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- 卫报 / 米利班德誓言让英国在气候危机中发挥“全球领导”作用：外交大臣埃德·米利班德将出任世界银行董事会席位，旨在将气候危机与海外发展置于国际关系核心。
- 卫报 / 警方调查泰斯公司向改革党提供的捐款：伦敦警察厅调查英国改革党通过理查德·泰斯公司接收的捐款，涉及由菲奥娜·科特雷尔转移的100万英镑资金。
- 对海外员工征收改革税 / 对海外员工征收改革税：英国改革党拟对海外员工征收“移民工人附加费”，专家警告此举将导致NHS医疗、社会护理及教育部门严重缺人。
- 只要穿上衣即可 / 女童军与棕熊童军启用全新的宽松制服：女童军组织在30年内首次重新设计制服，允许女孩只要穿上衣即可视为身着制服，以促进自我表达。
- 英国演员大卫·琼森被选为新续集中的黑豹 / 英国演员大卫·琼森被选为新续集中的黑豹：导演瑞安·库格勒宣布32岁英国演员大卫·琼森将饰演新版《黑豹》中特查拉之子。
- 柏林附近致命袭击事件嫌疑人 / 柏林附近致命袭击事件嫌疑人：一名21岁涉伊斯兰主义激进分子的男子在柏林骄傲节期间驾驶面包车冲入人群并持刀砍杀，导致1死29伤，随后被警方击毙。
- 英国记者因安全担忧而“对右翼抗议和特朗普相关报道进行自我审查” / 英国记者因安全担忧而“对右翼抗议和特朗普相关报道进行自我审查”：由于面对辱骂和人身威胁，英国记者在报道右翼抗议、特朗普及跨性别议题时出现自我审查，导致公共对话空间缩小。
- AI生成的在线医生是 / AI生成的在线医生是“对公共安全的巨大威胁”：研究发现TikTok上大量AI生成的深度伪造医生账号传播关于癌症的伪医学建议，英国医学会警告其危及公众健康。
- 法国努力控制逼近波尔多的巨大山火 / 法国努力控制逼近波尔多的巨大山火：法西两国因气候危机遭受严重山火袭击，共有约37.5万人撤离，法国吉伦特地区火势已威胁到波尔多市。
- 这让你精疲力竭 / 伦敦无家可归者在酷热的城市环境中面临风险：在英国第三次热浪期间，伦敦无家可归者面临极端高温风险，新任首相安迪·伯纳姆誓言尽快结束露宿街头现象。
- V&A博物馆 / V&A博物馆工作人员就热浪罢工进行投票：300多名V&A博物馆员工就高温暴露、饮水权及薪资问题投票决定是否罢工，要求气温超30℃时关闭公共区域。
- YouTube 财富税活动人士宣布停止发布每周视频 / YouTube 财富税活动人士宣布停止发布每周视频：前交易员加里·史蒂文森因健康原因退出YouTube，他主张对超过1000万英镑的个人财富征收2%的税。
- 英国演员批评派拉蒙与华纳合并 / 英国演员批评派拉蒙与华纳合并：康伯巴奇等演员警告派拉蒙与华纳合并将损害英国电影业，导致岗位流失并限制独立电影的商业发行渠道。
- 奥林匹斯山与诺曼底登陆海滩加入联合国教科文组织世界遗产名录 / 奥林匹斯山与诺曼底登陆海滩加入联合国教科文组织世界遗产名录：联合国教科文组织将希腊奥林匹斯山、法国诺曼底登陆海滩及日本飞鸟、藤原都城列入世界遗产名录。
- 泽连斯基今日访问英国，首相誓言提供“坚定不移”的支持 / 泽连斯基今日访问英国，首相誓言提供“坚定不移”的支持：乌克兰总统泽连斯基访问英国，与首相伯纳姆讨论军事培训及共享“石披风”电子干扰器知识产权。
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- 设备意外坠落导致北海新钻探工程延期 / 设备意外坠落导致北海新钻探工程延期：由于平台设备坠落，Rosebank油田生产预计推迟至2027年，该项目正面临环保组织挑战及新政府的审查。
- 伯纳姆誓言在必要时将公开表达与特朗普的分歧 / 伯纳姆誓言在必要时将公开表达与特朗普的分歧：英国首相安迪·伯纳姆表示，在维护国家利益的前提下，即使在公开场合也会表达与特朗普的分歧。
- 世界 / 因担心美国弹药 dwindle，特朗普继续暂缓对伊朗的袭击 / 因担心美国弹药 dwindle，特朗普继续暂缓对伊朗的袭击：受弹药储备减少及外交谈判影响，特朗普暂缓对伊朗袭击，但以色列总理内塔尼亚胡敦促继续军事打击。
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米利班德誓言让英国在气候危机中发挥“全球领导”作用
部长将出任世界银行董事会英国席位以表明决心
独家报道 菲奥娜·哈维 (Fiona Harvey) 环境编辑
外交大臣埃德·米利班德将通过出任英国在世界银行董事会的席位，表明他将把气候危机和海外发展置于英国国际关系的核心地位。
该职位通常委派给初级部长，这意味着米利班德将在塑造发展中国家所呼吁的世界银行变革方面发挥积极作用，并确保气候问题依然是海外援助的核心重点。
曾在基尔·斯塔默领导下担任能源与净零大臣的米利班德将表示：“国际发展并非英国外交政策的附加项——它是其核心。”
“通过担任英国在世界银行的代表，我想发出一个明确的信号，即本届政府在发展和气候方面的全球领导力是认真的。”
他的这一宣布正值火灾继续摧毁法国和西班牙大片地区之际，且此前苏格兰已请求军事援助以应对吞没凯恩戈姆山脉的大火。
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▲ 一名消防员在卡普费雷附近的一处阿雷斯火场扑救，目前各项工作仍在继续以控制法国西南部吉伦特省的森林大火。摄影：DAMIEN KEMBERT/EPIA
警方调查泰斯公司向改革党提供的捐款
杰拉尔丁·麦凯尔维 (Geraldine McKelvie)
由《卫报》首次披露的向英国改革党支付的款项现正由伦敦警察厅调查。
此次调查正审视通过一家由该党副党魁理查德·泰斯控制的公司向该党支付的款项。
苏格兰场正在调查在 2024 年大选前几周内，由 Britain Means Business 向该党提供的两笔 £250,000 的捐款。
《卫报》本月披露，菲奥娜·科特雷尔 (Fiona Cottrell) 在捐款发出前不久向 Britain Means Business 转移了 £1m。其中约一半的资金随后被转交给该党。
科特雷尔的儿子乔治是一名被定罪的诈骗犯，与英国改革党党魁奈杰尔·法拉奇有密切联系。
《卫报》本月报道，菲奥娜和乔治·科特雷尔作为警方调查的一部分，已在刑事警告下接受了问询。
在回应英国广播公司 (BBC) 关于此次调查的查询时，泰斯表示：“这是我第一次听说这件事——如果属实，为什么伦敦警察厅在联系相关当事人之前先向 BBC 透露消息？伦敦警察厅的领导层现在是否正参与一场针对改革党及其领导人的广泛的政治动机抹黑行动？”
菲奥娜·科特雷尔在 2024. 年 5 月还直接向该党提供了两笔捐款，每笔价值 £250,000,。这些捐款也属于伦敦警察厅的调查范围。
在选举后进入议会的泰斯是 Britain Means Business 的唯一董事。
他此前已确认其公司收到了来自菲奥娜的捐款 ➔ ➔
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对海外员工征收改革税
“将损害 NHS 和社会护理”
Peter Walker
高级政治记者
专家表示，英国改革党 (Reform UK) 计划要求雇主为海外员工支付年度税费，这将损害 英国国家医疗服务体系 (NHS) 和社会护理，导致学校教师短缺，并可能使部分大学陷入破产。
奈杰尔·法拉奇 (Nigel Farage) 的政党提出了一项“移民工人附加费”，其中包括更高的雇主国民保险率以及一项单独的年度费用。该政策将适用于所有不持有英国护照的员工，包括拥有定居身份的欧盟国民，但爱尔兰护照持有者除外。
《卫报》(The Guardian) 还被告知，对于经常出现人员短缺且依赖海外员工的部门（包括 NHS 和教育部门）将不设例外。
改革党表示，这项适用于全英国的政策旨在促使机构雇佣英国员工。但健康、护理和教育领域的智库及专业团体表示，这些人员往往无法提供足够的数量。
领先的健康智库国王基金会 (The King's Fund) 表示，虽然目前尚不清楚雇主需要支付多少费用（改革党仅表示低薪员工的税费更高），但由于 NHS England 有 20% 的员工并非英国国民，该政策将“增加一个本已捉襟见肘的服务部门的成本”。
来自国王基金会的 Suzie Bailey 表示：“我认为，最终这将影响该服务能够提供的护理，因为这笔钱必须从某个地方出，因此必须进行其他削减。”
“很难想象这除了影响医疗保健之外还能起到什么作用。我真的很难看出这在实践中将如何运作。”
皇家全科医生学院院长 Victoria Tzortziou Brown 教授表示，考虑到海外全科医生是在英国利用公共资金接受的专业培训，惩罚他们可能尤其
▲ Victoria Tzortziou Brown 教授表示，惩罚海外全科医生将适得其反
适得其反。
她表示：“全科诊所（其中大多数是签约提供 NHS 服务的规模较小独立服务机构）也可能受到增加雇员成本政策的不成比例的影响。”
“任何进一步增加成本或降低劳动力能力的政策，最终都面临影响患者获得护理的机会的风险。”
警方调查通过泰斯公司向法拉奇政党提供的捐款
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Cottrell，但将有关这笔资金的报道描述为一场“出于政治目的的抹黑活动”。
《卫报》写道，银行通过一份可疑活动报告，将 Fiona Cottrell 向“英国意味着商业 (公司名)”的转账情况报告给了国家犯罪局 (NCA)。可疑活动报告并非犯罪报告，而是旨在识别潜在的洗钱事件。
《卫报》获悉，国家犯罪局和银行均无法追踪 Fiona Cottrell 向泰斯公司发送的原始 £1m 的来源。国家犯罪局在试图了解资金来源的过程中，正寻求外国合作伙伴的帮助。
一名英国改革党发言人表示：“改革党为其严格的捐款审核感到自豪，并始终确保严格遵守《2000, 年政党、选举和全民公投法》中关于捐款的选举委员会指南，迄今为止的捐款情况正是如此。”
Fiona Cottrell 没有回应
▲ 改革党的理查德·泰斯是“英国意味着商业 (公司名)”的唯一董事
◄ 奈杰尔·法拉奇的政党提议征收一项“移民工人附加费”，这将涉及在现有基础上提高雇主国民保险税率
家庭护理协会首席执行官 Jane Townson 表示，雇佣海外护理人员已经更加昂贵且复杂，但这是由于需求增长和英国工人短缺导致的，特别是在新冠疫情之后。
她表示，针对低薪工人的更高征收额将特别影响护理部门。“供应商无法承受这一点。可预见的风险将是家庭护理服务减少，从而损害个人和家庭；更多的人被困在医院；对工人的剥削增加；以及供应商破产导致人们的护理连续性受损——最终账单仍将由公共财政承担。”
对于学校而言，影响可能会有所不同。虽然英格兰近 6% 的教师是非英国国籍，但他们在中学中的比例较高，尤其是在语言和物理等缺员科目中。
教育政策研究所智库的学校劳动力负责人 James Zuccollo 表示，许多海外教师是英国的长期居民。“一项包含定居身份持有者的措施，不仅会抑制未来的招聘，还会成为一项针对已经在我们学校任教员工的收费。”
高等教育政策研究所智库首席执行官 Nick Hillman 表示，这些计划可能会显著影响大学，因为许多大学将其预算的 60% 用于支付薪水。
他表示：“由于目前近一半的大学处于亏损状态，更高的成本仍将导致其他支出被削减。虽然有些大学已接近破产，但至今还没有英国大学真正倒闭，因此在极端情况下，更高的工资账单也可能将一家或多家大学推向绝境。”
科学与工程运动组织的 Alicia Greated 博士表示，这些计划对于更广泛的研发部门也可能具有“高度破坏性”。她表示：“高昂的签证费用和复杂的签证政策已经给组织和个人带来了巨大的压力和成本，夺走了本可以投资于研究的资金。”
英国改革党已被联系以寻求评论。
《卫报》试图就向“英国意味着商业 (公司名)”的捐款事宜与其联系。
当英国广播公司在周六晚上询问相关进展时，伦敦警察厅重复了本月早些时候发布的一份声明。声明称：“在选举委员会就 2024 年英国大选前向一个政党提供的捐款向伦敦警察厅提交报告后，调查于 2025 年 2 月启动。伦敦警察厅特别调查小组的侦探正在调查涉嫌违反《2000 年政党、选举和全民公投法》第 61 条的行为。”
“已就初步调查建议咨询了皇家检控署，目前已有两人在警告下接受了讯问。”
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只要穿上衣即可：女童军与棕熊童军启用全新的宽松制服
Bethan McKernan
女童军组织（Girlguiding）在 30 年多以来首次全面重新设计其制服，重点在于“自我表达、归属感和自信心”。
于今日推出的这一系列产品放宽了之前的规定：在收到数千名女孩反馈称在被允许穿自己喜欢的衣服时感到“最舒适”之后，现在女童军（Guides）、彩虹童军（Rainbows）、棕熊童军（Brownies）和游骑兵童军（Rangers）在参加会议和活动时，只要穿上衣即可被视为“身着制服”。
该慈善机构表示，由 Hemingway Design 历时两年进行的重新设计，在 55,000 名女孩和女性的参与下完成，既体现了女童军组织的传承和传统品牌，同时
◄ 女童军穿着新制服系列，其特点是设有拇指孔和隐藏口袋；右图为 1980 年代的威尔士女童军；下方为 1943 年身着女童军制服的伊丽莎白公主
摄影：EMILY STEIN/PA; KATHY DEWITT/ALAMY
又采用了现代色彩和功能性设计，例如腰带中的隐藏口袋、拇指孔，以及可兼作斜挎包的徽章绶带。
女童军组织首席执行官 Felicity Oswald 表示：“新系列的核心在于为女孩们提供表达自我的自由，同时让他们感受到自己是这个优秀组织的一员……实用性、舒适度和可持续性是设计的核心。”
“我们知道，自我表达与自信是相辅相成的。由于参加女童军活动的女孩自信心提升了 30%，新制服的推出旨在进一步培养这种自信心，并增强真正的归属感。”
一项针对英国 2,000 名 6 至 16 岁女孩的女童军调查发现，93% 的人表示，当她们能够选择自己的造型方式时感到最舒适。47% 的人表示，当她们能够选择穿着时最自信，而 33% 的人表示，当她们拥有自我表达的自由时感到最自信。总共有 41% 的人表示，严格的学校制服规定阻碍了她们这样做。
女童军组织面向 4 至 18 岁的女孩开放。该组织目前约有 300,000 名成员以及 80,000 名志愿者，他们现在可以从 30 件新服装中进行选择，并配有 15 种配饰和领巾，这些产品可针对当地、地区和国家活动进行个性化定制。
该慈善机构表示，旧制服可以在夏季的免费工作坊中被升级改造为新的配饰。
女童军组织大使、广播员兼主持人 Angellica Bell 表示：“新制服赋予了女孩和志愿者以适合自己的方式进行搭配的自由……[并] 赋予女孩和志愿者拥抱个性的力量。”
在其 116 年的历史中，该慈善机构共经历九次服装重新设计。
“新制服赋予了女孩以适合自己的方式进行搭配的自由”
Angellica Bell 女童军组织大使
最初的制服是一件蓝色裙子和长袜，搭配一件女童军小组颜色的套头衫和领巾；而棕熊童军则穿着一件带有贴袋的棕色束腰连衣裙。未来的女王伊丽莎白公主在 1937 年 11 岁时成为了女童军，并一直担任该慈善机构的赞助人直到 2022 年去世。
尽管战争时期的物资短缺和配给制度导致了一些细微变化，但制服在很大程度上保持不变，直到 20 世纪 60 年代，颜色变得更加明亮，裙摆也更短了。1973 年，由于羊毛成本上涨，组织引入了针织绒球帽，取代了棕熊童军的贝雷帽。
1980 年，T 恤和短裤出现，以支持日益增多的冒险户外活动。最近的一次重新设计是在 2014 年，首次使用了紫色等亮色，并重新引入了在 1990 年被取消的连衣裙。
女童军组织的新造型在 9 月 6 日该慈善机构会员政策变更前不久推出，该政策变更将强制跨性别女孩离开。
这一决定是在一项公告发布后做出的，该公告称，鉴于 2025 年最高法院关于生物学性别的裁决，跨性别女孩将不再能够加入女童军（Girlguiding），其成员资格将仅限于“女孩和年轻女性”。
女童军此前表示，其并不收集性别认同信息，因此不清楚会有多少成员和志愿者受到此次规则变更的影响。
英国演员大卫·琼森被选为新续集中的黑豹
Nadeem Badshah
电影导演瑞安·库格勒宣布，英国演员大卫·琼森（David Jonsson）将成为新一代黑豹。
32 岁的琼森曾出演《行业》(Industry)、《长路》(The Long Walk) 和《异形：罗穆路斯》(Alien: Romulus)，他将在第三部作品中饰演查德维克·博斯曼饰演的特查拉之子。
周六，他在漫威影业的国际动漫展（Comic-Con International）演示会上与库格勒共同登台宣布这一消息，共同出席的还有合作演员莱蒂希娅·赖特和温斯顿·杜克。
库格勒今年凭借吸血鬼电影《罪人》(Sinners) 赢得了奥斯卡最佳原创剧本奖，他表示：“在上次拍电影时，我们引入了一个角色，他是伟大的查德维克·博斯曼在电影中饰演的角色——我们的特查拉——的儿子。今天，我想告诉大家，在接下来的这部电影中，他长大了，他成年了。”
琼森出生于伦敦，职业生涯始于西区。他在 2018 年通过出演侦探剧《 Endeavour》的两集完成了荧幕首秀。
这位演员出演了 2025 年改编自斯蒂芬·金惊悚小说的《长路》，并在同年获得了英国电影学院奖（Bafta）上升之星奖。
琼森在即将上映的电影《护送员》(The Chaperones)、《本/尤班克斯》(Benn/Eubank) 和《丑闻！》(Scandalous!) 中均有角色，他表示：“感谢这个我有幸且有福气加入的家庭。我不想说太多，因为我想让银幕来说话。”
《黑豹 3》将于 2028 年 12 月 15 日在美国影院上映，英国的上映日期尚未确认。
博斯曼在 2020 年去世，享年 43 岁，在他被诊断出患有结肠癌 4 年后去世。
2022 年上映的《黑豹 2： Wakanda Forever》揭露了博斯曼饰演的角色特查拉有一个儿子。影片讲述了赖特饰演的角色舒莉在特查拉去世后接任主角的故事。
▲ 32 岁的大卫·琼森将在《黑豹 3》中饰演特查拉之子
第一部《黑豹》电影于 2018 年上映，背景设定在神秘的国家瓦坎达——这是一个隐藏的非洲王国，由于拥有世界上最有用的贵金属（虚构的振金）储备而拥有创新技术。该片赢得了 3 项奥斯卡奖。
在另一项公告中，漫威透露瑞安·Gosling 将在一部新的《幽灵骑士》电影中饰演强尼·布雷兹，计划于 2028 年上映。这将继 2007 年由尼古拉斯·凯奇主演的电影及其 2011 年的续集《幽灵骑士 2：复仇之魂》之后。
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柏林附近致命袭击事件嫌疑人
骄傲节庆祝活动期间警方将其击毙
Deborah Cole 柏林 Jennifer Rankin
一名涉嫌在柏林骄傲节（Pride festival）附近驾驶面包车冲入人群，随后在一次伊斯兰恐怖袭击中进行持刀砍杀的男子，已被警方击毙。
警方于昨日傍晚确认，首席嫌疑人已被击毙。据报道，击毙行动发生在城市西郊施潘道区（Spandau district）的一个分地花园综合体中。
周六晚上，一名男子驾驶一辆租来的小型面包车冲进布兰登堡门附近的蒂尔加滕公园（Tiergarten park）的一群行人之中，随后使用疑似砍刀袭击民众，导致一名女性死亡，另有 29 人受伤。
这次袭击发生在当地时间晚上 10 点左右，迫使组织者提前结束了这一欧洲最大的骄傲节活动之一。此前，德国在经历了一系列致命的车辆和持刀袭击后一直处于紧张状态。
德国内政部长亚历山大·多布林特（Alexander Dobrindt）将首席嫌疑人命名为 21 岁的阿卜杜勒·巴卢特（Abdul Ballout）。他在袭击现场附近告诉记者：“我们面对的是一名涉嫌犯罪者，他此前因大量刑事犯罪、激进化以及与伊斯兰主义圈子的联系而引起关注。”
他表示，巴卢特有刑事犯罪记录，曾被判处青少年监禁一年 10 个月，但该刑期被缓刑。
德国媒体报道称，巴卢特是一名具有黎巴嫩血统的德国公民，是伊斯兰国的支持者，并于去年前往中东企图加入该组织但未成功。据《图片报》（Bild）和《镜报》（Der Spiegel）报道，他随后在德国被判定为“策划严重的颠覆性暴力行为”。
在巴卢特被击毙之前，《镜报》采访了他的父亲
▲ 人们在柏林布兰登堡门附近的袭击现场留下悼念之物。左图为昨日清晨裹在保暖毯中的急救人员和节日参与者。上图为警方回收冲入人群的面包车。 摄影：MARYAM MAJID 路透社：MARKUS SCHREIBER/AP
◄ 21 岁的阿卜杜勒·巴卢特被命名为首席嫌疑人，被描述为与“伊斯兰主义圈子”有联系
陶菲克（Tawfik），他当时在黎巴嫩探亲。
陶菲克在描述阿卜杜勒“慷慨、感性、充满爱心”的同时，表示他的儿子一直在频繁更换工作。陶菲克称其家庭为什叶派，但“并非极端虔诚”，并表示他们“不支持”极端逊尼派团体伊斯兰国。
“我不允许他留长胡须，”他说道，称那是极端主义的象征。在被问及袭击可能的动机时，他说：“他被洗脑了。”陶菲克说，他在周六（即袭击当天）与阿卜杜勒通过话。“他给我打电话，我们像每天一样正常交谈。”
总理弗里德里希·梅尔茨（Friedrich Merz）敦促德国在袭击发生后避免分裂和恐吓。“我们将考虑后果，我们将捍卫我们的自由，”他说道。
早些时候，梅尔茨在社交媒体帖文中誓言要惩罚责任人，将这一“令人发指的行为”描述为“对我们社会的攻击”。德国联邦议院的旗帜被要求降至半旗。
警方表示，该车辆在驶入蒂尔加滕后撞击了行人。在晚上 10 点之前，这辆白色小型面包车的驾驶员突然转向驶入公园，该处靠近当天早些时候骄傲节游行的路线，撞到了小路上的行人并撞上了一棵树。
参加活动的朱利安·梅西格（Julian Methig）将其描述为糟糕的一天。“这是酷儿群体的最糟糕日子之一，也是我个人希望永远不必经历的一天……我震惊了，”他说道。
数十万人聚集在柏林参加骄傲游行庆祝活动。在德国，这次活动被称为“克里斯托弗大街日”（Christopher Street Day，简称CSD），得名于纽约市的石墙酒吧（Stonewall Inn），那里针对警察突击搜查的骚乱触发了现代 LGBTQ+ 权利运动。
柏林市长凯·韦格纳（Kai Wegner）称这次致命袭击是“对我们自由且大都市化社会的攻击”。
英国记者因安全担忧而“对右翼抗议和特朗普相关报道进行自我审查”
Michael Savage
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由于对个人安全的担忧日益增加，记者们在报道右翼抗议、唐纳德·特朗普政府以及跨性别议题时采取了自我审查，而新闻编辑室被指责将他们面临的风险“正常化”。
来自英国各地的数百名记者匿名披露，他们对自身安全的紧张感在增加。一些人报告称，由于受到恐吓，他们会避免或修改对某些话题的报道，这导致了自我审查以及“公众对话空间的缩小”。
这些发现源于一项由政府支持的关于记者安全的调查，该调查是在西方国家对传统媒体的敌意日益增长的背景下下令开展的。
“确实有些时候，某个故事可能符合公众利益，也许值得报道，但我们会坦率地讨论这是否‘值得’，”一名记者说道。
另一人表示：“我绝对会习惯性地回头看，确保没有被跟踪，并确保人们不会开始对我大吼大叫。”
调查人员发现，人们普遍认为与报道相关的辱骂行为有所增加，尤其是在网络上。他们还报告称，在新闻编辑室的文化中，考虑到两极分化的政治环境，这种增长被视为不可避免，记者们被要求要“脸皮厚”。
女性记者承受了辱骂的主要压力，她们描述了带有性别色彩和性暗示的骚扰、明确的威胁、不恰当的消息以及针对外貌的在线评论。
记者们提出的导致安全担忧的常见话题包括：右翼反移民抗议；特朗普政府（包括针对美国移民和海关执法局 [ICE] 的抗议）；以及跨性别议题。
“反移民抗议被记者提及最为广泛，既涉及参加游行时的现场风险，也涉及随后的报道所引发的抵制，”调查发现。
有大量报道称，北爱尔兰的记者在报道反移民骚乱时遭到蒙面男子的恐吓。这些情况被披露给了英国国家记者联盟。
一名受访者描述了在一次“团结王国”集会上，一名女性记者遭到厌女主义者的起哄，相关视频随后被上传至社交媒体。
由于关于记者个人安全的辩论现在已成为新闻编辑室的常规讨论点，部长们下令由 Alma Economics 进行调查。在受访的 531 名记者中，近一半的人表示，安全担忧影响了他们报道某些故事的意愿，约三分之一的人改变了报道方式或报道内容。
参与者承认，与世界其他地区相比，英国仍然是一个安全的记者工作场所，但表示风险已经加剧。
NUJ 总书记 Laura Davison 表示：“辱骂绝不应被视为记者工作的一部分。这种行为不仅对人们的生活产生了巨大的负面影响，而且对记者的工作能力和新闻自由产生了寒蝉效应。”
文化、媒体和体育部的一位发言人表示，政府正与记者安全国家委员会合作，以应对骚扰和威胁。
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噢，他们又来了。数百人在肯特郡福克斯通港口参加“史上最风一样的热情之日”（Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever）。这是一项年度活动，参与者在其中重现凯特·布什 1978 年热门单曲《风之热情》（Wuthering Heights）的音乐录影带。受 2013 年布赖顿边缘艺术节（Brighton fringe）最初集会的启发，芬兰、立陶宛、德国和澳大利亚等世界各地也举行了类似的活动。
AI生成的在线医生是
“对公共安全的巨大威胁”
Joe Pinner
专家警告称，网络上误导性的健康声明构成了“对公共安全的巨大威胁”，此前的一项研究发现，AI生成的医生通过传播可疑的健康建议，在 TikTok 上获得了数百万次的观看。
英国医学会 (BMA) 理事会副主席艾玛·伦斯威克（Emma Runswick）博士指出，那些“贩卖医学神话并推广所谓奇迹疗法”的AI账号带来了风险。
她表示：“像 TikTok 这样的平台必须采取更多措施，以阻止危险的伪医学建议的增加……否则，付出健康代价甚至生命代价的将是公众。”
研究发现，AI生成的医生传播了关于癌症已被证明是错误的迷思，包括：用塑料容器在微波炉中加热食物、使用除臭剂以及在手机旁睡觉都可能导致癌症——所有这些主张都已被英国癌症研究中心（Cancer Research UK）反驳。
该研究由数字营销机构 Hallam 于本月发布。在此之前，NHS 曾发出警告，称社交媒体上的健康误导信息是对“公共健康的真实威胁”。
研究发现，在 TikTok 上热门的健康相关视频中，有 40% 出现了AI生成内容，其中大部分由数量日益增加的、旨在模拟真实医生的深度伪造（deepfake）网红账号发布。对于某些特定的搜索词（如“健康小贴士”），84% 的视频被归类为AI生成或AI辅助内容。
根据 Hallam 的数据，其搜索到的热门AI生成医生和健康视频平均获得 2.5m 次观看。TikTok 删除了由 卫报 提供给该平台的此类视频示例。
这些账号推广了一些古怪的健康问题疗法，包括将可口可乐与洋葱混合作为缓解疼痛的药物，以及一种名为“Hyalethinap Plus Pro Max”的假产品作为抗衰老方案。
NHS England 的国家医疗总监弗兰基·索兹（Frankie Swords）教授表示，看到在线医学误导信息的增加令人担忧。她补充说：“许多临床医生报告称，越来越多的患者因为那些纯粹为了点击量而制造的错误建议而感到担忧和困惑。”
皇家全科医生学院（Royal College of General Practitioners）院长维多利亚·乔齐尤-布朗（Victoria Tzortziou Brown）教授表示，她也对该研究感到担忧，并补充说误导性的AI内容带有造成伤害的“真实风险”。
Hallam 分析了 1,198 个视频，在包括“健康小贴士”和“医生建议”在的一系列搜索词中选择了前 50 个视频。该机构还查找了关于个人财务和教育等“影响生活”的通用建议。
去年，Savanta 代表患者权益组织 Healthwatch England 在英格兰对 3,575 名男性和 3,832 名 18 岁及以上女性进行的一项民意调查发现，大约五分之一的人使用社交媒体获取健康信息。
Healthwatch England 政策与公共事务临时总监威廉·佩特（William Pett）表示：“如果缺乏将可靠信息与商业炒作或误导信息区分开的能力，[人们] 可能会被误导，从而严重影响他们的健康。”
一名 TikTok 发言人表示：“这些来自具有商业利益的营销机构的发现，不能准确反映我们的平台情况。”
“事实是，我们会删除有害的健康误导信息，包括AI生成的，我们与世界卫生组织和 NHS 合作，在应用内提供可靠的健康信息，并且我们持续投资于 AI 素养资源和标记技术。”
盖特威克机场在数小时厕所无法使用后恢复供水
杰米·格里尔森 (Jamie Grierson)
在乘客经历数小时无法使用厕所，且酒吧和餐厅被迫关闭之后，盖特威克机场的大部分供水已恢复。
昨日傍晚，两个航站楼的大多数厕所已重新开放，预计包括酒吧和餐厅在内的设施将在今日首批航班起飞前恢复正常。
盖特威克机场在昨晚宣布由 SES Water 提供的供水已恢复时表示：“由于 [肯特郡] Bough Beech 水处理厂出现问题并影响了当地区域，我们很高兴地报告，伦敦盖特威克园区绝大多数区域的供水现已恢复。”
“大多数厕所设施现已开放，我们预计所有厕所——以及餐饮 outlet——将在明天的首批航班前全部开放。”
“自从意识到该问题以来，我们一直与 SES Water 及其机场合作伙伴密切合作，以尽量减少影响，并确保今天所有航班按计划起飞。”
昨日航班未受影响，机场方面就给乘客带来的不便表示道歉。
昨日早些时候，乘客在网上发帖称，他们在西萨塞克斯郡的这座机场无法购买热饮、洗手或在水瓶中装水。
该问题还影响了更广泛的萨塞克斯和肯特地区。
SES Water 昨日表示，TN11、RH1、RH6 和 RH10 邮编区域的部分地区出现了供水中断。
下午 2 点，该公司表示 Bough Beech 水处理厂已重新运行，但在服务恢复正常前，水需要经过处理。
在 Facebook 上，一名用户发帖称：“现在渴得要命，而且得夹着腿憋尿。这太荒谬了！”
“由于停水，盖特威克机场关闭了所有餐厅和大多数厕所。假期的开始真是不太理想。”
前国会议员、近期被任命为政府“音乐冠军”的迈克尔·杜格尔 (Michael Dugher) 在社交媒体上写道：“至少得允许人们使用所有关闭的餐厅和酒吧里的椅子。”
“没水是一回事，但剥夺人们坐的地方又是另一回事……很多家庭不得不坐在地板上。”
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▲ 一名消防员在波尔多市外休息；由于火势难以预测，吉伦特省的官员警告游客远离该地区。摄影：GETTY
法国努力控制逼近波尔多的巨大山火
Angelique Chrisafis 巴黎 Sam Jones 马德里 Jennifer Rankin
法国当局正努力控制波尔多附近的一场巨大山火。与此同时，西班牙首相佩德罗·桑切斯（Pedro Sánchez）警告称，他的国家正遭受气候紧急情况的影响——目前马德里附近的火势已得到控制。
在吉伦特（Gironde）地区扑灭山火的努力在周六晚上受到了风的影响。这场大火已吞噬了相当于巴黎面积四倍的区域，并导致近 220,000 人撤离。
在西班牙，马德里西部的火势正得到控制，但桑切斯谈到了“艰难的时刻”。
两国共有约 375,000 人被迫离开家园。在法国，近 260,000 人因山火被迫撤离；而在邻国西班牙，有 116,000 人被疏散。
波尔多市长托马斯·卡泽纳夫（Thomas Cazenave）形容吉伦特的火灾已“处于大都市区的门口”，距离城市本身仅 15 到 20 英里，该市人口为 268,000 人。他表示，目前暂不考虑对该市进行疏散。
新阿基坦（Nouvelle-Aquitaine）大区（包括吉伦特）的省长索菲·布罗卡斯（Sophie Brocas）表示，这场山火具有高度不可预测性，这种现象在法国此前从未出现过。“我敦促游客在火势得到控制之前不要前往吉伦特，”她说道，“我建议已经抵达这里的游客考虑前往其他目的地。我们不知道火势将向哪个方向蔓延。”
法国内政部长洛朗·努涅兹（Laurent Nuñez）昨日表示，前一晚的情况非常艰难，且“局势依然非常不利”。他指出，吉伦特的火势在周六晚上变得“极其猛烈且不可预测”，产生了自身的风，并不规则地向波尔多大都市区蔓延。直到深夜，火势才趋于平静。
努涅兹表示，约 2,500 名消防员（包括一支瑞士消防队）、1,500 名军方人员和 1,200 名警察已被部署到吉伦特，他同时赞扬了来自民防组织的 450 名志愿者的贡献。
一名消防员告诉法新社，这场火灾形成了一个火积雨云（pyrocumulonimbus），这是一种由火灾引发的雷暴，它会“产生自己的风，伴随有旋风，变得飘忽不定且不可控制”。
法国国家消防员联合会的一位发言人表示，虽然这种现象在山火频发的澳大利亚和加拿大较为常见，但在法国此前从未见过。该联合会的埃里克·布罗卡尔迪（Eric Brocardi）中校告诉
“看起来就像圣经里的景象” 马德里周边居民逃离大火
当大卫·奥利瓦雷斯（David Olivares）在周四晚上上床睡觉时，由于经历了四小时的摩托车骑行而疲惫不堪，此时正向他的家乡罗布莱多-德-查韦拉（Robledo de Chavela）蔓延的火灾似乎还很遥远。
他次日醒来，看到山后有白烟，以为对罗布莱多（位于马德里以西 30 英里）的威胁可能已经消退。随后，他发现白烟变成了黑烟。
“我看到了山顶的火，”这位 27 岁的青年说道。当时他正在拉斯罗萨斯（Las Rozas，西班牙首都西北郊的一个市镇）的一家休闲中心吃由工作人员准备的三明治，他与另外 300 人一起被疏散到了这里。
“火势开始沿山而下蔓延，然后我的手机收到了紧急警报，告诉我们必须离开。”
“我心想，拜托，现在都 2026 年了——消防员肯定能控制住的，”他说。“但事实并非如此。”
就在他的母亲告诉他需要离开时，奥利瓦雷斯抬头看向天空，天空也已经开始发生变化。
“天空变成了橙色，看起来非常有末日感，”他说。“然后罗布莱多出现了黑烟，你可以看到火光。”
“人们在大喊——一个孩子对着父亲尖叫：‘我们现在就走’——到处都是汽车和人群。”
“感觉就像世界末日。我们抓起三只猫，上了车就离开了。”
来自附近城镇瓦尔德马奎达（Valdemaqueda）的另一名疏散者玛丽亚·罗莎·马林（María Rosa Marín）在听到这段回忆时点了点头。“太阳非常诡异；你几乎看不见它。”
马林举起手机，展示她拍的一张照片：一个苍红色的太阳被污橙色的烟云遮挡。“看起来就像圣经里的景象，”她说。
马林和奥利瓦雷斯只是 87,000 名被疏散或被命令封锁人员中的一小部分。此时西班牙中部正与山火搏斗，科学家表示，在一个升温速度约为全球平均水平两倍的大洲上，气候崩溃和充足的干燥植被为火势提供了燃料。萨姆·琼斯 (Sam Jones)
法新社 (AFP) 表示，有必要去理解一种“超出我们控制的自然力量”。
他说道：“这是一个大卫挑战歌利亚的场景：我们的想法是，在某个时刻，我们会找到一个弱点并对其发起攻击。”
Жи隆德（Gironde）警方在周末进行了三次逮捕，其中包括一名在森林中吸烟的男子，以及两名在森林区域进行烧烤的人。
根据西班牙军事应急部门的一名高级官员称，西班牙当局表示，马德里附近的主要火区已被控制并冷却。
桑切斯（Sánchez）表示：“我们正面临一些艰难的时刻，尽管事实是，最新的更新显示，昨晚在火势演变和控制努力方面是非常积极的。”
在马德里西部的一个消防指挥部发表讲话时，这位总理警告说，西班牙和葡萄牙正经历着气候紧急状态带来的各种后果，从火灾、风暴到强降雪。“整个伊比利亚半岛正以一种非常具体的方式承受着气候紧急状态的影响，”他补充道。
在马德里附近的火势得到控制的同时，应急工作人员正努力扑灭地中海港口城市瓦伦西亚（Valencia）附近的一场新火，那里至少有 15,000 人被疏散。“火势已经超出了我们的扑灭能力，它
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▼ 马德里西部的一场山火正被控制，但被描述为该地区历史上最严重的一次
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▲ 波尔多的一家展览中心安置了一些被迫疏散的人员。右图为无人机拍摄的Жи隆德一座被烧毁的房屋
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的周长约为 21 公里，”瓦伦西亚大区主席胡安弗兰·佩雷斯·略尔卡（Juanfran Pérez Llorca）在周末表示。
西班牙内政部在周六晚上表示，一名男子在瓦伦西亚省马尼塞斯镇的一场火灾中丧生。官员称，该男子被发现于一条山谷中的一辆汽车内。
据美联社报道，当局周六还下令疏散马德里南部托莱多附近的另外八个市镇，这使得近日因西班牙山火而被迫逃离家园的人数达到 116,000 人。
西班牙环境部长萨拉·阿格森 (Sara Aagesen) 表示，在中央省份阿维拉烧毁 50,000 公顷土地的山火是“我国近代史上规模最大的森林火灾”。
这场大火是这个夏季山火系列事件的最新一章，而这些山火威胁要烧毁前所未有的广阔土地。在气候危机的推动下，欧洲自春季以来经历了的一系列热浪，包括有记录以来最热的六月，导致植被极其干燥。
欧盟危机管理专员哈贾·拉比比 (Hadja Lahbib) 告诉英国广播公司，整个欧洲大陆的山火损失很可能将超过之前的记录。
她说：“去年夏天有 100 万公顷土地被烧毁，因此我们预计将面临另一个历史性的、悲惨的记录，因为今年的火灾季节开始得更早。”
西班牙环境部表示，2026 年至今已记录到 32 场影响 152,678 公顷（377,276 英亩）土地的大型火灾，而 2025 年同期则为 7 场，影响 24,133 公顷。
法国的吉龙德火灾目前已烧毁 42,000 公顷，面积是巴黎的四倍，是第二次世界大战以来最大规模的土地破坏之一。
一名宪兵告诉 BFMTV，至少有 240 栋房屋被毁，另有许多房屋受损。
消防员正通过空中作业努力减缓火势向波尔多方向蔓延，飞机正在投放水和阻燃剂。距离波尔多市中心 10 英里的塞斯塔斯镇 (Cestas) 市长热罗姆·斯特夫 (Jérôme Steffe) 告诉法国媒体：“我们正在共同努力建立一道防火墙，以阻挡火焰的推进。”
波尔多的一家展览中心已被改为应急避难所，为数千人提供行军床和食物，其中包括数百名从养老院撤离的老人。
卡泽纳夫 (Cazenave) 表示，他已请求中央政府为该地区制定经济危机计划，因为波尔多西部地区的许多企业和工人已被撤离，旅游业也受到了严重影响。
他表示，目前无法确定作为预防措施而撤离的人员何时能返回家中。
他说：“我们不知道这次危机将持续多久，是几天还是几周。”
努涅斯 (Núñez) 表示，兰德火灾已吞噬 3,600 公顷土地，周六复燃的火势必须通过空中作业来处理。
法国当局还在处理东南部瓦尔地区 (Var) 的山火，那里已有 3,000 人被撤离，此外还有上阿尔卑斯省 (Hautes-Alpes) 和科西嘉岛的火灾。
埃德·米利班德将应对气候危机置于英国外交政策的核心
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以及威尔士部分地区已触发软管禁令。与此同时，据估计，6 月份欧洲的热浪导致该地区的粮食农民损失了 €2bn (£1.7bn) 的收入。
通过亲自出任世界银行席位，埃德·米利班德正在发出一个明确信号：尽管其他政治家即便在现在依然反对净零政策，但外交部将继续推动气候行动。
目前是世界银行的一个关键时刻，该行承受了来自特朗普政府的沉重压力，要求撤销此前对气候融资的关注。
上个月，这家由公共资金资助的银行取消了将 45% 的资金用于气候相关目标的计划。
专家们对埃德·米利班德的决定表示欢迎，认为这将促进气候行动。
伦敦政治经济学院经济学教授斯特恩勋爵表示，外交大臣接任英国行长席位将向世界“发出一个强大且重要的信号”。
“作为世界银行前首席经济学家和高级副行长，我知道英国能够发挥出超越其体量的影响力，”他说。
“但这必须依赖顶层的领导力。近年来，这一点有所下滑。在一个面临气候和生物多样性危机，且世界最贫困人口的福祉面临真实且日益增长的威胁的世界中，埃德·米利班德将使发展和气候重新成为我们国际关系中必须具备的优先事项。”
由于担心遭到报复，且在发达国家广泛削减海外援助之后，其他国家在挑战美国的反气候立场方面一直十分谨慎。英国是在世界银行董事会拥有独立席位的六个国家之一。
智库 Power Shift Africa 的主任穆罕默德·阿多表示，埃德·米利班德可以在该贷款机构中倡导有助于穷人的变革。
“真正的考验在于，英国是否利用其影响力推动世界银行为气候行动和适应提供多得多的资金，让资金更快地到达各国，并确保最贫穷的国家不会为了应对一个并非由其主导造成的危机而被迫陷入更深的债务之中，”阿多说。
“如果这次任命标志着
▲ 埃德·米利班德将接任英国在世界银行董事会的席位
英国在全球气候和发展领域重启领导地位的开始，这将受到整个非洲的热烈欢迎。”
埃德·米利班德将面临不断缩减的援助预算以及关于分配的艰难决定。基尔·斯塔默将海外援助削减至国民总收入的 0.3%，这比保守党时期的 0.5% 以及上届工党政府达到的 0.7% 大幅减少。
气候融资也被削减了 14%，从 2021 到 2026 年期间的 £11.6bn 降至每年 £2bn。
英国新任首相安迪·伯纳姆上周受到批评，因为他表示，计划在英格兰将公交车票价上限设定为 £2 的计划将主要通过将国际气候融资赠款改为可偿还贷款来筹资。这些贷款将拨给热带森林永久基金（Tropical Forests Forever Facility），这是一个由巴西政府设立的投资基金。
慈善机构 Conservation International UK 的董事总经理乔纳森·霍尔表示，为了恢复公信力，政府应该撤销基尔·斯塔默对自然保护资金的削减，尽管英国情报部门负责人表示，海外生态系统的崩溃威胁到国家安全。
“埃德·米利班德现在需要重新引入一个明确目标，即将其 £6bn 气候援助预算的三分之一用于资助自然生态系统和热带森林，这一目标在他前任任内丢失了，”霍尔说。
英国将于 11 月接管 G20 集团的领导权。
英国气候特使、前世界银行高级官员瑞秋·凯特表示：“由于霍尔木兹海峡的封锁，我们将身处能源和粮食安全危机的之中。而严重的厄尔尼诺现象则加剧了这一局面。”
“我们需要国际金融体系中的每一分能力，来帮助世界部分地区应对这些严重影响。埃德此前已经见证过动员全球采取行动需要付出什么，以及如何利用我们掌握的所有杠杆。如果需要，为了我们自己和所有人的安全，我们将再次这样做。”
“通过接任 [世界银行] 的职务，我想发出一个信号，即本届政府在气候和发展问题上是认真的……”
埃德·米利班德
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◄ 伦敦尤斯顿路上的帐篷。安迪·伯纳汉承诺将在“最早的机会”内结束英国的露宿街头现象。 摄影：DAN KITWOOD/GETTY
“这让你精疲力竭”
伦敦无家可归者 在酷热的城市环境中 面临风险
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“你只能忍受。就像在炎热的国家一样。这让你精疲力竭，”汤姆（化名）说道。他六十多岁，已经无家可归多年。
“自从我开始在户外生活以来，就没见过这样的天气。我依然维持我的日常生活习惯，但你需要找个地方坐下来休息。要么是在室外找些纸板，要么是找个允许你在室内坐一会儿、睡一觉的地方。”
随着英国在一年中的第三次热浪中酷暑难耐，《卫报》随伦敦的外展工作者一起，试图为这座城市最脆弱的人群提供支持。安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）在上周担任首相后的首次演讲中，誓言要“在最早的机会”结束英国的露宿街头现象。
“这座城市在建设时并未考虑到高温，”无家可归慈善机构 Thames Reach 的首席经理乔西·艾什顿（Josie Ashdown）表示，“你可以感觉到，这里的混凝土在某些时间点会让这里的温度比全国其他任何地方都更高。”
随着伦敦在气候危机的推动下经受一次又一次的热浪袭击，外展团队正向风险最高的人群提供额外支持——分发饮用水，进行福利检查，并引导人们前往凉爽的空间。科学家估计，5月和6月英格兰和威尔士的热浪导致 2,700 人死亡。
“外展团队在没日没夜地工作，”无家可归慈善机构 St Mungo's 的服务发展经理埃尔·斯莱特（Elle Slater）说道。
当《卫报》访问时，地下通道下许多帐篷是空的。艾什顿表示，住在这里的人可能已经离开去寻找水、工作或更凉快的地方。但对于像汤姆这样数量创纪录的露宿街头者来说，避暑绝非易事。
剑桥大学科学与政策中心前政策研究员珍妮·莱加特（Jennie Leggat）博士表示，露宿街头的人比普通人群更容易受到极端高温的影响。“如果你依赖乞讨来赚钱，你没有太多选择，”莱加特说，“你必须坐在室外，经常在阳光下，且通常处于炎热的城市环境中。”
许多长期露宿街头的人患有慢性健康问题。在炎热的天气里，胰岛素等必需药物难以安全保存。
汤姆有健康问题，行动不便。高温让他处境更难。他说：“即使与室外相比，巴士就像个桑拿房。由于走动和年龄导致的腿部肿胀，我必须给腿部包裹，但在这种天气下，我不得不换成压力袜。”
人们通常不得不随身携带所有财物，包括无法安全存放的冬季衣物。Thames Reach 快速响应团队的服务经理安妮克·齐曼（Anneke Ziemen）回忆起一名在热浪期间仍穿着御寒衣物的男子。“他说：‘冬天到了，我需要我的衣服。我不能让任何人偷走它们。’这在情理之中的确说得通，但气温将达到34℃，你简直是在把自己给‘烤熟’。”
伦敦市长萨迪克·汗（Sadiq Khan）上个月宣布了“酷暑准备伦敦”（Heat Ready London）计划，旨在保护这座首都免受极端高温影响。该计划包括扩大公众可使用冷却空间的覆盖面以及提供免费饮用水。
虽然各区议会针对寒冷天气设有严重天气紧急预案，但对高温的应对则缺乏一致性。伦敦全市范围内没有统一的温度触发机制或强制性的支持水平，导致各区和外展团队只能根据当地资源来解读大伦敦政府（Greater London Authority）的指南。
伦敦市长的一位发言人表示，市议会和伦敦各区议会已发布联合指南以帮助露宿街头者。他们说：“这是一项涉及区议会、社区组织、卫生服务和外展提供者的集体努力。我们的首要任务是确保支持能够触及那些风险最高的人。”
▲ 外展团队正致力于在酷暑中支持露宿街头者
汤姆说：“我没听说过那些‘凉爽场所’。我不去那种地方，因为可能会和其他人产生冲突。”
莱加特表示，污名化有时会阻碍人们获得帮助。“露宿街头的人在那些可以避暑的公共场所可能不受欢迎，无论是因为带着宠物、拿着大包，还是仅仅因为缺乏可靠的洗澡和清洁衣物条件而显得不修边幅。”
Crisis 首席执行官马特·道尼表示，伯纳姆的承诺是“一个重大转变，摆脱了之前一系列昂贵的临时补救措施，转向一种‘住房优先’的无家可归者处理方式”。
与此同时，建议公众保持警惕，如果看到可能需要帮助的人，请使用 StreetLink 将其转介给当地慈善机构。
对汤姆来说，现实包括了被视为无家可归者而带来的持续污名化。“人们能看出或感觉到你是无家可归的。你会听到人们在你背后低声议论，说你是无家可归者。”
然而，在热浪期间，他也经历了善意的时刻。“我随身携带一个大箱子，在天气炎热时，人们变得更友好了，会帮我把行李搬上搬下公交车。”
V&A博物馆
超过300名 工作人员就 热浪罢工 进行投票
戴安·泰勒 (Diane Taylor)
维多利亚与阿尔伯特博物馆（V&A）的工作人员就气温飙升、饮用水获取以及薪资和工作条件等担忧问题，对是否采取热浪罢工行动进行了投票。
伦敦四个V&A场馆的300多名工作人员参与了此次投票，包括位于南肯辛顿的博物馆、斯特拉特福德的V&A东区博物馆（V&A East Museum）和V&A东区仓库（V&A East Storehouse），以及位于贝斯纳尔格林的青年V&A（Young V&A）。
V&A成立于1852年的万国工业博览会之后，被描述为“一个致力于创意力量的博物馆家族”。其使命是“为所有人推广艺术与设计”。
由于“影响博物馆全体员工的严重且尚未解决的担忧”，公共与商业服务工会于周四启动了罢工投票。
虽然薪资水平是一个问题（要求至少增加4%的工资），但工会还对高温暴露和饮用水获取提出了担忧。
工会要求管理层实施一项政策：当温度超过30摄氏度时关闭公共区域；为后台工作人员引入缓解高温的措施；并允许V&A东区仓库的工作人员在展品展示区域工作时携带并饮用水，而不是等待另一名工作人员来接替，他们才能去喝水。
工会还呼吁V&A成为伦敦认可的“生活工资”（living wage）雇主。目前伦敦的生活工资为每小时£14.80。V&A已确认其所有员工的工资至少达到了这一标准。然而，该博物馆的一些外包承包商并未获得生活工资，且V&A目前尚未成为认可的生活工资雇主，尽管馆方表示今年晚些时候将对此进行审查。
未参与罢工投票的邓迪V&A（V&A Dundee）是一家认可的生活工资雇主。
V&A的一位发言人表示：“V&A自2月以来一直与工会方面进行谈判，目前谈判仍在进行中……在热浪期间，我们采取了广泛的措施来支持员工，包括增加额外休息时间、增加展厅空间的员工轮换频率、关闭V&A南肯辛顿的几个展厅，并在热浪高峰期的11天内完全关闭青年V&A。”
“为了确保国家馆藏的安全与保障，在V&A东区仓库的‘预约看物’（Order an Object）预约期间，不允许携带食物和饮料，且访问者在预约期间由V&A工作人员陪同。”
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乔治亚·欧姬芙被“误解”的艺术家：其幽灵牧场作品将在英国展出
Lanre Bakare 艺术与文化记者
乔治亚·欧姬芙在看到幽灵牧场（Ghost Ranch）的那一刻，就知道这里就是她的归宿。这座位于新墨西哥州圣菲以北山影下的偏远房产，在随后的数十年里成为了这位艺术家的夏季住所——这里的环境令她着迷，激发了她创作多幅画作，而她的骨灰散播地就在此处步行不远处。她曾说过：“在我到达这里的一分钟内，我就知道这就是我要生活的地方。”
现在，考陶德艺术学院（the Courtauld）将举办一场新展览，揭示欧姬芙在幽灵牧场的家以及这里如何塑造了她的艺术与生活。
这场名为《乔治亚·欧姬芙：幽灵牧场》的展览将于明年10月开幕，共展出24件作品，其中大多数此前从未在英国展出。
考陶德美术馆绘画首席策展人卡伦·塞雷斯（Karen Serres）博士表示，英国很少有人意识到幽灵牧场对于这位20世纪最重要的美国现代主义艺术家之一的发展具有如此重要的意义。
“幽灵牧场是她生命中极其重要的一部分，它实际上阐明了她整体艺术创作中的很大一部分，”塞雷斯说道。“例如，在她的花卉画中，她采取极近的视角，她说：‘我想那样做，因为我想让人们关注那些被忽视的事物。’在创作这些风景画时，她采用了完全相同的手法。”
欧姬芙于 1934 年搬入该房产，这里曾是一个占地 21,000 英亩的广阔庄园的一部分——起初她租了一间房，最后将其买下并作为永久居所。
“那是我的国度，”她曾说，“我以前从未见过这样的地方，但它与我完全契合。”
幽灵牧场是欧姬芙在新墨西哥州居住的两处房产之一。另一处是位于牧场向南 16 英里处的阿比基尤（Abiquiú）村的一栋房子，该房产目前被保存下来并向公众开放。
根据《纽约客》杂志记者卡尔文·汤金斯（Calvin Tomkins）在 1974 年对其撰写的简介，幽灵牧场不对公众开放，但却是欧姬芙“始终感到更像家”的地方。
“孤独、静谧，以及严酷、干燥且壮丽的风景，更符合她的世界，”他写道。“动物头骨和漂白的鹿角挂在她的露台墙上，散步和露营时捡来的石头在低矮的桌子和架子上大量堆积。”
欧姬芙在访谈中暗示该房产在被她买下之前曾是谋杀案的现场，这增加了幽灵牧场的神秘色彩；她许多最著名的摄影拍摄——包括为《Vogue》杂志由塞西尔·比顿（Cecil Beaton）拍摄的照片——都在这里完成。
尽管在国际上享有盛名，但欧姬芙的作品在英国很少见；塞雷斯表示，在考陶德展出的 24 件作品中，此前仅有 6 件在英国展出过。
顺时针方向自上而下：乔治亚·欧姬芙的作品《红黄悬崖》，1940年；《杰拉尔德之树 I》，1937年；以及《带粉色圣诞红的骡子头骨》，1936年。 照片提供：乔治亚·欧姬芙博物馆 (GEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSELM)
位于新墨西哥州、占地 21,000 英亩的幽灵牧场庄园，成为了欧姬芙的家。左图为欧姬芙于 1960 年在她的《骨盆系列》作品《红与黄》旁留影。 照片提供：ANDY CROSS/GETTY; TONY VACCARO/GETTY
欧姬芙在英国的声誉并非一直如此之高。在 1993 年的海沃德展览之后，英国的男性评论家们爆发了一阵轻蔑的评语。她被称作“商业插画师”、“无可救药的业余爱好者”，以及一名“在日历上制作出不错月份图像”的艺术家。
二十年后，在 2016 年她于泰特美术馆展出之前，一个主要的话题是该展览旨在挑战那些认为她的花卉画是对女性生殖器官描写的“保守男性”假设。
Serres 表示，Ghost Ranch 展览将是另一个深入了解这位仍经常被误解的艺术家的机会。“她被仅仅视为一名强大的女性艺术家，”Serres 说道，“但实际上在看到她的作品、理解她的核心意图之后，我认为我们还没有达到那个认知程度。”
Liberty 紧跟缝纫趋势，将其面料部门规模扩大一倍
莎拉·巴特勒 (Sarah Butler)
Liberty 准备通过在今年秋季举办手工艺课程，以迎接社交媒体上对缝纫的关注，其面料部门的规模已扩大了一倍多。
这家百货公司于 1924 年在目前靠近牛津圆环 (Oxford Circus) 的地点开业，去年其面料销售额增长了 11%。
这家伦敦中心地带的百货公司的面料销售额去年增长了 11%
Liberty 预计今年将有类似的增长，因为除了手工艺者外，还有富有的海外购物者在大量采购奢侈面料，以便在回国后将其量身定制成服装。
Liberty 零售管理董事莉迪亚·金 (Lydia King) 表示，新部门的面积为 430 平方米 (4,630 平方英尺)，比之前扩大了 140%，拥有 2,500 多种面料和 17 名专业销售人员。Liberty 还将在今年秋季扩大其缝纫杂货区，为手工艺者提供更多研讨会。
“越来越多的百货公司已经放弃了 [缝纫杂货和面料]，但我们希望庆祝并提升客户体验，”金说道。
拼布和钩编等手工艺的日益流行，部分是由社交媒体上的演示视频以及《英国缝纫大赛》(The Great British Sewing Bee) 等电视节目推动的。
“这是一个非常广泛的年龄层，从一名刚刚拥有第一台缝纫机的 13 岁顾客，到为自己制作物品的国际社区，”金补充道。
二手衣物的流行（可能需要在家中进行修改）也在推动缝纫趋势。工艺委员会 (Crafts Council) 表示，几年来，参与手工艺的成年人比例已从 15% 上升到 20%。
对缝纫的兴趣正帮助 Liberty 实现强劲的销售，而与此同时，其奢侈品竞争对手 Harvey Nichols 正在被出售，House of Fraser 则继续关闭门店。
“面料是店内存货销售密度最高的区域之一，”金说。“随着我们的生活变得日益数字化，我们看到顾客在重新接触‘创造的快乐’——寻求工艺、创意以及创造完全属于自己的东西的机会。从定制礼服到手工拼布被褥，‘制造’已成为一种现代的奢侈表达，因为它提供了一种日益稀缺的东西：原创性。”
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▼ 盖瑞·史蒂文森 (Gary Stevenson) 最近的纪录片《如何发大财》(How to Get Filthy Rich) 受到评论家的冷遇
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YouTube 财富税活动人士宣布停止发布每周视频
Gwyn Topham
从城市交易员转型为财富税活动人士的加里·史蒂文森（Gary Stevenson）宣布，出于健康考虑，他将退出让他成名的 YouTube 频道。
在他宣布这一决定之前，一部电视纪录片将他推向了更广泛的受众，但反响不一，不仅引起了部分右翼批评者的质疑，也让一些左倾的税务专家持怀疑态度。
史蒂文森的 YouTube 频道“加里的经济学”（Gary's Economics）在新冠疫情期间迅速走红，订阅人数增长至 1.64 million。他昨天在社交媒体上发布了一段 18 分钟的告别视频，标题为“是时候说再见了”。他表示这将是最后一期每周视频，并补充道，随着自己“感到越来越疲惫”，制作这些视频变得“越来越困难”。
