The Guardian - 18.08.2026
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The Guardian - 18.08.2026.pdf
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- 英国政治 / 气候政策争议 / 改革英国党副领袖传播虚假气候信息引发争议：改革英国党副领袖理查德·泰斯在记者会上否定气候危机并鼓吹享受热浪，引发护士、医学专家及环保人士谴责。泰斯称‘净零’目标无证据阻止气候变化，建议适应气候而非阻止。工党主席批其言论‘极其迟钝’，在野火肆虐与粮食安全受威胁时发表此言。
- 英国 / 环境与健康 / 英国野火肆虐与高温健康危机：数据与专家警告：2026年5-6月英国热浪期间野火频发，创历史最广泛纪录。英国皇家护理学院批评泰斯等人鼓吹享受高温的言论，强调气候变化已成公共卫生紧急事件。新数据显示老年人在36度高温下健康风险激增，医疗系统不堪重负。
- 英国 / 健康与社会 / 重度智力障碍人士平均寿命提前24年：研究报告：伦敦国王学院研究显示，重度智力障碍人士平均寿命仅58岁，比普通人群提前24年，40%死亡为可预防性。少数族裔背景重度障碍者寿命比白人同伴提前14年。肺炎、癫痫与脑血管疾病是主要可预防死因。
- 美国 / 交通与安全 / 泰勒·斯威夫特新专辑发布日车祸死亡人数激增：哈佛医学院研究发现，重量级专辑发布当天美国车祸死亡人数显著上升。泰勒·斯威夫特《午夜》等10张专辑发布日流媒体播放量激增43%，当天及前后10天死亡人数明显高于其他日子。研究揭示分心驾驶与音乐消费的关联。
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- 美国 / 经济与金融 / 美国通胀降至3.4%：美联储主席沃什推动货币政策改革：2026年8月美国通胀降至3.4%，但布伦特原油价格上涨至90美元/桶，或推高下半年能源成本。美联储主席凯文·沃什启动全面审查，放弃前瞻性指引与点阵图等传统工具，并任命15人专家委员会（含前英国央行行长默文·金）。
- 英国 / 足球 / 曼城社区盾失利：新帅马雷斯卡面临严峻挑战：曼城在社区盾0:3负于阿森纳，新帅恩佐·马雷斯卡接替瓜迪奥拉面临严峻考验。阿森纳表现出色，而曼城防守混乱、进攻乏力。罗德里即将转会巴塞罗那，马雷斯卡需重建球队结构与战术体系。
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2026年8月17日，周一 售价3.5英镑 订阅用户2.4英镑起
泰斯呼吁停止应对气候危机引发愤怒
改革英国党副领袖被指传播虚假信息，英国因野火陷入动荡
基兰·斯泰西 政策编辑
改革英国党副领袖在否定应对气候危机的努力并敦促英国民众享受近期热浪温暖的言论后，遭到护士、医学专家及环保活动人士的谴责。
理查德·泰斯昨日在记者会上发表上述言论后引发强烈反弹
当被问及近期极端高温时，泰斯在记者会上表示：“气候当然会变化，但有什么证据表明‘净零’目标能阻止这种变化？有什么证据？根本没有证据。气候变化一直存在，将来也会持续。或许更明智的做法是适应气候变化，而不是狂妄地认为人类能够阻止它。”
◀ 理查德·泰斯昨日表示：“天气稍暖时，我们就享受它。如果这意味着英国葡萄酒和起泡酒越来越好，那太好了。这意味着我们能击败法国——太棒了。让我们庆祝这些积极变化，而不是整天唉声叹气。”
工党主席布里奇特·菲利普森表示：“理查德·泰斯的言论极其迟钝。在野火肆虐英国、干旱威胁供水和粮食安全之际，此类言论不仅对其判断力提出严重质疑——更暴露了其真实利益所在。”
今夏英国气温屡创新高，多次突破35摄氏度，导致数千人死亡、数百万人就医，并令英国经济产出损失约40亿英镑。
英国政府估计，高温已致2,877人死亡
特朗普称若阿曼阻挠伊朗协议将轰炸阿曼
约瑟夫·盖登、安德鲁·罗斯 华盛顿报道
唐纳德·特朗普再次威胁，若阿曼"阻挠"其结束美以对伊朗战争的努力，美国将轰炸阿曼。两个月的伊朗和平谈判窗口期已过，但冲突仍无终结迹象。
约3万名哀悼者昨晚聚集伦敦，悼念杰森·阿德。他于上周五被发现死亡。此前他因抄袭指控辞去剑桥大学教授职务，但他否认了这些指控。新闻第2页→
针对阿曼的最新威胁表明，特朗普在外交上的不可预测且常显荒谬的做法已令美国伙伴不安，同时未能实现其承诺的战争终结突破。
"如果阿曼阻挠，我们会把他们炸个稀巴烂。"特朗普昨日在福克斯新闻中如此表示。这是他第二次对阿曼发出此类威胁。阿曼作为美国长期战略伙伴，长期以来一直是华盛顿与德黑兰之间的重要秘密沟通渠道。
昨日，中东多条战线上的冲突仍在持续。也门与伊朗结盟的胡塞武装声称，在红海对沙特阿拉伯——美国盟友——的一艘军舰及四艘护航舰发动导弹和无人机袭击。
沙特官方未证实此次袭击。胡塞武装称袭击击中了一艘沙特军舰及四艘护航舰。
袭击发生在靠近巴布-埃尔-曼德海峡的港口，该海峡是连接红海与亚丁湾的重要全球航运要道。
特朗普将其第二任期的政治遗产押在"首席和平缔造者"身份上，但其试图让美国脱离中东多个冲突的努力正陷入停滞。
在其几乎六个月前发动的伊朗冲突中，随着与德黑兰达成的外交窗口期已过且未能签署最终协议，特朗普对阿曼的威胁愈发显得无力。
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上图：为剑桥大学教授杰森·阿德去世举行守夜活动的哀悼者
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数以万计的人昨晚聚集在伦敦特拉法加广场，悼念并缅怀已故学者贾森·阿代。
“反种族主义团结”组织（此次守夜活动的组织方）估计，有30,000名哀悼者聚集在广场上，聆听来自下议院议员、朋友及活动人士关于阿代生平与遗产的情感演讲，并参与一分钟默哀。
许多人身着黑衣，手持鲜花，并被要求将鲜花留在广场上。
阿代享年41岁，周五其位于伦敦南部的住所报警后，急救服务宣布其死亡。此前，因抄袭指控（他本人予以否认）及其职业生涯与成就陈述中的不一致，他刚刚从剑桥大学教育社会学教授一职辞职。
活动伊始，克拉珀姆与布里克斯顿希尔斯选区工党议员贝尔·里贝罗-阿迪表示：“我环顾四周，看到今晚有如此多人到场。
“这就是贾森对你们意味着什么。他为身后之人推开大门，让成千上万的人得以通过。这就是今晚这里挤满人的原因。我知道在座的各位都在悲痛。我知道还有许多人甚至未能到场。”里贝罗-阿迪说。
晚会还由英国明星碧薇·奈特现场演唱其歌曲《保持这份激情》，以及一首由阿代家人点播的《Coldplay》乐队的《Fix You》。
多位演讲者重点谈及媒体在阿代之死中的角色。哈克尼北区议员戴安·艾伯特表示：“他一定认为，如果辞职，针对他攻击就会停止。但事实却是，攻击变得更加猛烈……这是一场恶毒的运动。”
公众支持
为家属筹款显示英国“仍然关心”
莎莉·韦尔
一位为贾森·阿代家属发起募捐活动的风筝事件运动人士表示，此次大量支持的涌现表明“英国仍然关心”。
阿代于上周五被发现死亡，此前一周他因被指控抄袭而从剑桥大学教育社会学教授职位上辞职。
由“反种族主义站起来”组织的悼念活动昨晚在伦敦市中心特拉法加广场的国家美术馆台阶上举行。
要求对媒体报道此案进行调查的呼声日益高涨。一封致安迪·伯汉姆的公开信要求进行公开调查“以确保我们永远不会再看到阿代博士这样的悲剧”，该信已收集超过85,000个签名。
首相据称对这一想法持开放态度，且未排除“列文森二期”——即英国新闻标准调查的第二阶段，该调查原计划于2018年取消。然而，他强调现在是反思的时刻，同时应遵循并完成常规程序（如死因调查）。
此前，剑桥大学校长克里斯·史密斯将围绕这位学者之死的所谓“种族主义煽动狂潮”形容为“种族主义煽动狂潮”。
周六，风筝事件日成功设立国家纪念日并担任该公开信签署者之一的帕特里克·弗农在GoFundMe上发起众筹页面，已筹集超过16 万英镑。
他告诉《新闻联社》公众的支持显示人们“仍然关心”并感到“愤怒”。
“英国仍然关心——无论黑人、白人还是棕色人种，人们都关心并对这种局面感到愤怒，”他说道。
“人们想要支持阿代家属。关于阿代有多少或没有多少钱的猜测很多——这不是重点。事实是，人们想要支持阿代家属，因为他已经去世，他死了，他有一个年轻的家庭。”
“风筝事件”运动人士帕特里克·弗农表示，今晚是“表达我们对其悲痛家属的敬意并与之团结一致”的时候。
“让我们记住他的一生、他的学术成就、他的成就、他的决心、他的人性以及他激励过的人们，”他说道。
但他补充称，反思“种族主义、制度责任、问责制以及对黑人家庭和黑人男性的对待”在阿代之死中的作用，以及为何对一位已知脆弱的自闭症男性的“关怀义务”可能未能履行，同样重要——这些都可能通过公开调查来实现。
工党议员布伦特东区的唐·巴特勒表示：“我很抱歉，因为我认为我们让他失望了。我让他失望了。
“我也对阿代家属感到抱歉，但我们未能保护他。但现在是团结的时刻。现在是我们确保实现可持续改变的时候。”
“反种族主义站起来”组织者萨米拉·阿里宣读了一位阿代的亲密朋友和同事的声明，其中写道：“贾森教授，‘善良’‘美好’‘温和’这几个词似乎环绕着对他无数的致敬，而这些并不错误。
“但说实话，言语永远无法完全描述贾森教授的为人，或他对人们意味着什么。”
该声明提到了阿代为有色人种学生和学者设立的导师计划和心理健康支持工作。声明写道：“他不知疲倦地激励所有来自边缘化背景的学生，让他们相信学术界也属于他们。
“他不仅激励了一两个人攻读博士学位。世世代代中有数十人因他而梦想成真，现在已成为医生并在不久的将来成为教授。”
由“反种族主义站起来”组织的悼念活动在伦敦市中心的国家美术馆外举行 摄影：阿丽莎·阿邦杜
维农表示，阿代的遭遇引发了关于新闻监管、剑桥大学以及“当今英国种族关系现状”的质疑。
在阿代去世前，剑桥大学曾表示将调查其“任命和任职”情况，并将调查结果纳入对高级职位任命流程的审查。
据了解，校方认为在阿代家人悲痛之际做出是否继续调查的决定并不合适。
史密斯表示：“我相信我们可以同时坚持两个原则：一是坚信学术诚信的重要性，二是在出现抄袭指控时，无论涉及何人，都必须确保对其进行严格调查。同时，我们也拒绝参与针对某位学者的种族化炒作。”
唐宁街在“现阶段”拒绝说明首相是否正在考虑发起调查。
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保加利亚人困惑：2027年欧洲歌唱大赛将在黑海城市布尔加斯举办，而非首都索菲亚
埃登·麦克拉奇兰 索菲亚报道
自从保加利亚歌手达拉在5月赢得欧洲歌唱大赛冠军以来，这个巴尔干国家首次有机会主办欧洲最大的音乐盛会已成定局。
然而，当保加利亚官方宣布2027年世界最大的现场音乐活动将在黑海港口城市布尔加斯（该市人口为210,000人）举办，而非首都索菲亚时，今年的冠军感到十分震惊。
"我真的很惊讶，"达拉告诉《卫报》记者。"我认为保加利亚国家电视台（BNT）将会把整个节目办得非常出色。我完全信任他们。如果他们决定在布尔加斯举办，那布尔加斯肯定更合适。"
今年春天在维也纳，达拉凭借高能量派对颂歌《Bangaranga》成为首位赢得欧洲歌唱大赛的保加利亚歌手，但在以色列参赛问题上，爱尔兰、西班牙、荷兰、斯洛文尼亚和冰岛等国抵制了该届赛事。
在她获胜后，保加利亚四个最大的城市——索菲亚、普罗夫迪夫、达拉的故乡瓦尔纳以及布尔加斯——都申请主办大赛。作为该国的首都和国际枢纽，索菲亚似乎一直是显而易见的选择。
许多人对这一决定感到意外
"我真的很惊讶。我完全信任他们。如果他们决定在布尔加斯举办，那布尔加斯肯定更合适"
► 达拉在今年5月维也纳欧洲歌唱大赛获胜后庆祝
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▼ 布尔加斯港口城市击败包括首都索菲亚在内的另外三个保加利亚城市，赢得明年大赛主办权
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修女们对“夺走海滩俱乐部”计划发起“圣战”
安杰拉·吉乌弗里达 罗马
一群修女正在抵制当局夺走她们海滩俱乐部的计划——这是意大利沿海地区长期争议中最新的一个爆发点，争议焦点在于私人特许经营权的垄断问题。
当地媒体将这场纠纷形容为“圣战”，起因是位于斯波托诺镇的巴尼·吉诺·加龙海滩度假村（由圣母玛利亚仁爱会的修女管理）的一处50米长的沙滩地段被地方当局指定为公开招标对象，以符合欧盟海滩特许经营法律及地区免费海滩配额规定。
自1946年起，这些修女便开始管理这处度假村，并因其将收入用于慈善事业（包括资助她们在斯波托诺仍在运营的一所幼儿园和夏令海滩营地）而被豁免于商业法规。
几十年来，她们一直出租躺椅和遮阳伞，运营模式与成千上万其他私人海滩特许经营权类似，唯一区别在于——她们声称收入被用于慈善活动。
然而，随着规管社会使命用海的法规不复存在，斯波托诺市长马蒂亚·菲奥里尼告知修女们，该特许经营权将被重新分类为“免费配套海滩”，若她们希望继续经营，就必须参与公开招标竞争。
在一次关于此话题的公开辩论中，80多岁的米兰达修女向菲奥里尼发起挑战。她说：“这是我们的海滩。市政府凭什么要夺走它？如果他们得逞，我们连学校都办不下去了。”
▲ 意大利利古里亚海岸斯波托诺的海滩极具吸引力
保加利亚第四大城市布尔加斯的选择令许多人意外，因为索菲亚拥有最大的体育场，”保加利亚索菲亚机场29岁的空中交通管制员帕维尔·斯特凡诺夫说。
来自索菲亚的54岁设计师米莱娜·乌祖诺娃对布尔加斯的举办能力表示怀疑：“我很失望。我认为索菲亚是更好的选择，那里更大，我们有大型体育场。布尔加斯是个不错的地方，但我不确定一年后能否准备就绪。”
位于保加利亚南部黑海海岸、距索菲亚近400公里的布尔加斯，比保加利亚首都更靠近伊斯坦布尔。它三面环湖一面临海，拥有成熟的旅游业，是保加利亚国内外游客的热门海滨目的地。这里也是保加利亚第二大港口和欧洲南部最大的炼油厂所在地。今年，它还承办了环意自行车赛首站的起点，这是法国环法自行车赛的意大利版。
为承办欧洲歌唱大赛，布尔加斯已在可容纳15,000人的阿雷纳·布尔加斯（2023年竣工）周边展开准备，这座音乐厅将承担起举办欧洲最大派对的重任，而该市机场也表示已做好迎接客流增长的准备。
欧洲歌唱大赛的配套活动将在布尔加斯市中心和海滨公园举行，这是该市面朝黑海的最大公园，当地人通常在此聚会或小酌。
然而，布尔加斯并非欧洲歌唱大赛最小的主办城市，其规模仍远大于1982年在哈罗盖特举办赛事的英国（该届赛事为Bucks Fizz夺冠后举办）。
欧洲歌唱大赛决赛将于5月15日举行，半决赛在5月11日和13日进行，加拿大将首次参赛。新规则将提高最低参赛年龄从16岁至18岁，并可能禁止卷入武装冲突国家主办赛事。
Fiorini表示，如果他们想继续管理特许经营权，“就必须像其他所有人一样参与投标”。该投标将于今年秋季发布。
市长的计划意味着斯波托诺可能成为意大利首批在2027年6月30日前将现有私人海滩特许经营权公开招标的市镇之一，以符合欧盟《博克施泰因指令》的要求。
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Virgin Trains 向欧洲开通服务再进一步，打破 Eurostar 垄断
劳伦·阿尔梅达
维珍列车（Virgin Trains）已获得铁路监管机构的轨道准入许可，可自 2030 年起在伦敦至巴黎、布鲁塞尔和阿姆斯特丹间开通服务，这一举措是打破 Eurostar 对英吉利海峡客运线路垄断的关键一步。
英国铁路和道路管理局（ORR）表示，已批准理查德·布兰森的公司在伦敦圣潘克拉斯与英法海底隧道间的高铁 1 号线（HS1）上运营最多 20 对日班往返列车。
该协议覆盖期为 2030 年 10 月 1 日至 2040 年 12 月 31 日，意味着维珍列车已跨越另一道重要监管障碍，向开通国际服务迈进。然而，该协议仅涵盖 HS1 线路，维珍仍需获取英吉利海峡隧道及欧洲大陆铁路网络的准入权限。
去年 10 月，维珍获准共享 在伦敦东区的 Temple Mills 车辆段，用于维护和存放列车——这是唯一可从 HS1 线进入的车辆段。
曾由英国纳税人部分持有，现由法国铁路运营商 SNCF 控制，自其开通以来一直垄断英法海底隧道的客运服务。隧道运营方 Eurotunnel 则经营 LeShuttle 汽车摆渡业务。
▲ 维珍列车在伦敦圣潘克拉斯国际站的插图
此前因高票价饱受批评，并在过去十年间缩减网络规模，放弃了肯特郡阿什福德和埃布斯弗利特的国际服务。
布兰森此前曾表示“现在是时候结束这一 30 年垄断，为英吉利海峡线路注入维珍的魔力”。维珍计划在圣潘克拉斯与 相同的巴黎、布鲁塞尔和阿姆斯特丹站间开通服务。
随着英国对国际铁路旅行需求增长， 去年宣布将在隧道内开通双层列车，而英德联合工作组也在考虑伦敦直达柏林的直通列车计划。
ORR 表示，其最新的轨道准入决定是“重要的下一步”，但“仍需做更多工作”才能开通新服务。ORR 准入与国际事务副主任马丁·琼斯（Martin Jones）表示：“这是为国际铁路服务市场引入竞争与增长的重要一步，我们欢迎维珍列车与伦敦圣潘克拉斯高铁项目取得的进展。虽然仍需做更多工作，但我们正支持维珍及整个行业发展国际服务。”
例如，维珍列车必须获取其他铁路网络的准入权限，并在 2030 年开通服务前从 ORR 及欧盟相关监管机构获得安全批准。
维珍此前在英国运营城际列车，包括伦敦至格拉斯哥线路，并表示计划投资 7 亿英镑用于英吉利海峡项目，在英国创造约 400 个就业岗位。
维珍集团发言人表示：“我们计划于 2030 年开通伦敦至欧洲的新铁路服务正在稳步推进。我们欢迎 ORR 对轨道准入协议的预批准，并期待为英吉利海峡隧道带来竞争与维珍获奖的客户体验。”
海登·潘妮蒂尔：出演《纳什维尔》与《英雄》的明星，享年36岁
