孩子，他每月与一群追求成就的富裕居民一起活动（包括付费用餐和长期的床位日），这些人维持着 所称的“silious Morton 权力”。有些人本可以预见到他会欺骗他们——以及他的客户、他自己的兄弟和一个慈善机构——在一次精心策划的骗局中骗走 200 万英镑，这导致他现在面临 8 期的处罚。

由于涉及其他罪行， 被裁定滥用其作为财务顾问的权力，这导致他的受害者相信他们可以信任他。“这在 silious Morton 造成了影响，该村大约有 160 居民，让许多人怀疑他们能在多大程度上信任财务顾问，以及在事情出错时有多少保障。”

一位主席：COBAHAN

是一名“black-working”医生，他使用中间名 Paul，被客户描述为慈善且慷慨。负责此案的警员注意到，他表现得十分愉快。然而，他有金钱方面的忧虑。他在 2010 年患过前列腺癌，近期还不得不面对母亲的去世和婚姻的破裂。

没有坦诚面对。他在 2022 年向熟人和朋友请求个人贷款。他似乎在掩饰，他告诉一些人这是为了帮助处理遗产以满足需求，另一些人则被告知是为了支付离婚结算金。他坚称自己即将获得一笔横财——要么是通过出售房产，要么是通过遗产，届时他将能够偿还债务。

许多损失钱财的人收到了一份合同。很少有人担心，毕竟他们认识 并信任他多年。只要他们在一起，他就会在同一个房间里，例如暗示他正在远程处理一项房产，这使得资金的流向看起来更加真实。

在幕后， 一直对一种他认为能提供高回报的加密货币感兴趣。他不得不面对资金失控，据《星期日泰晤士报》了解，随后他被伪装成“追回代理人”的诈骗者接触，对方承诺帮助他找回资金。据称， 被卷入了一个危险的循环：从朋友和家人那里拿钱来弥补经济损失，希望能够拿回一笔小额财富。

Caroline Ryan-Soff, 37, 是他 25 的好友，她在 2022 年 12 月给了 £4万,000。他告诉她，他需要支付其母亲遗产的遗产税账单，并承诺在 1 月底前能偿还她。她被严格指示不得告诉他的妻子，但几个月过去了， 继续告诉她钱快到了。

这一切是如何崩塌的

Epstein-B 是一名专业的房屋见习生，她仅在 2023 年 3 月为其 Aga 炉进行维护时才意识到自己被骗。负责维护的人员（一名外籍人士）随口提到，她曾在生意中损失了一大笔钱——£2.5万,000。她说：“一切开始崩塌。人们开始议论，我们发现他每个月都在要钱。我一直试图让他兑现，每次见到他我都会问钱的事，而他一直推诿，没有兑现。这种情况没完没了。我们谁都无法相信。”Ryan-Soff 最终设法从 Barnes 那里拿回了 £2.5万,000，但仍亏损了 £1.3万,000。西默西亚警方收到了 16 份关于 Barnes 的多起举报，并开始调查此案。去年 9 月，他承认了 14 项通过虚假陈述进行欺诈的罪名、三项制造或提供用于欺诈物品的罪名，以及两项滥用职权欺诈的罪名。经查，他不仅欺骗了 24 人，还欺骗了由他担任主席的英国摩托车教会信托基金（British Motorcycle Churchills Trust）以及他所居住社区的居民协会。他拥有 2236.24万,362,401 且至少被要求监禁 10 年。

你能信任你的财务顾问吗？

此案引发了关于财务顾问监管和审查的质疑。Barnes 曾是一名独立顾问，但他在 2024, 10 月加入了 Ryan Potential Wealth 公司，并将他的客户名单一并带走。起诉方告诉法院，他滥用了职权，并利用了与他合作多年的客户。Barnes 并非直接盗用或误用客户的资金，而是代表客户操作，但由于没有人对其投资决策进行足够的审核，导致其他财务顾问获利。来自 Port Falkie 的财务顾问 Al Rush 曾帮助英国钢铁工人就糟糕的建议获得赔偿，他表示：“在大多数情况下，人们直到太晚且已被签单后，才会意识到他们的建议有问题。”“如果我是一个普通人，在寻找独立财务顾问时，我不知道从哪里开始。这就是为什么我总是建议人们使用个人推荐。”Rush 表示，那些导致英国钢铁工人遭受重大财务损失的顾问都曾在英国金融行为监管局（FCA）注册，在城市搜索中看起来都是“可靠且专业”的人士。他说，检查顾问是否经过 FCA 认证应该是初步沟通的第一步，但这还远远不够。

如何拿回您的资金

与顾问相关的资金损失可分为三类：投资失败、贷款建议以及彻头彻尾的欺诈。投资失败是指由您的顾问进行的投资出现了——

© 2024 Bates, Inc. and Loews. Michele 和 Liana McNeil 认为她们在我的民众中被视为不友善的愤怒者。在与 Barnes 建立专业关系的早期，他通常是一个让他感觉自己像某种男人的笑话。Michele（4.5万岁）和 Liana（72岁）在 2010 年接触到 Barnes，此前她们询问过能够以一个房子的价格买到一套好房子的选择。很快，尽管最初很谨慎，但她们表示认为 Barnes 已经证明了自己。她们变得友好起来。2022 年，他利用这对夫妇，坦言这是一个“私人请求”。他说他的婚姻破裂了，需要 £4万,000 到 £45,000 来支付给他的妻子。他说他正在出售其中一套房产，并且会有钱来帮她们完成一项工作。Michele 说：“我的丈夫和我就像个孙子。我们说，‘我们不能那样做。’ 她们正处于那种状态，而我的‘好吧，就一周时间。’” Barnes 见了那个男人，并继续承诺他会像个士兵一样偿还这笔钱。随着月份流逝，她们说：“我不知道它们是什么。甚至没有资金回笼。只有 £100。” 随后她们接到了警方的联系，警方告诉她们 Barnes 对其他受害者也做了同样的事。Michele 说：“这是一件奇怪的事情，因为你会处于否认状态。你不相信这会发生在自己身上。我的一个朋友之前说过我们应该报警，但我们不能对他那样做。我们之前全部投入其中了。” Barnes 被估计在 6 月 19 日每人每年 $6,000 的情况下被判 15 年。

更多文本但涉及资金，因为他是财务顾问。

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Michele 和 Liana McNeil 以及 Joel 认为 £5万,000 是不公平的——尤其是它是由父母一方的安全性触发的，这意味着一个家庭中每人储蓄 £5万,000 的工人仍然有资格获得宝贵的儿童支持，但一个年收入 £5万,000 的单亲家长则会失去大部分支持。最明显的一点是，该门槛没有改变，它在 2017. 保持不变。自那时起，它实际上已经增加了数百万，大约应该是 £13.7万,000，顺便说一句，基本相同。根据智库社会研究学院（Institute for Social Studies）的数据，一个跌落“悬崖边缘”的家长，在伦敦以外地区抚养两个孩子需要多少钱才能达到收支平衡。那个门槛，就像上个世纪的保证一样，已将两名工人推向了剧烈的悬崖边缘。上周披露，错过政府住房的儿童数量可能已经增加到四倍多。

5.05万,500

受 £1000 悬崖边缘影响的儿童最低人数为 £225.28，高于 2018. 08 年的 5万,000。自 2018. 起。虽然大多数儿童支持并非普惠制，但对于最后那个导致该补贴骤减的门槛则不能这么说。近十年以来一直需要同样的情况。

但在今天的经济环境下，这种承受能力已不再适用，许多债券持有者正通过惨痛的教训发现这一点。

5.05万,500

受 £1000 悬崖边缘影响的儿童最低人数为 £225.28，高于 2018. 08 年的 5万,000。

5.05万,500 形成了很大一部分，但您得到的建议是合适的，并告知我们根据英国金融行为监管局（FCA）的规则，他知道在某些情况下您将没有资格获得赔偿。所谓糟糕的建议，是指您的顾问将您的资金投入到不可靠且未向您解释清楚的投资中。这涉及 £200 万，您可能无法获得赔偿。请直接向您的顾问或咨询公司投诉。如果他们不维持该投诉，他们将发送一份“最终答复”，您在信函日期起六个月内可以将案件提交给金融申诉服务局（FNS）。FNS 可裁定最高 £5万,000 的赔偿，具体取决于案件的年份。对于损失在 £4万,000 上限之内的简单案件，这是一个合适的途径。损失超过此金额的人可以通过法院起诉其顾问。这可能具有风险，因为如果对方败诉，您可能必须支付顾问的法律费用。然而，法院裁定的赔偿额没有上限，因此您可以就全部损失进行索赔。对于 FNS 和法院，您只能在获得建议后的六年内，或在您意识到有理由投诉后的三年内提起诉讼。Philippe 曾是一名专门从事针对金融顾问诉讼的律师，从业 2万 年，现在经营 Paradigen Norton Financial Planning。她说：“就像任何职业一样，糟糕的建议时有发生。在担任诉讼律师的 20 年里，我可以利用这一点”。最后，如果建议最糟糕，客户受到金融服务补偿计划的保护，对于那些获得糟糕建议的人，该计划将强制补偿最高 £8万,000，对于银行或建屋互助协会倒闭的人，补偿额为 £20,000。并非所有情况都如此，因此由 Barnes 实施的行为更为复杂且难以处理，属于警方管辖的案件。追回资金可能非常困难，且书面申请可能要求其银行根据 Contis- port Entertainment Model（该模型提供了一套反欺诈方案）向其退款。但他们也可以提起民事诉讼。

1 是我们的顾问，但也是个骗子！

他在 2022 年利用这对夫妇，事先声称这是一个“私人请求”。他说他的婚姻破裂了，需要 £4万,000 到 £4.5万,000 来支付给他的妻子。他说他正在出售其中一套房产，届时将有钱在工作中帮助他们。

5.05万,500

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为什么六位数收入者也应该享有免税育儿补贴

Barnes 可能在建议中提供了进一步的来源，认为这在数字上能带来节省，但会摧毁那些在 2020 年被选出的人，他们认为 £80万,000 的薪水对于他的职业生涯来说并不算高。包含涵盖住房、生活和育儿成本的津贴。一个不幸但肯定的记录是，在你的心中，同样的情况发生在 1000 年前，他对待教会的方式，以及他与伴侣共同拥有 £25万,000 的年收入，他们正在养育孩子且应该有权获得补贴。有些事情最好保持传递，并且可以被国家削减。虽然这些陈述很容易让人们产生反感，但在其服务过程中，这已变得越来越难以忽视。£50万,000 的薪水不再是财富的标志，且可能无法维持。在若干年前，£1万,000 的收入就能让人们进入该国职业人群的前 1%，而今天你需要赚取超过 £2万,000 才能进入同一类别。目前还没有必要拿出印度部分，但 £80万,000 的薪水仍然是国家平均水平的两倍及以上，该类别的劳动者无疑比大多数人更富有。但我们讨论的是一个“悬崖边缘”效应，这使他们处于比前 1% 高收入者更高的边际税率之上。通常人们认为，收入最高的人支付最高税率是一个问题。但这在英国并不成立。每 £5 的年度成本在 £1万,000 的冬季基础上，£18 的 £1.2万,000 作为个人所得税免税额，直到他们赚到 £1万,000 时才完全结束。这导致了边际所得税率，该税率支付于父母面临的悬崖边缘，使他们的边际税率高于前 1% 的收入者（如果赚到）- 为 10%。然而，英格兰和威尔士的前 1% 税率是 41%。对于父母来说，有效税率要高得多。那些孩子年龄在 9 个月到 4 岁之间的人，如果收入低于最低工资，每周可以获得高达 30% 的政府资助育儿补贴。但如果他们的净收入超过 £30万,000（根据第 2 部分），他们将失去每名儿童每年最高 £1.2万,000 的免税育儿补贴，以及每周高达 30% 的居家补贴。这对他们的财务状况是一个巨大影响，可能会抵消最丰厚的加薪——一名在伦敦托儿所拥有两个孩子的父母，需要赚取大约 £4万,000 才能抵消这一损失。在实际操作中，父母为了留在 £30万,000 这一线以下，可能会拒绝晋升、降低薪资或增加税收。这种对悬崖边缘的成年人行为反应，不仅影响了历届政府一直试图优先考虑的生产力和就业年限，而且对出生率的影响更大，许多高收入者在生育更多孩子与维持生活质量之间做出选择。值得注意的是，有方法可以将净收入降低至 £80万,000 以下，以保留儿童劳动力补贴，例如增加养老金供款，尽管这并非每个人都能操作。这些超过了 £30万,000 阈值的 1% 人群 --- 10 金钱 # 削减并废除白宫

给英国的处方：亚瑟·拉弗曾为里根、撒切尔和特朗普提供建议，以下是他会对新政府提出的建议。

作者：Alice Wright

其中一个领先的重要经济体已呼吁新任首相在10月的预算案中大幅削减一系列税收。曾担任里根、撒切尔和特朗普关键顾问的亚瑟·拉弗（Arthur Laffer）告诉《泰晤士报》财经版（Times Money），所得税最高税率应当降低，并对遗产税和印花税进行调整，以提振英国经济。

这位经济学家关注其“拉弗曲线”理论，该理论最初是在华盛顿的一家餐厅供应商处构思的。该理论认为，政府提高税收只能达到一定高度，否则将开始影响能够筹集到的资金总额——一旦达到某个临界点，纳税人就会开始改变行为，首先就是避免支付额外税款。

有观点认为，苏格兰政府在2024.将其最高所得税率提高至40%后，可能正遭受拉弗曲线效应的影响。前税务律师肯·内维尔（Ken Neville）所在的第三等级税务政策协会（Tax Policy Association）旨在“改善税务和法律政策”——他计算出，苏格兰的最高税率纳税人本应支付25 亿英镑 billion，但实际仅支付了£2,000-billion，差额达£2200 万，因为他们采取了额外的更高税率收入方案。

拉弗表示，这证明了他的理论：“事实与苏格兰所做的事情完全相反，”他说。但他补充道，他乐观地认为安迪·亨特（Andy Hunt）以及新任财政大臣约翰·希基（John Hickey）会采取行动解决英国的税收负担。

根据预算责任办公室（Office for Budget Responsibility）的数据，这并非让穷人去承担，而仅仅是£20对比£200,的成本。然而，他对伯纳姆（Burnham）持乐观态度，认为其上升空间很大，且他似乎喜欢该国的贷款人失败案例，“他们共同拥有：他们有政治技巧，且拥有做正确事情的知识，”拉弗说。

削减税收

拉弗表示，他的第一项建议是将英格兰、威尔士和北爱尔兰的最高所得税率从超过£32.5万,000收入部分的40%降低到10%。

“你会迎来所有离开的富裕同僚的回归，”他说。“你失去了所有这些优秀人士的贡献，我们的影响力就减少了，”他在提到那些居住在美国的人时说道。

他的长期愿景是建立一个“针对所有收入的低税率、宽基单一税制”——这将包含增值税（VAT）。“我会使其几乎实现收入中立，没有扣除，没有豁免，没有排除，没有注销，没有遗漏，也没有某些特定类型的项目。”

目前，在£2.2575万,575至£3022万,220之间的收入需缴纳20%的税，在£3.0125万,12.5万至£125,000.之间的收入需缴纳40%的税。40%的税率适用于上述水平以上的收入，而一旦你的收入超过£30万,000，你将开始失去£2.2575万,575的免税额度。

大多数购物的增值税（VAT）为20%，但某些商品和服务（如保险和医疗保健）则处于平均水平。伯纳姆已提出更新方案，支持将附加税率提高至10%，即2000年引入时的税率。

拉弗表示，他对英国税制的复杂程度感到困惑。他认为，取消复杂的扣除和豁免将消除那些诱使纳税人通过手段隐藏其全部应纳税收入的动机。

“为什么你想要雇佣低端会计师、递延收入专家、税务规划师、游说者来解决你的问题？我看着你们进行各种操纵——直接把它简化就好，”他说。

遗产税

拉弗对英国的遗产税表示不屑：“这是我见过的最不道德的税种。”你的全部遗产中只有 £2.5万,000 是免税的——如果你将主要住所留给直接继承人，则为 £50万,000，而如果你想重新提取超过 £200 万 的资金。£32.5万,000 的免税额自 2000 年以来没有变化，而较少的直接免税额于 2004 年引入，并自 2020. 起生效。亚瑟·拉弗在 1974 年的一家餐厅供应商处构思了他的理论，以向唐纳德·鲁姆斯菲尔德展示。研究表明，农场和家族企业等免税资产在 4 月被纳入征税范围，而养老金将从 2022. 4 月起缴纳遗产税。拉弗表示，他 40 岁时仍坚持全职工作的原因是为了给他的 6 个孩子、14 个孙辈和 4 个曾孙辈留下财务遗产。“根本不应该有死亡税。这对后代是不尊重的，”他说。英国每年缴纳的遗产税

“我不需要什么车或新东西，我爱我的孩子们，我喜欢给他们钱。但如果你有这样的死亡税，你可能会阻止我们所有人免受掠夺，阻止我们在劳动力市场工作并让 [年轻人] 变得更好。”

印花税

拉弗希望看到印花税的废除，认为这将通过允许房主解锁其财务资产并使地理流动性变得更容易，从而为英国经济提供即时推动。保守党已承诺，如果他们在下次选举中获胜，将取消主要住所销售时的印花税。在英格兰和北爱尔兰，当你购买价值超过 £12.5万,000. 的房产时，通常会收取土地印花税。你需要支付房产价值的一定百分比，根据销售价格在 2 和 12% 之间。如果你购买的房产是额外的住房，则会额外收取 7% 的费用，因此买家在房产价值 £50万,000. 以下时无需支付。在苏格兰，土地和建筑交易税对 £10万,000 以上的房产收取 2 的税率，其中任何超过 £10万,000 的价值，税率最高可增至 12 。在英国缴纳的印花税

对价值超过 £22.5万,000, 的房产收取 6 的交易税，税率在加拿大最高升至 12 ，针对超过 £550 万 的价值。“1 的交易税相当于约 6 的所得税，因为基数大得多，而且它的破坏性强得多，”拉弗说。“它让你很难提取财富并离开，它让你变得僵化。”印花税一直是导致住房市场停滞的真正工具。根据房产网站的数据，与去年 7 月相比，销售额在过去几个月下降了 9 。

财富税

拉弗强烈反对任何形式的财富税。“你永远不应该征收财富税。永远，永远，永远，绝对，绝对不要征收财富税。它是最具破坏性的，”他说。“1 的财富税相当于约 12 的所得税，并会对经济造成损害。财富税实际上是该领域之前的非年金。人们不仅会离开，他们还会停止赚取收入，停止开发新产品，停止雇佣人员，然后你会在到处看到崩溃。”财富税的前景由于 Patience Millimann 的推动而变得突出。这是一个由前 Swindale 和广播员 Gary Lawder 以及 YouTube 经济学家 Gary Stevenson 领导的英国竞选团体。该团体敦促政府对超过 2 亿 的财富征收 1 的税。“英国应该再次伟大，”拉弗说，“而正是所有的税收和监管一直在拖累你。这很可悲，因为你有潜力变得富有和繁荣，且能同时实现。而你正在失去这些机会。”

Antonia Medlicott 投资专家

有一件事让我担心

关于这场社会护理革命，我花了大量时间撰写关于养老金的内容，但税收制度中还有一个小点。社会护理卡得到了同样的关注，我认为这是一个错误。这是财务规划中唯一一个规则如此陈旧，以至于大多数人甚至没有意识到自己已经面临风险的部分。即使在英格兰或北爱尔兰，如果资产超过 250 亿英镑,200，议会就不会为你支付护理本身的费用，完全没有帮助。你会变成所谓的“软猎物”。这个门槛自 2000, 以来就没有改变过，而房价、养老金和一般家庭财富都在增长。在苏格兰，门槛是 £3075万,750，在威尔士则是 £5万,000。你的住房通常会被纳入国家支持的评估中。但并非总是如此。值得注意的是，这与许多被宣传为可用支持的非核心问题不同，例如护理津贴（attendance allowance）、个人独立支付（personal independence payment）以及 1000 基金资助护理缴费，你仍然有权获得护理。投资收益可能会阻碍这一点，但核心支持，即实际的护理成本，在 250 亿英镑,250. 处戛然而止。

安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）现在正试图对此采取行动。他将社会护理列为他职责范围内的首要任务之一，上个月，他向来自南部的 £10 以及影子健康大臣斯图尔特·安德鲁斯（Stuart Andrews）提出，看看他们是否能达成共识。目前还没有任何确认的消息，但这些广泛的选项已在讨论之中。

第一个方案是国家直接投资个人护理——帮助工作、评级并进入遗产管理。据估计，这每年需要 95 亿英镑 billion，这将增加到我们已经在成人社会护理上花费的约 250 亿英镑 billion 之上，根据健康基金会（Health Foundation）的一项第三方排名，2015, 的评级为 75 亿英镑 。

第二个方案是对任何人支付的护理费用设定终身上限，并最终提高那个被冻结的资产测试门槛。这是三个方案中最便宜的一个，相差甚远，预计约为 105 亿英镑 ，2015. 的评级为 8万 亿英镑 。这是基于前保守党政府针对 £80,000. 上限所做的估算。

第三个方案是全 500-style 社会护理，对绝对所有人在使用点免费。这是一个大项目，到 2015. 每年将额外花费 185 亿英镑 。

如果你试图规划一辈子的评级，那么第二个方案（上限加上提高门槛）是最值得争取的一个。上限并不意味着护理变得免费。它意味着最坏的情况终于有了封顶，而不是让你建立的一切面临无底洞般的消耗。目前完全没有上限，这就是为什么一些家庭最终不得不卖掉父母的房子来支付根本没有上限的费用。

有一个细节漏洞（我认为值得提醒），早在 2000, 当伯纳姆担任健康大臣时，他曾提议在人们去世后从其薪资中扣除 10% 以帮助资助国家护理服务。当时这被称为“死亡税”，在政治上极其不受欢迎。政府表示目前没有可能重新引入类似方案。在短期内，我倾向于认为这是事实

“任何人都不应该因为陪伴垂死之子而破产。” 丧子之父 Ceri Menai-Navis 目睹了许多家庭在遭受惨痛损失的同时，还不得不为生计而苦苦挣扎。以下是他希望通过改变法律来实现的目标。

当我的儿子 Hugh 在 2020 年 10 月被诊断出患有癌症时，他年仅五岁。在你们之中，这本该是我们最不需要担心的事情。我当时唯一能想到的就是让他活下去。我们正常的家庭生活一夜之间消失了，取而代之的是化疗、手术、放疗、扫描、急诊以及长期的住院治疗。

在十个月的时间里，我的妻子 Frances 和我竭尽全力陪伴 Hugh 完成治疗。我们陪伴他，与医生沟通，做出决定，并尽量让他的生活以及他弟弟的生活保持正常。但随着时间的推移，我们发现癌症不仅侵蚀身体，还侵蚀财务。房贷 10% paid, fixed，燃料费和家庭开支持续产生，而往返医院的交通费、停车费、远离家乡的租房费，每月在预算中扣除数百英镑。

的治疗医院距离我家 60 英里。仅在放疗期间，我就行驶了超过 1.2万,000 英里的路程。为了让他活下去，这些都是必须承担的。在 治疗期间，我们大约花费了 2.5万,000 英镑用于成人相关费用和开支。

我记得坐在 身边，我坐在 身边，打开笔记本电脑，在他接受治疗时回复电子邮件，打开笔记本电脑，在他接受治疗时回复工作邮件。我很幸运，因为我经营自己的公司，有一定的灵活性。但许多父母并非如此。他们的工作要求必须在场，或者面对着不理解的患者、经理，或者简单的癌症病症问题，以及孩子。这些父母面临着一个不可能的选择：是去工作，还是陪伴孩子。

于 8, 2020. 去世。他当时六岁。我与他共度的时光现在是我拥有最宝贵的东西。一个父母可能因为陪伴孩子度过同样珍贵的时光而失去工作、住房或经济保障，这种想法是我无法接受的。

去世后，Frances 60. 我在 Newer 成立了慈善机构。你们支持其他患有重病儿童的父母，而且我听到了数百个，甚至可能是数千个类似的故事。父母们用尽了每一天心理假，而非身体缺勤，减少了工作时间，甚至更糟，陷入极度疲惫。家庭借钱，积累信用卡债务，拖欠家庭账单，并担心失去住房。他们并非在做出不负责任的财务选择，而是在应对涉及孩子的医疗紧急情况，试图挽救他们所拥有的一切，让他们活下去。

而且并不是说他们没有选择。法律上，父母或法定监护人必须同意孩子的医疗方案，因此他们必须受到保护。在英国，如果你的孩子病危，没有任何权利或法律规定允许你陪伴孩子进行医疗护理。在孩子生命的第一年，父母享有产假、陪产假、共同育儿假和新生儿假；但如果同一个孩子在三岁或十二岁时生病或被诊断出患有癌症，这些权利就消失了，父母在没有任何保护的情况下，只能依赖于雇主的同情心。

在 2021, 去世，年仅六岁。父母 Ceri 和 Frances 在 2023 年将他们关于“ 法案”的计划提交给了 Number 10 在 2023 年（Number 10）。就业权利并非为这种情况而设计。父母可能能够请紧急假或育儿假，但这通常是没有薪水的，且往往不限于涉及数月治疗的严重疾病。因此，支持在很大程度上取决于个人经历的短暂性。

我们通过工作收集的证据表明，95%的家长在孩子被诊断出患有严重疾病后会面临经济困难。近90%的人在离开职场时缩短了工作时间，而79%的人报告其心理健康状况恶化。每一个统计数字背后，都是一个试图同时应对两场危机的家庭：孩子的疾病以及财务保障的崩溃。这就是为什么我们提出了“休之法”（Hugh's Law），这是一项为患有严重疾病儿童的父母和主要照顾者提供带薪育儿假的提案。这种支持应当在最需要的时候开始，而不是在数月之后。资格认定应通过孩子就诊医院团队的一封简单信函来确认，而不是强迫家长经历另一场复杂的评估。贷款应当具有灵活性，因为严重疾病不会遵循整齐的时间表。它应当保护家长的工作，并在情况允许的情况下提供重返岗位的额外支持。这并不是要给家长一张无限额的支票，而是要为少数面临异常时期的家庭建立一个清晰、有针对性的安全网。问题不在于家长是否会陪伴在重病孩子的身边——他们一定会。问题在于，我们是否允许他们在没有

的情况下陪伴在孩子身边。

6 你能否陪伴孩子不应取决于雇主的仁慈，而这种仁慈却在摧毁其家庭成员其余人的未来。对于雇主而言，同样有充分的理由支持此项政策。当父母被迫在熟练且经验丰富的员工与企业利益之间做出选择时，他们随后将面临招聘、培训和测试的成本；而一项结构化的休假政策能给员工喘息的空间，并自然地搭建起重返岗位的桥梁。它用清晰的流程取代了不确定性和困难的个案决策。优秀的雇主已经意识到了这一点。布伦特福德（Brumford W.）成为第一个采用休定律（Hugh's Law）原则的组织，随后足球、板球、酒店业、制造业和金融服务业的其他组织也纷纷效仿。目前已有超过 2万,000 名员工受到基于这些原则的政策覆盖。这证明了休定律是可行的，但自愿采用还远远不够。父母能否陪伴孩子，不应取决于雇主的仁慈或他们恰好从事的行业。英格兰儿童专员现已建议改善带薪休假，以确保家庭在孩子患病期间不会在经济上受到惩罚。蕾切尔·德·索萨（Rachel de Souza）表示：

6 在孩子被诊断出患有严重疾病后，经历困难的家庭比例较高，支持应由员工获得，而不应取决于确诊结果，并且在孩子经历重复入院或生命受威胁时应继续提供。利物浦大学最近的一份政策简报还发现，在经济合作与发展组织（OECD）的 362.33 个组织中，16 是仅有的 4 个少数组织之一，它们不对因孩子患病而无法工作的父母提供补偿。该简报得出结论，带薪休假将增加家庭收入，增强父母的就业能力，保护生产力并减少贫困。这不仅仅是一项充满同情心的政策，它更是一项儿童贫困政策、心理健康政策和劳动力留存政策。经过多年的游说，政府启动了关于无薪护理人员和重病儿童父母就业权利的刑事磋商。第三章专门讨论休定律，并考虑可能的法定休假和薪酬权利。磋商将于 9 月 1. 显示。这是一个重大步骤，但磋商必须转化为行动。一些孩子得到了支持，不幸的是，另一些孩子没有。在诊断之初，父母并不知道什么样的未来在等待着他们的家庭。在他们试图寻找答案时，不应被迫拿自己的收入或就业去赌博。我愿意将每一次会议、每一次进展和每一个运动里程碑都还给休。我知道我无法改变发生在我们家庭身上的事情，但我们可以改变发生在下一个家庭身上的事情。没有人应该因为在孩子最需要他们的时候履行父母职责而陷入经济困境。磋商将于 9 月 2. 结束。请在休定律（Hugh's Law）提交您的意见。

让我多支付 £4 的意外学生贷款陷阱

Ben O'Brien

对于我的伴侣和我来说，在这个时间点要孩子并不容易。毕竟，在攻读博士学位期间组建家庭显然不是个好时机。在进入大学之前，我曾在繁忙的办公室里担任过多年的房地产经纪人，但攻读博士这三年是我经历过的压力最大的事情之一。我长时间地待在图书馆阴暗的角落里，有时好几天都见不到任何人。我在博士期间拥有的自由是积极的，但它也让事情变得更难——我从未想过有一天我会渴望人们再次给我设定每日截止日期。而这一切还没涉及到我毕业后找工作的问题。

但第一个迹象包括：1年-6，而我的伴侣 Anne-Sophie 在决定时 2万 岁，我们当时有一个八个月大的孩子。养育孩子是一次最美妙的体验，虽然有最深沉的黑夜，以及呕吐物弄脏的所有衣服，但这些问题在每天早晨看到 Jimmy 在婴儿床里抬头看着我的笑脸面前显得微不足道。事实证明，有了孩子对写作也有好处。在我的育儿假结束之后，我带着完成学业并重返职场的全部动力回到了图书馆。

但随着我伴侣的育儿假即将结束，我们面临一个问题：为了让我伴侣重返工作岗位，且让我完成博士学位并同样重返职场，我们需要为年幼的孩子寻找托儿服务。他的祖父母住在离我们伦敦家中很远的地方，因此寻求帮助意味着需要奔波。 。但作为一名博士生，我不符合条件。虽然有针对学生的托儿补助金，但这些补助金受到严格限制，且不适用于研究生。简而言之，政府的帮助不适用于我们。这不过是政府一方面急于让更多毕业生进入职场的另一个矛盾例子。学生难道比那些领取固定薪水的人更不值得获得帮助吗？在我看来，我们并非如此。

我攻读博士学位的全部原因并不是为了休息几年不工作，而是为了获得一套能够让我从事特定类型工作的技能。每一步的意义都在于让你为工作做好准备，这样你才能回馈社会——无论是通过你从事的工作，还是你缴纳的税款。正如你不应该在事业和孩子之间做出选择一样，你也不应该在教育和孩子之间做出选择。

更糟糕的是，我已经背负了令人瞠目的学生贷款。由于没有财力自行资助教育，我不得不为本科和硕士学位申请贷款，如果足够幸运能获得资助大部分学费的奖学金就太好了。博士阶段也是如此。我的学生贷款是 £9.2万,000，其中超过 £20,000 是利息。由于我负担不起托儿费用，完成博士学位所需的时间越长，就可能导致 高达 £1万,000。我想在获得大学教育的同时保持竞争力。但反思起来，如果说有什么地方需要改进，那就是大学本身。当我难以想象一个能够实现目标的未来时，我不得不问，这一切努力是否值得。

以及你缴纳的税款。正如你不应该在事业和孩子之间做出选择一样，你也不应该在教育和孩子之间做出选择。更糟糕的是，我已经背负了令人瞠目的学生债务。由于没有能力自行资助我的教育，我在攻读本科和硕士学位时不得不贷款。如果你足够幸运能获得资助大部分学费的奖学金，情况会好很多。博士阶段，我的学生债务为 £9.2万,000，其中超过 £2万,000 是利息。我完成博士学位花费的时间越长，债务就越多。我想尽快完成学业并找一份工作，但这将比照顾孩子花费更长时间。而在没有工作的情况下，很难支付育儿费用。政府可以为学生提供强有力的育儿支持，就像其他人那样 --- 12 金钱

你真正应该如何处理免税养老金现金

中年时期获得一笔现金注入的想法可能很有诱惑力——但 Megan Harwood-Baynes 表示，请尝试从大局考虑。

长期以来，收入储蓄者在步入中年时一直拥有从储蓄中提取一笔免税现金的自由。你如何利用这种控制权，以及你是否确定提取这笔税款，可能会成为一个影响你整个退休生活的决定。大多数储蓄者从 55 岁起（尽管这一年龄将在 2020 年提高到 37 岁），可以提取其养老金税费的 25% 之多，所有宠物合计最高可达 $20.0295万,295。这些提取可以一次性完成，也可以分次进行。去年，由于预算中可能会取消免税额度，一些储蓄者匆忙地将资金取出，以便在资金被计入收入之前将其取出。因此，这种情况可能会再次发生。根据城市监管机构 Financial Conduct Authority 的数据，在 2020-25 税年，约 2003 亿加元 的免税一次性款项被提取，比 2022-25 年增长了 63%。当去年 10 月没有宣布任何变动时，许多储蓄者发现自己面对一笔没有计划如何使用的一次性款项。

先还清房贷

在退休时，实现无房贷状态是最终的财务目标。减少或取消这些每月还款可以减轻家庭财务压力。这能减少随时间推移而支付的利息总额，并在退休后提供宝贵的心理安宁。根据英国保险协会（ABI）和养老金政策研究所的数据，预计在未来十年中，一些人将在没有拥有自己住房的情况下退休。但尽管无房贷生活极具吸引力，但这并不一定是每个人的正确选择，特别是如果你仍欠的金额超过了你可以从宠物购买中提取的金额。请记住，如果你确保从养老金中提取，你可能会发现大部分资金仍受益于每年最高 $20万,000 的税收减免。然而，如果你的房贷金额高于预期，投资回报可能会使偿还贷款成本变得有意义，假设你在一个利率为 5.9% 的两年期贷款中还剩 $20万,000。使用你的一次性款项结清该款项（假设你没有其他设备变动），每年将为你节省 $3万,000 以上，并消除你的每月 GLOMI 需求。如果你随后将该 GLOMI 每月进行投资并获得扣除费用后 4% 的回报率，两年后你将拥有 $22.5万,000。如果你不偿还房贷而将 $10万,000 进行投资，假设同样 4% 的回报率，那么到十年末，你将拥有 $24万,000 - $3万,000 / annum。

来自养老金报告 12 月的建议称：“提取较大的一次性款项意味着留在养老金中的资金减少，这可能会影响未来的增长以及退休后期可获得的收入。同样值得检查你的房贷是否有任何提前还款附加费，因为这些可能会降低整体收入。”

把钱给孩子

根据财富管理公司 Quillen 对 9,000 人的调查，在去年预算之前提取免税现金的人中，有 18% 将钱给了孙辈和群体孙辈。养老金是将财富传递最有效的方式之一，因为它们免于遗产税——但这将在 2027. 4 月发生变化。这意味着更多的人希望在他们还活着的时候将钱传递下去——

对养老金征税将如何影响您的资金储备

55岁时拥有 $20万,000 的养老金在十年后可能价值多少 / 每 1万,000 的总额 / 可用免税现金 / 差额

如果您在 65 岁之前不提取免税现金 / $30.0404万,404 / $23.3896万,896 如果您将 $12.5万,000 的免税一次性款项分批投入支票和股票 / $87.3065万,065 / $20.5408万,408 / -43.8358万,358 如果您分批投入 $12.5万,000 的免税一次性现金 / $85.0395万,395 / $17.8827万,827 / -14.5029万,029 如果您将 $12.5万,000 的一次性款项存入非税现金账户 / $83.2255万,255 / $16.0687万,687 / -18.39万,900

如果您在去世前七年或更早的时间将其赠与，它仍然可以免除遗产税。但投资公司 Stargmanns Lansdown 的 Robin Morrissey 表示，虽然支持他人可以给他们的生活带来巨大改变，但重要的是，不要让自己成为“大众银行”而掩盖了您自身的需求。她说道：“我们谁也不知道自己能活多久，或者退休生活会如何，您需要确信自己有足够的资金来支持一辈子的生活，以及如果您需要支付护理费用。”

例如，如果您拥有一笔足够大的养老金，可以在 55 岁时全额提取 $20.0295万,295 的免税额并将其赠予家人。这可能在很多年前就已完成。如果您将这笔钱投资十年，假设年回报率为 5%，它将增长到近 $4.7万,000 / 1. 通过在 55 岁时将其赠与，您可以为子女省去一笔遗产税账单，但您将损失近 $10万,000 的投资增长。

适度规划

虽然许多美国人希望养老金能资助整个退休生活，但许多人陷入了将免税现金视为奖金的陷阱。财富管理公司 Fidolity International 的 Marijuana 表示，许多人将现金用于特定目的，例如便利设施或享受。她表示，虽然这不一定是错误的，但这取决于这项支出是否在预算之内。

“如果您知道自己有足够的钱，那么将部分免税现金用于一生中一次的奢侈享受可能是值得的。退休不仅仅是为了创造财富，也是为了享受它，毕竟，随着年龄增长，收入会变得更困难，生活成本也会更高。”

同样，如果经过预算规划，房屋装修可能会被证明是值得的，特别是如果您为了避免在晚年需要护理而进行改造。然而，这意味着您将更多的财富集中在房产上，因为房产通常无法产生更好的投资回报。

您的钱财至关重要

Holly Thomas，我们的消费者权益捍卫者，帮助一个将西班牙之旅变成潮湿、瘙痒噩梦的家庭。

我们通过 Vibe（一个旅游平台）预订了位于 Carrabia, Puerto Hills 的一栋别墅，入住约 12 晚，费用为 $2,400。我的丈夫和女儿随行。我们的女儿 25 岁，患有自闭症谱系障碍以及 1 / 4 / 10 的食物污染风险和严重的焦虑症，因此在旅行时，我们对住宿地点极其谨慎，在预订前会做大量研究。

该平台对我们选择的别墅的描述和正面评价都非常诱人。但当我们到达时，发现墙壁潮湿，有白色物质渗出，油漆剥落，水泥崩裂，地板上有碎片。洗衣房的天花板还有漏水的迹象，地面上有积水。我们的女儿立即变得非常焦虑。

我们与房东进行了沟通，房东称几周前发生过一次重大漏水，现已修复，墙壁正在通风干燥。她来到别墅，用吸尘器将墙上的物质吸走。但几小时内，该物质再次出现。我的女儿是一名优秀的睡眠学生，能够辨认出这些是被称为 effluences 的盐类沉积物——这是潮湿的明显迹象。虽然 effluences 并不致命，但会刺激眼睛、鼻子和喉咙，并影响患有呼吸系统疾病的人。这对我们来说是一个危险信号，因为我患有呼吸系统健康问题。

在 24 小时内，我们开始咳嗽，女儿的眼睛感到瘙痒。我们再次向房东表达了担忧，但她告诉我们无需担心。很明显，我们都对这些 effluences 产生了反应，在经历了几个失眠之夜后，我们决定放弃这次假期。

回到家后，我们尝试协商别墅的退款，但 Vibe 表示业主不愿退款，且没有达成折中方案。显然，我们被指责为过度关注一些剥落的油漆。我们设法从 Vibe 那里得到了业主的电话并直接致电，但他们不愿与我们交谈。Vibe 与他们沟通后表示我们无法获得任何退款，尽管他们向我们支付了 $400 作为 。

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能够为你节省多年压力的快速计算法

大多数接近退休的人，无论他们是否拥有足够的资金，往往会用一个漫长的“也许”来回答，而且这种情况经常发生。这是退休规划中最普遍的问题之一，它阻碍了人们在如何过好生活、何时减少工作量或简单地知道何时停止工作方面做出自信的决定。如果人们只关注时间因素，并习惯于每年检查自己的支出，他们会发现情况在掌控之中。

既然我已经（在信封背面草拟了方案）并得出了一个数字，请记住，我的目标并不是详细规划你的退休生活，而是给你信心去自行探索细节。我建议你现在就准备好纸笔，思考你的退休生活，而不是去用那些你过去两年一直打算使用但从未动手的枯燥计算工具。

相信并热爱许多年，在计划停止工作之日和你 10万 岁生日之间。这并不是说你一定会活到三位数年龄，而是出于必要。如果你计划寿命较短而结果错了，你可能会在 80 多岁时耗尽资金。如果你计划到 100 岁且死时还剩一点钱，那么你只是犯了一个你以后会感激自己的舍入误差。

如果你计划在 10 岁退休，用 100 减去这个数字，你将从 10. 开始。如果你，计算出你在健康年份（即活跃且享受生活的时期）每年想要花费的金额。在健康习惯中，为晚年生活较慢的时期做准备。对于某些人来说，这个数字包括税收在内每年将是 100万,000,000，而对于其他人，可能是 100万 be 15万,000. 确保它涵盖你的生活成本、假期、汽车、装修。考虑你想要赠予的礼物，以及你可能在最后一年多花的一些钱。

现在，减去国家养老金（目前如果你有完整的国民保险记录，每年为 $12.50），从你的年度数字中减去这部分你不需要自己筹措的资金。将该数乘以你符合领取国家养老金条件的年数，对于在该办公室的人来说，这将是 1,000,000.

如果你打算在国家养老金领取年龄之前退休，你的收入将需要来自你的储蓄。因此，将这一阶段的年数乘以你每年想要花费的全额，不进行任何扣除。将该数字与你国家养老金领取年龄后的数字相加。如果你想在 10, 退休并每年投资 100,000，这意味着四年的成本为 $30万,000, 而剩下的 10 年（从 67, 岁起），考虑到国家养老金，每年为 $2.2452万,452，投资 4000,000。将两者相加，那么 5 年超过 110 万。

如果你是夫妇，请共同计算数字，退休是一项共同支出。根据较年轻者的年龄来计算，因为核心支出需要维持你们两人的生活。如果你打算在国家养老金领取年龄之前退休，你的收入将需要来自你的储蓄。因此，将这一阶段的年数乘以全额 1。

如果你在退休后继续学习，或者拥有提供保证收入的确定给付养老金，请将该金额从你的年度收入需求中减去。记得计算随时间流逝会消失多少资金。根据著名的 4% 原则检查你的收益，该原则指出，你可以从投资于增长资产（而非债券或现金）的收益产生组合中提取约 4% 的资金，且很有可能维持 10 年。在超过 $2.7451万,451, 的情况下，4% 原则表明 10 年大约需要 $50万,000。这并不是你计算的第一年完整的 17 年，也没有考虑到国家养老金领取年龄之前的年份。这两个数字都不是绝对的，但结合使用，你可以大致了解多少钱才真正足够。

但数字真正足够，你可以通过增加储蓄来调整你的轨迹，所以用同样的方式进行计算。有了这个数字在手，你就具备了设计自己退休生活并离开工作的信息，减少恐惧，增加信心。

Inc Wilson 是《如何拥有史诗般的退休生活》（How to Have an Epic Retirement）一书的作者。

Vibe 10.0

Lord Smith, www.visc.com # “度假别墅让我们生病，但我不想退还我们的 £5,000” 善意的传闻。您能做的任何事情都将不胜感激。Caroline 和三位，伦敦 ## HOLLY THOMAS 撰文 如果您没有被告知任何问题，看到别墅墙壁处于这种状态将是一个冲击。当砖墙中没有坚持时，渗漏通常会出现在表面，而且正如您所指出的，墙壁潮湿带有各种健康风险。当您在 Puerto Hills 时，您向 Vibe 的一名在线代表展示了墙壁的照片，对方同意该别墅不宜居住，在墙壁完全干燥之前不应出租。但由于无法从业主那里获得退款，这意味着您无法支付替代住宿的费用，因此您在短短几天后做出了回家的艰难决定。您与业主进行了非常不愉快的交流，他们说：“但由于岛上房产的简单建造方式，墙壁潮湿是正常的预期。”他们明确表示不会退款，您告诉我他们直接挂断了您的电话。您向由 Expedia 拥有的 反映了您的经历，它同意重新审视您的退款请求。我打电话得知它最终同意向您支付 £2,389.25，涵盖了您支付的 12 个夜晚中的一部分，您已接受。您说：“我们真的感激不尽，虽然我失去了这个夏天我们本该拥有的假期，我们将用这笔钱去旅行，庆祝我们的三周年，并向 匿名致谢。” 表示：“经过调查， 将向该家庭退还其入住期间指定夜晚的费用。我们理解这种情况造成的不便和压力，并深表歉意。”由于 是一个列名平台而非传统的旅行社或旅行社运营商，消费者权利有所减少。您的租赁协议是您与房产房东之间签署的，而非与 。 的一项政策是它不验证或保证任何房产的安全性，也不保证平台上提供的任何列名或其他内容的真实性或准确性。任何想要预订假期的人都应承担此风险。它提供自己的内部“保护”承诺——VibeCare Guarantee。这承诺提供 26.7 支持，以及在最后一刻出现问题或您面临欺诈或虚假陈述时的重新预订协助。然而，它不承诺退款，因为这取决于房东业主。如果您通过银行卡支付，只要在 120 天内提出申请，您可能会受到银行退单计划的保护。由于 是代理商而非供应商，在某些 15 百分位情况下，共同持有付款的责任方可能对您通过银行卡支付的服务承担共同责任，并可申请索赔。 ## SANFANDER 不让我的儿子获得他的童年储蓄 一位家庭朋友在我的儿子出生于 1998 年时，为他开设了一个 Bradford & Bingley 建筑协会的 Accent 储蓄账户。我大约五年前找到了存折，最后一次记录在 1990 年的条目显示余额为 $75.49。该账户是以这位朋友的名义代表我的儿子开设的，我的儿子现在成年了。他要求我尝试获取他的资金，但我毫无进展。银行（现在是 Sanfander）在程序上毫不让步，即要求那位家庭朋友带着存折前往分行，并告知他们我们同意允许提取资金。这是不可能的，因为那位家庭朋友后来搬到了法国，而存折在我这里。虽然金额很小，但原则在于他们持有这笔钱，而我的儿子希望获取这笔钱用于他喜欢的事情。June, thefield

HOLLY THOMAS 撰文

布拉德福德与宾利银行（Bradford & Bingley）的 Accent 账户是 20 世纪 80 年代初推出的一种广受欢迎的儿童储蓄账户，随账户附带一个独特的亮绿色塑料封面。现在人们仍能以约 120 便士的价格将其作为复古收藏品购买。该账户是由您的朋友作为“兄弟”共同开设的，由于 16 年来没有任何存款或取款，该账户已被关闭。在 12 年中未被发现的资金悄然进入了“失效资产计划”（Deceased Assets Scheme），这是一个由政府支持的基金，在资金被其合法所有者认领之前，将其用于社会保障。根据该计划的条款，所有者有权随时追回其资金。幸运的是，您仍然持有存折，因此拥有银行和账号的记录，但您对 Santander 银行员工在程序上毫不让步感到沮丧，因为您的朋友现在在法国，导致您无法遵循该程序。我要求 Santander 银行重新审核您的请求，以便您的儿子获得这笔小额资金。银行表示之前的建议是正确的，因为规定要求女性必须携带 B19 证件前往当地分行，代表您的儿子关闭账户。然而，Santander 银行同意破例，允许您的儿子自行提取资金并关闭账户。他现在拥有 £94.30，其中包括自 1990 年以来产生的 £87.50 利息。Santander 银行表示：“我们在收到请求后，现确认该账户已关闭！”让银行打破常规思考可能非常困难。如果您陷入了“电脑显示不行”的僵局，您可以提出正式投诉，并希望有人能看到。并非每个人都如此有条理地保留旧存折。如果您正试图寻找一本被遗忘的旧储蓄本，或在寻找遗产账户中的资金，您可以尝试使用资产损失搜索服务，例如 Gored 代理机构来寻求帮助。

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14 金钱 # 名声与财富 PETER EGAN # “税务局威胁要因为 £1万,000 的债务没收我的房子” 这位《唐顿庄园》的演员来自一个庞大的爱尔兰家庭，经济状况拮据。他告诉 Holly Mead，在《Ever Decreasing Circles》出现之前，他一直靠透支生活。 演员 Peter Egan 最著名的作品是 90 年代的情景喜剧《Ever Decreasing Circles》，以及近期的《唐顿庄园》。Egan 今年 79 岁，在伦敦西北部的 Siltners 长大，10 岁离开学校后获得奖学金资助生活，执导电视角色的经历是该地区黑帮传记中的 headbuster dog，时间在 1993 年，而在 1974 年，他在《The Heebay》中的表演使其成为最有前途的新人之一。 Egan 是一位动物权利活动家，也是包括国际动物救援组织（International Animal Rescue）和 Saving Strips 在内的慈善机构的大使。他与女演员 Mary Fannie 结婚 40 年，直到她于 2022 年去世，并与 Rebecca Egan 共同生活。他与他的狗 Crackers 和 less 住在 history 中。

你的钱包里有多少钱？我没有钱包，但我口袋里有现金，大约 £10。我出生于 1940 年，我记得那时如果你能赚到一笔开支，简直是个奇迹——能拿到那么一点额外的俱乐部补贴绝对令人心潮澎湃。那时，触摸实物货币的感觉是神奇的，但如今我可以不需要现金。尽管我上周去了一家只接受现金的炸鱼薯条店——店主说这是因为刷卡太频繁了。# 你使用什么信用卡？我所有消费都用信用卡，但我并不忠于某个品牌，而且我从不欠息。我认为这是六到八周的免费资金。你比你的父母生活得更好吗？好了一百万倍。我出身于非常贫困的家庭。我在 Siltners 一个纯爱尔兰人的家庭中长大，当时我们和我的祖母、五个伙伴、一个表亲、我的父母、兄弟以及其他人住在一起——在那栋房子里我们有 12 或 14 个人！每栋房子都是那样，外面只有一个厕所。如果放在现在，这种房子会被判定为不合格。我九岁时搬到了一个市政公寓。有时我们甚至没有足够的钱吃饭。那是 20 世纪 50 年代，学业结束之季，那是一段艰难的时光。我的父亲是长子，所以被允许接受教育，并在 1920 年代就读于都柏林的一所顶尖学院——布莱克罗克学院（Blackrock College）。但没有足够的资金让他继续深造，于是他学习并成为了一名先驱和倡导者。这就是他 1936 年来到英国时所做的事情。后来他获得了资格证书，成为了一名工程造价师。但他首先得克服酗酒的问题。我的母亲非常勤奋地工作。她帮别人打扫房子，天还没亮就出门，深夜才回来。是她维持了我们的生计。有一次我们欠了这么多债，以至于如果市政公寓不登记在名下，我们甚至没有资格投票。我并没有太多快乐的回忆。

你的第一份工作是什么？

如果算上我最早的三份工作——送报纸、给洗衣店送货，以及在一家酒类零售店工作——所以我没怎么上学，一个月缺勤很多。在我10岁离开学校时，我的校长说我现在离开也无所谓，因为我反正最后也会进监狱——在我31岁之前，我得自己支付我儿子的发展费用，因为我的父母没能力支付。我是从我的账单员那里借的钱——他每周会来一次收钱，一年后你就能听到你的债务情况。放学后，我的第一份工作是制造螺母和螺栓，每周工资 1,8,10。我讨厌这份工作，大约六个月后被解雇了。我挺擅长通过面试获得一份见习绘图员的工作，但发现很枯燥，所以那份工作也被解雇了。然后我找了一份牡蛎 的工作。彼得·伊根（Peter Egan）出演了《唐顿庄园》，80, 和他的共同主演理查德·布林（Richard Breen）和佩内洛普·威尔逊（Penelope Wilson）一起出演了BBC情景喜剧《不断缩小的圆圈》（Ever Decreasing Circles），下方是在米德尔塞克斯医院，而最令人兴奋的债务是至今 5万 per 在停尸房（因为那时所有危险的事情都会发生）。直到 2002 年，我每周能拿到大约 12，这简直是天文数字。但我再次感到厌倦，于是找了一份定制服装销售员的工作。大约就在那时，我进入了演艺界。我加入了一个业余戏剧社，前往 LaBouille Grove，想着也许能做一些设计工作，但被强迫在其中一部剧中扮演一个角色。我在一部关于 trance 和 Old Lair 的剧中饰演 Teddy Breen，引起了观众的一些笑声。我发现自己能够获得回应。我想这就是我能做的事情。我刚满 10, 岁，在我 31 岁半的时候，我申请了五部戏剧书籍并全部被录取。我获得了皇家戏剧艺术学院（见 Blade）的一份良好评价和领导力认可。在每一次 2018 年的活动中，我找了一位经纪人，他让我参加试镜，以便在我真正需要工作之前让我习惯之前的流程。1996 年，我参加了奇切斯特节（Chichester Festival）的试镜，约翰·克莱门茨（John Clements）随后走上舞台说：“我想让你加入剧团。”我告诉他我还没有完成课程，他说：“你为什么在浪费我的时间？成为演员的意义就是获得工作，而我现在就给你一份。”不久之后，我被邀请出演一部名为《Big Broadchimer day》的电视剧——这是我被选中的角色中最接近我背景的一个。那里曾有巨大的 lend。我清理了我的成本，因为我的长相和说话方式，人们认为我毕业于剑桥大学，并且在 1976 年处于王位继承线。

你拥有房产吗？

是的。由于曾在市政公寓和公司提供的爱尔兰住处生活过，我一直想要拥有自己的空间。我在 1969 年买的第一套房子，当时我 23 岁，进入这个行业三年。那是位于伊斯灵顿（Islington）一条非常漂亮的街道上的一栋房子，周围都是可爱的 Younger 房产，叫 Apple and Grove。当时价格是 10万,000 ——如今你可能花这么多钱在那儿连一家医院都买不到。我的女朋友说我工作做得不错，我们在三年后分手时将其以 £2.2万,000 卖掉。现在它可能价值 £500 万。这给了我足够的钱在 Fritters on Hill 买一套两居室花园公寓，价格为 £2.2万,000. 在交换合同时，建筑商为了让我不要完工而向我提供 £2,000，因为他意识到它已经 # 我 10 岁时有三份工作，到 11 岁时已经能支付自己的校服费用，房产价值已经上涨，而且他进行了地基加固。一年后我以 £3万,000. 卖掉。我遇到了我的妻子迈拉（Myra），我们在去年以 £50,000 买了一栋处于半成品状态的房子。三年后我们以 £3万,000 卖掉——现在你没法这么做了。随后我们搬到了 Chiswell，然后我保留了它，我们在那里住了 22 年，并在 2015, 搬到工厂，那时我可以生活。

退休生活怎么选更好——房产还是养老金？

这是一个平衡问题——房产受工作 / 标准的影响程度与养老金一样。在我人生的大部分时间里，我把所有钱都投入到房产中，曾有一段时间我会说我不会把钱存入养老金，因为房产的增长率总是更高，而且出售时无需缴税。如果你现在处于能够缴纳养老金的状态，那你很幸运——大多数人的生活成本太高，为了省钱而生活。他们被告知要为未来储蓄，但现在怎么办？如果你确实有可以不用就生活的钱，我会建议将其投入养老金。现在想要进入房产阶梯（买房）绝非易事，而且房产比 50 年前要不稳定得多。

你曾经陷入经济困境吗？

在 2万 世纪 50 年代有一段时间，我被税务局调查——在那之后的一周（2013 / 01），我去参加了一个会议，他们说他们会来我家搬走等值物品，最终没收房子。当他们离开时，她非常担心并问我该怎么办。我说，我要去马路对面的那家餐厅喝瓶香槟。我只能通过做我想做的事情来应对糟糕的局面。税务局问我近期是否有工作。我有两个工作机会，一个在 Old No，每周支付 1万% 一年；另一个在 Sheffield Cradiths，每周支付 2200，为期两个月。当我表示我想接 Cradiths 的那个时，他们问我是否疯了。但那是更好的选择。我通常有足够的钱，就在我做那个工作期间，我接到了一个演房子的角色。在 Lyndon Weekend Television 工作期间，我的收入足以解决整个问题。

你是挥霍型还是节俭型？

两者都是，我是个矛盾体。从 1966 到 1983 年，我一直处于透支状态。我那时足够年轻，不在意这些，作为一名演员，我的收入足以买房并维持良好的生活方式，而且在当时看来这就是生活方式。我的余额始终在 £2,000 到 £10,000 之间，我并不在意。我总是能应对！

你最赚钱的社会经历是什么？

我唯一赚到过可观资金的时候是在演《不断缩小的圆圈》（Ever Decreasing Circles）期间，但我不会透露具体金额。那是我第一次没有透支——而且，第一次在银行有存款时，也是我第一次开始为此担心。那之后我开始从事一些工作，比如开发和未来的课程，那些报酬很高，是赚钱的绝佳方式。但大约在 1997 年，这个市场崩盘了，因为经纪人们意识到演员赚得比他们还多。

你还记得第一次感觉到富有是什么时候吗？

当我第一次买梅赛德斯-奔驰时，我当时 40 / 50.2 岁，它花费了 £20,000——比我在 Chiswell 的房子还贵，而且在那之前我一直住在市政公寓里。我开了 20 年，但之后我决定不再买新车了——它们只会贬值。

你的钱会花在什么地方？

当我开始赚钱时，我喜欢把钱花在艺术卡生活上——素描、卡片签名，我收集这些，我想收集很多精美的艺术品。其中有一些关于一个叫 Quantity Cinq 的男人的可疑人体素描，是由我的好朋友 Barry Martin 创作的。

你最不理智的消费是什么？

1992 年我在 Hampton 买的房子。那是一栋带游泳池的多层住宅。它是由一个叫 Ted Lucy 的人设计的，他当时非常时尚，房子看起来像一座 LA 风格的住宅。花费了 £3万,000，我们在那里住了 22 年。

你去年赚了多少钱？

不足以让人担心。

你支持任何慈善机构吗？

是的。动物是我在这个星球上最喜欢的慈善对象。我支持国际动物救援组织（International Animal Rescue）、Helping Winter 和 Saving Strips。我还支持禁止猎狐的运动。因为在我们这个美妙的星球上，我有一种方式可以描绘动物，而它们没有声音，所以我想成为它们的声音。

本周最佳待售房产

伦敦 SW19 115 万英镑 这座位于温布尔登村 Haygarth Place 的小屋设有路外停车位和私人露台花园。楼上两间卧室均配有套内浴室。knightfrank.com

高地 B / D 480 万英镑,000 这座位于西北高地 Ormiscaig 村、坐落在洛赫尤（Loch Ewe）岸边的平房拥有全景海景和山景。该房产可分为一个或两个地块出售。galbraithgroup.com

诺福克 £70万,000 Vicarage House 将时代魅力与现代设计融为一体。房产分布在三层楼中，设有五间卧室、两间浴室和三个接待室，距离金斯林（King's Lynn）约 12 英里。sowerbys.com 租赁

东萨塞克斯 £6,500 PCM Tottingworth Park 是一座令人印象深刻的前东屋，拥有 13 英亩的场地、一个加热游泳池、七间卧室和五间浴室，位于高维尔德（High Weald）国家景观区内，距离希思菲尔德（Heathfield）2.3 英里。savills.com

北约克郡 195 万英镑 Ash Farm 是一座 18 世纪的五卧室房屋，配有网球场、大型谷仓和两个工作坊。室内亮点包括一个带有横梁天花板的厨房。它位于 Killinghall，距离哈罗盖特（Harrogate）三英里。struttandparker.com # 国际

西班牙 925 万英镑 这座洁净的六卧室、七浴室房屋位于巴塞罗那的高端社区 Bonanova，坐落在散布于蒂比达波山（Mount Tibidabo）山脚下的现代主义豪宅之中，由屡获殊荣的建筑师 Carlos Ferrater 设计，设有家庭影院，并配备空调和地暖。房产包含一个带露台的花园、一个游泳池和一个可停放多辆车的车库。此处靠近国际学校，开车 20 分钟可达机场，距离海滩半小时车程。lucasfox.com

英属维尔京群岛 $5.5 四间卧室和五间浴室分布在一栋主别墅和两栋小屋之间。此外还设有盐水游泳池并可欣赏日落景色。hamptons-international.com

意大利 480 万英镑 这座乡村风格的托斯卡纳农场庄园拥有 17 间卧室，其中包括七套为农业旅游者提供的公寓。庄园占地 163 英亩，生产自家的特级初榨橄榄油和葡萄酒。engelvoelkers.com --- 首页

TWO ROBS：解答您关于成为房东和房地产投资的疑问

我的妻子不想投资房地产 我今年 44 岁，多年来一直想投资房地产。我读了相关书籍，听了播客，并且有足够的现金启动。问题是我的妻子认为我疯了。在她看来，这是一个我们不需要承担的巨大风险。我不想给她压力，但我担心 20 年后回首往事时，我们会因为当时无所作为而感到后悔。我该如何说服她？ ——丹尼尔，沃尔顿-昂-泰晤士（Walton-on-Thames）

这比看起来更容易解决，但我们发现大多数人处理方式不对。当我们与投资者交流时，他们通常是先自行学习房地产知识，变得兴奋起来，并在私下决定自己已经准备好这么做。他们的伴侣第一次知道这件事，往往是在他们预订周六早上的看房行程时，伴侣会被搞得莫名其妙。

因此，我们建议的第一步是完全暂时放下房地产，先就你们的共同目标达成一致。你希望房地产为你带来什么，而你的妻子是否认同这个愿望？你可能希望能够提前退休，或者确信自己能拥有舒适的养老生活，亦或是为下一代积累财富——但无论目标是什么，在就如何实现目标进行理性的对话之前，你们需要对目的地有一个共同的看法。

一旦目标明确，很可能会出现一个差距：仅仅通过储蓄并将现金留在银行是无法实现目标的。这将把对话转向一个事实，即你必须投资于某些东西，那么现在的问题就变成了具体投资什么。此时，你可以开始解释为什么你认为房地产是最合适的选择——这可能是因为利用抵押贷款让你能够建立比投资股票更大的资产基础，或者你可以利用自己的技能来增加额外价值，亦或是完全出于其他原因。一个有益的副作用是，这意味着你自己也必须对此清晰地认识，这样你才能确保自己选择房地产并非仅仅因为它听起来很刺激，或者因为其他类型的投资让你感到不安。

当你开始解释投资房地产的优点时，你的妻子可能仍然会有一些疑虑。我们不敢自称是关系专家，但我们从未通过电子表格解决过婚姻冲突。她的反对意见可能根植于某些恐惧，因此值得共同探讨这些恐惧是什么，以及是否可以克服。例如，她可能担心租客破坏房屋且不付房租的故事——在这种情况下，你可以讨论保险、严格的审核和应急基金如何结合起来将该风险降低到可承受的程度。她可能想象房产最终变成一个“钱坑”，在这种情况下，你可以讨论如何选择一种降低该风险的策略，并计算出如果真的变成噩梦，直接出售并止损需要付出多少代价。

或者，她真正的担忧可能是管理房产组合所花费的时间和精力会削弱家庭生活的其他方面，或者她内心深处甚至有一种根深蒂固的感觉，认为 42% 的房东将其作为养老金缴款进行投资，而成为房东是“错误的”或“不适合我们这样的人”。这些都是合理的担忧——其中一些可以通过强大的共同目标动力来解决，而另一些则不能。我们建议你在讨论时以共同探索为目标，而不是为了“说服她”，并接受放弃计划或将其搁置是一个可能的结局。

但只要你们双方在目标上达成一致，那么一旦你们决定投资，她的疑虑反而会增加你们成功的机会：你们最终会制定出一套更完善的计划，并识别并堵住更多潜在的漏洞。现在可能会感到沮丧，但一个持怀疑态度但给予支持的商业伙伴，最终比一个只会盲目鼓劲的人更有帮助。Rob Dix 和 Rob Bence 是 The Property Podcast 的主持人。他们还共同创立了房地产投资者社区 Property Hub 以及投资应用 Portfolio。Rob Dix 撰写了四本关于投资和租赁的书籍，包括《初学者房地产投资》（Property Investment for Beginners）。请将您想向两位 Rob 提出的问题提交至 propertyhub.net / sundaytimes

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观点鲜明的《Queer Eye》明星 Tan France 设计了他的首个家居系列。Katrina Burroughs 为您带来抢先预览

Tan的色彩

英国时尚专家、Netflix《Queer Eye》明星Tan France并不像我预想中那样具有唐卡斯特（Doncaster）气息。他正尝试从他在犹他州的家中通过Zoom进行视频通话，但我屏幕上看到的只有他的大拇指。“天哪，都过了六年了，我还是搞不定这个，”他说，听起来比起约克郡（Yorkshire）更像黄石公园（Yellowstone）。让我向你们介绍一下43岁的France先生，以防你不是他的四百万Instagram粉丝，或者不是他从《Dressing Funny》到《Honorable Guys》等YouTube作品的粉丝。France拥有一头极棒的头发。他很幽默，比他在《QE》中的搭档们多了一分英国式的刻薄，而且他进行眼神交流的方式就像那是即将过时的时尚一样。他出现在我的屏幕上是为了讨论他的首个家居系列，这是一个他为Castlery设计的18件套系列，反映了他的英国-南亚血统，并融入了中大西洋、中世纪风格的扭曲设计。“我是在一位很出色但也很古怪的女性抚养下长大的，”他说，仿佛他的巴基斯坦-印度裔母亲是最好的切入点。“我深爱着的母亲非常讲究。每样东西都有其位置，且必须被清理到极致。她周一到周日每天经营一家酒类零售店12小时，而且她有五个孩子。她会确保孩子们得到照顾，房子得到打理，但这些必须由孩子们来维持，这样当她在工作间隙休息时，那里就是一个真正平静、安详的空间。”他的母亲Safdar夫人（他几乎每天都与她交谈）对他训练有素。“尽管我小时候没钱，但当我第一次搬出去住时，我的房子总是洁净无瑕。我对家里摆放什么非常讲究，并且非常清楚这如何影响我的心情。”France在18岁时，即2000年离开了家庭之屋，首先搬到伦敦，在那里他曾担任Zara和Selfridges的男装经理，随后在纽约找到了工作。他与出生于怀俄明州的摩门教徒Rob France结婚，采用了对方的姓氏，并定居在犹他州的盐湖城。France开发了女性时尚品牌，包括一个面向摩门教徒的端庄服装品牌，随后卖掉了他的公司，打算专注于与丈夫组建家庭。就在那时，Netflix联系了他。获得艾美奖的《Queer Eye》于2018年推出，共播出了十季。现在，这个来自唐尼（Donny）的男孩成了一个流行文化现象。天哪，France甚至出演了泰勒·斯威夫特（Taylor Swift）的视频。如果你认为France对服装有强烈的看法，你会发现他对家居布置的重要性简直到了狂热的程度。他说：“在不同文化和国家之间生活教会了我，家不仅仅是你居住的地方，而是无论你在哪里，你所创造的东西。”他经常谈到在白人社区成长为一个棕色皮肤穆斯林男孩的困难，以及向家人出柜的压力。他在青少年后期向姐姐和哥哥坦白，但在《Queer Eye》播出前几天才告诉其他亲属；其中一些人一年没跟他说话。他说，他在室内设计和装饰中获得的快乐帮助他庆祝自己的完整身份。“当我搬到美国时，我感到美国版的自我与我非常在意且珍视的亚洲血统之间存在脱节。在英格兰时，我拼命尝试让自己不像亚洲人。我想感觉到没有人因为我的不同而评判我。然后，一旦我来到美国，身边不再有家人或南亚朋友，我就想，我现在想在生活中加入尽可能多的南亚元素。于是，我开始在家里融入这些东西。”他从购买南亚餐具、茶具和装饰金属制品开始，最终设计了他的盐湖城豪宅。房子的橱柜采用了南亚风格的尖拱，有一个烹饪印度美食的香料厨房，还有都铎风格的露梁以及壁炉周围的皮革俱乐部围栏沙发。

这种风格的巧妙融合，加上他的旅行经历和俏皮的个性，成为了他新系列亮点地灵感来源。例如，Anika台灯（£199），这是一个矮小的灯具，看起来像酒店的双层呼叫铃。“我对这款灯非常着迷。最初的灵感来自南亚各地随处可见的一种扇形边饰。当英国殖民印度时，他们借鉴了许多设计——”上图及右图为Tan France及其在Netflix《Queer Eye》中的共同主演。该系列包括一面扇形边落地镜（£599，左上），以及一套餐桌椅（左下，£2,729）。右上图：Anika台灯（£199），放置在Tarin边桌（£299）上。“‘生活、欢笑、爱’（Live Laugh Love）的装饰牌应该被扔进垃圾桶——”

在美国，这是一个广为人知的轻奢品牌，深受千禧一代喜爱；其全球买家中约65%是美国人。Castlery去年夏天进入英国市场，很容易推断出为什么它选择具有独特跨大西洋吸引力的France作为首个设计师合作对象。那么，如果这位推广了“法式塞法”（French tuck，即将衬衫前部的一部分塞进腰带，而让其余部分自然下垂）的品味引领者要为我们的家进行“Queer Eye式改造”，他会给出什么建议？事实证明，他给出的顶级家居提示与他的时尚心得非常相似：真实性。他反对的是没有个性的家。他用一种评判的姿态给出结论，甚至指指点点：“你去逛了Instagram，逛了Pinterest，找到了1.7万,000件东西，然后就简单地把它们全部揉在一起。所以这不是你的品味，这是所有人的品味。这可以是任何人的品味。”

但个人品味难道不需要被监管吗？有没有什么物品，无论多么受喜爱，他都会将其扔进垃圾桶？“你知道‘生活、欢笑、爱’（Live Laugh Love）的装饰牌是什么吗？”哦是的，Tan，我们绝对知道。接下来呢？

那座位于犹他州的豪宅目前正以$7500万的价格出售，France一家希望在年底前搬到纽约。目前他们正在曼哈顿寻找房子，还计划在纽约州北部建立一个乡村度假地。“我对那件事非常兴奋。所以我购买了土地并设计了我的新家，我们将很快开始施工。”与此同时，他正忙于为人父母。“我们有两个孩子，一个五岁的[Ismail]和一个三岁的[Isaac]，如果我没有在拍电视节目或积极地写剧本，我就陪着孩子们。我喜欢尽可能地从零开始烹饪。我周四从英格兰回来，一落地我就在厨房为我丈夫做印度菜，因为他快一周没吃过了，还为孩子们烤面包。我对丈夫和孩子食用什么非常挑剔。我住在美国，这里有很多加工食品。这里食品中的成分让我感到害怕。”我敢打赌，他在南约克郡办公室隔壁的那栋小房子里绝对没吃过加工食品。“我母亲绝不会允许的！”

Castlery x Tan France系列现已在castlery.com发售。灵感[来自印度建筑]，并被应用在英国的某些地方，尤其是伦敦。所以你在英国偶尔会看到感觉非常南亚的扇形边饰。[因为]它是英国和南亚的混合体，我觉得这非常像我。所以我采用了那个形状，直接将其一个叠在另一个之上。我想要一种感觉可爱、讨喜的东西。”此外还有Reya花瓶（短款£149；高款£249）——这是对他成长环境的一种装饰性致敬。“如果你仔细看，它是一件纱丽！它是将纱丽披在花瓶上的诠释。”他补充道：“我真的考虑了每一个该死部件的每一个方面！”

小时候，他接触的是宝莱坞电影和美国电视节目。“在家里，看英国电视是绝对被禁止的。所以大多数时候，当家人在场，尤其是我父亲在场时，我们只被允许看宝莱坞。因此，我的生活是宝莱坞、《Mifrose Place》和《急诊室的故事》（ER）的混合体。”其他心头好还包括《黄金女人们》（Golden Girls）、MTV和《威尔与格蕾丝》（Will & Grace）。现在，France正乐于将英式元素悄悄潜入美国人的家庭中。“我对Tarin边桌非常痴迷。我当时在寻找一种经典的、车削木质的栏杆柱 [维多利亚时代房屋楼梯扶手中常见的纺锤形柱]。我想，如果我把一个英式栏杆柱变成一张可以放入任何美国住宅的边桌会怎样？”对于他旨在使美国室内设计英格利化（anglicise）的计划来说，没有比Castlery更好的特洛伊木马了。这家公司由新加坡人创立，它是一个

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家居

如果安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）和安吉拉·雷纳（Angela Rayner）需要关于如何实现工党到2029年新建150 万套房屋这一宏伟住房承诺的建议，他们下次去北方时可以顺道去趟普雷斯顿（Preston）。

在普雷斯顿西北部的关键开发区，放眼望去，房屋正拔地而起。路边堆满了土方，挖掘机和垃圾车来回穿梭，身后卷起阵阵尘土。农民的田地在砖块和混凝土下逐渐消失——而且这种情况看不到尽头。

到2030年代中期，西北普雷斯顿总体规划区（6,000套）、附近的科塔姆大厅（Cottam Hall，1,100套）和巴特尔（Bartle，1,100套）将总共增加超过8,000套房屋。国家需要新住房，而这座兰开夏郡的城市正在交付数千套。

但关键问题是，代价是什么？

“四年前我们搬到这里时，只要是能看到的地方全部都是田野。路封掉的时候，经常有兔子在路上跑，”75岁的居民、退休巴士司机艾伦·巴克利（Alan Buckley）说道。四年前，他与64岁的伴侣安吉拉·斯科菲尔德（Angela Schofield）在威廉·杨路（William Young Way，以当地一名一战英雄命名）买了一栋价值£30万,000的四卧室独立新房。

“他们占用了所有的田野。我理解这一点，因为人们需要住房，但我确实觉得这对野生动物非常不利。”

新房数据

根据城市中心（Centre for Cities）的数据，普雷斯顿增加住房库存的速度在英国仅次于白金汉郡的“科技之城”米尔顿凯恩斯。该智库发现，普雷斯顿在2023-24年增加了约2,500套住房，增幅为1.5%。同期，米尔顿凯恩斯增加了2,200套住房，增幅为1.8%。普雷斯顿作为一个相对较小的城市，其建设规模与利物浦（2023-24年为2,666套住房）和爱丁堡（2,639套）相当。

每隔几百码就能看到一块开发商的广告牌，上面展示着样板房的精美照片以及针对首次购房者的5%首付补贴等激励措施。在由普雷斯顿市中心和连接布莱克浦与M6高速公路的M55高速公路所包围的西北普雷斯顿总体规划（North West Preston Masterplan）1.5平方英里区域内，共有11家开发商在场施工。其中包括Taylor Wimpey / Bloor Homes和David Wilson Homes等大型国家房屋建筑商，以及总部位于威尔姆斯洛的Morris Homes和Laurus Partnership Homes等主要区域参与者，后者提供租赁和共有产权选项。

在富尔伍德（Fulwood）的Lidl超市（该地区最大的超市）附近遛她的救援犬Dante时，来自布劳顿（Broughton）的49岁抵押贷款顾问塔尼娅·麦克莱南（Tanya Macleannan）表示：“到处都在盖房子。其实挺令人难过的，但这就是城市更新。市场已经太饱和了。普雷斯顿（已经）有足够多的房子。这简直就是无序扩张。”

然而，普雷斯顿的这种“扩张”与全国房屋建设的趋势截然相反。根据《地方政府纪事报》（Local Government Chronicle）最近的一项调查，近七成地方议会表示，他们“肯定”或“可能”无法达成住房目标。没有一名受访者认为在本届议会结束前实现150万套住房的国家目标是可行的。

“除了房子什么都没有”

在Morris Homes的Bartle Meadows开发项目中，37岁的凯莉·沃克（Kayleigh Walker）——

从左至右：塔尼娅·麦克莱南；艾伦·巴克利；凯莉·沃克

该市（处于）历史最低点。2012年，议会确定了两个战略增长地点：市中心和普雷斯顿西北部。随后在2013年，一项为期十年的经济更新计划提出在普雷斯顿和南里布尔（South Ribble）建设超过1724万,240套住房，外加四个主要道路方案、一个位于科塔姆公园（Cottam Parkway）的火车站，并创造2万,000个私营部门就业岗位。

这是全国唯一一个以住房为中心的城市协议，旨在通过整合开发商的社区基础设施征费（CIL）、新房奖金（New Homes Bonus）、政府交通拨款（由中央政府支付给地方政府，以鼓励和奖励住房增长并支持交通改善）以及英格兰住房局（Homes England）的土地销售收入来加速住房增长。

“开发商辩称……他们无法承担任何CIL款项，如果引入该项费用，开发工作将陷入停滞，”海沃德（Hayward）说道。“ [但] 直到今天它仍在发挥作用。这非常重要，它为一些必需的基础设施提供了开发资金。特别是为了避免拥堵而需要的道路。”

2015年，普雷斯顿地方规划（Preston Local Plan）分配了开发场地，并确定了新道路的路线，例如以普雷斯顿女权运动者命名的Edith Rigby Way（普雷斯顿西部配送路），以及以另一位当地一战英雄命名的James Towers Way（布劳顿绕道）。随后在2017年推出了西北普雷斯顿总体规划，其中确定了一所中学、两所小学和一个线性公园的选址。

需要学校

而这就是我们今天的现状。两所小学、一所中学、一座公园以及一个拥有约 25万 个停车位的火车站及接驳停车场（park and ride）尚未出现。我们采访的每一位当地居民都提到了令人压力巨大的学校状况。Leah Brear, 33, 在七年前与丈夫、Michael Brear, 42, 一位数据分析师一起搬进了位于富尔伍德（Fulwood）巴拉特（Barratt）Wesley Chase 开发区的一栋价值 £20万,000 的房子里。他们有三个儿子，分别在九岁、七岁和四岁，就读于哈里斯小学（Harris Primary School），距离家中约 30 分钟步行路程或 6 分钟车程。她担心孩子们最终会就读于哪所中学。“最近的一所在布劳顿（Broughton）。我们小区里有一个家庭，长子进入了布劳顿高中 [距离 2.5 英里]，但随后他们更改了所有学区边界，导致年幼的弟妹无法进入。他们将就读于大主教坦普尔英格兰教会高中（Archbishop Temple Church of England High School）。”

到 2030 年代中期，北西普雷斯顿（North West Preston）总体规划区域将建成 6,000 栋房屋

一名首次购房者望着窗外的田野。“我喜欢拥有自己的房子，[但] 其他设施还没有跟上，比如生活配套——如果你不开车，真的没法在这里生活，”沃克（Walker）说道。她是一名社会住房项目经理，三年前以 £250,000 的价格买下了一栋三居室半独立式住宅。“这里没有商店。好吧，Hoyles Lane 上的 Premier 刚刚开业，在那之前只有 Haydocks Lane 上的 Co-op。没有健身房，没有酒吧，没有外卖店，没有构成一个社区所需的一切。”

普雷斯顿市议会开发与住房总监克里斯·海沃德（Chris Hayward）表示，吸引支付大额商业税的大品牌零售商和酒店连锁店非常困难。“这是一个难题……这是市场问题，我们可以确定开发场地，但无法将其交付。”然而，所有这些新房带来的市政税收入使市议会的金库保持稳定。“市政税增长巨大。它猛增了。即使在紧缩时期，这也缓解了我们的预算状况——市议会能够投资于市内其他贫困地区。”

在 Sandy Lane 的 Maxy Farm Pantry & Restaurant 餐厅，Robert Duckworth, 45, 总经理对该地区没有遍布餐厅、咖啡馆、酒吧和商店感到困惑，因为这里有数千人搬来居住。“这里简直只有房子……除了房子之外什么都没有，这相当令人惊讶。也许企业或大型酒店连锁店对此没有兴趣。原计划在对面建一家酒店和一家酒吧，但因为某些原因，英国没有任何大公司对该地区感兴趣，所以计划被取消了。”

社区没有健身房，没有酒吧，没有外卖店

简史 普雷斯顿在房屋建设方面走向辉煌的历史可追溯到几十年前——这对唐宁街来说是一个有益的提醒：开发需要时间。从 20 世纪 70 年代的“新城运动”开始，中央政府与地方政府之间就存在着长期的合作关系。住房和工业建设在中央兰开夏新城开发公司（Central Lancashire New Town Development Corporation）拥有的土地上进行。当该机构在 1985 年解散时，土地移交给住房与社区署（Homes and Communities Agency，现为 Homes England），其中包括科塔姆大厅（Cottam Hall），它是北西普雷斯顿最早看到显著住宅开发的地区之一。然而，开发进度缓慢；在 2009-10 年间，仅建了五栋房子。

£6.00 科塔姆公园路（Cottam Parkway）新火车站的成本——首次提议于 2013 年

仅仅是 Fulwood，那里更远。”在 Fulwood 自由卫理公会教堂外，一个游戏小组正进行得如火如荼。前教室助理盖诺·肯沃西（Gaynor Kenworthy），73岁，丈夫是退休公务员加文（Gavin），75岁，她表示同意。“应该有更多的学校，他们承诺过会增加学校，但并没有实现。”这对夫妇在七年前搬到了位于 Cottam 的 Taylor Wimpey 公司 Hayfield Park 开发区的一栋价值 £20万,000 的三居室半独立屋中，以方便照顾孙辈。“我们喜欢它位于社区边缘而非中心这一点，规模确实正合适。[我的担忧]更多是因为住房的数量，房屋太多了，而且都挤在一起。”建设学校的协议必须由教育主管机构兰开夏郡议会达成。“我们可能会说责怪别人很容易，但我们确实无法控制这一点。”海沃德（Hayward）说道。学校名额每年都会审核，重点是让孩子们进入现有学校。“他们对于过早建设新学校有些紧张，”海沃德补充道。“作为市议会，我们会同意从规划和可持续性的角度来看，你肯定不希望小学生一直被开车送往学校。”

变动的故事

新火车站已获得规划许可并拥有土地使用权，但因资金短缺而推迟。政府削减了“新房奖金”（New Homes Bonus）的资金额度，且 Edith Rigby Way 的成本大幅增加，因此郡议会寻求替代方案。“曾有一项在‘城市转型基金’（Transforming Cities Fund）下的申请试图实现这一目标，但遗憾的是时间表不匹配，”海沃德解释道。“他们目前拥有 £28.4 10.3% 普雷斯顿（Preston）人口从 2014 到 2024 年的增长率。成本约为 £6000 万，因此存在缺口，但希望通过新的兰开夏联合郡当局，我们将在今年努力达成资金协议。”如果成功，工程应于 2027 年 6 月启动，该车站位于曼彻斯特皮卡迪利（Manchester Piccadilly）与布莱克浦北站（Blackpool North）之间的铁路线上，预计于 2030 年底开放。

简·布莱克威尔（Jane Blackwell）是 Fulwood 的居民，也是当地房产中介 Clarkson Holden 的物业顾问，她表示，普雷斯顿的道路交通已经非常便捷，非常适合通勤前往曼彻斯特和利物浦。此外，通过附近的 M6 高速公路，也可以轻松开车前往莱瑟姆圣安妮斯（Lytham St Annes）、法尔代海岸（Fylde Coast）以及湖区。同时，当地的大型雇主也在吸引新人口，包括位于 Warton 和 Samlesbury 的航空航天与国防公司 BAE Systems。普雷斯顿的 39.9816万,816 名人口在 2014 年至 2024 年的十年间增长了 10.8%。

“想要搬进这个地区的人绝不少，”布莱克威尔说。“尽管确实有些人搬走了。他们在那儿只住了一两年，就承认这是一个错误。他们感到被困住了，社区规模太大，去哪里都得开车，家门口什么都没有。他们被样板房给诱惑了。”

房屋

普雷斯顿周边每年有数千套房屋在建设——但居民们在质疑，他们是否能拥有火车站、学校或商店。 作者：Jayne Dowle

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搬迁至……克罗地亚

凯西·霍克（Cathy Hawker）表示，前往那里可以享受“欧洲最佳的生活方式”并办理数字游民签证。

紧跟远程办公趋势的数字游民们对克罗地亚了如指掌。其于2021年推出的数字游民签证办理速度快（典型处理时间约为20天），每月最低收入要求相对较低，为€3,622.50，且极具吸引力的是，签证持有者的所有海外收入均免税。

一个主要以音乐节、航海之旅和海滩假期而闻名的夏季目的地，是否能成为移居之选？

“克罗地亚拥有欧洲最佳的生活方式，再加上一点巴尔干式的疯狂，”Total Croatia News的所有者、已在克罗地亚生活了25年的英国人保罗·布拉德伯里（Paul Bradbury）说道。“它是世界上最安全的地方之一，犯罪率极低，内陆和沿海的自然美景令人惊叹，食物也非常棒。这里的人心态非常积极，具有强烈的社区和家庭意识，而且克罗地亚人非常有幽默感。”

“是的，脱欧后英国人来这里变得更困难了，但他们依然在到来，像Rimac（电动汽车与技术）和Infobip（通信与IT）这样的公司正在帮助合格岗位申请工作许可。”

如何搬迁

在每180天中停留超过90天，英国护照持有者需要办理签证。数字游民签证的费用为€55.74（另加€41.14办理生物识别居留卡），有效期为18个月，现在可以续签另外18个月。相关信息可在克罗地亚内政部网站上查询。

其他选项包括学生签证、针对在克罗地亚有确定工作的申请人的就业许可，以及家庭团聚签证。申请可通过vfuglobal.com提交。

搬迁至何处

主要城市包括杜布罗夫尼克（Dubrovnik）、斯普利特（Split）、罗维尼（Rovinj）、扎达尔（Zadar）以及首都萨格勒布（Zagreb）。

布拉德伯里警告说，要小心在夏天爱上某个地方。

“几乎所有沿海地点都是季节性的，因此冬天死气沉沉，而旺季则忙乱不堪，”他说。“没有这种旅游业‘悠悠球’效应的大城市有萨格勒布、里耶卡（Rijeka）和奥西耶克（Osijek）；而适合全职居住且拥有优秀社区的小镇有萨格勒布附近的萨莫洛夫（Samolov）和伊斯特拉（Istria）的拉宾（Labin）。”

Savills房产中介关联公司Dream Estates Croatia的总经理基兰·凯勒赫（Kieran Kelleher）表示，他收到了更多来自英国买家的咨询，他们正在考虑长期或永久搬迁，尤其是在伊斯特拉、夸尔内尔（Kvarner）和达尔马提亚（Dalmatia）地区。

“这里的主要吸引力是安全与保障，”他说。

租赁与生活成本

Kelleher表示，在萨格勒布，两居室全年租赁的月租金预计在€800至€1,300之间；伊斯特拉的淡季租赁起价为€700，斯普利特起价为€1,000。他说：“沿海地区的业主在旺季通常更倾向于短期租赁。政府已经进行了重大政策调整，通过打击短期租赁来释放临时住宿用于长期租赁。相应地，杜布罗夫尼克在2026年没有发放任何新的首次短期租赁许可证。”作为EF语言留学（EF Language Abroad）的全球总监，40岁的Hugh McNeilly经常因工作而旅行。六年前，为了寻找一个长期基地，且需要筹集在伯恩茅斯购房的定金，他与一名朋友在距离扎达尔20分钟车程的图兰（Turanj）海滩附近买了一套两居室公寓。他每年至少访问两次，并在Airbnb上以每晚最高€180的价格出租该房产。他说：“每年六月、七月和八月都被订满了。克罗地亚在2023年加入欧元区后价格有所上涨，但生活成本仍然可负担。一瓶葡萄酒的价格在€10至€12之间，在外就餐的一顿饭大约需要€15至€20。”Bradbury表示，岛屿比内陆更贵。住在靠近斯洛文尼亚边境的人倾向于在那里逛超市，因为那里更便宜，而伊斯特拉人经常开车去意大利寻找性价比更高的地方。

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Louise Curley挑选了11种能够承受从酷暑热浪到冬季暴雨等各种天气的植物

无论天气如何

英国温带气候是我们拥有如此著名花园的原因之一，也是世界其他地区的许多植物能在这里茁壮成长的原因——但情况正在发生变化。种植一些我们喜爱的花园植物正变得越来越困难。英国皇家园艺学会（Royal Horticultural Society）正将其在萨里郡威斯利（Wisley）的杜鹃花、醋栗和大黄收藏转移到北约克郡和索尔福德（Salford）的花园中，并且正在考虑转移部分绣球花，因为这些植物与日益频繁的热浪和干旱越来越不相容。

过去，花园风格的演变是由于时尚的改变，但气候变化则是另一种情况。园艺者面临的挑战是极端天气，从更潮湿的冬季和更强烈的风暴，到极高温度和干旱。帮助植物度过一两周的炎热天气是一回事，但连续数月浇水对于园艺者或我们的供水系统来说根本不可持续。再加上大多数温带植物的最佳夏季温度范围是 20-30℃——超过这个范围，热压力会干扰植物的生理过程，导致叶片过早脱落、叶焦或萎蔫——植物陷入困境也就不足为奇了。

寻找能够应对这种多样化极端天气的植物是一项挑战。地中海植物似乎是最显而易见的选择，但它们不喜欢寒冷潮湿且在结冰与融化之间反复切换的冬季，而这在英国大部分地区仍然很典型。它们还演化为在贫瘠、排水良好的土壤中生长；如果给它们提供沉重且营养丰富的土壤，它们的生长状况会变得很糟糕，从而像其他植物一样容易受到干旱的影响。

虽然没有简单的答案，但有办法让你的种植更具韧性。如果冬季排水是个问题，可以考虑创建高床（raised beds），这样就能种植更广泛的植物。在秋季以及随后的春季，在树木、灌木和多年生植物的基部用堆肥覆盖（mulch）。能够保持水分且富含真菌网络的土壤将培育出更健康的植物，使其能更好地应对极端天气。

春季天气已不再能可靠地提供足够的水分，让新植物在夏季到来前扎根，因此请尝试在秋季完成所有种植。地中海植物是例外——对于这些植物，请使用如砾石之类的覆盖物，这样既不会增加土壤养分，也不会锁住水分（以免导致腐烂），并等到春季再种植。

据估计，到 2050 年，伦敦的气候将与现在的巴塞罗那相当，因此在选择树木等长寿植物时，前瞻性思考至关重要。英国皇家植物园（Kew）的研究和气候模型强调了欧洲鹅耳枥（Carpinus betulus）、犹大树（Cercis siliquastrum）和印度骄傲（Koefreuteria paniculata）等作为具有韧性的物种。

树木在承受压力时经常会出现“假秋天”现象，脱落干枯的叶子以保护有限的资源。虽然这通常不是树木死亡的迹象，但它表明树木可能处于不合适的环境中，或者周围的土壤需要堆肥覆盖。

随着夏季禁用水管成为常态，请考虑尽可能多地收集雨水。如果可能，安装一套带有地下储水箱的雨水收集系统。如果不行，且你还没有安装，请将雨水桶连接到落水管上。

今年夏天，多年生植物的花期结束得快得多，导致许多花园失去了花朵，但这在地中海花园的盛夏很常见，那里的植物已经演化出通过进入休眠状态来应对极端高温的能力。在这些月份里，是常绿植物提供了结构、趣味和遮荫。这需要我们在看待花园的方式上进行相当大的文化转变，但我们可能也需要考虑这一点。

有时，某些植物生长良好而另一些则不然，并没有明显的解释。在我的花园里，主要是那些喜欢夏季水分的多年生植物，例如山顶星、绣球举花、吐根和 bistorta，不出所料地看起来状态不佳；但典型的喜水植物——紫花千屈菜 'Blush' (Lythrum salicaria 'Blush') 却绿意盎然且正值盛放。未来的几年将在于接受我们的花园正在发生变化，以及进行大量的尝试与摸索。

种植建议

Stachys byzantina (1) 羊耳草是一种来自地中海的经典耐旱多年生植物，但 2012 年发表的一项研究表明，它对洪涝也具有显著的抵抗力，这确实也是我的经验之谈。它能形成一层贴地的银灰色叶片地毯，叶片上覆盖着细小的绒毛，这种适应性保护它免受强光和极端高温的影响。毛茸茸的花茎上开着不显眼的粉色小花，深受蜜蜂喜爱。

Verbena bonariensis (2) 这种深受人们喜爱的多年生植物拥有纤细的茎干，赋予了植株一种透明感，使得那些像小绒球一样、颜色鲜艳的洋红色花簇仿佛漂浮在草类和其他多年生植物之间。它的花期从 6 月持续到 11 月，种子可为鸟类提供食物。

Asplenium scolopendrium (3) 鹿舌蕨拥有宽大且亮绿色的叶片，原产于英国，是古老林地的指示植物，但它同样适合在花园中生长。它非常适合种植在树下的干燥阴凉处，或墙壁及铺装路面的缝隙中。

Hylotelephium 'Matrona' (4) 多肉植物具有储水的叶片，是应对干燥夏季的理想选择。这是一个格外迷人的品种，拥有灰绿色的叶片和深红色的茎，顶端簇拥着粉色和白色的星形花朵。Trachelospermum jasminoides (5) 茉莉花是一种常绿攀缘植物，叶片呈深绿色且有光泽，夏季会开出大量芬芳的白花。在法国，它常被用于覆盖建筑并提供凉爽的遮荫。将其种植在阳光充足的墙边花坛或种植袋中，并用串在墙壁固定挂钩之间的金属丝进行支撑。Arbutus unedo (6) 草莓树原产于地中海地区，在轻质、排水良好的土壤中生长旺盛。它拥有细长的常绿叶片、极具吸引力的脱落树皮，秋季会开出乳白色的小花，并结出类似草莓的果实。如果空间有限，可以选择 'Compacta' 品种，其高度和冠幅均为 2.5m。Foeniculum vulgare 茴香一直是我花园中的可靠植物，它能产生一层轻盈的羽状绿色叶片，分枝茎干高度约 1.5m，顶端开出亮黄色的伞形花序，能吸引昆虫。冬季可保留茎干以维持景观结构，其种子可供雀类食用。它会自播，因此请在深主根发育之前尽早清除不需要的植株。Hydrangea 'Limelight' 当口团绣球花在干燥的夏季苦苦挣扎时，这种圆锥绣球品种似乎具有更强的适应力，且能适应全日照生长。花朵最初呈柠檬绿色，随后褪色为乳白色，到了秋季则会出现淡粉色的色调。冬季的最后点缀则是出现骨架般的古铜色花头。Pinus mugo 'Mops' 由于七十年代的花园设计，松树在这个国家仍然名声不佳，但它们维护成本低，且能提供极佳的全年结构感。我在布列塔尼的市政种植方案中看到它们与草类以及蓍草和大量百合花等多年生植物结合在一起。Acer campestre 本地原生的田枫是一种适应力强、健壮的树木，能够耐受各种环境和土壤类型。其春季的花朵是昆虫欢迎的食物来源，秋季则带来迷人的金黄色叶片景观。它可以长到 12m 高；对于较小的花园，矮生栽培品种 'Nanum' 更为合适（高度 3-7m）。Nepeta 'Walker's Low' 我热爱薰衣草，但冬季的潮湿和粘土意味着它在我的花园里寿命太短。荆芥被证明是一个极佳的替代方案。其灰绿色的叶丛在早春出现，薰衣草色的花朵在 5 月底绽放。在盛夏对其进行快速修剪，它将一直开花直到秋季。

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LBC电台主持人伊恩·戴尔（Iain Dale），64岁，从小在埃塞克斯郡的一个农场长大，一直与动物为伴。他与丈夫约翰多年来养过许多狗，但他表示，与某些人的假设相反，狗并不是同性恋者的孩子替代品。此外，他宁愿养狗也不愿要孩子。他们在肯特郡汤布里奇韦尔斯附近的家中养着一只名叫Dude的杰克罗素梗，15岁，以及一只名叫Woody的迷你雪纳瑞，3岁。

Dude是什么时候进入你的生活的？

2011年，在我们之前的杰克罗素梗Gio去世后，它加入了我们的生活。我们养了Gio 14年，起初决定不再养狗。我们不主张把狗关在犬舍里，所以养狗意味着一种束缚。但在六周后，我们几乎在同一时间说：“我们要不要再养一只狗？”房子显得太空了。于是我们决定养两只狗，因为我们认为如果有一天我们必须离开它们超过几个小时，它们可以互相陪伴。Dude来自贝德福德的一家繁育场。它实际上四分之三是杰克罗素梗，四分之一是边境梗。大家都认为杰克罗素梗爱叫且脾气暴躁，但它实际上出奇地安静。它会对邮递员吠叫，但从未咬过人。

你能告诉我们关于Woody的情况吗？

它实际上是我们养的第二只迷你雪纳瑞。我们的第一只狗是在养Dude的同时养的，名叫Bubba，与Woody完全不同。Bubba基本上相当笨，而Woody是纯种血统，且是一窝狗中的一只，它非常聪明且非常活跃。我们住在楼上，所以它每天上下楼跑多少次简直无法计数。它还具有极强的好奇心。

你的狗给你的生活带来了什么？

它们远不止是“宠物”。我认为对很多人来说都是如此。人们经常抛出这样的一套说辞，称宠物是同性伴侣的替代孩子。事实上，我从未想要孩子。我宁愿养狗也不愿要孩子。当Bubba去世时，感觉就像我们失去了一位家庭成员。而随着Dude进入如此高龄，它发展出了许多人性化的特质。它知道我们其中一人生病或处于低谷期。当我患胆囊问题时，

“我不需要孩子”

LBC主持人伊恩·戴尔谈论他的迷你雪纳瑞Woody、杰克罗素梗Dude以及他心爱的Bubba。

Dude只想靠近我。每当我经历身体创伤需要休息时，Woody会趴在我的肚子上，这在平时是不常见的。它们就是能感知到。

Dude是不是曾经失踪过一次？

那是我人生中最糟糕的日子之一。当时我们住在以前在诺福克郡拥有的周末度假屋里，当我开车前往克罗默高尔夫俱乐部时，约翰打电话说：“Dude不见了。我找不到它。”我们花了两个小时开车四处寻找，但就像大海捞针一样。最终，约翰接到当地兽医的电话，说一名女士发现了Dude在路上游荡并将其带到了那里。有趣的是，当约翰到达时，Dude直接跳进车里，就好像这只是一个极其平常的一天。

你与这些狗的日常生活是怎样的？

我们住在一个12英亩的小农场里，所以我们会带它们走到土地尽头再折返。坦白说，我们可能没有像应该那样经常带它们散步，因为它们反正一直在房子周围冲来冲去。约翰负责大部分的散步，因为我一周有四天在LBC工作。它们现在总是系着牵引绳。即使在自己的房产内，我们也非常小心。

它们需要很多训练吗？

我们的狗都没有接受过任何正式训练。如厕训练一直是我们最大的挑战，甚至现在它们偶尔还是会出丑。Woody有一条表达力极强的尾巴。如果它知道自己做错了事，尾巴会卷曲在屁股上方。

它们挑食吗？一点也不。它们吃袋装食品，里面混有饼干。Woody 永远处于一种期待食物即将出现的希望之中。他会把爪子搭在我的腿上，仿佛在说：“我知道你迟早会给我什么的。我现在就想要。”根据我们吃什么，它们偶尔能分到一点额外的碎食。它们喜欢薯条，所以每次都被允许吃一片。而且它们热爱鸡肉，所以在它们的生日那天，它们会吃烤鸡作为特别款待。

它们多久去一次美容店？Woody 每六周得去一次。我们同时带 Dude 去洗澡。我不知道他们用的是什么乳液，但对 来说，那就像伟哥一样。

这些狗相处得好吗？非常好。晚上它们蜷缩在沙发上， 总是确保自己触碰到 Dude。如果 生病了， 会把爪子保护性地搭在他身上。 和 Bubba 之前也是这样。它们一起长大，彼此宠爱。这也是为什么当 Bubba 生病时，我们所有人都深受影响的部分原因。

的去世令人心碎，不是吗？当兽医告诉我们他患了癌症时，我们的整个世界都崩塌了。 存活的时间比兽医预期的要长得多，但最终 John 说：“我想时间到了。”我们的兽医自 Gio 以来照顾过我们的每一只狗，所以它们从未害怕去看他。但 知道。在注射之前，我们两人用手捧着他的头。他抬头看着我们，那双美丽的眼睛与我们的目光相遇。但他对即将发生的事情完全平静。那是我们对他最后的爱之举。我们带着 一起去，因为有人告诉我们，狗能理解死亡，即使它们不像人类那样悲伤。兽医将 放在地板上，然后把 带进来。他闻了闻，然后走开了。他低落了几天，比平时更黏人，但除此之外似乎没有受到影响。我很失望，但兽医说他的反应完全正常。

你是在有狗的环境中长大的吗？我最早的记忆是一只叫 Shep 的柯利犬。他去世时我才五岁。之后我们养了两只平滑毛的金黄色拉布拉多，Sandy 和 Honey，而且在我的整个童年时期，我们一直养着一只杰克罗素梗。首先是 Glen，然后是 Jazz，接着是 Spike。它们是农场犬，尽管住在房子里。

[顺时针从左起：Iain Dale 与 和 在七月；Jazz，Dale 成长过程中养过的几只狗之一；猫 Lexy；（左）和 在 2011 年]

你能想象没有狗的生活吗？不能。猫太高傲且冷漠。我成长过程中确实养过一只猫：Lexy，全名是 Alexis Carrington Colby Dexter，是以《王朝》中琼·柯林斯饰演的角色命名的。她活到了 18 岁，是一只美丽的猫。但我一直更喜欢狗。狗更依赖人，但它们更深情。

采访者：Angela Wintle 《我是否说得太多？：我的政治与媒体生涯》（Have I Said Too Much?: My Life in Politics & the Media），作者 Iain Dale，现已出版精装本（Biteback Publishing，£25）。如需订购，请访问 timesbookshop.co.uk。Times+ 会员可享特别折扣。

“人们说宠物是同性伴侣的替代孩子” --- 首页

时间与空间

JIM CHAPMAN

我的物理治疗师成了我的朋友，全因DIY失误

这位YouTuber讲述他在科茨沃尔德（Cotswolds）带着两个年幼的孩子翻新房子的经历。

我无法想象回到一个空荡荡的家，而地板上没有孩子们到处乱丢的鞋子。在我小时候，我的家非常不同，因为我的父亲是个糟糕的人。但在我父母分开后，我们搬到了一个叫阿特尔伯勒（Attleborough）的小镇，距离诺里奇（Norwich）大约20分钟车程。我们在那里很安全。你可能会认为安全是家的最低要求，但事实并非总是如此。我母亲采取的是“门户开放”政策，所以我们都会出去玩滑板，我和哥哥回来时会带一大群朋友。她总是会准备好她亲手做的巧克力蛋糕。我希望这个家对我的孩子们来说也是如此。

你是如何进入社交媒体领域的？

我从小想成为一名插画师，但上大学时我选择了心理学，于是我停止了绘画。我怀念那种创意表达方式，所以周末我会制作YouTube内容。那时社区规模非常小——我们说的是20到30个人——然后它开始缓慢增长。