这位前城市交易员 1986 年出生于东伦敦，通过该频道及其回忆录《交易游戏》（Trading Game）声名鹊起，他在书中描述了自己作为花旗银行员工如何赚到数百万美元。
在因职业倦怠而退休后，这位反对不平等现象的活动人士主张对超过 £10m 的个人财富征收 2% 的税，他表示这将每年为财政部筹集 £24。
史蒂文森在提高人们对
不平等现象的认识以及将其与生活水平下降联系起来方面一直发挥着影响力，他预言了生活成本的上涨，并警告日益增长的亿万富翁阶层不断积累财富的危险。
然而，Channel 4 上个月发布的纪录片《如何与加里·史蒂文森一起发大财》（How to Get Filthy Rich with Gary Stevenson）收到了许多负面评价，在该片中，他将自己的观点带到了那些将被课税的人面前。
《卫报》的露西·曼根（Lucy Mangan）写道，史蒂文森“几乎被所有受访者击败并搞得狼狈不堪……陷入困境，无法给出有说服力的反击”，并总结认为这部片子是“一次略显尴尬的浪费时间”。
税务律师丹·内德尔（Dan Neidle）告诉他要“将你对不平等的感性反应与对最佳应对工具的理性评估分开”，并称其计划是“民粹主义的胡言乱语”。
《电讯报》的一篇稍微温和一些的评论称，史蒂文森“太习惯于面对镜头直接地向他的追随者说话，以至于在与持不同政见的人进行辩论时显得不知所措”。
尽管如此，史蒂文森的财富税提案正获得支持，新任首相安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）正面临要求增加对超富人群征税的日益高涨的呼吁。
根据一项研究，一项针对财富超过 £100 的 1,000 个英国家庭征税的提案可筹集 £10bn。上周，前足球运动员加里·莱因克尔（Gary Lineker）与 120 位百万富翁共同给伯纳姆写了一封支持财富税的公开信，信中写道：“我们负担得起。”
“我们需要接受这不会是一场短期战斗……而且我需要休息”
加里·史蒂文森 YouTube
在纪录片播出时的《新闻之夜》（Newsnight）采访中，史蒂文森曾暗示过他的意图。他告诉英国广播公司（BBC）：“这很累。我这样做是因为我不希望这个国家毁了……在[英国和]西方世界，你不能让工人阶级、中产阶级和政府的所有财富都迅速流向 1% 的人手中。”
然而，“加里的经济学”频道上的告别视频表明，在休息一段时间后，他可能会回归公众生活。史蒂文森表示，他目前正在考虑播客形式，且不排除制作月度视频的可能性。
他说：“世界上最富有的人将对此进行抗争……我们需要很大一部分人口意识到，生活水平的下降是因为不平等现象的加剧。”
史蒂文森最后表示：“我不能成为唯一一个对此进行教育的人。我们需要接受这不会是一场短期战斗……而且我需要休息。”
英国演员批评派拉蒙与华纳合并
Lanre Bakare
艺术与文化记者
演员艾伦·库明 (Alan Cumming)、本尼迪克特·康伯巴奇 (Benedict Cumberbatch) 和本尼迪克特·王 (Benedict Wong) 表示，派拉蒙 (Paramount) 与华纳兄弟 (Warner Brothers) 之间拟议的合并可能会损害英国的“劳动者、文化和公众”，他们认为该交易应当被阻止。
他们在《卫报》中撰文指出，如果这两家公司合并，可能会对英国电影业造成永久性损害，导致数千个工作岗位流失，并造成一个让电影制作人不得不减少冒险的局面。
“我们正以日益忧虑的心情观察着这种整合对我们所创作作品的广度和深度产生的影响：在领先的独立电影节圣丹斯 (Sundance) 电影节上，独立电影的收购量在 2019 和 2025 之间下降了一半，”这些演员写道。
“那些屡获殊荣的纪录片——获得奥斯卡奖并获得电影节评审团最高奖的电影——在寻找商业发行渠道时举步维艰，因为它们触及了少数剩余买家认为不方便的主题。每一次这类合并都会缩小故事触达观众的漏斗。”
一次合并将把好莱坞最后五家传统制片厂中的两家，以及电视网络和新闻机构，全部置于一家公司的控制之下。
库明、康伯巴奇和王赞赏文化大臣丽莎·南迪 (Lisa Nandy) 向议会提交的声明，她在声明中确认她“倾向于干预”这起价值 $110bn (£82bn) 的收购案。该交易目前正在美国和英国接受审查。
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奥林匹斯山与诺曼底登陆海滩加入联合国教科文组织世界遗产名录
Helena Smith
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古希腊神话中众神的居所——奥林匹斯山，现已进入一个更现代的名誉之殿，联合国教科文组织宣布将其列入世界遗产名录。
经过 12 年的等待，这座希腊最高峰与法国北部的 D-day（诺曼底登陆）海滩以及日本古代都城飞鸟（Asuka）和藤原（Fujiwara）一同入选。
南苏丹的博马-巴丁吉洛（Boma-Badingilo）景观地，作为全球最大陆地哺乳动物迁徙地的之一，也获得了认定——这是该东非国家首次获此荣誉。
这些提名是昨天在韩国釜山由联合国教科文组织委员会审查的数十项提名之一。
就奥林匹斯山而言，由于其文化和自然意义，它被列为混合世界遗产地，这一消息在希腊引发了近乎狂欢的庆祝。
这座山被神话为宙斯的宝座，在希腊北部海拔接近海平面的基座上耸立 2,918 米，自 2014 年起就一直在预备名单中。
希腊联合国教科文组织代表团团长格奥尔吉奥斯·库穆措萨科斯（Georgios Koumoutsakos）对这一决定表示赞赏。他表示：“这再次肯定了我们为了当代和后代的利益而保护奥林匹斯山的坚定承诺。正如希腊神话明智地提醒我们的那样，与神灵保持良好关系始终是最好的。”
该地区市长埃万格洛斯·格罗利奥斯（Evangelos Geroliolios）表示，这将“使我们在保护环境方面承担更大的责任”，尤其是保护当地非凡的生物多样性。
此次年度会议将于周三结束，预计将审查约 30 项提名。成功入选者将与分布在 170 个国家的 1,428 处因具有“对人类的卓越价值”而被接纳的世界遗产地并列。
被列入名录的古迹将在由联合国教科文组织监管的一项国际条约下获得法律保护，该组织还提供建议和资金支持。其他世界遗产地包括雅典的卫城、中国的万里长城、埃及的吉萨金字塔以及印度的泰姬陵。
努力将第二次世界大战在诺曼底的海滩列入名录也经历了多年。法国的申请涵盖了所有五个海滩——奥马哈（Omaha）、犹他（Utah）、索德（Sword）、戈尔德（Gold）和朱诺（Juno）——1944 年 6 月 6 日，150,000 计盟军在此登陆，以及同样作为进攻重点的霍克角（Pointe du Hoc）悬崖。
这是有史以来规模最大的两栖作战，共有 4,400 名士兵阵亡，在将欧洲从纳粹占领中解放出来的战斗中起到了决定性作用。法国在 2008 年首次提名这段 50 英里的海岸线。
在对这一决定做出反应时，法国驻联合国教科文组织常驻代表阿赫莱姆·加尔比（Ahlem Gharbi）表示，在当前国际局势如此紧张的时刻，这一认定具有特殊的分量。
一直倡导此项事业的诺曼底地区主席埃尔韦·莫林（Hervé Morin）认为，被列入名录将是对那些做出巨大牺牲的士兵们的“极高认可”。
他呼应希腊官员的话说：“这个决定赋予了我们一项责任。它迫使我们去维护这个遗址，保护它，更加珍惜它，并宣传它的价值。”
国际古迹遗址理事会（ICOMOS）是推荐联合国教科文组织名录增项的机构之一，此前曾警告称，旅游业、气候变化、海平面上升以及附近的风电场开发对诺曼底遗址构成了威胁。
海岸线上布满了第二次世界战争的遗迹，包括德国掩体、沉船和盟军设施。
联合国教科文组织表示，这些海滩形成了“一个由 1944 年的事件及其持久记忆共同塑造的卓越文化景观”，这一切都证明了进一步保护的必要性。
与奥林匹斯山一样，这些登陆点在近年来吸引了创纪录数量的游客。
将与冲突相关的地点纳入其中的举措，引发了关于“记忆之地”是否符合世界遗产地位，以及是否符合联合国教科文组织（Unesco）所宣称的“促进一个更加平等和平的世界”之使命的争论。去年，柬埔寨红色高棉政权用于酷刑和处决的三处遗址被列入名单。
泽连斯基今日访问英国，首相誓言提供“坚定不移”的支持
Peter Walker
高级政治记者
弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基今日将成为安迪·伯纳姆就任首相后的首位海外访问者，伯纳姆表示，此举凸显了英国对乌克兰“坚定不移”的支持。
在基尔·斯塔默前往基辅进行其首相任期内最后一次出国访问不到两周后，
弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基将成为安迪·伯纳姆就任首相后的首位外国访问者
泽连斯基将与伯纳姆一同前往一个乌克兰军队接受培训的海军基地。
在伯纳姆就任首相之初，这位乌克兰总统便是首批与之交谈的世界领导人之一。他已承诺将维持斯塔默对乌克兰的支持，以击退俄罗斯的入侵。
在今日的访问中，两人将与参与了“海风”演习（Exercise Sea Breeze）的乌克兰和英国军方人员交谈。这是一项由 15 个国家参与的训练部署，主要基于黑海的扫雷演习及其他海上行动。
今年演习的第二部分在多塞特郡的波特兰举行，于周五结束，涉及 200 多名乌克兰人员。
伯纳姆和泽连斯基预计还将讨论共同项目，包括“石披风”（Stone Cloak）——一种电子干扰器，英国已将其知识产权与乌克兰共享。
数千个尺寸约为平板电脑大小的干扰器已被发送至乌克兰并安装在无人机上，旨在防止俄罗斯的防空系统对其进行跟踪和定位。
乌克兰目前已能够量产该设备。在乌克兰初步使用后，这些干扰器将被安装在英国的新型武器中，包括巡航导弹。
伯纳姆表示：“英国与乌克兰肩并肩站在一起，我们的支持依然坚定不移。俄罗斯绝不应对我们的决心产生怀疑，在为乌克兰赢得持久且公正的和平之前，我们绝不会退缩。‘石披风’是英国本土创新的最高水平且已在前线得到验证，它对于保护我们两国的安全至关重要。”
根据唐宁街 10 号的数据，自 2022 年 2 月俄罗斯全面入侵乌克兰以来，英国对该国的支持总额已达 £25bn。泽连斯基表示，他希望与伯纳姆建立强有力的关系，并安排在“尽快”的时间内会面。
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默西赛德郡车祸致四人死亡，家属表达哀思
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在默西赛德郡发生的一起车辆撞击灯柱事故中，四名 20 多岁的男子不幸身亡，其家属现已对死者表达哀思。
警方接到报告称，周五凌晨 2 点前，一辆黑色 Cupra Formentor 车辆在休顿（Huyton）的利物浦路（Liverpool Road）撞击灯柱后冲出路面。
杰克·迪格尔（Jack Diggle，23 岁）、本杰明·杜利（Benjamin Dooley，23 岁）、安德鲁·罗伯茨（Andrew Roberts，24 岁）和克雷格·沙克尔顿-布雷迪（Craig Shackleton-Brady，26 岁）均被宣布在现场死亡。
默西赛德郡警方表示，该车当时正从
◀ 从左上角起顺时针方向：安德鲁·罗伯茨（24 岁）、克雷格·沙克尔顿-布雷迪（26 岁）、杰克·迪格尔（23 岁）和本杰明·杜利（23 岁）在车祸中丧生
利物浦方向开向诺兹利（Knowsley）。四个家庭均于昨日发布了悼词。
沙克尔顿-布雷迪被描述为两个孩子的“尽职且充满爱心的父亲”，以及一名“忠诚且慷慨”的男人。
埃弗顿队的忠实支持者迪格尔被家人描述为“善良、安静、体贴且充满爱心”。
杜利的母亲凯莉（Kerry）说，她的儿子是她认识的“最善良的人”，拥有一颗“金子般的心”。他的姐姐黛米（Demi）将这次死亡描述为像一场“可怕的噩梦”。
罗伯茨的家人表示：“安德鲁的离世是一个痛苦的提醒，让我们意识到每一刻究竟是多么珍贵。”
任何掌握此事件信息的人员，请联系默西赛德郡警方严重碰撞调查组，电话：0151 777 5747，或发送电子邮件至 SCIU@merseyside.police.uk 并注明参考编号 26000600149。
限制进食时间可能保护老年大脑健康
Ian Sample 科学编辑
研究人员表示，将正餐和零食时间限制在 9 小时窗口内，并在睡前 4 小时避免进食，可能有助于延缓老年时期的认知能力下降。
一项初步研究发现，对于超重或肥胖的老年女性，与将饮食时间分散在较长时段的人相比，在限制时间内进食的人在精神技能方面有改善的迹象。
如果能在更大规模的研究中得到证实，这项工作表明，人们可以通过在相对较窄的时间窗口内进食且不在深夜进食，来帮助保护其认知能力。
美国新泽西州罗格斯大学（Rutgers University）的营养学家 Sue Shapses 教授表示，单纯减轻体重就有助于减缓老年时期的认知能力下降，但对于不在 8 到 9 小时窗口之外进食且在睡眠前 4 小时停止进食的人来说，可能存在“额外益处”。
痴呆症是英国的头号死因，在全球范围内排名第七，每年导致全球近 2 million 人死亡。某些风险因素是不可避免的，如年龄和遗传，但专家认为，近一半的病例可以通过改变生活方式来预防或延缓。中年时期的肥胖可使晚年患痴呆症的风险增加 30%。
Shapses 开展了一项试验，其中 47 名年龄在 50 至 79 岁之间、超重或肥胖的女性被鼓励在 6 个月内每天减少 500 卡路里的饮食摄入。在这一组中，26 人被建议仅在 9 小时窗口内进食。通常，这意味着在上午 10 点到下午 6 点之间进食，而其余的人则将饮食分散在约 12 小时内。
试验结束时，两组的体重减轻情况相似，平均减轻约 7kg (15lb)。但认知测试显示，时间限制进食组在空间规划和问题解决方面的表现更好。此外有迹象表明，他们在记忆力测试和学习测试中的错误较少。
Shapses 表示，这种“适度”的效果表明，时间限制进食可能有助于人们记忆日常任务所需信息的能力，并减少与记忆、注意力和问题解决相关的错误。相关细节在马里兰州举行的美国营养学会（American Society for Nutrition）年会上（Nutrition 2026）进行了展示。
研究人员计划调查为什么进食时间与进食内容同样重要。这些益处可能是由昼夜节律、代谢和炎症之间复杂的相互作用驱动的。
在许多国家，在 14 小时的时间段内进食很常见，仅在夜间留出 10 小时不进食。但研究指出，延长夜间禁食具有健康益处。最近的一项回顾发现，在晚上 7 点之前完成进食与体重、血压以及代谢健康指标的显著改善相关。
伦敦国王学院营养科学负责人 Wendy Hall 教授（未参与该研究）表示，时间限制进食可能对老年人有益，“不仅因为这可能有助于体重管理，还因为避免在深夜进食大餐可能会改善血糖控制、血管功能和炎症”。她提醒说，这些发现是初步的，重要的是查阅完整的同行评审研究，以确定这些改善是否具有临床意义。
◀ 在一项研究中，在 9 小时窗口内进食的老年女性在某些认知测试中表现更好 照片：LULOSTOCK/ALARY
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英格兰去年预期寿命创历史新高，但南北差距扩大
Ian Sample
科学编辑
过去十年中，英格兰预期寿命的南北差距有所增加，北部地区的人们面临更多疾病（如心脏病和癌症），以及自杀以及与酒精和药物滥用相关的死亡。
国王基金会（King's Fund）表示，初步数据显示，预期寿命在 2025 年达到了历史最高水平，英格兰男女平均寿命分别为 80 岁和近 84 岁，但增长绝大部分集中在南部。
尽管在新冠疫情期间寿命下降最剧烈，但伦敦在截至 2023-25 年的十年间，预期寿命上升了近一年。英格兰东南部、西南部和东部也记录到了增长。
但在英格兰五个北部地区（即西北部、东北部、约克郡和亨伯地区、西米德兰兹和东米德兰兹）生活的半数人口，在同一时期内预期寿命几乎没有增加或没有增长，这反映了更高的匮乏程度。
根据这家健康慈善机构的数据，伦敦居民现在的预期寿命比东北部居民长三年。在地方层面上出现了更显著的差异：兰开夏郡布莱克浦（Blackpool, Lancashire）的男性预期寿命比汉普郡哈特（Hart, Hampshire）短 10 年，女性则短八年。
“在最匮乏的 30% 地区，预期寿命在过去十年中要么下降，要么没有改善，这是一个令人不安的故事，”国王基金会高级研究员 Veena Raleigh 表示。“与此同时，在最不匮乏的 30% 地区，预期寿命增长了半年。”
她补充道：“在过去十年中，北部进一步落后，而关于‘升级（levelling up）’以及北部再生的计划并未实现。这不仅仅是一个修复医疗服务的问题。它需要跨政府的推动，以应对更广泛的、潜在的健康决定因素，例如，确保人们拥有稳定的工作、公平的薪酬、充足的住房、洁净的空气、便利的交通以及能够负担得起的健康饮食。”
政府针对 NHS 的 10 年计划旨在提高英格兰所有人的健康预期寿命（即人们处于良好健康状态的年数），同时将最富裕和最贫困地区之间的差距缩小一半。但国王基金会称该目标“不切实际”，因为它要求人口健康的改善规模达到数十年未见之程度。
在截至 2022-24 年的十年中，英格兰所有地区的健康预期寿命均有所下降，人们现在平均在糟糕的健康状态下度过的时间增加了约 2.5 年。区域差距维持在约六到七年不变，但在最匮乏和最不匮乏的地区之间，差距可达 20 年。这些数据意味着英格兰最匮乏地区的人们不仅寿命更短，而且在健康状况不佳的情况下度过的年数更多。
“尽管政府的 10 年健康计划承诺从‘治病’转向‘预防’，但重点主要在于缩短等待名单和等待时间，”Raleigh 说道。“公共卫生和预防疾病需要被放在更高的政策议程中，例如，以应对肥胖率上升的问题。”
她说：“特别是劳动年龄成年人中健康状况恶化的趋势日益严重，这令人深感忧虑，因为除了导致经济不活跃度上升的高昂成本外，它还可能危及一些年轻人的生命历程。”
卫生与社会关怀部的一位发言人表示，政府将健康预期寿命差距缩小一半的目标反映了“挑战的规模和复杂性”。他们表示，有 £2.2bn 资金正被重新用于匮乏地区的药物和医疗设备等关键资源。
“一个人的邮政编码绝不应该决定其寿命的长短，本届政府决心解决英国境内依然存在的严重不平等现象，”该发言人表示。
“我们已经开始采取行动，从更公平地分配全科医生（GP）资金，到在最需要的地区建立开创性的社区健康中心。但现在我们将进一步把权力下放到当地社区，将决策权交给那些最了解所在地区的人，从而在全国范围内推动持久的变革。”
设备意外坠落导致北海新钻探工程延期
Geraldine McKelvie
资深记者
《卫报》揭露，由于钻井平台设备在北海意外坠落，英国最大的未开发油气田的生产可能会推迟数月。
安迪·伯纳姆的新政府正面临来自化石燃料行业的压力，要求允许从 Rosebank 现场提取石油。该现场位于设得兰群岛西北约 80 英里处，此前被认为在等待部长批准后，将在年底前准备好产油。
负责 Rosebank 项目的公司 Adura 现在表示，预计这将发生在 2027. 根据行业估计，该油田在其 25 年的寿命周期内预计将生产 3 亿桶石油。
一些国会议员认为，在全球不稳定的情况下，通过提高能源安全性，增加国内油气生产将有助于解决生活成本问题，而这正是新任首相关注的核心。但绿色活动人士认为，开发这些油田对英国经济的影响将微乎其微。
然而，Rosebank 的延期意味着该油田的生产不太可能在冬季影响英国的能源供应。Rosebank 和另一个名为 Jackdaw 的现场的许可是在保守党执政期间授予的，但在环保组织发起法院挑战后，运营被暂停。
新任能源大臣米亚塔·法恩布勒 (Miatta Fahnbulleh) 预计将在下个月关于排放的磋商结束之后，对这些油田的未来做出决定。
本周，Adura 告知英国广播公司，位于阿伯丁以东约 150 英里的 Jackdaw 最早可能在 10 月产气。然而，Rosebank 的准备工作受到了 18 April 发生的钻井平台事故的阻碍。没有工人受伤，但包括安全阀在内的两件核心钻探设备坠落 1,100 米落在海床上。
该平台由 Adura 从挪威公司 Odfjell Drilling 租用，随后被送往卑尔根的一个造船厂进行修理。目前平台已回到 Rosebank，但尚未投入运行。
Odfjell Drilling 在内部文件中表示，该钻井平台可能会停工长达四个月。《卫报》获悉，这意味着部分油井的完工时间将大幅滞后于计划。
伯纳姆正面临来自工会和反对党的呼吁，要求增加北海产量。
3 亿
Rosebank 在其 25 年寿命周期内预计生产的石油桶数
内阁办公室部长萨莉·詹姆斯顿 (Sally Jameson) 认为，增加国内油气生产将使英国在能源成本方面拥有更大的控制权。其他人则担心，这对账单不会产生实际影响，同时会对气候造成无法估量的破坏。
工党环境运动 (Labour Environment Campaign) 的成员迈克·里德 (Mike Reader) 表示，没有证据表明新钻探能在长期内挽救就业岗位。根据 Adura 提交的一份环境影响评估，北海剩余最大的气田之一 Jackdaw 仅能创造 27 个直接全职工作岗位。
新任外交大臣埃德·米利班德在工党处于反对党地位时，将 Rosebank 的钻探提案描述为“气候破坏行为”。然而，据信最近几周双方就如何在不违反工党 2024 年竞选宣言承诺的情况下允许新钻探进行了讨论，该宣言承诺不再发放新许可证，但将履行现有许可证。
据了解，环保组织正在考虑，对于政府允许新钻探的任何决定，他们是否具备采取法律行动的依据。
赫尔大学环境法讲师安杰莉基·帕潘托尼奥 (Angeliki Papantoniou) 表示，虽然发起新的挑战是“机会渺茫”，但如果该挑战基于“实质性环境问题”（如生态系统破坏和污染），则最有可能获得成功。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 活动人士敦促新任能源大臣米亚塔·法恩布勒阻止 Rosebank 的钻探。照片：FUK VALCIZONA PRESS WIRE/INUTTERSTOCK
“可以认为，在做出可能产生重大环境影响的决定时，不能合理地忽视这些进展，”她说道。
“理论上，如果[政府]在没有对钻探对海洋环境、气候和人类健康影响进行详细风险评估的情况下，[法恩布勒]很难声称[政府]采取了所有必要的预防措施。”
绿色和平组织（Greenpeace）共同执行主任 Areeba Hamid 表示，该组织对最初授予许可的决定提出了质疑，她认为批准这些油田对能源账单将产生“零影响”，且创造的就业机会寥寥无几。
“尽管有这些微小的益处，但我们却在延长一个助长热浪的污染产业，同时向我们的国际盟友发出了一个灾难性的信号，”她说道。
Odfjell Drilling 拒绝置评。Adura 未回应置评请求。
卫报 星期一 2026年7月27日
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国家政治
伯纳姆誓言在必要时将公开表达与特朗普的分歧
Peter Walker 高级政治记者
安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）在就任首相后的首次大型广播采访中承诺，在必要时，包括在公开场合，他将表达与唐纳德·特朗普的分歧。
在他发表上述言论之际，新任国防大臣韦斯·斯特里廷（Wes Streeting）表示，他不认为白宫在寻找那些“谄媚”的盟友。
伯纳哈姆在外交政策方面相对缺乏经验。在进入唐宁街 10 号后不久，他与总统进行了长时间交谈，唐宁街官员将这次通话描述为气氛融洽。
但随着华盛顿重启对伊朗的攻击，双方可能会在早期出现紧张关系。伯纳姆坚持基尔·斯塔默时期的政策，即不支持美国的进攻性行动，而这一点曾引发特朗普激烈的公开抨击。
在接受英国广播公司（BBC）第一频道《周日与劳拉·昆斯伯格》（Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg）节目采访时，伯纳姆表示：“我无法在任何时刻保证我不会与他 [特朗普] 持不同意见，我可能需要表达一个对英国而言正确的不同想法。”
这位首相表示，如果需要，他将在公开场合阐明他与特朗普的分歧：“你必须在其他任何事情之前捍卫自己的国家利益。如果你想正确地履行这份工作，这就是你被要求去做的事情。”
斯特里廷在天空新闻（Sky News）的《周日早晨与特雷弗·菲利普斯》（Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips）节目中表示，他已经与美国同行皮特·海格塞斯（Pete Hegseth）进行了交谈，并坦率地指出了在伊朗问题上持续存在的分歧。他补充道：“我很明确地表示，我们过去不支持在伊朗采取进攻行动，未来也不会支持。但有很多事情是我们能够且应该共同完成的。”
斯特里廷认为，特朗普及其团队看重这种坦诚：“你首先要做的一件事就是不要谄媚。我的印象是，特朗普总统及其政府并不在寻找这种东西。他是一个直率的人。”
当被问及是否信任唐纳德·特朗普时，斯特里廷说：“我不认识他，但我信任美国。”
“你必须在其他任何事情之前捍卫自己的国家利益”
安迪·伯纳哈姆 关于面对特朗普的态度
他补充说，担任国防职务让他能够“独特地洞察在国防和安全方面，这种关系究竟有多密切且不可或缺”。
在采访过程中，伯纳哈姆排除了为了利用工党在民调中可能出现的反弹而迅速举行大选的想法。“不会提前举行大选。我认为人们不希望如此，”他说道，并补充说人们在 2024 年是“为了政纲而投票”。
他说：“我认为我现在最需要做的是让英国专注于将国家恢复到它应有的位置。”
在国防开支方面，伯纳哈姆表示，他“非常清楚”约翰·希利（John Healey）希望迅速将国防开支提高到 GDP 的 3%，但他拒绝提供具体的时间表。约翰·希利在斯塔默任内辞去国防大臣职务，现任财政大臣。
他说：“我们共同面临的首要挑战是确保国防投资计划获得充分资金，这是摆在我们面前的事情，我们需要在制定预算的过程中逐步落实。”
斯特里廷告诉天空新闻，作为国防大臣，他有责任确保任何增加的预算都能被明智地使用。他说：“在国防采购、性价比等方面显然长期存在问题。正如我本周对国防部团队所说，这些事情不仅仅是在抽象层面重要，或者因为明智地花钱是正确的事而重要，更因为这关系到我们向纳税人要求了大量资金。”
他补充说，英国不应对伊朗的“武力威慑”（sabre-rattling）过于在意。德黑兰外交部（MFA）在本周早些时候指责英国政府允许美国发动“非法袭击”，从而“共谋侵略罪和战争罪”。
虽然政府拒绝参与针对伊朗的进攻行动，但已允许美国从驻有美军人员的英国基地发起防御性打击。
伊朗外交部在一份声明中表示，任何支持“针对伊朗的军事侵略”的人都将“为其决定的后果和反弹承担责任”。
当被问及伊朗是否可能将英国作为目标时，斯特里廷（Streeting）告诉 BBC Breakfast：“我们没有参与针对伊朗的进攻行动。我们参与了防御行动，以支持英国人民、人员、利益以及我们的盟友，并且我们将继续这样做。”
“但我们已准备好应对伊朗希望对本国或我们的盟友发起的任何攻击，并且我们将继续这样做。”
多样性得分 内阁构成揭示阶级分歧之复杂性
埃斯特·阿德利 (Esther Addley)
与英国过去的 20 位首相一样，安迪·伯纳姆 (Andy Burnham) 内阁中新任的 AI 部长卡尼什卡·纳拉扬 (Kanishka Narayan) 曾就读于伊顿公学。在就读于这座国家最顶尖的私立学校后，纳拉扬进入牛津大学贝里奥尔学院，在那里他学习了——除此之外还能学什么？——PPE（政治、哲学与经济学），就像大卫·卡梅伦 (David Cameron)、里希·苏纳克 (Rishi Sunak)、埃德·米利班德 (Ed Miliband) 以及众多其他高级政治人物一样。随后，他在斯坦福大学获得了 MBA 学位并在伦敦金融城开启了职业生涯。
但纳拉扬的背景绝非典型的英国统治阶级。他出生于印度东部的比哈尔邦，12 岁时随家人搬到卡迪夫。当时他与弟弟在他们的一居室家中睡在地板上，
直到他中学的一名教师建议，这个聪明的男孩可以申请一些私立学校。他的父母在抵达威尔士后几乎立即加入了工党，他们经营一家加油站。能够进入伊顿公学完全得益于一份全额奖学金。
21 世纪英国的阶级与代表性可能非常复杂。例如，根据某些衡量标准，伯纳姆在周一就任首相后宣布的新任部长团队的构成，
▲ AI 部长卡尼什卡·纳拉扬通过奖学金就读于伊顿公学
可以被视为一种倒退。其内阁中超过五分之一的人在大部分教育阶段就读于私立学校——而在基尔·斯塔默 (Keir Starmer) 时期，有时每位高级部长都就读于公立学校。而且，目前领导政府政策的部长中竟有 54% 就读于牛津或剑桥，而斯塔默时期这一比例为 29%。（英国人口中就读于牛剑的比例不足 1%。）
然而，在其他方面，伯纳姆的高层团队则更加多样化，参加内阁会议的人员中有一半（当然包括首相本人）代表北部的选区。并且，内阁在历史上首次实现了男女比例平衡。其中一人，能源大臣米亚塔·法恩布勒 (Miatta Fahnbulleh)，也属于接受私立教育的人员——此前她和家人于 1986 年作为寻求庇护者从利比里亚抵达
2026 年 7 月 27 日，星期一 卫报
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英国。
这一切究竟有多重要？首相的高级部长们应当具备能力——他们是否还需要具备代表性？
萨顿信托基金会 (Sutton Trust) 首席执行官尼克·哈里森 (Nick Harrison) 表示：“内阁的背景当然很重要。如果他们旨在代表这个国家，那么他们就应该具有这个国家的代表性。我们绝对认为，如果会议桌周围拥有广泛的观点、视角和背景，你将能做出更好的决定。”
虽然 28 人的内阁出席规模可能较小，但对于伦敦政治经济学院研究阶级与不平等问题的社会学教授萨姆·弗里德曼 (Sam Friedman) 来说，其构成象征着英国权力获取范围的更广泛情况。他说，审视这些高级职位的人员“为一场更广泛的对话提供了窗口，探讨人们的背景如何影响他们在社会中达到顶层职位的能力”。
根据弗里德曼的研究，英国的权力仍然绝大多数集中在极少数人的手中。他指出，学生
首任内阁中就读于牛津或剑桥的比例
+1% 的普通公众就读于牛津或剑桥
| 伯纳姆 | 54% | 46% |
|---|---|---|
| 斯塔默 | 39 | 62 |
| 苏纳克 | 52 | 48 |
首届内阁中就读私立学校者的比例*
7% 的人口就读于私立学校
| Burnham | 22% | 78% |
|---|---|---|
| Starmer | 8 | 92 |
| Sunak | 63 | 39 |
| Trass | 60 | 32 |
| Johnson | 64 | 36 |
| May | 95 | 70 |
| Cameron | 95 | 50 |
| Cameron | 62 (第一名) | 38 |
| Brown | 32 | 68 |
| Blair | 32 | 68 |
| Major | 71 | 29 |
| Thatcher | 91 | 9 |
来源：HS Ministers Database, Sutton Trust. 注：参加内阁会议的部长。Burnham 内阁中一名成员的就学情况不详。*若就读多所学校，则选取就读时间最长的一所。
上周 Andy Burnham 在唐宁街与他的内阁成员在一起，其中 54% 的人毕业于牛剑 (Oxbridge) 照片：EDDS MILWOLAND/WPASSETTY
在九所最顶尖的私立学校中，其毕业生进入精英职位的可能性仍比就读任何其他类型学校的人高出 52 倍。出生于 1960 年代和 1970 年代初的牛剑毕业生（Burnham 出生于 1970 年并就读于剑桥大学）进入英国精英阶层的可能性比未上大学的同龄人高出 250 倍以上。
Friedman 认为，内阁仅仅是庞大的权力中间人冰山的一角，而这些人自身的精英背景在政府决策过程中可能起到关键作用。
根据他一项调查精英阶层态度的研究，他表示，“那些在更特权背景下成长的人往往倾向于右翼”，而且“内阁中的权力持有者经常与能够调节其决策能力的公务员和商业领袖互动”。
对于埃克塞特大学社会流动性教授 Lee Elliot Major 来说，审查国家掌权者的背景是合理的，但他表示，“仅仅统计私立学校和牛剑学位只能说明部分情况。真正的挑战在于，部长们是否理解英国当代机会体系现在的运作方式。”
“传统的标志，如就读学校或父母职业，不再像以前那样简单地预示着优势。如今的分水岭越来越多地由财富、地理位置、关系网络以及决定进入和晋升精英阶层的隐藏文化代码所塑造。”
Major 认为，挑战远不止于扩大进入传统权力通道的机会（尽管这很重要）。相反，无论背景如何，政治家必须应对他所称的“现代资本主义承诺的深刻瓦解”——即对于 40 岁及以下的人群，现在经历阶层下滑的人数多于阶层上升的人数——换句话说，他们的生活水平低于其父母。
“对本届政府的考验不在于部长们本身是否实现了社会流动，”Major 说，“而在于他们能否创造一个让更多人拥有真正繁荣机会的社会。”
斯旺西大学讲师 Daniel Evans 博士也表示赞同，他的研究重点包括政治和社会阶层。他说：“（政治家的）出身故事有点像烟雾弹。更大的问题是毕业生溢价的彻底崩塌，学生在大学期间背负的债务，以及毕业生面临的就业市场是多么残酷。”
“我们一直在谈论社会流动性，就好像每个人都能实现一样，但对于许多人来说，大学在经济上是无法触及的，就业市场糟糕透顶。没人买得起公寓。社会舆论并没有跟上现实。”
圣洁之异
不要指望天主教首相会引入美国的文化战争
Aamna Mohdin
社区事务记者
随着英国首位终身天主教徒首相的任命，这一信仰目前在英国和美国都处于显眼的政治位置。
但是，虽然唐纳德·特朗普的政府——尤其是副总统、天主教皈依者 JD Vance——将天主教置于其文化战争的核心，并因美国在社会问题上的强硬立场而多次与梵蒂冈发生冲突，但安迪·伯纳汉（Andy Burnham）所受的影响是具有不同政治优先顺序的英国天主教传统。
在周一抵达唐宁街之前的几个小时，伯纳汉访问了 Passage，这是一个在威斯敏斯特成立的天主教无家可归者慈善机构。随后，他将结束露宿街头作为其担任首相后的第一项承诺。
就像之前的方济各教宗一样，利奥教宗经常被美国基督教右翼描绘成由于捍卫移民而变得“觉醒”（woke）。当伯纳汉以大曼彻斯特市长的身份在 2023 年前往罗马时，他向方济各赠送了一件签名的曼联球衣；在教宗去世后，他赞扬其对“人类平等与慈悲”的奉献。
工党附属组织“左翼基督徒”（Christians on the Left）主任汉娜·里奇（Hannah Rich）表示：“英国教会不是美国教会，英国围绕基督教的文化也与美国不同。”
“那些棘手的［文化战争］问题并不一定是驱动人们的因素。这并不是说这个国家的基督徒在这些问题上没有强烈的观点，且观点方向各异。但对于这个国家的教会来说，它们在政治上的统一力远不如在美国的文化和政治影响那样显著。”
伯纳汉长期以来一直开玩笑说，有三个机构塑造了他：埃夫顿足球俱乐部、天主教会和工党。
对他而言，教会和政党长期以来一直交织在一起。在 20 世纪 80 年代他担任祭坛童工时，利物浦大主教德里克·沃洛克（Derek Worlock）是玛格丽特·撒切尔最激烈的批评者之一，并敦促天主教徒与贫困和不平等作斗争。沃洛克在磁带上录制的信息被发送到了每个教区。
创立了“劳工天主教徒”（Catholics for Labour）的工党议员迈克·凯恩（Mike Kane）表示，他看到天主教社会教义中的原则（如尊严和团结）反映在伯纳汉的政治风格中。
“他实际上并不会把对手的眼睛抓破，”凯恩说，“我认为他的政治最终是非常充满希望和乐观的。”
智库 Theos 的高级研究员尼克·斯宾塞（Nick Spencer）表示，他认为英国和美国出现如此不同的基督教政治表达方式有很多原因。
“文化战争政治实际上繁荣于一种排斥的叙事，”他说，“但在英国，很难主张你作为一名基督徒在社会、文化和政治上被边缘化。如果你为国家元首加冕，如果你在上议院拥有 26 位主教，那么你已经非常接近权力核心了。”
到目前为止，天主教和其他有组织宗教对伯纳汉的压力主要来自左翼团体。在慈善机构 HIAS+JCORE 的协调下，近 40 位资深的基督教、穆斯林和犹太教领袖敦促伯纳汉重新思考英国的庇护政策。
耶稣会难民服务中心（Jesuit Refugee Service）英国分部主任、该信函签署人戴维·赖尔（David Ryall）博士表示，目前有一场捍卫庇护权的夏季运动。
“看到这么多天主教教区、团体和家庭在信仰的驱动下，向当地政客以及现在的新首相发出呼吁，这真是太令人惊叹了，”他说。
英国日益增长的宗教多元化与宪法之间存在着不安的共存。法律与宗教专家罗素·桑德伯格（Russell Sandberg）教授表示，现行立法仍禁止执业的天主教徒和犹太教徒就英国国教的任命向王室提供建议。
“在实践中，首相在任命主教方面的作用已经下降，”他说道。“也就是说，即便伯纳姆只提交一个名字，也会违反 1829 年的《罗马天主教救济法》。”他补充说，这些职责可以委派给另一位大臣。
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卢克·康布斯 (Luke Combs)
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我们初次见到卢克·康布斯时，这位出生于北卡罗来纳州的超级巨星正穿过体育场的观众群。他压低了帽子，脸上带着羞涩的神情，这番举动不像是在应对狗仔队的围追堵截，更像是一个普通人为了上班而避开快闪人群。
康布斯现在是史上销量最高的乡村音乐艺人，但他以谦逊的态度对待自己的成功：当他最终走上那个以沙龙为主题的舞台，面对近 70,000 名
尖叫的粉丝时，他依然保持着那种不张扬的风范。
“通常我会问你们今晚感觉如何，但我知道你们今晚的感觉，”他微笑着说道。
本周，康布斯将在英格兰、苏格兰和爱尔兰的仅 7 场演出中，为超过 50 万名粉丝带来表演：对于一位在此地尚未拥有前 10 名单曲的艺人来说，这是一次非凡的加冕。
但从观众们在他 2016 年的热门单曲 $\text{Hurricane}$ 中每一句词都跟唱的狂热程度来看，你根本感觉不到这一点。这是一首关于在酒吧偶遇前任的软摇滚心碎之曲，其电影感的副歌（“月亮躲了起来，星星不再闪耀”）让它
▲ 乡村巨星卢克·康布斯在爱丁堡默里菲尔德球场的演出中以强大的嗓音火力令粉丝们欢欣鼓舞，演出中还伴有讨观众喜爱的烟火效果 摄影：KATHERINE ANNE ROSE / 卫报
更接近早期的 Taylor，而非任何乡村肌肉男的粗犷风格。
这次短期巡演以最近的单曲 $\text{My Kinda Saturday Night}$ 命名，承诺——并兑现了——一场派对。康布斯带来了三组开场表演，大量的烟火，以及名人客串，并在两小时内塞进了近 30 首歌曲。但其中一些最精彩的时刻，例如在结束前就让人感到怀旧的 $\text{Tell 'Em About Tonight}$，本该有更多的留白空间。
遗憾的是，回声效果使得康布斯说话时几乎无法分辨词句，并模糊了他那些更为细腻的歌曲，例如带有小提琴伴奏的 $\text{5 Leaf Clover}$。但康布斯拥有当代乡村音乐中最强大的嗓音之一，既有排山倒海般的撕裂怒吼，又具备真正的温柔与掌控力。
他活力十足的乐队为 $\text{Back in the Saddle}$ 和 $\text{Beer Never Broke My Heart}$ 注入了竞技场摇滚的自信，而闪耀且带有悲剧色彩的 $\text{Where the Wild Things Are}$ 则引发了粉丝们在回家路上仍不愿停止的大合唱。通过激情演绎 $\text{Ain't No Love in Oklahoma}$（出自《龙卷风》原声带），康布斯的能量在迸发，他挥舞着双臂，抛弃了谦逊——而这正是他应得的。
周五至周日，伦敦温布利体育场
奥巴马将访英并开展现场访谈巡演
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前美国总统巴拉克·奥巴马将通过一系列舞台访谈形式在英国进行巡演。
这位 64 岁的前总统曾在 2009 年成为美国首位黑人总统。在去年于伦敦 O2 体育馆和都柏林 3Arena 举行演出后，他将把名为《与巴拉克·奥巴马总统共度的一晚》(An Evening With President Barack Obama) 的演出带到贝尔法斯特、格拉斯哥和曼彻斯特。
他将于 10 月 13 日出现在贝尔法斯特的 O2 体育馆，10 月 14 日出现在格拉斯哥的 Ovo Hydro，以及 10 月 15 日出现在曼彻斯特的 Co-op Live，特邀主持人将另行公布。
组织者表示，奥巴马将在现场访谈形式中谈论“美国以及我们所有人接下来的方向”。今年 9 月，历史学家大卫·奥卢索加 (David Olusoga) 在伦敦 O2 体育馆对其进行了采访。
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沃达丰门店经理去世后，家属呼吁制定新特许经营规则
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一名原手机店经理在沃达丰 (Vodafone) 特许经营店开业前几天被发现淹死，其家人正敦促政府以他的名义引入一项特许经营法。
本月，沃达丰就 62 名原特许经营商提出的长期法律诉求达成和解。这些原告指称，该公司通过牺牲他们的利益，使其自身获得了高达 £85m 的“不当得利”。
双方在一份联合声明中表示，在诉求提交至高等法院 19 个月后，双方达成了这项“在不承认任何责任”的前提下的保密协议。
这些原告代表了 167 家沃达丰特许经营商中的近 40%，他们的困境最早由《卫报》在 2024 年 12 月报道。随后，沃达丰向原告道歉，原告则指责该电信集团施加的压力触发了其自杀念头。
但在这些原告中并不包括原沃达丰员工埃德里安·豪 (Adrian Howe)。他的家人表示，他在 2018 年自杀，因为他深信与该电信集团达成的新特许经营协议将在财务上导致毁灭性后果。
他的案例在 1 月份被提交至议会，促使时任首相基尔·斯塔默承诺审查管理特许经营协议的法律。
“英国的特许经营商没有保护措施——这一点需要改变，”豪的女儿克斯蒂-安妮·霍姆斯 (Kirsty-Anne Holmes) 表示。“需要一个管理机构来监督这些合同。像沃达丰这样的特许经营商可以在合同中加入任何条款，比如个人担保，这种行为非常恶劣。如果之前就有这些保护措施，我父亲可能就不会自杀。”
霍姆斯本月与时任商业贸易部的代表会面，讨论其父亲的案例，并提出了在“埃德里安法”旗帜下制定新特许经营条例的可能性。
“我不希望这件事仅仅因为换了首相就被遗忘或掩盖，”她说。“我要为父亲争取正义。”
豪的案例进一步引发了人们对这家电信公司如何对待其特许经营商的质疑。一项 2020 年的调查显示，绝大多数特许经营商对其公司行为给心理健康带来的影响持批评态度。
豪，58 岁，当时正准备在北艾尔郡的欧文 (Irvine) 开一家沃达丰特许经营店，但据其家人回忆，公司随后告知他需要同时接手在基尔马诺克 (Kilmarnock) 的第二家特许经营店。
他此前曾在基尔马诺克店工作，深知该店经营困难。如果业绩无法好转，由于在特许经营合同中向沃达丰提供了个人担保，豪的家庭住所将面临风险。
豪的小儿子内森 (Nathan) 表示，在他去世前不久，两人在一家酒吧喝酒时，父亲告诉他：“沃达丰抓住了我的软肋 (has me by the balls)”。他回忆道，父亲还补充说：“这杯酒或许能救我。”
这位店经理于 2018 年 8 月 27 日在离家很短路程的地方被发现淹死，而他的特许经营店原定于 9 月 2 日开业。
那个临近的日期似乎促使他在家中一个笔记本上写下了一段话。根据尸检报告，豪写道：“9 月 1 日，死亡真好”。
病理学家的文件暗示了其他可能的因素（如心脏病），并指出豪有“焦虑和抑郁史 (1995)”，尽管他的亲属表示，那次特定的心理健康危机持续时间很短，且从未复发。
法医病理学家表示，豪因为“创建新业务而‘有点压力’”，并得出结论认为他的死因“与溺水相符”。
沃达丰本周未就豪的案例提供任何最新评论。
该公司去年表示，“完全否认”任何关于其“故意、鲁莽或过失地”给特许经营店相关人员施加不合理压力的说法。
心理健康专家强调，自杀通常是复杂的，且往往涉及多种触发因素。
沃达丰英国公司 (Vodafone UK) 的一位发言人此前表示：“虽然对于任何合作伙伴可能经历的困难局面，我们深感遗憾，但我们否认任何关于我们的加盟商承受了不当压力的说法。
“我们继续运营一个成功的特许经营业务，许多现有的加盟商通过接管更多门店，与我们一起扩大了业务规模。我们鼓励每个人提出问题，并且我们将始终寻求解决这些问题。”
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◀ 柯斯蒂-安妮·霍姆斯 (Kirsty-Anne Holmes) 的父亲艾德里安 (Adrian) 于 2018 年去世，她希望以其名义制定一项新法律来保护加盟商。
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‘我不希望这件事被掩盖——我要为父亲讨回公道’
柯斯蒂-安妮·霍姆斯，女儿
五名“巴勒斯坦行动”成员因破坏银行可能面临恐怖主义判刑
法律事务记者
五名“巴勒斯坦行动”（Palestine Action）活动人士因打破窗户并向兰开夏郡的一家巴克莱银行（Barclays Bank）分行投掷红色油漆，面临被作为恐怖分子判刑的风险。
布伦登·奥海根（Brendon O’Hagan），28岁；阿曼达·凯利（Amanda Kelly），31岁；胡梅拉·阿提基萨尔（Humeera Atiquisar），31岁；穆罕默德·马利克（Mohammed Malik），28岁；以及阿尔玛·亚尼夫（Alma Yaniv），70岁，被判定在 2024 年 8 月于伯恩利的一次直接行动抗议中造成了 £212,000 的损失。他们将该银行定为目标，是因为该行持有以色列武器公司埃尔比特系统（Elbit Systems）的股份。
在裁决之后，法官菲利普·帕里（Philip Parry）告知控方和辩方，他将考虑其中是否存在“恐怖主义关联”，尽管陪审团和被告此前均未被告知这种可能性。
上个月，四名“巴勒斯坦行动”活动人士成为首批被判定破坏财产且其罪行——在袭击布里斯托附近埃尔比特菲尔顿工厂期间——在定罪后被约翰逊法官（Mr Justice Johnson）认定具有“恐怖主义关联”的被告。帕里在要求律师就巴克莱银行案件中可能的关联提交陈述时，附上了约翰逊的判决书。
马利克表示：“法官和皇家检控局（CPS）现在试图因为红色油漆和几扇破碎的窗户将我们作为恐怖分子判刑。这远远超出了提交给法院的指控，并引发了人们对日益增加地利用反恐立法来迫害政治异见者的严重担忧。”
他补充说，这“证明了约翰逊法官所开创的极其危险的先例”。
“巴勒斯坦行动”联合创始人胡达·阿莫里（Huda Ammori）表示，这是约翰逊决定导致“闸门开启”的一个例子。
此次银行抗议发生在“巴勒斯坦行动”被禁为恐怖组织之前，当时内政大臣和相关官员均未将其评估为恐怖主义事件。
皇家检控局主张应对巴克莱银行的这五人按照恐怖分子进行判刑，尽管检察官在审判前或审判期间均未提出此可能性。
《卫报》获悉，皇家检控局辩称，这种关联仅在被告于审理过程中做出的承认中才显现，包括与他们隶属于“巴勒斯坦行动”相关的内容，且此次抗议是针对巴克莱银行更广泛运动的一部分。
人权组织“自由”（Liberty）主任明子·哈特（Akiko Hart）表示，此案进一步凸显了“英国反恐法的深度缺陷，这些法律将大多数人绝不会认为是恐怖主义的行为纳入其中”。
工党议员及前影子财政大臣约翰·麦克唐纳（John McDonnell）表示：“根据刑事法起诉直接行动抗议者，然后根据恐怖主义立法对其判刑，无论如何都不能被视为公平或公正。这种做法似乎专门旨在通过沉默那些反对加沙种族灭绝的人士的声音。”
伯恩利案件的量刑定于 9 月 4 日。皇家检控局和司法部门拒绝发表评论。
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敦促首相下令审查 1994 年导致 29 人死亡的直升机坠毁事故
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1994 年一次英国皇家空军（RAF）契努克（Chinook）直升机坠毁事故的遇难者家属敦促安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）结束英国的“掩盖文化”，并下令对该灾难进行独立审查。
当时，一架契努克 HC2 直升机在从北爱尔兰飞往苏格兰西南部的金泰尔角（Mull of Kintyre）途中坠毁，导致 29 名在役军人死亡。
两名飞行员最初被指为坠机原因，但在 2011 年的一次调查后被免除责任，而该调查并未确定事故原因。
曾领导该官方审查的前保守党国防大臣利亚姆·福克斯（Liam Fox）上个月表示，人们“深感担忧”某些“关键信息”可能被隐瞒。福克斯支持开展新独立审查的呼吁，并表示目前已有“足够强烈的信念”认为曾发生过掩盖行为。他表示，人们担心国防部提供的关于该直升机适航性的细节“并不正确”。
一名高等法院法官本月裁定，由于时间太晚，几名坠机遇难者的家属不能就该事件对国防部提起法律诉讼。
“契努克正义运动”（Chinook Justice Campaign, CJC）由 25 名遇难者中 55 逾名家庭成员组成，该组织表示将把此案提交至欧洲人权法院。
然而，父亲约翰·托比亚斯中校（Lt Col John Tobias）在坠机中丧生的马特·托比亚斯（Matt Tobias）表示，家属们“不希望再经历多年的诉讼”，并敦促首相提供帮助。
他表示：“我们敦促伯纳姆先生在就职后的前 100 天内与我们会面，以便我们提交近年来出现的新证据，并解释为什么我们认为现在必须进行一次独立于国防部的全新审查。伯纳姆先生在下议院的演讲中谈到了结束英国的掩盖文化并加强坦诚义务，这给了我们家属真正的希望。”
在递交给伯纳姆的一封信中，契努克遇难者家属表示，这可以成为新《希尔斯堡法》（Hillsborough law）的“测试案例”。该法本月获得国会议员一致支持，它规定公共官员和机构在调查期间具有法律强制性的坦诚义务，必须采取透明行动。
托比亚斯说：“我们要求他及其部长们给予契努克家属比其前任更多的尊重，前任拒绝了我们的会面和调查请求——反而相信国防部的谎言。在 32 年后，我们并不是在要求特殊待遇。我们仅仅是在寻求真相。”
CJC 组织表示，希望伯纳姆建立一个独立于国防部的全新审查机制，并拥有完整权限查阅所有与契努克 Mk2 直升机适航性及导致坠机情况相关的相关文件。
国防部发言人表示：“我们理解最近的法院判决对于相关人员来说令人失望。国防部长此前已与 CJC 会面，我们将继续接触。”
男子因前伴侣死亡被起诉，后在狱中死亡
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一名被指控谋杀前伴侣的男子在监狱中死亡。
李·格里南 (Lee Greenan)，46 岁，被指控于上周一晚上在爱丁堡 Craigievar Square 的一处房屋中杀害了维基·索罗门 (Vikki Soloman)。
索罗门，44 岁，被发现时伤势严重，在现场被宣布死亡。
苏格兰警方表示，格里南于昨天早晨在爱丁堡监狱 (HMP Edinburgh) 被发现死亡。一名发言人表示：“周日上午 8.55 左右，我们获悉一名 46 岁的男子在爱丁堡监狱死亡。”
“目前看来没有任何可疑情况。”
苏格兰监狱服务局一名发言人表示：“每一次死亡，无论是在监狱羁押期间还是在社区中，对于所有认识和支持该个体的的人来说都是一场悲剧。”
“在我们的看管下有人死亡后，苏格兰警方会收到通知，且此事将报告给检察官。”
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国际牛仔日每年在 7 月的第四个星期六庆祝，旨在纪念牛仔和女牛仔的历史。虽然植根于北美的传统，但牛仔文化和乡村音乐近年来在非洲部分地区获得了越来越多的追随者，尤其是在肯尼亚，西式时尚、排舞、骑马和音乐活动吸引了一群爱好者，例如周六在内罗比的这些参与者。摄影：Luis Tato/Getty Images
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因担心美国弹药 dwindle，特朗普继续暂缓对伊朗的袭击
Andrew Roth 耶路撒冷
由于顶级军事专家建议唐纳德·特朗普停止其轰炸行动，且旨在避免全面战争回归的外交谈判仍在继续，美国昨晚继续克制，未对伊朗发动袭击。
据称，在这一已持续近五个月的冲突中，特朗普正在权衡外交与军事选项，预计本杰明·内塔尼亚胡将于明日访问白宫。这位以色列总理一直公开批评华盛顿与德黑兰的谈判，并敦促美国继续对伊朗进行军事打击。
内塔尼亚胡面临巨大的政治压力，需在10月选举前证明其针对伊朗以及黎巴嫩真主党的军事行动已取得成效。
德黑兰方面昨日表示，将暂停其所谓的针对美国在该地区盟友的“报复性”袭击。军队发言人穆罕默德·阿克拉米尼亚表示：“这些（美国）袭击一直持续到两个晚上前，但在过去两个晚上里，美国人停止了袭击。我们的策略基本上是报复性的。我们也已经停止了我们的报复行动。”
据报道，特朗普政府的高级官员已向总统发出警告，弹药储备的减少可能会妨碍持续的军事行动。
Axios昨日报道称，美国在该地区的最高军事指挥官布拉德·库珀上将已告知特朗普，美国的军事行动已达到效能极限。
“我们正在与（伊朗人）交谈……我认为随着时间的推移，他们变得越来越认真”
唐纳德·特朗普 美国总统
据该新闻网站报道，这一信息被认为影响了特朗普决定近两周来首次暂缓对伊朗袭击的决定。库珀曾告知特朗普，美国几乎已经耗尽了针对伊朗制定的攻击目标清单，如果不恢复大规模作战行动，继续轰炸行动几乎没有意义。
昨日在 NBC 的《压力下会面》(Meet the Press) 节目中，被问及特朗普是否排除了对伊朗进行追加袭击的可能性时，总统的联合国大使迈克·沃尔茨表示：“我完全不会那样说。总统保留所有选项。”
这场始于周五晚上的战斗停歇，发生在由特朗普促成的停火协议崩溃之后。华盛顿将袭击美国在该地区军队及盟友的行为，以及关闭霍尔木兹海峡（据估计有 20% 的全球石油和天然气由此通道运输）归咎于伊朗。
据称，来自伊朗和阿曼的高级外交官昨日正在就重新开放这一关键水域进行谈判，德黑兰的一名官员确认，其同事一直与美国谈判代表保持联系，以防止
战争回归。伊朗要求获得报酬，并对通过该海峡的船只拥有控制权。
伊朗外交部发言人埃斯梅尔·巴盖伊在昨日的新闻发布会上表示：“调解人正在努力工作，试图防止紧张局势升级。”
但一名伊朗军队发言人则表达了挑衅态度，称美国没有明确的战略，且正“经历战略决策疲劳”。
据媒体报道，美国副总统 JD Vance 和参谋长联席会议主席丹·凯恩在周五的椭圆形办公室会议上，向特朗普警告了重启针对伊朗军事行动的风险。随后，总统命令军方取消新的袭击，他此前曾警告称这些袭击可能会“摧毁他们拥有的一切”。
“我们现在正与（伊朗人）交谈，”特朗普周五告诉记者，“我认为随着时间的推移，他们变得越来越认真。我们已经准备就绪，蓄势待发，但我们正在与他们交谈。”
在当晚的一次白宫记者协会晚宴上，特朗普表示，他不认为伊朗准备好达成协议，但他准备好倾听。
凯恩警告特朗普，弹药库存正在减少，其中包括爱国者导弹拦截弹以及战斧巡航导弹等进攻性武器。万斯在竞选期间主张反对美国干涉中东军事事务，并且在反对伊朗战争方面发声愈发激烈。
内塔尼亚胡的办公室昨天表示，他将在今天前往华盛顿之前召开安全内阁会议。在今年2月游说特朗普对伊朗发动联合打击方面，他发挥了关键作用，并表示美国谈判代表必须在伊朗的核计划和弹道导弹计划上采取强硬立场。然而，他们目前的优先级是开放霍尔木兹海峡。
内塔尼亚胡在约旦河西岸今年以来最严重的暴力冲突期间前往华盛顿。在周四武装定居者进入一个巴勒斯坦村庄导致四名巴勒斯坦人和两名以色列人死亡后，其军队在那里发起了一场“大规模”行动。
美国和由新任首相安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）领导的英国，正讨论计划于本周在伦敦举行会议，探讨建立一个保护霍尔木兹海峡船舶并清除该水域水雷的联盟的可能性。
“这是可耻的” 五角大楼被指掩盖军队伤亡人数
大卫·史密斯 (David Smith)