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海登·潘妮蒂尔（Hayden Panettiere），因在《英雄》与《纳什维尔》等电视剧中的角色而为人熟知的演员，于36岁时去世。
她的父亲斯基普·潘妮蒂尔（Skip Panettiere）表示：“我们怀着深切的悲痛，分享这一无法弥补的损失。她是一道耀眼的光芒，一股自然的力量，为所有认识她的人——以及数百万观众——带来了无尽的爱与快乐。”
他请求外界“在我们家人处理这无法想象的丧失时，给予隐私”。
潘妮蒂尔出生于1989年，是一位童星，仅11个月大时就开始演戏，曾在玩具广告中亮相。她在9岁时为动画片《虫虫危机》配音，完成了自己的大银幕首秀。
2000年，她出演体育剧情片《Remember the Titans》。2004年，她在迪士尼频道的《Tiger Cruise》中首次担任主演，饰演比尔·普尔曼（Bill Pullman）角色的女儿。
► 潘妮蒂尔在《英雄》中饰演无敌啦啦队员克莱尔·本内特——这部热门剧集让她走向全球；上图为2009年她的剧照
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潘妮蒂尔在17岁时因在《英雄》中饰演无敌的啦啦队员克莱尔·本内特而声名鹊起，该剧以那句著名的神秘口号为标志：“拯救啦啦队员，拯救世界。”
潘妮蒂尔还因在《纳什维尔》中饰演备受困扰的乡村音乐明星朱丽叶·巴恩斯而获得两项金球奖提名。她为该剧录制的11首歌曲曾登上《公告牌》乡村歌曲榜。
她还在2011年的《Scream 4》和2023年的《Scream VI》中饰演柯比·里德。
2014年，她与前未婚夫、乌克兰重量级拳击冠军弗拉基米尔·克里琴科（Wladimir Klitschko）生下女儿卡亚·克里琴科（Kaya Klitschko）。2018年，她将女儿的全部监护权交给克里琴科，以专注于从“多年来与抑郁、焦虑、酗酒和药物滥用的可怕循环”中恢复。
“我不知道酗酒的尽头在哪里，产后抑郁又从何开始，”她在2022年说道。“我把自己逼到了极限。”
2015年，她在拍摄《纳什维尔》期间进入戒毒所，这段经历也为剧集的部分故事情节提供了灵感。
“这一路并不容易，有很多起伏，”潘妮蒂尔在2022年告诉《人物》杂志，“但即使是发生在我身上的最糟糕的事，我也不后悔。我感到无比成就。”
今年，她出版了回忆录《This is Me: A Reckoning》，书中触及了她在名誉、产后抑郁、成瘾与康复之路上的挣扎。她在书中写道，自己曾将演戏与爱情联系起来：“导演、粉丝和妈妈不断赞扬我夸张的戏剧性反应。潜意识里，我开始将灾难与宠爱联系在一起；人们喜欢我，是因为虚构的坏事发生在我身上。”
▲ 2011年，潘妮蒂尔与孩子的父亲弗拉基米尔·克里琴科在一起；下图为她在2004年迪士尼《Tiger Cruise》中的首个主演角色剧照
今年5月，她在与播客主持人杰伊·希提（Jay Shetty）的对话中谈及女儿时说：“我总想把她拥入怀中，但生活并非总能如愿。我坚信她会来到我身边，我们将拥有一段非凡的关系、纽带与友谊——许多父母无法与孩子拥有的。”
潘妮蒂尔的父亲和母亲在世。她的弟弟詹森（Jansen）于2023年因心脏问题去世，享年28岁。
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部长们在遭遇强烈反对后放弃放宽经济适用房规则计划
在住房专家发出警告——放宽规则可能会大幅削减农村地区更便宜住房数量——后，英国政府部长们已放弃放宽英格兰地区开发商经济适用房规则的计划。
政府表示，在咨询引发压倒性负面反应后，将不会推进取消私人建筑商在10至49栋住宅项目中建造经济适用房配额的提案。
该变动原本包含在政府昨日发布的长达150页规划改革文件中，是自安迪·伯汉姆出任首相以来部长们对住房政策做出的最重大政策逆转之一。
英国全国住房联合会（NHF）首席执行官凯特·亨德森表示：“政府倾听社会住房行业的声音并决定不再取消中型开发项目现场经济适用房要求，这极为积极。这一决定将保障农村地区提供社会住房的最重要途径之一，确保我们能在全国各地邮政编码区域真正建造人们负担得起的住房。”
根据原计划，部长们本可允许开发商在其开发项目为10至49栋住宅时，以现金支付代替现场建造经济适用房。
部长们原本希望此举能提振低迷的房屋建设速度。但住房专家表示，此规则变动将产生重大影响，尤其是在农村地区，大量经济适用房系通过中型项目而非大型项目建造。
政府文件显示，在参与咨询的910名个人和团体中，41%强烈反对该措施，仅18%强烈支持。文件称：“各利益相关方普遍存在强烈反对。”
文件补充道：“政府已考虑这些回应，并决定不再推进允许申请人在中型项目中通过现金支付代替现场交付社会和经济适用房要求的提案。”
Sainsbury's商店暂停AI扫描行为
作者：海伦娜·霍顿
在一名顾客被错误识别为商店扒手并被逐出店外后，Sainsbury's已暂停在其中一家商店使用AI面部扫描技术。
马特·阿诺德（46岁）回忆起那段经历时表示：“我感到尴尬——甚至可以说是羞辱，并觉得无助又无力。”
这位顾客正在伦敦东南部东达利奇的一家商店为达利奇汉姆莱特足球俱乐部购买物资。在扫描完商品和Nectar会员卡后，两名经理走近他，告诉他因之前的事件不能为其服务。随后他们要求他离开并试图护送他出店。
“他们只是告诉我他们会护送我出去，”阿诺德说，“就在这时我决定坚持立场，表示我会自己离开。我决心至少要保留些尊严。在这一点上，如果没有其他收获的话，他们确实让步了。”
在他离开时，他看到头顶的闭路电视监控器上有一个红圈围绕着他的面孔。他请商店员工将他的购物车留在原地，以便他的朋友能代为购买所需物资。
“我想他们当时显然也很困惑，但出于理解还是同意了。我的同事戴夫随后进去支付并取走了商品，大约五分钟后。员工们没有丝毫停顿思考，也没有意识到这不是扒手会有的行为。他们只是机械地遵从机器的指令。”
Sainsbury's总部次日向阿诺德致歉，并已暂停在该店使用其AI辅助的Facewatch技术，同时展开调查。
阿诺德表示：“任何人都可能被误指控，而总有一天这会发生在某个脆弱的人身上，比如有焦虑症等心理健康问题的人。这是不可避免的。
此外，我会担心这种事发生在年轻人或不太愿意或无法维护自己权利的人身上，对他们的自信造成破坏性影响。”
这家连锁超市使用面部识别技术识别扒手和其他犯罪分子，
并表示这是为了保护员工免受侵害。但这项技术一直问题不断。去年9月，另一名顾客沃伦·拉贾在伦敦南部象堡的一家分店被同一软件错误识别后被勒令离开。类似案例还发生在Home Bargains和B&M商店。
阿诺德说：“Sainsbury's，以及任何使用Facewatch的公司，都应立即禁用该系统，至少在能保证系统无误前如此。他们已宣布暂停东达利奇商店的监控……但这是一套集中式系统，为何不在所有商店暂停？如果东达利奇存在潜在问题——无论是AI本身还是其实施方式——其他所有商店也可能存在同样的问题。”
他还表示对社会中AI兴起感到担忧：“我不喜欢监控文化，但我知道有时它是必要的。但没有必要让机器做出决定，然后期待人类毫无异议地执行。”
Sainsbury's发言人表示：“我们已联系阿诺德先生，为他在达利奇超级商店的经历致歉。此次事件是由人为失误造成，而非面部识别技术本身。顾客可以放心，Facewatch系统的准确率为99.98%，且每次匹配结果均由受过培训的经理审核。”
Facewatch发言人表示该技术在此案中并无过错：“零售商收到了正确的警报，但随后在店内处理过程中出现了人为失误。”
该公司称暂停一家商店是“预防性措施”，以防止在员工接受额外培训期间出现更多警报。
Sainsbury's表示，警报在员工设备上最多可见一小时，且已记录所有误识别情况。
“根本没有片刻思考的余地……他们只是机械地执行机器的指令。”
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别再与气候危机作对了，泰斯说，享受热浪去吧
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在5月和6月的热浪期间——这一数字是去年夏天整个季节的两倍。
气候崩溃已被联系到野火频率的上升，这些野火正在全球多地燃烧更大面积的区域。英国数周前的所谓“火浪”是该国有记录以来最广泛的一次，潮湿的冬季与持续的热浪相结合，加剧了风险。
《柳叶刀》新发布的数据显示，老年人在比以往预想更低的温度下就受到高温影响，而医疗专业人士表示他们正在应对患者激增的困境。
英国皇家护理学院发言人表示：“那些呼吁人们享受气候变化影响的人，应该对着在医院里因温度高达36度而倒下的护士们说这话。或者对着每天因极端高温导致重病的脆弱人群、老年人甚至无基础疾病者排满走廊的成千上万患者说这话。
“气候变化是一场日益恶化的公共卫生紧急事件……护理行业不需要脱离现实的干预，而是需要减少排放并让NHS（英国国民医疗服务体系）和护理设施安全地工作和接受护理。”
斯旺西大学公共卫生研究员西蒙·威廉姆斯表示：“看到如此高调的人物散布气候变化及其影响的错误信息，令人担忧。尤其是对老年人而言，长期的热浪会削弱他们调节体温的能力。哪怕只有几度的变化，都可能产生重大影响。”
英国养老慈善机构Age UK的负责人卡罗琳·亚伯拉罕斯将这项关于高温对老年人影响的新发现称为“alarming”（令人警醒），并补充道：“这项研究意味着现在无法否认极端高温对我们老年人群构成切实的健康威胁。”
与此同时，英国全国农民联合会表示农民正面临“有史以来最糟糕的收成之一”，而消防员已在德比郡、英格兰中部、威尔士和北爱尔兰与野火展开搏斗。
改革英国党长期以来一直在游说政府放弃到2050年实现净零排放的承诺，并承诺若当选将终止绿色补贴。该党自2019年成立以来已从与化石燃料行业有关联的人士处获得数千万英镑的捐款，最引人注目的是亿万富翁克里斯托弗·哈伯恩（其拥有喷气燃料经纪业务），他向奈杰尔·法拉奇捐赠的500万英镑现已成为议会调查的中心。
尽管法拉奇质疑人类活动在改变气候中所扮演的角色，但其副党魁泰斯则更直言不讳地否认地球正在经历气候危机。
他于2024年发帖称：“我们并未处于气候紧急状态，也不存在气候危机。但是，气候变化是真实的，因为它在过去数百万年里一直存在，未来也会继续。”
昨日他呼吁政府投资海水淡化厂，并称这些设施在中东运行良好——他本人大部分时间都在那里度过。他说道：“关于在世界其他地区非常成功使用的海水淡化厂，讨论在哪里？是的，中东陆地上的水资源不多。他们使用海水淡化厂。我们周围都是水。修建水库太困难——让我们看看海水淡化厂吧。”
上周《卫报》报道称，泰晤士水务正准备让英国唯一的大陆海水淡化厂于今年晚些时候重新投入运营——但该设施要到冬季才能投入使用。
阿拉斯代尔·约翰斯通（能源与气候智库联盟议会事务负责人）表示：“今年夏天对许多人而言并非愉快体验，而是带来了苦难——5月和6月的热浪已导致2,877人死亡，其中超过1,100例直接归因于气候变化带来的额外高温。消防员已出动超过1,000次扑救野火，这些野火摧毁了自然景观、迫使民众流离失所并摧毁了家园。
‘要防止这些气候变化影响变得更加普遍和严重，唯一的方法就是从根本上解决问题，即在2050年前实现净零排放。’
绿色和平英国项目总监艾米·卡梅伦表示：“改革英国党应尝试告诉那些在值班时晕倒的护士、因庄稼歉收而蒙受损失的农民以及从燃烧的家园中逃生的人们‘享受’高温天气，看看他们会得到什么反应。”
补充报道 丹尼斯·坎贝尔、阿吉特·尼兰简
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福利改革削减计划将“摧毁安全网”
帕特里克·巴特勒 基兰·斯泰西
改革党公布的计划将每年削减英国福利支出500亿英镑，活动人士警告称，这将使成千上万的儿童陷入贫困。
这些警告是在改革党公布计划后发出的，该党计划大幅削减残疾人津贴、禁止非英国公民申领福利，并为数千名长期失业者强制实施每周20小时无偿“劳动福利”计划。
计划还提出改革病假制度，要求雇主在员工患病的前两年承担其福利金。此外，工党去年废除的“两孩福利限制”将被重新引入。
一份泄露的政府分析显示，对残疾人津贴的削减幅度极大，即使是身患绝症、失明或重度学习障碍的人，每年也可能损失高达£50。
活动人士称这些广泛的提案“残忍且危险”，一家反贫困慈善机构表示：“这将导致可怕的贫困和困苦水平。”
近年来，福利制度改革在政治上一直备受争议——去年，基尔·斯塔默政府在遭遇后座议员反对后被迫放弃削减残疾人津贴50亿英镑 / 年的相对温和提案，并放弃了保留“两孩限制”的计划。
改革党的计划在其自身选区也可能引发问题。下议院数据显示，改革党领导人奈杰尔·法拉奇所在的克拉克顿选区，每六名工作年龄成年人中就有一人（15.3%）申领个人独立支付金（PIP），几乎是英格兰和威尔士平均水平的两倍。
◀ 活动人士批评这些提案（包括用统一固定津贴取代PIP及部分统一信用制）为“残忍且危险” 图片来源：WIXTON SUTHEROWICZ / FUTURE PUBLISHING / GETTY IMAGES
法拉奇和该党财政发言人罗伯特·詹里克在前言中表示，这些计划建立在“常识原则”之上，并补充称：“一个原本作为安全网的制度已沦为一种生活方式，甚至包括那些未缴纳一分钱的外国人。”
他们的提案包括用每月429.80英镑的统一“健康保障津贴”取代PIP及部分统一信用制。政府内部分析显示，对于重度需求者，这笔津贴每年将比他们目前获得的津贴少£5。
詹里克昨日表示，最脆弱群体的需求将得到保护，该党还表示残疾人可申领其残疾的真实额外成本。然而，他未说明这些成本将如何评估。
工党消息人士表示：“这份分析揭示了改革党福利提案的真实影响。改革党非但无法确保福利制度的未来，反而会摧毁数百万英国人赖以生存的安全网。”
代表逾150家慈善机构的“残疾人福利联盟”表示，改革党的计划将“极大增加贫困并恶化人们的健康状况”，通过剥夺数百万人的残疾福利。
“残疾权利英国”称，改革党未能理解残疾福利对残疾人生活的重要性，其做法“荒唐至极”。《范围》慈善机构则指责其“将残疾人推入贫困并称之为仁慈”。
约130万非英国公民目前申领英国全民信用津贴，其中约65万人未就业，据英国财政研究所（IFS）数据。该机构表示，禁止非英国公民申领津贴所能节省的金额，将取决于有多少人通过申请公民身份来应对政策变化。
英国财政研究所副主任汤姆·沃特斯（Tom Waters）表示：“剥夺非英国公民的津贴将意味着申领者收入骤减，并导致困境显著加剧——目前该群体中许多人依赖津贴作为全部或大部分收入来源。”
改革党称，其计划将在本十年末前推动额外241,000名英国公民就业，同时削减英国年度工作年龄段津贴支出约四分之一。
该党表示，国家养老金将完全免受削减，并为其所称的“重度残障人士”提供类似保护。
英国志愿组织全国理事会（NCVO）首席执行官凯特·李（Kate Lee）表示，此类计划可能破坏慈善机构与其服务社区之间的信任。
北海石油：音乐家呼吁首相拒绝新钻探计划
劳伦·阿尔梅达
包括Massive Attack和布莱恩·伊诺在内的200多位音乐家已致信安迪·伯纳姆，敦促其拒绝在北海进行更多石油和天然气钻探的计划。
由211位艺术家签署的这封信包括Olly Alexander、Paris Paloma等人，呼吁首相拒绝罗斯班克油田项目，并警告称该项目无法降低能源账单或提供能源安全，因为大部分石油可能被出口。
参与此信的其他表演者还包括： Radiohead的汤姆·约克、埃德·奥布赖恩和菲利普·塞尔韦；The Cure的罗伯特·史密斯；Primal Scream的博比·贾勒斯皮；Hot Chip的亚历克西斯·泰勒；阿努什卡·香卡、凯文·罗兰、安娜·卡尔维、雅各布·科利尔、大卫·格雷、电子音乐组合Bicep以及xx乐队的Romy。
政府对该项目的咨询（位于设得兰群岛西北约80英里处）已于昨日结束。部长们将决定该项目及阿伯丁附近杰克道气田的未来，后者的咨询已于一周前结束。
负责这两个项目的Adura公司表示，这些项目将带来108亿英镑的投资，并在建设高峰期支持3,500个就业岗位，生产期内将雇佣880名员工。
然而，环保活动人士认为，从英国最大的未开发油田提取化石燃料将加剧气候混乱。估计罗斯班克油田在其生命周期内可能排放超过2.5亿吨二氧化碳，相当于英国年度排放量的70%。
◀ 211位签署者包括（从左上顺时针方向）：阿努什卡·香卡、汤姆·约克、Paris Paloma和布莱恩·伊诺
艺术家们在信中写道：“气候危机不再是我们对后代的担忧，它正在塑造我们今天的生活。热浪正在扰乱学校、工作场所、医院、交通网络、音乐节和现场活动。”
布莱恩·伊诺表示伯纳姆此前曾支持艺术家和活动人士，呼吁终止化石燃料扩张。
伊诺说：“因此他必须做出选择。他可以站在化石燃料产业一边批准罗斯班克项目，或者站在将承受该决定后果的民众一边。”
“我们已经看到更热世界的模样：英国和欧洲各地出现创纪录高温和毁灭性野火。此时此刻，继续扩大化石燃料生产不是务实之举，而是无法面对现实的表现。”
英国气象局表示，今年夏天英国的气温有望创下有记录以来最高。
极端高温导致今年夏天急诊科就诊人数激增，5月、6月和7月每月就诊人数超过240万——这是有记录以来三个最高月度总数。
英国能源安全与净零排放部发言人表示：“北海仍是国家重要资产，支持就业、增长和英国的能源安全。我们明确表示，石油和天然气在未来几十年仍将在能源体系中发挥重要作用，同时转型至清洁能源以保护就业并应对气候危机。”
Security Burnham联系到假冒特朗普幕僚的事件
凯文·罗林森 基兰·斯泰西 阿莱萨·阿杜
至少三名英国内阁大臣的个人手机号码已在网上公开，在安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）遭遇冒充诈骗后，高级政客的安全问题引发了越来越多的担忧。
国防大臣韦斯·斯特灵（Wes Streeting）、司法大臣亚历克斯·诺里斯（Alex Norris）以及北爱尔兰事务大臣克里斯·布赖恩特（Chris Bryant）的号码均与其姓名一同出现在网上。