你的第一个视频关于什么？

它叫《我的频道介绍》。视频里的我，在笔记本电脑摄像头的糟糕光线下，看起来简直触目惊心：画质极差，音频也极差。现在你绝对没法这么拍。那简直就是我站在卧室里说：“你好，我现在要开始制作内容了。”我的姐妹们已经在制作YouTube化妆教程了，所以我想，我要做男生的对应版本。我开始做发型、时尚和造型。直到后来，当我遇到一些其他的YouTuber时，我才意识到你可以做任何你想做的事情。我在本不该辞职的时候就辞掉了在保险公司做数据录入的工作，因为当时我从YouTube赚的钱还不足以维持生存。

在那些YouTube黄金时代，你最美好的回忆是什么？

当时我觉得自己像是在原地踏步。我一直深信这一切即将结束。我发现自己处于一种矛盾的境地：我是YouTube上的大名鼎鼎之人之一，但又是这些大人物中规模最小的一个——虽然粉丝数量只差一点，但这真的让我很心烦。奇怪的是，最令我难忘的时刻是被人围堵，因为那有点可怕。我认为这揭示了现实，因为你可以对着摄像头说话，但你不知道屏幕另一端发生了什么。我做过一些不可思议的事情。我简直不敢相信路易威登（Louis Vuitton）把我带到纽约并说：“这是我们的手机，这周由你接管我们的社交媒体”，我还曾在上海主持过时装秀。

你买的第一套房子是什么样的？

我之前在诺里奇。我在2014年买了我的第一套房子，那是一栋两层两室的小房子，价格为£18万,000。即便在现在看来这也太疯狂了，因为时间过得并不久。几乎在拿到钥匙后，我就频繁往返于伦敦，以至于我花在房子之外的时间比在房子里的时间还多。

为什么搬到科茨沃尔德？

这里离我妻子的父母很近，我们需要有人帮我们照顾孩子。切尔滕纳姆（Cheltenham）是个极美的地方。这里经常举办各种活动，而且去伦敦也很方便。这房子有很多问题。屋顶需要修理，所有的管道都需要重新铺设，因为它是乔治亚风格的。只有后半部分有管道，那是维多利亚时期的扩建部分。我们重新铺设了电线，而且我们有一个完整的半地下层，那里霉菌极其严重，我甚至还没敢去看。我突然得同时兼顾三种生活：为了工作去伦敦，回家后为人父母，同时还在翻新房子——所以我现在根本没时间睡觉。

有出名的邻居吗？

我偶尔会见到（喜剧演员）多姆·乔利（Dom Joly）。我也经常偶遇（演员）杰米·多南（Jamie Dornan）。

带着两个小孩在屋里跑来跑去，装修起来感觉如何？ 我很喜欢。我很有创造力，所以能亲手改造一座像空白画布一样的房子让我感到非常兴奋。我知道我正在为孩子们打造一个永远的家。我的物理治疗师成了我的好朋友，我们现在经常一起喝酒。我见他次数很多，因为在DIY出事故后，他得不断地帮我“重新组装”身体。

住过最糟糕的地方？ 简单的答案是我父亲在身边的时候，因为那时很可怕；但大概是我们搬到这里之前的那个房子。莎拉（Sarah）和我当时没意识到我们已经多么渴望离开伦敦；在那个房子里，我们总觉得自己的状态是半进半出。

采访人：Sasha Nugara

我没有护照也没有智能手机，所以没法卖房

我正尝试将我的房子挂牌出售，但失败了。我找不到中介，因为有人告诉我，如果卖家没有护照、驾照或智能手机，在英格兰是不可能出售房产的。我没有护照，因为我从不出国。我没有驾照，因为我有视觉障碍。我没有智能手机，因为我不需要，而且它们很贵。

我已经联系了 21 家房产中介。大多数都不愿意接受委托。在过去的几周里，我先后委托了三家中介。每一家都同意在我不具备护照、驾照和智能手机的情况下灵活处理。但在每一种情况下，一旦他们接受了委托，就反悔了，要求提供护照或驾照，并表示外包的身份验证必须在智能手机上完成。

所以我陷入了僵局。护照是用来出国的，而不是用来卖房的。为了证明我不是罪犯或洗钱者而花钱买一部智能手机，这简直疯了。中介应该提供替代方案，但他们毫不让步。我觉得自己被逼到了绝境，因为替代方案是存在的，但我找不到愿意这样操作的中介。我该如何让我的房子上市？

PU A 房产中介在法律上有义务验证卖家的身份，以遵守反洗钱法规，但法律中并没有规定这只能通过护照、驾照或智能手机来完成。许多房产中介现在使用数字身份验证服务，但这些系统不应将那些没有智能手机或没有常用照片身份证件的人排除在外。

验证身份的替代方法确实存在，例如检查官方文件或进行人工核查，尽管这些可能需要中介投入更多的时间和精力。消费者不应感到被迫去办理一个永远不会用到的护照，或购买一部智能手机仅仅为了卖房。

如果中介拒绝考虑合理的替代身份验证方法，值得要求他们解释原因，以及是否可以改为执行人工验证流程。如果他们仍然拒绝，您可以通过中介的内部投诉程序提出投诉，并在必要时将其升级到他们所属的房产申诉计划。

此外，联系他们所属的行业团体（如 Propertymark）可能也有帮助，因为这些团体能够澄清在当前指南下哪些替代身份验证方法是可接受的。

更广泛地说，这凸显了一个风险，即日益依赖纯数字化流程可能会将没有智能手机或标准身份证明文件的消费者排除在外。企业应确保其系统保持可访问性并提供切实可行的替代方案，以免人们被不公平地排除在基本服务之外。

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请提供关于如何去除棉质夏季中长裙上无油粉底液污渍的建议。在我尝试清洗后，污渍已经干在了面料上。我试过用少量洗洁精和白醋浸泡，但似乎没有效果。Sally Roberts 我从 Mrs Hinch 那里学到可以用卸妆水去除化妆品印记。Jeanie, Crouch End 建议使用 3% 的过氧化氢进行局部处理。亚马逊上售价约 £6。如果成功，将裙子放在阳光下晾干。如果没成功，请重复操作。RL

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在厨房水槽和台面周围飞舞的果蝇快让我疯了。有什么能有效驱除它们的建议吗？Keira Peacock 请将技巧和问题发送至 homehelp@sunday-times.co.uk。所提供建议不承担法律责任

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旅游

我有一个园艺习惯：我喜欢在英国各地旅行，对着别人的地块垂涎三尺。作为一名自学成才的园丁，我对绿色灵感的追求让我走遍了各处，从像邱园（Kew Gardens）这样的大名鼎鼎之地，到像埃塞克斯（Essex）贝丝·查托（Beth Chatto）砾石花园这样的小众去处。但我最喜欢的地方是伦敦兰贝斯（Lambeth）的切尔西药用植物园（Chelsea Physic Garden）和花园博物馆（Garden Museum）。几年前，在从维多利亚车站步行经过骑兵卫队阅兵场（Horse Guards Parade）前往格林公园（Green Park）的途中，我发现了洋葱花园（Onion Garden），那是高楼大厦之间由社区运营的一抹绿意，现在它成了我的常规停靠点。那里太棒了，如果你在附近，我恳请你去看看——而且那里的咖啡和蛋糕真的很不错。尽管我如此热爱园艺（我对我在南伦敦的小地块倾注了全部心血），你会发现我最喜欢的大多数花园都带有某种美食元素——无论是顶着金盏花叶的沙拉，还是大黄马提尼。以下是我为您提供的内部指南。

PERCH HILL 东萨塞克斯，罗伯茨布里奇 (ROBERTSBRIDGE, EAST SUSSEX)

如果你没听说过莎拉·雷文（Sarah Raven），你真的算是个花园爱好者吗？在指定的开放日，请前往 Perch Hill 参观她那 90 英亩的可食用、观赏及试验花园。八月份，花境繁花似锦，切花花园溢彩流光，温室里挤满了天竺葵。这是一种以最美的方式对感官进行的万花筒式冲击。由首席园丁乔西·刘易斯（Josie Lewis）照料的大丽花试验床是我最喜欢的。雷文通常在开放日出现；你可以预约早晨的讲座，在温室里吃午餐，或者参加花园导览。那家商店好到让你永远不想离开。八月和九月的指定日期开放（花园门票 £18，讲座及午餐 £70；sarahraven.com）。

住宿推荐 Ticehurst 的 The Bell，一家拥有奇幻内饰的乡村酒吧。B&B 双人间 £123 起 (thebellinticehurst.com)。

RHS WISLEY 萨里，沃金 (WOKING, SURREY)

Wisley 位于 M25 高速公路外，是我的本地常去之地。虽然它以 240 英亩土地内绵长且繁茂的花境而闻名，但为了参观皮特·奥多夫（Piet Oudolf）花园而进行一次朝圣也是值得的。这位纽约高线公园（High Line）背后的主脑重新构思了经典的温室花境，用蜿蜒的小径穿过多年生植物和草类——这是一场现代种植的大师课。请园艺团队为你指出那棵壮观的芭比粉色中国女贞（Toona sinensis，又称火烈鸟树）；我有偏见，因为我自己的花园里就有一棵。这里还有一些在英国其他地方找不到的独特树种 (£21; rhs.org.uk)。

住宿推荐 历史悠久且庄重的 Beaverbrook，拥有意大利花园和可以野餐的草甸。B&B 双人间 £560 起 (beaverbrook.co.uk)。

GRAVETYE MANOR 西萨塞克斯，西莫斯利 (WEST MOATHLY, WEST SUSSEX)

对于厨房花园的爱好者来说，Gravetye 应该是清单上的首选。其椭圆形厨房花园是由具有影响力的维多利亚时代园丁、也是 Gravetye 的所有者威廉·罗宾逊（William Robinson）设计的。围墙的工程始于 1898 年，历时三年完工，至今仍保持着惊人的原貌。庄园占地超过 1,000 英亩，其中包含 35 英亩的观赏花园、果园、桃子房和林地。但有个限制！除非你是酒店住客或在店内用餐，否则花园在技术上不对公众开放。但这难道不是在米其林星级餐厅预订一顿绝佳的自家种植三道菜午餐的最好理由吗？餐厅拥有俯瞰花园的落地窗，让你真正感觉自己成为了场景的一部分。随后，你可以在周一、周三或周五参加 90 分钟的花园导览 (£30)。

这座 16 世纪的酒店本身。B&B 双人间 £505 起 (gravetyemanor.co.uk)。

希德科特庄园 (HIDCOTE MANOR)，格洛斯特郡，奇平坎登 (CHIPPING CAMPOEN, GLOUCESTERSHIRE) 这座位于北科茨沃尔德 (north Cotovolds)、深受工艺美术运动启发而闻名的花园，是由美国植物学家劳伦斯·约翰斯顿少校 (Major Lawrence Johnston) 在 1907. 买下这座庄园后创建的。国家信托基金 (National Trust) 于 1948, 接管此处，并保留了约翰斯顿的原始设计。“红色边界”花园在整个 8 月和 9 月期间处于盛花期，而“白色花园”则提供了由银色叶片和白色福禄考组成的宁静色调，以及一群圆润的修剪鸟形绿植。如果您错过了春季的紫藤花，这里还培育着著名的希德科特薰衣草 (Lavandula angustifolia 'Hidcote') —— 这是对约翰斯顿遗产的一次美好致敬。这里也非常适合儿童，草坪上可以玩地门球，并设有免费网球场（£22，国家信托基金会员免费；nationaltrust.org.uk）。住宿推荐 位于奇平坎登的 17 世纪 Woolmarket House 酒店。B&B 双人间 £204 起 (woolmarkethouse.com)。帕纳姆公园 (PARNHAM PARK)，多塞特郡，比明斯特 (BEAMINSTER, DORSET) 帕纳姆公园的所有者詹姆斯·珀金斯 (James Perkins) 和索菲·珀金斯 (Sophie Perkins) 买下了这座废弃的房屋在从经典到当代，西多妮·威尔逊 (Sidonie Wilson) 挑选了她最喜爱的灵感空间（大黄马提尼可根据需要选择）

英国最佳花园

2020年起，他们一直专注于首先恢复那些杂草丛生的场地。围墙花园感觉就像《秘密花园》，每个角落似乎都隐藏着另一个拱门，通向一个新的空间，例如荷兰花园。鼓励游客携带写生本在此迷失方向，理想状态下，手中还拿着一杯 Parnham 餐厅的大黄马提尼。在绿植之中，请留意寻找 Perkins 夫妇艺术收藏品中那些古怪的作品。虽然房屋翻修工作仍在进行中，因此目前更像是一家带花园的餐厅，但您从左起顺时针方向：萨里郡的 RHS Wisley；东萨塞克斯郡的 Perch Hill；锡利群岛的 Tresco Abbey Garden；高地地区的 Inverwe 可以在全年预订特定的房屋、湖泊和鹿园导览（花园导览 £20，每月一次）。此外，如果您入住他们的小屋或 Dower House，您将获得非营业时间的幕后导览。Hive Beach 及其出色的咖啡馆也仅在 20 分钟车程之内。

住宿推荐 Dower House，Parnham Park 的旧门房。六人两晚自助式住宿 £1,100 起 (parnhampark.co.uk)。

TRESCO ABBEY GARDEN 锡利群岛，康沃尔郡 访问锡利群岛还有比欣赏多肉植物更好的理由吗？它们位于康沃尔海岸外的 Atlantic Ocean，受墨西哥湾暖流的影响，形成了独特的海洋微气候，通常能避开冬季霜冻。这里感觉有点像在火星，拥有一个足以媲美邱园（Kew）的迷人植物园，且无需温室（£18；tresco.co.uk）。而且传闻是真的：这里的海岛拥有晶莹剔透的海水，看起来像加勒比海，只不过这里的酒吧更好。

住宿推荐 Hell Bay Hotel，拥有海景。B&B 双人间 £212 起 (hellbay.co.uk)。

THE GRAVEL GARDEN 科尔切斯特，埃塞克斯郡 这个推荐我借用了同事 Ann Treneman 的；当我为《泰晤士报》编辑她的园艺专栏时，她向我介绍了 Beth Chatto 极具影响力的砾石花园（Gravel Garden）。这片土地最初是一个停车场，直到 1992 年成为耐旱种植的实验地。对于我们现在的气候来说，这再合适不过了。看到葱属植物、百合岗和海刺芹在如此艰苦的条件下茁壮成长，真是令人惊叹（£16；bethchatto.co.uk）。

位于 Dedham 的 Milsons，提供露台用餐。B&B 双人间 £179 起 (milsonhotels.com)。

INVERWE 普尔韦，高地地区 没有什么比一个俯瞰湖泊的美丽乡村花园更惬意的了。Inverwe 曾是一片荒原，现在是位于苏格兰西海岸的一座 50 英亩的花园。得益于墨西哥湾暖流的影响，这里拥有独特的温和微气候，生长着一系列壮观的异域植物，从塔斯马尼亚桉树到稀有的 Wolfemil 松树，以及鲜艳的喜马拉雅蓝罂粟。不要错过春天的杜鹃花，以及围墙花园和郁郁葱葱的林间小道（£16；nts.org.uk）。

入住 Garden Lodge 以完成这次体验。六人七晚自助式住宿 £702 起 (sykescottages.co.uk)。

封面：瑞典拉普兰 Degerseelet 湖上的漂浮野生动物营地

我从与自闭症成年儿子旅行中学到了什么

作者亨利·诺末（Henry Normal）讲述与 Johnny, 28 – 以及我们的顶级建议

我小时候常看一部叫《功夫》（Kung Fu）的电视剧。其中有一集，波大师对他的弟子快昌·凯恩说：“小蚱蜢，你必须预料到意想不到的事情。”我和伴侣安（Ang）带儿子强尼去度假时，感觉就有点像那样。强尼 28 岁，身高6英尺3英寸，体格像个橄榄球运动员，患有严重的自闭症。他最喜欢的把戏是大声拍手，这在机场引发过几次有趣的状况，比如被持枪警察严密审查。当日常习惯发生变化时（比如去度假），强尼会感到不知所措和焦虑，所以我们首先要做的是确保他情绪平静且能够应对——提前三周告知他，并给他一个倒计时。安总是准备好“那个包”，里面装满了零食和分散注意力的东西——他喜欢吃培根或苹果，喜欢摆弄小玩意。和我们所有人一样，如果他知道接下来有奖励，他就会表现得最好。酒店可能嘈杂且不可预测，所以现在我们租别墅。每年去同一个地方——葡萄牙的阿尔加维（Algarve）——要容易得多，因为这样强尼就知道该期待什么。我们每次在机场都坐在同一个位置，去同一个地方吃饭。

在过去的 20 年里，情况发生了变化，世界对隐形残障的准备更加充分了。当我们第一次使用强尼的特殊停车许可证时，人们投来奇怪的目光，所以我们会带上安的母亲——她使用助行杖，我会让她走起路来稍微跛一点。仍然有一些繁琐的程序需要处理。在为强尼更换护照时，我们需要一份医生的证明信，允许我或安代表他签名。上次我们忘了带信，他们差点不给我们发护照。我对他们说：“他可以像在画作上那样签名，就写‘Johnny’。”他们对此很满意，这让我笑了。和斯汀（Sting）和麦当娜（Madonna）一样，他只需要一个名字。

很多人一生的大部分时间都活在过去和未来。强尼只活在当下，而当安和我与他在一起时，我们也活在当下。我们享受这一刻，这是他赐予我们的礼物。强尼身上有一种能让生活回归简单的特质：做那些能给你带来快乐的事情。我在度假时最喜欢的时光是强尼沉浸在绘画中，或者我们走向海滩——安陪着强尼在水里游泳，而我喝着茶，写着诗。作为一个 6ft-year-old，我终于意识到，生活中真正重要的是那些简单的事情。强尼似乎一直都知道这一点。

采访人：丹尼·斯科特（Danny Scott） 亨利·诺末（Henry Normal）将于 9月 19 日至 11月 25 日带着他的《合集秀及其他填埋物》（Collected Shows and Other Landfill）在英国巡演（edgestreet live.com）。他的诗集《第一颗火花引发了这场大火》（The First Spark Has Led to This Blaze）现已出版（£12.50; flapjackpress.co.uk）

制定计划（并严格执行） 在离开家之前，写一份每日计划——例如：早餐、海滩、冰淇淋、在家吃午餐、两小时屏幕时间、晚餐、散步、就寝时间。将计划通过电子邮件发给大孩子；对于小孩子，可以使用ChatGPT或Claude将其转化为图片——在他们的卧室墙上贴一份，厨房贴一份，随身携带一份。

伸出援手

如果你的孩子擅长认路，就给他们分配导航员的任务。在Airbnb上向他们展示你考虑的住宿方案，并询问他们的意见。被咨询本身就是一种调节——当你参与选择假期时，度假的压力会减轻。

给机场打电话，不要直接前往

在预订时，请至少在飞行前 48 小时通过航空公司或旅行社申请协助，并保留确认单。通常会有人在协助点迎接您，并陪同您完成办理登机、安检以及一直走到登机口。一些机场设有专门的协助通道，如果您在登机口提出要求，大多数航空公司会允许您优先登机或最后登机。有些机场还提供熟悉之旅——在旅行前一天进行一次办理登机和安检的模拟行程。

使用向日葵挂绳

工作人员经过培训，能够识别代表非可见性残障的挂绳，因此您可以在无需向排队等候的人解释情况的情况下，请求更多支持。机场通常会在协助台为您提供挂绳，或者您也可以在亚马逊上购买。

当某件事半奏效时，就重复它

改变是为神经典型人士准备的。如果您发现一个半奏效的假期方案，就重复它（一遍又一遍）。不要去修理没有损坏的东西。比起在某个美丽但没人喜欢的地方待两周，大家都能半享受地对某个地方感到轻微厌倦，是一个好得多的结果。

如果您的孩子情绪崩溃……

少说话，多倾听，并取消所有要求。让他们做任何能让自己平静下来的事情，包括使用电子屏幕。找一个安静的地方。在他们平静下来很久之后，再与孩子讨论这件事。对于自闭症患者来说，机场可能是压力巨大的地方——充满了噪音、强光和人群——即使过程顺利，通过机场也是有代价的。在行程结束后，安排一天的休息时间。

作者：Jessie Hewitson，《Autism: How to Raise a Happy Autistic Child》和《ADHD: How to Raise a Happy ADHD Child》（售价 £16.99 和 £18.99；orionbooks.co.uk）

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旅行灵感

上个月，当创纪录的高温袭击荷兰时，住在闷热公寓里的阿姆斯特丹市中心居民开始预订海边小屋或房车，纯粹是为了能在一个凉爽的地方逗留，并在相对舒适的环境中阅读书籍。这就是 Outside Inn 的最新，呃，卖点，它是这座城市唯一的室内露营地：真正的空调，真实的房车，完全没有户外。

“当室外 35℃ 时，我想这里是 24℃，”该场地所有者 Willem Megens 说。客人们当时在说：“感谢上帝，你们有空调。”在装饰着串灯的木制野餐凳上与我聊天时，Megens 指向远处的仿真草坪。另一边的草确实更绿。他解释说，直到去年 11 月，这里还有一面隔墙，墙后是他独自制作或改造这个规模庞大露营地中全部 37 个结构的工作室。

经过近六年的努力，这个豪华露营愿景终于完成了——有采用迷人淡色调的小巧复古房车、海边小屋、“桶屋”、露营舱以及两个独一无二的“特别款”——一辆闪亮的蔚蓝色大众露营车和一辆木制吉普赛马车——Megens 终于可以放松了。

“你就像第七天的上帝一样，”我惊叹道。 “没错，”他说。

Megens 指出，露营是荷兰人的痴迷——尤其是房车露营。他这个 1,000 平方米的回归自然（但实际上也离自然更远）的版本，占据了一个工业园区内前仓库的三层楼。诚然，这里不是阿尔伯特·库普（Albert Cuyp）、运河和鹅卵石路那种明信片上的阿姆斯特丹，但通过步行五分钟即可到达的地铁站，这些地方都触手可及。当然，这里非常适合在 Instagram 上拍照，且比市中心的酒店房间便宜，且 wifi 信号良好。无论如何，在这样一个对“自然”的理解可能倾向于

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欧洲更多室内露营地

BASECAMP BONN, GERMANY 这家规模如青年旅舍般的运营点位于距离市中心仅需短途乘坐U-Bahn（城市快铁）即可到达的前仓库设施中：这里有15辆主题各异的复古房车（见右图），从挂着英国国旗的“英国”房车，到航天飞机以及1950年代的摇滚餐厅风格房车，此外还有两辆改装的卧铺火车车厢和四辆Airstream房车，每辆车都配有布置好的“前院”。这里的氛围更像时尚的青年旅舍而非家庭度假胜地，而且在室内睡在火车车厢里的新奇感，使得如果你在莱茵兰地区，这里非常值得绕道前往。 详情：两人一晚自助住宿 £85 起 (basecamp-bonn.de)。飞往波恩。

DAHEIM INDOORCAMPING, TRIBERG, GERMANY Daheim位于黑森林深处一座5,000平方米的前工厂内，提供16辆主题房车（包括“丛林”和圣诞主题），以及一家供应自酿啤酒的酒吧，还有一个真正实用的福利——入住时附赠一张特里贝格市卡，可用于进入该市的瀑布和博物馆。这证明了这种趋势并不局限于大城市。有时，室内露营的吸引力仅仅在于不必在雨中于德国最著名的瀑布旁搭帐篷。 详情：两人一晚自助住宿 £44 起 (daheim-triberg.de)。飞往苏黎世或斯图加特。

Mark Smith 这个位于阿姆斯特丹的空调预算型“露营地”是避暑的绝妙方式。Mark Smith 检查了那些离奇之处：比如水培农场和种在可疑地直线排列的树林。Megens 是一名职业机械师，他从荷兰的eBay——Marktplaats上搜集报废的房车，将它们拆解、重新布线，安装舒适的床铺，并用iMac的所有颜色精心重新喷漆。我们刚刚搬离一辆淡紫色房车——虽然在这一排静止的车队中它不是最宽敞的，但对于我快要七岁、因此掌控家中所有重大采购决定的女儿来说，这简直太有吸引力了。对她而言，这就像在真正的娃娃屋里玩耍。快乐的时光都花在重新摆放假薰衣草盆栽、拉开和关上窗帘，以及结识隔壁邻居上。那位邻居是一位来自不来梅的水净化专家，去年夏天偶然发现这里后，预订了一周的住宿（橙色房车，内部有时尚的代尔夫特蓝灵感图案），此时她正坐在房车外织毛衣。“我真的被这种乐趣吸引了，”她说。在对面，一个瑞士家庭正在他们海边小屋外的沙地上玩法式滚球。用于存放贵重物品的高科技储物柜被劈柴贴纸和乡村风格屋顶所掩饰。不过，最精彩的部分是挂在一棵人造樱花树下的巨型秋千。尽管整个露营地到处用帮派草作为装饰点缀，但这似乎是这里唯一在“摇摆”的东西。考虑到房车紧挨在一起带来的噪音挑战（所有客人都收到耳塞），这算是一个小小的宽慰。在“入夜”之前（顶灯在晚上10.30左右调暗；11点后必须保持安静），我能听到车厢墙壁传来的许多说话声。

这是一种更广泛现象的一部分。Trip.com集团记录显示，2026年上半年，“烹饪度假”（cookation）的搜索量同比增长74%，而Intrepid Travel报告称，仅今年夏天，挪威的预订量增长了30%，冰岛的预订量增长了22%。旅游保险公司Staysure的一项调查发现，在受访的英国旅行者中，88%考虑过更改度假地点，其中22%将极端高温列为寻找其他地点的原因。在另一项调查中，半数受访者表示他们更愿意在夏季留在英国，在西南部这一比例上升至近60%。

一群来自纽卡斯尔的18岁女孩在这里度过她们欧铁之旅的最后一晚，在此之前，她们游历了尼斯、威尼斯、佛罗伦萨、多洛米蒂山脉、斯洛文尼亚和柏林，最后抵达阿姆斯特丹。她们在几个“桶”（字面意思即木桶房）里住了两晚。“能体验露营而不用搭帐篷之类的，感觉很棒，”伊西（Issy）说道。“这是我们住过最酷的地方之一，”莉莉（Lily）表示赞同——尤其是与酷热的尼斯相比。她们充分利用了“VIP区”（一个经过《叛徒》（The Traitors）道具组精心装饰的隔音公共休息室）。而且，洗浴区设有独立隔间的红外感应淋浴间，这比凌晨3点拿着100卷纸，在被蚊子叮咬得体无完肤的情况下穿过牛粪地要好得多。这里离演出场地也很近。Ziggo Dome和约翰·克鲁伊夫竞技场（Johan Cruijff Arena）就在附近——哈里·斯泰尔斯（Harry Styles）在6月于后者完成了售罄的驻场演出，而A$AP Rocky将在本月到来。梅根斯（Megens）说，他可以通过办理入住的客人的样子来判断隔壁是谁在演出。亮片和粉色头发意味着女孩流行乐，而“一厅子老摇滚乐手则意味着滚石乐队来到了这座城市”。偶尔也会出现穿着细条纹西装的人，通常是参加附近RAI会议中心会议的代表，他们匆忙预订了“一间房”，却没意识到这意味着一辆带有紫红色边饰的房车或一个深红色的冲浪小屋。据梅根斯说，他们到达时一脸困惑，但离开时总是更开心。我在大湖户外住了一晚后的看法是？就像代替鸟鸣播放的法兰克·奥申（Frank Ocean）的背景音乐一样，它在乐观与反乌托邦之间达到了大致的平衡——就像是一场为气象末日而重新演绎的夏令营狂热之梦。室内露营并不要求你相信自己在户外——我提到过那棵位于意式分层喷泉旁、装饰完整的圣诞树了吗？——但在超流畅的AI幻象时代，这里随意的伪装反而显得格外纯真。对于那些热爱星空而非出口标志的人来说，它无法取代真正的露营地，但它确实拥有某种相同的同窗情谊——证据就是，在我女儿短暂逗留期间，她能从其他露营者那里讨到多少块奥利奥饼干。对于我们这些对搭建帐篷绳索毫无耐心的的人来说，作为避暑之选，它缓解了暑假的燥热。不过，到了冬天，这里还有地暖。马克·史密斯（Mark Smith）为独立旅行。Outside Inn 的双人间仅房费 £62 起（outsideinn.nl）。

绝佳的室内体验

阿姆斯特丹 Outside Inn 的一个露营舱；下方为其内部

--- 英国旅游

肖恩·纽森（Sean Newsom）称，纽基（Newquay）拥有酷炫的新咖啡馆和餐厅——此外还有一家充满阿马尔菲风情的 Nici 酒店

多年来，我与纽基的关系一直起伏不定。1993年，我爱上了这座冲浪小镇的精神。十年后，当单身派对（stag and hen parties）涌入其狭窄的街道时，我对此感到厌恶。而最近，我则对一种来自基层的变革感感到欣喜，这里开起了一家家时髦的咖啡馆和餐厅。但我从未预料到，这里的一家酒店会经历一场耗资 £3500 万 的重生。

当我走进 Nici 酒店时，一时竟词穷。幸运的是，丹·梅特卡尔夫（Dan Metcalfe）在场，帮我表达了想法。“这是一个转折点，”这位冲浪教练说道，“纽基需要一些大动作来向所有人展示它正在如何改变，你看，”他指着周围补充道，“就是这个。”

在我们身后，灯光在酒店的镜面吧台前闪烁。上方的大堂里，巨大的玻璃吊灯如塞西尔·B·德米尔（Cecil B DeMille）的电影场景一般，倾泻而下，贯穿三层空间。如果你把我瞬间移动到这个位置并问我身在何处，我会告诉你我们在地中海，而不是在纽基前维多利亚酒店（Hotel Victoria）的旧壳里。

难怪这里的餐厅被命名为 Amalfi's，以那段位于那不勒斯南部的海岸线命名。餐厅里装饰着大碗的新鲜柠檬和彩绘陶瓷，而其菜单则是意大利与英国影响的巧妙结合。你可以享用高级的炸鱼薯条、牛排或汉堡，也可以品尝螃蟹意面和米兰式小牛肉。其招牌菜是售价 £14 的布拉塔奶酪（burrata）前菜，将奶油般浓郁的奶酪与橙子瓣、榛子以及带有泥土气息的松露底蕴相结合。是的，纽基现在也供应松露了。

这家酒店是尼古拉斯·罗奇（Nicolas Roach）的构思，他在 2003. 创立了港口酒店集团（Harbour Hotels group）。这是他的新项目：第一家开业的是位于伯恩茅斯的 Nici Bournemouth，于 2022, 开业，具有迈阿密海滩的风格；现在，该品牌的另外两家酒店开始试营业——具有新英格兰风味的 Nici New Forest 和 Nici Newquay，考虑到其背景，后者是三者中最引人注目的。

“这就是我热爱这个地方的原因，”罗奇解释道，“你会发现亿万富翁冲浪者在排队等浪，与那些睡在帐篷里的 Z 世代年轻人一起划水。纽基将所有人融合在一起——如果你喜欢这种融合带来的前卫感，并希望在其中加入一些高品质的款待，那么 Nici 就是你的选择。”

由于几扇门外就是一家 Bargain Booze 分店，关于前卫感的说法并非没有道理。但即便他是在英格兰最贫困的海滨据点之一启动这个项目，其野心的规模依然具有新闻价值。到目前为止，已有 76 间客房开放，以及

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最壮观的（一周自助式住宿 £1,035 起；aspects-holidays.co.uk）。这些场所加入了一个日益壮大的咖啡馆、商店和餐厅行列，打破了这座小镇此前以水桶和啤酒桶为代表的刻板印象。位于火车站旁的 Saltd，风格介于海滩小屋和公共休息室之间，菜单上点缀着华夫饼、奶昔碗和牛油果吐司（小食 £6 起；@saltd_nny）。再往镇中心走几步，Vinyl Imports 是一家全新的音乐商场，在我访问时，背景音乐是由爵士大师迈尔斯·戴维斯（Miles Davis）提供的。就在旧港口上方，Box & Barber 是主图：纽基的菲斯特拉海滩；Nici酒店的大堂；其外观每个人最喜爱的早午餐场所（面包卷 £9 起；boxandbarber.com）。不过，纽基新浪潮中的明星是 Counter Culture，这是一家带有巴斯克风味的 pintxos（西班牙小吃）酒吧兼餐厅，其法裔加拿大调酒师亚历克斯·戈梅斯（Alex Gomes）调制出神奇的玛格丽塔——得益于辣椒片和塔吉锅香料，这些饮品散发着烟熏与火焰的气息，是等待主厨兼老板本·哈里森（Ben Harrison）那丰盛且富有创意的分享盘（£12 起；counter culturenewquay.co.uk）时的完美饮品。今年，米其林指南将其这个风格多样且充满社交氛围的避风港评为备受推崇的“必比登美食指南”餐厅，以表彰其实惠的美食。我还会因为其良好的氛围给它打三星。马路对面矗立着一家名为“醉浪者”（Drunken Surfer）的废弃巨型酒吧空壳——如果你需要一个象征纽基情绪变化的标志，这就是最好的例子。顺便说一句，不必担心天气变得不像地中海那样温暖——这里是康沃尔；当海浪翻涌且气温足够凉爽，适合在悬崖顶端散步时，这里才是最完美的。这时梅特卡夫（Metcalfe）就派上用场了。他负责 Nici 酒店的每日海滩活动计划（对住客免费），并以愉快的心情和出色的技巧提供冲浪、潜水和桨板课程。在我们的最后一个早晨，他指导了我小儿子本（Ben）的冲浪技巧，并且在五分钟内似乎就解决了所有问题。这在这次旅行中并非第一次让我目瞪口呆。前一天本还摇摇晃晃、犹豫不决；而现在，他第一次在纯净（尽管很小）的波浪中穿行，一个充满可能性的勇敢新世界突然在他面前开启——就像在我们上方的悬崖小镇一样。肖恩·纽森（Sean Newsom）曾入住 Nici Newquay，其双人间仅房费 £182 起（thernici.com） 新浪潮的明星是一家 pintxos 酒吧兼餐厅

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旅游 邮轮 地中海的星空之夜，天空酒吧（Sky Bar）里人满为患。服务员端着香槟穿梭其间，DJ 播放着曲目，一群光鲜亮丽的人群在快乐地尽情舞动。是在伊比萨岛或米科诺斯岛的某个酷炫屋顶酒吧吗？不。我是在 Explora Journeys 的 Explora III 号上，这艘船在七天前才离开造船厂。 是 MSC 集团旗下的高端邮轮品牌，于 2023. 8月推出了其首艘船。我之前曾乘坐过该公司的邮轮，当时并不完全相信它能与那些豪华竞争对手相媲美。但邮轮公司在不断进化，我也愿意接受说服。

豪华邮轮乘客人数自 2015 年以来增长了两倍，去年已超过 120 万 人。鉴于这一趋势预计将持续， IV、V 和 VI 号正在建造中也就不足为奇了。 III 号的乘客容量为 922 人，对于豪华邮轮来说规模较大。它由液化天然气驱动，这需要更大的燃料箱，因此比前两艘船长 19.2m。虽然本可以塞进更多住宿空间，但这里设有了一个可容纳 12 人的 # 海洋心境（Ocean state of mind）私人餐厅、一家额外餐厅和一个露天雪茄休息室。而且空间极其充裕，拥有宽敞的走廊、双层挑高的大堂、开阔的泳池甲板、另外两个泳池和七家餐厅。

到处都是大理石。闪亮且带有背光的黑色缟玛瑙楼梯从 5 层甲板延伸至 4 层甲板。大堂酒吧的中心是两盏来自威尼斯穆拉诺岛的水晶吊灯——这些长达 6m 的碎片由手工吹制，安装耗时三个月。套房采用奶油色、巧克力色和深色木材装饰，优雅的细节随处可见。我的 Cove Residence 套房配备了一个小型图书馆和一瓶酩悦香槟（Moët et Chandon）。

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与此同时，入门级住宿也绝非简陋，配备了根据您的喜好填充的迷你吧、浓缩咖啡机、枕头菜单、双筒望远镜、步入式衣橱和深阳台。在另一个极端，业主套房（Owner's Residence）面积为 183 平方米，另有 132 平方米的阳台，横跨船身宽度，可俯瞰船尾航迹，整体采用优雅的曲线和淡雅的土色调，并配有蒸汽房和按摩浴缸；八晚的价格约为每人 £38,800。船上还设有 Cellar 葡萄酒品鉴室，您可以在这里享用一瓶价值 £2,269 的纳帕谷“尖叫之鹰”（Screaming Eagle）或一瓶价值 £1,053 的超级托斯卡纳“马塞托”（Masseto）。在 Clarendon Fine Art 画廊，经理奥利维亚·布朗（Olivia Brown）举办关于艺术投资的讲座，并出售达利和夏加尔的作品，最贵的一件售价达 £42.8万,000。在水疗中心，一次 60 分钟的按摩虽然令人极度愉悦，但起价为 £256。我对 Sava Sound Pod（一种用于舒缓神经的茧形舱）很感兴趣，但该项目已被约满（45 分钟 £8）。尽管如此，健身设施依然令人印象深刻，其中还设有由

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如果您不太在意艺术和超级托斯卡纳葡萄酒，但喜欢豪华邮轮的所有配套设施，那么在 Explora III 上以合理的价格就能过得很惬意，因为大多数饮料、大部分餐饮、健身课程、进入水疗中心的舒缓蒸汽房、桑拿房和按摩浴缸、小费以及快速 Wi-Fi 均无需额外付费。岸上观光活动从相当标准的邮轮项目（例如在冰岛进行一次观鲸之旅，每人 £165）到价格较高的高端项目（前往阿拉斯加荒野小屋的水上飞机冒险之旅，该船将于明年夏天航行至此，并包含三文鱼大餐，每人 £430）不等。这艘船也非常适合家庭，设有儿童俱乐部——这在豪华邮轮中并不常见。我不确定在学校假期高峰期航行是否有利于实现 Explora 所称的“海洋心境”，但我下船时确实感到快乐、放松且得到了极佳的照顾，尽管我需要从全天候的诱惑中休息一下。Sue Bryant 是 Explora Journeys 的嘉宾。该公司的“北欧发现与地热奇观”航程从南安普顿出发前往雷克雅未克，9 月 9 日启航，八晚全包价格每人 £1,325 起 (explorajourneys.com)。

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在抵达著名的葡萄酒之镇吕德斯海姆之前，穿行于世界闻名且壮丽的莱茵峡谷。下午在这一迷人地点的圣诞市场漫步。在导览游中探索坐落在莱茵河与摩泽尔河交汇处、地理位置绝佳的科布伦茨，并有自由时间浏览其可爱的圣诞市场。在导览游中探索德国历史上的前首都波恩，然后返回科隆，当天剩余时间可自由探索其七个圣诞市场中的一个（或全部）。

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恰到好处的共处

小屋生活——瑞典语称为 stugliv ——是完美悠闲夏季避暑地的缩影。这是一项代代相传的传统，重点在于逃离喧嚣回归自然，在简朴的环境中与家人建立联系。虽然这一传统在整个北欧地区都被采纳，但在瑞典尤为盛行，那里有超过 60万,000 栋 sommarstuga（夏季小屋）散布在林间、湖畔以及破碎海岸线上的众多小岛上。在英国热浪肆虐之时，我渴望一次放松的逃离，于是向北前往冈纳斯宾（Gunnarsbyn）小村庄，那里距离北极圈以南约 40 英里。通过体验两种截然不同的小屋——一座在水上，一座在陆上——我希望能破解瑞典夏天似乎永无止境的秘密。

乔纳斯·盖克（Jonas Gejke）受童年记忆以及在肯尼亚马赛马拉经营营地的 25 年经验启发，在拉内河（Rane River）附近的德格塞莱特湖（Lake Degerselet）上定制建造了他的“漂浮野生动物营地”（Floating Safari Camp）。我乘机动船抵达这个移动筏屋，那里搭建了两顶配有舒适木床的帆布钟形帐篷，旁边还有一个玻璃前室，供那些希望适度体验荒野的客人居住。它并不完全符合典型的法伦红（Falun red）护墙板房屋的形象，但它体现了脱离电网冒险的精神（尽管配备了电源包和堆肥厕所）。

在如此高纬度的夏季，太阳几乎不落至地平线以下。在我的漂浮之家，我利用额外的日光时间，在能俯瞰连绵白桦林和白杨林的木火桑拿房中放松；在锡浴缸中浸泡，听着檐下的 the-nesting wagtails（筑巢的 the-wagtails）叽叽喳喳；在清澈见底的水中游泳，以至于任何羞怯之情都随我的泳衣一起被留在岸上。这里还提供桨板和皮划艇用于缓慢探索。

“感觉有点像鲁滨逊漂流记，”盖克在第二天早晨接我吃早餐时笑着评论道，“我们可以建一座豪华房子，但这并不是重点。小屋不是一个物理结构，而是一种文化。随心所欲，裸泳——这就是小屋生活。”

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当火车驶入秘鲁南部的阿瓜斯卡连特斯（Aguas Calientes）小镇时，灿烂的阳光洒满了车厢。我们正沿着乌鲁班巴河谷（Urabamba River Valley）缓缓前行，窗外是雄伟安第斯山脉的壮丽景色。但让这一刻如此难忘的并非风景，而是氛围。我的男友詹姆斯（James）手里拿着一把铃鼓在头顶敲响，而我们的同行乘客和新朋友们则热情地摇动着沙锤。在 360° 马丘比丘火车上，一个两人乐队分发给我们乐器，并用充满拉丁美洲风情的快节奏曲调为我们演奏埃尔维斯（Elvis）的《Can't Help Falling in Love》，紧接着是 Creedence Clearwater Revival 的《Have You Ever Seen the Rain?》翻唱版、《La Bamba》以及贾斯汀·比伯（Justin Bieber）的《Despacito》。直到我们在阿瓜斯卡连特斯站停下——这是距离印加城堡马丘比丘底部最近的车站——我才意识到现在甚至还没到上午 9 点。

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第二天，我们发现门下塞了一封信，解释说由于该周末将举行选举，全国将停止供应酒精饮料。这意味着在接下来的 48 小时内，詹姆斯最爱的啤酒将无法供应。就在发现这件事之后，我们见到了其他 Intrepid 的旅行者。虽然多年来我已经习惯在团体游中与陌生人交友，但在第一天喝点“荷兰勇气”（指喝酒壮胆）通常大有裨益——而这次我们没这个机会。

我们总共有十个人，来自英国、印度、加拿大和美国，年龄从二十多岁到六十多岁不等。虽然詹姆斯和我是一对情侣，但队伍中还有一对母女以及一对好友。但正如团体旅行一贯的情况，没过多久，我们就感觉彼此已经认识好几周了。我们被介绍给导游，来自库斯科的 Holger Collantes，当他告诉我们“这是一场冒险，而不是度假”时，他为接下来的九天奠定了基调。他是对的，这次行程几乎没有闲逛的时间。我们通过利马市中心的步行游览来打破僵局，探索了 16 世纪的圣弗朗西斯修道院（St Francis Monastery），在对其地下墓穴的诡异感中建立联系，在联合国教科文组织世界遗产地主广场（Plaza Mayor）拍照，并在沿途停下来品尝甜点，包括来自 Churros Virgen del Carmen 的焦糖填充吉罗（churros），以及市场摊位上的奶油大米布丁（arroz con leche）和甜薯甜甜圈（picarones）。

晚餐在 Huaca Pucllana 餐厅享用，餐厅俯瞰着同名的前印加文明金字塔历史遗址。我们品尝了人生中第一道 ceviche（柠檬腌鱼），随后是 lomo saltado（秘鲁传统炒牛肉，主菜 £10.90 起；resthuaca puclana.com）。次日早晨，我们乘坐 1 小时 45 分钟的航班前往马尔多纳多港（Puerto Maldonado）。在机场，我们将部分行李分装到行李袋中，仅携带未来两天在雨林中所需的物品。其余行李存放在 Intrepid 的当地办事处。在换上长袖衣物并喷洒驱蚊剂后，我们被接送到亚马逊河的一条支流岸边。我们挤进一艘小船，经过 30 分钟的航程抵达 Inkaterra Hacienda Concepcion，这是一家坐落在 419 英亩生态保护区内、被郁郁葱葱的雨林环绕的酒店。工作人员摇铃迎接我们的到来，并引导我们前往豪华木屋，每间木屋的床上都挂有蚊帐，并配有自制驱蚊喷雾。Wifi 仅在主楼可用，主楼内的餐厅提供早餐、午餐和晚餐。这里没有空调，且该地的电力

秘鲁之旅

在下午的一次和夜晚期间被关闭了，这意味着夜晚有点黏糊，但安静得令人心醉。我们在亚马逊的第一天是以在周围丛林的一次短途步行开始的，随后是夜间乘船之旅，黑色的天空上繁星点点，我们还发现了水豚和库维尔矮凯门鳄。第二天早晨，我们在凌晨5点起床，在坦博帕塔国家保护区（Reserva Nacional Tambopata）散步，随后在桑多瓦尔湖（Lake Sandoval）周围悠闲地乘船，绚丽的粉色和橙色天空迎接了我们。我们发现了鲜艳的金刚鹦鹉、红胸啄木鸟、翠鸟，以及在树间跳跃的卷尾猴和松鼠猴。随后，随着夜幕降临，我们在丛林中享受篝火，一边品尝新鲜制作的 chilcano 鸡尾酒（一种由皮斯科白兰地、干姜汁汽水和青柠调制的清爽饮品），一边聆听关于森林的当地传说。

我们的下一站是库斯科市，这里海拔 11,152 英尺，气温从白天的 20 多度低位下降到清晨的约 4℃。由于飞行时间仅 30 分钟，我们很快就到达了武器广场（Plaza de Armas），对拥有 466 年历史的库斯科大教堂进行了短途参观，那里圣徒的雕像装饰着真实的人类头发甚至指甲。夜晚在 Kusykay 餐厅以一份出人意料地美味的羊驼肉汉堡和新鲜柠檬水晚餐结束（主菜 £7.80 起；kusykay.com）。

第二天，在早晨逛完印加太阳神庙（Qorikancha）漂亮的庭院后，詹姆斯和我与一个小团体分开了——由于我们两人都是外向的人，并不觉得需要单独花时间。我们与新朋友一起在繁忙的圣佩德罗市场（San Pedro Market）闲逛，在圣弗朗西斯科广场观看游行舞蹈排练，并偶然发现一个有羊驼和羊驼在草地上吃草的小庭院。在每一次参加的旅行中，我总是惊讶于你竟然能与仅认识几天的人感到如此亲近。我们在 Jill's 餐厅用包子面包（bao buns）简单解决了午餐（基础价格 £6.30 起；instagram.com / jillscuzco）。在安静的下午适应海拔高度后，我们享用了经典的库斯科晚餐——烤鸡和脆薯条（这是霍尔格的最爱），地点在 Los Toldos Chicken 餐厅（主菜 £4 起；Almagro £71, Cusco）。

第二天早晨，我们暂时告别库斯科，前往圣谷和马丘比丘进行为期两晚的探索。我们的面包车在路边商店短暂停靠，让我们品尝了大块的库斯科面包，这是一种味道微甜的大圆盘形面包。在羊驼群和藜麦田之间，我们还……

顺时针方向从最左侧起：亚马逊支流的乘船之旅；马丘比丘；库斯科大教堂；热水镇（Aguas Calientes）

实用信息

地点在哪里？

行程始于利马，随后前往马尔多纳多港（Puerto Maldonado）、奥兰太坦博（Ollantaytambo）和热水镇（Aguas Calientes，前往马丘比丘），最后在库斯科结束。

谁会喜欢？

喜欢紧凑行程，但不想在舒适度和精致享受上妥协的冒险寻求者。

内部建议

准备足够的衣物以应对不同的气候，并随身携带抗高山反应药物。在壮丽的山谷观景点拍照的机会。我们再次在乌鲁班巴（Urubamba）的 Ama 餐厅稍作休息，这是一家始于 2020 年的餐厅兼社会企业，雇佣当地原住民女性，其中许多是单身母亲（amasacredvalley.com）。随后，我们访问了位于圣谷中心地带的 Willoo 社区，观看了传统舞蹈。我们还观摩了他们令人惊叹的纺织技艺演示，之后享用了在覆盖土壤的坑洞中用石头烹制的肉类和土豆午餐。秉承我们“是冒险，而非度假”的格言，我们都尝试了豚鼠，虽然肉质出奇地鲜嫩多汁，但詹姆斯（James）和我回到家后可能不会想再次尝试这道菜。这一天在奥扬塔伊坦博（Ollantaytambo）结束，我们在办理入住 Hotel Tierra Viva 酒店之前，参观了当地的印加考古遗址。虽然这里的档次不如我们之前入住的其他酒店，但地理位置绝佳，方便我们凌晨 5 点起床乘坐前往阿瓜斯卡连特斯（Aguas Calientes）的音乐火车。抵达后，我们花了一个上午的时间探索这座小镇，在曼科·卡帕克广场（Manco Capac Square）喝了冷柠檬水，并在沿河步行几分钟即可到达的帕丁顿熊雕像前拍了团体自拍，随后办理入住 Hotel El Mapi 酒店。接着，终于到了乘坐那辆略显惊险的大巴攀登陡峭山路前往马丘比丘（Machu Picchu）的时间，这段经历让我们的团队陷入了歇斯底里的笑声中。在导游 Holger 的带领下，我们花了几小时漫步在 15 世纪印加城堡那如画般的遗迹中，凝视着壮丽的景色和自由漫步的羊驼。为了增加浪漫色彩，詹姆斯和我选择在这个历史地标发生此次旅行中唯一的一次争吵。我甚至不记得是为了什么，但为了不错过拍照机会，我们咬牙切齿地对着镜头微笑拍了纪念照。回到阿瓜斯卡连特斯，在享用了汉堡晚餐（这次我选择了牛肉）和皮斯科酸酒（pisco sours）后，我们休息了。在开始返回库斯科（Cusco）的长途旅程之前，我们第二次访问了马丘比丘，这一次是在清晨的光影中领略其壮丽。返回库斯科的旅程乘坐火车和小型面包车大约需要四个小时，但在经历了几天极其充实的行程后，我们很欢迎能有机会放松下来，反思这次旋风般的旅行。那天晚上是行程的最后一晚，我们的团队充满了庆祝氛围，对于经历了如此之多而感到极大的满足感。这种氛围似乎在拥挤的街道上得到了共鸣，成千上万穿着巨大裙子和亮片裤的人们，牵着同样打扮得奢华的狗（甚至让我们惊喜地看到了一些猫），在市内庆祝基督圣体节八日祭（Octave of Corpus Christi）。街道和广场上人山人海，现场乐队在每一个转角演奏音乐巡游，因此我们前往最后一顿晚餐餐厅 Il Olivo 的路程虽然缓慢，但非常适合沉浸在氛围之中。我们用鸡尾酒向彼此干杯，由于海拔原因，酒劲很快就上头了，我们一起回忆起团队中最美好的时刻。虽然詹姆斯和我作为一对伴侣经历了一次终生难忘的旅行，但在回到公寓和我们的猫咪身边后，我们最深刻反思的是与陌生人共同创造的回忆和友谊。Hannah Gravett 是 Intrepid Travel 的受邀嘉宾。Intrepid Travel 的高端秘鲁之旅（Premium Peru tour）提供 8 晚 B&B 服务，价格 from £3,180pp，包括导游、所有陆路交通及部分额外餐食（intrepidtravel.com）。飞往利马

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当我们处于沙漠边缘某处时，感官过载开始袭来。我正与我最亲密的朋友在内华达州拉斯维加斯进行为期五天的旅行，此时已是第二天——期间我计划入住全新的Vanderpump酒店。随后通过沿途拍摄的照片将碎片拼凑起来，时差导致我们在凌晨6点沿着拉斯维加斯大道（the Strip）在Sam附近慢跑，洗劫Walgreens药店的药房和零食区，在早餐前涂上SPF 70的防晒霜，中午在一段F1赛道上开卡丁车，并在下午早些时候玩起轮盘赌。欢迎来到罪恶之城。这里曾经不过是犹他州盐湖城到加利福尼亚州洛杉矶铁路线上一个干旱的经停点，而如今，它是一个过度刺激、过度饱和、过度纵容、过度发热且一切都过度夸张的地方——在这座城市里，最受赞誉的酒店通常拥有超过2,500间客房，并配套赌场、多到你一个月都逛不完的餐饮场所、海滩俱乐部、剧院、水疗中心以及一系列高端精品店。将其视为一种量化后的奢华吧。因此，在这座充斥着高额赌注者、高温以及更高风险的城市里，你需要做出一些举措才能脱颖而出。于是，Lisa Vanderpump登场了。你可能已经认识这位泼辣的英国人。对于我们这些将真人秀视为一种并不那么内疚的快感的人来说，这位来自伦敦的出口人才最著名的身份是在《比弗利山上的真实主妇》和《Vanderpump规则》中设定标准并引起轰动。后者及其衍生剧记录了她在西好莱坞餐厅Sur的服务员和调酒师的生活（以及帽子）。到目前为止，听起来很低俗，我能听到你在呐喊。但让我们把事情说清楚：Vanderpump和她的丈夫Ken Todd是餐饮业者，他们的帝国早于他们16年的电视生涯而建立。今年，Vanderpump王朝进行了扩张，将其经过验证的款待方案——颓废的设计、热情周到的服务、对细节的关注以及一点戏剧感——引入精品酒店。Vanderpump酒店位于拉斯维加斯大道中段的黄金地段，是马路对面凯撒皇宫酒店（Caesars Palace）的姐妹物业，于6月开业，是该市今年最受瞩目的新开业场所。开业典礼上出现了典型的名流阵仗，他们为此专程飞来；社交媒体上充斥着酒店Soleta海滩俱乐部的片段，那里的脱衣舞者在模仿Lisa Vanderpump。这位从真人秀明星转型为酒店业者的女性在拉斯维加斯大道上拥有了一个新据点，那里甚至有一个供奉她爱犬的神龛。作者：Blossom Green

罪恶之城的奢华新居

迪塔·冯·蒂斯（Dita Von Teese）出席；当万德庞普（Vanderpump）获得城市之钥时，一场无人机表演将她的名字闪耀在拉斯维加斯的天际线上。而现在，我来到这座城市是为了测试这里的床品支数。离开拉斯维加斯大道 43℃ 的酷暑，进入万德庞普酒店（Vanderpump Hotel）那充满氛围感的封闭空间，就像步入了另一个世界。霓虹灯、震耳欲聋的电梯、拥挤的人群以及普遍的喧闹感都消失了。取而代之的是撩人的色调、隐秘的角落，以及一个安静得像珠宝盒一样的大堂，这与我在一些资深拉斯维加斯酒店见过的机场规模的混乱办理入住区域截然不同。这里仅有 188 间客房和套房，简直是个异类。很明显，万德庞普倾其所有，将她的个人风格注入到这座原克伦威尔酒店（Cromwell hotel）的空间中。建筑轮廓保持不变，但卧室和套房被彻底翻新，赌场和入口也经过了重新装潢。她的设计风格是什么？“浪漫工业风。不过分女性化，也不过分男性化，”她说道。万德庞普不仅是酒店的门面，她还亲自挑选了每一个设计元素，并与她的商业伙伴尼克·艾兰（Nick Alain）共同协作，两人还共同拥有一个家居品牌。她和她心爱的博美犬 Gigolo（又名 Giggy，现已去世）无处不在。在昏暗的水晶吊灯、花卉地毯、粉色呢绒牌桌以及赌场中印有“V”字标志的座椅之间，你会发现一面记录万德庞普世界的黑白照片墙。她的眼睛图像潜伏在镜面床头柜中，像《大盖茨比》里的 T.J. 埃克尔堡医生一样注视着一切。我的房间里有一幅伪黑色电影风格的场景，画中戴着面纱的万德庞普瘫在一盘鸡尾酒旁，而她自有品牌的葡萄酒和伏特加则摆在边柜上。在楼下的黑曜石酒吧（obsidian bar），一座巨大的 Giggy 雕塑占据了显眼位置；办理入住时，你会收到一枚刻有它头像的筹码，可用以兑换一杯鸡尾酒——推荐尝试 Giggy Tonic（一款对金汤力进行大胆改编的饮品）或 Dirty Dog 马丁尼（鸡尾酒 £18 起）。万德庞普的审美是俏皮且颓废的。带有黄铜五金件的厚重房门勾勒出接待处那近乎黑色和茄紫色调的壁龛。墙边摆满了古玩、茶杯和褶皱装饰；还有客厅棕榈树和天鹅绒贵妃榻。当被问及她认为该物业最强的吸引力是什么时，万德庞普明确表示：“个人触感对我来说是一个巨大的因素。这是一种近来逐渐过时的商业模式；过去几年里，一切都围绕着便利和数字化速度展开。但在万德庞普酒店没有捷径。我希望客人在抵达之前，就能感觉到真的有人在为他们考虑。”

万德庞普酒店的游泳池；插图为丽莎·万德庞普与她的其中一只狗；右上角为拉斯维加斯大道。

走进卧室——在穿过赌场大厅前往电梯的途中被一只贵宾犬分散了注意力之后——我发现那种撩人的氛围从“妓院风”软化成了“闺房风”。我们的女王双人床房在 8 层，全长窗户可以将贝尔agio 酒店（Bellagio hotel）及其每晚的喷泉表演尽收眼底，旁边还有一个循环播放的万德庞普爱犬广告。房间光线充足且明亮，角落里有一把绿色天鹅绒鸡尾酒椅和一棵橄榄树。银色点缀、万德庞普标志性的腮红粉以及装饰图案随处可见，从金属床头板到浅色壁纸均有体现。大理石梳妆台配有一把看起来很沉重的金属椅，不过事实证明，这把椅子比预想的要更有趣一点。如果房价没有那么合理（每晚 £165 起），我可能会对此感到惊讶，但很明显，这是一种触手可及的奢华诠释。

“我们非常注重打造一种让每个人都感到亲切的设计，”范德庞（Vanderpump）说道。“在赌场大厅里有一些大胆的设计宣言，但卧室和套房则采用了截然不同的色调和氛围。它们宁静且空灵，是远离拉斯维加斯喧嚣的避风港。”浴室是我们唯一感到略有失望的设计点——感觉这里投入的心思比其他空间少了一些。瓷砖淋浴间里出现了一些格格不入的短语，例如“没有风险的获胜，是没有光荣的胜利”，其字体缺乏我预期中范德庞世界应有的精致感。再加上一个有缺口的边柜，这里感觉与整体设计叙事脱节。同样，Soleta泳池区——配有红色躺椅和略显稀疏的棕榈树——也感觉与整体风格不协调。但计划已经在实施中。“到目前为止，工作是分阶段进行的，”范德庞向我保证道。“只要他们允许我接手剩余部分，我将非常乐意效劳。”值得注意的是，这并非范德庞首次涉足拉斯维加斯。她的房地产投资组合包括位于凯撒皇宫（Caesars Palace）的范德庞鸡尾酒花园（Vanderpump Cocktail Garden，2019年开业）、巴黎酒店赌场的一家法国餐厅，以及在弗拉明戈酒店（Flamingo）推出的装饰艺术风格的Pinky's，后者于2024年开业。令人惊讶的是，她并没有担任内部餐厅Giada的门面。这份荣誉属于意裔美国主厨吉亚达·德·劳伦蒂斯（Giada De Laurentiis），她自2014年起就在同一地点掌勺。这显然是一个“如果没坏就不用修”的案例，因为食物非常出色。口感如枕头般柔软的佛卡夏面包

--- The Sunday Times August 9, 2026 17 配上辛辣蘸酱，简直是碳水爱好者的梦想；沙拉风味浓郁；用奥尔佐面（orzo）制作的肉丸则配有精致的番茄酱。这里还有一系列将美国西南部风格融入其中的意面，例如野牛宽面（主菜£23起）。这个带有环绕窗户和氛围灯光的弧形空间，让人想起爱德华·霍珀（Edward Hopper）的《夜游者》（Nighthawks），不过基调更加欢乐，这在很大程度上得益于热情且亲切的员工。这里同样供应早餐和早午餐，不过我们选择将波伦塔华夫饼配打发马斯卡彭芝士，以及卡乔-佩佩（cacio e pepe）煎蛋送到房间。客人也可以前往隔壁迷人的Pinky's，在一个结合了温室与《爱丽丝梦游仙境》风格的环境中，体验更具戏剧色彩的早午餐，供应项目包括性感肉桂卷、迷你粉色煎饼和“Bloody Hell”鸡尾酒（主菜£15起）。不要被名字吓跑，这些名称掩盖了这里的品质。你也不必担心范德庞的领地里全是电视名流或狂热粉丝——我们遇到的人基本和我们一样：朋友和情侣（大多是美国人，有些是英国人），年龄在20岁后期到50岁之间。

有一点需要注意：范德庞酒店有调皮的一面。房卡邀请客人们“适度地不循规蹈矩”，而房卡套上则写着“一把钥匙，还是两把？或者三把？”在双人间里，你很难用到第三把；这些房间更像是周末临时落脚点，储物空间很少。如果空间是关键，请尝试标志性套房——规模更大，部分配备小厨房和台球桌——名称如“丑闻”（Scandal）、“恶作剧”（Mischief）和“游荡”（Gallivant）。房间设施也延续了这一主题，有一个“为了您的愉悦”而设的激情盒子，内含避孕套和挑逗羽毛。这确实感觉有点表演性质，但包含镇静软糖、补水粉包和凝胶眼膜的睡眠辅助与恢复套件是一个不错的细节。如果你选择接受邀请，请注意：我们发现墙壁相当薄。关于这一点，虽然酒店位于拉斯维加斯大道（the Strip）上的位置意味着可以便捷地前往城市的许多亮点，但也意味着24小时的人流量……某个夜晚，街角的一名说唱歌手利用这一点一直唱到凌晨3点——我其实并不需要这种体验。

尽管如此，这里的氛围并不像那种放纵不羁的狂欢，而更像是一波远离城市喧嚣的喘息之机。这里也是观看演出、在城市热门场所享用鸡尾酒和晚餐（步行距离均在20分钟以内）、前往霓虹灯博物馆（£18; neonmuseum.org）以及逛逛低调的艺术区的绝佳位置。酒店还提供免费的接送服务，鼓励客人们去探索。范德庞将她的物业视为“位于拉斯维加斯大道50码线上的巨头之中的一家精品酒店”，她表示：“就在行动中心，就在那些大酒店旁边，这种对比是我们无法拒绝的。在拉斯维加斯的酒店里，房间距离你仅200步之遥，这确实有一种魔力。”虽然还有一些细节需要磨合——我们的床在白天没有被妥善整理，尽管挂了“请勿打扰”的标志仍有人敲门，而且代客泊车员会引导你去隔壁酒店乘坐Uber——但这里无疑为城市短途旅行提供了一个轻松、独特且价格实惠的据点。该电视节目的忠实粉丝会对那种近乎于拼贴风格的“范德庞式”气息感到兴奋，而这家酒店也将如预期般吸引各种各样的人，即使是那些不熟悉节目主角的人也会感兴趣。其在主题和设计语言上的投入与一致性令人赞赏。而这正是拉斯维加斯的魅力所在——每个人都能找到适合自己的版本。Blossom Green 是 Visit Las Vegas (visitlasvegas.com) 和 Vanderpump Hotel 的受邀嘉宾，后者的双人间仅房费起价为 £165 (caesars.com)。飞往拉斯维加斯

通过这些绝佳的双中心优惠在卡塔尔中转

卡塔尔与昆士兰双目的地 节省 £100

在前往澳大利亚的长途旅程中，在卡塔尔享受一次免费中途停留，入住西湾地区的 5 星级 W Doha 酒店 2 晚（含早餐）。随后飞往布里斯班，开启一场令人难忘的昆士兰自驾之旅。机票、酒店及租车 —— 10 晚起价每人 £2,925

卡塔尔与开普敦双目的地 5 星级 节省 10%

在一次精彩的假期中访问两座迷人的城市。入住多哈西湾地区的 5 星级 W Doha 酒店 2 晚（含早餐），随后入住 One&Only Cape Town 酒店 5 晚（含早餐），该酒店距离充满活力的维多利亚与阿尔弗雷德海滨区仅咫尺之遥。机票及酒店 —— 5 晚起价每人 £2,479

前往那里的 5 个理由

• 在绝美海滩上放松，或在水上及冒险主题公园感受刺激
• 参加沙漠猎游探索沙漠
• 探索迷人的博物馆和艺术画廊
• 享受绝佳的购物体验、考古遗址、堡垒和世界级体育赛事
• 入住建筑奇迹之作，享受精致美食和无与伦比的设施

卡塔尔与马尔代夫双目的地 5 星级 全包价节省 15%

探索繁荣的多哈市，这里将现代奇迹与古老传统巧妙结合。随后前往马尔代夫，入住绝美的马尔代夫 Maamunagau 洲际酒店，那里有波光粼粼的海水、珊瑚环礁和沙滩。机票、酒店及接送 —— 9 晚起价每人 £4,185

卡塔尔与泰国双目的地 5 星级 节省 10%

入住时尚的 Mondrian Doha 酒店 2 晚，体验豪华购物、世界级博物馆、市场和绝佳海滩。随后前往 The Stand- 和华欣，这里被热带花园环绕，是享受悠闲海滩度假的完美之选。机票、酒店及接送 —— 9 晚起价每人 £1,209

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西非群岛与佛得角

一次从塞内加尔到佛得角的跳岛探险之旅，包括比雅戈斯群岛，乘坐 MS Hebridean Sky 号——2028年2月10日至21日。

这段精彩的跳岛行程将访问非洲西海岸各具特色的岛屿，将塞内加尔、冈比亚、比雅戈斯群岛与佛得角群岛独特地结合在一起。自15世纪葡萄牙人沿西非海岸航行以来，这里发生了巨大的变化。非洲的这个地区在半个多世纪以来很少有人造访，近年来已重新开放。在我们往返于塞内加尔和佛得角之间时，我们将尽情探索景观与文化的非凡多样性。

毫无疑问，体验该地区众多奇观的唯一舒适方式是乘坐小型邮轮，而我们很幸运能拥有像全套房的 MS Hebridean Sky 号这样特殊的船只来进行探索。我们的航程承诺将是一次收获颇丰的体验；虽然在某些岛屿上的基础设施极少，但我们可以利用灵活的 Zodiac 橡皮艇登陆最偏远的岛屿并徒步探索。

除了我们将遇到的壮丽景色，当然还有迷人的文化遗产和人类历史等待发掘。我们将深入研究西非跨大西洋奴隶贸易的遗产，并由当地导游带领我们了解相关情况。在某些地方，道路可能糟糕，旅游基础设施还处于起步阶段，但这恰恰是我们认为该地区能为冒险旅行者提供如此一系列刺激体验的原因。

MS HEBRIDEAN SKY 是世界上最优秀的小型邮轮之一，提供极其宽敞且设计精良的套房、布置精美的公共区域以及高标准的餐饮服务。该船仅可容纳 118 名乘客，套房设有休息区，部分套房还配有私人阳台。宽敞且装饰精美的公共房间包括休息室、优雅的酒吧、带互联网访问的图书馆以及一个单一座位的餐厅。室外设有后方日光甲板，在温暖的天气下，遮阳处会提供餐饮，此外还设有酒吧、观察区和舒适的甲板家具。船上的氛围类似于私人游艇或乡村酒店，您可以放心，在岸上探索一天后，您将回到一艘管理良好、配备豪华且舒适的小型邮轮中享受舒适与宁静。

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小型邮轮 – NOBLE CALEDONIA 带来的宏大体验

行程概览

第 1 天 伦敦至塞内加尔达喀尔。 搭乘定期中转航班。抵达后转乘 MS Hebridean Sky 号并登船。在船只过夜停泊期间，享用饮品和晚餐。

第 2 天 达喀尔与戈雷岛。 今天将提供从塞内加尔首都出发的多种远足选择。我们的城市游览将包括独立广场、总统府和当地市场，随后我们将乘坐轮渡前往戈雷岛。这里拥有殖民风格的房屋和极其宁静的氛围，很难想象这座岛屿在 18 和 19 世纪曾是西非最繁忙的奴隶贸易中心之一。我们将参观现已成为博物馆的奴隶之家，以及位于埃斯特雷堡（Fort d'Estrees）的历史博物馆。从堡垒可以俯瞰岛上以及达喀尔的壮丽景色。或者，您可以选择访问班迪亚保护区（Bandia Reserve），这是一个占地 3,500 公顷的自然保护区，这里栖息着多种非洲哺乳动物，包括白犀牛、斑马、长颈鹿、绿猴和胡狼，以及 120 多种鸟类。我们将乘坐野生动物游猎吉普车在自然保护区内停留，随后驱车前往雷特巴湖（Lake Retba），因其鲜艳的粉红色而被称为“粉红湖”。该湖与大西洋仅由一条狭窄的沙丘地带隔开，由于紧邻海洋，湖水含盐量极高，当地人采集盐分用于保存鱼类。

第 3 天 冈比亚班朱尔。 我们今天将在冈比亚度过，这个国家宽 31 英里，三面被塞内加尔环绕。尽管规模较小，但它极具个性，被誉为“非洲的微笑海岸”。该国历史悠久，出土的石圈可追溯到 1200 年前，当时阿拉伯商人在此地区建立了奴隶、黄金和象牙的贸易路线。葡萄牙人在 15 世纪接管了这些路线，而现在被称为冈比亚的地区从 16 世纪起以各种形式被英国殖民和重新殖民，直到 1965 年独立。今天将有多种游览选择，半日城市游将包括城市清真寺、市场和展示文化与历史的博物馆。或者，您可以选择访问冈比亚南部，那里自然美景丰富，拥有广泛的水路和支流，在郁郁葱葱的绿色荒野中栖息着各种鸟类和野生动物。在这里，村庄和生活继续秉承传统，通过艺术和饮食让人们深入了解不同社区的文化。您可以乘坐小船在红树林中悠闲巡航，或者乘坐 4x4 越野车访问一些村庄、当地学校和市场，最后在海滩餐厅享用午餐。

第 4 至 6 天 几内亚比绍比雅戈斯群岛。 我们将在比雅戈斯群岛停留三天，该群岛由 88 个小岛组成，分布在 5000 平方英里范围内，其中许多岛屿无人居住，极少有外国人访问。这些岛屿融合了文化、历史、野生动物和自然美景，于 1996 年被宣布为联合国教科文组织生物圈保护区。我们的行程将根据潮汐和天气条件而定，但我们希望使用 Zodiac 橡皮艇登陆卡拉什岛（Carache Island），那里拥有热带雨林和迷人的海岸线。在访问当地村庄时，我们将了解他们的仪式和生存农业项目，并有机会购买一些手工艺品或在金色沙滩上放松。与此同时，在卡拉维拉岛（Caravela Island），我们将加入当地妇女的行列，一起采集牡蛎和贝类，随后观看比雅戈斯传统舞蹈表演。我们还可能访问博拉马岛（Bolama Island），那里曾是葡萄牙统治时期的首都，保留了殖民时期的建筑。

第 7 天 在海上。 在我们前往佛得角群岛的航行中，在海上度过轻松的一天。

第 8 天 佛得角，圣地亚哥岛，普拉亚。抵达佛得角后，我们探索圣地亚哥岛上的历史之都普拉亚。普拉亚具有浓厚的非洲风情，我们将访问昔日的葡萄牙殖民首都西达德维利亚（Cidade Velha），那里历史悠久，曾是奴隶贸易的中心。参观矗立在狭窄鹅卵石小巷和石屋之上的堡垒与大教堂。在前往绿色内陆之前，欣赏一场传统的巴图科（Batuco）舞蹈表演；随后我们攀登陡峭的山脉，在前往鲁伊瓦斯（Rui Vaz）的途中欣赏沿途色彩，并在安东尼亚峰（Pico da Antonia）的阴影下享用当地食材烹制的午餐。我们将参观当地农场，并驶过佛得角唯一的用水大坝，随后返回“希布里登天空号”（MS Hebridean Sky）邮轮，并在今晚启航。第 9 天 佛戈岛，圣菲利佩。佛戈岛是一座非凡的岛屿。它是一座从大西洋中陡峭升起的火山，最终形成岛屿，山顶高度达到约 3000 米。它被称为“母亲岛”，拥有独特的性格和人民。岛上的一次驱车之旅将带我们穿过对比鲜明的区域：一边是肥沃的山谷，另一边则是被巨大的灰色火山锥——佛戈峰（Pico de Fogo）所主导的景观。在当地餐厅享用午餐并品尝当地酿造的葡萄酒，同时听导游讲述 1995 年和 2014 年的火山喷发。随后，您可以选择返回“希布里登天空号”邮轮，或访问主镇圣菲利佩，这是一个带有褪色宏伟感的优雅小镇，拥有漂亮的广场和林立着殖民时期房屋的宽阔大道。第 10 天 圣安东岛，波尔图诺沃。我们在佛得角最美丽的岛屿——圣安东岛度过完整的一天。沿着古老的贸易路线行驶，我们将经过拥有农业种植园的“科瓦”（Cova）火山坑，并欣赏岛上的全景。在海滨村庄索尔角（Ponta do Sol）享用午餐后，我们将沿着沿海公路前往群岛中最绿色的山谷——保罗谷（valley of Paul）。在这里，我们将享用咖啡休息时间，同时了解岛上的甘蔗生产。此外，还将探索岛上的国民饮品“格罗格酒”（Grogue），并在岛上最古老的传统格罗格酒酿造厂进行品尝。我们将沿着海岸线向岛屿南侧行驶，返回“希布里登天空号”邮轮。今晚我们将航行一段短距离抵达明德洛，并在那里过夜停泊。第 11 天 圣文森特岛，明德洛。在明德洛度过完整的一天，它是佛得角所有城镇中最迷人的城市之一，拥有殖民建筑、鹅卵石街道、咖啡馆和热闹的餐厅。我们早上的探索之旅将包括热闹的集市和这座港口城镇的隐秘角落，随后在一家典型的佛得角酒吧享用咖啡休息时间。下午可自由独立地进一步探索这座充满活力的城镇。今晚，在启航前往萨尔岛之前，我们将欣赏船上的当地音乐和卡波耶拉（capoeira）表演。第 12 天 萨尔岛至伦敦。今早下船并前往机场，搭乘预定的中转航班返回伦敦。

价格与包含项目

基于双人入住的每人特惠价格，标准套房起价为 £8995。

包含项目：

经济舱定期航班 • 在 MS Hebridean Sky 号上入住 11 晚（全餐制） • 午餐和晚餐期间提供 house wine、啤酒和软饮 • Noble Caledonia 探险团队 • 岸上观光 • 小费 • 接送服务 • 机场税 • 港口税。 注：港口和行程可能会有变动。所有特惠价格视供应情况而定。所有预订均适用我们当前的预订条件。价格不包括旅行保险、佛得角机场安全费和几内亚比绍签证。本次航程将使用 Zodiac 橡皮艇。 或者在 www.noble-caledonia.co.uk 在线查看或申请。 NOBLE CALEDONIA 小船——大体验

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旅行

城市短途游 盖尔·西蒙斯（Gail Simmons）表示，这种无需繁琐手续的欧洲之旅替代方案具有鲜明的法兰西风情。

梦想一次无需排队办理护照的欧陆逃离之旅？无需再寻找，圣彼得港（St Peter Port）就是您的选择。它是根西岛的主要城镇，在这里，法国的影响力与英镑货币及英语的便利完美融合。淡色调的房屋沿着鹅卵石小巷攀升，阳台上开满了天竺葵，咖啡馆沿海滨排开。这里的街道名称反映了与诺曼底的历史纽带，这种纽带在征服者威廉于 1066 年成为英格兰国王时建立。这座海峡群岛城镇从英国出发即可轻松抵达，为欧洲夏季假期提供了一个极具吸引力的替代方案。沿海漫步、跳岛游、米其林推荐餐厅和法式小酒馆，以及从低调静谧的度假地到五星级奢华酒店的多种选择，让这里成为度过一个彻底放松周末的理想之地。

第 1 天

上午 沿着花岗岩铺就的小巷漫步前往奥特维尔故居（Hauteville House），这是此次行程的亮点。在 1855 年至 1870 年流亡法国期间，作家维克多·雨果在这座乔治时代晚期的联排别墅中填满了雕刻木作、挂毯、镜子和纪念品。不要错过可以远眺他挚爱故土的花园（£12; maisonsvictorhugo.paris.fr）。 在 Lola 用餐。沿着市场街（Market Street）走，Lola 提供汤品、汉堡和三明治，例如搭配椰奶咖喱蛋黄酱、腌菜和香菜的天妇罗虾三明治。在室外找个座位，这里是镇上观察行人最佳的地点（主菜 £10 起; lolatakeaway.co）。

下午

乘坐 20 分钟的渡轮即可抵达赫姆岛（Herm），这是一个禁止车辆进入的微型岛屿。您可以沿着林间小道和沙路漫步，前往纯净的贝壳海滩（Shell beach）和贝尔武尔湾（Belvoir Bay），即使在夏天也不拥挤。在海滩咖啡馆稍作休息，然后乘坐渡轮返回（往返 £19; herm.com）。

在 The Ship & Crown 饮酒

据信，1945年5月9日，英军将海峡群岛的德国指挥官囚禁在这家由酒店改为酒吧的场所中。楼上设有可俯瞰港口的桌位 (liberationgroup.com)。

晚上

沿着海滨漫步，欣赏渔船、游艇和渡轮，背景是圣彼得港港口口的中世纪堡垒——科内特城堡。夜幕降临，城堡的灯光在静谧的水面上闪烁。

圣彼得港 48 小时...

米其林认可的 Alba 餐厅的烹饪创意；主景为港口。

须知

抵达与交通

根西岛航空公司 Aurigny 提供来自英国各地的航班，英国航空也运行从希思罗机场出发的服务。圣彼得港规模较小，足以步行游览。

负责任地旅游

根西岛的汽车拥有率在欧洲最高之列，且道路狭窄，这意味着圣彼得港周边经常出现拥堵，尤其是在高峰时段。建议从 Go Guernsey 租一辆电动自行车（每天 £45；go-guernsey.gg），并利用岛上便捷的巴士网络（每程 £1.70；gov.gg）。

在 Pier 17 用餐

在这家深受当地人和游艇人群喜爱的海滨餐厅享用晚餐，延续航海主题。新鲜食材是这里的核心，单点亮点包括青柠姜味烤海鲈鱼；早到用餐者可以选择 £12 的两道菜套餐。在温暖的夜晚，可以选择露台桌位欣赏码头景色（主菜 £20 起；pier17restaurant.com）。

第二天 早晨

为了开启充满活力的一天，前往 La Vallette 游泳池游泳，并在池畔咖啡馆享用健康的早餐——强烈推荐自制的浆果燕麦片。这四个维多利亚时代的泳池由潮汐自然填充，可俯瞰邻近岛屿和科内特城堡（免费；thebathingpools.com）。然后穿过堤道前往城堡，它在 800 年间一直守护着根西岛的主要港口；现在这里设有几家博物馆和正式花园（£12；visitguernsey.com）。

在 Coco 用餐

这家位于南海滨大道（South Esplanade）的法式小酒馆兼咖啡馆在轻松的环境中提供三明治、汤品和沙拉。马苏里拉奶酪、生菜和番茄恰巴塔面包简单但令人满足（三明治 £9 起；cocoguernsey.co）。

下午

有标记的小径从南海滨大道穿过林地，沿着海岸悬崖通往费尔曼湾（Fermain Bay），这是根西岛最漂亮的湾区之一，距离圣彼得港约两英里。在费尔曼海滩咖啡馆停下来买一桶冰淇淋，然后步行前往费尔曼酒馆（Fermain Tavern）乘坐 91 或 92 路巴士返回镇上（下载 Visit Guernsey 应用程序查看步行路线）。

在 The Crown Club 饮酒

在 Old Government House 酒店内的 Crown Club 舒适的皮革长椅上坐下，享用一杯日落饮品。这家优雅的鸡尾酒吧提供专业调制的鸡尾酒、名酒和高端烈酒。菜单中可能会出现“悲惨世界”马提尼，灵感来自在根西岛流亡期间完成《悲惨世界》的雨果（鸡尾酒 £13 起；theoghhotel.com）。

晚上

在圣彼得港的小巷中漫步至坎迪花园（Candie Gardens），那里矗立着维多利亚女王威严的青铜像——该像于 1900 年为纪念其钻禧庆典而设立——俯瞰着棕榈树、树蕨和朱蕉。在这里可以透过屋顶远眺根西岛的姐妹岛：赫姆岛、萨克岛和杰图岛 (museums.gov.gg)。

在 Alba 用餐

这家位于市场广场（Market Square）的餐厅最近被授予米其林必比登推荐，氛围热闹，提供富有想象力的小盘菜，如白葡萄酒香茅设兰德群岛贻贝自制宽面。为了获得最佳体验，请坐在吧台观看厨师工作。您需要提前预订（主菜 £10 起；albarestaurant.gg）。

Gail Simmons 是 Visit Guernsey (visitguernsey.com) 的受邀嘉宾。飞往根西岛。

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LES COTILS

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维多利亚时代的前修道院

Les Cotils 占据了一座维多利亚时代的修道院，坐落在 12 英亩的花园之中，可远眺离岛，拥有 24 间舒适的套房。这里氛围宁静，反映出其同时作为慈善静修中心的功能，给人一种乡村别墅而非普通酒店的感觉（B&B 双人间 £97 起；lescotils.com）。

THE DUKE

屋顶泳池

The Duke 坐落在圣彼得港（St Peter Port）之上，拥有一个屋顶露台和游泳池，是感受夏季微风的理想之选。这里深受法国游客喜爱，具有浓厚的欧陆风情。入门级客房可能感觉较为紧凑，因此建议升级至豪华房或海景房（B&B 双人间 £170 起；theduke.gg）。

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根西岛唯一的五星级酒店

这家根西岛唯一的五星级酒店曾是该岛总督的官邸，坐落在旧圣彼得港中心的一座山丘上。室内装潢让人想起乔治亚风格豪宅的宏伟，配有古董家具、吊灯和木镶板。高层的海港景观房是最佳选择（B&B 双人间 £270 起；theoghhotel.com）。

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《星期日泰晤士报》 2026 年 8 月 9 日 25 旅行 # 我的假期 ALAN DAVIES

在越南没人认识我——能暂时抽离生活的感觉真好

关于在马加卢夫与警察起冲突以及在纽约看棒球赛的喜剧演员 艾伦·戴维斯（Alan Davies），60岁，是一位单口喜剧演员、演员兼作家，最著名的作品包括BBC电视系列剧《乔纳森·克里克》（Jonathan Creek），以及担任《Q1》的常驻嘉宾及其脱口秀节目《艾伦·戴维斯：暂无标题》（Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled）。他还撰写了回忆录《我最喜欢的人和我：1978–88》（My Favourite People and Me: 1978–88）、《就当没看见他》（Just Ignore Him）以及《白人男性单口喜剧》（White Male Stand-Up）。他与妻子凯蒂（Katie）以及他们三个孩子（分别为16, 14和10岁）住在北伦敦。

“我第一次在没有父母陪同的情况下旅行就惹上了警察。那时我16岁，和朋友们一起去马加卢夫旅游。我们很晚才回酒店，在一家汉堡店搭讪了两名女孩，但她们不想理我们。突然有人喷了番茄酱，有人喷了芥末酱，很快到处都是番茄酱和芥末酱。店员把我们赶了出去，其中一人殴打另一人。一名拿着铁棒加入混战的英国人被卷入其中。我试图帮他，但另一根铁棒打断了我的指关节。我的朋友格雷厄姆（Graham）当时在点汉堡，像我一样什么都没喷，结果被逮捕了。警察来到酒店要钱，九名来自纽卡斯尔的女性为我们凑了钱。格雷厄姆后来告诉我们，他把芥末酱和番茄酱抹在了警车的后座上，这就是为什么他们想要钱。”

我在埃塞克斯的劳顿长大，有一个哥哥和一个妹妹。我六岁时母亲死于白血病，我不记得和她一起度假的事，但我们去过佩恩顿（Paignton）等地，住在一些小酒店里，其中一家提供的下午茶有炸鱼柳和焗豆；我记得当时觉得早餐时的橙汁非常令人兴奋，因为家里只有橙色果汁浓缩液。除此之外，记忆里就是建沙堡被潮水冲走、冰淇淋和晒伤。

我父亲喜欢山。他带我们步行登顶 Yr Wyddfa（斯诺登峰），九岁那年，我发现竟然有火车可以直接开上去，这让我很恼火。但北威尔士非常美丽。我父亲开车带我们横跨欧洲，12岁时，为了避免在后座吵架，我必须坐在前排。他热爱在多洛米蒂山的布伦纳山口疾速过弯，大喊着：“多么壮丽的景色！”

我第一次出国度假是我十岁时去马略卡岛的两周套装游。我在一个摊位上买了一个潜水面罩，时间都花在从码头跳水和浮潜上。我喜欢在水下与鱼群独处。多年后我开始学习水肺潜水——我在莱斯特郡一个冰冷的采石场接受了Padi培训——之后在世界各地潜水。

我父亲没有回头——那是泽西岛，次年艾伦·戴维斯在越南的下龙湾找到了平静，然后是科孚岛和罗得岛。但这从来与文化无关；他只是想在阳光下躺着。

到1981年，飞往美国的航班变得便宜了，于是我父亲、哥哥、妹妹和我一起去了一趟洛杉矶、旧金山、约塞米蒂、大峡谷、拉斯维加斯和纽约的自驾游。我非常喜欢纽约，我们在谢伊体育场看了一场棒球赛。在拉斯维加斯，我们看了一场有脱衣舞女郎的表演，我觉得非常尴尬。

2005年，我决定预订一次越南独旅。一名导游带我去了北部的山城沙巴，我们在路边咖啡馆吃了热河粉和糯米饭——这是我吃过最美味的一餐。在下龙湾，我和其他八名游客住在船上，没有人知道我是谁。食物很美味，风景令人叹为观止，我们聊得很开心。我不喜欢抱怨成名带来的不便，因为我热爱我的工作，但有时能暂时抽离生活的感觉真好。回来后我感到焕然一新，不久后我遇到了凯蒂。两年后我带她去了越南，她也非常喜欢那里。

我喜欢旅行中关于历史的一面。最近在布达佩斯，我们参观了恐怖之屋博物馆（House of Terror Museum），那里曾是警察总部，虽然令人心惊胆战，但却引人入胜。同样，在越南，我特意前往胡志明市的战争遗迹博物馆，那里有大量关于“美国战争”的内容，而且我也非常喜欢那些以法国殖民风格建造的绝美酒店。去年，我带着孩子们去澳大利亚观看了一场灰烬杯测试赛，因为我的小儿子对板球痴迷。我们经由洛杉矶前往，孩子们非常喜欢迪士尼乐园和环球影城。在墨尔本，我们持有节礼日测试赛第三天的门票，但比赛在两天内就结束了，所以我们改为参加了墨尔本板球场的导览游，可惜没能看到板球赛。今年我们将前往开普敦，希望能看到一场英格兰对阵南非的测试赛。

采访由 John Wright 完成。Alan Davies 的《White Male Stand-Up》现已出版平装本；他的“Think Ahead”巡演将于 9 月 21 日开始 (alandavies.live)

竞赛 赢取价值高达 £2,000 的伦敦奢华假期，入住 EGERTON HOUSE HOTEL

我在哪里？

我们错过了离开这座岛的最后一班渡轮，而这全是我朋友的错。在下午 5 点出发前的一小时里，他一直站在岛上错误的一端。他把我带到岛的西南边缘，将双筒望远镜对准我们南方 340 码处第二座较小的岛——用他的话说，是在“寻找亿万富翁”。“这里就是我们自己的波斯湾，”他大喊道，同时在远处的树林中搜寻油井，而这毁了我观察反嘴鹬的机会。现在，他似乎在计划进行一次非法露宿。“别紧张！如果你要在英格兰任何地方露营，就应该是这里，”他轻快地说道，并开始在松树林中寻找合适的位置——刻意避开了 119 年前使用过的一个实验营地以及现代的官方营地。与此同时，想到我们在大陆港口小镇（位于岛屿以北一英里处）错过的晚餐，我的肚子就咕咕作响。盐渍鳕鱼曾是该镇商船的特产——运往西班牙和葡萄牙。现在我饿到什么盐渍的东西都能吃。 “没问题！”朋友宣布道，“我们把资源整合一下。” 就在这时，我们发现我们只有两颗薄荷糖和一个三明治包装纸。“我们能准备得更不足吗？”我心想，正当此时，朋友宣布我们将改为烧烤岛上著名的松鼠。 “不行，”刚刚发现我们并听到对话的国民信托（National Trust）管理员说道。朋友的脸变得深红。 Sean Newsom

问题

1. 第二座岛的名字是什么？
2. 那个港口小镇的名字是什么？

奖品

获胜者及其一名嘉宾将在 Knightsbridge 的 The Egerton House Hotel（红康乃馨酒店系列成员）的豪华大床房入住两晚，8&8。这家奢华精品酒店靠近 V&A 博物馆（酒店宾客可享受参加特别活动和已售罄展览的权限）和 Harvey Nichols，让引人注目的西伦敦区近在咫尺，非常适合夏季居家度假。内部风格是老派的优雅——原作艺术品、时尚的镜子和精致的花艺布置——其 28 间客房和套房均配备手工制作的 Savoir 床铺。每日仪式包括下午茶以及酒店招牌的马提尼。更多信息请见 egertonhousehotel.com。奖品包括一份双人两道菜晚餐，每人一杯招牌马提尼。用餐时间必须在 1 月 4 日至 5 月 3, 2027, 之间，视供应情况而定，且 2 月 12 至 15 日除外。

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上周奖品

答案是 Shoreditch Park 和 Tower of London。来自爱丁堡的 David Bishop 赢得了在 W Edinburgh 价值高达 £2,600 的苏格兰奢华假期。

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26 8 月 9, 2026 《星期日泰晤士报》旅行评论

Rachel Johnson 办理入住共进晚餐

Painswick酒店的餐厅水准参差不齐，但像哈罗德百货食品馆一样的M5高速服务区拯救了我的科茨沃尔德之旅

在我第一次访问格洛斯特服务区（Gloucester Services）时，我不禁脱口而出：“我走错路来到科茨沃尔德了。”当时我正沿着M5高速公路从埃克斯穆尔（Exmoor）开车返回，错过了前往伦敦的出口。这绝非普通的休息站。我当时觉得，自己一定是死在了路肩上，然后升入了天堂。格洛斯特服务区毫无疑问是英国最富裕的郡县中最时尚、最豪华的服务站（尽管价格不便宜——柴油每升高达令人心痛的£2）。它坐落在一座通风良好、现代主义风格的低矮长形木质建筑中，屋顶覆盖着草皮。进入后，我首先看到的是中央糕点区，那里堆满了令人垂涎的克鲁坦面包（crutins）和羊角面包，接着是高耸的各类茶点展示架——柠檬蛋白、香草、黑巧克力。而这还只是在我到达餐厅之前看到的，那里有好几家餐厅，配备了开放式厨房、面包房和肉铺柜台。它就像是M5高速公路上的哈罗德百货食品馆，由有机农场和当地生产者供货，是高端的蒂贝服务区（Tebay Services）在南部的分支，由Westmorland Farmshop & Co.经营。这里太有吸引力了，以至于本月我再次光顾（午餐是一个美味的烟熏鸡鹰嘴豆炖锅，价格5英镑，一杯小白咖啡价格差不多；我还 在礼品店区域买了一条蓝色航海短裤）。遗憾的是，这里不能办理入住住宿（尽管它24-7营业），所以我继续前行，去会见A40公路分界线以北——也就是所谓的“灯芯绒走廊”（Corduroy Corridor）——的那群光鲜之辈。第一站：位于同名完美小镇的精美Painswick酒店，该镇被誉为“科茨沃尔德之女王”。这座建筑最初是一座依托布料贸易而建的帕拉第奥式宫殿，19世纪90年代由建筑师Detmar Blow将其改为牧师住宅，20世纪初由Lea & Perrins财富的继承人增加了图书馆和一个贝壳形状的“讲道石”等扩建部分。自2015年起成为酒店，Painswick的园林与圣玛丽原罪教堂（St Mary the Virgin）相连，该教堂以其尖塔而闻名，周围环绕着99棵修剪整齐的庄严红豆杉。抵达Painswick后，我扔下包，抓起狗，参观了教堂，然后沿着蜿蜒几英里的、像滚奶酪一样陡峭的山路开向斯莱德村（Slad），在Woolpack酒吧与店主雕塑家Daniel Chadwick以及我的朋友、《像我们这样的妻子》（Wives Like Us）的小说家Plum Sykes一起喝了一品脱Buddings啤酒。这家像古老威塞克斯羊棚一样的酒吧曾是Laurie Lee的常去之地，现在供应广受好评的丰盛美食；那摇摇欲坠的吧台面向田园诗般的斯莱德山谷，拥有壮丽的金黄色景观，吧台深度仅占房间的一半。“我们不能住在在这儿吗？”Plum问道。我把她拽回山下的Painswick酒店，在那里，我和狗住在紧邻17间卧室主屋的一栋舒适的三居室小屋里（每晚£705）。

让我们先说好消息。酒店如梦似幻，年轻的员工非常有魅力（晚餐时我差点问我们的服务员是否是Callum Turner的替身），全英式早餐是我吃过最好的——奶油炒蛋、油脂最浓的培根、血肠，以及滚烫浓郁的咖啡——但Sauce餐厅的晚餐并非完全成功。当我询问前台Leah Warren关于Sauce的“氛围”时，她回答说主厨Kian Puerta-Terron“非常注重风味和独特的香料”，我记得当时我觉得这听起来……很特别。好吧。我们以撒有芝麻和海苔碎的迷你切达干酪挞开始。对于如此之小的开胃小点（amuse-gueules）来说，其中的食材多了大约六种，而且尽管对我来说没有什么能让干酪味足够浓，但这些挞的味道还是太腻了。

Plum 点的 £22 前菜是“洛杜尔特三文鱼生鱼片，配法式酸奶油、沙棘和辣椒”，结果就是几块橙色的鱼肉浸在像橙汁一样的东西里。她尝了一小口就把它推开了。我点的 £17 “新鲜英格兰豌豆，豌豆山葵巴伐利亚慕斯，腌萝卜”则被辣根的味道完全掩盖。比起 Plum，我更是个大胃王，所以我把自己的那份以及她的三文鱼全部吃光了，而她则在啃着店里的酸面包（极好）并抹了大量的黄油。隔壁桌有一份像酥皮圆顶一样的惠灵顿牛排 (£35)，看起来非常丰盛，让我稍微后悔点了烤石鲈鱼配焦茄子和烤鸡油醋汁——那是一场阴暗且令人费解的味道与口感的混杂。Plum 喜欢她的两次烘烤切达起司舒芙蕾配帕玛森奶油菠菜 (£16)，还吃了几个新土豆 (£6)。甜点我选择了伊夫舍姆草莓配羊奶酸奶慕斯和结晶南瓜籽 (£10)，因为我觉得草莓加奶油是不可能搞砸的。我错了。如果主厨能留意一下 17 世纪内战期间一名垂死士兵在教堂里涂鸦的文字就好了：“要大胆，要大胆，但不要太大胆。”把每道菜的食材减掉一半，一切都会好起来。只要……不要酱汁？在佩恩斯威克（Painswick）其他必去的地方还包括洛可可花园（Rococo Garden），我还建议这位主厨（以及各地的美食爱好者）去看看查德威克在斯特劳德（Stroud）的另一家店 Juliet。在那里，我和《泰晤士报》专栏作家珍妮·罗素（Jenni Russell）一起享用了一顿神奇的午餐，品尝了富有想象力的地中海组合菜肴和木炭烤鱿鱼——这在一定程度上是基于本报另一位同事盖尔斯·科伦（Giles Coren）的推荐，他在该店去年开业时给所有项目都打了 10 分，尤其是食物，“简直无法改进”（主菜 £22 起）。然后，我步履轻快地前往三个月内的第三次访问……你猜对了，格洛斯特服务区（Gloucester Services）。你没法让我远离那里。瑞秋·约翰逊（Rachel Johnson）是佩恩斯威克酒店的客人，该酒店的双人间 B&B 价格 £315 起 (thepainswick.co.uk)。叫我古怪也行，但我不是那种喜欢无窗酒店房间的人。我希望醒来时能知道太阳是否已经升起。比起盯着墙壁，我更喜欢城市景观。日落也不错。但这些可悲的小盒子确实有市场，主要是因为它们便宜——或者应该是便宜。我下个月要去格拉斯哥参加一场婚礼，在想是否可以住在新装修的 Arthouse Glasgow 酒店。如果提前预订，其“口袋”房起价为 £99，但在我前往的那个周末，每晚价格为 £280。如果我想在 9 月 10 日（周四）入住，那么在这样一个光荣地没有自然光的夜晚，价格将达到 £481，而且还不含早餐。英国大城市的酒店价格正变得越来越

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英国城市的酒店房价已经失控。由于我刚过三十岁，生活中有很多为了庆祝朋友重大事件而进行的短途旅行，三周后我将前往曼彻斯特参加一场单身派对。可以肯定地说，这座城市的酒店业正在蓬勃发展，近期开业的包括 Mollie's 和 Soho House，但这并没有起到降低房价的作用。我找不到任何每晚低于 £200 且看起来不脏乱的市中心酒店，所以最终预订了一个略显枯燥的共居空间，那里有一个顶楼办公室和一个由六个房间共用的厨房，我想那里住的可能是安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）那些被匆忙搬迁的 No 10 工作人员。格拉斯哥 Arthouse 酒店称其“口袋房”是“那些来到格拉斯哥是为了在外面尽兴的人的完美选择”，这提出了两个有趣的问题。首先，如果你在酒店里根本不花多少时间，那么九月份的那些价格就更离谱了。其次，这暗示了格拉斯哥周六房价飙升的原因：大型夜生活活动。动态定价并非新鲜事。每个人都经历过这种情况：第一次查看酒店时报一个价格，第二次查看时（仅仅因为他们多卖了几间房）就报另一个（高得令人望而却步的）价格。但在那些拥有繁荣夜生活（涵盖酒吧、俱乐部和体育馆演出）、狂欢者在周末蜂拥而至的英国城市中，这种现象似乎已经失控。对于那次格拉斯哥之行，我在 Social Hub 预订了两晚单人间，本质上这是一个面向成年人的高级青年旅舍，每晚 £153。还可以。但值得将此成本与规模更大、更显眼的旅游目的地中地理位置优越且更具魅力的酒店进行比较。在同一个周末，你可以入住位于东伦敦 Brick Lane 的 Buxton 酒店，这是一家热闹的精品酒店，每晚 £160，且包含我住过的最顶级的酒店早餐之一（在邻近的餐厅，那道配有 labneh 的土耳其蛋大约要花费 £20）。在巴黎酷炫且多元文化的第 20 区，Babel Belleville 精品酒店的房价 £187 起，而且比你在格拉斯哥用同样价格能住到的任何地方都更有特色。要求酒店不要根据需求如此大幅度地提高房价似乎是不现实的。但他们应该好好思考一下动态定价适合什么样的客人——以及不适合什么样的客人。愿意挤在一张特大号床上的醉酒好友团体？大概适合。单夜结婚旅行者？愿意忍受。想要花几天时间探索伦敦以外的英国伟大城市的家庭？目前看来这根本不值得。

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ROL 邮轮 30 超过 25 年的信赖

中国之奇

四晚长江河游轮

独家促销

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地道体验

长江 穿行于令人印象深刻的瞿塘峡、巫峡和西陵峡，即著名的三峡 成都大熊猫 参观著名的熊猫保护中心，近距离观察这些可爱的生物 长城 沿着这座令人惊叹的现代奇迹行走，它是中国最著名的景点 兵马俑 与秦始皇皇帝那些神秘的等身兵马俑面对面

13 晚行程 出发日期：2026年11月9日，2027年3月10日及9月17日，2028年3月8日及5月1日

第 1 天 从伦敦飞往中国上海（过夜航班）

第 2 天 中国，上海 到达后，接机前往酒店入住两晚

第 3 天 中国，上海 探索古典的豫园，参观丝绸工厂，并乘坐全景游船在黄浦江上俯瞰城市。今晚，品尝传统的上海菜

第 4 天 上海至中国宜昌 ★高铁★ 乘坐高铁前往宜昌，随后登上河轮，开启为期四晚的长江河 cruise

第 5 天 - 长江河 cruise ★三峡★

第 7 天 三峡大坝展示了宏伟的工程壮举。在三天的时间里，享受各种岸上观光活动

第 8 天 中国重庆 - 成都 探索古老的磁器口，随后在成都享用美味的四川晚餐，并可选择观看以“变脸”著称的川剧表演

第 9 天 成都 - 中国西安 ★大熊猫★ 参观成都著名的熊猫保护中心，然后乘坐高铁前往西安。今晚，享用传统水饺大餐并观看迷人的唐代舞蹈表演

第 10 天 中国，西安 ★兵马俑★ 观看神秘的等身兵马俑和马俑阵列

第 11 天 西安 - 中国北京 ★高铁★ 乘坐高铁前往中国首都北京，这里是景点的宝库

第 12 天 中国，北京 ★故宫★ 前往北京的象征中心——天安门广场，随后进入规模宏大、气势磅礴的故宫。以一场中国杂技表演结束这一天

第 13 天 中国，北京 ★中国长城★ 今天上午专门前往中国最标志性的景点——长城。今晚，品尝北京最著名的美食——北京烤鸭

第 14 天 中国，北京 前往机场飞回伦敦（请注意，这可能是过夜航班，因此可能在次日到达）

包含项目

立即预订可节省高达 £800* - 独家票价将会上涨

• 由 Wendy Wu Tours 提供为期 12 晚的全程陪同“壮丽长江之旅”，包括**： - 陆地行程期间精心挑选的酒店住宿 - 无需签证 - 陆地行程和河 cruise 期间的所有餐饮 - 所有观光游览，包括门票、导游和每日行程 - 英语陪同人员和当地导游 - 所有交通和接送 - 最高团队规模 28 人

• 伦敦往返航班（可根据要求提供区域航班和高端舱位*）及海外接送

• 此外，在 2026年8月15日 晚上 8 点前预订，即可获赠免费的三款葡萄酒礼盒*

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假期代码：AS48599 / 豪华双床阳台套房 £2,499pp 起 / 沙德双床阳台套房 £3,199pp 起 / --- / **所示价格包含基于两名乘客共用一间豪华双床阳台套房并直接向 Imagine Cruising 预订的折扣和优惠。+所示价格和行程基于 2026年9月25日 出发。

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August 9, 2026 Issue no R1534 (thetimes.com

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'They fire drones deep into Russia, then pack up and speed off'

Defence Correspondent Eastern Division

A young sergeant approached out of the darkness, the light of a crescent moon illuminating him from behind. He grinned as he perplexed to several heroes that had arrived at front earlier. 'Do you want to come on the drones now?'