前美国国防部长兼中央情报局局长里昂·帕内塔 (Leon Panetta) 告诉卫报，五角大楼在发布关于伊朗战争中美国人员伤亡信息时采取了“可耻的方式”。官员们面临指控，称他们因担心 11 月中期选举前引起公众反弹，而试图隐藏唐纳德·特朗普在伊朗这场自愿发起的战争的真实代价；与此同时，五角大楼已经两个半月没有举行新闻发布会了。
帕内塔曾在阿富汗和伊拉克战争期间每周主持五角大楼的新闻简报会，他批评该部门未能披露在伊朗对美国基地的炸弹袭击中有多少人受伤。他表示：“这里存在一种刻意的努力，旨在基本上向美国人民隐瞒信息。我认为，在面对打仗所承担的共同责任时，这在很多方面代表了一种可耻的处理方式。”
在伊朗战争中阵亡的美国士兵人数在上
▲ 预计本杰明·内塔尼亚胡将于明天访问白宫，此时特朗普正在权衡其军事方案 摄影：DEBBIE HILL/UPUSHUTTERSTOCK
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周末上升至 18 人，而约有 430 名美国士兵受伤。五角大楼上周表示，自 7 月 7 日以来有 100 名服役人员受伤，但其中 96% 已重返岗位。
根据《纽约时报》的一篇报道，该部门最初未能披露这些数字，直到后来才在社交媒体帖子中承认伤亡情况。
官员们将《时报》的文章斥为“毫无根据且恶意”的，并主张如果服役人员预计将重返岗位，则无需公布其受伤情况。但当另一篇《时报》报道称，五角大楼网站将阵亡人数从 18 人下调至 14 人时，质疑声进一步增强，对此五角大楼将其归咎于“临时数据中断”。
前美国驻联合国代表副手兼国务院前发言人内德·普赖斯 (Ned Price) 表示：“这已经超出了一个普通政府对媒体的不信任和敌视。这更多是为了屏蔽美国人民，使其无法得知这场战争真实且完整的代价。”
自五个月前战争爆发以来，政府对行动保密的渴望与媒体代表公众对透明度的要求之间一直存在紧张关系。即使是在极具争议且不受欢迎的越南战争和伊拉克战争期间，沟通渠道在某种程度上也是保持开放的。
但自从特朗普在 2025 年 1 月重新掌权后，被更名为“战争部”的五角大楼一直在限制访问权限。
几乎在立即之后，它就将包括《纽约时报》、国家公共广播电台 (National Public Radio) 在内的大型媒体驱逐在外。
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以及 Politico 等长期驻守的记者，取而代之的是亲特朗普的媒体，如 Breitbart、One America News Network 和 New York Post。五月，五角大楼对记者在大部分办公区域内的自由流动实施了限制。
不断收紧的限制引起了新闻自由监督机构的警觉。十月，大多数新闻机构选择撤出五角大楼，而非同意新规则；根据新规则，如果记者试图报道未经国防部长皮特·海格塞斯 (Pete Hegseth) 批准发布的信息（无论是机密信息还是其他信息），将面临被驱逐的风险。
五角大楼还将新闻办公室宣布为机密空间，记者不得进入，因为该空间被撰稿人使用，而这些人“经常处理机密资料”。
无国界记者会 (Reporters Without Borders) 华盛顿主任克莱顿·威默斯 (Clayton Weimers) 表示：“我认为这么说并不夸张，
◀ 美国旨在破坏伊朗军事路线的袭击后，霍尔穆兹甘省一座桥梁受损的情况 摄影：MORTEZA AKHOUNDU/GETTY IMAGES
五角大楼对新闻媒体的敌意比人们记忆中近期的任何一个五角大楼都要深。”
当前的遮掩行为在与伊朗战争初期的对比中显得尤为刺眼。当时，海格塞斯无处不在，发表着夸张的简报，在其中他吹嘘将“毫不留情”地歼灭伊朗军队，并将美国恢复为一个由“真正的战士”组成的国家。
随后，当被认为“不体面”的海格塞斯照片出现在公众视野中时，五角大楼禁止了纪实摄影师进入。前国务卿助理 Joel Rubin 表示：“当你无法清晰地传达地面上实际发生的情况时，这意味着你可能对地面上的进展，以及它在政治和政策领域产生的影响缺乏信心或感到不安。很明显，人们现在非常担心这场战争中会出现伤亡。”
普赖斯 (Price) 表示：“这不再是十几个或二十几个军人遭受轻微脑震荡的那种情况。政府可能正确地计算出，如果经济成本与给我们的军人带来的全面代价叠加，这场在政治上已经处于劣势的战争将进一步拖垮政府。”
尽管海格塞斯一直在避开媒体，但他上周被迫出席国会山的听证会，为这场已耗资 $37.5bn (£28bn) 的战争辩护。在一次激烈的参议院拨款委员会听证会上，两党政治家都对政府无止境的资金需求及其拒绝提供直接答案或连贯战略的行为表示深切挫败。
五角大楼否认其在淡化伤亡报告。首席发言人肖恩·帕内尔 (Sean Parnell) 在一份声明中表示：“特朗普总统和海格塞斯部长一直在直接通过网络向媒体和美国民众提供最新进展，就我们的目标和果断行动提供清晰且未经过滤的洞察。”
尽管简报会已销声匿迹，但五角大楼的专项记者仍在挖掘消息源并寻求信息。帕内塔 (Panetta) 表示：“本质上，他们是在挑战新闻界去寻找真实发生的事情，而记者们一定会找到。他们可以躲闪、回避和掩饰，但根据我的经验，无论你如何尝试掩盖，真相最终都会大白。”
凯蒂·佩里 (Katy Perry)
白宫在战争视频中使用其歌曲引发愤怒
Marina Dunbar
在特朗普政府将她的热门歌曲《Firework》用于一段关于导弹袭击伊朗海军舰艇的 TikTok 视频后，凯蒂·佩里对此表示谴责，称她从未批准使用她的音乐。
佩里在周末于 X 上发布声明，回应了这段已获得超过 600 万次观看的视频。
“看到《Firework》被用于白宫的 TikTok 账号，作为军事打击视频的背景音乐，我深感震惊和愤怒，”她写道。
“我创作这首歌是为了让处于个人最黑暗时刻的人们拥有希望、治愈和内在力量的赞歌。看到一个关于自我价值和提升的信息被武器化，用来为破坏和暴力配音，这完全违背了我的歌曲所代表的一切。我的音乐是为了将人们团结在一起，而不是为了庆祝战争。”
佩里是众多批评特朗普政府在政府社交媒体帖子中未经授权使用音乐的艺术家之一，而总统本人也与几位——大多是女性——流行歌手发生了争执。
奥莉维亚·罗德里戈（Olivia Rodrigo）在她的其中一首歌出现在一段宣传遣返工作的政府视频后，对该政府提出了批评；碧昂丝（Beyoncé）在她的歌曲《Freedom》被用于一段社交媒体上的竞选视频后，禁止唐纳德·特朗普使用该曲。
萨布丽娜·卡彭特（Sabrina Carpenter）在她的热门歌曲《Juno》被用于一段展示移民和海关执法局（ICE）官员进行逮捕的视频后也发声指责。卡彭特称该视频“邪恶且令人厌恶”，并告知该政府：“永远不要利用我或我的音乐来服务于你们不人道的议程。”
佩里目前与前加拿大总理贾斯廷·特鲁多（Justin Trudeau）交往，而特鲁多本人也多次成为特朗普攻击的目标。
▲ 佩里是近期一系列批评白宫的艺术家之一
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世界 印度
卫报 周一 2026 年 7 月 27 日
▼ 在德里的“蟑螂民众党”支持者庆祝教育部长 Dharmendra Pradhan 辞职 摄影：ADNAN ABEDI/REUTERS
蟑螂在行军
印度青年在莫迪盟友辞职中发现自身力量
Hannah Ellis-Petersen 德里
即便是在纳伦德拉·莫迪接受其教育部长辞职的前一天晚上，这位印度总理似乎仍自信地认为，在他执政 12 年以来发生的大规模起义，对他的政府几乎不会产生任何动摇。
周五深夜，他在 Instagram 的一段自拍短视频中向他的“年轻朋友们”发表讲话，感谢那些在全国范围内大规模动员并高喊反政府口号的人们提供了“深思熟虑的建议”。
不到 24 小时后，多年来一直塑造强人形象的莫迪接受了 Dharmendra Pradhan 的辞职。分析人士表示，对于一个已证明自己不愿在任何公众压力面前低头，且自 2014 年以来几乎在不受制约的情况下统治的政府来说，这是一次显著的受挫。
在过去的一周里，一个自称“蟑螂人民党”（Cockroach Janta party, CJP）的 Z 世代运动发起了一场前所未有的抗议活动，起因是一次试卷泄露事件导致 2 million 名学生不得不抵制考试，并导致十多起自杀事件。
尽管抗议活动已扩大为一场更广泛的民主斗争，但要求莫迪的盟友 Pradhan 辞职以追究责任，一直是他们的首要诉求。然而，莫迪在 Instagram 的讲话中并未提及 Pradhan。周六上午，比以往更多的人聚集在德里历史悠久的詹特曼塔尔（Jantar Mantar）遗址参加抗议，骚乱正蔓延到其他城市，包括由莫迪的印度人民党（BJP）执政的邦。
但被“蟑螂运动”占据的不仅仅是物理空间。自执政以来，印度人民党在掌控网络叙事方面证明了其巨大的效能，通过部署其强大且高度组织化的 IT 部门，动员力量攻击任何被认为是对政府的批评，无论对方是公民、政治家还是记者。
然而，面对过去一周开始在 Instagram 上泛滥的数百万个 Z 世代模因（meme）和短视频，他们显得无能为力。这些内容无所畏惧地侮辱莫迪并抨击政府，且每一个都比前一个更具创意和煽动性。莫迪试图通过 Instagram 直接与年轻人沟通的尝试，仅仅换来了更多的嘲讽。
莫迪还失去了另一个对印度人民党统治至关重要的媒介——主流电视新闻频道。这些频道被广泛认为已被印度人民党收编，成为了其右翼印度教民族主义意识形态的传声筒。
最初，电视台忽略了这些抗议活动；而当他们报道时，则暗示抗议者得到了阴险外国势力的资金支持。作为回应，抗议者利用社交媒体揭露其“谎言”。随着抗议升级，莫迪在电波中显现出异常的缺席。
Pradhan 的辞职发生在政府似乎已失去所有其他选项之时。鉴于周一针对抗议者的警察暴力引发了大规模谴责，采取残酷镇压的手段似乎已不可行。
“网络空间被抗议者完全征服，亲政权的媒体严重丧失了合法性，”布朗大学国际研究教授 Ashutosh Varshney 表示。“愤怒如此全面，以至于 Pradhan 离职成了唯一的选择。”
但 Varshney 表示，这不仅仅是失去了一名部长。这也是莫迪政府首次失去对叙事权的掌控。“这是一个压制性的政府，”他说。“它要求服从，不希望有批判性讨论，并制造恐惧。但现在，恐惧的氛围已经崩溃了。”
▲ 昨天在孟买的 CJP 支持者。抗议活动已蔓延至印度各地，包括印度人民党执政的邦。照片：INDRANIL AZETYA/NURPHOTO/SHUTTERSTOCK
分析人士表示，这次辞职可能还会影响莫迪对其内阁的掌控力。普拉丹是莫迪的意识形态之兵之一，且完全按照党内高层的意愿执行政策。在全国大选中，他还帮助印度人民党 (BJP) 首次赢得了奥里萨邦，争取到了至关重要的席位。
政治专栏作家普拉塔普·巴努·梅塔 (Pratap Bhanu Mehta) 表示：“莫迪知道，一旦你开始撤换最忠诚的部长，就会促使其他部长也产生背叛的动力。如果你的内阁开始为一个可能不再由你的政府支持的未来做对冲，那么你就陷入麻烦了。”
在本周的动荡之前，莫迪在经历了一系列重要的邦选举胜利后正处于巅峰状态。印度人民党似乎已从 2024 年未能赢得议会绝对多数席位的选举中恢复过来。
与此同时，反对派在邦选举中持续失利，而他们对印度人民党选举舞弊的指控大多无人理会。
然而，“蟑螂党”的出现不仅重新激活了印度的青年，也激活了其政治反对党。随着抗议活动的动员和议会的关闭，反对党国大党经历了多年来最辉煌的一周；其领导人拉胡尔·甘地 (Rahul Gandhi) 在莫迪住所外支持学生时被警方戏剧性地强行拖走。
分析人士认为，在过去 12 年里被压制的异议之声现已重新凝聚。
梅塔说：“在很长一段时间之后，社会各阶层终于开始主张政治能动性。而一旦你看到这种能动性走上街头，它就会赋予许多其他参与者力量。”
CJP 的下一个重大考验将在明年年初到来，届时印度最大且政治地位最重要的邦——北方邦将举行邦选举。能否在印度人民党的政治大本营维持权力被视为该党的关键，并将对 2029 年的大选产生重大影响。
CJP 在周六取得惊人胜利后打算如何进行政治动员仍有待观察。领导层和支持者坚称这仅仅是个开始，尤其是在推动教育改革方面。CJP 的创始人阿比吉特·迪普克 (Abhijit Dipke) 具有一定的政党组织经验，但尚未公开其政治雄心。
CJP 发言人索拉夫·达斯 (Saurav Das) 表示，人们正被鼓励投身政治。“我们需要增加青年在政治中的参与度，因为现在的政治是由一群只关心自己生活方式且不理解我们这一代人需求的‘叔叔阿姨们’掌控的。”
2026 年 7 月 27 日 星期一 卫报
国际
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西装革履
曼达尼在所有季节 都坚持以工作状态 的形象示人
亚当·加巴特 (Adam Gabbatt)
纽约
踢足球。在沙滩上玩。与艾丽西亚·凯斯 (Alicia Keys) 以及整个纽约尼克斯队球员在舞台上共舞。在游泳池里游泳。在海洋中游泳。
传统上，西装和领带会被认为在上述每项活动中都是不合适的着装。然而在过去的一年里，佐兰·曼达尼 (Zohran Mamdani) 似乎在进行一场单枪匹马的圣战，以证明事实并非如此。这是因为这位纽约市长几乎不穿除西装以外的任何衣服：几乎总是深色，并系领带，大多搭配一双干练的黑色靴子。
他绝非第一个拥抱西装的男政治家——毕竟，西装是那些试图展现严肃和庄重之人的事实上的制服——但很少有人像他这样如此痴迷。
今年5月，在麦迪逊广场花园为尼克斯队加油时，曼达尼因决定穿着深色西装并系领带而显得格外突出。在尼克斯队获胜后，他做出了一个不寻常的决定：在衬衫和领带之外，但在西装外套之内，穿上了球队的球衣。6月，他在一次与孩子们在海滩上的新闻活动中，穿着深蓝色西装、白衬衫和蓝色条纹领带。
这些甚至还不是最不寻常的例子。在 2025 年元旦，当时他正在竞选市长，他穿着西装参加了“北极熊俱乐部”潜水活动，这是纽约的一项传统，人们在冰冷的大西洋中游泳。“我快冻僵了……就像我作为下一任纽约市长将冻结你们的租金那样。”
▲ 佐兰·曼达尼在妻子拉玛·杜瓦吉 (Rama Duwaji) 的陪同下，在西装内穿着篮球球衣。
市长在与巴拉克·奥巴马 (Barack Obama) 会见儿童时也一直穿着外套，顶级
照片：ANGELINA KATSANIS/GETTY
曼达尼在随附的 TikTok 视频中说道，这段信息为他赢得了大量媒体报道。
上个月，当曼达尼全套西装跳入哈莱姆区的一个游泳池，宣布该市夏季泳池开放时，水再次证明并非障碍。（右翼的《纽约邮报》报道称，曼达尼“在此过程中违反了规定”，“该规定要求所有游泳者在水中必须穿着泳装”）。
看来，这位市长被囚禁在了一个由羊毛或可能是羊毛混纺制成的、由自己打造的监狱中。但这是为什么？曼达尼最近的几任前任并没有如此依赖西装。比尔·德布拉西奥 (Bill de Blasio) 倾向于短裤，而埃里克·亚当斯 (Eric Adams) 则偏好波罗衫，有时还会穿羊毛开襟衫。
时尚评论员埃拉·德维 (Ella Devi) 表示：“我认为曼达尼想要加倍强调自己作为一名‘在职市长’的形象，一个始终在岗且在工作的人。同时，他还是一个年轻的穆斯林社会主义者。”
曼达尼多次成为右翼媒体关注的焦点，他所面临的标准似乎比白人中间派政治家更高。土耳其裔美国左翼主播哈桑·皮克尔 (Hasan Piker) 最近在提到这个问题时表示，他认为如果自己穿着体面，保守派会“更容易接受”。
“我以前一直穿 T 恤，”他说。“但后来我想，我应该开始穿西装和领带，因为有很多成年人在看福克斯新闻 [该右翼频道经常播放皮克尔讲话的片段]。如果在片段中看到我在说话，而我的形象更具吸引力，他们会对我说的话更容易接受。”
左翼杂志《当前事务》(Current Affairs) 的编辑内森·罗宾逊 (Nathan Robinson) 表示，由于美国社会主义者通常被认为是边缘人物，“西装是主张社会主义思想之正统性和权威性的一种微妙方式”。
“如果有一种能够暗示可信度和权威性的视觉语言，为什么不利用它呢？”罗宾逊本月写道。“你可能会认为穿西装的人是严肃的、专业的，准备好开展业务。你可能会认为他们属于参议院或董事会。”
“他想要加倍强调自己作为一名始终在岗的人的形象”
埃拉·德维
时尚评论员
这是一个马姆达尼（Mamdani）比大多数人都推向极致的概念。作为一名热衷于足球的球员，他在本月展示球技时穿着一套黑西装并系着灰色领带；而当他参加比赛时，马姆达尼只需在西装外面套一件足球衫——尽管他确实脱掉了西装外套。
情况并非一直如此。一位在马姆达尼当选前与其在同一球队效力的消息人士表示，他当时并不是穿着西装领带踢球，不过该人士补充道：“他总是穿着西装，或者至少是西装裤，再加上他那双出名的球鞋出现，然后在球场上换衣服，因为他总是迟到。”
市长办公室拒绝就马姆达尼的衣橱发表评论，但他在最近一次接受 CNN 采访时谈到了自己对穿西装的偏爱。当被问及穿着西装跳进游泳池的决定时，市长说：“我想我误解了‘泳装’这个词的意思。不过我也得感谢 Goodwill [一家以经营二手衣物商店著称的慈善机构]，因为那套西装我只花了 30 美元买的，毕竟你不能毁掉你拥有的其他西装。但我显然意识到，在 100 度（华氏度）的天气里，可能应该有不同的穿着方式。”
“一场灾难”：法国放宽对蜜蜂有毒农药的禁令引发愤怒
乔恩·亨利 (Jon Henley)
欧洲特派记者
在法国议会批准一项重新授权两种被禁农药的法案后，法国的养蜂人及其环保人士反应激烈。科学家表示，这些农药可能会毒死蜜蜂。
“无法用语言来描述这种挫败感，”大巴黎地区埃索讷省的养蜂人卡罗琳·布盖 (Carolyn Bouguet) 说道。“蜜蜂种群已经受到气候变化、新寄生虫和栖息地丧失的严重影响。而现在又来了这个。”
法国养蜂协会发言人亨利·克莱门特 (Henri Clément) 称该措施是“我们行业以及整个生物多样性的一场绝对灾难”。他在接受当地媒体采访时表示，风险在于“极高的死亡率和减产”。“这些农药竟然被重新授权，简直不可理喻。我们已经与它们斗争了 30 年。这简直是令人愤慨、不理智且不负责任的。”
▲ 过去在巴黎的一次抗议活动中，一名养蜂人展示了蜂巢上的死蜜蜂
该法律允许在特殊情况下使用两种农药：啶胺 (acetamiprid) 和 氟吡呋喃 (flupyradifurone)。这两种药物在欧盟境内是被允许的，但在法国曾被禁用。
允许使用这些药物是为了对抗可能摧毁甜菜、苹果、榛子和樱桃作物的蚜虫传播疾病。此前法国的限制措施导致生产者声称他们无法再与欧洲竞争对手竞争。
科学研究已经证实，啶胺作为一种具有强大神经毒性作用的新烟碱类化合物，会毒害蜜蜂，影响其觅食能力和记忆力。一项 2024 年的研究表明，氟吡呋喃可能对某些蜜蜂具有致死性。
绿色和平组织法国分会表示，该国的中间派政府及其右翼盟友正在“践踏科学、健康、环境以及人民的明确意愿”，并称该立法“令人深感不安”且“是一种耻辱”。
法国环境部长莫尼克·巴布特 (Monique Barbut) 表示，这项立法是“一次过多的一场环境挫折”。她提交了辞呈，但在与埃马纽埃尔·马克龙 (Emmanuel Macron) 会面后被说服留任。
官方数据显示，从 20 世纪 90 年代中期新烟碱类药物引入到 20 世纪 10 年代中期，法国的蜂蜜产量减半，不过栖息地丧失和气候崩溃也是相关因素。
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世界
卫报 周一 2026 年 7 月 27 日
“我们计算每一升水” 古巴能源危机导致数百万人缺水
吕西安·米涅 (Lucien Migné) 哈瓦那
在哈瓦那唐人街家中狭小的厨房里，米雷拉·马丁内斯 (Mirella Martínez) 推着一个堆满空塑料油桶的旧金属推车。
她擦掉额头上的汗水，轻轻地扇风。“太热了！”她说。由于又一次停电，电风扇无法运转，她的公寓在近乎黑暗的状态下闷热了数小时。
几分钟后，这位 61 岁的前保安将步行约半英里前往她女儿的工作地点，那是附近少数几个仍有定期供水的建筑之一。近三年来，她与三个女儿和孙子合住的公寓一直没有可靠的自来水。
在古巴，停电不仅让人们陷入黑暗：它还让水龙头干涸。随着国家能源危机的深化，电力短缺导致许多抽水站无法运行，而老化的配送网络和长期的燃料短缺使数百万人难以获得用水。
由于美国军队抓捕了委内瑞拉总统尼古拉斯·马杜罗 (Nicolás Maduro)，原本已经严重的国家能源危机在今年进一步恶化。委内瑞拉是古巴的主要燃料供应商，其石油出口的暂停，加深了已被美国禁运和经济制裁恶化的燃料短缺。
根据古巴国家水利资源研究所的数据，近 3 million 古巴人正面临用水困难。该国的水务系统仅以所需燃料的 37% 在运行，而哈瓦那高达 70% 的用水在到达住户之前就通过泄漏流失了。
古巴的酒店和富裕家庭通常拥有储水箱、发电机或太阳能电池板，或者能负担得起私人送水车。其他所有人则只能等待配送、自行搬运水，或支付费用给非正式的挑水工。
马丁内斯将部分水煮沸并过滤用于饮用。其余的水则被配额用于烹饪、洗涤和洗衣。“一切都被配额了，”
“我筋疲力尽。一旦来电——有时是在半夜——我们就起来填满水箱”
迪亚米斯·埃尔南德斯·迪亚斯 (Dhayamis Hernández Díaz) 哈瓦那居民
▲ 上图：在中心哈瓦那的一个抽水站，胡安·卡洛斯·雷耶斯 (Juan Carlos Reyes) 和胡安·德·拉·克鲁兹·维拉隆 (Juan de la Cruz Villalón) 填充容器盛水待售；上方：米雷拉·马丁内斯在厨房过滤饮用水；右图：卡洛斯·桑切斯 (Carlos Sánchez) 为一名年长居民填充水箱 摄影：吕西安·米涅 (LUCIEN MIGNÉ)
她说。“这些水用于一切事情。我们计算每一升水。尽管我已经退休了，但我每天要跑三次。在我这个年纪，我不应该搬这些油桶，但我别无选择。”
在中心哈瓦那，迪亚米斯·埃尔南德斯·迪亚斯看着一细流的水缓慢地填满一个塑料桶。她手里夹着烟，等到桶满后将其倒入服务于其建筑的顶楼水箱中。没人知道水还会流多久。
“我筋疲力尽。一旦来电——有时是在半夜——我们就起来填满水箱，做饭并给手机充电。我们的整个生活都依赖于那几个小时的电力。这不是生活。”
她和姐姐通过经营一辆电动三轮出租车获得微薄的收入。雇佣
▲ 客人们在哈瓦那历史中心的一家豪华酒店泳池中享受。豪华酒店更有可能配备水箱、发电机和太阳能电池板
私人送水车远远超出了她们的承受能力。“所以我们自己填水箱，一桶接一桶。晚上因为太热，我几乎睡不着。”
随着公共系统的持续崩溃，一种非正式的水经济在首都各地出现。在中心哈瓦那的埃斯科巴 (Escobar) 抽水站，胡安·德·拉·克鲁兹·维拉隆 (Juan de la Cruz Villalón)， 66 岁，以及胡安·卡洛斯·雷耶斯 (Juan Carlos Reyes)， 55 岁，正在填充容器盛水以供出售
每天清晨，胡安·米格尔·雷耶斯 (Juan Miguel Reyes) 都会拿着配给本在一家国营面包店外等待。在排了半个多小时的队后，他带着几个面包卷离开，准备与他的兄弟和叔叔分享。
“昨晚水恢复了大约两小时。我们在回去睡觉前赶紧起来把每个水桶都接满。有时这样能省掉一次去抽水站的行程。”
到正午时分，这三个男人推着一辆沉重的推车穿过 Los Sitios，这是一个工人阶级社区。推车的轮子在破损的人行道上发出咔哒咔哒的声音，他们绕过一堆堆垃圾前行。步行一英多路程后，他们到达了少数仍在运行的抽水站之一，然后将水运送到那些水龙头早已干涸的人家中。
在 23 年的时间里，雷耶斯一直担任重症监护医生。“我从未想象过自己最后会通过卖水维生。现在我们顶着烈日行走数小时，然后把水桶拎上楼梯，”他说。“这很累，但至少我们总有东西吃。”
每个 200 升的水箱售价 1,500 比索（按非正式汇率计算约为 £1.75）。雷耶斯每天赚 3,000 到 4,000 比索不等。“每周我们都要去更远的地方取水，而且我们永远不知道抽水站明天是否还能运行，”他说。“人们经常感谢我们，因为许多人太老了，无法自己取水。在这里，如果没有邻居，没人能生存下去。”
几英里外，在哈瓦那的轮渡码头附近，卡洛斯·桑切斯 (Carlos Sánchez) 正在收集从破裂管道中溢出的水。他一桶接一桶地填满安装在自行车上的 200 升水箱。“整个管网都在崩溃。这么多水被浪费掉，而这么多人需要它。我收集这些水，然后卖给那些没有体力或时间亲自来这里的人。”
水箱装满后，他用一块防水布盖住，然后将自行车推向哈瓦那的历史中心。在侄子的帮助下，他将水桶拎上一栋破旧建筑的楼梯。
“我的腰快撑不住了，但我别无选择。运水赚的钱比我当殡葬技术员时还多，”他说。“我的孩子们都出国了。我留了下来。”
到傍晚，马丁内斯 (Martínez) 回到了家中。电视机依然关着。由于没有电，这家人的每晚肥皂剧已变得罕见。“水和电应该是基本权利，但在这里它们变成了奢侈品。天黑后我不再外出，也不让我的女儿们出去，”她说。“当街道陷入黑暗，一切都变得更危险。我只希望有一天我们能重新过上正常的生活。”
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希思罗机场扩建将“夺走其他地区的就业机会”
Gwyn Topham
交通通讯员
根据对政府自身预测的分析，扩建希思罗机场将夺走英国其他地区数千个工作岗位，仅西米德兰兹郡就将损失近 10,000 个岗位。
交通部上个月发布的一份经济论文显示，如果希思罗机场建设第三条跑道，英格兰和威尔士的机场可能会损失数百万乘客，这将对地区就业造成重大打击。
经济学家称，仅伯明翰机场预计到 2050 年每年将损失 7.5 million 乘客——这一降幅相当于该机场及其供应链中损失约 9,500 个工作岗位。
在安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）就任首相一周多之后，这些发现可能会使人们进一步质疑扩建计划在政治上的支持度。伯纳姆曾表示，过多的基础设施支出集中在英格兰南部，并承诺将通过“北方 10 号唐宁街”（No 10 North）来重新平衡支出。
新经济基金会（NEF）表示，该报告表明，希思罗机场创造的就业机会主要代表了从全国各地转移而来的岗位。
其对交通部（DfT）模型的分析表明，到 2050, 15,200 个本应留在各地区的航空就业岗位，以及 6,400 个伦敦及东南部其他机场的岗位，将转而流向希思罗机场。
然而，政府表示 NEF 的分析仅集中在有限的时间段内，并坚持认为希思罗机场的扩建将为全国带来利益。
这份提交给交通部的报告是在希思罗机场扩建国家政策声明的磋商启动之后发布的，国会议员必须批准该声明才能建设第三条跑道。
与之共同发布的交通部模型还确认，整体经济提升幅度可能仅为部长们所期望的一小部分。
前财政大臣雷切尔·里夫斯（Rachel Reeves）以经济增长之名支持希思罗机场的计划，但影响报告称，对 GDP 的整体影响每年仅最高为 0.05%。
另一份交通部的出版物进一步质疑全国是否都能感受到扩建的益处——这是政府批准该计划所设定的四项测试标准之一。交通部对其 GDP 分析的同行评审指出：“在我看来，基于该模型就声称希思罗机场的收益广泛分布到各地区是错误的。”
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根据新经济基金会的数据，西米德兰兹郡将损失的就业岗位数量
NEF 经济政策负责人亚历克斯·查普曼（Alex Chapman）表示：“随着每批新数据的发布，希思罗机场拟建的第三条跑道看起来越来越不像一个增长计划，而更像是一个将就业和投资转移到伦敦及东南部的计划。第三条跑道将夺走那些最需要资金的地方的支出——这与伯纳姆的立场完全背道而驰。”
政府则表示，航空业将继续增长，且 NEF 的分析具有误导性。
一名交通部发言人表示：“此次分析未将希思罗机场扩建将带来的 60,000 多个潜在本地就业机会纳入考量。整个英国都将感受到益处，在 £2.6bn 的经济提振中，高达 40% 将发生在伦敦及东南部以外的地区。”
希思罗机场首席执行官托马斯·沃尔德拜（Thomas Woldbye）表示，政府使用的经济模型并未计入所有收益。
他说道：“全国各地的工会、企业和机场都支持这个项目，因为他们看到了真正的益处。政府本身也承认，这些收益的全部经济价值远超传统基础设施评估模型所能衡量的范围。”
酒吧欢庆世界杯带来 £150m 销售额增长
罗布·戴维斯 (Rob Davies)
数据显示，营业时间的延长以及英格兰队在规模扩大后的世界杯中成功晋级半决赛，为酒吧带来了近年来最强劲的足球相关业绩提升。
根据英国啤酒与酒吧协会 (BBPA) 的数据，在整个赛事期间，酒吧比正常交易时段多售出了 3000 万品脱啤酒，繁忙的酒泵带来了 £150m 的额外销售额。
与之前的赛事（包括英格兰队挺进 2024 决赛期间）相比，此次世界杯相关的销售增长幅度似乎更高。
根据支付系统提供商 Epos Now 的数据，就相对于正常班次的销售额增长而言，最突出的一天是凌晨进行的英格兰对阵墨西哥之战。由于酒吧被允许通宵营业，那天的销售额几乎是赛前同一时期的两倍。
数据显示，另有三场比赛的交易数量增加了三分之二。
相比之下，2022 和 2024 中，每届赛事仅有两场比赛的交易量增长超过 50%。
在销售额增长之后，安迪·伯纳姆 (Andy Burnham) 为酒吧提供了 £100m 的援助方案，并在上周宣布将该行业的商业税率降低 20%。尽管政府政策因缺乏雄心而受到批评，但减税与足球的双重利好为这个压力巨大的行业带来了罕见的喘息机会；去年，英格兰和威尔士地区平均每天有一家酒吧关闭。
在大曼彻斯特地区经营 Garricks Head 酒吧的唐·斯莱特 (Dawn Slater) 表示，在扩大室外容量并安装巨幕后，该店的销售额比以往的赛事翻了一倍多。
“真的非常忙，每场比赛都被订满了，”她说，“我们在每场比赛前两小时就停止入场。”她补充道，虽然人们消费更多，但举办活动的成本也更高了，“我们增加了电视，设立了室外吧台。仅塑料杯和水壶就花掉了 £8,700。”
然而，繁忙的比赛日之后往往紧跟着冷清的时段，抵消了部分收益，因为交易额取决于英格兰队在赛事中的晋级情况。
“工作日的比赛太棒了，”在埃塞克斯郡威瑟姆与丈夫汤姆 (Tom) 共同经营 George 酒吧的艾米·威廉姆斯 (Amy Williams) 说道，“与前一周相比，我们的销售额增长了 300%-400%。”她表示，为了给足球迷腾出空间，他们不得不取消了一场多莉·帕顿 (Dolly Parton) 的致敬演出。
▲ 在切尔滕纳姆 Tailors 酒吧的英格兰支持者在对阵阿根廷的半决赛中庆祝进球
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担心与伊朗冲突相关的油价反弹可能迫使利率上升
Phillip Inman
据城中经济学家称，如果油价回升至每桶 $100 以上，英格兰银行可能会被迫撕毁其经济预测，并在今年晚些时候提高利率。
在周四的银行官员会议之前，经济学家警告称，虽然本周可能会避免加息，但中东冲突可能会导致未来的利率上升。
他们警告说，自唐纳德·特朗普对伊朗的战争于3月开始以来，英国经济一直保持相对韧性，但随着上周战斗重新爆发，这种情况可能会面临风险。
美国与伊朗之间脆弱的停火协议破裂，导致油价回升至4月和5月出现的高水平，引发了人们对加油站价格上涨将导致通货膨胀飙升的担忧。
布伦特原油周四一度跳涨至每桶 $100 以上，随后在周五回落至 $96，仍远高于本月早些时候记录的 $71 每桶的市场价格。
天然气价格在近几日也大幅上涨，而现在正处于大多数欧洲国家填充存储设施的关键冬前时期。
预计银行由九名成员组成的货币政策委员会将在周四以七比二的票数投票支持维持利率不变，并将其维持在 3.75% 直至至少12月。
这与他们在6月的上次会议情况相似，当时委员会中有两名官员投票支持加息，以抵御上涨的通货膨胀。
德意志银行首席英国经济学家 Sanjay Raja 表示，如果近期空袭的强度得以维持，且允许油轮进出油码头的海道被封锁，那么计算结果可能会改变。他表示：“我们看到近期利率前景存在上行风险，很大程度上取决于正在展开的能源冲击的持续时间。”
宾夕法尼亚大学沃顿商学院教授、国际货币基金组织前首席经济学家 Mohamed El-Erian 表示，油价持续上涨至每桶 $90 以上可能足以重写英国政策制定者的预测。
他说：“如果油价保持在每桶 $90 以上（这是一个重要的‘如果’），那么整体通货膨胀将面临巨大的上涨压力。”
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“伯纳姆反弹”若失去重心将化为泡影
理查德·帕廷顿 (Richard Partington)
一场“伯纳姆反弹 (Burnham bounce)”，灿烂的阳光，以及英格兰男足在世界杯上的强劲表现：这究竟是英国挣扎中的消费经济的转机，还是又一次虚假的开端？
上周，数据公司 GfK 将 6 月份英国消费者信心在近三年来最快的单月涨幅归功于安迪·伯纳姆 (Andy Burnham) 回到议会。其中的绝大部分动力源自消费者对英国经济前景的看法：他们对过去一年的感受提升了 10 点，对未来 12 个月的预期增长了 8 点。
GfK 表示：“新任首相任命后带来的重新开始之感，无疑在一定程度上促成了这次反弹。”
对于整体经济而言，保持收银机的鸣响至关重要：家庭消费约占总经济规模的 60%，为全国的高街商家、服务提供商、建筑商和制造商提供生命线。
伯纳姆决定从 10 月起在大不列颠地区引入电费临时增值税 (VAT) 减免，将英格兰全境的巴士票价上限设为 £2，并为酒吧、俱乐部和现场音乐场所降低 20% 的商业税率，这些措施旨在提供帮助。此外，标题通胀率跌幅超过预期，降至 2.6%，进一步提供了助力。
但情况比表面看到的更为复杂。深入分析 GfK 的数据，一些耐人寻味趋势显现出来：65 岁及以上的年长英国人
◀ 期望扭转局面……安迪·伯纳姆上周在巴斯驾驶一辆巴士 摄影：TORY MELVILLE/AFP/GETTY
是心态最悲观的群体。相比之下，16 至 29 岁的人群则更为乐观——尽管年轻人面临着人工智能 (AI) 颠覆就业市场以及极高租金和房价的挑战。青年失业率处于十年来的最高水平。但 65 岁以上人群预测失业率上升的可能性高于 30 岁以下人群。他们也更担心经济前景、财务状况以及房地产市场。
消费者对经济的认知也存在真实的分裂——这由英国深层的不平等所揭示。最贫困人群的展望一再被证明是最悲观的。原因不难理解。
官方数据显示，英国一个家庭平均每周消费 £676.60，其中住房、燃料和电力约占总额的五分之一。交通是次高消费类别，随后是包括假期、休闲、通讯以及饮食在内的其他支出。健康和教育平均仅占每周支出的 3%。
有迹象表明，最富有的阶层正在进一步领先。截至 2025 年 3 月止年度的最新官方数据显示，最富有的五分之一家庭的周支出增长率是最低五分之一家庭的两倍，增长了 10%（即 £98.10），达到 £1,083.60；而后者仅增长 5%（即 £18.10），达到 £407.30。
自 2021 年底生活成本危机开始以来，平均消费价格上涨了四分之一以上。但在某些类别（包括食品和能源）中，涨幅远高于此。除此之外，英格兰银行为了打击通胀浪潮而推高了利率，给借款人带来了压力。
因此，消费支出受损并不令人惊讶：官方数据显示，面向消费者的服务业产出仍比疫情前水平低约 6%。旅行社、饮食业和酒店业受到的打击最为严重。
Threadneedle Street (英格兰银行) 预测，截至 6 月底的一年里，实际收入将下降约 0.5%。随着中东冲突预计将推高通胀，英国消费者的紧缩生活很可能会继续。
反映区域分化的情况是，储蓄集中在英格兰南部富裕社区的富裕人群中。智库“城市中心 (Centre for Cities)”发现，在这些地区，每在贫困地区（主要为英格兰北部的城市和城镇）存入 £1 的同时，富裕家庭就存入 £12。
若要使“伯纳姆效应”（Burnham bounce）具有可持续性，将需要消费者信心持续回升。而这需要精准聚焦于那些陷入最深困境的家庭。
担心首相计划可能导致日本遭遇特拉斯式的冲击
Phillip Inman
国际投资者正在询问，日本首相将从哪里筹集 370 万亿日元（£1.7tn）的额外资金，用于她在 2040 年前计划投资的 17 个工业领域。
高市早苗领导的联合政府的支出规模如此之大，以至于她所在政党的许多人都担心她即将搞垮日本经济，从而引发一场类似于莉兹·特拉斯（Liz Truss）式的经济冲击。
在金融市场上，投资者对一个通常稳健的日本政府竟然计划重写预算规则，并开展一场广泛且缺乏资金支持的“购物狂欢”感到震惊。
高市的挫败感可追溯到 1991, 年的金融危机，当时日本房地产市场的泡沫剧烈破裂。在国家出口繁荣之后，东京曾成为全球生活成本最高的地方，但在崩溃后的几个月内，支持大部分贷款的银行纷纷破产。
在世纪之交前，动荡进一步加剧，东京一些最大的金融机构因无法应对第一次崩溃留下的坏账后遗症而倒闭。
自 2008 年全球金融冲击以来，经济一直停滞不前。作为应对，政府的支出通常比税收收入高出 10% —— 其中很大一部分用于应对人口迅速老龄化 —— 债务也随之持续上升。到 2020, 年，债务与 GDP 的比例达到了 260%，随后在预算紧缩和经济增长小幅改善的情况下，该比例在 2025 年降至 230% 以下。
高市表示，她的投资计划将提升经济的生产能力，使日本在人工智能革命中保持领先地位，并使经济摆脱对与中国贸易的日益依赖。
自 6 月提出方案以来，股市出现了一系列下跌，而中东敌对行动的重启以及油价上涨的前景也未能起到帮助作用。
许多投资者在政府就职后立即抛售，打击了最大规模公司的股价，其中包括索尼（Sony）和丰田汽车公司（Toyota Motor Corporation）。
索尼面临来自韩国和中国竞争对手的激烈竞争，而丰田则一直抵制纯电动汽车，现在面临被蓬勃发展且获得高度补贴的中国汽车工业碾压的局面。
国内和国际贷款机构在近几个月内将日本国债（JGBs）的利率推高至 2.8%，为 29 年来的最高水平。
国际社会对日本经济前景的支持减弱，也打击了日元的价值。而最近，正是高市的大胆行为（与特拉斯一样，常被定性为鲁莽）成为了货币的沉重负担，将其推低至 1 美元兑 163 日元，创下四十年来的新低。
债务账单增加的很大一部分原因与通货膨胀上升有关，随着日元下跌，通胀率随之上升，这主要是因为低汇率提高了能源和原材料的进口价格。
尽管在过去四个月中，日本的核心通胀率一直低于日本银行（BoJ） 2% 的目标，但分析师预测，由于伊朗战争导致油价上涨，今年最后一季度的通胀率将跳升至 2% 左右的中段。
咨询公司 Pantheon Macroeconomics 的亚洲专家 Kelvin Lam 表示，金融市场真正担心的是缺乏关于新投资资金来源的细节。
“只要你不说明如何为支出筹资，你就正走向一个‘莉兹·特拉斯时刻’，”他说道，指的是市场对这位短暂任职的首相在 2022 年 9 月提出的 £45bn 无资金支持减税计划的反应。“市场原本就已经担心日本的长期财政健康，而这个计划并没有起到帮助作用。”
一份草案计划包括强制日本银行（BoJ）与财务省保持步调一致，并重新定义政府债务的计算方式。内阁最终同意提交的方案承诺将维持中央银行的独立性，但仅将其作为一项脚注。其中写道：“为了实现强有力的经济，货币政策必须得到适当执行，以确保物价稳定上涨。”
损害已经造成，就像特拉斯发现自己在……之后陷入了无法挽回的局面
“市场早就在担忧了。这个计划并没有起到帮助作用”
Kelvin Lam
亚洲经济专家
正与英格兰银行及预算责任办公室展开正面交锋。
这项名为“骨太の方針”（Honebuto no Hōshin，大骨架政策）的投资计划旨在未来 14 年内向 17 个部门注入资金，以将日本的经济增长率提高到 1% 以上，实现增长翻番。
该计划打破了以往领导人低调的政策蓝图，在某些方面让人联想到北京的五年计划，后者设定了国家增长目标并指导产业政策。该蓝图针对人工智能（AI）、半导体、生物技术、国防和能源等领域，旨在“尽早”实现 1% 的增长率。
该文件强调“物理人工智能”，将 AI 与日本在硬件制造方面的优势相结合，“以加速所有行业的 AI 转型”。
根据日本经济研究中心的智库数据，经济学家的预测通常指向 2027 年增长 0.93% 和 2028, 年增长 0.85%，未能达到 1% 的目标。
自 2022, 年以来，财务省已花费约 £160bn 试图限制日元下跌。在俄罗斯入侵乌克兰后，全球为了对抗通货膨胀而纷纷提高利率，而财务省一直在向央行施压，要求其维持低利率。
日本银行（BoJ）已将其政策利率提高至 31 年来最高点 1%，但相对于同行来说仍然较低。
在新冠疫情之后，所有央行都通过购买政府债务来为政府支出提供资金。虽然大多数央行在近年来试图扭转这一局面，但日本银行却被鼓励进一步操作。日本养老基金也感受到了来自财务省的压力，后者期望它们出于爱国责任感购买国债。
高市在最近的一条 X 帖子中表示，她整天以及大部分夜晚都在策划日本的复苏，许多人认为这是为了挽回上个月民调支持率下降 10 点的局面。
然而，金融市场表达了怀疑。许多人质疑，随着中国寻求生产更复杂的产品（这一领域此前由日本、德国和美国主导），强调制造业是否能取得成功。
问题在于东京是否有资源与北京抗衡，并在 2030 年代开辟一个足够大的利基市场以维持自身运转。6 月份的出口额同比增长 20%，但考虑到日元贬值，增长的实际价值几乎为零。
每年通过货币贬值来刺激贸易并非可持续政策。也许高市的投资计划可以。
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来自夏威夷茂纳洛亚（Mauna Lea）的每日大气 CO₂ 读数 (ppm)。
最新 21 Jul 2026 428.07 周平均值 12 Jul 2026 428.48 26 Jul 2025 427.91 26 Jul 2026 404.55 工业前基准 280 安全水平 250
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约书亚在踉跄中幸存，但通往与富里对决的道路上仍存在严重疑问
在这场总价值 £150m 的全英国之战前，缺乏抗击能力导致两次被击倒是一个令人担忧的信号
唐纳德·麦克雷 (Donald McRae)
这场混乱与疯狂仅持续了 5 分钟 43 秒。在安东尼·约书亚回到更衣室的避风港后，他声称自己学到了“一个宝贵的教训”。约书亚在第二回合通过残酷地击停此前名不见经传的阿尔巴尼亚选手之前，曾被克里斯蒂安·普伦加击倒两次。
在本周末这两位已渐趋没落的前世界冠军分别经历了截然不同的比赛（这两场原本应是常规表演赛）后，约书亚也展望了与泰森·富里之间备受期待的对决。“我现在会变得更强，”约书亚在试图清除大脑中因 concussion（脑震荡）而产生的迷雾时如此声称，此前他经历了波折职业生涯中最糟糕的一个回合。
但悲哀的事实在第一回合仅过去 20 秒后就已清晰地显现。一个横扫的右手重拳——这是比赛中第一个有意义的打击——撼动了约书亚，并为普伦加随后剧烈的上勾拳创造了机会。虽然这些打击力度适中，但看到约书亚保留的抗击能力如此之低，令人不安。他依然拥有雕塑般结实肌肉的身材，但在跌倒在画布上时，他显得迷茫且狼狈。约书亚设法翻身，用白色的拳击手套压在蓝色画布上，将自己撑了起来。
当一个勉强的微笑出现在他困惑的脸上时，他的双腿仍在打颤。在被数到八秒后，约书亚很快再次陷入困境。一次犀利的右直拳让他踉跄地退到
▲ 安东尼·约书亚在比赛早起被克里斯蒂安·普伦加给了巨大的惊吓 MARK ROBBINSON/MAYURHOOR BOXING/GETTY
绳圈处，裁判本可以对他进行另一次数秒。每次普伦加击中右手拳时，即使没有施加过度力量，约书亚地也显得极其脆弱。
另一个上勾拳再次将他击倒，即便这次他的手套在重新站起前仅是触碰到了画布。约书亚的勇气显而易见，但在那些凄凉的时刻，认为他能挺过另一次猛攻并在 11 月面对富里的想法，似乎过于幻想了。
但随后，不可思议地，一切都改变了。在回合间歇期间，普伦加就像是收到了一条预设指令，要求他收起火力，不要破坏富里与约书亚之间这场价值 £200m (£150m) 的巅峰对决。而实际上，情况更像是普伦加因为将约书亚拖入毁灭性失败的边缘而感到震惊。
普伦加并没有在出击时试图结束比赛，而是退后了。他允许处于恍惚状态的受害者夺回控制权并开始出拳。这名阿尔巴尼亚选手被困在角落里，由于没有做出任何有效的反击，他突然承受了巨大的压力。连续的组合拳让他瘫软下来，随后一记凶猛的右拳将普伦加击晕。
约书亚的坚韧和终结能力值得称赞。但即便如此干脆利落的击倒，也无法抹去那些画面：每当被那些他曾经可以轻松化解的打击击中时，他就像一棵被摧残的枯树般摇摇欲坠，随时可能倒地。
在七个月前的一场车祸中，约书亚受伤，而他的挚友及阵营关键成员西娜·加米 (Sina Ghami) 和拉蒂夫·“拉茨”·阿约德勒 (Latif "Latz" Ayodele) 在车祸中丧生，约书亚向他们致敬：“这不仅仅是出拳的力量。那是精神。那是拉茨，那是西娜，那是他们的家人。即便谈起这件事都让人心痛。这段时间很艰难。他们是我的兄弟。”
约书亚几近落泪。他的悲痛可以理解，但当他暗示个人悲剧赋予了他更强的恢复能力时，情况反而更令人担忧。“你知道我学到了什么吗？伙计，没人能阻止我——没人能拒绝我。”
他的家人、朋友和推广人现在都应该停下来，并在接下来的日子里悉心照顾他。最好的建议是告知约书亚，他已经不再具备承受即使是平庸的重量级选手所带来的沉重打击的能力。像摩西·伊陶马（Moses Itauma）和丹尼尔·杜波依斯（Daniel Dubois）这样年轻的拳击手——后者在 2024 年将约书亚击晕，造成了毁灭性打击——如果站在擂台上的不是普伦加（Prenga）而是他们，约书亚会被重创。
诚然，富里（Fury）在周五晚上于泰国进行的一场单方面压制的比赛中，在经过七轮较量后击败了平庸的 46 岁波兰重量级选手马里乌什·瓦赫（Mariusz Wach），表现并不出彩。
当这位年迈的“吉普赛之王”不再是那个难以捉摸的擂台技巧大师时，瓦赫依然设法击中了富里几次。但富里的骨子里依然是个战士，面对如此状态下滑的约书亚，他可能会造成严重的伤害。
“我们已经签署了合同，”约书亚的推广人埃迪·赫恩（Eddie Hearn）在自家的拳击手侥幸脱险后表示。“一切都完成了。但是
“今晚展现的是约书亚的力量。没有人知道他经历了什么”
▲ 安东尼·约书亚向他在 12 月去世的朋友们致意
今晚的主角不是泰森·富里。而是关于安东尼·约书亚为了站在这里所展现出的力量。没有人知道在过去的七个月里他经历了什么。当他在第一轮倒地时，我以为他回归得太早了。”
然而，正如赫恩随后承认的那样，已签署的合同规定富里和约书亚将在 11 月在英国进行比赛。现在人们普遍预期这场比赛将在美国举行，因此一套新合同可能会再次推迟这场闹剧。
在反思面对普伦加时近乎噩梦的经历时，约书亚补充道：“那是一个艰难的时刻，但我学到了宝贵的一课。起步要更快。走出去，去他妈的拳击，做好准备。你可以在 20 秒内完成。如果普伦加运气好一点，他可能已经把我击败了。”
他还暗示，“今天真是让人大开眼界。” 确实如此，因为他缺乏抗击打能力的弱点在所有人面前暴露无遗。在任何比拳击更理智、更有同情心的行业中，约书亚身边的人都会试图说服他，现在是时候带着他的财富和尚未丧失的理智离开这里了。
相反，他将被诱导重新回到擂台与富里对决——这场两位年迈重量级选手的较量，现在看来不仅伴随着巨额资金，还充满了危险和潜在的灾难。
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明天 足球 (除非另有说明，否则均为 7.45pm) 欧联杯 第二轮资格赛：次回合 Celje (2) + Cyneta (3) (7.15pm); D-Zagreb (1) + Than (1) (7pm); Hearts (0) + Stame Giza (4) (7.45pm) PLI; KJPS (0) + Salam (1) (4pm); Lincoln RI (0) + BJ&B (1) (5pm); Shamrock (0) + Avanti-Armenia (2) (8pm)
欧协联 第二轮资格赛：次回合 Chelsea (Unusual) (0) + 2No Gori (0) (6pm); CSKA 1948 Sofia (0) + Spartak Trnava (0) (6.30pm); Erba (1) + Plaviania (1) (7pm); Riga (3) + Vardar Skopje (2) (6pm) 板球 (除非另有说明，否则均为 6.30pm) 第三届女子 500 赛 Gladion Flablais, 荷兰 (6.30pm) Metro Bank 一日杯 (男子) A 组 Lancs + Kent, Earegion (1.1am), Neds + Lancs, Trent Bridge (1.1am) 百球赛 (女子) Leeds + March, Headingley (3pm) SSC 百球赛 (男子) Leeds + Manchester, Headingley SSC 赛马 Deverley RTV, Pita Lia SSR, Goodwood (TV) /RTV, Yarmouth SSR
周三 足球 (除非另有说明，否则均为 7.45pm) 欧联杯 第二轮资格赛：次回合 Karak (0) + Cinema (1) (4pm); Zalgiris (0) + IO (0) (5pm); Lech Roman (4) + AEF (1) (6pm); Hapoel de Er Sheici (1) + Vilengar (2) (6.30pm); Uni Crassna (0) + Levski Sofia (1) (6.30pm); Gornik Zahra (0) + Frerichalica (1) (7pm); Rli Belgrade (4) + Larisa (0) (7pm); S Bratton (2) + Maria (109) (0) (7.15pm) 欧协联 第二轮资格赛：次回合 Dasgigiro (0) + Lagano (1) (3.30pm); Copenhagen (3) + Zhelentor (3) (6pm); X Vienna (3) + Santa Cristina (1) (7.30pm) 板球 (除非另有说明，否则均为 1.1am) 百球赛 (女子) M London + London Spirit, The Kia Oval (3pm) SSC, Welsh + Trent, Sophia Gardens (1.30pm) SSC 百球赛 (男子) M London + London Spirit, The Kia Oval (6.30pm) SSC, Welsh + Trent, Sophia Gardens (3pm) SSC Metro Bank 一日杯 (男子) A 组 Marks + Surrey, Edgbaston B 组 Durham + Glam, Gosforth, Hovey + Collie, Arundel, Yorkshire + Worcestershire, York 赛马 Goodwood (TV) /RTV, Leicester RTV, Redcar RTV, Sandmoor RTV
周四 足球 (除非另有说明，否则均为 7.45pm) 欧联杯 第二轮资格赛：次回合 Anderlecht (1) + Hammurthy (1) (7.30pm); Benfica (1) + St Gallen (2) (8pm); CSKA Sofia (0) + Spalding (0) (7pm); Feenincucos (2) + Twente (1) (7.30pm); Hradec Králové (1) + Tromsø (0) (6pm); Maccabi Tel Aviv (5) + Sheriff (0) (5pm); Midtjylland (0) + Budulya (1) (6pm); F{srsk (0) + Haplak Split (2) (6pm); P4DK (1) + Dynamo Kyiv (2) (6.45pm)
欧协联 第二轮资格赛：第二回合 Ape (4) + Vojvodina (1) (7pm); Attelic Club PTuclides (0) + Kadax (4) (3pm); Aisle (1) + FCSA (2) (3pm); 维也纳奥地利 (2) + 莱比锡 (0) (7.30pm); Balbani (1) + Behemia (2) (7pm); Betzar (1) + AEK Larraca (0) (6.30pm); 布拉加 (1) + D善舟car Pancras (0) (6pm); 文莱 (2) + Uni City (2) (6pm); CFR 城市 (1) + 亚伯丁 (1) (7.30pm); Coleraine (0) + KIR (1) Saddipan; 德里 (0) + 萨格里布 (1) (6.30pm); 城市迪纳摩 (1) + Aliswain (1) (6pm); Drazwa Meski (4) + Nefna (2) (6pm); FCI Levadia (2) + Gilefsing (1) (5.30pm); 甘特 (0) + NZ Dombay (0) (7.30pm); Krimovice (1) + Zilava (2) (7.30pm); 甘特 (6) + Atent (2) (6pm); Hill (0) + 马瑟韦尔 (2) (6pm); Alderman (0) + Malinheva (2) (8pm); Rees (0) + Stjarnam (1) (5pm); lSofia 国际 (1) + 伊斯坦布尔 Balakhehir (1) (5pm); Jablonec (2) + Yamazite (3) (5pm); Koper (2) + NIS (0); Ladegrams (0) + 特拉维夫哈颇尔 (2) (7pm); Noah (1) + Zhelbe (1) (5pm); Namime Kaja (2) + Zwillbourne (1) (5pm); Narodjaaland (0) + GAIS (1) (6pm); 帕纳辛奈科斯 (2) + Palo (1) (7.30pm); Portocolo (0) + Newk-Banja Laka (2) (6pm); Pystek (0) + Oelovaca (1) (5pm); Shkandija (1) + Kress (2) (7pm); 锡永 (1) + Bate (1) (7.15pm); Sufpoka (0) + Vitekuk (1) (6pm); 新圣徒 (0) + Parra (1) (6.30pm); Tahed Kozianog (1) + Panaviczo (1) (3pm); URA Strasser (0) + 游击者 (4) (7.15pm); 瓦莱塔 (1) + 拉科夫 (1) (6.30pm); Vestiri (1) + RFS (4) (5pm); 莫斯塔尔 Veles (0) + VMC (3pm) (1.10pm); Zalgo (0) + Shanee (1) (6pm); Zira (0) + Paide Linzenverband (1) (5pm); Zrzysk (0) + Volar (1) (7.30pm)
英式橄榄球联盟 Betfred 超级联赛 哈德斯菲尔德 + 赫尔城 (8pm) SS+ 板球 (2pm 除非另有说明) The Hundred 女子赛 南部 + Birre, Utilita Bowl SSC The Hundred 男子赛 南部 + Birre, Utilita Bowl SSC Metro Bank 一日杯男子赛 A 组 兰开斯特郡 + Neds, 普雷斯顿 (1.1am) 高尔夫 Rectest (1.1pm) 底特律 (至周日) Sky Sports Golf 全女子 500 赛 Lytham St Amies (至周日) SSG 赛马 埃普森 RTV, Goodenød (TV) /RTV, 诺丁汉 RTV, 伍尔弗汉普顿 SSR
周五
足球 (7.45pm 除非另有说明) William Hill 苏格兰超级联赛 邓迪联 + 游骑兵 (8pm) SSF 英式橄榄球联盟 Betfred 超级联赛 赫尔 KR + 布拉福德 (8pm) SS+ 利兹 + Stalwart (8pm) SS+ 莱伊 + 威根 (8pm) SS+ 板球 (1.1am 除非另有说明) 首场女子 120 国际赛 斯里兰卡 + 巴基斯坦, 汉班托塔 (5.30am)