据《卫报》了解，斯特灵的号码引用已被删除，消息人士表示他所有的官方事务均通过政府手机处理。官员们正在努力下架其他号码。
该泄露事件由《Politico》首次披露，此前伯纳姆曾与冒充唐纳德·特朗普幕僚苏茜·怀尔斯（Susie Wiles）的人交换信息。
在事件引发关注前，首相曾与冒充怀尔斯的不明人士联系。
残障人士“24 / 7”巴士通行证
从明年4月起，英格兰各地的残障人士将可在全天任何时间使用免费巴士通行证，安迪·伯纳姆将其作为在大曼彻斯特市长任内推出的一项政策的扩展。
目前，这些通行证仅在工作日早9:30至晚11点有效，但部分地方议会会支付费用允许人们在此之外免费出行。
首相为此项改变投入了6,000万英镑。目前正在进行夏季巡回访问的第二周，期间他关注生活成本问题。巴士通行证政策在大曼彻斯特地区已实施至3月。
“巴士对许多人而言是生命线——让他们更容易上班、接受教育和就医，”伯纳姆表示，“但许多残障人士在一天的某些时段无法使用通行证出行，这绝对不合理。因此我们正在解决这个问题。残障人士现在将可全天24小时无限次免费乘车。” 阿莱萨·阿杜
未发送任何重要信息，可疑活动已迅速上报相关当局。
据了解，并未发送任何重要信息，可疑活动已迅速上报相关当局。
据《Politico》报道，英国驻华盛顿大使馆对此深感担忧，已就此事与白宫沟通。英国政府发言人表示：“我们不就国家安全事务发表评论。”
唐宁街拒绝说明是否已采取措施防止再次泄露。首相府也拒绝说明伯纳姆是否因与冒充者通信而感到尴尬，并拒绝透露信息是否通过WhatsApp传递。
去年，《华尔街日报》报道称，在一名不明身份者冒充怀尔斯联系多名共和党人及商界领袖后，美国联邦调查局（FBI）已就试图访问怀尔斯手机的行为展开调查。
特朗普白宫的安全问题一直备受关注，据报道，总统的个人手机号码在报道美国政治的记者中广为人知。
2025年12月，美国国防部一份报告得出结论：特朗普的国防部长皮特·黑格塞斯（Pete Hegseth）在与其他高级美国官员的群聊中讨论军事行动时，一名记者被意外加入，此举危及美军人员的生命安全。
新闻 中东地区
内塔尼亚胡坚持哈马斯必须先解除武装，库什纳斡旋未取得突破
彼得·博蒙特
本雅明·内塔尼亚胡已向唐纳德·特朗普的女婿兼特使贾里德·库什纳明确表示，在哈马斯首先解除武装之前，加沙停火协议的停滞不前或以色列从该沿海地带撤军均无法取得进展。
一位以色列官员表示，两人会晤未取得任何突破，并称内塔尼亚胡已明确表示以色列国防军不会撤军，并将继续在加沙开展军事行动。
周日，库什纳在埃及与哈马斯政治局局长哈利勒·海亚举行会谈，哈马斯坚持以色列必须首先从其占领的加沙60%地区撤出军队。
昨天在以色列举行的为期三小时的会议，此前一周内塔尼亚胡曾强烈拒绝美国支持的15点和平路线图，该路线图旨在推动加沙停火协议取得进展。
在与库什纳的会晤中，内塔尼亚胡再次坚称，在哈马斯全面解除武装之前，以色列不会撤军或进行重建，并要求一名美国将军监督武器移交工作。
内塔尼亚胡办公室发表声明称：“总理与Board of Peace进行了深入且建设性的讨论。双方同意成立两个工作组，一组负责加沙的解除武装与非军事化，以色列与Board of Peace均决心推动此事尽快完成，并在加沙重建前完成。”
Board of Peace的一位官员在另一份声明中表示，会议“深入且富有成效”：“我们与总理就前进路径达成一致。以色列方面将给予此事一个机会。现在就看哈马斯是否真正有意遵守协议了。”
此次会议还包括托尼·布莱尔和尼科莱·姆拉德诺夫，两人均为特朗普Board of Peace成员。然而，会议时机并不理想。在内塔尼亚胡今年晚些时候的全国大选中支持率持续下滑之际，加沙——以及内塔尼亚胡在哈马斯于2023年10月7日对以色列边境社区发动突袭事件中的角色——仍是一个高度敏感的问题，外界认为他因此处于弱势。
据《国土报》报道，会议结束时美国同意以色列可以继续打击加沙，这显然与特朗普前一天发表的声明“以色列不应继续打击加沙”相矛盾。
尽管哈马斯表示已同意包含解除武装内容的路线图，但该组织敦促调解国及Board of Peace迫使以色列签署协议。埃及、卡塔尔和土耳其等调解国的官员也出席了会议。
根据路线图，以色列必须逐步从加沙撤军，但以色列坚持哈马斯必须在其全面解除武装后才能撤军，这一顺序构成长期僵局。目前，以色列军队仍占领加沙约60%的土地，内塔尼亚胡此前还威胁要接管更多地区。
据一名地区官员和一名哈马斯官员透露（两人因未获授权与记者交谈而要求匿名），库什纳一天前在埃及与哈马斯政治局局长哈利勒·海亚举行会谈，讨论解除武装事宜。该哈马斯官员表示，哈马斯已承诺等待调解方启动为期14天的谈判期，以制定实施时间表。该期限要求所有各方批准路线图后方可开始。
目前，约200万加沙居民的生命及这个拥挤飞地的重建岌岌可危，该地区目前大部分由以色列军队控制，自2025年10月10日停火结束大规模军事行动以来已过去10个多月。
据加沙卫生部门统计，自2025年10月10日同意停火以来，以色列已在加沙杀害超过1,200名巴勒斯坦人，并造成超过4,100人受伤。
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为达成谈判协议的两个月窗口昨日已关闭，但未取得突破。不过特朗普昨日在采访中仍声称他"不着急"达成协议。
他此前多次宣称战争将"很快"结束，并在近几个月不断渲染达成持久和平协议的前景，尽管迄今未见实质进展。
在同一采访中，特朗普要求伊朗应"举起白旗投降"，但同时表示不会对德黑兰设定新的期限。"我没有时间表。我不着急，"他说道。
特朗普于6月17日在凡尔赛宫与伊朗签署了一份谅解备忘录，该备忘录是在G7峰会期间达成的。
该备忘录暂停了敌对行动，并设定了最长60天的窗口期——仅可经双方同意延长——用于达成一项综合协议，涵盖制裁解除、伊朗核计划及其他争端。
特朗普还对外界担忧华盛顿自身的军火库因近六个月的战事已被消耗一空的说法不屑一顾，在接受福克斯新闻采访时他表示，美国迄今为止在对伊朗的战事中消耗的弹药仅为"小菜一碟"。
他暗示，美国许多更先进的弹药，包括防空系统，早在他前任乔·拜登任内就已"送给"了乌克兰——这一说法与早些时候防务分析师的警告相呼应，即美方及盟友的库存正以比补充更快的速度被消耗。
此番言论是在特朗普通过其Truth Social平台重申其谈判底线之后发表的。他写道："第一要务始终是——伊朗无论如何都不能拥有核武器。"
霍尔木兹海峡——全球贸易的关键咽喉要道，全球约五分之一的海运石油供应通常由此通过——自美国和以色列于2月对伊朗发动战争以来几乎已被封锁。
伊朗位于海峡北侧，阿曼位于南侧。两国一直在就控制该水道进行谈判。
在5月的一次内阁会议上，特朗普曾随口威胁称，若阿曼"不守规矩"，他将"炸平"该国。
特朗普周五在演讲中还威胁要将霍尔木兹海峡宣布为"美国领土"。
除了阿曼与美国长达数十年的军事和经济纽带外，这个拥有530万人口的海湾国家在战争中扮演了调解角色，自身也遭到伊朗的袭击。
伊朗外交部昨日表示，尽管特朗普再次出言威胁，两国与阿曼的谈判仍在"认真进行中"。
美国总统还首次证实，华盛顿已开通对伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队（IRGC）的直接秘密渠道，美方与以色列在整个冲突期间一直将其作为打击目标。
"他们是优秀的牌手，但他们正在走向灭亡，"他说道，指的是伊斯兰革命卫队的领导层。
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“她从未忘记自己的根” 粉丝在斯旺西为邦妮·泰勒送别
贝瑟·麦克尼尔 威尔士记者
邦妮·泰勒的歌曲近日在她的家乡斯旺西回荡，但昨天教堂的钟声停止，街道上排队的送别者默然无声——她的灵柩抵达教堂，准备举行追思仪式。
当覆盖着白玫瑰花束的白色灵柩被抬入教堂时，人群中响起“上帝保佑你，邦妮”和“再见，邦妮”的呼喊。前来致敬的人们随即爆发出掌声。在私人仪式开始前，泰勒的歌曲《If I Sing You a Love Song》和《It's a Heartache》在附近圣大卫广场的屏幕上播放，外面的哀悼者观看了这一幕。
这位《心灵之约》明星的真名为盖纳·霍普金斯，她的时间在斯旺西湾眺望的芒布尔斯住所与阿尔加维之间分配。她今年7月在葡萄牙的一家医院因病情恶化去世，享年75岁，身后留下与罗伯特·沙利文结婚53年的丈夫。
这对夫妇在当地颇有名望，许多《卫报》昨日采访的民众都曾与泰勒相识或熟识。哀悼者从上午7.30am开始就抵达正午仪式现场，携带露营椅和补给品，其中一些人甚至从德国和奥地利远道而来。
阿利森·托马斯（58,)的伴侣曾与泰勒的兄弟同在一个乐队演出，她说：“我们去过芒布尔斯住所的几场派对。那些派对很棒，有卡拉OK、表演。当我们坐出租车回家时，邦妮还递给我们香槟庆祝归途。她真的很特别，既平易近人又是一颗巨星。”
泰勒在斯旺西东北部村庄斯克温的一个公租房家庭中长大，是六个孩子中的一个。她年轻时“极其害羞”，但在17岁时通过在当地橄榄球俱乐部的才艺比赛中获胜后开始变得自信。“从那以后，她就一往无前了，”昨天仪式上发现她的星探罗杰·贝尔在致辞中说道。
来自附近塔尔伯特港的桑德拉·巴特利特（63,)表示，她在沙利文担任夜总会经理期间就认识他，她的前夫也与这对夫妇相熟。“我们去过她在葡萄牙的第一栋房子，他们是很棒的主人，”她说。
“盖纳人很好，总是乐意聊天或闲聊。随着年龄增长，她越来越强大，仍然经常演出。我认为她回到斯克温就说明了一切。她并非来自伦敦那样的大地方。现在鲍比（罗伯特）为她最后一次买下了她的家。”
卡什一家表示，他们曾在斯旺西的购物中心和德本汉斯百货见过泰勒与母亲外出时的身影。“她从未忘记自己来自何方，并为自己的出身感到自豪，”带着妻子简（49,)和儿子比利（11,)前来致敬的比尔（50,)说。
为纪念泰勒的离世，斯旺西及周边地区举办了多场活动，粉丝们被邀请观看灵柩在周六前往芒布尔斯住所的行进过程，以及仪式后在斯旺西大教堂举行的告别仪式，送灵车前往斯克温。“就算是为国王我也不会出来。这里一半的人都不会。”斯克温的一位旁观者说。
这位歌手于1983年凭借《心灵之约》在英国和美国的排行榜登顶而享誉国际。以她沙哑的嗓音著称的泰勒，其他热门歌曲还包括《等待英雄》和《如果你是女人（而我是男人）》。
她曾在2013年欧洲歌唱大赛中代表英国参赛，并在去世前仍在国际巡演并发行唱片。
“我把自己看作是工人阶级出身的女孩，而且从未停止过工作，”泰勒在2013年表示，“我做了很多演出，因为我觉得其他人会渴望得到我所获得的机会。”
首相被敦促就监狱招聘零时工看守员采取行动
拉吉夫·赛亚尔 内政事务编辑
安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）面临压力，需就一所私营监狱的招聘问题进行干预。此前，工会声称在英格兰和威尔士监狱系统中，首次出现零时工看守员的招聘。
位于约克附近的HMP Millsike（一所可容纳1,500名囚犯的C类监狱，由外包公司Mitie运营）的管理层已批准在线招聘广告，以每小时25英镑的价格招聘“囚犯押解”岗位，并以“灵活、任务导向”的方式工作。
监狱消息人士证实，这座耗资4亿英镑的监狱因缺员而有约350个空囚室。监狱官员协会（POA）已呼吁首相依据政府承诺限制零时工合同（此类合同损害工人权利、安全与稳定）进行干预。
POA副总干事米克·平布利特（Mick Pimblett）表示：“在政府因囚室严重不足而释放囚犯之际，Mitie却因无法招到足够看守员安全运营监狱而无法履行合同义务。现在他们又试图以另一种形式引入零时工合同。”
HMP Millsike是一所配备现代化设施的培训型监狱，于2025年3月开始收押囚犯。近期一份报告对该监狱表达“严重关切”，因暴力事件频发，独立监察委员会成员表示，只有成对行动时才感到安全。
由Sangfroid Group代表Mitie发布的招聘广告显示，Millsike的新看守员将负责在监狱、法院和医疗机构间押解囚犯——目前此类任务由全职看守员完成。
广告称，成功应聘者将接受七周培训，支持“在监狱附近地点执行囚犯押解职责”。
国营监狱已招聘运营支持级看守员负责门岗和接待访客，但他们不应押解、看守、给囚犯戴手铐或与囚犯互动，与广告中提及的看守员岗位职责不同。
Mitie发言人表示：“HMP Millsike正按与司法部达成的增员计划运营，人员配置与招聘与监狱分阶段收押囚犯的计划保持一致。”
Sangfroid Group和司法部未回应置评请求。
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Mrs Brown's Boys 圣诞特别节目因主演需手术取消
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《布朗夫人一家》主演布伦丹·奥卡罗尔（Brendan O'Carroll）日前宣布，原定的圣诞节和新年电视特别节目因其面临"突发医疗问题"而被取消。
这位70岁的剧集创作者兼主演表示，录制工作将无法进行，因其"需要立即进行手术"。
他在声明中称："CT扫描后发现我的下颌骨（jaw）有两处骨折，需要立即手术，并需数月恢复期。"
他还表示，不得不推迟原定于今年晚些时候在都柏林和基拉尼举行的《布朗夫人一家》D'Panto？舞台剧演出。
"这一决定并非轻易做出，是在我的顾问医生的医疗建议下做出的，"他说道。
"说我心碎不已都不足以形容我的感受。我要向所有期待观看演出的粉丝们致以最诚挂的歉意，并为可能带来的失望致歉。"
这位喜剧演员兼演员表示，他和MCD制作公司正在努力将演出重新安排至明年。奥卡罗尔在文中还提到，他一直在与BBC商讨让其电视剧"重返荧屏"的计划，时间定于2027年。他感谢MCD和BBC在此时提供的"支持与理解"。
BBC发言人在声明中表示："我们祝愿布伦丹早日康复，并正与其商讨《布朗夫人一家》在2027年的计划。"
奥卡罗尔因在BBC热门喜剧剧集中饰演女家长阿格尼丝·布朗而闻名。
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智力障碍人士"平均寿命提前24年"
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健康与不平等问题记者
一项研究发现，重度智力障碍人士的平均寿命比普通人群提前24年，其中40%的死亡属于可预防性死亡。
研究还发现，在重度智力障碍人群中，少数族裔背景人士的平均寿命比白人同伴提前14年。
伦敦国王学院（King's College London）的研究人员分析了英国国家统计局（ONS）和LeDeR项目的数据，涵盖2021年至2023年间英格兰1,301名重度或极重度智力障碍成人死亡案例。
研究人员随后将这些数据与2,626名轻度或中度智力障碍成人及2022年536,311名普通人死亡案例进行了对比。
重度或极重度智力障碍人士的平均死亡年龄为58岁，相比之下，轻度或中度智力障碍人士为65岁，普通人群为82岁。其中两成五死亡属于可预防性死亡。
可预防性死亡定义为因可预防或可治疗疾病导致的75岁前死亡。肺炎和癫痫是主要的可预防性死因，明显高于其他两组，其次是脑血管疾病。
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研究人员分析显示这些死亡中可预防比例
慈善组织Mencap的首席执行官表示，这项研究结果"令人震惊"，但"并不意外"。
"必须采取更多措施确保重度需求人士能获得护理。去年审查的死亡案例中，超过40%的案例存在组织失职，表明NHS的设计根本无法满足智力障碍人士的需求，"该负责人说。
他补充道："这项研究表明，政府和NHS必须考虑并满足智力障碍人士的需求，无论是在新的社区健康计划中，还是通过推进NHS数字化转型，抑或预防不良健康状况。只有这样，我们才能解决并终结这种根深蒂固的医疗不平等现象，这种不平等正在缩短人们的生命。"
分析还发现了明显的种族差异。在重度或极重度智力障碍人群中，黑人、亚裔和其他少数族裔背景人士的平均寿命比白人同伴提前14年。
研究人员表示，这种差异可能凸显了少数族裔在获得医疗服务方面面临的额外挑战，也反映了累积性不平等如何加剧了残障人士本已较差的健康结局。
该研究的第一作者、伦敦国王学院博士后研究员迈克尔·关良（Dr Michael Kwan Leung Yu）表示："LeDeR项目提供了一个全国性视角，这是单个信托机构或地区无法实现的。其规模首次让我们能够通过基于人口的分析，详细审查重度或极重度智力障碍成人中的可预防性死亡，并进行更深入的探讨。"
他补充道："研究结果指出需要采取有针对性的干预措施，包括年度健康检查、疫苗接种计划，以及肺炎和癫痫等疾病的及时管理，持续为重度或极重度智力障碍人士提供这些服务，并特别关注少数族裔背景人士。"
Dr Rory Sheehan, the co-first author of the study, said: "Pneumonia and epilepsy are largely treatable, so seeing them as leading causes of avoidable death in this group points to a gap between the care people could receive and the care they are getting. Closing that gap means making sure basic interventions, health checks, vaccination, timely treatment, reliably reach adults with severe or profound intellectual disability."