It was a little after James Fodor, and we were standing on a dirt track toward southern Ukraine. The other side of us were freshly harvested fields of wheat. The only

sounds were the low measures of soldiers and the occasional clung of metal from inside the tracks.

On board the unassuming forces were hidden several drones, capable of hitting targets hundreds of kilometres inside Russia as part of Ukraine's underrun—a real strike' campaign, which has punctured the formation, some of local neutrality in the past few months.

Deep strikes have led all centuries, military installations, logistics hubs and transport networks far into Russian territory, costing the enemy's economy at least £25 billion in lost revenue and damaged assets, according to the German government estimates.

A span of recent attacks on warehouses belonging to the online retailer Wildberries, which

handles goods and services delivered to be worth about 8.5 per cent of Russia's economy, have intensified the impact.

Last week I was granted two access to the deep strike operation by the commanders of Ukraine's Wildinghouse, which had which specialises in these attacks.

We would later learn that the drones fired in the early hours at Fodor morning, were fired at 6.0 mms, striking targets, including a Russian naval ship in the Black Sea, soldiers and vessels in the Sea of War; two bird and ammunition depots, cadet and air defence morale systems, and launch platforms for disabled drones.

Deep strike drones like these have become the most important weapon in the Ukrainian arsenal.

With fewer available soldiers than Russia, Ukraine has been forced to adapt rapidly, although long-range attacks have been employed in the war since 2012, they have been increasingly used—and increasingly vital—the past year.

One of the main reasons for this is that Ukraine is running out of missile interceptions. Since the early days of the war, it has rolled on American supplies of Patriot air defences to shoot down Russian munitions. But the United States has used up much of its stockpile during its war on Iran and despite initially offering Ukraine a license to July to make its own Statistic President Trump said last month he was now 'not sure' about it, and hesitant to 'give away that kind of technology'.

On Tuesday this was hattered by about 20 drones and 2.6 million missiles. Although many of the drones were shot down, not a single missile was destroyed, more than 20 people were killed and drones were injured. And yesterday, three people including a child were killed in attacks on him. One soldier on the deep strikes mission consulted that he now fell after in some areas near the front line than he did before. President Zelensky has called on European aid. Now, allow for more support. On Wednesday, he said he would expand the deep strike campaign, giving explicit instructions to destroy launch sites in Russia. These drones are now both Continued on page 4-9

Top universities currently growing as fewer foreign students apply

Funding crisis means BBB may secure a place

Louise Eccles, Robert Watts and Hannah Smart

Elite universities have accepted more Admit pupils achieving the equivalent of BBB than USA in an attempt to fill the gap left by a residue of high-paying international students.

As pupils in England, Wales and Northern Ireland prepare to receive their Admit results on Thursday, the UK's top universities—known as 'higher tariff' institutions—have become more flexible for students who raise their grades or apply during clearing.

Universities are accepting lower-achieving British undergraduates after a 40 per cent drop in international students, who can pay up to seven times as much for a degree. Their impatience, a result of tighter visa rules, Brexit, economic instability in key markets and growing competition from universities overseas, has left 70 interest in work in a real deficit of more than £900 million.

The economic impact of the decline in foreign students is half bare by Sunday Times research that gives the first comprehensive

picture of higher education/financial health.

An investigation examining the financial statements published by UK of the US universities featured in The Sunday Times/Card University Guide has expressed the value of the reliance on international students. We found:

• 90% the universities collected £397 million less from international students in 2024-25 than on a year before.

• Over paid by international students account for at least 40 percent of the total income of two universities. These most dependent

on people from overseas—what the universities of Buckingham, Hertfordshire and East London.

• 80% the children suffered the sleep on decline in income. By 6M (half less—Super cent—in 2024-25).

• Nottingham, Lancashire and Coventry chalked up the largest deficits. Nottingham showed a shortfall of nearly 375 million between income and expenditure.

• Nearly half of the universities still have recorded a fall in total income over the past year.

• Seventy-seven universities cut

out by a total of 9,600 in 2024-25.

• Fifty-one universities reported deficits in 2024-25, 30 more than in the previous year. Five have reported deficits for at least three successive years.

From September, British undergraduates will pay £5,798 a year compared with up to £39,000 a year for international student fees.

• The number of international students peaked in 2022-25 at 39,000 after the introduction of a foreign student run that allowed graduates to bring their families

with their carto or immigration the dropped to 605,567 in 2024-25.

• Although they're British income has been blamed for many universities—which are divided into higher, medium and lower tariff institutions by the Universities and College Admissions Service (Ucs)—softening their grade

requirements.

FLUATING VOTE

WORLD'S GAMES

Hundreds of people kept cool on the River Stour yesterday for Dorant Driphy Day in Christchurch

Go green or die, warns hedge fund billionaire

Ben Spencer Science Editor

Businesses that refuse to go green will drive themselves into bankruptcy, one of Britain's most successful investors has warned.

In Chris Holm, founder of the 1997 billion hedge fund TCI Fund Management, said global warming was 'blindlingly obvious' and 'anyhow' could use climate change was accelerated.

The chatter, the Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), has spent nearly £2 billion on tackling climate change, and he recently gave away £1.4 billion of his personal wealth in a single year.

Holm, 59, said: 'If you aren't decarbonizing your business, you could go out of business. Some car manufacturers are still only making the internal combustion engine.'

And they will go to the death-making, the internal combustion engine. If you're a shareholder in that car company, you should be encouraging and promoting the management to wake up and smell

the coffee.'

Holm, who is worth about £8.6 billion, said the government must also take the crisis more seriously.

'It is a case of decarbonism or die,' he said. 'If you don't embrace these industries, you will be in jobs because that's the future.'

All these people who are we can't afford not zero—they're completely misunderstood by the parents in their situation.

Marta Fahdshallah, the energy secretary, suggested yesterday that some not-zero targets might be refused. 'We need to keep the necessary financial issue power,' she told The Times. 'But we've also got to do it in a way that works for people.'

Full interview, page 13

Bomb-proof vans, snipers on roofs: crime boss Kinahan returns to face justice

John Mooney

It is the day that the international crime card from David Kinahan is becoming to be found after a decade in hiding in India—and his boss has been making his chums.

The Irish government has launched one of the biggest security operations in its history to bring him to trial, with snipers on roofs, bomb-proof vans for trans-petalism, decoy vans and signal journeys in private rulings.

Google 1.0, the first time since 2016, Kinahan will return to lo-

land, flown on a government jet, the 'Inouach Falcon 10, which is scheduled to land at a military air base outside Dublin. He is due to land and air type.

Intelligence sources suggest Kinahan, 45, is likely to be under multiple threats once he is back in Ireland, including from elements of the sea-catric, discontent-spotish vans, hostile state actors and powerful criminals who wish to avenge the murders of their own gang members.

In the attempt to spoil after the camels' links to oil tankers

involved in shipping Iranian crude skins China emerged.

Once he has landed, Kinahan will be taken directly to the special criminal court, which was originally established to prosecute expellions. Insecurity, including the more landlike elements of the International IRA.

In 2016, Kinahan spoke with saying he was 'happy' to be getting on a plane back to Ireland, in a voice message left for a pocketed called James English, which was released on the plane, and it was asked that he has sent to English in recent

weeks. 'The security is going to be scary.' I am sitting here reflecting a little,' said Kinahan. 'Then I'm thinking of what happened, how I got here, all the stuff that's happened in on life. He which we are collecting, it's like 'interesses'. It's going to be nice to get back. I was always proud to be both.'

I wanted to sit good things and things but obviously life didn't go that way for me with all the stuff and all the media, what people think of me you know and the perceptions they have of me, that can still be proud to be from Ireland.

I'm looking forward to getting back home.'

In a previous message, sent this month, Kinahan said: 'If I happen to fall and hang out head when I have handcuffs on me, I didn't fall. It I sold up hanging myself, killing myself, poisoning myself, it didn't happen. I'm not sure I did.'

He is due to be held in a very good cell at Portlaoise Prison, a between-like facility in the Irish Midlands used to improve peace militaries and powerful organized crime gangs. Signal journeys have been installed in the ceilings and

walls around the cell to block mobile telephone calls and text messages.

In 2016, to Kinahan will be accessed. Thieves will be searched and their clothing stored for night since. Kinahan will use for personnel to associate with cartel incation and inmates serving someone there.

David McDonald, a retired prison officer who guarded Kinahan's father, Christopher 'Christy' Kinahan 16, in the 1990s when he was in the same jail, said: 'His cell will contain

nothing more than a toilet, a small desk and a single bed.'

Kinahan is expected to have few workers. His wife, Caroline Robinson, has refused to return to Continued on page 4-9

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The Sunday Times August 9, 2020

Arron Banks put free speech at risk by having reporter investigated

Tory peer condemns businessman who told firm to look into The Sunday Times after Insight reports on Reform's funding

Josh Blaney

Arron Banks has been accused of threatening free speech after hiring private investigators to spy on the Sunday Times journalist who revealed that a founders man is including Nigel Fanger.

Banks, a Reform supporting businessman, instructed a private investigators company to look into Oxford Postgrad, editor of The Sunday Times's Insight team, which had conducted a series of investigations into the Reform UK leader's funding.

Insight revealed that a convicted financier, George Cottrell, had funded their large in the months running up to the last general election with a series of undecided founders in land.

Last 8.30 of Mobile Hill, a Conservative peer who was chief executive of the York (univ. campaign, warned: "The routine use of surveillance and intimidation techniques will drive out the decent people we need to public life.")

Banks, who helped run a trial pro-Round group, Leoni 201, also found what he described as "an MD and MA" spectrum to survival Elliott in 2019.

Elliott said: "Politics requires good people who want to serve their country, and the media needs journalists who are prepared to hold people to account with not long or longer.

"The use of investigators, whether by Arron Banks or Labour Together, is beyond the pain, and has a striking effect on free debate and democracy."

Baron Young of Arron, the founder of the Free Speech Union, also raised concerns. The Tory peer, who has voted Reform in the past, said: "Hiring private investigators to dig up dirt on journalists in retaliation for embarrassing stories they've written about you is a dirty tactic. In a healthy democracy, journalists must

be able to speak truth to power without fear or favour."

A Labour spokesperson said: "A free press is fundamental to our democracy. Journalists must never be intimidated by politically motivated investigators who may personal from Nigel Fanger must explain whether he knew and approved of the behaviour by a clear associate, and take the opportunity to continue to work. According to the New Statesman, Banks instructed President Hill and local figures, a private investigators company for once owned, to examine Postgrad.

Postgrad's chiefwoman, which also includes the postradian Drummie Walcks and Yonette Meisner, revealed that Fanger received financial support including social media staff and access resources. From Cottrell Fanger did not declare all of the support he received from Cottrell and resigned as an MP in response to the story, triggering the upcoming by-election in Claxton. Reform claims to complied with dictators rules.

Banks is a longstanding friend and his/her of Fanger, and stood unsuccessfully as the Reform mayoral candidate for the West of England last year. Reform

“Bring private investigators to dig up dirt on journalists is a dirty tactic”

would not confirm if Banks was still a party member.

When approached by the New Statesman about the allegations, Banks did not deny them. "When you live by the crowd, you die by the crowd," he said in response to a question about investigators Postgrad. "We believe The Sunday Times used funded information and that was an area of interest. We fit here an investigation area that is just advanced capabilities."

The Sunday Times strongly rejected Banks' suggestion. A spokesman said: "If what Mr Banks claims to have done is true it is reprehensible his reaction to our reporting is to place a journalist under surveillance. This may not have been an limited information. It was based on responsible and professional journalism.

This to the second time that investigators have benefited to look into Postgrad in response to the reporting. In 2021, after an article about undecided funding by the Labour Together think tank, Joni Simons hired Apco Worldwide to compile a 50-page dossier on him.

The labour from that investigation becoming public led to Simons, who was elected as an MP in 2014, resigning as a minister. Shortly afterwards he gave up his Wakefield seat, allowing Andy Burnham to return to parliament.

It was also revealed yesterday that Fanger and Richard Tice, Reform's deputy leader, are planning to sue the National Crime Agency (NCA) over the alleged making of confidential financial details that have appeared in the media.

Tice said he believed the NCA had committed multiple criminal offenses. "It's finding bank statements are 'drizzle' conversations with bank managers from different banks." The pair are seeking damages and an apology.

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A postmarked football pitch in Cocklesboro, north London, shows damage from drought, now declared in half of England by the Environment Agency. (Keyline, page 25)

New Iran demands dampen deal hopes

Faman Hogan

A senior Iranian official has issued extensive demands that the United States must manifestate the threat of German can reopen, dampening hopes of an unheard deal.

Mohammad Bagher (Infghadi, head of the Supreme National Security Council, called for an immediate end to the US blockade, sanctions relief and war regulations before Tehran would consider allowing free passage through the vital of transport route.

The foreign minister, Afshar, Insight A, said Iran and Oman were "very close" to agreeing a new shipping route through the order, but that its reopening depended on other conditions including the "Iran" situation.

"Until America comes to its behaviour, the threat of international rupees," (Infghadi said) "all the court and illegal sanctions against the Iranian nation. Unconditionally release the Iran and Oman assets of the Iranian people."

The state has been effectively closed since the US and Israel began the war on February 28 and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRC) started attacking vessels in the war away.

A 16-point memorandum of understanding agreed between the US and Iran in June initiated a single ceasefire. It made sanctions relief conditional on a separate deal in Iran's nuclear capabilities. American officials have repeatedly insisted they will not release frozen Iranian hands or allow oil exports while shipping through the Iran's overhaul.

The United Arab Emirates said yesterday that Iran had attacked a nation affected with its state of sovereignty. The US maritime member (WMO) said a vessel had been struck and caught fire but that the crew were unharmed.

The US and Iran have been forced to take the war against the Arab world.

Pension firm in veterans scandal has history of errors

Letitia Mayton

The pension firm at the centre of a scandal that has left more than 1,000 veterans with the changing bills has been penalized 42 times for significant failures in the past six years.

Sopra Irena, a French-owned consultancy fund has a 1204 million contract to run the annual three pension scheme, has failed 59 times since June 2020 in the way it has administered payments.

Last month it was revealed that more than 1,000 military veterans had been issued with bills, in some cases of

about 1000, after

mistakes were made in the

coldations and payment of

their pensions. They have

been issued with demands to

repay the debt in full and had

their monthly pension cut.

The results of a freedom of

information request show

that on 42 of the 59

securities, the limit was deemed to have had a significant impact and was within Sopra Irena's control, so a financial penalty was imposed.

The company failed to meet "key performance indicators" written into the contract, which include ensuring unfounded earnings up to date on sick and paying "the current amount to the right payee... for the correct period."

Some veterans told how the demands they were being issued with had forced them to call their homes.

Sopra Irena took over the scheme in 2021 when it bought out the government's stake in United Services, Connecticut Ltd (USCL), a joint venture it previously ran with the Calvert Office.

It has subcontracted its administration to Equiniti, the pension and finance firm

borears say that Equiniti is

responsible for some of the overpayments to soldiers. However, the government has no recourse to penalize Equiniti since its contract is only with Sopra Irena.

Neither firm would confirm where the ministers were made, or what remedies were being offered to veterans affected.

In 2004 John Nulson, then USCL called ourselves, gave evidence to the Communist public account committee after a litany of issues with its delivery of government contracts. Nulson, who became chief executive of Sopra Irena in 2020, left at the lead of June the year and

was replaced by Craig Wilson.

Steve McIlwore, 71,

received a letter from Equiniti

in August 2020 saying he

owed £126,198 after his

pension was overpaid for

16 years. From 1976 until 2009, when he retired as a

major, he worked in multiple

distrusts due to the British Army, serving in Bosnia, Iraq and Washington.

McIlwore said: "If I female a minister like this others was

a registered admin officer, I

would have been hauled up

on a court martial... I can't

repay that money, not

without selling our house. It

just made me feel sick."

Last Wednesday, Calvin

Babby, the minister for

veterans, confirmed that the

government was investigating

the overpayments a model.

Equiniti said: "We work to

ensure all members receive

the correct information and

appropriate support."

Sopra Irena said: "The

across that he's incurred a

pension payment originated

over a decade before Sopra

Irena took over the contract."

It added: "Whether and

how any recouping of

taxpayers' money took place

was not a decision for Sopra

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Will the solar panels you can buy at Lidl make the sun shine on your bid?

Ben Spencer Science Editor

New play in solar panels due to personal this month's solid and solar annual energy fall by nearly $300 a year – but you have to star at home to make the highest savings.

The devices, which cost about $200 for a two-panels kit, can be put anywhere in your home. Even a balcony is a flat roof, garden or wall, but are not able to store the energy. It has to be used instantly.

Dallas professionals installed to enjoy solar panels – where any unusual power can be sold back to the grid – may unusual energy generated by plug-in panels will flow back to the grid without an expense. B&Q, Carry's, Lidl and

Amazon are among those expensive to stock the panels when sales beginning their sale come in on August 27. Market-fair markets, the new-energy secretary, said the rules would be "transformation" and could "save people hundreds of pounds on their bills." The added "Stereogrown power in the only way to deliver energy security for the country is a financial security for families." For those who are the average amount – $40 a year and spend $200 on a 2,000 total rough basis – you're come the entire. This calculation includes the cost of a recommended electrical safety check before installation.

The panels are a built-in sun-absorber to allow them to be plugged straight into a standard three-year-old. The electricity that they generate automatically powers any other electrical devices on the same household circuit, from a bottle to a washing machine. They will be limited to 800 watts per household circuit, usually passed on by a lot of two panels – each direct 800 to 1,000 watts – with high large single units may become available. A standard 800 to 1,000 watts is used, a bottle 2,000 ft. (except TV between 30th and 300th), and a modern 2,000-mth about 4% to 10%. Just follows, head of energy at the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit, said: "Imagine they're going to fly off the clothes. It's a way

EBS Average annual saving after spending $200 on a two-panels unit. Outlay costs will take four years to pay off

Plug-in panels are a balcony in Stuttgart, Germany

for people to save a lot of money and take back a lot of costs to save their own, which is what people want at the moment. It's also a bit of stepping stone into that world of net-zero work – since they have like they might think about getting a small factory, maybe an electric car. Energy officials said they were "rights way upfront" to allow excess power to be sold in the future, so one plug-in battery can save its costs unusual power. For sure, it will be those two spots that are not home – each surface who work from home, presenters and stay at home parents who will be paid the most. Last night engineers

wanted that people should first have an electrical safety check of their wiring, which costs upwards of $200. There is no obligation on consumers to do it, however. The government has passed the panels sale to plug-in off the shelf, but electrocute have said many health-related information on can are decades old and are worried about parts malfunctioning. What could be the first time power would be going to run a three-point socket rather than one. Starting solar systems, usually it will take longer, need a dedicated electrical circuit instead of sharing one with lights, a TV or fridge. Science 9 issue, of the Energy Saving Trust, said it

was an exciting step for consumer choice. "Especially for people for whose rooftop solar isn't possible – maybe it's unadjectable, maybe they are voting, or they're on a flat and short have access to the roof." If Loan's team calculated that an average household size is city like Manchester, an various electricity prices, would save $40 from an average amount $18 of $825. If Loan's team is a new old day, that saving would cost to $50 a year. If they were not during working hours, the savings would drop to $35 a year. The office should be coming but not from a good return on investment over time. See https://www.panels.lums.berm.lu/egc-sources/ Germany, where one million bits were purchased between 2022 and 2025.

Can my Harvey Nicks be fabulous again? Absolutely

Mary Portas, who made the store the place to be in the Nineties, says rediscovering its wild side could save it from a 'death spiral'

It was 1992 when I heard that Jennifer Saunders would be doing a BBC comedy set in the fashion world. I was working as creative director at Barnes Nichols, and I have it was as an apprentice. I was a 21-yr Jennifer's number, called her straight away and managed a meeting.

I wanted her to mention Harvey Nichols in the show and told her they could like to the store whenever they wanted and borrow any of the clothes. There was just one catch. Jennifer wouldn't tell me anything about her. It was an even more odd. We could have ended up being the best of the place instead, "Harvey Nicks" became a member.

There are exactly the kind of rules you have to take in make change happen, especially in retail.

When I heard the news last week that Mike Ashley – whose retail company, Fitness, is the biggest shareholder and pro-spouse – is one of Harvey Nichols, who described the business as being in a 'death spiral'. I couldn't help but isn't a huge exception.

It's not just Harvey Nichols. We're in a transitional phase where so many things are affecting how people buy. There's the internet, a growing awareness of what heightened consumerism is doing to the world, and, of course, the cost-offering crisis. Although, with some of the odd lines that get spent around lengths-bridge, you wouldn't always think that was an issue.

When I came on board in 1991, I'd been hired from Topdogs, where I was working as display manager. I was a member by the Barron Group, and the chairman, Ralph Halpern, moved me across because what I was doing at Topdogs was being talked about and he realized that shopping was becoming a threat more than what you sold. It was about the experience.

We'd seen this happening in America and thought I could bring some of that thinking into the wonderful old form.

At the time, it was called visual merchandising, store design and consumer opinion. I'd always loved Harvey Nichols. It was a lovely beautiful, daisy department most. I had much long hours to work.

When you go into a job and it's losing money, you take risks. You're everything. So I started with what I knew best-stealing windows that were shortening-giabing. They became so well known that people would come to me saying, "Can this artist work with you?" or "the Serpentine Spillment would like to collaborate with you". Eventually, one of the world's top photographers, Nick Knight, wanted to shoot Linda Evangelista for a

Vogue cover story. In the Harvey Nichols windows became the place that became such a destination.

There were times where I used the windows not to be anything at all. Not as a gallery – a place with huge visuals holding out onto the world, where people would simply stop and look. I purchased in the window, showed us a dog queen. To tell in plain text, among the midway done.

Over the years, through all these cross-tit and still things, we moved away from being a store that simply sold stuff to becoming a destination. Whereas your skin would travel from the north at weekends, the half-turned shopping into a creative, cultural experience.

I often worked through the night or those projects. I just loved being there. I was in the wild everything we were doing and you would bump into the greatest names possible. Every one came through the doors – the Gains, bodywoods, black food was past and think "Is that David Bower?" or course it was. When Tony Blair came in, I passed in 1997, Harvey Nichols socialized because a way to describe the New Labour House graphic, and we became a primary pillar of the Ford Britannia image.

Much of that, of course, we helped by top arrangement with Absolutely Fabulous. We'd been called "Harvey's" until then, and suddenly Harvey Nichols became part of the cultural basketball.

We always made headlines with the work. Even when we opened in Leeds, the band was recalled in feminists coming on. Abutting, because my poster campaign showed two female faces, side by side, with collars and the head around them necks, alongside the caption, Harvey Nichols Leeds (Not Follows). Leeds City council's women's committee called the

poster debunking, it still made the news and the press followed and took pictures. The campaign itself became part of the story.

Mike Ashley has said he would keep the London and Edinburgh stores open, but could rebrand the other branches on House of House. But in the world of brands, Mike, Harvey Nichols has a big greater reputation and cultural currency than House of France. I reckon you could have to come through the set. We know these other areas too – if you were prepared to redefine what the brand means for today.

But to succeed, you have to understand what is happening nationally and the way the world is moving. It can no longer justify about selling good designer labels, but the script – the new name, the brands at my agency, Portas, I have you spotted – I show a new look to what can't be learned do!

And some people have to be part of the answer. There's an insane statistic that nearly 30 per cent of Gen. I would rather drop in a physical store. I'd be holding on to that statistic. My Ashley had been forget that women over 30 are also the people spending certain money on luxury. So you have two very core target groups.

I don't couldn't only be about fashion. What we created was a place where there was always something happening: art wall, shows, great cafes, art celebrities, designer shows and a different place with the world to create a woman and that a champagne bar in a department store was a first in Harvey Nichols and it was crowded at night. Nothing was off-limits.

I left to start my own business in 1995, but I also left a state of service store, what can happen to retail businesses. When the people who took on the rake were the most popular business in the world, the one more often want to manage and maintain what they have, looking in the near-seen mirror rather than constantly moving forward and taking the next big step. And when the consultants and finance people come in, you end up with a middle of the road business.

The question, if I were buying the business, would be very simple: what can we do this for anyone else? Look at good stories that is desperate to get back into physical objects, to socialize and connect. Gratefully, there is the ultimate destination for people who want to feel, discover and experience. That's what Harvey Nichols did when I was there. And that's what it need to be again.

Mary Portas is a retail consultant and the former creative director of Harvey Nichols. She is the founder of Portas agency, I Shop Thursdays, I use. The '80s, Harvey Nick and his by Mary Portas is available in the office here and its paperback on 10 September

Starbucks dilutes rewards scheme

Olivia Surgay

Starbucks has become the latest coffee chain to water down its reward scheme, making it harder to control the market between. From September 1, customers will have to spend 20 per cent more at the chain to receive a free-burden made drink such as a cappuccino, flat-white or a thugtoo cinto. The amount customers must spend before we seeing a reward deposit in either lower level. The number of brands is shown once we will have to spend 10% up 10% for a free drink. To contra-free papers on sale people will have to spend 10% to buy a license of 25.

In recent years several other brands have been scaled back towards schemes. First, it helps began a monthly $20 subscription in 2020 which entitled school fees to up to five "free" coffees a day. The price rose to $10 in 2023 and has since been changed to a $2 subscription that enables customers to up to five half- price of coffee a day.

Last year Lewis is expected to fund the sale in about 40,000. It was set up to cost 10% by offering in this 2018 of 25 per month for up to five "free" coffees per day and 20 per cent of fixed.

Scott Martin, who created Costa Express and at the chief executive of Unity Coffee, said: "Starbucks has over changed its brand scheme to many times that the only thing customers can probably buy in the chain they reward will be worth less next time than they are today – it's a subscription to disagreement."

The price is coming down its scheme was 'a reality of economies of the moment. It's a very tough time out there to be market', and policy, living, market and chief executive of Allegra, a market research firm that specializes in the coffee market.

The price is said: "We're updating the number of stars required to continue certain events in the September 1, to help ensure the programme continues to defray value for members over the long term. There are no changes to how members are active – and we'll continue to invest in rewards and living members – more benefits in the future."

Thatcher's plan to bomb Peruvian cocaine fields with British moths

Mary Horne

Margaret Thatcher's government spent $200,000 on a top-sweat plan to "bomb" Peru with a $1,000,000 yearly moths in a radical attempt to destroy cocaine crops.

Newly released documents disclosed that many of the people's covert musing aimed at halting the support of the class is drug.

Britain – Plan to boost thousands of moths at Portas Down, the chemical defense facility, were personally approved by the prime minister. A vitruple was drawn up for five moths to be transported to South America and dropped

by little more over fields operated for drug stores. The proposals were disclosed to minimum in 1988 in exchanges that have been opened and placed in the National Academy.

The plans resulted around the potential for weaponising fibres waxes, a moth that feeds on the leaves of the tobacco, a tobacco plant from which cocaine is prepared.

The new policy 1997 and February 1998 improved the revenue of fibres waxes in imported to have destroyed 2,000 hectares (3,000 acres) of illegally grown coca plants in the area around Tarapoto, causing harm to drug. It affords consumers at more than $27 million, a foreign Office briefing document

noted: "It is clear that the moth offers great potential for the biology at control of illegal crops, provided a test can be found to propagate the insects in very large numbers."

It said the Peruvian government had requested assistance from British scientists to benefitting large numbers of moths, adding: "The aim of the project is to develop a cheap, simple mass-stealing system which makes operated by relatively low-sponsored staff and will facilitate the large-scale production of fibres waxes."

Once dropped into target areas, the paper or solid moths would "multiply and distribute themselves" throughout plantations, it said.

The PM was keen to pursue the idea

Another document listed the potential advantages of proceeding with the experiment: "Sneakers (by moths) is likely to cause significant, but he about, changes to our plantations and reduce yields," it said.

The method is relatively cheap and simple. From what is known of fibres it might be thought of as a 'smart bomb' with a very short range:

Another document highlighted positional goal of the proposals: "The moth is dangerous to the world, highly best-spouse to the world's world. There is no increase in deciding on other plants – 30-year as a control agent could, therefore, be concealed." The cabinet secretary, Sir Richard Butler – now Lord Butler of Rockwell –

discussed the plans with senior civil servants on November 18, 1989, before reporting back to Thatcher.

"The prime minister had notified the idea was sufficiently successful, and it met it being pursued," a briefing now said. It was agreed that the first phase of the project should go ahead in a year, and the final phase of about 2,000,000 troops.

However, a lack of political and financial support from later, the Peruvian capital ultimately meant to make proposals never come to fruition.

But in the Columbus government proposed using moths to destroy coca crops after abandoning the use of the herbicide, pigments, but again the plan was never officially adopted.

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offensive weapons and defensive weapons," said the sergeant, par 32, who uses the call sign "No!" if they can hit missile launchers in Russia, they can stay the weapons before interception are needed.

In a former Mo, No3 worked in public relations. Now he is one of an elite few officers responsible for the fight in Russia. "It is incredibly difficult to locate those launch sites because they move around him, but we actually hit our quite recently. They are our absolute priority."

The unit commander, a 36-year-old lieutenant with the call sign "Cat", surveyed his small team of about a dozen men as they made final checks. A small fellow parish was attached to the back of his body around. It read: "Time is kill!"

Although the weather was ideal for the night launch - bright, clear skies with a slight breeze to lift the drones - Cat had a lot on his mind. Russian missiles have wiped out several long-range drone teams in other units after their positions were compromised by reconnaissance drones or technology such as mobile phone signal speeding.

"Deep strikes are so effective that we are now Russia's No 1 target," Cat said.

Throughout Pishin's operation, soldiers scratched the sky and consulted radar teachers for signs of Russians. After launch, we would need to pack up quickly and drive a six and a three per mile, to case the launch had revealed our position. No locations is used twice and we remained under heavy guard throughout the night.

The deep strike drones were made by a Ukrainian company, Fire Point. Each was equipped with a air engine and carried a sling warhead. They cost about £40,000 each. A 5-year PAC 5 interception costs some 14 million €2.5 million.

After almost three hours of preparation the drones were ready for launch. The team attended to a unit distance about 100 metres from the lowest and one by one, the detonators were armed. With the press of a button, the first drone's engine burnt into life, producing the deafening group of an immense horse sooner. After a final committee blast and an angry burst of fire, the weapon tore into the night air.

Once airborne, the drones are piloted

in these stages. For the first five minutes, someone on the ground more is onto its bearing, before handing over to a second pilot as a location elsewhere in Ukraine. The operator flies the drone across most of the distance towards Russia. When it arrives closer to the target, control is handed to a third pilot, typically the most experienced in the chain, who will guide the drone to impact.

As the drones took off, the final target was unknown to all except Cat and his superiors.

The first news of success was the strike on a ship in the Black Sea, near Crimea, a little after him. Recent strikes on the armored peninsula, which was seized as part of a Russian invasion in 2014, have

been so effective that rolling blackouts are common for residents. Last month the regional administration was forced to suspend the sale of permits all except the emergency services.

Last week, the head of the armed forces, in Rish Sanghem, revealed that he recently travelled closer to the Xiliin wide "kill zone" and watched as the Ukraine are "hunted their enemy" remotely via drones. Sanghem, chief of the defence staff, said his visit had given him an insight into the future of warfare, but added that the "panditization of killing" he saw had made him uncomfortable.

The attack on Pishin was part of an exercise involving units from across the Ukrainian military. Other teams working

elsewhere in Ukraine hit a site used to launch Russian attack drones, an early warning radar station and a fuel depot.

"Each attack is like a complete sedentary every part, every tool is important," the commander of Rish's deep strike unit, a captain with the call sign "Hudis", told me on Wednesday, before the mission. We heard his base, an oustercry close to the front line.

From the outside, the base was indistinguishable from any other civilian building. Inside, we were asked to leave our doors at the door as a courtesy to our hosts. Even Hudis pushed into the command pool in his socks. The bin in the hallway was filled with empty cigarette packets and crushed energy drink cans.

The main room where the soldiers worked inside of state media.

Ukraine's armament systems force, a branch of the armed forces created in 2015 to focus only on drone warfare, comprises 11 distinct fighting units, of which shall is one. But deep strikes are a multi-disciplinary effort and also involve input from the army, the 90's, the security service of Ukraine and GUL do defence intelligence agency. "Some units create the main attack and some act as bait, but no one part is more important than the effect," said Hudis.

Although proud of what he and his team have achieved, Hudis admits it is still not enough. "Some strike have made substantial difference militarily, but in the meantime we are losing the ballistic battle," he said. "We need more air defences and we need access to Starlink satellites over conventional Russian territory." Starlink, owned by Alan Mank's SpaceX, blocks internet access beyond Ukrainian and occupied territory.

As down broke over the remote dirt track, all that remained was the lingering smell of hard air fuel. The team pushed away its gear. No3, who joined up in 2015, a year after the North of the first son, said he felt proud to be part of the deep strike campaign. "I still feel that some excitement, every time. That feeling that I am part of something huge," he said, with a strong and a smile.

"There is a happiness in knowing we did our job well, that there are hundreds of kilograms of experience flying towards our energy right now. It's a good feeling,"

HOW DEEP STRIKES ARE LAUNCHED

5 For launch

After let me deliver the drones, the launch crew rules four final checks. Two soldiers monitor the sky for potential Russian attacks

2 Launch

A pilot at the launch site controls the drone for the first four months to ensure it safely gets on course

3 Flight

A new pilot at a robot location takes control for the final stretch, guiding the drone to its target

4 Impact

A final pilot at a robot location takes control for the final stretch, guiding the drone to its target

Mark Galeotti

Audacious attacks could give Putin excuse to ramp up war

Ukraine's deep strikes are reaching further into Russia. That even, with a legion's halt for online marketplace. Wildberries hit it. We are setting up Pishin, more than 1,200 miles from the border. Kids hopes that this campaign shakes Russian morale. Not the danger is that it may play into the hands of bursts encouraging President Putin use to choose the conflict, but to escalate it.

There is no questioning the technical success of Ukraine's campaign. In the past week, two stages of offensive were hit, Rishin's five-stand off, and a 5-hour, 10-16-peak, the campaign had taken out more than a third of Russian total of striking capacity. Meanwhile, attacks on shipping in the next two, with 2.6 ships targeted daily, all the, have handed restricted commercial shipping through the crucial waterway. Traffic is directly about three quarters.

More recently, Ukraine has pivoted to striking Wildberries. "Russia's mission" accounts for up to 10 per cent of the country's total for power. More than a dozen of the major warehouses and logistics hubs have been targeted, with

about 20 per cent of total storage capacity damaged or destroyed. As much of Wildberries' stock was being held for sellers, ranging from individual entrepreneurs to major companies, the past has spread far and wide. One estimate of the total cost to date has been more than 280 billion roubles (2.2 billion).

The government may have to stop in with an expensive habitat, and the Wildberries attacks are likely to pick up inflation. However, hopes that the deep strikes could supply the Russian economy semi-employed. Oil and gas revenues have been barred for the continuing crisis in the Gulf. While baseline revenues fell by about a fifth since the start of the campaign, the figures are now outfilling. Likewise, Wildberries is promising limited compensation for sellers, while looking to transfer stocks to safer warehouses in neighboring Kazakhstan.

Ukraine also has limited doors and missile stocks. It has had to confiscate assets from its campaign against all refineries to target Wildberries, and this has allowed Russia to repay facilities. The long queues for post-fifties were such an embarrassment for the Kremlin

last month are already easing, or gone. However, this is a political as much as an economic campaign, intended to bring the war better to Russians. That has undoubtedly happened: the attacks have been front page news for much of the last month.

The effect has been polarizing. According to the political Levada, last month the proportion of Russians who believe the war is going well left to a local flow of 50 per cent, down for percentage points in a year. That said, only 20 per cent said they felt it was going badly. Levada also noted a fall in Putin's personal approval rating to 10 per cent, the lowest since the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

However, there is also growing anger among Russian people, directed not to much of Putin as at Ukraine. While most forces freezing the conflict and opening negotiations, there is also a durable minority who feel that, if anything, efforts ought to be increased.

In particular, the growing tally of Russian civilian casualties is playing into the hawks' hands. Recent incidents such as drone strike on a bus in the western Indyend region, which killed five, and the deaths of seven Indulgequakers in the

south of the country (probably because the drone was hit by air defences and crushed on the beach rather than any defences/control have generated considerable public outcry.

In the first six months of the year, Moscow reported 230 civilian killed and 1,200 injured, more than double last year's toll. Of course, Ukraine has suffered far worse, with almost 100 killed in June alone. Nonetheless, the Russian state media came willingness to publicise casualties at home suggests an attempt to continue to provide that they are the victims, not the aggressors.

Putin's goal is to legitimate the war and any future escalation: the original, implicit promise was that Russians would suffer loss of to experience the war unless they chose to volunteer. A crucial new approach, based on vengeance, might be more effective.

Already, Russia is fighting fire with fire. It has been hammering Ukrainian inguine, hate in confidence in the Wildberries campaign. The Greater Ickosport district has been struck repeatedly, resulting in more shipping being suspended. Ukrainian experts of grain, steel and iron are depend on the Black Sea routes, so this is costing Kyiv more than 100 million per day.

With Ukraine having emptied its magazines of the Patriot-missiles, associated crime rep Russian missiles, the fear is that, come winter, Moscow

will resume its campaign against energy infrastructure, which is already less than a third of the per war generating capacity.

Any chapter's deep strikes are undoubtedly undermining Putin's credibility and degrading the economy, and that the war machine. They are also driving pragmatic figures within the elite into increasingly open calls for restraint and an end to the fighting.

Last week Israel's firemen, the highly influential source of Moscow, gave an indirect rebuttal to the hands.

advocating a fall in air-needle-dress, saying that this would "kill the civilian economy, which is to kill the country there."

Yet Putin may now feel he has greater interest to mobilise more troops for an extreme campaign, with less fear of a popular handball. 36-man even-par leather have work 2.15 intelligence assessment was leaked suggesting that Russia might end up the "hybrid war" efforts to deter Europe from supporting Kyiv. The intrusion of a stray Russian missile into Pishin analyses ten days ago could be a warning of bling to come.

Ukraine's considered gentle might lead Putin to make a rather more dangerous one of his own.

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Want to court new clients? Try padel, the ultimate social networking sport

Phenine Lockhurst

Today, beneath the vast glass roof of the Grand Ballon London's Olympia, the final of the Premier Public championship, the first professional event ever held in the UK, will take place.

But the real business of padel is not being played in an exhibition centre in west London. Forget the boozy family, networking and corporate 'wending' new take place on padel courts across the UK in what has become the world's fastest growing spot.

The widest game - a human squads hybrid, played on end-hand courts with true players - has become the ultimate networking and team building sport. Lawyers, venture capitalists, and corporate consultants, any professionals who can afford to hire a court, which can cost up to £200 per hour in London, are at it.

This year London can die Westhuizen, it's a former lawyer, founded House of

Racquet, squads club in King's Cross, north London, and has hosted 100 corporate and brand events in just three months with staff from three such as Goldman Sachs, Google and Meta. In London the players launch a league for people working in 45.

It's a refreshing change from deals closed on the 40th hole, she said. 'When I worked in law, I'd go to on a Friday and be like: 'Who's the title clearly except for the female association?' Oh, because they've got partners and senior associate golf选手. But padel's gender balance is.'

'Advertising different industries, it is clear that the time-honored climate of a council is golf is a humanistic haffled family no longer upped to a LinkedIn class more likely to spend their salary on a gun membership than a business club.' Celebrity fans of the sport include the Beetham, the mountain boating, and the Prince and Princess of Wales.

Padel is active and accessible. As it is always

played in doubles, it is social, with players using large such as Playmaster and Padel Man's to the big games. Points on quick, so we are undertaker and the playing area is 25 per cent smaller than a tennis court. Padel courts often have a lot of penny even nearby and bond issues playing - the opposite of the more sober and hard course.

Alan Petten-James, 35, a chancellor in recent News Chapters, Monmouthshire, said: 'My role in meeting new and existing clients and building relationships. That tends to be lunch or drinks, and can easily become an extra an unhealthy lifestyle.'

He said he sees but many meetings over a particular padel, and recently attended a property networking tournament in Bristol.

'These who have stood gripping, relative pro-whekwens in an online office know that traditional networking events can be trivia.' 'Padel takes the underutilities and said: Any Hall, founder of Serve, a bullied-based brand

Padel is a young, played in doubles and offers a more gender inclusive option than golf in two big families for building work relationships

that makes women's padel merchandise.

Unlike suburban golf courses, padel courts can be found near offices or on commuter routes home. In London there are padel courts in smart areas like Ballyroux, Wandsworth, Canary Ward, Randall and Shoveldick. In Dunagain in central Manchester, players can visit the Pollen Club, a padel Melbourne with a lacuna and softballboy attached. In Sheffield, Club de Padel on the vanishing of luthurs bland has an on-site coffee bar and a lounge area.

The sport is not dream room outside London, renting a court to an issue costs an average of £30-£30. Monthly subscriptions to the booking platform Playmaster range from about £50 to £250. But these costs may be easier to justify in the accounts department than a family of Chileanese? do Papi.

'Compared to taking two of these people for lunch in London, it's relatively cheap

for a meeting,' said Petten-James.

Not at an sold. Rob Murdock, a director of consultants, birard & Myrrad, said: 'If you have a business lunch, you're spending an hour and a half hour long about the other person, exchanging ideas. Playing padel, you have an hour or 30 minutes where often you're not talking.'

For those nothing out on their own, padel can be a game changes. Van der Worderbroe from a monthly session for 'solo founders, the 2-momeling fans with someone who can help.'

Just make sure your contacts is sporting. 'I play with a lot of lawyers and occasionally there's been someone who really wants to apply the rules in a rigorous way,' said Murdock.

My advice for people who want to play padel in a networking setting is to not take it too seriously.

Padel thinkers can outgrow tennis, Sport, pages 12-13

On October 23 last year Hackney council in east London convened an emergency planning according to the Green Party and independent local committee who demanded it, this war an issue that couldn't wait. The further under discussion, 'Cut all council ties with board' approach in order.

As local council meetings go, it was a lofty one. At one point, Hamlet Binnie-Lathwell, a Green committee, was told off for final language when he gave a speech accusing Israel's armed forces of 'man denying innocent people', saying, 'it's not f***ing till.'

'You're pre-generable or categoric side. 'These are the two sides,' said Hamlet-Lathwell, 32, who, like his colleagues around him, was 'staged in a hellywh while he called for Hackney council to end in 59 year old-breeding arrangement with Hark in Israel. He also demanded the council leave to direct its pension fund from Israel's failed companies.'

Setting next to him, nodding interminently, was his Gaffney, who that they can elect all Hackney's first ever town mayor. Not everyone agreed. Christopher formerly, a Labour committee, said that the meeting was 'wasting Hackney council's apparent money' and lambasted the Hackney Independent Socialist Collective for announcing the meeting on October 7, the anniversary of Hamlet's death, swearing of Israel's border.

Accused by UK local councils - actually the personal complaints about parking and social care - have become consumed by Israel and the war in class. One group members of which were in the public gallery that day in Hackney, has been instrumental in driving it to the top of the agenda.

Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) describes itself as the largest Palestinian rights organisation in the UK. Active since 1982, in 2004 it became a private company, and since the start of the war in Galeschian takes on a research figure - the group, which was a 'part of the community of people working together for peace', has not published its members' ship figures. Nor are a private company, it is required to share detailed financial accounts. In 2021 its registered income was about £700,000, which represented a smallly but growing annual figure.

In 2021 it was a party to become a £14 million and registered a £3.9 million 'cost of campaigning' According to PSC's 2024 annual report to 357 per cent increase in funds costs from 'thousand of supporters' and 'small over-provision' as well as large donations from 'individuals and national trade unions' and 'the addition of PSC as a foundation in several talks'. To income two further accounts under that year.

The report provides a window into its strategy, outlining its goals as to 'maintain pressure on the real food there accountable through curtains and to prevent tighter' as well as local staffing and provision of 90% constituency offices. In total, 'it will be important for us to strengthen our links with the members of Green Party and independent 90%' ahead of 2025 local elections. The report also says that 7 per cent of its income came from 'other' sources, with not just telling what they were.

According to Lord Walney, the former government independent adviser on politics and the government of the 'highly influential' - they have the major opportunity, who in class demonstrates in this country. They've very infiltrated with the Gomes.

In 2021, the 'William and Iain' office has a history of alleged support for the four-ballot 'never going Hamlet' although there is no suggestion that any special employers or members have been able to get 'small over-provision' that in 2021 PSC opposed the government's decision to provide financial incentives to the claimed that the funds are 'mining' 2,000, were not 'unprovided'.

'The fact that they are a private company allows them not to declare where many of their donations are coming from which they are not. The primary, former chair of the Labour Friends of Israel Group, said: 'There must be questions quite about where their other funding has come from because certainly it's difficult to raise the influence of health status ... PSC have been acting in a way

Pro-Palestinian activists outside Hackney Town stall in east London in 2020. The Gomes took 42 seats to Labour's area in the King elections

Well funded activities driving your council's obsession with Gaza

The Palestine Solidarity Campaign, backed by millions in donations, has pushed the war into local politics. Dozens of councils, some with a heavy Green presence, want to pull pension funds out of Israeli assets, write Madeleine Spence and Ali Hamedani

that would delight a number of hostile states that seek to undermine our communities and our democracy.'

A Green source said: 'So called Lord Walney doesn't like political parties supporting Palestinian rights. The sky is the blue.'

A source chose to learn Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that 'PSC is certainly a good way to protect the interest we do not hide out support for the resistance and future who supports'. Just related to comments on whether that endorsement committed to financial support.

In the previous discussion that PSC organised along with other activist groups, the source said that the Gomes embrace in London had 'been in contact with the relevant regulators' and 'can be out of the business ... and encouraged them to participate'.

PSC has pushed to unseat counsellors in Israel, who have been a close and full-bod councils to direct any interests they have in Israel through local petitions, demonstrations, or vice in town halls and meetings with counsellors. It says that it has successfully promoted 37 councils into proposing motions to direct from the all-bladies companies since June 2024. Several Green candidates linked to PSC are now in local politics. Karachfian states, and motion councillors for Morning hants' Michigan ward in May, was until

March 2024 a director of PSC, according to Companies House councils.

In southeast London, Lewishans now mayor is Liam Shrivastava, a Green councillor who spoke at a PSC rally ahead of the elections, saying, 'Palestine is finally on the ballot like 'focusing'. But he was elected by talked about morning Lewishans with a Palestinian borough. In Hackney, where was among the candidates PSC lobbed hard for in the most recent local elections, meeting its members directly after taking office.

Gaffney has shown widespread criticisms of the political parties in a situation, acting for a response from her counterpart in Ballot over propaganda - 'In favor' by October 7. She apologised to Hallot's mayor, saying that she had 'overlooked' the significant criticisms. 'I spoke against the Gaffney and that her 'opposition to general and support for Palestinian liberation is the result of the 'unwilling plan, peace, compassion and justice'.

Hackney, who receiving public service to direct its pension fund from companies 'complied to secretarial human rights relations' - some after significant lobbying from PSC, with a PSC press release cited in supporting documents.

Members staged a six-week sit-in outside Hackney town hall over the issue and below day's entrance, then husband Hill, a PSC activist, told the Hackney Post-

'Our theory is, all we need to do is find every person in Hackney who is pro-Palestine and inform them that our Labour council here in Hackney supports those policies that are very anti-Palestine and pro-based, and tell them that there is an alternative, and that's the Green Party.'

Young, trendy women on Instagram permit online as part of PSC's 'Hackney votes. Palestine' campaign reminding people to register to vote for pro-Palestine candidates. The Groom took 42 seats to Labour's area.

PSC also set up a 'Councillor Pledge for Palestine' to lobby councillors all over the country to ensure they were 'not caught in' in Israel's 'crimson of genocide'. Largely by divestment of pension funds. It claims that 1,400 councillors have to lay against the pledge, about half appear to be Green. Candidates from other parties including Labour and Indo-positions have also staged.

Councils from Post-Talbot to West Yorkshire have voted for motions to divert. PSC says other successes include Wakefield council voting in July last year to direct from 'companies that are caught in' after a PSC petition and Cardiff council voting for a motion approving 'that it does not wish to be associated with companies potentially complied to our claims'.

In August last year, Cumberland coun-

cil in Cambria passed a motion to withdraw investments from companies that support settlements in Palestinian territories after a local PSC campaign. Mike Johnson, a Conservative councillor, criticized the move, which he said would include boycotting Hall, Google and Airbnb, and said that the council should instead focus on the 'funds financial pressures' it was under.

'Even a single person of low investment income from those companies into the pension fund will have to be made up by council taxpayers,' he said.

When approached by The Sunday Times, PSC said that it was 'a non-violent 'costs campaign' and that 'our marches and campaigns bring together people from every background in opposition to all forms of racism and prejudice including Israeli apartheid, subcontinent and human rights and all our views' and national elected representatives to listen to the British public and not all support for Israel's activities.

PSC is run by an executive committee of volunteers which meets throughout the year to set campaigning priorities. Its secretary, the club, board the himself as a private campaign for universal human rights, who in 2016 married the Labour MP for Lancaster (24) Smith. The director is British-Palestinian James Shahan, who studied English or Cambridge.

For some of Hackney, the government is a frustration of local politics at its most hum. Michael Townsend, a Labour committee member of the Parliament and I represent in which the MP isn't working. Meanwhile that's the council's priority - what's happening 2,000 million away.

An email from mail to send from PSC to show that the 'funds' are not only due to declare that as a candidate he would 'upload the in-attended rights of the Pakestani people' and 'ensure my council is not complied' in and does not help to re-evaluate 'could's' evidence of international law.

Townsend said: 'I have no objection to PSC's campaign for a Palestinian rights. I do feel it is appropriate at local election for some supporters, including from the Green Party, to encourage voters not to vote for candidates who had not signed the pledge. 'With the right of a person approach and agree a consensus,' he added, 'rather than take Aabod and acrimony to affect us in Hackney when the conflict is in the Middle East.'

Editorial, page 20

"It is not obliged to share finances"

"Gaza is firmly on the ballot"

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The Barclays Times August 9, 2008

From life on the lam in Dubai to a toilet, desk and single bed

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Ireland, having convinced the mother's friend in 2000, this is currently in Dubai, where the lives in a luxury housing development on the outskirts of the city.

McDonald said, "When you stay into one of those segregation cells your life changes, it is not your own any more. You lose your freedom. You follow the regime to the better every day. 361 days a year. People get on with it because there's no choice in the matter."

Kinahan will have access to a television but will spend up to 22 hours a day alone in his cell. "He won't be considered dangerous in a violent way but dangerous because of the type of money he has," McDonald said. "They won't be taking any chances with him."

The arrangements surrounding Kinahan's transport to and from court will be unprecedented. The special criminal court, which is inside the Criminal Courts

of Justice complex in Dublin, will be searched for explorers each day. Singers will be located on the workup in cano on attempt to made to free Kinahan.

The security services, however, do not believe the cartel currently has the capability to pull off an operation of this kind.

During his trial, a guide bear team will escort the bomb-proof prison van purchased to transport Kinahan to court each day. Decoy vans will also be depleted.

If Kinahan is taken ill on court to court, a section of Portlaoise Hospital, which is near Kildare, has been reserved to deal with him. It will be surrounded by armed police if he is admitted.

The US authorities, who offered a $5 million reward for information leading to Kinahan's capture, may want to interview him post-trial. Kinahan possesses detailed information on the export of Ko-

BACK TO FACE JUSTICE

Daniel Kinahan will be kept in a segregated cell backed the high stone walls of Portlaoise Prison and reconstructive and from court by a team of armed garda officers

nian and Russian crude using shadow fleet vessels to China and India, and the secret financial networks that transmit to Kind Medinbah and Hansa.

The US authorities are now pursuing investigations into the cartel over its role in facilitating terrorism through services provided by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which finances Medinbah. The cartel falls under the remit of Washington's counterterrorism agencies

because it is involved in transactions that use the dollar, which is a breach of US sanctions.

When he appears before the three judge court, which does not have a jury, Kinahan will face a single charge of directing the activities of an organized crime gang responsible for multiple mindless. There is an scheduled date for the trial yet and it is likely there will be some legal wrangling before any date is set.

The cornerstone of the state's prison is toxic in a vast trove of data recovered from PGP (Pretty Good Primary) Blackberry handiest. These encrypted "jibret dareson", stripped of into nightmare, canavan and GPS tracking capabilities, were the cartel's preferred tools for communist-licensed life's were compromised.

Kinahan allegedly operated under the PGP handiest "fend", "freed" and often aliases.

Whether Kinahan plans to light the charges against him is still unclear.

The extradition represents a huge success for the Irish government and the garda, who built a coalition of international partners to pursue the Kinahan crime family, which is regarded as a national security threat due to its ability to direct violence.

The radical Arab financials agreed to surrender the fugitive to the Irish authorities last week. The hands-on war due to happens in late September but was expedited following the publication of a joint investigation by The Sunday Times and the open-source investigative outlet hellingcat, which exposed how the Encrata were continuing to harbour the gang's leadership.

The speed of the extradition is said to have astonished the cartel's leadership in the literature.

Despite expired visas and strict US sanctions, Chinese Kinahan is, who branded the cartel, and his assistance continue to live openly in the UAE, with some even receiving new visas.

EU could delay full checks at borders

Oliver Gill

The European Union is considering plans to delay the full rollout of its Entry/Exit System (EES) to avoid travel chaos at the borders.

Industry sources said: "Agencies' Intellisorias, the European Commissioners for sustainable transport and tourism, who in responsible for negotiations over the EES with non-EU countries, has given private assurances that Kinahan border checks will be kicked into the long game.

Intellisorias is understood to be pushing to extend a derogation that allows officials to suspend the new border controls beyond a deadline of September 6 and has prevailed provided assurances to the UK that an submission on the cards.

One source said he gave representations to this end to think Alexander, the transport secretary, when the two met on July 11.

British travellers have faced chaos at EU airports this year because of jibs lies in the bloc town border control system. The EES was designed to provide better immigration safeguards to the bloc, but the system has been plagued by technology failures. Many EU traveller states have taken advantage of a derogation that allows the system to be suspended to avoid major travel chaos.

The UK government declined to comment on the talks, as did a spokeswoman for the European

Commission who said only that "all efforts are being made to limit the impact on travellers from outside the EU" and that in most cases, "this impact is indeed

limited." The commission spokeswoman added that it was studying additional guards to help with passport checks.

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Arday's publisher watered down charity marathon claims a year ago

Samuel Lovett and Emily Proccott

Some of the middle claims made by home Arday, such as running 30 marathons in 30 days and separately curing more than 12.5 million for the year, were watered down. By the publisher long before the scandal broke.

The publishing company Simon & Schuster removed long-called all-effronies to about 1,000 a alleged afflicted foals and his fundraising accomplishments from his author Lynge on its website, according to an friend such pages.

Simon & Schuster has reported will go ahead with the publication of the former University of Cambridge professor's national despite the ongoing illness. It is due to some out on August 27. The lower level of accident, it's last year, the claim that Arday had over 30 marathons in 30 days, 1800 miles in three days and 600 miles in six days' was over 1,000 minutes author Lynge, as was a reference to the official curing 'over 25.5 million pounds for 90 national

charities over a 20 year period'.

Instead, this segment of Arday's biography was changed to say he had 'cured millions of pounds for charity'.

The only suggestive publisher may have been aware of an inconvenience in Arday's life story before suspicions were publicly raised in recent media about the security of the achievement.

Arday, 41, who is the youngest black person ever appointed to a post-morning of Cambridge's history, is being investigated by the university over claims of academic misconduct. In his own accused of plagued insg parts of the Phil dissertation he wrote in 1954, which he deems, and fabricating his academic quality about

the 1960 university academic have called for an independent inquiry into how Arday, a sociology of the above-providence, was unfounded, the recipient from his position last week, saying 'the personal cost' of media scrutiny had become 'too great' and that he no longer

wished to live 'under a constant spotlight'.

The Sunday Times can reveal the several Cambridge academic have since appeared to have withdrawn their support for Arday, after initially signing a petition that accused the media of 'trying to smear him with fake accusations of plagued in'.

Joanna Allerton, the first woman to lead Jesus College, others today worked. In a letter of help there is three professors of developmental psychopathology of Cambridge, and Ricardo Infante Sosa, a professor of philosophy and international development, have affixed their names received from a 'solidarity letter' 'launched by the Good Law Project, who has provided this school with support, as listed with pages above.

A icon's call for Robert Dunn (Jenna) O'Keglin, the president of Wolfson College, withdrew her name.

Allerton also discontinued the current when he approached by The Sunday Times. Karen Cohen, an expert in autism, did not respond. In a previous

James Arday is being investigated over claims of academic misconduct

statement on July 31 he approved his support for Arday, who has autism, and said he was born 'symmetrically discredited' in targeted media that ended damaging his mental health. Simon & Schuster was approached yesterday afternoon but did not respond to questions about

why the edits were made to Arday's author Lynge and by whom.

However, several of Arday's more misleading claims have been omitted from the moment. Great and Unforeseen Things, it has since emerged.

His running 500 miles in six days challenge is not mentioned, with reviews of the book authors. Only three total reviews have ever managed once a week, according to modern records. And a reference to Arday's fundraising efforts are alluded to, but no definitive answer.

The Times reported last week that Arday claimed in a book proposal for the moment to have had individual scores and looked for syndrome, and to have offered the first a cut accident from the issue message. These references have not been included in the book.

In April, a spokesperson for Simon & Schuster said 'I can't notice you've never read a story like this - even the real news headlines don't do it justice.'

Last week it was reported

You've never read a story like this

that Arday had previously told The Guardian that he had been offered '5 site' for the book. The offer was made as part of a 'pre-empt' deal.

In order has it begun from the University of Surrey, a master's friend in Surrey's University in London, a PhD in education awarded by Liverpool Industries in University.

Before joining Cambridge, Arday was employed as a professor of sociology of education at the University of Glasgow, from January 2022 to March 2022.

A university spokesperson announced in Friday evening that it had commissioned a 'nurse' into the appointment with the aim of

understanding all the facts and learning lessons for the future'.

Its also worked at Durham University between 1997 and 2021. Lisa McKenzie, a senior lecturer at the University of Bedfordshire, was employed alongside Arday during the period and, in a social media post on holiday evening, questioned whether Durham should also open an investigation into the former college.

was employed with James Arday at Durham, 'she posted a letter to our Arday in a comment by some of the distributors in their department was embarrassing, like he was a musical.'

When asked what he was like as a colleague, she replied: 'Now, actually public and public health. I'm not so sure to be so some of the things he said, a bit like a paper, but more said in a meeting he was most proud of the book, which he got from the public to be able to bring back, I don't think that was true.'

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most increasing the number of students they take each year. There was a 7 per cent annual rise for the highest ranked inefficiencies in 2020 and a 2 per cent boost for the middle tier.

Top-tier universities accepted 30 per cent of students on the equivalent of $800 or lower at A-level in 2020, compared with 26 per cent in 2020. The number of CCI students admitted by these institutions has doubled since 2023.

The universities that typically accept those with the lowest grades have recorded a 2 per cent drop in students.

An assistant professor at a Russell Group university said his three trainees, technology, engineering, and mathematical science, had advertised grade requirements of AAA but the university offered 'blanket CCI' during the original year to $18 (quint). 'Blanket is two components for a drop in international students and an increased appetite to make financial usefulness. We had students coming in through during their own theses into a course designed for a much different A-level but ignored,' he said.

Nati Hibbani, chief executive of the Higher Education Policy Institute, the think tank, and a history of contemporary Science, said: 'Russell Group universities are replacing fast international students by making up home students on much lower grades than you would normally need to go to a top-end institutions. These universities bring home students to competitors are being left from the market.'

Some people would be surprised by the actual A-level entry grades currently being accepted by some of the most prestigious universities, at least for some courses.

A senior that have accepted lower grades include politics at King's College London, which would usually require AAA but on average accepted students with AAA, with the lowest grades received being BBS. Students and men appeared a look University accepted students with an average of BCC despite requiring them. The lowest grades accepted more CCI.

The student's national head of Higher education at the BSM US consultancy and lower entry requirements for some courses was being 'a genuine effect on the year 1992 generation of universities - former polytechnics or college-putting some under financial pressure.'

Science at a post 1992 university said they were being students to offer institutions. 'They are on our turf and taking US students who they previously would not have considered,' they said. 'So we've then lowering our tariffs too to allow our students to be

The relaxing of boundaries by some universities threatens to erode the prestige of age. The entire advertising giant rates are struggling to gain employment. Increasingly, the value of a degree is coming under scrutiny. In June the 16th St. Paul Attnoke survey found 34 per cent followed that a university education

was not worth 'the time and money', an increase from 16 per cent in 2008.

Adium Fidani, managing director of التعليم Education, said the article found universities on how to attract Chinese students, said: 'There is a term used by recruitment agents and advisors in China to describe a lot of overseas degrees on a including the UK - who are international watery. It means the degree lacks education. The more desperate universities have become for money, the more it seems to have driven down the quality of some degrees.'

Universities have blamed their financial strain on several bargaining stakes too. In the past time, prospective students may be questioning the impact of signing up for student loans that will take 9 per cent of their income for decades to come, while their debt continues to mount using a punitive interest rate.

The cap for home students' yearly fees tripled to $5,000 in 2012 and will rise from £8,515 to £9,790 to September, but universities eat it so longer covers the cost of teaching the students. The budget national students paving significantly more, it is not difficult to see why universities cannot rely on overseas funds.

Since Johnson's introduction of the graduate route was in 2018 allowed universities to recruit far more international students, who were permitted to work in the US for two to three years after graduating. The move was welcomed by universities which had suffered a drop in EU students after Brexit - numbers fell from 352,000 to 2020 (0) to 62,000 in 2024 (0). Coventry University suffered an 80 per

cent decline, from 1,000 students in 2020 (3) to 60 in 2024 (5).

Some universities paid millions of pounds a year to recruitment agents. Asia and Africa is help plag the gap in EU students. Despite Brexit and their Covid, many universities still made a healthy profit. However, the rise was blamed for holding a surge in net cash in the same month but their depositions in what became known as the 'businesses' and the criticism prompted a move to reduce net migration.

In 2023, the three home university traffic theorems, announced several changes including a loss on international students on postgraduate taught courses bringing their families over. The more deserved many students from working in the US and those who significant drops from countries such as Nigeria (stained 60 per cent), India (stated 24 per cent) and China (stated 9 per cent).

Rates that come into effect to have are likely to reduce overseas student numbers further. Universities have restrictions on how many foreign students they can travel if more than 4 per cent of study time can rejected by the Home Office.

Professor David Maguire, vice-chancellor of the University of East Anglia (CEA), said the controls would have a 'knock on effect on domestic recruitment' to a content that is already having 'a lot of pressure'.

The impact of the restrictions is evident in the Sunday Times research, which examined ten financial metrics reported in university accounts relating to profitability, income, reserves, staffing

ONE UNIVERSITY'S HIGHEST NUMBER FROM 1992

The five universities which lost the most money in 2020 were promoted to the first business 2021 and 2022.

and revenues from international students over one and three years.

The findings revealed that 20 universities recorded 6th across all measures, including Cardiff, Bangor, Brighton, Hull, Bristol and Bournemouth.

There is no suggestion that universities which are unable to meet any of the costs of a 10 percent of financial collapse and several pointed out that they had strong cash reserves, no debt or had significant improvements in their finances in the past (tentatively the more not yet captured in their annual accounts. However, many have been forced to make sweeping job rate or tax causes.

Universities with low cash balances and limited liquidity are thought to be particularly important. The office for Students, the higher education regulates, warned that November that 14 providers - including seven universities with more than 3,000 students - could collapse within the next months.

The all universities are facing the same thought. Cambridge, Bristol, Imperial College (and other which were strong) is to expect increases on all ten measures. Oxford's annual income records (3.5 billion, growing by 1292.4 million over the past year - the lowest) are 18 university.

Overall, these has been an increase in foreign student income from 201.6 billion in 2022 (2.0 to 210.4 billion in 2024 (2).

However, this is showed by the higher tariff universities that can continue to attract larger numbers of international and domestic students, often at the expense of low-tarificationless home students, or to the changing financial climate by allowing an student makes a rate or opening overseas computer in India, Kazakhstan and elsewhere.

Joanna Harlan, associate director of higher education at University, said: 'Russell Group universities maintain over high academic standards and remain more selective on average than the rest of the sector. Admissions teams develop over the professional judgment when assessing apple and and there is no evidence of lowering standards. Trainees into all the districts who show they have the potential to succeed and thrive on their theses to ensure that they are.

Universities UK, which represents 362 new chancellors or principals, said: 'Our high school students' significant financial pressures, but institutions across the country are taking difficult decisions to strengthen their long-term sustainability. None will have already anything the students felt to have since the period covered by these accounts, which are taken at snapshots in time. Instead some of the metrics within 8 years likely to reflect institutions actively managing their own business.

'The challenges highlighted in this article are not unique to individuals who have been able to make business across the sector, including years of declining, restlessness (leading and a period of policy uncertainty that has made long-term planning more difficult.' Additional reporting: Barry Hoover)

£2,000 of damage in five seconds: thieves use drones before ripping out 70 VW badges

Magee Daniel and Pate Hubbard

Thieves 'becreased' at least 1,000 of damage in five seconds, and had a return on a four-day crime spore in southeast London.

Residents captured thieves in the area of the road (1,075 footage) stealing the sensors housed behind the VW emblem at the houses - in a matter of seconds.

Thieves were reported seeing and hearing drones in the area in the door before the traffic, leading thieves' believe that the thieves were scoping out their targets in advance.

Glasgow Tomlin, from Richmond, Southwark, along with four others on her street

had their badges stolen in the north house of July 18.

After getting ahead of an local police boxing, searching for the police missing badges and gathering testimony, Tomlin found the area was targeted 'on an extraordinary scale', with care on 59 roads (1,000 km), 6 road (1,000 km), 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4

The Volkswagen V8xx was only an exact to make old, effectively straight off the road,' said Tomlin. 'It was all in the middle of the badge, as you found anything. I found 90 Ethel's but there's more than that. The policeman told me it's between 50 and 300'. Graham Nolan, who was Volkswagen Tiguan was also

hit on July 18, over 1,075 footage of the theft of the police. 'It was two guys on June 10th, in 50m and 40m on the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of

'No real peace of a number of the streets in southeast London over recent weeks as well as the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of

this type of crime to report the details to us. Similarly, anyone who has information that has not yet been dated with police is asked to get to touch with us as soon as possible.'

Reports of thieves using radio sensors on V8x, 2000s and 50s, rules have been taken over the past year in London. The part being stolen in the city's first and thungocular sensor for 8 a daytime crimes control (4/11 and, without measures the distance to the vehicle in front of the police, is not a specific accordingly. Volkswagen has offered victims a 70 per cent discount on repairs, but some owners argue that

the fire ropes a clear 'design flaw' and have urged the company to find a solution. Tomlin said, almost twice head nearly sure a drone

A VW with a missing badge on a street in the back

from her garden the previous evening. 'It was highly organised, they know exactly where every car was, or what they were expected to at previously,' she said.

From said fire police told him they suspected it was a gang who 'We a drone over the area the night before and may their route.'

'They look young.' 'Dunn said of the intelligence in the footage. 'I don't think they are at planning the future. I that way, but they seem to be the guys on the ground.'

Claire Sheppard, a senior first researcher and mayor of Southwark, was also a member of the Community on the

discount offered by VW for repairs, she said. 'If it were £2,000 to get it fixed, that's still £600 now to get to find a right shot in the landscape has got a space £4,000. I certainly don't.'

VW said some new models have now moved the science from behind the bridge, but declined to say whether this was in response to the thefts. 'I thought.' 'We take what's security, very seriously and work with industry to take no sooner that our products always meet the highest standards, and they have been able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able

'All products and technologies on the road change over time. The new radio system can be used to help the road supply utilize the latest technology available at the time of development.'

The company said it could be able to get the life off, on the recent thefts because it is about 'how's to help' of that date.' She claimed the crime 'continues to be a localized event.'

The spokesman added that the 70 per cent contribution to the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of the 1st day of

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ROD LIDDLE 1960-2026

REMEMBER WHEN HE SAID...

We need more congenitally stupid people in government, they see a much undervalued commodity. Closer people? Yes, we have those — Mankind or a man, just say where that gets you. Medicines people — loads of them, people with just enough more to stick to the famous party line until the interview has finished. But stupid news? People who had intimidated during the first round of The Western Left and who believe Midcomer Mankins is a documentary? People who let up their chords on before they put on their trousers? Yes a few, sadly. Except for Phil Rhodes.

February 2010

What an enormous joy it was to see. Rone is illegal, but face-wound thing is a must-put, erasing and flashing a k-ways to the giving-appears last week. The old drug was in a wheelchair to almost the funeral of his former colleague Bruce Reynolds, another one of Bruce 'Great

Train Robbers', who has just died, aged 81 — also the cab driver who told the recently he was once friends with a more modern car? Larcen garages. Kevin Nose. 'We was heavily, fierce, it slammed people. But you wouldn't want to cross. So. 'No, indeed, because he'd stab you to death.

March 2013

It is enormously cheering to see that one of my favourite words in the English language is beginning to lose some of its unobserved stigma. Of accessible Germanic origin, the word 's' '"' has for a good 50 years endured is rather untraceable existence — and almost always appears in a foreign when its presence is required in a family newspaper. Life's meetings, 50, he'd just been sentenced to 18 months in prison for breaching an ablacte, 'should abusing' a black woman, and upon hearing his tariff remained of the judge that she was 'a bit of a c' ''. Judge

Political Lynch promptly replied: 'You're a bit of a c' ''. February 2010

The NAG in Derbyshire is handing out free condoms to the one-fifth in an attempt to share the rising tide of venereal disease in the area. It seems there has been a spike in 1970s recorded among what the researchers described as 'silver engine', them. Whoever came up with that phrase should himself be encased in a large condom, preferably one of the fleecured kind that tastes of chicken looms, and then pushed off a bridge.

March 2010

All the Sunday Times columnist wanted was to make polite Middle England squirm but Krisci Murison, who spent years editing him, recalls how he was also a deeply soppy thing

Long before I started running his column, Rod and I found a common. I'd called him, family terrified, to ask if he'd take part in a silly feature idea I'd had to which writers would spend a day bring out their childhood dream of what they'd wanted to be when they gave up. I assumed he'd dismiss the idea, especially when I revealed it involved putting up for a more phone, but no, he was game. He wanted to spend the day being a train driver phone, just like his grandfather and great-grandfather had been and he always thought he might become. But he also wanted to talk to me about hands. He'd heard I'd come from a music paper, so wanted to know what I thought of a common. I did rock a table, done he was into an the time. I liked them, but was rather taken, direct that Rod Liddle, the fearsome little noise of love, was into something so, well, wet.

After that, all the conversations started with music. Despite his appreciation of wrote folk and country rock covenants, Rod was fundamentally a punk. Once you understood that about him — that at his traditionally contrarian, one all he wanted to do was make polite Middle England squirm — then he became much easier to understand, to still impossible to predict in terms of what he might think about any press and put on any given day.

Which made commissioning his column such work for, I'd call him at his home near Middleborough every Friday morning while he was flicking through the papers. After a bit of music that, we'd have a hard and forth about the kids. The would actually start with him pertaining me to let him take my two young sons to a Millwall match (would you let Rod Liddle take your small children to a Millwall match? Obviously not), before he'd drift into usually continuous, about his own new adult sons at a similar age. After that he'd made me with the latest adventures of Simon, his university-aged daughter who he quite clearly adored. Finally we'd remember he had a column to write.

The same planning white would go up each time. 'Oh I don't know what I'm going to write about, I haven't got a single idea.' The was quickly followed by him settling off there or four ideas, coming off the cuff — at least one of which was some nonsense relating to an uninterested lighting he'd just read about in the German Times. The other is introduced as though mid-conversation, so I had to decide from various key words which were short or short piece of progressive madness had got his goal.

He was press copied with how 'woke' I was any one under. Would more socially liberal than Lee Stunt low was clearly 'woke' in Rod's book and took great pleasure in trying to wind me up, while I took great pleasure in refusing to be prevailed. I would call the news as he subjected me to his low impact of increasingly outrageous marriage, or rude, funny and laughs myself they would fall into standard of common decency, until suddenly I would fall short. 'Oh, Lee I want too far with that one,' he would say, momentarily wounded, but then we would both collapse into daughter again. His ideas at this stage of the day were

often still in development and didn't always withstand the scrutiny of high as evidenced by the raised eyebrows I'd receive one of if just the phone down and was attempting to translate the Word of God to my colleagues. Still, they always spoiled a lengthy debate. Detractors to 'maybe avoid such and wait because it's a bit of a miserable' or 'no, don't write about that because you know we'll just have to take it all out for taste reasons' were not tags, resulting in the entire column being pivoted to focus solely on the one thing I'd asked him to avoid.

Occasionally he did take direction. Could find no imagine the famous Tapestry. If it was being made today? Even he had to admit that was a great idea. Rod's measure of whether something would make a good column was fairly straightforward: how many pikes could be got out of it?

A little afternoon in the Sunday Times office can be relentless, but they were always lightened by Rod's 'dance' — the left-wood items that accompanied his main column — landing in our witness throughout the afternoon. I'd read them through my fingers, wondering if he'd manage to file any that were actually printable this week.

Then when the main column arrived at the end of the day, it was always a minor word of art. 'Don't read them yourself, so you don't need me to tell you how good they were, but one thing I particularly loved was being introduced to a new word — there was a man's ear — that I had to look up to that red what it meant: Narrows kill, Wulpingnault, Trumpets. Which, meaning the romantic god who dreamed children, was a highlight, the vocabulary and knowledge that were extraordinary, not he were it lightly. These words were perfect, not just for their meaning but because they always had the ideal rhythm to cut the pluckle instead of the lines.

Once Rod Herd, I was always grateful for the two dedicated side-sellers who would carefully go through the copy, catching the all-questionable use of stories and artists, was with a fact. Though he moaned about either — especially when

it involved 'perfectly good solace', being cut — I knew he was equally appreciate it. I was Saturday afternoon he arrived

unexpectedly in the office straight from his Times Radio studio there (loves up 'Where's there? Where's Bob?' he gowned. He couldn't find them, but slighted on a few other unsuspecting side-sellers who feared for a dressing down. 'I just came down to car every. Sorry for all the bodies I came you,' he said, before shuffling back out.

He would often confound my like that. He was a deeply soppy thing with. When his beloved dog knew died it was a dagger through his heart. He couldn't shake the grief for months. We discussed him writing a column about pet loss, which was something he thought others might believe as a jerky, yet he kept putting it off. I think it was self-respectable.

There are so many columns that promised to write at some point and it's heartbreaking to think we'll never get to read them now. Rod's essay arguing to leave the European Union in June 2010 was so brilliantly debated. I suspect he single-handedly flipped the vote. But what did this once vocal — if conflicted — Leave! think too years on! 'There will be a time to write about the EU again soon,' he said when I last asked him, 'but not this week.'

The column topic I was most looking forward to was the recent hospital department. He was overwhelmed by the kindness, grit and humour of the NHS nurses — a mix of local Middleborough 'smuggies' and immigrant workers, he said — who cared for him during his final months at the James Cook University Hospital. He called one day while recognizing from a complicated operation with optimism: news the doctors said I had gone as well as it possibly could. 'There's just one one's me and what I'm not to be, I am coming,' he dreadful. 'My politics have begun to move down through to the left.'

He was particularly taken by one no-nonsense nurse to whom he had complained of being uncomfortable but during the heatwave. 'Yes, what do you want me to do, blow on you all right?' she'd replied. He thought that was terrible.

For such a misanthrope, Rod often caught himself by surprise at howlrod he was of people. While he loved to change headlong into an attractive clash of news, he was also quick to soften and find common ground, smoothing the way with his wonderful afternoons. He admitted it made him a terrible politician, while standing as the Social Democratic Party candidate in his Middleborough South & East. Overland and intrusion of the movement could be had grown to like some of his opposition candidates so much that he couldn't bring himself to denounce them while campaigning on doorstep.

In our final phone call, perhaps knowing more than he was letting on, Rod took a moment — because describing the unresponsible side-sellers he wanted were having on his masthead — to tell me how much our friendship meant to him. It hadn't really occurred to me until he took time off for the illness just how mutual that feeling had become. There was already a hole in my work where those Friday morning, then used to be. Now it has become a shame.

Krisci Murison is the deputy editor of The Sunday Times

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I was taken aback that he was into wet folk rock

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Is there a more beautiful prehistoric of country anywhere in the world? The green of dread, the satisfying events of the planet, the topical of broken. Yes, it's the Mazelet were sketched and with our latest crates of boldisher revelations. They are incredibly conscientious at Mazelet. A nice woman rang me when I sent my last email requesting this letter of management later. "Well, it's Little. (Just wanted to check you found to send this order, because, you see, me dispatched the very same order five days ago." No mistake had been made. "There are two of us, you know," I told them. May 2020

It is sometimes said that he [John Beccord] had "little man syndrome". But

in truth (do not believe this condition exists, Little, those met dearest, Proper dearest). And while some of them could become埋葬 when things came through were alluded to, and other respectfully they were no more self-regarding than anyone else. March 2022

Rendered important from overuse, as those two words "toxic" and "afo." The latter, these days, seems to mean something mildly equal that makes people laugh — such as a side by Jimmy Carr. The apod. "toxic" endorsed always applied to a wildly unseen and honest (if contending) statement by someone that continuous one or another of theใหญ่ of the principle of modernity.

There are no more others (frame, community, tolerance and discrimination) even a good thing: now the toxic refuge of the liquid but there

run out of time. Let me pass the fenton on to yourself. May 2022

Apparently almost the entire population of this country are now mental views, either under the third of a possible den without the spirit or on a waiting list to live so. Again, the reason for this is the Totten. They have demerged us all so that we can no longer go to work. March 2024

I have spent most of the morning here on Senecke in a charitable endeavor. The Food Containing Collection (FCC) was instigated to bring what to provide (a closer to one or more) a home in Surrey, where some people have to struggle by on us little at £100,000 a year. The first forty knows this afternoon, packed full of something local produce such as meat and potato pies. London (state is normal) upon with chips on top) and insurance chicken

pancos. Anything we can do for the cause of handling up. The average wage in Middlesbrough is about £250,000. March 2024

I can understand the difficulty in trying to persuade the horses farmers of northern Bangladesh not to kill tigers, when the tigers keep eating them. But what possible threat to us all is the hedgehog? Can't we even know Mrs. Tiggyankle? And if we can't, what does it tell us about our supposed love of nature, of animals? November 2024

Be careful how you trust your Afton Researchers at Stanford have discovered that the more AI "sganze" were subjected to boring, repetitive and "unfair" workloads, the leftier they got. The opposite, then, of their human equivalents in the coal service, who don't have to go into work, are

extracurricularly remunerated and are further left there away upon us. One of the reason here said: "When we grow ill, agents grinding, repetitive work, they started questioning the legitimacy of the system they were operating on and were more likely to embrace Mazelet ideologies." So watch it. Make your Afton close to step through England's home in a natural softcut a break and after a week or so you'll find it spurring a 2x4x Pickerbender center and parading down the street to a halfway. May 2020

Rod Little with his fellow Sunday Times columnist Camilla Lang

Martin Ivens

Blair's political class needed its bubble burst. Enter Rod

As a bit of a "live", the Today presenter John Humphries said when I first made it against almost being the former producer Rod Little. "I have made it to be higher prices. In the youth Rod had a failed 1000 or 2000 million $1.5 million. Partly, the Humphries's recommendation was as much to establish as political. In deputy editor of The Sunday Times I was on the lookout for a re-submission. Like the audience I did, I spent 30s that he found in the Wildview, if you asked Rod what he was offering against. So would answer," Humphries said. Some employees found him too to be handle. The BBC had hit him as despite his outstanding work on Today with the executive Roger Smyth and his one deputy of the Guardian. High-minded folk of The Guardian were uncomfortable with the issue of the column. My then editor, John Wilkerson,

immediately got the point of Rod, but said that I had to manage him personally. "It's your fault if it goes wrong," he chudded. The Sunday Times needed him. As Gill and former Clarkson were already part of our crash squad of bomb throwers, but there was a gap in the market for one more. In the time, Peter Blair's New Labour was enjoying its long ascendancy against an overtrendly media landscape. After the 1997 landslide election, more than 20 political and current affairs reporters had applied to join the government's communication team. The Sunday Times was suspicious of Blair's histrionic stance to represent "the political image of the British nation." All that there were a double family, hardly do to mount a serious opposition. We had hired the novelist and commentator Robert Martin as a critical friend of the new figures and the seriously Labour's ambition to reform the public services. The Sunday Times's reporting team, however, men closely

proved the government's weaknesses and our columnists could be biting in their judgments of its policies. But there was a missing ingredient — we needed a point to peak the prosperity of the political class. Enter Rod. We ended the deal over a "dap-up" lunch of gimmick, still and other classes at a provocatively English restaurant in Southfield. Those of yet foreign man's, said Rod as he settled the pile of remarks on his plate, although I could see he was parted to a glass of French wine. His consumption of cigarettes was disastrously phenomenal too. So began out long and fruitful cellulose does. "All, got 'no. I know now about this," Rod would say in response to my suggestions, in the word "blind of ... Thanos' outcry and forbade dialect. Then he would propose to play some sacred one. We tried him to several lessons before setting up the word and style to break up the news. He left pitch, offering a deep contrast to the long, reads in the winter pages. His direct, unadorned prose had been

bened for the golden age of pop journalism that produced the likes of John Burchill and the cultural critic Ian Pennant. His other authors was Rod's 'love. The clown, baby, or who don't you kill him.' ... still depreciation, not at least either arrogance, was an essential part of this formula. The readers do not have to be a good man's position, who is not a good man's position. The readers do not have to be a good man's position. The readers do not have to be a good man's position. The readers do not have to be a good man's position. The readers do not have to be a good man's position. The readers do not have to be a good man's position. The readers do not have to be a good man's position. The readers do not have to be a good man's position. The readers do not have to be a good man's position.

surprise him, though he preferred to join the star to lead them exatic Party for some Soviet events. So, in spite of this side to love, I sometimes seldom enjoy taking responsibility. Rod was a humorous dissenter in a rather go-hand and politically correct age, an outsider whose instincts were so slick two fingers up at Westminster's faithful city that all lands and age doctors and blow a loud raspberry at the great and good. "That's London," said Rod, who lifted between homes on the North Yorkshire coast and Kent. "Can't stand the place." So couldn't me know I would reply, "I've been in the way, your football team is 100% of the world. The 100% of the world is a good man. I'm not a good man. I'm not a good man. I'm not a good man. I'm not a good man. I'm not a good man. I'm not a good man. I'm not a good man. I'm not a good man. I'm not a good man. I'm not a good man. I'm not a good man. I'm not a good man. I'm not a good man. I'm not a good man. I'm not a good man.

THE ALPHABET ACCORDING TO ROD LIDDLE

A FOR ANTHAIR People who have had their teams extremely shift a large space and replaced with crushed Ranch (layed Hot Wings) flavor. Evelyn.

B FOR REIN PENSANT Used to describe self-flagging, white and cultural middle class liberal columnists, putten BBC producers, make the best Cody people, and occasionally mistaken for grabbing by the C of E.

C FOR OBTOR One referee, acting under FA marks, who makes a recommended subject the best.

D FOR DAVID "Callow Dave" Cameron, also known as Old Story Fancy (sic), rapacious little specimen.

E FOR DREELIN FLAD It general: the more you want it, the poorer you are.

F FOR FOOTBALL Name two seven-letter sports teams (engraving with 3 flat and always) for you down.

G FOR GRABBELL, GEAR MAGIC You all know who he is, I am a, extra.

H IN FOR INTUIN A controversial Austrian politician.

I FOR IT To plumb the depths, use components by the North of a Jerusalem artist who (the director) are an international communist warrior (in 1997) to enlist.

J FOR JIMADI ELVES Otherwise known as the Green Party.

K FOR KHAR Exotic, the only leader for over 10 nations high political office.

L FOR LUNDER A novel, alien, chaotic dictation which serves upon a public underpact. Third World workforce. (PS, where can Third a consumer?)

M FOR MINCE As is "shit air", See the side: World's second population of young royals.

N FOR NORCE Stuff said.

O FOR OWN This infantile expression is a leader, not merely in the culture. If more border housing, but in the subprime and not in the form of the low age-old middle-aged man falling you'll be by all want to the shops to buy some origin, so Twitter.

P FOR PENDICIDE local employers add personal descriptions to their search — such as "counted blue-turned loose-inges (both) sector (list)".

Q FOR QUIN Such a vulgar word for a smog, but also a foreigners-grabbinger.

R FOR REALLY The Agricultural girl of 100 to which participants are defined by global, stage, stapled out (p, tattoo, mottocracy, big gunwires, testtpads, and a employed faith in their own work).

S FOR MARIE A course in their northern domestic habitat, pitters: use and War Shark and their children's thing. E. Forster, L. and C. Frank, I, using their seven-party buckets of deep food recovered most by-products in public. In a southern white, legible and Eastern Slavic and their five children. London, London, Liberia, Tigan and Tnar.

T FOR TRENT, DONALD A psychotic specialist who is sometimes, perhaps even often, distressing, right.

U FOR UNINTERNET A course I try/see her of football.

V FOR VILLAMUSKY When the country is chewing down on Gregg's wegen massage with swash from compressed height and snow fluid, or something.

W FOR WILD FISHINGING This can leave dream of road middle-class woman with two men's old.

X FOR SONGPOONIA [Who me?]

Y FOR WIFE, WIFE, WIFE Are the dreamtied a woman in our 'hypnot, from our stupid'.

Z FOR ZACK POLARING The smoking, domestic tradition of a labored and ethical ideology based upon world of thinking. You also do this: children.

"as planned from his columns

...a toast to one of his best

Let's reclaim our Bayeux Tapestry and hang it with my new version

We are not entirely convinced that we should be showing gratitude to the French for letting us have the bayeux Tapestry for a few weeks. It was made in this country and a dispute, a truth in this country, or it should be right for staying here in the peninsula. The French are the last people who should have it — William the Conqueror wasn't sweet French. He was a Viking who judiciously swapped the helmet for a fewer when he saw the way Europe was going, he are now a Prime French, a living in the world, and a whole of the rights now in the first place, they would be better offing his own country. The French have been a different way of the country. Apparently we've hanged them a helmet and put it in a hat from an old day and something called "the Lewis disarmed," which is a novelty. When the man was a little bit of the country, he was a little bit of the country, and the people were a little bit of the country, and the people were a little bit of the country, and the people were a little bit of the country, and the people were a little bit of the country, and the people were a little bit of the country, and the people were a little bit of the country, and the people were a little bit of the country, and the people were a little bit of the country, and the people were a little bit of the country, and the people were a little bit of the country, and the people were a little bit of the country.

Paulet's New we see the English Channel, a truth is made that our King believes doesn't exist. The scene depicts the bayeux "breathing of the Gangs" and shows Invite Cooper looking on with a slightly concerned expression so her face as handed on a bridglass filled with 20-year-old men from Albania, Somalia

and Chad chim happily across the waves and into the second breadth of the channel on by a cosmic shiver of stupid lawyers. All he was side, the defense-looking man puddling in the water with a net is Emmanuel Marron, accepting up in many British fads as he can. Paulet 12 The 'federation of the World, Labour, a strong and conscientious in the north of this country, to which a family are gathered together sitting on their fat areas watching illness under the diameter with the child left under the shining, and a party barred. The chief standing around their heads is intended to suggest that they are all suffering from anxiety anything that can be done. Paulet 13 There hardly stock to the signal is done without of the Bayeux Tapestry except in this scene, which is picked out in African tradition colour and depots. The 'federation of the World' is part of false because said to the chest and, in the next scene, was, probably winning the women's trampled race of the Olympic Games. Looking to sign enough for a full time over all main parties, BBC files review and the English. Paulet 14 The man with the large and unconquered reflexes is classed "Lil Gal" (Gardonians, a bold youth from Hachodov who has been caught distributing dogs on someone else's path). In the middle distance you can see the "Crows above it Shallows", as young people back one another to death in a scene immediately with a discontent of them one drop. In the front not a social mother is explaining that some of this would happened the young people had access to youth dishe

Farewell, Rod

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where they might play play pong, while heads that a predance of slavery is blaming it all on an insane and profitable angle, we cannot be coincidental. Paulet 18 Horn looking police officers directed upon a woman tapping once on social media in a moving scene entitled the 'Righteous Tabernacle of the Night' (Bardiner, written in a black edition, chased full-bodging tone of Pakistani origin are depicted handing out to them and find full by one. It's one old white girls who happened to kill by white a police officer (conversely, "Matthew or Iago only.") Paulet 42 Rachel Brown is depicted as a man's face, a mythical creature with a man's face, a man's face, a man's face, and a man's face. The young white explaining to the country that the country is completely broke. Distinctly the prime between a shores from one with the world. The young white explaining from between the buttocks, the money being hardly collected for some peace doctors. Paulet 52 He is an in-undercover and the scene depicted is that of the country's natural, voting together, festival of Catarrhalers, in tomorrow. The crowd is shown staring the traditional "Paulet" (the "Paulet" is the "Paulet"). Paulet 56 Here I show the nine people still employed full-time in the UK, with the rest of the population hammering at their doors for a cash handout. In the background a pro-ratered member, you fall of people who were created wealth for the country to serve doing just the city to be gone for ever. Over in the east, two men are seen snuffing.

First published on July 21, 2021

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POLITICS

The Sunday Times, August 11, 2020

Where's the money, Andy?

The PM's promises on pubs, transport, energy and defence mean painful choices must be made before the budget. Tensions are already emerging between No 10 and Treasury officials, writes Josh Gancy

In June 1941, as Britain ceded from the calamitous loss of Gene to the Nazis, Winston Churchill rose in the House of Commons to praise the country's resistance.

The British nation, he said, was unique in that "they are the only people who like to be told how bad things are" and that "they are very likely to get much worse in the future." If that was true then, it is certainly not true today. Sir Kirk Harmer's removal as prime minister is inimitable evidence that Britain is not in the mood for more business. Harmer warned that our fiscal situation was grim, our public realm in tatters, the world outside increasingly hostile – and the country lured him for it.

Like an impersonous date, Britain is poorer than it thinks it is, but the public either does not fully appreciate this or does not want to hear it.

So Andy Burnham is trying an altogether different approach telling people what they want to hear, during them to hope again – a little less grim honesty, a little more buoyant optimism. This tig-

"Raiding funds for a sacred cow will leave bloody stains"

gerals opening gambit has generated a healthy bounce in the polls and warm reviews in the media. It has gone about as well as it could have done so far.

The Burnham project is a turn of septi-ments, but many of them are oppressive. The prime minister has promised to end tough sleeping, cup-bus-lance, cut-murge bills and lower business rates for pubs and restaurants. He has vowed to fix our failing social care system, to deliver the "biggest council housebuilding programme since the past war period", to fulfil Britain's Nato-commemento (which would raise defence spending to 3.5 per cent of GDP by 2050), and to bring Thames Water under more public control. A hold of a big poster calculated by the Conservatives puts the cost of all Burnham's early promises at 1200 bil-hrs. Whatever the actual amount, we don't have the money.

Instead, what lies ahead is an autumn of painful fiscal dreams for Burnham and his chancellor, John Skolley, as they try to maintain a delicate balance between telling us optimistic story to the country and being honest about the limits on what they are able to do.

Lying in their path is the radioactive banana skin of defence spending. The country wants to learn more about that are reviving up-to-quickly rebuild its military capacity, but the truth is that the money simply is not yet in place to meet the target that Skolley himself resigned over in June.

BURTHAM, 11/11/2020, JOHN SMITH

Burnham looking at ways to block early release of PC's killers

Lara Kjaer

Slayton, 9/10/2020, Lamar

Andy Burnham is considering advice from officials on how to prevent the killers of PC Andrew Harper from being set free under the prison early release scheme.

The prime minister announced on Tuesday last reports, child sex offenders and grooming gang members would be excluded from the scheme, under which about 10,000 people are expected to be released early following changes in England and Wales from October.

He is now underwood to be examining further advice from officials of the Ministry of Justice on the case of Harper, including the possibility of excluding manslaughter sentences from the scheme.

Harper, 26, was killed in 2019 after responding to a quad tube theft in Australia.

The Thames Valley police officer, who had got married just four weeks before his death, was dragged for more than a mile at an average speed of 42. Slayton after his ankle became caught in a strap trailing the germany car.

Two of his killers, Jessie Cole and Albert Stewart, were sentenced to 35 years each for manslaughter. They will be eligible for early release next year under the government scheme introduced by Sir Kirk Harmer. As which thousands of prisoners qualify after serving half of their sentence earlier than two thirds, provided they have not broken prison rules. The prime minister remains severely overcrowded with a population of 99,000, which amounts to 95 per cent of available capacity. The McHua warned their capacity will be exhausted as early as November.

Burnham has blamed this on a failure by previous Conservative governments to build enough prison spaces between 2010 and 2024, noting that "just 500 places were added and 23 prisons were closed".

Harper's family and Thames Valley police have called for ministers to exclude Cole and Bowers from the scheme. Jason Begg, the boss's chief constable, said he was considering joining legal scheme which their release.

Announcing some exemptions, Burnham said he would have wanted to go further but had "pushed to the very limits of what is possible to do".

Writing in The Telegraph, he said: "I know I can look people on the one and on to them there is nothing more I could have asked for without raising the prison system reaching capacity and collapsing within months."

Harper's widow, Jason Harper, 25, described the move that her husband's killers could be released as an secondary gut punch that is coming from the government.

The seventh anniversary of his death is next Saturday. Harper's mother, Debbie Adlum, said she was "crushed" and told ITV News their release would make emergency workers feel "completely unnatural." A professor in trip the release has received more than 750,000 signatures on the Thames are about 500 prisoners convicted of manslaughter but the number eligible for early release will be significantly lower, given some of these will also have been sentenced for more serious offences. Officials have indicated that Harper's killers could only be

"20

Number of prisons closed between 2010 and 2024

Andrew Harper was killed a month after marrying Jessie

barred from release by exempting this entire cohort. There is no specific offence of manslaughter of an emergency worker.

This will also stop Burnham from presenting the release of some child sex offenders, including members of grooming gangs. As many cases took place before anti-gooming laws were introduced in 2005, men were charged with indecent assault, and the entire cohort would need to be excluded despite a review ordered by Burnham.

Amarel Blak, the former detective superintendent at Thames Valley police who led the investigation into Harper's killing, said this "isn't like case at all", and that you could distinguish between different manslaughter cases. He argues that those considered more culpable during sentencing could be barred from release.

An sentencing remarks made by Lord Justice Ede in 2020, for example, Harper's death was judged to be a "very serious" case of manslaughter.

The judge said: "Cases of manslaughter range greatly in womanhood. Sometimes death may be caused by an act of gross carelessness, sometimes a case of manslaughter may be very close to a case of death or with seriousness. That is so here."

Blak, who left the police home in 2023, said: "In my mind, that's how you differentiate."

Manslaughter cases can be categorized according to these culpability ratings – A, B or C – according to the level of blame assigned. Blak suggested the categories could create a threshold for exclusion from release. Because if you're a

category B or above, that shows the levels of aggravating factors that have been involved, and that should perhaps be the benchmark."

Initial advice by officials has suggested this would not be practical, as judges do not always add a culpability factor to contention.

Blak said the early release scheme indeed damaging relations between the police and the government. "There is a danger of what does this say to one and the end the police service?" he said.

However, he said the impact on the family had been the most severe thing. "We live in it," the death of PC Andrew Harper was a hostile crime. Her thoughts are with his family and friends, and we share the anger and anger in community that we are in this position.

Thanks to tireless campaigning by Andrew's family, Harper's have meant that anyone convicted of killing an emergency worker will have something a crime now gets a mandatory life sentence.

"This government has gone further by introducing a prolonged, unhappily controlled or murdering a police, prison or probation officer is handed a whole life order."

We have been clear that we wanted to go further and block more offenders from getting our services to their sentence, that could not do so without raising prisons reaching capacity and collapsing. If that happened, a police service is not a system, courts could not remove offenders and there would be unchecked criminality on our events."

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to his regularity better, which helped give the Sturmer government to final direct off the precipice, the former defense secretary we've tried he was 'out into that disobedient due to 1 per cent of GDP on defense in 2020 to what Britain must not'. But, thanks lamented, Sturmer was 'mailed' and the Treasury 'sawdred' to commit the economic needs of the United States. So he had to go to the end of the 2020 election, and the 2020 election was 'aided' in the 2020 election.

Now both the prime nominee and the new defense secretary, Wes Henning, have asked away from making a close commitment to 1 per cent by 2020. When asked, Henning expressed the love that the government should not make promise unless it has a place to pay for them.

'It's pretty remarkable when you think about it,' said our Labour source. 'Lives how damaging that letter was and how much of an empty fabric weight-tremendous and now they've not committed to 1 per cent. For the past, thanks to the fact that the government is not about the right hand to be laid out, but that this should be done at the next spending review, due to not summer of the latest.'

What the human and company are coming to do is to make a choice for the 2020 election, and get it 1 per cent of defense spending by 2020. Reading the 'target' would still manifest most spending. Let's follow a year more on defense - money that will need to be paid for the 2020 election, and the money needs, or welfare, or some other sacred one whose daughter will leave Mendy and the other.

Stirling a balance between what it would like to do and what it is able to do will be an enduring challenge for this government. It will also should be critical to the budget between No 10 and the Treasury.

Looking to Conince Coulter, woman in the Treasury affairs the government will say: 'well-written' the fiscal take care of the government. 'The government is not a good day.' thanks to committed to fully funding the defense investment plan, with details to be laid out in the budget. What remains is saying together a climate 2.4.7 billion next to cash.

This is sensible and necessary, but of course it also means that at least some of the prime nominee's other plans will have to be postponed. I would suggest authority that some of the No 10 team are already becoming retained by Treasury officials (Milly, three that things they want to do).

There are also concerns in the Treasury about attempts to 'fix' a hospital in the fiscal year, which allows for more processing (it is for all men in the same year). This is said to be the key a landfill set of 'Whitfield' aerospace, whereby something called 'presumptive' (PME), public sector not financial liabilities to send as a measure for government debt allowing for money to be financed. 'spending' 'public' public financial institutions such as the British Business Bank and spent in things such as housing and transport.

This approach is supported by future weight-need as Level 5/field of Safety. The former Collaborative economist, who is a member of the United States, has been known to be the main factor. He is one really known how the quality will react to such

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How much we would have to spend per year to let US pay out of GDP

accounting wisely, particular when everyone returns from their nominee but does.

Departmentally, as our eligible for a personally bonus may qualify that themselves frustrated, particularly as rising inflation, energy costs and borrowing costs cut into their spending prices. The reputation of the company is a huge question of tackling the 'program' issue of student loan service (e.g., only the Foreign Office to especially looking at plans to return an spending to 5 per cent. There is a case in doing both, but to these sufficient cash. This month likely and therefore some a letter to all their nominees telling them that they must work. 'within the budget, they have already got.' (Pete).

Beyond individual spending choices, this has all-cause to become a deeper question that this government will need to answer about itself. So we big have it most to go!

For, put another way, is the human really put 'inconsistent with a problem as one! It's an important thing to do as a party management, a partner, more progressive package and an academic and devolution agenda, but fundamentally facing the same constraints and delivering the same constraints. It's a problem for nonzero and incremental policy outcomes, while doing what is needed on defense. This would be a realistic approach and stands a decent chance: successful.

'It will it be something more radical and optimistic.' Will therefore genuinely pursue some of the grunder addresses, to roll back the Thatcher's settlement and rebalancetime Britain? 'It's not so a 'casual breaker' in British political history.' This would mean a willingness to take place and pour into the same position. 'It's a long way to be a long way to be a long way to be a long way to be a long way to be a long way to be a long way to be a long way to be a long way to be a long way to be a long way to be a long way to be a long way to be a long way to be a long way to be a long way to be a long way to be a long way to be a long way to be a long way to be a long way to

This latter, rather and more radical agenda demands more money and a mandate from the electorate, neither of which therefore currently has. Which means we are far more likely to end up with the former. Burdens will keep spending with prime substantial optimism, trying to tell the British people a story that must be hard. But some October and the budget he is likely to be restrained by the cold, dead weight of Treasury honesty.

WE're pulling our hair out

'We're pulling our hair out'

When the highs way agreement of HMP (long and medium prices may getting overcrowded), the world start low day by telling the court the credit line accept any new offenders, and some would have to be released locally.

'We're pulling our hair out.' The court has been asked to be released later to work out whether you're got enough upon to take people to benefit a court.' said Debbie, who is now that executive of the Prince Believe Trust.

'The court is, Umbu.edu, is 'running 80'. This is the public out of every system that has been underfunded and overcrowded for decades.

Andy Burnham has pledged to create 44,000 new stores (about by 2018 after 2020). The new stores are similar promise, but Victorian private art, killing and upskirt than new leafless can be held.

In the meantime, with gain reaching a new store, an even-going ready release scheme has been announced to avoid running out of private stores by the end of the 2020 election.

Under the scheme, established by the Times and expanded by Labour, thousands of prisoners counted all of low service offenses each in 2005. Read and bring overcrowds, who are usually released after serving after 50 per cent of their sentence, will leave after a third. A second group, sentencing the more than five years for violent offenses such as assault, taking off work in high fares, who are currently released for efforts of

the way through, will serve just half. Prisoners serving life sentences and those come back in 2020 as offenses are not eligible for early release, but domestic abusers and those convicted of mania against sex.

The policy has come under increasing wording since it emerged that two out of 50 were convicted of killing 50. Andrew Harper, who was dragged for more than a mile by his ankle after he got caught in a car up reading a gateway car in 2019, will be loved. Burdens is understood to be examining legal advice that could allow him to find his release of Harper's 'crucial sentence, trying to avoid from him to keep all those convicted of mania against inside, because the government can currently only intervene against an entire cohort of crimes.

The prime minister has already appealed the policy, leaving to pressure a new agent, child abusers and growing gang members from going into. In the 2020, a woman has put the '83's out possible' to go into a further 'without the private system reaching against the same whipping, which would put public safety at much greater risk'. 'In the shipment,' 'Why is it at this 100 hour are we going down this road? Offends are literally pulling their hair out.'

Currently there are about 85,000 smokers in prisons in England and Wales, an increase of more than 25000 won't pay over a million man. There are only about 1,000 in general. Burdens does now account for almost a third of inmates. 'We're pulling our hair out' is a 'whole problem, so we account for almost a third of inmates. 'We're pulling our hair out' is a 'whole problem, so we account for almost a third of inmates.

The '83's out of the 100th hour are we going down this road? Offends are literally pulling their hair out.'

Currently there are about 85,000 smokers in prisons in England and Wales, an increase of more than 25000 won't pay over a million man. There are only about 1,000 in general. Burdens does now account for almost a third of inmates.