The Hundred 女子赛 曼彻斯特 + Trent, the Old Trafford (3pm) SSC The Hundred 男子赛 曼彻斯特 + Trent, the Old Trafford (6.30pm) SSC Metro Bank 一日杯男子赛 B 组 德比郡 + Glam, Ripton; 埃塞克斯 + 汉普郡, 切尔姆斯福德; 伍斯特郡 + 米德尔塞克斯, New Road; 约克郡 + 达勒姆, 约克 Metro Bank 一日杯男子赛 A 组 格洛斯特郡 + 萨里, 布里斯托尔 (2pm); 肯特 + 索美塞特, 坎特伯雷; 诺森普顿郡 + 兰开斯特郡, 诺森普顿 赛马 巴斯 SSR, 古德伍德 (TV) /RTV, Moordburgh RTV, 纽卡斯尔 SSR, 纽马基特 RTV, 伍尔弗汉普顿 SSR
周六
足球 (3pm 除非另有说明) Caraboo 联赛杯
初赛轮次 Trasmore
- 罗奇代尔 SS+
William Hill 苏格兰超级联赛
亚伯丁 + 心的 (5.30pm) SSF;
法尔基克 + 圣米伦 SSF
William Hill 苏格兰冠军联赛
艾尔 + 阿伯布罗思; 莫顿 + 帕特里克; 殷内斯 CT + Duddersfield; 利文斯顿 + 皇后公园; Keith's Starrines
William Hill 苏格兰甲级联赛
Alba + 东法伊夫; Cree + Airdromians; 东基尔布赖德 + Qck; 蒙罗斯 + 汉密尔顿; 彼得黑德 + 罗斯
William Hill 苏格兰乙级联赛
安南 + 斯巴坦人; 克莱德 + Stranvar; 爱丁堡城市 + Elyse; Torfa + Kirby; 斯特灵 + Sunderburm
英式橄榄球联盟
Betfred 超级联赛
卡斯尔福德 + 沃灵顿 (3pm) SS+, 加泰罗尼亚 + 韦克菲尔德 (3pm) SS+, 约克 + 圣海伦斯 (5.30pm) SS+
板球
The Hundred 女子赛
伯明翰 + 威尔士, Edgbaston (1.1am) SSC, 伦敦精神 + 南部, Lord's (2.30pm) SSC
The Hundred 男子赛
伯明翰 + 威尔士, Edgbaston (2.30pm) SSC, 伦敦精神 + 南部, Lord's (3pm) SSC
自行车赛
环法女子赛
Du 9 Augil
赛马
Dorchester SSR, Goodwood (TV) /RTV, Hamilton RTV, Loughfield SSR, Newmarket (TV) /RTV, Thora (TV) /RTV
星期日
足球（除非另有说明，否则均为下午3点） William Hill Scottish Premiership
St Johnstone + Kilmarnock (下午2点) SSF,
Hibernian + Wotherend (下午4.30点) SSF
板球（除非另有说明，否则均为 1.1am） 第二次男子巡回赛（五日赛第一日） WI + 巴基斯坦，西班牙港 (下午3点)
Women's Twenty-50 国际赛 斯里兰卡 + 巴基斯坦，汉班托塔 (上午5.30点)
The Hundred Women's 500
M 伦敦 + 曼彻斯特，The Kia Oval (下午2.30点) BDC, Fwoj-Pfynor/SSC, Trent + 莱兹，Trent Bridge (下午2.30点) SSC
Metro Bank 一日杯男子赛
Group A 肯特 + Neds，贝肯汉姆；兰开夏 + 萨默塞特，Grae Ansel，北安普顿 + 兰开夏，北安普顿；Marks + 格洛斯特，鲁格比 Group B 德比郡 + 萨顿，德比；埃塞克斯 + 伍斯特郡，切姆斯福德；Watts + 达勒姆，Utilita Bowl，米德尔塞克斯 + 约克郡，洛德板球场
赛马
切姆斯福德，切斯特 SSR，雅茅斯 SSR
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2026 年 7 月 27 日 星期一 卫报
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阿森纳为不可阻挡的配方添加最后原料
七名新援的加盟以及俱乐部清晰的目标感，让人们相信自 2019 年以来首次夺得 WSL 冠军已成为可能。
Suzanne Wrack
在阿森纳季前训练的第一天，乔治亚·斯坦韦 (Georgia Stanway) 看了看自己的手臂，然后低头看了看腿。“如你所见，我身上全是纹身，”她说，“我只关注那些空白的皮肤，所以我想继续增加更多。”
纹身及其被纹身是她的创意出口，是她在球场外表达自我的一种方式。但对于这位 27 岁的英格兰中场球员来说，能够发现“空间”则是她在球场上表现卓越的关键。
斯坦韦在从拜仁慕尼黑转会后发布的亮相视频中，展示了手臂上的一段精致的草体文字，写着“无论天气如何” (whatever the weather)。在还没有身穿红白球衣踏上酋长球场草坪之前，就将阿森纳队歌《North London Forever》中的歌词刻在皮肤上，这是一个大胆的声明。“这表明我将为这家俱乐部倾尽所有。我希望迅速进入状态，与队友们建立联系，与
▼ 斯坦韦在今夏从拜仁转会后，已准备好在赛季开始时全力冲刺 ALEX BORSYON/ARSENAL FC/GETTY IMAGES
球迷们建立联系，并期待在俱乐部迎来一个激动人心的未来。”
斯坦韦是阿森纳这个变革之夏的缩影，是迄今为止签下的七名球员之一。与此同时，洛特·武本-莫伊 (Lotte Wubben-Moy) 是一名终身球迷，13 岁时就加入了阿森纳青训学院，她代表了俱乐部重点关注的核心和文化。这是一种球员们渴望成为其一部分的文化，以至于有人在抵达第一天就决定纹身。“她把标准定得很高，”武本-莫伊笑着说，“这就是乔治亚，她总是全力以赴，我很喜欢这一点。”
武本-莫伊已准备好在阿森纳的首发阵容中占据一席之地。尽管在替补伤员时表现异常出色，但她此前一直难以在防线中固定一个位置。“我一直觉得准备好了，”这位 27 岁的球员说，“当机会来临时，我就能完成任务。从历史上看，作为一家俱乐部，我们建立在防守稳固的基础之上。如果我们拥有稳固的防守，就能让我们进行创造并得分。这应该是通往胜利的垫脚石。因此，我将继续以任何方式、任何形式做出贡献。但我想要我的位置。”
如果阿森纳想要更进一步，球队阵容就需要翻新，年龄需要降低，并做出相应的调整。这意味着一些名将将离队，其中最著名的是贝丝·米德 (Beth Mead) 和凯蒂·麦凯布 (Katie McCabe)。“她们两位绝对是这项运动的传奇，我们对她们充满敬意，”前阿森纳前锋、现于 1 月就任俱乐部技术总监的乔迪·泰勒 (Jodie Taylor) 表示，“但我们一直知道，这个窗口期必然会伴随一些变化。”
“在女足运动中，变化是不可避免的，”武本-莫伊说，“如果你和一名球员交谈，而他们没说自己适应能力强，那么这个人就不是为这项运动而生的。我们已经成为一支灵活的球队，一支能够随女足运动的起伏而调整的球队。
“这不仅仅体现在球员组中，在员工、董事会、商业团队和宣传团队中也是一样。每个人都非常愿意做出改变，并主导我们想要的方向。如果四五年前你问我关于变化的问题，我可能会有点畏缩，但现在我知道该怎么做，并且我是这种变革的推动者之一。我们作为一支球队、一个集体所拥有的机会，以及我所预见的未来，真的让我非常兴奋。”
阿森纳在招募斯坦韦时采取的方式，是她想要加盟该俱乐部的促成因素之一。“阿森纳在很早的时候就接触了我，”她说，“我非常欣赏他们从一开始就表现得超级忠诚，即使在我无法立即加盟时也依然想要我。被需要是一种很好的感觉。
“在慕尼黑的最后四年不可思议，但我知道我想更进一步，而且我觉得在阿森纳有一个
“对我来说，这是一个能够提升我的比赛水平，并与世界级球员共同竞技的机会。”
阿森纳的大部分转会工作在早期就已完成，除了斯坦韦，还加入了经验丰富的国际球员塞琳娜·切尔奇（Selina Cerci）、热拉尔丁·罗伊特勒（Géraldine Reuteler）、奥娜·巴特耶（Ona Batlle）和米莎·罗德里格斯（Misa Rodriguez），以及年轻天才莉莎·鲍姆（Lisa Baum）和伊莎贝拉·达姆（Isabella Damm）。在没有重大国际赛事的情况下，季前训练第一天就迎来了七名新援，这对勒内·斯莱格斯（Renée Slegers）及其教练团队来说是一个巨大的助力，尤其是在经历了两个国内赛季慢热的开局之后。
“不过，市场并不简单，它在不断变化，顶尖人才的池子很小，且有多个俱乐部在其中‘钓鱼’，”泰勒说，“你会尽量地计划，但同时也必须具备反应能力。我们始终在关注未来，但必须保持相当的灵活性。”
“我们可以讨论位置需求、特质、年龄和接班计划，但如果一名球员不可得，或者根本不存在这样的球员，那就就像是试图把方榫塞进圆孔。”
武本茂说，新加入的球员带来了能量。在阿森纳男足英超冠军和女足欧冠冠军的庆祝游行中，她的心情起伏剧烈，游行巴士经过了她在拍摄续约视频的嗨伯里角（Highbury Corner），以及几周后她与自行车运动员陶·格奥根哈特（Tao Geoghegan Hart）结婚的伊斯灵顿市政厅（Islington town hall）。
“我更倾向于关注她们所进入的环境，”武本茂说，“那是一个由历史、由作为球队核心的球员和工作人员共同创造的文化，他们都经历了这些变革：凯利 [史密斯]、勒内、我本人、莉亚 [威廉姆森]、金 [利特尔]，还有乔迪。我们见证了许多不同的事情，但我们所有人都在以一种健康的方式，保留我们需要保留的，并舍弃需要舍弃的东西。这很高效，我们很专注，我们知道下一步该做什么。”
“这就像是在烹饪一道最精美的食谱，然后你加入最后的微小配料，创造出细微的差别，使其升华，最终创造出某种美丽且值得品味和享受的东西。这就是我们目前在漫长的季前训练中所经历的过程。我非常渴望快点完成这个阶段，这样我们就能把烹饪好的‘佳肴’端给球迷们，并告诉他们：‘开饭了，我们将一起品尝一整年。’”
上赛季在酋长球场举行的英女超（WSL）比赛平均观众人数超过 34,000 人，加上俱乐部在女足领域的开拓历史，以及 2025 年赢得的欧冠冠军，这些都是巨大的吸引力。阿森纳的所有相关人员都渴望获得更多，包括自 2019 年以来首个英女超冠军头衔。
“我们处于一个绝佳的状态，”泰勒说，“但我们希望上赛季能赢得更多奖杯，这也是我们进入本年度的雄心。我就直截了当地说了：我们要赢得联赛冠军。我们是一家有雄心的俱乐部，凭借已经完成的签约，我们觉得自己处于一个能够实现这一目标的绝佳位置。”
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国际米兰体育总监确认与罗梅罗进行谈判
国际米兰已就签下克里斯蒂安·罗梅罗一事与托特纳姆热刺展开谈判。自 2021 年加入托特纳姆热刺以来，这位俱乐部队长共出场 156 次，并在去年带领俱乐部在欧联杯中获得成功。但随着中后卫扬·保罗·范·海克和马科斯·塞内西在今夏加盟，热刺将允许这位 28 岁的阿根廷国脚离队，其代表人员本周末已在米兰与国际米兰进行谈判。国际米兰体育总监皮耶罗·奥西利奥告诉 Sky Italy：“这绝对是一笔我们正试图与球员和俱乐部达成协议的交易。这些事情需要一些时间，但绝对存在兴趣。让我们拭目以待。” PA Media
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“话题已结束”：勒布里斯排除扎卡离队的可能性
雷吉斯·勒布里斯宣布切尔西对格拉尼特·扎卡的追求已“结束”，并坚持认为桑德兰在今夏没有出售这位极具影响力的队长的可能性。切尔赛本月开出了 £8 百万英镑的价格试图签下这位 33 岁的球员，但该报价立即被拒绝，其主教练也明确否认该交易可能会被重新审视。“不，这个话题已经结束了，”勒布里斯说，“他对他未来的想法非常明确。他热爱桑德兰，他想留在桑德兰。他想创造桑德兰的未来。他是一位优秀的队长，伟大的领导者。” Andy Hunter
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巴黎圣日耳曼失去兴趣后，迪奥曼德将加盟伯纳乌
在巴黎圣日耳曼退出竞标战后，皇家马德里似乎在争夺 RB莱比锡边锋扬·迪奥曼德的竞争中获胜。这位 19 岁的球员此前被认为极有可能转会巴黎，但现在看来将前往伯纳乌。巴黎圣日耳曼昨晚发布了一份声明，称：“巴黎圣日耳曼今晚正式撤回对扬·迪奥曼德的兴趣和报价。PSG 不会违反其理性财务管理和球队平衡的原则。” Mark Dobson
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亚当斯的逝世如何震撼了一个南非社区
这位在世界杯赛场出战数周后、年仅 25 岁便不幸逝世的足球运动员，将因其谦逊的举止而被人们铭记。
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对于在本月去世、年仅 25 岁的南非中场球员杰登·亚当斯（Jayden Adams）来说，足球曾是一个“安全空间”。
亚当斯的青年队教练史蒂夫·巴克（Steve Barker）在 11 天前的追思会上使用了这些词汇，这足以让你了解他在球场之外的生活点滴。
亚当斯面对的挑战几乎从出生起就伴随着他。尽管他出生在刚刚实现民主化的南非，但到 2000 年代初，这场革命已在很大程度上走向被背叛的局面。虽然投票权扩大到了所有人，但很少有人能充分利用这些自由，因为该国的社会经济状况几乎没有改变。亚当斯一家定居的斯特伦博塞（Stellenbosch）就是一个典型的例子。
这里的表象是游客心中的梦想之城：一座坐落在葡萄园、开普荷兰风格建筑和独立精品店之中的大学城。大多数访客从未走出市中心，也从未进入郊区，而那里居住着地位低得多的群体，且长期被忽视。这些地区是典型的种族隔离制度遗留产物，财富被保留给了历史上处于优势的精英阶层，而那些处于边缘的、由有色人种组成的工人阶级社区则几乎被视而不见。
▲ 各球队在世界杯期间举行了一分钟默哀，以纪念亚当斯
讽刺的是，这也是人们最常用来描述亚当斯的方式。无论是在社会中，还是在他所擅长的体育运动中，他都行走在阴影之中。“杰登是一个话很少的人。他很安静，非常腼腆，在队友中也是最瘦小的，”亚当斯家族发言人布伦丁·约翰逊（Brendine Johnson）说道。“很多人因为他的体型而忽略了他的足球天赋，但他拥有非常强大的斗志，只是并不总是显露在外。”
亚当斯深爱这项运动。他的姑姑莫妮卡·陶格（Monica Thaoge）在追思会上回忆道，他小时候会踢任何圆的东西——“甚至包括洋葱”。他的父母胡安尼托（Juanito）和坎迪斯（Candice）之前曾提到，土豆是他们儿子首选的“足球”。家人中没有人谈论缺乏资金，因为他们所在的社区一直在努力让生活变得更好。但缺失依然存在，尤其是在早期。
“在那样的地方，每个人都只是在努力维持生计，”前南非板球运动员罗杰·特勒马库斯（Roger Telemachus）说道，他与亚当斯的父亲在克洛特斯维尔（Cloetesville）同一条街道长大。“对于孩子们来说，他们可能没那么在意，因为他们忙于运动。一些父亲，比如胡安尼托，非常鼓励孩子，每个人都会在街上尝试所有项目：网球、足球、橄榄球、板球。这也是远离麻烦的最佳方式。”
问题显而易见，且根据特勒马库斯的说法，在“过去 20 年”里情况变得更糟了。这些问题包括黑帮活动、药物滥用以及从轻微到严重的各种犯罪。当亚当斯搬到相对富裕的艾达谷（Ida's Valley）地区时，他得以逃离那种生活，但即便如此，他也没有过奢侈的生活。在一段时间里，包括四个孩子在内的六口之家住在只有两间卧室的房子里。其他时候，他们则与他的外祖母玛丽安娜（Marianna）住在一起。“他基本上是在她的院子里长大的，”约翰逊说。
亚当斯的人生转折点出现在 15 岁时，他被选入斯特伦博塞学院的 18 岁以下代表队。“环境很艰苦，尤其是如果你不够强壮或足够高的话，但当身体素质不再是最重要的因素时，人们发现杰登的技术非常出色，”约翰逊说。
他的教练们对此表示赞同。巴克是南非非洲杯冠军教练克莱夫（Clive）的侄子，目前是坦桑尼亚辛巴队的教练。
“在球场上是他最快乐的地方。他不是在传球，而是在抚摸球。他是特别的。”
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在亚当斯去世后不久，他对他的一项情感评估中称：“你能遇到很多优秀的足球运动员，但能遇到伟大的足球运动员却很少。杰登就是伟大的，”他告诉 Newzroom Afrika。
“杰登有三个让他脱颖而出的特质：不可思议的第一触球、传球的力度——我从未见过类似的——以及他对足球如此热爱。在球场上是他最快乐的地方。他不是在传球，而是在抚摸足球。他是特别的，他的足球智商简直卓越。”
正是在巴克（Barker）的指导下，亚当斯才开始绽放。他成为了来自斯特伦博斯学院（Stellenbosch Academy）首位在南非最高级别联赛——超级足球联赛（Premier Soccer League）中效力的球员。五年后，在获得国家队征召之后，该国最富有的俱乐部马梅洛迪落日队（Mamelodi Sundowns）向他发出了邀请。今年，在效力该俱乐部的第二个赛季之初，亚当斯剃光了头发，他开玩笑说这是成熟的标志，并称自己为“grootman”（大人物）。这个绰号从此沿用了下来。
亚当斯从未明说，但他可能也意识到自己成长了多少。在那时，他已经经历过被国家队选中、代表国家队出战，以及因为在训练营迟到并激怒主教练雨果·布罗斯（Hugo Broos）而被剔除出队的经历。他还失去了两名学院队友，其中包括一位好友。
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▼ 杰登·亚当斯的追思会于斯特伦博斯举行 RODGER BOSCH/AFP/GETTY
2023,年2月，19,岁的奥什温·安德里斯（Oshwin Andries）在斯特伦博斯以北16公里的帕尔（Paarl）死于刺伤。三年后，20,岁的让德烈·加富尔（Jeandre Gaffoor）在克罗姆河（Krom River）溺水身亡。
当落日队在五月赢得非洲冠军联赛（CAF Champions League）冠军时，亚当斯将他的奖牌献给了安德里斯。失去如此之多让这座小镇感到沉重，但通过亚当斯，他们拥有了庆祝的理由。
他在落日队洲际胜利中的作用以及入选世界杯大名单，表明亚当斯的职业轨迹正在上升。在落日队的第一赛季，他经常在替补席上等待，其在队中的地位受到质疑，而随后他成为了球队不可或缺的一部分。在
‘他想要回馈。每场比赛结束后，他都会把球衣和球鞋送给孩子们’
亚当斯的追思会上，落日队的高级教练史蒂夫·孔佩拉（Steve Komphela）称他为“我们球队的核心，以及我们比赛风格的心跳”，他“像教练一样理解比赛，像球员一样去踢球”。
在过去的一年里，亚当斯展现出了那些熟悉他的人在多年前就预见到的潜力，并以他的勇气和成功的驱动力令他人惊讶。南非队长朗温·威廉姆斯（Ronwen Williams）回忆起今年非洲国家杯的一次经历，当时身材矮小的亚当斯用一些当地的措辞挑衅一名高大的马里对手。威廉姆斯问亚当斯是否知道他所嘲讽的球员的身材，但亚当斯耸耸肩，回答说那个马里人反正也不会听懂。
“这就是他的性格，”威廉姆斯在追思会上说，在向他称之为“my ma se kind”（我的母亲之子，南非的一种表达方式）的队友告别时，他在泪中微笑。
随着名声的鹊起，亚当斯小心地不张扬自己的成就。“杰登知道自己拥有什么，但他绝不想把它说出来。他非常有竞争心，但绝不吹嘘，”约翰逊说。“有些人社交媒体上很能说。杰登不是那样的人。而且他想要回馈。每场比赛结束后，他都会把球衣和球鞋送给请求他的孩子们。”
他还专注于供养他的家人，因为他“总是承诺他们，他会改变他们的财务状况”。
在世界杯上，亚当斯（Adams）在巨大的痛苦中依然为球队出战。在南非对阵捷克的比赛前一天，他的祖母玛丽安娜（Marianna）去世，但亚当斯选择留在球队中。他参加了那场比赛，赛后显得精神状态良好，并称 1-1 平局是一个积极的结果，尽管他内心感受截然相反。
他还参加了接下来的对阵韩国队的比赛，南非队赢得了这场比赛，并首次闯入淘汰赛。赛后视频显示，当队友们载歌载舞地庆祝时，他独自一人坐在那里。
在追思会上，孔佩拉（Komphela）向亚当斯一家引用了一段圣经经文作为慰藉，但这这段话同样可以作为一份总结。《诗篇》 23:4 ：“我虽然行在死荫的幽谷，我也不怕遭害，因为你与我同在。”
他们知道，亚当斯在短暂的一生中多次走过那样的幽谷，而他并不恐惧。他留下了父母、三个兄弟姐妹、一名伴侣、两个孩子，以及一个经历了任何社区都不应经历之痛的社区。在这一切之中，他从一个不愿被外界关注的人，走进了足球世界的聚光灯下。几场世界杯比赛为纪念亚当斯举行了的一分钟静默。这并非他的家人所想象的他获得全球关注的方式，但这向他们证明了，在足球领域，他的价值始终远超任何人的想象。
“我认为社区里的人并不知道他有多伟大，也不知道人们多么欣赏他的足球，”约翰逊（Johnson）说道，“这是一个巨大的冲击。”
基耶萨旨在伊拉奥拉执教的利物浦开启“新篇章”
这位意大利球员期待在阿尔内·斯洛特执教的令人失望的赛季后获得一个全新的开始
安迪·亨特 纳什维尔
费德里科·基耶萨表示，在阿尔内·斯洛特麾下度过了一段沮丧的时光后，他希望在安多尼·伊拉奥拉执教的利物浦开启“一个新篇章”，并声称俱乐部在上一赛季能够获得欧冠资格纯属运气。
这位利物浦前锋在安菲尔德的两年时间里一直难以获得出场时间，因此今夏与重返意大利的传闻联系在一起。基耶萨上赛季在斯洛特麾下出场 36 次，从账面上看是个不错的数字，但其中只有 5 次是以首发身份出战。
尽管利物浦上赛季因为亚历山大·伊萨克和雨果·埃基蒂凯的受伤而面临进攻端的问题，但基耶萨在英超联赛中仅首发一场，而他最后一次首发是在 2 月 14 日足总杯第四轮对阵布莱顿的胜利中。基耶萨希望主教练的更换能预示着运气的转变。
“每年年初总是一个全新的开始，”这位 28 岁的球员说道。周六在纳什维尔，利物浦在 4-2 击败桑德兰的友谊赛中由他完成了精彩的射门。“也许[对他而言]已经有太多的‘全新开始’了。但我不在意，我正努力为这位新主帅做出最好的贡献。”
“上赛季在阿尔内·斯洛特麾下，我一直在努力尝试。去年我觉得自己已经准备好承担更大的角色，然后就
▲ 基耶萨将希望给新任主教练安多尼·伊拉奥拉留下深刻印象
取决于教练是否想让我上场。当然我想多踢球，但事实就是那样。主教练有他的比赛计划，他做出了决定，对此我没什么好说的。今年，就说这是一个新篇章吧。有一位新主教练，我必须专注于此。”
基耶萨承认，自这位巴斯克教练在 6 月接替斯洛特以来，他尚未与伊拉奥拉讨论过未来问题。“我唯一的对话是关于压迫和战术的，”他
“我在利物浦很开心。我热爱这个俱乐部，热爱球迷”
费德里科·基耶萨 利物浦
说道。“在对阵桑德兰的比赛中，他让我踢前锋，他希望我出现在那个位置。”
但这位与俱乐部仍有两年合同的意大利国脚声称，他的首要任务是向主教练证明自己，而不是寻求重返意甲。科莫和前东家尤文图斯一直与引进这位前锋的传闻联系在一起。
“现在我在利物浦很开心，”基耶萨说。“我热爱这个俱乐部，热爱球迷，热爱这里的一切。我正在尽最大努力争取在这里获得机会。然后我们再看。目前，我唯一思考的就是利物浦。”
在 5 月那个动荡赛季的最后一天，利物浦确保了欧冠资格，而那次比赛被证明是斯洛特执教的最后一战。基耶萨坚持认为，对于像利物浦这样地位的俱乐部来说，这并没有庆祝的理由，下个赛季必须有所改进。
这位前锋表示：“利物浦值得更好的成绩。两年前，我们还是英超冠军。去年，我们差点失去了欧冠席位。我们当时在为第五名而战，在那个时候这已经足够了，但正如我们所知，通常只有 4 个名额。我们很幸运。”
“去年是一个艰难的赛季，这个赛季我们需要做得更好，在欧冠赛场上也是如此。我们被巴黎圣日耳曼淘汰了。我们希望走得更远，并且希望在英超联赛中表现得更出色。”
基耶萨还希望在下赛季重返国家队，因为他近期缺席了多支名单。意大利队目前正在寻找新主教练，此前他们在詹纳罗·加图索的带领下未能获得世界杯资格。
基耶萨说：“情况是我与主教练——加图索——谈过几次，但当时我的身体状态没准备好。当我 3 月回归时，不幸地受伤了。但我非常期待能为国家队出战。我曾随国家队赢得过[欧洲冠军赛]。为你的国家队出战并获胜总是很美好的。”
以时尚之姿为新赛季热身
费德里科·基耶萨（左）和多米尼克·索博斯洛伊在周六利物浦对阵桑德兰的比赛中均打入进球 ANDREW I CLARK/ IPS PHOTOS/GETTY
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体育 英联邦运动会
游泳
拉姆齐-皮蒂陷入困境，但他已有夺金复苏的“战斗计划”
肖恩·英格尔 (Sean Ingle)
托尔克罗斯游泳中心 (Tollcross Swimming Centre)
亚当·拉姆齐-皮蒂 (Adam Ramsay-Peaty) 从来不是一个隐藏情绪的人。他将感情坦率地展露在外，就在他手臂上那头巨大的狮子和希腊海神波塞冬的醒目纹身旁边。
在本次英联邦运动会 100 米蛙泳决赛中遭遇惊人失利后，这位 31 岁的运动员再次倾诉心声——并坚称他已经制定了在今天 50 米蛙泳中夺金的“战斗计划”。
拉姆齐-皮蒂在半决赛中以 26.82 秒排名第三快，表现确实看起来更加流畅。然而，与速度最快（26.61）的南非选手迈克尔·豪利 (Michael Houlie) 相比，他仍有零点几个秒的差距需要追回。
澳大利亚选手萨姆·威廉姆森 (Sam Williamson) 希望在 100 米冠军的基础上增加 50 米项目的奖牌，他在半决赛中以 26.79. 夺冠，状态同样出色。尽管如此，皮蒂表示他对自己在周六惨败后能迅速振作起来感到满意。
“感觉好多了，”他说。“过去的 24 小时像是一场旋风，但我对此真的很开心。
▲ 亚当·拉姆齐-皮蒂昨天看起来心态更加放松
我们为明天的比赛处于一个极佳的轨道上。
对我来说，把脑子里的东西排解出来的最好方法就是把它写下来。当我写下哪里出了错、哪里做得对、需要什么样的改变、什么不能改变，那么我就有了一份战斗计划。”
他补充道：“人们忘了我已经两年没参加这种比赛了。甚至连我自己都忘了。所以当你经历预赛、半决赛和决赛时，如果你不习惯，会觉得相当困难。我认为这种视角是一件好事。”
在辉煌的职业生涯中，皮蒂曾在全球锦标赛中 32 次登上最高领奖台。然而，自 2022 年伯明翰英联邦运动会以来，他再也没有赢得过金牌。这一记录在周六被延长，他在 100 米蛙泳中仅获得铜牌，成绩为 59.65, 落后于夺冠的威廉姆森（59.3,）以及来自泽西岛的 18 岁天才选手菲利普·诺维茨基 (Filip Nowicki)。
赛后，拉姆齐-皮蒂非常坦诚地讲述了为了准备英联邦运动会而经历的“所有糟心事”，包括 5. 30 分起床、因为训练错过家庭聚会，以及他及其家人在社交媒体上遭受的大量辱骂。
昨天，他进一步阐述了自己挣扎的背景，指出在过去四年中，他与倦怠感以及一次足部骨折作斗争，并暗示了其与家人之间广为人知的疏离关系。
“过去几年里有很多因素在起作用——倦怠、脚骨折、与你热爱的事物作斗争。这很艰难，”他说。“其中一部分
相当痛苦，尤其是从那次足部受伤之后。
回到我现在的位置并决定冲击洛杉矶奥运会，我认为这将是我面临的最艰难的攀登和最严峻的考验。因为太难了，很难看到顶峰。我觉得没人能真正理解。”
那个 59.65 是比他的世界纪录慢了将近三秒——
甚至比他在春季英国选拔赛中的成绩还要慢。
“我的训练强度远高于 59.6, 真的。这不是一个好成绩——我们知道这一点，”他昨天说。“当你的世界纪录被拉开三秒时，我们必须严肃地询问哪里出了问题，因为那不是我的真实水平。
我们需要审视它，质询它，分析数据，并询问是比赛节奏的问题、体能问题，还是其他原因。我不认为体能有问题，但决定游泳表现的组成部分很多，所以我们必须认真分析。”
他补充道：“实话实说，我在四月份训练量更少时体能反而更好，这其实毫无道理。我想这就是学习点。也许我正处于一个我并不完全理解的计划中，也许还需要两年时间才能找到正确的方法。”
篮网球 (Netball)
加宾主导比赛，澳大利亚队大胜玫瑰队
Yara El-Shaboury
OVO Hydro
在英格兰队于黄金海岸以戏剧性的最后一刻绝杀击败澳大利亚队的八年之后，这项英联邦运动会最伟大的网球（Netball）宿敌之战在格拉斯哥再次上演。但这一次，玫瑰队（the Roses）没有迎来童话般的结局。卫冕冠军澳大利亚钻石队（the Diamonds）在 Hydro 体育馆以 66-47 击溃英格兰队，将她们在运动会上对阵该对手的纪录扩大至八次交手七次获胜。
自从海伦·豪斯比（Helen Housby）在 2018 年决赛中凭借最后一秒的进球震惊钻石队以来，这两支球队的每一次交锋都充满了额外的火药味。四年前在伯明翰夺金的途中，澳大利亚通过击败英格兰获得了一定程度的复仇，而昨天的英联邦运动会小组赛碰撞再次标定了这项运动中最激烈竞争的现状。
从开场哨响起，澳大利亚队就表现得更快、更敏锐且更高效，由索菲·加宾（Sophie Garbin）和基拉·奥斯汀（Kiera Austin）组成的星光熠熠的进攻线立即撕开了英格兰队的防线。
“场上的对抗非常激烈，但这就是我们的预期，也是我们的准备方向，”加宾说道。“显然，获得胜利感觉很棒，但英格兰队也进行了非常顽强的抵抗。”
“我们知道有很多苏格兰人在为我们加油。我想每个人都告诉我们要去击败那些英国女孩，所以我们知道在这里会得到很多支持，但他们（英格兰队）也会得到支持。这太棒了。这就是你想要的——在这样一个惊人的场馆里，在这样的观众面前参加比赛。这真的非常令人兴奋。”
随着奥斯汀开始主导局势，钻石队迅速取得了 10-4 的领先优势，而英格兰队在应对澳大利亚全场无情的压力时显得十分吃力。临时主教练安娜·斯滕布里奇（Anna Stembridge）在寻找对策时，萨莎·格拉斯哥（Sasha Glasgow）在第一节结束前被替换下场，而路易丝·皮尔逊（Lois Pearson）移至进攻端（goal attack）的位置短暂地遏制了颓势。
英格兰队将比分追至 13-9，但任何势头都被澳大利亚冷酷的效率所熄灭。加宾在底线反复地找到空间，最终在 42 次尝试中完成了 41 个进球，而奥斯汀则贡献了 15 个进球，以及 19 次助攻和 17 次喂球。
到第一节结束时，澳大利亚队以 18-11 领先。英格兰队试图在第二节初期通过变阵来打破局面，将杰达·佩乔娃（Jayda Pechová）投入防守，同时将队长弗兰·威廉姆斯（Fran Williams）移至防守端（goal defence）。这些调整最初起到了作用，佩乔娃打乱了澳大利亚队的节奏，英格兰队在第二节开局以 4-1 的爆发势头领先。
杰米-李·普莱斯（Jamie-Lee Price）和奥斯汀恢复了澳大利亚队的冷静，而英格兰队的挫败感开始显现。利夫·奇内（Liv Tchine）仍然是玫瑰队最亮眼的进攻点，利用她的
◀ 澳大利亚队的索菲·加宾，在 66-47 赢得 A 组胜利的比赛中，在面对英格兰队杰达·佩乔娃的压力时成功摆脱并投进了 41 个球。 JOEL CARRETT/AAP
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拉姆齐-皮蒂冲击 50 米金牌
亚当·拉姆齐-皮蒂在昨日半决赛中出战 ADAM PRETTY/GETTY IMAGES
周六，拉姆齐-皮蒂还将矛头指向了社交媒体和传统媒体。这些媒体一直对他及其怀孕的妻子霍莉（名人厨师戈登·拉姆齐之女）以及他与母亲的关系疏远之说执迷不悟。
“你们并不了解我是谁，”他说，“而那些发表评论的人，那些看到这个故事的人，因为你们读到了标题，所以他们得对着镜子反省。你们伤不到我。”
他补充道：“就我的经历而言，这并没有产生什么影响，因为在某种意义上，我对那个结果仍然感到满意，但这必须停止。要多少运动员、多少人经历这些，媒体才能吸取教训？你们必须学习并做得更好。”
高度和移动力以保持英格兰队的竞争力，但库特尼·布鲁斯和乔·韦斯顿不断迫使对方出现困难传球并造成失误。
布鲁斯和奇内在圈内发生了多次肢体接触，而随着英格兰队试图干扰澳大利亚队的防守单元，比赛变得愈发激烈。奇内在第二节末段将布鲁斯推向后方的动作，概括了这种日益增长的挫败感，此时“钻石队”在半场时将领先优势扩大至 35-24。
如果英格兰队还寄希望于再次上演著名的反击，澳大利亚队在第三节就将其浇灭了。在一段毁灭性的进攻中，他们以 21-11 领先于“玫瑰队”，以临床手术般的精准度利用对方的失误。失误、进攻方接触犯规以及传球失误反复将球权直接交给澳大利亚队，而后者惩罚了每一个错误。带着 21 球的领先优势进入最后一节，比赛实际上已经结束。
“这绝对不是我们想要的结果，但这也不是（我们应有的）表现，”威廉姆斯说。“我们远未达到最佳状态，而且从未真正获得某种势头来进入比赛状态，这很遗憾。当比赛在下半场像那样失控时，情况确实很艰难。你必须确保自己仍在追求那些微小的胜利和小的抗争。”
英格兰队的球迷宠儿埃莉诺·卡德威尔在格拉斯哥观众的巨大欢呼声中入场，立即为进攻注入了新鲜活力。她与萨拉·克劳的对抗为这场本就激烈的遭遇战增加了另一个冲突点，克劳在将卡德威尔撞翻在地后收到了一次正式警告。卡德威尔拒绝了克劳的帮助，随后拍掉身上的灰尘继续比赛。
英格兰队在最后一节小胜，但此时损害早已造成。
体操
沃德夺得全能金牌并欢迎受伤的朗顿回归
Sean Ingle
格拉斯哥国际竞技场
在本次英联邦运动会上，最令人心暖的一幕无疑发生在昨天午餐前，当时一名年轻的英国体操运动员一瘸一拐地走回格拉斯哥国际竞技场的座位上。
36小时前，加布里埃尔·朗顿（Gabriel Langton）在单杠上发生恐怖坠落，颈部着地，令许多队友流下眼泪。如今，尽管在医院度过了 24 小时且身上带着不少瘀伤，他依然回到了现场——并决心让大家听到他的声音。
他为他的英国队友卢克·怀特豪斯（Luke Whitehouse）和亚当·托宾（Adam Tobin）呐喊助威，两人分别获得第七名和第五名。而当结果显而易见他们无法夺冠时，他则激励代表苏格兰队出战的英国队友鲁本·沃德（Reuben Ward），后者最终斩获个人全能金牌，表现亮眼。
沃德是周五晚上流泪的人之一，在获胜后，他想起了团队理疗师在事故发生时告诉他的话：“为了加布而战。”
“我 2022 年和加布一起参加了欧洲青少年锦标赛，”沃德说。“昨天他从医院回来，前往英格兰队入住的利奥纳多酒店时，我也在场。我看到了他，为他鼓掌并给了他一个拥抱。我只是非常庆幸他没事。”
“坦白说，前几天在团体决赛中，当他倒在地上时，那场面非常可怕。我们参加欧洲青少年赛时，他只有 15 岁，那时他还是个孩子，现在他已经是个男人了。然后他就那样倒在地上。理疗师走过来对我说：‘为了加布而战。’我想苏格兰队的我们中大约有三个人哭了，包括在我之内。”
然而，这一天体操运动再次提醒人们这项美妙运动潜藏的危险：新加坡的乔维·罗（Jovi Loh）被担架抬走，看起来像是严重的膝盖受伤。
这位 18 岁的小将当时正在完成单杠动作，但在进行双前翻半周下法时未能稳住。
▲ 鲁本·沃德在获得意外金牌后表现出欣喜之情
他随即摔在地上，捂着膝盖，面露痛苦之色。
沃德的话得到了托宾的共鸣，托宾表示他也听到了朗顿在为他呐喊。“我其实没看到他，但我听到了，”他补充道。“我知道他的声音是怎么样的。这太棒了，而且我觉得看到他昨晚走回酒店，身体健康，这真的太好了。”
“他一直在喊：‘加油！’以及‘动作要干净。’这太棒了。在短短两天内，他经历了一件如此可怕、如此创伤的事情，而现在他在这里，支持着我、英格兰队以及苏格兰队。所以我非常高兴他恢复得这么好。”
托宾还赞扬了英格兰队的教练在混乱中让所有人保持冷静。“我的意思是，我们当时都完全震惊了，脑子里跳出的第一个念头就是：‘他还好吗？’教练们在隔离和保护我们方面做得非常好，让我们处于一个‘气泡’中，试图让我们保持专注，因为我们仍有任务要完成。然后，这就不再仅仅是为了奖牌，我们是为了加布而战。”
“比赛的第一天就像坐过山车一样。我们赢得了一枚团体奖牌，我对此感到极其高兴。从那时起，我必须让自己冷静下来，重新振作，迎接今天的比赛，所以这是一次比较新鲜的经历。”
此前被视为金牌热门的怀特豪斯在获得第七名后强撑起勇气。三次失误代价沉重，其中包括在自由操中完成标志性动作——三周后空翻时摔倒。
“总的来说，我挺失望的，”他说。“我的比赛开局不如预期，在前三个项目以及三周后翻中失误——这很不像我的风格。然后我在鞍马下法时犯了一个低级错误。”
不过，怀特豪斯也能客观地看待自己的失望之情。“得知加布没事且没有严重受伤，只有瘀伤，这真是太令人欣慰了，”他说。“昨天迎接他回到酒店并把奖牌颁给他，我感到无比自豪。”
在被问及周五朗顿（Langton）摔倒后他夺冠的表现时，怀特豪斯（Whitehouse）补充道：“我不知道我是怎么做到的。那次摔倒非常可怕。我认为你必须把这件事抛在脑后，尽量不去思考它。”
▲ 在主场观众面前参加单杠比赛的苏格兰选手鲁本·沃德（Reuben Ward） TOM JENKINS/THE GUARDIAN
今日亮点
格拉斯哥的日程非常繁忙，赛会首批田径奖牌将在此产生。各项赛事共提供 27 枚金牌；TNT 的现场报道将于上午 8.20 开始，首先播报草地滚球。5 频道的集锦节目将在晚上 10.05 播出。
主要赛事
田径与残疾人田径
下午 6.30 - 晚上 10pm
有许多看点，包括前橄榄球运动员杰克·诺里斯参加的男子链球赛，哈米什·克尔参加的男子跳高决赛，以及在女子 T37-38 100米决赛中，2022 年的冠军、来自威尔士的奥利维亚·布林将与英格兰的 2018 年冠军索菲·汉展开激烈角逐。
游泳与残疾人游泳
晚上 7pm - 10pm
澳大利亚的萨姆·肖特是 800米自由泳的夺冠热门。此外，在经历了周六 100米比赛中令人心碎的失败后，请关注亚当·拉姆齐-皮蒂在 50米蛙泳中寻求救赎的尝试。
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体育 自行车 法国自行车赛
波加查跻身传奇之列，范德波尔赢得疯狂收官战
Jeremy Whittle 巴黎
塔德伊·波加查在昨天的环法自行车赛中夺得第五次冠军，追平了历史记录，与雅克·安奎尔、艾迪·默克斯、贝尔纳·伊诺和米格尔·印杜拉一同进入了环法历史上最成功的骑手之列。在这次环赛扣人心弦的收官战中，马修·范德波尔在蒙马特高地（Butte de Montmartre）的最后一次攀爬中与波加查一同突围，随后在香榭丽舍大街以一个轮胎之差挡住了后方冲刺集团的追击，夺得他在本届赛事中的第二个赛段冠军。
默克斯因其在环法之外取得的广泛成就而被广泛认为是史上最伟大的骑手，他认为波加查现在将继续赢得第六次环法冠军。这位 81 岁的比利时人表示：“我不认为他仅仅满足于与我和其他冠军平起平坐。他很快就会打破我们关于环法冠军次数的记录。”
从蒙特惠奇到蒙马特，波加查和闷热的高温笼罩了 2026 年的环法赛。这场在热浪和山火背景下举行的比赛，最终以必然的结果告终——这位不懈努力的斯洛文尼亚人再次夺冠。
波加查在这次环法赛中无人能敌，在骑行运动中最令人生畏的两处攀爬地段——图尔马莱山口（Col du Tourmalet）和阿尔普迪埃兹（Alpe d'Huez）打破了记录，并指导他的门生艾萨克·德尔托在最终排名中获得第三名。
在另一种平行时空里，奥运公路赛冠军雷姆科·埃文坡埃尔可能会赢得他的首个环法冠军，而法国新人保罗·塞克萨斯则可能登上领奖台。而他们以及在比赛中因撞车退赛的约纳斯·温格高，不幸的是都处在波加查及其坚不可摧的阿联酋航空 XRG 车队的时代。
一个更精瘦、更强悍且更有驱动力的埃文坡埃尔证明了质疑者是错误的，重新确立了自己作为巴黎胜利有力竞争者的地位。但这位比利时人也知道
▲ 马修·范德波尔冲线赢得他在本届赛事中的第二个赛段冠军
波加查可能得在那样的事情发生前就退役。
统计数据讲述了环法现代史上最强势的表现之一。波加查的总成绩领先第二名近六分半钟，赢得了五个赛段，并刷新了比利牛斯山脉和阿尔卑斯山脉传奇攀爬路段的时间记录。如果不是因为他决定让德尔托在第二赛段获胜，他本可以赢得六个赛段。
“这次环法我表现得非常好，”波加查在周六的阿尔普迪埃兹赛段后说道，同时承认温格高和弗洛里安·利波维茨等竞争对手运气不佳，两人去年都曾在巴黎登上领奖台，但今年均因撞车退赛。“这就是环法，三个星期的赛程，”波加查说，“很多糟糕的事情都可能发生。”
但由于他这种持续的成功也伴随着警示。如果不了解背景而直接庆祝一位五次环法冠军，将是天真的。毫无疑问，波加查是一个奇迹，但他的随行团队带有来自不快时期的包袱。
他的车队经理毛罗·吉亚内蒂表示：“波加查太强大了，无论在哪个车队，人们都会对他产生质疑。”但在大主集团抵达巴黎的 24 小时前，吉亚内蒂表示，他是其车队骑手过去丑闻的“受害者”。
最臭名昭著的是 Saunier
最终排名
总成绩榜 (General classification)
| 1 T Pogacar Svn | 73hr 56m 26s |
|---|---|
| 2 R Evenepoel Bel | 74hr 02m 52s |
积分榜 (Points classification)
| 1 M Pedersen Den | 559pts |
|---|---|
| 2 J Philipsen Bel | 475pts |
登山王 (King of the mountains)
| 1 R Carapaz Ecu | 156pts |
|---|---|
| 2 T Pogacar Svn | 100pts |
最佳年轻骑手榜 (Young rider classification)
| 1 I Del Toro Mex | 74hr 06m 08s |
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| 2 P Seixas Fr | 74hr 08m 22s |
最多项环法冠军
| 5 J Anquetil (Fr) | |
|---|---|
| E Merckx (Bel) | |
| B Hinault (Fr) | |
| M Induráin (Sp) | |
| T Pogacar (Svn) | |
| 4 C Froome (GB) |
2008年的杜瓦尔丑闻，当时由吉亚内蒂管理的车队在明星车手里卡多·里科的血液兴奋剂检测呈阳性后退出了环法。里科及其队友莱昂纳多·皮波利被解雇，赞助商也撤回了资金。
“我犯了让他们加入我车队的错误，”吉亚内蒂告诉《队报》，“我本应做出不同的反应，在面对媒体时更加坦率，解释我其实也是受害者。”
在斯洛文尼亚人波加查和温格高在第 15 赛段前接受独立检测机构 (ITA) 的夜间检测后，围绕波加查随行团队的旧焦虑再次浮现。
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这些检测得到了环法自行车赛总监克里斯蒂安·普鲁东以及国际自行车联盟 (UCI) 的支持。在检测三天后发布的一份声明中，UCI 将此次检查描述为“一项在有限且合理的情况下采取的特殊措施”。
尽管睡眠被打断，波加查仍接受了检测。他说：“如果这对于证明我们是在干净地骑行是必要的，那么我完全接受。我承诺配合。”
ITA 向卫报重申，“不会就阴性结果进行公开沟通”，但同时也表示“不存在一个所有检测结果都被确定为阴性的日期”。
在某种程度上，这使得波加查及其长期竞争对手温格高的成就处于不确定状态。无论如何，预计这位斯洛文尼亚人将参加下个月的西班牙大环赛，试图夺得他尚未赢得的唯一一座大环赛冠军。
明年，环法将向北看向苏格兰的大赛起点 (Grand Départ)。上周在接受卫报采访时，普鲁东将爱丁堡描述为一座“神奇的城市”。他说：“每次环法访问英国，都有助于环法自行车赛的成长。如果环法能帮助将重大自行车赛事带回英国的不同地区，那将是非常美妙的。英国为环法贡献了极多。”
波加查在凯旋门夺冠
塔德伊·波加查在巴黎香榭丽舍大街的标志性建筑前骑行，奔向他的第五次环法自行车赛胜利 GONZALO FUENTES/MASTERS
分析
威廉·福瑟灵汉姆
Pogi 也许在数据上尚未达到顶峰，但那种无可匹敌的获胜能力使他脱颖而出
2026年环法自行车赛上演了一场史诗般的对决，两名拥有不同技能且处于最高水准的主角之间进行了日复一日的较量。这是一个关于史诗级突围、耐人寻味的团队战术以及命运反转的故事，最终在赛事最艰难的赛段达到了壮观的高潮。马兹·佩德森 (Mads Pedersen) 与贾斯珀·菲利普森 (Jasper Philipsen) 争夺代表积分冠军的绿衫的比赛同样是一场经典。
而那些希望在争夺代表总冠军的黄衫时能看到类似场面的人，则迅速感到了失望。在第六赛段还剩 42km 时，在拉蒙吉 (La Mongie) 滑雪村的高处，塔代伊·波加查 (Tadej Pogacar) 在图尔马莱山口 (Col du Tourmalet) 将乔纳斯·温格高 (Jonas Vingegaard) 及其他潜在的夺冠热门甩在身后，所有的悬念就此消失。这是一次熟悉的、具有杀伤力的进攻，也是一个熟悉的结果：这位斯洛文尼亚选手拉开了一段看似不可逾越的领先距离，而事实也确实如此。
前 FDJ United 领队马克·马迪奥 (Marc Madiot) 在对 RMC 广播电台分析黄衫争夺战时，言辞毫不委婉地表示：“这次环法中只有一个骑手在发起进攻：塔代伊·波加查。他进攻了一次，所有人就都明白结束了。”
对于中立观众来说，遗憾的是，自行车运动伟人的艺术就在于此：他们并非简单的消除悬念，而是将其捆绑并将其内脏掏空，然后在还冒着热气的残骸上跳来跳去。中立观众只能满足于观看佩德森的绿衫之争，或是理查德·卡拉帕斯 (Richard Carapaz) 的圆点衫之争。
从图尔马莱山口的那一刻起，波加查有望与雅克·安克蒂尔 (Jacques Anquetil)、埃迪·默克克斯 (Eddy Merckx)、贝尔纳·伊诺 (Bernard Hinault) 和米格尔·印杜拉因 (Miguel Induráin) 一起成为五次环法冠军的胜算便已敲定。而就在昨天傍晚，这位世界冠军正式载入史册。即便保罗·塞克萨斯 (Paul Seixas) 崛起，且雷姆科·埃文波尔 (Remco Evenepoel) 确立了其作为环法强者的地位，但如果波加查决定冲击，很少有人会赌他不能在 2027 年打破绝对纪录。
波加查在许多方面都出类拔萃，但在五次环法冠军的精英俱乐部中，他同样显得格外突出：他比其他四位都要年轻；而且，与所有在巴黎作为五次世界最伟大自行车赛冠军登顶的人不同，在他的平静晋级之路上，没有任何故障或疑问符干扰其进程。
最顶尖中的最顶尖
史上最伟大选手的奖杯总数
埃迪·默克克斯 (Eddy Merckx)：11 次大环赛冠军，3 个世界公路赛冠军，1 项小时纪录，19 场纪念碑赛冠军 贝尔纳·伊诺 (Bernard Hinault)：9 次大环赛冠军，1 个世界公路赛冠军，6 场纪念碑赛冠军 塔代伊·波加查 (Tadej Pogacar)：6 次大环赛冠军，2 个世界公路赛冠军，13 场纪念碑赛冠军
在纪录册中。与之前所有真正的伟大选手不同，在过去的几周里，波加查在任何时刻都没有担心过胜利会从手中溜走。
有猜测认为他在最后一周换成了黑色短裤是为了掩盖胃部问题，但这不能算作故障——尤其是与伊诺相比，后者在第五次夺冠的最后一周，在圣艾蒂安的终点线发生撞车后，鼻梁骨折，看起来像个经历了一个糟糕夜晚的拳击手。或者与默克克斯在 1974 年比赛期间一直困扰其腹股沟的开放性伤口相比，该伤口需要“持续护理、清洗、涂抹药膏和无菌敷贴，并用泡沫碎片和胶带进行缓冲”。默克克斯在那届环法中确实赢得了 8 个赛段，但在普拉达德 (Pla d'Adet) 的山顶终点时他几近崩溃，从此再也没有回到巅峰状态。
同样，尽管他最终因禁药被剥夺冠军，但 2003 年是兰斯·阿姆斯特朗 (Lance Armstrong) 唯一一次在最后一次个人计时赛之前尚未锁定胜局的环法；而在 1995 年，“大米格” (Big Mig) 印度拉因 (Induráin) 和他的 Banesto 车队在前往门德 (Mende) 的途中，在中央高原 (Massif Central) 经历了一天的危机。众所周知，安奎蒂尔 (Anquetil) 在 1964, 年险些被雷蒙德·普利多尔 (Raymond Poulidor) 追上，他只能感谢自己的幸运之星，因为“普普” (PouPou) 在一次关键的计时赛中爆胎了。
在自行车运动最伟大冠军的殿堂中，波加查早已超越了“大米格”，后者虽然身体素质令人印象深刻，但本质上是一个大环赛专家，避开了单日纪念碑赛，且从未赢得过世界公路赛冠军。波加查也远高于深谋远虑但极具魅力的安奎蒂尔，后者同样在纪念碑赛中没有光芒，不过波加查永远没有机会去挑战“雅克大师” (Master Jacques) 最疯狂且理想主义的职业挑战：在没有休息日的情况下，同时赢得多芬自由赛 (Dauphine Libéré，现称 Auvergne Rhone Alps 巡回赛) 和波尔多-巴黎摩托车牵引马拉松赛。
当你把对比对象转向伊诺时，统计数据的博弈变得更加细微，讨论也变得更有趣。波加查在主要单日赛的胜场上已经领先于这位“獾” (Badger) —— 13 场纪念碑赛冠军且在增加，外加两个世界公路赛冠军 —— 但伊诺赢得的大环赛更多，他曾两次赢得环西和环意，而波加查仅有一个环意冠军。至于默克克斯，这位斯洛文尼亚人在大环赛、世界冠军和纪念碑赛的夺冠次数均少于这位“食人魔”，而后者还曾创造并痛苦地持有著名的世界一小时纪录。
关于谁是最伟大的争论将继续，如果波加查在今年晚些时候参加环西赛和世界锦标赛，情况可能会出现进一步的转折，因为如果他参加这些比赛，他极有可能双双夺冠。只有在默克克斯和伊诺处于绝对巅峰期时，才能写下这样的剧本，而这正是过去三周波加查所达到的高度最好的体现。
体育简讯
▲ 卢克·利特勒 (Luke Littler) 在世界赛风暴赛 (World Matchplay) 中以时尚的姿态击败格温·普赖斯 (Gerwyn Price) 夺冠
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利特勒在赛风暴赛大胜，打破泰勒纪录
卢克·利特勒在黑池以 18-9 击败格温·普赖斯，强势夺得连续第二个世界赛风暴赛冠军。这位 19 岁选手的决赛平均分为 111.53，使其在整个赛事中的平均分达到 111.04，打破了菲尔·泰勒 (Phil Taylor) 保持的 106.31 纪录。利特勒还打破了自己在该项赛事中 180 分的纪录，他在决赛中投中 12 个，使本周总数达到 66 个。他成为继泰勒和迈克尔·范格文 (Michael van Gerwen)（最近一次是在 2016. 年）之后，第三位成功卫冕赛风暴赛冠军的选手。此前，波·格里夫斯 (Beau Greaves) 以 6-5 险胜法伦·舍罗克 (Fallon Sherrock)，夺得她四年内的第三个女子世界赛风暴赛冠军。PA Media
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巴特勒强力 90 分率超级巨人队获胜
乔斯·巴特勒（Jos Buttler）击出出色的 90 分，助力曼彻斯特超级巨人队在老特拉福德球场举行的男子 100 球赛中，最终以 87 分之差击败伯明翰凤凰队。由于下雨导致开赛延迟（此前早上的女子比赛已被迫取消），客队在投球阶段先声夺人，但海因里希·克拉森（Heinrich Klaasen）迅速地 210 分和勒乌斯·杜普洛伊（Leus du Plooy）的 13 分帮助主队在 69 个球后达到了 113 分（失去 4 wicket）。而巴特勒则在击球方面发挥领导作用，他通过一次飞向深区中截击球员头顶的巨大六分球达成半世纪得分，最终在 innings 仅剩 3 个球时出局。巨人队最终以 187 分（失去 5 wicket）结束。伯明翰队在回应中则在 97 个球后全军覆没，仅得 100 分。PA Media
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Koivun, 21, 顶住谢夫勒压力夺得首胜
新秀杰克逊·科伊武（Jackson Koivun）打出低于标准杆 5 杆的 66 杆，在昨天于明尼苏达州布莱恩举行的 3M 公开赛上，击败了强势追击的斯科蒂·谢夫勒（Scottie Scheffler），首次在 PGA 巡回赛中夺冠。Koivun, 21, 最终以低于标准杆 25 杆的成绩完赛，比世界 No 1 谢夫勒领先 3 杆，后者在 TPC 双城赛场以 63 杆收尾。科伊武展现了极强的沉稳心态，在他转为职业球员后的第三场比赛中，最后两轮没有出现任何博基球（bogey）。路透社
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体育 一级方程式匈牙利大奖赛
卫报 2026 年 7 月 27 日，星期一
▼ 迈凯伦的兰多·诺里斯在马克斯·维斯塔潘之前率先冲线 MARK SUTTON/FORMULA LIGETTY
诺里斯终获胜，安东内利继续施压
Giles Richards 匈牙利赛道
在经历了一个充满考验的赛季开局之后，兰多·诺里斯终于有了庆祝的理由。这位迈凯伦车队的卫冕一级方程式世界冠军在匈牙利大奖赛中夺得了本年度的首胜。
然而，尽管在这一场波折不断的比赛中，这次胜利实至名归，但从大局来看，情况却显得极其熟悉。基米·安东内利在这个周末的表现本可被视为梅赛德斯车手的“损害管控”，但他却再次扩大了自己在车手冠军榜首的领先优势。
诺里斯在匈牙利赛道从杆位起跑，凭借稳健的驾驶掌控全场，为迈凯伦在该赛道创造了创纪录的第 14 次获胜。他在第二个弯道将领先位置丢给队友奥斯卡·皮亚斯特里后依然保持冷静，随后在进站过程中展现出无情的速度并夺回领先权。这位澳大利亚车手运气不佳，因在关键时刻试图套圈威廉姆斯车队的卡洛斯·赛恩斯时被阻挡并被碰撞，从而感到愤怒不已。
最终，皮亚斯特里因变速箱问题不得不退赛，但此时诺里斯已然掌控全局，并在毫无干扰的领先位置上开出了绝对优势。到终点线时，他领先马克斯·维斯塔潘 15 秒。事实证明，迈凯伦带到匈牙利的升级方案效果显著，尤其是在这位英国车手的掌控之下。
▲ 基米·安东内利以第三名完赛，继续朝着冠军目标前进
在他身后，安东内利再次通过在不利位置抢回大量积分，向对手施压。这位意大利车手在受到三个排位赛名次处罚后从第七位起跑，但凭借一次非常强有力的反击冲到了第三名。此外，安东内利的梅赛德斯队友乔治·罗素再次深陷于纠缠不休的厄运之中，这似乎成了他无法摆脱的阴影。
罗素的赛车在起跑格子上陷入了防熄火状态，导致他掉到第 20 位。这一机械问题促使车队负责人托托·沃尔夫表示，梅赛德斯必须停止犯错。由于罗素在格子上轻踩油门导致动力激增，随后他松开油门，触发了防熄火机制。他奋力追回至第七位，但在赛车运动进入夏季休赛期之际，他与这位意大利车手的分差进一步扩大：安东内利目前领先刘易斯·汉密尔顿 50 分，领先罗素 59 分。
与罗素一样，皮亚斯特里也可以认为自己极其不幸。他本在领先，但在尝试套圈西班牙车手赛恩斯时被阻碍并被碰撞。皮亚斯特里差一点被撞出赛道，但勉强控制住车辆继续比赛。
“他他妈是傻了吗？快滚开，你这个白痴。我的天啊，”愤怒的皮亚斯特里告诉他的团队。当时蓝旗已经挥出，威廉姆斯车队也告知了赛恩斯；赛恩斯因未注意到皮亚斯特里而直接撞向迈凯伦赛车，负有责任。他被处以五秒的时间惩罚。
这无疑让皮亚斯特里失去了领先地位，但这也许已无关紧要。因为在澳大利亚车手提前进站将其释放后，诺里斯在无干扰状态下的速度之快，使得这位世界冠军无论如何很可能都会夺得领先。但对于同时也质疑车队策略的皮亚斯特里来说，这恐怕难以带来多少安慰。
汉密尔顿同样感到沮丧。他的法拉利车队在虚拟安全车期间命令他进行第三次较晚的进站，导致他失去了相对于维斯塔潘和安东内利的赛道位置。即使更换了更新的轮胎，他也没能追回这些名次。汉密尔顿认为这是一个错误的决定，鉴于在匈牙利赛道超车如此之难，这一观点很难被反驳。
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▼ 奥斯卡·皮亚斯特里在因变速箱问题退赛前处于领先位置 BERNADETT SCARCHESTERS
他以第四名的成绩冲过终点线，但由于在维修区超速被罚时 5 秒，掉到了法拉利队友查尔斯·勒克莱尔之后。这很令人遗憾，因为汉密尔顿在整场比赛中都奋力拼搏，包括与维斯塔潘之间惊心动魄的攻防战，其中
这位荷兰人通过在 1 弯内线的一次大胆超越完成了反超，仅凭这一招就足以让观众觉得票价物有所值。
然而，这个下午真正属于诺里斯，人们能明显感觉到一种宽慰和愉悦，因为他终于在这一赛季摆脱了心理包袱。
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板球
第三届男子T20国际赛
Hunan Indus 192-5 (V) Suryanavanh 81: 津巴布韦 157-7
(W) Ruri 14 no)。印度以 35 跑击败津巴布韦。
THE HUNDRED 女子赛
Ereeman 264 Trafford 比赛在未掷球前取消。
Trent Bridge Trent Rockets 142-7. London Spirit 146-5.