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美国陪审员昨日听审时获悉，说唱歌手图帕克·沙库尔（Tupac Shakur）于1996年在一场黑帮报复行动中遇刺身亡，该案件开庭审理，距离谋杀案已过去30年。
前黑帮头目杜安·"基菲·D"·戴维斯（Duane "Keffe D" Davis）因涉嫌参与射杀沙库尔而在拉斯维加斯接受谋杀罪审判。沙库尔在一次驾车枪击后伤重不治。
检方指控戴维斯是"现场指挥者"，策划了杀害图帕克的行动。
戴维斯虽对谋杀罪不认罪，但他在2019年出版的回忆录中承认参与枪击，当局称该回忆录对本案至关重要。现年63岁的戴维斯是唯一目击证人。
上周，由6名男性和10名女性组成的陪审团选定，预计审判将持续约一个月。
戴维斯身着蓝色西装、打着领带进入法庭，扫视旁听席后与律师迈克尔·桑夫特（Michael Sanft）并肩就坐。沙库尔的家人，包括其继兄弟莫里斯·"莫普伦"·沙库尔（Maurice "Moprene" Shakur）静静地坐在检方后排的前排座位上。
比努·帕拉尔（Binu Palal）是首席副地区检察官，他向陪审团播放了一段视频，显示沙库尔的随行人员袭击戴维斯的侄子奥兰多·"宝贝莱恩"·安德森（Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson）。帕拉尔说："明确一点，杜安·戴维斯并未扣动扳机。但他确实策划了这场枪击，以报复其侄子被殴打。""值得一提的是，您将从杜安·戴维斯本人处了解到这一点。"
帕拉尔出示了多段视频片段，并播放了戴维斯描述其涉案角色及对沙库尔因袭击其侄子而产生的愤怒的录音。
辩护律师迈克尔·桑夫特表示，30年后，调查人员仍缺乏足够证据证明其指控。
"说到底，您必须问问自己，他们所说的究竟是事实还是虚构？"桑夫特对陪审团说。
桑夫特称，尽管戴维斯多年来曾向不同执法机构（包括联邦调查局）谈及此案，但这些机构未予跟进，因其言论不被视为可信。
该案是数十年未破案件中的重大进展。
1996年9月7日，沙库尔在拉斯维加斯大道附近遭袭，当时他正与"死亡 Row Records"创始人马里昂·"苏格"·奈特（Marion "Suge" Knight）前往派对。在行驶过程中，一辆凯迪拉克与沙库尔的车并行并开枪射击8发。沙库尔因伤住院，数日后不治。
沙库尔之死引发无数阴谋论，并催生多部书籍和纪录片试图揭开其死因。近年来，作为凯迪拉克最后一名幸存乘客的戴维斯开始公开讲述，案件真相逐渐浮出水面。
当晚早些时候，沙库尔曾在米高梅大酒店观看迈克·泰森与布鲁斯·塞尔登之间的世界重量级拳击冠军赛，赛后与戴维斯的侄子及其他数人发生肢体冲突。
戴维斯试图报复安德森，并据称获取枪支意图"追捕"沙库尔并与奈特对峙。戴维斯在书中写道，事态迅速升级。
"双方未有言语交流，谈话的时机已过，一切已无法挽回！图帕克做出了一个不稳定的动作，开始伸手到座位下方。那是我一生中第一次也是唯一一次能理解警察命令‘把手放在我看得见的地方’。然而，帕克掏出了一把枪，于是‘烟花’就此开始。我后座的一个人抓起格洛克开始还击。"他写道。
检察官表示，戴维斯的书籍和公开声明最终推动了调查的重启。
他的律师试图以其“夸大其词，为一己私利虚假地将自己置于事件中心”为由，要求在庭审中排除该书。法官驳回了这一请求。
庭审继续进行。
Additional reporting 美联社和路透社
音乐评论
狂野乡村转型：一场热情洋溢的乡村音乐狂欢
布兰登·弗劳尔斯
Thrasher
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沙德·D·索萨
以下是关于布兰登·理查德·弗劳尔斯的三个不容置疑的事实：他出生于内华达州拉斯维加斯附近，现年45岁，且做任何事都绝不半途而废。2000年代初，当纽约的冷漠情绪正在兴起之时，他与乐队“杀手”出道，创作出高声合唱的副歌，用他高亢的音域演唱。当“杀手”寻找比2006年《萨姆镇》更宏大的声音时，他们毫不犹豫地邀请斯图尔特·普莱斯制作出闪亮的2008年迪斯科摇滚专辑《日与时代》。
于是就有了《Thrasher》这样的专辑。弗劳尔斯的第三张个人专辑让这位拉斯维加斯的宠儿搬到纳什维尔，全情投入地探索乡村音乐——不是含蓄的美国民谣，而是狂野奔放、酒馆音乐风格的乡村，穿着Nudie西装的那种。
在某种程度上，《Thrasher》是“杀手”2021年忧郁专辑《压力机》的风格延续，后者让弗劳尔斯探索了辽阔的抒情民谣和精致的叙事歌曲。但《压力机》那样的专辑如过眼云烟，《Thrasher》却是一场狂欢；《压力机》中弗劳尔斯若不全情投入便会黯然失色，但在这张专辑中他避免了这一错误。《Thrasher》汇集了纳什维尔最受尊敬的乡村音乐家，包括踏板钢琴大师布鲁斯·布顿、85岁的口琴手查理·麦考伊、吉利安·韦尔奇的音乐搭档戴夫·罗林斯，以及备受赞誉的美国民谣音乐家玛戈·普赖斯。
这支豪华阵容并未掩盖弗劳尔斯的古怪倾向。在欢快的开场曲《这事儿你可曾想过？》中，他写下的歌词仿佛一个花了10,000小时吸收流行俗套的人：“我本可以出生在孟加拉国 / 但我没有，我生在这里 / 篮子里恰好有足够的果冻豆 / 让我祈求你许愿摘星。”他以如此的气势注入荒诞，让人轻易相信这就是人们会说的话。
如同《压力机》一般，弗劳尔斯也尝试了几次大胆的尝试，但都未能命中。在《美国小姐》中，他以一名遭受家暴的年轻女性的视角写歌。尽管这对弗劳尔斯来说是个反复出现的主题，但他并非优雅的作家；在所有关于暴力的暧昧委婉语中，他唱道：“老实说 / 从我12岁起，成年男人就注意到我 / 这总让我感觉自己像某种奖品 / 我想我通过他们的色情眼光看到了自己的价值。”
但即便如此，与《天使》相比仍显优雅。无法粉饰的是：《天使》是一首关于一位天才黑人棒球手与一名白人女孩约会的歌。天使和女孩生下一个女儿后，他抛弃妻儿成为毒贩。歌曲以天使被警察拦下并试图徒步逃跑告终。无法理解弗劳尔斯为何认为这首歌是个好主意。当天使和女友生下孩子时，他唱道：“巧克力与香草交织 / 会有一个小女孩。”据称弗劳尔斯为这张专辑创作了30多首歌，所以至少有20首备选。
弗劳尔斯最终选择的歌词——“无论你走了多远 / 或多么出色地跑完比赛 / 你终将面对 / 那你一直知道的真相 / 你将其深埋于心”——可能是在批判美国的种族霸权，也可能是赤裸裸的种族主义，暗示我们的命运是与生俱来的。我强烈怀疑前者，但这种模糊性本身就是一种控诉。
Flowers 总是偶尔会说些傻话；这次感觉只是特别糟糕的一次。Angel 失败的很大原因在于它是专辑中少数几首真正乏味的歌曲之一——沉重缓慢、如同挽歌，试图以充满感伤的副歌来弥补，却缺乏专辑其他部分的灵动或轻快。尽管它没有 2015 年《The Desired Effect》那样的爆单曲，但 Flowers 的上一张个人专辑《Thrasher》是一张更强、更讨喜的作品，甚至可能吸引那些自《Mr Brightside》后就没再关注他的粉丝。
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新闻 气候危机
▼ 更频繁和极端的干旱可能助长更多像最近斯陶尔布里奇大火这样的野火 摄影：克里斯托弗·菲布朗 / 《卫报》
旱灾应急计划因“安全原因”未公开发布
皮帕·尼尔 环境记者
英国政府因拒绝公开水务公司制定的旱灾应急计划，被指责缺乏透明度且行为不负责任。
根据规定，水务公司必须每五年发布一次法定旱灾计划，详细说明在旱灾期间如何确保公共供水并保护环境。
英格兰和威尔士五个关键水库的水位现已处于“极低”状态，英格兰四分之三地区及整个威尔士均已进入旱灾状态。
正在咨询的2027-2032年旱灾计划列出了不同情景，最极端的措施包括街头设置取水点，或实施轮流限水制（每日仅供水数小时）。除这些公开计划外，水务公司还需制定单独的应急旱灾计划。
一位水务行业内部人士表示，这些计划未公开是为避免引发公众恐慌。政府则称，计划未公开是出于安全考虑。
阿鲁普咨询公司水务政策、监管与治理负责人阿拉斯泰尔·奇泽姆表示，在气候危机导致旱灾更频繁且更严重的“新常态”下，可能需要做出“相当艰难的决策”，并对民众生活方式施加“重大限制”。
他以2018年南非开普敦的“零日”危机为例，当时该市遭遇近百年来最严重旱灾，数百万家庭面临严重缺水。他说：“人们真的会开始担心无法获得饮用水，这种恐惧会引发各种社会问题，必须谨慎应对。”
英国皇家气象学会首席执行官利兹·本特利教授表示，不公开这些计划是合理的，因为旱灾可能对某些关键行业产生广泛影响。例如，欧洲近期的旱灾和极端高温曾迫使多家核电站关闭。
她说：“如果水资源严重短缺影响到主要产业，这些信息就应保密，因为可能对国家安全造成广泛影响。”
部分地区已感受到旱灾影响。萨塞克斯、剑桥郡、萨福克和诺福克等地因供水能力不足、老化或不完善的水利基础设施，住宅和商业开发项目均被推迟。水资源短缺还影响粮食安全，由于热浪、旱灾和战争推高作物成本，全球粮食价格已达三年高位。
随着水资源日益稀缺，且需求因数据中心等高耗水行业的快速增长而激增，水务行业组织“英国水务”近期已要求政府发布旱灾优先级框架，明确在缺水时哪些行业将被优先保障，但政府迄今未予以回应。
“英国水务”副主任乔恩·查普尔表示：“若缺乏这一框架，社会各界将面临权衡取舍。”
全球行动计划组织“大型科技与运动”负责人奥利弗·海耶斯表示，随着人们日益担心数据中心可能在旱灾期间被优先保障，政府隐瞒应急旱灾计划的做法极不负责任。
他说：“民众对日益减少的水资源深感焦虑，并希望了解计划内容。在旱灾紧急情况下，高耗水的数据中心会被优先保障吗？这种保密行为只会加剧公众对‘已做出争议性决策’的猜疑。”
绿党领袖扎克·波兰斯基表示，旱灾应急计划被隐瞒“令人深感担忧”，民众有权了解——如果
任何措施都是为了保护我们的供水”。波兰斯基表示，政府必须将水务公司的全面国有化列为首要议程，以“防止未来几年出现灾难性的缺水问题”。
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周日有报道称，行业监管机构Ofwat正在考虑允许水务公司在干旱期间提高水费。
河流行动组织（River Action）活动负责人艾米·费尔曼批评政府缺乏整体透明度。“我最关心的是缺乏一个全面的计划来应对未来的缺水问题。没有比水更珍贵的资源了，然而目前却没有全国性的水安全计划。”她说。
英国环境、食品与乡村事务部表示，紧急干旱计划是对外公开的法定干旱计划的补充，出于安全原因不会公开。
英国水务协会（Water UK）发言人表示：“每家水务公司都会发布干旱计划，该计划会公开征求意见，并说明公司在干旱各阶段将采取的措施。
“针对严重干旱的规划属于单独框架，公开与否由政府决定。我们支持上议院环境与气候变化委员会的呼吁，敦促政府决定在严重干旱期间如何优先保障供水。”
“灾难性”收成 欧洲农民警告前所未有的危机
乔恩·亨利 巴黎报道 安杰拉·吉乌弗里达 罗马报道 斯蒂芬·伯根 巴塞罗那报道
连续不断的强烈热浪和日益严重的全欧干旱已令许多欧洲农民陷入“前所未有”的危机，特别是蔬菜和谷物种植者，他们警告称收成将面临“灾难性”局面。
法国蔬菜产量与往年相比“严重下降”，法国种植者表示，西葫芦减产25%，莴苣减产35%，豌豆减产40%，西兰花减产60%，而朝鲜蓟的减产幅度则达50%至100%。
“蔬菜行业正面临历史性危机，”普兰斯·德·布列塔尼组织表示，该组织汇集了布列塔尼地区超过1,300名蔬菜种植者，并呼吁采取“紧急措施”应对产量“急剧”下降及多种作物品质下滑。
由于奶牛在气温超过25℃时通常会出现热应激反应，许多生产者已报告牛奶产量下降10%至15%。目前，大多数生产者还担忧冬季饲料短缺。
今夏，由人为加速的全球变暖与超强厄尔尼诺现象共同作用，令欧洲多地田地灼烧，多地气温常规超过30℃（86°F），甚至达35℃，几乎无降雨，热风肆虐，植物生长受阻。
“通常至少有一个地区收成较好，能起到补偿作用，”法国罐装与冷冻蔬菜生产者协会（拥有4,400名成员）的埃里克·勒格拉告诉《世界报》，“但今年，我们所有主要产区同时受灾。”
谷物生产同样受到严重冲击。法国农业部估计，作为欧洲最大谷物生产国，法国的玉米收成将比2025年水平下降35%，约为900万吨——这一数字为1980年以来最低。
农业部表示，部分减产是由于农民转种其他作物（如向日葵）所致，但也反映了今夏恶劣热浪对作物关键生长期的重创。
法国农业部统计机构阿格雷斯特上周表示，冬季牛饲料用干草的产量较1989年至2018年平均水平低约30%，这一缺口“正在扩大，且已影响越来越多地区”。
禽蛋生产也因60%的禽舍内禽类死亡率而受到重创，特别是在6月的热浪期间。据法国国家禽蛋推广委员会数据，禽蛋日产量较正常水平低约100万枚。
意大利方面，该国最大农民组织Coldiretti本月早些时候发布的数据显示，全国约60%的农田正面临从轻度到严重的干旱。玉米、水稻、大豆及蔬果等作物的产量严重受损，牛奶产量下降20%。该行业因野火与暴风雨造成的损失总额超过30亿欧元（约26亿欧元）。
由于意大利最长河流水位严重下降，波河流域——一个横跨四个北部大区的巨大地理区域、意大利农业命脉且拥有约80%意大利水稻产量——干旱尤为严重。
意大利是欧洲最大的水稻生产国，2025年种植面积约235,000公顷。然而，今年严重干旱迫使种植者采取前所未有的措施挽救收成，仅在隔周进行灌溉。
在西班牙，谷物收成较去年下降35%（卡斯蒂利亚-莱昂地区）、49%（马德里地区）和24%（安达卢西亚）。当局表示，绵羊和山羊奶产量也分别下降了6.5%和10.8%。
在2024年因干旱遭遇灾难性收成后，去年橄榄油产量显著增长，而冬春季的充沛降水对晚秋收获的作物而言是利好消息。种植者表示，目前判断今年收成还为时过早。
然而，西班牙国家葡萄酒联合会预测2026年葡萄酒产量将下降20%，而起泡酒生产商协会主席何塞·路易斯·贝尼特斯警告称，连续的热浪将因水分不足导致葡萄颗粒变小，从而减产。
各国政府已承诺提供高额援助方案以扶持该行业。法国总理塞巴斯蒂安·勒科尔纽已承诺提供1.45亿欧元紧急援助，并将在2027年预算中纳入“结构性支持和投资措施”。
极端高温 60岁以上人群面临严重热浪风险——研究
丹尼斯·坎贝尔 健康政策编辑
研究发现，60岁及以上人群在远低于以往认为的温度下暴露于高温时，健康将面临危险。
根据《柳叶刀·公共卫生》的一项研究，随着全球持续变暖，老年人将承受日益频繁且持续的极端高温天气带来的最严重影响。
热浪将导致全球各年龄段的人口遭受无法补偿的热应激（UHS）——即身体失去自我降温能力——从而面临严重健康损害风险，包括死亡。
“我们的研究结果表明，考虑到年龄分层脆弱性，无法忍受的高温将在更大范围和更长时间内出现，影响远超以往预期的人口数量，”该研究由加州斯坦福大学的健康学者牵头完成。
老年人因极高温度效应而更易陷入危险。他们汗液分泌减少、心脏在高温下负荷加重，且血管扩张程度不及年轻人，限制了其保持凉爽的能力。
然而，以往研究未能充分阐明15-39岁年轻人、40-59岁中年人及60岁以上老年人所面临的不同风险。这是因为他们采用了无法维持热平衡的温度阈值——对年轻人准确——并将其应用于所有年龄段，从而忽视了老年人更高的风险，例如心脏病发作风险。
结合全球气温上升与60岁及以上人口预计在2050年翻倍至21亿的趋势
▲ 老年人在低于年轻成年人的温度下即面临热应激风险 图片来源：VALENTINA STEFANELLI / LAPRESSE / SHUTTERSTOCK
将导致更多该年龄段人群遭受与高温相关的健康问题，尤其是在印度和巴基斯坦等中低收入国家。
研究指出：“随着全球变暖，无法补偿的热应激将在所有年龄段变得更加普遍。老年人预计将面临远比年轻人更频繁且广泛的无法补偿热应激。”
英国卫生安全局近期表示，担心2026年英国的高温可能导致该国在一年内录得史上最高热浪相关死亡人数。5月的四天热浪与6月的八天热浪共造成2,877例超额死亡，几乎是2025年夏季1,504例的两倍。
斯旺西大学热与健康不平等问题专家西蒙·威廉姆斯博士表示：“这是一项非常重要的研究，其发现表明热浪和极端高温暴露将成为未来几年人类健康面临的日益严重威胁。尤其是，它显示热浪对健康的影响存在不平等，老年人特别脆弱。”
他补充道，研究表明，老年人在全球温度仅比工业化前水平高出1.5℃时，就面临“有害且可能致命的热应激”风险，而年轻人则需达到4℃才会如此。
研究称，每增加1℃全球变暖，“每年将使约100万人暴露于至少180小时的无法补偿热应激”。这种负担主要落在老年人身上。若升温持续加剧，热带和亚热带地区的部分地区可能变得不适宜居住，尤其是对老年人而言。
英国皇家内科医师学会临床副主席希拉里·威廉姆斯博士表示：“我们了解热浪会导致就诊人数激增。老年人常因脱水、虚脱或原有心脏病和肾病在高温下恶化而入院。同时应对多种健康问题已属不易，而当身体调节自身温度的能力下降时，情况更加雪上加霜。”
一位医院的医生报告称，他们工作的老年病房在今年夏天的极端高温期间达到了36摄氏度。希拉里·威廉姆斯表示：“这对患者和工作人员来说都不是安全的环境。”
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寻求ADHD诊断但不接受治疗的人数持续上升
蕾切尔·霍尔
专家表示，越来越多的人寻求ADHD诊断但不接受治疗，并呼吁进行更多研究以了解原因。
英国成人ADHD网络（UKAAN）创始人、精神病学家马里奥斯·亚当努医生表示，一些人现在将ADHD视为“一种身份，而非一种障碍”，许多人从质量低劣的私营机构获得评估，导致他们“相信自己患有需要治疗的疾病”。
他补充说，这导致当NHS医生被迫拒绝低质量评估时，投诉数量激增。
亚当努最近看到的数据显示，50%的儿童患者在诊断后未接受治疗，