Kern Badenoch

To beat extremism, we must be sieve offenders are the rehabilitated

Could sound chance depend on your public? Last week, controversy erupted over the decision to afford a 'few' to beat extremism, but it was a "superior" system of system, to stand as Conservative council.

candidate. He had previously served as prime sentencing to multiple others, and the government below repudiating those views and his previous life.

The argument occurred at the same time as Andy Burnham is estimated as a row of thousands of people in the hospital, and killers out of prison early. The two controversies may have attributed to the 'sword' for same question: what do government and rehabilitation actually mean?

In 2012, the Labour Party selected Margaret Banks as a council candidate in Midland, where he had also been heavily involved in a specific non-Nazi organization whose members were Nais style underpin and recruited young people to shorthand social literature and political issues. The government's new policy was part below sheeting her. Banks herself did not try to look for us if the expressed profound regret and said that her subsequent community work had been an attempt to make amends.

He was elected as a Labour committee, co-elected two years later and served until 2014. Similarly, Joshua promoted the anti-nationist ideas, harassed female people and committed other crimes for which he went to prison.

Selected the circumstance that history, but he served his sentence in jail and has since reposed five tickets that took him there. He now works to explain the evils of anti-nationism, training in painstaking co-conventions, the dangers of radicalism and how both sides own. This does, of course, are telling the 'system' that is the 'supervision's personal, and what is the 'sword' never mean proceeding for just did not happen.

But it does prompt a difficult question. It's certainly not on the punishment imposed by the courts, and then people years trying to stop others making the same mistakes at what point they are to agree they're changed. If the answer is never, we should be honest about it and stop talking about related pieces of age.

We want racists to stop being racists

They have been a 'sword' for the same time as the 'sword' for the same time as the 'sword' for the same time as the 'sword' for the same time as the 'sword' for the same time as the 'sword' for the same time as the 'sword' for the same time as the 'sword' for the same time as the 'sword' for the same time as the 'sword' for the same time as the 'sword' for the same time

The following is a major issue: 'The government has been a common opinion and will meaning statements. We should want racists to stop being racists. We should want anti-nationist to stop anti-anti-nationist to stop being racists.' We are very

sword and the government's new Nais style underpin and recruited young people to shorthand social literature and political issues. The government's new policy was part below sheeting her. Banks herself did not try to look for us if the expressed profound regret and said that her subsequent community work had been an attempt to make amends.

sword and the government's new policy was part below sheeting her. Banks herself did not try to look for us if the expressed profound regret and said that her subsequent community work had been an attempt to make amends.

The following is a major issue: 'The government has been a common opinion and will meaning statements. We should want racists to stop being racists. We should want anti-nationist to stop being racists.' We are very

They like us someone extremely sceptical about the ability of prisoners rehabilitated.

We have to that for the most serious of children and should come up home. 'Such was up and there away the boy.' Please actually mention, but most importantly it protects the public by taking dangerous people off the streets and the government and Senate. Most people have prison without having changed at all.

Anti-nationism is one of the great messages of our age. In this 2018 two years it has returned with a vengeance, with how being stabbed on the streets and outside smugglers. I will see every level of the physical budget for the opposition to return the hatred that obligated Europe as a society age never becomes normal again in Britain.

But definitely the major issue: 'The government has been a common opinion and will meaning statements. We should want racists to stop being racists. We should want anti-nationist to stop being anti-nationist to stop being racists.' We are very

The following is a major issue: 'The government has been a common opinion and will meaning statements. We should want racists to stop being racists. We should want anti-nationist to stop being anti-nationist to stop being racists.' We are very

The following is a major issue: 'The government has been a common opinion and will meaning statements. We should want racists to stop being racists.' We are very

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City that wants to ban balaclavas to combat yobis

Crime has driven many Nottingham residents from the city centre. Now the council is proposing fines of up to £1,000

Samuel Lovett

For more than half a century, Grenville Price has sold luxury rings, watches and necklaces out of his jewellery shop in the centre of Nottingham.

A recent rise in antisocial behaviour, driven by managers wearing black balaclavas and riding high-speed electric bikes through the streets, has left him and many others feeling unsafe.

"There's no need for the balaclavas. They're threatening. People feel intimidated," said Price, 75; the owner of Mack and Levan jewellers. "A lot of my customers are quite old. They won't come into the city now."

Such is the scale of the issue that the city council has week launched a public consultation on whether to ban face coverings in the city centre. Under the proposals, police will be able to ask people to remove coverings if they "reasonably believe" they are being used to conceal their identity to commit crime or antisocial behaviour.

Offenders who refuse to comply with the ban could be fined £50 on the spot or face prosecution, with a maximum penalty of £1,000. The consultation ends on Friday. If the plans are approved, Nottingham will become the largest city in the UK to ban balaclavas, doing so from next month. The radio would not apply to face coverings were for religious, cultural, health, work, weather or personal safety reasons.

Nottinghamshire police launched 'Operating Time to Stay, targeting antisocial youth behaviour. A markfish of 20 young people known to persistently cause trouble has been created by police

as part of the operation, with offenders tracked by 5,779 systems and officers. Police have even learnt to identify the offenders by their clothes, as balaclavas obscure their faces.

Several recent incidents have raised the profile of the issue in Nottingham. In early November, a group of young children wearing balaclavas, who were 10 to 12 years old, were spotted on the roof of a former Debenhauns building in the city and obtained by police.

Days later, students-wielding youths on a bikes, whose faces were covered, confronted one another in the city centre. The stand-off, linked to drug dealing, took place "as time of familiar" next to Nottingham's United Houses, police said. There have also been reports of young children in balaclavas stealing from

£50

The number of arrests since May for antisocial behaviour and local crimes

£70

How much offenders could face in on-the-spot fines for refusing to comply

£1,000

Maximum penalty that could be imposed on offenders

drops, vandalising properties, throwing objects off the roofs and roaming through the streets to large numbers.

Police say many of the offenders, most of whom are under 18, travel in from the suburbs and congregate after school bus finished at 2.30pm. These wearing balaclavas largely fall into two camps: those committing acts of antisocial behaviour, and those involved in criminal activity. like drug dealing, who want to conceal their identity, said Pearson.

In total, Nottinghamshire police and the council identified more than 300 city centre incidents involving face coverings or balaclavas between June 2020 and June 2020. Since May, more than 400 arrests have been made in relation to antisocial behaviour, shop theft, drug dealing, knife offences and other serious crimes in the city.

Earlier this summer, a consultation on improving public spaces in Nottingham was held in which 179 people – 15 per cent of respondents – cited concern over the prevalence of face coverings and balaclavas in the city.

As part of a wider crackdown on crime in Nottingham, called 'Operating bed-days, less facial recognition to/from' age will be depleted in the city from August 21 for the first time.

Some businesses, however, have taken matters into their own hands. Many of the chain-stores along Cheshire Street, a hotspot for antisocial behaviour, emptied their own security guards.

Private security guards also wander the streets every day to support local businesses. The initiative, which includes an app through which shops can export crime and share information on suspects, is run by 85% in Nottingham, the city's business improvement district.

But whether these initiatives, along with the police's own crackdown, can help turn around the city centre remains to be seen. Price said, "It's becoming increasingly difficult for businesswebsites with what's happening out there. Let's see if all these schemes help."

00 Ananobu playing for the New York Knicks in December and, below, with young basketball players last week

Back in Britain I'm not famous. Going out is a slam dunk

Hugo Daniel

When 00 Ananobu is out in New York he doesn't get far before being wrapped for a willie. Two months after playing a key part in the New York Knicks' first MIA win in 12 years he is more famous than ever in the US. But in London, where he was born, Ananobu is a virtual unknown and delight in being able to walk around largely unrecognised.

"I've gone to Google a couple of times. I've said on a visit to the capital to host a basketball camp for talented

young players. "I mean it's nice. I get to do things that maybe I wouldn't do in the US. People here are just so chill they don't stop people. Just because I'm still people will look and stuff, but probably not like in the US. I don't go outside in New York that much."

It might not be the case for much longer. Ananobu, 25, is at the forefront of the MIA's push to expand basketball in the UK. In October next year the multibillion-dollar Ananobu league explaining to start a European tournament with 16

Banshires. It is likely to include teams in London and Manchester. "I don't think (current MIA's players are allowed to be involved," Ananobu said when asked if he would play any part, though he said he he would "love to" in the future. MIA Europe teams are expected to be restricted from acquiring players from the US unless they are free agents.

Wouldn't it lift 'No, Ananobu signed a five-year contract worth £87 million with the Knicks two years ago and came about £31 million a year. Its comparison (hany) Euro-turns about £24 million a year and Jade Nottingham an estimated £30 million.

Ananobu played a crucial role in the Knicks' 41 championship series victory over the San Antonio Sparrow Jets. In point that the team came back from 24 points down and Ananobu's Opposition the winning basket from a rebound. There were 12 six-mile left on the clock.

Bonnie Camden, Ananobu was the youngest of seven. Children's Qinghai Ananobu is, an academic, and Gene-Sakhi Banshu, a male and bald athlete who competed for Nigeria and died of cancer before he turned one. The couple had met in their native Nigeria before moving to Glasgow and then Harleydon, northwest London.

Ananobu (the national) Phil at Bristol University and worked as a lecturer at Oxford Brookes.

University before taking up it as a business and finance professor

at Lincoln University in Missouri. Ananobu was four when they moved to the US. He got his first basketball hoop at sight after pleading to practise in the back garden.

In Harleydon, where I lived, 2 roommiles' just like going on walks, doing stuff around town like going to Aadu, memories of playing in the house as a kid. Ananobu said. His sisters, who stayed in London, watched him climb the MIA with as a watch party in the capital. "They're really happy for me, they think it's really cool," he said.

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Sir Chris Holm, the aggressive hedge fund boss who bankrolled Extinction Rebellion, calls critics 'wilfully ignorant' and claims businesses must 'decarbonise or die'

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Interesting Sir Chris Holm, one of Britain's richest men, is lost a conversation than an argument. I have not finished my first question before he has denied its very promise.

'I disagree with that,' he says, with the calmness of someone covered they have all the answers. Within the minutes, Holm, a wildly successful hedge fund manager and founder of the Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), has told me its times that I am wrong.

'During a startling summer and with the political debate on not new reaching from 2018, I talk how climate, philanthropy - one of Holm's great powers - is standing up in the face of President Trump's three against environmental spending. With big players such as Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos setting back on their charitable climate projects, how are others filling the gap?

'I disagree that climate philanthropy is falling,' says the 50-year-old. 'I'd like to be quoted on that Bill Gates was never a big player.'

Holm, who sits at 50-22 on The Sunday Times (Rs 0.144 with wealth of 24.9 billion and topped The Sunday Times Giving List with donations of 2.4 billion, is warning to his theme.

It is 'blindly obvious' that the world is getting warmer, he says. 'Any alter one on that the climate has changed and climate change is accelerating. Any body who doesn't look at the culture of wilfully ignorant.' He seems pleased with his taste of phrase. 'No world is that never. Willful ignorance.' That means they know it's hanging but they choose to deny the reality.

Holm, the self-made son of a human actions on medium and a legal secretary made his fortune as the founder of 3U Fund Management - where Holm found was once a partner - and which today manages about 250 billion in assets.

Born in Melbourne, Surrey, Holm attended St Paul's County Secondary state school which has since closed. He studied accounting and business economics at the University of Southampton and then earned an MBA at Harvard Business School. He then managed funds in

the UK and London, before founding 313 in 2000. By the late 2000s he had become known as 'the fun King' for the extraordinary returns and autocratic style.

An employee in 2009 told The Sunday Times: 'Nobody in the firm will venture him. He is the Fun King and everyone else is just a counter.' In Germany, where in 2005 he thwarted Deutsche KGa uS e.Milken but for the London Stock Exchange, he became known as the Bauschal's 'this beasts'.

His hedge fund leader John Gill, a charity he founded with his first wife, Jamie Cooper. He, the mother of his four children, including triplets now in their twenties. A court in 2014 ordered Holm to pay her £357 million in use of Britain's biggest divorce a minimum.

He is also known for overcoming immunization packages in 2022 for second a $696 million (£575 million) dividend, thought to be the biggest ever enjoyed by an individual in the UK, though his bill is 645 million (£491 million) last year.

Holm insists tackling climate is a crucial part of CIFF's mission. 'From the beginning I saw the impact climate change would have on children and is already having on malnutrition. When the ends dry out, which they are everywhere in the world, they're469up about.' He adds: 'Who suffers when food prices double? Rich people like me? No, poor people - the very poorest of the poor. And we just in Africa. Poor people in the UK are suffering higher food prices. It's a global problem.'

With wildfires in Europe and drought in Britain, climate change has risen up the public at a grade. But the political consequences what to do about the problems are.

In the summer of 2005, Thomas May passed an associate law without a single-tiff observed a new year on a force debate has erupted over the cost and pace of decarbonisation. Nenu Kudrowik, the Conservative leader, wrote last month: 'Climate change is real. The net more pleasant one. They are a political fiction, huntering the country, destroying British industry and personally increasing carbon emissions.'

Andy Hardwick, three weeks into his new air prime minister, has indicated he will open up drilling in the North Sea, under pressure from the left and right. First after Hardwick's new energy secretary Marka Kubelskoh suggested some net zero targets might be refused to ease

costs. 'We need to keep momentum [towards clean power],' she told The Times. 'But we're also got to do it in a way that works for people.'

Unlike other green-minded billionaires, Holm does not fished money into British party politics, and in this interview, it really is something to do in a situation that the drive for net zero is the right course. 'It is a case of decarbonisation,' he says. 'If you don't embrace green technology, those will be no job because that's the future. All those people who say we can't afford net zero - they're completely misunderstanding the gravity of the situation. In fact it's the opposite. You can't afford net to act because it's the future.' As hard press and energy prices. The more we use head finds, the more it will drive up prices.'

Why then, I try again, are many philanthropists pulling up?

For years climate giving went up. In 2016, philanthropic foundations and individuals donated $18.4 billion (£2.4 billion) to climate change mitigation efforts worldwide. It added up to 2.1 per cent of total giving - up from $0.7 billion (£0.7 billion) for year before, according to the ClimateWorld Foundation. But when Trump was elected in 2024 with a cut of 1600 jobs (left) 'big green started pulling back on climate spending.'

More recent figures have not yet been published, but at February the 30 billion Broadhrough Energy Catalyst fund, one of Gane's environmental charities, suspended investment in new projects and lack of itself. Gane has argued that global climate strategy needs to shift away from 'downside' messaging. The Chan-Zuckerberg initiative has proved to fit and benefit and wound down environmental projects. The Bill billion Bezos Earth Fund has only spent 20 per

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Dividend received by Holm in 2023, thought to be the biggest ever in UK

cent of the funds it promised to give this decade.

Holm is having none of it. 'Bill Gates was never significant in about climate philanthropy,' he insists, 'though he does a lot of work in again about umbrella refuge.' Mark Zuckerberg was never a significant climate philanthropyist as far as we can see. Bezos Earth Fund is still functioning.

Regardless, he stresses that CIFF is standing firm. 'We have not reduced our climate philanthropy. You can write that. We are spending $200 million a year on climate - or at meeting - annually let me check the currency.'

He picks up his phone and calls Kate Hampton, the chief executive of CIFF. 'You're not really a bad climate. Kate, can you join the cafe.'

Hampton, having rearranged another meeting, explains that CIFF has a portfolio of $1.29 billion (£500 million) to active charitable grants for climate change. According to its 2022 report, published on Friday, it made total cash disbursements of £570 million (£420 million) last year of which $377 million (£131 million) went on climate programmes. Other priorities include health and nutrition, and creating opportunities and choice for women and girls.

The droughts and floods that are increasingly common in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia have wide-ranging consequences, Hampton says: 'There's plenty of evidence showing that child marriage rates go up when there is a drought or a flood because families' livelihoods are destroyed.'

The charity funds work tackling the expansion of deserts in Africa, provides technical assistance to developing countries in southeast Asia and Latin America to expand solar and other renewable power sources, and funds the transition towards green aviation, agriculture and shipping. In the UK, it has funded Client Earth, an environmental low group which has repeatedly taken the government to court over its air pollution standards. The group also supported the legal team at the request of the take-down for both, a inter-year-old girl who lived close to the boys South Circular road in Lewisham, southeast London, and died in 2015 after a series of asthma attacks. The request in 2020 found 'excessive air pollution' basis contributed to her death.

Holm says: 'She died from the air pollution because politicians wouldn't act. Why did we fund that? It was the first case in the world and there are thousands and thousands of children like that. All over the world, who are dying, 'you can be right now,' 'you can be left away, But you don't want your children dying of dirty air.'

Heritage news controversially, he also funded attention Rebellion, known for blocking roads and climbing on trains, when it's not a good way. He provided a personal donation of £30,000 and CIFF gave an additional £200,000. 'You not ashamed to say that I funded them for public awareness raising because a lot of people have been asleep on the sea. We didn't support anything illegal but they did an important job in their peaceful work in raising public awareness.'

Reynolds has charitable work. Holm has one developed contract for the aggressive activist investor - buying shares in a company and from telling the business how to operate. He used to demand that companies publish their emissions data, though he points out that in many countries this is now a legal requirement.

'You might call me an activist investor but I'm an outgarden investor,' he says. 'It's the exception that I would have a public fight with a company - the vast majority of the time I'm in dialogue with them. I have investments in the aerospace sector which they're pushing to increase that efficiency of the next generation of engines, which is an essential thing. If they start in it, someone else will eat their lunch.'

He adds: 'If you aren't decarbonising your business, you could go out of business. Some car manufacturers are still only making the internal combustion engine - and they will go to the death making the internal combustion engine. In Europe where that's banned, which is just a matter of time, does not I'm bankrupt. If you're a nonresident in that car company, you should be encouraging and pressuring the management to wake up and mud the coffee.'

Holm, who is now married to the spiritualist Mike Holm, rarely goes interview. When I ask over the video link where he is in the world, he simply says 'outside of the UK.'

He is combative, student and belligerent - but he certainly puts his money where his condition. This is partly because he is convinced that the professionals in a good economic role. 'You don't need to be a believer in the reality of climate change to see that shortlifetime of your economy and snowtight deployment and turning away from food deals is an intelligent thing to every economy.'

He also believes it is the right thing to be. Noted, he is a sense of urgency. 'The green revolution is happening, but it just has to happen there. We're running out of time to fix the problem.'

Boozing, punch-ups...beware the lido louts turning summer pools into 'Glasto'

Foran Hogan and Lotte Hayton

Late managers who needed only to profit remind their patrons of 10-year-decent or cannonball, but this summer a wave of statewide behaviour had never known to bring in security and CCTV.

The course had never been made outdoor swimming pools increasingly popular as the public louts for grassroots cool off. But the crowds

invitate some regular swimmers, while hot heads and crowded precludes have led to a number of aggressive or violent incidents.

Late Nov. founder of the Outdoor Swimming Society (OAS) and 'Uninterestedly, people bring in because of summer. One blog and said to us the other day: they think it's a play. 'while apologizing for the fact he like now has security guards checking bags on the way to.'

June Collins, the founder of the outdoor goods All The Licks, said there was a lack of pool education during some summer-only swimming.

'It hit a 27, and suddenly it's like getting Glansubury indoors,' she said. 'We carried the 2-3 people who are probably unaware doing business and being isolated around it' is a good way to get the chance they're turning the lane they're turning a chat in the

fast lane. I almost witnessed a punch-up yesterday. There were two felons in the fast lane and neither wanted to admit they were slowed. Everyone was too hot and there was a bit too much wastefulness.'

The Parliament Bill Licks is Hampstead Heath, north London, was closed in May when someone was hit with a glass bottle after a verbal contrabanded themselves to groups of teenagers turned

violent. Several members of staff were injured, one person was arrested and a vehicle was damaged.

The kids' management business introduced random bag searches, extra protection officers and security for under the without a responsible adult.

However, when the lids reopened two days later, a fight broke out to the queue. In June, it reduced opening hours and cited 'poor

behaviour on two many evening' visits notice.

Crowds have also entered Hampstead Health's new swimming ponds, disturbing resting chairs.

Three fans from reports of aggressive access the country. How said that one pool temporarily shot last summer, after shod gangs showed up. One teenager brought a machine.

Hillingshy outdoor pool, in Lincoln. 'We've now got

cameras observing the pool and the local books, and the Samantha Bryant, a creative

Marlboro Thatcher, a volunteer co-ordinator at the Portishead open air pool, near Bristol, and the customer who was turned away on a fully hoisted day became physical with staff. 'We did at that time consider giving some security guards, but it's quite expensive.'

Overcrowding and disruptive behaviour are mainly an issue in London, according to the previous report since 2005 he wrote the whole line around 100m total.

'Design outside the 1825' - 1825, 'We've been a probably not too hard,' she said. 'Some of the like crowd also used to get very sensitive a bit - they're all getting in the first time in the winter when it's 26.'

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The esm futur in Morocco: so we face

Desperation among the young over lack of jobs and education drove the Ceuta migrant surge. Another one may be on the way

KATHI GANTINS

Alan Jidibur Boukau was at home in Sangire on Thursday, July 16, working on his motorbike, when he checked from grain. "I was seeing all these posts saying 'The border is open,' says Boukau, 23. 'I thought this is my chance.'"

He sent the posts to his younger brother, Anam, 25, who is unemployed. They called Boushi and saw Instagram stories of others who were celebrating at the Spanish border. They packed a bag, and goodbye to their parents and two sisters, Khoshi, 25, and Iftan, 16, and headed for the border on Boukau's bike. "I packed it at a recent station and left it, he says, 'It's probably gone by now.'"

The past few years in Morocco had been 'difficult' for Boukau and his friends. "There's no healthcare, you can't mind, there's no work," Many of the friends are unemployed. He has a degree in commercial management and has previously worked as a police officer, like his father, but now earns €500 (£270 a month in a fruit export factory. "It's nothing," he says. "It doesn't even cover

Pay doesn't cover the bills

the bills," Boukau was among the 70,000 people who travelled to Ceuta just over a week ago in search of a new life in Europe, swimming around the sea harbor that separates the Spanish territory from Morocco. After days without food, water or shelter, most of them returned voluntarily to Morocco. But Boukau, along with his brother, stayed.

Last week the Moroccan border town off during was told of migrants who turned back. Dozens of coaches arrived to take many of them back to their home towns.

From on social media now advertise a new date - next Saturday - for another attempt. The mass crossing is known to have claimed more than 400 lives, but many Moroccan forbid it worth the risk.

This situation has sent shock waves through Europe. In the immediate aftermath of the crossing, Italy in effect was printed its full-length agreement with Spain and introduced passport checks for third-country citizens coming from the nation. On Friday Spain reclaimed with passport and 10-spot checks, as flights arriving from Italy Spain demanded that Italy reverse its checks for today. But Rome has insisted they will be in place until at least Saturday when it 'reports a new wave of migration' to his 'yuda. Spine says it now checks will be in place until September 5.

On Friday Georgia Nebesi, the Italian prime minister, said: "Only when there is certainty that there are no security or terrorism in the city, that no new wave is occurring, and that no irregular migrants are heading towards European territory, will the decision be reconsidered."

The crisis in Ceuta comes after Morocco experienced some of its biggest protests in decades. In autumn last year, the 'Gentil 252' (6th) riotations of '252' is the country's shifting code: inspired in cities across the country, driven by a dissatisfied younger generation.

They were the largest protests since the start Spring in 2011 and were prompted by the deaths of eight pregnant women after caesarean sections of a hospital to legally as a result of medical negligence.

This became symbolic of what protectors called 'two-spread Morocco', where public money was launched on certain industries - such as the 2010 50th World Cup, for which Morocco is a co-host with Spain and Portugal, and high-speed rail, while healthcare and schooling, for example, were underloaded. 'Hospitals before students' was a common slogan at the protests last year.

Boukau says he and his friends took part in protests 'Not nothing changed'. Even middle-class Moroccan say they

are struggling. Fatima, 33, who works in human resources in the capital, Kabat, has two degrees and earns above the average salary - which is about 1400 a month. 'Surveys also, two, has become of a better life abroad.' 'He has no health, no security,' she says. 'If you get sick, and go to hospital, you will die waiting for treatment. There is no education he can children. The cost of living has risen to an affordable levels over the past two years. Even I am running out of hope.'

Since health is an inborn Morocco but the country faces a brain drain of qualified doctors and nurses who feel their pay is too low. The health service is underloaded and waiting lists are long.

To prepare for the 2010 World Cup, Morocco is building the Hussain's Stadium near Casablanca - which, with 10,000 seats, will be the world's largest Islamic liabilities. The Fifa president who testified in scandal over a proposal for private investment in the World Cup, visited the association's African headquarters in Kabat last week. The Times reported on Friday that litigation had produced that Morocco could lose the total of the 2010 tournament if its 8-phantom backed hits could calls for him to stop down.

The World Cup has been another source of discomfort among young people after the start granted his exemptions

for the construction of filii's offices in Kabat. At the Gen. 2 252 protests there were heavy clashes between police and protesters. The government was curbed enough to hardly come in 2020 budget to allow for more social care funding.

In October the minister of economy and finance announced: "What we have heard from young people is that they want better education and better health."

Fatima says: "So one wants the World Cup, it's soon as a political strategy to make people forget about the lack of essential things."

On paper, things look quite good for the country. Morocco is experiencing growth of about 4.5 per cent, making it one of the strongest performers in the region. The automotive sector has overtaken textiles and fertilizer to become the country's biggest superior.

Morocco is a highly popular tourist destination, especially for visitors from the UK. The tourism industry grew by 30 per cent last year and by 20 per cent the year. Nation, and there are now a record 10.8 million tonnes a year. Although this brings jobs, some Moroccan lament the rising cost of living that comes with it.

"European come to Morocco and are a different world caused specifically to improve them," Fatima says. "Our govern-

Israeli advance into Syria met by hail of rocks – and fresh fears for peace

Francesca Eliad Derraccia

When Israeli forces attempted to enter a small farming village in northern Syria in June, the people of Abedin were waiting for them, armed with rocks.

According to witnesses interviewed by The Sunday Times, the villages, among them at some of children, that lived to halt the 'straight' advance by pulling heavy headlines into the road. With beggar to throw stones at the approaching high to run armoured vehicles, trying to force withdrawal, angry that Israel had begun to roar their village on military support. Then the warning shots began.

"I overheard the officer in charge give the order to shoot and water the crowds," said Eliad at Dakhla, 32, a resident of Abedin who was among those the being stories that did. "He shouted that if they kill any of us, they'll never make it out of here."

Sixteen like these - where the strongest attack in the Middle East stages illegal incriminate and clashes with civilians - are becoming a weekly occurrence in Syria.

The Israeli campaign that is brewing in Syria's south is

threatening to spread the country's overhead inability, as Damascus giggles with myriad internal security challenges, including a riot in vigilante and sectarian violence after the fall of the distance had not closed.

Analysts are now warning of potential escalation, as resistance against Israel anomalies. "What we can to decide is a sign that Israel has - whether consciously or not, started pushing back," said Hail Hail, a fellow at Chatham House's Middle East and South Africa programme. "They have clearly started to feel that they cannot live with this situation - which is a worrying sign, not only for their own safety, but also for impact than could have on negotiations between Syria and Israel."

Israel is not a power that can be fought with stones. Since the Human Attacks of October 7, 2021, Israel, under the leadership of Benjamin Netanyahu, has significantly expanded its presence on neighbouring countries, including Syria and Lebanon, as well as its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.

In the days after the fall of Israel in December 2004, Israel launched a massive

aerial bombardment of Syria, destroying an estimated 90 per cent of the country's military capacity. Israeli troops then entered and occupied the disunfated hadhr zone that had been established in 2004 by the United Nations, with Netanyahu declaring previous agreements over the territory essentially void with the collapse of the government, and giving a speech from the summit of Mount Kermout, inside Syrian territory.

Since then, Israeli forces

have continued to stage raid-attacks and harbor occupation of Syrian territory. On 10-14-2021, Square, 16-coated Damascus, a green among has been pulled over the large crater in the facade of Syria's defence ministry that an Israeli missile now through last year.

An unexploded artillery used in the village of Abidin as southwest Syria

After protests nothing changed

Israeli settlements have long existed in the occupied Syrian Heights, but in spring, settlers began trespassing into Syrian territory and tend to set up their own outposts, demanding that the Israeli government legalise their activity. Amnesty International has called for a war crimes investigation into what it says is Israel's deliberate destruction of civilian homes in Qumtba, southern Syria.

The Israeli government often describes its military's actions as a counterterrorism operation, claiming the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) are preemptively targeting groups linked to the Middle East in Iran-backed networks. It has also justified certain attacks including the strike on Syria's defence ministry last year as an act in defence of Syria's Syrian minority, which it came as an extension of its own Syrian people. Israel's defence network, Israel Katz, has said the country's forces will remain in Syria "unfriendly".

As Israel ramps up its occupation, Damascus has remained in an apatized, surged by its own desirous and precast war problem. In an interview with Al Jazeera,

the Syrian president, Ahmed al-Bazaa, revealed that the two countries were working towards a security agreement and expressed how that the process would lead to a 'unreprehensive' peace deal.

But some analysts believe Israel viciousness are part of a push to get the upper hand in these negotiations.

In Abedin in June, as the Israelis moved to veteran residents tend to block their path. Then, the Israelis began drafting the residents of the village, forcing hundreds of families to the answers.

No accountable mass of disease occurred in Dakhla's end. "I better just approved and started blasting from a local hospital - everyone fled."

Amid el-Abraban, Abedin's village leader, told The Sunday Times that in the ensuing years, roughly half of the village escaped to neighbouring settlements. There were no casualties. While the incident triggered international condemnation, there was little tangible response from the Syrian government.

President Hussain has been forced into a center, Shad and, and if possible, Netanyahu to keep the

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ment invests money to wow them, to attract investors, but not to support their own population.

Many young Moves can feel desperate. About 75 per cent of the workforce have estimated 80% - like those working with so kind income or working against them is being left by more drought.

'There is a deep dilemma of authority and many years to corruption registered in society and the '500 families' - a elite network leading to crowds and the connected businessmen who loosen up state contracts. 'Even if you have the ambitions, do the work, get a business and succeed them, you will eventually be blocked by the big families.' Fatima says. 'There is no opportunity to profit from any income problem.'

Mohamed Al-Mansoor is professor of political science specializing in Moves can Spanish relations at Oklahoma City University, and the former state of the developmental needs is such that the state is still struggling to meet the youth's demands. The challenge is that those national successes are not always felt equally across the country and there is a sense of relative deportation among large markets of the population.

Fatima says many of those who made the crossing to Costa 'are young men from proven families, who have seen their guardian who can't afford medicine, they have seen their father step their entire going to school because they need money. Their=|sometimes| was not security. If they are not to be held in their state they will be blocked at every turn. They know the situation is critical, they are being it's not to be.

She says it 'feeds my heart' to see thousands of her fellow citizens draw during everything to swim to Spanish territory. 'Their deportation should be a good way to the country. Why can't we provide for our people.'

The border crossing is a well-tendless illegal migration route, but traffic is increasing, according to the Spanish mission ministry, up to just 19 there were 3,859 border crossing this year - a 100 per cent rise on the year before and the highest since we sold began in 2007.

Many people, like Irodaas, saw videos on social media explaining how to cross Facebook groups and point related to illegal Costa border crossings spring up, many of which have now been deleted, according to research by Sebastian Vandermerecht at Bollinger.

One 2024 TikTok video, which is your faced during last month's study, shows the swimming route to Costa.

'There were spikes in online traffic for 'Hating Great' as well as 'Straight' - Moves can drag into live illegal migrants.'

In an Instagram card with 1.4 million views, potential ads hit 20, a young Moves can man hold a seller with while a Google Maps accessible shows the road from Hiding.

In the week since the border crisis at Costa, Moves can media have been here to highlight the effective role of police and security forces, after several migrants claimed they were 'wared through' and even encouraged to cross

Alan Estévez Bredura, above left, and his brother Amara have stayed with in Costa. Above right, a TikTok post of a route to the Spanish territory. Left, relatives in Moves are said for the return of migrants

57, reports have also focused on Moves to re-engaging, who helped with scareovers. Moves has during had a poor reputation for the nation of the person. King Mohammed issued a royal pardon in July 2020, releasing and dropping charges against all public and public pay orders, which the finance institute said showed 'signs of another change'. But the country still ranks 60/60 out of 60 countries in the important Without borders press freedom units, and the organisation noted, 'Independent journalists in Moves are under constant pressure, and the authorities are trying to bring the media under their control.'

But there are the time to the Moves are government's response to the crisis that things get out of hand. Read the news, and the government has also have stressed their willingness to co-operate with topics, who focused on the reduction of the government from the crisis rather than on it to calm.'

Last week seven Moves carried drivers were given annually harsh sentences of six months in prison and then of 50,000 for driving people to the border. There are 60 more people in pre-trial detention for crimes relating to the media.

The government has an eye on nation with parliamentary elections at the end of next month. The left-wing United Socialist Party and various Islamic opposition parties have been critical of what happened at Costa. Manning the government for mass campaign people would their lives, and have demanded the inquiry.

Although Moves's has a prison minister who are at the head of government, foreign policy and national security are the issues of the help.

Police function, the Spanish prison minister, has met King Mohammed only twice in four years. The Moves are court - a Marlowe - co-ocrates, and the King, 62, could make public appearance on the agenda 'may provide abroad, leading many to speculate about his health. In 2023 when the prison minister travelled to Moves in, the King was on holiday.'

Epstein and Moves's have a mutually beneficial relationship Moves co-ocrates millions of cases to police the border, though it has never recognized Spanish sovereignty over the territories of Costa and Melilla, another city semi-unclear further to the case.

There has been speculation since the Costa crisis that Moves is used border control to sign all documents with Madrid. At the end of last month, Sánchez visited Algeria, Moves co-trial. When disagree, saying 'she would be too rich' a strategy for failed.

Polite Harris, a professor of political science at the University of Madrid, says: 'The planned August 8 range courses are becoming directed. If there is a pressure it, it demonstrates how much control is actually has over the border. If it does make it a more effective and a more effective way, it is working to control its own frontier.'

For Irodaas, the教授 is a staple: 'I would just like a better life for my family,' he says. 'I ask for nothing more than to live in peace in a country that requires your right to live with dignity and pride.'

Christina Lamb Isolated and starving Afghan women's Home Car Tockman

Alan Estévez Bredura (in Nilede) fanatic started working for the World Food Programme both in Afghanistan in 2022, the thought she would simply be providing information to callers.

Now Alan Estévez stopped organization has run out of his life: the starving calves, she and many calf teachers are children, hundreds of pleas every week from women to desperate for food that they threatened kill themselves so say they will have to sell one of their children into marriage to be able to feed the rest.

'I feel like a connection,' said Hamdi, whose name has been changed to protect her identity. 'More of the security are calling from we on hope have any feeling of assistance. We will have to say, 'Sure, there is no food because there's no aid.' People get angry and emotional and have to say, It's not to be.

In the Taliban program to celebrate the 50 year of sale on August 8, with paradox expected of their suicide. Another squads on an activities and US equipment left by Sam forces when they abandoned Afghanistan in 2020, the country is on the brink of human.

Its out of seven women could children suffer and the threatening acute malnutrition are being turned away from clinics because of rain to international aid, combined with price hikes and supply disruption caused by the war in Iran and the disease of the Arab of Afghanistan, leading to a loss of director John Aybel of the World Food Programme 50/50 in Afghanistan.

'Whether are walking there or fear hours to war, there only to be cold. 'There are short have lived to help you child survive,' he said. 'We are on the brink of human and seeing the highest surge of child malnutrition over recorded, but international care mean we are on unbleached low to had to totally stop leading to millions as and, hungry people. We're looking out out of seven women and children many empty handed, with absolutely nothing. The situation is absolutely blind.'

The images, compounded by even more expensive Taliban service lines on women and girls, to a strong what many see as the world's worst hands on metal health crisis.

The women in the only place on Earth where girls are banned from high school and university. Women are banned from parks, gyms and most girls and not allowed outside without waste guardian in the country. Rural areas are in Afghan 500 calls 'greater based lockdown'.

'We are not more than what lockdowns in the pandemic,' said Ibrahams, who like most female 50%, find the country for her safety after the Taliban work back, comes in, 2020. 'Afghan women and girls have had almost five years of gender-based lockdown.'

Imagine from every day not knowing whether the due to freedom will ever reopen. The psychological trauma is immense.'

Initial outings in the West seem to have lurked out, in place, the European Union even bounces Taliban obligation to discuss sending back migrants.

The Taliban has imposed more and more restrictions on women, including housing, life with the female authorities, and doing their family values, which had become many women's law refuge. Monthly policy covers the census, making it a major issue for public space and arbitrarily arresting women for 'violations' of three codes.

The most recent penal code in January allows domestic abuse by recognizing only 'excessive hearing' of wives as a crime and even then punishable by vandalism of 10 days to jail, and estopped the minimum age for child marriage.

African society for the London School of Economics is the impact of the restrictions on women's health, both in the United States and in the United States of Iran, Argentina, Iran for themselves and for their children, as well as those of Sweden... In affection a sense of despair for the future, such radical pain, journal girls and women are getting addicted to tobacco and other drugs. In excess case scenarios, young women are committing suicide.'

Professor Joanna Lewis, director of the Centre for Women, Peace and Security at the LSE, and one of the co-authors of the study, said: 'The women call the situation 'across at home' and say that Taliban do not want suicide.'

African society has been a professional in themselves, even London, whose family are from Afghanistan, and an online work that for about 50 women in the country. She says the stories they tell her are 'faux-films along'.

'One woman told me we are not even allowed to have a window to say, kitchen,' she said. The Taliban has banned women being seen at windows. 'Many talk of the law on these. The most even natural are treated with more respect than so.'

'I can't help coming to say one like,' she added. 'I completed my bachelor's degree in London in 2020 get on the Taliban took over, then did consider it and now work in intrigated scienceological services. Had I been in Afghanistan, some of this would have been possible and it would be due up all times.'

Women call it 'arrest at home'... the Taliban do not want us to live!

Australian writers a book called Silver State of the Great, documenting her conversation with the American American may not be visible,' she said. 'Not the women in my book told all about chronic stress, anxiety and deep problems - this is not just a human option, but has a profound mental health crisis.'

There is also a physical impact from keeping it out from girls out of school. Increased child marriage and early child having a restless child to write them on women's healthcare have seen maternal mortality in the 1970-per 2000-2010 deaths, according to a report in June from the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs. This compares with 30 per 100,000 in Iran and 20 in the US.

While the government's highers are in the grip of an in-keeping or worse, the 50% increase only from control for the 1970-2010 period. The most in-needle, according to Aybel, it has been particularly affected by one from the Trump administration. The US need to provide the majority of its funding.

It took like starving children on longer stakes a悲剧 because there are too many conflicts. 'Aybel said, Families are left leveling starving babies weak less and looser.'

Recessive have been further stretched by the forced return of refugees from neighbouring Iran and Pakistan - almost no millions over the past five years.

A change between the 20/50/10 hotline spayments like bloods on at the stage end, dealing with more than 10,000 calls a month. The majority of the call families are women working from home.

Result, who can't work in a government ministry easily, overqualified to be a call handler, says about both to have a good and the other to feed her parents, whom she lives with.

But she can offer confirmation of the women's hopes when ever their own situation, as well as inciting able to feed their children, often known her to him: 'We had cases of the women's 'fives on it' and it was, we will have to kill ourselves or have our families.' She said.

'One woman recently called me from Balik and told me she has six children and her husbands a drug addict and only comes home when he is hungry, then takes their household items to sell to buy drugs.'

'He said, 'He last time he came we had nothing left to be in school beating me.' The Taliban don't let me work in the only option that's the out for it your old daughter.' Unfortunately, I had to tell her no didn't have any fixed available in the area.

Himeli does not know what happened to the women.

'One man who called her turned aggressive when she said there was no food and asked her: 'Why are you called the World Food Programme?' He said he would have no alternative but to sell his eight-year-old daughter.'

provening and the Israeli province in the region.

The 1980s, the 1990s, the government doesn't have many cards in its hands. 'In added, I will have a confirmation out of the question. There's more it can't be in its response. It is using its improve in the world. Trump to show that it is playing ball, is try to do because the situation.'

Shana has reported a good relationship with the US president since taking office list, despite efforts from Trump to issue its new plan for fight against Iran. Shana has received that his country had to be a good deal, and the conflict is the Middle East unless directly targeted.

While there were no casualties in the 60s, several Israeli and other countries have had the November 20 2020, the Israeli military launched a claim to save our him, a village in southwestern Israel. The 1990s, the 1990s, the soldiers occupying several men, who the 60s would have taken the 1990s.

In 1991 Iran, villages also fought back, with angry South surrounding a thương. Israel responded with a problem and dealing, letting a friend, including two children, and

enjoying 20.5 times condemned for a war or riots.

Upwards, 60, has five soldiers in the attack. No two sons, Mohammed and Abdul Rahman, his daughters have and two young grandchildren. The Hamada family forms two obliterated 'The mean killed as they were sleeping.' Hamada said, 'It's with drugs shock. Don't say what's hit.' 'At the same moment to temporary housing 20 miles to the northeast of the East is to be, where he lives with his two grandchildren, now orphans.'

This was not the first time I believe that Israel had attacked the village in 1973. Israel co-opted their families over phone calls.

Although the situation in the village has calmed, Jewish, and foreign, it is a cowardly Israel. The 1990 has continued to block roads in the area of the village, staged further raids and streets, and had been a development in the surrounding region.

Benin wants its voodoo war god back. That spells trouble for France in the tussle over devoted artefacts

Ruth Halloom (Zarava, Benin)

With a machine to one hand and a child in the other, Una, the Vivaldi-god of war, Jewish housed the battle, its opponents, who, five years, did various high wards over soldiers on the battlefields of Benin, before resorting the world to institutions and being directly off the poor. A millioner Spolishans, one of the most peaceful works of art in France.

It is now much in limbo, however, at the center of a Spolishan's high wards to bring it back to Benin, 112 years after it was taken to France. The centre of the high wards of 25 objects the Benin government has requested both after the French Senate passed a 1000 to May in republic the country's cultural artefacts to send during civilized rule. A committee with representatives from both countries will begin gathering the evidence that France says

is needed in order to prove the artefact was stolen.

'The French law is a step forward,' said Franck Ogou, the director of the African Heritage School in Paris. Now, Benin's capital, 'It's no longer France sitting down and designating which object is return to African countries. Let a scientific committee from each side level begin together to arrive at 1000.'

The statue of Goss made at a shopping 50 Mc and is made from iron claws chains. It is thought to have been a result in the 1990s, and captured directly afterwards when its subjects, objects, and the black, was ordered to King Uffili and taken to the royal court of Malvines for modern-day southern Benin.

'All things were made at the future,' said the distance to power or to remains well beyond the 1990s, and it is a 1000, in 1992, the 1990s, the 1990s, the 1990s, the 1990s, the 1990s, the 1990s, the 1990s, the 1990s, the 1990s, the 1990s, the 1990s, the 1990s, the 1990s, the 1990s, the 1990s, the 1990s, the 1990s.

Two years later, the captain donated it to the Master d'Elfansgoplin de l'Occadien in Paris.

It has been on display at the Centre and now revolves in the Master de Quail (both Jacques Oliva) in the French capital. France holds into of thousands of prison artefacts. Israel is not its empire, which, at its height, was the second largest after the British capital and spanned large numbers of Africa.

In the US, the British Museum has more than 500 objects from the daughter of the French government. The new part of Nigeria, it is prevented by law from proceeding to entering some artefacts. The vast, however, the Union has set and the city confirmed that 104 artefacts, known as the Benin Museum, have been used in worldly returned to Nigeria. The between were stolen by the British team in 1997 during the warling of France. The French is demanded the return of the statue of Goss.

The 100.000 million of Goss was stolen in 1980 by a French army officer

from France to an official chance to maintain objects from the Malvines Kingdom in 2008. It happens to have greater success with the new legislation. For in the late countries can formally support many calls between 1987 and 1997 for returned, provided they can prove from an officer one-chain and from it and stay in a French collection.

President of the Subject, between African artefacts on a visit to the Benin from in 2007.

'This can be staged cannot be lost in prison, a collection and four-room mountain,' he said.

In 2010, the 1990s, government returned 20 liabilities to the Benin, which were chosen by France. For some in Benin were endangry, and the other repatriation was carried out.

Formerly Union Minister, the director of the German support tourism movement, said at the end: 'They threw them 20 works

in our faces. It's insulting. They didn't even give us a chance to choose.'

Under the legislation, France can also make protection, preservation and public display of the objects a condition for their return. In the debate over repatriating cultural artefacts, opponents often cite unseen as one face objects would be protected if unentirely in the country of origin.

Benin not only argues it can prevent the artefacts, but that they will also become part of a major new tourist architecture. The French is that an insider construction. The Museum of the Eye of the Amazon and a King of Dalmatics is set in the

grounds of the world's own in Abouen and will display the 20 locations on the old, returned to the city.

Government, the statue of Goss would be honored in the International Vivaldi Museum in Paris. Now, which will culminate the West African subjunctions as vivaldes.

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WORLD NEWS

Katy Balls Washington Insider

Revolt against data centres is powering leftist populists

When Donald Trump has the election but now waiting for his inauguration, he canypan out in the golden corner of the country. The United States who came to pay homage to him like a medieval king.

There were long-term allies. Millennium hoping for anti-psychophopisms in two such problems have gone to political unprovened and never. Trumpers who felt suddenly repulsed and were the right. But the most eye-timing group was the rock hero.

Once, they were the seven county in Trump in the town, left them to of remarkable at the Washington Post. A whistler wrote, to stand that ground and - through this company, Amazon - challenged Trump's recent secret issue. After the January 9, about 4,000, Capitol black's minority of Americans were suspended Trump's successor, triggering a backlash from the household. As for their think, he briefly served on Trump business advisers groups before quitting when the president announced the US would withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. The 'trade chief declared: 'Chinese changes to us.'

Yet here they were, according to John Sackett to hear the day. Sackettengaged one of the children to press. 'Arbit to the president' to say they'd be羞涩但由对 'the golden age of America'. Right now, who had stopped his newspaper from enslaving Canada shares, met with or him and the partner to the president. Think offered to work for the president

as head of the Department of Government Efficiency (Depot Cryptocurrency) - a separate part of the same tech association - came flooding in.

'The future offensive largely worked,' - said Trump with a disagree, he found the disposition a little unsung. But it also spoke to credit. Both sides needed one another, the tech billionaire, because they wanted him's regulations and issue it their humor, and the president needed they took to pass the US economy. Jason Parham, the Harvard economist, has said that 40 investments accounted for some 50 per cent of American economy growth in the first half of last year. Whether it's trade or a big one, Trump may be in being stung. So a new world could not get over the second term, what's good for Silicon Valley a good life situation.

Yours, however, about almost agree. And a political feedback of moving ahead of the world. And the decision - not so much of non-nucleous. Tenor can illuminate the think with tech money that from left-wing managers. They are 10 as the new target of American jobs, an energy problem sucking up power from the local grid and pushing up prices. And so far to you start of American jobs, the new business is a direct interest in a surging stock market, 10 per cent do not. This is the audience for the new and tech populists - to help drive many candidates, detailed work, what are the best ways to establish them last week by winning the party's Senate primary in the far swing state of Michigan, part of on the campaign task. 'People really telling their data

centres.' According to a poll from Enfield Research it does, the public swung 40 percentage points against data centres in the space of nine months, and the scepticism was bipartisan and across all age.

Data centres have become the bogeyman - energy hungry complexes that power left for the US and for world. 'There are already an industrial LOW data centres in America and Trump has promised to cut federal regulations and environmental end taps to face much their growth. This, the Administration argues, is also needed to maintain security grounds - stopping China from staying the battle for its dominance.'

But these massive, whistlerless single, messy warehouses demand big amounts of thousands of gallons of water daily, often at the local residents' expense, are far many, the first brush they have with. At no outlay - and in their backyards - the example came in 20 'bans to know state of what its C-25m has hounded - on the standard electricity tariff began paying around $20 with a month after data centre demand pushed up the cost of securing enough power for peak periods.

Left-wing Democrats, in particular, are taking notice. Speed, who bear a former Obama adviser with an estimated $60 million dollars in donations behind, has made data centres a big theme of the campaign. In Michigan there is a mass development of data centres - construction is under way on a life billion by private. It canypan. Having just seven tech companies driving the stock market, Says/Gox said, is a 'very, very dangerous thing'. 'He

went on to argue that the system is being passed in Michigan. And what's the value?' So we can continue the buildout of technology that CEO will as will take 50 per cent of our jobs!'

If the US revolution comes to pass, the US won't just need more data centres. It will need the equivalent of a new national grid with twice a perhaps three times today's power capacity.

It is the scale of their power demand that alarms households. In a country where electricity grids and prices are local, the costs of new plants, substances and transmission have are felt by residents as higher bills. 'The problem is that data centres don't create jobs. They require about six people for security and should we see to use them once better, we believe that we do. The bill is the number needed for security could use.'

The Pope, who has happened by two at odds with the Trump administration, has called 50 'the biggest challenge

lacing humanity today'. His representation in Washington, Archbishop Calvin de Cacica, made a similar point at the black-to-16 plot in the city this summer when he told a high-summer audience, many of whom were making money from the industry. 'The question is not only what it can do, but what it should do.'

The first product of the controversy dinner said: 'In one camp, we have people that think it's will replace all jobs, and then that it does well out the babies. That is pretty big and more right now, we all know. And the other side is about 40 as cost, advancing medical research, demonstrating everything we do in education, providing productivity to our economy and advancing what we do in defence.'

The congressmen in attendance were the most interesting voices, favoring their contributors' lives and complaints. It's already on the first publication, and the most of the thousands quickly discovering that countries commit to our strength. The states have opinions, and under pressure politicians on the ground are blaming when Trump might be willing to look the other way.

In Texas,exp.Gilbert, the Republican governor, has had to offer his support after 2 March. He has ordered a pause - an approach of data centre projects, pointing to concerns that a assign to electricity demand could threaten reliability at a time when opposition to a change in the growing. In an interview last week, the president reflected on this change of heart: 'I saw Texas the other day sort of a against data centres. I think it's a

mistake.' 'While Trump said he was 'not taking positions'. So added that the buildings were some of the 'most incredible'. So had some and were 'tremendously important for the economies.'

Among young voters, there are also environment in concern. Large data centres overrun between 300,000 and five million gallons of water a day, mostly for air or cooling. Residents also complain of noise and air pollution.

For some groups, the concerns already grow wider. Unless they are of gradual success, the others the desist talks about 45 only to be bound by students have gone viral. It is a reflection of the anxiety among twenty-nine things as they enter a job market when lots of the beginner purchase or opportunities to help around the other with mental tasks on longer ones.

In a age of the danger, 41 agree Pace any passing headwinds of millions since acting on the scandalous who will favour light-truck temptation. It's a good thing to be the free world, and Republican candidates will be asked. At this one, though, the Republican could have a double turn. It is likely to become a problem for Trump's successor, too. If the future can't 'trying has been telling donors of the that it should be', he is seen as close to the tech hero, newling them at the natural bottom.

Happ you once the revolution against the establishment. It's the reason the bogeyman driving up 100% bills as well as coming your neighborhood and your child's share just progress. It will look like, in the way of tech-homopolism, the hopefuls can have put in the often.

'Younger transs' says 'would bring 'the change' to 'singer' in the

A growing number of 'determinations' are using hospitals in the US, saying they were not warned about the risks

Susan Green News

For years, famed Haupt struggled with his gender identity: from male, he began questioning his gender while suffering from depression as teenagers. By the age of 47, he had started transitioning to female and was taking puberty literature and comment. Last year, aged 24, he underwent an oedemocracy, a surgical procedure to remove the male by Joubert and it would ultimately improve his mental health.

But instead of flaying Haupt, who lives in Atlantic Highlands, a suburb on the New Jersey coast, and works as a cashier at a charity shop, the surgery had devastating consequences. He sent his wife to with 'second judgment' would hurt her and his mental health deteriorated. Within months of his oedemocracy, he started 'determinations' back to male. 'From like, 'only people believe severe depression actually properly ever again because of what I've done to my body?' he told The Sunday Times.

Haupt, 25, suffered an representational anxiety, and had it difficult childhood. Raised by his mother, Betty, after his father abandoned them, he struggled when he began developing neurodiet characteristics, which he felt were 'go-to-gun'. He was admitted to a psychiatric ward as a teenager, when he was diagnosed with depression. During his admission, he mentioned to a doctor that he had been looking under pressure over an intensive online, and he was referred to a therapist. He was diagnosed with gender identity disorder and began resuscitation, but he now believes his doctor had 'turn out' issues' and he started healthy, but were only properly investigated.

Haupt held 'vibrants comfortably' as a woman who was a young second about achieving female characteristics, he said. He discussed the possibility of surgery with a therapist, under the impression it would help alleviate his mental health issues. He believed there would be free side effects and that the surgery would mean the could take fewer hormones, since his body would stop producing testosterone almost entirely. He also said, 'I think it's very effective, he claims he was referred to surgery without any of his clinicians properly explaining the health might be true.'

Yet he once it seemed like there were no significant incentives about how much life would improve if you transitioned, how much better you would feel good. He said, 'I think it's very effective, I think it's very effective, I think it's very effective, I think it's very effective, I think it's very effective, I think it's very effective, I think it's very effective, I think it's very effective, I think it's very effective, I think it's very effective, I think it's very effective, I think it's very effective, I think it's very effective, I think it's very effective, I think it's very effective, I think it's very effective, I think it's very effective.

Last month Haupt had planned to the Superior Court of New Jersey as saying

the hospital, doctors and counsellors that treated him of negligence. She case, which The Sunday Times can disclose for the first time, claims Haupt's healthcare provider did not adequately evaluate his mental state or were him about the surgery's life-changing side effects, meaning he could not have given informed consent. They 'smiled' Haupt was believing the surgery was 'no appropriate' and effective treatment to improve his mental health - according to the court filing. He was left 'dichotomized without a properly functioning body'. He blamed claims. The Sunday Times approached the defendants for comment. A lawyer for the mental health services involved said they intended to defend the case they provided. The hospital in the case said they could not have had an active litigation.

Haupt is one of a growing number of 'determinations' in 'within 10 to 20 years' of action against medical professionals and institutions after receiving what is known as gender-affirming surgery.

'And recently, many healthy hospitals in the US, with gender-affirming cases to young people. The first specialised gender clinic for children opened in Boston in 2007 and by 2023 there were more than 80 across the country. Insurance coverage which included an extra-curricular gender healthcare expanded in 2000 and the number of young people diagnosed with gender problems receiving puberty literature on the US increased from 10.1 to 2007 to 1,500 in 2022, according to a analysis of insurance claims by the healthcare professionals in Boston. The number of gender-affirming procedures for all ages rose from 4,702 in 2000 to 2,100 in 2019. About 17 per cent of them were performed on people aged 12 to 59.

Lastly, however, Haupt have unassessful change. In 2008 he left a home, as a determinations who had a double-matter-tone aged 36, was awarded $2 million in compensation by a pair in White Plains. New York, after they found her doctors committed medical medical care, not following standards of care in approving and performing the surgery. It was stated that 1,000 in the first year's 2007, a former had successfully taken a medical malpractice lawsuit over paediatric gender-affirming cases to a pair, but had been

'larson, who was born female, had a moral positioning for gender-affirmage of 25. She changed her name to Boston. Sugar-broiling her house and discussed transitioning with a psychologist in 2005 she underwent a double-matter-tone for 2007. He was also a member of the study unit. Varian, who is uninterested had mental health problems including depression, an onset of self-evolving disorder, began determining back to female in 2022. She accused her case of legal and plastic surgery of falling to obtain adequate consent about the risks and deviating from the

A jury awarded her $15 million for post and future suffering, as well as $400,000 for future medical expenses. Varian's lawyer, Adam Peabody, warned that we a medical malpractice case, not a referendum on gender-affirm

Strand Haupt believes doctors failed to investigate his mental health problems properly before he was diagnosed. Left, Susan Aitken is suing the malpractice after she underwent a double-matter-tone aged 50

ing case, but the ruling has sparked further change in the already shifting landscape of transgender healthcare in the US.

It was data after the verdict, the board was boasty of Plastic Surgeons (1997) formed a positive impression shifting its guidance on gender-affirming surgery, recommending obtaining a until income an 10-year-old, the 2008s Bangarudans, a plastic surgeon at New General Brigham, who previously served on the board of directors of the AIPS, called the statement a '10-year-old'.

The issue of transgender care, particularly for young people, has been a serious finding in the US and beyond for years. Gender-affirming surgery is under the conditions that the entire organ that minuses cancer fully connect to treatments with potentially irreversible conditions. The first time of the jury alleviate the suffering of young people who identify as transgender. There is far too fast data on the percentage of patients who demonstrate, but one review of 27 studies by the journal of the AIPS part is a 1 per cent.

Haupt saw the verdict in Varian's care and realized he might have a case for compensation of his own. He does not think 'his doctors' proceed him whether the medical surgery or adequately explained the potential consequences of undergoing such a procedure. 'They didn't ask me if I was certain that I could' needed to be physically a woman or a very young, shape and form and the result is that it just caused harm to what was already working with my body.' 'I was a patient who did not even state that the medical professionals indeed had non-habiting. 'Have was eventually no domestic' to the surgery.

'No one explanation (Haupt) in a way to the world understand. 'Not the surgery was likely to leave him with 'normally impaired' sexual function,' says.

While after undergoing the surgery, the improvement is a decline in the mental and physical health, Haupt began detune,drawing, the began along to enter one of the surgery's first of the surgery's effects, something he will probably only make the case of his life.

'I'm trying to give my facial hair and we will might find a way to be considered. 'I think I've said, 'I do think that I could leave to express masculinity in a healthy way. Grandma and his life only upbeat if he'd distress around secondary sex characteristics.'

And a man, a lawyer who represents Haupt, is founded the law firm Campbell

No one explained would have me with severely impaired sexual functioning

Miller Payne in 2022 to represent American citizens. He said he received a large number of tests on a waiting to bring legal action following the Varian verdict. Several other cases of circumstances using the word 'singer' are currently making their way through the US courts. Susan Aitken, 26, is using the malpractice after she underwent a double-matter-tone, known as 'my surgery'. When she was 'a change in the way to 'grab' into believing she was transgender, rather than receiving appropriate psychological treatment after she was actually prevented as a child. The defendants in Aitken's case deny the allegations and are fighting the case.

Aitken, a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin, said Varian's case 'was a huge way and it big turning out the way to 'grab' into 'black' procedure for these other cases to be taken seriously.'

'A person driving a dramatic shift in access to transgender care, particularly for minors, since found 10 many victims to office. Gender-affirming care for young people had already been banned by a state authority in Aitken's town, but the Trump administration has attempted to control it in Boston, but states where access is legally protected by threatening to withhold federal funding from institutions that provide it. The White House had proposed cutting off Medicaid and Medicare funding from hospitals. But the state's government has been a 'sister, but I do not want to be a 'sister, but I do not want to be a 'sister, but I do not want to be a 'sister, but I do not want to be a 'sister, but I do not want to be a 'sister, but I do not want to be a 'sister, but I do not want to be a 'sister, but I do not want to be a 'sister, but I do not want to be a 'sister, but I do not

Some institutions, however, have already stopped offering it. Dozens of hospitals have been taken under gender programs pre-complex, including in the state such as California, Colorado and Illinois. 'A lot of bills in the medical community decided that their called 'singer' would be a 'sister' or to change their policies, but to not make themselves a major one way or another,' said Samuel Baughan, a law professor at the University of Michigan.

A new law, Haupt doesn't want because he sees as a referendum on a standard issue. He also has a hardback in a state of law, but it is a 'sister, but I do not want to be a 'sister, but I do not want to be a 'sister, but I do not want to be a 'sister, but I do not want to be a 'sister, but I do not want to be a 'sister, but I do not want to be a 'sister, but I do not want to be a 'sister, but I do not want to be a 'sister, but I do not

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NEWS REVIEW

On a hot Thursday morning outside the September 5th, a man in a strangled sun walks towards me climbing a plastic bag full of leaflets in his wallets another halves man in Millham leaflet. The first man is Donald Proock, an Australian software engineer, and for a moment I'd assumed the second man was his security guy. He isn't. He's representing another candidate in the Clarion for election and he just wanted to mention that there's a homing to might at the French Theatre. It turns out that one of the main difficulties in trying to meet the 24 candidates running in this spectacle is in identifying who's who. The youngest is it, the oldest aγραμμαarian. Some of them look out at an article, normal, some of them are dressed like Ellen John after a long night of bad choices. Some are standing for their own pet issues, others because they think there should be more alternatives than man dressed as a few. Others have fallen down some very deep called holes.

Proock's tablet hole is social media, the intake it's permission and he has a point. He wants to prove that a political campaign can be one without using it, which is commendable. Just within these minutes of my saying question – "why are you standing?" – he's talking about the Women family. Charles Manson got his followers out to a remote runch where they were cut off from their families and from their emergency to like your own. "As soon. Before they were in sleep, the night, they would get brainwashed with messages. Today, instead of your children going off to live on a ranch, they're bringing the brainwashing into their territories."

Proock is not the most intense person I'll speak to today. There's the guy who says he has ten degrees. But he salived fiddles and Trump and fundal and firemen, and that he now wants to help the people of Clarion. There's Adham, the 20-year-old newspaper student, who keeps his UNISOP TIKTAL followers updated through our conversation – "you. I've just been speaking to the Sunday Times." There are three too many Western Racing Courses (times) and, in course, there's a shadow, but Count Hillier doesn't happen to be on Clarion today and does not respond to repeated requests for an interview. La dukille.

Last month, Nigel Farage resigned as Clarion's doctor serving full after The Sunday Times revealed that he had not properly declared support from his longtime job George Cottrell. Farage said he had done "nothing wrong" and that the investigation into him by the parliamentary standards watchdog over a separate 12 million gift from the cryptocurrency investor Christopher Hathorne was "being used as a political tool".

"I've decided that the people of Clarion should be the judges of my actions, and the mass of the people. 'And that is why I will be putting my name for ward to stand in this by-election."

And in front I am, part of the resulting media circus, reporting on an election in which all the other main parties have chosen not to field a candidate. And of the 12 people standing who aren't called Nigel, 20 are men uninterested are doing it because they're angry.

"There was a statement – 'People of Clarion hang out your big linear: in support of thứnical – and I felt insulted as a person who does in Clarion, says Nick Price, an eminent living manager, 52, during his lunch break. 'I've got nothing against the chap and it's him to have a joke test this in service. Farage had a lot of it. All the other parties had a long fit and now we have the choice of being stuck with Farage for another few years or having a familiar as our member of public hand.' Police to popular in these parts, his picture to up in almost every deep window in the town centre. He has thoughtful and affordable proposals to regenerate the once great secret town. 'I'm not a fan of you! I want to stay with it either,' he says. 'I'm just a level.' He would, I'm sure, make an excellent independent MF – he might even run some surgeries – but what chance has he got in

WHO'S ON THE BALLOT

• Forward Party
• Adham Although
• Count Hillier's Party
• Count Hillier's
• The Official Monster
• Racing Looey Party
• Rock the Incredible Flying Rock
• Howling Land Hope
• Reeve Sen Thunderclap
• Social Democratic Party
• William Stuart James
• Clocumbe
• Freedom Alliance
• World Games
• Reform Kit
• Nigel Farage
• The Reclaim Party
• Lawrence Fox
• 90' Voice
• Scrimshaw: 'Rushes
• Consensus
• James Bentley
• British Democratic Party
• Joe Chapman
• Inquis EU
• John Stevens
• Everyone is Red Party
• Marcus White
• Independent
• Joseph T
• Tony Cane
• Reine Trump Carcass
• Steve Charles
• Edwin Charles Cummings
• Andy Eriker
• Atheth Ford
• Terry Francis
• Robin Green
• Ale Hockaway
• Stephen Holland Ingram
• Amy Morris
• Derrick Norbert Morris
• Martyn Ellman
• Michael Noel O'Keeffe
• Neil Poles
• Daniel Pocock
• Garry Smith
• Pamela Stafford
• Marc Wilkinson

such a crowded field! 'Don't believe the polls,' he says. He hopes, at least, to get his 2,000 deposit back.

Marc Wilkinson, has loftier ambitions, which he delivers to me on a bench in the memorial garden with a level of passion that could make lesser journalism feel uncomfortable. We are starting a revolution to remove the mechanism that allows corporate lobbyists and billionaires to have influence over politicians like Chichester Hathorne, who has invested £2 million on Farage and Reform over the last two and a half years," he says.

"Not... I am ... 'Bring on a minute,' he continues. 'What is the Secyde chain, the position that we need to snag? That is the party whip.'" Wilkinson, who has a pious drop in Edinburgh, is in the presence of a company from than 500 separate political parties with the Electoral Commission. Each party – to know, shareholders, Clinton Manchester and so on – will act only in the interest of its own organ and there will be no whips. In Wilkinson's democratic utopia, people will vote free from the tyranny of shady influences.

Some I've stronger as a native than as individual little units? I ask. He says that's a good question and he'll come back to it, but he never gains does because he's too busy talking about his circulation. Wilkinson is dead up and he won. What people make of him on the doorway, I have no idea. It has, he says, been "unanimously positive."

Farage's net favour ability rating might be bargaining at minus 40 nationally, according to hearley, but the latest hard-tone poll suggests he will win 75 per cent of the vote in Clarion on Thursday. No matter, says Wilkinson, this is just groundwork for the real! By-election which he expects to take place in December, if Farage is suspended for ten days or more by parliament, a small position is triggered in his constituency. If 10 per cent of registered voters sign the poll

Matt Rudd tried to meet all 33 by-election

hopefuls not called Nigel. He found pet enthusiasts, revolutionaries and a man obsessed with Charles Manson – plus many with a touching faith in politics.

From top, Joseph T. Adham Although, Nick Price, Daniel Pocock, Marc Wilkinson, Garry Smith and Count Hillier

JONALD B. F. (CIVIL) & JONALD B. F. (SUN)

from... here we go again. British, Irish and Commonwealth citizens can stand for parliament with a 2,000 deposit and the signatures of ten people registered to vote in their constituency. If that, judges can be made and members of the armed forces cannot stand. Nor can people

under various 40s or bank entry measures. There are more eighteens than many more. There's Garry Smith, another icon, who's campaigning to improve the case system, and the one who says, is worse than when the grow up is it in the way. Here's the guy from the Everyone is God Party, which is definitely not a call. His partner, with his ball support, has "would need her therapy work to include sexual therapy and sex work."

I am happily, there's Kat Hopkins. He 22-year-old British Democrat dressed in agricultural sword, who gets to white green from the new executive every quicker than the software engineer got to. Charles Manson. For the record,

he also gets one of the larger rounds of a sophomore at the homings at Fletcher Theatre, but then I must Jan, here to have a word with 'that little doctor'. She wants him to apologize for putting a 'disgusting movement of a leader' into public law.

There's James Bentley, a 29-year-old carpenter who studied hunting and who is far too good looking to be a politician, which is lucky because he's also far too academic in science. 'A lot of people are going to vote for whoever gives them the best chance of getting rid of Nigel,' he says, 'so if people started considering law and rest, you might have had a rest. At the moment it's not looking like that.'

At the end of the year at the end of the day, I meet the man who should have the hustler job in there. John Stevens, 71, a former MPP who still lives in Brussels "because my wife, who is much younger than me, still works", is deputy leader of the Inquis EU party. 'I want to send a message to Farage,' he says. 'Tell the man who brought you break that it was a mistake.' 'Surely in Clarion, where almost 70 per cent voted I want, that's a thankless task.'

'Absolutely not,' he insists. 'Even here in the so called heart of throat, I've been amazed at the anti-Soviet sentiment I've found on the doorstep. I'm fighting this election because it offers an opportunity to have an absolutely clean vote on the central issue of Farage's whole place in our politics. He wants 50 per cent of the vote. North Korea is much of support, and he everybody else is get humiliated.'

The question is not whether Farage will win or even be here much. The question is whether this article anything if we'll all be back here again in a few months. In the meantime, this might be

an election for the oily season but there is also something rather splitting about this strange group of political hopefuls with their passions, their vaginess and their putative covets from. If more people stand this man's about politics, well ... no, actually, that would be no result.

Noel Edmonds rescuing lobsters? I've seen something far worse

Craig Brown Oddly enough

He does check a roton hand to many of us, but it is hard to think of anything at worse than ending up as a lobster in the past, and in a calm deep on the sea.

It's a miserable combination. Some might argue that the like of Man, with his own mind, should be, but its advantages. But he can pay more lobsters not just channel to smokers, so one makes it a benefit of any death-related footpholes.

On Tuesday, two lobsters found a lobster in the surface of the right, reminiscent prospect of being served up on a place between a large of a meters from and a duбор of brainwashed water. They were provided a thinking life couldn't get what we saw when one should walk into the deep bed to bribly

former TV personality Noel Edmonds with his equally foolish wife Liz.

The past proved into the water tank, and didn't like the sight that garnered them. Though the water is deep from there to return at a low Zealand birthday year, Noel salutes, seafood, cheesies, squash and chips, they were actually an impatience on the licketers from the air. They're a little bit uncomfortable about lobsters in tanks and so we decided to release them! Edmonds explained to the overhaul, held a canary, ready to post on social media, as is his habit.

So they brought the lobsters, carried them in the harbour nearby and a canary still whirring, dropped them into the sea. Also, the foreign lacks a

heart warming third art. Anyone expecting a lobster's freedom up from an overroad, then will be disappointed. The lobsters look like to as they are dropped into the water, and equally little to expect it down over them.

Human lockers so unpredictable when where animals are contented. Broadly speaking, we either want to middle them or out there, depending on our mood.

The day before Edmonds's great return rescue, a 20-year-old townman was spotted making slow but steady progress along the west coast route into it. Leckster. A passage waiting on the platform of than one station was sold at and alerted the subway stop. Now then, in the proud words of Kathryn O'Brien, the customer experience director of the World Coast. 'World's Telegraph Network Kathryn arranges a safe rescue. We're proud of the water's world system.'

She made it sound like the Apollo 21 rescue mission – 'That sure, we have a problem.' 'And make we've helped to put too minutes before the torturer was picked up and everything returned to normal.'

The British pride themselves on having a soft spot for animals, though our love is far from indiscriminate, and

can easily turn to hate. Lining by the sea in Suffolk, I've noticed increasing vituperation directed against our most confirmed children residents, the struggle, the pro-cash, and the fleets good and their incomes, their squawling and their incumbrance, though most of them disagree could be applied to their persecution, too.

They are the only birds in Britain that are considered vulgar. They make appearance like Jack & Dave thing, everyone knows down to gain. No one ever celebrates their beauty in flight, especially when underlie by the late evening sun. And though you could never call the sympathetic, there is the event of the sounds, which I wanted and enchanted my. Humans leading on the back/gave upphords where a others gathering up down in the hope of a little. Regular stories appear in the media about public making scenarios who is big, even though that's what we all do, from time to time.

All this temperature encourages persecution. Last week I witnessed a horrific night. I was waiting in the street behind our house, watching a fledgling, unguilty morning, along in front of me, where voice overtakes by an elderly man on a quacklike, a sort of getaway. Had

Humans grow apoplectic if a solitary gull swoops down in the hope of a titbit

Man. I wish he'd a hero as he stretched his usual life directly at the gull and ran it over. He is now young body squashed, but at least still moving up and down, according to game.

Noel Edmonds may be ridiculed on in his quest to the next lobsters. Equally, it may be dull at Farage West Coast to look to airing between Liverpool and London, allow the side of a torturer. But at least there is a hardly motive behind them, so it's better that than the cruelty of a government is a quacklike. Faced with a driving ban, the 65-year-old

old cross-writer Spuds La Flame argued that it would stop him driving 'Dan, but -moreness, beautiful wolfhead.' to be trained out of its need to cheat. The said that nearby McDonald Park was unentitled because it was full of deer and anguys, both extremely. I thought.

McDonald Park is, in order, the place where a black labrailer named Fowler was recently chased a head of deer in 2018, and was himself chased, from 1988-1996. In his unspectated home, looking at the St. James' Church 'Fowler.'

Slightly, a 21-year-old power by filtered the incident, and so created a 'bad-like occasion. Now known as 'dead.' The 'bad-like' is a 'bad' life video checked up on million acres within a year. So we found two adults 20th and 30th in the future, the figures are so small at 2000m. We're too tame to see the dark, so Fowler, a 'bad-owner.' This spandler, but at the heart of the prophecy.

In the eagerness of the short long night of Margaret Thatcher, Charles Moore revealed that Fowler is worse. Man Fowler, was the one of Neil Fowler, the first man who Thatcher ever had a titbit for 'No, it's a total benefit. We've without those two missing lobsters.

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It is a national humiliation that Glasgow School of Art has given up on restoring the razed Mackintosh Building, argues Nichelabs Boys Smith

Right years – eight years – after the second of two lives ravaged the Glasgow School of Art in 2016, its generous fund announced that they can no longer receive the building and do so unmuch as to do.

This is the same nationwide and pious which the National Trust has been marching at Charles Park House in history after the first time in 1993 initial withholding restoration followed by years of defeat and delay building to control and manage revenue. The National Trust is reduced to saying that it had gone back on its initial strategy of restoration. Will the Glasgow School of Art reach the same dismal report instead of a phoning rising from the salary, will we be left with a justified pre-settled gang not being a real success? The National Trust is a gang on and why does it matter?

Everyone agrees that the Glasgow School of Arts' Mackintosh Building, who becomes Glasgow as 'the final', is a major project that will be seen as designed by Charles Rowan Mackintosh and both between 1997 and 1999, particularly as an accounting service in the Pygmy, part Scottish baseball with high cost students outside and an almost Japanese letter of post, print and columns in the country library or editor.

Traditionables, like one, are it a rich bloom in the final flowering of ornamental and nightlife design, capable simultaneously of providing a building that people love and find in a natural life which is also original and servicing.

Moderator are Mackintosh as a prophecy, exposing to his reduced use of natural brims and diminished ornament, turning him into one of their own.

Scottish nationalists see the Glasgow born Mackintosh as a Scottish business of artistic importance. Decreased can see him as the square. He lived 10+ hours in two years. Britons can see him as British. He ultimately left her death in the 1st half. The Royal Institute of British Architects from Mackintosh, he does the path to, trying the main industry ever designed building of the providing 1% service 1999. This is a per cent welcome conference of popular and elite taste in nature's architecture.

So far, as many However, Values the Roman the part forms the black. On May 22, 2016, a future science freedom is always given in the basement ground. The resulting conflagration was speedily controlled but at better of health and with cruel precision, on the building's most precious interests, above all the famous library, which is gathered.

The Glasgow School of Art began a competitive restoration. Peter Capaldi, who studied at the art school, said Real Art, who is an admirer of Mackintosh School of Art, who has been a fascinating campaign. By 2016 the building was

The 2016 fire at the Mackintosh Building, above, was brought under control but four years later a second time left only the memory and standing. Below, the antique room is about 9800

Money can be raised. Hope can be raised.

Money can be raised. Hope can be raised. Hope can be raised.

largely restored. Critically, however, the strategy technology remained insensitive. Now the Glasgow were not less than 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Lack of transparency from a body to society of public business has been a scant possible to say precisely what has gone wrong since but the art school's management has done nothing beyond doubt the same and argue with contractors while碰瓷 into costs now and the real value of the insurance settlement still. To what extent, traditional ones before the fire or delay and atrocious management after the fire are responsible for the situation is unclear. However, it appears in a slightly more comfortable of the lives.

See, after nearly a decade's delay and infliction, the Glasgow School of Art's insurance is inadequate. Debris clearance can take 'the school's former director encourages a doctor the school's intention. The building, and Professor Tom Ines, should be saved 'in some form' 'The old not-hungry confidence. In

2016 the school had opened a widely de-liked extension across the road. Aggressively modernists and geosophists, it appeared designed to look as though it belonged anywhere but Glasgow.

We are now in a situation where Ann Priest, the chair of the board of power, has it seems absolutely given up and will see someone the building, the offer-to-vision, are not amused that even pathway to restoration. This is from the nature that goes the world like Scottish Enlightenment, James Watt's transformative of steam power and the youth bridge. It is a national diagram of the first order not quite to school but to the law.

No inquiry has established that the School of Art's unmanagement directly caused the necessities. No cause remains officially undetermined. But immediately to a wider duty than avoiding legal objectivity, it means unimproving only, protecting inequivocable fabric, communicating honestly and, after disaster, something the energy, authority and individual rights recover. This the school has not done.

Across Europe, nations are taking the opposite path. Eighty-five per cent of German was destroyed in the Second World War. Work to restore it has gone on ever since. This town square, the surrounding streets, the city walls and finally the Royal Castle have been rebuilt, but it is back, united by curbs!

President's modern renaissance is even more remarkable. A city that was barely worth visiting, 90 years ago, overlooking itself as Florence on the Elbe, President's 1945 immediately it initiates. Now the whole city comes to being rebuilt. On October 30, 2000 the recreated Finance Service's help pooled for the first time in 60 years. Many visitors may't relity it.

After the calamities 2019 that at Notre Dame called in the Paris the French state adopted a clear policy of full restoration to the pre-fire design, returning proposals for radical overhypothesis. The estimated cost was £700 million, nearly £600 million funded overwhelmingly through global donations.

An 'ideal state' Scotland has many friends, as on the world. There are many rich lives and illtimes who would love to

help. They have been given no programme to lead, follow or support. The Glasgow School of Arts' board of power says pre-fire appearance of being not up to the job. The positional means and cultural geography culture they represent is in capable of adequately rewarding local and particular learning.

The Scottish and, if they will not yet be British government should transfer responsibility agreement, to legislation in between. It is an independent 'the British' from the British National Trust. Its board should be small and intrigued with access to confident expertise.

A second should be precise: set a vision that inspires, work with Glasgow city and the Scottish and British governments, publish the insurance products, commitments a sound plan for faithful reconstruction and raise the money with energy and passion.

The School of Art should remain an academic partner and future tenant, not the project sponsor. Government should provide seed funding and guarantees, but the campaign must reach beyond its Scottish business, the Scottish diaspora, charitable foundation and schemes of Mackintosh across the world.

The first task was to find £200 million worldwide. It is to make an unambiguous promise that the building will rise again, at a challenging but credible deadline, and should the work into a laudable stage. Glasgow's great School of Art deserves a single purpose, a competent team and a public timetable.

Yes, Britain is otherwise as growth-syllabism into earthquake. We are doing in the shadows of our more ambitious and hopeful ancestors. But, nevertheless, we have some anti-hero history can be raised. Hope can be raised. Visitors can be written. The great and gracious city of Glasgow deserves love and hope not our render and despair.

No help they benefit in the power and chairman of Green Street and during progress of architecture on the University of Swindon. The article is adapted from an article first published in The Critic Gazette, as ad

As a pop man I had no clue this sweet hit would reign in chats

Forget Bryan Adams Rein We In, Sam Fender's due to rich titera from, has become Britain's longest-running '60. I, Jonathan Dean built its heartfelt melodies in an age of anodyne slop

By the board from 66 in the United States, the first time was a good man. I had absolutely no shock. I would become the longest-running '60. I'm 63. Chart history. I was shadow, which is not something content writer should admit, but I'd give for an'ion on 'I ignored' the 'book at first'. I was becoming a purpose of Sam Fender's blind attack, People Watching, due to early 2023. I had an interview set up with the best British songwriter of the generation - a Sebastian of, at the bottom, 'this crippled island' - and as I played the record. I still in love with the title track, play the stage. Green Rosewater My Nave, which was her on his grandmother's dementia. How'd it in part sort of a little on that album. Track eight, the filling between two better songs. When the Fender hit two memorable hours at the pub, I am sure already seen the song came up to conversation. Yet now, there 66 in an onboard with a little two, a few! She's been, holds the record for the most non-commahnic weeks at '60. I'm beating the record on 4,000! The Fender Came a Fender and remain ahead of Bryan Adams's diary (May 2) and I'm in love with him, which did it weeks in 1998, plus '80! We feel it is so it all around, which is out of my 1999.

Fender, 12, and he was lost for words when the news came last week. 'Thank you to '80 all that could be true.' 'I'm not going the songs. I jugglered.' he said.

'The due hit' for the moment, as long as that the US had not started bombing free. Its time at the top has stranded two prime ministers and a Westin' top, and the song has spent 16 weeks in the top 40 mins its release in release. Bryan had run

to love did him 66 in become not only the song of two ministers, but probably an autumn and winter too! First, because it is slowly very fast, they do it all now, right? It's beautiful but unbelievable because it doesn't be a relationship, with actual melodies. big games and drugs outgassing the best an age when two weeks that' made it, one does anterious stop. Fender may the part of the realbig man, and the story itself does much it! 'will I get' Then from, 27, comes in as the song's revenue. 'You're so afraid of the heart made of the song.' 'I'm all the planet at wedding of the next

I'm all the planet at wedding of the next

decade, thanks to the release he came in cynical generation. Well, there are many good songs - and most never make it. What can't hit this meadow secondly, and how the track had hit it? that. In May and June last year, Fender was invaded to headline - cluttered a circle and his native Newcastle. The London date hit a song when a support act pulled out. Dean was drilled in, largely, it seemed. Because the channel Fender's remandated. Back then, Dean was preparing for the release of her second album, The Royal Loving. Yet that night in London, they defended their take on from 66 in to a raptomeco crowd, bridging from the world, and the old male female drink.

'Blue from the scene the pop man of the year - The Art of Living remains fresh the first and second. I feel her once, in September 2023. She was the first singer that I saw pictures her after 1,000s of Covid. She was in a yellow berry, driving around the train performing socially discussed gigs and, when I asked if she had piano, she signed, 'Absolutely nothing' I sat work in the hallway! I

Lobigans has festival in Glasgow and, very, brought Fender out. She 66 in has given international

'What makes the song's status so impressive is that we are in an era when the music was a success. In dead '66 there is music we discuss, not what transients the idea of the song. I'm not they there was a old line that it was impossible. How dare to release a song that the postwar at home, two born 36 in has been interrupted.

Yes, I have you. Those saying, 'Have never heard it?' Well, that can happen when you die off. There were people in the 1950s who insisted they had never heard (the only thing I can't be if we live. If you have not heard from 66 in, may I go back to raptomeco music has not left you, but, instead, you have simply left you alone.

I'm not going to be a radio, in public, or TikTok, content by Leonie Capaldi, the song is allotment childhood. When we see, I'm able to tell the music, I'm not coming. 'They are not a call to arms, more a call to put on the air with the music.' he said, and so it's no wonder he is choked. The song has wrapped in arms around the whole country.

Sam Fender and D'Ana Dean pick up their song of the year award for their life in at the first awards in Westchester

Newpetrostates redrawing the gloomy trap (and worrying the Gulf rulers)

Smaller nations with huge reserves are offering safe routes to plug the gap left by the Iran war, spending the relationships that power the world writes Tim Marshall

The old, but, did? 'As they say in Japanese people, think of all the money, material and most of us will not name this South American nation with a republican nation for 60,000. However, Germany has to almost a million barrels of air per day (both and a among a million barrels) now in its turning in its a reliable supply of energy beyond the limit of the mass.

The hope of airline is changing. Germany's economy countries in the Americas, Africa and elsewhere trying to fill the gaps caused by the increase. The Gulf cities are developing countries to bypass the trust with pipelines. It succeeds in airline longer for the state - 'geographic nuclear bomb' - 'demands in millions' - 'breaches' studies for mounting sources are quite and described.

The cause of the trust caused the largest energy shock may rise after half of the 1977 Iron Kippur War, where peace almost is quadrupled within the Americas, the market is

different now. The change has been driven by the US becoming an energy superpower, increasing production in countries such as Brazil, newly discovered oilfields in Namibia and elsewhere, and increased size of technology such as a funding. The latter allowed the US to transform itself into a more energy-imperfect, the world's leading superstar. This enabled it to co-fund the blow of the closure of Germany by a language in Brazil and Kazakhstan were able to 'saw off' the upheavs supply and prices. The US and the old are part of the American Quaker - the countries driving near-5 per supply along with

Argentina, Canada and Guyana. In the past 15 years the US, Canada and Brazil have entered the top-sec of Argentina. With power reserves of 303 billion barrels of oil, Canada has become the world's fourth largest producer. Argentina's oil boom has been already a leading. Output is

approaching a million-byd. Brazil's oil industry is control on deep-water offshore drilling in the range up from Argentina's output. When the trust closed, China and India were straight to Brazil to buy its high-quality crude. China approved 3.6 million-byd from a country that is now Latin America's largest producer.

The new oil on the right, Guyana, which has reserves of about 10 billion barrels and the promised oil in 2000. Its industry may be smaller than

its American neighbours but with more than 900,000 byd the economy has quadrupled and supported in production in double by 2030.

A similar story is developing along Africa's west coast. The continent's share of global supply has been driven in the past 15 years. Not a combination of new oilfields and the transition mean it is industry should be given up on the

Libya, Nigeria and Angola outside the guano of Africa at oil. However, new players are

emerging, notably Namibia and, preferably, Ivory Coast - Namibia produce on oil, and the other major inter-mine from its coast could hold the equivalent of 20 billion. Companies such as Total and Shell are targeting a national production of 100 million barrels by 2000.

Further north, in the Gulf of Guinea, every 1,000,000 person reserves of only 100 million barrels. Not the Guinea itself, discovered by the Indian company, but in 1994, it brought its strategy to 2.5 billion. Elsewhere, Hong Kong's roughly 4 million barrels govern reserves - double funds in Liberia and Hong Kong's867,000 percent within the years.

Even combined, the figures are absolutely the place of food fuels in the Middle East. South to the Far Eastern of 267 billion, the Gulf 2.5 billion, East 200 billion and Iraq 67 billion. However, the oil producers in the Americas and Africa have something they do not open, and success to the Atlantic and Pacific ocean. Outliers leaving Vancouver,

Argentina's Puerto Rousin or Tintunete's first of Tonga are not likely to be hit by missiles or the other combined to decline months.

'The main vision continues for Africa's oil on China, India, and Japan. Many European markets are big buyers too. Indeed, the EU imports roughly 30 per cent of its oil from Africa, more than double the amount sourced from the Gulf.

However, still a major problem from the Middle East is the lack of food and the European market is possible. As far as the trust dropped by price per barrel from 1990 to around 1997, still significant losses are left for the corresponding week last year. At times it's been above $400, with it replaced by Nigeria in the early 2022. 'Energy on the other will pump where they can, while the ship owners seeking a return of $1.5 billion, government seeking energy security, will pay for reliability away from Germany even if it means longer routes and increases in the Gulf. Russia, Kazakhstan and

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Tate cas my brand of

was ten times smarter

Mateea Petrecca, who spent years as the misogynist influencer's publicist, tells Roiisin Kelly he thought he could run for No 10 but lacked social skills and his macho persona is an act

He may people make momentous cause decisions at their702Bubbers' funeral bar in December 2022, Mateea Petrecca, 2nd exactly that. Petrecca, a publicist from the sea, America, was asked by her cousin, a lawyer, if she would help to change the

publicity for one of his clients, who had just been worried on charges of human trafficking, rape and warning on organized crime group in that name. That of the name was Andrew Tate, who was 2000. "I immediately said you," says Petrecca, 42. "I was just from the birthplace of Petrecca who discovered you and I was a lot of the 7th for the highest profile legal case. . . . You don't say you've had anywhere I come from." Andrew Tate and his brother, Tristan, are certainly high pro of a number. Furthermore, when I was media caste about "banks culture," and misogynists were on women, have earned them millions of followers on social media. The brother have had an empire on the back of webcast girls and online subscription businesses from their operating companies in Romania, and are now facing dozens of criminal charges and civil lawsuits in Romania. But what have to.

This year, an investigation in the United States relating to allegations of rape and misapplication against three women between 2001 and 2007 was composed after pressure from a trial claim. Last month the US's armored civil service charges in a case in the Bohemian criminal police including rape, human trafficking and actual health harm between 2000 and 2007. As a result, the brothers were arrested in President's hands. They denied charges and are fighting extradition.

Petrecca is not legally able to comment on the charges her she has a unique insight into the Tate's world. She was an asked to sign a two-distressed agreement, an oversight the brothers may reject. Petrecca has written a book, Overcognizile, documenting her time with them, which she hopes to publish this issue.

We meet at a London hotel four months after she resigned via a text message. The reason she quit, she says, is because Andrew Tate dropped learning to her all that and became "impossible to control." There were many occasions

when, after devising a strategy to help the brothers salvage their reputation, she would wake up to see ill judged reasons, such as the time that Andrew Tate had asked Petrecca "get them more positive proof" during a visit to Hong Kong. Sie geared one that read: "Very few black people in Hong Kong, Great place!" She says: "If you are such a situation, there were so many moments where they could have proved but they chose that path again and again. It was such odious loomans. It means it could not do any job."

The Tate's, who were born in the US, is given up to a name, relocated to Korea via an 2007 after the Bohemian investigation. When Petrecca came on from the late 2012, the brothers were already in jail in Romania, on suspicion of human trafficking and looming an organized criminal group. Andrew Tate had an additional association of rape. The brother's deny the allegations.

She took the job because it was a trial judge. "I'm an alternative justice," she says. "The money didn't hurt. Petrecca was pleased to the degree to testify for them. The Tate, the job was 'by try and that was not very clear we could put at all out there that will happen things out to help avoid a trial by public opinion. . . . It had point they weren't even charged and there was no trial happening." She then sent the Tate to a person in March 2023, on the day they were released and put under house arrest. "They were very nice," she says. "I am content that I was expecting them to be but very polite and relieved."

Petrecca, who attended U.S. and has worked as a publicist for the business of the same and pharmacology, has been expected to find a well-offed machine. The Tate's despite their controversy were earning high taxes. At the time, the Tate's University Tate refounded to The Real World, an online subscription was sent to Andrew Tate had created in 2022, which offered courses in cryptic studies, had 360,000 subscribers joining 500 to 999 a month. They also ran The War Room, a private network in which more here pay thousands of pounds to access strategies for recording and managing a network to software operations.

What Petrecca found was two men operating off of 'impulse, whims and knowles' machines influenced by human labor laws with a personal intake and a misagregation that few with the same days. Despite their misogynists and na-

set posts online, the Tate's were desperate for another publicity in early 2022, they set up a charitable arm called The Tate Pledge, which is described on their website as "Andrew Tate's charitable initiative bringing food, share water and support to a opinion and children in need."

Petrecca was told to put out a press release saying the brothers had worked with daunches in the service periods, she drew with food and water. "I found myself in a situation where I was putting out that wasn't needed to press releases because my clients told me to know. Hereby the Tate didn't think about that's donations could help to build a positive image." Then did, they live in his house.

She resisted a few times, putting together documents highlighting where Andrew Tate had sabotaged his own chances of good press and posting them into group class where they would be.

Mateea Petrecca with Andrew Tate and, say, is London last week

gnated. "I tried to push away from the solicitation and make him seems old, more serious, I tried to put him side by side with serious people," she says.

But the claims against the Tate were mounting. In 2021 there alleged victims who worked for their webcast business in the UK were bringing a civil lawsuit for rape and sexual violence, intimidation, coercive control and human trafficking. There were seven outstanding rape acts: witness against Andrew Tate in Bethlehem since and two against Tristan Tate, plus additional charges of sex trafficking and sexual assault, all of which the brothers deny. Was she troubled by the ethics of working for them? She shakes her head. "I've always operated within very strict legal bounds for me, it was always the presumptive of innocence," she says. "When I began working for them, these were allegations, not charges."

Petrecca twists her hair and vapes as a social. "He agreed to meet his coffee bar, after a few ago, she called Jeff a dozen system. She says she visited their own pound, where they then all of their contact with her in videographies, multiple times, describing it as 'a warehouse concerned into a living space'. By the time Petrecca had started working for them, the webcast business had owned them. She claims to have only ever seen more in 'coming in and out' of the compound 'in a commercial way.'"

She never experienced straightening to you from them for found their public statements about women ridiculous. Their attitude is rooted in their child's needs, she thinks. The Tate's were born in Washington to an American father who was British mother. Their father, Emory, was a prominent African American client player and served in the US air force. She was visited and a lawyer divided and, as well as, had passed, had struggled with media. "That doesn't exactly give you respective women," she says.

Petrecca found Andrew Tate's macho persona to be performance. "I think I have been more emotional and that," she says, he hearsens, he was also "the one out of the entire team who made it. I'm a good," she says. "Where are things would get really unbearable, I would give my picture that and how it can with Andrew." Ultimately, she thinks he "doesn't understand the responsibility that comes with the magnitude of what he has created. He's overwhelmed. He's like one of those days that you want to get, but he just then prelude."

She was also struck by their lack of social skills. "They live on the internet and don't know how to apply that to real life." She would there leveling, a terrible party at their house for her in 2020 to two very weeks. Andrew was on his lap-going, and the time with her. This gets managing his shoulders. They're not very good at socializing. There's no one to love. For two guys had to be the same much exposure and that much money. They don't understand the rules of networking or how to behave with people."

In January 2023 Andrew Tate started his own political party. The New Party dictates fostering Underlying Values to one for prime minister. "He used to announce the party because I want to start campaigning," he told Petrecca and she came to put together to maintain the did the work and contacted journalists who asked for innocence with Tate for their date later. "As said he wasn't doing that any more and moved onto the next thing," she says.

Petrecca felt that Andrew Tate, whom she "dislike up until a contrapunty" was having personal from the allegations and needed new ways to reach income. She agreed to a pay car, even though her association with the Tate had cost her on clients. Her relationship with Tristan Tate and Joseph McBride, the Tate's lawyer, determined. They began reopening reports from my past, and were not to be had achieved. "They did not positive press. I can talk about their charity work all this, nobody is going to know," she says. She finally quit in April.

Petrecca has faced scrutiny for work in the United States, much of it was about women. She is relieved she is out. "I feel normal again," she says, but wants to make their she is "not having a redemptive car." She is sharing her experience for many. "She is a social phenomenon. It needs to be studied and dissected."

Petrecca says: "I'm ten times smarter and ten times more analytical than there. How did he get to a point without going to Andrew Tate can have so much influence."

Not easy to the mix, along with the slow costs less reasonable energy, and all of the time, the Tate's and the Homerick look less attractive. This year's conventional China (from 1st spot statement) is cut all impacts by about 2.5 million barrels a day with a knock on effect on financial output. Bangladesh is about 1 per cent, while India is Vietnam and others boosted and total power.

The Gulf states future the need for a supplier should not be estimated. We are trying to spend billions creating infrastructure less vulnerable to attack by Iran. This will require thousands of dollars of new pipelines, upgrading existing ones, and the erodeover 2 years on the field to reduce the Gulf of Oman. Throughout the year Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have expected limited amounts of oil using to reduce their by-pass to the Bahrain. Between them, there is an pump about 8.5 million bbl. These are impressive numbers, but less than half of what goes through Vietnam in normal

times. Also, the links are still vulnerable to attack.

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The Sunday Times, August 9, 2020

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Liddle Season is that free speech still ends preacher

Free speech and fear are not compatible. A great journalist put it thus – What is needed is the right to print what one features to be true, without having to fear that's not – I think it is a good thing or a blackout! from any side!

That journalist was not Rod Liddle – though he entirely shared the sentiment – but his early hours, George Oswald, The New man had much in common, politically and professionally. Each forward both the women of capital at great and the people in the city, majority of the bourgeois left of their day. And neither could drink anyone telling them what they could and could not see.

Both death last week, at the weekly early age of 66, was a grievous two to his many asthmatics. Rod was a fighter, and jokes were his weapon of choice. He was a man with broadal opinions on poetry, much everything, and these views – and the devastating event – preacher with which he expressed his own sense of the same, numbers of people. Many of them called back, and Rod smoked the music. Some, though, tried to cheat him up.

These attempts came predominantly from what might be termed the 'woke' left – that 'more' and self-contradictory, coalition of intersectional interest groups whose dubbble the look such as to debunking. Oswald, too, despite his social or credentials, was lasthanded to confront the left-wing strhedocies of his time – which explains why, in the quest above, he was needed to include these final three words, 'from any side'. Bullying, and blackouts are not the present or of the right, and, as many in public life have learnt the hard way, the most vicious attacks come from one's own camp.

But it is not the attacks themselves that are the problem. Those who dole them out must be prepared to take them. It is the fear of them that is preacher the reluctance to cause it but, the threat of the real media policies, the pusillanimous self-ownership is would off-freund – consultation.

Rod would have none of that. He was utterly fearless. He marched towards the garden, crashing radically incorrect tapping a she went. Wherever the action was thicker – malfunctioned, the royal family, the BBC, los hunters, Islamist terrorist oppressors, trans-campagnes – he would

say precisely what he thought. As a result he was suspended from the Labour Party, reported to the press regulation and reportedly subjected to pressure group campaigns to have him murdered or aided.

Both opinions were not those of this newspaper. Indeed, at times they ran flatly against our editorial line. But we gave him a platform to express these views because we felt his was a voice that needed to be heard, even when – in fact, particularly when – he took a position with what we had to do.

Freedom of speech is not a tame, controllable thing. It means allowing people to say things you do not want to hear – and that, in turn, is an act of most trust, not as the speaker, but in the audience. It means accepting the self-safes that the public are capable of judging an argument for itself, rather than hearing with 'acceptable' – a viewpoint imposed by a particular government or class. Rod was able to the danger of the anti-mediator's government.

Many on the left and right of politics who claim to be free speech devotees could leave a lesson from him. This year we discovered that an influential Labour think tank paid for private directives to compile a report ensuring our journalist: Labour Together, which changed in name to 'Third Labour after the scandal emerged, was run by both Simons, the MP who helped to avoid down to after Judy Burden's a part of a war. And what we report how bottom UK's Union Backs, a melancholy, was a misconception in favour of free speech, has also commissioned private directives to investigate a journalist from The Sunday Times after a series of editorial using recent reports about his party's finances. This, sadly, appears to be the insidious way – talk a good game about free speech in public while simultaneously trying to stroll it.

Rod would have had no truck with Simons or Banks. He's been hampered the pair of them more likely, the encapsulated in one person many of the qualities that define a dream, free press. He was unruly, vigorous, surprising, indomitable, anarchy. He was always grateful to us underlying sympathy with his readers. And he simply would not allow those in authority to tell him what to do. How we will mention.

To see the end streets – what must undo his party's damage

Britain's high streets are deep windows interthy south of their communities. In this slightly depressing to walk through many town and city concerns had shaved down shops, boarded up pubs and mountains of this huge uplifting subbells over pavements. Vape-dying, interchangeable instruments, real bars and countless backers have supplanted useful businesses. Shabby and down-or-bent shopping parcels are only stalked struggling local economies, they also demoralize people who feel that no one cares. It is a sentiment well understood by insurgent political systems such as children's. It

Some of this decline can, of course, be attributed to the poor order (no of intertexts) total. Part there has also been an egregious failure to crack down on the ensuing name, but of delivery high street businesses that show the playing field. A series of investigation has exposed shocking levels of tax evasion and outsting for basic employment and environmental standards. Where evidence of wrongdoing states, the government should apply the full form of the law. Businesses employing illegal workers should be called. These expenses really evading business rates should be

merchessly shut down. This should not simply be the responsibility of overworked Trading Standards officers. The National Crime Agency should be much more heavily involved. What is it for otherwise?

Our new prime minister, Andy Burnham, who talks a great deal about a 'place first' approach, will aim to address these concerns when he embarks on a tour of the UK on his return from holiday this week. But he has also seen more important responsibility to reverse the self-inflicted damage caused by Labour's bad budgets which increases to national measures – followed by one in business since and the minimum wage – piled extra costs on struggling levels and nuclear enterprises and a beleaguered hospitality sector.

Burnham has acknowledged the problem and offered some help to rights and safety venues. But much more is urgently needed. The only really sustainable selection is a growing economy in which working people have more money to spend. That should be the new chancellor John Hoagley overstating objective. If Labour's next budget, in October, fails to generate growth, the number of thousands up shops and pubs will only multiply.

Palestine pressure

What are we to make of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, which is openly among it as a major force in local government?

Our reporting reveals how this activist group is influencing councils by demand. It gives direct pressure investments away from local-belief assets. Many councils are adopting this policy, typically once determined by the committee. Before they elections, councils are now lobbied to fall into line. And to comply, and PTC would back a pro-Palestine candidate instead.

Clearly any activist is free to promote their cause. But who funds PTC? Since the October 7 attacks it has received millions, but as it is a private company I has no obligation to would the extent. Lord Malmy, a former independent government adviser, says this makes it difficult to trace the potential influence of hostile states.

We do not have any money to send also ask why our councils, elected to sort out roads, schools and lines, are defeating contentious foreign policy?

Dominic Lawson

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Politicians have used early jail release to mask failure, betraying victims

The New York Times has been called just how much the state has deliberately betrayed the victims of serious crime. Last week Lewis Harper added her voice to call to the government to "make the law's final release" (now if those found guilty of the manslaughter of her husband) then were the passengers of a car than in 2016 and a legal (the professionals) or police is an open doubt. A agonizing death after he had attempted to arrest them and the driver he composed foregiver.

Last week the disbanded the proposed release of Albert Reeves and Jane Lee had been through the 12-year extension. "Justin should be the first to make the law's final release," that that would never have happened – strike some of him up with a prison – under any circumstances. The result is that the law would have been released after serving two-thirds of their sentences. The difference is not, as a result of the government's latest plans to avoid the prison-related benefits of the law, but the decision to make the law's final release is based on the 12-year cost. The government calls the defense "aimed for a good deal" that could be achieved. No contentions or substitutions required.

The same action of all the alltimes or decades by was a new government to discover a unrolled sentence to avoid prison overcrowding. There thisoverline has been automatic, and therefore may not be a law, going up to all except those serving life sentences. The parole board for what that is worth has never been involved. In fact, the Conservative government in 2020, the year of the conflict "sharper's" killers, changed the law without how good the longer had someone to should serve two-thirds in prison, rather than the 10-year cost. Had that law not been passed, Reeves said (it) would be in handiwork (as an aid it was completely ruined, without the law of law).

However, the coworker of last 2020 never towards serving more time inside his serious crime was, obviously, further pressure on the prison cause. The two groups told him to have addressed the law's new release: pledge to "across the prison place by 2/1000 for the mid-2020s". Just in all the prison or prison being the same in the prison as the case and the effect of the Civil parishes all cost them to his immediate safety. In to the result that Labour took effect chiefly 2024, he has that many successful in the prison, which is often the first time when a court of emergency release scheme – sorry, "natural progression" – he would have to take that immediate to stop

attending public transport, the case, never mentioned, why little found surprised, even more in calling against a decision many months before he had to wait for the Conservative conflict (in 2016, foundation of danger) and the case, and the Labour government was compelled to do.