London Spirit 以 5 个击球点击败 Trent Rockets。
THE HUNDRED 男子赛
Ereeman 264 Trafford Manchester Super Giants 307-5
LEC Battler 90: Birmingham Phones 100: Manchester
Super Giants 以 87 跑击败 Birmingham Phones。
Trent Bridge London Spirit 159-5 Trent Rockets 160-6
(SW Backett 75)。Trent Rockets 以 4 个击球点击败 London Spirit。
BETING BANK 单日杯男子赛
A组 Bristol Kent 208 (SA Northend 84):
Gloucestershire 212-4 (JR Brizley 81, CT Bancroft 89 no):
Gloucestershire 以 6 个击球点击败 Kent。
Guildford Northamptonshire 254-8 (NA McSweeney 64,
SA Bartlett 62, BC Flanks 4-60)。Surrey 208-4 (MG Thomas
83 no, RS Patel 64)。Surrey 以 6 个击球点击败 Northants。
B组 Levi Lancashire 383-4 (W Jennings 131, MS Norris
711: Lincolnshire 162-8 (R de Swardt 126, R Skable 91):
Lancashire 以 21 跑击败 Lincolnshire。
Taunton Somerset 337-8 (LP Galloway 101),
FA Limousine 85, JF Thomas 50: Warwickshire 212
UB Linott 52, JM Theobon 4-56)。Somerset 以 125 跑击败
Warwickshire。
B组 Endlerit Glamorgan 66: Middlesex 67-2。
Middlesex 以 8 个击球点击败 Glamorgan。
Trent Yorkshire 325-7 (W Luston 117, SW Whiteman 74):
Suisse 140 (V) Hudson-Premise 50: R Tudor 5-12):
Yorkshire 以 184 跑击败 Sussex (DL5 方法)。
Chelmsford Essex 257-7 (T Westley 102): Derbyshire
248-9 (MRC Lane 97)。Essex 以 9 跑击败 Derbyshire。
New Road Worcestershire 307-8 (HC Callow 72, K 46 65,
DK Langan 64)。Hampshire 303 (T) Post 70, NRT Lubbers
57)。Worcestershire 以 4 跑击败 Hampshire。
METRO BANK 单日杯女子赛 第二联赛
Bodily Worcestershire 304-8 (EX Bayslet 108, LC Caridge
95, R Knowling-Davies 4-41)。Derbyshire 203 (A Griffiths
4-31)。Worcestershire 以 101 跑击败 Derbyshire。
Needs Glamorgan 239 (Storge 63)。Sussex 241-8
(P) Wilkinson 51; G Porter 4-31)。Sussex 以 2 个击球点击败 Glamorgan。
Canterbury Middlesex 306-7 (A Downey 67 no, SW Hurley
61, KP Pindars 400)。Kent 309-9 (R King 109, EL Barrilather
51)。Kent 以 2 个击球点击败 Middlesex。
Northampton Northamptonshire 311-8 (A Kenny 107,
R Cline 52)。Lincolnshire 313-9 (RS Brooker 58, E Phillips
55)。比赛平局。
网球
WTA MSC 汉堡女士公开赛 (德国)
决赛：T Karpatsch (德) A Bondar (乌) 6-5-6-3
WTA LIVESPORT 布拉格公开赛 (捷克)
决赛：L Tagger (奥) Selger (德) 7-6 (7-3) 6-2
ATP MILLENNIUM 爱沙尼亚公开赛 (加拿大，葡萄牙)
男子决赛：L Van Ansche (法) A Blocks (比) 6-4 4-6 7-5
骑行
环法自行车赛 (TOUR DE FRANCE)
第 21 赛段（蒂埃里-法里斯-香榭丽舍大街，89 公里） 1 M van der Post (Nett) Alperio-Presson 76 by Sifran-Ritaç,
2 J Pellipson (Bel) Alperio-Presson Tech, 3 M Pedersen (Den) Lab-Truck 4 M Guiderot (Ev) 4/85 Motors Team
3 G Rasey (Nett) Rebellion CMA (GM Team) 4 M Nelstein (Svr) Bahrain Victorious, 7 R Planners (Nett) Tudor Pro Cycling Team, 8 A Turgis (Fr) Team TotalDvergies, 9 M Hattie (Bel) Cofidis, 10 C Russo (Fr) Groussous FD (同时到达。其他选定选手：25 F Wright (GB) Phantoms G26: 2 Pro Cycling Team, 17 F Haley (Int) 10 Education EasyPost, 18 J Stewart (GB) HSN Cycling Team, 43 A Yates (GB) LMC Team Emirates -MIG)
总成绩排名：1 T Pogacar (Svr) LMC Team Emirates MIG 749-5 (Sim) Zloac, 2 R Evenquest (Bel) Red Bull-ROKA Hampshire +06-26; 3 J del Toro (Mex) LMC Team Emirates MIG +05-42; 4 P Seuss (Fr) Decaffron CMA (GM Team +11-36; 5 L Maribos (Fr) Bahrain Victorious +13-02; 6 M Sajamson (Den) Lab-Truck +14-59; 7 J Apose (Sp) Lab-Truck +17-48; 8 R Carasac (Ecu) 10 Education EasyPost +20-00; 9 P Polusis (GB) Phantoms G26: 5 Pro Cycling Team +29-26; 10 J Angel (Fr) Team TotalDvergies +33-21. 其他选定选手：21 A Yates (GB) LMC Emirates -MIG +1-51-59; 10 R Hodge (Int) 10 Education EasyPost +5-51-65; 10 R Walker (GB) 10 Education EasyPost +5-13-19; 12 R J Fasting (GB) Netcompany Ineos +5-28-28
飞镖
PDC 世界比赛 (PDC WORLD MATCHPLRY) (黑pool)
决赛：L Littler (Eng) 8 G Price (Mal) 18-9
高尔夫
女子苏格兰公开赛 (WOMEN'S SCOTTISH OPEN) (Dumbentall Links, 德国)
领先最终成绩 (除非另有说明，均为 GB 6-1, Fw 72)
279 1bn J (Oxo) 66 67 71 71. 281 1bn A (Khr) 67 72 74
- 283 P Anamacukaro (Thu) 71 69 69 74. 284 T Yamashita (Ger) 70 68 73 71. 285 W Yamashita (Jan) 70 74 70 71.
L Coaghton (US) 66 74 71 71. 286 C Wamasami (Thu) 71 76
70-00. 287 L Maguire 72 72 73 70. E Nara (Jan) 70 70 71.
76, R O'Toole (US) 73 72 71 71. 288 J Lopez (Sp) 71 74 73
70; A Nouray (Jan) 70 70 69 71. 289 C Nouray (Jan) 70 70 76
67; P Tawatawahi (Thu) 71 69 70 71. Yang A (Khr) 74 69 71
- 290 D Dager (Int) 74 73 70 71. N Korda (US) 72 76 73
69; Kim HJ (Oxo) 75 70 73 72. 291 P Rousser-Bouchard (Fr)
73 73 76 69; W Stark (Swo) 74 72 73 72. A Hewson 75 75
73-71; D Dargans (Ecu) 73 73 74 74. Kim D (Oxo) 73 72 73
71; Zhang W (Zhu) 73 73 73 72. 292 N Kasewa (Duo) 72 74
73 73; R Zhang (US) 73 72 71 70. A Adampans (Thu) 73 73
73-75. 293 A Kumbant (Swo) 70 79 73 71. Yuan (Tao) 73
68 76 76. A Yates (Thu) 73 72 77 71. 294 M Naddad (Fr) 75
73 74 74. S Koselewa (Ezi) 77 69 74 72. M M Hwy (Md) 73
75 76 70; H Green (Aus) 74 76 74 70; C Neal (Jan) 72 74 75
75 1an MH (Oxo) 75 68 77 74.
SM 公开赛 (SM OPEN) (Marex, 明尼苏达州, 美国)
领先最终成绩 (除非另有说明，均为 US, Fw 71)
259 J Rousser 64 68 61 66. 262 L Scheffler 65 70 64 61.
264 R Harman 69 64 66 65. H Matayama (Jan) 70 65 65
- D McCarthy 66 68 64 66. C Phillips 66 65 66 67.
265 E Giles (Avg) 64 67 63 66. D Thompson 68 68 63 66.
266 R Halifax 67 69 65 70. 267 M Kim 69 70 70 69. E Power
(Ev) 68 68 63 66; G Woodland 64 71 67 65. 268 Z Bizer 68
65 68 67. B Herychei 67 68 65 70. J Kogas 68 70 68 62.
269 D Chatfield 69 68 64 68. Dmc Z (Cnr) 67 69 67 66.
P Flodham 70 68 66 65. Nc C-n (Sv) 69 66 66 68.
270 L Busselton (SA) 68 67 69 66. L Hodge 68 67 65
70; Kira 3-6 (Bor) 68 69 67 66. R Norrigard-Peterson (Den)
66 72 66 66. 271 C Bunnett 67 68 67 69. M Brennan 65 69
63 74. A Kitamura 68 69 66 68. Hiukaki 69 69 65 66.
J Parry (Eng) 69 69 64. A Smotherman 68 67 68 68.
J Parry 69 69 64 68. J Parry 69 69 64 68. J Parry 69 69 64.
C Kim 70 69 64 69. K Koy 65 70 68 69. 273 J Oatman 70 69
66 68. M Donohue 73 67 70 64. M Holland 70 69 65 69.
M McNulty 71 66 72 64. Y Whaley 67 69 68 69.
UV 联合王国 (UV UNITED KINGDOM) (加拿大, 瑞士)
258 L Hattner (Aus) 61 66 65 67. 254 T W Hottler (Eng) 66 68 800, 832, 978
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匈牙利赛道
刘易斯·汉密尔顿在匈牙利大奖赛中，在与梅赛德斯的 Kimi Antonelli 进行的冠军之争中丢分后，对他的法拉利车队表示了不满；而 Lando Norris 则恢复了状态，这位卫冕世界冠军夺得了本赛季的首场分站赛冠军。
汉密尔顿在匈牙利赛道的实际完赛名次为第四，但由于在维修区超速被处以 5 秒处罚，他在最终成绩单中被排在第五。这场比赛由麦拉伦的诺里斯夺冠，红牛的 Max Verstappen 第二，Antonelli 第三。
汉密尔顿在虚拟安全车期间被召回进站，这使他获得了新轮胎，但却失去了相对于 Verstappen 和 Antonelli 的赛道位置。他未能追回名次并受到了处罚。这次指令让他对车队的策略决策产生了质疑。
“太糟糕了。非常令人沮丧，”他说道。“我绝对认为我们不应该进站，但指令是在进入维修区之前瞬间下达的，我没有时间争论。”
“如果这意味着要放弃赛道位置，我永远不会进站。我也许能守住 P2。他 [Verstappen] 确实在追我，但最可能的结果是 P3 [在 Antonelli 之前]，那样会好得多。”
随着一级方程式赛车进入暑期休赛期，汉密尔顿落后于 Antonelli 50 分，这位英国人觉得年度停赛时机恰到好处。“我会努力
尝试回归，重新调整，”他说道。“仍有很多分可以追。”
诺里斯夺得了他个人以及麦拉伦今年的首胜，他认为自己正处于巅峰状态，甚至比赢得冠军时更好。“就挖掘赛车性能以及每圈都如此接近极限而言，我可能会说今天的表现是我最好的几次之一，”他说道。“如此接近，以至于车队不得不要求我稍微收敛一点。”
“所以，虽然说这话有点让我难受，因为这并不意味着你就能直接赢球，但我感觉我今年的表现比去年更好，而且这种情况已经持续一小段时间了。”
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五次冠军俱乐部时 仍‘在大幅提高’
Jeremy Whittle
巴黎
在巴黎的最后一赛段中，由于担心蒙马特高地（Butte de Montmartre）鹅卵石路面在雨天带来的安全威胁，该赛段被设为中立赛段。在这一赛段后，塔德伊·波加查（Tadej Pogacar）加入了五次赢得环法冠军的精英俱乐部。
波加查展现了统治级的成功，这是他七年内的第五次获胜。在这种情况下，来自红牛-博拉-汉斯格罗夫车队的雷姆科·伊文波尔（Remco Evenepoel）以及波加查在阿联酋航空- XRG 车队的队友艾萨克·德尔·托罗（Isaac del Toro），是仅有的两名完赛时间与冠军时间差距在 10 分钟以内的人。
波加查的成就现在可与埃迪·默克克斯（Eddy Merckx）相媲美，后者同样是五次冠军，且被广泛认为是自行车运动史上最伟大的冠军。这位 27 岁的车手在平纪录的第五次夺冠中，身着一套特别设计的全黄色骑行服，上面印有数字 5。
“你积累了更多经验，处理问题的方式也变得不同，一些细节在不断改善，”波加查说道，“但有时起决定作用的是细节，是心境和情绪。我认为这是我进步最大的地方。”
他赞扬了队友们的努力，其中几位在环法赛的后半段一直与疾病作斗争。“我对所有队友在过去三周里所做的一切表示极大的尊重。我之前就非常认可队友们的工作，但现在这上升到了另一个水平，我必须向他们每一个人表示感谢。”
波加查暗示他再次在考虑退役。“我肯定不会在这个领域坚持太久，”他说道，并暗示他的队友德尔·托罗是他的天然接班人。“他还年轻，学习速度快，极其聪明，且拥有巨大的天赋和强大的动力，所以让我们看看未来的路将走向何方。我很开心能与他在同一支车队，并且能像这样一起骑行。”
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The foreign secretary, Ed Miliband, is to indicate he will put the climate crisis and overseas development at the heart of UK international relations by taking up the country's seat on the board at the World Bank.
The position, which is usually delegated to a junior minister, means Miliband will play an active role in shaping the changes to the World Bank that developing countries have called for, and ensuring the climate remains a core focus for overseas aid.
Miliband, who was energy and net zero secretary under Keir Starmer, will say: 'International development is not an add-on to British foreign policy - it is central to it.'
By taking on the role of UK governor to the World Bank, I want to send an unambiguous signal that this government is serious about its global leadership on development and climate.'
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Payments to Reform UK first revealed by the Guardian are now being investigated by the Metropolitan police.
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Scotland Yard is looking at two donations of £250,000 made to the party by Britain Means Business in the weeks before the 2024 general election.
The Guardian revealed this month that Fiona Cottrell made a £1m
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Cottrell's son, George, is a convicted fraudster with close links to Reform's leader, Nigel Farage.
The Guardian reported this month that Fiona and George Cottrell had been interviewed under criminal caution as part of the police investigation.
In response to a query about the investigation from the BBC, Tice said: 'This is the first I have heard of it - if true, why are the Met police briefing
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Reform levy on overseas workers
'would harm NHS and social care'
Peter Walker
Senior political correspondent
Reform UK's plan to make employers pay an annual levy for overseas staff would harm the NHS and social care, cause a shortage of schoolteachers, and could push some universities into bankruptcy, experts have said.
Nigel Farage's party has proposed a "migrant worker surcharge", which would involve a higher rate of employer national insurance as well as a separate annual charge. It would apply to any employees without a UK passport, including EU nationals with settled status, with the exception of Irish passport holders.
The Guardian has also been told there will be no exceptions for sectors with frequent staff shortages and a reliance on overseas workers, including the NHS and education.
Reform says the policy, which would apply throughout the UK, is intended to push organisations into taking on British employees. But
thinktanks and professional groups in health, care and education said these were very often not available in sufficient numbers.
The King's Fund, a leading health thinktank, said that while it was unclear how much employers would have to pay - Reform has said only that the levy would be higher for lower-paid staff - with 20% of NHS England staff not being UK nationals the policy would "add costs to a service that is already stretched".
Suzie Bailey, from the King's Fund, said: "I think, ultimately, it would impact on the care that the service is able to give, because that money would have to come from somewhere, so other cuts would have to be made.
"It is very hard to see how this would do anything other than impact on healthcare. I really struggle to see how this would work in practice."
Prof Victoria Tzortziou Brown, the president of the Royal College of General Practitioners, said penalising overseas GPs risked being especially
▲ Prof Victoria Tzortziou Brown said it would be counterproductive to penalise GPs from overseas
counterproductive, given that they would have undertaken specialist training in the UK at public expense.
She said: "General practices, most of which are small-scale independent services contracted to deliver NHS services, could also be disproportionately affected by policies that increase the cost of employing staff.
"Any policy that further increases costs or reduces workforce capacity ultimately risks affecting patients' access to care."
Police investigating donations to Farage's party via Tice firm
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Cottrell but described reports about the money as a "politically motivated smear campaign".
The Guardian wrote that the transfer from Fiona Cottrell to Britain Means Business had been reported to the National Crime Agency (NCA) by bankers via a suspicious activity report. Suspicious activity reports are not crime reports but exist to identify potential incidents of money laundering.
The Guardian understands that neither the NCA nor bankers have
been able to trace the source of the original £1m sent by Fiona Cottrell to Tice's company. The NCA is seeking help from a foreign partner in its attempts to understand where the money originated.
A Reform UK spokesperson said: "Reform takes pride in its stringent vetting of donations and always ensures that the Electoral Commission guidelines on donations, as set out in the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000, are strictly followed, as has been the case with donations so far."
Fiona Cottrell did not respond to
▲ Reform's Richard Tice is the sole director of Britain Means Business
◄ Nigel Farage's party proposes a 'migrant worker surcharge' that would involve a higher rate of employer national insurance on top
Jane Townson, the chief executive of the Homecare Association, said employing overseas care staff was already more expensive and complex, but happened because of rising demand and a lack of UK workers, especially after the Covid pandemic.
A levy that was higher for low-paid workers would particularly affect the care sector, she said. "Providers cannot absorb this. The predictable risks would be reduced access to home care, causing harm to individuals and families, more people stuck in hospital, greater exploitation of workers, and provider failure damaging continuity of care for people - with the bill ultimately landing back on the public purse."
For schools, the impact could vary. While nearly 6% of teachers in England are non-UK nationals, they are disproportionately represented in secondary schools, and particularly in subjects with shortages of staff such as languages and physics.
James Zuccollo, the head of school workforce at the Education Policy Institute thinktank, said many overseas teachers were long-term UK residents. "A measure that includes settled-status holders would operate not only as a brake on future recruitment but as a charge on staff already teaching in our schools."
Nick Hillman, the chief executive of the Higher Education Policy Institute thinktank, said the plans could significantly affect universities, with many spending up to 60% of their budget on salaries.
He said: "As close to half are running deficits at the moment, higher costs still would lead to other spending being cut. No UK university has ever yet gone bust, though some are close, so higher wage bills could, in extreme circumstances, also push one or more to the wall."
Dr Alicia Greated from the Campaign for Science and Engineering said the plans could also be "highly damaging" to the wider research and development sector. She said: "High visa costs and complex visa policies already put significant strain and costs on organisations and individuals, taking away money that could be invested in research."
Reform UK was contacted for comment.
the Guardian's attempts to contact her about the donations to Britain Means Business.
The Met, when asked by the BBC about the developments on Saturday evening, repeated a statement issued earlier this month. It said: "An investigation was launched in February 2025 after a referral was made to the Metropolitan police by the Electoral Commission relating to donations made to a political party ahead of the 2024 UK general election. Detectives from the Met's special inquiry team are investigating alleged offences under section 61 of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000.
"Early investigative advice has been sought from the Crown Prosecution Service and two people have so far been interviewed under caution."
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It's the tops: Guides and Brownies get a new, relaxed uniform
Bethan McKernan
Girlguiding has fully redesigned its uniform for the first time in more than 30 years, with a focus on "self-expression, belonging and confidence".
The range, launched today, has relaxed previous rules: Guides, Rainbows, Brownies and Rangers now
only have to wear a top to meetings and activities to be considered "in uniform" after feedback from thousands of girls who said they felt "most comfortable" when allowed to wear what they want.
The charity said that the two-year redesign by Hemingway Design, created with input from 55,000 girls and women, reflects Girlguiding's heritage and traditional brand while
◄ Girlguides wear pieces from their new uniform collection which features garments with thumb holes and hidden pockets; right, Welsh Guides in the 1980s and, below, Princess Elizabeth in her guiding uniform in 1943
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embracing modern colours and features such as hidden pockets in waist bands, thumb holes and badge sashes which double as cross-body bags.
Felicity Oswald, Girlguiding's chief executive officer, said: "The new range is all about providing girls with the freedom to express themselves, whilst feeling part of our amazing organisation ... With practicality, comfort and sustainability at the very core of the designs.
"We know that self-expression and confidence go hand in hand. With girls in guiding being 30% more confident, the introduction of the new uniform is designed to further nurture that confidence and foster a true sense of belonging."
A Girlguiding survey of 2,000 girls aged six to 16 in the UK found that 93% said they feel most comfortable when they can choose how to style
themselves. Forty-seven percent said they were most confident when they can choose what they wear, while 33% said they feel the most confident when they have the freedom to express themselves. A total of 41% said strict school uniform rules stopped them from doing so.
Girlguiding is open to girls aged four to 18. The organisation currently numbers about 300,000, along with 80,000 volunteers, who will now have the choice of 30 new items of clothing to wear and 15 accessories and neckerchiefs, which can be personalised and customised for local, regional and country events.
Old uniforms can be upcycled into new accessories at free workshops over the summer, the charity said.
The broadcaster and presenter Angellica Bell, who is a Girlguiding ambassador, said: "The new uniform gives girls and volunteers the freedom to style it the way that suits them ... [and] empowers girls and volunteers to embrace their individuality."
The charity has undergone nine outfit redesigns in its 116-year history.
'The new uniform gives girls the freedom to style it the way that suits them'
Angellica Bell
Girlguiding ambassador
The original uniform was a blue skirt and stockings with a jumper and neckerchief in the Guide groups' colour, while Brownies wore a brown tunic dress with patch pockets. Princess Elizabeth, the future queen, became a Guide in 1937, aged 11, and remained a patron of the charity until her death in 2022.
While wartime shortages and rationing led to minor changes, the uniform remained substantially the same until the 1960s, when colours got brighter and hemlines shorter. In 1973, wool costs led to the introduction of a knitted pom-pom hat, replacing the Brownies beret.
T-shirts and shorts arrived in 1980 to support the increasingly adventurous outdoor activities on offer. The last redesign, in 2014, used bright colours such as purple for the first time and brought back dresses, which were dropped in 1990.
Girlguiding's new look is being launched shortly before a change in the charity's membership policy from 6 September, which will force transgender girls to leave.
The decision came after an announcement that transgender girls would no longer be able to join Girlguiding and membership would be limited to "girls and young women" in the wake of the 2025 supreme court ruling on biological sex.
Girlguiding has said previously it does not collect gender identity information and therefore does not know how many members and volunteers might be affected by the rule change.
British actor David Jonsson cast as Black Panther in new sequel
Nadeem Badshah
The British actor David Jonsson has been unveiled as the new Black Panther by the film's director Ryan Coogler.
Jonsson, 32, known for roles in Industry, The Long Walk and Alien: Romulus, will play the son of Chadwick Boseman's T'Challa in the third instalment.
He joined Coogler on stage at
Marvel Studios' Comic-Con International presentation to announce the news on Saturday, alongside co-stars Letitia Wright and Winston Duke.
Coogler, who this year won the Oscar for best original screenplay for his vampire film Sinners, said: "The last time we got to make a movie, we introduced a character who is the son of the character that the great Chadwick Boseman played - our T'Challa - in that film. And today, I want to tell you that in this next film, he grows up, he comes of age."
Born in London, Jonsson began his career in the West End. He made his screen debut in 2018 in two episodes of the detective drama Endeavour.
The actor appeared in the 2025 adaptation of Stephen King's thriller The Long Walk and in the same year won the Bafta rising star award.
Jonsson, who has roles in the forthcoming films The Chaperones, Benn/Eubank and Scandalous!, said: "Thank you to this family that I have the honour and the blessing to join. I don't want to say too much, because I want to let the screen do the talking."
Black Panther 3 will be released in US cinemas on 15 December 2028, with a UK release date yet to be confirmed.
Boseman died aged 43 in 2020,
four years after being diagnosed with colon cancer.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, released in 2022, revealed that Boseman's character T'Challa had a son. It followed Wright's character, Shuri, as she takes on the role of
▲ David Jonsson, 32, will play T'Challa's son in Black Panther 3
the protagonist following the death of T'Challa.
The first Black Panther film, released in 2018, was set in the mythical country of Wakanda, a hidden African kingdom with innovative technology due to its reserves of the world's most useful precious metal, the fictional vibranium. It won three Oscars.
In a separate announcement, Marvel revealed that Ryan Gosling will play Johnny Blaze in a new Ghost Rider film, slated for a 2028 release. It will follow the 2007 film starring Nicolas Cage, and its 2011 sequel, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance.
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Suspect in fatal rampage near Berlin
Pride celebration shot dead by police
Deborah Cole Berlin Jennifer Rankin
A man suspected of driving a van into a crowd near Berlin's Pride festival, and then going on a knife rampage in an Islamist terror attack, has been shot dead by police.
Police confirmed yesterday evening that the chief suspect had been fatally shot, reportedly during an operation at an allotment garden complex in the Spandau district, on the city's western outskirts.
One woman was killed on Saturday evening and 29 others were injured when a man drove a rented minivan into a crowd of pedestrians, then attacked people with what appeared to be a machete in the Tiergarten park near the Brandenburg Gate.
The attack, at about 10pm local time, forced organisers to cut short one of Europe's largest Pride events. It came as Germany remained on edge after a series of deadly vehicle and knife attacks.
The German interior minister, Alexander Dobrindt, named the chief suspect as 21-year-old Abdul Ballout. "We are dealing here with a suspected perpetrator who had previously drawn attention to himself through a high volume of criminal offences, radicalisation and affiliation with the Islamist scene," he told journalists near the site of the attack.
He said Ballout had a criminal conviction and had been sentenced as a juvenile to a year and 10 months in prison, but that the sentence had been suspended.
German media reported that Ballout, a German national with Lebanese roots, was a supporter of Islamic State and had travelled to the Middle East last year in a failed attempt to join the group. He was then convicted in Germany of "preparing a serious act of subversive violence", the news outlets Bild and Der Spiegel reported.
Before Ballout was shot, Der Spiegel spoke with his father,
▲ People leave tributes at the scene of the attack, near the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. Left, emergency personnel and festivalgoers wrapped in
thermal blankets early yesterday. Above, police recover the van that crashed into the crowd PHOTOGRAPHS: MARYAM MAJID REUTERS: MARKUS SCHREIBER/AP
◄ Abdul Ballout, 21, was named as the chief suspect and described as being affiliated with the 'Islamist scene'
Tawfik, who was in Lebanon visiting relatives.
Describing Abdul as "generous, emotional, loving", he said his son had bounced from job to job. Tawfik described the family as Shia but "not extremely religious" and said it "does not support Islamic State", an extremist Sunni group.
"I did not allow him to wear a long beard," he said, calling it a symbol of extremism. Asked about a possible motive for the attack, he said: "He was brainwashed." Tawfik said he had spoken with Abdul on Saturday, the day of the attack. "He called me and we spoke normally, like every day."
The chancellor, Friedrich Merz, urged Germany to avoid division and intimidation in the aftermath of the attack. "We will think about consequences, we will defend our freedom," he said.
Earlier, Merz had vowed to punish those responsible, describing the "heinous act" as an "attack on our society" in a social media post. The flag at the German Bundestag was ordered to be lowered to half mast.
Police said the vehicle had struck people after being driven into the Tiergarten. Just before 10pm the driver of the white minivan had swerved into the park, close to where the route of the Pride march had been earlier in the day, hitting people on a path and crashing into a tree.
Julian Methig, who attended the event, described it as a terrible day. "It's one of the worst days for the queer community and a day I personally hoped I'd never have to experience ... I'm shocked," he said.
Hundreds of thousands of people had gathered in Berlin to celebrate the Pride parade. It is known in Germany as Christopher Street Day (CSD), named after the site of the Stonewall Inn in New York City where riots against police raids touched off the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement.
Berlin's mayor, Kai Wegner, called the deadly assault "an attack on our free and cosmopolitan society".
UK journalists 'self-censoring stories on rightwing protests and Trump over safety fears'
Michael Savage
Media editor
Journalists are self-censoring their reporting on rightwing protests, Donald Trump's administration and trans issues because of growing concerns about their personal safety, with newsrooms accused of "normalising" the risks they face.
Hundreds of journalists from across the UK have anonymously disclosed increasing nervousness over their security. Some have reported
avoiding or altering coverage on certain topics due to intimidation, leading to self-censorship and "a narrowing of the public conversation".
The findings are revealed in a government-backed investigation into the safety of journalists, ordered amid growing hostility to traditional media across the west.
"There have definitely been times where there's been a story that's maybe in the public interest, maybe worth reporting on, where we have had frank discussions about whether it's 'worth it'," said one journalist.
Another said: "I was definitely looking over my shoulder and making sure I wasn't being followed and making sure that people weren't going to start shouting things at me."
Investigators found a widespread belief that abuse linked to reporting has increased, especially online. They also reported newsroom cultures that treated the increase as inevitable given the polarised political environment, with journalists expected to be "thick-skinned".
Female journalists faced the brunt of abuse, describing gendered and sexualised harassment, explicit threats, inappropriate messages and online comments focused on appearance.
Common topics raised by journalists as causing safety concerns were rightwing anti-immigration protests; the Trump administration, including protests against US Immigration
and Customs Enforcement (ICE); and trans issues.
"Anti-immigration protests were most widely referenced by journalists, both regarding the in-person risks of attending the marches and the backlash to any subsequent reporting," the investigation found.
There are numerous accounts of journalists in Northern Ireland facing intimidation from masked men while covering anti-immigration riots. These were disclosed to the UK's National Union of Journalists.
One respondent described seeing a female journalist subjected to misogynistic heckling at a "unite the kingdom" rally, with the footage later uploaded to social media.
With debates about the personal safety of reporters now a regular discussion point in newsrooms, ministers ordered an investigation by Alma Economics. Almost half
of the 531 journalists surveyed said safety concerns influenced their willingness to report on certain stories, while about a third had changed how or what they covered.
Participants acknowledged that the UK was still a safe place to work as a journalist, compared with other parts of the world, but said the risks had intensified.
Laura Davison, the NUJ's general secretary, said: "Abuse should never be viewed as part of a journalist's job. Not only does this behaviour have a hugely detrimental impact on people's lives, it also has a chilling effect on journalists' ability to do their jobs and freedom of the press."
A spokesperson for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport said the government was working with the National Committee for the Safety of Journalists to tackle harassment and threats.
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Ooh, they're here again Hundreds of people take part in the Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever in Folkestone harbour, Kent, an annual event in which participants recreate the music video for Kate Bush's 1978 hit Wuthering Heights. Similar events take place around the world - in Finland, Lithuania, Germany and Australia - inspired by an original gathering at Brighton fringe in 2013.
AI-generated online doctors a
'huge danger to public safety'
Joe Pinner
Misleading health claims online pose a "huge danger to public safety", experts have warned, after research found that AI-generated doctors are gaining millions of views on TikTok by spreading dubious health advice.
The British Medical Association council deputy chair, Dr Emma Runswick, flagged the risks posed by AI accounts that "peddle medical myths and promote so-called miracle cures".
"Platforms like TikTok must do more to stop the rise of dangerous fake medical advice ... otherwise, it is the public who could be paying the price with their health and perhaps even their lives," she said.
AI-generated physicians were found to have spread disproved myths about cancer, including that
microwaving food in plastic, using deodorants and sleeping next to your phone could all cause cancer - all claims which have been refuted by Cancer Research UK.
The research was published this month by Hallam, a digital marketing agency. It follows warnings by the NHS that health misinformation on social media is a "real threat to public health".
The research found that AI-generated content appeared in 40% of top health-related TikTok videos, with most posted by a growing number of deepfake influencer accounts designed to resemble real doctors. For some specific search terms, such as "health tips", 84% of videos were classed as AI-generated or AI-assisted content.
According to Hallam, top AI-generated doctor and health videos in their search received an average of 2.5m views. TikTok took down examples of
the videos that were sent to the platform by the Guardian.
The accounts promoted bizarre remedies for health problems, including Coca-Cola mixed with onion as a pain-relief remedy and a fake product called "Hyalethinap Plus Pro Max" as an anti-ageing solution.
Prof Frankie Swords, the national medical director of NHS England, said it was concerning to see a rise in online medical misinformation. "Many clinicians are reporting an increasing number of patients who feel worried and confused due to false advice that has been made solely for clicks," she added.
Prof Victoria Tzortziou Brown, the president of the Royal College of General Practitioners, said she was also concerned by the research, adding that misleading AI content carried a "real risk" of harm.
Hallam analysed 1,198 videos, selecting the top 50 videos across
a series of search terms including "health tips" and "doctor advice". It also looked for general "life-impacting" advice on issues such as personal finance and education.
Last year, a poll conducted by Savanta of 3,575 men and 3,832 women aged 18 and above in England on behalf of the patient champion Healthwatch England found that about one in five people were using social media for health information.
William Pett, the interim director of policy and public affairs at Healthwatch England, said: "Without the skills to distinguish reliable information from commercial hype or misinformation, [people] risk being misled in ways that can seriously affect their health."
A TikTok spokesperson said: "These findings from a marketing agency with commercial interests are not an accurate reflection of our platform.
"The facts are that we remove harmful health misinformation, including when it's AI-generated, we partner with the World Health Organization and the NHS on providing reliable health information in-app, and we continually invest in AI literacy resources and labelling technologies."
Water supply
restored to Gatwick after hours without working toilets
Jamie Grierson
The water supply has been restored to most of Gatwick airport after passengers spent hours without access to working toilets, and bars and restaurants were closed.
Most toilets had reopened across both terminals yesterday evening, with facilities including bars and restaurants expected to return to normal for the first of today's flights.
Announcing that the water, supplied by SES Water, had been restored, Gatwick airport said last night: "Following an issue at the Bough Beech water treatment works [in Kent] which impacted the local area today, we are pleased to report that the water supply has now returned to the vast majority of the London Gatwick campus.
"Most toilet facilities are now open and we expect all toilets - as well as food and beverage outlets - to be open for tomorrow's first flights.
"Since becoming aware of the issue, we have been working closely with SES Water and our airport partners to help minimise the impact, and ensure all today's flights departed as scheduled."
Flights were unaffected yesterday, with the airport apologising to passengers for the inconvenience.
Earlier yesterday, passengers posted online that they were unable to get hot drinks, wash their hands or fill up water bottles at the airport in West Sussex.
The problem also had an impact in the wider Sussex and Kent area.
SES Water said yesterday that there had been interruptions to water supplies in parts of the TN11, RH1, RH6 and RH10 postcode areas.
At 2pm, the company said the Bough Beech water treatment works were running again but the water needed to be treated before services could return to normal.
On Facebook, one user posted: "Gasping for a drink & crossing my legs right now. This is ridiculous!
"Gatwick airport has shut all restaurants and most toilets due to a water outage. Not a great start to the holiday."
Michael Dugher, the former MP and recently appointed government "music champion", wrote on social media: "At least allow people to use the chairs in all the closed restaurants and bars.
"No water is one thing, but depriving people of somewhere to sit is another ... Families are having to sit on the floor."
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▲ A firefighter takes a break outside Bordeaux, with officials in the Gironde warning tourists to stay away as the fire is unpredictable PHOTOGRAPH: GETTY
France fights to contain huge wildfire approaching Bordeaux
Angelique Chrisafis Paris Sam Jones Madrid Jennifer Rankin
Authorities in France are battling to contain a huge wildfire near Bordeaux as Spain's prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, warned his country - where blazes near Madrid are coming under control - was suffering the effects of the climate emergency.
Efforts to extinguish the blaze in the Gironde region, which has consumed an area four times the size of Paris and led to the evacuation of nearly 220,000 people, were hampered by wind on Saturday night.
In Spain, fires west of Madrid were being brought under control, but Sánchez spoke of 'difficult hours'.
About 375,000 people have been forced to flee their homes across both countries. In France nearly 260,000 have been forced out by wildfires, while in neighbouring Spain 116,000 have been evacuated.
Bordeaux's mayor, Thomas Cazenave, described the Gironde blaze as being 'at the gates of the metropolitan area', between 15 and 20 miles from the city itself, which has a population of 268,000. An evacuation of the city was not on the cards, he said.
Sophie Brocas, the prefect of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region (which includes the Gironde), said that the highly unpredictable nature of this
wildfire was a phenomenon never seen before in France. 'I urge tourists not to come to Gironde as long as the fire has not been contained,' she said. 'I invite tourists who are already here to think about going to another destination. We don't know where the fire is going to go.'
The country's interior minister, Laurent Nuñez, said yesterday that the previous night had been difficult and 'the situation remains very unfavourable'. He said the Gironde fire had become 'extremely virulent and unpredictable' on Saturday night, generating its own wind and spreading erratically towards the Bordeaux metropolitan area. It had become calmer by the end of the night.
About 2,500 firefighters (including a Swiss firefighting team), 1,500 military personnel and 1,200 police had been deployed to Gironde, Nuñez said, as he praised the contribution of 450 volunteers from civil security organisations.
One firefighter told Agence France-Presse that the fire had formed a pyrocumulonimbus, a fire-generated thunderstorm that 'creates its own wind, with whirlwinds, becoming erratic and uncontrollable'.
A spokesperson for the National Firefighters Federation of France said that while known in wildfire-prone Australia and Canada, one had never been seen before in France. The federation's Lt Col Eric Brocardi told
'It looked like something out of the Bible' Residents flee blazes around Madrid
When David Olivares went to bed on Thursday night, tired from a four-hour motorbike ride, the fire creeping towards his home town of Robledo de Chavela seemed a distant menace.
He woke the next day, saw white smoke behind the mountains and thought the threat to Robledo, 30 miles west of Madrid, had probably receded. Then he saw the white smoke had turned black.
'I saw the fire at the top of the mountain,' said the 27-year-old as he ate a sandwich prepared by a council worker in the leisure centre to which he had been evacuated - along with 300 other people - in Las Rozas, a municipality on the north-western outskirts of the Spanish capital.
'It started to spread down the mountain and then I got the emergency alert on my phone, telling us we had to leave.'
'I thought to myself, come on, it's 2026 - the firefighters will get it under control,' he said. 'But that wasn't the case.'
Just as his mother told him they needed to leave, Olivares
looked up at the sky, which had also begun to change.
'It turned orange and looked very apocalyptic,' he said. 'Then there was black smoke in Robledo and you could see the fire.'
'People were shouting - a kid was screaming to his dad: 'Let's go now' - and there were cars and people everywhere.'
'It felt like the end of the world. We grabbed our three cats, got in the car and left.'
María Rosa Marín, a fellow evacuee from the nearby town of Valdemaqueda, nodded at the recollection. 'The sun was so strange; you could hardly see it.'
Marín held up her mobile phone to show a photograph she had taken of a pale red sun hidden by dirty orange clouds of smoke. 'It looked like something from the Bible,' she said.
Marín and Olivares were just a few of the 87,000 people evacuated or ordered to lock down as central Spain battles wildfires that scientists say are being fuelled by climate breakdown and plentiful dry vegetation on a continent that is heating at about twice the rate of the global average. Sam Jones
AFP there was a need to understand a 'natural force beyond our control'.
He said: 'It's a David v Goliath scenario: the idea is that, at some point, we'll find a weak spot and strike there.'
Police in Gironde made three arrests over the weekend, including one man smoking in the forest and two having barbecues in a forest area.
Authorities in Spain said major areas of fire near Madrid had been contained and cooled down, according to a senior officer with Spain's military emergencies unit.
Sánchez said: 'We're facing some difficult hours, although it's true that the latest update has shown that last night was very positive in terms of the fire's evolution and efforts to control it.'
Speaking at a firefighters' command post west of Madrid, the prime minister warned that Spain and Portugal were experiencing the varied consequences of the climate emergency, from fires and storms to heavy snowfalls. 'The entire Iberian peninsula is suffering the effects of the climate emergency in a very specific way,' he added.
While the fire near Madrid was being brought under control, emergency workers battled to extinguish a new fire near the Mediterranean port city of Valencia, where at least 15,000 people were evacuated. 'The fire is beyond our capacity to extinguish, it
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▼ A wildfire west of Madrid is being contained, but has been described as the worst in the area's history
PHOTOGRAPH: CESAR MANIG/GETTY
▲ A Bordeaux exhibition centre is housing some of those forced to evacuate. Right, a drone image shows a burnt-out house in Gironde PHOTOGRAPH: GETTY/HEUTERS
has a perimeter of about 21km," the Valencia region's president, Juanfran Pérez Llorca, said over the weekend.
Spain's interior ministry said on Saturday evening that a man had died in a fire in the Valencian town of Manises. He had been found in a car in a ravine, officials said.
Authorities also ordered the evacuation of eight more municipalities near Toledo, south of Madrid, on Saturday, bringing the number of people forced to flee their homes by wildfires in Spain in recent days to 116,000, the Associated Press reported.
Spain's environment minister, Sara Aagesen, said the wildfire that has burned through 50,000 hectares of land in the central province of Ávila is "the largest forest fire in our country's recent history".
The blazes are the latest episode in a summer of wildfires that threaten to burn an unprecedented expanse of land. Europe has endured a series of heatwaves since the spring, fuelled by the climate crisis, including the hottest-ever June, leaving vegetation tinder dry.
The EU commissioner for crisis management, Hadja Lahbib, told the BBC it was likely that damage from the wildfires would exceed previous records across the continent.
"Last year, 1m hectares burned during the summer and so we are expecting to face another historic, sad record because the season has started earlier in the year," she said.
Spain's environment ministry said 32 major fires affecting 152,678 hectares (377,276 acres) had been recorded so far in 2026, compared with seven affecting 24,133 hectares in the same period in 2025.
The Gironde fire in France has so far burned 42,000 hectares, an area four times the size of Paris and one of the biggest devastations of land since the second world war.
At least 240 homes had been destroyed and many more damaged, a gendarme told BFMTV.
Firefighters are battling to slow the fire's progression toward Bordeaux from air, with planes dropping water and retardants. Jérôme Steffe, the mayor of Cestas commune, 10 miles from Bordeaux city centre, told French media: "We are working together to put in place a firewall to block the advance of the flames."
An exhibition centre in Bordeaux has been turned into an emergency shelter, providing camp beds and food for thousands of people, including hundreds of older people evacuated from rare homes.
Cazenave said he had asked the central government for an economic crisis plan for the area because many businesses and workers had been evacuated from areas west of Bordeaux, and the tourism industry had been heavily affected.
He said it was impossible to say when people evacuated as a precaution could return to their homes.
"We don't know how long this crisis will last, whether several days or several weeks," he said.
The Landes fire has consumed 3,600 hectares and a rekindling of flames on Saturday had to be tackled from the air, Núñez said.
French authorities are also dealing with wildfires in the south-eastern Var region, where 3,000 people have been evacuated, as well as the Hautes-Alpes and Corsica.
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and parts of Wales have prompted hosepipe bans. Meanwhile, the June heatwave in Europe is estimated to have cost the continent's grain farmers €2bn (£1.7bn) in lost revenue.
By taking up the World Bank seat personally, Miliband is sending a clear signal that while other politicians even now argue against net zero policies, the Foreign Office will continue to drive climate action.
It is a crucial time for the World Bank, which has come under heavy pressure from the Trump administration to reverse a previous focus on climate finance.
Last month, the publicly funded bank scrapped its goal for 45% of its finance to be directed to climate-related ends.
Experts have welcomed Miliband's decision as a boost to climate action.
Lord Stern, a professor of economics at the London School of Economics, said the foreign secretary's take-up of the UK governor's seat would "send a powerful and important signal" to the world.
"As a former chief economist and senior vice-president of the World Bank, I know that the UK can punch above its weight," he said.
"But only if the leadership is there from the top. In recent years, that has slipped. Ed Miliband will be restoring development and climate to the priority in our international relationships that they must have, in a world facing climate and biodiversity crises, and with real and growing threats to the wellbeing of the world's poorest."
Other countries have been wary of challenging the US on its anti-climate stance, for fear of reprisals and after widespread cuts to developed countries' overseas aid. The UK is one of six countries with its own seat at the World Bank board.
Mohamed Adow, a director of Power Shift Africa, a thinktank, said Miliband could champion changes at the lender that would help the poor.
"The real test is whether the UK uses its influence to push the World Bank to deliver far more finance for climate action and adaptation, to get money to countries faster, and ensure the poorest nations are not forced deeper into debt to respond to a crisis they did least to cause," Adow said.
"If this appointment marks the
▲ Ed Miliband will take up the UK's seat on the board of the World Bank
start of renewed British leadership on global climate and development, it will be warmly welcomed across Africa."
Miliband will face a shrinking aid budget and tough decisions over allocation. Starmer slashed overseas aid to 0.3% of gross national income, a sharp reduction from 0.5% under the Conservatives and the 0.7% reached under the last Labour government.
Climate finance was also cut by 14%, from £11.6bn for the period 2021 to 2026, to £2bn a year.
Britain's new prime minister, Andy Burnham, was criticised last week for saying his planned £2 cap on bus fares in England would be funded mainly by changing international climate finance grants into repayable loans. The loans will go to the Tropical Forests Forever Facility, an investment fund set up by the Brazilian government.
Jonathan Hall, the managing director of the charity Conservation International UK, said that to restore its credibility, the government should rescind the cuts Starmer made to funding for nature protection despite Britain's spy chiefs saying that ecosystem collapse overseas threatened national security.
"Miliband now needs to reintroduce a clear target for a third of the UK's £6bn climate aid budget to finance natural ecosystems and tropical forests, a goal which was lost under his predecessor," said Hall.
The UK will take over the leadership of the G20 group in November.
Rachel Kyte, the UK's climate envoy and a former senior World Bank official, said: "We will be in the midst of an energy and food security crisis from the blockage of the strait of Hormuz. Compounding that is a severe El Niño.
"We will need every ounce of capacity in the international financial architecture to help some parts of the world through the severity of these impacts. Ed has seen what it takes to mobilise the world to action before, pulling every lever we have available to us. If needed, we will do it again, for our own and everyone else's security."
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◄ Tents on Euston Road, London. Andy Burnham has promised to end rough sleeping in the UK 'at the earliest opportunity' PHOTOGRAPH: DAN KITWOOD/GETTY
'It drains you'
London's homeless at risk in sweltering urban environment
Vandy Widyalankara
'You've just got to bear it. It's like being in a hot country. It drains you,' said Tom (not his real name), who
is in his 60s and has been homeless for a number of years.
"I haven't seen weather like this for as long as I've been outside. I keep to my routines, but you need to find somewhere to sit down and rest. Either some cardboard outside or you find somewhere they'll let you sit and sleep a bit inside."
As the UK sweltered through its third heatwave of the year, the Guardian joined outreach workers in London as they tried to support some of the city's most vulnerable people. In his first speech as prime minister last week, Andy Burnham vowed to end rough sleeping in the UK "at the earliest opportunity".
"The city is not built for heat," said Josie Ashdown, a lead manager at the homelessness charity Thames Reach. "You can feel that the concrete makes it hotter here than probably anywhere else in the country at points."
As London endures repeated heatwaves fuelled by the climate crisis, outreach teams are offering extra support to those most at risk - handing out water, carrying out welfare checks and directing people to cool spaces. Scientists have estimated that the May and June heatwaves in England and Wales killed 2,700 people.
"Outreach teams are working around the clock," said Elle Slater, a service development manager at St Mungo's, a homelessness charity.
Many of the tents beneath an underpass were empty when the Guardian visited. Their occupants had probably left in search of water, work or somewhere cooler, Ashdown said. But for the record numbers of people like Tom who are sleeping rough, escaping the heat is rarely straightforward.
Dr Jennie Leggat, a former policy fellow at the University of Cambridge's centre for science and policy, said people sleeping rough were far more vulnerable to extreme heat than the general population. "If you're relying on begging to earn money, you don't have much choice," said Leggat. "You have to sit outside, often in the sun and usually in hot urban environments."
Many long-term rough sleepers have chronic health conditions. Essential medication, such as insulin, is difficult to store safely in hot weather.
Tom has health problems and struggles to get around. The heat has made it harder for him. "The bus is like a sauna even compared to outside," he said. "I have to keep my legs in wraps due to the swelling from moving around and my age, but I've had to switch to stockings in this weather."
Often people have to carry all their belongings with them, including winter clothing they cannot safely store. Anneke Ziemen, a service manager for the Thames Reach rapid response team, recalled one man who was dressed for cold weather during the heatwaves. "He said: 'When winter comes, I need my clothes. I can't have anyone steal them.' It makes sense, but it's also going to be 34C and you are literally cooking yourself."
Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, last month announced the Heat Ready London plan, which seeks to protect the capital from extreme heat. It includes expanding access to publicly available cooling spaces and free drinking water.
While councils have a severe weather emergency protocol for cold conditions, the response to heat is less consistent. There is no
▲ Outreach teams are working to support rough sleepers in the heat
single London-wide temperature trigger or mandatory level of support, leaving boroughs and outreach teams to interpret Greater London Authority guidance according to local resources.
A spokesperson for the mayor of London said city hall and London councils had issued joint guidance to help rough sleepers. "This is a collective effort involving councils, community organisations, health services and outreach providers," they said. "Our priority is making sure support reaches those who are most at risk."
Tom said: "I haven't heard about the 'cool places'. I don't go to places like that, as there can be issues with other people."
Leggat said stigma sometimes prevented access. "People who sleep rough may not be welcome in public spaces that could offer respite from the heat, whether that be due to having a pet, having large bags or simply looking unkempt due to a lack of reliable access to showers and clean clothing."
Matt Downie, the chief executive of Crisis, said Burnham's promise was "a significant shift away from a series of expensive temporary fixes and towards a 'housing first' approach to homelessness".
In the meantime, the advice to the public is to remain vigilant and use StreetLink to make a referral to a local charity if they see someone who may need help.
For Tom, reality includes the constant stigma of being visibly homeless. "People can tell or sense when you're homeless. You hear people whispering about you, saying you're homeless."
Yet he also experienced moments of kindness during the heatwaves. "I carry a big case around and people have been kinder in the hot weather, helping me get my luggage on and off the bus."
V&A Museum
More than 300 workers vote on heatwave strike action
Diane Taylor
Workers at the Victoria and Albert Museum have balloted for heatwave strike action over concerns about soaring temperatures and access to drinking water, along with pay and conditions.
More than 300 workers at four V&A sites in London - the museum in South Kensington, V&A East Museum and V&A East Storehouse in Stratford, and Young V&A in Bethnal Green - are taking part in the ballot.
The V&A, founded in 1852 after the Great Exhibition, is described as "a family of museums dedicated to the power of creativity". Its mission is to "promote art and design for all".
The Public and Commercial Ser- vices Union launched the strike ballot on Thursday owing to "serious and unresolved concerns affecting staff across the museum".
While pay rates are an issue, with calls for a minimum 4% pay increase, the union has also raised concerns about heat exposure and access to drinking water.
It is calling for management to implement a policy of closing pub- lic areas when temperatures exceed 30C, introduce heat mitigation meas- ures for back of house workers, and allow staff at V&A East Storehouse to carry and drink water while working in areas where exhibits are on dis- play, rather than waiting for another worker to come and relieve them while they go for a drink.
The union is also calling on the V&A to become an accredited living wage employer in London. The cur- rent London living wage is £14.80 an hour. The V&A has confirmed that all its staff are paid at least this rate. However, some of the museum's out- sourced contractors are not in receipt of the living wage and V&A has not so far become an accredited living wage employer, although it says this will be reviewed later this year.
V&A Dundee, which is not part of the strike ballot, is an accredited liv- ing wage employer.
A spokesperson for the V&A said: "The V&A has been in negotiations with the trade union side since Feb- ruary and those negotiations are ongoing ... Extensive measures were implemented to support our staff during the heatwave, ranging from additional rest breaks, increasing staff rotations across gallery spaces, closing several galleries at V&A South Kensington and closing Young V&A altogether on 11 days during the peak of the heatwave.
"To ensure the safety and secu- rity of national collections, during Order an Object appointments at V&A East Storehouse, food and drink are not permitted and visitors are accompanied by V&A staff during their appointment."
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Georgia O'Keeffe 'Misunderstood' artist's Ghost Ranch works to feature in UK show
Lanre Bakare Arts and culture correspondent
As soon as Georgia O'Keeffe was shown Ghost Ranch, she knew it was her place. The remote
property in the shadow of the mountains north of Santa Fe in New Mexico would become the artist's summer residence for decades - a setting that fascinated her, inspired several paintings and is a short walk from where her ashes were scattered. "I knew the minute I got up here that this was where I would live," she once said.
Now, a new exhibition at the Courtauld will shed light on O'Keeffe's home at Ghost Ranch and how it shaped her art and life.
Two dozen works, most of which have never before been shown in the UK, will make up the show Georgia O'Keeffe: Ghost Ranch, which opens in October next year.
Dr Karen Serres, the senior curator of paintings at the Courtauld Gallery, said few in the UK were aware of the importance of Ghost Ranch in the development of one of the most important American 20th-century modernists.
"Ghost Ranch was such an important part of her life, and it actually illuminates a large part of her art in general," said Serres. "For example, in her flower paintings where she goes really, really, really close up and she says: 'I want to do that because I want to make people look at things that are overlooked.' She does the exact same thing for these landscapes."
O'Keeffe moved into the property, which was part of a sprawling 21,000-acre estate, in 1934 - initially renting a room before eventually purchasing it and making it her permanent home.
"That was my country," she once said. "I'd never seen anything like it before, but it fitted to me exactly."
Ghost Ranch was one of two properties O'Keeffe lived at in New Mexico. The other was a house in
the village of Abiquiú, 16 miles south of the ranch, which is preserved and open to the public.
Ghost Ranch is not open to the general public but was somewhere that O'Keeffe "always felt more at home", according to the New Yorker's Calvin Tomkins, who profiled her in 1974.
"The solitude, the stillness, and the harsh, dry, splendid landscape are more her world," he wrote. "Animal skulls and bleached antlers hang on the walls of her patio, and rocks picked up on her walks and camping trips spill in profusion over low tables and shelves."
O'Keeffe added to the mystique around Ghost Ranch when she suggested in interviews that the home had been the scene of a murder before she bought it, and many of her most famous photoshoots - including with Cecil Beaton for Vogue - took place there.
Despite a significant international profile, O'Keeffe's work has been rarely seen in the UK; Serres said only six out of the
Clockwise from above: Georgia O'Keeffe's Red and Yellow Cliffs, 1940; Gerald's Tree I, 1937; and Mule's Skull with Pink Poinsettia, 1936 PHOTOGRAPHS: GEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSELM
The 21,000-acre Ghost Ranch estate in New Mexico, which became O'Keeffe's home. Left, O'Keeffe pictured beside her Pelvis Series, Red With Yellow, in 1960 PHOTOGRAPHS: ANDY CROSS/GETTY; TONY VACCARO/GETTY
two dozen works going on show at the Courtauld had been shown in Britain before.
O'Keeffe's reputation in the UK has not always been exalted. After her Hayward show in 1993, Britain's male critics unleashed a torrent of dismissive reviews. She was called a "commercial illustrator", "irredeemably amateur", an artist who "made good monthly images on calendars".
Two decades later, before her show at the Tate in 2016, one of the main narratives was that the show aimed to challenge the "conservative male" assumptions that her flower paintings were depictions of female genitalia.
Serres said the Ghost Ranch exhibition would be another opportunity to gain deeper knowledge of an artist who was still often misunderstood. "She's known as just this formidable female artist," said Serres. "But actually seeing her work, understanding what she's about, I don't think we are there yet."
Liberty leaps on sewing trend by doubling its fabric department
Sarah Butler
Liberty has more than doubled the size of its fabric department as it prepares to embrace the social media interest in sewing by hosting crafting classes this autumn.
Fabric sales rose 11% last year at the department store, which opened in its current location near Oxford Circus,
Fabric sales at the central London department store rose 11% last year
central London, in 1924. Liberty is expecting similar growth this year as crafters are joined by wealthy overseas shoppers who stock up on luxury fabrics to be tailored into outfits in their home countries.