▶ 来自《ADHD神话？》纪录片的母子Shauna和Mason，该片认为ADHD是“一种社会建构” 摄影：WIDNOW制片公司
他在诊所中也观察到成年患者中存在类似趋势。
有些人寻求低剂量、非治疗性药物。他说：“许多人本可以从使用安非他明中受益。你感觉更好，能更好地集中注意力，能做更多事。但这个国家是否应通过兴奋剂提高生产力来进行认知增强，这尚未成为讨论话题。”
“为什么人们觉得自己能认同这些疾病？它们是社会问题的表现。”
亚当努是在一档新的《第四频道》纪录片今晚播出前发表上述言论的，该片名为《ADHD神话？》，由NHS精神病学家马克斯·彭伯顿医生主持，他认为ADHD是“一种社会建构”而非医学疾病，学校应适应以更好地支持更广泛的儿童，而非通过药物将他们强行纳入限制性规范。
亚当努表示，ADHD既是一种社会建构，也是一种大脑障碍。研究已充分证明大脑差异，诊断标准也经历了“大量科学审查和验证”，但他补充说，“ADHD概念的扩展已过度，正面临变得毫无意义的风险”。
他说，这种现象是由“英国ADHD服务市场的质量和监管挑战”所推动的。
“英国现在大部分评估由私营部门提供，”他说，“我认为没有其他任何医疗条件像这样，私营部门提供如此多的护理……当你在一个诊断被商品化且吸引兴奋剂的市场系统中，由私营机构提供大部分护理时，可能会出现问题。”
尽管如此，他强调ADHD的漏诊情况仍然存在。劣质诊断为许多人制造了“双重污名”。“你不仅因患有ADHD而受到污名，还会因是否真正患有ADHD而受到污名，”他说。
杰西卡·利斯特（Care ADHD私营机构的临床总监）担心该纪录片的信息可能有害。她说：“将ADHD视为社会建构不仅是轻视一种公认的临床疾病——还会加剧ADHD患者在教育、健康、就业和司法系统中面临的不平等。”
她补充说：“这里的问题不是ADHD是否是真实的医学问题——而是体系是否能及时、一致且公平地做出回应。”
Care ADHD首席执行官马克·帕蒂森表示，区分私营机构很重要，并补充说其机构的临床管理与他15年来运营的NHS ADHD和心理健康服务同样强大。“利润永远不应优先于临床质量。但效率也不是其敌人，”他说。
他补充道：“标准必须适用于所有人，而不仅仅是我们。一些NHS信托机构的儿童需要等待两年、五年，甚至十年才能接受评估。”
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妮可拉·戴维斯
科学记者
对于泰勒·斯威夫特的粉丝而言，新专辑发布或许是值得庆祝的时刻——但研究人员表示，此类活动也与致命车祸的增加存在关联。
该研究旨在揭示分心驾驶的影响。"你无法让人们随机使用手机，而司机也很少主动透露车祸发生前几秒钟在做什么，"该研究第一作者、哈佛医学院的维沙尔·帕特尔博士表示。
"专辑发布在某种程度上类似实验——在这些日子里，全国智能手机使用量因与路况、天气或驾驶者身份无关的原因而激增。"
在《JAMA Network Open》期刊上，帕特尔及其同事报告了他们如何聚焦于2017年至2022年间发布的10张重量级专辑，这些专辑均在单日内拥有最高Spotify播放量。其中包括泰勒·斯威夫特的《午夜》；德雷克的《蝎子》；哈里·斯泰尔斯的《哈里之家》。
美国前200首歌曲的流媒体播放量在重大专辑发布当天比发布前后数日高出43%，尽管此类数据无法显示音乐是否在车内播放。"这至少证明这些日子在全国音乐参与度方面确实与众不同，"帕特尔表示。
研究人员利用美国机动车致命车祸登记数据，分析了这些专辑发布当天及前后10天的死亡人数。在排除一周内的日期、联邦假日及季节因素后，数据显示重大专辑发布当天的死亡人数相对增长了15.1%，相比前后类似日期。
"这相当于美国因这10张专辑发布当天增加了约182起死亡人数，"研究团队写道。
帕特尔表示，新专辑发布可能分散司机注意力，因为获取音乐是一项搜索任务而非单次按键。
"解锁手机、打开应用、找到新专辑、查看曲目列表、点击正确歌曲——这需要盯着屏幕数秒，"他表示，并补充称陌生音乐需要更多注意力，而研究表明聆听新的高能量音乐会明显降低驾驶表现。
交通死亡人数的增长在某些群体中更为显著——如年轻司机、男性司机、独自驾驶者以及驾驶配备车载娱乐系统汽车的司机。
该研究并未直接调查智能手机使用是否与死亡人数相关。帕特尔建议流媒体平台在推广专辑时可调整通知方式。"在推广时加一行‘设置好音乐再开车’的提醒对他们而言毫无成本，"他说。
"选好专辑、点击播放、放下手机。如果有乘客在座，就把手机交给他们——增长几乎全部出现在独自驾驶的司机中。"
许多国家已实施驾驶时免提技术法规。
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▼ 20岁的莱斯·阿拉尼（Laith Alani）表示，在被美国海关扣留近24小时后，他感觉自己像是被绑架了
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美国拒绝入境穆斯林学生，尽管持有有效签证
克里斯·奥苏 社区事务记者
一名英国学生在飞抵美国后被拘留并遣返，他声称自己因穆斯林身份而遭到针对性盘查。
拉伊斯·阿拉尼表示，他在奥兰多国际机场被美国海关与边境保护局（CBP）审讯9小时，并在拘留室被关押14小时，感觉自己仿佛被绑架。
他的当地议员安妮莉泽·多兹已就此案向英国外交部提出质询。穆斯林和阿拉伯组织对美国机场对英国公民旅客的待遇表示担忧。
这名来自牛津的20岁学生原计划前往佛罗里达主题公园进行为期一周的2,500 英镑访问，并希望与一位居住在加利福尼亚的亲戚见面。然而，他的电子设备和社交媒体账户被搜查，并因亲属、邻居、爱好及旅行历史接受盘问，最终被押送登上英国航空公司航班遣返回英国。
美国当局表示，在检查过程中发现阿拉尼的旅行历史存在“不一致”，并称其“撤回了入境申请”。
然而，阿拉尼表示，他被告知遣返是“不可更改的既定结果”。
此前，他因披露曾前往伊拉克（他在那里有亲属）的旅行历史而被拒绝快速K-STA签证豁免，但最终获发一张为期10年的B1 / B2多次入境旅游签证，允许其从事旅游和探亲活动。
他说：“我的过往旅行历史被仔细审查，特别是去年7月我在获得签证后一个月前往突尼斯的那次旅行。他们暗示我需要为此次旅行获得许可，并应提前通知大使馆，尽管这是一次临时决定且在获得签证前并无计划。”
《卫报》已看到CBP回复阿拉尼投诉的信函，其中称一名官员认定阿拉尼（持有英国护照）因“无法消除其有移民倾向的推定”而不准入境。
阿拉尼是西伦敦大学的法学学生，他于7月1日抵达美国时被CBP官员带至“二次检查”区。在被拘留近24小时后，他被告知将被遣返，并被要求在电子签名板上签字。他表示，随后被递交了一份文件，上面有他的签名，写明他“自愿撤回入境申请”。
阿拉尼说：“如果我当时知道签字意味着什么，我绝不会签。我是一名自闭症患者，身处弱势地位，在法律上属于残障人士，患有心脏疾病。[那名官员]根本不在乎。他只是不停地审问我，挑剔每一个你能想象到的细节。”
“我感觉自己被绑架了。他们还威胁要给我戴手铐。他针对我是因为我是穆斯林。我庆幸自己没有被枪击。”
英国穆斯林委员会发言人表示：“对于许多英国穆斯林家庭而言，现在已是常态——听闻持有英国公民身份的旅客在抵达美国机场时被拘留、接受数小时盘问、设备被没收搜查，且常常基于荒谬的理由。”
英国外交部表示已为阿拉尼提供领事协助，并建议英国公民在预订行程前查看最新的美国旅行建议。
CBP发言人称其工作人员“严格遵守协议”，阿拉尼“全程受到监控”，且其拘留时长“因航班有限所致”。发言人表示：“指控CBP人员存在种族定性是虚假的。所有抵达美国口岸的人员均需接受CBP官员的检查。”
工党议员因新冠贷款问题被暂停党鞭
马蒂·爱德华兹
一名工党议员因其企业在疫情期间获得的政府新冠贷款问题受到质询后，被暂停党鞭。
南安普东及罗奇福德选区议员巴约·阿拉巴在《泰晤士报》就其企业在疫情期间获得贷款一事进行询问后，主动向工党党组织自行申请调查。
《泰晤士报》联系工党寻求置评后，工党暂停了阿拉巴的党鞭职务，并启动内部调查。
据该报报道，阿拉巴在疫情期间似乎获得了两笔"反弹贷款"，但围绕其在2022年试图清算其中一家公司以及这些贷款是否合规仍存在疑问。
他在声明中表示："和许多企业及创业者一样，我在新冠疫情期间获得了财政支持。我全力承诺确保债务得到全额偿还。我已主动将此事提交工党党组织的调查程序，并将全面配合。"
工党发言人表示阿拉巴已将此事提交党组织。"工党对当选代表的要求极高，我们已建立强有力的机制确保这些高标准得以维护，"他们说。
◀ 巴约·阿拉巴在其企业获得"反弹贷款"问题受到质疑后主动向工党申请调查
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两年前据报道，东伦敦巴金地区的酒馆《快乐渔夫》在荒废五年后找到了买家。
潜在买家是一家穆斯林慈善机构，计划将原本以酒精为基础的生意改造成禁酒场所。
从某种程度上说，这栋已成为该地区社区生活中心长达150年的建筑将继续扮演这一角色。但从另一方面看，社区本身已经改变。
为探索这种改变可能带来的感受，剧作家约翰·迪宁（John Dinneen）虚构了两位校友阿兰（亚历克斯·希尔饰）和阿米尔（乔尼·汗饰）。阿兰的父亲是《快乐渔夫》的常客——那种有自己固定座位的常客。阿米尔的父母则是英裔巴基斯坦移民，他们从不进酒馆。
剧作家避免了刻板印象。诚然，一些饮酒者中不乏支持英国脱欧的观点，但他们总体上欢迎阿米尔（他告诉父母自己在参加作业俱乐部）。而阿兰本人对阿米尔的宗教也表现出足够的兴趣，甚至陪他一起祈祷。紧张局势在经济压力下浮现，揭示了潜藏在看似包容的阿兰内心的种族主义和伊斯兰恐惧症。
在莱拉·马达纳特（Layla Madanat）充满活力的制作中，两位演员跨越十余年，从啤酒园派对的繁荣时代，到疫情隔离期，再到2024年7月极右翼游行及其反抗议。希尔和汗拥有天然朋友般的少年活力，我们为他们的决裂感到惋惜，但这部剧足够细腻，让人理解聚会场所的社会重要性，以及当它们消失时对社区凝聚力构成的威胁。
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在西班牙巴塞罗那格拉西亚区举办的格拉西亚街头节期间，卡斯特利人·德·拉维拉·德·格拉西亚成员聚集组成“人塔底座”（pinya），支撑由6至10人组成的人塔。这一加泰罗尼亚传统可追溯至18世纪。
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刚果民主共和国埃博拉疫情成为该国史上最致命疫情 并有望创下历史之最
纳迪姆·巴德沙（Nadeem Badshah） 雷切尔·萨维奇（Rachel Savage）
根据政府数据，刚果民主共和国（DRC）的埃博拉疫情已成为该国史上最致命的疫情，至少已导致2,325人死亡，超过了2018-20年疫情的死亡人数。
DRC公共卫生研究所表示，确诊病例已增至4,945例，其中包括过去24小时内新增的101例。
世界卫生组织（WHO）表示，此次疫情有望超越2014-2016年西非埃博拉疫情，成为史上最严重疫情。根据WHO数据，2014-2016年疫情在几内亚、利比里亚和塞拉利昂共造成28,616例病例和11,325人死亡。
联合国于周五表示，埃博拉疫情“正在刚果民主共和国取得胜利”，该疫情正以每30分钟夺走一人生命的速度蔓延。
DRC26个省中的6个省受到影响，主要集中在东北部边境地区。伊图里省（Ituri）记录了超过3,400例病例，疫情首次报告即出自此省。
▲ 上图：伊图里省至少记录了3,400例病例，疫情首次报告即出自此省 摄影：迪厄多内·德博拉（Dieudonné Debola） / 美联社
▲ 一艘船在一名乘客死亡后被拦截，该乘客此前已下船 摄影：国际移民组织 / 路透社
这是DRC历史上第17次埃博拉疫情暴发，也是已知病毒史上传播最快的一次。2014-2016年西非疫情用了近5个月才达到1,000人死亡，而此次疫情在不到3个月内就已超过2,000人死亡。
目前尚无针对导致当前病例激增的罕见本迪布焦（Bundibugyo）病毒株的批准疫苗或治疗方法。尽管如此，DRC已有1,000人从感染中康复，仍有730人在医疗或隔离设施中。
上月，两种可能的治疗方法的临床试验在伊图里省启动。世卫组织总干事谭德塞（Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus）上周表示，针对本迪布焦病毒株的两种疫苗正在接受测试。
近期被派往DRC的无国界医生组织公共卫生专家托马斯·帕里施（Thomas Parisch）表示：“通常，随着疫情的发展，随着接触者追踪的改善和患者的及早识别与治疗，病例死亡率应会下降。然而，我们仍看到许多病例是在疫情晚期才被发现，此时治疗成功率较低，许多人仅在社区中死亡后才被确认。”
乌干达已报告至少20例病例，均在首都坎帕拉。上一次报告的病例出现在6月21日，且未发现社区传播。乌干达政府在最后一名埃博拉患者——一名刚果籍人士于7月16日出院后，于7月28日宣布该国无埃博拉疫情。
今年5月，DRC和乌干达的疫情被WHO宣布为国际关注的突发公共卫生事件。然而，WHO表示，病毒溯源显示疫情早在2月就已开始。
埃博拉通过野生动物传播，随后在人群中通过直接接触感染者的血液、分泌物、器官或其他体液（包括尸体）、以及污染的表面和物质传播。
此次疫情的应对工作受到对医疗设施的袭击以及部分未获得薪酬的医护人员罢工的阻碍。糟糕的医疗和道路基础设施也使局势更加复杂。
世卫组织非洲区域主任穆罕默德·贾纳比（Mohamed Janabi）表示，超过70%的患者死于社区而非医疗中心。
人们更倾向于在家中接受治疗，认为这是食物中毒或其他疾病的症状，”伊图里省朱古地区的一名民间社会官员让-保罗·马洛·洛齐马对法新社表示，“通常要到最后一刻，家人意识到情况恶化时，患者才会被送往医院。有时，他们甚至会在途中死亡。”
生活在伊图里省疫情热点之一尼齐的弗拉维尔·恩古里马表示，他的兄弟在抵达治疗中心前就已死亡。“我们曾请家中的一名护士在家中为他治疗，因为患者和家人都害怕去埃博拉治疗中心（ETC）。”他说道，“他们说那边很多人都会死去。”
对抗病毒的战斗受阻：冲突与美国援助削减
来源：法国卫生部，2026年8月12日；乌干达卫生部，2026年8月17日
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刚果民主共和国（DRC）的卫生当局正在输掉遏制该国最致命埃博拉疫情的战斗。
刚果民主共和国卫生部于5月15日在伊图里省宣布疫情暴发，尽管病毒测序显示疫情早在2月就已开始。此后，疫情已扩散至另外五个省，并有望超过2014-2016年西非疫情，成为历史上规模最大的疫情。
据刚果政府数据，截至周日，已有2,325人死亡，确诊病例达4,945例。联合国人道主义事务负责人汤姆·弗莱彻周五表示：“埃博拉正在刚果民主共和国取得胜利。”
什么是埃博拉？
埃博拉是一种高度传染且通常致命的疾病。由主要与果蝠相关的不同病毒引起，感染常导致病毒性出血热。自1976年首次出现以来，已记录超过40次疫情。这是DRC的第17次疫情暴发。
疫情源于人畜共患病毒传播——动物到人类的传播。感染者（包括死尸）可通过体液（如呕吐物、血液和精液）将疾病传播给他人。症状包括发烧、疲劳、肌肉疼痛和头痛，随后出现呕吐、腹泻、皮疹以及内外出血。其死亡率为50%。
影响人类的埃博拉病毒有四种：扎伊尔型、苏丹型、本迪布焦型和泰森林型。最新疫情涉及罕见的本迪布焦病毒。此前该病毒株引发过两次疫情，分别在2007年和2012年。
为何此次疫情令人担忧？
原因众多，包括缺乏针对此种埃博拉病毒株的疫苗或治疗方法、冲突、当地民众对医护人员的不信任、虚假信息以及全球发展援助削减。
针对本迪布焦病毒株的两种潜在治疗方法的临床试验已于上月启动，两种疫苗也首次在人体进行测试。感染控制通常需将患者带入治疗中心以最大限度减少传播。
然而，这一努力因针对医疗设施的袭击而受阻——这些袭击常由对安全埋葬做法的虚假信息引发，并因数十年动荡和外部干预对创伤社区的影响而加剧。
此外，疫情中心位于一个资源丰富的地区，该地区长期被武装团体争夺。政府仍主要控制伊图里省，但疫情宣布前当地安全形势已恶化。据联合国称，该省近百万人因冲突流离失所。
疫情已向南扩散至北基伍和南基伍省的叛军控制区，卢旺达支持的M23团体控制着该地区大片土地。
2025年，刚果人道主义资金急剧下降，主要因特朗普政府冻结了通过国务院资助的项目的外国援助，削弱了当地卫生系统和监测网络。伊图里一家治疗中心的医护人员最近举行罢工，导致该中心暂时关闭，他们表示已有三个月未获得薪酬。
为何疫情未被及时发现——以及为何这很重要？
首例已知疑似患者是一名59岁男子，他于4月24日出现症状并于三天后死亡。卫生当局直到5月5日才通过社交媒体获悉疫情。据非洲疾病预防控制中心统计，当时已有50人死亡。
世界卫生组织表示，基因测序现已显示疫情始于2月。
伦敦帝国理工学院的安妮·科里博士称，对埃博拉疫情的任何延迟响应“可能产生灾难性后果”。未被发现的疫情“会使标准控制措施（如接触者追踪）难以有效实施，尤其是在已面临其他挑战的环境中”。
此次疫情可能发展到何种规模？
潜在规模可能更大。根据世卫组织数据，此次疫情有望超过此前最大规模的埃博拉疫情——2014年至2016年间，几内亚、利比里亚和塞拉利昂共有超过28,600人感染，11,325人死亡。
这也是已知埃博拉历史上传播最快的疫情。西非疫情用了近五个月才达到1,000人死亡，而此次疫情在不到三个月内死亡人数已超过2,000。
世卫组织紧急响应部门负责人阿卜迪拉赫曼·马哈茂德最近表示，若五个传播区同时实施响应措施，疫情可能在三个月内得到扭转。但即便如此，他指出，在“中度”情景下，疫情仍需六个月才能达到峰值，且可能持续长达12个月。
俄罗斯银行官员因批评战时经济被解雇