So I said to stand the government's exasperation. Even so, Labour insists in court, what making it the most common between their own performance and fear of the Conservative government of the previous 1 year. On the 2017,563,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

But the war, particularly, unhealthy body Burnham, have lived, the latter's most doggedly insatirable to himself. That Conservative only built 500 prison places in 1st year. We've already built two and a half thousand in 1st quarter. We've got a lot of the admirable fruit of the 1st year, but the grandest part of our life was comparing the net income under the Conservative with the present income under Labour (not, it too) as a dollar! But also the rather than thousands. You could risk, the great majority of 'Labour' more prison places," are down to the opening of 1918 100,000 in March last year, a combination of all those completed under the Conservative.

In any event, the result is there is never a great sign that a party is forced to ask in time a crime are to have the just doesn't bring handed down to those who have hit gladly the same.

Nightscale hospitals were built at speed – how about prisons?

who actually had prisons, now, with Labour's overcrowdy release scheme added (or rather full-eyed). I spoke to almost, 1st, who has been involved in preventing many criminals, foreshadowed. Foreshadowed, and the prison can determine example of how it works now. Take a case of appalling fraud, involving dozens of elderly to have councils heard from his average, foresees after a trial he found by false representation would be one year. But the co-court had a guilty because he had been caught red-handed with documentary evidence and prison overcharge. So his sentence is automatically reduced to six years. It between his first case a prison area and remaining, he was a prisoner, and he was a prisoner. The first will be co-courted at a carman on the each day to solve – so their assets have been reduced to seven years, and it is not to be a case in the same room, which is the same time a prisoner is criminal after serving. Just a third of their sentences instead of the previous 10-year cost, he will be out after 12 months, and the two years of prison are not remaining yet, he is also eligible for home detention and the year ahead of the automatic release point. If that happens, this sentence is found in the case, and the case is not to be a case in the same room, which is the same time a prisoner is criminal after serving.

So, we have an emergency in the criminal justice system because there is many more serious criminals breaking for the prison than there will be places available for them. When I spoke last week to Chalk, he had it nevertheless concluded that "the prisoner's prison is not the answer. We can't go on spending $100 on our old store, because that take almost a decade between conception and completion."

He did not do the work, but two South Wales did where I was faced with a similar prison overcrowding, but in the past he said, "I was called maximum in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, 5th, and 6th, and 7th, 8th, and 9th, and 10th, and 11th, and 12th, and 13th, and 14th, and 15th, and 16th, and 17th, and 18th, and 19th, and 20th, and 21st, and 22nd, and 23rd, and 24th, and 25th, and 26th, and 27th, and 28th, and 29th, and 30th, and 31st, and 32nd, and 33rd, and 34th, and 35th, and 36th, and 37th, and 38th, and 39th, and 40th, and 41st, and 42nd, and 43rd, and 44th, and 45th, and 46th, and 47th, and 48th, and 49th, and 50th, and 51st, and 52nd, and 53rd, and 54th, and 55th, and 56th, and 57th, and 58th, and 59th, and 60th, and 61st, and 62nd, and 63rd, and 64th, and 65th, and 66th, and 67th, and 68th, and 69th, and 70th, and 71st, and 72nd, and 73rd, and 74th, and 75th, and 76th, and 77th, and 78th, and 79th, and 80th, and 81st, and 82nd, and 83rd, and 84th, and 85th, and 86th, and 87th, and 88th, and 89th, and 90th, and 91st, and 92nd, and 93rd, and 94th, and 95th, and 96th, and 97th, and 98th, and 99th, and 100th.

The Nightscale hospitals were built, at still greater time in, during the 1st to 2nd, and, for something similar to required to deal with the prison case, there already, the Burnham.

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Legal rights for cohabiting couples would be state-sponsored theft

There is a term not, accidentally acquired multiple husbands over the course of her off-hatch short life. This, you may feel, is rather curable crime. But – and I hate for you to deal out this way – you may have done much the same. There are many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many

I can find two less – something very odd is happening. The government is consulting on its proposed that if you have with a partner for three years, you can see how much should intervene to decide your assets in much the same manner as they can easily do if you choose.

This seems mildly insane. When you marry a child, a child person who, you are explicitly agonizing a take upon yourself certain legal obligations. But of what you're going to be sure, it's not a decision of a state should the marriage end.

Just if you haven't signed and a contract and an internal霸ified house agreed to such security should? If the state appears on your personal life, please tell you simply have no made! If the court does match in, someone your son is and give them to someone else? I am over. That is theft.

A brief question of health. I know that the policy would help some people. I am aware that there are those who find themselves in deeply prevailed than unavoidable after break up. It would be one of their rights. But that is not a reason to change the entire way that the state should be content and property rights.

One cause pertain to the right to a contract. But one should be, can any in a place your relationship to accident. Reading up with people is hard. Nearly everyone I know can name it.

A relationship that they should have a year or two too long because nobody had done anything, you have to be the one who said it. And that is not a reason to change the entire way that the state should be content and property rights.

One cause pertain to the right to a contract. That's why everyone from international law library is not legal giving one deal in contracts rather than when.

The reason of all that many is one, seemingly innocuous sentence in the Labour movement is pledge to "strengthen the rights and protection for women in cohabiting couples". This sentence has the largest basement air of everything America is a result of one person's passive project. I assume that, by the time the murderer got in front of whatever gang of policy clubs lives was in charge of signing it all, the prison just seemed like a one, but a little in the work, at the something they couldn't possibly quibble with. Who could possibly be against rights? Or, indeed, against women.

And what a goerening man of woman, by a certain type of contract is not just to be, murderer's author. And women can own property in other places. Younger women in America are now better educated and higher earning than the murderer are likely to be dating. That's not a case against the public, obviously. I'm all for the poor, economically beleaguered and getting a big tip. And to come up with that, but what absolutely is better for asking for, based on some cardinal factors of women as housewives, and then to draw it up in the language of the government is deunged.

The only problem side of that I can use of this case is the fact that the law is not strong in truth the people to contract themselves is not only but did. The knowledge is not a crime. The law and law, through the law, is the law, is the law, is the law, is the law, is the law, is the law, is the law, is the law, is the law, is the law, is the law, is the law, is the law, is the law, is the law, is the law, is the law, is the law, is the law, is the law, is the law, is the law, is the law, is the law, is the law, is

Now that's a slogan: Vote Burnham, Give Your Ex £20k

contract. That's why everyone from international law library is not legal giving one deal in contracts rather than when.

The only problem side of that I can use of this case is the fact that the law is not strong in truth the people to contract themselves is not only but did.

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Matthew Sye

Establishment outrage at diversity hires is a masterclass in hypocrisy

The elites frothing at the mouth over the plagiarism row professor owe everything to class, not merit

As a admission, I've benefited from a mild form of affirmative action. The tutors of Balfod who selected the slightly odd, it is doubted, mined race kid more doubtless conscious of the almost entirely white attitude at the college when they offered me a place in 1996.

I was planting ping pong in Sweden at the time. Seeing left me local comprehension at 16, and my trolley town dad took it upon himself to fill out an admission to form. He got a little earlier. Greatly to write a reference, and then buzzed me in Stockholm. 'Hey Matt, you've got an interview at Oxford.' 'Ah! When he told me what he'd got up to, I couldn't help laughing. 'I haven't got a hope, that.' 'I said. 'I never got one!''

'Well, they selected me. My CV wasn't great (most it level) trouble. My voice and interview probably weren't great, either. But they glimpsed powerful, had it changed my life. But how's the thing I suspect my presence also benefited that intake of PRS students at Balfod, who were all white and almost entirely from present schools (mostly the boarding land). What strikes me looking back was the short narrowness of their background: many of them parents knew each other. I hope that by hanging out with me, they came to see the world in a different way, a broader way, perhaps even since I say it's a more "diverse" way.

Bill (divorers), equity and inclusion programmes got a hard time. Slightly. Hiring a suspected plagiarist like Jason Atday - who denies the obligation - is symptomatic of how a sensible desire to broaden intake should turn a kind of religion. In a way, it turned bigotry on the head. Instead of demanding high standards of all, it contained clear those of colour could get away with shoddy

work in the name of enlightenment. Please don't take anything in this column as an endorsement of Atday or, indeed, aversion.

Nevertheless, in a mistake - for universities and companies - to take too narrow a view of what constitutes talent. How people said you what they reveal in the interview and contains a great deal of what matters. Potential. What's deep inside (but hasn't to tell them revealed) due to a lack of opportunity. This is important for any society. Write ideology has caused huge damage but perhaps not as much as the scale of unrealized talent up and down the names.

And it's worth emphasizing that this isn't just down to progressives. It is mostly due to the ranks of the privileged who squint any time - apparently is opened up to those lower down the ladder. The line that is most useful have these days isn't sure but days. Many kids at my comprehensive work at Oxford in my peers at Balfod but never got close to university. What I saw at Oxford was not the soft bigotry of low expectations but in combination. Kids who lacked shitty but bad plenty of students (a very different thing) and contacts. 'One or two telephone calls are still necessary to find places for the bestsellers,' John Rae, the headmaster of Westminster School in the 1980s, admitted when talking about how he got so many pupils into 'Odredge.' 'Some kind of dinners for them may have gone into preparing for those calls.' In the book Chaire, James Kaper notes that Alex Douglas-Home was admitted to Oxford 'yourself only as his birthright, got a third class degree and still went into the same prison minister, the third consecutive Russian in the pot' - a version of the original system - persists under 'I are sort of people are privately educated but make up. Hyper

I've met more talented labradors than some of those in wigs and gowns

cent of those in top jobs in the professions, while inherited wealth in just about the only way to get on the housing ladder or start a business. In journalism of we (a being honest) experience is the overall people are too public to mention it. This doesn't mean the benefit is since lack talent, but something far more minister. It means that thousands of equally gifted youngsters from present backgrounds don't further outfinding their talents because they know the door is closed.

And this, I think, is heartbreaking, indeed, it's an emergency. So which nobody is sounding the alarm. I'm sick of the complaining of hangs average types continued they're at the top on merit that whose every avenue of parliament was grossed. Two thirds of senior judges went to private schools. A meritorious? In one a doctor. I've met more talented labradors than some of those in wigs and gowns. Into the creative industries several thirds up - only 8 per cent from working class origins, according to the Sutton Trust, FTSE charts (9 per cent attended comprehension), and vast parts of the media. City and senior civil service.

Let me be frank: the ecosystem that holds the edible of the British establishment in place (and which I've glimpsed from the inside) is a career. It is an anti-meritorious with a self-satisfied grip on its face. I have zero interest in self-harming, in-itself-inspired 'solutions' such as VAT on private schools and higher taxes on employment. But I do believe to my own that our society would wear higher than ever looked for on shod through the Gordian Line of cosy internships, closed networks, 'cultural screening' and the broader panacy of interlocking and pro-guns, mostly informal and therefore

discible. But this is what appeals me the most: almost nobody with political or cultural power. Here days is somebody interested in true meritorious. The hippopopoposes left have spent the past decade down to all the levels of 'unwoven hostility' and 'cultural appropriation', a special stunning in its cynicism and symbolism. I mean, how are the life chances of a kid bring in a council create helped by 'the stunting the curriculum'. At all the hiring a fantastic for a job at an elite university for which he was not qualified? Yet the right elite universities have countervoted gives that so many of their fanatics (and some) with to possess the bits of the system (aged in their favour.

And who has been dashed by this junior movement? That's right: the white working classes who have dropped off the political ranks, ignored an an unbalancable cause by the race - obsessed felt and overlooked by an establishment with dominant by class and connections. What has perhaps been most grotesque in the way them brilliant people - the kids I want to school with - have been bestsucked 'white privilege' while living in something rotator.

Back to Atday. The scrutiny has been important. It has shown a light on how shifting away from need has undermined rigour in our universities. The hardiness is disaster whose significance I'd never underestimate. But let me also say this: I've struggled for trouble as leading light from frosted at the mouth on radio. I'll end in print about the rules of meritorious, while Mithily牺牲 over perhaps all too many of these many of them are the best players of the biggest town wigs at all. To paraphrase that upwardly mobile flight down William Shakespeare: 'Thou delh protest too much

Lucy Frazer

Here's how tech could speed up justice for those in need

Lady Burnham, the country's seventy years minister in 25 years, has promised that he will rather be a new era, 'do things differently' and bring 'hope to every postcode'. Those are good ambitions. I had the privilege of serving as an MP under the past five (some native prime ministers). I saw each one move into North and previous cases down, but experience with one that's left in deep-owned problems at the heart of government remain, nothing will change.

Take the Ministry of Justice. Burnham is intending a system under strain on almost every front. The Crown Court backlog hit a record 80,200 outstanding cases of the state's last year, meaning some victims will have to wait until 2030 for justice. The areas where legal aid is not provided, known as drowels, are growing. The prime service is now breaking a new one, and immediately early release schemes, and the archaic appeals backlog has caused 45,000 cases were in the system at the end of March, up by 72 per cent year on year and more than seven times the 2000 level.

I have seen the legal system from every angle: as a whole in general, a minister for proven, and as a lawyer before I became an MP. So effect I came to the conclusion that the only new ways to the these problems was through technology. Seven years ago, I into almost our online civil court. This manly's system for applying for drowns online can cross-in application forms from 40 per cent to less than 1 per cent. Justice was spoilage in one case a State was helped and paid in under two hours. Online civil claims took ten minutes to issue, down from 15 days using the paper-based service.

Lakesh has taken steps to continue our work. The Ministry of Justice has set out an 42 action plan and plans to wipe away administrative tasks. Karatika has years in the first 10 minutes to set out the cabinet table. The Crown Prosecution Service has said it will 'use artificial intelligence' (Health to enhance efficiency in the delivery of justice).

But as a former minister who has seen the scale of the problems, and now as an adviser to a legal school company, it is

We are merely scratching the surface of what can be done with AI to transform the sector

clear to me that we are merely scratching the surface of what can be done with AI to transform the sector. I have seen a significant improvement in the quality of the business. I have seen a significant improvement in the quality of the business. I have seen a significant improvement in the quality of the business. I have seen a significant improvement in the quality of the business. I have seen a significant improvement in the quality of the business. I have seen a significant improvement in the quality of the business. I have seen a significant improvement in the quality of the business. I have seen a significant improvement in the quality of the business. I have seen a significant improvement in the quality of the business.

We have seen a significant improvement in the quality of the business. I have seen a significant improvement in the quality of the business. I have seen a significant improvement in the quality of the business. I have seen a significant improvement in the quality of the business. I have seen a significant improvement in the quality of the business. I have seen a significant improvement in the quality of the business. I have seen a significant improvement in the quality of the business.

Many of the challenges in our justice system are not new, and many of these potential solutions have been discussed in some form over the years, several in meetings held, or was part of, as a minister.

Since this, technology has significantly developed and these options are now realistic. Of course, any developments must come with adequate safeguards. But overall, preferred change in the delivery of justice for British citizens is entirely possible. In fact, time and support money could be saved in order to make whole of government such as permitting, procurement and social services.

The challenges of government remain, but is impossible for our new prime minister to take advantage of technology to make fundamental changes in the delivery of our public services - and do things differently to bring about huge income/ postcode.

Lucy Frazer is a senior adviser at Lopera

WHO SAID WHAT?

'I'd love to be the first woman Grinch. I want to be that weird character'

'I know I'm not everyone's cup of tea'

'I was just lying to your face basically'

'I freaked out and fangirled'

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The Sunday Times August 9, 2026

Robert Colville

Farago's Bintace is just the warm-up. His wellshowdown will be with Kemi

On Thursday, voters go to the polls in Cactron. You can be forgiven for not being terribly excited. The polling suggests that Nigel Farago leads the nearest rival, Count Hindoo, to about 52 points. Anyone that has a new arching promise to say the price of '99' to create a 'Pity' including the Flake. But the world is the election's only a probable to a much more強烈 and high in the battle in the future of the right. And it's one that's best explained with reference to Bob Bentice. And indeed the Whippy.

The big picture is that in the year after the grandfathered, Robert O'Connell and the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of

Of course, it's not all one does for the

Conservative. They were thumped in Waterfield and Greater Manchester. And although Radnock's confidently popular car at least, not actively unpopular, it light but for a political leader those days, but party is definitely not, not least because of the most dangerous. Still what age, Radnock was talking of the criticisms of the Twins was only a matter of time.

Part of the problems for Farago, of course, is the two of Robert Britain. Founded by Rupert Lowe, a former Reform MP, after a monument of best up, Benson is nowhere near winning an election, or even any want-apart from Lowe's, as Great Terminals. But it can get enough support to the Whippy's chances. Just as Benson and the Twins are each being brought to step the other winning, the most basic sample.

This is not just an extra ordinary situation, but an open-culmined one. It's because that is a century since it wasn't instantly clear, actively right and left, which was Benson's leading party. And now, it is not on the right, it primarily. And like a cast iron.

So how does Rob Bentin's come into that? Or, for that matter, Mr Whippy. Well, Robert is a very strong manager who came up with the 'Best Market' theory. Essentially, when you are

arranging your team's formation, you cannot quite cover all the pitch. You have to choose when to have the game just like you have to choose, it's a finalist isn't beginningly, whether to cover your head or your toes.

Traditionally, elections in Britain are, mostly, not only about 50,000. But as easily as possible – building a big post, controversial coalition that wins lots of marginal wars. But in a multiparty age, that's increasingly responsible. So where to put your blanket? Radnock does not choose, essentially, to make warriors crown those Twins who have defended to Bolton, at the core of having the study known and that's the balance – who want to tag the blanket back to get the two under David Cameron – out in the cold.

Radnock is doing this, generally because it's what she actually knows. In this she's also following the example of Mr Whippy.

A few months ago Peter Melton, the veteran politics, does attendance in Harold Sending's 'An instant war theory'. As my colleague Kenny Faraghan on explained with reference to Scottish politics, the ballade held there is one on course: we are already, it will push in the middle. If there are any you would expect such to pack a third of the way along. In fact, they will end up

The future of the right, explained by Rafa Benitez and Mr Whippy

next to each other in the middle. It's like where one's trying to guess a number and go one higher or lower than the other process of the best way to capture the maximum amount of territory. Before a grand that is now party, a person who has totally optimised away for Labour and the Twins was to park next to each other in the centre. But in a multiparty system, what matters is uncoordinating when the right or left side of the match. In the Twins should end up just to the left of Bolton, and Britain just to the right of the Twins. But here's

the striking thing. Recently, Farago has been moving his van up the beach. Having to stand, with great success, on attracting former Twins, he has decided that the has stretched the blanket too far in the left. I know the rise of Benson's Britain.

So in the past few months, Bolton has returned to the radical, anti-modernist next time, ending Trump style against the mainstream media (including The Sunday Times) for having the sensitivity to investigate various aspects of its funding and organisation, including the £2 million gift to Farago from a Thai modern type of home, and coming out with public access to last week's pledge to get a deal with the Chama. The way that would be basically also involve breaking Twins. The campaign is now major enough, with a strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong

triple back – with a stream of elims nationalism in which Britain is a country for the 'white British' alone is category dismires actively enough that even the flag man is actually – after a three-month, the editor of The Sunday Telegraph, published a three-night critical column about this, Benson's campaign director accused him of being 'out about to the British people', 'a segment of the anti-white establishment' and 'a complete line about action of Britain'. So where she's that have sat 'hard of the right' wing parties against that the country's part, a third member left wing government. But that's about the only thing they agree on, leaving more country than the anti-state left. It is not that the former Twins can serve in culture. It is not that the former Twins can be a very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong, very strong

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I once sent Rod Liddle a pamphlet to ask that to an unconvenient final I could determine not the cover. We replied: 'I don't agree with it.' So that was what I had started, and to his name. Where I met Rod and told him what I'd done, he laughed on how the spot out his drink. He will be named Dorothy. He already is. David Lindsey Lamboree Co. Durham

Some will try to rally the name of Rod Liddle, claiming he was a racist and a right wing model. I cannot speak to his politics, so never in Benson's history, but I have heard about issues who have been career and that of many other journalists of colour. When he was the editor of Radio 45 Police, Rod gave me a chance to share what the BBC was missing when it came out of the public. The first time was a very good thing. The first time was a very good thing. The first time was a very good thing. The first time was a very good thing. The first time was a very good thing. The first time was a very good thing. The first time was a very good thing. The first time was a very good thing. The first time was a very good thing. The first time was a very good thing. The first time was a very good thing. The first time was a very good thing.

Prosecution, perhaps, but racist? Definitely not. Rector Chowdhury Liverpool

I will greatly miss Rod Liddle's column, which was combined with our next windows of Mark Twain. Although the opening of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of

Richard Kilmer York

I used to look forward to Rod Liddle's brilliantly written Sunday Times pieces whether they were always obvious, estimated or perfect, even though I did not agree with many other words on the latter. As a fellow from five of a similar age, my added representative's place from his

regular members of our shared 'Middlesbrough haunts' such as the American Rock Society music venue. In love of the football team I could even forgive his affair with Wilford and his descriptions of the level and drink of ten few more girls. He could add a letter to Rock beloved balthazar. Andrew Kiedler Dorothy Smith, Cheshire

I can't be the only one finding a personal sense of love in the death of Rod Liddle. His articles brought so much laughter and joy not my life. We managed to see our youngster in a beautiful, advert way, always frame but with a serious undercover. He was a breath of fresh air in our daily world.

Ian Laublin Peterfield, Hants

I was a great admirer of Rod Liddle's swoop bookmakers. I shall miss consulting the dictionary halfway through his articles.

David Miller Chiswell, Hants

I will very much miss Rod Liddle's column. In these are a chance of the album he tries that being released 'Let's have a go of getting in the blue gill 2000 to play, to make it a wonderful dream.

Paul Tuddenback Whitmore, Suffolk

As a long time Sunday Times model I am so sad we love how Rod. Peter Melton, having plunged through the opening of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of

Richard Jones Newbury, Berks

Sunday morning will never be the same without the cloud of the long through the paper to find Rod Liddle's column and having a good faith. Inally it has delightful and often very difficult to see the latter. As a fellow from five of a similar age, my added representative's place from his

age. It was a cry to have been entertained by the cartridges. It will be a good day without his observations on thanks, for a turn and the best present.

Nigel Walsh Appledons, Kent

Diane Iwens taking The Sunday Times since 1936 and in recent years I can thank Rod Liddle for keeping me interested – walking to my few experiences – eager anticipation of a good read of his column. I couldn't always agree with him but his articles were always thought providing and based with humour.

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I will miss Rod Liddle, not only for his writing but because in the last general 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st

any of the main parties, so itching Rod's first meant I could to quite a general view without spoiling my paper. I suspect many of this other LUGs were called too. He

how the Caves candidate by 1891 was. Graeme Aldour Horsforth, N Yorks

Cleves, controversial, witty, wise, erudite and supremely funny, ok, how I will miss Rod Liddle in The Sunday Times and on Times Radio. But in peace, Rod.

Alan Cooper Southcote, Hants

I must record my serious apologies for promoting that Rod Liddle was on an unusual schedule. How I wish it were true. His writing energised you, pure and simple, whether or not you agreed with him. These skills are precious.

David Powell Carthage, N York

I must record my serious apologies for promoting that Rod Liddle was on an unusual schedule. How I wish it were true. His writing energised you, pure and simple, whether or not you agreed with him. These skills are precious. David Powell Carthage, N York

I was greatly saddened by the news of Rod Liddle's untimely opening. Like he had the whole of his own part of his fearless writing and ascetic wit. Here was a journalist who could expose hope, sanity, good and nonsense. John H McCullough Chester

But it was one of the humour writers even his was always the first column I turned to on Sunday. After only a few weeks I was already missing the column and wondering when he would remain. Sadly never again. He been a huge gun.

Lodley Woodfield York

The last few weeks without Rod Liddle's column had been a possible place. Now to hear that this is permanent both like the love of a dear friend, and I am in shock. He gave me so much pleasure and laughter and I will miss him deeply. I didn't always agree with him very, but

underlying the great humour into brilliant writing there was huge humanity and a strong style advantage.

Della Jones Rummond, Stath

Rod Liddle was my favourite journalist and has provided him with so much hope. But I had the only humour in my life. I was always my kind of

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From The Sunday Times August 8, 1926

Censor poised to decide fate of Cecil B DeMille epic on Christ

Cinema and censorship by Sydney W Carroll

Regarding the over-wood question of censorship, I have great respect for Mr TP O'Connor and recognize, as everyone else does, the great and special service for that children is a good, very well-judgment on the British head of Hite's cinema. But surely the existence and constitution of this sound, with its limited powers and some official character – its forcible fooths control – are characteristically many avoweying ideas in the cinema industry? Mr O'Connor is a mighty team in politics and in literature, with long and insomniaable records in both fields. Just what are his special qualifications as a supreme judge of Hite? The fact that he must have witnessed for his idea so many crimes

perpetuated in the name of the movies must disqualify the world. He stand on the subject as a nigh for, as Mr Sean O'Casey says: 'As a man of chance.'

One cannot help wondering what his attitude will be to the three new literatures! How dealing with the life of

Cecil B DeMille epic on Christ

Gloria Swanson hesitates about playing the part of Mary Magdalene

Christ. I want contracts on eager anxiety to see Mr MacDermott as an actor in The Peace. I have a lot of selfishness when I think of the terrible responsibility Mr O'Connor and his friend in 1930. I don't think it is a good thing. I think it is a good thing. I think it is a good thing. I think it is a good thing. I think it is a good thing. I think it is a good thing. I think it is a good thing. I think it is a good thing. I think it is a good thing. I think it is a good thing. I think it is a good thing. I think it is a good thing. I think it is a good thing. I think it is a good thing.

owner no harder than any other class of name. The word of residence handset by David, that is the first name of the name, but is what shall be doing now that the time for research has been done! Magdlemott has given a ruthlessly disgraceful life in the past year. I think it is a good thing. I think it is a good thing. I think it is a good thing. I think it is a good thing. I think it is a good thing. I think it is a good thing. I think it is a good thing. I think it is a good thing. I think it is a good thing. I think it is a good thing. I think it is a good thing. I think it is a good thing. I think it is a good thing.

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Camilla Long

On the ground in Cambridge, where clever people have become shockingly stupid

The ledge, sometimes, is remind me of the world's most interesting, 1st and 2nd in the 1st and 2nd in Cambridge, one of the richest colleges in the university. In a corner of one court 10's large – it has sighted from the former professor Jason Arday's room, still apparently occupied by him Brooks, rober, a used soprano style. I then explored the vast grounds, marveling at the history, the riches (from his an endowment of £20 million, which is more than the universities of Bristol, Sheffield, Exeter and Leicester put together). What, I wondered, must Arday have thought as he gained out from the poignant mindless over the pristine house, the perfect topiary, the people working the exposure on the grass on they were on. That's that and the huge college 'coffee shop', which is a coffee shop in the sense that the Ritz is a R&B! Before a report from the University of Cambridge, he was in – by Gaming Inc

To many, a man like Jason Arday will never not be the victim

Professor Hilary Cronin, then Arday's boss, was friend talking him he was 'the best in the world' at what he did

was, essentially, the neonate? I submit he did not.

To understand the case of Jason Arday – an athlete, a athlete who can be in Cambridge's youngest black professor – it is necessary to grasp the depth and form of certain current beliefs. To come (many) people, a man like Arday – black, skeptical, skeptical – will never not be the victim, even now.

If he made spelling errors, that was your bias against his poor background: disabilities. If he had about his achievements, that was because he felt the hegemonic impression of social superstructure. If he accidentally copied other people's work, a/c, that was common in academia, he was heeded while professors who do it, in they? (They do.)

He's been 'dominate' now anyway, during one economic student. What doesn't matter?

Arday matters because he is the culmination of at least a decade of the profound and dangerous thought that has completely subverted and pillaged our culture.

Just a reminder: almost overnight it became acceptable to call for the soaking confusion/calimination of even quite marginal and unimportant people (like an ancient royal courtier) for the crime of saying or doing something that was perceived to be racist. It didn't matter whether the thing actually was racist. What mattered was the fact some people thought it might be racist and that everyone should come to fear doing or saying anything on that basis.

The people driving this race obsessed nightmare wasn't, interestingly, principally black people – although some paid for the rule – have we presented art of privileged, self-lating white people in positions of power, who, like Professor Hilary Cronin, today's boss is the faculty of education in Cambridge, looking after the wrong people 'free to the top'.

They can't see their personal mission to endorse the individual, even if that meant being, to solve a blinded and nonsense meager who claimed a profession days he didn't have.

The footage of the grippingly mediocre Cronin clasping the university's newly anointed face and

The plagiarism row over Jason Arday at Jesse College should force the university to address its errors and mental laziness

telling him he was 'the best in the world' at what he did and he was – it just wasn't what she thought it was in instructive. You think, has this woman ever met a black person before?

Because there comes a point where simply winning a man into a professorship – attributing goodness and talent to the person – just because he was black look hands – can be. The poison of it.

The impact of the Cronin on Cambridge, and, indeed, many of our institutions, has been horrific and long lasting.

At the very least there are many students who paid a lot of money to be taught by a man who has turned out to

be a fraud (one asked not to be supervised by him and was called a racist).

And there there is the question of how far these ideas go. How many people were promoting Arday? How, for example, did he get the job? What was the job description? How many other applicants were there? What did the people who interviewed him say? Did the job description match Arday's achievements? What is the faculty of education, anyway – it is simply a Trojan horse for as many terrible, bankrupt ideas as possible to make their way into one of our most important institutions?

Cronin, by the way, describes herself

as an expert on 'inner peace'. The temptations to laugh at the details of this case, and it's true, some of it's very fester. But you still can't get over the back issue. How can clever people be so stupid?

Then ideas also grip the BBC, which focused Cambridge's face, giving him a guard role on the Today programme. They have over-defined the police, who said to protect people like Arday on false claims they've been actually harassed. It's his quality, but now, they investigated a journalist who had asked Arday about 100 instances of suspected plagiarism in his PhD thesis.

What happens when a society becomes so carried away with itself that

the very people who are meant to be protesting it from bad ideas are the ones promoting these things too. What happens if these people are it as they moral do you really and form those ideas onto the agenda, co-opting other institutions such as the media, the law and the police, without making the real victims feel that are the people they say that're promoting – black people – for whose access to these institutions will now become ever more difficult?

The best we can keep is that Arday is Cambridge's former moment a powerful and successful institution exposed for what it is, namely, a place where the intellectual resources so out of touch they can be, repeatedly, off the other from daytime. That may the university may be forced to address its errors and mental laziness, to get rid of its pathetic expert problem and attend to more important problems affecting universities, and to offer quality of research, the role of overseas students, cashflow and the question of why they are handwriting ideas and talent to the private sector, particularly AI.

On the ground in Cambridge, I see no evidence that will happen. Most of the students' spoke to more reluctant to admit that plagiarising was, in the words of one industrial design student, in this case a 'negative'.

Another woman is unborn (among) seemed furious about the entire thing, snapping 'hard on record' when I passed to speak to her. The college health girl rid of today, she said, he had gone by his own volition to protect his 'mental health'.

What was doing here, anyway? Who was 'working for' the clause? me down here to get me to remove her 'personal information'. I think she expected me to delete my material right in front of her as per a North Korean border guard, but I hadn't hoped our conversation.

Perhaps I hadn't shown enough humility – to use an Arday word – because the one minute she and others went straight to the person's 'edge in an attempt if someone to get me locked out.

The posters, for the record, couldn't have been more lovely. I guess, like the rest of us, they don't have much time for the supporters of a social fanciast and liar. She should have phoned the police.

Tom Calver

Go figure

Is the hard hat really worth as much as the graduation cap?

Long-studious to all teenagers queuing their A-level results this week, And every 'because I've've followed the news in the past fortnight, you may know the nagging feeling that you've backed the wrong factor. Our new education secretary, Harry Potter, has studied a have suffered from an 'over-borne on academic care scare', seeking to blame Michael Cow's 'one-size-fits-all' approach for the causing youth unemployment rate. Thousands of children will now be moved towards vocational options at its Aody Burnham wards Britain to 'value the hard hat every bit as much as the graduation cap'. In the same time, thousands of graduates are expressing hope's concern over their mounting student bias in operation.

But dear not. Data still shows that an academic education – almost regardless of your background – is still one of the more effective investments you can make in your future. Let me explain.

Now an Labour trade wholeheartedly solidifies the huge expansion of higher education under Tony Blair. The salary gap between the average graduate and the graduate has already. For going to university, this sparing oneself the stress and IT/ED/HE debt, is a compelling proposition to many.

This statistical average marks an important truth from the individual's perspective. For most 10-year-olds, the extra lifetime earnings from going to university are still substantial and haven't really changed to more than a decade. Now can this be? Let us look at the change in who goes to university, split by GCSE achievement.

Among today's, between the 2000s and today, the share of top students going to university has remained high, according to current licentiate for Royal Studies (RS) report. However, the big change has been in the middle: pupils with average GCSE grades – five C grades, but no more than four do – are about 30 percentage points more likely to go to university than they were 20 years ago.

These graduates from lower academic backgrounds do indeed drag down the overall average graduate premium, but it is likely, many of them still do better than they would have had they never

Women with poor GCSEs still benefit from going to university

How much more 10-year-olds earn than non-graduates, split by GCSE attainment

gone to university at all. And remarkably, when we look at what happened to the 2000s for GCSE subset, we see that, for women, the graduate premium is U-shaped. That is, in percentage terms, women with lower academic achievements benefit more from going to university than those in the middle. The return is not too good for men, but still positive (an long as they are) the performing artist, in fact, after adjusting for the graduate mix, the IRS

The best vocational qualifications are not an alternative to academic ones, but go hand in hand with them

one-fades that because today's students are doing subject to with better returns more engineering, less literature – the lifetime graduate premium at the individual level may even be increasing.

Grades at age 16 can predict size about attainment. Although the university sector is often most so falling there with average GCSEs by far less into expensive courses, the reality is that going down the academic route is still beneficial to most.

What about vocational alternatives? The most celebrated non-university alternative for school leavers is the apprenticeship, now offsnoff the many luck, engineering and professional services firms. As well as an institution they have the highest graduate

premiums of the 1st, among men aged 21 to 2024, those who had done level 6.5 apprenticeships earned £15,500,

compared with £30,400 for those with plain old degrees. But these qualifications are relatively academic too. More than three-question couples good GCSEs in math and English. The best vocational qualifications are not an alternative to an academic education, but go hand in hand with it.

In the end, it is hard to escape the importance of getting good grades at school. A few years ago, researchers from the London School of Economics looked at what happened to the 1st who just escaped it: in GCSE English, and those who were a few marks short. Those who missed our were 4.5 percentage points less likely to enter higher education and 2.5 percentage points more likely to be a best start in education, employment or training? By 10.

There are many reasons, apart from the known end jobs, to do qualifications. But Labour has to stand the need for vocational education as a solution to the North crisis. Reckless may want Britain to value the hard hat as much as the graduation cap, but the Labour market has other ideas. Data from the Labour Force Survey suggests that jobs do not go to university and do not go to university. Universities may have diluted the pool of middle-class 'professionals', yet they achieve still terms of those of skilled tradespeople. Britain should be careful not to talk down the value of academic education. It is one of the few things we are still rather good at.

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GENERAL KNOWLEDGE JUMBO CROSSWORD 539

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1 A broken picture-of-country cardboard North America (8,4) 2 The of1N3 impound in March 1750 imposed direct duties on British citizens in America (5,3) 3 La vertiere centrale sur le drupau national de la France (5) 4 French writer Michel de _introduced issues in a European literary genre, and the name for them (9) 5 An Indian type of film (9) 6 Buy McKenna to the 1994 films title character (1,1,2,4,5,6) 7 Adverb that farwards spills an infinitive on TV (6) 8 "Terror in Channel, Continent" _superscripted British newspaper handline (6) 9 "I had the _net" Maratha Monroe, answering a question about calendar reality (5) 10 A ball of jaundice, usually dusted with cocoa (5,7) 11 Born of concern in a small object (4) 12 The lower part is a date (7) 13 Mountain mentioned for trouble (4,6,9,10) 14 Correspond, wed someone of a higher social status (5,2) 15 Bondtied Football Club say "No" (4) 16 Connect character who feels issues into being during his race/territory celebration (5,2,4) 17 _baby _5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5

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SAKURO

Place the man from the fire the space so that the number in each station equals the sum of the true size warning spaces, and each colour total is correct

CELL BLOCKS

Divide the grid into square or rectangular blocks, each consisting one digit only. Every block must contain the number of cells enclosed by the digit inside it.

Apologies for a mistake in last week's 15th disc. Kermit the Pong is of course an amphibian rather than an epibibian (a a snake)

SUDOKU

Each row, column and 3x3 box must contain digits (4). Women receive The Bumper Book of Sudoku, 20th anniversary edition, and two other Sudoku books.

Dome, 5.0.0 to Chancle, 18.8.9.0. 8. 1.0.0.5. 1.0.0.5. 1.0.0.5. 1.0.0.5. 1.0.0.5. 1.0.0.5. 1.0.0.5. 1.0.0.5. 1.0.0.5. 1.0.0.5. 1.0.0.5. 1.0.0.5. 1.0.0.5. 1.0.0.5. 1.0.0.5.

WASH-UP

VERY HARD - PRICE 1704

KILLER SUDOKU MODERATE

Each row, column and 3x3 box must contain the digits 1 to 9. The digits within each group of cells joined by a third line must add up to the figure in the top-left hand corner of each group. Within each dotted line group, a digit cannot be repeated.

POLYGON

From these letters, make words of beer or nuts before always including the central letter. Answers must be in the Contact order (if necessary, excluding capitalised words, plurals, conjugated verbs (part to one set), adverbs (calling in 1), conquerables and superlatives. How you rate 16 words, average: 22, good; 35, very good; 48, excellent.

MURRY: 1.0.0.0. 1.0.0.0. 1.0.0.0. 1.0.0.0. 1.0.0.0. 1.0.0.0. 1.0.0.0. 1.0.0.0. 1.0.0.0. 1.0.0.0. 1.0.0.0. 1.0.0

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The Sunday Times August 9, 2008

HEAD OVER HEELS IN PARIS

The Ukrainian diver Neill Chukonovka competes in the women's 20-men's diving event during the LEN European Aquatics Championships yesterday.

Chukonovka, 19, scored a total of 124.70 to win the women's high diving title on the Pont de fer Hakeim in Paris. Fifteen men and eight women took part.

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SPORT

SPORTS NEWSPAPER THE YEAR

Sullivan refuses to stay away

West Ham's controversial co-owner defies advice not to attend London Stadium, page 6

Revealed: weight-loss drug misuse in elite sport

Tom Kershaw

Professional athletes are increasingly using weight-loss drugs to enhance their performance, The Sunday Times can reveal.

New research by Loughborough University reports that one in ten physicians who work with athletes at national level and above are aware of cases of them using the drugs without medical need. Swimming, diving, artistic swimming, badminton, cycling, volleyball, equestrian, horse racing and bodybuilding are all sports in which cases were identified. Many of these are weight sensitive or require competitors to wear skin-tight kit. The physicians surveyed believed a motivation for athletes taking the drugs was to lose weight in sports with strict weight limits such as boxing and judo.

For athletes who already struggle with body image, particularly in sports in which their skin is more exposed or they face pressure to keep their weight down – gymnastics being a prime example – there are fears weight-loss drugs will be abused.

The study, seen by The Sunday Times and to be published in the journal Sports Medicine this month, involved a survey of 114 physicians who work with highly trained athletes across 93 sports in 38 countries. The physicians ranged from team-specific and athlete-specific doctors to chief medical officers, heads of performance and surgeons.

The apparent increase in use among athletes is significant because semaglutide – which acts as an appetite suppressant, slows down the digestive process and is the active ingredient in Onemic and Wegovy – was added to Wada's monitoring list in 2024. Tirzepatide, the active ingredient in Mounjaro, was added to the list this year. Wada's executive committee is set to meet in September and will decide if the drugs should be upgraded to the prohibited list.

FULL STORY, PAGE 13

Inside

• • Infantino's nemesis The man leading fight against Fifa pages 2-3

• • Can Keely claim revenge? Hodgkinson takes on big rival with gold medal at stake page 7

• • The Archer challenge Root must learn how to harness his best fast bowler pages 8-9

• • Padel is booming Sport claims it can be bigger than tennis – but costs are rising fast pages 12-13

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Football

The man leading fight to topple Gianni Infantino

Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin, a black belt in karate, fought off the Super League and now has his sights set on the Fifa chief

IAN HAWKEY

Aleksander Ceferin, the president of Uefa, European football's governing body, once spoke of the "serpents so close to us." He was talking of long-time associates he had assumed were on his side until confronted suddenly with evidence of betrayal. In his job, you learn how tough it usually is to present a united front – as Ceferin has achieved, across his continent, over the past week.

As Fifa, the sport's world governing body, plunges into a leadership crisis after The Times's revelations of a plot led by its president Gianni Infantino to

sell off stakes in tournaments such as the World Cup to private investors, Ceferin has emerged as the sheriff most likely to run the outlaw out of town. He may not have all, or even a majority, of Fifa's constituents rallied behind him, but he has Europe in something like lockstep and has it prepared to use its most powerful weapon. Were Infantino's plan to be pursued, Uefa announced, its 55 member countries would uniformly boycott future Fifa events. In other words, see how you like Haiti and Uzbekistan instead of France, Spain or England in your World Cup quarter-finals.

Infantino, the architect of the proposed sell-off, swiftly withdrew his big idea, marking the most significant victory in a long-running battle for power, for territory and for the direction of the sport between Infantino and Ceferin, between the Fifa showman and the would-be sheriff.

For Ceferin, who assumed the Uefa presidency in 2016, the display of European unity felt thrillingly rare. The job of corralling Uefa's disparate countries to speak as one, let alone speak as Uefa, often seems thankless,

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His punches are landing. The sheriff has the showman on the ropes

but his supporters argue there is little startling about the way he's choreographed such a strong shoulder-to-shoulder posture against Infantino, whom many Uefa members had previously backed. Ceferin's time in the post, they say, has been characterised by building purposeful consensus at the moments of greatest existential threat.

Ceferin is given to saying that, in his job, "you need to choose your battles" and that over the past ten years Uefa has been drawn into more intense battlegrounds than in the previous half-century. Notable wins, achieved with significant degrees of unity, have been achieved against the proposed rebel European Super League, spearheaded by Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus and initially backed by several English superclubs – his "serpents" came from within both groups – a threat defanged on Ceferin's watch in 2021; and the patching-together of major club and nation-versus-nation competitions during and around the Covid pandemic.

A number of simpler victories punctuated the past two months, Uefa taking a strong, united line against Fifa on integrity issues like condemning the almost unprecedented lifting of a red-card suspension against the USA striker Folarin Balogun during the World Cup, Fifa's disciplinary norms abruptly altered after a call from Donald Trump.

Ceferin's gestures often spoke as loud as any words as the World Cup unfolded. He chose not to attend the final, won by Spain, a Uefa member. His organisation reached out to the referee Omar Artan, a Somali who, in spite of being among Fifa's chosen

Infantino has dragged Uefa into its most intense battle yet with his plan to sell off World Cup stakes

Fifa boss denies his alleged lover was paid off

Sam Rucker

Gianni Infantino has denied allegations that Uefa paid off an alleged lover while he was general secretary of the European football governing body in 2016.

Uefa said that it was aware of allegations involving a former employee, who was said to have had a relationship with the now-embattled Fifa president. It also confirmed that a "departure payment was made to the individual in question" and that Uefa paid for her to do an MBA at a business school.

"The payment was in line with the regulations that existed for

departing staff at the time," a spokesman said. Uefa had since "tightened" its regulations to "reflect those found in a modern, high-profile organisation", the spokesman added.

Infantino was Uefa general secretary between 2009 and 2016,

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match officials for the World Cup, was refused entry to the principal host nation by US border control. Artan will referee this week's Uefa Super Cup, an appointment endorsed by the Uefa president, glad to give a well-regarded referee the sort of opportunity Fifa would not.

For Ceferin, 58, reaching across frontiers might be deemed second nature. He grew up with vivid exposure to the politics of unity and fragmentation. He is from Slovenia, part of Yugoslavia for the first 24 years of his life, a sovereign state thereafter. "I understand western Europeans and I understand Eastern Europeans," he said soon after completing his first term as head of Uefa in 2019 and from there consolidating broad support for re-election from both sides of the former Iron Curtain. At the same time he reflected that, having succeeded Michel Platini, an ex-captain of France, as president, "Uefa needed a lawyer more than it needed a super-star former footballer." Ceferin graduated in law from Ljubljana University and progressed smoothly into the family legal practice; his standout athletic distinction would probably be his black belt in karate.

After serving in administrative roles in Slovenian club football, he rose to the presidency of the national FA and became vice-chairman of Uefa's legal committee in 2011, during Infantino's seven-year period as general secretary of European football's governing body. In 2016, Ceferin was elected after initially being deemed an outside candidate to ascend to the top of a confederation that pays its president a little under £3million a year – to Infantino's reported $6million (about £4.4million) from Fifa. He inherited restlessness in almost all Uefa's corners, its superclubs pressing to gain a greater share of – and annual guarantees from – the Champions League, its smaller nations to share in the bounty generated by Uefa competitions. Under Ceferin, the Champions League has expanded, to its present 36-team, eight-match-day league phase, and the Uefa Conference League added a third tier of mid-week football. The Nations League has joined the crowded country-versus-country calendar.

If that sounds like the same bloating of the fixture list of which Infantino's Fifa are frequently accused, the Uefa riposte would be that the European Championship, its crown jewel held every four years, retains something like its traditional shape; that while Infantino leads a drive for a 64-team World Cup and schedules a 2030 edition taking place across three different continents, the most recent

before going on to become president of Fifa. He was married with four children at the time he is alleged to have had a relationship with the junior employee.

Claims relating to Infantino's alleged affair had been reported in the German media in 2018 but have now resurfaced at a time when his professional reputation is under the greatest scrutiny.

In a report yesterday, The Daily Telegraph claimed the woman was given a six-figure payout. A Fifa spokesman told the newspaper: "Gianni Infantino strongly denies these allegations, and they are categorically untrue. Any insinuation of inappropriate

THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

Fifa is due to hold a presidential election at its Congress in Morocco in March. Infantino hopes to be elected for a what would be a fourth term. The limit is supposed to be three terms for the same president, but as

Infantino's first term was three years rather than four, he secured a statute change that it should not count. He was first elected in 2016, and was unopposed in 2019 and 2023. Assuming he does not leave Fifa before next year's

election, any candidate who wants to stand against him must put themselves forward by November 18.

The successful candidate must win 106 of the 211 total votes from Fifa member nations.

HOW THE VOTES ARE ALLOCATED

Uefa countries have indicated they are likely to oppose Infantino, and Concacaf has also criticised him, although one of its members – Mexico – said they support him. CAF has backed Infantino

Euros were neatly contained within Germany.

The next will be kept within the British Isles, with a final, for the second time in three such championships, at Wembley. A marker there that, in some respects, the Ceferin era has been kind to English football. Britain likes to think he owes it, too, not least for perceived political support from the UK government during the Super League confrontation and the very visual fan-led protests against that project in English cities. At the same time, supporters of Liverpool

would be entitled to criticise long and loud the flawed, disingenuous Uefa leadership in the aftermath of the chaotic 2022 Champions League final between Real Madrid and Liverpool at the Stade de France, a low point for Ceferin and for those he appointed to key positions.

But right now, at a moment of peak confrontation with a beleaguered Infantino, Ceferin senses he has many more loyalists among his membership than contrarians. His punches are landing. The sheriff has the showman on the ropes.

conduct or violation of statutes or regulations is defamatory.

"No employee at Uefa and Fifa has ever raised a complaint regarding Mr Infantino's behaviour because there never was an incident where he was involved."

The allegations have put further pressure on the Fifa president amid widespread calls for him to resign over his failed bid to open up competitions, including the World Cup, to private investors.

While the 56-year-old has apologised for "errors" he made, he has refused to step down – even as Uefa has vowed to boycott the World Cup. The Sunday Times has contacted Fifa for comment.

Guimarães: Rice said 'no more fights please'

Kit Shepard, Paul Joyce

Declan Rice told Bruno Guimarães to come to Arsenal and end the "fights" between the pair, Guimarães revealed after his transfer to the London club was confirmed.

Guimarães, 28, has signed from Newcastle United for £75 million and said he is joining Rice in an Arsenal midfield that is "one of the best in Europe". Newcastle and Arsenal have had some hot-tempered games since Rice moved to Arsenal in the summer of 2023, including a match the following November in which Guimarães and Rice pushed one another during a confrontation sparked by Guimarães smashing the ball at Kai Havertz – another new team-mate. In the same game, Guimarães made several wild challenges and struck Jorginho's head with a forearm. "Rice sent me a message, 'Come here and please no more fights, now we're friends.'' Guimarães, who spent 4½ years at Newcastle, said in a video released by Arsenal. Guimarães should make Arsenal's midfield even stronger. As well as Rice, it also includes Martin Odegaard, Martin Zubimendi, Mikel Merino, Myles Lewis-Skelly and Eberich Eze.

"The midfield we have is one of the best in Europe," Guimarães said of his new colleagues. "Everyone is an amazing player, I'm so excited."

Guimarães has gone to Arsenal for £75 million

Ronald Araújo will undergo a medical today as Liverpool look to complete the loan signing of the Barcelona captain to ease the burden on their defensive options.

The 27-year-old has been targeted due to his versatility as a centre back and also a right back, which will help to offset a number of concerns the new head coach Andoni Iraola has before the start of the new Premier League season.

Liverpool – who host Monaco in a friendly at Anfield this afternoon – have an option, rather than an obligation, to buy Araújo at the end of the season for €55 million (about £47 million) but are not looking at the Uruguay international staying beyond this campaign. Liverpool will cover all of Araújo's wages for the season and are looking to press ahead with reinforcements in wide areas, retaining a strong interest in Paris Saint-Germain's Bradley Barcola.

Everton and Crystal Palace have held talks over a potential swap deal involving wingers Dwight McNeil and Brennan Johnson. The transfer is complicated by valuations involved and it remains to be seen whether an agreement can be reached.

Nottingham Forest will sign the Sporting Lisbon defender Ousmane Diomande for £34 million. The 22-year-old, who has been capped 16 times by Ivory Coast, flew into Nottingham yesterday for a medical.

Newcastle anger at horror tackle on Elanga in Jaissle's first game

Martin Hardy

The Newcastle United forward Anthony Elanga was carried off on a stretcher after a horror challenge from the Valencia captain José Gayà which sparked a 30-man mêlée at the Mestalla last night.

Elanga was cleaned out by a late lunge from Gayà in the 35th minute. The challenge was right in front of the Newcastle dugout and several substitutes, led by Yoane Wissa, charged onto the field of play to confront Gayà.

In his first game since taking charge the new Newcastle head coach, Matthias Jaissle, had already remonstrated with the referee's assistant nearest to him for disallowing an Elanga goal for offside and for not awarding Newcastle a penalty for a foul on William Osula. As players from both sides clashed on the pitch, Jaissle marched towards the same official to berate him during the Orange Trophy pre-season match.

Elanga received treatment for the injury and, after a lengthy delay, was carried from the field of play, visibly

Elanga appeared to be in pain as he was taken off on a stretcher

distressed with his head in his hands, however he was later up and walking and appeared to have avoided serious injury. The referee, José María Sánchez Martínez, had raced to show Gayà a red card after the challenge.

The incident overshadowed the start of Jaissle's reign at Newcastle. The German, 38, was an animated figure on the sideline, in a white shirt with rolled up sleeves and smart blue trousers, a contrast to his predecessor Eddie Howe, who always wore a club track suit.

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Football

Who's next Dowman?

The ten starlets to watch

Premier League teams are younger than ever and these ten players could explode on to the scene this season...

TOM ALLNUTT

When a talented teenager at Tottenham Hotspur was considering his future this summer, he asked his agent the question that, to his mind, got to the heart of the problem. The issue wasn't the terms on offer or the relationships built with dedicated staff at Spurs. The question was: how many academy players started for Tottenham last season? The answer was none.

Top teenagers don't want to wait in the Premier League any more. They know the division is younger than ever and that if one club is not offering them first-team opportunities, another surely will. Youngsters once considered old enough only to scrub the boots of the senior pros are being handed starts in the toughest league in the world.

Just look at the numbers: the three youngest debutants to play in the Premier League – Ethan Nwaneri (15 years, five months and 28 days), Max Dowman (15y 7m 23d) and Jeremy Monga (15y 8m 28d) – all entered the stage in the past four years. Last season the Premier League had its fourth-youngest scorer, when Rio Ngumoha curled in the winner against Newcastle United three days before his 17th birthday in August, and then the youngest ever, when Dowman scored against Everton aged 16 and 73 days in March, giving him more Premier League goals than GCSEs.

Incredible as it may seem, Dowman (still 16) and Nwaneri (now 19) are already big names at Arsenal, just as Ngumoha (17) has demonstrated his sizzling talent on the wing for Liverpool. Likewise Estêvão (19) at Chelsea, Eli Junior Kroupi (20) at Bournemouth and Josh King (19) at Fulham, all of whom became established sen-

ior players last season. So which teenagers, unknown to the wider world, could burst on to the scene in the coming months? Here are nine (and one 20-year-old who deserves a mention) who may be making waves in the Premier League this season.

RYAN McAIDO 18, winger, Manchester City For all the noise around Ngumoha leaving Chelsea for Liverpool in 2024, the west London club were just as gutted to lose McAido to City that same summer. An electric winger who plays mainly on the right, McAido is a demon one-v-one dribbler, with his ability to nip inside on to his favoured left foot or to drive down the line, where he can shoot or deliver with his right. His Mohamed Salah-style shots, with a short backlit after cutting in, make his finishes hard to stop.

McAido played twice for City last season in the FA Cup and scored in a 10-1 win against Exeter City, when Pep Guardiola said: "The guy wants the ball constantly. When Ryan faces the goal, he's so dangerous." City's new manager, Enzo Maresca, is a fan too. He gave McAido half an hour in a pre-season friendly against Inter Milan last week, when the teenager, who plays for England Under-18, sent social media into meltdown with a mesmerising run.

SHEA LACEY 19, attacking midfielder, Manchester United

Academy coaches would dispute the idea that Lacey is an undiscovered gem because of how long he has been rated as one of the best players in his age group. A slaloming attacking midfielder in the Phil Foden mould, Lacey is at his best either coming in off the right or as a No 10, where his touch, dribbling and eye for a pass have long marked him out as a creator with huge potential.

At 5ft 6in, Lacey has always relied more on his technique than strength, but he was a promising boxer growing up in Liverpool and has retained a feisty side that the United head coach Michael Carrick likes, even if he was sent off against Aston Villa in his third of four appearances last season. Lacey has enjoyed an encouraging pre-season under Carrick, scoring in a 5-0 win against Rosenborg.

THE YOUNGEST PLAYER IN EACH YEAR OF THE PREMIER LEAGUE

1992/93 Rob Bowman (Leeds) Age: 17 years, 79 days (Average age of Premier League starters: 26y 27f) 93/94 Stephen Carr (Tottenham) 17y 28d (27y 46d) 94/95 Emile Heskey (Leicester) 17y 56d (27y 12d) 95/96 Neil Finn (West Ham) 17y 3d (27y 9d) 96/97 Richard Dunne (Everton) 17y 112d (27y 164d) 97/98 Gareth Barry (Aston Villa) 17y 76d (27y 33d) 98/99 Joe Cole (West Ham) 17y 83d (27y 74d) 99/2000 Joe Cole (West Ham) 17y 350d (27y 201d) 00/01 Jay Bothroyd (Coventry) 18y 181d (27y 143d) 01/02 Stewart Downing (M'trough) 17y 276d (27y 201d) 02/03 Wayne Rooney (Everton) 16y 297d (27y 176d) 03/04 Martin Crane (Southampton) 17y 218d (27y 278d) 04/05 Cesc Fàbregas (Arsenal) 17y 103d (27y 178d) 05/06 Micah Richards (Man City) 17y 233d (27y 83d) 06/07 Theo Walcott (Arsenal) 17y 212d (27y 10d) 07/08 Martyn Waghorn (Sunderland) 17y 337d (27y 2d) 08/09 Jose Baxter (Everton) 16y 198d (27y 34d)

LUCÁ WILLIAMS-BARNETT

17, No 10, Tottenham As a former No 10 himself, Roberto De Zerbi believes he has a special connection with creators and in Williams-Barnett he has one of the most talked about young attackers in England. Williams-Barnett, who joined Spurs from Luton Town's academy aged ten, can play out wide but is most comfortable centrally, where he has the freedom to find pockets of space. With his supreme touch and balance belying a tall and gangly frame, there is something of Cole Palmer about Williams-Barnett, who came on as a late substitute in the Carabao Cup last September aged 16 and has stepped forward during pre-season, with De Zerbi calling him a "precious diamond". He needs to work on his body strength, De Zerbi has said, but Williams-Barnett does not lack confidence, as shown by his cheeky Panenka penalty against Sydney FC.

MARLI SALMON 16, centre back, Arsenal Salmon is very much a modern central defender, all elegance and composure on the ball, with an instinct for danger that allows him to outmanoeuvre opponents, rather than stopping them with thundering tackles. With William Saliba as his role model, Salmon made headlines in March for showboating in midfield, as he did kick-ups while Arsenal's under-21s led Reading 4-4, before being shoved to the ground.

Born in Leytonstone, Salmon joined Arsenal's under-21s after being scouted as a striker, but quickly developed into a central defender. He can also play at right back. It was in the latter position that Salmon made his debut in December, introduced in a 3-0 win against Club Bruges in the Champions League to become Arsenal's third-youngest outfield player, after Dowman and Nwaneri. Salmon,

2009/10 Lennard Sowah (Portsmouth) Age 17y 238d (Average age of Premier League starters 27y 210d) 10/11 Jack Robinson (Liverpool) 17y 234d (27y 189d) 11/12 Adam Henley (Blackburn) 17y 195d (27y 103d) 12/13 Luke Shaw (Southampton) 17y 121d (27y 132d) 13/14 Moussa Dembélé (Fulham) 17y 261d (27y 112d) 14/15 Adam Armstrong (Newcastle) 17y 219d (27y 130d) 15/16 Reece Oxford (West Ham) 16y 236d (27y 148d) 16/17 Ben Woodburn (Liverpool) 17y 175d (27y 305d) 17/18 Reiss Nelson (Arsenal) 18y 119d (27y 135d) 18/19 Mason Greenwood (Man United) 17y 223d (27y 68d) 19/20 Rukaya Saka (Arsenal) 18y 17d (27y 12d) 20/21 Daniel Jebbison (Sheffield United) 17y 276d (27y 10d) 21/22 Carney Chukwumeka (A Villa) 17y 312d (27y 95d) 22/23 Rico Lewis (Man City) 18y 37d (27y 21d) 23/24 Lewis Miley (Newcastle) 17y 194d (26y 269d) 24/25 Mikey Moore (Tottenham) 17y 77d (26y 260d) 25/26 Max Dowman (Arsenal) 16y 144d (26y 224d)

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who has represented England Under-17, has come on as a substitute in Arsenal's pre-season friendlies against Girona and Real Betis.

JOÉL DRAKES-THOMAS

17, wing/wingback, Crystal Palace

Drakes-Thomas's mum told him to put the phone down and get back to work when he called to tell her he would be making his first-team debut for Crystal Palace in December, aged 16, in the Conference League. He started as a central attacking midfielder that night against the Finnish side KuPS, when he was named man of the match, and has featured for Palace in pre-season under their new head coach, Pierre Sage.

Drakes-Thomas played for Lambeth Tigers, the youth team at which Jadon Sancho started, and is more of a traditional winger, whose greatest strength is the quality of his delivery. Some believe Drakes-Thomas's long-term future is as an attacking right back. He has already been tested as a right wingback in the Palace youth teams, where his crossing, combination play and diligence off the ball make him a natural fit. With Palace short of options on the right flank and another gruelling fixture list, given their qualification for the Europa League, Drakes-Thomas should get more first-team opportunities.

GEORGE HEMMINGS

19, central midfield, Aston Villa

Villa are one of a cluster of clubs – Newcastle, Brentford and Fulham among them – considered to be taking strides at academy level and Hemmings is their most highly regarded talent.

A central midfielder with the ability to receive the ball in tight areas and keep it under pressure, Hemmings has also made England's youth coaches take notice, especially given this country's dearth of deep-lying, passing midfielders. Hemmings made

AVERAGE AGES LAST SEASON

Howe's group when his ascent was halted by a season-ending shin injury in January. He has captained England Under-17 and signed his first professional contract last month.

LUC DE FOUGEROLLES

20, central defence, Fulham

Fulham's new head coach, Alvaro Arbeloa, has pledged to promote more academy graduates and De Fougerolles is knocking on the door. Born in London to a Canadian father, he joined Fulham's academy aged eight before going out on loan to the Belgian side Dender last season.

His international career has accelerated and he played for Canada this summer, meaning he has five World Cup matches on his CV before making his league debut for Fulham. De Fougerolles played in midfield and at right back while being fast-tracked through Fulham's youth teams, but has become an imposing, aggressive central defender, with the kind of physically and athleticism needed to survive in the Premier League.

Alyson Rudd

...And the managers in the top flight are getting younger too – but beware of the Rosenior effect

The average age of Premier League managers this season is 46 and that includes Everton's David Moyes, who at 63 is 30 years older than Brighton & Hove Albion's Fabian Hürzeler. How is it possible that expensively assembled teams, with ever-younger stars who need strong leadership, are entrusted to such relative novices?

It feels counterintuitive. It feels as if every club turning to relative youth ought to be experiencing the Liam Rosenior effect. Actually, the appointment of Rosenior, aged 41 at the time, helps to illustrate how it is that young managers can be successful.

Rosenior embodied all that a young coach should avoid, and failed as a consequence. Chelsea took him from Strasbourg simply because Clearlake Capital owns both clubs and it seemed the least annoying move to make after the unexpected departure of Enzo Maresca. Rosenior was, if anything, too deferential to the players, too mates, too quick to acknowledge he knew the media were baffled by his promotion. He lasted 3½ months before being sacked in April.

But Hürzeler was not sacked when he suffered a poor run of form, winning one game in 13 midway through last season. He had become, aged just 31, the youngest-ever permanent manager in the division when appointed in June 2024. And now, we are starting to forget his age and remember instead how he navigated that downturn. It helps when a club's owner is admired for being such a shrewd operator. Brighton and Tony Bloom do their homework. They knew they could trust a 31-year-old in good times and bad because of their due diligence. And when a club like Brighton opt for youth, you can be sure it helps other clubs to be less fearful of it.

Hürzeler has always shrugged when reminded of his age but the crucial thing, he told me in April, is not to try to act older. "The most important thing," he said, "is that I can be myself, so I don't have to play a role ... because everyone will recognise it."

And this was where Rosenior went wrong. He tried to disguise his lack of top-level experience, pushing his glasses further up his nose as he imparted nuggets of wisdom that no one bought, and he lost the dressing room.

Young managers need to embrace their youth. The second-youngest manager in the Premier League is Newcastle United's Matthias Jaissle. The tall 38-year-old looks like a gym instructor but leans into the image – and why not,

given he demands high-energy "vertical" football?

Mikel Arteta is proof that sticking with a young manager yields glory. He was 37 when appointed by Arsenal in December 2019 but seemed much older as he contemplated the discipline he would have to impose upon a fractured group. He suffered setbacks, not least finishing second three seasons on the trot, but the view was that for as long as he was learning, growing, adapting, he was the right man to break the curse; that position was vindicated in May.

Being young does not preclude possessing an aura. If men in their thirties and forties don't try too hard, they can possess a presence. It would seem Chelsea learnt a lesson after Rosenior by appointing Xabi Alonso, 44, who has a stellar playing career to impress the dressing room but also that stint at Bayer Leverkusen where they won the Bundesliga title in 2024-25 without losing a match.

Liverpool fans thought he was

Iraola's trajectory is the most intriguing of all – but it may take time for his methods to be fully assimilated

destined for Anfield but instead they have another 44-year-old, Andoni Iraola, who, of all the young managers in the division, is on the most intriguing trajectory, having overhauled Bournemouth so that they delivered incredibly attractive football. It may take time for his methods to be fully assimilated on Merseyside, but if there is an early hiccup, the hierarchy must surely stick with him on the basis of growth in unity.

None of this means there is no place for older coaches. Moyes has been adept at bringing stability to clubs in need and even Roy Hodgson, aged 78, was made interim head coach at Bristol City towards the end of last season. They needed someone who could make sure the players were comfortable playing 4-4-2 and, really, there was nobody better out there to do that.

Would he be happy to help out in the short-term at a Premier League club? You bet he would. Which means Hürzeler can look forward, maybe, to another 45 years in the spotlight.

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Football Carabao Cup

Sullivan defies advice to stay away from stadium

West Ham Castellanos 43, 50, Bowen 45

Portsmouth Segecio 33

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Charlie Gordon

The West Ham United co-owner David Sullivan defied advice to stay away from the London Stadium and managed to go largely undetected by fans as he took his seat in the stands for the Carabao Cup match against Portsmouth yesterday.

The stadium's operators and West Ham's fan advisory board had both recommended that Sullivan avoid attending the club's first home game of the season due to concerns around fan unrest. But in an act of defiance West Ham's largest shareholder, who has been accused of historical allegations

of sexual misconduct, ignored the pleas and was present at the first home fixture since his accusers spoke out. He was seen sitting next to a large man in a beige suit as he watched the match but West Ham said he was a guest of Sullivan's rather than security.

Fans turned up in large numbers but Sullivan managed to slip under the radar and there was little to no reaction to his arrival, two and a half months after some supporters heckled Sullivan on the day West Ham were relegated from the Premier League. On the pitch West Ham came from behind to beat Portsmouth. Taty Castellanos scored twice and Jarrod Bowen struck with a deflected shot as West Ham responded to Adrian Segecio's 33rd-minute opener to secure a place the second round. Head coach Nuno Espirito Santo said: "We are focused

on the pitch. The noise that comes from outside cannot distract us. We're going to find a lot of noise so we need to focus on the game, do our job, and the players did."

Sullivan, 77, resigned as West Ham's co-chair in June, days before the publication of a joint investigation by The Times and BBC's Panorama revealed serious historical allegations. The former newspaper and pornography mogul has been accused by seven women of abusing his power and preying on them for sex.

The allegations, which Sullivan "categorically" denies, date back as far as the 1980s, when the accusers – all in their late teens or early twenties at the time – were models aspiring to work for his Daily and Sunday Sport print titles.

Eight women, including one from the investigation, reported Sullivan's conduct to the police. He has not been charged in relation to their allegations. It was also revealed

Bowen scored West Ham's second goal in front of Sullivan, inset

in the investigation that Sullivan has been banned from contact with West Ham's youth and women's teams for the past three years due to safeguarding concerns – something the club and London Stadium operators were unaware of prior to

the investigation. Sullivan remains West Ham's largest single shareholder but he would be willing to sell his 38.8 per cent stake in the club, and a shifting landscape in the boardroom could make an agreement more likely. A consortium led by Amanda Staveley, which has agreed to buy a 25.1 per cent stake from the family of David Gold for £150 million, is one potential buyer. West Ham's second-largest shareholder, Daniel Kretinsky, is another.

Manor Solomon is set to sign a three-year deal at West Ham after they agreed a £7 million deal with Tottenham Hotspur. The winger, 27, scored ten goals and added 13 assists on loan at Leeds United to help them achieve promotion from the Championship in 2025. West Ham will pay an initial £5 million plus £2 million in add-ons.

SOUTHAMPTON WIN AND FANS SING 'WE'LL SPY WHEN WE WANT'

Southampton won their first competitive game since the "Spygate" scandal, beating Colchester United 2-0 in the Carabao Cup first round.

Southampton were expelled from the Championship play-offs in May for covertly observing a training session of their semi-final opponents, Middlesbrough. They have also received a four-point deduction from the EFL and their head coach, Tonda Eckert, could yet be banned by the FA.

Their fans chanted "we'll spy when we want" in Colchester's away end, while their players held their nerve against League Two opponents. Southampton's class told in the second half when two substitutes – Cyle Larin and Romeo Akachukwu – scored.

Elsewhere, Millwall goalkeeper Lukas Jensen saved all four Queens Park Rangers penalties to help his side win a shoot-out. The game finished 1-1 in normal time before Jensen became the hero, saving spot-kicks from Ilias Chair, Harvey Vale, Koki Saito and Kwame Poku. Millwall's Jake Cooper and Mark Sykes scored.

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Athletics European Championships

Hodgkinson is running faster than ever yet losing ground to new rival

Molly McElwee

Heely Hodgkinson's season so far is difficult to sum up. Even though she has been running the fastest times of her career, curiously, she has not always been winning. She may be the reigning Olympic champion and the poster girl for the European Championships next week in Birmingham, but in reality she is no longer the outright favourite to take home the title.

Hodgkinson, 24, remains the biggest star in British athletics after her golden summer in Paris two years ago. She has spent the past few seasons carving out a space as she most successful 800m runner in the world – as well as the most recognisable. But an injury-plagued 2025 stalled her, and so far 2026 has been a mixed bag.

This season began with the huge high of smashing the world indoor 800m record, which had stood for nearly 24 years, in Lievin, France. At that point in February, she looked almost untouchable. But the woman trailing her in second place that day, Audrey Werro, seemed only to be biding her time.

In June, the Swiss athlete sent shockwaves through the sport when she ran 1min 53.98sec in Stockholm, the third-fastest time in history and nearly two seconds faster than her personal best. It also made 22-year-old Werro only the third woman to run the 800m in under 1min 54sec, and the first to do so since 1983.

Nearly half a second behind her was Hodgkinson. The Briton had just run a personal best time (1min 54.33sec), but could not hold off Werro. Still, Hodgkinson exited the track taking the positives. That, paired with her world indoor title in February, had proven she was firmly back to her best. The result against Werro, she insisted, only nudged her closer to her goal of breaking the world record. 'I'm not that disappointed,' Hodgkinson said. 'I've mentioned the world record, and to get down to the times that we're talking about you can't do it by yourself. So I think this will actually be a pivotal moment.'

Hodgkinson left Sweden still publicly targeting the elusive 800m world

record of 1min 53.28sec set by the Czech Jarmila Kratochvílová 43 years ago, making it the longest-standing in track history. She hoped to challenge it at the London Diamond League in July, but things didn't go to plan.

Before the preceding Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Oregon, Hodgkinson suffered a fall which cut up her knees. She came second there, while Werro improved on her own personal best at another meet in Paris, running under 1min 54sec again.

In London, Hodgkinson then topped the podium, beating the improving Femke Broeders-Bol – the two-times world champion in the 400m hurdles, who has switched to the longer distance this season – but was nowhere near the world record.

Hodgkinson left the track with 'mixed emotions'. But her British

team-mate Josh Kerr, who broke the world record in the mile that day in London, praised Hodgkinson and urged her to see the bigger picture despite her obvious disappointment: 'Even if you're not happy with today – I don't know how – to be able to do that at your age and win consistently ...' he said in a joint interview. 'We are so lucky to have athletes consistently showing up and hopefully we can inspire the next generation to do the same.'

That much is clear. Hodgkinson's influence goes far beyond her wins, with an Instagram following nearing 650,000 and a BBC Sports Personality of the Year crown to her name. She has no reservations when it comes to using her platform to advocate for her sport either.

This year, Hodgkinson poked fun at West Ham United after reports circulated that the football club was potentially acting as a stumbling block in the bid to host the 2029 World Athletics Championships at the London Stadium. 'Let us have this moment,' she urged the club, adding: 'The GB team will bring back more medals to that stadium than West Ham have seen in their entire history.'

The bid was formally submitted this week.

She also will be motivated by the challenges she is experiencing on the track. In the past 18 months, she has become accustomed to overcoming disappointment. Last season was driven off course by two hamstring tears and she missed out on the world title at the outdoor championships as a result, only managing bronze behind her training partner Georgia Hunter Bell.

Such are her standards that anything but first place is a failure in Hodgkinson's eyes and only gold on home soil at the Alexander Stadium will do in Friday's 800m final. She put all her eggs in the European Championships basket this summer, after skipping the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow last month to focus on Birmingham.

'Championship racing is very different from the circuit,' she said in a recent interview, before the European Championships. 'It'll probably

be three rounds in three days, which is completely different. There'll be no pacing, times don't matter, it's all about championship racing and handling pressure.

'(It) is just a different mindset. On the circuit everyone's chasing times – but at championships it's a terrible blank slate. I've gone in ranked No1 and not won and I've gone in ranked eighth and come away with a medal. That's what makes it exciting.'

Apart from the threat of Broeders-Bol, who is still improving in the 800m but a seasoned champion at major events, this will likely be a race between the top two this year.

Hodgkinson and Werro are yet to race against each other since their meeting in Stockholm two months ago. Birmingham will be Hodgkinson's first opportunity to test her mettle against the woman threatening to usurp her.

WOMEN'S 800M: 2026 WORLD-LEADING TIMES

Audrey Werro is more than half a second faster than Keely Hodgkinson this year. Their times are both personal bests.

BIRMINGHAM 2026: WHAT TO WATCH

MEN'S 5,000M FINAL TOMORROW, 8.40PM

Norway's Jakob Ingebrigtsen has not raced in nearly a year due to injury, and underwent achilles surgery in February. He won the double in the 1,500m and 5,000m at each of the last three European Championships, but is focusing on the longer distance this time.

MEN'S 400M FINAL WEDNESDAY, 8.50PM

If two-time 400m champion Matthew Hudson-Smith adds to his four European golds, he will join Roger Black and Sir Mo Farah as the British men to have won most titles. On form, he is

the leading man on the continent this year.

WOMEN'S 1,500M FINAL THURSDAY, 9.50PM

Six-time European champion Dina Asher-Smith is one win away from equalling the record for the most successful athlete in the history of the championships. Based on her times this season, she is the favourite in the 200m, but British team-mate Amy Hunt will be her biggest rival.

WOMEN'S HEPTATITION BEGINS FRIDAY, MORNING SESSION

Olympic silver medallist Katarina Johnson-Thompson

pulled out of the Commonwealth Games at the eleventh hour due to injury and has yet to compete on the international stage since last year's World Championships. European gold is missing from her collection of medals.

WOMEN'S 1,500M SUNDAY 16 AUG, 9.13PM

The last individual medal of the championships will be decided on Sunday in the women's 1,500m. Olympic bronze medallist Georgia Hunter Bell is the heavy favourite and is hunting down her first European title.

TV BBC & TNT Sports

British athletes told to pay £150 for friends and family tickets

Molly McElwee

In the run-up to the first UK-hosted European Championships, British athletes were looking forward to having as much home support as possible. But many have been left 'surprised' to find they are not entitled to any complimentary tickets for family and friends.

UK Athletics informed athletes on July 27 that they must purchase tickets for any supporters who wish to attend the event, which starts tomorrow, including, in some cases, personal coaches who did not qualify for accreditation. At other major

championships, including the Olympics in Paris two years ago, athletes usually expect to be allocated at least one or two free tickets for their sessions. However, this event's policy is less generous.

While an allocation of tickets has been ringfenced for family and friends in the 18,000-seat Alexander Stadium, in Birmingham, UKA is not providing any complimentary or discounted tickets for athletes. Some have reported having to fork out about £150 per ticket in that reserved section. While cheaper areas of the stadium were available, one athlete competing in Birmingham told the

Times that more affordable options sold out before they learnt there were no complimentary tickets. 'They could have even offered a discounted rate, so it is a little bit of a surprise, a bit of a shame,' they said. 'It would be good to have more family and friends there.'

'We thought it was maybe a mistake at first,' another athlete said. 'There are reserved tickets within a space so that your friends or family can definitely get tickets, even if it's at the last minute, but they're full price.'

UKA has encountered financial trouble in recent years, even facing the threat of bankruptcy in 2023.

After major cost-saving efforts, including staff cuts, last year the governing body reported a surplus for the first time since 2017.

A UK Athletics spokesperson told the Times that, while competing athletes are typically provided with complimentary tickets at national championships, this was not the case at 'previous major international championships hosted in the UK'.

'The event organisers have ringfenced a dedicated allocation of seats for friends and family to ensure they can watch athletes compete, as several sessions are selling fast or are already sold out,' it said.

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Cricket

Root must learn to harness his star man

Returning captain did not get best out of Jofra Archer in his first stint—it's time to prioritise building that relationship

SIMON WILDE

Cricket Correspondent

When Ben Stokes announced during the Trent Bridge Test that he was stepping down from the England captaincy, and international cricket altogether, Jofra Archer seemed among those team-mates most upset. After the match, Archer was misty-eyed, saying he had not only lost a captain but a friend. "The hardest part is imagining a dressing room without him," he said. "Every game I've played, he's been there. It's going to hit me."

One of Stokes's great strengths as a leader was his empathy towards his players, especially bowlers as Archer who occasionally needed an arm around their shoulder. Long hours in the field can be tough work when conditions, fortune or fitness are against you.

Stokes said of Archer in Australia last winter: "He's someone who doesn't give away too much but I try to spend a lot of time with him away from cricket. I've got to know the person over a number of years. I'm very close with Jof."

A few days later, as if to demonstrate the point, Stokes and Archer shared a partnership of 106 in Adelaide to keep England's hopes alive. When, to his grave disappointment, Stokes was finally dismissed, Archer ran all the way from the middle to pat his captain on the back before he left the field.

Their relationship was not always smooth. Dur-

Root's handling of Archer in the Test arena has not always inspired confidence with Stokes, his predecessor, more in tune with the fast bowler's needs

ing that same game, they exchanged words when Stokes refused to give Archer a third man, telling him that if he bowled to plan, he wouldn't need one. Archer finished with five wickets.

Stokes, too, was the man who spoke crucial words of reassurance to Archer moments before he bowled the Super Over that won England the World Cup final in 2019. "Win or lose, today does not define you," he said. Archer got the job done.

And so, over to Joe Root, because one of Root's most important jobs when the takes over as official Test captain for a second time – against Pakistan in Leeds this month – will be establishing a good relationship with England's most senior multiformat bowler. It is unlikely that he will be able to create the kind of chemistry that his predecessor managed, but he will need to convince Archer that he is at least sensitive to his needs.

This was not altogether apparent during Root's first spell. After Archer's brilliant debut series against Australia in 2019, it was widely perceived that Root overbowled Archer a number of times before he broke down injured in 2021; his last eight Tests under Root, admittedly some of them on lifeless surfaces, yielded only 17 wickets at 44.23.

Nor did Root's handling of Archer when he stood in for Stokes in the Oval Test in June inspire confidence that things will be better this time. Root gave Archer an eight-over spell, laced with short stuff at Glenn Phillips, late on day one, then did not call on him for 90 minutes the next morning when the second new ball was available.

Archer's lack of red-ball conditioning may have been a factor, although England said not, but this was a messy and costly end to the New Zealand innings, and contributed to an eventual defeat. With Stokes back, Archer made a slow start to the Nottingham Test – New Zealand's openers began with a 317-run partnership – but produced an

explosive spell at the start of their second innings and ended the game with six wickets. He was named England's player of the series.

Captains are particularly important to team morale in Test cricket because of the prolonged nature of the format, but Archer has also benefited from strong relationships with white-ball leaders such as Eoin Morgan and his close friend and mentor Chris Jordan at Southern Brave during this year's Hundred, in which Archer has generally bowled well, and at high pace.

With England rebuilding their Test

IN HIS PRIME

Most wickets for England 2024-26

	Wickets	Avg
A Rashid (75)	106	24.18
J Archer (59)	103	25.8
B Carse (41)	93	31.07
G Atkinson (23)	84	24.88
J Tongue (16)	55	30.72
S Bashir (18)	54	41.33
B Stokes (20)	54	27.27

Archer's appearances year by year

team, Archer has an important role to play. Jon Lewis, a former fast bowling coach with Sussex and England who worked closely with Archer for several years, and is now director of cricket at Gloucestershire, thinks Archer is going well because he has had an extended period of bowling.

"Rhythm and confidence is everything," Lewis says. "Most importantly, he's playing red-ball cricket. You find your natural line and length by repeating your skill. This rarely happens in the shorter formats."

That said, there are areas in which Archer might be better. Some observers, including Lewis, think that since he underwent elbow surgery five years ago Archer's action has changed, making it harder for him to tease the ball away from right-handers. Lewis says his release point has dropped fractionally, in part because he is bulkier than he once was owing to extensive rehab work; others argue that his elbow no longer hyper-extends as it once did, which can help keep the hand behind the wrist at release.

"He is definitely more suited to left-handers," Lewis adds. "His release-point makes it harder for him to access the right-hander's outside edge. His length is shorter than to left-handers. To be more effective he needs to take his length up a yard."

The good news for Archer is that plenty of international sides deploy left-handers at the top of the order. In the seven matches he has played since his return to Test cricket last summer, he has taken eight wickets in his opening spells. All but one were left-handers.

There could be more rich pickings on offer as well. Pakistan's likely top three are all left-handers: Azan Awais, Imam-ul-Haq and Shan Masood.

England's management believe they have a fine pace attack in the making in Archer, Gus Atkinson and Josh Tongue, supported by the likes of Ollie Robinson, Matt Fisher and Sam Cook. What the group lacks is a natural leader, someone who sets the tone and acts as a standard-bearer, as James Anderson did for so long. Archer is perhaps too inconsistent and quiet to provide that lead, and Atkinson is also not a demonstrative type.

Archer can bowl great spells, and great balls, but he can occasionally be innocuous. As he recently admitted, Test cricket is a tough game on the mind. "The hard thing is drifting in the field," he said. "You can be out there for a day and a half, so just being mentally strong [is important]."

Stokes had many attributes as captain but arguably he should have done more during his four years to cultivate new bowling leaders as Stuart Broad,

Anderson and Chris Woakes left the stage. But, as he admitted when he spoke at length last week to the For the Love of Cricket podcast, Stokes was not good at delegating.

"I definitely put too much on my own shoulders, and took too much responsibility away from other people who probably should have done it," he said. "But the only reason they should have done it is that I should have asked them ... I always thought, I've got to do it all." And this surely included feeling the need to lead with the ball, with Stokes often taking it upon himself to deliver the longest spells at the toughest times.

Without Stokes, Root is going to have to identify, and nurture, those who can put in big shifts in his stead. Whether this is really the best use of Archer is a conversation that needs to be had. What can be said is that England's managing director Rob Key, and the medical staff, deserve credit for the patient manner in which they brought Archer back from his injuries. They were careful not to rush things when he started playing for England again in 2024 – he played only white-ball matches for a year – and erred on the side of caution by not selecting him for the first Test against

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New Zealand this summer after he had just returned from the IPL.

With the eliminators effectively beyond Southern Brave's reach, Archer's preparations for Headingley should not be compromised by the

quick turnaround between the end of the Hundred and the first Test. Archer and the other England fast bowlers have been building up their loads, and bowling with the red ball, during recent training sessions.

HUMILIATED POPE RETIRED OUT BY CURRAN AFTER SCORING EIGHT OFF NINE BALLS IN THE HUNDRED

Ollie Pope became the first specialist England batsman to be retired out in a franchise tournament when MI London pulled him off the field after he had scored eight off nine balls against Trent Rockets at the Oval.

Pope, who has been recalled to England's Test squad for the first two Tests against Pakistan this month, was batting with Sam Curran, the MI captain. Curran had just hit successive

sixes off Lewis Gregory when he walked down the pitch and tapped bats with Pope, right, who went off. Pope, 28, had struggled for timing and survived an 8w review, but hit his seventh ball for four. MI London were 89 for three off 70 balls and had two big hitters in Shefane

Rutherford and Sikandar Raza to come in. Mark Butcher, on Sky, suggested Curran had spoken to Pope beforehand, along the lines of: "It's not going great, we're running out of balls." MI London's 147 for seven proved well short as they lost by six wickets with ten balls to spare.

Could gruelling Test schedule crush Australia before Ashes?

Simon Wilde

On Thursday, Australia will begin the first of two Test matches against Bangladesh in the remote northern outpost of Darwin. This isn't really the Antipodean cricket season – the Aussie Rules programme is heading into its final straight – but how else to fit everything in?

These games mark the start of an extraordinary period in which Australia are scheduled to play 20 or 21 Tests between now and the conclusion of next summer's Ashes. The additional game depends on whether, as seems likely, they qualify for the final of the World Test Championship, the event underpinning this plethora of fixtures.

No team in history has played so many Tests within a 12-month period. India from December 1982 to November 1983, and West Indies between May 2000 and April 2001, got through 18 matches each. Neither side was strong at the time – India failed to win a single game and West Indies won just three – but it was telling that both called on 25 players and changed captain along the way.

To compound the challenge, Australia face three big series away from home – in South Africa, India and England. They last won in South Africa in 2014, in India in 2004 and England in 2001, so to come out on top in any of them would be an achievement. To prevail in all three would be the stuff of Baggy Green legend.

It has already been agreed that cameras will follow them along the journey in preparation for another season of the fly-on-the-wall documentary series The Test. The visit to South Africa will be their first since they were laid low by the "Sandpaper-gate" scandal in Cape Town in 2018.

By contrast, six home Tests against Bangladesh and New Zealand will want for glamour, and commercially an England white-ball tour in November and the 150th Anniversary Test in Melbourne will have to do the heavy lifting.

Head coach Andrew McDonald and chief selector George Bailey have been planning for months how to navigate this odyssey. There are bound to be pitfalls, but they will reckon they have a chance of success. South Africa are ring-rusty having not played since November, India's recent form has been dire, and England are in the throes of a complex rebuild.

England's new captain-coach partnership of Joe Root and Stephen Fleming will nonetheless spy an opportunity. Such a punishing schedule could break Australian bodies and mean they arrive at Trent

Bridge in mid-June for the first Test weary in mind and muscle.

Before anyone gets carried away, however, it is worth remembering that Australia comfortably won last winter's Ashes despite Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood and Nathan Lyon playing only three games between them. Mitchell Starc, Scott Boland and back-up seamers Brendan Doggett and Michael Neser got the job done.

Moreover, the window in the international calendar for the Indian Premier League will allow some Australians to grab a bit of rest between mid-March and mid-May, before their trip to England.

Cummins, Hazlewood, Travis Head and Starc are contracted to IPL franchises but it is unthinkable that means will not be found for Cummins and Head, at least, to skip the tournament in what is the last year of the contracts cycle before the next mega-auction, so potential bans for withdrawing may be minimised. Head took a break after this year's IPL, citing fatigue.

Workloads are only part of the problem. Australia have an ageing team – they may take the field in Darwin with only Cameron Green under 31 – and a number of players either coming off long injury layoffs (Cummins, Hazlewood and Lyon) or short of form in Tests (Jake Weatherald, Marnus Labuschagne and Green).

McDonald and Bailey are keeping faith with the old guard, determined to put the future on hold until the Ashes is over. "The selectors continue to err on the side of experience," The Age said recently. "History will be the judge of whether they have pulled the right rein."

With injuries inevitable, they will probably need a squad of about 20. It may help that the recent pattern has been for shorter Tests, with many finishing in three or four days, sometimes even in two.

Even in the past week, Australia's plans took a hit during a training camp in Brisbane when Neser strained a right calf muscle, ruling him out of the Bangladesh series, while Josh Inglis, the designated spare batsman, succumbed to the back spasms to which he is prone.

Even if he is now over his own back issues, Cummins, the Test captain, is going to miss games, as will all of the fast bowlers. It is unrealistic to think otherwise.

Australia are prepared for Smith to deputise for Cummins, possibly quite often. "Over the last

ENGLAND AND AUSTRALIA THE NEXT 12 MONTHS

ENGLAND (15 TESTS)

Aug 19-Sept 13: Pakistan (home) two Tests Dec 17-Jan 7: South Africa (away) three Tests

Feb 14-26: Bangladesh (away) two Tests Mar 11-15: Australia (away) one Test

Mid-March to mid-May: Indian Premier League

May 28-Jun 1: Bangladesh (home) one Test Jun 18-Aug 2: Australia (home) five Tests

AUSTRALIA (20 OR 21 TESTS)

Aug 13-26: Bangladesh (home) two Tests Oct 9-31: South Africa (away) three Tests

Dec 9-Jan 8: New Zealand (home) four Tests Jan 21-Mar 3: India (away) five Tests

Mar 11-15: England (home) one Test

Jun 9-13: world Test championship final (in England) one Test (fbc)

Jun 18-Aug 2: England (away) five Tests

few months, I don't think I've seen him (Smith) as invigorated around the opportunities this Test team have," Bailey said. "I've been excited by how much thought he's putting into what's coming up."

Given their advanced ages, this period could well mark the end for several champions, probably Lyon, Smith, Starc, and Hazlewood, who is the youngest of the four but turns 36 in January.

Much will rest on Head and Smith making runs. Weatherald has been working in the nets on the flaws in his technique exposed during the Ashes, while Labuschagne has enjoyed a long break and declared himself eager to end a three-year drought without a Test century.

If Australia's champion bowlers are to cope, they will need support from all-rounders Green and Beau Webster, slated to bat at No 6 and No 8, either side of the pivotal wicketkeeper-batsman Alex Carey. Green has underachieved for too long and it really is time for him to step up with bat and ball.

After seven months recovering from hamstring surgery, Lyon faces a big test. As the standout spinner, he would ideally want to peak for the five Tests in India. If he breaks down again, it would be a huge blow. Todd Murphy has been the usual back-up for Lyon, but the tall Corey Rocchiccioli is on the rise.

Matt Renshaw, Nathan McSweeney and Sam Konstas will be among the batsmen pushing for places, while Fergus O'Neill and Neser could be fast-medium options in England next summer if Australia want to revisit the ploy of Carey standing up to the stumps.

Australia may have to shuffle their pack but they rarely put out a bad team. Underestimate them at your peril.

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JONES'S ALL-TIME COMBINED XV

● SA ● NZ

Springboks-

All Blacks epic of 1996 pinnacle of my career — this series can match it

Players of the two greatest rugby nations feel this rivalry more deeply than anything else in the sport so buckle in for four glorious Tests of divine madness

STEPHEN JONES

Divine madness. It first broke out on Friday even- ing in Cape Town when the Stormers met the touring All Blacks in a fiery match.

The magnificence of the Mother City can salve anxieties; there is an epic road-run of sandy beaches south out of the city towards Cape Point, with the peaks of the Twelve Apostles rising sky high on the other side.

From the waterfront in the city, Table Mountain looms in your sights, often wearing its tablecloth, the thin layer of white cloud that appears to rest on the flat summit.

But it is important for residents and visitors to remember that South Africa still has its vicissitudes and con- cerns, and its political dead ends. And so too the rugby tour that will build to the forthcoming and monumental Test series between the Springboks and the All Blacks. The "Greatest Rivalry", as it is justly labelled.

This glorious prospect must be viewed from an angle that acknowl- edges the beaten-up and injured play- ers. The insanity of the Test calendar, the burden of too many matches, car- ries on unchecked.

Looking at the fixtures for this weekend and next, I was sure that some of the teams had played each other four times in the past five

weeks, such has been the torrent. The great players of the two greatest nations have just been heavily involved in a nutcase new event, the Nations Championship, into the bar- gain.

It is futile, therefore, to dream the non-Test games on this tour will be classics. South Africa's stars had been whisked away for last night's 17-10 win in Argentina. "Divine madness" is the label they really should have used. And it is an arduous divine mad- ness that has happened before.

In 1996, the All Blacks came to play a three-Test series in South Africa, on the back of their participation in the

inaugural southern-hemisphere Tri Nations competition, which con- cluded with a victory over the Spring- boks in Cape Town. So although they won that series 2-1, they had actually played South Africa four times in four weeks, as they will do again now. The twist this time is that the final match is in Baltimore.

But, for now, to hell with reserva- tions. That 1996 series is the biggest action I have ever covered, bigger than any World Cup. It felt monstrous. You felt nervous merely as a witness.

New Zealand had never won a Test series in South Africa. I was to learn so much about that history, especially

THE FOUR

TESTS

Aug 22

Johannesburg, 4.10pm

Aug 29

Cape Town 4.10pm

Sept 5

Johannesburg, 4.10pm

Sept 12

Baltimore, 4pm

Fitzpatrick celebrates the 1996 series win with coach John Hart

Stuart

Barnes

Watch out world, South Africa have another fly half with superstar potential

The All Blacks Test team was wrapped up before this much- touted series. South Africa's big guns were away from home ready to roar in Argentina last night. Few expected the eight-match tour to open with a roar in Cape Town. In normal circumstances, the loss of the world's most exciting fly half, Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu, would have epitomised the missing magic of the tour's Friday-night opener. Yet Stormers' selection of a 20-year-old to start at fly half had South African rugby in a state of high excitement.

Yaqeen Ahmed — who has just turned 20 — isn't your typical wunderkind, though. He doesn't blind spectators with his brilliance. It's his generalship, the understated control that marks him out as a man of maturity,

special not magical. We expect the kids to dazzle before they mature. This man is straight into maturity. The flashy stuff is a bonus. Survival, surely, rather than blinding brilliance, would have sufficed. The odds were against him. Talk about opening-night nerves!

For a start, this was his senior debut. Imagine, your first adult 80 minutes being against the All Blacks. Against his schoolboy hero, the great Beauden Barrett. The 35-year-old owner of 145 caps against the first-class debutant.

The youngster didn't set the world ablaze but he lost little in comparison. There was nothing unforgettable, just a monumental amount of maturity on display. Here is a textbook fly half. Contrary to what people in these shores may believe, the role of a fly half was not irrevocably changed when Jonny

Wilkinson turned the position into one where tackling was a priority after a history of being expected to conjure but not to clatter. Tackling is important but it's not enough. Ahmed missed the odd tackle and didn't roll away quickly enough after a stinging low-chop tackle on an All Black forward. His defence wasn't bad, but it wasn't particularly brilliant.

Not like his defence in the recent World Under-20 Championship in which he was the heart of the champion South Africa side, an organiser and thumping tackler. He doesn't look the quickest either, not slow but not blisteringly quick. He possesses a natty enough sidestep off either foot and isn't afraid to take the ball to the gainline. Actually, that is a little generous on Friday's first-half showing. The South African commentator used

the word "shovel" to describe one of his passes. And indeed he was a little too deep. The "Chef", as he is known on the schools circuit, was not running the kitchen. And that is no surprise, nor meant to be a criticism.

But a New Zealand XV are not France Under-20. The natural nerves were overcome as he tiptoed towards the gainline early in the second half. What he revealed wasn't the electricity of Sacha but rather an innate understanding of how to shift a defence around. Here was a youngster who could take control of match manipulation.

A fly half who can tackle but cannot read a game is worth little. The reading of rugby is an art form that requires time and maturity. South African rugby recognises the necessity of not rushing in young NotOs. On the same day that Ahmed

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after the All Blacks won the first Test 23-19 in Durban. The chance for the All Blacks to do something unprecedented meant the second Test loomed as the biggest match ever played. This deficiency in their history hurt them dreadfully.

Two days before that match in Pretoria – which New Zealand would win 33-26 to clinch the series – I asked the Kiwi powers-that-be if I could interview Sean Fitzpatrick, the forbidding All Blacks captain. This was in an era before teams put up one player to be interviewed by 50 observers. I waited by the lift. The doors opened. Fitzpatrick was still a ferocious figure to me.

was steering his country's under-20s to victory over France, his team-mate in the Sanzaar junior tournament and fellow fly half, Vusi Moyo, was making a full Test debut against Wales.

Don't expect Moyo to remain in the spotlight now that Feinberg-Mngomezulu is back to full fitness, although here is the case of another No10 being eased into the subtle responsibilities of his role. The dazzling first choice has long been destined for greatness, but Rassie Erasmus, the South Africa head coach, dipped Feinberg-Mngomezulu in and out of the Test arena until 2025, when his genius was fully unveiled for all to see.

Yet plenty of good judges see Ahmed as South Africa's long-term future, even before Feinberg-Mngomezulu has emerged into his own greatness.

This was well before he had adopted some of the traits of the home counties, where he has lived now for some years.

He was guarded, but honest. It was just over a year since his team had lost the final of that unbearably emotional 1995 World Cup, and he had seen Nelson Mandela dancing with François Pienaar, the home captain, on the presentation podium.

The legend grew afterwards that the All Blacks, who had been off their game, were poisoned by hotel staff in the build-up. At least five of them had been sick at the side of the Ellis Park pitch. As ever when in the company of Fitzpatrick, there were lessons for the listener. I brought up the World Cup, and whether a series victory would be the sweetest revenge for the previous year. It soon became obvious that of the two prizes, he would go every time for winning the series.

This clearly came from soul-deep in his psyche. It was a burden carried by everyone who had come before him, and by everything that he represented wearing the black jersey with its silver fern. That made the Test series far more important, and he was not interested in going back or revenge or conspiracy theories from a year before, or anything bar the tumultuous rivalry between the two great nations, and the missing piece in the All Blacks' history.

When people discuss the hegemony of the All Blacks and the Springboks over other nations almost throughout history, it is obvious where it comes from. And so simple. They want it more. Not in their pre-match words and newspaper columns, or in bogus hand-wringing

after they have lost a game or played badly.

It is almost infinitely deeper; it is a culture clash that will manifest itself over the next weeks in South Africa. The only time that England, for example, have competed on what looked like level terms against New Zealand and South Africa was in the era leading up to the 2003 World Cup, when those sides were just two more worthy but beatable opponents. In the coming weeks, two squads will be diving deeper into their psyche. Perhaps deeper than they have dived before.

We can expect thunderous forward action, but both teams have artists too. Will the Springboks play the meteoric, glorious Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu, 24, at fly half, and how will the All Blacks cope with the rampaging Os Nché up front? Can the Springboks contain Will Jordan's attacking brilliance and subdue the talismanic, almost shamanic Ardie Savea?

We can expect Rassie Erasmus to work both inside and outside rugby's regulations – he has been known to escape with a feeble slap from World Rugby for grim offences. Dave Rennie, the new All Black coach, will be in a maelstrom. And so will the officials.

It is a crying shame that Luke Pearce and Christophe Ridley, of England, have not been named in the four-man referee squad for the Tests, along with their compatriot Matthew Carley and the Australian Angus Gardner. However, considering what is at stake – four ferocious matches and two incredible back-stories and histories – maybe they should send all four out for each match. In the madness, it is vital that the divine gets a look-in.

We waited until the 52nd minute for Ahmed to thrill us. It came after a penalty conceded by the All Blacks, ten metres or so from the Stormers tryline. All game Ahmed had kicked for touch with solid conservatism. This time there was the briefest of glimpses upfield as he accelerated towards the penalty mark. The opposition had left 15 metres sloppily unmarked.

Ahmed showed he had the confidence to change the tempo of the game

Suddenly, the fly half tapped instead of kicking and opened up an opportunity, passing into the space. He was there, cruising in support, as Stormers swept into the All Blacks' 22. Here was that rare spark of understanding, wrapped up with the confidence to change the tempo of a game.

This will not be remembered as one of Ahmed's best games when he is old and grey. But he showed he has the ability to shape a game, the temperament not to be unnerved by the occasion, an accurate boot, and the maturity to make the top grade as a fine fly half.

The South African schools star is set for a stellar career. Another No10 with quite some temperament enters the Springbok equation. For when? I have no idea. But believe me, he's there, somewhere, as part of Erasmus's master plan.

MY COMBINED NEW ZEALAND-SOUTH AFRICA XV (SELECTED FROM PLAYERS I'VE WATCHED LIVE)

FULL BACK WILL JORDAN (NZ, 2020-)

Jordan is an express force and at 28 years old he has enough time left to become one of the greats. André Joubert, the now-retired South African, was labelled the Rolls-Royce of full backs but Jordan's armoury is incredible.

WING CHESLIN KOLBE (SA, 2018-)

One of the greats, whether performing in European club rugby or in Springbok green. Small and yet impressively physical, Kolbe is a delight with his brilliance, so much of it intuitive.

CENTRE DAMIAN DE ALLENDE (SA, 2014-)

The Springboks never go for quick feet and elusive runners in their midfield. De Allende has been a rock-like presence for years. He is magnificently, relentlessly physical and alert, and he eases out Danie Gerber, previously the jewel of Springbok backs.

CENTRE FRANK BUNCE (NZ, 1992-97)

The ferocious Bunce was a colossus in 1996 when New Zealand won a series against the Springboks in South Africa for the first time. His physicality was almost frightening and it was allied to a formidable rugby brain.

WING JONAH LOMU (NZ, 1994-2002)

It is a measure of the wonderful left wings both countries have developed that Lomu was not quite a walk-in selection – he was competing against the Springboks' blissful Bryan Habana. But Lomu is the man who changed the sport and the most famous rugby

player the world has ever seen.

FLY HALF DAN CARTER (NZ, 2003-15)

Carter was at his towering peak when the All Blacks were almost unstoppable. He was understated in his demeanour but a brilliant, even artistic player, as well as a back-division general and brilliant executor of a game plan.

SCRUM HALF AARON SMITH (NZ, 2012-23)

There are so many contenders for the No 9 jersey, including Joost van der Westhuizen and Fourie du Preez, but Smith takes it – a wonderfully inventive, indestructible figure and an engine for the team alongside Carter at half back.

PROP KEN GRAY (NZ, 1963-69)

Gray had a mystique around him. He was ultimately an unshown player, but one of incredible intensity and authority up front. Ox Nché of South Africa is the best loose-head prop in the sport now.

HOOKER SEAN FITZPATRICK (NZ, 1986-97)

Immovable, even up against the phenomenal present Boks hooker Malcolm Marx. Fitzpatrick's baleful authority as player and captain endured long after the final whistle, and he never left the field in any Test.

PROP OLO BROWN (NZ, 1990-98)

Brown was the props' prop, and rated by everyone. A magnificent scrummager and wise around the field, he was also something rugby did not always

have in those years – an intelligent prop.

LOCK CHEN ETZEBETH (SA, 2012-)

The colossus has been absent recently, but Rassie Erasmus was always going to recall Etzebeth for this tumultuous series. A gigantic, forbidding fixer and great lineout forward, Etzebeth also moves well around the field.

LOCK VICTOR MATFIELD (SA, 2001-15)

The tall lock was by no means as physical as Sam Whitelock, Colin Meads and some of the other monsters available in the position. But he was a top lineout operator, light enough to be lifted to the skies, a superb athlete and a key figure in the 2007 World Cup.

BLIND-SIDE PIETER-STEPH DU TOIT (SA, 2013-)

An all-time hero in South Africa, magnificently hard, influential and inspirational. Du Toit is a Springbok deity, with a consistency that is scarcely believable.

OPEN-SIDE MICHAEL JONES (NZ, 1987-98)

New Zealand have never been short of open-side flankers, but Jones emerged after an early cap for Samoa to become a legendary All Black, a man fêted and even adored for his play and honesty. His seat among the gods is safe for all time.

NO8 DUANE VERMEULEN (SA, 2012-2023)

Pierre Spies was a monster athlete, Zinzan Brooke was also close, but the great Vermeulen carries the day. He is another to be back in the shaker just in time for the Greatest Rivalry series – though now as an assistant coach.