Lydia King, Liberty's retail managing director, said the new department, which is 140% bigger than previously at 430 sq metres (4,630 sq ft), housed more than 2,500 fabrics and 17 specialist salespeople. Liberty will also expand its haberdashery area this autumn, where it will provide more workshops for crafters.
"More and more department stores have moved away from [haberdashery and fabric] but we want to
celebrate and elevate the customer experience," King said.
The rising popularity of crafts such as quilt making and crochet has been partly driven by demonstration videos on social media and TV shows such as The Great British Sewing Bee.
"It's a really broad age range, from a customer of 13 who has just got her first sewing machine to an international community making things for themselves," King added.
The popularity of secondhand clothes, which may need to be altered at home, is also driving the sewing trend. The Crafts Council said craft participation had risen from 15% to 20% of adults in a few years.
The interest in sewing is helping Liberty to achieve strong sales even as its luxury rival Harvey Nichols is put up for sale and House of Fraser continues to close outlets.
"Fabric is one of the highest sales density areas in the store," said King. "As our lives become increasingly digital, we're seeing customers simultaneously reconnect with the joy of making-seeking out craftsmanship, creativity and the opportunity to create something that's entirely their own. From a bespoke dress to a handcrafted quilt, making has become a modern expression of luxury because it offers something increasingly rare: originality."
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▼ Gary Stevenson's recent documentary, How to Get Filthy Rich, was poorly received by critics
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YouTube wealth tax activist calls time on weekly videos
Gwyn Topham
The City trader turned wealth tax campaigner Gary Stevenson has announced he is quitting the YouTube channel that made his name, citing health concerns.
His announcement came after a mixed reaction to a televised documentary that brought him to a wider audience but drew some scepticism from left-leaning tax experts as well as more rightwing critics.
Stevenson, whose YouTube channel Gary's Economics took off during Covid and grew to 1.64 million subscribers, posted an 18-minute sign-off on social media yesterday titled "It's time to say goodbye". He said it would be the last weekly video, adding they had become "harder and harder" as he had "got more tired".
The former City trader, born in 1986 in east London, came to prominence through the channel and his memoir, Trading Game, in which he described how he made millions as a Citibank employee.
Retiring with burnout, the anti-inequality campaigner argued for a 2% tax on individual wealth over £10m, which he said would raise £24bn a year for the Treasury.
Stevenson has been an influential voice in raising awareness of
inequality and linking it to falling living standards, predicting the rises in the cost of living and warning of the danger of constant accumulation by the growing billionaire class.
However, a Channel 4 documentary released last month, How to Get Filthy Rich with Gary Stevenson, in which he took his arguments to those who would incur the tax, received a number of poor reviews.
The Guardian's Lucy Mangan wrote that Stevenson was "outdone and undone by almost all of his interviewees ... left floundering, without convincing comebacks", concluding that it was "a faintly embarrassing waste of time".
The tax lawyer Dan Neidle told him to "separate your emotional reaction to inequality from a rational assessment of the best tools for it" and called his plans "populist claptrap".
A slightly more sympathetic review in the Telegraph said Stevenson was "so used to addressing his followers straight down the camera that
engaging in debate with people of differing views leaves him floundering".
Despite this, Stevenson's proposal for a wealth tax is gaining traction and the new prime minister, Andy Burnham, is fielding growing calls to increase taxes on the ultra-rich.
A proposal to tax the 1,000 UK households with wealth of more than £100m could raise £10bn, according to one study. Last week, the former footballer Gary Lineker was among 120 millionaires who wrote an open letter to Burnham in favour of a wealth tax, saying: "We can afford it."
'We need to accept this will not be a short-term battle ... And I need to rest'
Gary Stevenson YouTube
Stevenson gave some notice of his intentions in a Newsnight interview when the documentary aired. He told the BBC: "It's tiring. I do this because I don't want this country to go down the toilet ... You cannot have a situation across [Britain and] the western world where the working class, the middle class and the government all very rapidly lose all of their wealth to 1% of people."
However, the valedictory video on Gary's Economics suggested that, after a break, he may return to public life. Stevenson said he was now looking at a podcast format and did not rule out doing monthly videos.
He said: "The very richest people in the world are going to fight this ... We need a big chunk of the population to understand that living standards are falling because of rising inequality."
Stevenson ended by saying: "I cannot be the only educator on this. We need to accept this will not be a short-term battle ... And I need to rest."
British actors criticise merger of Paramount and Warner
Lanre Bakare
Arts and culture correspondent
The proposed merger between Paramount and Warner Brothers could harm British "workers, culture and the public", according to the actors Alan Cumming, Benedict Cumberbatch and Benedict Wong, who believe the deal should be stopped.
Writing in the Guardian, they argue that if the two companies merge it could permanently damage the UK's film industry, costing thousands of jobs and resulting in a landscape where filmmakers are forced to take fewer risks.
"We have watched, with growing alarm, what consolidation does to the breadth and depth of the work we produce: independent film acquisitions at the leading independent film festival Sundance fell by half between 2019 and 2025," the actors write.
"Award-winning documentaries - films that won Oscars and topped festival juries - have struggled to find commercial distribution because they touched subjects the remaining handful of buyers found inconvenient. Every merger of this kind narrows the funnel through which stories can reach audiences."
A merger would bring together two of the five last legacy studios in Hollywood, as well as TV networks and news operations, under the control of one company.
Cumming, Cumberbatch and Wong praised the culture secretary Lisa Nandy's statement to parliament confirming she was "minded to intervene" in the $110bn (£82bn) takeover. The deal is currently being scrutinised in the US and the UK.
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Mount Olympus and Normandy landing beaches join Unesco world heritage list
Helena Smith
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Mount Olympus, the mythical home of the ancient Greek gods, has been inducted into a hall of more modern fame as Unesco announced it would be added to its world heritage list.
After a 12-year wait, Greece's highest mountain made the list alongside the D-day landing beaches in northern France and the ancient Japanese capitals of Asuka and Fujiwara.
South Sudan's Boma-Badingilo landscape, the host of one of the world's largest land mammal migrations, also won a designation - a first for the east African country.
The nominations were among dozens reviewed by a Unesco committee in Busan, South Korea, yesterday.
In the case of Olympus, inscribed as a mixed world heritage site in recognition of its cultural and natural
significance, the news was met with near euphoria in Greece.
Immortalised as the seat of Zeus, the mountain, which rises 2,918 metres from a base near sea level in northern Greece, had been on a tentative list of sites since 2014.
The head of Greece's Unesco delegation, Georgios Koumoutsakos, hailed the decision. "It reaffirms our unwavering commitment to safeguarding Mount Olympus for the benefit of present and future generations," he said. "As Greek mythology wisely reminds us, it is always best to remain on good terms with the gods."
The region's mayor, Evangelos Geroliolios, said it would "place greater responsibility on our part to protect the environment," not least its extraordinary local biodiversity.
The annual meeting, which ends on Wednesday, is expected to examine about 30 nominations. Those successful will join 1,428 sites across
170 countries admitted to the world heritage list for their "outstanding value to humanity".
Inscribed monuments become legally protected under an international treaty overseen by Unesco, which also gives advice and financial support. Other world heritage sites include the Acropolis in Athens, the Great Wall of China, the pyramids of Giza in Egypt and India's Taj Mahal.
Efforts to get the second world
Asuka, a former capital of Japan, has also been added to the UN list
war beaches in Normandy inscribed had also gone back years. Included in the French bid were all five of the beaches - Omaha, Utah, Sword, Gold and Juno - where more than 150,000 allied troops came ashore on 6 June 1944, and the Pointe du Hoc cliff that was also a focal point of the assault.
The largest amphibious operation ever mounted, in which 4,400 soldiers died, was decisive in the battle to liberate Europe from Nazi occupation. France first nominated the 50-mile stretch of coastline in 2008.
Reacting to the decision, the country's permanent delegate to Unesco, Ahlem Gharbi, said the designation carried particular weight at a time of such international tensions.
The president of the Normandy region, Hervé Morin, who had championed the cause, maintained that inclusion on the list would represent "immense recognition" for the soldiers who had sacrificed so much.
Echoing Greek officials, he said: "This decision places a responsibility upon us. It compels us to preserve this site, to protect it, to cherish it even more, and to promote its value."
The international council on monuments and sites, one of the bodies that recommends additions to the Unesco list, had previously warned of the threat posed to the Normandy sites by tourism, climate change, rising sea levels and nearby windfarm development.
The coastline is covered with remnants of the second world war, including German bunkers, sunken vessels and allied installations.
Unesco said the beaches formed an "exceptional cultural landscape shaped both by the events of 1944 and by their enduring remembrance", all of which justified further protection.
As with Mount Olympus, the landing points have attracted record numbers of tourists in recent years.
The move to include places associated with conflict has fuelled debate over whether "sites of memory" are befitting of world heritage status and Unesco's stated mission to "foster a world of greater equality and peace". Three sites used by Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime for torture and execution were listed last year.
Zelenskyy to visit UK today as PM vows 'unwavering' support
Peter Walker
Senior political correspondent
Volodymyr Zelenskyy will become Andy Burnham's first overseas visitor as prime minister today, something Burnham said underlined Britain's "unwavering" backing of Ukraine.
Less than two weeks after Keir Starmer travelled to Kyiv for the final foreign trip of his prime ministership,
Volodymyr Zelenskyy will be Andy Burnham's first foreign visitor as PM
Zelenskyy will join Burnham at a naval base where Ukrainian forces have been receiving training.
The Ukrainian president was one of the first world leaders Burnham spoke to when he became prime minister. He has promised to maintain Starmer's support for Ukraine in pushing back Russia's invasion.
During today's visit, the pair will speak to Ukrainian and British military personnel who have taken part in Exercise Sea Breeze, a 15-nation training deployment based on mine exercises and other maritime operations in the Black Sea.
The second part of this year's exercise, in Portland, Dorset, finished on
Friday and involved more than 200 Ukrainian personnel.
Burnham and Zelenskyy are also due to discuss joint projects including Stone Cloak, an electronic jammer for which the UK has shared the intellectual property with Ukraine.
Thousands of the jammers, which are about the size of a tablet computer, have been sent to Ukraine to be fitted to drones, with the aim of stopping Russian air defence systems from tracking and targeting them.
Ukraine is now able to mass-produce the devices. After being initially used in Ukraine, the jammers will be fitted to new UK weaponry, including cruise missiles.
Burnham said: "Britain stands with Ukraine, shoulder to shoulder, and our support remains unwavering. Russia should be in no doubt of our resolve, and we will not back down until we achieve long-lasting and just peace for Ukraine. Stone Cloak is the best of homegrown British innovation and proven on the frontline, and it will be vital to protecting our security in both our countries."
According to No 10, since Russia's full invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, British support for the country has totalled £25bn. Zelenskyy said he hoped to build a strong relationship with Burnham and arrange a meeting "as soon as possible".
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Families pay tribute to four who died in Merseyside crash
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The families of four men in their 20s who died after a car crashed into a lamp-post in Merseyside have paid tribute to their loved ones.
Police were called to reports that a
black Cupra Formentor had come off the road after crashing into a lamp-post on Liverpool Road, Huyton, just before 2am on Friday.
Jack Diggle, 23, Benjamin Dooley, 23, Andrew Roberts, 24, and Craig Shackleton-Brady, 26, were all pronounced dead at the scene.
The car had been travelling from
◀ Clockwise from top left: Andrew Roberts, 24, Craig Shackleton-Brady, 26, Jack Diggle, 23, and Benjamin Dooley, 23, died in the crash
Liverpool towards Knowsley, Merseyside police have said. All four families released tributes yesterday.
Shackleton-Brady was described as a “devoted and loving father” to his two children and as a “loyal and generous” man.
Diggle, a proud Everton supporter, was described by his family as “kind, quiet, thoughtful and loving”.
Dooley’s mother, Kerry, said her son was “the kindest person” she knew and had “a heart of gold”. His sister Demi described his death as feeling like “a terrible dream”.
Roberts’ family said: “Andrew’s passing is a painful reminder of how precious every moment really is.”
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact the Merseyside police serious collision investigation unit on 0151 777 5747, or email SCIU@merseyside.police.uk quoting the reference number 26000600149.
Restricted eating hours may protect brain health in old age
Ian Sample Science editor
Confining mealtimes and snacks to a nine-hour window and avoiding food for four hours before bed may help stave off cognitive decline in older age, researchers say.
For older women who were overweight or obese, there were hints of improvement in mental skills among those who ate within the restricted period compared with those who spread their meals over a longer time, a pilot study found.
If confirmed in larger studies, the work suggests people could help to protect their cognitive abilities by eating within a relatively narrow window and not eating late into the night.
Losing weight alone can help slow cognitive decline in older age, said Prof Sue Shapses, a nutritional scientist at Rutgers University in New Jersey, US, but there may be “additional benefits” for people who do not eat outside an eight- to nine-hour window and stop eating four hours before going to sleep.
Dementia is the leading cause of death in the UK and the seventh most common worldwide, leading to nearly 2 million deaths globally each year. Some risk factors are unavoidable, such as age and genetics, but experts believe nearly half of cases could be prevented or delayed through changes to lifestyle. Obesity in middle age can raise the risk of dementia in later life by 30%.
Shapses ran a trial in which 47
women aged 50 to 79, who were overweight or had obesity, were encouraged to cut 500 calories from their daily diet for six months. Within the group, 26 were advised to eat only within a nine-hour window. Typically, this meant eating between 10am and 6pm, while the rest spread their meals over about 12 hours.
At the end of the trial, both groups had similar weight loss averaging about 7kg (15lb). But cognitive tests revealed that the time-restricted eating group performed better on spatial planning and problem solving. There were also hints that they made fewer errors on memory and learning tests.
Shapses said the “modest” effects suggested time-restricted eating may help people’s ability to remember information for everyday tasks and limit errors linked to memory, attention and problem solving. Details were presented at Nutrition 2026, the annual meeting of the American Society for Nutrition in Maryland.
The researchers plan to investigate why it may be important to consider when we eat as well as what we eat. The benefits could be driven by a complex interplay of circadian rhythms, metabolism and inflammation.
In many countries, it is common to eat over a 14-hour period, leaving only 10 hours overnight without food. But research points to health benefits from extending overnight fasting. A recent review found that finishing eating before 7pm was associated with significant improvements in body weight, blood pressure and markers of metabolic health.
Prof Wendy Hall, the head of nutritional sciences at King’s College London, who was not involved in the study, said time-restricted eating may have benefits for older adults, “not only because it may help with weight management but also because avoiding large meals late in the evening may improve blood sugar control, vascular function and inflammation”. She cautioned that the findings were preliminary and it was important to see the full peer-reviewed study to determine whether improvements were clinically meaningful.
◀ In a study, older women who ate within a nine-hour window did better in some cognitive tests PHOTOGRAPH: LULOSTOCK/ALARY
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Life expectancy in England at record high last year but north-south divide widens
Ian Sample
Science editor
The north-south divide in life expectancy in England has grown over the past decade with people in northern regions facing more illnesses such as heart disease and cancer, as well as suicides and deaths related to alcohol and drug misuse.
Provisional figures show life expectancy reached an all-time high in 2025, with men and women in England living, on average, for 80 years and nearly 84 years respectively, but the gains were overwhelmingly in the south, the King's Fund said.
Despite suffering the sharpest fall in lifespan during Covid, London saw life expectancy rise by nearly a year in the decade to 2023-25. The south-east, south-west and east of England also recorded gains.
But the half of England's population who live in five northern regions,
namely the north-west, north-east, Yorkshire and Humber, West Midlands and East Midlands, experienced little or no rise in life expectancy over the same period, reflecting greater levels of deprivation.
According to the health charity, people in London can now expect to live three years longer than those in the north-east. Even starker disparities emerged at the local level, with life expectancy in Blackpool, Lancashire, 10 years shorter for men and eight years shorter for women than in Hart, Hampshire.
"In the most deprived 30% of areas, life expectancy either fell or didn't improve over the past decade and that's a disturbing story," said Veena Raleigh, a senior fellow at the King's Fund. "Meanwhile, it went up by half a year in the least deprived 30% of areas.
"Over the past decade, the north has fallen further behind and the plans for levelling up and the
regeneration of the north haven't materialised," she added. "This isn't just a question of fixing the health service. It requires a cross-government drive to also address the wider, underlying determinants of health, for example, ensuring people have secure jobs, fair pay, adequate housing, clean air, accessible transport and affordable access to healthy diets."
The government's 10-year plan for the NHS aims to increase healthy
'The north has fallen further behind and the plans for regeneration have not materialised'
Veena Raleigh King's Fund
life expectancy - the number of years people spend in good health - for everyone in England, while halving the gap between the richest and poorest. But the King's Fund called the goal "unrealistic", requiring improvements in population health on a scale not seen in decades.
Healthy life expectancy fell in all regions of England in the decade to 2022-24, with people now spending on average about 2.5 years longer in poor health. The regional divide has remained unchanged at about six to seven years, but can reach 20 years between the most and least deprived regions. The figures mean those in the most deprived parts of England have both shorter lives and spend more years in poor health.
"Although the government's 10-year health plan promises a shift from sickness to prevention, the focus is mainly on reducing waiting lists and waiting times," Raleigh said. "Public health and prevention of ill
health need to be much higher up the policy agenda, for example, to tackle the rising prevalence of obesity.
"The increasing prevalence of ill health in adults of working age, in particular, is deeply concerning because it risks jeopardising the life course of some young people with, additionally, the high costs of rising economic inactivity," she said.
A Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said the government's aim to halve the gap in healthy life expectancy reflected the "scale and complexity of the challenge". They said £2.2bn was being repurposed for critical resources such as medicines and medical equipment in deprived areas.
"Someone's postcode should never dictate how long they live, and this government is determined to tackle the stark inequalities that still exist across Britain," the spokesperson said.
"We're already taking action, from allocating GP funding more fairly to delivering pioneering neighbourhood health centres in the areas that need them most. But we will now go further in devolving power to local communities, putting decision-making into the hands of those who know their areas best, and driving lasting change across the country."
Delays to new North Sea drilling after gear accidentally dropped
Geraldine McKelvie
Senior correspondent
Production at Britain's biggest undeveloped oil and gasfield could be delayed for months after equipment from a rig was accidentally dropped in the North Sea, the Guardian can reveal.
Andy Burnham's new government is under pressure from the fossil fuel industry to allow oil to be retrieved from the Rosebank site. Located about 80 miles north-west of Shetland, it was believed to be ready to generate oil before the end of the year, pending ministerial approval.
Adura, the company responsible for Rosebank, now says it anticipates this will happen in 2027. The field is projected to produce 300m barrels of oil over its 25-year lifespan, according to industry estimates.
Some MPs believe that enhanced domestic production of oil and gas would help tackle the cost of living, a central focus of the new prime minister, by improving energy security amid global instability. But green campaigners believe the impact on the UK economy of exploiting the fields would be minimal.
However, delays at Rosebank
mean production at the field will be unlikely to affect the UK's energy supply over the winter months. Licences for Rosebank and another site, Jackdaw, were granted under the Conservatives but operations were paused after a court challenge by environmental groups.
The new energy secretary, Miatta Fahnbulleh, is expected to make a decision on the fields' future after consultations regarding their emissions conclude next month.
This week, Adura told the BBC that Jackdaw, about 150 miles east of Aberdeen, could produce gas as early as October. However, preparations at Rosebank have been hindered by the rig incident, which occurred on 18 April. No workers were hurt, but two central pieces of drilling equipment,
including a safety valve, fell 1,100 metres on to the seabed.
The platform, hired by Adura from the Norwegian company Odfjell Drilling, was taken to a shipyard in Bergen for repairs. It is now back at Rosebank but not yet operational.
Odfjell Drilling said in internal documentation that the rig could be out of action for up to four months. The Guardian understands this means that some oil wells will be completed significantly behind schedule.
Burnham is facing calls from trade
300m
The number of barrels of oil that Rosebank has been projected to produce during its 25-year lifespan
unions and opposition parties to ramp up North Sea production.
Sally Jameson, a Cabinet Office minister, has argued that more domestic production of oil and gas would give Britain greater control over the cost of energy. Others fear it would have no real impact on bills, while wreaking untold damage on the climate.
Mike Reader, part of the Labour Environment Campaign, said there was no evidence new drilling would save jobs in the long term. Only 27 direct full-time jobs would be created by Jackdaw, one of the biggest gasfields remaining in the North Sea, according to an environmental impact assessment filed by Adura.
Ed Miliband, the new foreign secretary, described the Rosebank
Activists urge the new energy secretary, Miatta Fahnbulleh, to block drilling at Rosebank PHOTOGRAPH: FUK VALCIZONA PRESS WIRE/INUTTERSTOCK
proposals as "climate vandalism" when Labour was in opposition. However, in recent weeks talks are believed to have taken place on how to allow new drilling without breaching Labour's 2024 manifesto commitments, in which it pledged not to issue new licences but honour existing ones.
Environmental groups are understood to be considering whether they would have grounds to take legal action regarding any government decision to allow new drilling.
Angeliki Papantoniou, a lecturer in environmental law at the University of Hull, said that, while a fresh challenge would be a "long shot", it would be most likely to succeed if it was based on "substantive environmental matters" such as the disruption of ecosystems and pollution.
"It could be argued that those developments cannot reasonably be ignored when taking a decision with likely high environmental effects," she said.
"In theory, it could be hard for [Fahnbulleh] to claim that [the government] took all necessary precautionary measures without detailed risk assessments on the effects of drilling on the marine environment, climate and human health."
Areeba Hamid, co-executive director of Greenpeace, which challenged the original decision to grant licences, said approval for the fields would make "zero difference" to energy bills and generate few jobs.
"Despite these meagre benefits, we would be prolonging a polluting industry that's fueling heatwaves while sending a disastrous signal to our international allies," she said.
Odfjell Drilling declined to comment. Adura did not respond to a request for comment.
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Burnham vows to publicly disagree with Trump if it is necessary to do so
Peter Walker Senior political correspondent
Andy Burnham has promised to disagree with Donald Trump if necessary, including in public, in his first big broadcast interview since becoming prime minister.
His comments came as Wes Streeting, the new defence secretary, said he did not believe the White House was looking for allies who "suck up".
Burnham, a relative novice when it comes to foreign policy, spoke at length to the president shortly after entering No 10, in a call described by Downing Street officials as warm.
But with Washington resuming its attacks on Iran, there is the potential for early tensions, with Burnham sticking to the policy under Keir Starmer of not backing US offensive operations, something that prompted fierce public attacks from Trump.
Speaking to BBC One's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, Burnham said: "I can't at any point say that I won't take a different opinion from him [Trump], that I will need to voice a different idea that is right for Britain."
The prime minister said that, if needed, he would set out his differences with Trump in public: "You have to defend your own national interest before anything else. That's what you're required to do if you're to do this job properly."
Streeting, appearing on Sky News' Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips, said he had spoken to his US counterpart, Pete Hegseth, and was plain about the continued differences over Iran. He added: "I was clear that we have not supported offensive action in Iran and we won't support offensive action in Iran. But there are plenty of things that we can and should do together."
Such straightforwardness was valued by Trump and his team, Streeting argued: "The first thing you do is, you don't suck up. My impression is, President Trump, his administration - that's not what they're looking for. He's a straight talker."
Asked if he trusted Donald Trump, Streeting said: "I don't know him, but I do trust the United States."
'You have to defend your own national interest before anything else'
Andy Burnham On standing up to Trump
Being in the defence job, he added, had granted him "a unique insight into just how close and integral that relationship is when it comes to defence and security".
During his interview, Burnham ruled out the idea of a swift general election to potentially capitalise on any bounce in the polls for Labour. "There's no early general election. I don't think people want it," he said, adding that people had "voted for a manifesto" in 2024.
He said: "I just think what I most need to do is get Britain focused on getting the country back where it should be."
On defence spending, Burnham said he was "very aware" of the desire of John Healey, who resigned as defence secretary under Starmer and is now chancellor, to increase defence spending quickly to 3% of GDP, but refused to give a timetable.
He said: "The first challenge facing us both is to ensure that the defence investment plan is fully funded and that's the thing that's right in front of us and we need to work that through as we go towards the budget."
Streeting told Sky that as defence secretary he had a duty to make sure any increased budget was spent wisely. He said: "There have clearly been longstanding issues with things like defence procurement, value for money. And as I said to the team at the Ministry of Defence this week, these things matter not just in abstract and because it's the right thing to do to spend money wisely, it's also because it matters because we're asking a lot of taxpayers."
He added that the UK should not put too much stock in the "sabre-rattling" by Iran. Tehran's ministry of foreign affairs (MFA) earlier this week accused the government of "complicity in the crime of aggression and war crimes" by allowing the US to carry out "unlawful attacks".
While the government has refused to take part in offensive campaigns against Iran, it has allowed the US to launch defensive strikes from British bases hosting American personnel.
In a statement, Iran's MFA said that anyone who supported "military aggression against Iran will bear responsibility for the consequences and repercussions of its decision".
Asked whether Iran could target the UK, Streeting told BBC Breakfast: "We haven't joined offensive action against Iran. We have taken part in defensive action to support UK people, personnel, interests, and our allies, and we will continue to do so."
"But we stand ready to respond to any attacks that Iran wishes to wage against this country or our allies, and we will continue to do that."
Diversity points Makeup of cabinet reveals complexity of class divisions
Esther Addley
In common with 20 of Britain's past prime ministers, the new minister for AI in Andy Burnham's cabinet, Kanishka Narayan, went to Eton. After the country's most elite private school, Narayan attended Balliol College, Oxford, where he studied - what else? - PPE (politics, philosophy and economics), like David Cameron, Rishi Sunak, Ed Miliband and a host of other senior politicians. An MBA at Stanford and a career in the City followed.
But Narayan's background is hardly typical of the British ruling class. Born in Bihar in eastern India, he moved with his family to Cardiff when he was 12. He and his younger brother were sleeping on the floor of their one-bedroom home
when a teacher at his secondary school suggested the bright young boy could apply for some private schools. His parents, who had joined the Labour party almost as soon as they arrived in Wales, ran a petrol station. Eton was possible only thanks to a full scholarship.
Class and representation in 21st-century Britain can be complicated. By some yardsticks, for example, the makeup of Burnham's new ministerial team,
▲ Kanishka Narayan, the minister for AI, went to Eton on a scholarship
announced after he became prime minister on Monday, could be seen as a backward step. More than a fifth of his cabinet attended private schools for most of their education - at times, under Keir Starmer, every senior minister went to a state school. And a remarkable 54% of the ministers now leading government policy went to Oxford or Cambridge, up from 29% under Starmer. (Less than 1% of the UK population went to Oxbridge.)
In other ways, however, Burnham's top team is more diverse, with half of those attending cabinet - including, of course, the prime minister - representing northern constituencies. And for the first time in history, the cabinet has equal numbers of women and men. One of them, the energy secretary, Miatta Fahnbulleh, is among those who were educated privately - this after she and her family arrived
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in Britain as asylum seekers from Liberia in 1986.
How much does all this matter? The prime minister's top ministers ought to be competent - do they need to be representative too?
Nick Harrison, the chief executive of the Sutton Trust, says: "Of course, the background of the cabinet matters. If they're meant to be representing the country, they should be representative of the country. We would absolutely say that you get better decisions if you have a wide range of views, perspectives and backgrounds around the table."
The sample size of 28 cabinet attendees may be small, but to Sam Friedman, a professor of sociology at London School of Economics whose work focuses on class and inequality, its makeup is symbolic of the wider access to power in Britain. Scrutinising those in senior positions "provides a window into a wider conversation about how people's backgrounds shape their ability to reach the top positions in our society", he says.
Power in Britain remains overwhelmingly concentrated in the hands of a very narrow group of people, according to Friedman's research. He points out that pupils
Share of first cabinet who attended Oxford or Cambridge
+1% of general public attends Oxford or Cambridge
| Burnham | 54% | 46% |
|---|---|---|
| Starmer | 39 | 62 |
| Sunak | 52 | 48 |
Share of first cabinet who attended private schools*
7% of the population attend private schools
| Burnham | 22% | 78% |
|---|---|---|
| Starmer | 8 | 92 |
| Sunak | 63 | 39 |
| Trass | 60 | 32 |
| Johnson | 64 | 36 |
| May | 95 | 70 |
| Cameron | 95 | 50 |
| Cameron | 62 (number one) | 38 |
| Brown | 32 | 68 |
| Blair | 32 | 68 |
| Major | 71 | 29 |
| Thatcher | 91 | 9 |
Source: HS Ministers Database, Sutton Trust. Note: Ministers who attend cabinet. Schooling unknown for one member of Burnham's cabinet. *For multiple schools, the longest-attended one was chosen
Andy Burnham in Downing Street last week with his cabinet, 54% of whom went to Oxbridge PHOTOGRAPH: EDDS MILWOLAND/WPASSETTY
of the nine most exclusive private schools are still 52 times more likely to reach elite positions than those who go to any other type of school. Oxbridge graduates born in the 1960s and early 1970s - Burnham was born in 1970 and went to Cambridge - were more than 250 times more likely to reach the British elite than their peers who did not go to university.
The cabinet is merely the tip of a vast iceberg of powerbrokers whose own elite backgrounds can be key in the way government decisions are taken, argues Friedman.
According to his research surveying attitudes among the elite, he says "those who are brought up in more privileged backgrounds tend to tilt to the right", and "people in positions of power in the cabinet are often interacting with civil servants and business leaders who mediate their ability" to take decisions.
To Lee Elliot Major, a professor of social mobility at the University of Exeter, it is legitimate to scrutinise the backgrounds of those running the country, but "counting private schools and Oxbridge degrees only tells part of the story," he says. "The real challenge is whether ministers understand how Britain's contemporary opportunity system now works.
"Traditional markers such as school attended or parents' occupations no longer signal advantage in the straightforward way they once did. Today's divides are increasingly shaped by wealth, place, networks and the hidden cultural codes that govern entry and progression into our elites."
The challenge goes way beyond widening access to the traditional routes to power, important though that may be, Major argues. Instead, politicians of whatever background must grapple what he calls "the profound unravelling of the promise of modern capitalism" - the fact that, for people in their 40s and younger, there are now more people experiencing downward mobility than upward - in other words, they are less well-off than their parents.
"The test for this government isn't whether ministers themselves are socially mobile," Major says. "It's whether they can create a society in which many more people have genuine opportunities to flourish."
Dr Daniel Evans, a lecturer at Swansea University whose work includes a focus on politics and social class, agrees. "The origin story [of politicians] is a bit of a red herring," he says. "The bigger story is the total collapse of the graduate premium and the debt that students are getting into in university and how brutal the job market is for graduates.
"We keep talking about social mobility as if everyone can do it, but university is out of reach for loads of people financially, the job market is horrendous. No one can get a flat. The discourse hasn't kept up."
Holy different
Don't expect Catholic PM to import US culture war
Aamna Mohdin
Community affairs correspondent
With the appointment of Britain's first lifelong Roman Catholic prime minister, the
faith is now in a prominent political position in both the UK and the US.
But while Donald Trump's administration - in particular the vice-president, JD Vance, a Catholic convert - has placed Catholicism at the heart of its culture wars and repeatedly clashed with the Vatican over the US's hardline stance on social issues, Andy Burnham has been shaped by a British Catholic tradition with a different set of political priorities.
Hours before he arrived in Downing Street on Monday, Burnham visited the Passage, a Catholic-founded homelessness charity in Westminster. He later made ending rough sleeping his first pledge as prime minister.
Pope Leo, like Pope Francis before him, is frequently portrayed by the American Christian right as "woke" for defending migrants. When Burnham travelled to Rome as mayor of Greater Manchester in 2023, he presented Francis with a signed Manchester United shirt, and after the pontiff's death, praised his dedication to "equality and compassion for humanity".
Hannah Rich, the director of Christians on the Left, a Labour affiliate, said: "The British church is not the American church, and British culture around Christianity isn't the same as America.
"Those hot-potato [culture war] issues are not necessarily the things that drive people. That's not to say Christians in this country don't have strong opinions on those issues, in both directions. But they're not as unifying a political force for the church in this country as they seem to be culturally and politically in America."
Burnham has long joked that
three institutions shaped him: Everton Football Club, the Catholic church and the Labour party.
The church and party have long been intertwined for him. When he was an altar boy in the 1980s, Liverpool's archbishop, Derek Worlock, was one of Margaret Thatcher's fiercest critics and urged Catholics to fight poverty and inequality. Worlock recorded messages on cassette tapes that were sent to every parish.
Mike Kane, the Labour MP who founded Catholics for Labour, said he saw the principles of Catholic social teaching, such as dignity and solidarity, reflected in Burnham's style of politics.
"He doesn't actually claw his opponent's eyes out," Kane said. "I think his politics is ultimately very hopeful and optimistic."
Nick Spencer, a senior fellow at the thinktank Theos, said he believed there were many reasons why we were seeing such different expressions of Christian politics in the UK and US.
"Culture war politics really thrives on a narrative of exclusion," he said. "But it's much harder to argue that you are being socially, culturally and politically marginalised as a Christian in this country. If you crown the head of state, if you have 26 bishops in the Lords, you are already quite close to the heart of power."
So far, Catholic and other organised religious pressure on Burnham has come largely from groups on the left. Almost 40 senior Christian, Muslim and Jewish leaders, coordinated by the charity HIAS+JCORE, have urged Burnham to rethink Britain's asylum policy.
Dr David Ryall, the director of the Jesuit Refugee Service UK and a signatory to the letter, said there was a summer campaign defending the right to asylum.
"It's been amazing to see so many Catholic parishes, groups and families, driven by their faith, taking up this call with their local politicians and now with the new prime minister," he said.
Britain's growing religious pluralism sits uneasily alongside the constitution. Prof Russell Sandberg, an expert in law and religion, said legislation still prevents practising Catholics and Jews from advising the crown on Church of England appointments.
"In practice, the role of the prime minister in appointing bishops has declined," he said. "That said, even the presentation of one name by Burnham would breach the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829." Those responsibilities could be delegated to another minister, he added.
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Music review
Arena-sized swagger from a regular Joe megastar
Luke Combs
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★★★☆☆
Katie Hawthorne
The first we see of Luke Combs, the North Carolina-born megastar is walking through the stadium crowd. Cap pulled low, with a bashful look on his face, the stunt is less pap walk, more regular Joe dodging a flashmob on his way to work.
Combs is now the highest-selling country artist of all time, but he wears his success with humility: when he finally reaches his saloon-themed stage, with near-70,000
screaming fans before him, he keeps that unassuming presence.
"Normally I'd ask how you're feeling tonight, but I know how you're feeling tonight," he smiles.
This week, Combs will perform to more than half a million fans across just seven dates in England, Scotland and Ireland: a remarkable coronation for an artist yet to have a Top 10 single here.
Not that you'd know it, from the way the crowd screams every word to his 2016 hit Hurricane, a soft-rock heartacher about running into your ex in a bar, elevated by a cinematic chorus ("moon went hidin', stars quit shinin'") that's
▲ Country star Luke Combs delighted fans with his vocal firepower in a show with crowd-pleasing
pyrotechnics at Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh PHOTOGRAPHS: KATHERINE ANNE ROSE/THE GUARDIAN
closer to early-doors Taylor than any country-bro machismo.
Named after recent single My Kinda Saturday Night, this short tour promises - and delivers - a party. Combs brings us three opening acts, lashings of pyro, celebrity cameos, and packs almost 30 songs into two hours. But its biggest moments, such as the nostalgic-before-it's-even-over Tell 'Em About Tonight, deserved more breathing room.
It's a real shame that echoing sound makes it almost impossible to pick out words when Combs speaks, and muddies his more intimate songs, such as the fiddle-laced 5 Leaf Clover. But Combs has one of contemporary country's most formidable voices, owning an almighty, torn-up roar as well as real tenderness and control.
His exuberant band bring arena-rock swagger to Back in the Saddle and Beer Never Broke My Heart, while the glittering, tragedy-struck Where the Wild Things Are demands a sing-along that endures as fans walk home. By storming closer Ain't No Love in Oklahoma (from the Twisters soundtrack), Combs is crackling with energy, his arms in the air, humbleness be damned - and deservedly so.
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Obama to return to UK with live interview tour
PA Media
The former US president Barack Obama is to tour the UK in a series of onstage interviews.
The 64-year-old, who in 2009 became the first black president of the US, will take the show, An Evening With President Barack Obama, to Belfast, Glasgow and Manchester, following dates at the O2 in London and the 3Arena in Dublin last year.
He will appear at the O2 in Belfast on 13 October, Glasgow's Ovo Hydro on 14 October and Manchester's Co-op Live on 15 October, with guest moderators to be announced.
Organisers said Obama would speak about "what comes next for America, and for all of us" in the live interview format. He was interviewed by the historian David Olusoga at the O2 in London in September.
Tickets for the shows will go on sale on Friday at 10am from myticket.co.uk and seatunique.com, with 100 tickets set aside for charitable organisations.
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Family calls for new franchising rules after death of Vodafone store manager
Simon Goodley
The family of a former mobile phone store manager who was found drowned days before his Vodafone franchise was due to open is pressing the government to introduce a franchising law in his name.
Vodafone this month settled a long-running legal claim filed by 62 of its former franchisees, who alleged the company had “unjustly enriched” itself at their expense by up to £85m.
The confidential agreement was reached “without any admission of liability” 19 months after the claim was filed at the high court, the parties said in a joint statement.
The plight of the claimants - who represented almost 40% of the 167 Vodafone franchisees - was first reported by the Guardian in December 2024, after which Vodafone apologised to claimants, who blamed pressure from the telecoms group for triggering suicidal thoughts.
But their number did not include Adrian Howe, a former Vodafone employee. His family said he killed himself in 2018 after becoming convinced his new franchising deal with the telecoms group would prove financially ruinous.
His case was raised in parliament in January, prompting Keir Starmer, then the prime minister, to pledge to review laws governing franchising agreements.
“There is no protection for franchisees in the UK - that needs to change,” said Howe’s daughter, Kirsty-Anne Holmes. “There needs to be some governing body to oversee these contracts. The fact that franchisees like Vodafone can put anything into a contract, such as personal guarantees, is really bad behaviour. If these protections had been in place previously, my dad taking his own life might not have happened.”
Holmes met a representative of the then Department for Business and Trade this month to discuss her
father’s case, and raised the prospect of new franchising regulations under the banner of “Adrian’s law”.
“I don’t want it to be forgotten and brushed under the carpet just because someone else takes over [as prime minister],” she said. “I want justice for Dad.”
Howe’s case raised further questions about how the telecoms company treated its franchisees, who, a 2020 survey revealed, were overwhelmingly critical about the effects its actions had had on their mental health.
Howe, 58, had been preparing to open a Vodafone franchise in Irvine, North Ayrshire, but was then told by the company that he needed to take
on a second franchise in Kilmarnock, his family recall being told.
He had previously worked in the Kilmarnock store and knew it had struggled. If its performance could not be turned around, Howe’s family home would have been put at risk by a personal guarantee given to Vodafone as part of its franchising contracts.
Howe’s youngest son, Nathan, said his father told him “Vodafone has me by the balls” when they met for a drink at a pub shortly before his death. He said his father added: “This pint might have saved me.”
The store manager was found drowned a short walk from his home on 27 August 2018, days before his
franchising business was due to open on 2 September.
That looming date appeared to have prompted an entry in a notepad discovered at his home. Howe wrote: “1st September nice to have death,” according to the postmortem report.
The pathologist’s document hinted at other possible factors such as heart disease and stated that Howe had a “history of anxiety and depression (1995)”, though his relatives said that specific mental health episode had been short-lived and never recurred.
The forensic pathologist said Howe had “been ‘a bit stressed’ due to setting up a new business” as she concluded that his death was “consistent with drowning”.
Vodafone did not provide any fresh comment on Howe’s case this week.
The company said last year it “wholly rejects” any suggestion that it had “knowingly or recklessly or negligently” put anybody involved with its franchise stores under unreasonable pressure.
Mental health experts emphasise that suicide is usually complex and can often involve many triggers.
A Vodafone UK spokesperson has said previously: “While we are sorry if any partners have had a difficult experience, we reject any suggestion that our franchisees were put under undue pressure.
“We continue to run a successful franchise operation, and many of our existing franchisees have expanded their business with us by taking on additional stores. We encourage everyone to raise issues, and we will always seek to resolve them.”
Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116 123, or email jo@samaritans.org or jo@samaritans.ie
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Palestine Action five could face terror sentence for bank damage
Legal affairs correspondent
Five Palestine Action activists face being sentenced as terrorists for breaking windows and throwing red paint at a branch of Barclays Bank in Lancashire.
Brendon O’Hagan, 28; Amanda Kelly, 31; Humeera Atiquisar, 31; Mohammed Malik, 28; and Alma Yaniv, 70, were found guilty of causing £212,000 of damage during a direct action protest in Burnley in
August 2024. They targeted the bank because it held shares in the Israeli weapons company Elbit Systems.
After the verdicts the judge, Philip Parry, told the prosecution and the defence he would consider a “terrorist connection”, despite neither the jury nor the defendants having been informed of the possibility.
Four Palestine Action activists last month became the first defendants convicted of property damage whose offending - during a raid on Elbit’s Filton factory near Bristol - was deemed by Mr Justice Johnson
post-conviction to have a “terrorist connection”. Parry attached Johnson’s judgment when asking lawyers for submissions on a possible connection in the Barclays case.
Malik said: “The judge and the CPS [Crown Prosecution Service] are now seeking to sentence us as terrorists for red paint and a few splintered windows. This goes far beyond the charges before the court and raises serious concerns about the increasing use of counter-terrorism legislation to persecute political dissent.”
He added that it “demonstrates the extremely dangerous precedent set by Judge Johnson”.
The Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori said it was an example of “the floodgates flowing” from Johnson’s decision.
The bank protest took place before Palestine Action was banned as a terrorist group and neither the home secretary nor officials assessed it as a terrorism incident at the time.
The CPS argued the Barclays five should be sentenced as terrorists, despite prosecutors not raising the possibility before or during the trial.
The Guardian understands the CPS is arguing that the connection only came to light from admissions made by the defendants at trial, including relating to their affiliation to Palestine
Action, and that the protest was part of a wider campaign against Barclays.
Akiko Hart, the director of the human rights body Liberty, said the case further highlighted “the deep flaws in the UK’s counter-terror laws which capture activity most people would never consider terrorism”.
The Labour MP and former shadow chancellor John McDonnell said: “Trying direct-action protesters under criminal law but then sentencing them under terrorist legislation cannot be seen in any way as fair or just. It is a practice that seems to be specifically targeted to silence the voices of people speaking out against the genocide in Gaza.”
The sentencing in the Burnley case is set for 4 September. The CPS and judiciary declined to comment.
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PM urged to order review into 1994 helicopter crash that killed 29
Josh Halliday North of England editor
The families of those killed in an RAF Chinook crash in 1994 have urged Andy Burnham to end Britain's "cover-up culture" and order an independent review into the disaster.
Twenty-nine serving military personnel died when the Chinook HC2 helicopter crashed on the Mull of Kintyre in south-west Scotland during a flight from Northern Ireland.
The two pilots were initially blamed for the crash but were exonerated after an inquiry in 2011, which did not determine its cause.
The former Conservative defence secretary Liam Fox, who led that official review, said last month there were "deep concerns" that "vital information" may have been withheld. Fox, who is backing the calls for a fresh independent review, said there was now a "strong enough belief" that a cover-up had taken place. There were concerns, he said, that details provided by the Ministry of Defence on the helicopter's airworthiness were "not correct".
A high court judge ruled this month that the families of several victims of the crash could not bring a legal claim against the MoD over the incident because it was too late.
The Chinook Justice Campaign (CJC), which is made up of more than 55 family members of 25 of the victims, has said it will take the case to the European court of human rights.
However, Matt Tobias, whose father, Lt Col John Tobias, was killed in the crash, said the families "do not want years of further litigation" and urged the prime minister to help.
He said: "We would urge Mr Burnham to meet us within his first 100 days in office so we can present the evidence that has emerged over recent years and explain why we believe a fresh review, independent of the Ministry of Defence is now essential. Mr Burnham's speech in
The wreckage of the RAF Chinook that crashed on the Mull of Kintyre PHOTOGRAPH: CHRIS BACON/PA
the House of Commons, in which he spoke about ending Britain's cover-up culture and strengthening the duty of candour, gave our families real hope."
In a letter delivered to Burnham, the Chinook families said it could be a "test case" for the new Hillsborough law, unanimously backed by MPs this month, which creates a legally enforceable duty of candour on public officials and authorities to act transparently during investigations.
Tobias said: "We ask that he and his ministers give the Chinook families more respect than we received from his predecessor, who denied us a meeting and an inquiry - believing MoD lies instead. After 32 years, we are not asking for special treatment. We are simply asking for the truth."
The CJC group has said it wants Burnham to establish a fresh review, independent of the MoD, with full access to all relevant documents relating to the airworthiness of the Chinook Mk2 helicopter and the circumstances leading up to the crash.
An MoD spokesperson said: "We understand the recent court judgment will be disappointing for those involved. Defence ministers have previously met with the CJC and we will continue to engage."
Man charged over ex-partner's death dies in jail
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A man charged with murdering his former partner has died in prison.
Lee Greenan, 46, was accused of killing Vikki Soloman at a house on Craigievar Square in Edinburgh last Monday evening.
Solomon, 44, was found with serious injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police Scotland said Greenan had been found dead at HMP Edinburgh yesterday morning. A spokesperson said: "Around 8.55am on Sunday, we were made aware of the death of a 46-year-old man at HMP Edinburgh.
"There do not appear to be any suspicious circumstances."
A Scottish Prison Service spokesperson said: "Every death, whether in prison custody or in our communities, is a tragedy for all those who knew and supported the individual.
"Following the death of someone in our care, Police Scotland are advised, and the matter reported to the procurator fiscal."
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Observed annually on the fourth Saturday of July, International Cowboy Day celebrates the history of cowboys and cowgirls. While rooted in the traditions of North America, cowboy culture and country music have gained a growing following across parts of Africa in recent years, particularly in Kenya, where western-style fashion, line dancing, horseback riding and music events have attracted a community of enthusiasts like these participants in Nairobi on Saturday. Photographs: Luis Tato/Getty Images
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Trump continues to hold off on Iran strikes amid fears US munitions are dwindling
Andrew Roth Jerusalem
The US continued to refrain from strikes on Iran last night as top military experts advised Donald Trump to halt his bombing campaign and diplomatic negotiations continued to avoid a return to all-out war.
Trump is said to be weighing up diplomatic and military options in the nearly five-month-old conflict, with Benjamin Netanyahu expected to visit the White House tomorrow. The Israeli prime minister is a vocal critic of Washington's negotiations with Tehran and has urged the US to continue military strikes against Iran.
Netanyahu is under considerable political pressure to show that his military campaigns against Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon have yielded results before elections in October.
Tehran said yesterday it would pause what it called 'retaliatory' attacks against US allies in the region. 'These [US] attacks continued until two nights ago, but over the past two nights the Americans have stopped their attacks,' said Mohammad Akraminia, an army spokesperson. 'Our strategy has essentially been retaliatory. We have also halted our retaliatory operations.'
Senior officials in the Trump administration are reported to have warned the president that dwindling munitions stockpiles could hamper a sustained military campaign.
Axios reported yesterday that Adm Brad Cooper, the top US military commander in the region, had told Trump that the US military campaign had reached the limits of its effectiveness.
'We're talking to [the Iranians] ... I think they're getting more and more serious as the days go by'
Donald Trump US president
The message was said to have influenced Trump's decision to hold off on strikes on Iran for the first time in nearly two weeks. Cooper had told Trump that the US had nearly exhausted the list of targets that it had developed to attack in Iran, and without a return to major combat operations, there was little point in continuing the bombing campaign, the news website reported.
Asked yesterday on NBC's Meet the Press whether Trump was ruling out additional strikes on Iran, Mike Waltz, the president's ambassador to the UN, said: 'I wouldn't go that far at all. The president is keeping all options on the table.'
The lull in fighting, which began on Friday evening, follows the collapse of a ceasefire brokered by Trump. Washington blamed Iran for strikes on US forces and allies in the region and its closure of the strait of Hormuz, a conduit for an estimated 20% of the world's oil and gas.
Senior diplomats from Iran and Oman were said to be holding negotiations yesterday on reopening the vital waterway and an official in Tehran confirmed colleagues had been in touch with US negotiators to prevent
a return to war. Iran has demanded payment and control over which ships pass through the strait.
'Mediators are working and trying to prevent tension from escalating,' Esmail Baghaei, the Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson, told a press conference yesterday.
But an Iranian army spokesperson signalled defiance, saying the US had no clear strategy and was 'experiencing strategic decision-making fatigue'.
JD Vance, the US vice-president, and Dan Caine, the chair of the joint chiefs of staff, warned Trump of the risks of a renewed military campaign against Iran at an Oval Office meeting on Friday, according to media outlets. The president then ordered the military to call off new strikes, which he had warned could 'knock out everything they have'.
'We're talking to [the Iranians] right now,' Trump told reporters on Friday. 'I think they're getting more and more serious as the days go by. We're locked and loaded and ready to go, but we're talking to them.'
At a White House Correspondents' Association dinner that evening, Trump said he did not think Iran was ready to make a deal but that he was ready to listen.
Caine warned Trump about dwindling munitions stockpiles, which include Patriot missile interceptors and offensive weapons such as Tomahawk cruise missiles. Vance campaigned on his opposition to US military interventions in the Middle East and has grown more vocal in his opposition to the war in Iran.
Netanyahu's office said yesterday he would convene a meeting of his security cabinet before leaving for Washington today. He played a crucial role in lobbying Trump to launch joint strikes against Iran in February and has said US negotiators must take a strong line on Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile programme. Instead, they have prioritised opening the strait of Hormuz.
Netanyahu will travel to Washington amid some of the worst violence this year in the West Bank, where his military is launching an 'extensive' operation after the deaths of four Palestinians and two Israelis when armed settlers entered a Palestinian village on Thursday.
The US and UK under the new prime minister, Andy Burnham, are discussing plans for a meeting in London this week to talk about the potential for a coalition to protect ships in the strait of Hormuz and remove mines from the waterway.
'It's shameful' Pentagon accused of cover-up over troop casualty figures
David Smith
The Pentagon is taking a 'shameful approach' to releasing information about US casualties in the Iran war, the former US defence secretary and CIA director Leon Panetta has told the Guardian. Officials are facing accusations that they are hiding the true cost of Donald Trump's war of choice in Iran in fear of a public backlash before November's midterm elections, while the Pentagon has
not held a press briefing for two and a half months.
Panetta, who held weekly Pentagon briefings during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, criticised the department for failing to disclose how many people had been hurt in bomb attacks by Iran on US bases. He said: 'There's a deliberate effort here to basically withhold information from the American people, and I think it represents in many ways a shameful approach to sharing the responsibility that we all have when it comes to fighting a war.'
The number of US troops killed in the war on Iran rose to 18 last
▲ Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to visit the White House tomorrow as Trump weighs up his military options PHOTOGRAPH: DEBBIE HILL/UPUSHUTTERSTOCK
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weekend, while roughly 430 US troops have been injured. The Pentagon said last week that 100 service members had been injured since 7 July but that 96% had returned to duty.
The department initially failed to disclose the figures, according to a New York Times newspaper report, only belatedly acknowledging the casualties in a social media post.
Officials dismissed the Times article as "baseless and malicious" and contend that they are not required to publicise injuries if service members are expected to return to duty. But questions intensified when another Times report said the Pentagon's website had lowered the number of troop deaths from 18 to 14, for which the Pentagon blamed "a temporary data disruption".
Ned Price, a former deputy to the US representative to the United Nations and former spokesperson for the state department, said: "This goes beyond a run-of-the-mill administration distrust toward
and hostility against the press. This is more about shielding the American people from the true and total cost of this war."
Since the war started five months ago, there has been a tension between the government's desire for operational secrecy and the media's demand for transparency on behalf of the public. Even during contentious, unpopular wars in Vietnam and Iraq, the lines of communication were kept more or less open.
But since Trump's return to power in January 2025, the Pentagon - restyled as the Department of War - has been restricting access.
Almost immediately, it ousted major outlets including the New York Times, National Public Radio
$37.5bn
Financial cost of the war on Iran to the US since the conflict started five months ago
and Politico from their long-held desks, supplanting them with Trump-friendly media such as Breitbart, One America News Network and the New York Post. In May, it imposed restrictions on the free movement of reporters in much of the Pentagon building.
The ever-tightening limits have alarmed press freedom watchdogs. In October, most news outlets walked out of the Pentagon rather than agree to new rules that would leave them vulnerable to expulsion if they sought to report on information - classified or otherwise - that had not been approved by Pete Hegseth, the defence secretary, for release.
The Pentagon has also declared its press office a classified space inaccessible to journalists because it was used by speechwriters who "routinely handle classified material".
Clayton Weimers, the Washington director for Reporters Without Borders, said: "I don't think it's an exaggeration to say this
◀ Damage on a bridge in Hormozgan province after US strikes aimed at disrupting military routes in Iran PHOTOGRAPH: MORTEZA AKHOUNDUGETTY IMAGES
Pentagon has been more hostile to the news media than any other Pentagon in recent memory."
The current obfuscation is particularly jarring when contrasted with the opening days of the Iran war when Hegseth was a ubiquitous presence delivering bombastic briefings in which he crowed about annihilating the Iranian military with "no mercy" and restoring the US as a nation of "real warriors".
The Pentagon then banned photojournalists when images of Hegseth deemed to be "unflattering" appeared in the public domain. Joel Rubin, a former deputy assistant secretary of state, said: "When you're not able to communicate clearly what's actually taking place on the ground, that means you're likely not confident or comfortable with what is happening on the ground and how it will play politically and in the policy world here. It's a pretty obvious thing that there's a lot of concern about there being casualties in this war right now."
Price said: "This is not the sort of thing where a dozen or two dozen service members have suffered low-grade concussion. The administration probably rightly calculates that, if the economic costs were compounded with the full toll that this is taking on our service members, this war, which is already a politically losing proposition, would drag the administration down even further."
Though Hegseth has avoided the media, he was obliged to attend a hearing on Capitol Hill last week to defend a war that has already cost the US $37.5bn (£28bn). During a combative Senate appropriations committee hearing, politicians from both sides of the aisle expressed deep frustration with the administration's endless demands for money coupled with its refusal to provide straight answers or a coherent strategy.
The Pentagon denies that it is minimising reports of casualties. Sean Parnell, the chief spokesperson, said in a statement: "President Trump and secretary Hegseth have been constantly providing updates directly to the media and the American people online, delivering clear, unfiltered insight into our objectives and decisive actions."
Though briefings have dried up, Pentagon beat reporters continue to work their sources and pursue information. Panetta said: "In essence what they're doing is challenging the press to find what's really happening, and they will. They can dodge, bob and weave, they can hide it, but my experience is that no matter how much you try to hide it, in the end the truth comes out."
Katy Perry
Fury after White House uses her song on war video
Marina Dunbar
Katy Perry has condemned the Trump administration after it used her hit song Firework in a TikTok video over footage of a missile striking an Iranian naval ship, saying she never approved the use of her music.
Perry responded to the video, which has amassed more than 6m views, with a statement on X at the weekend.
"I am deeply appalled and angry to see 'Firework' used on the White House TikTok account as a backing track for video footage of military strikes," she wrote.
"I wrote this song to be an anthem of hope, healing, and inner strength for people going through their darkest personal moments. To see a message of self-worth and upliftment weaponized to soundtrack destruction and violence is a complete violation of everything my song stands for. My music is for bringing people together, not celebrating warfare."
Perry is among a number of artists to criticise the Trump administration over the unauthorised use of music in government social media posts, with the president picking fights with several - mostly female - pop singers.
Olivia Rodrigo criticised the administration after one of her songs appeared in a government video promoting deportation efforts and Beyoncé blocked Donald Trump from using her song Freedom after it was featured in a campaign video on social media.
Sabrina Carpenter also spoke out after her hit song Juno was used in a video showing Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers making arrests. Carpenter called the video "evil and disgusting" and told the administration: "Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda."
Perry is in a relationship with the former Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau, who himself has repeatedly been targeted by Trump.
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Cockroaches on the march
Young Indians discover their power as Modi ally resigns
Hannah Ellis-Petersen Delhi
Even the night before Narendra Modi accepted the resignation of his education minister, India's prime minister appeared confident that the largest mass uprising to take place in his 12 years in power would do little to shake his government.
Addressing his "young friends" in a late-night Instagram selfie reel on Friday, he thanked the people - who were mobilised en masse across the country, shouting anti-government slogans - for their "thoughtful suggestions".
Less than 24 hours later, Modi - who has cultivated his strongman image for years - had accepted Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation. It was, say analysts, the remarkable humbling of a government that has proved itself unwilling to bow in the face of any public pressure and which has ruled with almost untouchable impunity since 2014.
Over that past week, a gen Z movement that called itself the Cockroach Janta party (CJP) had mobilised unprecedented protests
when the leaking of an exam paper forced 2 million students to resist tests and was blamed for more than a dozen suicides.
The resignation of Pradhan, a Modi ally, remained their first demand for accountability, even as the protests expanded into a wider fight for democracy. Yet Pradhan went unmentioned by Modi in his Instagram address. On Saturday morning, more people than ever were joining the protest in Delhi's historic Jantar Mantar site and unrest was spreading to other cities, including in states ruled by Modi's Bharatiya Janata party (BJP).
But it was not only physical space that had been captured by the Cockroach movement. Since it came to power, the BJP has proved enormously effective at capturing the online narrative, deploying its powerful, highly organised IT cell to mobilise and attack any perceived criticism of the government, whether from citizens, politicians or journalists.
They proved no match for the millions of gen Z memes and reels that began to flood Instagram over the past week, fearlessly insulting Modi and pillorying the government, each more creative and incendiary than the last. Modi's
attempts to speak directly to young people via Instagram were simply met with more ridicule.
Modi had also lost another medium critical to the BJP's domination - the mainstream TV news channels, widely regarded to have been co-opted by the BJP as mouthpieces for its rightwing Hindu nationalist ideology.
Initially the TV stations ignored the protests, and when they did
cover them it was to suggest the protesters were being bankrolled by sinister foreign forces. In response, the protesters used social media to expose their "lies", and when the protests escalated, Modi remained conspicuously absent from the airwaves.
Pradhan's resignation came as it appeared that all other options for the government had gone. A ruthless crackdown appeared to be untenable given the mass outcry to the police violence against protesters on Monday.
"The online space was totally conquered by the protesters and regime-loving media was seriously delegitimised," said Ashutosh Varshney, professor of international studies at Brown University. "The anger was so comprehensive there was no option left but for Pradhan to go."