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俄罗斯第二大银行的首席经济学家因一系列针对经济状况的批评言论而被解雇，其中包括警告莫斯科不会在与乌克兰的长期经济战中获胜。
Andrei Klepach 自 2014 年起在国有控股开发银行 VEB 担任该职务，在俄罗斯媒体报道了他于 5 月向其他经济学家发表的尖锐演讲后数日被解职。
据《莫斯科时报》首次报道，Klepach 表示俄罗斯在经济上正在“落后”于中国和美国，在某些方面甚至“落后于乌克兰”。
称，战争导致的对俄罗斯经济的压力将不可避免地引发“社会危机”，而这种危机将在“谁都没有预料到的时候”爆发。
他还表示，对乌克兰经济即将崩溃的预期是错误的，与乌克兰的长期对峙不会导致俄罗斯取得胜利。
“我们不会在与乌克兰的消耗战中赢得这场竞争，” 说，“我们有一种幻觉，认为那里一切都会崩溃。但它没有崩溃，也不会崩溃。我们的成本正在增长。”
这些言论是俄罗斯高级经济学家罕见地承认该国日益严峻的经济困境。
它们直接与弗拉基米尔·普京的声称相矛盾，即莫斯科正成功承受战争压力，并且
▲ Andrei 在媒体报道其言论后数日被解雇
2026 年前四个月，俄罗斯预算赤字为 5.87 万亿卢布，或 £50亿。全年目标为 3.79 万亿卢布
VEB 未对 被解雇的原因作出说明。 的一位熟人向商业新闻媒体《Vedomosti》表示，他离开银行“是因为他对国家经济和政治发展的严厉评估，这些评估与公司立场不可能一致”。
独立俄罗斯媒体《The Bell》援引消息人士报道称， 是奉克里姆林宫指令被解雇的，其解职与他 5 月的演讲直接相关。
的解雇凸显了克里姆林宫对俄罗斯上层官员忠诚度日益增长的要求，同时有报道称普京越来越多地被那些不愿挑战其观点的官员包围。
Alexandra Prokopenko，俄罗斯央行前顾问、卡内基俄罗斯欧亚中心研究员，将 描述为一位敢于发表与官方路线相左观点的受人尊敬的经济学家。
“ 被解雇——他是俄罗斯最优秀的宏观经济学家之一——不太可能推迟他一直在警告的即将到来的危机，”Prokopenko 说。她表示， 的预测“基于对现实的评估，而非取悦他人的意愿”，并且往往比官方数据更为悲观。
自 2022 年普京全面入侵乌克兰以来，俄罗斯经济正面临自战争开始以来最困难的时期，巨额战时支出、西方制裁以及乌克兰日益增强的打击莫斯科石油和天然气产业的能力，都在加剧这一局面。
仅在 2026 年前四个月，俄罗斯预算赤字就已达到 5.87 万亿卢布（约合 £50亿），远超政府为全年设定的 3.79 万亿卢布目标。据两名了解讨论内容的消息人士透露，普京的一些最亲密顾问已私下警告他，当前的战时支出水平正变得无法持续。
最近，乌克兰的袭击已击中俄罗斯最大电商零售商 Wildberries 的数十个仓库，摧毁了价值数十亿美元的库存。这些袭击引发了人们对该公司财务稳定性的质疑，并给依赖该平台谋生的数千名独立卖家造成了严重打击。
普京并未显示出准备缩减战争或控制开支的迹象。相反，克里姆林宫试图通过提高对小型企业的税收并向寡头施压，要求他们为战争努力做出更多贡献来增加额外收入。
俄罗斯的财政状况因今年因美国对伊朗战争而出现的石油价格激增而得到支撑，为莫斯科带来了数十亿美元的额外收入，并有助于缓解部分日益加剧的经济压力。
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芬兰暂停驱逐批评乌克兰战争的俄罗斯家庭
米兰达·布莱恩特 北欧记者
一对俄罗斯家庭成员因多次被拒绝避难申请——尽管面临因支持乌克兰而被逮捕、监禁和酷刑的威胁——即将被芬兰驱逐出境，现已通过法院上诉赢得案件，其案件将被重新审议。
尼基塔·别洛夫（Nikita Belov）和他的母亲奥尔加·别洛娃（Olga Belov）在2022年因公开反对俄罗斯对乌克兰的全面入vasion后逃往芬兰。
由于芬兰移民局称他们若返回俄罗斯“不会面临真正风险”，该家庭原计划在数周内被驱逐出境。今年4月，他们曾被当局临时拘留，等待驱逐。
现芬兰行政法院已撤销驱逐决定，援引新证据，并将案件发回移民局重新审议。
别洛夫一家的案件在邻国挪威也引发政治关注。上周，挪威绿党政治家试图进行干预，向政府提议：若芬兰驱逐该家庭，挪威应向他们提供庇护。
比尔·布劳德（Bill Browder）表示，该案是“对欧洲保护那些为反对普京战争而冒一切风险者承诺的定义性考验”。
尼基塔现年25岁，在莫斯科一家专注冶金技术的研究所工作时，发现其研究与俄罗斯战争努力相关，于是辞去工作。
▲ 尼基塔·别洛夫和母亲奥尔加因在乌克兰问题上的立场收到俄罗斯当局威胁后逃往芬兰 摄影：尼基塔·别洛夫
自抵达芬兰后，尼基塔和55岁的母亲奥尔加（一名麻醉护士）积极支持乌克兰，并向包括乌克兰军队在内的当地提供人道主义援助。
奥尔加表示，法院判决是他们四年来收到的首个好消息，但仍笼罩在“持续的不确定性和驱逐恐惧”之下。
她补充道：“这四年来我的健康状况恶化，我们仍需等待最终决定。这极其 stressful（压力重重），谁也不知道需要等多久。这段经历已在我们的生活中留下持久烙印，我们必须应对后果。无论如何，我要感谢每一位帮助、支持并从死亡边缘拯救我们的人。”
尼基塔说：“之前，当我设想自己对积极判决的反应时，我确信那会是一个非常情绪化的时刻。但实际我什么也没感觉到。很奇怪，现在我觉得自己已经精神耗竭。我们仍需等待最终决定。”
“这一切在我们的生活中留下了持久烙印。我们必须应对后果”
奥尔加·别洛娃 亲乌克兰活动人士
他们的律师因安全原因要求匿名，希望他们能 soon（很快）获得庇护。“法院已推翻了不利的避难决定，因为当事人提供了大量新证据，证明他们正面临被迫害的风险。”律师表示。
“国际关注和媒体广泛报道该案——以及是否因此令他们面临风险——必须由芬兰移民局准确评估。”
布劳德的朋友兼律师谢尔盖·马格尼茨基（Sergei Magnitsky）死于俄罗斯总统政权之手，他表示最新判决是“对尼基塔和奥尔加的重要胜利，但案件本不该发展至此”。
芬兰正在欧洲对抗普京侵略的最前线。如果它将两个公开反对这种侵略的人遣返回普京手中，那将是完全荒谬的。
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在德州照料的威尔士海龟恢复良好
一只原产于墨西哥湾的 Kemp's ridley 海龟在威尔士海滩被发现时几近死亡，但经过救治后现已基本康复，并最近被空运至美国休斯敦继续恢复。
据其饲养员介绍，扫描显示这只名为 Rhossi 的海龟（估计不超过四岁）目前仍在与 lingering pneumonia 抗争。
休斯敦动物园的兽医团队负责照料 Rhossi，并为其提供最佳康复机会，最终有望重返野外。
2023 年 12 月，一只当地的狗在威尔士一个村庄的海滩上发现了一只体重仅 0.9 公斤（2 磅）的冷冻休克 ——它属于世界上最濒危的海龟物种之一。
距离其墨西哥湾和美国墨西哥湾沿岸栖息地约有 5,000 英里之遥。
已知 Kemp's ridley 海龟会被强大的洋流冲到远方，甚至穿越大西洋。
安格尔西海洋动物园收留了 ，并在接下来的两年里悉心照料。在乘坐直升机从威尔士飞往希思罗机场，再转乘 2023 年 8 月 10 日的跨大西洋航班抵达休斯敦之前， 的体重已从 0.9 公斤增至 21 公斤（46 磅）。
► ，一只罕见的 Kemp's ridley 海龟，被洋流冲过大西洋后在休斯敦接受 CT 扫描。有望有一天能重返其墨西哥湾栖息地
图片：Evan Garcia / 路透社
休斯敦动物园的海龟饲养员随即接手 的康复工作。
初步评估后， 被放入深水池中适应新环境。
据休斯敦动物园介绍，资深兽医 Joe Flanagan（为评估暂时退休）随后为 进行了全面体检，包括器官功能、眼睛、口腔、龟壳和鳍肢检查，并拍摄 X 光片和 CT 扫描以进一步观察其肺部。
动物园报告称， 在检查中表现“健康、活跃且充满活力”。
“它非常强壮，” Flanagan 在路透社视频报道中表示，“它正常游泳，能下潜，浮出水面，呼吸顺畅。”
但由于曾在北大西洋严寒海域挣扎，其扫描结果显示“ lingering pneumonia”的隐忧，因此重返墨西哥湾的时间“可能比预期更长”。
动物园补充道：“ 的医疗团队将继续监测并提供必要的额外治疗，以确保其重返野外的最佳机会。”
休斯敦动物园表示， 的故事体现了“多个机构和非营利组织的非凡奉献与精心协调”。
该动物园特别提及了美国鱼类及野生动物管理局、美国国家海洋和大气管理局、安格尔西海洋动物园与休斯敦团队、德州水族馆以及威尔士直升机飞行员 Darren Briggs 的协作。
这些努力背后的现实是，据海龟保护组织估计，目前仅有约 7,000 至 9,000 只 Kemp's ridley 雌性海龟在筑巢，而美国政府自 1970. 年起便将其列为濒危物种。由于人类活动（如采集海龟蛋或捕杀用于肉类等产品）的威胁，它们正面临灭绝风险。
安格尔西海洋动物园园长暨所有人 Frankie Hobro 对 进入休斯敦康复阶段后的未来表示乐观。
“看来再过几年，它就能恢复到适合在野外繁殖的状态了，”霍布罗在路透社视频中说，“这对我们来说确实是个振奋人心的好消息。”
吸金神兽：中国影迷为何为这部“烂到极致”的动画片买单
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一部粗制滥造、低成本的牛与云雀动画片在中国票房中异军突起，与《奥德赛》和《蜘蛛侠：全新一天》等大片并驾齐驱。
《牛来了》（Niu Lai，意为“牛来了”）是一部86分钟的低成本动画，讲述一头新生牛犊与云雀在一段抽象梦境中发展关系的故事。该片于8月5日上映，首个10天内仅收获7,700元（£842.41），全国观影人次不足300。
它没有任何宣发巡演、上映前的宣传，甚至连预告片都没有。但网上关于该片“烂到极致”的讨论将其打造成了一个梗，吸引大批影迷蜂拥进影院观看。
据电影跟踪网站Mao Yan数据，该片目前票房已超过1,490万。这使其跻身年度最卖座影片之列，而同期上映的还有克里斯托弗·诺兰的史诗巨制《奥德赛》。
《奥德赛》在官方三天首映周末在中国收获$28.4（2100 万英镑），位列第二，仅次于本土影片《Once Upon a Time in the Middle East》，后者讲述一名中国厨师在地区冲突爆发时开设餐厅的故事。该华语片在8月14日至16日期间收入477.9。
《牛来了》的成功似乎并非源于其优点，而是其“烂到极致”的特质。
该片由母子二人团队耗时5年打造，与近年来吸引大批观众的精致动画形成鲜明对比。
据中国媒体报道，该片发行商曾被劝阻因其质量不佳而放弃上映，但他坚持发行，因为他是导演的朋友。
一些影迷将这部粗制滥造的动画视为人工智能时代的“解药”。一位用户在豆瓣影评网站写道：
“在AI如此流行的时代，创作团队为何选择手工、略显粗糙的视觉风格，传达‘回归真实自我’的感受？”
▲《牛来了》如今成为影院意外爆款
“从故事、特效到几乎所有电影应具备的元素，它在每个方面都糟糕透顶。”
某位不愿透露姓名的电影从业者表示
一些观众甚至热情到在影院座位上拼出“牛”字图案。
一位因未获授权无法对媒体发声的电影业内人士称，《牛来了》“在每个可想象的方面都糟糕透顶，包括故事、特效和几乎所有电影应有的元素”，但“讽刺的是，这正是吸引观众好奇心的原因”。
《牛来了》的成功并未获得整个电影行业的认可。有评论家认为，该片的走红是以更高质量制作的牺牲为代价。
该业内人士表示，《牛来了》的成功“让中国电影业感到尴尬”。
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特朗普下令缩减与韩国的美军演习，尽管官员警告朝鲜从乌克兰战争中学习新战术
拉斐尔·拉希德 首尔报道
唐纳德·特朗普表示，他正在缩减与韩国的联合美军演习规模，旨在遏制朝鲜，尽管军方官员警告称，金正恩政权正从乌克兰战争中学习新的战场战术。
由韩国与美国举行的两大年度演习之一“乙支自由之盾”已于昨日启动，将持续至8月27日。此次演习原计划动员约18,000名韩国军人，以及来自联合国军司令部（UNC）18个成员国中的11国的军人与人员。联合国军司令部是负责监督1953年停战协议（该协议终止了朝鲜战争敌对状态）的多国机构。
然而，总统于周日晚间表示，基于他与金正恩“非常良好的关系”，他“对美国参与演习感到不满”。他补充称，演习成本高昂，且“向一个在其任内始终未对美国构成威胁且表现尊重的国家发出完全不恰当且敌对的信号”。
此举引发批评，民主党国会议员称此举无偿送给金正恩宣传胜利，而盟友却为一场其从未同意参与的中东战争付出代价。
美国参议员、参议院军事委员会民主党领袖杰克·里德称此举是“特朗普及其混乱政府的又一项愚蠢、草率的决定”。
特朗普补充道，演习已无法取消，因此他已命令国防部长皮特·赫格塞斯“实质性缩减”演习规模。他还表示，韩国拒绝协助“伊斯兰共和国的去核化”。
韩国总统府青瓦台表示正在审查特朗普的言论，并“希望美朝领导人之间的友好关系能推动朝鲜半岛和平与稳定的有意义对话……”。
两国盟友将继续协调其联合防御态势与军事演习，青瓦台称。周六，特朗普还在“Truth Social”平台分享了一张他与朝鲜领导人合影的旧照，重申他声称两人“相处得非常好”，引发外界猜测他可能再次尝试与金正恩举行峰会。
特朗普此前曾暂停大规模美韩军事演习，以推动与金正恩的外交努力。在2018年与朝鲜领导人首次峰会后，当年的“乙支自由卫士”演习被取消，其他演习也被暂停或缩减。这些演习随后被重新设计并以修改后的形式和名称恢复。
首尔世宗研究所副所长郑成昌表示，如果特朗普再次与金正恩会面，可能进一步采取行动，甚至可能决定完全暂停演习或在未与韩国协商的情况下减少美军驻军规模。
他补充称，美韩同盟“极其重要”，但认为首尔应逐步减少对华盛顿的安全依赖，并朝着自主核威慑能力方向发展。
然而，首尔梨花女子大学国际研究学教授莱夫-埃里克·伊斯利警告称，缩减演习规模可能会减缓这一进程。
他说：“缩减演习规模的成本节约微乎其微，而对改善与朝鲜关系的外交效益则存疑。”
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美国法院驳回上诉
美国最高法院再次拒绝审理唐纳德·特朗普对2023年陪审团裁决的上诉，该裁决认定他对作家琼·卡罗尔实施性侵犯，并随后诽谤她。
法院昨日在一份无签名命令中宣布了该决定，未提供任何解释。命令仅将美国总统的请愿列为“复审被驳回”。
卡罗尔的律师罗伯塔·卡普兰表示：“我们很高兴美国最高法院再次拒绝审理此案。因此，陪审团一致裁定唐纳德·特朗普性侵并随后诽谤琼·卡罗尔的裁决现已最终确定，任何法院均无法对此提出质疑。”
2025年，否认卡罗尔指控的特朗普曾请求最高法院审查此案并推翻裁决。
卡罗尔的律师敦促法官拒绝其请愿，今年6月最高法院已拒绝审理特朗普的上诉。其律师随后请求法官重新考虑。
昨日决定维持对特朗普的500万美元（370 万英镑m）民事判决。
白宫昨日未立即回应有关最高法院决定的置评请求。
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► 朝鲜政府发布的一张照片，显示金正恩与其女儿观看据称是新弹道导弹试射的画面
摄影：朝中社 / 朝鲜新闻服务社 via AP
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中期厌倦：总统在无尽战争与“自我纪念碑”之中是否失去了手腕？
大卫·史密斯 华盛顿报道
他曾总是先人一步。唐纳德·特朗普在2016年以一名极不可能的局外人身份赢得美国总统大选，并在2024年再次上演惊人逆袭。就连他的对手也勉强称其为政治奇才，拥有利用民怨的直觉，令所谓专家们一筹莫展。
但如今他们在问：他是否已失去了手腕。特朗普深陷一场不得人心的战争泥潭，痴迷于华盛顿的纪念碑建设，并寻找新的代言人。倘若这位80岁老人有意在11月的中期选举中蓄意破坏共和党，目前尚不清楚他还能做出何种不同的举动。
“他在把握公众舆情方面一直拥有爬行动物般的政治本能，这曾为他所用，”保守派作家兼广播员查理·西克斯表示，“但你现在很少看到这种本能了。你再也看不到他读懂现场氛围的能力。在生活成本、战争等问题上，他似乎充耳不闻，也毫不在意。”
特朗普曾以承诺降低物价、让美国远离外交纠葛与永久战争为竞选纲领。选民表示正遭受生活成本危机，而他大规模征收的关税令这一问题雪上加霜。据政府数据，自2019年初以来，美国城市中家庭食品价格已上涨33%。
汽油价格在今年此时创下历史新高，部分原因在于美国对伊朗的战争。这场纠葛已演变为资源的严重流失，据估算每天耗费纳税人约$1。批评者认为，政府此举不仅强化了伊朗的决心，还为其提供了全球杠杆，特别是针对霍尔木兹海峡。在他们看来，这背叛了特朗普崛起时的不干涉主义立场，也令其吸引的失意选民大失所望。
政治评论家、前国会助理柯特·巴德拉表示：“我们现在眼睁睁看着唐纳德·特朗普、‘MAGA’运动及共和党人所标榜的一切土崩瓦解。他们反对中东无休止的冲突，却在没有出口战略的情况下开启了中东冲突。他们本应承诺不再将美国美元挥霍海外；而我们每天却在为这场战争花费$1，且看不到尽头。”
然而总统似乎另有所好。自重掌权力以来，他投入大量时间与精力于华盛顿的建设项目，包括白宫舞厅与直升机停机坪、一座凯旋门，以及对林肯纪念堂反射池进行的一次失败改造。
巴德拉说：“当他继续在中东的这场冒险导致生活成本上升，并持续将资源投入到在他名字上涂鸦、修建舞厅与‘自我纪念碑’时，美国民众只能发出疑问：这他妈的是怎么回事？当你客观审视现状时，这只能是唯一现实的反应。”