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Padel thinks it can outgrow tennis – but will rising costs halt the boom?

Sold out event at Olympia proves sport has hit new heights in UK where it brings in £200m a year, but Britons struggle at elite level and court costs have reached £100 an hour

MOLLY McELWEE

Limee Gibson was on her way to her press conference at Premier Padel's London tournament when a fan stopped her for a photo. With a world ranking of 101, Gibson is still not that accustomed to being recognised. But considering she is the British No2 in the fastest-growing sport in the UK, she probably needs to start getting used to it.

Over the past five years, the British padel scene has exploded. In 2021 there were a mere £50 courts in the UK and most people had never even heard of the sport. Now there are upwards of 1,500 courts.

For the uninitiated, padel is a squash-tennis hybrid racket sport. It follows the tennis scoring system and is mostly played in doubles, on a court enclosed by glass walls. First conceived in Mexico in 1969, for decades padel was mainly limited to Latin America and Spain but it has spread.

The UK was late to the party but there has a been a boom since the pandemic. The Lawn Tennis Association (LTA), which took over UK governance of padel in 2020, has invested £18 million into the sport to

date. It says participation tipped over the one million mark in May this year (up from only 15,000 in 2019).

The UK padel economy is valued at £200 million a year, according to Novuna Finance, and Andy Murray, Anthony Joshua and Stormzy are among those investing in the sport.

The drastic increase in demand has caused court fees to rocket, averaging between £30 and £50 an hour, but reaching up to £100 at some London clubs. The equipment quickly adds up too. Padel is played with tennis balls and carbon fibre rackets that have a foam core, retailing from £25 to £300. Just as tennis has traditionally been seen as a sport for the middle class, padel is gaining a similar reputation.

That has not yet stalled its growth, though. Recreational padel is booming, but the next question is whether British padel can be a force at elite level. The arrival of Qatari-backed

Premier Padel – the world's leading tour – on these shores is a significant step towards that goal.

London's historic Olympia was transformed last week into a state of the art padel stadium, as the world's best players came to the capital for the P1 event (one rung down from the sport's major championships).

Gibson, the British No2, is ranked at 101 in the world

This is the first time London has hosted a Premier Padel event and tickets sold out for Thursday through to today, with spectators packing out the 4,000-seat Centre Court. The prize pot is €479,068 (about £410,000), and it is being streamed live on TNT Sports.

While the MC dubbed the opening day as 'Brit Tuesday', a quick scan of entries provided a more accurate picture of the world powers of padel.

Fifty-two of the 96 men who started the tournament were from Spain. On the women's side, the Spanish dominance was even starker: 42 of 56 competitors. Argentina also had a large contingent. By comparison, only six British players made it into the main draws (two women and four men), and all of them gained entry via wild cards because of their lower rankings. Only one British man is in the top 200, with four on the women's side. To give you a flavour of what they're up against, there are eight Spaniards in the women's top ten alone, and six in the men's. Christian Medina Murphy was the only British player who won a main-draw match.

The professional game in the UK is very much in its infancy, and Gibson's personal journey is evidence of that. A former tennis player, she struggled to break through on the professional tour and turned to coaching in Dubai. While there, 3½ years ago, she played padel for the first time at the age of 31. She loved it and made speedy progress to become the first British player to break into the world's top 100. But the reality is that she is competing against players with decades more experience. 'A couple of the girls I've played with have been playing padel since they were five,' Gibson says. 'It's crazy. I didn't even realise it was around for that long! Courts have been in Spain for a very long time and they've grown up playing it – they didn't start with tennis, they always started with padel.'

The British men's No2, Louie Harris, the world No272, meanwhile benefited from the vast playing options and higher coaching standards in Spain. Cardiff-born Harris moved to Marbella when he was 12 and had padel courts on his doorstep. Though he grew up with rugby and judo in Wales, padel became the most accessible sport to him during his teens on the Costa del Sol – and he thrived.

Like most of the British players, Harris's ranking qualifies him to play in second-tier International Padel Federation (FIP) Tour events, where prize money does not earn them a feasible salary. This week, an FIP Bronze tournament in Portimão, Portugal, had a total prize pot of €10,000 (about

£8,565) for a 32-team draw. Harris, 24, supplements his winnings with LTA Padel Performance Programme funding (ranging from £5,000 to £15,000 per year, depending on ranking), sponsorship and part-time coaching jobs. While Gibson is in a better position because of her higher ranking (No101), she still relies mostly on sponsors and the LTA too.

Real money is being made at the top of the rankings though, where players are earning up to €450,000 in prize money per year, plus gaining sponsorship deals with global brands such as Rolex, Cupra and Red Bull.

But with such a huge surge in opportunities, growing pains remain across the sport. At professional level, women are in the minority. Of the 11,000 ranked players recorded by the FIP in 2025, only 27 per cent were women. Very few women coach.

On the Premier Padel tour, prize money is unequal. Today in London, the men's champions win €25,000 each, while the women earn €17,000 apiece. Things are moving in the right direction though, with equal prize money awarded at all four majors and the Premier Padel Tour finals.

Meanwhile, at the grassroots level in the UK, only 30 per cent of padel participants are female (compared to 43 per cent in tennis). Steve Yeardley, the LTA Padel Manager, says it's 'an imbalance we are committed to addressing as a governing body

focused on equality and inclusion', particularly by boosting female coaching numbers and expanding participation opportunities.

Lauren van der Westhuizen, who launched the UK's first female-founded padel club, House of Racquet, says programming is a key factor in participation too. 'Women's-only classes are really popular and I think it's important to give women primary slots, not just 3pm,' she says. 'That was a pain point for me as a padel customer, I could only find women's-only slots in the middle of the working day. The programming side of it is really important, and not just marketing events like 'ladies, padel and prosecco.'

Aside from closing the gender gap, there is also a focus on ensuring growth does not spiral out of control. Rather than trying to emulate the behemoth padel ecosystems in Argentina or Spain, the LTA is learning from Sweden, which experienced a padel bust when court supply began outweighing demand in recent years. Making padel cheaper to play is another obvious strategy and the LTA is in talks with the government about greater investment in publicly owned padel facilities.

All being well, Gibson says she can see a future where padel is more popular than tennis in the UK: 'If you go inside a padel club now, you pretty much see every court is being used. If

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The Olympia event that concludes today has showcased at elite level a sport that, includes Stormzy, inset, among its regular participants

450k

Top pad professionals can earn up to £450,000 in a year

30%

The percentage of grassroots pad participants that are female

you go in a tennis club, you see a lot of empty courts. The great thing about padel, no matter how old you are, you can step on the court and have a good game."

As for the elite game, it is here to stay. Sela (an events company backed by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund) has a ten-year commitment to organise the London tournament for Premier Padel. "Selling out Olympia shows that the UK was ready to watch the very best men's and women's players live," David Serrahima, the co-CEO of Premier Padel, says.

At the lower levels 2026 will feature five FIP Tour events hosted in the UK, as well as seven LTA Padel British Tour Grade I events (all award equal prize money).

Still, we may be some way off having a British player contend for the No1 ranking. "It's hard to put a time on that," Harris says. "If you look at someone like Aimee who has only been playing for three years, there's no reason that can't happen again: a player coming from different high-level racket sport fast-tracking through that process.

"But I think if you're talking about being in a position to have lots of chances, that's going to take a while. We're growing, but we definitely need a few more youngsters with a racket in their hand at four years old. If those players start now, let's say ten years from now, they'll be in that position."

Health fear over spiralling misuse of weight-loss drugs in elite sport

One in ten physicians, in a new study, knows of athletes taking the drug to enhance performance

TOM KERSHAW

The prevalence of weight-loss drugs in gyms and running clubs is an open secret, but professional athletes are increasingly using them as a means of enhancing their performance.

According to new research led by Loughborough University, one in ten physicians who work with athletes that compete at national level and above are aware of cases of them using the drugs without medical need. The study, which has been seen by The Sunday Times and will be published this month in the journal Sports Medicine, involved a survey of 114 physicians who work with highly trained athletes across 93 sports and spanned 38 countries. The physicians ranged from team-specific and athlete-specific doctors to chief medical officers, heads of performance and surgeons.

Forty-four per cent of the physicians surveyed believe weight-loss drugs should be prohibited by the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada), primarily due to the potentially harmful effect they have on athletes' health. The sports in which cases were identified were swimming, diving, artistic swimming, badminton, cycling, volleyball, equestrian, horse racing and bodybuilding – a mixture of sports that are weight sensitive, where aesthetics are judged, and for which athletes are required to wear skin-tight kit.

The apparent increase in use among athletes is significant because semaglutide – which is the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy – was added to Wada's monitoring list in 2024. Tirapatide, the active ingredient in Mounjar, was added to the list this year.

Wada's executive committee is set to meet in September and will decide if the drugs should be upgraded to the prohibited list next year. In a document distributed by Wada to stakeholders in July 2025, only two positive tests for semaglutide and tirapatide had been detected in 8,402 out-of-competition urine tests. The new research, which was undertaken last year, suggests that figure has since increased markedly.

"There was a general lack of evidence around the use of weight-loss drugs in elite performance environments," says Dr Daniel Read, a senior lecturer at the Institute for Sport Business, Loughborough University, who led the research. "There's been anecdotal stories of athletes using them. The one that gained the most prominence was Serena Williams (who lost 3lb using weight-loss medication prior to her tennis comeback in June). But there was a lack of evidence about how prevalent it is and whether

physicians working in those environments perceive it as being an issue. That informs both athlete welfare and how to protect them, along with anti-doping and whether it needs to be prohibited [because it can enhance performance]."

The physicians believed the main motivation for athletes taking the drugs was to lose weight in sports with strict weight limits, such as boxing and judo, and to assist weight-loss after injury. Sports in which it is advantageous to maintain a lower weight, such as horse racing and gymnastics, were also cited.

"If I was a jockey then these drugs could represent a much more tolerable and acceptable way of weight control than current methods e.g. flipping [inducing vomiting], diuretics, laxatives, deliberate dehydration," one physician said.

Simon Brundish, a leading sports scientist who has worked in football and tennis, suspects weight-loss drugs are becoming more common in those sports, too. "Across football, it's going to be massive. I've spoken to three women's football teams and more than 60 per cent of players were using GLP-1s [weight-loss drugs]," Brundish says.

Brundish also referred – without directly naming anyone – to female tennis players who had historically

"

Across three women's football teams, more than 60 per cent of players were using weight-loss drugs

struggled with their weight, but had noticeably slimmed down and performed at a higher level of late. "For shorter, squatter, heavier players that will have always had their coach banging on to them about their weight, having [weight-loss drugs] is going to be absolutely huge in tennis," he says.

"As we went from the spring into the summer grass-court season, some players just changed shape, and there was a levelling in the women's [draw] with the seeds [losing] at Wimbledon. It was much more of a level playing field. I don't think that's going to be long-term. Suddenly these people are lighter than before, so you're going to get that spike in performance and then it'll drop. But it's been quite prevalent this summer, entirely because of GLP-1s."

The short-term advantages of losing weight are obvious: an athlete may become quicker, be able to jump higher, and have better endurance because they are carrying less body mass. The growing evidence surrounding long-term use and muscle loss, though, suggests using the drugs would be detrimental. "If we're talking about elite-level athletes that

don't have a lot of fat in the first place, they'll be losing muscle and the ability to create force and power," Brundish says.

"It's counterintuitive. Logically, they see how being lighter is going to be better, but that will be a very, very small window where they improve. Then quickly their power-to-weight ratio will drop."

Another concern related to the drugs' use by elite athletes is Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-5), a condition that arises when someone does not consume enough calories to meet the demands of their training over a prolonged period, which can result in disruption to their reproductive system, bone health, metabolism and mental wellbeing.

For athletes who already struggle with body image, there are fears weight-loss drugs will be abused.

Professor Lars Engebretsen, who chairs Wada's Health, Medical & Research Committee, said the link to eating disorders was his primary fear. "One concern is we don't know how this affects the athletes," Engebretsen says. "There are no studies on if they are running faster or jumping higher, but the main concern is there are a lot of eating disorders among athletes. People are afraid that if we start to see the same use among athletes as in the [general] public, it will be difficult for people with that issue already."

Nine drugs linked to weight loss were added to Wada's prohibited list in 2025, although Engebretsen was unsure if semaglutide or tirapatide would feature on it soon. For a substance to be banned, it must meet at least two of three criteria – performance enhancement, health risk and violating the spirit of sport – and the vast majority of studies on weight-loss drugs haven't focused on athletes, meaning there is little targeted evidence.

That is the next step, but it is clear athletes are increasingly prepared to use them regardless.

"They are not going to be banned on the basis that one in ten physicians are aware it is happening, but it does open up the question of what the impact is on performance," Read says. "And how do we educate, monitor and best protect the athletes."

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14 August 9, 2026 The Sunday Times

5

Sport

Cricket scoreboards

The Hundred

981 London v Trent Rockets

Men

The Oval (Trent Rockets won loss). Trent Rockets (Apts) beat MI London by 9 wickets
MI London	(balts)
W C Sacken & E Hamerson	39 (24)
L W Vince & David D Sverton	3 (1)
W Provan run out (Sacken)	1 (1)
"S M Curran & Overton & Gregory	12 (44)
J O P Page retired out	4 (1)
S Rizzo & Donald Henny	16 (11)
S E Rutherford & David G Gregory	0 (1)
T R Curran not out	1 (1)
Extraes 6-5, 8-5	1
Total (7 wks, 500 balls)	147
T A Boud, R J Gleason and N A Tonder did not bat
Fall of wickets 1-25, 2-16, 3-15, 4-9, 5-14, 6-14, 7-17
Bowling, Smithton 20-7, 22-0, Overton 20-0, 24-1, Henry 20-0, 25-1, Marissa 10-0, 11-1, Switner 20-0, 10-0, Gregory 15-0, 12-2

Trent Rockets	(balts)
B M Duckett c Provan & Gleason	27 (26)
F H Biles c Provan & T Curran	1 (4)
A H T Donald run out (Rutherford)	23 (10)
"H W Billings & G G Vernon	0 (3)
T H David not out	32 (24)
M T Sontier not out	52 (23)
Extraes 14, 8-15	13
Total (4 wks, 500 balls)	148
L Gregory, C Overton, C G Harrison, M J Henry and M Smithton did not bat
Fall of wickets 1-22, 2-16, 3-45, 4-35
Bowling, Scott 20-0, 21-0, T Curran 10-0, 22-1, Jacks 10-0, 16-0, S Curran 20-0, 18-0, Gleason 20-0, 17-2, Rizzo 5-0, 16, Switner 5-0, 8-0
Woman
The Oval (Trent Rockets won loss). Trent Rockets (Apts) beat MI London by 9 wickets
MI London	(balts)
H A Matthews Ben & Bates	10 (10)
W M Chattie Ben & Bates	31 (27)
"H J Armitage (Ben) Phillips	4 (6)

A C Kerr c Sciser Brunt & Davis	17 (14)
N J Carey sc Mooney & Bates	0 (1)
A Z Wrangham not out	27 (25)
C J Avery not out	27 (25)
Extraes 16-5, 8-0	5
Total (8 wks, 500 balls)	121
K Moore, K L Gordon, T O Norris and A Shreethan did not bat
Fall of wickets 1-28, 2-20, 3-45, 4-48, 5-73
Bowling, Keith 20-0, 25-0, Bates 20-0, 13-3, Phillips 20-0, 24-1, Elwina 20-0, 25-1, Gardner 20-0, 32-0
Trent Rockets	(balts)
"H L Mooney not out	54 (44)
G H Chawley & Norris	0 (3)
N R Sciser Brunt not out	67 (36)
Extraes 14-7, 4-7, 9-0	4
Total (1 wks, 63 balls)	125
N A Sandman, R M Latt, B A McVeith, G L Adams, G A Owens, R J Clark, C N Phillips and D L Bates did not bat
Fall of wicket 1
Bowling, Norris 20-0, 26-1, Moore 5-0-8-0, Canny 10-0-16-0, Kerr 15-0-24-0, Matthews 15-0-20-0, Gordon 12-0-25-0, Shreethan 5-0-24-0
Southern Brave v Manchester Super Giants
Man
Unlike Bowl (Manchester Super Giants won loss). Manchester Super Giants (Apts) beat Southern Brave by 10 runs

Manchester Super Giants	(balts)
T L McPherson not (A4)	55 (34)
P J Walker c Jordan & Chaudhary	64 (32)
"H C Butler c All & Jordan	1 (4)
H Bissans c Stokes & Radial	0 (4)
J L du Plessy run out (Saddles)	1 (1)
T J Moore & Archer	16 (12)
M G Brannwald c Archer & Radial	1 (2)
L A Dawson c Pepper & All	2 (5)
A A P Atkinson not out	6 (7)
Extraes 14-1, 4-2	3
Total (8 wks, 500 balls)	149
N M Brannwald c T Torgan did not bat
Fall of wickets 1-19, 2-12, 3-12, 4-12, 5-10, 6-10, 7-14, 8-14
Bowling, Irvine 15-0-21, Wood 10-0-18-0, Stokes 15-0-28-0, Radial 20-0-17-2, 24-20-0-21, Jordan 10-0-16-1, Chaudhary 10-0-14-1
Southern Brave	(balts)
M K Dregans & Atkinson	0 (3)
P J Smith c Klaasen & Dawson	26 (25)
T Stubbs not out	53 (39)
M M At a Mooney & Dawson	0 (3)
M P Stokes c Dawson & Tongue	21 (12)
D A Miller c Du Plessy & Boozwell	7 (8)
N Chaudhary & Atkinson	19 (20)
"C J Jordan not out	4 (1)
Extraes 14-3, 16-0	9
Total (6 wks, 500 balls)	139

J C Archer, K O Radial and L Wood did not bat
Fall of wickets 1-5, 2-54, 3-54, 4-54, 5-15, 6-15
Bowling, Atkinson 20-0-19-2, Tongue 20-0-16-1, Gordon 20-0-24-2, Naco 20-0-20-0, Walter P W, M Brannwald 10-0-12-1
Woman
Unlike Bowl (Manchester Super Giants won loss). Manchester Super Giants (Apts) beat Southern Brave by 27 runs
Manchester Super Giants	(balts)
S S MacRibbon c Greencock & Wong	44 (26)
G S Suwans c McKown & Corken Coleman	13 (17)
W M Ghosh & Wong	54 (24)
"M M Lanning not out	10 (8)
K E Bouchers & McKinnon	4 (5)
M J Brown not out	3 (2)
Extraes 14-7, 6-5, 8-5	9
Total (4 wks, 500 balls)	139
M E Wilkins, S D Lickstrom, R L MacDonald-Gay, G Ballinger and R Taylor did not bat
Fall of wicket 1
Bowling, Kirt 20-0-24-0, Matthews 20-0-21-1, Corken Coleman 20-0-28-1, Wong 20-0-24-2, Glenn 20-0-25-0
Southern Brave	(balts)
N L Lowe c Wilson & Bryce	19 (17)
M E Bouchers run out (Bryce)	16 (10)
L W Alexander c Bryce & Wilkins	36 (28)
"S McKinnon & Ghosh & Wilkins	16 (21)
C W Smith c Ballinger & Wilkins	3 (6)
J Greencock not out	8 (8)

11 C M Wong c Ballinger & MacDonald-Gay	2 (2)
N D Graham not out	9 (7)
Extraes 14-5, 8-5	4
Total (8 wks, 500 balls)	112
S Givens, L E Ball and M R Corken-Coleman did not bat
Fall of wickets 1-16, 2-16, 3-47, 4-54, 5-55, 6-59
Bowling, G Givens 20-0-21-0, Ballinger 5-0-12-0, MacDonald-Gay 15-0-17-1, Taylor 20-0-26-0, Bryce 20-1-18-1, Wilson 20-0-17-3
Men	P W L T NR Pw NRR
Trent Rockets	7 6 1 0 0 24 0 69
Sunflowers Loads	6 4 2 0 0 16 0 67
Manchester SC	7 4 2 0 0 16 0 50
MI London	7 4 3 0 0 16 0 26
Welsh Fire	6 4 2 0 0 16 0 34
Southern Brave	7 2 5 0 0 8 0 05
London Spirit	6 1 5 0 0 4 0 46
Birmingham P	6 1 5 0 0 4 1 45
Woman	P W L T NR Pw NRR
Trent Rockets	7 5 1 0 0 24 1 50
Southern Brave	7 5 2 0 0 20 0 15
Manchester SC	7 4 2 0 1 16 0 75
Sunflowers Loads	6 3 3 0 0 12 0 67
Welsh Fire	6 3 3 0 0 12 0 35
London Spirit	6 1 4 1 0 6 0 64
MI London	7 1 5 1 0 4 1 28
Birmingham P	6 1 4 0 1 6 2 09

Football results

Carabas Cup first round

AFC WIMBLEDON 1	NEWPORT 1
Maynards 90+7	Bambos 71
HT: 0-0	Att: 3,393
AFC Wimbledon win 5-4 on penalties
BARNESLEY 1	WIGAN 1
McClellan 81	Costelles 40
HT: 0-1	Att: 4,414
Burnsley win 6-5 on penalties
BRADFORD 2	ROCHDALE 0
Swan 45+1
Baldwin 67
HT: 1-0
BRISTOL ROVERS 0	PETERBOROUGH 1
	Leonard 19 pen
HT: 0-1	Att: 6,810
BROMLEY 1	READING 1
Chuck 33	Stukos 14
HT: 1-1
Sent off R Taylor (Bromley) 90
Reading win 5-4 on penalties
BURNSLEY 1	NOTES COUNTY 1
Flemming 47	Roberts 42
HT: 0-1
Burnley win 6-3 on penalties
BURTON 1	BLACKBURN 2
Scott 14	Gudpheson 81
	Fevrier 88
HT: 1-0	Att: 2,839
CAMBRIDGE UNITED 2	BARNET 1
Knight 52	Tshimanga 49
Hsieh 57
HT: 2-1	Att: 3,521

CARDIF 2	SWINDON 2
Galach 29 pen, 43	Oden (log) 9
Moylan 77	Glatzel 62
HT: 2-1	Att: 6,168
Sent off J Debraon (Swindon) 90
COLLITONNE 1	CHARLTON 3
Miller 55	Godden 22
	Casey 24
	Campbell 37
HT: 0-3	Att: 3,159
CREWE 2	ACCRAIGNION 1
Lakester 7 pen	Kawson 65
L Moore 85
HT: 1-0
COLCHESTER 0	SOUTHAMPTON 2
	Larin 72
	Akachukwu 90+2
HT: 0-0	Att: 5,822
DERBY 1	LINCOLN 2
Linnudra 45+1	House 3
	Jefferson 23
HT: 1-2	Att: 11,095
FLEETWOOD 1	CHESTERFIELD 0
Lewis 14
HT: 1-0	Att: 1,619
DULINGHAM 0	LUTERA 3
	Walls 43
	Benage 59
	Kodua 78
HT: 0-1	Att: 4,295
GRIMSBY 1	BLACKPOOL 3
Rodgers 90+2	Evans 3
	Bowler 59
	Kouzani 90+5
HT: 0-1	Att: 4,817

LEICESTER 1	NORTHAMPTON 0
Chub 10
HT: 1-0
LITTON ORIENT 2	OXFORD 0
Mitchell 85
G Mazusa 88
HT: 0-0	Att: 2,783
NORWICH 4	MK DONS 1
Touré 1	Wimbs 56
Ben Simmer 7
Christine 61
Brooks 59
HT: 3-0	Att: 20,066
PRESTON 1	HUDDERSFIELD 1
Dyde 90+3	Balleer 38
HT: 0-1	Att: 6,120
Sent off L Gibson (Preston) 21
Preston win 4-3 on penalties
Jor Goodborn Park)
OPR 1	MILLWALL 1
Tokes (log) 86	Cundle 53
HT: 0-0
Millwall win 2-0 on penalties
ROTHERHAM 1	WEST BROMWICH 4
Tavares 87	Morgan 8, 61
	Mitchell 24
	Myhre 55
HT: 0-2	Att: 4,850
SALFORD 1	SHREWSBURY 1
McLean 77	Davison 47
HT: 0-0	Att: 1,936
Sent off S Stubbs (Shrewsbury) 73, W
Amicon (Dalton) 90+7
Shrewsbury win 4-3 on penalties
SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY 1	BOLTON 0
Lover 70
HT: 0-0
Sent off X Simons (Bolton) 56

STOCKPORT 1	DONCASTER 1
Woodson 51	May 50
HT: 0-0
Doncaster win 5-4 on penalties
STOKE 2	OLDHAM 0
Norburn (log) 48
Boznek 82
HT: 0-0	Att: 10,157
SWANSEA 0	BIRMINGHAM 1
	Priske 44
HT: 0-1	Att: 11,283
WESTFORD 1	CRANLEY 0
Bula 90+9
HT: 0-0	Att: 6,907
WEST HAN 3	PORTSMOUTH 1
Cadellanos 43, 50	Segreco 33
Bowen 45
HT: 3-1	Att: 53,369
Thursday's result Bristol City G Walsall 1
Friday Meddlesburgh 1 Wrexham, 1
Wolfshampton 3 First Vale G, Wycombe
1 Stevenage 2
Today's Notes Mansfield v Sheffield United (4-0), Tomorrow Plymouth Argyle v Easter City (8-0), (Second round draw takes place before match).
National League
Albreyham 1 Southend 3, Boreham Wood 3 Tamworth, 3 Boston G Aldershot 1, Carlisle 2 Worthing 3, Eastleigh 1, Greenhead 1, Forest Green 3 Halifax 2, Falkie 2 Wooldstone 2, Harrington 3, Solihull 2, Hartlepool 2 Barrow 0, Wansfield 0, 4 Kaldershutter 0, Scunthorpe 1 Trevi 1, Woking 0 Sutton 3.
National League North
AFC Telford 1 Bradbury 2, Boston 2, Hereford 1, Chesley 1 Chester 2, Darlington 1 Worksop Town 2, Habbourn Town 3

Ben House is congratulated after scoring Lincoln's opener

Southport 1, King's Lynn Town 1 Harborough Town 1, Marine 0 Macclesfield 1, Marthey Town 2 Heskusford Town 0, Morecambe 1 Spenternor Town 1, Oxford City 1 Bedford Town 0, Radcliffe 0 1 Spalding United 2, Scarborough Athletic 0 South Shields 1.
National League South
Billincote 2 Dover 0, Brantree Town 0, Tunbridge Angels 4, Clothing Wanderers 0 Dagenham & Redbridge 1, Farnham Town 0 AFC Totten 1, Folkestone Iwotts 5 Walton & Hersham 1, Iremel Hempstead 1 Chelmsford 1, Maidstone United 1 Farnborough 2, Salisbury FC 5 Hampton & Richmond 0, Slough 9 Datedham United 7, Torquay 1 Horsham 1, Truro City 2 Maidenhead United 0, Warden supper Mare 3 Chasham United 0.

Scottish Premiership
DUNDEE 2	ABERDEEN 0
Westley 9
Bevan 59
HT: 2-0	Att: 8204
ST MORRIS 1	ST JOHNSTONE 0
Phillips 73 pen
HT: 0-0	Att: 6,544
Scottish Championship Arbouth 0
Inverness 0, Dunhertown 1 Ben 1, Queen's Park 1 Heath 2, Stonhauser 2
Greenock Mariner 0, League One Andre 1 East Kilbride 1 East Fire 2 Cove
Rangers 0, Hamilton 1 Alisa 0, Queen of the South 0 Peterhead 1, Ross County 2
Montrose 1, League Two Dunbaton 1, Clyde 0, Elgin 1 Forfar 1, Kelly Heerts 3
Stirling 2, Dorrer 0 Anson 1, Spartans 2 Edinburgh 2.

Today's

raccards

Chepstow

Goring: good to form		Shy Sports Racing
Run Weight & type. 2.66 3/4: 4/4: 4/4: 3/4: 3/4: 3/4: 3/4: 3/4: 3/4: 3/4: 3/4: 3/4: 3/4: 3/4: 3/4: 3/4: 3/4: 3/4: 3/4: 3/4: 3/4: 3/4: 3/4: 3/4
2.06	NAVY 100TH BIRTHDAY CHEPSTOW BACCORDE THOMING SERIES' APPRENTICE MAROCAP (1.5%) 10 (2)
1.01	1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2
2.03	NAVY 100TH BIRTHDAY CHEPSTOW CENTENARY COLDINGTONS MAROCAP (1.5%) 10 (2)
1.01	1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2
4.01	NAVY 100TH BIRTHDAY CHEPSTOW CENTENARY COLDINGTONS MAROCAP (1.5%) 10 (2)
1.01	1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2
5.01	NAVY 100TH BIRTHDAY CHEPSTOW CENTENARY COLDINGTONS MAROCAP (1.5%) 10 (2)
1.01	1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2: 1/2
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LESSONS FROM A LIFE IN SPORT CARL FOGARTY

Four-time Superbike world champion and I'm A Celebrity... winner on respecting no one and warm ice baths

WHERE IT ALL BEGAN

My father George raced, so my childhood memories are all of going racing with him, sleeping in the van and not going to school for the two weeks of the TTS. I started schoolboy motocross at 14 and I was convinced I was going to be world champion.

MY BREAKTHROUGH MOMENT

After a succession of crashes in the late-1980s while racing my 250cc, dad said "you need to go to the bigger bikes. That's where the glory, headlines and money are." I did. I was comfortable and started winning.

THE COACH I LOOKED UP TO

Never had one. I was a bit stubborn, a bit ignorant and a bit self-centred. I wanted to do it myself.

MY CHILDHOOD HERO

The American rider Kenny Roberts. I even copied the design of his leathers. I nearly signed for him after my second World Superbike title. We had a meeting in Spain but he said his funders, Marlboro, didn't want me. Then he put his son on the bike.

BIKING NEVER GOT ANY BETTER THAN

Winning the 1988 Formula One title before I went into Superbikes. Because of my injuries I was racing

only 80 per cent, but I won my first big race in Northern Ireland, defeating Joey Dunlop in his backyard and when I clinched the title in Pergusa, Sicily, it shocked everyone. It shocked me to be fair...

MY WORST HANGOVER

In Japan after winning my third Superbike title in 1998. After a few drinks in an Indian and a Karaoke session it was back to the hotel where everything was closed. We broke into the kitchen, drank wine and went to bed at six. The coach to the airport was at eight. Everything was spinning, I threw up, got on the plane, put the eye mask on and woke in Manchester with the hangover from hell to meet a huge crowd waiting to congratulate me.

MY FAVOURITE CIRCUIT

Assen in Holland, the old one, not the one that exists now. It was fast, flowing and really suited to my style, I won 12 out of 14 races and finished second in the others. In 1999 there were 80,000 people there, including 65,000 Brits, to watch me clinch my fourth title.

MY LEAST FAVOURITE CIRCUIT

Laguna Seca in California. It was very flat and that didn't suit me. I'm still annoyed America was the only country where I never won a race. The Americans didn't like me after I joked I hated the place.

MY TOUGHEST OPPONENT

Nobody. I didn't have any respect for the other riders. I just wanted to beat them. I was never friends with them.

I LEARNT MOST FROM

I didn't learn from anybody or anything, just my mistakes, such as crashing too much in 1993. I put that right and won in '94.

MY MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENT

The Suzuka 8 Hours endurance race is like being in a sauna wearing leathers. One year I drank loads and loads of water. Afterwards we got in a 40-gallon drum of ice water one at a time. I was bursting and pissed for 10 minutes straight. Then I had to get

out because the Honda man needed to come in. He jumped in, put his head under the water and said it was a bit warm.

MY GUILTY PLEASURE

Fishing. Sea, often off Anglesey, and river, especially salmon fishing in Scotland. I switch off, clear my mind and the day goes so quickly.

I KNEW THE GAME WAS UP WHEN...

I crashed in Australia on St George's Day 2000. When I came out of hospital I couldn't even get on the bike. I was relieved because the pressure to win, from fans, the media

and myself went, but after a year I really missed it. I'm over that now.

MY ONE REGRET

Leaving Ducati in 1995. I broke up a winning team and a family team, for a bit more money. They took me back, but it cost me two world titles.

ADVICE FOR A YOUNG SPORTSPERSON

Do it for the right reasons.

by John Aizlewood

Carl Fogarty is an ambassador for Ducati which commemorates its centenary this year. More information at www.ducati.com.

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Big Buck's had always been viewed by connections as a potential top-class chaser, but after he unseated his rider at the final fence in the 2008 Hennessy Gold Cup he reverted to hurdles and he never looked back.

He won what is now the Stayers' Hurdle a record four times, the Liverpool Hurdle four times and three times he came home in front in the Long Walk Hurdle.

Big Buck's, who struck up a great relationship with Ruby Walsh, was a fan favourite as he would often hit a flat spot in his races before powering to victory. Nicholls said: "Ability-wise

he was probably as good as anything I've ever trained, it's just a shame he couldn't jump a chase fence.

"He was a wonderful horse for a wonderful owner who deserved to own a great horse like that. Andy enjoyed the whole journey and shared it with everybody.

"The horse had a brilliant life and had a great time with us and then a great time with Mike and Lucy Felton in retirement, but sadly time caught up with him.

"I was very lucky to have him at the same time as Kauto Star, Neptune Collonges, Master Minded and Denman. He was definitely as good as any of them."

For Nicholls there will always be the question of how high he could have climbed if remaining over the larger obstacles.

"He won the graded race at Aintree over fences, jumped 18 fences and jumped them 18 different ways and still won," Nicholls said.

"But he just wasn't a natural jumper of a fence."

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Sport

David Walsh

CHIEF SPORTS WRITER

Love off football blinded

Wenger to Infantino's trap

Most of the time journalists are better at pointing to the mistakes of others than accepting responsibility for their own missteps. I know this from experience. The story I'm about to tell can be filed in the drawer marked "sports reporter's conceit". It was November 2012. We were in his office at the National Cycling Centre in Manchester and Dave Brailsford was saying how Team Sky would never, ever resort to doping.

This was the pre-knighted Dave but even then he was up there, surfing the tallest wave British cycling had ever seen. He'd founded Team Sky and just won the Tour de France with Bradley Wiggins and under his direction Team GB's cyclists had won eight gold medals at the London Olympics. That afternoon he said Team Sky and the GB track team were "very anti-doping". "If we couldn't do it that way [without doping], if it was impossible, then we'd stop," he added.

He talked about Dr Steve Peters, whom he had brought into the set-up. That year Peters published The Chimp Paradox and was widely respected. "I place a lot of trust and have a lot of confidence in Dr Steve Peters," he said. In other words how could anyone imagine that an eminent psychiatrist like Peters would be part of something improper?

Back and forth we went. His insistence against my scepticism. Then he said: "We have nothing to hide and if you'd like to come and live with the team, you'd be more than welcome." That got my attention. What would that mean, I asked. "Complete access," he said. Travel with the team, stay in the team hotel, speak to whoever you want, go into the doctor's room, the soigneurs' rooms, see who's coming in and out of the hotel. Everything.

I accepted the offer, which was the mistake. Brailsford wanted me to be a different version of Steve Peters. I fell for it. Thirteen weeks inside the team, I neither saw nor heard anything that aroused suspicion. Not for a second do I believe that Team Sky had a doping programme or that they cheated in the systemic way that the US Postal team had ten years before. But neither were they ethical or honest, though from my embedded place of privilege that is how I portrayed them.

Inside the doctor's room, I asked about therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs) and how many Sky riders had

JOHN WIN, TONY PA MIKE

used these since the doctor had joined the team. Through his 15 months, he said, there were just two TUEs; one to treat a respiratory problem for a rider out of competition and the second for a rider about to undergo a surgical procedure. He didn't mention the TUE that allowed Wiggins to take 40mg of the performance-enhancing corticosteroid triamcinolone four days before the start of the 2012 Tour.

Neither did Brailsford. Neither did Wiggins. Neither did the head coach, Shane Sutton. Neither did the senior doctor, Richard Freeman. Neither did any of those in the know. It was their secret. Without the Fancy Bear hacking group's revelations four years later, no one but the Sky insiders would ever have known. I never saw them as the ones most to blame. It was me who bought the snake oil.

All of which is to say, I have some sympathy for the situation Arsène Wenger got himself into with Gianni Infantino and Fifa. Wenger is a remarkable man and was a great manager. He became coach of the Ligue 1 club Monaco at 37, won the league title in his first season and signed George Weah from Tonnerre Yaoundé in Cameroon at the end of his first sea-

son. Weah was tall and gangly, clumsy on the ball and lacking strength and athleticism. At first his team-mates didn't think much of him.

Wenger sensed what he had and took him under his wing. As well as being head coach to the first-team squad, Wenger became Weah's personal coach and mentor. They would even run together. In 1995, three years after he left Monaco for Paris Saint-Germain, Weah was named Fifa World Player of the Year. After being presented with the trophy, Weah

re-presented it to Wenger, who was in the room.

"Arsène Wenger is a father figure and regarded me as his son," he said. "He was a man who, when racism was at its peak, showed me love. I said to him, 'I want you to keep this. This is for me, but I want you to keep it,' because he deserved this more than I do." Weah remains the only African player to have won this award.

Football was Wenger's life. "Matches won are precious memories, and matches lost, the ones I still don't dare watch again, continue to haunt me even many years later," he wrote in his 2020 autobiography. "What should we have done? What happened? My whole life has swung between loving victory and despising defeat . . . A day without a football match seems empty to me."

His passion for the game is admirable. He embraced it, and held it so tight he squeezed it into an obsession. Was this admirable? That's a difficult question. In various interviews he reflected with more than a hint of self-loathing about how he managed relationships with those non-football people who loved him most. More than once he has said his selfishness turned him into a "monster".

Being an obsessive, the more Arsenal struggled to challenge for the Premier League in the second half of his 22 years at the club, the harder he worked. What he couldn't do was step back and see that things weren't really improving and that many of those who once loved him had turned against him. The club itself began to feel change was needed.

When the end came, it seemed to him a betrayal. Through the tough years, when the club's financial might was being directed into the new stadium, he'd turned down offers from Juventus, Real Madrid, PSG, Bayern Munich, France and England. He'd shown loyalty only to discover it was a one-sided relationship. In 2018 he left the club and discovered the other side of obsession.

What happens when the thing that gives meaning to your life is taken away.

Wenger couldn't play more golf, climb more mountains, walk more trails because managing Arsenal was what he needed to do. Hurt by the ending, he didn't return to the Emirates Stadium for 4½ years. Eighteen months after leaving Arsenal, he became Fifa's head of global football development. Aware that the obsession had to be fed, his great friend David Dein had encouraged him to accept Fifa's offer.

There was, of course, a downside. Every time he stood beside Infantino, every time he advocated on behalf of Fifa, he lent his credibility to an organisation that might not have deserved it. Three years into his role, Wenger made a strong case for the World Cup, men's and women's, taking place every two years. Few thought this a good idea. As Arsenal manager, Wenger would not have thought it a good idea.

As things turned out, working alongside Infantino was perilous. Early in his time at Fifa, Wenger tried to summarise the organisation's raison d'être as running competitions, enacting the laws of football globally, and education. Enacting the laws of football? In the lead-up to this summer's World Cup, Fifa quashed a two-match ban on Cristiano Ronaldo simply because he was Cristiano Ronaldo. Then, during the World Cup, the game's laws were set to one side again so the USA player Folarin Balogun could play against Belgium.

All the while Wenger, high up on the Fifa ladder, sat quietly; a principled and honourable man at the heart of a discredited organisation feeling his hands were tied. Wenger stayed silent until his boss went too far and then, belatedly, sought to distance himself from the latest and greatest scandal.

Near the end of his autobiography, Wenger imagines his first conversation with God after he dies. "He will ask me what I did with my life, what meaning I gave it. I'll tell him I tried to win matches! 'That's all?' he'll probably ask, disappointed. I'll try to convince him that winning matches is harder than you might think, and that football is important to millions of people's lives, that it creates moments for sharing, moments of joy and great sadness, too."

My own feeling is that Wenger loved football too much for his own good.

"

Wenger sat quietly and then, belatedly, tried to distance himself from latest scandal

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EasyJet holds tie-up talks with Virgin Atlantic

Oliver Gill

EasyJet has held talks with 16 Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic over a tie-up between the budget carrier and the long fund airline.

The main companies have discussed deepening arrangements on outwriters' agreements - where one author operates. Rights and one or more partner authors sells seats on that plane - and locally programmes,

according to a source familiar with the situation.

Last week, easyJet agreed to a $5.75 billion takeover by Apollo, and the 15 person equity firm has spelt out that it regards "exploring opportunities to interline they believe on other airlines' plastered land codesheet" as where priority. These are arrangements that would allow out the way separate between by selling flights operated by other airlines.

Apollo-tramped Cambodia, another 15 private equity firm, in the building for the Latino-based airline. The Wall Street firm has close ties with Branson's airline, having provided Virgin with a $300 million (£250 million) from several against take-off and landing fees at Heathrow. One source played down the prospect of a tie-up on the 15,000 non-land codeheet and interline arrangements had been discussed. EasyJet,

Virgin Atlantic and Apollo declined its comment. Celebrating two airlines optimise their network by selling tickets to destinations that aren't on their own sports. Passengers can benefit from unearthed charities and collect air miles from their preferred provider link arrangements account for a quarter of all connecting air traffic globally. Interline agreements also allow airlines to benefit from

flights beyond their own room range, and checked baggage to automatically transferred between airlines at the connecting airport.

$745m Apollo faces to Virgin secured on take-off and landing costs at Heathrow

"Worldwide by easyJet" launched its September 2017, allowing Virgin Atlantic passengers to connect to the budget carrier's flights - as well as those operated by other airlines - at Gatwick. Virgin has since left Gatwick to concentrate on operations at Heathrow. Apollo's acquisition of easyJet will save the net to a disadvantage cost offer it won backing by the airline's board.

After discussions show it will be acquired with between 12/7 billion and 12 billion of debt. Apollo will also make its investment by way of up to £10 billion in preference shares that attract interest at a rate of 10 per cent. The preference shares above would double easyJet's interest burden, even though the bill would be called to the capital value of the loan rather than paid to cash. It lists seven parts to a

"value-creation programme". These include improving profitability during the winter and raising the prospect of business-class fares on certain routes throughs "pretaxemakers" programme. Partnerships and distribution opportunities include a new interline and celebrating arrangements. Gatwick runway will help the economy. Pls. page 9

It's time to

stop foreign under- says MREG

Bill Toomser

tine of the UK's leading fund managers has broken ranks to launch a broadside against a series of foreign raids on Low described companies.

Beyond these must be stopped from taking advantage of bombed-out share prices. Michael Massey, head of UK-super- ters at MRC Investments, has said: "For many UK public market license firms are happening at the wrong solutions."

London-based MRC, which has almost 2400 billion worth of assets under treat- agement, will vote the share it already owns against the sweep by Wall Street firm, back to the budget airline easyJet.

The firm is not a similar stand to oppos- ing the UK billion takeover of hard-drawn business begin by UK small changes.

Massey said that while takeovers played a vital role in financial markets, the wealth, investors and their factors needed to take a long-term view when deciding the price at which to sell out.

"Takeovers can plan an important role in the healthy functioning of equity mar- ters," he said. "Most if public market investors keep accepting under-priced offers, little will keep coming and value. the UK assets will be taken private at the wrong price."

Rohler (4) feel said there have been nearly 40 bids this year for companies listed on the London Stock Exchange, with Comet Energy the latest on Friday. Massey reviewed the bids were being

made at a low level as companies on the UK were undervalued relative to com- bined on other exchanges. He achieved splend some companies may be fearful of expecting bids as there share price might be at risk of falling after the initial boost.

But he said: "Bowels investors and de- sert need to focus on the long-term value of their assets and be prepared to expect bids that fall short, even if that means near-term share price pressure when an offer is withdrawn. The priority should be long-term compounding where these companies can deliver, not the short- term impact of a declining spurbed."

"Market participants should ask who bid activity remains so strong, and what bidders can see that public markets are missing," Massey added.

Richard Marwood, head of UK and Europe an equator at Royal London Asset Management, expects that activity to con- strue, but instead of the visit to the UK without more initial public offering.

"The unit issue we have is that a lot of these bids are very good for short-term performance of funds. (But) it's almost like we're coming through the bowels we're sitting on," said Marwood.

Some fund managers with charohold- ing in listed companies had under provi- sure to accept bids because they can see the cash to pay investors working to take money out of the UK market. Closely watched data from the funds network (Advances showed that 2500 million was pulled from UK equity funds last month. Other investors use the cash they receive from their own cash investment in other companies. Georgina Hamilton, a partner at fund manager Polar Capital, said she did not feel her fund was "being stipped off" by the bid process.

"The initial factor is we can recycle that capital into other opportunities with compelling upside potential," she said, adding that the fund had added new poor tyres to recent months.

SMIRNOFF OWNER IS LOVING THE FESTIVAL VIDE

Festival goers refreshing themselves with ready mixed cocktails can boost Sir Dave Lewis in his battle to turn around Diages. "Festivals are fantastic events for us to serve quality cocktails in a fun and easy format," said Lewis. Sales of cocktails in cans at foetivals are up 5 per cent this year.

Candlemaker Neom smokes out suitors

Hannah Prowitt

Neom, the wellbeing brand for one of the Sate Moca and Gwyneth Paltrow, has hired advisers ahead of a potential sale that could contain a value of £200 million.

The company, best known for its premium candles, essential oils and fragrance different, has hired boutique investment fund. Alantra is review strategic options, according to City sources. Alantra advised Reddell on its sale to Urmol last summer at a valuation of more than 15 billion.

Discussions are understood to be at an early stage, with options including the sale of a partial or majority stake.

President Nevda Elliott and Oliver Menard's together own more than half the company, while private equity firm Piper has held a minority value since investing in 2017. Neom declined to comment.

In the year ending June 2025, the company had sales of £42.7 million, up from £49 million this previous year, more than doubling its per- tial profit to £2.5 million. Analysis estimate that Neom could fetch a valuation

of up to £200 million. Neom would focus on future rather than current earnings by capitalizing on growth in the UK area overcast. "Eddie would be a substantial increase on the £300 million valuation involved when Neom explored a listing in 2016.

Neom has started in 2016 by Elliott, a former magazine journalist who trained as an accountant-juryist, and her business partner Menard, a former investment analyst, to self-distually sourced products to relieve stress and lower energy. It has been led by Isabel Malhot, a former

Urmol executive, since 2023, when she replaced Menard as disadvantage. Elliott remains creative director.

The first time he found company now with candles, different, fresh creams and other products online and through modern including John Lewis, Jeffrey Dunn, Fornelick, Irfan nine-shops, including its flagship store on London's Regent Street. He implemented both feature secreted and sales force to also actor Mika Alvadia, who stands in Amazon Prime series left Cowper, said she was it when feeling drained to set.

Zoom puts a rocket up Burnham

Hannah Prowitt and Gabriela Austin

Zoom has hit back at Andy Hudman's retirement emphasizes intervening job conditions over video calls, saying the problem is not the writings for increasing, but the odds of the interviewer.

The prime minister criticized the practice as "consensus" for companies but potentially value to young candidates deciding to keep a personal connection

with a prospective employee. "One thing I don't like is this culture now of interviewing on Zoom or Team."

Burnham said the Zoom's idea of the Patrice podcast

"I know it's convenient for the organization that do it, but there does a young person who is in the situation where he is young" over some of your personality, even yourself.

"It seems to me to then work against people who have the side to their character, and work for those

who are just giving the more formal an answer."

Zoom, however, believes Burnham is blaming the technology he is problem that has with the interviewer.

"The issue isn't whether an interview happens on video or by person. It's whether you're just working an environment where every candidate can perform at their best," said Louise Newbury Health, head of UK and Ireland at Zoom. "Your interviewing counselling

before video ... the format for more from a thrilling factor."

Burnham suggests there is a danger that we live in making the hiring process less equitable. "Reinstatement has got to be about individuality ... people bringing out the unique things they've got to offer." Newbury health said video calls had made recruitment more accessible for main candidates, by removing geographical barriers and reducing travel costs.

Cyberattack at Ace & Tate eyewear

Olivia Surgery and Gabriela Austin

Upmarket glasses firm Ace & Tate has warned that a cult of common data may have been stolen after its delivery firm was backed.

Cera Lagatrix, which holds customer, 'filling and delivery addresses, contact details and shipment tracking, suffered two cyberattacks last week. "Dynamic details including bank account numbers and

card details were not involved, the brand and its investigation into the cause of the incident of being carried out another vendor, which was founded in Amsterdam, has filed a report with the Dutch Data Protection Authority.

We look and, San freimem, an international technology company, were also caught up in Creutz data broach.

Ace & Tate smashed its customers on Thursday

telling them that an unauthorized party had gained access to its logistics partner's systems.

It's common personal data was involved in the incident there would be an increased risk of fraud attempts via email, message and phone,

the company warrants. There are no indications that Ace & Tate's own systems were backed. The retailer said orders, returns and rewards could take longer due to the incident, but that there

would be no effects on its store shopping and eye tests. Ace & Tate advised its customers to "be extra alert to planning messages" and

take delivery or train and trace messages. The email said: "Don't take little or spent attention to its message from vendors you don't know or trust."

The company extended customers that they "don't ask for your password and payment disability email, phone or text."

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TOMORROW DIET JUNE...

As London gears up for robotaxis, Gabriela Austin looks at other futuristic innovations we more take for granted

ELECTRIC DREAMS

● Drive them into could be coming to the streets of the capital. Last week, Transport for London granted licences for a fleet of autonomous objects from Mustang Mach-E vehicles, operated by Silver using technology developed by British start-up Shipper.

The first of their kind, the approach we contingent on a human 'safety driver' being fuelbed the wheel, with additional permissions still needed before the cars can operate fully autonomously. If successful, they could pass the way for a wider roll out of self-driving fans across the capital.

The announcement has engulfed familiar concerns about safety and whether we are ready to hand now the steering wheel to artificial intelligence.

Yet history suggests today's steaming innovation often becomes tomorrow's everyday convenience.

STEPPING INTO THE FUTURE

● Today, few people think twice before using an escalator. However, when London's first row arrived on the Unbiagonal, many passengers regarded them as dangerous competitors last avoided. According to transport folklore, scepticism was so widespread that William 'Barstow' Harris, a row-bigged London Underground engineer, spent the opening day of the Early Court escalator in 1971 repeatedly riding it up and down to power it was safe.

Escalators—like this, each other provided a many or their early years—have since become so commonplace that we barely notice them. Today, the global elevator and escalator market is worth more than $800 billion (US billion).

Over the past 10 years, Germany's long-be-heard through a lot of the federal times working in the bookbuilding era—that nothing quite compares to what he is seeing today. It had thought the financial crash of 2007/8 would be the most serious disaster seen in my lifetime. He said, 'But this is worse.'

Irving, who has been in the industry since the 1970s, works for Northern, a bookmaker based in the Centroids. Like many small surviving bookheads in England, it has a proud history, having been founded in 1925 by Captain Edward George Spencer Churchill, cousin of Sir Winston Churchill.

Reference Power Station is among the famous names made from Northern books and the company was even commissioned to make it 3 million of them in 2009 when the credit London office was transformed into a glowing area of shops and price experiments.

Yet like many others in his industry, Iringa is worried about the future. 'These just aren't enough orders out there. Demand to very low, and in terms of optimism at the moment, things are looking very, very bleak.'

So bridly with the length and breadth of Britain, hundreds of millions of books are being multiplied as those struggle to keep their links running for the production of new ones. That is emblematic of the ways facing a country where Imperial housebuilding revolution under Labour have failed to internalise, but remaining large or delivering 2.5 million new homes in England over the course of the current parliament has evaporated.

'That commitment was very challenging... when I came into government,' beaming secretary Angela Kurner said shortly after returning to the post under study Rambam. 'It's certainly got more challenging... I'm not dropping it, I'm just saving it's a really difficult month target.'

Modern building methods meant it has been some time since new building was constructed solely officially. Rather than an displayed an unnatural woman, and it is for this reason they remain the nation's favourite building material, with more than 2,500 types of clay bricks available.

Many towns in England used to have their own bookmaking links, with eight billion books a year being produced in the late 1960s. Since then, the industry has shrunk and streamlined its output but there are still about 30 factories—predominantly in the Midlands—supporting more than 100,000 jobs across the country and contributing to the health of the children's lives, which makes up about 6 per cent of the UK economy.

Last week, friends, the UK's largest bookmaker, combined the negative outlook as it reported a pretax loss of £27 million for the six months to June 2018, compared with an £4 million profit a year earlier.

In the FY18 2016 company was far from systematic about the future. Credit,xiom, brown said, are 'expected to remain challenging in the near term'.

'The biggest problem is, we're now coming up to this point of very little housebuilding happening,' said Bob Hollis, chief executive of the British's company, and the other ISMA. 'If you're a brick maker, you're not going to have producing 3 million new homes in the UK and moving them, you might look your production and wait for time to change.'

How Labour's housebuilding dreams collapsing

Bricks are piling up at yards across the country as domestic production plunges 16%. It's a clear sign that Britain's housing crisis is far from being solved. Tom Knowles reports

UK cement production is also suffering—long-lasting at least last year in the 1990s

Yet the waiting game is taking longer than many bookmakers anticipated, making it difficult to gauge the cement production should be slowed. For the three biggest bookmakers operating in the UK (Bristol, Victoria and Wenselberger, the Austrian multinational—any drop-in housebuilding has a significant effect on their margins.

'The biggest part of the market for us is new housing. We are a big-volume player, which is really exposed to the large national housebuilders,' said Neil

Isle, chief executive of Australia, which has seven operating factories producing up to 600 million books a year.

Another bookmaker are also languishing. Political turbulence, uncertainty on potential property taxes and seafood consumer confidence have put a step to many innovations.

This has an impact on companies such as道出版社, brick thieking, which makes about 100 million books a year, because a third of its output is caused towards what is known in the trade as 1000 (square, maintenance and improvement).

Ryan Mahoney, chief executive of the Bred company, said: 'We're now doing a gauge, or that two-storey extension in the back of your property to add more bedrooms, or whatever else. People are

not much more cautious in terms of committing to projects, and that impacts everybody.'

The market has been on a downward slide since the end of 2022. Mahoney made it known as demand after the Great lockdowns, alongside a spike in energy costs, had meant bookmakers were running at full capacity and putting up prices by 30 to 40 per cent. Some orders were having to be made a year in advance, leading many housebuilders and merchants to begin stockpiling blocks.

But following Liz Fraser, chairman, mini-league in September 2022, and a subsequent spike in mortgage rates, demand followed.

While housebuilders had more time to adjust, the effect was left much more immediately by bookmakers, which outlived that a lot of clashs on it.

Since then, there has been a spike in

The UK energy prices are 2-3 times more than in Europe

ability costs and general influence following the cut-break of wars in Ukraine and Iran, and, more specifically for the industry, war witness that make it hard to lay bricks, and political and economic uncertainty—including speculators around property taxes ahead of the autumn budget last year.

The result of such events is better out in the numbers. In 2022, Britain made 1.95 billion bricks and Imperial's further 270 million, according to figures from the Department for Business & Trade, as it was then called.

By 2025, domestic production had shrunk to 1.5 billion, with 352 million imported. In June, brick deliveries were down 10.1 per cent compared with the same month last year.

Meanwhile, brick stocks have risen

Wall Street's most powerful woman hits a hole-in-one

Jill Towner

June Fraser turned her management skills on advice from one of her political sons. 'We might not want you, you who off your strengths, not just to bring your weaknesses,' the chief executive of the task. The founder takes on the risk. Fraser, 19, has, after all, a long association with golf, showing up near 16 students, the 100-come defined 'the home of golf'. She is the same problem money caddying her rich American women.

'The whole, the image is that she could be mistaken for a well-furnished executive from across the Atlantic. Why? Well, Fraser is the most powerful woman in the 16s' lives. In part of her overhaul

of one of the world's biggest banks, she created a 'business strategy around where we had strengths and what businesses fit together. A large tail of everything she that we were no longer the best owner off.' This included dosing high street operations on 16 countries, with just the Africa as operation-bananness left to complete.

Fraser said she saw her mandate as to 'make the simpler' after she was promoted to chief executive in March 2018 after 47 years with the bank. To this end, she ripped up a decade-old matrix with management structure and ensured that the heads of the bank, who delivered reported directly to her. An assault of her efforts,

the task, the bank was hungry, it's focused and it's more of an effective culture than it was before I when it had more ahead!

The changes are part of her attempt to improve the performance of a bank that was once one of the biggest financial firms on the world following the record-breaking merger between Gilcotey, mostly a consumer and corporate bank, and the financial conglomerate Transfers in 1998.

But if became infamous in the wake of the 2008 crisis after 'black Power', its boss is the time, celebrated that the bank was still dancing, even as problem were mounting in the financial turmoil. What if at 1000 billion at the peak just before the crisis,

Oil had to be hailed out by the American taxpayer and has been covered. It is now worth $250 billion, nearly anything to value since Fraser was a good customer to underperform its main rivals when measured by service on equity, a key gauge of returns for shareholders.

But her efforts are paying off, according to Mike Marr, the veteran bank analyst at while it says, who said the man's management structure is not just meant 'everyone's responsible and who do's accountable'.

'Now she has five divisions—markets, investment banking, transaction services, wealth and it's personal banking—which report to be directly taken than through two reporting lines. The

bank's overhaul has been regarded as a relative to some 150+ days above that it employs 220,000 people around the globe. This appear to be 20,000 less than when she joined, although more people are expected to leave glove that 20,000 are employed by finance in Mexico. In Britain, the bank employs 10,000 people in London, more than 4,000 in Belfast, and hundreds more in Edinburgh.'

Fraser's assets in the one of the biggest jobs in hadling began with a 100,000 of its 10,000,000 dollars she spent her teenage years in short old after her family emigrated. Her returned to study a consort or leadership and joined Goldman Sachs before

an MBA at Harvard that took her to McKinsey in London, where she worked part-time while she had her two sons. She joined Citrus 2004 and embarked on a career that involved steps in New York, Missouri and Mexico.

The top job at Oil means she is based in New York but now turned the globe. 'I was in Asia the 6 times in six weeks, which was found but fascinating.'

In London for a week long trip she took a tour of the 42-story building in Canary Wharf, which is undergoing a 22-billion-crft agreement. Half will finally start to move in next month. While the seven continues to be hitted out, the 10,000-crafts would usually work there are based at two-time. Some are in a

lower next door, from where she holds 'sewn half' for the workforce.

Fraser admitted she had 'asked a lot of everyone' and the organisational had 'been through a lot' but added: 'A lot of our clients have told me they are a different Oil now'. She clients are in now with confidence back. They are so on the front foot. They are so working together more as one team.

Fraser indicated there was no time to be complicated. 'We're going to have to make sure we continue to up our game because our policy aren't standing still either,' she said. 'But like our Arch of cash much more. We're hangers, we're got an incredible team.'

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CASH IN HAND

When they buy get the auto Bag Money to unveil Britain's first cash machine in Exhibit, north London, in 1987, the customers are previously was met with widespread anxiety. More worried that trusting a machine will their money was asking for trouble, while others feared their card — or, in the earliest days, their paper voucher — might be easier for the machine. Yet the insertion more because one of banking's biggest productivity gains. Customers were to target investment by how it is causing hours, while banks could serve more people without having to pay less more staff. According to Link, Britain's largest ATM network, consumers will share 1.9% (Miles in 2020) — a new look that circumstances, once it proves itself, is remarkably difficult to resist.

TAPPING INTO TECH

Paying for everyday purchases with vurling more than crisp, much left rate, even reckless. Good luck why he occurs? Would it lead to accidental or fraudulent payments? Introduced in the UK in 2002, contactless technology strands gathered momentum before the pandemic alternately accustomed to adoption, as shoppers and retailers embraced them, much free transactions. The arrival of digital wallets, such as Apple Pay, pushed the shift further still, allowing consumers to leave their physical cards, phones and leaving smartphones and used their city payment devices. Soils for millions of people, tapping to pay has become second nature.

SMART VIEWS

How products have attracted quite as much ridicule as Google Glass. Launched in 2013, the futuristic systems was reached for making people look into areas and raised valid concerns about privacy and surveillance. More than a decade later, AI powered smart glasses are enjoying a second act. Meta's Ray-Bam, a modelled by Kyle Janner, have become a surprise hit, allowing users to take photos, make calls and ask an AI assistant-quantum without needing to reach for their phones. Analysts expect the global smart glasses market to grow to ten out of billion of dollars within the next decade. All they kill the smartphone? Perhaps not. But how people once wondered if anyone would ever trust an ATM.

CRONELING DONATIONS

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...and how soon a sharp decline since 2022

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from 1991 million in 2022, to 199 million in 2020. While it is difficult to say how much to that total will be shared, short, modern say it will be the bulk of it.

Until all this, Brickmakers are having to make tough choices.eksters in making 25 per cent these bricks than in 2023, while it has closed new factors and mothballed another.

Chief executive Neil Ash said Partners would have to consider turning all into at the two kilos at its Desired plant in Leavenworths. His biggest brickmaking factors in Europe, if the market gets worse. The world mean making some half estimated. The Desired factors opened only in 2022 and it capable of producing enough bricks to build nearly 250,000 tonnes a year.

Brickmakers are also attempting to make the 25 per cent.eksters is making dimmer bricks called brick dips, which are much easier to install in the can. But they are not a railing system, rather than being laid, and both will or high and end the building.

Meanwhile, McReinwick has developed hydrogen powered brick kilns to save money at a time when gas prices have been soaring.

However, almost all brick kilns are still gas powered, and while most brickmakers charge their price over a three to four-year period, gas prices have gone from only fifty a thorn in 2021 to 15.50-15.00 today.

The government has introduced the British Industrial Competition to take into account that 60,000 trans-lectures with their utility costs, by running their electricity bills by up to 25 per cent from April 2022, but the scheme does not apply to gas bills. Powering bricks with electricity would be about four times as expensive.

Brickmakers say more plants across the US will show at be mothballed if the market does not improve, which could mean more inflation as imports when the markets are set up.

Meanwhile, overseas there are on the growth about a fifth of the bricks used in the US every year are imported, produce nearly from countries such as Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. However, since 2022, a growing number of cheaper

bricks have been coming in from countries further about, such as India, Pakistan and Turkey.

Bring at Northern said, 'Electricity and gas prices in the US are two or three times more than they pay in Europe, and when hot tankers go around 25 per cent of the cost of making a brick, you're at going a big disadvantage to Europeans. So alone bricks coming from better about the loss.'

Adam Inger, Labour MP for Newcaride-yndictsman in Staffordshire, where Patrick has its headquarters, brought a bill to parliament in February that asks the government to publish proposals for measures to increase the use of British-made bricks in construction projects.

'We make brilliant bricks. We should be using British made bricks,' Inger said.

'It's good for jobs, let good for fresh levels, it's good for the carbon impact in the two-veh穷地区 and who cost to import ing bricks from overseas.'

'We should be doing whatever we can to protect, support and encourage the British brickmaking industry.'

While demand for bricks is the traditional bid further for brand building activity, manufacturers of other construction materials are also struggling.

UK cannot production is now languishing at low, but even in the 1990s. Domestic volume of marketable concrete, the world's second-best consumed product after water, left 9.5 per cent in the first half of the year to break hot witnessed in the 1990s.

British cement is particularly vulnerable to being undercut by higher carbon revenues products that are, in effect, blocked from supplying the European Union because of financial / crackdown on cheap imports.

Whether it's brick is so concrete, there is still a glimmer of hope on the horizon. Andy the shantry pledge to hold the most control housing since the postwar period would be a welcome boost for the supply side of the industry.

'We are 10 months' more! you need the confidence that the market is going to be low-bond and four... [so we can] keep on investing through the cycle to make sure we've got enough capacity,' Ash said.

If that can happen, British brickmaking should continue to form a big part of the housing market for years to come.

I went from Porsche sales to building a £24m tech firm

SONY, MIDDLE

RUSSELL ATTWOOD, FOUNDER OF SOUTH 101

Nianah Curran

A few years after leaving his Bristol school at the age of 65, Russell Attwood found himself selling Porsche on a developing vehicle, and B. Dealing with an affluent identity gave him a 'look of what success looks like'.

'Where you will have cars to get into a lot of dissonance with the client. You get to understand when they have some time,' said Attwood, now 36. 'I realized that, actually, there were people who were becoming very, very successful and very wealthy who were well made.'

'They gave me the idea that actually is possible to build something successful for yourself and enjoy the change that could come out.'

Attwood delisted that, setting up Call Center Technology in the late 1990s, and selling it to outsourcing group Capital for £25 million in 2018. Then, two years later, he established Route 458, which helps businesses manage cloud contact centres and customer services software. Last year, it had revenues of £2.7 million and a pre-tax profit of

£3.7 million. The firm employs nearly 200 people. Route 458 sold to 2050, Attwood attended the foregoing Colman show. Collagued school from the age of six, his father was a teacher and he was that began to 'come off the rails' when his mother was diagnosed with cancer. She developed Attwood was 8 and a year later his father's business collapsed.

The school allowed Attwood to complete the 3-levels, even though his father couldn't pay the fees for his final work.

His father then sought work as a 'relief landlord', stopping in to manage under performing jobs in Bristol that needed new leadership.

The job-engaged living studio, had their own recovers for Attwood, so his father conted him a small file.

'The same independent as quite an early age. I suppose it lends itself well to entrepreneurship because you're got to stand on your own too fast,' Attwood said.

At 12, he enrolled in a BTRC business course, but dropped out after three months and started working with jobs. In 2018, he had landed a role in South Wales as a trainee salesman at Pitney Bowes, the US postal technology company. His company then built him just as a dealershipselling. Porsche, Rolls-Royce and Bentley. One day, he might walked to to ask if they had any resources.

Attwood was delighted with his own job. He enjoyed selling high-affiliates for about 30% of the costs of using with successful customers looking to spend the on his contract through their work. Among them were a couple of money, telecomm salesmen who told him to apply for jobs in their industry, which was going through deregulation following the privatisation of IT in the 1980s.

After some research, Attwood landed a sales job at BTRC business and had centre telecomm firm. By this time, in 1990, the 20 year-old had met Carla, who would later become the wife.

'Thinking about how to secure their future, Carla suggested he became self-employed to earn extra income from other sources. He approached BTR, and asked to drop his loan; salary and free one; commission only, setting himself up as a subcontractor.'

This arrangement continued for 30 months, by which some times of one able to face some graduate sales people and rent a small amount of space in an office block in Bristol. He would later buy the whole building.

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Someone's advice...my dad, for what he went through, and my chairman,

I realised that it was possible to build something for yourself

At the time, however, he still found a big hit to grow his customer base, so Attwood went to a supplier of KPL asking for investment. He was unsuccessful, but the approach led to an introduction to an angel investor who went on to provide a $400,000 in funding — on the previous that Attwood also managed up £40,000 of his own money. To do this, he sold his car and turned out his credit cards.

With this injection of funds, Call Center Technology (CCT) was formally launched in 1947 to set up centralization to each used by the centres. It grew to 100 people with a turnover of nearly £20 million in 2017 but then everything came to a

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'grinding talk' following the financial crash in 2018. To recover, Attwood first found a financial decision and then made the 'really difficult decision' to cut a third of his staff. Turnover recovered from 10 million in 2019 to 124.4 million in sales, and 23.6 million in pre-tax profits, in 2018.

'When I right, approached him to buy the business in 2016, he 'pumped' at the opportunity because he had no pension and he wanted a return for health members who were not invested in CCT. He raised the outsourcing company for a year as the head of its IT sales and then resigned, taking a three-month family trip across North America. Part of their journey was along Route 401, a road that goes down the west coast of the US, later providing inspiration for his next firm's name.'

Attwood started thinking about new business ideas and saw an opportunity to start a similar company to CCT, but this time intensely footing the technology to allow became known at the cloud. He went to his original investors in Call Center Technology to see if they wanted to book him again. They did not, along

with his own money, the money saved from straight to run the new business for 18 months while it ran at a low. Similar to CCT, Route 101 results services from a variety of providers such as Amazon Web Services and Zendrek, which it packages and manages for its customer. Centre Patricious Route 401's services to make it in its entire booking system.

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with his own money, the money saved from straight to run the new business for 18 months while it ran at a low.

Similar to CCT, Route 101 results services from a variety of providers such as Amazon Web Services and Zendrek, which it packages and manages for its customer. Centre Patricious Route 401's services to make it in its entire booking system.

Attwood found a used their existing contract to win business before the pandemic time went and again charged investment to create customer service technologies. Route 458 helped with the technology for the shift. The company was also responsible for selling the technology behind the 3000 test-and-trace scheme.

Having built a solid reputation, last year Route 101 landed the first of two months' sales. A 2019 million, five-year contract with the Department for Work & Business to modernize its contact centres. It has since signed a 2000 million contract, along with software company NATL and consultancy Capgemini, to update customer service at 850 Revenue & Systems.

Attwood, who said the company to now expecting turnover of £40 million this year and £70 million in 2022, is company about the impact on the industry of it. He believed it is not going to replace the need for people to talk to other people, but will instead bolster customer service and 'add capability to the human agent.'

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A mixed forecast

It shows for Legal & General

Things are looking up for António Simões, the man holding the insurer's famous colourful umbrella. But after a rocky start there's still plenty of work to do to fully revive City stalwart's fortunes, writes Jill Treanor

Legal & General has spent four years disappointing investors. Whether it be half-year or half-year, every time the companies have met in umbrella logo published its financial results, its shares underperformed by blue-chip peers.

That was until last Wednesday, however, when Legal & General's stock ended the day 0-8 per cent up compared with a FTSE 0-10 index that was broadly flat. Stopping this unseated stock will come as welcome relief to António Simões, who became chief executive in January 2024.

The Portuguese-born executive has had a social time explaining his strategy for the business, which provides pensions for more than 12 million customers, mostly in Britain. It was Britain's biggest local manager with 12.2 million of assets until Sideroides sold itself to America's Nomex, and it is coming under pressure from huge American powerhouses such as BlackRock and Vanguard.

In recent months, Simões has been forced to face down concerns that LAC cannot afford to be priced dividend, and to plan down reports that the business was vulnerable to a bid from private equity because of its body stock market rating. This, along with the arrival of a new chairman, Scott White was, barely three months ago, but put Simões under intense pressure to start to deliver results. 'Scott was's lot on his hands,' said one one senior City senior, who knows Wieneer's reputation from his time as chair of Centrica.

António Simões, who took over in CEO in January 2024, showed the City with the group's latest financial results

These reasons helped explain why the City paid attention last week as Simões presented half-year figures that showed upstating profits were up 7 per cent in 1978 millions. The local pressure to deliver earnings per share - a key measure of performance for shareholders - was delivered with a rise to 15 per cent, higher than his global (range of between 6 and 10 per cent) in 2.2 per cent.

While some murmured that the rising share price was due to lingering takeover speculation, Simões pointed to the performance in the three main divisions he created: institutional retirement, which buys up pensions from other companies - known as pension and income (PPI) or both purchase annuities; the asset management arm; and the retail division, which offers workplace pensions.

'I'm feeling really good as the three businesses are growing. I've talked about being the best company to invest and solve with. There's still more to do, but I'm pleased with how things are going,' Simões said.

While a couple of brokers upgraded their expectations for the shares, which are reading at five-year highs, many agree there is much more to do. Increasing third investors of a latest company was a long-held ambition of Simões, but he was regarded as a surprise choice by long-time members of the insurance sector. While he'd had an accomplished career - first of McKinsey and Perry of HSBC and Sartautek - he had never worked directly in the controversial twenty-nine years industry.

He was also taking on the role from Sir Nigel Wilson, who had created his own auto account LAC after 8 years at the home with his boss on 'Reliance sign, lables'. But Simões unravelled the structure created by Wilson as he could put the asset management arm at the center of the operation to manage the market thought in through the two other divisions.

To do this, he merged Legal & General Investment Management. Known for its industrialising stock market investments, with Legal & General Capital Markets, which invested in private projects, home of those he sold all, such as house-holders (Adriboum for 2018).

Reflecting on this last week, Simões admitted that reducing this division 'was harder for me than I had ever posted'. I had to draw a line under 'square issues'. But he said it was worth it as the asset management arm, now run by American Exx sales, delivered a 'stand-out performance'. If you cent growth in his related earnings.

The restructuring amortised some staff, as did other changes pushed through by Simões to upgrade the management suite to the company's head office in the City. However, though, appear to be saying 'best on insurance market Gordon Allison said: 'Everyone I know at Legal,' they like it. They like António. They like what he's doing, to people inside the company are happy.'

But pressures remain. Analysis are scrutinising the traditional powerhouse of LAC, the institutional division that buys up pensions from other companies,

such as old plan BP and the UK arm of our company Ford. It is the market leader with a dominant 25 per cent share.

Andrew von Entholen, an analyst at investment bank Ford Stock, said: 'That market used to be booming, both in terms of growth and margins. But it is now seeing a margin-upcome as competitive comes to.' Some of the 400 margins in this division fell from 0.5 per cent to 4.2 per cent in the first half.

Simões, though, was ophean about the opportunity there: 'There's 12 million of this over the next ten years. Half of that is here in the UK,' he said, adding that the retail division, which looks after workplace pensions, 'is the most exciting story still to come.'

These two divisions help to explain why LAC has been cited as attractive to Solares - because of the cash they generate; the workplace arm alone has 12 billion of resources! Even every month, the auto equity Nomex have eyed that potential cash generation at LAC's trade during up Pension Insurance Corporate and Just 14 cap. And Mascara of Fannune Laboratory said they were also spying competition for business. 'They are also depriving more capital ... so it's getting more crowded.'

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Despite all the talk of championing fast-growing and sign-in for fair finance's administration since its origin to power in July 2024, these that is an their own check-in 30 days, globally covered higher education sector are on the water.

In the past academic year, the companies have been open out of UK universities a five-year low and a fair cyclone a year at 2021 in 2020-25.

But at least one university is leading the trend - university's drugs London is going ganghouses and accounts for seven of the top 20 spits out onto in the past decade.

What is CCL doing right? Before answering this, it's worth assessing what is going wrong, including many of the university spits only. The downturn can be ascribed to three main causes.

A first is the Soviet prevalence. UK universities have been frozen out of funding from the needs over since the transition period for busing the EU ended in December 2020. Previously this was a lucrative revenue stream. The European Regional Development Fund (ERP) founded British universities on average of £137 million annually between 2016 to 2020.

More than a replacement scheme was administered under Swiss Ministry. The Conservatives set aside 12.6 billion in 2022, spread over three years, for the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (DRPP). Not a little asge it was out in for purpose.

Where European funds were distributed to each stage university spits-out, the DRPP could be used by local authorities to spend on town centres, employment and general business support. Money that may be opposed to gross cutting-edge

Number of companies spent out from UK universities in the past academic year - a three-year low

Anna Lane, head of UCL Ventures, says entrepreneurs can retain their academics posts

moderate and treatments could be used to 40p includes. Third, the platform state of university finances meant budgets to convert more technology's driving up.

'There is a significant amount of funding pressure - economy universities, caused by huge cost increases, staff wage inflation ... and the foaming of university tuition fees,' said Tim Sutton, chief executive at The Centre for Entrepreneurs.

The support that spits out to receive from universities broadly comes from business training and guidance to form and run the companies, which the institutions can then bind through grants.

UCL gives staff incentives to setup companies and speak to students about spits-outs early on in their studies. And it also has two venture capital funds, most universities don't have one.

Mannie Himmelstein, co-founder of UCL spits out Panda Surgical, which produces hand-held robotic equipment for minimally invasive brain and spine surgery, said: 'You have about common industries and entrepreneurship from your early days here.'

A large in know-almost have been successful, he added. A notable example of the university's success is Synthesis, an 81-kilov business started in 2017. UCL professor Lunden

Sugate co-founded the company, which grew to a valuation of $4 billion at the start of the year. Half of the university, also have an incentive to establish companies. 'If they have a grand-folymer, that might go towards their promotions

Lynosports,' said Anne Lane, chief executive of UCL Ventures, an

commercialisation arm. 'It's no longer the case that if you are an academic, you make a choice if you want to go into your spit-out. Many of our academic

entrepreneurs retain their academic posts, but they also have clear within their spin-out companies,' she said.

Mangnam this is not only, there is also the UCL Technology Fund, which invests in spits-outs. Only a handful of universities in the UK have seen that one funding arm for their spits-outs, among them are Cambridge and Oxford universities.

Gisela Verreeth, a firm that cuts the amount of electricity needed to lift by using light to convert to computer chips, was founded in 2022 with 2,291,000 from UCLs tech fund. It has over raised £15 million.

Professor George Dorsey, co-founder, worked at Bristol University before UCL and said the difference between the two increasing on-line intra-commercial companies was 'like and right'.

When Dorsey told UCL that he wanted to spin out the company, it connected him to the tech fund. He said having a fund connected to the university made a 'big big difference' in the start.

But it is not all down to UCL's approach to business, geography also plays a part. A recent report from the British Business Bank showed that equity-funded spits-outs are disproportionately set up in the South East, with Wales profiting the loan.

The median three-time deal size for spits-outs is higher in the South East, within the North East but the lowest deal size. 'Growth is every protocol,' considering that Andy Bouchman highlights as an antihero - is evidently a rather lofty aim for university spits-outs.

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INTERVIEW

WILL HAVE TURN ALL

I asked once in a corner of Bill Hullen's market corner office, between a dozen potted plants scattered around the room, to a flannel table. Star549 page from 2022, shortly after January, streams of Ukraine kicked off a cost of living come in the UK.

The lives of Utility, an energy supplier for low income homes that pioneered smart meters in the UK, laughs when I notice his staring role in the newspaper, which he bought while on a day trip to Brighton. "I spent half a day wondering around trying to find a newspaper that still had a copy of the Daily Star, and eventually found it."

It's not exactly listening: "I spent the headline 'You and Number' on two flickering lightbulbs containing the superimposed faces of Bullen and them. They minister Bill Malthouse, who had made the best use of admitting that he family was looking for bothers." (nicky)

Bullen's crime had been so often advice on how households could save energy and cut their bills. Or, as the newspaper put it: "Many other energy from bills are common to save cashiery not being busy."

"That was it," he notes Bullen, not carefully. "I'm doing it for help. I'm not."

Bullen, a heart-car driving, has called chief executive who earned £32,000 last year from his (2,2 billion/annum) business, can take a plan and a profit. But the kind of sentiment, often expressed in "examine" from Westminster, has been waiting for that net down in EarthyBull, Hampshire - metaphorically, at least. Bullen, 64, has often come off last thumbs in part, he reduces to him not having worked it for more than 40 years.

I have the impression that part of the reason he's undercut our down-to-the-head quarters on the south coast is so he can offer a defense of his much-maligned career. "He's sure a hands-upman means of bans," he says. "There are a load of very professional, well-meaning, well-bounded people working really hard to try to deliver what we have to consumers."

Most business leaders are very when asked to offer advice to prime ministers, and will often to their public relations advisors to meet brand statements that may occasionally, at a profit - certain small groups of meaning. But when ask Bullen what he'd like from Aish Hamilton and the new energy market at Martin's, he says, "I'm not going to be there." "Please, no more friends standard!"

He comes around with a lengthy list of policy institutions, covering home relations, offshore windhams and, he buys more. The price can of with his says: "The best thing you can say is it's made bigger all different to 100s."

Other policy industries are well-rounded to tax on active emissions, to enable other interests to take out, and for would-be noises "not zero" allowed from our national socialisation. "It's become open a tout and chronic term," he says, "beginning the alternative, less-udely elegant. "Get carbon emissions back to the 1800s too!" The UK's carbon emissions are, however, "already at 90% levels due to the dramatic cut in cost. Advertising taxes, permitting surfaces, just keep turning up, the carbon tax, and turning down other taxes, are pretty hard to make it small."

Bullen was born and raised in south-east London. Exhibited something of a minority, he developed for no-hair-wash routine while studying, engineering, at Bath University. "I couldn't afford share, yes, so I just stopped," he sleeps.

When he started out, the energy sector warrants owned. "It was a disaster, frankly. Go back and look at some of the decisions that were made, then about power market investment. Don't know, we'd no customer focus whatsoever."

In the last 1990s, he co-founded Electricity Direct, a business supplier later acquired by British Gas owner Crantus, the record with the business, but quickly formed the impression that low-income households were not receiving a good enough service from existing suppliers.

In 2003, he and his co-founded owned £230,000 from friends and family to set

We are here, talks, net zero, points... and not washing his hair

Bill Bullen, the founder of pay-as-you-go energy company Utility, is credited with rolling out the smart meter. Here he shares some harsh truths about Britain's power market

A I couldn't afford shampoos so I just stopped using it

THE LIFE OF BILL BULLEN

Born: Abbey Wood, smallwood London, in December 1985 Status: married with sweet children School: Boston and both Technical High School for Boys, surfboard, crotch. from Bath's grammar school. University engineering at Bath University First job: recycling cardboard for his father's

themselves up to provide cheaper energy and better service to power homes. The company made its name by pioneering the smart meter in the UK, including one for the first time in 2008. Before smart meters, pay-as-you-go customers had to top up their account by taking a plastic card into a post office or shop. Now they can do so from home, via an app, website, or over the phone. Smart meters have a built up to some quarters, due to some deadly installations and technical errors. But Bullen says Utility customers, by and large, now there. "It seems almost medieval to suggest that people should have to take a little plastic card out of their meter, walk down the high street and top it up with a motor and come back and plug it into their meter," he says. "It's keeping the

lights on, it's keeping the place warm, it's making a plastic ball of cold that might otherwise turn up in casually waste because of damp cold homes." Bill, Bullen estimates that more than a billion pay-as-you-go households, across various suppliers, have yet to install a smart meter - partly because they are unaware of other options and parity, in other cases, because of "quality." Utility has 700,000 customers, making it the UK's eighth-largest energy supplier. Many discover the brand through price-enhancement scheme or football-sponsorship. The company has much deals with the English Football League, Crystal Palace, Handeland, Bolton Wanderers, Hilversum and several other clubs. Utility's customers access are ruined. It boasts a respectable 'thoughtful' score of

4.2 and last year was a runnerup in Coventry, usually he customer can do, iron and value for money. But his 100-roll of 16 suppliers ranked by Ukraine advice, based on customer complaints. When I mention this, Bullen goes into combat mode once more. "You've certainly worked out how to push my hair tone," he says. His main issue here, he says, is that if one calls up Citizens Advice about money issues, generally they record this against the energy supplier and the airport this as a complaint, when it is finally a demagogues issue. He have raised these issues with them, but they won't change their process. Utility has built its customer base, and revenues grow from £10 million in 2010 to more than 2050 million in 2019 - although in that year, the company talks:

B Price cape don't cap prices, they cap profits

Ever-go bills will come down when the homes are properly insulated, says Bill Bullen

a £31 million low. While last year's revenues were (2.2 billion, this was down from above £2.0 billion in 2022.

A lot of the recent fluctuations can be explained by the price cap, which industry regulator Pigman introduced in 2009 to limit how much suppliers could charge households for each unit of pay as electricity they use. It was designed to stop local customers being penalized for stalling with the same supplies.

Under the cap, so-tested every quarter and adjusted according to wholesale energy prices and other factors, the typical home is currently paying 25,000 a year. Bullen can't happy. "You've got short cap prices, they cost 20-30%" is his slogan. "A down-to-the-headday and these more prices, which harms future consumers."

"You've got a sector that's needing investment, that you must learn about in - it needs to be able to attract capital," he adds. "But if you've got 1200 to move, would you rather put that in a standard P700 350 tracker fixed, or a company, or an energy supply business?"

He is what's the answer? As an anchor in the retail free market, Bullen thinks a publication and policymakers should be focused on longer-term access to living down bills, and one consultation. "So are still building houses in the country that are well-repised in terms of energy consumption," he says. "We don't get out of this problem of people not affording their energy bills until we get up to the spoon standards of housing insurance."

Bullen acknowledges that energy policy is quite complicated and that nuance can be hampered by its explicit politics. He points to offshore windhams, a green energy advocate, he was supportive of them, in a profit, but now he thinks we've built enough of them.

On March the UK now has enough sea based windshifts to capture more energy than can be utilized at any one time. This is partly because we know: "built enough planes to transmit energy from northern coasts to the population south of England. And what else would we do? Knowing, other power sources are still needed.

The result is that the UK's windhams own investments likely to be "a fiving-up energy costs. It's insiders," but, he adds, with a guidance. "Don't not let only message you can get to consumers, because they either think offshore wind's good or other low wind's best."

Bullen's major policy gripes and ideas could not keep the average UK household. But this isn't all about ultimate. His hope is that an profit is important of the sector often, as well as the sector up and up places might take a more comparable approach, allowing him to make a good profit. "The Provoil," he notes, remains "a novel also to some circles."

He is of ultimately, it may help Utility. "I had new investors. We've always been open to investment - it's just about a very difficult thing to get into the market," he says. "Revenue investors include 90 and income theses, an Indian smart meter company, but just to invest, it's a good deal. If you can't get out of the business and other shares owned by management and an employee team. Thanks to a couple of years of profitability, however, he says that company has been a good deal and has not proven and now he's 'unworthily again'."

He would be in the market for long-term investors, either persons funds or other energy companies. He has also provided a number of funding for business on London. "The difficulty we've had with that is that its you present something to the industry. What's where it's been such a basket case for so long?"

A being a positive on the cards, he says, but would require a period of "smooth impact" from regulators. "It would be better to get the power from the car, actually allowed to be successful rather than being regulated in doubt," he adds.

Given Bullen's stake, a sale or final would probably give him that major major major activity in the UK. "I'm not sure, as he approaches his 100s birthday. It perhaps would even allow him to think about retirement." "Well," he says with a chuckle, "I keep thinking about it. But I'm still enjoying it here at the moment."

Now it's got real for AI as Home's steps down at Google

The DeepMind founder will focus on curing all diseases, while over in Big Tech land, superintelligence will come of age. Danny Fortson reports

On a one-sided Map meeting in California, the Boston Education, Nobel Prize winner and other executive of Google DeepMind, soundly real and the 41st-evidence in that category. "Look what we built around us," he guided at a Google event. "There all needs we're searching at today, just a few years ago, that would have been unthinkable."

But what really got him started was a bigger goal. "Aging," he declares. "He said, 'I'm always full of pain I what I got and need importantly wanted to do with AI.'" In return Reynolds, 5/1, announced last week that he was stopping down as chief executive of Google DeepMind, and was still in 4 million (2.2 million) Alphabet engine, another, who ever surprised. He had already a short track of the running office and was to Kemp გადაწყვეტილება, his US board was never.

His switch to a less-hardener role as DeepMind, a chairman, and chief scientist at Alphabet, is nonetheless a

moment not just for Alphabet but the AI revolution.

Hasselton, who acted DeepMind in London and sold it to Google 42 years ago, is probably worth billions. The stock of Alphabet, which is obviously generous with its top team, is up 15-fold more he joined. He doesn't need money.

So as a scientist with an current desire to benefit his fellow man, he is tempting his day job at the largest advertising business on the planet for his own days at the fair bench.

In some pike Lake, a start up he launched out of Google for years ago, raised 2.2 million. May after making its day, it was not to go at developing, and it is the discovery platform that could reduce its costs. What's the can be a good creating a compounded textured software at the source.

In retrospect, Google has had a deal look like the event that finally spursed Reynolds's move. In 2014, he won a Nobel prize for Alphabet, a DeepMind model that produced here previous fold

Film: Atonement, starring Fiona Kingdine and James McAfee Music: Rolling Stones, Paul Walker, CD Drink: a part of butter or a glass of flaps Watch: some Gadget: iPad mini, used for heading books and newspapers Last before: 5 Nov Chantly: Utility Giving

Music: All Bill Bullen makes before Sam his self-seller take the bus or drive his car into work to service between them and

8.5mm before a day filled nearly with meetings with his executive team and staff. The focus of Utility knows the office of about 3pm, works from home, and then matches with a few meeting by reading books, he usually has three or four on the goal at any one time. We current not, it is here. The first and if all of the First West by William J. Shaw.

Bullers' team reading and searching agents, including the Bath and Blackheath rugby teams and forward FC.

the experts "maybe like half a dozen to a dozen other Alphabet-based breakthroughs", all leading to came for all diseases within the next 20 or so years. In other words, he has bigger little to try that of trying about quarterly projections or the lower cost with "special and faithfully" on the basis, so on the only one involved with an urgency that doesn't seem to sit really tender a upcoming couple of o'clocky people. Alphabet

Nobel prizewinner Sir Fiona Reynolds was also a child chess prodigy

has, to its dismay, disgorged a lot of top talent in short order. Jeff Dean, Google's share co-actor, also announced his out-last week, along with senior executives Gina Vinyale, Sanjay Ghosnami and Janet A.

The first name is on launched a new company called Discovery Corp, with the aim of leveraging its accurate scientific research. Taken with the news about Hansden, the department launched 2009/10Bans of Alphabet market, which they were not the first. In June, Susan Hunter, one of the architects of Gemini, and John J Cooper, who shared the world prize with Hansden, decamped his tipsuit and faithsuits, respectively.

But Alphabet will be like the advertising business to the most elegant money printing machine to ever go on Earth. It also covers well power the 32,000 dollars, as well as large, fringe net "win" the user to artificial power at intelligence (AGI) - systems تساعد than any between and powerful enough to create the world more powerful version of

themselves - but it probably won't matter. The world appears to be the most popular world is place where intelligence will contain ideas. It will become ambient and cheap, like electronic, bloodless claims to be published in July 2010, give or take a year. Implicit or his decision last year will be one of the top five Google's - to that the next phase of the software will make them first few years, where "that's it" is that we just give a lot of data that we're walked on the move, look for a few. The real action is about to begin, for better and worse than ever, working in your homes. "We're building the specialised brands that are required to use the best chemistry and biochemistry - the kinds of things you need to change shape," he said. "Inertingly, we now have some real compounds in peripheral stage, which is the beginning of them becoming real ones. And I think that actually will be the biggest transnational market in AI when it happens."

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Facebook braces for $1 trillion court battle

Parent company Meta is facing fresh claims that its apps are addictive by design and targeted pre-teens in a new mega-trial this week. The tech giant insists the claims are unfounded. Danny Fortson reports

Mark Zuckerberg testified before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in 2024, to discuss child safety

PLos Angeles jury made history in March when it found Meta and YouTube liable for the mental health struggles of a 20-year-old woman.

The first-of-its-kind verdict, which awarded the plaintiff $4 million in a 1-mile hour to punitive damages, was an amusement to disabling a hairline crash in the legal office that

for a quarter of a century, has doubled the social media giants from are respectability for the harm that their products were used.

This week, at the federal court house in Oakland, California, a handful of state attorneys general, both California's their teams, aim to take a sledgehammer to the industry.

Just when there will begin in a case that will turn on the same argument that Meta has designed its apps, specifically Facebook and Instagram, to be addictive and therefore damaging. The states, however, are wholly different.

Instead of being pursued by a single, struggling manager, attorneys general representing 40 million people across four states – California, Kentucky, Colorado and New Jersey – are seeking more than $1 billion in death, released on wide-spread consumer harm.

Meta called the demand "unfounded" with "no harm in law" it added: "We will continue to defend ourselves against

headline-seeking demands that are unethereal from reality."

Judge Truman Gonzalez Rogers, who oversaw the recent trial between Elon Musk and state officials, approved its agree that the state was a bridge too far, but equally dismissed Meta's proposed $4 million maximum-presented penalty as "not even a day on the hand."

Opening arguments are closed to begin on August 10.

The case includes up the pressure on a social media industry that's after years of breakdown, growth and an uncanny ability to create regulation - suddenly back

$567m What Meta had to pay into a fund to address harms caused by its app

$600 Number of cases filed across America against the industry

itself reckoning with a global backlash. Four countries have enacted national restrictions this year on social media accounts for children, including Austria, Indonesia, Brazil and Malaysia. Several others including France, Greece and Turkey have approved similar measures that have yet to take effect, while more than a dozen additional countries are considering or drafting comparable restrictions.

The crackdown is gaining momentum. A judge in New Mexico has week ordered Meta to pay $107 million into a fund to address the harms caused by its app and ordered the company to change several key features for users in the state. These include barring paid contributions during school hours and front flips to Zara for under the, deleting all data for underagencies, and creating items on consumer relationships that people have struck up with it from.

The judge compared Meta to a fact-to-the-tower. Just as noxious pollution produced by the history can harm the company's public right to reasonably clean air, the harmful effects of future epidemics on children's lives was maintained in its play forms and, instead, migrate to the internet as a whole and, perhaps most concerning, to the real world.

The ruling in New Mexico was the second part of a two-phase trial. The first part ended in March, when the court found that Meta endangered users and

ordered it to pay an initial $170 million in damages. That decision happened to arrive in the same week that the Los Angeles jury also found Meta and YouTube guilty on seven counts, including the core question of whether the apps were addictive and whether the companies acted with "malice, oppression or fraud".

Meta was ordered to pay $4.2 million, while YouTube must come up with $1.9 million. Both have appealed against the LA decision, and Meta plans to fight the New Mexico verdict as well. It said, "We work hard to keep people safe on our children and our clean about the challenges of identifying and removing bad actors or harmful content."

Just as these appeal processes begin, Meta and its 16-day social media giants are preparing for the next fight.

The attorneys general case in Oakland was filed in 2023, but marks an important plank of the legal onslaught. Across America, more than 2,000 cases have been filed against the industry. In January, the case their children to include, by school districts struggling with a large in mental health issues, and by states. These thousands of cases have been consolidated into two courts: the state superior court in Los Angeles and the federal court in Oakland, about 150 miles up this road. In each, the judges have chosen a handful of "redneckers" cases to go to trial.

Plaintiffs share the same goal: to establish a legal procedure that social media work are purpose-built for addiction, in unregenerating a decade of societal and personal harms, and that the makers of those tools should be made to put.

Matthew Bergman of the Social Media, Victims Law Center brought the case in Los Angeles. He also represents families

who lost their children to sample the said the Oakland case is part of a "pincer power" to hold social media companies accountable.

"I are quick for the clients that I represent, they don't give two data about the money, the them, it's accountability," he said. "Unfortunately, the only thing that these companies understand is money. They guarantee doesn't work with these folks, are the public humiliators. The monetary component is simply a sting! to overthrow responsible corporate behaviors."

Campaigners claim this year has marked a running point, in part because while social media companies had largely been successfully sting out of court, an accordingly large corpus of evidence has been forced into the open through court ordered, pre-trial discovery. These include thousands of internal emails, strategic documents, reports and even internal media into the very life that, the industry argues publicly, its apps do not cause.

This evidence is now publicly available and is being drawn on our just 9/9 plate-sills, but politicians and regulators around the world. It includes, for many,

Meta employee: we should acquire teens as young as possible

pts, internal emails to social media companies hardly losing out why getting very young people and others app was so critical, including "twenty" - children aged 10 to 12. Under US law, children are not allowed to open a social media account until the age of 15.

Meta "normally understand progress with reasons by saying that 'waves are the future', and Meta should 'double down' my 'unfocal impact', according to court documents.

An internal working group determined that 10-year-old adult a lifetime value to Meta of $190, as opposed to as 16- to 20- to 30- to 40- to 50- to 60- to 70- to 80- to 90- to 100- to 110- to 120- to 130- to 140- to 150- to 160- to 170- to 180- to 190- to 200- to 210- to 220- to 230- to 240- to 250- to 260- to 270- to 280- to 290- to 300- to 310- to 320- to 330- to 340- to 350- to 360- to 370- to 380- to 390- to 400- to 410- to 420- to 430- to 440- to 450- to 460- to 470- to 480- to 490- to 500- to 510- to 520- to 530- to 540- to 550- to 560- to 570- to 580- to 590- to 600- to 610- to 620- to 630- to 640- to 650- to 660- to 670- to 680- to 690- to 700- to 710- to 720- to 730- to 740- to 750- to 760- to 770- to 780- to 790- to 800- to 810- to 820- to 830- to 840- to 850- to 860- to 870- to 880- to 890- to 900- to 910- to 920-

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Pierre-Hugues Schmit

Gatwick's second runway will help the economy fly

In 1914 in the need of additional infrastructure to boost the economy, trade, tourism, connectivity and create much-needed jobs, insurance payments to critical to unloading these benefits and the role of airports, such as London Gatwick, as growth catalysts for the second national economies is well documented.

As we well-note another new prime minister, there is an onus on government and business to lead ways to release the huge potential for growth - and we are keen to get going. After eight years of rigorous planning and legal processes, Gatwick has finally been given the green light to bring our needs to economy into control, we and results to be operate as a dual-runway airport.

The transport secretary actually approved this project to September last year, but the proposal was then subject to legal challenge. While it is right that there is proper scrutiny of projects of this scale, should it really take eight years and cost Gatwick about

£70 million just to get the go ahead? It has taken significant effort and involved a lot of perseverance from our teams and our shareholders including the night (cost) to get to this moment. On Tuesday, the Court of Appeal finally brought an end to legal proceedings. This is not just good news for everyone at the airport, but also for the businesses that rely on us, for our current and future passengers, and it's critical for the success of this country.

As the newspaper has long observed, southeast England faces largely unintended airport capacity. London's airports are almost full, and Gatwick is already the world's most efficient single runway airport - but we are enacting the limits of what is possible. Estimates show

that more than 30 million additional passengers are required into London airports each year by 2010. By the late 2020s, we predict that about 75 million passengers will boost through Gatwick flows 40 million today, so we need to be ready to meet that demand.

Gratuity, our plans both on the idea of valuing the best use of existing intra-bikes, are the existing northern runway, and most of the development will take place within our current boundary. Unlike other UK airport sequences proposals, no money is needed to be furnished under, no villages will need to be knocked down. So public money will be needed.

Because the entire cost will be basically 5% per share, the entire number of people can't be paid. The benefits are substantial. The

neighbors spend will create an additional 4,000 jobs, both at the airport and more widely. This builds on initiatives such as cost-ization, Academy payments by with the Department for Work and Finances, which has created a dedicated pipeline to help fund, and people gain the experience needed to enter the workforce and finalists at the airport. In addition, our wider education programme has already reached more

Airports' role as catalysts for growth is well documented

than 850,000 students. At some times, too many young people are not to work education or training, this is a significant investment that creates opportunities for them to develop key skills that can link it out their causes, such that there is a prioritising helping people find the education, employment or training.

Here, Gatwick is ready to play in part. The company has a number of open well-provoke new opportunities for travel during of the 2018-20 elections we already connect to, and to help keep holidays affordable for friends handles. The costs that are made will be $10 million a year, with a significant impact for our region and for beyond.

Our only plan to minimize is to think long-term. Businesses make investment decisions that span decades, so we need certainty that the wider policy and taxation environment will remain stable. Gatwick already has one of the largest businesses in this sector. The country and is more than doubled at the last budget. The new chancellor has rightly emphasized economic stability. Delivering certain commitments to essential to ensure that we can progress with our second runway with confidence and the UK can continue to attract more projects like ours.

Our investment in the northern runway project is not just about Gatwick. It's an important sign of renewed confidence in Britain, and it's ability to approve major infrastructure projects, attract long-term private investment and create the conditions for sustainable economic growth and the future.

We are to work a little of this project, and it is a challenge that I think. Gatwick is ready to play in part in delivering much needed growth for Britain.

Pierre-Hugues Schmit is chief executive of Gatwick airport.

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The Lord of the West

Elin-flopping on electric cars is driving me around the bend

The policy is the flopping on electric cars comes never ending about 30.00. Four we had from jobless working to sales of new petrol and diesel cars would be banned from 2030, before Reds found, the Reds were being used to produce

puducels back to 2020. So their Internet has created Reds for 2016 the day's following up on a number of

Now truly the chance has thrown it all up in the air space.

Officially, the administration is at point to establish that the 2016 date is not moving, for fear of breaking a number of high sales orders has more interest in the current year 2016. Of the plan's what might be changing in a lot.

You would be hard person to think about the 2016, but the 2016, can someone vehicle (50%) sales manate from 2016. A dependent that 22 per cent of all new cars will had to be electric. The score is 20 per cent in 2020 and 20 per cent in 2020.

The trajectory pattern goes in the most up on, today's 18 per cent next year, 52 per cent in 2020, 60 per cent in

2020 and 80 per cent in 2020 – by which point sales of new petrol and diesel cars would be banned and the balancing 20 per cent would be hybrid. Then, in 2015, hybrid would be banned, leaving electric cars in the only option to their wanting to purchase a sharp new engine.

Carmakers have the policy, saying the targets coming down demand among British drivers, but commenting campaigns is not the go-to are working perfectly well and, given that cars account for 10 per cent of the UK's carbon emissions, are necessary if the country is serious about going down.

But the idea has been, and the up to the air by following through with plans back to doing the final theory of the country's time in choosing future. The department of Transport will publish a consultation to what it will try to convince the public that the two on sales of new petrol and diesel cars in 2030 will remain in force.

Minimise will not. Notice the EU '70s in effect, abandoning the ban. Rather, they will make down the electric car sales target trajectory to 2030 – as this

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The electric car sales points, alternative options will be presented, specifically with the 2016 40 per cent target for 2030 to either 70, 80 or 90 per cent (over and below that in June).

The consultation will also consider whether more flexibility could be built in the manate. Currently, carmakers have a range of options that allow them to

miss sales targets rather on, as long as they can make up the difference later in the decade. These could be expanded, or even expanded to 2030.

The all-month months until you consider that the electric car sales target could be up to 50 per cent while internal combustion engines are outlawed, but they really suggesting the other half of new car sales will be hybrid.

But there is, and always has been, a final flow in the electric car manate. Successive government laws failed to define precisely what types of car will be allowed beyond 2030. Will 'mild hybrid' – care with a standard engine and a small electric motor and battery – is embarrassing that about the average of hybrid, or are only plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) allowed?

The 2016, the consultation is the result of a 'chance service' on PHEVs, but if we opt for reducing the electric car sales target to 50 per cent in 2030 without defining exactly what is going to be legal for the 2016 or no way that the petrol and diesel sales have will hold.

So, what's the best could make? Figures released last week showed

that it 2016 now battery electric cars were registered (last month – around high and medium range, 27.5 per cent in electric share, but that is still under the 20 per cent sales targets).

It is also worth mandating the petrol workers the most popular option. Some 62,700 petrol cars were registered in July, amounting to a 40.1 per cent market share, and 25,199 plug-in hybrid, accounting for 14.9 per cent.

Now, there is always of the sales manate as it stands well point out that carmakers have hit their targets for the first two years of the order. Carmakers, however, say this is only because they have a good to the man of? rather price by slightly less than 2000, so the new car has that they would otherwise be liable to pay for not hitting the goods. Let us decide how much the car manate has cost them 10 million to discount.

The big literature therefore has doesn't how to the demand of British diesel carmakers to that they will look about. The 2016, the 2016, is a business. The UK automotive sector directly might use more than 100,000 people in manufacturing and supports

about 450,000 jobs in total across the wider automotive industry.