But this was more than the loss of a minister, Varshney said. It was also the first time the Modi
▲ CJP supporters in Mumbai yesterday. Protests have spread across India, including in BJP-ruled states PHOTOGRAPH: INDRANIL AZETYA/NURPHOTO/SHUTTERSTOCK
government had lost control of the narrative. "This is a repressive government," he said. "It wants obedience, it wants no critical discussion and it generates fear. But now the climate of fear has collapsed."
Analysts say the resignation could also have implications for Modi's power over his cabinet. Pradhan was one of Modi's ideological footsoldiers and had implemented policies exactly as senior party figures had wanted. He had also helped the BJP win Odisha state for the first time in the general election, bringing in crucial seats.
The political columnist Pratap Bhanu Mehta said: "Modi knows, once you start firing your most loyal ministers, it sets up the incentives for defections in other ministers as well. If your own cabinet starts to hedge for a future where they may not be backed by your own government, that's when you are in trouble."
Before this week's unrest, Modi had been riding high after a string of important state electoral victories. The BJP appeared to have bounced back from the 2024 elections, when it failed to win an outright parliamentary majority.
Meanwhile, the opposition had continued to lose state elections and their allegations of voting impropriety by the BJP fell mostly on deaf ears.
Yet the emergence of the Cockroach party has reinvigorated not only India's youth, but its political opposition parties. The opposition Congress party has had its best week in years as it mobilised protests, shut down parliament, and its leader, Rahul Gandhi, was dramatically dragged away by police outside Modi's house in support of the students.
Analysts say dissent, which had been crushed over the past 12 years, has been re-galvanised.
"After a long time, there's an assertion of political agency across different sections of society," said Mehta. "And the minute you see that agency out in the street, it empowers lots of other agents."
The next big test for the CJP will come early next year, when India's largest and most politically important state, Uttar Pradesh, will hold its state elections. Holding on to power in the BJP's political heartland is seen as crucial for the party and would have significant implications for the general election in 2029.
Just how the CJP intends to politically mobilise after its striking victory on Saturday remains to be seen. Leaders and supporters insist this is just the beginning, particularly in their push for education reform. The CJP's founder, Abhijit Dipke, has some experience as a political party organiser but has not made his ambitions known.
Saurav Das, CJP spokesperson, said people were being encouraged to go into politics. "We need to increase youth participation in politics because right now it's controlled by uncles and aunties who are only interested in looking after their own lifestyles and don't understand the needs of our generation."
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Suited and booted
Mamdani sticks with work-ready look in all seasons
Adam Gabbatt
New York
Playing football. Playing in the sand. Dancing on a stage with Alicia Keys and the entire New York Knicks roster. Swimming in a swimming pool. Swimming in the ocean.
Traditionally, a suit and tie would be considered inappropriate attire for each of these activities. Yet over the past year Zohran Mamdani has seemingly been on a one-man crusade to prove otherwise. That's because the New York mayor hardly ever wears anything but a suit: almost always in a dark colour and worn with a tie, mostly paired with smart black boots.
He's hardly the first male politician to embrace the suit - after all, it's the de facto uniform of those seeking to project seriousness and solemnity - but few have been quite as wedded to it.
Cheering on the Knicks at Madison Square Garden in May, Mamdani stood out for his decision to wear a dark suit and tie. After the Knicks won, he took the unusual decision to wear the team's jersey over his shirt and tie, but under his suit jacket. In June, he wore a navy suit, white shirt, and blue striped tie for a press opportunity with children at the beach.
Those aren't even the most unusual examples. On New Year's Day 2025, while running for mayor, he wore a suit to take part in the Polar Bear Club plunge, a New York tradition where people go swimming in the frigid Atlantic. "I'm freezing ... your rent as the next mayor of New York City."
▲ Zohran Mamdani, accompanied by his wife, Rama Duwaji, wearing a basketball jersey under his suit.
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Mamdani said in an accompanying TikTok video, a message that won him lots of press coverage.
Water again proved to be no obstacle when Mamdani leaped, fully suited, into a swimming pool in Harlem last month, to announce the opening of the city's pools for
summer. (Mamdani "broke the rules in the process", the rightwing New York Post reported, "which require all swimmers to wear bathing suits in the water".)
The mayor is trapped, it seems, in a wool or possibly wool-blend prison of his own making. But why? Mamdani's most recent predecessors were not as tied to the suit. Bill de Blasio was keen on shorts while Eric Adams was partial to a polo shirt, and sometimes a woolly cardigan.
Ella Devi, a fashion commentator, said: "I think Mamdani wants to double down on
appearing as a working mayor, as someone who is always on the job and on the clock. It's also that he's a young, Muslim socialist."
It seems likely that Mamdani, the repeated focus of rightwing media, is held to a higher bar than white centrist politicians. It is an issue that Hasan Piker, a Turkish American leftwing streamer, raised recently when he said he believed conservatives would be "more receptive" if he dressed smartly.
"I used to wear T-shirts all the time," he said. "But then I figured I should start wearing a suit and a tie because there are a lot of
'He wants to double down on appearing as someone who is always on the clock'
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adults watching on Fox News [the rightwing channel frequently airs clips of Piker speaking]. If they see me saying something in the clips, they'll be more receptive to what I have to say if I'm in a more appealing format."
Nathan Robinson, the editor of the leftwing Current Affairs magazine, said that as US socialists were often considered to be fringe figures, "the suits are a subtle way of asserting the legitimacy and authority of socialist ideas".
"If there's a visual language that connotes credibility and authority, why not take advantage of it?" Robinson wrote this month. "You might see someone in a suit as serious, professional, ready to do business. You might think they belong in the Senate or a boardroom."
It is a concept Mamdani has taken further than most. A keen football player, he wore a black suit with a grey tie while showing off his ball skills this month, and when he played in a game Mamdani simply threw a football shirt over his suit - although he did ditch the jacket.
It was not always thus. A source who played for the same team as Mamdani before his election said that he did not play in a suit and tie, although they added: "He always showed up in a suit, or at least suit pants, and his famous boots, and would change on the pitch because he was also always running late."
The mayor's office declined to comment on Mamdani's wardrobe, but he addressed his penchant for suit-wearing in a recent interview with CNN. Asked about his decision to jump into a swimming pool wearing a suit, the mayor said: "I think I misunderstood the term swimsuit. I do also have to say thank you, though, to Goodwill [a charity known for its shops that sell used clothing], because I got that suit for 30 bucks, because you can't go ruining the other suits that you have. But I'm clearly learning that there might be a different way to dress when it's 100-degree weather."
'A disaster': fury as France eases ban on pesticides toxic to bees
Jon Henley
Europe correspondent
Beekeepers and environmentalists in France have reacted furiously after parliament approved a bill reauthorising two banned pesticides that scientists say can poison bees.
"There are no words to describe the frustration," said Carolyn Bouguet, a beekeeper in Essonne,
greater Paris. "Bee populations have already been badly compromised by climate change, new parasites and loss of habitat. And now this."
Henri Clément, a spokesperson for the French beekeeping association, called the measure "an absolute disaster for our sector, and for biodiversity as a whole". The risk was "very high mortality rates and reduced harvests", he told local media. "It's just incomprehensible these pesticides
▲ A beekeeper displays dead bees on honeycomb at a past protest in Paris
have been reauthorised. We've been fighting them for 30 years. It's scandalous, irrational and irresponsible."
The law authorises the use of the pesticides acetamiprid and
flupyradifurone, which are allowed in the EU but had been banned in France, in exceptional circumstances.
Their use will be permitted to combat aphid-borne diseases that can ruin crops of sugar beet, apples, hazelnuts and cherries. The previous restrictions in France had led producers to claim they could no longer compete with European rivals.
Scientific studies have established that acetamiprid, a neonicotinoid with powerful neurotoxic effects, can poison bees, affecting their foraging capacity and memory. A 2024 study suggested that flupyradifurone could be lethal to some honeybees.
Greenpeace France said the
country's centrist government and its rightwing allies were "trampling on science, health, the environment and the clear will of the people", describing the legislation as "deeply concerning" and "a disgrace".
France's environment minister, Monique Barbut, said the legislation was "one environmental setback too many". She submitted her resignation but was persuaded to stay on after meeting Emmanuel Macron.
According to official figures, honey production in France halved between the mid-1990s, when neonicotinoids were introduced, and the mid-2010s, although habitat loss and climate breakdown were also factors.
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'We count every litre' Cuba's energy crisis leaves millions short of water
Lucien Migné Havana
In the cramped kitchen of her flat in Havana's Chinatown, Mirella Martínez pushes an old metal trolley stacked with empty jerrycans.
Wiping the sweat from her forehead, she fans herself gently. "It's so hot!" she says, as the electric fans remain still owing to another power outage that has left her flat sweltering in near darkness for hours.
In a few minutes, the 61-year-old former security guard will walk about half a mile to her daughter's workplace, one of the few buildings nearby where water still flows regularly. For almost three years, the flat she shares with her three daughters and grandson has had no reliable running water.
In Cuba, power cuts do more than leave people in the dark: they also leave taps dry. As the country's energy crisis deepens, electricity shortages prevent many pumping stations from operating, while an ageing distribution network and chronic fuel shortages leave millions struggling to access water.
The country's energy crisis, already severe, worsened further this year after the capture of the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, by US forces. The suspension of oil exports from Venezuela, Cuba's main fuel supplier, deepened fuel shortages already exacerbated by the US embargo and economic sanctions.
According to Cuba's National Institute of Hydraulic Resources, nearly 3 million Cubans are experiencing difficulties accessing water. The country's water system is operating with just 37% of the fuel it requires, while up to 70% of Havana's water is lost through leaks before it can reach households.
Hotels and wealthy households in Cuba often have water storage tanks, generators or solar panels, or can afford private water lorries. Everyone else waits for deliveries, hauls water themselves or pays informal water carriers to do it.
Martinez boils and filters part of the water for drinking. The rest is rationed for cooking, washing and laundry. "Everything is rationed,"
'I'm exhausted. As soon as the electricity returns - sometimes in the middle of the night - we get up to fill the tank'
Dhayamis Hernández Díaz Havana resident
▲ Top, at a pumping station in Centro Habana, Juan Carlos Reyes and Juan de la Cruz Villalón fill containers with water to sell; above, in her
kitchen, Mirella Martínez filters water for drinking; right, Carlos Sánchez fills an older resident's water tank PHOTOGRAPHS: LUCIEN MIGNÉ
she says. "This water is used for everything. We count every litre. I make this journey three times a day even though I'm retired. At my age, I shouldn't be carrying these jerrycans, but I have no choice."
In Centro Habana, Dhayamis Hernández Díaz watches a thin stream of water slowly fill a plastic bucket. Cigarette in hand, she waits until it is full before emptying it into the rooftop tank serving her building. Nobody knows how long the water will keep flowing.
"I'm exhausted. As soon as the electricity comes back - sometimes in the middle of the night - we get up to fill the tank, cook and charge our phones. Our whole lives depend on those few hours of electricity. This isn't living."
Along with her sister, she earns a modest income operating an electric three-wheeled taxi. Hiring
▲ Guests enjoy the pool of a luxury hotel in Havana's historic centre. Luxury hotels are more likely to have water tanks, generators and solar panels
a private water lorry is far beyond what they can afford. "So we fill the tank ourselves, bucket after bucket. At night, I barely sleep because of the heat."
As the public system continues to fail, an informal water economy has emerged across the capital. At the Escobar pumping station in Centro Habana, Juan de la Cruz Villalón, 66, and Juan Carlos Reyes, 55, fill containers with water to sell
Early each morning, Juan Miguel Reyes waits outside a state bakery with his ration book. After more than half an hour in the queue, he leaves with a few bread rolls to share with his brother and uncle.
"Last night, the water came back for about two hours. We got up to fill every bucket before going back to sleep. Sometimes, that saves us a trip to the pumping station."
By midday, the three men push a heavy cart through Los Sitios, a working-class neighbourhood. Its wheels rattle over broken pavements as they weave around piles of rubbish. After walking over a mile, they reach one of the few pumping stations still operating before hauling water to people whose taps have long run dry.
For 23 years, Reyes worked as an intensive care physician. "I never imagined I'd end up selling water. Now we spend hours walking under the blazing sun before carrying buckets up staircases," he says. "It's exhausting, but at least we always have something to eat."
Each 200-litre tank sells for 1,500 pesos (about £1.75 at the informal exchange rate). Reyes earns between 3,000 and 4,000 pesos a day. "Every week we have to fetch water from further away, and we never know whether the pumping station will still be working tomorrow," he says. "People often thank us because many are too old to collect water themselves. Here, without neighbours, nobody would make it."
A few miles away, near Havana's ferry terminal, Carlos Sánchez collects water spilling from a broken pipeline. Bucket by bucket, he fills a 200-litre tank mounted on his bicycle. "The whole network is falling apart. All this water is being wasted while so many people need it. I collect it and sell it to people who don't have the strength or the time to come here themselves."
Once the tank is full, he covers it with a tarpaulin and pushes his bicycle into Havana's historic centre. Helped by his nephew, he carries buckets up the staircases of a crumbling building.
"My back is starting to give out, but I have no choice. I earn more transporting water than I did working as a funeral technician," he says. "My children have left the country. I stayed behind."
By evening, Martínez is home again. The television remains off. Without electricity, the family's nightly telenovelas have become a rarity. "Water and electricity should be basic rights, but here they've become luxuries. I no longer go out after dark, and I don't let my daughters go out either," she says. "When the streets go dark, everything becomes more dangerous. I just hope that one day we'll have a normal life again."
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Heathrow expansion 'would take jobs from other regions'
Gwyn Topham
Transport correspondent
Expanding Heathrow airport will take thousands of jobs from other regions of the UK, including almost 10,000 from the West Midlands alone, according to an analysis of the government's own forecasts.
An economic paper published by the Department for Transport last month shows airports in England and Wales are likely to lose millions of passengers if Heathrow builds a third runway, in a significant blow to regional jobs.
Birmingham airport alone is forecast to lose out on 7.5 million passengers a year by 2050 - a decrease that equates to about 9,500 jobs lost at the airport and in its supply chain, according to economists.
The findings could cast further doubt over the political support for the expansion, a little over a week
after Andy Burnham became prime minister. Burnham has said too much infrastructure spending is in the south of England and has promised to rebalance spending via No 10 North.
The New Economics Foundation (NEF) said the report showed that the jobs created at Heathrow would primarily represent jobs displaced from around the country.
Its analysis of DfT modelling suggests that by 2050, 15,200 aviation jobs that would otherwise accrue in the regions, and 6,400 jobs at other London and south-east airports, would go to Heathrow instead.
However, the government said the NEF analysis was focusing on a limited period and insisted that Heathrow's expansion would bring benefits nationwide.
The report for the DfT followed the launch of a consultation on the Heathrow expansion national policy statement, which MPs must approve to build the third runway.
DfT modelling published alongside it also confirmed that the overall economic boost could be a fraction of what ministers had hoped.
The former chancellor Rachel Reeves championed Heathrow's plans in the name of economic growth but the impact report says the overall effect on GDP would be only up to 0.05% a year.
A separate DfT publication casts further doubt on whether the whole nation would feel the benefit of expansion - one of the four tests set down by the government for approving the scheme. The peer review for the DfT of its GDP analysis states: "In my view, it would be erroneous to claim a broad distribution of the
10,000
Number of jobs that would be lost in the West Midlands, according to the New Economics Foundation
gains from Heathrow to regions on the basis of the modelling."
Alex Chapman, the head of economic policy at the NEF, said: "With every new release of data, Heathrow's proposed third runway is looking less like a plan for growth and more like a plan to move jobs and investment to London and the south-east. The third runway will take spending out of the places that need it most - anathema to what Burnham stands for."
The government said the aviation industry would grow and that the NEF analysis was misleading.
A DfT spokesperson said: "This analysis doesn't factor in the potential for over 60,000 local jobs that Heathrow expansion will bring. The benefits will be felt across the UK, with up to 40% of the £2.6bn boost to the economy outside of London and the south-east."
Heathrow's chief executive, Thomas Woldbye, said the economic models used by the government did not factor in all the benefits.
"Trade unions, businesses and airports right across the country back this project because they can see the real benefits," he said. "The government itself acknowledges that the full economic value of these benefits extends far beyond what can be measured through traditional infrastructure appraisal models."
Pubs cheer £150m sales boost from World Cup
Rob Davies
Late opening hours and England's progress to the semi-final of an expanded World Cup helped provide the best football-related boost of recent years for pubs, figures suggest.
Pubs poured 30m extra pints over the course of the tournament compared with a normal trading period, with busy pumps delivering £150m in added sales, according to the British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA).
The World Cup-related increase in sales also appears to have outstripped that seen during previous competitions, including England's run to the final of Euro 2024.
The standout day, in terms of increased sales relative to a normal shift, was England v Mexico in the early hours of the morning, according to data from the payment systems provider Epos Now. Sales nearly doubled that day compared with the same period pre-tournament, as pubs were allowed to open through the night.
Three other games delivered a two-thirds increase in the number of transactions, according to the data.
In contrast, only two games at each
of Qatar 2022 and Euro 2024 led to an increase of more than 50%.
The rise in sales was followed by a £100m aid package for pubs from Andy Burnham, who announced a 20% cut in business rates for the sector last week. While the government policy was criticised for a lack of ambition, the dual benefits of the tax cut and the football brought rare respite for the hard-pressed industry, which recorded one pub a day closing last year in England and Wales.
Dawn Slater, who runs the Garricks Head pub in Greater Manchester, said
it had more than doubled sales compared with previous tournaments after expanding capacity outside and installing giant screens.
"It's been really busy, fully booked every game," she said. "We stopped entry two hours before each game." While people spent more money, the event was also more expensive to put on, she added. "We had extra TVs, an outside bar. Plastic cups and pitchers alone cost us £8,700."
However, busy match days were often followed by quieter periods, offsetting some of the gains, with
▲ England supporters at Tailors in Cheltenham celebrate a goal in the semi-final against Argentina
PHOTOGRAPH: OLL SCARF/IAFF/GETTY
trading dependent on England's progress in the tournament.
"The weekday games were amazing," said Amy Williams, who runs the George in Witham, Essex, with her husband, Tom. "We had a 300%-400% increase in sales compared to the previous week." She said they had had to cancel a Dolly Parton tribute act to make room for football fans.
Fears oil price rebound linked to Iran conflict may force rise in interest rates
Phillip Inman
The Bank of England could be forced to tear up its economic forecasts and raise interest rates later this year if oil prices return to above $100 a barrel, according to City economists.
Before a meeting of Bank officials on Thursday, economists have warned that while an interest rate rise will probably be avoided this week, there could be rate increases in the future resulting from the conflict in the Middle East.
The UK economy had remained relatively resilient since Donald Trump's war on Iran began in March but this could be at risk after fighting reignited last week, they warned.
The breakdown of the fragile ceasefire between the US and Iran sent oil prices back to the high levels seen in April and May, prompting fears that higher prices at the pumps would send inflation soaring.
A barrel of Brent crude jumped above $100 a barrel on Thursday before falling back to $96 on Friday, well above the market price of $71 a barrel recorded earlier this month.
Gas prices have also surged in recent days, before the crucial pre-winter period during which most European countries refill their storage facilities.
The Bank's nine-member monetary policy committee is expected to vote on Thursday in favour of holding interest rates steady, and to maintain them at 3.75% until at least December, by a margin of seven to two.
This echoes their last meeting, in June, when two officials on the committee voted to increase rates in order to head off rising inflation.
Sanjay Raja, the chief UK economist at Deutsche Bank, said that calculation might change if the recent intensity of air strikes was maintained and the sea channels allowing tankers to enter and exit oil terminals were blocked. "We see upside risks to the interest rate outlook in the near term, with much dependent on the duration of the unfolding energy shock," he said.
Mohamed El-Erian, a professor at the Wharton school, University of Pennsylvania, and a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, said a sustained increase in oil prices to more than $90 a barrel could be enough to rewrite UK policymakers' forecasts.
"Should oil prices remain above $90 a barrel, an important 'if', then headline inflation would face significant upward pressure," he said.
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Economics viewpoint
'Burnham bounce' will deflate if focus falters
Richard Partington
A "Burnham bounce", sunshine and a strong World Cup run for the England men's football team: could this be a turnaround for Britain's struggling consumer economy or yet another false start?
Last week, the data firm GfK credited Andy Burnham's return to parliament for lifting UK consumer confidence at its fastest monthly pace for almost three years in June. The lion's share was driven by how consumers viewed the prospects for the British economy, with a 10-point advance in how they felt about the past year, and an 8-point gain for the next 12 months.
GfK said: "The sense of a fresh start following the appointment of a new PM surely accounts for some of this bounce."
For the economy at large, it is important to keep the tills ringing: household consumption accounts for about 60% of the total economy, providing the lifeblood for high streets, service providers, builders and makers nationwide.
Burnham's decision to introduce a temporary VAT cut for electricity bills in Great Britain from October, cap bus fares at £2 across England, and cut business rates by 20% for pubs, clubs and live music venues, is designed to help. In an extra boost, headline inflation fell by more than expected, to 2.6%.
But there is more going on than immediately meets the eye. Drill down into the GfK data and some revealing trends emerge: older Britons, aged 65 and over, are
◀ Hoping to turn things round ... Andy Burnham gets behind the wheel of a bus in Bath last week PHOTOGRAPH: TORY MELVILLE/AFP/GETTY
among the gloomiest. In contrast, 16- to 29-year-olds are more optimistic - despite challenges facing younger people from an AI-disrupted jobs market and sky-high rents and house prices. Youth unemployment is at the highest level in a decade. But over-65s are more likely than under-30s to predict a rise in joblessness. They also worry more about the economic outlook, their financial situation and the property market.
There are real splits in the consumer perception of the economy, too - exposed by the UK's deep inequalities. Time and again the poorest have the gloomiest outlook. It is not hard to see why.
Official figures show that UK households spend £676.60 a week on average, with housing, fuel and
power accounting for about a fifth of the total. Transport is the next most consumed category, followed by other spending including holidays, leisure, communications and food and drink. Health and education make up just 3% of weekly spending on average.
There are signs the wealthiest are pulling ahead. The latest official figures for the year to March 2025 show weekly spending by the richest fifth of households increased at twice the rate of the poorest fifth's, rising by 10%, or £98.10, to £1,083.60 compared with 5% (£18.10) to £407.30.
Since the onset of the cost of living crisis in late 2021, average consumer prices have risen by more than a quarter. But in some categories - including food and
energy - they have risen far more. On top of this, the Bank of England has driven interest rates higher to combat the inflationary splurge - putting pressure on borrowers.
It is thus hardly surprising that consumer spending has suffered: official figures show that consumer-facing services output remains about 6% below its pre-pandemic level. Travel agents, food and drink, and hoteliers are among the hardest hit.
Threadneedle Street predicts real incomes will have fallen by about 0.5% in the year to the end of June. And with the Middle East conflict expected to stoke inflation, the belt-tightening for the British consumer is only likely to continue.
Reflecting regional divisions, savings were concentrated among affluent people in richer southern English neighbourhoods, where the Centre for Cities thinktank found households banked £12 for every £1 saved in poorer areas - mostly in northern English cities and towns.
For the "Burnham bounce" to be sustainable, it will require a continued turnaround in consumer confidence. That will need a laser-like focus on the households struggling the most.
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▼ Japan's prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, plans to invest in 17 industrial sectors over 14 years PHOTOGRAPH: THE ASAHI SHIMKUN/GETTY
Takaichi's spending spree
Fears PM's plans could lead Japan to Truss-style shock
Phillip Inman
International investors are asking where Japan's prime minister will find the 370tn yen (£1.7tn) of extra cash that she wants to invest in 17 industrial sectors by 2040.
Such is the scale of spending by Sanae Takaichi's coalition government that many in her own party fear she is about to blow up the Japanese economy, triggering a Liz Truss-style economic shock.
In financial markets, investors are stunned by the plans of a usually sober Japanese government to rewrite budget rules and embark on a wide-ranging and unfunded shopping spree.
The roots of Takaichi's frustration date back to the financial crisis of 1991, when Japan's property market bubble burst spectacularly. Tokyo had become the world's most expensive place to live following the country's export boom, but within months of the crash, banks behind much of the lending were bust.
Before the turn of the century there was more turmoil, when some of Tokyo's largest financial
institutions, unable to cope with the hangover of bad debts from the first crash, went under.
Since the 2008 global financial shock, the economy has stagnated. In response, the government has regularly spent 10% more than it receives in tax receipts - much of it to cope with a rapidly ageing population - and debts have continued rising. By 2020, the debt-to-GDP ratio reached 260% before tighter budgets and a modest improvement in economic growth brought it below 230% in 2025.
Takaichi has said her investment plan will lift the productive capacity of the economy, keep Japan at the forefront of the AI revolution, and free the economy from its increasing dependence on trade with China.
The stock market has reacted with a succession of downward steps ever since the June proposals, though the renewal of hostilities in the Middle East and the prospect of higher oil prices have not helped.
Many investors sold up as soon as the government arrived in office, hitting the shares of the biggest companies, among them Sony and Toyota Motor Corporation.
Sony faces intense competition from rivals in South Korea and
China while Toyota has stood out against all-electric cars, and now faces being crushed by a flourishing, highly subsidised Chinese car industry.
Domestic and international lenders have pushed up the interest rate on Japanese government bonds (JGBs) to 2.8% in recent months, the highest in 29 years.
Waning international support for Japan's economic outlook has also hit the value of the yen. More recently it is Takaichi's boldness, which like Truss's is often characterised as recklessness, that has acted as a heavy weight on the currency, pushing it down to 163 to the US dollar, a four-decade low.
Much of the blame for higher debt bills is connected to rising inflation, which has tracked upwards as the yen has fallen, largely because a low currency rate raises the price of imports of energy and raw materials.
Although Japan's core inflation has remained below the Bank of Japan's (BoJ) 2% target over the last four months, analysts predict a jump in the last quarter of the year to the mid-2% range on higher oil prices following the Iran war.
Kelvin Lam, an Asia specialist at the consultancy Pantheon
Macroeconomics, has said what the financial markets really fear is the lack of detail about where the fresh investment money will come from.
"As long as you don't say how you are going to finance your spending, you are on course for a Liz Truss moment," he said, referring to the market response to the short-lived prime minister's plans for £45bn of unfunded tax cuts in September 2022. "The markets were already worried about Japan's long term fiscal health and this plan hasn't helped."
A draft plan included forcing the BoJ to walk in lockstep with the finance ministry and rewriting how government debt is calculated. A final submission agreed by the cabinet pledged to maintain central bank independence, but as a footnote. "To achieve a strong economy, it is very important for monetary policy to be conducted appropriately to see stable price rises," it said.
The damage was done, much as Truss found herself in an unrecoverable situation after
'The markets were already worried. This plan hasn't helped'
Kelvin Lam
Asia economies specialist
going head to head with both the Bank of England and the Office for Budget Responsibility.
The Honebuto no Hōshin (big-boned policy) investment scheme is aimed at injecting cash into 17 sectors over the next 14 years to more than double Japan's economic growth to more than 1%.
A break with previous leaders' low-key policy blueprints, it is in some respects reminiscent of Beijing's five-year plans, which set national growth targets and direct industrial policy. The blueprint targets areas such as AI, semiconductors, biotech, defence and energy to achieve a 1% growth rate "as early as possible".
The document emphasises "physical artificial intelligence" that combines AI with Japan's strength in manufacturing hardware "to accelerate AI transformation in all sectors".
Forecasts by economists typically point to growth of 0.93% in 2027 and 0.85% in 2028, falling short of the 1% target, according to the Japan Center for Economic Research thinktank.
Since 2022, the ministry of finance has spent about £160bn in efforts to limit the yen's decline. It has also put pressure on the central bank to keep interest rates low amid a global drive to increase them to combat inflation after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The BoJ has raised its policy rate to a 31-year high of 1%, but that is still low relative to its peers.
Following the Covid-19 pandemic, all central banks financed government spending by buying government debt. While most have sought to reverse the situation in recent years, the BoJ is being encouraged to go further. Japanese pension funds are also feeling heat from the finance ministry, which expects them to buy government bonds out of a sense of patriotic duty.
Takaichi said in a recent post on X that she spends all day and most of the night plotting Japan's recovery, which is seen by many as an attempt to reverse last month's 10-point poll rating decline.
However, financial markets have voiced their scepticism. Many are asking if an emphasis on manufacturing will prove successful as China seeks to produce more sophisticated goods, an area previously dominated by Japan, Germany and the US.
The question is whether Tokyo has the resources to go up against Beijing and carve out a big enough niche to fund itself in the 2030s. Exports rose 20% year-on-year in June, but after taking into account the yen's depreciation, the value of the rise was almost zero.
Depreciating the currency every year to boost trade is not a sustainable policy. Maybe Takaichi's investment plan will be.
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Monday 27 July 2026
UK and Ireland Noon today
Forecast
Carbon count
Daily atmospheric CO₂ readings from Mauna Lea, Hawaii (ppm).
Latest 21 Jul 2026 428.07 Weekly average 12 Jul 2026 428.48 26 Jul 2025 427.91 26 Jul 2026 404.55 Pre-industrial base 280 Safe level 250
Around the UK
Atlantic front
High tides
© Crown Copyright and/or database rights. Reproduced by permission of the Keeper of Public Records and the UK Hydrographic Office
| Aberdeen | -- | -- | 1223 | 3.6m |
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| Amonmouth | 0522 | 10.6m | 1749 | 11.2m |
| Barrow | 1007 | 7.6m | 2221 | 8.1m |
| Belfast | 0953 | 3.0m | 2212 | 3.3m |
| Cobb | 0346 | 3.4m | 1613 | 3.6m |
| Cromer | 0501 | 4.3m | 1740 | 4.2m |
| Dover | 0950 | 5.8m | 2215 | 5.8m |
| Dublin | 1025 | 3.5m | 2229 | 3.8m |
| Galway | 0357 | 4.1m | 1604 | 4.5m |
| Greenock | 1101 | 2.8m | 2331 | 3.2m |
| Harwich | 1017 | 3.5m | 2244 | 3.6m |
| Holyhead | 0914 | 4.7m | 2123 | 5.0m |
| Hull | 0432 | 6.3m | 1715 | 6.1m |
| Leith | 0100 | 4.7m | 1336 | 4.7m |
| Liverpool | 0952 | 7.9m | 2205 | 8.4m |
| London Bridge | 0000 | 6.2m | 1228 | 6.2m |
| Lassinmouth | 1046 | 3.4m | 2251 | 3.6m |
| Milford Haven | 0446 | 5.7m | 1707 | 6.1m |
| Newspay | 0339 | 5.5m | 1600 | 5.9m |
| North Shields | 0354 | 4.3m | 1428 | 4.3m |
| Okan | 0428 | 3.1m | 1647 | 3.4m |
| Penzance | 0313 | 4.5m | 1533 | 4.8m |
| Plymouth | 0400 | 4.5m | 1620 | 4.8m |
| Portsmouth | 1016 | 4.1m | 2223 | 4.2m |
| Southport | 0914 | 7.6m | 2133 | 8.1m |
| Storoneway | 0551 | 3.8m | 1756 | 4.3m |
| Portland | 0504 | 1.4m | 1726 | 1.8m |
| Whitby | 0226 | 4.8m | 1459 | 4.7m |
| Wick | 1011 | 2.9m | 2216 | 3.1m |
| Workington | 1019 | 6.8m | 2234 | 7.3m |
Sun & Moon
Sun rises 0516 Sun sets 2056 Moon rises 2018 Moon sets 0222 Full Moon 29 July
Lighting up
Belfast 2135 to 0528 Birn'ham 2107 to 0521 Brighton 2054 to 0521 Bristol 2106 to 0529 Carlisle 2123 to 0513 Cork 2131 to 0530 Dublin 2129 to 0535 Glasgow 2134 to 0515 Harlech 2118 to 0529 Inverness 2142 to 0504 London 2056 to 0518 M'chester 2113 to 0519 Newcastle 2119 to 0508 Norwich 2056 to 0508 Penzance 2113 to 0546
Starwatch
We know summer is truly upon us when the Summer Triangle appears overhead. Although not an official constellation, it is one of the easiest patterns to find in the sky.
The chart shows the view looking high in the south-east from London at 11pm today. It will remain essentially unchanged all week, with the triangle climbing higher as the evening goes on.
The brightest of its three stars is Vega, in Lyra, the lyre. North-east from Vega is Deneb, the brightest star in Cygnus, the swan. Lower in the south-east is Altair, in Aquila, the eagle.
The Summer Triangle frames the northern Milky Way, which, from a dark site, reveals itself as a pale band of light running across the sky. It is the combined light of billions of stars that make up the wider sweeps of our galaxy. Grab a pair of binoculars and enjoy the rich star fields that can be seen within its confines. Stuart Clark
Around the world
| Algiers | 11 | Lisbon | 14 |
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| Anu'dam | 12 | Madrid | 15 |
| Athens | 13 | Malaga | 16 |
| Auckland | 13 | Melb'ton | 17 |
| B.Aires | 13 | Mexico C | 17 |
| Bangkok | 13 | Miami | 17 |
| Barcelona | 13 | Milan | 17 |
| Bosra | 13 | Montbasa | 17 |
| Beijing | 13 | Moscow | 17 |
| Berlin | 13 | Mumbai | 18 |
| Bermuda | 25 | N.Orleans | 18 |
| Brussels | 25 | Nairobi | 18 |
| Budapest | 25 | New Delhi | 18 |
| C'hayen | 25 | New York | 18 |
| Cairo | 25 | Oslo | 19 |
| Cape Town | 25 | Paris | 19 |
| Chicago | 13 | Perth | 19 |
| Corfu | 13 | Prague | 19 |
| Dakar | 13 | Reykjavik | 19 |
| Dhaka | 13 | Rio de J | 20 |
| Dublin | 13 | Rome | 20 |
| Florence | 13 | Shanghai | 21 |
| Gibraltar | 17 | Singapore | 21 |
| H'Kong | 17 | Stadk'in | 21 |
| Harare | 17 | Strad'g | 22 |
| Helsinki | 17 | Sydney | 22 |
| Istanbul | 20 | Tel Aviv | 23 |
| Ja'burg | 20 | Towerite | 23 |
| K.Larbour | 23 | Tokyo | 23 |
| K'mundu | 23 | Toronto | 23 |
| Kabul | 23 | Vancouver | 23 |
| Kingston | 23 | Vienna | 23 |
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Joshua survives stumble but serious questions remain on road to Fury payday
Lack of punch resistance leading to two knockdowns was a worrying sign before the £150m all-British fight
Donald McRae
The bedlam and madness lasted for just five minutes and 43 seconds and, after Anthony Joshua was back in the sanctuary of his dressing room, he claimed to have learned "a valuable lesson". Joshua had been knocked down twice by Kristian Prenga before he rescued himself in the second round with a brutal stoppage of the previously obscure Albanian.
Joshua also looked ahead to the hugely anticipated fight with Tyson Fury after the two faded former world champions came through wildly contrasting bouts which were meant to be routine exhibitions this weekend. "I'm gonna come back stronger now," Joshua claimed as he tried to clear the concussive fog from his brain after the worst round of his tumultuous career.
But the sad truth had already risen up with piercing clarity after just 20 seconds of that first round. A sweeping right hand, which was the first meaningful punch of the fight, rocked Joshua and set him up for Prenga's jolting uppercut. They were decent blows but it was disturbing to see how little punch resistance Joshua retains. He still cuts a sculpted figure of hard muscle but he looked lost and scrambled as he tumbled to the canvas. Joshua managed to roll over and, pressing his white gloves down on the blue canvas, he pushed himself up.
His legs were rickety as a grimace of a smile crossed his confused face. After he took a count of eight, Joshua was soon in trouble again. A sharp right cross sent him reeling into the
▲ Anthony Joshua was given a huge early scare by Kristian Prenga MARK ROBBINSON/MAYURHOOR BOXING/GETTY
ropes and the referee could have given him another count. Every time Prenga landed the right hand, even without undue force, Joshua was vulnerable.
Another uppercut sent him down again, even if this time his gloves only brushed the canvas before he was up again. Joshua's courage was obvious but, in those desolate moments, the idea that he would survive another onslaught and face Fury in November seemed beyond fanciful.
But then, inexplicably, everything changed. During the break between rounds it was almost as if a loaded message had been given to Prenga that he should pack away his artillery and stop ruining the £200m (£150m) showdown between Fury and Joshua. In reality it seemed more a case that Prenga had shocked himself by dragging Joshua to the brink of a shattering defeat.
Rather than coming out to close the show, Prenga backed away. He allowed his dazed victim to seize control and start unloading punches. The Albanian was pinned in a corner and, throwing nothing of consequence in return, he was suddenly under immense pressure. Successive combinations made him sag before a ferocious right hand poleaxed Prenga.
Joshua deserves praise for his
fortitude and finishing power. But even that clinical knockout could not wipe away the images of him weaving like a battered old tree about to crash to the ground whenever he was tagged by blows he would have once shrugged aside.
Having been injured seven months ago in the car accident which killed Sina Ghami and Latif "Latz" Ayodele, his close friends and key members of his camp, Joshua paid tribute to them: "It's more than punch power. That was spirit. That was Latz, that was Sina, that was their families. It hurts to even talk about it. It has been tough. It's my brothers."
Joshua was close to tears. His distress was understandable but it was more worrying when he suggested that personal tragedy had given him higher powers of recovery. "You know what I learned? I can't be stopped, man - I can't be denied."
His family, friends and promoters should all pause and, in the coming days, take great care of him. It would be best if they advised Joshua he is no longer equipped to absorb heavy punishment from even a merely competent heavyweight. Younger fighters such as Moses Itauma and Daniel Dubois, who administered a crushing knockout of Joshua in 2024, would have hurt him badly had they, rather than Prenga, been in the ring.
True, Fury was uninspiring when
beating Mariusz Wach, a mediocre 46-year-old Polish heavyweight, after seven one-sided rounds in Thailand on Friday night.
Wach still managed to tag Fury a couple of times as the old Gypsy King is no longer an elusive ring technician. But Fury remains a fighter to his core and he could cause serious damage against such a reduced version of Joshua.
"We've signed the contract," Joshua's promoter, Eddie Hearn, said after his fighter's lucky escape. "Everything is done. But
'Tonight was about the strength Joshua has shown. No one knows what he's been through'
▲ Anthony Joshua pays his respects to his friends who died in December
tonight wasn't about Tyson Fury. It was about the strength Anthony Joshua has shown to be here. No one knows what he's been through the last seven months. When he went down in the first round, I thought he'd come back too soon."
Yet, as Hearn conceded later, the signed contracts stipulate that Fury and Joshua will fight in the UK in November. It is now widely expected that the contest will take place in the US instead and so a new set of contracts could delay the circus yet again.
Reflecting on his near nightmare against Prenga, Joshua added: "It was a tough moment but I learned a valuable lesson. Start faster. Come out, fuck this boxing, and be ready. You can do it in 20 seconds. If Prenga had a bit more luck on his side, he could have had me out of there."
He also suggested that "today was a real good eye-opener." It was, in the sense that his lack of punch resistance was stripped bare for all to see. In a business more sensible and compassionate than boxing, those close to Joshua would try to persuade him that the time has come for him to walk away with his riches and senses still intact.
Instead, he will be enticed back into the ring to fight Fury - in a contest between two old heavyweights which now seems freighted as much with danger and potential calamity as colossal amounts of money.
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The week ahead
Pauline Ferrand-Prevot returns to defend her Tour de France Femmes title, beginning on Saturday in Lausanne
Today World report Commonwealth Games Glasgow (to Sun) TNT Sports 2 Cricket The Hundred Women Southern + M London, Utilita Bowl (3pm) Sky Sports Cricket The Hundred Men Southern + M London, Utilita Bowl (6.30pm) SSC Men's Tour (third day of five) West Indies + Pakistan, Tarsada (3pm) Swiss list Shanghai Women's China (to Sun) Tenets WTA & KTP Mubadala Chi DC Open Washington, D.C. (to Sun) ATP West Tennis Open Los Cabos, Mexico (to Sun) Racing Ayr Racing TV, Ryoun Sky Sports Racing, Southwest SSR, Windsor SSR
Tomorrow Football (7.45pm unless stated) European League Second qualifying round: Second leg Celje (2) + Cyneta (3) (7.15pm); D-Zagreb (1) + Than (1) (7pm); Hearts (0) + Stame Giza (4) (7.45pm) PLI; KJPS (0) + Salam (1) (4pm); Lincoln RI (0) + BJ&B (1) (5pm); Shamrock (0) + Avanti-Armenia (2) (8pm)
Conference League Second qualifying round: Second leg Chelsea (Unusual) (0) + 2No Gori (0) (6pm); CSKA 1948 Sofia (0) + Spartak Trnava (0) (6.30pm); Erba (1) + Plaviania (1) (7pm); Riga (3) + Vardar Skopje (2) (6pm) Cricket (6.30pm unless stated) Third Women's 500 Gladion Flablais, Netherlands (6.30pm) Metro Bank One Day Cup Men Group A Lancs + Kent, Earegion (1.1am), Neds + Lancs, Trent Bridge (1.1am) The Hundred Women Leeds + March, Headingley (3pm) SSC The Hundred Men Leeds + Manchester, Headingley SSC Racing Deverley RTV, Pita Lia SSR, Goodwood (TV) /RTV, Yarmouth SSR
Wednesday Football (7.45pm unless stated) European League Second qualifying round: Second leg Karak (0) + Cinema (1) (4pm); Zalgiris (0) + IO (0) (5pm); Lech Roman (4) + AEF (1) (6pm); Hapoel de Er Sheici (1) + Vilengar (2) (6.30pm); Uni Crassna (0) + Levski Sofia (1) (6.30pm); Gornik Zahra (0) + Frerichalica (1) (7pm); Rli Belgrade (4) + Larisa (0) (7pm); S Bratton (2) + Maria (109) (0) (7.15pm) Conference League Second qualifying round: Second leg Dasgigiro (0) + Lagano (1) (3.30pm); Copenhagen (3) + Zhelentor (3) (6pm); X Vienna (3) + Santa Cristina (1) (7.30pm) Cricket (1.1am unless stated) The Hundred Women M London + London Spirit, The Kia Oval (3pm) SSC, Welsh + Trent, Sophia Gardens (1.30pm) SSC The Hundred Men M London + London Spirit, The Kia Oval (6.30pm) SSC, Welsh + Trent, Sophia Gardens (3pm) SSC Metro Bank One Day Cup Men Group A Marks + Surrey, Edgbaston Group B Durham + Glam, Gosforth, Hovey + Collie, Arundel, Yorkshire + Worcestershire, York Racing Goodwood (TV) /RTV, Leicester RTV, Redcar RTV, Sandmoor RTV
Thursday Football (7.45pm unless stated) Europe League Second qualifying round: Second leg Anderlecht (1) + Hammurthy (1) (7.30pm); Benfica (1) + St Gallen (2) (8pm); CSKA Sofia (0) + Spalding (0) (7pm); Feenincucos (2) + Twente (1) (7.30pm); Hradec Králové (1) + Tromsø (0) (6pm); Maccabi Tel Aviv (5) + Sheriff (0) (5pm); Midtjylland (0) + Budulya (1) (6pm); F{srsk (0) + Haplak Split (2) (6pm); P4DK (1) + Dynamo Kyiv (2) (6.45pm)
Conference League Second qualifying round: Second leg Ape (4) + Vojvodina (1) (7pm); Attelic Club PTuclides (0) + Kadax (4) (3pm); Aisle (1) + FCSA (2) (3pm); Austria Vienna (2) + Leipzig (0) (7.30pm); Balbani (1) + Behemia (2) (7pm); Betzar (1) + AEK Larraca (0) (6.30pm); Braga (1) + D善舟car Pancras (0) (6pm); Brunei (2) + Uni City (2) (6pm); CFR City (1) + Aberdeen (1) (7.30pm); Coleraine (0) + KIR (1) Saddipan; Derry (0) + Rijeka (1) (6.30pm); Dinamo City (1) + Aliswain (1) (6pm); Drazwa Meski (4) + Nefna (2) (6pm); FCI Levadia (2) + Gilefsing (1) (5.30pm); Gant (0) + NZ Dombay (0) (7.30pm); Krimovice (1) + Zilava (2) (7.30pm); Gant (6) + Atent (2) (6pm); Hill (0) + Motherwell (2) (6pm); Alderman (0) + Malinheva (2) (8pm); Rees (0) + Stjarnam (1) (5pm); Inter Sofia (1) + Istanbul Balakhehir (1) (5pm); Jablonec (2) + Yamazite (3) (5pm); Koper (2) + NIS (0); Ladegrams (0) + Hapoel Tel Aviv (2) (7pm); Noah (1) + Zhelbe (1) (5pm); Namime Kaja (2) + Zwillbourne (1) (5pm); Narodjaaland (0) + GAIS (1) (6pm); Panathinaikos (2) + Palo (1) (7.30pm); Portocolo (0) + Newk-Banja Laka (2) (6pm); Pystek (0) + Oelovaca (1) (5pm); Shkandija (1) + Kress (2) (7pm); Sion (1) + Bate (1) (7.15pm); Sufpoka (0) + Vitekuk (1) (6pm); The New Saints (0) + Parra (1) (6.30pm); Tahed Kozianog (1) + Panaviczo (1) (3pm); URA Strasser (0) + Partizan (4) (7.15pm); Valletta (1) + Rakow (1) (6.30pm); Vestiri (1) + RFS (4) (5pm); Veles Mostar (0) + VMC (3pm) (1.10pm); Zalgo (0) + Shanee (1) (6pm); Zira (0) + Paide Linzenverband (1) (5pm); Zrzysk (0) + Volar (1) (7.30pm)
Rugby league Betfred Super League Huddersfield + Hull FC (8pm) SS+ Cricket (2pm unless stated) The Hundred Women Southern + Birre, Utilita Bowl SSC The Hundred Men Southern + Birre, Utilita Bowl SSC Metro Bank One Day Cup Men Group A Lancs + Neds, Preston (1.1am) Gulf Rectest (1.1pm) Detroit (to Sun) Sky Sports Golf All Women's 500 Lytham St Amies (to Sun) SSG Racing Epsom RTV, Goodenød (TV) /RTV, Nottingham RTV, Wolverhampton SSR
Friday
Football (7.45pm unless stated) William Hill Scottish Premiership Dundee United + Rangers (8pm) SSF Rugby league Betfred Super League Hull KR + Bradford (8pm) SS+ Leeds + Stalwart (8pm) SS+ Leigh + Wigan (8pm) SS+ Cricket (1.1am unless stated) First Women's 120 International Sri Lanka + Pakistan, Hambantota (5.30am)
The Hundred Women Manchester + Trent, Old Trafford (3pm) SSC The Hundred Men Manchester + Trent, Old Trafford (6.30pm) SSC Metro Bank One Day Cup Men Group B Derbyshire + Glam, Ripton; Essex + Hampshire, Chelmsford; Worcestershire + Middlesex, New Road, Yorkshire + Durham, York Metro Bank One Day Cup Men Group A Gloucs + Surrey, Bristol (2pm); Kent + Somerset, Canterbury; Northants + Lancs, Northampton Racing Bath SSR, Goodwood (TV) /RTV, Moordburgh RTV, Newcastle SSR, Newmarket RTV, Wolverhampton SSR
Saturday
Football (3pm unless stated) Caraboo League Cup
Preliminary round Trasmore
- Rochdale SS+
William Hill Scottish Premiership
Aberdeen + Hearts (5.30pm) SSF;
Falkirk + St Mirren SSF
William Hill Scottish Championship
Ayr + Arbroath; Morton + Partick; Inverness CT + Duddersfield; Livingston + Queen's Park; Keith's Starrines
William Hill Scottish League One
Alba + East Fife; Cree + Airdromians; East Kilbride + Qck; Montrose + Hamilton; Peterhead + Ross
William Hill Scottish League Two
Annan + The Spartans; Clyde + Stranvar; Edinburgh City + Elyse; Torfa + Kirby; Stirling + Sunderburm
Rugby league
Betfred Super League
Castleford + Warrington (3pm) SS+, Catalonia + Wakefield (3pm) SS+, York + St Helens (5.30pm) SS+
Cricket
The Hundred Women
Birmingham + Welsh, Edgbaston (1.1am) SSC, London Spirit + Southern, Lord's (2.30pm) SSC
The Hundred Men
Birmingham + Welsh, Edgbaston (2.30pm) SSC, London Spirit + Southern, Lord's (3pm) SSC
Cycling
Tour de France Femmes
Du 9 Augil
Racing
Dorchester SSR, Goodwood (TV) /RTV, Hamilton RTV, Loughfield SSR, Newmarket (TV) /RTV, Thora (TV) /RTV
Sunday
Football (3pm unless stated) William Hill Scottish Premiership
St Johnstone + Kilmarnock (2pm) SSF,
Hibernian + Wotherend (4.30pm) SSF
Cricket (1.1am unless stated) Second Men's Tour (first day of five) WI + Pakistan, Port of Spain (3pm)
Women's Twenty-50 International Sri Lanka + Pakistan, Hambantota (5.30am)
The Hundred Women's 500
M London + Manchester, The Kia Oval (2.30pm) BDC, Fwoj-Pfynor/SSC, Trent + Leeds, Trent Bridge (2.30pm) SSC
Metro Bank One Day Cup Men
Group A Kent + Neds, Beckenham; Lancs + Somerset, Grae Ansel, Northants + Lancs, Northampton; Marks + Gloucs, Rugby Group B Derbyshire + Sutton, Derby; Essex + Worcestershire, Chelmsford; Watts + Durham, Utilita Bowl, Middlesex + Yorkshire, Lord's
Racing
Chelmsford, Chester SSR, Yarmouth SSR
Yarmouth SSR
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Sport
Football
13
Arsenal add final ingredients to an irresistible recipe
Seven new signings and clear sense of purpose at club have created belief that first WSL title since 2019 is possible
Suzanne Wrack
Georgia Stanway looks at her arms and then down at her legs on day one of Arsenal's pre-season. "As you can see, I'm covered in tattoos," she says. "I only see the bare skin, the space, so I need to keep collecting more."
Tattooing and being tattooed is her creative outlet, her way of expressing herself off the pitch. But seeing space is key to the 27-year-old England midfielder being exceptional on the pitch.
Stanway's unveiling video, after her move from Bayern Munich, showed a delicate, cursive script reading "whatever the weather" tattooed on her arm. It was a bold statement to get the lyric from North London Forever, Arsenal's anthem, etched into her skin before she has stepped on to the Emirates Stadium pitch in red and white. "It shows I'm going to give absolutely everything for this club. I want to hit the ground running, connect with my teammates, connect with
▼ Georgia Stanway is ready to hit the new season running after her move from Bayern this summer ALEX BORSYON/ARSENAL FC/GETTY IMAGES
the fans and look forward to an exciting future at the club."
Stanway is emblematic of Arsenal's summer of change, one of seven signings so far. Meanwhile, Lotte Wubben-Moy, a lifelong fan who joined Arsenal's academy at 13, represents the core and culture that is a point of focus at the club. It is a culture players want to be a part of, so much so it leads to getting a tattoo on day one of being there. "She has set a very high bar," says Wubben-Moy, with a grin. "That's Georgia. She goes all in and I like that."
Wubben-Moy is ready to stake a claim in Arsenal's starting XI after struggling to nail down a position in defence despite having performed exceptionally well when covering for injured players. "I've always felt ready," says the 27-year-old. "When I get my moment, I deliver. Historically, as a club, we're built on defensive solidity. If we have a solid defence, it allows us to create and score. That should be the stepping stone towards victories. So I will continue to contribute in whatever way, shape or form that is. But I want my spot."
Arsenal's squad needed a revamp, the age needed to be lowered and changes made if they were going to take the next step. That meant big names leaving, most notably Beth Mead and Katie McCabe. "They're both absolute legends of the game and we have so much respect for them," says Jodie Taylor, the former Arsenal striker who became the club's technical director in January. "But we always
▲ Lotte Wubben-Moy hopes to stake her claim for a regular starting spot
knew this window was going to come with some changes."
"Change is inevitable in women's football," says Wubben-Moy. "If you speak to a player and they don't say they're nimble, you've got someone not built for the game. We've become a nimble team, a team that can move with the ebb and flow of women's football.
"That's not just within the playing group, it's replicated within the staff, the boardroom, the commercial team, the comms team. Everyone is so willing to move and to dictate what we want. "If you'd asked me about change four or five years ago, I'd have been a bit intimidated, but now I know what to do and I'm part of the driver of it. The opportunity we have and that I see for us as a team, as a collective, is something that really excites me."
Arsenal's approach to Stanway's recruitment was a contributing factor to her wanting to join the club. "Arsenal came in early doors," she says. "I really enjoyed they were super loyal from the beginning and wanted me even when I wasn't available. It's a nice feeling being wanted.
"The last four years in Munich were unbelievable, but I knew I wanted to take the next step and I felt at Arsenal there was an
opportunity for me to be able to make my game better and to play with world-class players."
Arsenal have done most of their business early, with Stanway joined by experienced internationals Selina Cerci, Géraldine Reuteler, Ona Batlle and Misa Rodriguez, as well as young talents Lisa Baum and Isabella Damm. No major international tournament and seven signings in for day one of pre-season is a big boost for Renée Slegers and her coaching staff, particularly after two seasons of slow starts to domestic campaigns.
"The market is not easy, though, it's constantly changing and the pool of elite talent is small and several clubs are fishing from it," says Taylor. "You try and plan as much as you can, but you also have to be reactive. We're always trying to keep an eye on the future, but we have to be quite agile.
"We can talk about positional needs, qualities, ages and succession planning, but if a player's not available or they just don't exist, it can be like trying to fit square pegs and round holes."
The players who have come in have brought energy, says Wubben-Moy, who was on an emotional rollercoaster during Arsenal men's Premier League and women's Champions Cup-winning parade, with the bus looping past Highbury Corner, where she filmed her contract renewal video, and past Islington town hall, where she got married to cyclist Tao Geoghegan Hart a few weeks later.
"I like to focus on what they're entering," says Wubben-Moy, "which is a culture created by history, by players and staff that are the core of this team and who have all lived through the changes: Kelly [Smith], Renée, myself, Leah [Williamson], Kim [Little], Jodie too. We've been privy to lots of different things but all of us are holding on to and releasing, in a healthy way, the things we know we need to. It's efficient, we're focused, we know what we do next.
"It's like you're cooking the most beautiful recipe and then you add the final small ingredients that make the marginal difference, that elevate, and you create something that's beautiful and that you can relish and enjoy. That's what we're in the process of now with a beautiful long pre-season. I'm desperate to get it out of the way so we can then serve what we're cooking to the fans and be like: 'Let's eat and we'll all eat together for the whole year.'"
The average attendance of more than 34,000 fans for WSL games at the Emirates last season and the club's pioneering history in women's football, as well as the Champions League win in 2025, are huge selling points, and all concerned at Arsenal want more, including a first Women's Super League title since 2019.
"We're in a great place," says Taylor. "But we would have liked to have won more trophies last season and that is our ambition coming into this year. I'll flat out say it: we want to win the league. We are an ambitious club and with the signings we've made we feel like we're in a great place to do that."
Football
In brief
Tottenham
Inter sporting director confirms Romero talks
Inter have entered talks with Tottenham over the signing of Cristian Romero. The club captain has made 156 appearances since he joined Tottenham in 2021 and guided the club to Europa League success last year. But with centre-backs Jan Paul van Hecke and Marcos Senesi joining this summer, Spurs will let the 28-year-old Argentina international depart and his representatives have been in Milan for talks with Inter this weekend. Inter's sporting director, Piero Ausilio, told Sky Italy: "It's definitely a deal we are trying to sign with the player and the club. These things take some time but there's definitely interest. Let's see." PA Media
Sunderland
'Topic is closed': Le Bris rules out Xhaka exit
Régis Le Bris has declared Chelsea's pursuit of Granit Xhaka "closed" and insisted there is no prospect of Sunderland selling their influential captain this summer. Chelsea made an £8m bid for the 33-year-old this month but the offer was immediately rejected and their head coach has emphatically denied that a deal could be revisited. "No, this topic is closed," said Le Bris. "He has been really clear about his future. He loves Sunderland, he wants to stay in Sunderland. He wants to make the future of Sunderland. He is a good captain. Great leader." Andy Hunter
Real Madrid
Diomande to Bernabéu after PSG end interest
Real Madrid look to have won the race for RB Leipzig's winger, Yan Diomande, after Paris Saint-Germain withdrew from the bidding war. The 19-year-old was heavily linked with a switch to Paris but now looks set for the Bernabéu. PSG released a statement last night which read: "Paris Saint-Germain has this evening formally withdrawn its interest in and bids for Yan Diomande. PSG will not break its principles of rational financial management and squad balance." Mark Dobson
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Sport Football
How the death of Adams shook a South African community
Footballer who died aged 25, weeks after playing at World Cup, will be remembered for his humble demeanour
Firdose Moonda
Cape Town
For Jayden Adams, the South Africa midfielder who died this month at the age of 25, football was a "safe space".
Those words, used by Adams's junior coach Steve Barker at his memorial service 11 days ago, tell you everything you need to know about his life beyond the pitch.
Adams's battles were bestowed on him almost from birth. Though he was born into newly democratic South Africa, by the early 2000s the revolution was well on its way to being betrayed. The vote was extended to all, but few could make full use of the freedoms available to them because socioeconomic circumstances in the country had barely changed. Stellenbosch, where the Adams family were based, is a perfect example.
Its facade is a tourist dream: a university town nestled among vineyards, Cape Dutch architecture and indie boutiques. Most visitors never venture beyond the town centre or into its suburbs, which are home to the far less privileged and are havens of neglect. Those areas are classic apartheid hangovers, where the wealth has been preserved for a historically advantaged elite and those on the margins, working-class communities of people of colour, are all but invisible.
▲ Teams held a minute's silence in memory of Adams at the World Cup
Ironically, that is how Adams is most often described. He moved in the shadows, both of society and the sport in which he excelled. "Jayden was a guy of very few words. He was quiet, very shy and the smallest among his teammates," Brendine Johnson, an Adams family spokesperson, says. "A lot of people missed his football qualities because of his size, but he had a very good fighting spirit. It just wasn't always on display."
Adams loved the game dearly and his aunt Monica Thaoge recalled how, as a child, he would kick anything round - "even onions" she said at his memorial. His parents, Juanito and Candice, previously mentioned potatoes as their son's football of choice. Nobody in the family talks about lacking in financial means because theirs was a community striving to make life better. But there were absences, especially early on.