特朗普的第二个任期被定义为“大”与“小”的并行：格陵兰、委内瑞拉、伊朗——以及白宫。他任命的肯尼迪表演艺术中心董事会将其姓名添加到该综合体上，却被法官勒令移除；本周该董事会又投票决定在主标志下方添加“由唐纳德·J·特朗普总统修复与翻新”。据《纽约时报》记者玛吉·哈伯曼与乔纳森·斯万所著《政权更迭：深入特朗普帝国总统任期内幕》一书描述，总统曾被人看到拿着一管强力胶，试图将金色装饰粘贴到椭圆形办公室的大理石壁炉上。
特朗普的“自我纪念碑”耗费70%精力
哈伯曼估计，特朗普现在将70%的精力投入到装修项目和“自我纪念碑”上。她告诉Axios，她和斯万在3月份参观了椭圆形办公室。“你会认为在战争的第17天，他会有中东地图或部队部署图——天知道，”她说。“他拿起这些照片，上面是枫树，然后说：‘我正在为白宫选择枫树。我擅长挑选树木。’我在意译，但这基本上就是他说的话。”
“这是个糟糕的形象，对共和党来说相当危险，因为他们没有任何政纲可言”
里克·威尔逊 林肯计划
唐纳德·特朗普：“一个自大狂和自恋者”
总统对于是否让他的宴会厅柱子更能体现雅典还是罗马风格的痴迷，以及其他试图用大理石为自己树碑立传的努力，对于塔拉·塞特梅尔来说并不意外，她曾是国会山的共和党资深通讯主任。“唐纳德一生都是个自大狂、自恋者，”她说。
“即使在私营部门，他也把自己的名字贴在建筑物上，以及从牛排到航空公司、大学、水甚至葡萄酒的多项失败品牌业务上。为什么有人会对他在第二任期总统任期内将这种自恋带到总统职位上感到惊讶？他正在花纳税人的钱来做这些事。”
“问题在于共和党纵容了他，并因此自食其果，这也是为什么他身边越来越多的人开始担心这将如何影响中期选举以及对国会的控制。”
确实，共和党人正在悄悄为可能失去众议院甚至参议院的控制而感到恐慌。上个月末的一项全国昆尼皮亚克大学民调显示，他的工作支持率降至历史最低点32%，不支持率为58%。调查发现，六成美国人反对美国在伊朗的军事行动。
乔治·W·布什在2006年和巴拉克·奥巴马在2010年都面临艰难的中期选举，但他们都与各自政党合作至少试图减少损失。反特朗普组织“林肯计划”的里克·威尔逊说：“想想如果巴拉克·奥巴马曾说‘我要在白宫建一个篮球馆’，或者乔治·布什曾说‘我要建一个高尔夫球场’，那将是多么可怕。”
“相反，你从白宫看到的是截然不同的画面——‘我们除了宴会厅和拱门，什么都不在乎’，以及他希望专注的所有华而不实的点缀。这对共和党来说是个糟糕的政治形象，而且相当危险，因为他们没有任何政纲可言。”
这种低迷感本周进一步加深，白宫新闻秘书卡罗琳·利维特宣布她将辞职。官方解释是她想多陪陪年幼的家人，但对一个正在挣扎着试图摆脱一场又一场危机的政府来说，这个时机并不合适。
不过，这朵乌云中也有一线希望。据估计，他在第二任期的第一年通过加密货币持有、外国利益和Truth Social业务赚取了约22亿美元。
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经济学家敦促英国加入联合国平等倡议
希瑟·斯图尔特 经济编辑
四十位知名进步学者敦促安迪·伯纳姆政府加入一项新的全球倡议，以应对不平等问题。
这些专家包括诺贝尔奖得主约瑟夫·斯蒂格利茨、伦敦大学学院教授玛丽亚娜·马祖卡托、伦敦政治经济学院校长拉里·克雷默，以及《不平等的精神》一书的合著者凯特·皮克特。
在一封公开信中，他们呼吁伯纳姆带领英国加入正在联合国酝酿的新国际不平等问题专家组（IPI）。
信中写道：“首相政策议程的组织原则——‘麦克菲尔德测试’——旨在确保那些被威斯敏斯特遗忘的地区在数十年忽视后最终得到公平。虽然这些努力值得称道，但不平等也是一个全球性问题，随着地缘政治气候的动荡，这一问题变得更加根深蒂固。”
他们表示，IPI将提供“一个独立、可信的全球证据库，用于分析不平等的成因和后果，同时评估可减少不平等的政策”。
他们指出，通过支持该倡议，伯纳姆可以“在全球范围内巩固其政治组织原则”。
慈善机构、智库和后座议员们一直在敦促新首相利用英国明年担任G20轮值主席国的机会，重新确立工党在全球发展领域的领导地位。G20是一个经济政策论坛，汇集了来自中国、印度、巴西等全球南方国家以及七国集团传统大国的领导人。
“随着英国将于2027年担任G20轮值主席国，伯纳姆现在有机会在世界舞台上展现其领导力，”信中写道。
由四十位知名学者联署的公开信
该倡议将由斯蒂格利茨主持，效仿政府间气候变化专门委员会（IPCC）的做法，追踪极端财富差距并推荐全球政策解决方案。巴西、南非、挪威和西班牙已参与筹建该机构。
以皮克特为首的学者们敦促伯纳姆在下月出席联合国大会时表达英国对该倡议的支持。他们指出，伯纳姆在担任大曼彻斯特市长期间——他于上月就任首相前在此岗位任职九年——在倡导不平等问题上有着突出记录。
在基尔·斯塔默任内，工党削减援助支出以增加国防预算，导致时任发展大臣安内利泽·多兹辞职。
外交大臣埃德·米利班德已释放信号，希望将国际发展纳入工党优先事项的核心——包括亲自担任英国在世界银行董事会的席位。
在回应学者们的公开信时，负责增长事务的外交部大臣伍德勋爵表示：“改变我们的经济运行方式，使其更加公平和高效，不仅关乎我们在国内的作为，还需要我们与其他国家和国际机构合作，以加强全球经济。
“正因为如此，本届政府将与盟友合作，建立我们所需的联盟，推动经济变革——以促进全球增长、打击不平等、提高国际金融机构效能，并支持更多协调一致的发展援助和气候行动。”
半数英国房屋今年销售时间延长，因抵押贷款市场动荡
理查德·帕廷顿 高级经济学记者
根据一份报告，由于伊朗战争导致的抵押贷款市场动荡，大不列颠地区近半数房屋今年销售时间较去年延长，买家选择“观望”是否能获得更优惠交易。
随着中东冲突持续发酵，房产平台Zoopla数据显示，英格兰、苏格兰和威尔士363个地方当局中，有180个地区的房屋销售时间较去年延长。
报告称，尽管全国房屋平均销售时间未变（为42天），但地区差异正在扩大：热门房产市场的买家竞相完成交易，而抵押贷款成本的不确定性在其他地区催生了更谨慎的购房态度。
报告发现，英国10个销售最快的市场均位于苏格兰，其中法夫、卡莱尔和巴恩斯利的平均销售时间仅为11天，是苏格兰以外销售最快的市场（各23天）。
报告还指出，有8个地方当局的平均销售时间达两个月或更长，其中东米德兰兹的梅尔顿地区最长（76天），伦敦的威斯敏斯特和德文郡的泰因布里奇也位列其中。
寻求抵押贷款交易的购房者已面临数月的高度动荡，因伊朗战争的时断时续冲击金融市场——并对住房贷款定价产生连锁影响。
中东战争令多家贷款机构在3月撤回交易，而典型住房贷款成本因冲突可能重燃全球通胀压力并迫使英格兰银行加息而飙升。
金融数据提供商Moneyfacts最新数据显示，截至昨日，平均两年期固定住房抵押贷款利率为5.61%，显著高于2月底冲突爆发前的4.83%。
该利率在4月曾接近6%。然而，随着伊朗战争持续发酵，不确定性依然存在，为英格兰银行决策者带来挑战。
金融市场预期，在当前3.75%的基准利率基础上，英格兰银行将在明年底前再加息两次（每次25个基点）。
Zoopla执行董事理查德·多内尔表示：“尽管全国平均销售时间几乎未变，但这种稳定掩盖了地区市场间正在拉大的真实差距。”
中国经济放缓加大政策干预压力
中国经济在7月份工业产出和零售销售的下滑显示出放缓迹象，进一步加大了北京方面采取措施支持经济活动的压力。
在世界第二大经济体在截至6月的三个月内录得有记录以来最低季度增长读数之一后，数据显示其在7月份继续举步维艰。
国家统计局昨日发布的官方数据显示，上月工业产出同比增长4.5%，低于6月的5.3%，也未达到路透社调查预测的4.8%。
零售销售增长0.6%，较6月的1%增幅放缓，尽管夏季假日旅游支出本应推动增长。预测机构原本预期增长1.5%。
国家统计局表示，极端天气包括高温和暴雨已扰乱市场供需。
最新数据可能进一步加大政策制定者加快税收和支出措施以支持经济活动的压力。
▲ 金华工人为出口生产减压玩具。中国7月工业产出仅增长4.5% 图片：VGG / GETTY IMAGES
中国总理李强表示，可通过努力提振海外商品需求来弥补国内需求疲软。
据国家通讯社新华社报道，李强在国务院会议上表示：“当前，国内需求不足问题仍然突出，部分行业企业困难加剧，外部环境不确定性上升。我们要积极稳定外需，扩大互利共赢的国际经贸合作，推动贸易平衡发展。”
分析师预期今年晚些时候经济增长率将有所回升，受益于北京方面为提振经济活动而推出的支出措施。
“积极的一面是，AI资本支出对制造业活动的提振作用持续显现，而整体疲软部分反映了近期台风造成的暂时性扰动，”资本经济学中国经济主管表示，“我们仍预期今年余下时间内经济增长将出现温和回升，受益于财政宽松政策。”
中国在截至6月的三个月内录得年化增长率4.3%，逊于政府4.5%至5%的目标，也是自上世纪90年代初开始发布官方季度GDP数据以来最疲软的读数之一。
主要经济体借贷成本触及2008年以来最高水平
格雷姆·威尔登
昨日，多个发达经济体的政府借贷成本触及自2008年金融危机以来，甚至更早时期的最高水平，投资者担心中东危机将持续推高通胀。对物价上涨和政府支出的担忧推高了巴黎、柏林、华盛顿特区、东京和伦敦发行的债务成本，投资者忧虑物价上涨将推动利率上升。
伦敦证券交易集团（LSEG）数据显示，30年期法国国债收益率升至自2008年9月以来最高水平，达到4.8558%，上涨一个基点（0.01个百分点）。
法国10年期国债收益率升至自2009年6月以来最高水平，上涨一个基点至4.0516%。同类德国国债收益率升至自2011年以来最高水平，达到3.2138%，上涨1.5个基点。
投资者担心各国央行将继续收紧货币政策以防通胀失控，推动债券收益率上升，交易员为持有政府债务寻求更高回报率。
货币市场显示，欧洲央行在9月加息的可能性接近85%。
美国政府长期借贷成本也触及金融危机以来最高水平，30年期美国国债收益率升至5.29%，为2007年以来最高水平。
英国和意大利政府债券价格因收益率上升而下跌。
日本10年期国债收益率触及30年高点，投资者预期日本央行可能在9月前后加息以支撑日元。
日本10年期国债收益率升至2.93%，为自1996年9月以来最高水平，但在日本4月至6月GDP报告显示经济增长弱于预期后略有回落。
IG首席技术分析师阿克塞尔·鲁道夫表示：“日本债券市场显然变得更加严苛，日本央行可能很快面临在支撑脆弱经济与控制通胀之间做出选择的境地。”
JP摩根首席警告财政大臣不要提高银行税
Lauren Almeida
美国银行JP摩根首席执行官杰米·迪蒙已敦促约翰·希利在其首次预算案中不要对银行的丰厚利润增税。
有传言称，英国可能对贷款机构征收暴利税以资助安迪·伯纳姆的生活成本议程，活动人士估计此举可筹集190亿英镑。
据熟悉此次通话的人士透露，这位全球最大银行的首席执行官曾对希利表示，“制定正确的公共政策”是“解决我们所有经济面临问题的根本”。
他们表示，迪蒙关于税收的评论并非针对英国，且与在伦敦新建总部的计划“没有任何关联”。
他们还补充称，迪蒙是众多银行高管中首位与新任财政大臣进行介绍性通话的人，其他首席执行官的通话将于本周陆续进行。
▲ 杰米·迪蒙告诉约翰·希利，更高的银行税可能会影响就业
《金融时报》率先报道了这位华尔街亿万富翁的言论，英国工会大会（TUC）总书记保罗·诺瓦克对此予以谴责。
“人们厌倦了被告知必须勒紧裤腰带，而利润、股息和银行家奖金却创下新高，”诺瓦克表示。“新任财政大臣有明确机会向劳动人民表明他站在他们一边——通过要求银行缴纳公平税收来降低能源账单。”
迪蒙长期以来一直批评英国的额外银行税，这些税是在2008年金融危机后政府救助英国大型贷款机构后征收的。
英国贷款机构需缴纳28%的企业税率（高于标准的25%），以及在英国资产负债表上额外的附加费。
JP摩根首席执行官今年7月表示，进一步提高这些税收可能产生“负面后果”，他对《Master Investor》播客表示：“这将是你必须考虑的众多负面因素之一。”
迪蒙也是去年在雷切尔·里夫斯预算案中成功游说反对提高税收的银行高管之一。预算案通过后次日，他宣布计划在伦敦金丝雀码头区建造一栋300万平方英尺的大楼，但附带条件是“英国持续积极的商业环境”。
今年5月，他表示，如果基尔·斯塔默被反银行的新首相取代，他可能会取消斥资£3bn兴建的大楼计划，该大楼预计将作为银行英国总部，并容纳其23,000名英国员工中的一半以上。
伯纳姆和希利迄今未就银行税发表具体评论。然而，他们面临多方要求提高附加费的呼声。
英国四大贷款机构——汇丰、苏格兰皇家银行、巴克莱和劳埃德——今年上半年共报告£29.2bn利润，其中近一半（137亿英镑）通过股息和股票回购返还给投资者。
英国工会大会呼吁政府提高银行附加费，称16%的税率在未来四年可筹集240亿英镑，而35%的税率则可在同期筹集600亿英镑。
积极货币组织（Positive Money）倡导主任西蒙·尤尔表示：“基尔·斯塔默和雷切尔·里夫斯在上次预算案中本有机会收回银行的巨额意外之财，但他们却选择对普通民众增税。希望安迪·伯纳姆和约翰·希利不会被该行业的说客误导，重蹈覆辙。”
JP摩根拒绝置评。
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中央银行在战争中举步维艰：加息困境
菲利普·英曼
随着中东危机进入第六个月，各国央行陷入两难境地。石油价格持续高位运行，既推高通胀压力，又可能拖累经济增长。
美国联邦储备委员会、英格兰银行和欧洲中央银行（ECB）仍在为2022年未能及时应对通胀的批评而苦恼——当年英国和欧元区通胀率飙升至10%以上，美国也超过9%。
央行因在乌克兰战争爆发后数月行动迟缓饱受指责，彼时疫情后的消费支出已推高从食品到建筑材料的各类商品价格。
如今，他们正在思考：霍尔木兹海峡持续受阻的化石燃料运输是否会令通胀再次突破目标，令物价增长再度失控。
美联储寻求帮助
上个月美国通胀率降至3.4%，低于6月的3.5%和5月的4.2%，主要是由于美国与伊朗谅解备忘录后汽油价格的缓解。
自美国劳工统计局收集数据以来，布伦特原油每桶价格再次上涨至约90美元（78英镑）——这一数字将在下半年推高美国的能源和交通成本。
美联储官员正在思考美国通胀是否会再次攀升至4%，即其目标的两倍。美联储新任主席凯文·沃什已启动了一项涵盖其所有运营的全面审查，基于他所称的15位外部专家和当代最杰出经济学家的建议。
许多分析师赞扬他认识到，自新冠疫情爆发以来的一系列通胀冲击已削弱了央行预测的完整性和持久性。
宾夕法尼亚大学沃顿商学院的经济学家兼教授穆罕默德·埃尔-埃里安表示，沃什认识到许多货币政策制定的陈规旧习已被证明是有缺陷的。
“在我看来，关键问题在于有人致力于早该进行的美联储改革。这对美联储未来的有效性、公信力和政治独立性至关重要，”他说道。
沃什已率先放弃的核心工具之一是前瞻性指引——即明确信号未来利率可能的路径。他还拒绝像其他美联储决策者那样绘制“点阵图”，展示经济和通胀在未来几年预期的发展轨迹。
在沃什任命的15人中，有5个专门委员会，其中包括前英国央行行长默文·金勋爵。金勋爵被视为通胀预测的创始人之一，但他此后主张央行应更多考虑人们反应的不确定性，并摒弃过度依赖声称能预测可能结果的经济模型。
在其2020年的著作《根本性不确定性》中，他将前瞻性指引描述为“无意义的”，因为没有一家央行能在六个月或两年后知道利率会是多少。
埃尔-埃里安将前瞻性指引称为“虚假的精确性”。金融市场和公众真正需要知道的是央行的“反应函数”。换句话说，央行将如何应对不同的经济发展。
伦敦政治经济学院教授、前英国央行副行长查理·比恩表示，沃什的改变意味着美联储观察者既无法获得利率路径的指引，也无法了解美联储对事件的反应。
“沃什……既没有说明利率的走向，也没有谈及经济变化如何影响利率，”比恩表示，“这意味着他没有传达任何实质性内容。”
美联储在7月维持了利率不变，金融市场预期9月份可能再次维持，尽管加息的可能性仍然存在。市场预计明年年中之前至少有一次、甚至可能两次加息25个基点，将美联储的目标利率从目前的3.5%-3.75%区间上调至4%-4.25%。
英国央行的后疫情时代余波
尽管英国央行自
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当前布伦特原油价格为每桶90美元，这将推高美国能源和交通运输成本
4.25%
英国央行利率将在2027年底升至4.25%，金融市场预测——高于今年的3.75%
伊朗战争爆发初期行动一致，并表示若出现持续通胀迹象，将提高借贷成本。然而，将银行利率维持在3.75%的决定可能面临压力。
英国消费者物价指数（CPI）已从6月的2.6%下降，但部分分析师预计，当英国国家统计局明天公布7月数据时，该指数可能回升至2.9%甚至3%。
在货币政策委员会（MPC）的九名成员中，多数对加息持谨慎态度，因加息对全球油价影响甚微，且更高的借贷成本可能进一步削弱本已疲软的英国经济。
Bean表示，MPC还面临更根本的趋势压力，包括高企且持续上升的政府债务。
问题在于，当政府高度负债且央行欲加息以控通胀时，借贷成本上升会增加政府的债务融资负担。央行必须在两难中抉择：是损害政府财政，还是让通胀长期高于目标水平。
凯投宏观（Capital Economics）首席经济学家尼尔·希林表示，多年来他一直主张，只要西方政府无法控制债务驱动的支出，央行将长期面临高通胀。“自负之处在于，央行坚持2%的通胀目标，同时却容忍略高于目标的通胀水平，”他说道。
更雪上加霜的是，大多数通胀冲击源于限制必需品供应的全球事件。加息虽能抑制消费支出，却对进口商品价格影响甚微。
尽管如此，金融市场预测英国央行今年将加息，可能从9月的下次会议开始，最终在2027年底前将利率推高至4.25%。
欧洲央行的越轨行动
与美联储和英国央行不同，欧洲央行今年已加息。批评者认为其行动过于激进。
欧洲央行在6月仅因中东战争引发的通胀小幅上涨便加息。许多经济学家认为，在欧元区经济仍因俄罗斯入侵乌克兰后的能源冲击而遭受重创之际，此举为时过早。