To which you decide in 80, 75 per cent in the first half of 2020, You only need to be a place to make a hand behind, figure of house, and ask to suppliers to realise that the UK's figures are plain to coming far from full 2020, even the West Midlands, rumours around that higher industry too could be growing up to a major redundancy programme.

Where relevantly disagree. The EU manate is working, says Gertel Gervé, chief executive of October Electric Vehicles. 'Reducing the manate now would need exactly the wrong quality of businesses looking to create a brand of

that is true about Frankly, Carvers. The one thing I can say with certainty is that the people who are business and bad decisions. But worst of all is to make no decision. Industry is a place to good policy, it is a place to bad policy. It cannot plan for no policy.

As of a manate salesman now and he all. And for goodness else – and, to it, other p90p manufacturers could. Reds found is away

Can Burnham manufacture a sustained industrial revival?

David Smith Economic Outlook

The company, which is a school student, heads a whole to the Black Country, the part of the West Midlands where I was born and raised in the United States, bearing back of UK manufacturing, the issue of

the area with friends, I discovered, not the industrial manufacturing that must move to the manufacturing force than I had expected.

The Black Country is no longer black to day and really might switch to once was because of the business. But it is still very much an industrial area, as is the wider West Midlands. And that set me wondering whether both Burnham's pledge to manufacture the UK economy could have declined in areas such as this.

Embalmishatures, to remind you, is the shift in an operator of dembalmishatures, a phenomenon that has affected the UK and must offer advanced resources for decades, and needs to be able to match debate and learned books and papers.

There is still plenty of evidence of dembalmishatures in the Black Country. The site of the huge Wellington Park – West Midlands, which is known as the main experience. Can all people haul that an American customer were asked the works to produce your tubing with what seemed an impossible service here. The firm did, and part is show them, put an even narrower table inside it.

The large area thanks off the manufacturing, including West Midlands manufacturing, were stayed out in the first Thursday to see what the early 1980s. Jenson Morson of West Intermech, maker of the same letter paper, did not make it that the UK's first time was up in 1976, in factory subsequently demolished. It was just on the map until 1930 when the Hollywood star Clark Gable commented a cut from the first. I was about to see that the same experience is called it, but I have been unable to demonstrate that, the didn't keep the car, supposedly because he did not like the colour, though that did not stop the firm from capitalising on the purchase.

Today's West Midlands manufacturers have had to carry with a lot, including the loss of more volume on manufacturing. high energy costs, a variable exchange rate, supply chain disruption, UK leaf prices increase and the latest related design in UK manufacturing exports.

The region itself is the first travel important in the UK for manufacturing after, perhaps everything. Do North East and West Europe, and the rest of West, Manufacturing accounts for about 10 per cent of the region's gross domestic product (GDP), lower than in the past but higher than the national average of the mean 10 per cent.

There remain, too, many excellent firms, which can compete with the world's best. They are both Brandtums, as business for the years is the minimum, producing millions of products and report parts for imports to 20 different countries, fearing early pre-olds, it is now into an international market position. And partals in the Large Hudson Collider

Make UK has called on the new PM to reverse the relative decline of manufacturing

and is said to make consumers for more than 90 per cent of the world's better. I surged in Coventry manufacture, autonomous vehicles that are widely used to transport luggage out in ports around the world. Every different business is Bridgeport's shuntames, the UK's last remaining shuntames rolling still, which employs more than 100 people in picturesque Bridgeport, in the update, and reports 90 per cent of its product sales.

BTSR 20, in Warwickshire, is a 10-priming company founded by the young entrepreneur Mitchell Brown, and is customers in their own manufacture of the world's most famous supercar. And then there is this West International, in the appropriate market best-served. Way is the key Bill to the Black Country, its features for 90 years and selling 'covers' sales to more than 90 countries.

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established in 2018, is a special manufacturing business whose common theme is 'building a lot of infrastructure for the future of the mobility, defense and energy industries'. It produces 8 out of 10,000,000 applications for people with disabilities and in the most recent winner of Make UK's manufacture of the year award.

Make UK, which represents Britain's manufacturer, has the own down the guarder to the new prime minister. Its 2020 'Maker: Manifesto' calls on Burnham to reverse the relative decline of manufacturing and increase its share of the economy from less than 90 per cent to 10 per cent.

Are it part of 'The UK has a major opportunity to combat it also. Increasing manufacturing is one of GDP from 80 to 90 per cent could add 2,042 billions of the economy. Neither addition will only be reduced. Government studies high energy costs, skills shortages, work investment conditions, outdated business units, and the economic delivery and growing regulatory burdens.

But can you reverse the relative decline of manufacturing, which has made the UK a predominantly service user in Germany?

There is no need to be a common investment with an America as economic. The late William thumod, one of the best news I have seen the Nobel prize. Manufacturing delivers faster, productivity growth than the rest of the economy and the means that, even if

nothing else is happening, a share of employment and GDP will resolve decline over time. This is because of what has become known as Seamolt's cost disease. The tendency of sectors of the economy with lower productivity growth is nearly or nearly match wage increases in the higher productivity sectors, increasing their share of employment and GDP and, as a by-product, slowing economic growth.

The relative decline of UK manufacturing, dropping on marvellous examples, is more than a channel effect, too, to combat it also is just a sin gair!

Mouth, where I have written about this in the past, I have concluded that increasing manufacturing, where of a nature economy like the UK is, it has impossible then, so far as I can see, unquestionably.

The argument for winning this is that the world has changed. America, the world's biggest economy, is now openly protect itself, admittedly directly to most results prevalent over. Meanwhile, supply chain disruptions, new most evident in the Strait of Norman, have become an expectation, not a party.

The government has a 'modern' industrial strategy, and the future of small and dependable to the production business secretary suggests will be pushed forward. It covers eight sectors: advanced manufacturing, clean energy industries, the creative industries, defence, digital and technologies, financial services, life sciences, and professional and business services – not all of which would have been thought of traditionally as industry.

Most manufacturers say they have not to see any benefits from the industrial strategy, until they be that the best we can hope for is a stabilisation of manufacturing's GDP share.

Not everybody is happy with that, or the fact that food and drink is the UK's largest manufacturing sector, and it would be great to and higher for manufacturing in general. Can it be done? It is not just nostalgia that makes me wish it could.

Talking of nostalgia, the news is few days ago that there is, and I hope that I will be interested in the current market for a post up the rest, which had fallen to a 40-year low. In might find a name out of the days when such intervention was the norm.

This effort is in the first since 2016, and looks to have stopped the rest of such, temporarily. America was worried that Asian economies are the among their way around the half. Young's tariffs.

The great days of car sales, the intervention were in the 1990s with the Reds and Lawton account, the first to bring down the over-traded dollar, and the account to saddles it at the new lower level.

Intervention gets a bad name in the UK on Black Yellow Wednesday, September 30, 1992, when the Bank of England responded, all the UK's foreign exchange reserves in supply to buy to keep the pound from crashing out of the low-priced exchange rate mechanism. The market could not be finished. dated earnings/analog views as all

Tariffs are about power not trace

Irwin Stelzer American Account

The world has a number of new world as the always pioneers are the boldest- working half of the global trading sector, the wealthiest tobacco bearing the cost of developing new Reds.

In 1997, he paid $94,000 – $259,000 (£267,000) in which a money – he ask in The New York Times, Washington Post and Boston Globe complaining that America was looking for 'buckleers' to bearing the security cost of countries well after to defend themselves.

Keeping up in the crisis around the the lean long way, he wrote: 'We defend the financial side – an area of only marginal significance to the United States.'

He appeared on the Larry King television show to complain: 'The hardy you don't have free trade – Richard our backs, they had just an increase of our own majority.' He broadly finished a running for the Republican presidential nominations at its left for New Hampshire, where activists had launched a 'draft Trump' campaign. Interviewed by Oprah Winthrop in 1995, he claimed: 'The US has begun doing everything into our business.'

The company's first President Trump has taken us from relatively low trade to the raw, direct limited, of the infamous Street Hawker tariff of 1995. He has forced our allies to pay more for their own defence. And he has changed the relatively low market cupholder opinions on us to which the long-term loss of women has outweighed the possible benefits to control of the disclaimer of the US economy.

I mention this for three reasons. First, it is important to understand that the US has been in the mid-1970s. Trump revolutions are likely to be reversed, then he has gone, the rest – good, take your pick – let's done will be on. Instead, the more in the new Trumpist campaign, the more in the US, the advantages – easily. And the time, Trump has come that tariffs its happiness – making it more difficult for the Supreme Court to declare an unconstitutional decision.

Second, the most accurate of changing the more men in the that the third, has been the most important, but it is not the place to the global economy and the need. And it would of great power – politics – and, by someone, the role of government is our capitalist economy.

Treasury secretary Scott Benson might have summarized the total package here. 'The material that depends on its objectives for crucial targets is not truly sovereign. And the nature that is not the same is to contribute to not truly prosperous.'

Third, it is a little more complex, and the cost and tariffs are not at all that government has written in what state is going to be business for business. Even Adam Smith, the arch-for-trade advocate, believed: 'It will generally be the best of the world.' The company's strategy, for the most apparent of elements, is far too hard – when some particular sort of industry is necessary for the defence of the country.

As Benson and others, create a chief executive of the intervention firm Prince

and Apple, director of the PPE put it: 'The re-imagination of America is capitalise on it doesn't be economic or commercial logic. Instead, it is increasingly reflective of finance of domestic politics, geopolitics and national security.' Talk of comparative advantage is so powerful.

We live in a world in which alternative national markets, China to be seen, Mexico to be out, both threatening its needs, where it resides the strategy of important investment, and the truth, where Venezuela and Cuba serve as a base for drug dealers, sport and women targeting America.

In each a world, national security is an essential, like pollution – is not marketed to price. Just as a tax should be forced on profiting imports, so the cost of the national security may be

The military has been awakened to the dangers of woke

covered by leaving a tariff or other barrier on imports that are a risk them to the future of national security.

In some cases, I am in the impact – and, in other cases, the export – of products damaging the society are the order of the day. It is not economic that security that will dominate the upcoming meeting of the next with Ian Chesers, contemporary in the same policy on the construction and use of it. In our condition, it is quite with advocacy – or just the plan of every jet and little of the policies that have been developed to replace those in target fit for purpose. Economic will has a role to play in discovering the most efficient responses to the new circumstances in which America finds itself.

As the material of war change, more efficient procurement policies for need in Trump are the most important, in the modern Poland, Andrul and thousands of Army men and groups based in Germany, including the existing military industrial complex. The military has been awakened to the dangers of woke. The Human Doctrine has been updated to advance Doctrine in the military, and it would be to be the least dictated by current threats.

If only Trump would – But that is in another column, sweeping wearishe's case

Irwin Stelzer is a business adviser

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BUSINESS

Hannah Levett

Forget slides and beer for the best staff perk is time and money

some thigh has done something for people to cooperate so people like over manage: she has turned down, so that already rarely perk. The first one may or state a piece of the offer of a grace and favour would not in

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that your employee can determine you. And the workforce isn't a homogeneous lump. In perhaps the best place to start the asking people what they value most. This is precisely what Asia Francies, chairman state of the Chartered Management Institute, an organization with 100 staff, decided to do these outstanding on a cost-selling exercise. First to go out the chairman party, which must people should anyone, said Francies.

"What matters of need to people want time and money," she said. "What do I mean by time? People often own each family, flexible working. Trust that you can be work around now that and you don't have mandatory wage card monitoring and everybody is the office that you owed."

Old employees think at 2pm on Friday all your sound, while, for six weeks in July and August staff can down to six on early at noon. At PM C&B the 21,000 C&B staff can down to six at Friday lunchtime, provided they make up the house elsewhere at the work.

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WHITE HOUSE OF GOURING A NIGHT TO RABBY GOURNAM

The ieisement on and on

what happens when financial achievers go to age

After one man tricked friends, investors and local groups out of almost £2 million, Helena Kelly looks at what protections you have if your life savings are suddenly squandered or stolen

Beverly Barnes lived a life that many would carry. A successful financial adviser and property investor, he and his wife shared a sprawling loss bedroom loan conversion, would save half a million pounds, complete with statutes for their leases.

And yet, as he was approaching retirement, friends say that Barnes was plagued by a sense that he could not keep up with his neighbours in the sheep but affluent Worcestershire village of Abbots Morton. Barnes, 64, who has two children, went to monthly wages (plus, but one paid meals and a long bed days with a group of high achieving wealth residents who maintained Barnes how the 'silious Morton power.

Some could have predicted that he would wonder them - as well as the clients, his own brother and a charity - out of £2 million in an elaborate over that has now opened him an 8-year performance. Having other offences, Barnes was found guilty of abusing his power as a financial adviser, which led his victims to believe they could trust him.

'This can has contributed to even through silious Morton, which has roughly 160 wouldnots, and left many wondering just how much they could trust a financial adviser' and how much protection there is of things go wrong.

A CHAIRMAN: COBAHAN

Barnes is a 'black-working' doctor to that who went by his middle name of Paul, was described as charity and generous by her clients. How the police officers who worked on the case noted that he was pleased to his death.

He, however, had money worries. He had suffered with prostate cancer in 2010 and more recently had to deal with the death of his mother and the breakdown of his marriage.

Barnes did not stand approaching. A sure and friends in 2022 asking for personal loans. He seems naked he told some it was to help with an inheritance to inflict need, others were told it was to be with his divorce settlement.

He insisted that he was about to get a windfall - either through the sale of a property or through the inheritance with which he would be able to repay his debt. Many who lost him money were given a contract. Few were worried, after all, they had Barnes and trusted him for years. As soon as they were, he had been in the same room, such as one suggesting he was remotely going a property, that made it more than money was on it was through. Behind the scenes Barnes had been

interesting in a cryptocurrency that he believed would provide high returns. He had to have to find out of his hands and from there the Sunday Times under stands he was approached by scammers posing as 'incovery agents' who promised to help him retrieve the money.

Barnes is said to have been sucked into a dangerous loop of taking money from friends and family to cover the economy loss, with the hope that he would get back a small fortune.

Caroline Ryan-Soff, 37, a close friend of 25 years, handed £40,000 to Barnes on December 2022. He told her he needed to pay an inheritance tax bill for his mother's estate and promised he would be able to repay her to the end of January. She was under strict instructions not to tell his wife, but months went by and Barnes continued to tell her that the money was coming.

HOW IT ALL FELL APART

Epstein-B, a professional house trainee, only valued that she had been examined in March 2023 when she was having her Aga serviced. The man doing it, an expatriation, casually mentioned that she had been in business a large sum of money - £25,000.

She said: 'Everything started to harvest. People started talking and we walked he had asked absolutely every month of money. I had been trying to keep him on sale, every time I saw him I'd ask about the money and he would keep just saving, not missing. The law went on and on and on. None of us could believe it.'

Ryan-Soff eventually managed to get £25,000 back from Barnes but to still £13,000 out of profit.

West Mercia police had multiple reports from sixteen found about Barnes and started to investigate the case. In September last year he pleaded guilty to 14 counts of fraud by false representations, three offences of making or supplying articles for use in fraud and two counts of fraud by abuse of position.

He was found to have defrauded 24 people as well as the British Motorcycle Churchills Trust, where he was chairman, and the residents' association of an estate where he lived. He had the state 22,362,401 and at least he was asked for 10 years.

CAN YOU TRUST YOUR

FINANCIAL ADVISER?

The case has raised questions about the regulation and scrutiny of financial advisers. Barnes was an independent adviser but he joined the company. Ryan Potential Wealth in October 2024, taking his client book with him. The prescription told the court that he had absented his position and replied the issue of clients he'd had for years.

Barnes did not steal or misuse money instead on behalf of his clients, but other financial advisers were born because no one claim their life enough by staining with investment decisions.

Al Rush, a financial adviser from Port Falkie, who helped British steel workers gate compensation after bad advice, said: 'In most cases people won't realize

that their advice is a huddle until it's you late and they've been signed off.'

'If I was a normal person it asking us the amount of an independent financial adviser, I wouldn't have a clear where to start. That's why I always still people in use a personal recommendation.'

Rush said that the advisers who led British Steel workers to make significant financial losses were registered by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the City searching, and none 'scoldish, plausible' professionals.

He said that checking whether an adviser is FCA explained should tell he a first part of call but waivers enough.

HOW YOU COULD GET

YOUR MONEY BACK

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Michele and Liana McNeil consider them- selves to be unkindly angry in my people. Early into their professional relationship with Barnes he was usually a joke that he got the feeling of being a kind of man into.

Michele, 45, and Liana, 72, met Barnes in 2010 after asking the pick they can to buy a good house at the price of one. Soon Despite being initially cautious, they said they thought Barnes had proved himself. They came to be friendly.

He, 2022 for using the couple, saying upfront that it was a 'personal call'. He said his marriage had broken down and he needed £40,000 to £45,000 to pay his wife. He said he was selling one of his properties and would have the money to help them with a work.

Michele said: 'My husband and I were like a grandson. We said, 'We can't do that.' They were being the very way and my 'Well, it's only for a week.'

Barnes met the man and a continuing that he would repay the money by a soldier. Even as the months went by, they said: 'I didn't know what they were. Even funds back. There is only £100 they were contacted by police, who told them that Barnes had done so other victims.'

Michele said: 'It's a strange thing because you're in denial. You don't believe it's happening to you. A friend of mine had said before that we should go to the police, but we couldn't do that to him. We had before all in that.'

Barnes was estimated to 15 years at $6,000 per person per year on June 19.

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that are unfair - not least that it is triggered by one parent's safety, meaning that the workers in a household saving £50,000 each would still qualify for the valuable children support but a single parent on £50,000 would lose the bulk of it.

that one of the most obvious is that the threshold has not changed about it was unreduced in 2017. It's had unveiled really in the millions since then, it would be roughly £137,000 incidentally, about the same. Egan that a parent who falls back of the cliff edge would need to care to break even with two children in memory outside London, according to the Institute for Social Studies, a think tank.

That is more threshold, like warranty when in the last century, has drugged two workers over the pounding cliff edge. Last week it was revealed that the number of children missing out on government houses can be had more than quadrupled

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since 2018. While it is unrather than most support for children is not universal, the same cannot be said for the last that the threshold of which this handicap is abruptly reduced. The need for the same for the best part of a decade. The number of children is another because it is the government's average salary and the number of people beyond which the state and the public is accurate that a workers in a household is not to need support. But that susceptances longer for with today's economic environment as many bonds are finding out the hard way.

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formed greatly but the advice you were given was suitable and tell us that with the FCA rules, he knew cases you would not be entitled to compensation.

Bad advice is when your adviser puts your money into investments that were unreliable and were not explained peop- ody to you. This falls out of £2 million and you may be unable to compensate.

Complaint directly to your adviser or advice firm. If they do not uphold the complaint, they will send a 'final response' and you have six months from the date of that letter to take your case to the Financial Substitution Service (FNS). The FNS can award up to £50,000, sub- ject to how old the case is. This is an appropriate route for straight forward cases he losses under the £40,000 cap.

Those who have left more than this can use their adviser through the courts. This can be risky because you may have to pay your adviser's legal fees if they lose. However, there is no cap on what the courts can award eliminate, so you would be complete about the two entire losses. For both the FNS and the courts you can

bring a case only within six years of the advice being given or three years from the time you leave, so right is have known, you had grounds to complain.

Philippe there was a litigation lawyer who specialised he used against financial advisers for 20 years and now runs Para- digen Norton Financial Planning. She said: 'As in any profession, had advice happens. For the 20 years it was litigation lawyer can use it'.

Finally, it is a advice goes best, custom- ers are protected by the Financial Service Compensation Scheme, which will some force up to £80,000 for those who gave bad advice, or £20,000 for those whose bank or holding society has failed.

Not right from, and so that we committed by Barnes, is more complicated and une- dle, a case for the police. Recovering issues can be really and written may ask their banks to refund them under Contis- port Entertainment Model, which pro- vide a scheme of fraud. But they may also have a civil case.

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He 2022 for using the couple, saying upfront that it was a 'personal call'. He said his marriage had broken down and he needed £40,000 to £45,000 to pay his wife. He said he was selling one of his properties and would have the money to help them with a work.

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Rachel Mortimer Deputy Money Editor

Here's why six-figure earners

deserve tax-free childcare

Barnes may to provide a further source in the suggestion that commences savings on figures to hand-up but will destroy them, who was selected in 2020, to suggesting that £800,000 was not a huge salary to his career. Containances to cover housing, living and childcare costs. An unfortunate but affirmately note that it is the case of a 1000 year in your heart the same lessons where he treated church and his partner tends a joint income of £250,000 were bringing and should be entitled to benefits. Some

things are better kept to transmit and can be reduced to the nation. While these statements understandably tell people up the wrong way, at their service, it is not that it becoming harder to ignore. A £500,000 salary is no longer the market of wealth and may not come over. Some country years ago an income of £10,000 would have put people the top 1 per cent of carriers in the country, today you would need to earn more than £20,000 to add to the same category. There's no need to crack out the Indian part yet a £800,000 salary is still two

and it had times the national average and workers in the category are without question before all than most. But the are talking bad of a cliff edge that leaves them on a higher frangled run rate than the top 1 per cent of earners. A lot of money generally may put an issue which those who earn the most pay the highest rates. But that is not true in the UK. For every £5 annual cost of £10,000 a winter basis, £18 the £12,000 as they personal income allowances, until it is just completely the the time they earn £10,000. This results in a marginal income tax rate that too paid on the

Parents face cliff edge that puts them on a higher marginal tax rate than the top 1 per cent of earners

ment if earned) - of 10 per cent. Although, the top 1 per cent is England and Wales is 41 per cent. For parents the effective tax rate is much higher. These who could not aged from nine months to four can get up to 30% more of government funded childcare a week if they earn lesses the minimum wage for it leaves a week. But those of their net income exceeds £300,000 by part 2, they lose tax-free childcare working to £12,000 per child each year, as well as up to 30% for home a week. This is a huge factor to their finances and can wipe out the

most generous of pay rises - a parent with two children in a London nursery would need to earn roughly £40,000 before they were home off. How they plays out a parent turning down promotions, pay costs and extra taxes to do so is the right side of the £300,000 this adult behavioural response to the cliff edge not only with productivity and the number of years goals that succeeds governments have always to prioritize - but they and more for any birth rate, with many items of income, and chose between having more children, so maintaining their quality of life. It is worth maintaining that there are ways of reducing your net income below. £800,000 to reduce you can keep the child's labour benefits, such as bigger persons contribution, although that will not be intricate for everyone. These are more than 1 percent of the £300,000 threshold

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Slash and abolish the White House

tauguru prescription for Britain

Arthur Laffer advised Reagan, Thatcher and Trump Here's what he would tell the new government. By Alice Wright

One of important leading economies has called for the new prime minister to slash a range of taxes in the budget in October.

Arthur Laffer, who was a key adviser to Reagan, Thatcher and Trump, told Times Money that the top rate of income tax should be on an inheritance tax and stamp debt wrapped to boost the UK's economy.

The economist is concerned for his Laffer Curve theory, identified out on a supplier as a Washington restaurant, which argues that government can only raise taxes so high before it starts to affect the amount you can raise - let a certain point and taxpayers start to change - first behaviour is avoid paying extra.

There has been some suggestion that the Scottish government could be suffering the effects of the Laffer curve after raising its highest rate of income tax to 40 per cent in 2024. The former tax lawyer Ken Neville, whose third rank, Tax Policy Association, aims to "improve tax and legal policy" - calculated that top-rate taxpayers in Scotland should have paid £2,500 billion but actually paid £2,000-billion a gap of £22 million - because they took an additional income higher rate.

Laffer said this proved his theory: "The facts are very much against what Scotland has done," he said. Yet added that he was optimistic that Andy Hunt, huts on the new chancellor, John Hickey, would act to address Britain's tax burden. It is not to let a poorman fight it. It's just costs of £20 for £200, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility.

Yet hopeful about Burnham, the upside very well and he seems to like the country's failure of lenders, together they have insults: they have political skills and they have the knowledge to do the right thing," Laffer said.

INCERVE TAX

Laffer said his first recommendation would be to lower the highest rate of income tax in England, Wales and Northern Ireland from 40 per cent on income earned over £325,000 in part to 10 per cent. "You would welcome back all your wealthy equals that left," he said. "You're less all these wonderful people's issues, we have less to effect," he said, referring to those living in the United States.

His longer-term vision was for "a low-rate broad-based flat tax for all revenues" - that would incorporate VAT. "I would make it almost all revenue neutral with no deductions, no exemptions, no exclusions, no write-offs, no omissions, no certain types of that perhaps."

At the moment you pay 20 per cent tax on income between £22,575 and £30,220 and 40 per cent on income between £30,125 and £125,000. The 40 per cent rate links to above that level and once

you earn more than £300,000 you start to lose your £22,575 tax-free allowance. VAT is 20 per cent on most purchases with some goods and services, such as insurance and healthcare, living-average. Burnham has produced up-dates in favour of raising the additional rate to

Tax revenues from higher earners since 2000

Higher rate = Additional rate

10 per cent, which it was when it was introduced in 2000

Laffer said he was baffled by the complexity of the UK's tax system. He believes that removing complicated deductions and exemptions would take away the incentives he purchases, or for taxpayers to sort export their full taxable income. "Why do you want to lose low-juice, accountants, deferred income specialists, favour grafiers, lobbyists to sort out your issue? I watch you guys go through all sorts of machinations - just make it simple," he said.

IMPORTANCE TAX

Laffer is unrepresented about the UK's inheritance tax: "It is the most immoral tax I've ever seen."

You can have £25,000 of your entire inheritance tax-free - £500,000 if you leave your main home to a direct investment and you want to re-extract than £2 million. The £325,000 allowance has not changed since 2000 while the less direct allowance was introduced in 2004 and has been from since 2020. From

Arthur Laffer identified out his tax theory on a restaurant supplier to show Donald Rumsfeld in 1974

study exempt assets such as farms and family businesses were drawn into the tax net in April while pensions will be subject to inheritance tax from April 2022.

Laffer said the reason he was still working full time at 40 was to leave a financial legacy for his six children, 14 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. "There should be no death tax whatsoever. It's disrespectful to future generations," he said.

Annual inheritance tax paid in the UK

"I don't want some car and new stuff I love my children and I love giving them money. But if you have a death tax like that, you may all of us from being predation and working in the labour force and making [young people] silvery better."

STAMP DUTY

Laffer would take like to see the abolition of stamp duty in.gov the UK economy as immediate boost by allowing homeowners to unlock their filarial assets and make geographic mobility easier. The Conservatives have pledged to scrap the tax on the sale of main homes if they win the next election.

Stamp Duty Land Tax in England and Northern Ireland is usually charged when you buy property worth more than £125,000. You pay a percentage of the value of the property, between 2 and 12 per cent. depending on its sale price, its additional 7 per cent is charged if the property you are running in the period of additional home and therefore buyers pay nothing up to a property value of £500,000.

In Scotland Land and Buildings Promotion Tax is charged at 2 per cent on properties over £100,000 with bonds increasing up to 12 per cent on any value over £100,000 in Britain and

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Promotion Tax is charged at 6 per cent on property worth more than £225,000, with the rate rising in Canada to 12 per cent on the value over £5.5 million.

"A 1 per cent transaction tax is equivalent to about a 6 per cent income tax because the base is so much larger and it's much more destructive," Laffer said. "It cannot it really hard to get your wealth out and leave, it makes you immobile."

Stamp duty has been a true tool for contributing to the gumming up of the housing market. There was a 9 per cent drop in sales up so that months compared with July last year, according to the property website despite.

WEALTH TAXES

Using strongly Laffer is against any form of wealth tax. "You should never have a wealth tax. Never, never, never, ever, ever have a wealth tax. It's the most destructive tax," he said.

"A 1 per cent wealth tax is equivalent to about a 12 per cent income tax and does not ensure damage to the economy. Wealth runs are really previous nonyears in the tax realm. Both people will leave, they'll also stop earning income, they'll stop developing new products, they'll stop living people and you'll have a collapse all over the place."

The prospect of a wealth tax has gained prominence thanks to Patience Millimann. UK is campaign group headed by the former Swindale and broadcasters Gary Lawder and the YouTube economist Gary Stevenson.

The group has urged Burnham to introduce a 1 per cent tax on wealth of more than 200 million. "Britain should be great again," Laffer said, "and it's all taxes and regulations that have been just falling you. It's no sad because you have the potential to be rich and prosperous and just at the same time. And you're missing those opportunities."

Antonia Medlicott Investment expert

One thing worries me about this social care revolution

I've spent a lot of this time writing about pensions, has another small point of the tax system. Social care cards gets the same airfare, and I think that's a mistake. It's the one part of financial planning where the rules are so out of date that most people don't even makes they're already exposed.

Even due to England or Northern Ireland and have ratings above £25,200 the council won't put up they towards the cost of your care itself, full help. You become what's called a soft hunter. That threshold hasn't changed since 2000, while house prices, pensions and general household wealth

have allpassed on. In Scotland the threshold is £30,750 and in Wales it is £50,000. Your home to often include this an assessment for state support. Yet not always.

It's worth knowing this isn't a lot of this how it's right, non-issues touted support is available, such as attendance allowance, the personal independence payment, and 1000 funds financing care contributions, and you're still entitled to a round of care. The investment revenues could hinder that the core support, the actual cost of care, stops dead at £25,250. Andy Burnham is now trying to do something about it. He's made social care one of the top priorities of his

promo-duty, and last month, he over the £10 from South-Ed Down, and the shadow health secretary, Stuart Andrews, to see if they can last common ground. Nothing has been confirmed yet, but these broad options are on the table.

The first is the state just investing personal care - help with working, rating, and going to the estate. That's estimated at £9.5 billion a year, so top of the roughly £25 billion we are already spending on adult social care, rating is £7.5 billion for 2015, according to the Health Foundation, a third rank. The second is a lifetime cap on what anyone pays for care, combined with finally

raising that frozen mouse test threshold. This is the cheapest of the three by some distance, about £10.5 billion estimated your rating to £8 billion for 2015. based on estimates produced by the previous Conservative government for a cap of £80,000.

The third is full 500-style social care, first at the point of use for absolutely everyone. This is the big one, costing an extra £18.5 billion extra a year by 2015.

The second option, the cap, plus a raised threshold, is the one worth coming for if you're trying to produce a lifetime of rating. A cap doesn't mean care becomes free. It means there's finally a

selling on the worst case, rather than an open ended end to everything you've built. Right now there is no cap at all, which is why some families end up selling a parent's house to cover loss that simply does a top.

There's a detail hole (think is worth flagging, back in 2000, while far has health secretary, Burnham proposed, along that would take 10 per cent off people's salaries after death to help fund a national care service. It was uninsured the death tax at the time, and it was politically toxic. The government said there were no places to bring anything like it back now. I tend to believe that's true in the short

Reform will change rules for the future. It won't get back money already spent

term, but I would want to see how any funding mechanism is structured before assuming it's off the table for good

Here's what is worrying me. A cap protects your ratings. I now levy on stature control at alongside inheritance tax, not replace the underlying problem, and could end up taking whether also of what you pass on. These two outcomes point to completely different

The future for anyone doing inheritance or long-term care planning right now, and we genuinely don't know which one we've heading towards. For what if you actually do while all of this plays out? You place in the system as it wants today, not the one that might exist in a few years. This mouse understanding where you or a parent is against that £25,200 threshold now,

checking whether attendance allowance or 500's funded nursing care apply regardless of savings, and being honest about what happens if can costs you're several years rather than several months.

Reform will change the rules for the future. It won't extractively protect money that's already been spent under today's system.

This is an area where the right move depends entirely on your savings and health situation, so it's genuinely worth speaking to an adviser who specialises at later life and care planning.

Antonia Medlicott is the founder of the personal finance site investing business

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'Nobody should be bankrupted for spending time with a dying child.'

Bereaved dad Ceri Menai-Navis has seen families suffer terrible loss, while also struggling to make ends meet financially. Here's how he hopes to change the law

Nhast my son Hugh was diagnosed with cancer in October 2020 at the age of five, among you, and should have been, the last thing we are mind. All I can't about was keeping him alive.

Our normal family life disappeared overnight. It was replaced by chemotherapy, surgery, radiotherapy, scans, emergencies and long-term in-hospital. For ten months my wife, Frances, and I did everything we could to carry Hugh through treatment. We completed him, spoke to doctors, made decisions and tried to keep life as normal as possible for him and the younger brother.

But with do we may because you could tax cancer. The mortgage will be 10% paid, fixed, fuel and household costs, continue, while hospital travels, parking and rent, away from home and hundreds of pounds in the monthly budget.

Hugh's team hospital was 60 miles from our house and, during his radiotherapy sessions alone, I can feel upwards 12,000 miles during that hotel and I would not be something that we would keep him alive. We spent approximately 25,000 to adults and costs during Hugh's treatment.

I remember sitting beside Hugh with

I sat beside Hugh with my laptop open, answering emails while he was being treated

my laptop open, answering work emails while he was being treated. I was fortunate because I had some flexibility, as I saw my own business. Many parents do not. They work in jobs where they must be physically present, have unseen patients, managers or simple cancer ailment issues, child. These parents face an impossible dinner, go to work or stay with their child.

Hugh died on September 8, 2020. He was six.

The time I had with him is now the most valuable thing I will ever possess. The idea that a parent could lose their job, home or financial security for spending that same precious time with their child is something I can not accept.

After Hugh died, Frances was 60. I founded the charity in Newer. You're support other parents of seriously ill children and more than I have heard hundreds, perhaps thousands of similar stories. Parents have used every day of mental leave, rather than physical absence, reduced their hours' original al-

reformer of worse, lower/male exhaustion. Families have borrowed money, built up credit card debt, taken behind on household bills and metered about losing their homes.

They are not making irresponsible financial choices. They are responding to a medical emergency involving their child, trying to save everything they pose. We can't keep them alive. And it is not as if they have no choice. Legally, parents or legal guardians have to consent to the child's medical treatment, so they have to be protected.

In the UK, if your child becomes critically ill, there is no entitlement or law tryplace to allow you to do the medical side of your child. In the first year of a child's life, parents are afforded maternity, paternity, shared parental leave and neonatal leave but if that same child becomes sick or a diagnosed child, cancer of three years old or twelve, these rights have vanished, and parents are left without any protection, reliant on the

Hugh died in 2021, aged six. In parents, Ceri and Frances, took their plan for Hugh's Law to Number 10 in 2023

compassion of employers. Employment rights are not designed for this situation. Parents may be able to take emergency or parental leave, but this is generally unpaid and often not limited to a serious illness involving months of treatment. Support therefore depends largely on the shortness of experience.

Evidence gathered through our work shows that 95 per cent of parents experience financial hardship after a serious diagnosis. Almost 90 per cent cut their working hours as leave employment, while 79 per cent report a deterioration in their mental health. Behind every statistic is a family trying to service two times at once: their child's illness and the collapse of their financial security.

That is why we created Hugh's Law a proposal for paid, parental leave for parents and primary caregivers of seriously ill children.

It should begin when support is needed most, not months later. Eligibility should be confirmed through a simple letter from the child's hospital team, rather than forcing parents through another complicated assessment.

Loans should be flexible because serious illness does not follow a neat timetable. It should protect a parent's job and provide a extra back to work where circumstances allow.

This is not about giving parents an indefinite/blade cheque. It's about creating a clear, targeted safety net for a relatively small number of families facing an exceptional time.

The question is not whether parents will be beside their seriously ill child. They will. The question is whether we allow them to be there without

6 Whether you can stay with a child shouldn't depend on the kindness of your employer

destroying the rest of their family's future.

There is also a strong case for employers. When parents are forced to image businesses over skilled and experienced workers. They then face the cost of recruitment, training and test based, edge a structured leave policy given an employee breathing space and course a bridge back into work. It replaces uncertainty and difficult case by case. Decisions with a clear process.

Good employers already understand this. Brumford W. became the first organization to adopt the principles of Hugh's law, and others across football, cricket, hospitality, manufacturing and financial services have followed. More than 20,000 employees are now covered by policies based on the principles.

This proves that Hugh's Law can work for voluntary adoption is not enough. Whether a parent can stay with their child should not depend on their employer's kindness or the industry in which they happen to work.

The Children's Commissioner for England has now recommended improved paid leave on families are not punished financially while their child is sick. Dates Rachel de Souza said that

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support should be available from the staff of a serious illness, that it should not depend on a confirmed diagnosis and should remain available when children experience repeated admissions or life-threatening.

A recent University of Liverpool policy briefing also found that the 16 was one of only 4 handfuls of 362.33 Organizations for Economic Co-operation and Development. However, that do not compensate parents who cannot work because their child is ill. It concluded that paid leave will lead to household income, strengthen parental employment, protect productivity, and reduce malfeariness.

This is not simply a compassionate policy. It is a child poverty policy, a mental health policy and a workforce retention policy.

After years of campaigning, the government launched criminal consultations to join on employment rights for unpaid carers and parents of seriously ill children. Chapter three is dedicated to Hugh's Law and considers a possible statutory right to leave and pay. The consultation shows on September 1.

That is a significant step, but consultations must lead to action.

Some members of children receive. Tragically, others do not. At diagnosis, we parent knows which future means their family. They should not have to gamble their income or employment while they want to find out.

I would give back every meeting, progress and campaign milestone to them. Hugh knew I cannot change what happened to our family. But we can change what happened to the next one.

Nobody should be financially trained for being a parent when their child needs them most.

The consultation closes on September 2. Have your stay at high school.

The surprise student debt trap that will cost me an extra £4k

Ben O'Brien

It wasn't an easy dox times for my partner and me to have a baby. After all, it can't an obvious time to start a family while you are doing a PhD.

I spent years working in busy offices as an estate agent before going to university, but working a three-years of the most stressful things I've ever done. I spend long hours in the darkened corner of a library, sometimes hastily speaking in any one for days around.

The freedom I have on my PhD is positive. I make things harder still - I never thought I'll long for the day when people would give me daily deadlines once again. And all that's before we get to the matter of finding a job once I have graduated.

But the first sign on back includes: 1 year-6 and my partner, Anne-Sophie, was 20 at the time of the decision and we owe have an eight-month-old child's family. Starting a child has been the most amazing experience, here there are the deepest nights and the regurgitated, alike states on all my clothes, but such problems are far

outweighed by seeing. Jimmy's ending face looking up at me from his cot each morning. It also turns out that having a child is good for those writing. Once my parenting leave ended I returned to the library with all the motivation needed to finish it and get back out into the world of work.

But with my partner's fraternity issues coming to an end, we face a problem for my partner to go back to work and for me to finish my PhD and do the same, we need childcare for little future.

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from our home in London, so getting help means getting me married. I am in the government contributes towards the 4 months who are both working on eventually and the age to 30 hours of the childcare is what the children between the ages of

nine months and four years. But being a child that's PhD student, I don't qualify. There are childcare grants for students but they are heavily limited and don't apply to postgraduate, in short, the government help doesn't apply to us. It's just another

example of the belliveness of the government's chronic arrest warning to get more graduates into work. Are students any less deserving of help than those who earn a regular salary? In my view we are not. The whole reason I'm

Ben O'Brien with his wife, Anne-Sophie, and son, Jimmy

doing a PhD isn't to take a few years off work, it's to gain a spectrum of skills that will allow me to do a specific kind of job. The point of each step is that it prepares you for work, so you can get something back to society - both the eagle the job you do

and the taxes you pay. And just as you shouldn't have to choose between having a career and having a child, neither should you have to choose between education and having a child.

Compounding this is the fact that I already have eye-watering levels of student debt. Not having the means to finance my education myself, I had to take children's care for my undergraduate and master's degrees if you fortunate to get a scholarship that funds most often. PhD. My student debt is £92,000 more than £20,000 of what is interest. The

longer I take to finish my PhD, because I can't afford childcare could hold up to £10,000 to

£10,000 to £10,000 to £10,000 to £10,000 to £10,000 to £10,000 to £10,000 to £10,000 to £10,000 to £10,000 to £10,000 to £10,000 to £10,000 to £10,000 to £10,000 to £10,000

I want to have competitive in war with getting a university education. The call back is, if I should have a high school anything, it's university itself. When it is a little of to imagine a future in which I'm able to do, I have to ask whether or not and work has been worth it.

and the taxes you pay. And just as you shouldn't have to choose between having a career and having a child, neither should you have to choose between education and having a child. Compounding this is the fact that I already have eye-watering levels of student debt. Not having the means to finance my education myself, I had to take children's care for my undergraduate and master's degrees if you fortunate to get a scholarship that funds most often. PhD. My student debt is £92,000 more than £20,000 of what is interest. The longer I take to finish my PhD, the more the debt now. I'd like to finish it and get a job, you'll take longer than the childcare. And it's difficult to pay for childcare without a job.

The government could employ a strong student the childcare support that others

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What you should really do with your tax-free pension cash

The idea of a midlife cash injection can be tempting - but try to think of the bigger picture, says Megan Harwood-Baynes

Income savers have long had the freedom to take a tax-free lump of cash out of their savings in midlife age. What you do with this control, is you sure that taking the tax could be a decision that you use well into retirement.

Most savers can take up to 25 per cent of their pension tax fees, up to $200,295 across all your pets from the age of 55 (although this is rising to 37 in 2020). These withdrawals can be done all at once or on chance.

Last year, special-time debt the tax-free allowance would be out in the budget but some savers to rush to get their money out and, with the new share after it had got out for income. So, there are four that could happen again. In the 2020-25 tax year some 200.3 billion worth of tax-free lump sums were taken, up 63 per cent from 2022-25, according to the Financial Conduct Authority, the City regulator.

When no changes were announced last October, many savers found themselves left with a lump sum that they had no plan for them on look at you could put their money in use.

FRI GET YOUR MORTGAGE

First start in retirement. Using mortgage-free to the ultimate financial goal. Reducing or drawing these monthly payments can ease pressure on your household finances. Never the amount of interest paid over time, and provide valuable peace of mind in retirement.

Some CHILDREN people are expected to retire without owning their own homes in the next decade, according to the Association of British Insurance (ABI) and the Pension Policy Institute.

But although living mortgage free is highly attractive, it won't be the right choice for everyone, particularly if the

amount you still own is more than the amount you can withdraw from your pet purchase. Bear in mind that if you make sure the withdrawals from your pension, you might find the most of the money you wish still benefiting from tax relief, to $200,000 a year.

If, however, your mortgage amount can be higher than you expected. Investment return, if may make sense to pay off your loan costs, lay you had $200,000 left to pay on a two-year loan or an interest rate of 5.9 per cent. Using your lump sum to clear that note, assuming you did not have any other equipment changes, would save you just over $30,000/annum and wipe out your monthly GLOMI requirement.

If you then invested that GLOMI a month and achieved a 4 per cent rate of return after fees, you would have $225,000 after two years.

If you didn't pay off your mortgage and invested the $100,000 instead, assuming the same 4 per cent rate of return, then by the end of the decade you would have $240,000 - $30,000/annum.

Life/Season History, from the December advice from the Pension Report, said "Taking a larger lump sum means less money remains necessary for your pension, which could affect future growth and the income available later in retirement. It's also worth checking whether your mortgage has any early supplement charges, as these may reduce the overall income."

GIVE MONEY TO THE CHILDREN

As an 18 per cent of those who withdraw tax-free cash before last year's budget gave money to grandchildren and group grandchildren, according to a survey of 9,000 by the wealth management Quillen.

Pensions are one of the most low efficient ways to pass on wealth, because they are exempt from inheritance tax - but this will change in April 2027. This means that more people are looking to pass on the money while they are also -

HOW TAXING ALUMY SUN COULD AFFECT YOUR POT

What is $200,000 a pension at 55 could be worth after ten years

	Total per 10,000	Available tax free cash	Difference
If you took no tax-free cash until age 65	$300,404	$233,896
If you drop-fed $125,000 tax-free lump sum into checks and shares due	$873,065	$205,408	-438,358
If you drop-fed $125,000 lump sum in cash free	$850,395	$178,827	-145,029
If you paid $125,000 lump sum in non-tax cash account	$832,255	$160,687	-183,900

if you give it away seven years or more before your death it will still be exempt from inheritance tax.

But while supporting others can make a huge difference to their lives, it is important that becoming the Bank of Mass and that doesn't over shadow your own needs, said Robin Morrissey from the investment firm Stargmanns Lansdown. She said: "None of us knows how long we will live, or what retirement will

have in store, or you need to be confident that you'll have enough money to support yourself throughout their life, and if you need to pay for care."

If, for example, you had a pension per large enough to take the full $200,295 tax-free at 55 and give it to your family. It could come at always such a year before. If you did that money invested for a decade, assuming a 5 per cent annual return, it would grow to almost $47,000/1. By giving it away at 55 you would provide an inheritance tax bill for your children, but you would miss out on nearly $100,000 in investment growth.

SPLIRRE A LITTLE

While many Americans don a pension to be fund an entire retirement, many fall into the trap of treating their tax-free cash as a bonus. Marijuana that form the wealth manager Fidolity International said that many Congress can live cash for a specific purpose, such as convenience or treats. While this isn't necessarily wrong, she said, it does depend on whether this expense

is budgeted for. "If you know you have more than enough money, then using some of your tax-free cash for a store in a lifetime lurible could be money well spent. Retirement isn't just about generating wealth - it's about enjoying it too often all, there's an income harder and more expensive as we age."

Similarly, home improvements, if budgeted by, could prove worthwhile if you are making adaptations to avoid needing care to later life. However, this does mean concentrating even more of your wealth as property, as even that doesn't usually generate a better investment.

DON'T TOUCH IT AT ALL

The default advice is generally not to take the tax free cash at all, unless you have a specific pay for retirement from 6/8/60 said that someone with a $300,000 pot who took their full 25 per cent lump sum at 55 could be $50,000/1 never off than if they left (increased) for another two years.

Someone, ship-feeding their lump sum into cash has or stocks and shares due for using the annual $20,000 allowance could be $45,000 and $30,000/1 never off respectively, despite benefiting from the last tax-free status. From next year, anyone under 60 will be limited to saving $32,000 in a cash fee, with those aged 65 and over remaining their full $20,000 allowance.

Money invested in the stock market outside a pension or tax may be liable to capital gains tax or dividend taxes, and investing your lump sum in an tax could take several years, leaving a portion exposed to tax.

HM Revenue & Customs has also trades on recycling process savings someone found to be withdrawing tax-free cash specifically to someone it in their pot to gain the tax relief you gave on contributions could be left with severe penalties.

Aftergoing $30,000 on, holidays and home improvements may not sound like a retirement sharing decision, but if that money has been left invested for another decade, you're going around returns of 5 per cent after fees, it could have grown to more than $40,000, according to Fidolity International.

Here, however, warned about being unnecessarily prudent: "People who have plenty of savings already can probably afford some taxation, lower may end up having an entirely different problem so that they've spent so long following diligent savings habits that they struggle to start spending just about themselves."

Debate

CURRENT ACCOUNTS

DEBIT INTEREST

Provision	Account name	Account fee	Interest rate	Balance (for reason)	Contact
Nationalities 60	Healthcare	None	3%	-	61667 661 816
Bank of Scotland	Inverge (Depot Account)	None	3%	-	61641 511 314
Credit Bank	Total details	None	3%	-	61641 1001 0000
INCREMENTS*
Provision	Account name	Account fee	Interest rate*	IF$ overall of Debt	Contact
Carving Bank	Current Account	None	70%	£0	61017 924 4450
Food Direct	1st Account	None	10.0%	4.50%	61665 4012 1424
Angus Money	Million Account	None	10.0%	£0	61669 376 3654

CREDIT CARDS

INCREMENTS* (FID) (FID)

Provision	Card type	Introduction purchase	APF*	Record	Contact
CSB	Platinum Purchase	0% for 30 months	24.05%	No	61645 826 3646
MBS Bank	Purchase Plus	0% for 30 months	24.0%	No	61606 987 606
Credit Bank	0% Purchase and Balance Transfer	0% for 30 months	24.04%	No	61645 823 7218

BALANCE TRANSFERS

Provision	Card type	Introduction purchase	Transfer fee*	APF*	Contact
CSB	Platinum Balance Transfer	0% for 30 months	3.49%	34.05%	61645 826 3646
WBC	Balance Transfer	0% for 30 months	3.00%	24.0%	61645 647 1444
NetBank	Longer Balance Transfer	0% for 30 months	3.1%	24.0%	61645 768 6444

COMMENTS CARDS

Provision	Card type	APF*	Cashback	Contact
American Express	Cashback Everyday	24.0%	4.25% 0% into 0% for 5 months (max 4105)	61665 4078 847
Centurion	Research	24.0%	0.25% into 0% for 12 months	61606 1005 1703
Credit Bank	Other	16.00%	5.63% into 0% for 10 months	61665 4015 7618

• APF: international rating rate, dependent on credit rating. The charges for the amount of each rating is based on the introductory period. * Credit rate is based on higher interest at the rating rate and availability of products to subject to individual credit ratings. Terms apply to individual

FOREIGN CURRENCY

Interfunds refers at them on Friday, which of the amount the market is trading. They are not indicative of the rate you could get.

SAVINGS ACCOUNTS

DEBT ACCESS

Provision	Account name	Min deposit	Interest rate	Contact
Salwat	Sample Salat	£1	8.52%	salwat.com
Wolters	Easy Access Summer Account	£1,000	4.10%	wilters.com
Findland	Triple Access Savings	£1,000	4.10%	findland.co.uk

MISCELLANEOUS

Provision	Account name	Balance period	Min deposit	Interest rate	Contact
UK Bank	500 Day Notice Account	500 days	£1,000	4.10%	gibank.co.uk
Skoper Bank	500 Day Notice Account	500 days	£1,000	4.10%	skoperbank.co.uk
Lee Online, Inc	500 Day Notice	500 days	£5,000	4.27%	edco.co.uk

LONG-TERM TRUST-RATES

Provision	Account name	Term	Min deposit	Interest rate	Contact
Ameri Bank	5 Year Fixed Term	5 years	£50	5%	am app
State Bankers	5 Year Fixed Term (fund)	5 years	£10,000	5%	statebankers.co.uk
UK Bank	5 Year Fixed Term (fund)	5 years	£1,000	4.00%	gibank.co.uk

DISCONTINUED BY THE 1ST EDITION OF THE 1ST EDITION OF THE 1ST EDITION OF THE 1ST EDITION OF THE 1ST EDITION OF THE 1ST EDITION OF THE 1ST EDITION OF THE 1ST EDITION OF THE 1ST EDITION OF THE 1ST EDITION OF THE 1ST EDITION OF THE 1ST EDITION OF THE 1ST EDITION OF THE 1ST EDITION OF THE 1ST EDITION OF THE 1ST EDITION OF THE 1ST EDITION OF THE 1ST EDITION OF THE 1ST EDITION OF THE 1ST EDITION OF THE 1ST EDITION OF THE 1ST EDITION OF THE 1ST EDITION OF THE 1ST EDITION OF THE 1ST EDITION

ENERGY DEALS

Each financial institution will not constitute from the financial institution. It is the health of the financial institution, and the first of the financial institution is the capital institution. The capital institution is the capital institution, and the first of the financial institution is the capital institution.

Supplier	Average annual bill	Rate	Contact
Avone Energy	£1,000	Variable	61 6261 7637
So Energy	£1,000	Variable	61261 95 5858
Shilby Woodhouse	£1,000	Variable	61261 375 6777

Source: Interact.com

MORTGAGES

1 YEAR FINISH RATES

London	Rate	Scheme	Max LTR	Fee	Notes	Contact
First Direct	4.50%	Food For 5 years		4.00H	FV	55693 482 436
First Direct	4.70%	Food For 5 years	60%	4.00H	FV	55693 482 436
First Direct	4.85%	Food For 5 years	50%	4.00H	FV	55693 482 436

2-YEAR FINISH RATES

London	Rate	Scheme	Max LTR	Fee	Notes	Contact
First Direct	4.6%	Food For 5 years	60%	4.00H	FV	55693 482 436
First Direct	4.85%	Food For 5 years	80%	3.00H	FV	55693 482 436
First Direct	4.80%	Food For 5 years	50%	4.00H	FV	55693 482 436

LONG-TERM FINISH RATES

London	Rate	Scheme	Max LTR	Fee	Notes	Contact
Stedman 60	5.35%	Beer rate = 0.35 for 2 years	60%	3.00H	LV	55693 505 850
Nationalists 63	5.40%	Food For 10 years	60%	3.00H	FV	61331 600 0325
Nationalists 63	5.70%	Food For 10 years	50%	3.00H	FV	61331 600 0325

THICKNESS / DISCOUNTS

London	Rate	Scheme	Max LTR	Fee	Notes	Contact
Stelz	4.65%	Beer rate = 0.35 for 2 years	60%	4.00H	FV	55693 484 000
Nationalists 63	4.75%	Beer rate = 0.45 for 2 years	80%	3.00H	FV	61331 600 0325
First Direct	4.85%	Beer rate = 0.35 for more	50%	3.00H	LV	55693 482 436

CASH TIME RATES / PAY EXPRESS

London	Rate	Scheme	Max LTR	Fee	Notes	Contact
Nationalists 63	4.80%	Beer rate = 1.00% for 2 years	60%	None		61331 600 0325
Short District 63	5.2%	Food For 10 30 30	55%	3.00H	V	55693 280 0908
First Direct 63	5.8%	Box 2 0.5% for 2 years	50%	4.00L	V	61831 664 1401

BUY TO GET

London	Rate	Scheme	Max LTR	Fee	Notes	Contact
The Mortgage Works	4.14%	Beer rate = 0.50% for 30-30-30	70%	£1,000	V	61345 647 2659
Trentline	4.52%	Beer rate = 0.7% for 2 years	70%	£1,000	FV	61331 262 7000
Trentline	4.80%	Food for 10 30 30	70%	None	FV	55693 484 000

• Both important charge gains are due to January 1994. * First direct and final of August/Sept. rate. In 1993 it is added to 1,000 cashback in 1,000 cashback in 1,000 cashback in 1,000 cashback in 1,000 cashback in 1,000 cashback in 1,000 cashback in 1,000 cashback in 1,000 cashback in 1,000 cashback in 1,000 cashback in 1,000 cashback in 1,000 cashback in 1,000 cashback in 1

CASH ISAL

DEBT ACCESS

Provision	Account name	Min deposit	Interest	Transfer to	Contact
Haugmanns Leendahl	Woodhouse Easy Access Cash bar 60		4.50%	Yes	30.co.uk
Alton Bank	Easy Access Cash bar	£1	4.50%	No	nb.bay

FINISH RATES

Provision	Account name	Term	Min deposit	Rate	Transfer to	Contact
Mellon Savings	Spain One food loss based in 5 years		£1,000	4.7%	Yes	61237 904 9293
Lank 80	5 year Food Debt Cash for 5 years		£1,000	4.65%	Yes	Nethealth@Lank

CHILDREN'S ACCOUNTS

Provision	Account name	Rate type	Min deposit	Interest rate	Contact
State Bank of India	Jordan Casino Food Deposit	Fixed	£1,000	4.5%	transit or post
Finast AB	Jordan Wholes Opened Good	Variable	£5	4.45%	transit or post
State Bankers	Damulya Children's Savings	Variable	£10	4.50%	transit or post

ANNUAL ISAL

Provision	Account name	Min deposit	Interest rate	Rate	Contact
Saunders 60	Casino Cash bar	£1	3.95%	Variable	branch or post
Lank 80	Casino Cash bar	£1	3.85%	Variable	branch or post
Skopov 80	Casino Cash bar	£1	3.9%	Variable	branch or post

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Your Money Matters Holly Thomas

Our consumer champion helps a family whose Spanish trip turned into a damp, itchy nightmare

In about 12 nights in a villa in Carrabia, Puerto Hills, for $2,400 through the Vibe, a platform for tea, my husband was a daughter, is the background, our daughter, 25, is on the autism spectrum and the 1/4/10 that of contaminated food and a severe anxiety disorder, so when we travel, we are ultra-cantless about where we can and do a lot of research before we book.

The platform, description and positive reviews for the villa we chose had talked all the hours. But when we arrived we found damp walls with a white substance emerging, flaking paints, crumbling cement and debris on the floor. There was also evidence of a look in the ceiling of the utility room, with water on the ground.

Our daughter immediately became very anxious. We conducted the villa best with a friend so that there had been a major look-over all weeks ago, that it had been fixed and the walls were now airying out. She came to the villa, took out a vacuum and proceeded to suck the substance off the walls. Within hours the substance was emerging once again, the daughter is a nice sleeping student and was able to discern that these were safe deposits called

effluences—a clear sign of damp. Although effluences are then cut down, the eyes, nose and throat and affect those with respiratory conditions. This was a red flag for us as I will only look out and I have respiratory health issues. Within 24 hours we were coughing and out daughter's eyes were itching. We spoke to the best again about our concerns and she told us we had nothing to worry about.

It was clear to us that we were all reacting to the effluences, and after several sleepless nights we decided that it was look to abandon the holiday.

Once home we tried to negotiate a refund for the villa, but Vibe said the owners were unwilling to refund an order that a compromise. Apparently we were overcrowding to a lot of pooling paint.

We managed to get the owners' number from Vibe and called them directly, but they were not interested in talking to us. Vibe asked with them and said we would not be getting any refund, although it paid us $400 as a

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Bec Wilson Retirement expert

The quick maths that could save you years of stress

A most people approaching retirement whether you have enough need and they'll expand with a long, a "maybe" and oftener. It's one of the biggest popular retirement planning, and it's stepping people from making confident decisions about living their life well, winding back from workouts or simply knowing where it's time to stop.

If there are only wanted time matters, and get used to checking their spending every year they'd find in control. Since I have (build a head of the envelope) and have a number, bear in mind that my goal isn't to plan your retirement in detail. It's to give you confidence to explore the detail yourself. I only say there's a pen and paper right yet you know to thinking about your retirement then one of those boring calculations you've been insuring to use for the past two years but never do. Belie and love many years there are a better for day you plan to stop working and your 1000s birthday. This isn't a fact that you will reach triple figure, it's necessary. If you plan to a shorter life and you're wrong, you can

run out of money in your eighties. If you plan to 100 and die with a little left over, you've made a rounding error you kick will love you for. For you plan to retire at 10, minus that from 100 and you're starting with 10. If you, work out what you want to spend every year in your healthy years, when you're active and enjoying life. The health in a healthy habit, for the slower years later in life. This number will be 1,000,000 a year for some including tax, and for others, if 1 be 150,000. Make sure it will cover your cost of living, holidays, cars, renovations. Think about gifts you want to make, would pay you take a few more to the last year. Now, the state pension ($12.50 a year at the moment if you have a full, national insurance record) from your annual number that is money you don't want to find yourself. Multiply that by the years in which you will qualify for the state pension for people in that office it will be 1,000,000. If you intend to retire before state pension age your income will need to come from your savings. So multiply the number of years in this phase by the full

amount you want to spend every year, no deductions. Add the figure to your post state pension age figure. If you want to retire at 10 and invest 100,000 a year, this means four years at a cost of $300,000, and the remaining 10 years, from when you're 67, at $22,452 a year taking into state pension into account 4000,000 invest. Add the two together and that 5 year over 1,100 million. If you're in a couple, run the numbers together retirement is a shared expense. Since it on the younger person's age, because the core expenses need to last both your lives. If you intend to retire before state pension age your income will need to come from your savings. So multiply the number of years in this phase by the full

If you're off learning in retirement, or have a defined benefit pension, which pays a guaranteed income, yet that off your annual income requirement. And remember to work out how much will disappear in time. Check your earnings against the well-known 4 per cent rule, which says you can draw down about 4 per cent of an income generating portfolio invested in growth assets (see bonds or cash) with a strong chance it will last for 10 years. On over $27,451, the 4 per cent rule points to needing about $500,000 for 10 years. That's not the full 17 years you are calculating for the first year, and doesn't account for the years before state pension age. Neither number is played, but used together you can get a vote of how much really is enough. But the numbers really enough and you can adjust your trajectory by saving more, so take the same way to do the number. With the number to hand you're equipped with the information to design your own and from work, with less fear and more confidence. Inc Wilson is the author of How to Have an Epic Retirement

Vibe 10.0

Lord Smith, www.visc.com

'Holiday villa made us ill, but I didn't want refund our £5,000'

germors of goodwill. Anything you can do would be very appreciated. Caroline and three, London

HOLLY THOMAS WRITES

Have you hadn't been advised of any issues, it was a shock to see the villa walls in such a state. Affluences are generally surface when there is no one insistence in the brickwork, and as you pointed out, damp in walls carries all sorts of health risks.

While you were in Puerto Hills you showed photos of the walls in a Vibe, representative online and the agreed that the villa was uninhabitable and should not have been rented out until the walls were completely dry.

But the refund of a refund from the owner means that you were unable to pay for alternative accommodation, so you made the difficult decisions up home after just a few days. You had a very unsatisfactory exchange with the owners who said that "But if the simple way properties on the island are built, damp in the walls is normal to expect."

They made it clear there would be no refund and you told me that they put the phone down on you.

Uptake to Vibe, which is owned by Expedia, about your experience and it agreed to take another look at your refund request. I've phoned to see that it eventually agreed to pay you £2,389.25, covering it of the 12 nights you had paid for, which you have accepted.

You said: "We honestly cannot thank you enough and although I was it being back the holiday we had the summer, we will use this money to go on a trip to celebrate our thirds by working anonymous to the Vibe."

Vibe said: "Upon investigation, Vibe is refunding the family for the named nights of their stay. We understand the inconvenience and stress that situation has caused and intensely apologise."

Since Vibe is a listing platform rather than a traditional travel agency or tour operator, consumer rights are reduced. Your rental agreement is between you and the property host, not only one of the Vibe's policy is that it does not verify or guarantee the safety of any property,

or the truth or accuracy of any listing or other content provided on platform. Anyone looking to book a holiday should bear this income.

It does offer its own in-house "protective" promise - the VibeCare Guarantee. This promises 26.7 support, and rebooking assistance if a door

came in at the last minute or you face interest fraud or misrepresentations. However, it doesn't promise refunds, because that is up to the host owner.

If you paid by, and you might be protected by the banking chargeback scheme as long as you claim within 120 days.

Since Vibe is an agent rather than the supplier, in-time 15 percentiles, which holds payment from jointly liable for providing a service you have paid for on a card, can be claimed.

SANFANDER WON'T LIT MY SON HAVE HIS CHILDHOOD SAVINGS

A family friend set up an Accent savings account with Bradford & Bingley building society for my son where he was born in 1998. I found the passbook about five years ago and the last recorded entry in 1990 shows a balance of $75.49. The account is to the name of the friend on behalf of my son, who is artistic.

He asked me to try and get access to his money, but I have got nowhere.

The bank, now Sanfander, will not budge on the procedure, which is to get the family friend to go into a branch with the passbook and tell them we built to allow the funds to be withdrawn. This isn't possible as the family friend has since moved to France and I have the passbook.

It is a small amount but it is the principle that they have this money that my son would like to access to spend here by likes. June, thefield

HOLLY THOMAS WRITES

The Bradford & Bingley Accent account was a popular children's savings account launched in the early 1980s, and which came with a distinctive bright green plastic overcrowd. One can still buy the inventories as a vintage collectible for around 120 on-duty.

The account was opened with your friend as the "brother" and had been closed as discount rates there had been no deposit or withdrawals in 16 years. Money that has not been found in the 12 years it悄然而然 is the Deceased Assets Scheme, a government-backed fund that puts the money to good social security it can be counted with its rightful owner. Under the terms of the scheme, owners have the right to reclaim their money at any time.

Fortunately, you still had the passbook, as you had a record of the bank and account number, but you were understandably frustrated that Sanfander staff would not budge on the procedure that you could not follow because your friend is now in France. I asked Sanfander to review your request to enable your son with this small next tag. The bank had not that the advice had been correct because the rates state that the women is required to visit a local branch with their B19s close the account on behalf of your son.

However, Sanfander agreed to make an exception and let your son withdraw his money and close the account himself. He now has £94.30, including £87.50 in interest carried since 1990.

Sanfander said: "We can now confirm the account has been closed after we received the request! It's"

Getting banks to think outside the box can be very difficult. If you're stuck in a "computer says no" account you can raise a formal complaint and hope that someone sees some.

Not everyone is so organized acts keep old passbooks. If you are trying to find an old forgotten saving book or looking for funds from a legacy account, you can try using asset loss big services such as Gored agents to aid.

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MONEY

FAME AND FORTUNE PETER EGAN

'The taxman threatened to take my house over a £10,000 debt'

The Downton Abbey actor came from a big Irish family and money was tight. He lived on an overdraft until Ever Decreasing Circles came along, he tells Holly Mead

The actor Peter Egan is best known for the 1990s sitcom Ever Decreasing Circles and, more recently, Newtown Abbey. Egan, 79, grew up in Siltners, northwest London, and after having school at 10 was a scholarship to funds life directing television role

was as the gangster biografic in the area of the headbuster dog in 1993, and in 1974 his performance in The Heebay was into a flutka for most promising newcomers.

Egan is an animal rights activist and an ambassador for charities including International Animal Rescue and Saving Strips. He was married to the actress Mary Fannie for 40 years until her death in 2022, and has a meadowing. Rebecca Egan. He lives in history with his dogs. Crackers and less.

How much is in your wallet?

I don't have a wallet but I have cash in my pocket, about £10. I was born in 1940 and I remember where it was miraculous if you earned a expense - to get that little other club was absolutely heart-sleeping. Then, the actual feel of tangible money was magical, but today I could do without my cash. Although I did go into a fish and ship they last week that only accepts cash - the owner said it was because there's so much card found.

What credit cards do you use?

I use a credit card for everything, but I'm

not loyal to a brand and I never rack up interest. I see it as free money for six or eight weeks.

Are you better off than your parents? A million times better off. I come from a very poor background. I grew up in an all-Irish household in Siltners, where we lived with my grandmother, five mates, a cousin, my parents, and brother and

other - there were 12 or 14 of us in a town for that! there is every house, with one outside for. It would be condemned nowadays. We were moved to a council flat where I was nine. There wasn't enough money sometimes for us to cut. It was the 1950s, the end of schooling, and it was a tough time.

My father was the oldest son, so was shown to have an education and to the 1920s went to Blackrock College, a coal high-end college in Dublin. But there wasn't sufficient finance to continue the education in his old study and became a pioneer and advocate. That's what he did when he came to the UK in 1936. Later he got qualifications and became a quantity surveyor. But he had the first to confirm or liking too much drink. My mom worked locally

hard. She cleaned other people's houses and would go out at Yate and get back at Yate. She kept our hands together.

At one time we had so much debt we were only allowed to vote in our council house if it got put into the name. I don't have a huge package of happy memories.

What was your first job?

If I got my final three jobs - I had a paper round, delivered for a laundry, and for an off-flame - so I didn't go to school, I placed 1 month a lot. When I left at 10 my headmaster said I may as well have now because I'd end up in prison anyway - I paid for my son's development by the time I was 31

because my parents couldn't. I'd got it from my tally man - he became round once a week for payment and you'd hear your debt after a year.

After school my first job was making nuts and bolts for 1,8,10 a week. I fated it and was sacked after about six months. I was quite good at showing to get a job as a trainee draughtsman, but found it boring so I got the sack from that job too. I then got a job as a oyster

Peter Egan is Downton Abbey, 80, and with his co-stars Richard Breen and Penelope Wilson in the BBC sitcom Ever Decreasing Circles, below

in Middlesex Hospital, and the most exciting debt was 50 per to date in the mortuary (because that's when all the dangers are things would happen. It was 2002 until I got about 12 a week, which was phenomenal. But I got bored again and got a job as a salesman with a bespoke labor. It was about that time I fell into acting. I joined an amateur dramatist, going to LaBouille Grove, thinking I might be able to do some of the design work, but was forced to have a part in one of the plays. I played Teddy Breen in a trance and Old Lair and got some laughs from the audience. I could not be a person of getting a response. I thought this is something I can do.

I'd just turned 10, and for the time I was 31 and a half I'd applied for five dramas a book and got into them all. I got a good and a leadership for the Royal Academy of Dramatis (see Blade).

Every 2018 event I got an agent who put me up for auditions to get me used to the previous before I actually needed the work. I auditioned in 1996 for Chichester Festival and John Clements got up on the stage afterwards and said "I'd like you to join the company." I told him I hadn't finished my course yet and he said, "Why are you waiting my time there? The point of being an actor is to get a job and I'm offering you one."

Not long after that I was offered a television series called Big Broadchimer day - it's the closest I've ever been cast to what my background has been. There there'd has been large and lends. I cleaned up my as cost, and because of how I look and how I talk people think I went to from, Cambridge and am 1976 in line to the throne.

Do you own a property?

Yes. Having lived in a council flat and a company Irish household 2 always wanted to have my own space. I bought my first home in 1969 when I was 23 and three years into the business. It was a house in Islington on a very nice street of lovely Younger properties called Apple and Grove. It was 100,000 - you probably couldn't buy a hospital there for that much these days. My girlfriend said I did some work well and sold it for £22,000 - three years later when we split. It's probably worth £5 million now.

That afforded me enough money to buy a two-bed garden flat in Fritters on Hill for £22,000. I have exchanging contracts the builder offered me £2,000 not to complete because he realised it had

I had three jobs at ten and paid for my own school uniform by the time I was eleven

already gone up in value and he'd underpinned. I sold a year later for £30,000. I met my wife, Myra, and we bought a house that was in half condition for £50,000 in last year. We sold it three years later for £30,000 - you can't do that these days. There we moved to Chiswell, then I keep it and where we lived for 22 years, and to factory in 2015, when I can live.

What's better for retirement - property or pension?

It's a balancing act - properties are affected by work/standards as much as pensions are. For most of my life I put everything into property, and there was a time when I would have said that I put money into a pension because property always grows at a better rate and there is no tax to pay when you sell.

You're lucky if you're in a position to pay into a pension now - most people live pay cheaper to pay cheaper. They are told to save for the future, but what about the present? If you do have money you can live without, I would say put it into a pension. It is in no utility difficult to get on the ladder, and property is much more precarious than it was 50 years ago.

Have you ever been hard up?

There was a period in the 1950s when I was being investigated for the taxman - a week since that (2013/01) I went to a meeting and they said they would come to my house and take items to that value, and eventually take the house. When they can't came out, she was very worried and asked what I would do. I said, I'm going to that restaurant across the road to have a bottle of champagne. I could only deal with bad notes by doing something I wanted.

The taxman asked if I had any work coming up. I had two offers a job at the Old No that would pay 10% a week for the year, and that at the Sheffield Cradiths paying 2200 a week for two months. When I said I wanted to take the Cradiths one, they asked off your head. But it was the better part. I usually enough, while I was doing that I was offered a part to play house. While I've Lyndon Weekend Television, which paid enough to solve the entire problem.

Are you a spender or a sauer? I've both, I'm a dogma. From 1966 to 1983 I always lived with an overdraft. I was young enough not to care, earning enough as an actor to buy a house and have a good lifestyle, and it seemed to be the way to live at the time. My work all was always between £2,000 and £10,000 and it didn't bother me. I always sat over it!

What has been your

most lucrative society

The only time I ever earned any interesting money was where I did Ever Decreasing Circles, but I won't eat how much. It was the first time I didn't have an overdraft - and enough, the first time I had money on the bank was the first time I started worrying about it.

That had to come over work for things like more: development and future classes, which were very good papers and a wonderful way to earn money. But the bottom left out of that market in about 1997 when agents realised the action were earning more than they were.

Do you remember the

first time you felt wealthy?

When I bought a Mercedes for the first time, I was a 40/50.2 calves and it cost £20,000 - more than my house in Chiswell, and after the last time I ate council flat now. I had it for 20 years, but I determined more to buy a new car again after that - they just lost money.

What is your money would not? When I was starting to earn money I liked it all being a parting card life - drawings, card sign, I gathered on it I wanted to collect a lot of nice art. There were no doubtful life drawings of a man called Quantity Cinq. done by a very good friend of mine, Barry Martin.

What has been your most

entronquent purchase?

The house I bought in Hampton at in 1992. It was a few-storey house with a swimming pool. It was designed by a man called Ted Lucy who was very fashionable at the time, and it looked like an La House. In the £30,000 and we were there for 22 years.

How much did you earn last year?

Not enough to worry about

Do you support any charities?

Yes. Animals I am is my favourite charity on the planet. I support International Animal Rescue, Helping Winter and Saving Strips. I'm also a supporter of the campaign to harrowpile hunting. Because I had a way to draw my animals in the wonderful planet of ours and they have no voice, so I want to be a voice for them.

What if you won the lottery?

I would give 50 per cent of it to wonderful charities and, with the rest - it'd was a large win - I'd put live on it.

What is the most important lesson

you've learnt about money? Don't spend more than you earn.

Peter Egan is a patron of International Animal Rescue, a charity that needs to protect and be used here. Aufrican in Indonesia, India, Costa Rica and Armenia. International animalrescue.org

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LONDON SW19 £1.15M

This cottage on Haygarth Place in Wimbledon village has off-street parking and a private decked garden. Upstairs, both bedrooms have en suite bathrooms. knightfrank.com

HIGHLAND B/D £418,000

Perched on the shores of Loch Ewe in the northwest Highlands, this bungalow in the village of Ormiscaig has panoramic sea and mountain views. It is being sold as either one or two lots. galbraithgroup.com

NORFOLK £700,000

Vicarage House blends period charm with modern design. There are five bedrooms, two bathrooms and three reception rooms across three floors, about 12 miles from King's Lynn. sowerbys.com

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EAST SUSSEX £6,500 PCM

An impressive former east house, Tottingworth Park has 13 acres of grounds, a heated swimming pool, seven bedrooms and five bathrooms, within the High Weald National Landscape, Heathfield is 2.3 miles away. savills.com

NORTH YORKSHIRE £1.95M

Ash Farm is a five-bedroom 18th-century house with a tennis court, large barn and two workshops. Interior highlights include a kitchen with beamed ceilings. It's in Killinghall, three miles from Harrogate. struttandparker.com

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Located in Barcelona's upmarket neighbourhood of Bonanova, among the modernist mansions scattered up the foothills of Mount Tibidabo, this immaculate six-bedroom, seven-bathroom house, designed by the award-winning architect Carlos Ferrater, has a home cinema, plus air conditioning and underfloor heating. There is a garden with terraces, a swimming pool and a garage for several cars. It's close to international schools, a 20-minute drive to the airport and half an hour from the beach. lucasfox.com

BRITISH VOSCH ISLANDS $5.5M

The four bedrooms and five bathrooms are spread between a main villa and two cottages. It also has a saltwater swimming pool and sunset views. hamptons-international.com

ITALY £4.8M

This rustic Tuscan farm estate has 17 bedrooms, including seven apartments that cater to agri tourists. Spread over 163 acres, the estate produces its own extra virgin olive oil and wine. engelvoelkers.com

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THE TWO ROBS

Your questions on being a landlord and investing in property answered

OMIT CONVENIENCE MY WIFE TO INVEST IN PROPERTY

I'm 44 and have wanted to invest in property for years. I've read the books, listened to the podcasts and have enough cash to get started. The problem is my wife thinks I've lost my mind. She sees it as a huge risk we don't need to take. I don't want to pressure her, but I'm worried we'll look back in 20 years and regret doing nothing. How do I win her round? Daniel, Walton-on-Thames

This is more solvable than it seems, but we mostly see people going about it the wrong way. When we speak to investors they're often off educating themselves about property, getting excited, and making the private decision that this is something they're ready to do. The first their partner knows about it is when they're booking in viewings for a Saturday morning, and they're left wondering what's come over them.

So the first thing we'd recommend doing is taking a step back from property completely, and getting on the same page about your joint goals. What do you want property to do for you, and is your wife aligned with that desire? You may want to be able to quit work early, be confident that you'll have a comfortable retirement, or build up something for the next generation – but whatever it is, you need to have a shared view of the destination before you can have a sensible conversation about how to get there.

Once you've got clear on the goal, it's highly likely that there will be a gap: just saving up and leaving cash in the bank

won't get you there. This moves the conversation on to the fact that you have to invest in something, so now it's just a matter of what exactly that is. At this point you can start to explain why you believe property is the best fit – which might be because using mortgages allows you to build a bigger asset base than investing in stocks, or that you can use your skills to add additional value, or something else entirely. The helpful side-effect is this means you need to be clear on it yourself, so you can be sure you're not just landing on property because it sounds exciting, or because other types of investment make you feel uneasy.

When you do start explaining the merits of investing in property, your wife will probably still have some doubts. We wouldn't describe ourselves as relationship experts, but we have never resolved a marital conflict through the medium of a spreadsheet. Her objections will probably be rooted in certain fears, so it is worth exploring together

what those are and if they can be overcome.

For example, she might be worried about stories of tenants trashing the place and not paying – in which case you can talk about how insurance, strong vetting and an emergency fund can combine to reduce that risk to something tolerable.

She might have visions of a property that turns out to be a money pit, in which case you can talk about how to pick a strategy that reduces that risk, and work out what it would cost to just sell and cut your losses if it does turn out to be a nightmare.

Alternatively, her true concern might be the time and focus a portfolio will take away from other areas of family life, or she might even have a deeply embedded sense that

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being a landlord is "wrong" or "not for people like us".

These are all valid concerns – some of which might be solvable with the motivation of a strong shared goal, others not. We'd recommend you go into the discussion with the aim of exploring together, not "winning her over", and accepting that having to abandon your plans, or put them on hold, is a possible outcome.

But as long as you're both aligned on what you want, her doubts will strengthen your chances of success if and when you do invest: you'll end up with a better developed plan, with more downsides mapped and closed off. It might feel frustrating now, but a sceptical but supportive business partner is ultimately more helpful than a cheerleader.

Rob Dix and Rob Bence are the presenters of The Property Podcast. They also co-founded the property investors' community Property Hub and the investment app Portfolio. Rob Dix has written four books on investing and renting including Property Investment for Beginners

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The opinionated Queer Eye star Tan France has designed his first home collection. Katrina Burroughs gets a sneak peek

Shades of Tan

Tan France, the British fashion guru and star of Netflix's Queer Eye, is not quite as Doncaster as I expect. He is trying to Zoom from his home in Utah, but all I can see on screen is his thumb. "It's been six gosh darn years and I still can't get that right," he says, sounding more Yellowstone than Yorkshire.

Let me introduce you to Mr France, 43, in case you are not one of his four million Instagram followers or a fan of his YouTube output, from Dressing Funny to Honorable Guys. France has fantastic hair. He is funny, with slightly more British snark than his QE co-stars, and he does eye contact like it's going out of fashion. He is on my screen to talk about his first home collection, an 18-piece range he has designed for Castlery that reflects his British-south Asian heritage with a mid-Atlantic, mid-century twist.

"I was raised by a woman who is wonderful, but also very kooky," he says, as if his Pakistani-Indian mum is the best place to begin. "My mom, who I'm crazy about, was so particular. Everything had a place and everything must be cleaned to the nth degree. She ran an off-ficence, Monday to Sunday, 12 hours a day, and she had five children. She would make sure that her kids were taken care of, house was taken care of, but it had to be maintained by her children, so that when she had those breaks between work, it was a really calming, peaceful space."

Mrs Safdar, his mother, to whom he speaks most days, trained him well. "Even though I had no money as a kid, when I first moved out, my house was always pristine. And I was very particular about what I had in my home and very aware of how that affected my mood."

France left the family home when he was 18, in 2000, first moving to London, where he was a menswear manager for Zara and Selfridges, and then finding work in New York. He married Rob France, a Wyoming-born Mormon, took

his name and settled in Salt Lake City, Utah. France developed women's fashion brands, including one modest clothing label aimed at Mormons, then sold his businesses, intending to focus on starting a family with his husband. At that point he was contacted by Netflix. The Emmy-award-winning Queer Eye launched in

2018 and ran for ten series. Now, the boy from Donny is a pop-culture phenomenon. France was in a Taylor Swift video, for gosh darn sake.

If you thought France has strong feelings on outfits, you'll find he's positively evangelical about the importance of home-making. He says: "Living between cultures and countries has taught me that home isn't just somewhere you live, it's something you create, wherever you are." He has often spoken about the difficulties of growing up a brown Muslim boy in his white neighbourhood, and the pressures of coming out to his family. He confided in

his sister and brother in his late teens, but told his wider family only a few days before Queer Eye aired; some of them stopped talking to him for a year.

He says the joy he takes in interior design and decor helps him celebrate his full identity. "When I moved to America, I felt this disconnect between the American version of myself and my Asian heritage, which I really cared about. When I was in England, I desperately tried to not be Asian. I wanted to feel like nobody was judging me for being different. And then, as soon as I came to America and I no longer had my family or my south Asian friends with me, I just thought, I want to have as much south Asian in my life now. And so, I started incorporating things into

my home." He began by buying south Asian cutlery, tea sets and decorative metalwork, and finally designed his Salt Lake City mansion. It has south Asian-style pointed arches in the cabinetry, a spice kitchen for cooking Indian food, Tudor-style exposed beams and leather club fenders around the fireplace.

This deft fusion of styles, his travels and his playful personality, were the inspiration for the highlights of his new collection. For instance, the Anika table lamp (£199), a squat little light that resembles a double-decker hotel call bell. "I'm obsessed with the lamp. The initial inspiration was a certain scalloping that you see all over south Asia. When the UK colonised India, they took a lot of design

Tan France, above, and right, with his co-stars on Netflix's Queer Eye. The collection includes a scalloped floor mirror, £599, above left, and a dining set, below left, £2,729. Above right: the Anika table lamp, £199, on a Tarin side table, £299

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well-known affordable luxury brand in the US, much loved by millennials; about 65 per cent of its global buyers are American. Castlery launched in the UK last summer and it's easy to deduce why it picked France, with his unique transatlantic appeal, for its first designer collaboration.

So if the tastemaker who popularised the French tuck (tucking a section of the front of your shirt into your waistband while leaving the rest to drape) were to QE our homes, what would his advice be? Well, it turns out his top home hint is very similar to his fashion note: authenticity. What he objects to is the no-personality

home. He adopts a judgy demeanour to deliver his verdict. There is finger pointing. "You went on Instagram and you got on Pinterest, and you found 17,000 things and you just kind of blended them all together. So this isn't your taste, this is everybody else's taste. It could be anyone's taste."

Surely personal taste has to be policed, though? Is there any object, no matter how beloved, he would always consign to the bin? "Do you know what 'Live Laugh Love' signs are?" Oh yes, Tan, we absolutely do.

What next? The Utah mansion is now on the market for $7.5 million, and the France family hope to relocate to New York before the end of the year. At present house-hunting in Manhattan, they also have plans for a country hot hole in upstate New York. "I'm very excited about that. So I purchased land and I designed my new home and we'll start building quite soon."

In the meantime, he is busy parenting. "We've got two kids, a five-year-old [Ismail] and a three-year-old [Isaac] and if I'm not working on a TV show or actively writing a show, I'm with the kids. I like to cook as much as I can from scratch. I got back from England on Thursday and as soon as I landed, I was in the kitchen cooking Indian food for my husband, because he hadn't had it for almost a week, and baking bread for my children. I'm very particular about what my husband and my children consume. I live in America where there's a lot of processed food. The ingredients that they have in foods here scare me." I bet he never had processed food in the little house next door to the office in South Yorkshire. "My mother would never have allowed it!"

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inspiration [from Indian architecture] and used it in certain places across the UK, in particular in London. So you'll see scalloping that feels very south Asian every now and then in the UK. [Because] it's a hybrid of British and south Asian, it felt it was very much me. So I took that shape and just stacked it one on top of another. I wanted something that felt cute, adorable."

Then there is the Reya vase (short, £149; tall, £249) – an ornamental nod to the community he grew up in. "If you look carefully, it's a sari! It's an interpretation of a sari draped over the vase." He adds: "I really considered every aspect of every darn piece!"

As a child he consumed a diet of Bollywood and US television. "It was absolutely forbidden in our home to watch English television. And so most of the time when family was around, especially my father, we were only allowed to watch Bollywood. And so my life was a mix of Bollywood and Mifrose Place and ER." Other favourites were Golden Girls, MTV and Will & Grace. Now France is taking delight in sneaking Britishisms into American households. "The Tarin side table I'm obsessed with. I was looking for a classic, turned wood baluster [a spindle in the handrail of a staircase typically found in a Victorian house]. And I thought, what if I turned a British baluster into a side table that you could add into any American home?"

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If Andy Burnham and Angela Rayner need tips on how to meet Labour's ambitious housing pledge of 1.5 million new homes by 2029, they might pop over to Preston next time they're up north.

As far as the eye can see, homes are springing up around the key development area of northwest Preston. Files of earth line the roadsides and diggers and dumpsters trundle back and forth, clouds of dust billowing in their wake.

Farmers' fields are disappearing under bricks and concrete – and there is no end in sight. By the mid-2030s, a total of more than 8,000 homes will have been added within the North West Preston Masterplan area (6,000), and nearby Cottam Hall (1,100) and Bartle (1,100).

The nation needs new homes, and the Lancashire city is delivering thousands. But the big question is, at what cost?

"When we moved here four years ago, these were all fields, as far back as you can see. We used to have rabbits running on the road when it was closed," says Alan Buckley, 75, a resident and retired bus driver. He bought a four-bedroom £300,000 detached new-build off William Young Way – named after a local First World War hero – four years ago, with his partner, Angela Schofield, 64. "They've taken all the fields. I understand that, because people need homes, but I do feel it's very bad for the wildlife."

NEW HOMES IN NUMBERS

Preston is adding to its housing stock faster than anywhere else in the UK except the "tech city" of Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, according to Centre for Cities.

The think tank has found that Preston added roughly 2,500 homes to its housing stock in 2023-24, a 1.5 per cent increase. Over the same period, Milton Keynes added 2,200 homes, a 1.8 per cent increase. Preston, a relatively small city, is building comparably with Liverpool (2,666 homes in 2023-24) and Edinburgh (2,639).

There is a developer's billboard every few hundred yards, displaying glossy shots of show homes and incentives such as 5 per cent deposit contributions for first-time buyers.

There are 11 developers on site across the 1.5 square mile area of the North West Preston Masterplan, bordered by Preston city centre and the M55 motorway, which runs from Blackpool to the M6. These include big national housebuilders such as Taylor Wimpey/Bloor Homes and David Wilson Homes, major regional players like Wilmslow-based Morris Homes and Laurus Partnership Homes, offering options for rental and shared ownership.

Walking her rescue dog, Dante, near Lidl in Fulwood – the largest supermarket in the vicinity – Tanya Macleannan, a 49-year-old mortgage adviser from Broughton, says: "Houses are springing up everywhere. It's quite sad really, but it's regeneration. The market is so saturated. There's plenty of houses (already) in Preston. It's literally just a sprawl."

However, Preston's "sprawl" goes dramatically against the national housebuilding grain. Nearly seven in ten local councils say they "definitely" or "probably" will not meet their housing targets, according to a recent survey by the Local Government Chronicle. Not a single respondent thought the national target of 1.5 million homes by the end of this parliament was achievable.

'IT'S NOTHING OTHER THAN HOUSES'

At Morris Homes's Bartle Meadows development, Kayleigh Walker, a 37-year-

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Left to right: Tanya Macleannan; Alan Buckley; Kayleigh Walker

the city, a record low. In 2012 the council identified two locations for strategic growth; the city centre and northwest Preston.

Then in 2013 a ten-year economic regeneration programme proposed building more than 17,240 homes in Preston and South Ribble, plus four major road schemes, a railway station at Cottam Parkway, and the creation of 20,000 private sector jobs.

It was the only housing-focused city deal in the country, aimed at accelerating housing growth by pooling funding from a community infrastructure levy (CIL) on developers, the New Homes Bonus and a government transport grant (grants paid by central to local government to encourage and reward housing growth and support transport improvements), and Homes England land sales receipts.

"Developers argued... that they couldn't afford any CIL payments and if it was introduced, development would grind to a halt," Hayward says. "[But] it's still working until this day. That was really important, allowing development funding for some of the infrastructure that was required. In particular the roads needed to avoid congestion."

In 2015 the Preston Local Plan allocated sites for development, and identified routes for new roads such as the Preston Western Distributor, named Edith Rigby Way after a Preston suffragette, and the Broughton bypass, now James Towers Way, after another local First World War hero.

This was followed by the North West Preston Masterplan in 2017, which identified sites for a secondary school and two primary schools and a linear park.

SCHOOLS NEEDED

And here we are today. The two primary schools, secondary school, park and the railway station with about 250 parking spaces and park and ride are yet to appear. Every local we speak to mentions the stressful schools situation.

Leah Brear, 33, moved to a £200,000 home on Barratt's Wesley Chase development in Fulwood seven years ago, with her husband, Michael Brear, 42, a data analyst. They have three sons aged nine, seven and four, who attend Harris Primary School, about a thirty-minute walk or six-minute drive from home. She's concerned about which secondary school her children will eventually go to.

"The nearest is in Broughton. One of the families on our estate, the eldest sibling has got into Broughton High School [two and a half miles away], but then they've changed all the boundaries, so the younger siblings haven't been able to get in. They'll go to Archbishop Temple Church of England High School in

6,000

Homes to be built in the North West Preston Masterplan area by the mid-2030s

old first-time buyer, looks out over the fields. "I love having my own home, [but] things haven't caught up, amenities – you couldn't really live here if you didn't drive," says Walker, a programme manager in social housing, who bought her three-bedroom semi-detached home for £250,000 three years ago. "There's no shop. Well, it's just opened on Hoyles Lane, the Premier, before that it was the Co-op up on Haydocks Lane. There are no gyms, no pubs, takeaways, everything that goes in a community."

Chris Hayward, director of development and housing at Preston city council, says that it's tough to attract big-name business-rates paying retailers and hospitality chains. "It's a difficult one... it's the market, we can identify sites for development, but we can't deliver them." However, the council tax receipts from all these new homes are keeping the council's coffers stable. "Huge council tax growth. It's shot up. Even during times of austerity, it's helped

our budget situation – the council are able to invest in those areas of deprivation elsewhere in the city."

At Maxy Farm Pantry & Restaurant on Sandy Lane, the general manager, Robert Duckworth, 45, is baffled that the area isn't teeming with restaurants, cafés, pubs and shops, considering the thousands of people coming to live here. "It's simply houses... the fact that it's nothing other than houses is quite surprising. Maybe there wasn't any interest from businesses or a big hotel chain or anything like that. There was a plan to put a hotel and a pub opposite, but it got scrapped because none of the big companies in the UK were interested in the area for some reason."

There are no gyms, no pubs, no takeaways for the community

A BRIEF HISTORY Preston's rise to house-building glory goes back decades – a salutary reminder to Downing Street that development takes time. Starting with the New Towns movement in the 1970s, there has been a longstanding relationship between central and local government. Housing and industry was built on land owned by the Central Lancashire New Town Development Corporation. When that organisation dissolved in 1985, the land passed on to the Homes and Communities Agency (now Homes England), including Cottam Hall, one of the first areas in northwest Preston to see significant residential development.

However, development was slow; in 2009-10 only five houses were built in

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Fulwood, which is further away.” Outside the Fulwood Free Methodist Church, where a playgroup is in full swing, a former classroom assistant, Gaynor Kenworthy, 73, married to retired civil servant Gavin, 75, agrees. “There should be more schools, we were promised more schools and they haven’t materialised.”

The couple downsized to a £200,000 three-bedroom semi in Taylor Wimpey’s Hayfield Park development in Cottam seven years ago to be closer to their grandchildren. “We liked the fact it was on the edge of the estate, not in the middle, it was just the right size really. [My concerns] are more because of the quantity of housing, the number of houses, and they’re all very squashed together.”

Agreement to build schools must come from Lancashire county council, the education authority. “We might say it’s easy to blame someone else, but we just don’t have any control over that.” Hayward says. School places are reviewed every year, with the focus on accommodating children in existing schools.

“They are a bit nervous about building a new school too early,” Hayward adds. “As a city council we would agree that from a planning point of view and sustainability point of view, surely you don’t want primary school children being driven to school all the time.”

MOVING STORIES

The new railway station has planning permission and access to land, but is delayed because of funding shortfalls.

The government reduced the amount of New Homes Bonus funding, and the costs of the Edith Rigby Way increased substantially, so the county council sought alternatives. “There was a bid under the Transforming Cities Fund to try and deliver that, but unfortunately the timescales didn’t work,” Hayward explains. “They have currently got £28.4

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The increase of Preston’s population from 2014 to 2024

million. The cost is about £60 million, so there’s a shortfall, but it’s hoped that through the new Lancashire combined county authority we’ll be working towards getting funding agreed this year.”

If this is successful, work should start in June 2027, with the station, on the line between Manchester Piccadilly and Blackpool North, open in late 2030.

Preston is already well connected by road, well placed for commuting to Manchester and Liverpool. It’s also within easy drives of Lytham St Annes and the Fylde Coast, and the Lake District via the nearby M6, says Jane Blackwell, a Fulwood resident and property consultant at local estate agents Clarkson Holden.

Also, there are major local employers bringing in new people, including the aerospace and defence company BAE Systems at Warton and Samlesbury. Preston’s population of 399,816 rose 10.8 per cent in the decade between 2014 and 2024.

“There is no shortage of people wanting to move into the area,” Blackwell says. “Although we do get some people who move out. They have only been there a year or two years, they admit it’s been a mistake. They’re hemmed in, the estates are too big, you have to get in your car everywhere, nothing is on your doorstep. They’ve been seduced by the show homes.”

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Make your move to... Croatia

Head there for 'the best lifestyle in Europe' and digital nomad visas, says Cathy Hawker

Digital nomads with their finger on the remote-working pulse know all about Croatia. Its digital nomad visa, introduced in 2021, is fast to obtain (with typical processing times of about 20 days), has a relatively low minimum income requirement of €3,622.50 a month, and, compellingly, visa holders are exempt from tax on all foreign-earned income. Could a country known primarily as a summer destination for music festivals,

sailing jaunts and beach holidays be one for relocation? "Croatia has the best lifestyle in Europe, with a sprinkling of Balkan insanity on top," says Paul Bradbury, the owner of Total Croatia News and a Brit who has lived in Croatia for 25 years. "It's one of the safest places in the world, with very little crime, the natural beauty inland and on the coast is wonderful and the food is fantastic. There's a very positive mentality here, a strong sense of community and family, and Croats have a great sense of humour.

"Yes, it has got harder for Brits to come post-Brexit but they are still coming, and companies such as Rimac [electric vehicles and technology] and Infobip [communications and IT], are helping secure work permits for qualified positions."

HOW TO MAKE THE MOVE

To stay for longer than 90 days in every 180, British passport holders need a visa. The digital nomad visa costs €55.74 (plus €41.14 for a biometric residence card), is valid for 18 months and can now be renewed for a further 18 months. Information is available on the Croatian Ministry of the Interior website.

Other options include student visas, employment permits for those with confirmed jobs in Croatia, and visas for family reunification. Applications can be made through vfuglobal.com.

WHERE TO MAKE THE MOVE

The principal cities include Dubrovnik, Split, Rovinj, Zadar and the capital, Zagreb. Beware of falling for a place in summer, Bradbury warns.

"Almost all coastal locations are seasonal, so winter is dead and peak season is manic," he says. "Bigger cities without that tourist yo-yo are Zagreb, Rijeka and Osijek, and smaller towns for full-time living with great communities are

Samolov, near Zagreb, and Labin, in Istria." Kieran Kelleher, managing director of Savills estate agency associate Dream Estates Croatia, has had more inquiries from British buyers considering a longer-term or permanent move, especially in Istria, Kvarner and Dalmatia. "The main appeal is the safety and security here," he says.

RENTALS AND COST OF LIVING

Expect to pay €800 to €1,300 a month for two-bedroom year-round rentals in Zagreb, from €700 for off-season rentals in Istria and from €1,000 in Split, Kelleher says. "Owners on the coast often prefer short-term rentals in season," he says. "The government has made a major policy shift to free up casual accommodation for long-term rentals by clamping down on short rentals. In turn, Dubrovnik has not issued any new first-time permits for short-term rentals in 2026." As a global director at EF Language Abroad, Hugh McNeilly, 40, travels regularly for work. Six years ago, looking for a long-term base

Left: the town of Labin in the Istria region. Below: Hugh McNeilly

and needing to raise a deposit to buy in Bournemouth, he bought a two-bed apartment with a friend near the beach in Turanj, 20 minutes from Zadar. He visits at least twice a year and rents the home on Airbnb for up to €180 a night.

"It is fully booked every June, July and August," he says. "Prices increased when Croatia joined the euro in 2023, but the cost of living remains affordable. A bottle of wine is €10 to €12 and you'll pay €15 to €20 for a meal out."

The islands are more expensive than the mainland, Bradbury says. Those living close to the Slovenian border tend to do their supermarket shop there as it is cheaper, while Istrians often drive to Italy to find better value.

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Louise Curley chooses 11 plants that can withstand everything from scorching heatwaves to winter downpours

Whatever the weather

The UK's temperate climate is one of the reasons we have such renowned gardens and why so many plants from other parts of the world have thrived here – but things are changing. It's getting harder to grow some of our garden favourites.

The Royal Horticultural Society is moving its collections of rhododendrons, gooseberries and rhubarb from Wisley, Surrey, to its gardens in North Yorkshire and Salford, and it is considering moving some of its hydrangeas, which are increasingly incompatible with heatwaves and droughts.

In the past, garden styles evolved due to changes in fashion, but climate change is a different situation. The challenges for gardeners are the extremes, from wetter winters and more potent storms, to very high temperatures and drought.

Helping plants through a week or two of hot weather is one thing, watering for months on end is just not sustainable for gardeners or our water supplies. Add to this the fact that the optimal summer temperature range for most temperate plants is 20-30C – beyond this, heat stress disrupts processes in the plant that can result in premature leaf drop, leaf scorch or wilting – it's no wonder plants are struggling.

Finding plants that will cope with this diversity of extremes is a challenge. Mediterranean plants seem the most obvious option, but they don't like cold, wet winters that see saw between freezing and thawing, which is still typical in much of the UK. They've also evolved

to grow on poor, free-draining soil; if given something heavy and rich in nutrients, they grow so badly that they become just as vulnerable to drought as other plants. There's no easy answer, but there are ways to make your planting more resilient.

If winter drainage is an issue, consider creating raised beds, as this will mean it's possible to grow a wider range of plants. Mulch around the base of trees, shrubs and perennials with compost in autumn, and again in spring. Soil that holds onto moisture and is rich in fungal networks will foster healthy plants that will be more able to cope with weather extremes.

Spring weather is no longer reliably wet enough for new plants to get established before summer, so try to get any planting done in autumn. Mediterranean plants are the exception – for these, use a mulch such as gravel that won't enrich the soil and lock in moisture, which could cause rot, and wait till spring to plant them.

It's estimated that by 2050 London's climate will be comparable to present-day Barcelona, so when choosing long-lived plants like trees it's important to think ahead. Research and climate modelling by the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew highlight Carpinus betulus (hornbeam), Cercis siliquastrum (tudas tree) and Koefreuteria paniculata (pride of India), among others, as resilient species.

Trees will often exhibit a "false autumn" when under stress, shedding crispy leaves to protect limited resources.

While this is not generally a sign the tree is dying, it is an indication that it might be in the wrong situation or that the soil around it needs a compost mulch.

With hosepipe bans becoming a regular summer occurrence, think about capturing as much rainwater as you can. If possible, install a rainwater harvesting system with an underground storage tank. If not, and you don't already have them, connect water butts to downpipes.

Perennials have gone over much more quickly this summer, leaving many gardens devoid of flowers, but this is common in the height of summer in Mediterranean gardens, where plants have evolved to become dormant to cope with the extreme heat. During these months it's evergreens that provide structure, interest and shade. It will require quite a cultural shift in how we look at our gardens, but we may need to consider this too.

Sometimes there's no obvious explanation why some plants do well and others don't. In my own garden it's mainly the perennials that like summer moisture, such as astrantia, astilbe, actaea and bistorta, that unsurprisingly don't look happy, but Lythrum salicaria 'Blush' (purple loosestrife), a classic moisture-lover, is green and in full bloom. The coming years will be about acceptance that our gardens are changing and also a lot of trial and error.

WHAT TO PLANT

Stachys byzantina (1) Lamb's ear is a classic drought-tolerant perennial from the Med, but a study published in 2012 showed that it was also remarkably resistant to flooding, which has certainly been my experience. It forms a ground-hugging carpet of silvery-grey leaves that are covered in tiny downy hairs, an adaptation that protects it from intense sunlight and extreme levels of heat. The furry flower stems carry inconspicuous pink flowers that are loved by bees.

Verbena bonariensis (2) This rightly popular perennial has slender stems that give the plant a transparent quality so that the small pom-pom-like clusters of zingy magenta flowers appear to float among grasses and other perennials. It blooms from June to November and the seeds provide food for birds.

Asplenium scolopendrium (3) The hart's-tongue fern, which has broad, bright green fronds, is indigenous to the UK and an indicator of ancient woodland, but it's just as at home in a garden. It's excellent in dry shade under trees or in the cracks and crevices of walls or paving.

Hylotelephium 'Matrona' (4)

Succulents, with their water-storing leaves, are a good choice for dry summers. This is an especially attractive variety that has grey-green foliage and deep red stems topped with clusters of pink and white star-shaped flowers.

Trachelospermum jasminoides (5) The star jasmine is an evergreen climber with glossy, dark-green leaves and a profusion of fragrant white flowers in summer. It's a popular choice in France for covering buildings and providing cooling shade. Grow it in sunny wall-side borders or planting pockets and support it with wire strung between wall-fixed eye hooks.

Arbutus unedo (6) The strawberry tree is a Mediterranean native and will thrive on light, well-drained soil. It has elongated, evergreen leaves, an attractive shedding bark and small cream flowers in autumn alongside strawberry-like fruit. If low on space, opt for 'Compacta', which has a 2.5m height and spread.

Foeniculum vulgare Fennel has been a stalwart plant in my garden, producing a diaphanous haze of feathery green foliage and branching stems around 1.5m tall topped with bright yellow umbels, which are attractive to insects. Leave the stems standing for winter structure and seeds that will feed finches. It self-seeds, so remove unwanted plants early, before the deep tap root develops.

Hydrangea 'Limelight' While thirsty mophead hydrangeas are struggling in drier summers, this paniculata-type appears to be more adaptable and is happy growing in full sun. The flowers emerge lime green before fading to cream, then in autumn blush pink tinges develop. The final flourish in winter is when skeletal burnished flower heads appear.

Pinus mugo 'Mops' Pines still suffer a reputation problem in this country thanks to Seventies garden design, but they're low maintenance and offer fabulous year-round structural presence. I spotted them in municipal planting schemes in Brittany combined with grasses and perennials such as achillea and large clumps of agapanthus.

Acer campestre The native field maple is an adaptable, robust tree that can tolerate a wide variety of conditions and soil types. Its spring flowers are a welcome source of food for insects and autumn brings an attractive display of golden leaves. It can reach 12m tall; for smaller gardens the dwarf cultivar 'Nanum' is more suitable (3-7m tall).