"Everybody in areas like that is just trying to make ends meet," says Roger Telemachus, the former South Africa cricketer who grew up on the same street as Adams's father in Cloetesville. "For the kids, they may not have noticed so much because they were occupied, mostly with playing sport. Some fathers, like Juanito, really encouraged their kids and everyone used to play everything on the street: tennis, football, rugby, cricket. It was also the best way of staying out of trouble."
Problems were there for everyone to see and, according to Telemachus, have got worse "in the last 20 years". They include gangsterism, substance abuse and crimes that range from petty to serious. Adams was able to escape from that life when he moved to the slightly more affluent area of Ida's Valley, but still he did not have a life of luxury. For a period, the family of six, which included four children, lived in a two-bedroom place. At other times, they were with his maternal grandmother, Marianna. "He basically grew up in her yard," says Johnson.
Things started to change for Adams when he was picked for the Stellenbosch Academy Under-18 side at the age of 15. "The environment was tough, especially if you are not big or tall enough, but when physicality was no longer the most important thing, people saw that Jayden was technically very good," says Johnson.
His coaches agree. Barker, the nephew of South Africa's Afcon winning coach, Clive, and the current coach of Simba in Tanzania,
'Being on the pitch was his happy place. He didn't pass the ball, he caressed it. He was special'
◄ The midfielder helped South Africa reach the last 32 at this summer's World Cup HECTOR VIVAS/ FIFA/GETTY
◄ Members of Mamelodi Sundowns carry the coffin, followed by family and friends, at Adams's funeral on Saturday ESA ALEXANDER/ REUTERS
gave an emotional assessment of Adams's skills shortly after his death. "You get many good footballers but you get few great footballers. Jayden was great," he told Newzroom Afrika.
"Jayden had three attributes that set him apart: an incredible first touch, his weight of pass - I've never seen anything like it - and he loved the game so much. Being on the pitch was his happy place. He didn't pass the ball, he used to caress the ball. He was special and his football intelligence was just outstanding."
It was under Barker that Adams blossomed. He became the first player from the Stellenbosch Academy to play in South Africa's top flight, the Premier Soccer League. Five years and an international call up later, the country's richest club, Mamelodi Sundowns, came calling. This year, at the start of his second season with them, Adams shaved his head, in what he joked was a sign of maturity and called himself a "grootman" (big man). The nickname stuck.
Adams never said it, but he may also have realised how much he had grown up. By then, he had been picked, played for and dropped from the national side
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▼ The memorial service for Jayden Adams was held in Stellenbosch RODGER BOSCH/AFP/GETTY
after arriving late at a training camp and irking the head coach, Hugo Broos. He had also lost two of his academy teammates, including a close friend.
In February 2023, Oshwin Andries, who was 19, died from stabbing injuries he sustained in Paarl, which is 16km north of Stellenbosch. Three years later, Jeandre Gaffoor, 20, drowned in the Krom River.
When Sundowns won the CAF Champions League in May, Adams dedicated his medal to Andries. To lose so much has weighed on the town, but through Adams they have had reason to celebrate.
His role in Sundowns' continental victory and a call-up to the World Cup squad suggested Adams's career trajectory was rising. After a first season at Sundowns when he was often playing off the bench and his place in the side was questioned, he had become integral to the team. At
'He wanted to give back. After every game, he would be giving away shirts and boots to kids'
Adams's memorial, the Sundowns senior coach, Steve Komphela, called him "the heart of our team and the heartbeat of our playing style" who "understood the game like a coach and played it as a player".
In the past year, Adams was playing to the potential people who knew him well had seen years ago and surprising others with his courage and drive to succeed. South Africa's captain, Ronwen Williams, recalled an incident at this year's Africa Cup of Nations when the tiny Adams took on a tall Mali opponent with some choice local words. Williams asked Adams if he knew the size of the player he was sledging, but Adams shrugged it off and replied that the Malian wouldn't understand anyway.
"That was the character he had," Williams said at the memorial, smiling through his tears as he bade farewell to the teammate he called "my ma se kind" (my mother's child, a term used in South Africa).
As his star rose, Adams was careful not to advertise his achievements. "Jayden knew what he had, but he never wanted to voice it. He was very competitive, but he would never brag," says Johnson. "You get people who are very good verbally on social media. Jayden was not like that. And he wanted to give back. After every game, he would be giving away shirts and boots to kids who asked."
He also concentrated on providing for his family because he "always promised them he would change their financial situation".
At the World Cup, Adams played for them, even through immense pain. His grandmother Marianna died the day before South Africa's match against Czechia and Adams opted to remain with the squad. He played that match and appeared in good spirits afterwards and called the 1-1 draw positive, even if he was feeling the opposite way.
He also played the next game against South Korea, which South Africa won to reach the knockouts for the first time. Post-game footage showed him sitting on his own while the rest of the squad celebrated with a song and dance.
At the memorial, Komphela offered the Adams family a Bible verse as a comfort, but it may as well be a summary. Psalm 23:4: "Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me."
They will know Adams took that walk many times over his short life and he did not fear. He leaves behind his parents, three siblings, a partner, two children and a community who have gone through what no neighbourhood should. In all that, he has gone from not wanting to be known, to entering the footballing world's spotlight. A minute's silence was observed at several World Cup games in Adams's memory. That is not the way his family would have pictured him coming to global attention, but it has shown them that, in football, he was always far more valued than anyone thought.
"I don't think the community knew how big he was and how people enjoyed his football," says Johnson. "It's a huge shock."
Chiesa aiming for 'new chapter' under Iraola at Liverpool
Italian looking forward to fresh start after disappointing season under Arne Slot
Andy Hunter Nashville
Federico Chiesa has said he wants "a new chapter" at Liverpool with Andoni Iraola following a frustrating time under Arne Slot and claimed the club were lucky to qualify for the Champions League last season.
The Liverpool forward has been linked with a return to Italy this summer having struggled for minutes during his two years at Anfield. Chiesa made 36 appearances for Slot last season, a healthy return on paper, but only five were starts.
He started one Premier League game last season despite the problems Liverpool had in attack because of injuries to Alexander Isak and Hugo Ekitike, and his last start came in the FA Cup fourth-round win against Brighton on 14 February. A change of head coach, Chiesa hopes, will herald a change in fortune.
"It is always a fresh start at the beginning of the year," said the 28-year-old, who produced a fine finish in Liverpool's 4-2 friendly defeat of Sunderland in Nashville on Saturday. "Maybe there have been too many fresh starts [for him]. But I don't care, I am trying to do my best for this new manager.
"Last season under Arne Slot, I was trying to do my best. Last year I felt ready for a bigger role, then it
▲ Chiesa will hope to impress the new head coach, Andoni Iraola
depended on the coach whether he wanted me to play or not. Of course I wanted to play more but it is what it is. The gaffer had his gameplans, he took his decisions, I have nothing to say about that. This year, let us say it is a new chapter. There is a new manager and I have to focus on that."
Chiesa admits he has not discussed his future with Iraola since the Basque coach succeeded Slot in June. "The only conversations I had were about pressing and tactics," he
'I am happy at Liverpool. I love the club, the fans'
Federico Chiesa Liverpool
said. "He put me striker against Sunderland and he wants me there."
But the Italy international, who has two years remaining on his contract, claimed his priority is to prove himself to the head coach rather than seek a return to Serie A. Como and former club Juventus have been linked with a move for the forward.
"Right now I am happy here at Liverpool," said Chiesa. "I love the club, I love the fans, I love everything. I am doing the best I can to have a chance here. And then we will see. At the minute, the only thing I am thinking about is Liverpool."
Liverpool secured Champions League qualification on the final day of a troubled season in May in what proved to be Slot's final game in charge. Chiesa insists that was no cause for celebration at a club of Liverpool's stature and there must be improvement next term.
The forward said: "Liverpool deserves more. Two years ago, we were Premier League champions. Last year, we almost went out of the Champions League spots. We were battling for fifth, which was enough at the time but as we know usually only four go in. We were lucky.
"It was a tough season last year and this season we need to do better, in the Champions League as well. We went out to PSG. We want to go further and then we want to do even better in the Premier League as well."
Chiesa also hopes to reclaim his place in the national team next season, having missed out on several squads recently. Italy are now searching for a new head coach, having failed to qualify for the World Cup under Gennaro Gattuso.
Chiesa said: "The situation is that I spoke to the manager a few times, Gattuso, and I was not ready physically at the time. When I got back in March, unfortunately I got injured. But I am looking forward to playing for the national team. I have won with the national team [the European Championship]. It is always nice to play and win for your national team."
Warning up for new season in style
Federico Chiesa (left) and Dominik Szoboszlai both scored in Liverpool's win against Sunderland on Saturday ANDREW I CLARK/ IPS PHOTOS/GETTY
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Sport Commonwealth Games
Swimming
Choppy waters for Ramsay-Peaty but he has 'battle plan' for golden revival
Sean Ingle
Tollcross Swimming Centre
Adam Ramsay-Peaty has never been one to hide his emotions. He wears them proudly on his sleeve, next to the striking tattoos of a huge lion and Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea.
After his shock defeat in the 100m breaststroke final at these Commonwealth Games, the 31-year-old was back pouring his heart out – and insisting he had a 'battle plan' to win 50m breaststroke gold today.
Ramsay-Peaty certainly looked smoother in qualifying third fastest from the semi-finals in 26.82sec. However, he still has a couple of tenths to find on the South African Michael Houlie, who was fastest in 26.61.
The Australian Sam Williamson, who is hoping to add the 50m to his 100m crown, also looked good as he won his semi-final in 26.79. Yet Peaty pronounced himself happy with how he had bounced back from Saturday's shock loss.
'It felt much better,' he said. 'The last 24 hours have been a bit of a whirlwind, but I'm really happy
▲ Adam Ramsay-Peaty seemed more at ease with himself yesterday
with that. We're on a great trajectory for tomorrow.
'For me, the best way to ever get anything out of my head is just to write it out. When I write down what's going wrong, what's going right, what kind of change? What can't change? Then I've got a battle plan.'
He added: 'People forget I haven't done this for two years. And even I forget that. So as you go through heats, semis and finals, it's quite difficult if you're not used to it. So I think that perspective is a good thing.'
Peaty has stood on the top of the podium 32 times in global championships across his glittering career. Yet he has not won a gold medal since the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. That record was extended on Saturday when he could take only bronze in the 100m breaststroke in 59.65, behind Williamson, who won in 59.3, and the brilliant 18-year-old Filip Nowicki from Jersey.
Afterwards Ramsay-Peaty was strikingly honest about 'all the shit I have been through' to get ready for the Commonwealth Games, including the 5.30am starts, missing family gatherings because of training, and also the amount of abuse he and his family has received on social media.
Yesterday he added more context to his struggles, pointing out that he battled with burnout and a broken foot over the past four years, as well as hinting at the much-publicised estrangement with his family.
'There have been a multitude of things at play over the last few years – burnout, breaking my foot, fighting against something that you love. It's been hard,' he said. 'Some of it has
been quite painful, particularly from that foot injury onwards.
'Coming back to where I am now and making the decision to go for LA, I think this is going to be the hardest climb I've ever faced and the hardest test. It's really hard to see the summit because it's so hard. I don't think anyone understands.'
That 59.65 was nearly three seconds behind his world record –
and slower even than he swam at the British trials in the spring.
'I work a lot harder than a 59.6, really. It's not a good time – we know that,' he said yesterday. 'When your world record is three seconds away, we've got to seriously ask what's going wrong because that's not me.
'We need to look at it, interrogate it, look at the data, and ask whether it was an issue with race pace, fitness,
or something else. I don't think it was fitness, but there are a lot of components that make us swim, so we really have to analyse it.'
He added: 'I was fitter in April with less training, which doesn't really make sense, to be honest. I guess that's the learning point. Maybe I'm on a plan that I don't fully understand, and maybe it'll take another two years to find the right way.'
Netball
Garbin runs the show as Australia rip Roses apart
Yara El-Shaboury
OVO Hydro
Eight years after England's dramatic last-gasp triumph over Australia on the Gold Coast, netball's greatest Commonwealth rivalry was renewed in Glasgow. But this time there was no fairytale finish for the Roses as the defending champions dismantled England 66-47 at the Hydro, the Diamonds extending their record against this opposition at the Games to seven wins from eight meetings.
Ever since Helen Housby's last-second winner stunned the Diamonds
in the 2018 final, every meeting between these two has carried extra edge. Australia gained a measure of revenge by beating England on the way to gold in Birmingham four years ago and yesterday's Commonwealth Games pool clash was another marker of where the sport's fiercest rivalry stands.
Australia were quicker, sharper and more clinical from the opening whistle, with their star-studded attack of Sophie Garbin and Kiera Austin immediately exposing England's defence.
'It was very physical out there, but that's what we expected and that's
what we prepared for,' said Garbin. 'Obviously it's nice to get the win, but England put up a really good fight.
'We knew we had a lot of Scots barracking for us. I think everyone told us to go and smash the English girls, so we knew we'd have a lot of support here, but they would as well. It's awesome. That's what you want – to play these games in front of these crowds in this amazing arena. It was really exciting.'
The Diamonds raced into an early 10-4 lead as Austin began dictating proceedings, while England struggled to live with Australia's relentless pressure through the court. Sasha Glasgow was withdrawn before the end of the opening quarter as the interim head coach, Anna Stembridge, searched for answers, and Lois Pearson's move into goal attack briefly stemmed the tide.
England clawed back to 13-9, but every glimpse of momentum was extinguished by Australia's ruthless
efficiency. Garbin repeatedly found space on the baseline, finishing with 41 goals from 42 attempts, while Austin contributed 15 goals alongside 19 assists and 17 feeds.
By the end of the opening quarter Australia led 18-11. England attempted to shake things up early in the second period, introducing Jayda Pechová into defence while
shifting the captain Fran Williams into goal defence. The changes initially worked, with Pechová disrupting Australia's rhythm as England opened the quarter with a 4-1 burst.
Jamie-Lee Price and Austin restored Australia's composure, while England's frustration began to show. Liv Tchine remained the Roses' brightest attacking outlet, using her
◀ Australia's Sophie Garbin, who poured in 41 goals, evades pressure from England's Jayda Pechová during their 66-47 Pool A victory JOEL CARRETT/AAP
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Ramsay-Peaty going for 50m gold
Adam Ramsay-Peaty in action during yesterday's semi-finals ADAM PRETTY/GETTY IMAGES
On Saturday, Ramsay-Peaty also took aim at social media and traditional media too, which has become fixated with him and his pregnant wife, Holly - the daughter of the celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay - and his estrangement with his mother.
"You don't know who I am," he said. "And people who comment, people who see the story because
you read a headline, they've got to look themselves in the mirror. You can't hurt me."
He added: "That hasn't played a part in the sense of what I've experienced, because I'm still happy with that result in some sense, but it has to stop. How many athletes, how many people, have to go through this until the media learn their lesson? You have to learn and do better."
height and movement to keep England competitive, but Courtney Bruce and Jo Weston continually forced difficult feeds and turnovers.
Bruce and Tchine exchanged plenty of contact in the circle, while the contest became increasingly feisty as England tried to unsettle Australia's defensive unit. Tchine's shove into Bruce's back late in the second quarter summed up the growing frustration as the Diamonds stretched their advantage to 35-24 at half-time.
If England harboured hopes of another famous fightback, Australia extinguished them in the third quarter. They outscored the Roses 21-11 in a devastating spell, capitalising on errors with clinical precision. Turnovers, offensive contacts and loose passes repeatedly handed possession straight back to Australia, who punished every mistake. With a 21-goal cushion entering the final quarter, the contest was effectively over.
"That's definitely not the result that we came for but it's also not the performance," said Williams. "We were just far off our best and we never really got some momentum to get our teeth into the game, which is a shame. It's really tough when a game blows out like that in the second half. You've got to make sure that you're still going after those small wins and little fights."
England fan favourite Eleanor Cardwell entered to a huge reception from the Glasgow crowd and immediately injected fresh energy into the attack. Her battle with Sarah Klau added another flashpoint to an already bruising encounter, with Klau receiving an official warning after sending Cardwell tumbling to the floor. Cardwell refused Klau's offer of assistance before dusting herself down and continuing.
England marginally won the final quarter, but by then the damage had long been done.
Gymnastics
Ward claims all-around gold and welcomes back injured Langton
Sean Ingle
Glasgow International Arena
Surely the most heartwarming sight at these Commonwealth Games came shortly before lunchtime yesterday, when a young English gymnast hobbled to his seat in the Glasgow International Arena.
Thirty-six hours earlier, Gabriel Langton had landed on his neck after a horror fall off the high bars, leaving many of his fellow gymnasts in tears. Now, despite spending 24 hours in hospital and sporting a fair few bruises, he was back at the scene - and determined to make himself heard.
He shouted for his English teammates Luke Whitehouse and Adam Tobin, who finished seventh and fifth. And when it became clear they were not going to win, he urged on his British teammate Reuben Ward, competing for Scotland, to a brilliant individual all-around gold medal.
Ward had been one of those in tears on Friday night and after his win he remembered what the team's physiotherapists had told him when it happened: "Do it for Gabe."
"I went to junior Europeans in 2022 with Gabe," Ward said. "And I was there yesterday when he came back from the hospital and went to the Leonardo hotel, where Team England is staying. I was there. I saw him. I clapped him in, gave him a hug. I'm just so glad he's all right.
"Honestly, the other day in the team final when he was on the floor, that was very scary. When we went to junior Europeans, he was 15, and he was just a kid then, and now he's a man. And then he was on the floor. The physio came over, said: 'Do it for Gabe.' I think about three of us on Team Scotland cried, including me."
However, this was a day when gymnastics offered another reminder of the perils of this wonderful sport, with Singapore's Jovi Loh being taken away on a stretcher with what looked like serious knee injury.
The 18-year-old was finishing off his routine on the bars but he did not stick his double front-half dismount
▲ Reuben Ward shows his delight after securing an unexpected gold
and went down clutching a knee and grimacing in pain.
Ward's words were echoed by Tobin, who said he had also heard Langton shouting for him. "I didn't actually see him, but I heard him," he added. "I know what his voice sounds like. It's great, and I think seeing him walk back into the hotel last night, fit and healthy, was great.
"He was shouting: 'Let's go!' and: 'Keep it clean.' And it's so great. In the span of two days, he's gone through this incredibly scary, traumatic thing, and he's here and he's supporting me, Team England and
Team Scotland as well. So I'm just so happy he's doing great."
Tobin also praised England's coaches for keeping everyone calm amid the chaos. "I mean we were all completely shocked, and the first thing that jumped into our head was: 'Is he OK?' The coaches did a really good job of hiding us up, keeping us in a bubble, and just trying to keep our head scooted on because we still have a job to do. And then it became more than a medal. We were doing it for Gabe.
"It was a bit of a rollercoaster on the first day of competition. We walked away with a team medal, which I'm extremely happy about. And then from that point, I've had to calm myself down and build myself back up going into this competition today, so it's been a bit of a new experience."
Whitehouse, who had been the favourite for gold, put on a brave face after finishing seventh. Three falls proved costly, including one doing a triple backflip on the floor, which is his signature move.
"Overall I'm pretty disappointed," he said. "I didn't start the competition the way I wanted, falling on the first three apparatus and the triple back - that's pretty uncharacteristic for me. Then I just made a silly mistake on the pommel with a dismount."
However, Whitehouse was also able to put his disappointment into perspective. "It's such a relief to know that Gabe's OK and there's no serious injuries, just bruising," he said. "And to welcome him back to the hotel yesterday and present his medal to him, I couldn't be prouder."
Asked about his medal-winning performance on Friday after Langton's fall, Whitehouse added: "I don't know how I did it. It was a pretty horrific fall. I think you've just got to put that aside and just try not to think about it really."
▲ Scotland's Reuben Ward on the high bar in front of his home crowd TOM JENKINS/THE GUARDIAN
Today's highlights
A busy schedule in Glasgow, as the first athletics medals of the Games are awarded. There are 27 golds in total on offer across the sports; TNT's live coverage starts with bowls from 8.20am. Channel 5's highlights show is at 10.05pm.
The main events
Athletics and Para athletics
6.30pm-10pm
Plenty to watch out for, including former rugby player Jake Norris in the men's hammer, Hamish Kerr
in the men's high jump final and, in the women's T37-38 100m final, 2022's winner Olivia Breen of Wales battling it out with England's 2018 winner Sophie Hahn.
Swimming and Para swimming
7pm-10pm
Australia's Sam Short is favourite in the 800m freestyle. Also watch out for a shot at redemption for Adam Ramsay-Peaty in the 50m breaststroke, after Saturday's emotional 100m defeat.
Netball
2pm-5.30pm, 7pm-10.30pm
In the early session, England take on Malawi in Pool A; Tonga face Northern Ireland. Later, Scotland play Trinidad & Tobago in Pool B.
Artistic gymnastics
1pm-5.30pm
A busy lineup. Keep an eye on Ireland's Olympic champion Rhys McClenaghan, who was second at Birmingham 2022 and is determined to go one better.
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Sport Cycling Tour de France
Pogacar joins greats as Van der Poel wins frantic finale
Jeremy Whittle Paris
Tadej Pogacar took a record-equalling fifth win in the Tour de France yesterday, joining Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and Miguel Induráin in the canon of the Tour's most successful cyclists. In a thrilling finale to the Tour, Mathieu van der Poel took his second stage win of the race on the Champs-Élysées, fending off the pursuing pack of sprinters by a tyre's width, after breaking clear with Pogacar on the final climb of the Butte de Montmartre.
Merckx, widely considered the greatest-ever cyclist because of the breadth of his achievements beyond the Tour itself, believes that Pogacar will now go on to win a sixth Tour. "I don't think he'll be content just to draw level with me and the other champions," the 81-year-old Belgian said. "He'll soon break our record for Tour victories."
From Montjuïc to Montmartre, Pogacar and the stifling temperatures suffocated the 2026 Tour. A race staged against the backdrop of heatwaves and wildfires, culminated in the inevitable - another win for the relentless Slovene.
Pogacar had no equal in this Tour de France, breaking records on two of the most daunting climbs in cycling, the Col du Tourmalet and Alpe d'Huez, and shepherding his protege, Isaac del Toro, to third place in the final standings.
In another life, the Olympic road race champion, Remco Evenepoel, would probably have won his first Tour, and the French debutant Paul Seixas climbed on to the podium. It is their misfortune, and that of Jonas Vingegaard - who crashed out of the Tour - to race in the era of Pogacar and his impregnable UAE Emirates XRG team.
A leaner, meaner and more driven Evenepoel proved his doubters wrong, reasserting himself as a genuine contender for victory in Paris. But the Belgian knows too that
▲ Mathieu van der Poel sprints to his second stage victory of the race
Pogacar may have to retire before that happens.
The statistics tell the story of one of the most dominant performances in the modern history of the Tour. Pogacar won the race overall by almost six and a half minutes, took five stages and set record times for
legendary climbs in the Pyrenees and Alps. He might have won six stages, had it not been for his decision to allow Del Toro to win on stage two.
"I did really good this Tour," Pogacar said after Saturday's stage to Alpe d'Huez, while acknowledging the bad luck of rivals such as Vingegaard and Florian Lipowitz, both of whom finished on the podium in Paris last year and crashed out of this year's race. "It's the Tour, it's three weeks," Pogacar said. "A lot of shit can happen."
But his unrelenting success comes with caveats. It would be naive to celebrate a five-time Tour winner without understanding the context. There is no doubt that Pogacar is a phenomenon, but his entourage has baggage from less happy times.
His team manager, Mauro Gianetti, said: "Pogacar is so strong that no matter the team, there will be doubts concerning him." But 24 hours before the peloton arrived in Paris, Gianetti said he was a "victim" of past scandals involving riders on his teams.
The most infamous is the Saunier
Final standings
General classification
| 1 T Pogacar Svn | 73hr 56m 26s |
|---|---|
| 2 R Evenepoel Bel | 74hr 02m 52s |
Points classification
| 1 M Pedersen Den | 559pts |
|---|---|
| 2 J Philipsen Bel | 475pts |
King of the mountains
| 1 R Carapaz Ecu | 156pts |
|---|---|
| 2 T Pogacar Svn | 100pts |
Young rider classification
| 1 I Del Toro Mex | 74hr 06m 08s |
|---|---|
| 2 P Seixas Fr | 74hr 08m 22s |
Most Tour titles
| 5 J Anquetil (Fr) | |
|---|---|
| E Merckx (Bel) | |
| B Hinault (Fr) | |
| M Induráin (Sp) | |
| T Pogacar (Svn) | |
| 4 C Froome (GB) |
Duval scandal of 2008, when the Gianetti-managed team quit the Tour after their star rider, Riccardo Riccò, tested positive for a blood-doping agent. Riccò was fired, along with his teammate Leonardo Piepoli, and sponsors withdrew funding.
"I made the mistake of taking them in my team," Gianetti told L'Équipe. "I should have reacted differently, been clearer with the press, explained that I was a victim."
The old anxieties around Pogacar's entourage resurfaced after the Slovene and Vingegaard were sub-
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jected to night-time tests by the Independent Testing Agency before stage 15. The tests were supported by the Tour de France director, Christian Prudhomme, and the UCI. In a statement released three days after the tests the UCI described the controls as "an exceptional measure, reserved for limited and justified circumstances".
Despite the interrupted sleep, Pogacar was accepting of the tests. "If this is necessary to prove that we are riding clean," he said, "then I totally accept it. I commit to it."
The ITA has reiterated to the Guardian that "no public communication is made regarding negative results" but also that "there is no date from which all tests can be considered definitively negative".
To some extent, this leaves the achievements of Pogacar and those of Vingegaard, his longstanding rival, in limbo. Regardless, the Slovene is expected to ride next month's Vuelta a España, in an attempt to claim the only Grand Tour he has yet to win.
Next year, the Tour looks northwards, towards a Grand Départ in Scotland. Speaking to the Guardian last week, Prudhomme described Edinburgh as "a magical city". "Every time the Tour has visited Great Britain, it has helped the Tour de France grow," he said. "If the Tour can help bring major cycling events back to different parts of Britain, that would be fantastic. The UK has given the Tour an enormous amount."
Pogacar triumphs at Arc de Triomphe
Tadej Pogacar rides past the landmark on the Champs-Élysées in Paris en route to his fifth Tour de France win GONZALO FUENTES/MASTERS
Analysis
William Fotheringham
Pogi might not have the greatest numbers just yet but ability to win unopposed sets him apart
The 2026 Tour de France served up an epic battle that lasted for day after day between two protagonists of the highest calibre with different skillsets, a tale of epic breakaways, intriguing team tactics and reversals of fortune, building to a spectacular climax on the race's toughest stage. The contest for the green jersey of points winner between Mads Pedersen and Jasper Philipsen was a classic.
Those hoping for something similar in the race for the yellow jersey of overall winner were disappointed, and rapidly. Any suspense was eliminated with 42km of stage six remaining, high above the ski village of La Mongie, when Tadej Pogacar dislodged Jonas Vingegaard and the other putative race favourites on the Col du Tourmalet. It was a familiar stinging attack, and a familiar outcome, with the Slovene opening a lead that looked insurmountable, as indeed it was.
Analysing the race for the maillot jaune to the RMC radio station, the former FDJ United manager Marc Madiot did not mince his words: "There was one single rider who attacked in this Tour: Tadej Pogacar. He attacked once, and everyone understood it was finished."
Unfortunately for the neutrals, the art of cycling's greats balls down to this: they don't so much kill suspense as tie it up and eviscerate it before jumping up and down on its steaming remains. The neutrals have to make do with Pedersen and the green jersey, or Richard Carapaz and the polka dots.
From that moment on the Tourmalet, the chances of Pogacar joining Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and Miguel Induráin as a five-times Tour winner were nailed on, and yesterday evening, the world champion duly entered the record books. Even with the rise of Paul Seixas and Remco Evenepoel's confirmation as a man of the Tour, few would bet against "Pogi" taking the absolute record in 2027 if he chooses to do so.
Pogacar is exceptional in many areas, but in the elite club of quintuple Tour winners he also stands out: he is younger than the other four and, unlike all those who have stood in Paris as a five-time winner of the world's greatest bike race, there were no glitches or question marks to disrupt his serene progress to
Best of the best
Trophy hauls of the all-time greats
Eddy Merckx 11 Grand Tours, 3 world road titles, 1 Hour Record, 19 Monument Classics Bernard Hinault 9 Grand Tours, 1 world road title, 6 Monument Classics Tadej Pogacar 6 Grand Tours, 2 world road titles, 13 Monument Classics
the record books. Unlike all the previous true greats, at no point in the past few weeks could Pogacar wonder if victory might slip away.
Speculation that he might have switched to black shorts in the final week to disguise stomach issues doesn't cut it as a glitch - not compared with the broken nose that left Hinault looking like a boxer who'd had a bad night in the final week of win number five after a finish-line crash at Saint-Étienne. Or with the open wound on the crutch that dogged Merckx throughout the 1974 race, needing "constant care, bathing, the application of cream and sterile plasters, and cushioning with bits of foam and plasters". Merckx did win eight stages in that Tour, but he was close to collapse on the mountain-top finish at Pla d'Adet and was never the same athlete again.
Similarly, although he was eventually stripped of the victory for doping, 2003 was the only Tour when Lance Armstrong did not have the race sewn up until the final time trial, while in 1995, "Big Mig" Induráin and his Banesto team had
to cope with a day of crisis in the Massif Central en route to Mende. Anquetil, famously, was run close by Raymond Poulidor in 1964, and could thank his lucky stars that "PouPou" suffered a puncture in a key time trial.
In the pantheon of cycling's greatest champions, Pogacar has long since outstripped Big Mig, physically impressive but essentially a Grand Tour specialist who shied away from one-day Classics and never won a world road race title. He is far above the calculating but charismatic Anquetil, another who never shone in the Classics, although Pogi will never have the chance to match "Master Jacques" most insanely quixotic career challenge, winning the Dauphine Libéré stage race (now known as the Tour Auvergne Rhone Alps) and the Bordeaux-Paris motorpaced marathon without a day off.
When you get to Hinault, the statistical game becomes more nuanced, the debate more interesting. Pogacar has forged ahead of the "Badger" in major one-day wins - 13 Monument Classics and counting, plus two world road titles - but Hinault has won more Grand Tours, having won the Vuelta and Giro twice each, to Pogacar's single Giro win. As for Merckx, the Slovene has won fewer Grand Tours, fewer world titles and fewer Monuments than the "Cannibal", who also, famously and painfully, claimed the world one-hour record.
The debate over who is the greatest will continue and could well take a further twist if Pogacar rides the Vuelta and world championships later in the year, because if he starts those races, the chances are he will win both. Only when Merckx and Hinault were in their absolute prime could that be written, and that is the best reflection of where the past three weeks have put him.
Sport In brief
▲ Luke Littler enjoys a stylish World Matchplay win over Gerwyn Price
Darts
Littler smashes Taylor feat in matchplay romp
Luke Littler bulldozed his way to a second consecutive World Matchplay title as he crushed Gerwyn Price 18-9 in Blackpool. The 19-year-old averaged 111.53 in the final, setting an average for the tournament as a whole of 111.04 to break Phil Taylor's record of 106.31. Littler also broke his own competition record for 180s as he hit 12 in the final to reach 66 for the week, as he became only the third man to successfully defend the Matchplay final after Taylor and Michael van Gerwen, who did it most recently in 2016. Earlier, Beau Greaves claimed her third Women's World Matchplay title in four years as she edged Fallon Sherrock 6-5. PA Media
Cricket The Hundred
Buttler's mighty 90 fires Super Giants to victory
Jos Buttler hit a superb 90 as Manchester Super Giants went on to close out an 87-run win over Birmingham Phoenix in the men's Hundred at Old Trafford. After a delayed start because of rain, which had forced the morning's women's match to be abandoned, the visitors made inroads with the ball before Heinrich Klaasen's swift 210 and Leus du Plooy's 13 helped the hosts to 113 for four after 69 balls. But it was Buttler, who brought up a half-century with a huge six over deep midwicker, who led with the bat, eventually falling with three balls of the innings left. The Giants finished at 187 for five. Birmingham stumbled to 100 all out from 97 balls in reply. PA Media
Golf
Koivun, 21, holds off Scheffler for maiden win
The rookie Jackson Koivun shot a five-under-par 66 to see off a charging Scottie Scheffler and win on the PGA Tour for the first time at the 3M Open yesterday in Blaine, Minnesota. Koivun, 21, finished on 25 under par for a three-shot victory over the world No 1 Scheffler, who closed with a 63 at TPC Twin Cities. Koivun demonstrated serious poise to play the final two rounds of only his third tournament since turning professional without making a bogey. Reuters
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Sport Formula One Hungarian GP
The Guardian Monday 27 July 2026
▼ McLaren's Lando Norris takes the chequered flag ahead of Max Verstappen MARK SUTTON/FORMULA LIGETTY
Norris seals overdue win as Antonelli presses on
Giles Richards Hungaroring
Lando Norris finally had reason to celebrate after a testing opening to the season, as McLaren's defending Formula One world champion took his first win of the year at the Hungarian Grand Prix.
However, while the victory was thoroughly deserved in an incident-packed race, there was an all too familiar feel to the bigger picture as Kimi Antonelli emerged from a weekend that might have been considered damage limitation for the Mercedes
driver having once more extended his advantage at the top of the drivers' championship.
Norris was implacable with an assured drive from pole at the Hungaroring, achieving McLaren's record 14th win at the circuit. He maintained his cool having lost the lead to his teammate Oscar Piastri in the second corner and then showed relentless pace in going on to retake it through the pit stops. The Australian was unlucky and was left fuming that he had been blocked and struck while trying to lap the backmarker Carlos Sainz in a Williams at a crucial point.
Ultimately Piastri had to retire with a gearbox problem but by then Norris had the race by the scruff of the
neck and, in clean air out front, had powered into a commanding lead. By the flag he led Max Verstappen by 15 seconds, as the upgrades McLaren brought to Hungary proved to be working to great effect, especially in the British driver's hands.
▲ Kimi Antonelli stayed on course for the title with a third-place finish
Behind him, Antonelli again put the squeeze on his rivals by returning big points from an unlikely position. The Italian started from seventh, after a three-place grid penalty, but put in a very strong comeback drive to take third. Moreover, Antonelli's Mercedes teammate George Russell was left once more to curse a run of ill-fortune that haunts him as a blight he seems unable to shrug off.
Russell's car went into anti-stall on the grid, dropping him to 20th, a mechanical problem that led Toto Wolff, the team principal, to say Mercedes had to stop making mistakes. As Russell had applied a little throttle on the grid the power had surged, so he backed off it and the anti-stall was activated. He drove hard to come back to seventh but has dropped even more points to the Italian as the sport goes into its summer break, with Antonelli now leading Lewis Hamilton by 50 points and Russell by 59.
Like Russell, Piastri can consider himself to be on the very unlucky side of the ledger. He had been leading but was impeded and struck by Sainz as
he tried to lap the Spaniard. Piastri was very nearly knocked off the track but just held control to race on.
"Is he fucking stupid or what? Get out of the fucking way, you idiot. Oh my God," a furious Piastri told his team. Blue flag markers were being shown and Williams had told Sainz, who was at fault having not spotted Piastri and simply turned into the McLaren. He was penalised with a five-second penalty.
It certainly cost Piastri the lead but that was perhaps moot, as such had been Norris's pace in clean air after the Australian's early pit stop set him free that the world champion would likely have taken to the front anyway. But that would have been of scant consolation to Piastri, who had questioned the team's strategy as well.
There was frustration to for Hamilton, whose Ferrari team ordered him to take a late third pit stop under a virtual safety car, costing him track position to Verstappen and Antonelli. He could not make up those places even on fresher rubber, which Hamilton felt had been the wrong call, with
Monday 27 July 2026 The Guardian
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▼ Oscar Piastri was leading before retiring with a gearbox problem BERNADETT SCARCHESTERS
which it was hard to argue given how hard passing was in Hungary.
He crossed the line in fourth but dropped behind his Ferrari teammate Charles Leclerc because of a five-second penalty for pitlane speeding. It was a shame as Hamilton had battled hard throughout, including a thrilling to and fro with Verstappen in which
the Dutchman pulled off a bravura overtake diving up the inside at turn one which was worthy of the price of admission alone.
Yet the afternoon had really belonged to Norris and there was a palpable sense of relief and pleasure that he finally had the monkey off his back this season and that
▲ Lando Norris is congratulated by the McLaren team after his triumph BRYN LENNON/FORMULA 1 YSA GETTY IMAGES
Results and standings
| 1 | Lando Norris GB | 35pts |
|---|---|---|
| McLaren | 1hr 39min 56.180sec | |
| 2 | Max Verstappen Perth | 18 |
| Red Bull | +15.080sec | |
| 3 | Kimi Antonelli H | 15 |
| Mercedes | +18.728 | |
| 4 | Charles Leclerc Msc | 12 |
| Ferrari | +23.840 | |
| 5 | Lewis Hamilton GB | 10 |
| Ferrari | +24.540 | |
| 6 | Ixack Hadjar Fr | 8 |
| Red Bull | +55.488 | |
| 7 | George Russell GB | 6 |
| Mercedes | +57.503 | |
| 8 | Liam Lawson NZ | 4 |
| Racing Bulls | +1 lap | |
| 9 | Nico Hüllenberg Ger | 2 |
| Audi | +1 lap | |
| 10 | Arvid Lindblad GB | 1 |
| Racing Bulls | +1 lap | |
| Also finished | ||
| 11 | Gabriel Bortolote Br Audi | +1 lap |
| 12 | Pierre Gasly Fr Alpine | +1 lap |
| 13 | Lance Stroll Can Aston Martin | +1 lap |
| 14 | Fernando Alonso Sp Aston Martin | +1 lap |
| 15 | Franco Colapinto Nry Alpine | +2 laps |
| 16 | Esteban Ocon Fr Haas | +2 laps |
| 17 | Alex Albon Thu Williams | +2 laps |
| 18 | Carlos Sainz De Williams | +2 laps |
| 19 | Oliver Bearman GB Haas | +2 laps |
| Not classified | ||
| RET | Oscar Piastri Aus McLaren | DNF |
| RET | Valtteri Bottas Fie Cadillac | DNF |
| RET | Sergio Pérez Msc Cadillac | DNF |
| Championship standings | ||
| Drivers: 1 Antonelli 225pts; 2 Hamilton 169; | ||
| 3 Russell 160; 4 Leclerc 138; 5 Norris 128; | ||
| 6 Verstappen 109; 7 Piastri 92; 8 Hadjar 68; | ||
| 9 Lawson 43; 10 Gasly 42 | ||
| Constructors: 1 Mercedes 375pts; | ||
| 2 Ferrari 307; 3 McLaren 220; | ||
| 4 Red Bull 171; 5 Racing Bulls 66; 6 Alpine 61; 7 Haas 212; 8 Audi 12; 9 Williams 11; | ||
| 10 Aston Martin 1; 11 Cadillac 0 |
Lando Norris lifts the trophy after earning his first win of the season at Hungaroring MARK THOMPSON GETTY IMAGES
McLaren might yet, whisper it, be players in this title fight.
They have a long way to go, not least because Antonelli proved again that he is as indomitable in adversity as any veteran, but Norris will still believe this is far from over.
Earlier, F1 confirmed the addition of a race at the Sepang circuit in Malaysia, which will take place on 4 October between the rounds in Baku and Singapore. The meeting, which is to replace the cancelled Bahrain GP, is to be branded as the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia. with a Gulf state understood to be meeting much of the costs of hosting the race on the circuit near Kuala Lumpur.
The Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, also cancelled due to the war in the Middle East, will not be replaced.
Sepang last held an F1 meeting in 2017, which was won by Verstappen, and the addition brings the calendar back to 25 races, if the two meetings which close the season in Qatar and Abu Dhabi are able to take place. F1 is understood to be considering adding a race at Imola as the season finale if they are called off.
Results
Football
PREMIER SPORTS SCOTTISH LEAGUE CUP
Group A Aberdeen 3 Kelly G: Queen's Park 3 Queen of the South 1. Group B Arlircaith 1 Stirling G: Montrose 0 The Spartans 2. Group C Dumbarton 2 Cow 0: St Mirren 0 Dunfermline 1. Group D Kintiboskians 0 Ross 3: Dundee 4 Clyde 0. Group E Forfar 3 Brechin 1: Stonhoussmair 0 Livingston 0 (Stonhoussmair was 3-1 or zero). Group F Greenock Marrow 0 Awareness CF 1: St Johnstone 1 East Fife 1 (East Fife won 3-4 or zero). Group G Arv 4 Hana 1: Falkirk 3 Stroncarer 0. Group H Hamilton 5 Digh 0: Peterhead 0 Kilmarnock 0 (Peterhead won 3-4 or zero)
WOMEN'S CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
First qualifying round: Third-place finals (behavioral Podgorica 0) Hapoel Jerusalem 1: Glenfarian 4 Piyush 2:
K1 4 Zimbru Chiolona 1: Lasso 2 Skaggs 2014 0
First qualifying round: Final: Athlone 1 Czairé Szewowiec 3:
Mitravi 2: Ludogorets Razgval 0: PAOK 3 Nefro Bakr 0:
Kiga 4 Wrotham 1: Spartak Wynos 6 Wigari 1
BREEDON HIGHLAND LEAGUE
Banks 07 Dec 2 Mick Academy 0: Brevy 3 Deavennauld 0: Buckie Thistle 2 Heavens (Levi-Morris 0), Clachucadeh 0: Hewitt 0: Torres Mormons 1: Knift 1: Fruehlberg 0: Invergnorlos 0: Lussismouth 1: Huttig 0: Nairn 3 Ralhos 0: St-Johapay 1 Forrestime 2
SSE AIRTRICITY MEN'S HIGH PREMIER DIVISION
Galway 0 Waterford 0: Stags 2 Drogheda 2:
Friday St Patrick's Athletic 1 Donelab 1
Rugby league
WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL
France 4 England 58
BETIFIED SUPER LEAGUE
| P | W | D | L | F | A | PO | PA | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leeds | 20 | 16 | 0 | 4 | 698 | 304 | +394 | 32 |
| Waterford | 20 | 15 | 0 | 5 | 555 | 307 | +215 | 30 |
| Wigan | 20 | 15 | 0 | 5 | 587 | 375 | +212 | 30 |
| Warrington | 19 | 13 | 0 | 6 | 478 | 328 | +320 | 26 |
| Leigh | 20 | 13 | 0 | 7 | 458 | 378 | +80 | 26 |
| Half 68 | 19 | 12 | 0 | 7 | 348 | 323 | +225 | 24 |
| St Helens | 20 | 12 | 0 | 8 | 452 | 426 | +26 | 24 |
| Calcutta Dragons | 20 | 9 | 0 | 11 | 407 | 389 | -182 | 18 |
| Toukson | 20 | 7 | 0 | 13 | 432 | 498 | -60 | 14 |
| Casterford | 20 | 7 | 0 | 13 | 372 | 610 | -238 | 14 |
| York | 20 | 6 | 0 | 14 | 386 | 381 | -185 | 12 |
| Bradford | 20 | 6 | 0 | 14 | 386 | 389 | -223 | 12 |
| Hull | 20 | 5 | 0 | 15 | 337 | 441 | -104 | 10 |
| Huddersfield | 20 | 3 | 0 | 17 | 311 | 615 | -304 | 8 |
Leeds 42 Bradford 12: Leigh 28 Warrington 12:
Toukson 16 Catalina Dragons 19: York 22 Huddersfield 24
Friday Wigan 38 St Helens 16: Waterford 52 Castlered 14
BETIFIED CHAMPIONSHIP
| P | W | D | L | F | A | PO | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| London Broncos | 18 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 1151 | 174 | +97 |
| Newcastle | 20 | 17 | 0 | 3 | 913 | 236 | +677 |
| Wigan | 18 | 16 | 0 | 2 | 685 | 245 | +361 |
| Wolves | 19 | 17 | 0 | 5 | 662 | 280 | +302 |
| Barrow | 19 | 14 | 0 | 5 | 514 | 339 | +175 |
| Doncaster | 18 | 13 | 0 | 5 | 619 | 288 | +313 |
| Sheffield | 18 | 12 | 0 | 6 | 445 | 434 | +11 |
| Midlands | 18 | 10 | 1 | 7 | 426 | 442 | -18 |
| Baltist | 19 | 8 | 0 | 11 | 515 | 471 | -44 |
| Whitehaven | 19 | 7 | 1 | 11 | 394 | 549 | -155 |
| Drexbury | 18 | 7 | 0 | 11 | 410 | 434 | -14 |
| Salford | 21 | 7 | 0 | 14 | 480 | 724 | -244 |
| Rochdale | 17 | 6 | 0 | 11 | 273 | 548 | -275 |
| Goole | 20 | 6 | 0 | 14 | 422 | 705 | -293 |
| Keighley | 17 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 403 | 492 | -89 |
| Hamlet | 19 | 6 | 0 | 14 | 364 | 474 | -310 |
| Worlington | 18 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 344 | 550 | -206 |
| Swinton | 19 | 4 | 1 | 14 | 350 | 638 | -288 |
| Halifax | 19 | 8 | 0 | 11 | 482 | 504 | -22 |
| North Wales | 19 | 3 | 0 | 16 | 260 | 1298 | -1018 |
Goole 28 Dewsbury 24: Hamlet 18 Whitehaven 18:
Midlands 16 London Broncos 70: Newcastle 54 Swinton 10:
Oldham 28 Garrow 10: Sheffield 56 Rochdale 4: Workington 34 Kingsley 24
NATIONAL CONFERENCE PREMIER
Thistle Heath 32 York Acorn 18: West Bowling 20
Waterhead 22: West Hull 50 Rochdale 6:
Wigan St Judes D'Hunist 30
Cricket
THIRD MEN'S TRENTY'S INTERNATIONAL
Hunan Indus 192-5 (V) Suryanavanh 81: Zimbabwe 157-7
(W) Ruri 14 no). India beat Zimbabwe by 35 runs.
THE HUNDRED WOMEN
Ereeman 264 Trafford Match abandoned without a ball
beveled.
Trent Bridge Trent Rockets 142-7. London Spirit 146-5.
London Spirit beat Trent Rockets by five wickets.
THE HUNDRED MEN
Ereeman 264 Trafford Manchester Super Giants 307-5
LEC Battler 90: Birmingham Phones 100: Manchester
Super Giants beat Birmingham Phones by 87 runs.
Trent Bridge London Spirit 159-5 Trent Rockets 160-6
(SW Backett 75). Trent Rockets beat London Spirit by four
wickets.
BETING BANK ONE DAY CUP MEN
Group A Bristol Kent 208 (SA Northend 84):
Gloucestershire 212-4 (JR Brizley 81, CT Bancroft 89 no):
Gloucestershire beat Kent by six wickets.
Guildford Northamptonshire 254-8 (NA McSweeney 64,
SA Bartlett 62, BC Flanks 4-60). Surrey 208-4 (MG Thomas
83 no, RS Patel 64). Surrey beat Northants by six wickets.
Group B Levi Lancashire 383-4 (W Jennings 131, MS Norris
711: Lincolnshire 162-8 (R de Swardt 126, R Skable 91):
Lancashire beat Lincolnshire by 21 runs.
Taunton Somerset 337-8 (LP Galloway 101),
FA Limousine 85, JF Thomas 50: Warwickshire 212
UB Linott 52, JM Theobon 4-56). Somerset beat
Warwickshire by 125 runs.
Group B Endlerit Glamorgan 66: Middlesex 67-2.
Middlesex beat Glamorgan by eight wickets.
Trent Yorkshire 325-7 (W Luston 117, SW Whiteman 74):
Suisse 140 (V) Hudson-Premise 50: R Tudor 5-12):
Yorkshire beat Sussex by 184 runs (DL5 Method).
Chelmsford Essex 257-7 (T Westley 102): Derbyshire
248-9 (MRC Lane 97). Essex beat Derbyshire by nine runs.
New Road Worcestershire 307-8 (HC Callow 72, K 46 65,
DK Langan 64). Hampshire 303 (T) Post 70, NRT Lubbers
57). Worcestershire beat Hampshire by four runs.
METRO BANK ONE DAY CUP WOMEN LEAGUE 2
Bodily Worcestershire 304-8 (EX Bayslet 108, LC Caridge
95, R Knowling-Davies 4-41). Derbyshire 203 (A Griffiths
4-31). Worcestershire beat Derbyshire by 101 runs.
Needs Glamorgan 239 (Storge 63). Sussex 241-8
(P) Wilkinson 51; G Porter 4-31). Sussex beat Glamorgan by
two wickets.
Canterbury Middlesex 306-7 (A Downey 67 no, SW Hurley
61, KP Pindars 400). Kent 309-9 (R King 109, EL Barrilather
51). Kent beat Middlesex by two wickets.
Northampton Northamptonshire 311-8 (A Kenny 107,
R Cline 52). Lincolnshire 313-9 (RS Brooker 58, E Phillips
55). Match tied.
Tennis
WTA MSC HAMBURG LADIES OPEN (Germany)
Final: T Karpatsch (Ger) 94 A Bondar (Huo) 6-5-6-3
WTA LIVESPORT PRAGUE OPEN (Czech Republic)
Final: L Tagger (Aut) 8-0 Selger (Ger) 7-6 (7-3) 6-2
ATP MILLENNIUM ESTONIA OPEN (Canada, Portugal)
Men: Final: L Van Ansche (Fr) 8 A Blocks (Bel) 6-4 4-6 7-5
Cycling
TOUR DE FRANCE
Stage 21 (Thierry-Faris-Champs-Elysées, 89kns) 1 M van
der Post (Nett) Alperio-Presson 76 by Sifran-Ritaç,
2 J Pellipson (Bel) Alperio-Presson Tech, 3 M Pedersen
(Den) Lab-Truck 4 M Guiderot (Ev) 4/85 Motors Team
3 G Rasey (Nett) Rebellion CMA (GM Team) 4 M Nelstein
(Svr) Bahrain Victorious, 7 R Planners (Nett) Tudor Pro
Cycling Team, 8 A Turgis (Fr) Team TotalDvergies, 9 M Hattie
(Bel) Cofidis, 10 C Russo (Fr) Groussous FD (United at at
same time. Selected others: 25 F Wright (GB)
Phantoms G26: 2 Pro Cycling Team, 17 F Haley (Int) 10
Education EasyPost, 18 J Stewart (GB) HSN Cycling Team,
43 A Yates (GB) LMC Team Emirates -MIG
Overall standings: 1 T Pogacar (Svr) LMC Team Emirates
MIG 749-5 (Sim) Zloac, 2 R Evenquest (Bel) Red Bull-ROKA
Hampshire +06-26; 3 J del Toro (Mex) LMC Team Emirates
MIG +05-42; 4 P Seuss (Fr) Decaffron CMA (GM Team
+11-36; 5 L Maribos (Fr) Bahrain Victorious +13-02;
6 M Sajamson (Den) Lab-Truck +14-59; 7 J Apose (Sp) Lab-
Truck +17-48; 8 R Carasac (Ecu) 10 Education EasyPost
+20-00; 9 P Polusis (GB) Phantoms G26: 5 Pro Cycling Team
+29-26; 10 J Angel (Fr) Team TotalDvergies +33-21.
Selected others: 21 A Yates (GB) LMC Emirates -MIG
+1-51-59; 10 R Hodge (Int) 10 Education EasyPost
+5-51-65; 10 R Walker (GB) 10 Education EasyPost
+5-13-19; 12 R J Fasting (GB) Netcompany Ineos +5-28-28
Darts
PDC WORLD MATCHPLRY (Blackpool)
Final: L Littler (Eng) 8 G Price (Mal) 18-9
Golf
WOMEN'S SCOTTISH OPEN (Dumbentall Links, Germany)
Leading final scores (GB 6-1) unless stated, Fw 72)
279 1bn J (Oxo) 66 67 71 71. 281 1bn A (Khr) 67 72 74
- 283 P Anamacukaro (Thu) 71 69 69 74. 284 T Yamashita
(Ger) 70 68 73 71. 285 W Yamashita (Jan) 70 74 70 71.
L Coaghton (US) 66 74 71 71. 286 C Wamasami (Thu) 71 76
70-00. 287 L Maguire 72 72 73 70. E Nara (Jan) 70 70 71.
76, R O'Toole (US) 73 72 71 71. 288 J Lopez (Sp) 71 74 73
70; A Nouray (Jan) 70 70 69 71. 289 C Nouray (Jan) 70 70 76
67; P Tawatawahi (Thu) 71 69 70 71. Yang A (Khr) 74 69 71
- 290 D Dager (Int) 74 73 70 71. N Korda (US) 72 76 73
69; Kim HJ (Oxo) 75 70 73 72. 291 P Rousser-Bouchard (Fr)
73 73 76 69; W Stark (Swo) 74 72 73 72. A Hewson 75 75
73-71; D Dargans (Ecu) 73 73 74 74. Kim D (Oxo) 73 72 73
71; Zhang W (Zhu) 73 73 73 72. 292 N Kasewa (Duo) 72 74
73 73; R Zhang (US) 73 72 71 70. A Adampans (Thu) 73 73
73-75. 293 A Kumbant (Swo) 70 79 73 71. Yuan (Tao) 73
68 76 76. A Yates (Thu) 73 72 77 71. 294 M Naddad (Fr) 75
73 74 74. S Koselewa (Ezi) 77 69 74 72. M M Hwy (Md) 73
75 76 70; H Green (Aus) 74 76 74 70; C Neal (Jan) 72 74 75
75 1an MH (Oxo) 75 68 77 74.
SM OPEN (Marex, Minnesota, USA)
Leading final scores (US unless stated, Fw 71)
259 J Rousser 64 68 61 66. 262 L Scheffler 65 70 64 61.
264 R Harman 69 64 66 65. H Matayama (Jan) 70 65 65
- D McCarthy 66 68 64 66. C Phillips 66 65 66 67.
265 E Giles (Avg) 64 67 63 66. D Thompson 68 68 63 66.
266 R Halifax 67 69 65 70. 267 M Kim 69 70 70 69. E Power
(Ev) 68 68 63 66; G Woodland 64 71 67 65. 268 Z Bizer 68
65 68 67. B Herychei 67 68 65 70. J Kogas 68 70 68 62.
269 D Chatfield 69 68 64 68. Dmc Z (Cnr) 67 69 67 66.
P Flodham 70 68 66 65. Nc C-n (Sv) 69 66 66 68.
270 L Busselton (SA) 68 67 69 66. L Hodge 68 67 65
70; Kira 3-6 (Bor) 68 69 67 66. R Norrigard-Peterson (Den)
66 72 66 66. 271 C Bunnett 67 68 67 69. M Brennan 65 69
63 74. A Kitamura 68 69 66 68. Hiukaki 69 69 65 66.
J Parry (Eng) 69 69 64. A Smotherman 68 67 68 68.
J Parry 69 69 64 68. J Parry 69 69 64 68. J Parry 69 69 64.
C Kim 70 69 64 69. K Koy 65 70 68 69. 273 J Oatman 70 69
66 68. M Donohue 73 67 70 64. M Holland 70 69 65 69.
M McNulty 71 66 72 64. Y Whaley 67 69 68 69.
UV UNITED KINGDOM (Canada, Switzerland)
Leading final scores (GB 6-1) unless stated, Fw 72)
258 L Hattner (Aus) 61 66 65 67. 254 T W Hottler (Eng) 66 68[{"box_2d": [800, 832, 978,
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Highs and lows in Hungary
Hamilton criticises Ferrari but Norris feeling champion again
▲ Lando Norris is congratulated by Max Verstappen and Kimi Antonelli after his victory MARK SUTTON/ FORMULA | VIA GETTY IMAGES
Giles Richards
Hungaroring
Lewis Hamilton expressed frustration with his Ferrari team after he dropped points in the title battle against Mercedes' Kimi Antonelli at the Hungarian Grand Prix, while Lando Norris returned to form with the defending world champion claiming his first race victory of the season.
Hamilton finished in fourth place on the track at the Hungaroring but, with a five-second penalty imposed for speeding in the pit lane, he was classified as fifth in the race won by McLaren's Norris, with Max Verstappen second for Red Bull and Antonelli third.
Hamilton had been called in for a stop under the virtual safety car, which gave him fresh tyres but cost him track position to Verstappen and Antonelli. He could not make the places back and received the penalty. The call left him questioning the strategy decisions by his team.
"It was pretty bad. Pretty frustrating," he said. "I definitely don't think we should have taken the stop but the call came just before the pit-lane entry and I didn't have time to debate.
"I would never have stopped if it meant I was giving up track position. I may have been able to hold on to P2. He [Verstappen] was catching me but most likely it would have been P3 [in front of Antonelli] and it would have been much better."
Hamilton trails Antonelli by 50 points as Formula One enters its summer break, and the Briton feels that the annual shutdown has come at the right moment. "I'll work hard
to try and come back, reset," he said. "There's still a lot of places to take."
Norris, who took his and McLaren's first win of the year, believes that he is driving at his very best, better even than when he won the title. "Today I would probably say it was up there with one of my best performances, in terms of extracting performance out of the car and being so close to the limit every single lap," he said. "So close that the team had to ask me to peg it back a little bit.
"So although it kind of hurts me saying it because it doesn't mean that you just win, I feel I'm doing a better job this year than I was last year, and I have done for a little while."
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Pogacar still
'improving a lot' as he enters five-time club
Jeremy Whittle
Paris
Tadej Pogacar joined the small club of five-time Tour de France champions in a final stage in Paris that was neutralised by concerns over safety due to the threat of rain on the cobbles of the Butte de Montmartre.
Pogacar's dominant success, his fifth win in seven years, left Remco Evenepoel of Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe and the Slovene's UAE Emirates XRG teammate Isaac del Toro as the only others to finish within 10 minutes of his winning time.
Pogacar's achievements now rank with those of Eddy Merckx, another of the five-time winners and widely accepted as cycling's greatest champion. The 27-year-old's record-equalling fifth win was celebrated in a specially designed all-yellow kit, featuring the number five.
"You get more experience, you deal with things differently, there are small things that are improving," Pogacar said, "but it's the details that sometimes count, the mood and emotions. I think this is where I am improving a lot."
He paid tribute to the efforts of his teammates, several of whom spent the second half of the Tour fighting off sickness. "Massive respect for what all of the guys have been doing over the last three weeks. I already appreciated the work of my teammates but now it's another level and I must say thank you to every single one of them."
Pogacar hinted that he was again contemplating retirement. "I will definitely not be doing this for a long time," he said, suggesting that his teammate Del Toro was his natural successor. "He's still young, he's a quick learner, super smart and has a big talent and big engine so let's see where the road takes us. I'm happy to be with him in the team and that we can ride like this together."
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▲ Tadej Pogacar gives a wave to mark his five Tour de France wins
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