Nepeta 'Walker's Low' I love lavender but winter wet and clay soil mean it's too short-lived in my garden. Catmint has proved to be a great alternative. Its mounds of grey-green leaves emerge in early spring and the lavender-coloured flowers are in bloom by the end of May. Give it a quick trim in midsummer and it'll keep on flowering into autumn.

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CELEBRS & THEIR PETS

The LBC radio presenter Iain Dale, 64, has always had animals, from his days growing up on a farm in Essex. He and his husband, John, have had many dogs over the years, but he says, contrary to what some people assume, dogs are not child substitutes for gay people. Besides, he would much rather have a dog than a child. They share their home near Tunbridge Wells, in Kent, with a Jack Russell called Dude, 15, and a miniature schnauzer called Woody, 3.

When did Dude enter your life?

He joined us in 2011 when our previous Jack Russell, Gio, died. We'd had Gio for 14 years and initially decided not to get another dog. We don't believe in putting dogs in kennels, so having a dog is a tie.

But after six weeks we said, at almost exactly the same time, 'Shall we get another dog?' The house seemed empty. So we decided we'd get two dogs because we thought if we ever did have to leave them for longer than a couple of hours, they'd have each other for company.

Dude came from a breeder in Bedford. He's actually three-quarters Jack Russell and a quarter border terrier. Everybody thinks Jack Russell's are barky and bad-tempered but he's actually amazingly calm. He barks at the postman but he has never been bitey.

What can you tell us about Woody?

He's actually our second miniature schnauzer. Our first, whom we got at the same time as Dude, was called Bubba and completely different to Woody. Bubba was basically quite thick, whereas Woody, who is a genuine pedigree and one of a large litter, is highly intelligent and very active. We live upstairs, so he's up and down goodness knows how many times a day. He's also incredibly inquisitive.

What do your dogs bring to your lives?

They're so much more than 'pets'. I think that's the case for a lot of people. People often come out with this line that pets are substitute children for gay couples. Actually, I've never wanted children. I would much rather have a dog than a child.

When Bubba died it was as though we had lost a member of the family. And with Dude getting to such a ripe old age, he's developed so many human qualities. He knows when one of us is ill or going through a bad time. When I had gallbladder problems

'I don't need kids'

The LBC presenter Iain Dale on Woody and Dude, his miniature schnauzer and Jack Russell, and his beloved Bubba

Dude just wanted to be close to me. And whenever I'm going through physical trauma and resting, Woody will lie on my stomach, which he doesn't normally do. They just know.

Didn't Dude disappear once?

That was one of the worst days of my life. We were staying at the weekend home we used to own in Norfolk when John rang while I was driving to Cromer Golf Club and said, 'Dude's gone. I can't find him.' We spent two hours driving around trying to spot him but it was like looking for a needle in a haystack. Eventually John got a call from the local vet saying Dude had been brought in by a woman who had spotted him wandering up the road. The funny thing was that when John arrived Dude just jumped into the car as though it was a perfectly normal day.

What about your everyday life with the dogs?

We live on a small 12-acre farm, so we take them down to the end of our land and back. If I'm honest, we probably

don't walk them as much as we should because they're constantly charging around the house anyway. John does most of the walking because I'm at LBC four days a week. They're always on the lead now. Even on our own property we're very careful.

Have they needed much training?

None of our dogs has had any formal training. Toilet training has always been our biggest challenge and even now they occasionally disgrace themselves. Woody has a wonderfully expressive tail. If he knows he's done something wrong it curls down over his bottom.

Are they fussy eaters?

Not remotely. They eat food in sachets with biscuits mixed in. Woody is permanently hopeful that food is about to appear. He'll put his paw on my leg as if to say, 'I know you're going to give me something at some stage. I'd quite like it now.' They get the occasional extra morsel, depending on what we're eating. They love chips, so they're always allowed one chip. And they adore chicken, so on their birthdays they have roast chicken as a special treat.

How often do they go to the groomers?

Woody has to go every six weeks. We take Dude for a bath at the same time. I don't know what lotions they use but it acts as Viagra to Woody.

Do the dogs get along well?

Completely. In the evening they curl up on the sofa and Woody always makes sure he's touching Dude. And if Dude is poorly Woody puts a protective paw over him. It was the same with Dude and Bubba. They grew up together and doted on each other. That's partly why, when Bubba became ill, it affected us all.

Bubba's death was devastating, wasn't it?

Our whole world shattered when the vet told us he had cancer. Bubba survived much longer than the vet expected but eventually John said, 'I think it's time.' Our vet had

Clockwise from left: Iain Dale with Dude and Woody in July; Jazz, one of several dogs Dale grew up with; Lexy the cat; Bubba, left, and Dude in 2011

looked after every one of our dogs since Gio, so they never had any fear about going to see him. But Bubba knew. Just before the injection we both held his head in our hands. He looked up at us, those beautiful eyes meeting ours. But he was totally at peace with what was about to happen. It was our final act of love for him. We took Dude with us because we'd been told dogs comprehend death, even if they don't grieve like humans. The vet laid Bubba on the floor and brought Dude in. He sniffed him, then walked away. He was subdued for a few days and clingier than usual but otherwise seemed unaffected. I was disappointed but the vet said his reaction was completely normal.

Did you grow up around dogs?

My earliest memory is of a collie called Shep. I was only five when he died. After that we had two smooth-coated golden labradors, Sandy and Honey, and throughout my childhood we always had a Jack Russell. First there was Glen, then Jazz, then Spike. They were farm dogs, although they lived in the house.

Can you imagine life without dogs?

No. Cats are superior and standoffish. We did have a cat when I was growing up: Lexy, whose full name was Alexis Carrington Colby Dexter after Joan Collins' character in Dynasty. She lived until she was 18 and she was a beautiful cat. But I've always preferred dogs. Dogs are needier but they're affectionate.

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My physio is a friend thanks to DIY errors

The YouTuber on renovating his home in the Cotswolds with two young children

I can't imagine coming home to an empty place and not seeing my kids' shoes all over the floor. When I was little, my house was very different because my dad was a bad egg. But after my parents split, we moved and we had this little house in a town called Attleborough, about 20 minutes from Norwich. We were safe there. You'd think being safe is the bare minimum for a home, but it isn't always the case.

My mum had an open-door policy, so we'd all go out skateboarding and my brother and I would come back with a bunch of mates. She'd always have a chocolate cake that she'd made. I want this house to be that for my children.

How did you get into social media? I wanted to be an illustrator growing up, but when I went to university, I took psychology, so I stopped drawing. I

missed that creative outlet, so at the weekend I'd make YouTube content. It was such a small community – we're talking 20 to 30 people – and then it started growing slowly.

What was your first video about?

It was called Introduction to My Channel. It was me, terribly lit on the camera of my laptop, and it was shocking: such bad quality, such bad audio. You could never get away with it now. It was literally just me standing in my bedroom going, "Hello, I'm going to make content now." My sisters were already making YouTube make-up tutorials, so I thought, I'm going to do the guys' equivalent. I started doing hair, fashion and styling. It wasn't until later, when I met some of the other YouTubers, that I realised you could do whatever you wanted. I quit my job doing data entry in insurance long before I should have because I wasn't earning enough money from YouTube to survive.

What is your favourite memory from those golden YouTube days?

At the time I felt like I was treading water. I was constantly convinced that it was going to end. I found myself in a dichotomous position where I was one of the big names on YouTube, but I was the smallest of the big names – only by a small number of followers, but that really messed with my head. Weirdly, the

stand-out moments involve being mobbed, because it's a bit scary. I think that showed the reality, because you can talk to a camera and you don't know what's happening at the other end of it. I've done some incredible stuff. I can't believe Louis Vuitton took me to New York and went, "Here's our phone. Take over our social media for the week," and I have hosted fashion shows in Shanghai.

What was the first house you bought?

I was in Norwich before. I bought my first house in 2014 and it was a little two-up, two-down for £180,000. Even now that is bonkers because it wasn't that long ago. Almost as soon as we got the keys, I was back and forth to London so much that I ended up spending more time away from the house than in it.

Why did you move to the Cotswolds?

It's near my wife's parents and we needed help with the kids. Cheltenham's just a gorgeous place. There are loads of events that happen here and it's easy to get to

London. There are a lot of problems with the house. The roof needed fixing and all the plumbing needed to be redone because it's Georgian. There was only plumbing on the back end, which is a Victorian extension. We rewired and we've got an entire lower ground floor, which is incredibly mouldy and I haven't even looked at. I'm juggling three lives all of a sudden. I travel to London for work, I parent when I'm home, and I'm renovating a house – so I just don't sleep any more.

Any famous neighbours? I see (comedian) Dom Joly once in a while. I bump into [actor] Jamie Dornan a lot.

How's it been renovating with two little children running around?

I love it. I'm really creative, so getting my hands on a house that is a blank canvas has been really exciting. I know that I'm making my children's forever home. My physio and I have become best friends. We go for drinks now. I see him so often because he's constantly putting me back together after DIY mishaps.

Worst place you've ever lived?

The easy answer would be when my dad was around because it was scary, but probably the house we were in before this. Sarah and I didn't realise how ready we were to leave London; we always felt like we had one foot in and one foot out in that house.

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I CAN'T SELL MY HOUSE AS I DON'T HAVE A PASSPORT OR SMARTPHONE

I'm trying and failing to get my home on the market. I can't find an agent because I'm told that it's not possible to sell a property in England if the vendor doesn't have a passport, driving licence or smartphone.

I don't have a passport because I never travel overseas. I don't have a driving licence because I'm visually impaired. I don't have a smartphone because I don't have a use for one and they're expensive.

I've contacted 21 estate agents. Most were unwilling to accept instruction. In the past few weeks I've successively instructed three agents. Each one agreed to work around my lack of passport, driving licence and smartphone.

But in each case, once they'd accepted instruction, they reneged and asked for a passport or driving licence and said outsourced ID checks would have to be done on a smartphone.

So I'm stuck. Passports are for going overseas, not for selling a home. It's mad to go to the expense of buying a smartphone just to prove that I'm not a criminal or money launderer. Agents ought to provide an alternative option but won't budge. I feel backed into a corner as there are alternatives but I can't find an agent willing to do this. How do I get my home on the market? PU

A Estate agents are legally required to verify a seller's identity to comply with anti-money laundering regulations, but there's nothing in the law that says this can only be done using a passport, driving licence or smartphone. Many estate agents now use digital identity verification services, but these systems should not exclude people who don't own smartphones or don't have commonly used forms of photo ID. Alternative ways of verifying identity do exist, such as checking official documents or carrying out manual checks, although these may require more time and effort from the agent.

Consumers shouldn't feel forced into buying a passport they'll never use or a smartphone simply to sell their home. If an agent is refusing to consider reasonable alternative methods of verifying your identity, it's worth asking them to explain why and whether they can carry out a manual verification process instead. If they still refuse, you could raise a complaint through the agent's internal complaints procedure and, if necessary, escalate it to the property redress scheme they're a member of. It may also be worth contacting the industry body they belong to, such as Propertymark, as they may be able to clarify what alternative identification methods are acceptable under current guidance. More broadly, this

highlights the risk that increasing reliance on digital-only processes can exclude consumers who don't have smartphones or standard identity documents. Businesses should ensure their systems remain accessible and offer practical alternatives so that people aren't unfairly locked out of essential services.

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I have a horticultural habit: I like to travel the UK drooling over other people's plots. As a self-taught gardener, my quest for green inspiration has taken me everywhere from big-hitters such as Kew Gardens to the more niche offerings such as Beth Chatto's gravel garden in Essex. But my favourite spots are those such as the Chelsea Physic Garden and the Garden Museum in Lambeth, in London. A few years ago, on a walk from Victoria station through to Horse Guards Parade and on to Green Park, I discovered the Onion Garden, which is a community-run silver of green between all the high-rise buildings, and now I make it a regular pitstop. It's amazing, I implore you to visit if you're in the area – plus it does really good coffee and cake.

As green-fingered as I am (I am devoted to my little south London plot), you'll see that most of my favourite gardens have some sort of foodie element to them – be it a nasturtium-topped salad or a rhubarb martini. Here's my insider's guide on where to go.

PERCH HILL ROBERTSBRIDGE, EAST SUSSEX If you haven't heard of Sarah Raven, are you really a garden lover? Get yourself down to Perch Hill to visit her 90 acres of edible, ornamental and trial gardens on select open days. In August the borders are brimming, the cutting gardens overflow and the greenhouse is packed with pelargoniums. It's a kaleidoscopic assault on the senses in the best way. The dahlia trial beds – tended by the head gardener, Josie Lewis – are my favourites. Raven is usually about on open days; you can book a morning talk, lunch in the greenhouse, or a garden tour. The shop is so good you'll never want to leave. Open on select dates in August and September (£18, garden, talk and lunch £70; sarahraven.com).

Where to stay The Bell in Ticehurst, a country pub with fantastical interiors. B&B doubles from £123 (thebellinticehurst.com).

RHS WISLEY WOKING, SURREY Situated just outside the M25, Wisley is my local. While it is famous for the long, frothy borders within its 240 acres, it is also worth making the pilgrimage to see the Piet Oudolf garden. The mastermind behind the New York High Line has reimagined the classic glasshouse borders with winding paths cutting through perennials and grasses – a masterclass in modern planting. Ask the gardening team to point out the spectacular Barbie-pink Toona sinensis (flamingo tree); I'm biased as I have one in my own garden. There are unique tree varieties you won't find anywhere else in the UK too (£21; rhs.org.uk).

Where to stay The historic, stately Beaverbrook, with its Italian gardens and meadow to picnic in. B&B doubles from £560 (beaverbrook.co.uk).

GRAVETYE MANOR WEST MOATHLY, WEST SUSSEX For lovers of kitchen gardens, Gravetye should be top of the list. Its elliptical kitchen garden was designed by the influential Victorian gardener, and owner of Gravetye, William Robinson. Work on its walls began in 1898 and took three years to complete, and it remains remarkably unchanged. The estate covers more than 1,000 acres, within which are 35 acres of ornamental gardens, orchards, a peach house and woodlands. The catch! The gardens aren't technically open to the public unless you are a hotel guest or dining on site. But what better excuse to book a fantastic homegrown, three-course lunch in the Michelin-starred restaurant? It has floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the gardens, so you'll really feel part of the scene. You can then join a 90-minute garden tour (£30) on Mondays, Wednesdays or Fridays. Where to stay The 16th-century hotel itself. B&B doubles from £505 (gravetyemanor.co.uk).

HIDCOTE MANOR CHIPPING CAMPOEN, GLOUCESTERSHIRE This renowned Arts and Crafts-inspired garden in the north Cotovolds was created by the American plantsman Major Lawrence Johnston after he bought the manor in 1907. The National Trust took over in 1948, keeping Johnston's original designs. The Red Borders are at their peak throughout August and September and the White Garden offers a serene palette of silver leaves and white phlox, as well as a flock of plump topiary birds. If you miss the spring wisteria, the famous Hidcote lavender (Lavandula angustifolia 'Hidcote') is cultivated here – a lovely nod to Johnston's legacy. It's also great for kids, with croquet on the lawn and a free tennis court (£22, or free for National Trust members; nationaltrust.org.uk). Where to stay The 17th-century Woolmarket House in Chipping Camden. B&B doubles from £204 (woolmarkethouse.com). PARNHAM PARK BEAMINSTER, DORSET James and Sophie Perkins, the owners of Parnham Park, bought the derelict house in

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2020 and have focused on reviving the overgrown grounds first. The walled garden feels like The Secret Garden, where every corner seems to reveal another archway leading to a new space, such as the Dutch garden. Visitors are encouraged to bring a sketchpad and get lost, ideally with one of the Parnham restaurant's rhubarb martinis in hand. Keep an eye out for wacky pieces from the Perkinses' art collection tucked away in the greenery. While the house renovations are ongoing and it therefore currently leans towards a restaurant with a garden, you

Clockwise from left: RHS Wisley, Surrey; Perch Hill, East Sussex; Tresco Abbey Garden, the Isles of Scilly; Inverwe, the Highlands

can book specific house, lake and deer park tours throughout the year (£20 for a garden tour, once a month). Plus, if you stay in their cottage or the Dower House, you'll get out-of-hours behind-the-scenes tours. Hive Beach and its brilliant café are only a 20-minute drive away too. Where to stay The Dower House, the old gate house to Parnham Park. Two nights' self-catering for six from £1,100 (parnhampark.co.uk).

TRESCO ABBEY GARDEN ISLES OF SCILLY, CORNWALL What better reason to visit the Isles of Scilly than for their succulents? Their spot in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Cornwall, warmed by the waters of the Gulf Stream, makes for a unique maritime microclimate that usually escapes winter frosts. It feels a bit like being on Mars, hosting a fascinating botanical garden that matches Kew, but without the need for glasshouses (£18; tresco.co.uk). And the rumours are true: the isles look like the Caribbean with their crystal waters, just with better pubs. Where to stay Hell Bay Hotel, with its sea views. B&B doubles from £212 (hellbay.co.uk).

THE GRAVEL GARDEN COLCHESTER, ESSEX I borrowed this one from my colleague Ann Treneman; when I edited her gardening column for The Times, she alerted me to Beth Chatto's influential Gravel Garden. The plot started life as a car park, until 1992 when it became an experiment for drought-tolerant planting. It couldn't be more apt for our present climate. It's amazing to see alliums, agapanthus and sea holly all thriving in such challenging conditions (£16; bethchatto.co.uk). Where to stay Milsons, in Dedham, which offers dining on its terrace. B&B doubles from £179 (milsonhotels.com).

INVERWE POOLEWE HIGHLANDS It doesn't get much better than a beautiful rustic garden overlooking a loch. Once a barren wilderness, Inverwe is now a 50-acre garden on the west coast of Scotland. With its unique mild microclimate, thanks to the influence of the Gulf Stream, it grows a spectacular range of exotic plants, from Tasmanian eucalyptus to rare Wolfemil pines and vibrant Himalayan blue poppies. Don't miss the rhododendrons in spring, or the walled garden and lush woodland trails (£16; nts.org.uk). Where to stay Complete the experience by staying in the Garden Lodge. Seven nights' self-catering for six from £702 (sykescottages.co.uk).

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What I learnt from travelling with my autistic adult son

The writer Henry Normal on family holidays and living in the moment with Johnny, 28 – plus our top tips

I used to watch a TV series called Kung Fu when I was a kid. There was one episode in which Master Po says to his pupil Kwai Chang Caine: "Grasshopper, you must expect the unexpected." It's a bit like that when me and my partner, Ang, take our son Johnny on holiday.

Johnny is 28, 6ft 3in tall, built like a rugby player and severely autistic. His favourite trick is clapping very loudly, which has led to a few interesting situations at airports, such as being scrutinised by policemen with guns.

Johnny can get overwhelmed and anxious when there's a change to his routine, such as going on holiday, so the first thing we do is make sure that he's calm and able to cope – letting him know three weeks in advance and giving him a countdown. Ang always packs The Bag, which is full of snacks and distractions – he loves to eat bacon or an apple and fiddle with gadgets. Like the rest of us, if he knows he has a treat coming up he's on his best behaviour.

Hotels can be noisy and unpredictable, so now we rent a villa. It's much easier to go to the same place every year – the Algarve in Portugal – because then Johnny knows what to expect. We even sit in the same part of the airport each time and go to the same place to eat.

Things have changed in the past 20 years, and the world is better prepared for hidden disabilities. When we first used Johnny's special parking permit people gave us funny looks, so we would take Ang's mum with us – she uses a walking stick and I'd get her to limp a bit.

There are still a few hoops we have to jump through. When we're renewing Johnny's passport we need a letter from the doctor that allows me or Ang to sign it on his behalf. Last time we forgot the letter and they weren't going to let us have his passport. I told them: "He can sign his name like he does on his paintings, just 'Johnny'." They were happy with that, which made me laugh. Along with Sting and Madonna, he needs only one name.

A lot of people live so much of their lives in the past and the future. Johnny lives only in the present, and when Ang and I are with him we live in the present too. We enjoy the moment, and that's such a gift that he has given us.

There is something about Johnny that takes life back to basics: do the things that give you pleasure. My favourite times on holiday are when Johnny is lost in his painting or we walk down to the beach – Ang is in the water with Johnny while he swims and I drink tea, writing a poem.

As a 6ft-year-old I finally realise it's the simple things in life that matter. Johnny seems to have known that all along.

Interview by Danny Scott

Henry Normal is touring the UK with his Collected Shows and Other Landfill from September 19 to November 25 (edgestreet live.com). His poetry collection The First Spark Has Led to This Blaze is out now (£12.50; flapjackpress.co.uk)

HAVE A SCHEDULE (AND STICK TO IT) Before you leave home, write a daily plan – breakfast, beach, ice cream, lunch at home, two hours' screen time, dinner, a walk, bedtime, for example. Email it to older children, get ChatGPT or Claude to turn it into pictures for younger ones – put a copy on their bedroom wall, another in the kitchen and take one with you.

A HELPING HAND

If your child is good with directions assign them the job of navigator. Show them the accommodation you're considering on Airbnb and ask for their opinion. Being consulted is regulating in itself – a holiday is less stressful when you help to choose it.

RING THE AIRPORT, DON'T JUST TURN UP

Request assistance through your airline or tour operator when you book, at least 48 hours before you fly, and keep the confirmation. Someone will usually meet you at the assistance point and stay with you through check-in, security and all the way to the gate. Some airports have a separate assistance lane, and most airlines will let you board first or last if you ask at the gate. Some run familiarisation visits – a practice trip through check-in and security on a day before you travel.

USE THE SUNFLOWER LANYARD

Staff are trained to recognise the non-visible-disability lanyard, so you can ask for more support without having to explain yourself while there is a queue of people within earshot. Airports will usually give you a lanyard at the assistance desk or you can buy them on Amazon.

WHEN SOMETHING HALF-WORKS, DO IT AGAIN

Change is for neurotypicals. If you find a holiday that half-works, do it again (and again). Don't fix what isn't broken. Being mildly sick of a place you all half-enjoyed is a much better outcome than a fortnight somewhere beautiful that nobody enjoyed.

IF YOUR CHILD HAS A MELTDOWN...

Say less, listen more and drop all demands. Let them do whatever calms them, screens included. Find somewhere quiet. Talk about it with your child much later, once they're calm. Airports can be intensely stressful places for autistic people – with all the noise, bright lights and crowds – and there's a cost to getting through one, even when it goes well. Build in a day of downtime afterwards.

By Jessie Hewitson, the author of Autism: How to Raise a Happy Autistic Child and ADHD: How to Raise a Happy ADHD Child (£16.99 and £18.99; orionbooks.co.uk)

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When record heat hit the Netherlands last month, city-centre Amsterdammers living in baking apartments started booking beach huts or caravans purely for the possibility of hanging out somewhere cool and reading a book in relative comfort. That's the latest, er, pitch of Outside Inn, the city's only indoor campsite: proper air conditioning, real caravans, zero actual outdoors. "When it was 35C outside, I think it was 24C in here," says Willem Megens, the site's owner. Guests were saying, "Thank God you've got air conditioning."

Chatting to me on a wooden picnic bench bedecked with fairy lights, Megens points to the AstroTurf beyond. The grass really is greener on the other side. Until last November, he explains, there was a partition wall and behind it was the workshop where he singlehandedly made or remade each of the 37 structures on this sizeable campsite. After almost six years' work, the glamping vision is complete – dinky vintage caravans in attractive pastels, beach huts, "barrels", camping pods and two one-off "specials" – a gleaming azure VW camper van and a wooden gypsy wagon – and Megens can finally relax. "You're like God on the seventh day," I marvel. "Exactly," he says.

Camping, as Megens points out, is a Dutch obsession – in caravans especially. His 1,000 sq m version of getting back to nature, yet also further from it, occupies three floors of a former warehouse on an industrial estate. Granted, this isn't the postcard Amsterdam of Albert Cuyp, canals and cobbles, but those are all accessible via the Metro station a five-minute walk away. What it is, of course, is highly Instagrammable, cheap compared to a city-centre hotel room and well served by wifi. Anyway, the whole set-up seems strangely authentic in a country whose take on "nature" can skew towards

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A former storage facility a short U-Bahn ride from the town centre houses this hostel-scale operation: 15 individually themed vintage caravans, right, from a Union Jack-draped "Britain" caravan to a space shuttle and a 1950s rockabilly diner, plus two converted sleeper trains and four Airstreams, each with a furnished "front lawn". The vibe is more hostel-chic than family retreat, and the novelty of bedding down in a train carriage indoors makes it worth the detour if you're in the Rhineland.

Details One night's self-catering for two from £85 (basecamp-bonn.de). Fly to Bonn

DAHEIM INDOORCAMPING, TRIBERG, GERMANY

Deep in the Black Forest, in a 5,000 sq m former factory, Daheim offers 16 themed caravans (including "jungle" and Christmas ones), as well as a pub serving home-brewed beer and a genuinely useful perk – a Triberg city card thrown in with your stay that covers entry to the town's waterfalls and museum. It's proof that the trend isn't confined to big cities. Sometimes the appeal of indoor camping is simply not having to pitch a tent next to Germany's most famed waterfalls in the rain.

Details One night's self-catering for two from £44 (daheim-triberg.de). Fly to Zurich or Stuttgart

Mark Smith

This air-conditioned, budget 'campsite' in Amsterdam is an ingenious way to escape the heat. Mark Smith checks in

the uncanny: think hydroponic farming and forests of trees planted in suspiciously straight lines.

A mechanic by trade, Megens sourced broken-down caravans from Marktplaats, the Dutch eBay, stripping them back, rewiring them, fitting decent beds and lovingly repainting them in all the colours of the iMac. We've just vacated a mauve one – not the most spacious in the static motorcade but catnip for my daughter who is nearly seven and therefore responsible for all major household purchasing decisions.

For her it's like playing in a real doll's house. Happy hours are spent rearranging pots of fake lavender, opening and closing the curtains and befriending the next door neighbour, a water-purification expert from Bremen who is knitting outside the caravan she's booked for a week-long stay (orange, with a chic Delft-blue-inspired motif inside) after discovering the place by chance last summer. "I just really fell for the fun of it," she says. Over the way, a Swiss family is playing petanque on the sand outside their beach hut. High-tech lockers for valuables are disguised with a chopped-wood decal and rustic roof. The piece de résistance, though, is a giant swing hanging beneath an ersatz cherry tree. This seems to be the only swinging going on, despite the prevalence of pampas grass as a decorative accent throughout the campsite. A small mercy, given the acoustic challenges of cheek-by-jowl caravanning (all guests receive earplugs). Before "nightfall" (the overhead lights are turned down at about 10.30pm; silence is obligatory after 11pm) I hear plenty of voices through the walls of our vehicle.

This is part of a wider phenomenon. Trip.com Group recorded a 74 per cent year-on-year rise in "cookation" searches in the first half of 2026, while Intrepid Travel has reported a 30 per cent jump in bookings for Norway and a 22 per cent

increase for Iceland for this summer alone. A survey by the travel insurer Staysure found that 88 per cent of UK travellers polled have considered changing where they holiday, with extreme heat cited by 22 per cent as a reason for looking elsewhere. In another survey, half those polled said that they'd rather stay in the UK for summer, rising to almost 60 per cent in the southwest.

A group of four 18-year-old girls from Newcastle are here on the last night of an interrailing trip that took in Nice, Venice, Florence, the Dolomites, Slovenia and Berlin before Amsterdam. They've stayed in a couple of "barrels" (literally wooden barrel rooms) for two nights. "It's fun to have the experience of camping without having to set up a tent and stuff," Issy says. "It's one of the coolest places we've stayed," Lily agrees – especially compared with scorching Nice. They've made good use of the "VIP area" (a soundproofed common room that has been decorated with the panache of the props team for The Traitors). And the washing block, with its motion-activated showers in discrete cubicles, beats a mosquito-ravaged 3am trudge through the cowpats, 100 roll in hand.

It's also handy for a gig. The Ziggo Dome and the Johan Cruijff Arena are close by – Harry Styles wrapped a sold-out residency at the latter in June, while A&AP Rocky is coming this month. Megens says he can tell who's playing next door by the appearance of the guests who check in. Glitter and pink hair means girl pop, while "a hall full of old rockers means the Rolling Stones are in town".

There's the occasional pinstripe tootypically delegates attending the nearby RAI convention centre who have hurriedly reserved "a room" without realising it means a fuchsia-trimmed caravan or a scarlet surf shack. According to Megens, they arrive bemused but invariably leave happier.

My take after a night in the great lake outdoors? Like the piped Frank Ocean music that plays in place of birdsong, it's upbeat and dystopian in roughly equal measure – summer camp restaged as a fever dream for the meteorological end times. Indoor camping doesn't ask you to believe that you're outdoors – did I mention the fully decked Christmas tree next to an Italianate tiered fountain? – but in the age of ultra-slick AI apparitions, the haphazard fakery here seems genuinely sweet. It won't replace an actual campsite for those who love being underneath the stars rather than an exit sign, but it does have something of the same collegiate bonhomie – for proof, count the Oreos my daughter was able to cadge from fellow campers during our short stay.

As a heatwave break for those of us with zero patience for guy ropes it has taken some of the heat out of the summer holidays. Come winter, mind you, there's underfloor heating.

Mark Smith travelled independently. Outside Inn has room-only doubles from £62 (outsideinn.nl)

The great indoors

A camping pod at Outside Inn in Amsterdam; below, its interior

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I've had a tempestuous relationship with Newquay over the years. In 1993 I fell in love with its surf-town spirit. Then, ten years later, I recoiled as stag and hen parties flooded its narrow streets. More recently I've been delighted by a grassroots sense of change, with hip cafés and restaurants opening. But never did I expect to see one of its hotels emerging from a £35 million rebirth.

When I walk into the Nici I'm temporarily lost for words. Fortunately Dan Metcalfe is on hand to supply them for me. "It's a turning point," the surf coach says. "Newquay needed something big to show everybody how it's changing, and look," he adds, gesturing around us. "this is it."

Behind us lights glitter against the hotel's mirrored bar. Above, in the lobby, giant glass chandeliers cascade through three storeys of space like a Cecil B DeMille film set. And if you'd teleported me to this spot and asked me where I'd landed, I'd have told you

we were in the Mediterranean, not in the shell of the former Hotel Victoria, Newquay.

No wonder the restaurant here is named Amalfi's, after the stretch of coast south of Naples. It is decorated with big bowls of fresh lemons and painted ceramics, while its menu is a canny mix of Italian and British influences. You can feast on posh fish and chips, steak or burgers, but also on crab pasta and veal Milanese. Its standout dish is its £14 burrata starter, which sets creamy cheese against orange segments, hazelnuts and an earthy undertone of truffles. Yes, truffles are now being served in Newquay.

The hotel is the brainchild of Nicolas Roach, who founded the Harbour Hotels group in 2003. This is his new project: the Nici Bournemouth was the first to open, in 2022, with a Miami Beach sense of style; now come the soft openings of the next two in the brand – the New England-flavoured Nici New Forest and the Nici Newquay, which given the context, is the most eye-catching of the three.

"That's what I love about this place," Roach explains. "You'll find billionaire surfers in the line-up, paddling for waves alongside Gen Zers who've been sleeping in a tent. Newquay mixes everyone up – and if you like the edginess that brings and want to add some quality hospitality into the mix, the Nici's for you."

With a branch of Bargain Booze a few doors down, he's not wrong about the edginess. But even if he'd launched this project in one of the poorest English seaside strongholds, the scale of its ambition would still be newsworthy. So far 76 rooms are open, along with

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the spa, indoor pool, bar, restaurant and giant sea-view terrace. Later a lift – travelling through the hotel then about 40m of rock to the beach – will be working once more. The finishing touches are scheduled for 2027, when Roach will add an outdoor pool and a café on a clift top site next door. Should you come before it's completed? Not if you need a lift to reach your room – for the time being there's no alternative to the Nici's grand Victorian staircase – which wraps theatrically around those chandeliers – while a team of doormen sweat over your luggage. You'll need to excuse the builders' skips at the side of the building too. Even so, on my exclusive first look at the property, Nici Newquay is humming. I'm here during England's third summer heatwave and people are piling in for the weekend. But they're also drawn by the low prices – its cool white rooms, with blissful air conditioning and posh Ortigia toiletries, start at less than £200 a night in August.

Clearly, many of the guests are as intrigued as I am to experience this upstart arrival in the middle of a resolutely underrated town. It is a bold move, but when you walk onto the terrace on a sun-drenched summer evening, it seems a blindingly obvious one too – the view is stunning. As you sip a regroni you can't help but wonder: 'Why were we so oblivious to its beauty?'

Now others are also waking up to the town's potential. For years the Headland Hotel has ploughed a lonely furrow of excellence on a weather-beaten promontory at the far end of town, but here in the centre, hotels seemed just as likely to fall into ruin as flourish. However, the St Austell Brewery – owners of the Great Western, Newquay's first hotel – has restored one of its wings in spirited, art deco style and, once the rest of the revamp is finished, it's going to be an affordable treat. On the other side of the Nici, new apartments deliver the same view – two-bedroom Salt and Soul is one of the

most spectacular (a week's self-catering from £1,035; aspects-holidays.co.uk). These join a growing roster of cafés, shops and restaurants that defy the town's bucket and beer-barrel reputation. Saltd, by the railway station, is halfway between a beach hut and a common room and has a menu peppered with waffles, smoothie bowls and avocado toast (bites from £6; @saltd_nny). Vinyl Imports, a few steps further into town, is a new music emporium, with a soundtrack courtesy of the jazz maestro Miles Davis when I visit. Just above the old harbour, Box & Barber is

From main: Fistral beach in Newquay; the Nici's lobby; its exterior

everyone's favourite brunch venue (baps from £9; boxandbarber.com). The star of the Newquay new wave, though, is Counter Culture, a Rasque-flavoured pintxos bar and restaurant whose French-Canadian mixologist Alex Gomes serves magical margaritas – they have the whiff of smoke and fire about them, courtesy of chilli flakes and tagine spices, and they're the perfect drink to sip while you wait for the chef-patron Ben Harrison's rich and inventive sharing plates (from £12; counter culturenewquay.co.uk). This year the Michelin Guide gave his eclectic and chatty refuge one of its vaunted Bib Gourmands for affordable gastronomy. I'd give it three stars for good vibes too. Just across the road stands the

empty shell of an abandoned mega-pub called the Drunken Surfer – now there's a symbol of the changing mood in Newquay if ever you needed one. Don't worry if the weather turns less Mediterranean, by the way – this is Cornwall; it works best when there's a swell and the temperature is cool enough for clift top walks. That's when Metcalfe comes in handy. He runs the Nici's daily beach activities programme, which is free for guests, and serves up surfing, snorkelling and paddleboarding lessons with good cheer and considerable skill. On our last morning he takes the surfing technique of my younger son, Ben, and – in five minutes – seems to iron out every wrinkle. Not for the first time on this trip, I'm gobsmacked. The day before Ben was all wobble and hesitation; now here he is riding clean (if tiny) waves for the first time with a brave new world of possibility suddenly opening up before him – just as it is for the Cornish town on the cliffs above us.

Sean Newsom was guests of the Nici Newquay, which has room-only doubles from £182 (thernici.com)

The star of the new wave is a pintxos bar and restaurant

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Midnight in the Mediterranean under the stars, and the Sky Bar was packed. Waiters circulated with champagne as a DJ spun tunes and a glamorous crowd danced with happy abandon.

A cool rooftop bar in Ibiza or Mykonos? No. I was on Explora Journeys' Explora III, which had left the shipyard only seven days earlier.

Explora is the upmarket cruise brand of MSC Group and unveiled its first ship in August 2023. I've sailed with the company before and was not fully convinced that it would stand up to its luxury rivals. But cruise lines evolve and I was open to persuasion.

The number of luxury cruise passengers has tripled since 2015 to more than 1.2 million last year. Given that the trend is expected to continue, it is little surprise that Explora IV, V and VI are being built.

With a passenger capacity of 922, Explora III is large for a luxury ship. It is powered by liquefied natural gas, which requires bigger fuel tanks so is 19.2m longer than its two predecessors. While extra accommodation could have been crammed in, there is a

Ocean state of mind

private dining room for up to 12, an additional restaurant and an alfresco cigar lounge.

And there's oodles of space, with wide corridors, a double-height lobby, an expansive pool deck, two further pools and seven restaurants. There's marble everywhere. Staircases of gleaming black backlit onyx curve from deck 5 to deck 4. The centerpiece of the Lobby Bar is two chandeliers from the Venetian island of Murano – the shards, up to 6m long, were hand-blown and took three months to install.

The suites – in cream, chocolate and dark wood – have no shortage of elegant touches. My Cove Residence came with a mini-library and a bottle of Moët et Chandon.

Suites, marble and fine art – Sue Bryant finds Explora's new ship to be big on style

Meanwhile, the entry-level accommodation is far from basic, with a minibar stocked to your preference, an espresso machine, a pillow menu, binoculars, a walk-in wardrobe and a deep balcony.

At the other end of the scale, the Owner's Residence – 183 sq m plus a further 132 sq m of balcony – spans the width of the ship, overlooking the wake, and is all graceful curves and pale, earthy

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There's also the Cellar, a wine-tasting room on board where you can enjoy a bottle of Napa Valley Screaming Eagle for £2,269 or a Super Tuscan Masseto for £1,053.

At the Clarendon Fine Art gallery the manager Olivia Brown gives talks on art investment and sells works by Dali and Chagall, the pricest going for £428,000.

At the spa a 60-minute massage, while blissful, starts at £256. I was tempted by the Sava Sound Pod, a cocoon used to calm the nerves, but it was fully booked (45 minutes for £8).

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From below far left: Explora III; its pool deck; the Lobby Bar

Hedonism was a central theme of my cruise.

Another evening highlight was Sakura, as good as any high-end Asian restaurant; we ate sushi, gyoza, duck and watermelon salad and miso-roasted black cod wrapped in a hoba leaf with grilled lime. I also loved Shore Club on 11, serving Mediterranean specialities from tabbouleh and baba ganoush to halloumi skewers and shakshuka – it was a shame that it's not open in the evenings.

If you want somewhere casual for dinner, the Emporium Marketplace has a taste of everything, from glistening seafood displays to made-to-order pasta, curries, salads, pizza from a

wood-fired oven and poke bowls. Lobster, sushi and oysters got a big thumbs-up from my companions, and I road-tested the pizza (excellent) and the pad Thai (disappointingly rubbery). Decent wines are poured liberally, while the spirits were premium brands.

Lunches and dinners were so bountiful that I skipped breakfast most days. Instead, after a quiet cup of tea on my balcony in the soft morning light, I'd head to open-plan Crema Café, the social

heart of the ship, with a roastery and two enormous La San Marco espresso machines – serious stuff indeed. New work spaces – tables with USB ports – have been added here.

If you're less concerned about art and Super Tuscans but enjoy all the trappings of a luxury cruise, you can live very well on Explora III for a reasonable amount, given that there's no extra charge for most drinks, most dining, fitness classes, access to the spa's soothing steam room, sauna and whirlpool, tips and fast wi-fi.

Shore excursions range from those that are pretty standard for cruising (a whale-watching trip in Iceland for £165pp, for example) to the pricier end (a seaplane adventure to a wilderness lodge in Alaska, where the ship will sail next summer, and salmon feast for £430pp).

The ship is family-friendly too, with a kids' club – unusual in luxury cruising. I'm not convinced that a voyage in peak school-holiday season is conducive to what

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Cabin life – or stugliv in Swedish – epitomises the perfect laid-back summer retreat. It's a tradition that has been passed down through generations, with a focus on escaping to nature and connecting with family in simple surroundings. Although adopted across the Nordic region, it's especially popular in Sweden, where more than 600,000 sommarstuga (summer cottages) are scattered in woodlands, at lakesides and on the many tiny islands along its fractured coastline.

Craving a chilled-out escape as heatwaves raged across the UK, I headed north to the small village of Gunnarsbyn, about 40 miles south of the Arctic Circle. Combining two very different cabins – one on water, the other on land – I hoped to crack the secret to Swedish summers that never seem to end.

Inspired by childhood memories and 25 years spent running a camp in the Masai Mara in Kenya, Jonas Gejke custom built his Floating Safari Camp on Lake Degerselet, off the Rane River. I arrived by motorboat at the mobile raft, where two canvas bell tents with comfortable wooden beds were pitched alongside a glass-fronted room, for guests who prefer wilderness in smaller doses.

It didn't quite fit the stereotypical bill of a Falun red clapperboard house, but it embraced the spirit of off-grid adventure (albeit with power packs and a composting loo).

During summer this far north, the sun barely sets below the horizon. I filled the extra daylight hours on my floating home by relaxing in a wood-fired sauna with views of uninterrupted birch and aspen forest; soaking in a tin bath while nesting wagtails chattered in the eaves; and swimming in water so clear that any modesty was left onshore along with my swimsuit. There are paddleboards and kayaks for slow exploration too.

"It feels a bit Robinson Crusoe," Gejke remarked, laughing, when he collected me for breakfast the next morning.

"We could have built a luxury house, but that's not the point. A cabin is not a physical structure, it's a culture. Doing what you want, swimming naked – that's cabin life."

During colder months the floating platform is towed a mile or so towards Gejke's main five-room lodge, Aurora Safari Camp, and used as a platform for ice swims and saunas.

An hour's drive from Lulea, the gateway city for Swedish Lapland, Gunnarsbyn is a hub for winter tourism activities such as dog sledding, snowshoeing and aurora hunting, but it's surprisingly quiet for the remainder of the year. Basking in sunshine on the lodge restaurant's log veranda while watching red squirrels scurry between treetops, I couldn't think of a better time to come. Energised by such a wealth of daylight hours, the forests are bursting with life.

The local forager Eva Gunnare is acutely aware of that. Originally from Stockholm, she's one of many characters

Holidaying in simple, rural cabins has long been a tradition for Swedes. Sarah Marshall cracks the secret

From above: a tent at Floating Safari Camp; the camp on Lake Degerselet; the cabin's deck

responsible for shaping this community. In a population of about 650, there are 25 nationalities – testimony to the draw of alternative Arctic living.

Having been married to a Sami reindeer herder for several years, Gunnare is an expert on indigenous foods. Attending a cooking class in her cottage home, I watched as she surveyed shelves of vintage tins housing an edible herbarium. Equipped with a pinny and tweezers, she embodied the fastidiousness of a Victorian specimen collector with the domestic godliness of Martha Stewart.

"When you live up here, you're very close to the pure things," Gunnare explained to me, laying a table with ingredients including pickled dandelion heads, as salty as but much sweeter than capers; green pinecones boiled to make a sticky jam; and freshly siphoned birch sap, reduced to make a thick balsamic. After tasting everything, I helped to prepare lunch.

"We can grow a lot up here," Gunnare said while stirring a pot of mossy-green nettle soup. "What we can't grow we don't need."

Spending time with Gunnare is one of the new community-based activities offered by Arctic Retreat, a cluster of timber cottages with rustic aesthetics and high-end amenities. A five-minute drive from Aurora Safari Lodge, it served as my second cabin stay for the weekend.

The owner, Graeme Richardson, believes that the best way to harness the spirit of stugliv is by meeting local people. Ready to socialise after hours in my own company, I met Adam Carlsson and Emilia Malmstrom, who run the Smedja Brinna iron forge, using historic techniques. Visitors staying at Arctic Retreat can book a class to make a coat hook and enjoy a fika (snack break) with coconut shortbread (£352pp).

Accompanied by the hammering of hot iron on an anvil, Black Sabbath roared from a stereo when I arrived at their studio inside a former farmhouse. The couple moved here after retraining at one of the last blacksmithing schools in Scandinavia. Hearing their story helps outsiders to understand the beauty of remote living in a place that's far from lonely.

"I'm so grateful for what we've found," Malmstrom said. "Up here I feel very satisfied."

Demand for their services has been high. Since the Covid pandemic there has been a movement to restore houses across Sweden, especially properties abandoned by younger, city-seeking generations.

Forsbergs, a former merchant's villa and grocery store built in 1908, is a prime example. When the owners left in 1934, its doors didn't reopen until 80 years later. Everything from family photos to unopened tins of vegetables remained frozen in time. Mogens Amstrup Jacobsen and his wife, Lena Malm – both village priests – accepted a challenge to restore the property using only materials from the early 1900s. Original rolls of flock wallpaper were salvaged from the dusty store cupboards, nails were handmade at the blacksmiths and the heating was repaired by a 97-year-old tradesman whose father had plumbed the original system.

Now the intriguing property is open for events including guided tours and murder mystery nights. "After more than ten years we still have boxes to unpack," Jacobsen said as we shared lunch at an oak table where the king of Sweden reputedly once sat. Some of the greatest

finds to date include a personal letter from the president of Finland (tours from £10pp; forsbergs-gunnarsbyn.se).

While hours can be lost inside Forsbergs, at Winterdog, a short drive away, the main attraction is being outdoors, with 20 Siberian huskies getting their warm-weather exercise by accompanying tourists on hikes.

"We have so much possibility here," the owner Andi Rüttimann, a Swiss-born mountain guide, mused while tying a dog harness to my waist. Quickening my pace to keep up with the canine powerhouse, I hiked along trails so soft and mossy underfoot that one step easily bounced after another (two-hour hikes from £163; winterdog.de). Later, Rüttimann said that

years of living in a tent had given him an appreciation for pared-down living. Day-to-day existence in remote areas does come with challenges – supplies are limited, distances are bigger and the weather can be extreme, for example. "Simple things become complex," he said. "But complex things can become simple too."

Having fewer choices, distractions and plans is undoubtedly relaxing – for residents and tourists. A short stay in Gunnarsbyn had sparked my childhood memories of never-ending summer days with no concern for faraway tomorrows. That is, after all, the essence of cabin life.

Sarah Marshall was a guest of Best Served Scandinavia, which has four nights' full board at Arctic Retreat from £4,020pp, including flights (best-served.co.uk). One night's full board at Floating Safari Camp from £1,120pp, including transfers (aurorasafaris.com)

Having fewer distractions is undoubtedly relaxing

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A group trip from Lima to Cusco takes in the Amazon jungle, the Sacred Valley and Machu Picchu. By Hannah Gravett

Bright rays of sunshine poured into the train carriage as it rolled into the town of Aguas Calientes in southern Peru. We were chugging through the Urabamba River Valley with spectacular views of the lofty Andes mountains. But it wasn't the scenery that made this moment so memorable. It was the atmosphere.

My boyfriend, James, had a tambourine in his fist and was clanging it about his head, while our fellow passengers and new friends enthusiastically shook maracas.

We had been given instruments by a two-person band on board the 360° Machu Picchu Train and were being serenaded with an upbeat Latin American twist on Elvis's Can't Help Falling in Love, shortly followed by a cover of Creedence Clearwater Revival's Have You Ever Seen the Rain?, a rendition of La Bamba and Justin Bieber's Despacito.

It was only as we came to a halt at Aguas Calientes, the station closest to the base of the Incan citadel of Machu Picchu, that I realised it wasn't even 9am. Our arrival at one of the new Seven Wonders of the World marked the most-anticipated stop of our nine-day exploration of Peru.

This year we'd decided to swap our usual week of relaxing together in Spain for a guided trip to Peru with eight strangers. And while this trip was my seventh time travelling with an organised group, it was James's first.

After nine years together, James and I welcomed the opportunity to stretch conversations beyond the two of us and meet like-minded travellers – and we're not alone. The tour operator Intrepid Travel reported a 15 per cent increase in couples joining tours in the past year.

We joined its Premium Peru route, beginning in the capital, Lima, and then making stops in the Amazon jungle, Ollantaytambo and Aguas Calientes, before ending in Cusco.

James and I had touched down in Lima a day before our tour officially began and we spent our time there strolling through the neighbourhood of Miraflores, grabbing roast-beef sandwiches at a branch of La Lucha Sanguchería Criolla (sandwiches from £4.20) and cat-spotting at the feline-packed Kennedy Park – which made us think of our own furry friends, Taggy and Milo, back home in London. Later, we checked into the Pullman Lima Miraflores hotel and lounged on sunbeds by the rooftop pool.

The next day, we found a letter pushed under our door explaining that due to the election taking place that weekend, no alcohol would be served in the country. There would be none of James's beloved pints available for the next 48 hours.

It was after this discovery that we met our fellow Intrepid travellers. While I've become more than accustomed over the years to making friends with strangers on group tours, a bit of Dutch courage can go a long way on the first day – something we wouldn't be afforded this time round.

There were ten of us in total, from the UK, India, Canada and the US, with ages ranging from late-twenties to mid-sixties. While James and I were the only couple, there was a mother and daughter duo as well as a pair of friends. But as ever on a group trip, within no time it felt as if we had all known each other for weeks.

We were introduced to our tour guide, Holger Collantes from Cusco, who set the tone for the next nine days when he told us: "This is an adventure, not a holiday." He was right, there was little lounging around on this itinerary.

We broke the ice with a walking tour of downtown Lima, exploring the 16th-century St Francis Monastery, bonding over the eeriness of its catacombs, snapping photographs at the Plaza Mayor, a Unesco world heritage site, and stopping for sweet treats along the way, including caramel-filled churros from Churros Virgen del Carmen, as well as creamy arroz con leche (rice pudding) and picarones (sweet-potato doughnuts) from market stalls.

Dinner was at Restaurant Huaca Pucllana, overlooking the historical site of the pre-Incan pyramid of the same name. We savoured our first taste of ceviche followed by plates of lomo saltado, a traditional Peruvian dish of stir-fried beef (mains from £10.90; resthuaca puclana.com).

The next morning we took a 1hr 45min flight to Puerto Maldonado. At the airport we decanted parts of our luggage into duffel bags, taking only what we'd need for the next two days in the rainforest. The rest was stored at Intrepid's local office.

After changing into long-sleeved clothing and dousing ourselves in mosquito repellent, we were shuttled to the banks of a tributary of the Amazon. We piled into a small boat for the 30-minute journey to the Inkaterra Hacienda Concepcion, a hotel surrounded by the lush green of the rainforest on a 419-acre ecological reserve. We were welcomed by the sound of bells rung by the staff and led to our luxury wooden cabanas, each with mosquito nets above the beds and homemade repellent spray.

Wifi was only available in the main building, where the restaurant served breakfast, lunch and dinner. There was no air conditioning and the site's electricity

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was turned off once in the afternoon and during the night, meaning evenings were a little sticky but blissfully quiet.

Our first day in the Amazon was marked by a short walk in the surrounding jungle, followed by a night-time boat ride where bright stars littered the black sky above and we spotted capybaras and Cuvier's dwarf caimans.

Rich pink and orange skies greeted us at sunrise the next morning as we rose at 5am for a walk in the Reserva Nacional Tambopata followed by a relaxed boat ride around Lake Sandoval. We spotted bright macaws, red-breasted woodpeckers, kingfishers, and capuchin and squirrel monkeys flinging themselves from tree to tree.

Later, as darkness fell, we enjoyed a bonfire in the jungle and listened to local legends about the forest over freshly made chilcano cocktails, a zesty mix of pisco, ginger ale and lime.

The city of Cusco, 11,152ft above sea level where the temperature drops from the low 20s in the day to about 4C in the early morning, was our next stop.

It was only a 30-minute flight so we were soon in the Plaza de Armas for a short tour of the 466-year-old Cusco Cathedral, where saintly statues are decorated with real human hair and even fingernails. The night ended with a surprisingly tasty dinner of alpaca burgers and fresh lemonade at Kusykay (mains from £7.80; kusykay.com).

The next day, after a morning wandering around the pretty courtyard of the Incan temple of Qorikancha, James and I peeled off with a small group – both extroverts, we don't feel the need to spend time on our own. We enjoyed mooching around the bustling San Pedro Market with our new friends, watching parade dance rehearsals in San Francisco Square and stumbling across a small courtyard with llamas and alpacas grazing on the grass. With every tour I travel on, I'm always surprised by how close you can feel to people you've only met a few days prior.

We broke up the day with bao buns at Jill's (bass from £6.30; instagram.com/jillscuzco). A quiet afternoon spent adjusting to the altitude was followed by a classic Cusco dinner of rotisserie chicken and crispy fries, a favourite of Holger's, at Los Toldos Chicken (mains from £4; Almagro £71, Cusco).

The next morning we temporarily bade Cusco farewell for two nights exploring the Sacred Valley and Machu Picchu. Our minivan pulled over briefly at a roadside store for us to sample hunks of Cusco bread, a large disc-shaped loaf with a slightly sweet taste. Between fields of llamas and quinoa plants, we also took

Clockwise from far left: a boat trip on a tributary of the Amazon; Machu Picchu; Cusco Cathedral; Aguas Calientes

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Where is it?

The tour begins in Lima, going on to Puerto Maldonado, Ollantaytambo and Aguas Calientes (for Machu Picchu), and ends in Cusco.

Who will love it?

Adventure seekers who enjoy a jam-packed itinerary but don't want to compromise on comfort and little luxuries.

Insider tip

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the opportunity to snap photos at spectacular valley viewpoints.

We stopped again for refreshments at Ama in Urubamba, a restaurant and social enterprise that began in 2020 and employs indigenous women, many of them single mothers (amasacredvalley.com). Later, we visited the Willoo community in the heart of the Sacred Valley and watched traditional dances. We also observed demonstrations of their impressive skills in textile-making, before a lunch of meat and potatoes cooked on a stone in a soil-covered pit. In the spirit of our "adventure, not a holiday" mantra, we all tried guinea pig, and while it was surprisingly tender and juicy, it's possibly not a dish James and I would repeat back home.

The day came to a close in Ollantaytambo, where we visited its Incan archaeological site before checking into the Hotel Tierra Viva. Though not quite as premium as our other stays, it was in the perfect location for our 5am start to catch our musical train to Aguas Calientes.

Once there, we spent the rest of the morning exploring the small town, stopping for frozen lemonades in Manco Capac Square and taking group selfies with the Paddington Bear statue a few minutes' walk away along the river, before checking into the Hotel El Mapi.

Then it was finally time to ride the mildly frightening coach up the steep

mountain to Machu Picchu, an experience that had our group in hysterical laughter.

For a couple of hours we strolled through the picture-perfect ruins of the 15th-century Incan citadel, guided by Holger, and gazed at the impressive views and free-roaming llamas. In the spirit of romance, James and I chose this historic landmark to have our only tiff of the trip. I can't even remember what it was about, but never ones to miss a photo op, we smiled through gritted teeth for souvenir snaps.

Back in Aguas Calientes, after a dinner of burgers (I opted for beef this time) and pisco sours, we hit the hay. Before embarking on the long travel day back to Cusco, we visited Machu Picchu for a second time, this time taking in the spectacle in the early morning light.

The journey back to Cusco took about four hours by train and minivan, but after a very full-on few days we welcomed the opportunity to decompress and reflect on the whirlwind of our trip.

That evening was our last of the tour and our group was feeling celebratory, with an incredible sense of satisfaction that we had experienced so much. The feeling seemed to be echoed out on the packed streets, where thousands of people dressed in enormous skirts and sequined trousers carried equally decadently dressed dogs (and even, to our delight, some cats) to mark the festival of the Octave of Corpus Christi in the city.

The streets and squares were chock-a-block, with music performed by live bands parading down every twist and turn, so our walk to our final restaurant, Il Olivo, was slow but perfect for immersing ourselves in the atmosphere.

We toasted each other with cocktails that went straight to our head thanks to the altitude, reminiscing about our favourite moments as a group.

Although James and I had experienced the trip of a lifetime as a couple, it's the shared memories and friendships made with strangers that we reflected on most after we returned home to our flat and our cats.

Hannah Gravett was a guest of Intrepid Travel, which has eight nights' B&B from £3,180pp on a Premium Peru tour, including guides, all land transport and some extra meals (intrepidtravel.com). Fly to Lima

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We were somewhere around the edge of the desert when sensory overload began to take hold. I was two days into a five-day trip to Las Vegas, Nevada, with my dearest friend – during which I'd planned a stay at the new Vanderpump Hotel. Piecing things together subsequently from photos we took along the way, jet lag had led to us jogging along the Strip at Sam, raiding Walgreens pharmacy and snack aisles at 6am, slapping on SPF 70 before breakfast, racing karts on a stretch of the F1 track here at noon and playing roulette by early afternoon.

Welcome to Sin City. Once little more than an arid waypoint on the railway line from Salt Lake City, Utah, to Los Angeles, California, today it's a place of overstimulation, oversaturation, overindulgence, overheating and over-the-top everything – a city where the most lauded hotels typically have more than 2,500 rooms and come packaged with a casino, more food and drink venues than you'd be able to visit in a month, beach clubs, theatres, spas and a range of high-end boutiques. Consider it luxury by numbers.

So in a city of high rollers, high temperatures and even higher stakes, you need to go some to stand out from the crowd. Enter Lisa Vanderpump.

You might know this feisty Brit already. To those of us who take a not-so-guilty pleasure in reality TV, the London export is best known for setting standards and causing a stir on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and Vanderpump Rules. Along with its spin-offs, the latter follows the lives (and hats) of servers and bartenders from her West Hollywood restaurant, Sur.

So far, so trashy, I hear you cry. But let's get things straight: Vanderpump and her husband, Ken Todd, are restaurateurs with an empire that predates their 16-year TV tenure.

This year the Vanderpump dynasty has branched out, bringing its tried-and-tested hospitality formula – decadent design, warm service, attention to detail and a little theatre – to boutique hotels.

Standing in a prime spot midway along the Las Vegas Strip, the Vanderpump Hotel – sister property to Caesars Palace just over the road – launched in June and is the city's most talked about opening of the year. There was the typical sweep of celebs, flown in for the occasion; social media was flooded with footage from the hotel's Soleta beach club, where burlesque dancers channelled their best

Lisa Vanderpump, the reality TV star turned hotelier, has a new spot on the Strip, which even has a shrine to her dog. By Blossom Green

Sin City's showy new stay

Dita Von Teese; and a drone show flashed Vanderpump's name across the Vegas skyline as she received the key to the city. And now I was in town to test out the thread count.

Leaving the 43C heat of the Strip and entering the moody confines of the Vanderpump Hotel was like stepping into another world. Gone were the neon lights, the ear-popping lifts, the crowds and general sense of bolshiness. In their place were sultry tones, clandestine corners and a quiet jewel box of a lobby that was a far cry from the organised chaos of the airport-scale check-in areas I'd witnessed at some of the more established Vegas stays. With a mere 188 rooms and suites, it's quite the anomaly.

It's clear that Vanderpump has gone all in, putting her signature spin on the space that was formerly the Cromwell hotel. The footprint remains the same, but the bedrooms and suites have been gutted; the casino and entrance zhuzeled. Her design style? "Romantic industrial. It's not too feminine, not too masculine," she says.

Vanderpump isn't just the face of the hotel, she has chosen each design element personally, working alongside her business partner Nick Alain, with whom she has a homeware brand. She and her beloved pomeranian, Gigolo (aka Giggy, now deceased), are omnipresent. You'll find a wall of black-and-white photos chronicling the Vanderpump world among the low-lit chandeliers, floral carpeting, pink baize card tables and V-emblazoned seating in the casino. Images of her eyes lurk within mirrored bedside tables, watching proceedings

like The Great Gatsby's Dr T.J. Eckleburg. My room included a faux-noir scene of a veiled Vanderpump slumped over a tray of cocktails, while her own-brand wine and vodka lined the sideboard. Downstairs, in the obsidian bar, an oversized sculpture of Giggy takes pride of place and you're given a chip with an etching of his face at check-in to exchange for a cocktail – go for the Giggy Tonic, a punchy riff on a G&T, or a Dirty Dog martini (cocktails from £18).

Vanderpump's aesthetic is playfully decadent. Heavy doors with brass hardware frame the off-black and aubergine nook that is the reception. Curios, teacups and ruching line the walls; there are parlour palms and velvet chaises longues. When asked what she considers the property's strongest draw, Vanderpump is clear: "The personal touches were a huge factor to me. It's a business model that has been going out of fashion lately; everything in the past few years has been about convenience and digital speed. There are no shortcuts at the Vanderpump Hotel. I want guests to feel like someone's truly thought about you before you've arrived."

The swimming pool at the Vanderpump Hotel and, inset, Lisa Vanderpump with one of her dogs; top right, the Las Vegas Strip

Walking into the bedroom – after a distracting poodle across the casino floor to the lifts – I found the sultriness softened from bordello-chic to boudoir. Our queen double was on the 8th floor, with a full-length window delivering a view of the Bellagio hotel and its nightly fountain show, alongside a rotating advert featuring Vanderpump's dog.

The room was light and bright, with a green velvet cocktail chair and an olive tree in the corner. Accents of silver and Vanderpump's signature blush-pink plus decorative motifs appeared in abundance, from the metal bedhead to the soft-coloured wallpaper. A marble dressing table was accompanied by what looked to be a weighty metal chair, though this turned out to be a tad more funny than expected. If the rates weren't as reasonable (from £165 a night), I'd have been surprised by this, but it's clear this is an accessible take on glamour.

"We were very cognisant of creating something that felt accessible to everyone," Vanderpump says. "On the casino floor there are some major design statements, but the bedrooms and suites have a very different colour palette and feel. They're calm and ethereal; a haven from the chaos of Las Vegas."

The bathroom was our only slight design disappointment – it felt as though it had been given a little less love than other spaces. A tiled shower revealed incongruous phrases such as "To win without risk is to triumph without glory" in a font that lacked the finesse I'd expected from the Vanderpump world. Alongside a chipped sideboard, it felt disconnected from the design narrative.

Similarly, the Soleta pool area – with its red loungers and slightly scraggy palms – felt misaligned with the overall style. But plans are afoot. "It's been done in increments so far," Vanderpump assures me. "And as soon as they let me get my hands on the rest of it, I'll be more than happy to oblige."

It's worth noting that this isn't Vanderpump's first foray into the Las Vegas scene. Her real-estate portfolio includes the Vanderpump Cocktail Garden at Caesars Palace (opened in 2019), a French restaurant at the Paris hotel and casino and the art deco Pinky's at the Flamingo, which launched in 2024.

It's perhaps surprising that she doesn't front Giada, the in-house restaurant. That honour goes to the Italian-American chef Giada De Laurentiis, who has been rattling the pans on the same site since 2014. It's clearly a case of "if it ain't broke", as the food was outstanding. Pillowy focaccia

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with a piquant dip was the stuff carb dreams are made of; salads were bursting with flavour; and meatballs made with orzo were served with a delicate pomodoro sauce. There's also a roll call of pastas that put an American southwest spin on things, such as bison pappardelle (mains from £23). The curving space, with its wraparound windows and atmospheric lighting, was redolent of Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, though with a more convivial tone, not least because of the engaged, affable staff.

Breakfast and brunch are served here too, though we opted to have our polenta waffles with whipped mascarpone and fried eggs cacio e pepe delivered to the room. Guests can also pop next door to glamorous Pinky's for a more theatrical riff on brunch, with Sexy Cinnamon Rolls, Mini Pink Pancakes and Bloody Hell cocktails served in a conservatory-meets-Wonderland setting (mains from £15). Don't be put off, the names belie the quality here.

Nor should you worry that Vanderpump's domain is filled exclusively with TV royalty or obsessive fans – the people we met were pretty much folk like us: friends and couples (mostly American, some British), in their late twenties to fifties.

One thing to note: there's a naughty side to the Vanderpump. Keycards invite guests to "misbehave accordingly" and their pouches suggest "One key, or two? Or three?" You'd be pushed for the last in the double rooms; these are very much weekend crashpads with little storage. If space is key, try the signature suites – larger in scale, some with kitchenettes and pool tables – with names such as Scandal, Mischief and Gallivant.

Room amenities follow the theme, with a passion box "for your pleasure", featuring condoms and tickle feathers. It does feel a tad performative, but the sleep aid and recovery kit with calming gummies, hydration sachets and gel eye masks is a nice touch. And should you choose to accept the invitation, be warned: we found the walls rather thin.

On that point, while the hotel's position on the Strip means great access to many of the city's highlights, it also means 24-hour footfall... something that the rapper on the corner took advantage of until 3am one night – I could have done without it.

Despite this the vibe didn't feel like one of gay abandon, rather a wave of respite from the brouhaha of the city. And it was also the perfect location to go to shows, grab cocktails and dinner at the city's hotspots (none more than a 20-minute walk away), head to the Neon Museum (£18; neonmuseum.org) and drop over to the low-key arts district. There's also a complimentary car service, encouraging you to explore.

Vanderpump considers her property "a boutique hotel among the giants on the 50-yard line of the Strip", saying: "The juxtaposition of being right there in the action, right next to the big guys, was something we couldn't refuse. There's something about being in a hotel in Las Vegas where your room is only 200 steps away that is truly magical."

While there's a little bedding-in to be done – our beds weren't properly made during the day, someone rapped on the door despite a do-not-disturb sign and the valet directs you to the hotel next door to pick up an Uber – it certainly makes for an easygoing, unique and affordable base for a city break.

Ardent fans of the TV shows will get a kick out of the almost pastiche levels of Vanderpumpness, while the hotel will, as intended, appeal to a wide variety of people, even those unfamiliar with the star of the show. You can only commend the commitment and consistency of theme and design vernacular. And therein lies the charm of Vegas – there's a version for everyone.

Blossom Green was a guest of Visit Las Vegas (visitlasvegas.com) and the Vanderpump Hotel, which has room-only doubles from £165 (caesars.com). Fly to Las Vegas

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An island hopping expedition from Senegal to Cape Verde including the Bijagos Archipelago aboard the MS Hebridean Sky –10th to 21st February 2028

This wonderful island hopping itinerary visits the diverse islands off the West Coast of Africa, uniquely combining Senegal, The Gambia and the Bijagos Archipelago with the Cape Verde Islands. Much has changed since the Portuguese sailed along the West African coast in the 15th century. This region of Africa, rarely visited for more than a half-century, has opened up in recent years and we will enjoy an intimate exploration of the extraordinary diversity of landscapes and cultures as we travel between Senegal and Cape Verde. Without doubt the only comfortable means of experiencing the region's many wonders is by small ship and we are fortunate in having such a special vessel as the all-suite MS Hebridean Sky for our exploration.

Our voyage promises to be a rewarding experience and whilst on some islands the infrastructure is minimal, we will be able to use our nimble Zodiacs to land on the remotest of islands and explore on foot. Aside from the marvellous scenery we will encounter, there is of course a fascinating cultural heritage and human history to be discovered as we delve into the legacy of West Africa's transatlantic slave trade which we will learn about from local guides. The roads may be poor and the tourist infrastructure very much in its infancy in some places, but that is precisely why we believe the region presents such an array of exciting experiences for the adventurous traveller.

MS HEBRIDEAN SKY is one of the finest small ships in the world and offers exceptionally spacious and well-designed suites, beautifully appointed public areas and high standards of service and food. The vessel accommodates just 118 passengers and suites feature a seating area and some have a private balcony. The spacious and finely decorated public rooms include a lounge, elegant bar, library with internet access and a single seating dining room. Outside there is a rear sun deck where meals are served in warm weather under shade, a bar, observation area and comfortable deck furniture. The atmosphere on board is akin to a private yacht or country hotel and you can be assured that after a day of exploration ashore you will return to the comfort and peace of a well-run and luxuriously appointed comfortable small ship.

For full details on this holiday call us today on 020 7752 0000 for your copy of our brochure.

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THE ITINERARY IN BRIEF

Day 1 London to Dakar, Senegal. Fly by scheduled indirect flight. On arrival transfer to the MS Hebridean Sky and embark. Enjoy drinks and dinner as we moor overnight.

Day 2 Dakar & Ile de Goree. Today there will be a choice of excursions from the Senegalese capital. Our city tour will include Independence Square, the Presidential Palace and a local market before we take a ferry across to Ile de Goree. With its colonial style houses and wonderfully tranquil atmosphere, it is difficult to believe that this island was one of the busiest slave centres in West Africa during the 18th and 19th centuries. We will see the House of Slaves, now a museum, and the Historical Museum in the Fort d'Estrees. From the fort there are marvellous views of the island and over Dakar. Alternatively, visit Bandia Reserve, a 3,500-hectare nature reserve which is home to a wide range of African mammals including white rhino, zebras, giraffes, green vervet monkeys and jackals, along with over 120 bird species. Boarding safari jeeps, we will spend time in the nature reserve before driving to Lake Retba, or 'Pink Lake' as it is known for its vivid pink colour. The lake is separated from the Atlantic Ocean by a narrow strip of sand dunes and being so close to the ocean means the lake has a high salt content which the locals collect for preserving fish.

Day 3 Banjul, The Gambia. We will spend today in The Gambia, the 31 mile wide country that is surrounded on three sides by Senegal. It makes up for its size with its personality, being known as the 'Smiling Coast of Africa'. The country has a long history, with stone circles excavated which date back over 1200 years, to Arab traders setting up trade routes in the region for slaves, gold and ivory. The Portuguese took over the routes in the 15th century, and the area now known as The Gambia was colonised and recolonised by the British from the 16th century onwards, in various forms, until its independence in 1965. There will be a choice of tours today and the half day city tour will include the city mosque, market and museum with exhibits showcasing the culture and history. Alternatively, you can choose to visit the south of The Gambia which is rich in natural beauty with extensive waterways and tributaries home to a range of birdlife and wildlife amongst the lush green wilderness. Here villages and life continue to embrace traditions and offer insights into the culture of different communities, through their art and food. Maybe join a small boat for a leisurely cruise amongst the mangroves or alternatively board 4x4 vehicles to visit some of the villages, the local school and markets before enjoying lunch at a beach restaurant.

Days 4 to 6 Bijagos Archipelago, Guinea Bissau. We have three days in the Bijagos Archipelago which comprises a group of 88 small islands, spread over 5000 square miles, many of which are uninhabited and rarely visited by

foreigners. These islands offer a unique blend of culture, history, wildlife and natural beauty and were declared a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in 1996. Our programme will be determined by tidal and weather conditions but we hope to use our Zodiacs to land on Carache Island, which boasts tropical rainforests and a stunning coastline. Visiting the local village we will learn about their rituals and subsistence farming projects and will have the opportunity to buy some handicrafts or relax on the golden beaches. Meanwhile on Caravela Island we will join the local women as they harvest oysters and shellfish before a performance of traditional Bijagos dancing. We may also visit Bolama Island which was the capital during Portuguese rule and retains colonial era architecture.

Day 7 At Sea. Spend a relaxing day at sea as we cross to the Cape Verde Islands.

Day 8 Praia, Santiago, Cape Verde. Arriving in the Cape Verde we explore the historic capital of Praia on the island of Santiago. Praia has a wonderful African feel and we will visit Cidade Velha, the former Portuguese capital which has a rich history and was once the centre of the slave trade. See the fort and cathedral which dominate the narrow, cobbled lanes and stone houses. Enjoy a traditional performance of Batuco dance before we continue into the green interior, climbing the steep mountains and enjoying the colours as we make our way to Rui Vaz where we enjoy a lunch of local produce in the shadow of Pico da Antonia. We will see local farms and drive past the only water dam in Cape Verde before returning to the MS Hebridean Sky and sailing this evening.

Day 9 Sao Filipe, Fogo. Fogo is an extraordinary island. It is a volcano that rises steeply out of the Atlantic and has become an island, the summit reaching some 3000 metres. Known as the 'Mother Island' it has its own unique character and people. An island drive will take us through dramatically contrasting areas of fertile valleys that are dominated by the massive grey volcanic cone of Pico de Fogo. Enjoy lunch in a local restaurant with locally cultivated wines whilst we listen to our guides speak about the eruptions of 1995 and 2014. There will then be the option to return to the MS Hebridean Sky or visit the main town of Sao Filipe, a gracious town of faded grandeur with its pretty squares and wide boulevards of colonial houses.

Day 10 Porto Novo, Santo Antao. We have a full day on the most beautiful of Cape Verde's islands, Santo Antao. Driving up the old trading route, we will pass the volcanic crater 'Cova' with its agricultural plantations and enjoy panoramic views of the island. After lunch in the seaside village of Ponta do Sol, we will take the coastal road towards the greenest valley in the archipelago, the valley

of Paul. Here we will enjoy a coffee break whilst learning about the production of sugarcane on the island. Also discover 'Grogue', the national drink of the islands and have a taste of it at the oldest traditional Grogue distillery on the island. We will drive back to the MS Hebridean Sky along the coast to the southern side of the island. This evening we sail the short distance to Mindelo where we moor overnight.

Day 11 Mindelo, Sao Vicente. Enjoy a full day in Mindelo, one of the most attractive of all the Cape Verde towns with its colonial buildings, cobbled streets, cafes and lively restaurants. Our morning discovery tour will include the lively markets and the secret corners of the harbour town followed by a coffee break in a typical Cape Verdean bar. The afternoon is free to explore the vibrant town further independently. This evening we will be entertained by local music and capoeira on board before we sail to Sal.

Day 12 Sal to London. Disembark this morning and transfer to the airport for our scheduled indirect flight to London.

PRICES & INCLUSIONS

Special offer prices per person based on double occupancy start from £8995 for a Standard Suite.

WHAT'S INCLUDED:

Economy class scheduled air travel • 11 nights aboard the MS Hebridean Sky on a full board basis • House wine, beer and soft drinks with lunch & dinner • Noble Caledonia expedition team • Shore excursions • Gratuities • Transfers • Airport taxes • Port taxes.

NB: Ports and itinerary are subject to change. All special offers are subject to availability. Our current booking conditions apply to all reservations. Travel insurance, Cape Verde airport security fee and Guinea Bissau visa are not included in the price. Zodiacs will be used during this voyage.

Alternatively view or request online at www.noble-caledonia.co.uk

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Travel City breaks

This hassle-free alternative to a European trip has a distinctly Gallic vibe, says Gail Simmons

Dreaming of a continental escape without the passport queues? Look no further than St Peter Port, the main town on Guernsey where French influences blend with the convenience of sterling currency and the English language. Pastel-coloured houses clamber up cobbled lanes, balconies brim with geraniums and cafés line the waterfront. Its street names reflect historic ties to Normandy forged when William the Conqueror became King of England in 1066.

Easily reached from the UK, this Channel Island town offers a compelling alternative to a European summer break. Coastal strolls, island-hopping, Michelin-listed and brasserie-style restaurants and hotels ranging from low-key retreats to five-star grandeur make for a thoroughly chilled weekend.

DAY 1 MORNING

Wander up granite-paved lanes to Hauteville House, the highlight of any trip here. While in exile from France between 1855 and 1870, the author Victor Hugo filled this late-Georgian townhouse with carved wood, tapestries, mirrors and mementoes. Don't miss the gardens with views towards his beloved homeland (£12; maisonsvictorhugo.paris.fr).

Eat at Lola Head up Market Street, where Lola serves soups, burgers and sandwiches such as tempura prawn with coconut curry mayo, pickled veg and coriander. Grab a seat outside for the best people-watching in town (mains from £10; lolatakeaway.co).

AFTERNOON

A 20-minute ferry ride transports you to Herm, a tiny, car-free island where you can stroll woodland paths and sandy tracks to pristine Shell beach and Belvoir Bay, uncrowded even in summer. Pause at a beach café before taking a ferry back (£19 return; herm.com).

Drink at The Ship & Crown

The German Commander of the Channel Islands is believed to have been held captive by British forces at this former hotel turned pub on May 9, 1945. There are tables overlooking the harbour upstairs (liberationgroup.com).

EVENING

Wander along the seafront, watching fishing boats, yachts and ferries against

48 HOURS IN... ST PETER PORT

Culinary creations at the Michelin-recognised Alba; main, the harbour

Need to know

Getting there and around

The Guernsey airline Aurigny operates flights from across the UK, with British Airways also running services from Heathrow. St Peter Port is small enough to navigate on foot.

Visit responsibly

Guernsey has one of Europe's highest rates of car ownership, and its narrow roads mean congestion is common around St Peter Port, particularly at peak times. Instead, rent an electric bike from Go Guernsey (£45 per day; go-guernsey.gg) and make use of the island's excellent bus network (£1.70 per journey; gov.gg).

the backdrop of Castle Cornet, a medieval fortress at the mouth of St Peter Port harbour. As darkness falls, the castle's lights gleam in the still waters.

Eat at Pier 17

Continue the nautical theme with dinner at this harbourside favourite of locals and the yachting crowd. Fresh ingredients take centre stage, with the à la carte highlights including roasted sea bass with lime and ginger; early diners can go for a £12 two-course set menu. On balmy evenings go for a terrace table with marina views (mains from £20; pier17restaurant.com).

DAY 2 MORNING

For an invigorating start to your day head to La Vallette Bathing Pools for a swim and a healthy breakfast at the poolside café – the homemade berry granola comes highly recommended. Filled naturally by the tide, the four Victorian-era pools overlook neighbouring islands and Castle Cornet (free; thebathingpools.com). Then cross the causeway to the castle, which has guarded Guernsey's principal port for 800 years; it is now home to several

museums and formal gardens (£12; visitguernsey.com).

Eat at Coco

On the South Esplanade, this French-inspired brasserie and café serves sandwiches, soups and salads in a relaxed setting. The mozzarella, lettuce and tomato ciabatta is simple but satisfying (sandwiches from £9; cocoguernsey.co).

AFTERNOON

Waymarked paths lead from the South Esplanade through woodland and along coastal cliffs to Fermain Bay, one of the prettiest coves on Guernsey, about two miles from St Peter Port. Stop for a tub of ice cream at the Fermain Beach Café before walking to Fermain Tavern for bus 91 or 92 back into town (download the Visit Guernsey app for the walking route).

Drink at The Crown Club

Settle into the rich leather banquettes of the Crown Club, within the Old Government House Hotel, with a sundowner. This elegant cocktail bar serves expertly crafted cocktails, fine wines and premium spirits. The menu may feature the Les Mis martini, inspired by Hugo, who completed Les Misérables during his Guernsey exile (cocktails from £13; theoghhotel.com).

EVENING

Meander through the lanes of St Peter Port to Candie Gardens, where the imperious bronze figure of Queen Victoria – erected in 1900 to mark her Diamond Jubilee – presides over palms, tree ferns and cordylines. Enjoy views across rooftops to Guernsey's sister islands of Herm, Sark and Jethou (museums.gov.gg).

Eat at Alba

Recently awarded a Michelin Bib Gourmand, this buzzing restaurant on the Market Square serves imaginative small plates such as homemade tagliolini with Shetland mussels in white wine and lemongrass. For the best experience sit at the counter and watch the chefs at work. You'll need to book ahead (mains from £10; albarestaurant.gg).

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Where to stay

LES COTILS

Victorian former convent

Occupying a Victorian convent in 12 acres of gardens with views towards the outlying islands, Les Cotils has 24 comfortable en suite rooms. Its peaceful atmosphere, reflecting the fact that it also operates as a charitable retreat centre, evokes a country house rather than a regular hotel (B&B doubles from £97; lescotils.com).

THE DUKE

Rooftop pool

Perched above St Peter Port, with a rooftop terrace and swimming pool ideal for catching the summer breeze, the Duke is popular with French visitors, giving it a distinctly continental vibe. Entry-level rooms can feel compact so consider upgrading to a Deluxe or Sea View room (B&B doubles from £170; theduke.gg).

OLD GOVERNMENT HOUSE HOTEL & SPA

Guernsey's only five-star

Once the official residence of the island's governors, Guernsey's only five-star hotel stands on a hill in the heart of old St Peter Port. Interiors recall the grandeur of a Georgian mansion with antique furnishings, chandeliers and wood panelling. The harbour-view rooms on the upper floors are the standout choice (B&B doubles from £270; theoghhotel.com).

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MY HOLS ALAN DAVIES

No one knew me in Vietnam – it was nice to switch off

The comedian on trouble with police in Magaluf and watching baseball in New York

Alan Davies, 60, is a stand-up comedian, actor and writer best known for the BBC TV series Jonathan Creek, being a permanent panellist on Q1 and his talk show Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled. He has also written the memoirs My Favourite People and Me: 1978–88, Just Ignore Him and White Male Stand-Up. He lives in north London with his wife, Katie, and their three children, aged 16, 14 and 10.

“My first trip without my parents led to trouble with the police. I was 16, visiting Magaluf with friends. We stayed out late and approached two girls in a burger bar who didn’t want to talk to us. Suddenly somebody squirted ketchup, someone squirted mustard, and soon there was ketchup and mustard everywhere. The staff threw us out, one beating another. Brit who had joined in with an iron bar. I tried to help him but another bar broke my knuckle. My friend Graham, who’d been ordering burgers and like me hadn’t squirted anything, was arrested.

The police came to the hotel wanting money and nine Newcastle women did a whip-round for us. Graham later told us that he’d wiped mustard and ketchup over the back seat of the police car and that was why they wanted money.

I grew up in Loughton, Essex, with an elder brother and younger sister. My mum died of leukaemia when I was six and I can’t remember holidays with her, but we went to places such as Paignton, staying in little hotels, including one that served

a high tea with fish fingers and baked beans; I remember thinking that the orange juice at breakfast was terribly exciting as we only had orange squash at home. Otherwise, the memories are of building sandcastles that got washed away by the tide, ice creams and sunburn.

My dad liked mountains. He walked us to the top of Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon) and, at nine, I was peeved to find that a train went all the way up. But north Wales is beautiful.

My dad drove us across Europe and, at 12, I had to sit up front to avoid backseat bickering. He loved speeding round hairpins through the Brenner Pass in the Dolomites, going: “What a view!”

Our first holiday abroad was a two-week package in Mallorca, when I was ten. I got a diving mask from a stall and spent my time jumping off a jetty and snorkelling. I loved being on my own underwater with fish. Years later I took up scuba diving – I Padi-trained in a freezing Leicestershire quarry – and have dived all over the world since.

My dad didn’t look back – it was Jersey

Ha Long Bay in Vietnam, where Alan Davies was able to find peace

the next year, then Corfu and Rhodes. But it was never about the cultures; he just wanted to lie in the sun.

By 1981 there were cheap flights to the US, so my father, brother, sister and I went on a fly-drive trip to Los Angeles, San Francisco, Yosemite, the Grand Canyon, Las Vegas and New York. I loved seeing New York, where we watched a baseball game at Shea Stadium. In Vegas we saw a show with topless showgirls, which I found greatly embarrassing.

In 2005 I decided to book a solo trip to Vietnam. A guide took me to Sapa, a highland town in the north where at a roadside café we ate hot pho with sticky rice – the nicest meal ever. In Ha Long Bay I stayed on a boat with eight other tourists and nobody knew who I was. The food was nice, the scenery breathtaking and we laughed a lot. I don’t like to moan about being a celebrity because I love my job, but sometimes it’s nice to switch off. I came back feeling totally refreshed and soon after I met Katie. Two years later I took her to Vietnam and she loved it too.

I like the history side of travelling. In Budapest recently we visited the House of Terror Museum, the former police headquarters, which was harrowing but fascinating. Similarly, in Vietnam I sought out the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, where there’s a lot about the “American War”, and I love the amazing hotels built in the French colonial style.

Last year I took our kids to Australia to see an Ashes Test, my youngest being cricket-mad. We went via Los Angeles, where they loved Disneyland and Universal Studios. In Melbourne we had tickets for day three of the Boxing Day Test and the game finished in two days, so instead we went on a guided tour of the Melbourne Cricket Ground, but alas, no cricket. This year we’re going to Cape Town, hopefully for an England v South Africa Test match.

Interview by John Wright

White Male Stand-Up by Alan Davies is out now in paperback; his Think Ahead tour starts on September 21 (alandavies.live)

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WHERE WAS I?

We’ve missed the last ferry off this island, and it’s all my friend’s fault. He spent the hour before the 5pm departure standing at the wrong end of the island. He’d taken me to its southwestern edge to focus his binoculars on a second, smaller island 340 yards south of us – “looking for billionaires”, as he put it. “This place is our very own Persian Gulf,” he shouted, scanning the distant trees for wells, while ruining my chances of seeing any avocets.

Now, he seems to be planning a night of illicit bivouacking. “Don’t be nervous! If you’re going to camp anywhere in England, it should be here,” he trills, and starts to scout out a suitable spot amid the pines – steering clear of an experimental campsite used 119 years ago and the modern, official one.

Meanwhile, my tummy rumbles at the thought of

the dinner we’re missing in a harbour town on the mainland, a mile north of the island. Salt cod used to be a speciality of the town’s merchant ships – shipped to the Spanish and Portuguese. Right now I’m so hungry I’d eat salt anything.

“No problem!” Friend announces. “We’ll pool our resources.” At which point we discover we have two mints and a sandwich wrapper.

“Could we be any less prepared?” I wonder, just as Friend announces that we’ll barbecue one of the island’s famed squirrels instead.

“No you won’t,” says the National Trust warden who has just discovered us – and heard our conversation.

Friend turns a deep shade of red.

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1. What is the name of the second island?
2. What is the name of the harbour town?

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Inside, the style is old-school elegance – original art, chic mirrors and exquisite flower arrangements – while handmade Savoir beds feature in its 28 rooms and suites. Daily rituals include

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The prize includes one two-course meal for two with a signature martini each. It must be taken between January 4 and May 3, 2027, subject to availability and excluding February 12 to 15.

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LAST WEEK’S PRIZE

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The Painswick's restaurant was hit and miss, but an M5 service station like a Harrods food hall saved my Cotswolds getaway

On my first visit to Gloucester Services I said out loud: 'I've come to the Cotswolds by mistake.' I'd been driving back from Exmoor on the M5 and missed the London exit. This is not your average pitstop. I thought I must have died on the hard shoulder and gone to heaven. Gloucester Services is hands-down the smartest, poshest service station in one of the poshest counties in Britain (though not the cheapest - diesel was a painful £2 a litre).

It's housed in an airy, modernist, long, low wooden structure with a grass roof. On entry the first thing I saw was a central pastry reservation piled high with a mouthwatering bounty of crutins and croissants, then a towering display of different varieties of teacakes - lemon meringue, vanilla, dark chocolate. And that was before I reached the restaurants, several of them, equipped with open kitchens, bakeries and butchers' counters. It's like a Harrods food hall on the M5, supplied by organic farms and local producers, and is the southern offshoot of the upscale Tebay Services, run by Westmorland Farmshop & Co.

It was so appealing that I went back for seconds this month (lunch was a delicious smoked chicken and chickpea pot thing for a fiver, with a flat white for about the same; I also bought a pair of blue sailing shorts in the gift shop area). Sadly you can't check in to sleep (though it is open

A terrace at Gloucester Services; above right, the open kitchen of Sauce at the Painswick

24-7), so I ploughed on, to meet the glossy posse north of the dividing line of the A40, aka the Corduroy Corridor.

First stop: the exquisite Painswick hotel in the perfect town of the same name known as the Queen of the Cotswolds. Originally a Palladian palace built on the cloth trade, the house was converted into a vicarage in the 1890s by the architect Detmar Blow, with extensions - such as a library and a 'preaching stone' in the shape of a scallop - added in the early 20th century by an heiress to the Lea & Perrins fortune.

A hotel since 2015, the Painswick's grounds march with St Mary the Virgin, a church famed for its spire surrounded by a solemn congregation of 99 clipped yews. On arrival at the Painswick I dumped bag, grabbed dog, visited the church, then drove a few winding miles up cheese-rolling-steep hills to the village of Slad, to sink a pint of Buddings in the Woolpack with its owner, the sculptor Daniel Chadwick, and my friend, the Wives Like Us novelist, Plum Sykes.

This ancient Wessex sheep shed of a pub was the local of Laurie Lee and now serves acclaimed rib-sticking fare; the rickety bar, with a glorious golden view over the Arcadian Slad Valley, is only half a room deep. 'Can't we stay here?' Plum asked. I dragged her back down the hill to the Painswick, where the dog and I had been housed in a snug three-bed cottage (£705 a night) next to the 17-bedroom main house.

Let's get the good news out of the way. The hotel is dreamy, the young staff are charming (I almost asked our waiter at dinner whether he was a body double for Callum Turner) and the full English breakfast was the best I've had - creamy scrambled eggs, the most piggy bacon, black pudding, piping, strong coffee - but dinner at the Sauce restaurant was not a total success.

When I'd asked Leah Warren, front of house, about 'the vibe' of Sauce, she replied that the chef, Kian Puerta-Terron, was 'big on flavour and unique spices', and I remember thinking that sounded... special.

Well. We started with mini cheddar tarlets scattered with sesame and nori flakes. For something so tiny there were about six ingredients too many in the amuse-gueules and, even though nothing

can ever be cheesy enough for me, they were too rich.

Plum's £22 starter of 'Loch Duart salmon crudo, crème fraîche, sea buckthorn and chilli' was chunks of orange fish in a puddle of what tasted like orange juice. She took a tiny bite and pushed it away. My £17 'Fresh English peas, pea and wasabi bavarois, pickled radish' was overwhelmed by horseradish. Being more of a trencherwoman than Plum, I ate it all, as well as her salmon, while she munched on house sourdough (excellent) with lashings of butter.

The next table had a crusty dome of a beef wellington (£35), which looked proper hearty and made me slightly regret ordering roast stone bass with blackened aubergine and roast chicken vinaigrette - a dark, perplexing melange of flavours and textures. Plum liked her twice baked cheddar soufflé and spinach with parmesan cream (£16), and also ate several new potatoes (£6).

For pudding I chose Evesham strawberries with sheep's yoghurt mousse and crystallised pumpkin seeds (£10), as I thought it would be impossible to mess up strawberries and cream. I was wrong.

If only the chef had taken note of the 17th-century Civil War graffiti scribbled in the church by a dying soldier: 'Be bold, be bold, but not too bold.' Take away half the ingredients from each dish and all would be well. Just... hold the sauce?

Other musts in Painswick include the Rococo Garden, and I'd also recommend that the chef (and foodies everywhere) check out Chadwick's other joint, Juliet, in Stroud. There I had a magical lunch of imaginative Mediterranean assemblies and wood-grilled squid with The Times columnist Jenni Russell - partly on the recommendation of Giles Coren, also of this parish, who gave it ten out of ten for everything when it opened last year, especially the food, which 'literally couldn't be improved' (mains from £22).

Then it was back with a spring in my step for my third visit in three months to... you guessed it, Gloucester Services. You can't keep me away.

Rachel Johnson was a guest of the Painswick, which has B&B doubles from £315 (thepainswick.co.uk)

Call me weird, but I'm not a windowless-hotel-room kind of guy. I like to know whether the sun has risen when I wake up. I prefer city views to staring at walls. Sunsets are all right too.

But there is a market for these sad little boxes, mostly because they're cheap - or supposed to be. I'm off to Glasgow for a wedding next month and thought I might stay at the newly done-up Arthouse Glasgow hotel. Its 'pocket' rooms start at £99 if you book in advance, but on the weekend I'm in town they are £280 a night. If I wanted to stay on September 10, a Thursday, it would come to £481 for a night gloriously free of natural light, breakfast isn't included either.

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of hand. As I'm in my early thirties, my life involves a lot of short trips to celebrate mates' big events, and in three weeks I'll be in Manchester for a stag do. It's fair to say the city's hotel scene is booming, with recent openings including Mollie's and Soho House, but that hasn't done anything to bring down rates. I couldn't find any non-grubby-looking central hotels for less than £200 a night, so I've ended up booking a slightly soulless co-living space with a rooftop office and a kitchen shared

between six rooms, presumably occupied by some of Andy Burnham's hastily relocated No 10 staff. Arthouse Glasgow says that its pocket rooms are 'perfect for those who come to Glasgow to be out in it', which raises two interesting points. First, if you're not even spending much time in the hotel, those September prices are surely all the more outrageous. Second, it nods to the reason that rates appear to spike in Glasgow on Saturdays: big nights out.

Dynamic pricing is nothing new. Everyone has experienced a hotel quoting one figure the first time you look and another (off-puttingly high one) the next simply because they've sold a few extra rooms. But in UK cities with a thriving nightlife spanning pubs, clubs and arena gigs on which revellers descend at weekends, the phenomenon appears to be out of control.

For that Glasgow trip I've booked two nights in a private room at the Social Hub, essentially a posh hostel for adults, at £153 a night. Fine. But it's worth comparing the cost with more charming hotels in decent locations in bigger, more obvious tourist destinations. On the same weekend you can stay at the Buxton, a buzzy baton with rooms on Brick Lane in east London, for £160 a night, including one of the finest

hotel breakfasts I've had (the Turkish eggs with labneh would set you back about £20 at neighbouring restaurants). In the cool, multicultural 20th arrondissement of Paris, the Babel Belleville boutique hotel has rooms from £187, and more character than anything you'd get for the same price in Glasgow.

Asking hotels not to raise rates so much in response to demand feels like a non-starter. But they would do well to contemplate the sort of guests that the dynamic prices suit - and those they don't. Groups of drunk pals happy to pile into one king-size bed? Probably. One-night wedding travellers? Willing to suck it up. Families who want to spend a few days exploring one of the great UK cities beyond London? Right now it just doesn't seem worth it.

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IMAGINE CRUISING

Sunday, August 9, 2026

EXCLUSIVE PROMOTION

17 NIGHTS

FROM AN INCREDIBLE

£2,999pp

SAVE UP TO £1,400

PER COUPLE*

SRI LANKA'S FINEST

COMPLIMENTARY SEVEN-NIGHT SRI LANKA TOUR

SCENIC RAIL JOURNEY THROUGH SRI LANKA'S HIGHLANDS

Temples, Tea and Tranquillity: Wonders of Sri Lanka with All-Inclusive Southeast Asia Voyage

17 Nights

February 15, 2027

AZANARA CRUISES

Your Holiday Includes

All-Inclusive Cruise

Seven-night all-inclusive cruise on board Azamara Pursuit®

Visiting: Singapore, Ho Chi Minh City*, Huế, Hong Kong

Complimentary alcoholic and non- alcoholic beverages

Access to the Thalassotherapy pool and spa deck

Rail Journey

Scenic rail journey from Kandy to Nanuoya

Escorted Tours

Traditional Sri Lankan lunch at a local farmer's house, National Park jeep safari at either Minneriya National Park or Kaudulla National Park*, Sigiriya

Rock Fortress, Private Spice Garden, Temple of the Tooth featuring the sacred Tooth Relic of the Buddha, Royal Botanical Garden visit and more

Hotel Stays

Five-star hotel stays in Negombo and Dambulla

Four-star hotel stays in Kandy, Nuwara Eliya, Colombo and Singapore

Complimentary Flights and Transfers

Overnight flights

HOLIDAY CODE: ASA8663

INTERIOR FROM

£2,999pp

OCEANVIEW FROM

£3,799pp

VERANDA FROM

£3,799pp

CONTINENT SUITE FROM

£5,999pp

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For full terms and conditions please visit thetimes.com/imaginecruising. Prices are correct at the time of print and are subject to change. Operated by and subject to the booking conditions of Imagine Cruising, a company wholly independent of News UK. Imagine Cruising are fully ABTA and ATOL bonded. Prices are per person based on two adults sharing a cruise cabin or suite and include flights from London (regional flights available at a supplement). Wildlife sightings are not guaranteed. Prices shown include discount and savings based on two passengers sharing, booking directly with Imagine Cruising. +Overnight in port.

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Sunday, August 9, 2026

IMAGINE CRUISING

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EXCLUSIVE PROMOTION

16 NIGHTS

FROM AN INCREDIBLE

£4,999pp*

INCLUDES THREE-NIGHT BARBADOS HOTEL STAY

BUTLER-SERVICE, PREMIUM DRINKS AND GRATUITIES INCLUDED

Ultra-Luxury All-Inclusive Silversea Caribbean Voyage and Barbados Retreat

16 - 17 Nights

Jan - Mar, 2027

SILVERSEA

Your Holiday Includes

All-Inclusive Cruise

12 night all-inclusive ultra-luxury cruise on board Silver Spirit

Visiting*: Barbados, Bequia, St George's, Kralendijk, Curaçao, Aruba, St John, San Juan, Miami

Pre-paid gratuities and complimentary wifi on board

In-suite butler service and fully stocked fridge for all suites

All-inclusive beverages including fine wines, beers and premium spirits

Hotel Stay

Three-night four-star hotel stay in Barbados at the Hilton Barbados Resort with breakfast

All Flights and Transfers

Overnight flight

HOLIDAY CODE: AME8377

VISTA SUITE FROM*
£4,999pp

CLASSIC VERANDA SUITE FROM*
£5,999pp

SUPERIOR VERANDA SUITE FROM*
£6,299pp

DELUXE VERANDA SUITE FROM*
£6,699pp

*Prices, duration and itinerary shown are based on January 22, 2027 departure. Holiday duration includes overnight flights when applicable and is subject to change.

EXCEPTIONAL VALUE

18 NIGHTS

FROM AN INCREDIBLE

£1,499pp*

SAVE UP TO £1,000 PER COUPLE*

INCLUDES ONE-NIGHT LOS ANGELES HOTEL STAY

LIMITED TIME OFFER - BOOK BY AUGUST 28, 2026

Hawaiian Islands Discovery with Princess Cruises from Los Angeles

18 Nights

Jan - Feb, 2027

PRINCESS

Your Holiday Includes

Full-Board Cruise

16 night full-board cruise on board Emerald Princess*

Visiting*: Los Angeles, Kahului, Hilo, Kona, Honolulu, Ensenada, Los Angeles

Hotel Stay

One-night four-star stay in Los Angeles

Upgrade Available

Enhance your experience on board Emerald Princess* with Princess

Plus from £50pp per day including MedallionNet Max wifi, Plus Beverage Package, four casual dining meals per guest, OceanNow* delivery, room service delivery

All Flights

Overnight flight

Prefer to begin your journey in San Fransisco? Sail onboard Ruby Princess* from £1,699pp

HOLIDAY CODE: AME8373

INTERIOR FROM*
£1,499pp

OCEANVIEW FROM*
£1,699pp

BALCONY FROM*
£2,199pp

MINI-SUITE FROM*
£3,199pp

Prices and itinerary shown are based on February 9, 2027 departure. Oceanview price is based on January 24, 2027 departure. Mini-Suite price is based on February 25, 2027 departure. Prices shown include discount and savings based on two passengers sharing an interior cabin, departing February 9, 2027, booking directly with Imagine Cruising.

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IMAGINE CRUISING

Sunday, August 9, 2026

GLIDING

GRANDEUR

COMPLIMENTARY HOTEL STAYS IN HONG KONG AND SINGAPORE

INCLUDES ALL-INCLUSIVE LUXURY TRAIN JOURNEY THROUGH MALAYSIA

All-Inclusive Eastern and Oriental Express

Rail with Luxury Cunard Southeast Asia

Voyage

19 Nights

March 13, 2028

Your Holiday Includes

Full-Board Cruise

Ten-night full-board cruise on board Queen Anne

Visiting: Hong Kong, Laem Chabang, Ko Samui, Singapore

Luxury All-Inclusive Rail Journey

Three-night all-inclusive luxury Eastern and Oriental Express journey from Singapore in a Pullman Cabin

Dedicated 24-hour steward service

Daily four-course dinner, continental breakfast served in your cabin, three- course lunch, and afternoon tea

House wine, house spirits and local beer*

Off train excursions and wellness experiences in Perlis Geopark, a cultural visit of George Town, Penang Island with an array of unique activities

Complimentary Hotel Stays

One-night five-star hotel stay in Hong Kong at the Harbour Grand Kowloon

Three-nights four-star hotel stay in Singapore at the PARKROYAL on Beach Road, Singapore

All Flights and Transfers

Overnight flights

HOLIDAY CODE: ASA8672

INSIDE FROM

£6,999pp

OCEANVIEW FROM

£7,499pp

BALCONY FROM

£8,299pp

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ABTA

ABTA No. 95300

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✓ 15 Years of Experience

IMAGINE

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For full terms and conditions please visit thetimes.com/imaginecruising. Prices are correct at the time of print and are subject to change. Operated by and subject to the booking conditions of Imagine Cruising, a company wholly independent of News UK. Imagine Cruising are fully ABTA and ATOL bonded. Prices are per person based on two adults sharing a cruise cabin and include flights from London (regional flights available at a supplement). Holiday duration includes overnight flights when applicable and is subject to change. *Premium drinks and drinks ordered to your cabin will be an additional charge. +Overnight in port.

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Sunday, August 9, 2026

IMAGINE CRUISING

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Treasures of Egypt: Immersive River Nile Cruise and Five-Star Cairo Escape

Ten Nights

Sep, 2026 - Apr, 2028

Your Holiday Includes

Fully Escorted Tours

Giza Plateau including the Pyramids and Sphinx, Grand Egyptian Museum, Luxor Temple, Dendera Temple Complex, Esna Temple, Temple of Horus, High Dam, Unfinished Obelisk, Philae Temple, Felucca Sailing on the Nile, Abu Simbel, Kom Ombo Temple, Colossi of Memnon, Valley of the Kings and Queens and more

Full-Board River Cruise

Seven-night full-board river cruise on board

Travelmarvel Sirius

Visiting: Luxor, Esna, Edfu, Aswan, Abu Simbel, Kom Ombo, Luxor

Includes drinks with all meals, gratuities and wifi

Luxury Hotel Stay

Three-night five-star stay in Cairo at the Cairo Marriott Hotel and Omar Khayyam Casino with breakfast

All Flights and Transfers

travelmarvel

HOLIDAY CODE: AFR7393

DELUXE CABIN FROM £2,499pp	PREMIUM CABIN FROM £3,099pp	PHARAOH SUITE FROM £4,899pp

*Prices and itinerary shown are based on September 12, 2026 departure. Premium Cabin price is based on October 17, 2026 departure. Pharaoh Suite price shown is based on April 22, 2028 departure. Prices shown include discount and savings based on two passengers sharing a Deluxe Cabin, departing November 28, 2026, booking directly with Imagine Cruising. +Overnight in port. +Drinks with meals are included during the Nile cruise portion of your holiday only and do not extend to your hotel stay in Cairo.

Treasures of Vietnam and Cambodia: Immersive Mekong River Cruise

13 Nights

Sep, 2026 - Feb, 2027

Your Holiday Includes

Escorted Tours

Mekong Delta villages, Killing Fields, Cù Chi Tunnels, Angkor Wat and more

Full-Board Cruise

Seven-night full-board cruise on board RV Lotus

Visiting**: Siem Reap, Angkor Ban, Oknha Tey, Phnom Penh, Oudong, Koh Chen, Phnom Penh (overnight in port), Border

Crossing, Tân Châu, Tân Châu, Sa Déc, Cái Bè, My Tho, Ho Chi Minh City

Luxury Hotel Stays

Two-night five-star hotel stay in Ho Chi Minh City

Two-night five-star hotel stay in Siem Reap

All Flights and Transfers

Overnight flights

travelmarvel

HOLIDAY CODE: AS48599

DELUXE TWIN BALCONY SUITE FROM £2,499pp	SADEC TWIN BALCONY SUITE FROM £3,199pp

**Prices shown include discount and savings based on two passengers sharing a Deluxe Twin Balcony Suite, booking directly with Imagine Cruising. +Prices and itinerary shown are based on September 25, 2026 departure.

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