希林表示：“欧洲央行显然是在‘打上一场战争’，过早加息。欧元区的基本面仍显疲软。”他与众多分析师一致认为，市场预期欧洲央行将在9月将其主要存款利率上调25个基点至2.5%，并在明年可能再次加息25个基点，这一判断是错误的。
希林指出，尽管高油价给通胀带来压力，但它们同时也抑制了经济活动，而加息也会产生同样的效果。这无异于在经济已然衰弱之际再踢上一脚。
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“人们被那种全力以赴的说话方式所吸引”
在获得四枚欧洲锦标赛金牌后，艾米·亨特表示自信是她成功的关键
肖恩·英格尔
早在艾米·亨特凭借四枚欧洲锦标赛金牌跻身主流之前，她就对自己的雄心壮志表现得异常坦率。她毫不羞怯，也不含糊其辞。她想在伯明翰夺得四冠王。在夸夸其谈之后，她兑现了承诺。
亨特在伯明翰的最后一个夺金之夜用一杯香槟和一份肯德基庆祝，还在凌晨2点接受按摩，确保双腿在周五洛桑的下一场比赛中保持状态。这意味着她昨日凌晨4点才上床睡觉。尽管只睡了4小时，但她思维敏锐，并解释了为何大胆对她和她的运动有益。
“有时人们害怕表达自己的雄心壮志，”亨特说，“但生命短暂，为何不追求远大抱负？我们都在想这些事，为何不大声说出来？人们被那种毫无伪装、充满自信、全力以赴的说话方式所吸引。这在其他体育项目中也很常见。如果你进入温布尔登决赛，显然你想赢。”
亨特相信，这种自信在比赛关键时刻也能帮助她。“尤其是在短跑中，你必须在起跑线上充满绝对的自信。这世上再无其他。我正竭尽全力从A点到B点，简单又复杂。
“我必须如此确信自己、自己的力量、速度和方法，才能让一切合而为一，”她补充道，“因为这是一场心理战。仅仅1%或2%的自信优势就能决定成败。”
亨特是一位非常现代的英国体育明星，在BBC第四台《女性时间》节目中侃侃而谈乔叟研究与剑桥大学的物质文艺复兴，也会在Instagram上发布她与四枚金牌翩翩起舞、伴着ABBA《胜者为王》音乐的视频。
“我喝了杯香槟，吃了份肯德基，太棒了，”她说，“这是我吃过最好吃的肯德基之一。之后我们凌晨2点去按摩，最终在凌晨4点带着未收拾的行李上床睡觉。”
广告商谈论最大牌明星如何能吸引所有四个象限的受众——老少、男女。在四枚欧洲金牌后，亨特正在成为一颗四象限明星。
她聪明但不矫揉造作，才华横溢却平易近人，还善于数字。亨特上周一在100米摘金时，有200万人在BBC观看；周日她完成四冠王时，有420万人收看。她说自己的社交媒体关注者一周内也翻了一番。
而对文艺复兴充满热情的人，恰好成为英国田径复兴的中坚力量，这难道不是再合适不过吗？“从这些锦标赛我们看到，大众真的热爱田径，”亨特说，“田径正以一种自信的姿态回归。”
但这种自信也带着十足的自知之明。在赢得女子4×100米接力第三金后，她首先赞扬了队友。蒂娜·阿舍-史密斯因打破欧洲锦标赛奖牌纪录而受到赞誉。亨特还惊叹于伊曼妮-拉拉·兰西夸特创作了一部备受赞誉的剧作《加沙的盔甲》，讲述在佩卡姆长大的故事。
亨特知道自己即将迎来全新的名气层次，但也有警告——居住在意大利帕多瓦，意味着她能避开小报最恶劣的炒作。
我可能会给基莉·霍奇金森（Keely Hodgkinson）一些文本，看看她如何应对，但这绝对不是我回避的事情，”亨特（Hunt）说，“我一点都不害怕。作为一名田径运动员而出名是一种特权。但对我来说，能有这样一个与世隔绝的环境也是相当幸运的。”
她生活中的困难时期，包括在剑桥大学就读期间的心理健康挑战，以及在18岁时一举成名后遭遇的多次伤病，都让她有了更深的感悟。“失败是你不得不面对的东西，”她说，“我的整个形象、信息和理念就是要大胆。而失败就是其中自然的一部分。”
就连今年亨特也不得不与低血压作斗争，这曾让她几乎晕倒。“显然，今年我的健康状况一直在挣扎，有些比赛感觉像是失败，”她说，“但如果你不失败，就不会赢。这是运动员生活中必不可少的一部分。虽然悲伤，但却是必要的。”
亨特目前在女子200米世界排名第五，100米排名第八。
她知道自己需要提高速度，才能在明年世锦赛上击败美国选手加比·托马斯（Gabby Thomas）和梅丽莎·杰斐逊-伍登（Melissa Jefferson-Wooden），以及圣卢西亚明星朱利安·阿尔弗雷德（Julien Alfred）。
但当她以科学的精确性谈论计划提升60米速度，以便在200米弯道中更快，并在奥运会上有所作为时，你会发现她有种习惯性地实现奖牌的能力。
不出所料，亨特现在也是年度体育人物的绝对热门人选，远超同为运动员的乔希·克尔（Josh Kerr），以及英格兰足球运动员哈里·凯恩（Harry Kane）和朱德·贝林厄姆（Jude Bellingham）。
“我想这只是对2026年田径运动复兴和重新燃起热情的一种体现，”她说，“看到公众重新爱上我们，并将我们记在心中，这太棒了。”
亨特·贝尔瞄准“800米三巨头”巅峰对决
肖恩·英格尔
乔治娅·亨特·贝尔表示，她已准备好在下周苏黎世的一场世纪800米大战中，向“三巨头”奥黛丽·韦罗、基莉·霍奇金森和费姆克·布雷德斯-博尔发起挑战。
亨特·贝尔本赛季表现非凡，在周日摘得1500米欧洲锦标赛金牌，此前已斩获英联邦运动会800米金牌及1500米室内世锦赛冠军。如今她准备在一场高速800米比赛中接受三位伯明翰奖牌得主的考验。
“本赛季还有很长的路要走，”亨特·贝尔说，“我还没有参加过配速800米比赛，接下来会有一次与速度快的女孩们同场竞技。我真的很期待在那里一试身手。看到她们站上领奖台时，我有点‘错失感’（FOMO）。这是个如此激动人心的时刻，我真的很开心。”
有人认为，苏黎世的一场高速800米比赛可能接近女子800米世界纪录1分53.28秒（1983年由捷克选手亚尔米拉·克拉托奇维洛娃创造），尤其是瑞士名将韦罗本赛季已跑出1分53.80秒——这是历史上第三快的成绩。
亨特·贝尔本赛季状态极佳，极有可能加入竞争行列。“我今年还没有跑出个人最好成绩，但奇怪的是，你可以说这是我最好的一年，因为我一直在赢得比赛。”她说。
亨特·贝尔还透露，她与另外三位顶尖选手一直在与世锦赛冠军Jarmila Kratovilova商讨，计划在2026年底前举办一场“五强对决”。
“我等不及了，希望五强能尽快聚齐，”她补充道，“我们赛后一直在聊。‘你什么时候比赛？你应该参加这个。’竞争氛围很好。”
最有可能的机会是下个月在布达佩斯举行的终极锦标赛，届时将有15万美元（11 万英镑）的头奖。亨特·贝尔说：“从好的方面看，人们没有回避机会，大家都在努力一起完成这件事。”
▲ 乔治娅·亨特·贝尔在欧洲锦标赛中夺得1500米金牌
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体育
“如果我们想要同工同酬，就不能只打两分钟回合”
尚特尔·卡梅伦
这位北安普顿的斗士谈论凯蒂·泰勒、米凯拉·梅耶尔，以及为何女子拳击需要一场彻底的变革
唐纳德·麦克雷
在距离她与米凯拉·梅耶尔的世界冠军统一战——这场潜在的年度女子拳击大战——不到两周之际，尚特尔·卡梅伦的记忆中仍然回荡着一句令她震惊的话。“我14岁，正在读心理学GCSE时，老师当着全班同学对我说了这话，”卡梅伦说，“我不知道为什么，因为我不是个调皮的孩子。但他就是转过身来对我说，我到16岁时会带着两个孩子在乐购堆货架。我在内心想：‘天啊，他真的这么说了？’”
卡梅伦是唯一一位在职业生涯中击败过伟大的凯蒂·泰勒的女拳手，她已成为一名热忱的女权拳击倡导者，坚持女选手应当进行三分钟回合的比赛——以至于去年她放弃了WBC世界冠军头衔，因为该组织暗示女性拳手“体力不足”，无法进行超过两分钟的回合。本周六，她将在曼彻斯特附近的沃克登的一家咖啡馆接受采访时，为她的WBO世界超次中量级冠军头衔而战，对手是经验丰富的WBC冠军持有者梅耶尔。
在谈及这个艰难之夜即将到来之前，当我询问她，作为一个害羞的少女，是否曾被老师的那句话击垮时，卡梅伦点了点头。
“是的，”她说，“我回家对妈妈说：‘妈妈，他为什么要对我说那样的话？’当你被老师那样评价时，真的会很伤人。那就像是在说我没有梦想，没有希望。顺便说一句，堆货架本身没什么问题，但那样贬低一个学生真的太过分了。我为此很难过，妈妈去学校找他们理论：‘你们不能那样评判人——仅仅因为我们来自北安普顿东区。’”
老师道歉了吗？“从未道歉，但我最终还是放弃了心理学。”
这位35岁的女拳手对心灵的深度与复杂性有了更深的理解，因为除了在2023年5月的那场激烈战役中在都柏林面对偏袒观众时摆脱了不安，卡梅伦还在六个月后输掉复赛后处理了自己的心魔。
卡梅伦说：“因为我来自北安普顿东区，你总是会被贴标签。人们觉得你会是小偷、瘾君子、靠福利生活的人，这太不公平了。我爱我的家乡，但当权威人士这样说你时，就更真实了。所以我从未敢梦想自己能有今天的成就——因为我不敢奢望。我总是被告知那不可能。”
卡梅伦此后又遇到了另一种偏见。2023年，WBC主席毛里西奥·苏莱曼为该组织拒绝批准女子比赛中的12个三分钟回合辩护称：“在网球比赛中，女子打三盘；女子篮球的篮筐更矮、球更小，而这些都不是对抗性运动。我们坚持保障拳手的安全与健康。”
那番话并未认可顶级女拳手的力量与韧性——同时也贬低了卡梅伦，因为她本可以从更长回合中受益。WBC的立场是性别歧视吗？“是的。我认为这对拳击运动有害，对女子拳击有害。业余女子拳击手打三分钟回合，职业女子拳击若要被认真对待，就应与男子拳击相同。如果我们想要同工同酬，就不能只打10个两分钟回合。”
当我们考虑合理的反对意见时，卡梅伦的观点变得微妙。“我理解两分钟回合的利弊。它激烈且全速进行，但这正在阻碍女子拳击的发展。我认为这与健康无关。我们完全有能力打三分钟回合。”
卡梅伦在2025年10月曾挺身而出反对WBC，并以此为抗议放弃了她的世界冠军头衔。"我主动放弃了头衔，然后赢得了WBO金腰带，因为他们允许我进行三回合比赛。米凯拉现在是WBC冠军，但由于这场比赛对我而言意义重大，我不得不重新回到两回合制。"
在12个三回合的比赛中，卡梅伦将成为对阵梅耶尔的绝对热门。"米凯拉知道这一点，所以这给了她优势。如果我们进行三回合比赛，我认为没有女人能跟得上我。我原以为米凯拉是三回合制的倡导者，但她想争夺无可争议的头衔，其中包括WBC。"
梅耶尔在拳台上最擅长什么？"她非常坚韧。这是她最好的品质，而且她的体能很好。我非常尊重米凯拉作为一名斗士和一个人。我对她的重视程度，不亚于我对凯蒂·泰勒的重视。"
这种相互尊重令人耳目一新。她们是世界上最优秀的斗士之一，卡梅伦在谈到她那位口才出众、魅力十足的美国对手时说："她来就是为了战斗。"
卡梅伦在反思与泰勒的宿怨时则显得不那么热情。她曾前往都柏林观看泰勒的回归战，卡梅伦坦诚地描述了面对热情洋溢的观众时的感受。"那太可怕了。但[她的教练]杰米·摩尔和奈杰尔·特拉维斯相信我。我原本以为自己不会赢凯蒂，但他们坚信我能做到。"
卡梅伦奉献了一场精彩的表演并险胜比赛。但她是否担心过评分卡？"哦，是的。第一场比赛是平局。我当时想：‘哦，不。’但我为此做好了准备，因为我要进入凯蒂·泰勒的主场，而她是爱尔兰的王后。当我获胜时，那简直难以置信。"
在重赛前情况则不同。"老实说，我不想去都柏林。再次这样做是一个艰难的要求，一切都对我不利。凯蒂是一位了来的斗士，但我认为我比她更强。我完全不适合凯蒂，但当一切都对你不利时，真的很困难。那不是我对阵凯蒂，而是我对抗整个爱尔兰。在重赛当天早上，我在卧室里
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痛哭流涕。这就是我对自己直觉的信任程度。我崩溃了，奈杰尔前来安慰我。"
她以微弱点数惜败，卡梅伦说："我为此感到非常糟糕，还崩溃了一次。我的家人和朋友也这么认为。我放弃了一切。我真的很难过，还疏远了最爱我的人。"
卡梅伦甚至离开了摩尔的健身房，试图重新开始。没过多久她就意识到，他们是最适合她的团队。她说："过去两年，我成长为一个更优秀、更全面的人。我成熟了很多。"
她有没有和泰勒说过话？"没有，但我在击败凯蒂两周后给她发了一条Instagram私信，说能与她对决是我的荣幸。我告诉她我感激她为拳击运动所做的一切，并表示感谢。这是一条真诚的信息，因为如果你与凯蒂对决，你就是在与一位传奇对手交锋。我没有收到回复，心想：‘也罢。’我知道对她而言输掉比赛有多难。
"当她击败我时，我什么也没听到。当时我想：‘我们是不同的人。’我不评判她，但礼貌不花一文。现在我与大多数对手都友好相处。我们会交谈并开怀大笑。但我和凯蒂呢？我不打算假装我们之间有任何情谊。"
卡梅伦曾追求三番战，但泰勒选择与她的另一位劲敌阿曼达·塞拉诺再战两次。泰勒现正于9月5日在克罗克公园与默默无闻的弗洛拉·皮尔对决，这很可能是她最后一场比赛。
No. 从我内心深处来说，让我在克罗克公园与她进行告别战并不合适。这将是一场表演，更像是一次送别，而非一场真正的比赛。我不是她的对手，所以从未有过这样的对话。我认为这将是她的最后一场比赛。我希望如此，因为她为女子拳击事业做出了巨大贡献，经历了无数艰难的战斗。
卡梅伦是否担心自己在九年职业生涯中以22-1战绩积累的伤害？“是的，我真的很担心。所以我进行大量的大脑训练。有一个名为‘Elevate’的应用程序锻炼我的大脑，因为近年来我一直为此感到担忧。因此我阅读书籍、进行大脑训练，因为我不想成为‘拳击呆子’。我想在退役时仍能清晰地表达自己的想法。”
她是否察觉到警示信号？“目前还没有。我认为自己并未经历过太多恶战。与凯蒂的首次正式比赛中我受了伤，但那更多是头部撞击。我没有受过重伤，而且杰米非常擅长避免过度训练。我不需要额外的头部撞击。”
她每年都进行脑部MRI扫描，卡梅伦说：“我讨厌这些扫描。我会感到极度紧张和焦虑，因为我的职业就是被人击打头部，而我却不知道里面发生了什么。但我也清楚这些扫描能保障我的安全。如果扫描中出现任何异常，我会说：‘我的时间到了。’健康比拳击重要得多。”
自泰勒之后，卡梅伦很难找到合适的对手。她坦诚地强调自己“需要”通过与梅耶的对决来提升自己，同时她希望在未来两年内退役：“我想健康地退役，保持大脑完整。”
我们的对话转回到她深爱的北安普顿。“我的父母仍住在那里，”卡梅伦说，“我多想给他们在乡下买一栋漂亮的别墅，但他们想留在那里。这就是我们家的性格。我仍拥有同样的朋友，并为他们感到自豪。他们也以我为荣。我永远会代表北安普顿和东区，因为是我让这里出了名。这向世人证明，无论你来自哪里，都能成功。别让任何人告诉你不同。”
精英体育必须适应热浪生存
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塔尼娅·艾尔德雷德
欧洲夏季的酷热与我们并肩奔跑在直道上，当我们紧贴阴影时，它仍逼近身侧，汗湿的凉鞋踩在干涸的土地上。在亚洲、非洲和北美，居民们刚刚度过了有记录以来最炎热的7月。
在多伦多，著有畅销书《坚持：心智、身体及人类表现弹性极限的奇妙》的亚历克斯·哈钦森刚刚完成了一次晨跑归来。他写道：“我身处加拿大，这个素以严寒著称的国家，在2010年代撰写《坚持》时，我的总体观点是‘高温没那么可怕’。偶尔有人会死于高温，通常发生在美国南部腹地，常见于8月足球训练季，当事人未做好准备，但这种情况罕见。”
“现在我变得谨慎多了。我的总体论点是，大脑很擅长保护你。就算你试图故意把自己逼到崩溃，也无法做到。你会在崩溃前感到疲惫。但高温是极少数能欺骗大脑保护机制的因素之一。”
今年夏天，精英体育似乎迎来了一个转折点。我们不再惊讶于看到网球选手在赛场上倒下，如埃卡捷琳娜·亚历山德罗娃在孟菲斯或雅库布·门西克在巴黎。自行车手汤姆·皮德科克将环法自行车赛称为“战区”，而那位执法法国对阵巴拉圭混乱十六强赛的备受嘲讽的裁判伊尔吉兹·坦塔舍夫，被发现正遭受热应力困扰。8月7日，斐济橄榄球选手赛莫尼·武尼拉吉在日本福冈训练后疑似中暑身亡，当地气温已达35℃，他效力的球队为九州电力，训练后不久便离世。
来自拉夫堡大学的李·泰勒是全球顶尖的极端环境运动员准备专家，他说道：“现实是，我们生活在一个气候变化的世界里。”
“无论你从事何种运动、何种水平，更多的训练和比赛必然会在高温环境下进行。所以要么彻底停止体育运动，要么选择适应。”
后勤、时间安排、运动员准备、遮阳、降温等所有环节都可调整，我们在世界杯上已看到部分适应措施——零散且不系统。比赛设有强制补水暂停，但对于湿球黑球温度（衡量人体热应力的指标）超过32℃的比赛，并未采取额外措施。半场休息时间无法延长——除非是罗纳尔多、罗纳尔迪尼奥和麦当娜在决赛上的表演——尽管泰勒认为“在某些比赛中延长半场休息是一个非常合理的方式，能通过降低运动员体温来确保安全”。金钱仍占据上风。为世界杯准备运动员时面临的挑战之一，就是适应期天数有限。
但若给予充足准备时间，泰勒等专家认为高温对精英运动员而言也能成为表现机遇。他说道：“以2016年德尔塔世界田径锦标赛为例，公路赛中多达40%的选手未完赛，因为他们准备不足。因此，只要做好充分准备，你就能击败近半对手。我担心的是那些隐性疾病的运动员——既有潜在病毒载量或腹泻，或许还在服用未申报的药物——在高温下运动会构成极大危险。或者，如果赛事未配备我们所谓的‘高温平台’——即配备适当医疗专业知识和设施，能快速为疑似致命性运动性中暑患者降温——积极的全身冷却才是保护健康甚至生命的黄金标准。”
秋季正在北半球接近，随之而来的是英超联赛，将于周五开幕。泰勒认为，反常的高温可能为赛季前训练带来优势。“如果有人进行了约六周的高温训练，他们可以将血红蛋白含量提升约3%-6%。这与在高原训练营中红细胞所获得的适应效果相同——对精英运动员而言极为理想。因此，一些俱乐部会将当地天气视为提升竞技表现的机遇。大多数俱乐部可能会让球员暴露在高温下，以获取这些适应性变化。”
但对我们所有人而言，存在一个生死攸关的问题。“我们过去常为最坏的结果做准备，”泰勒说，“历史数据告诉我们，最具挑战性的湿度和高温会是什么？但过去五年里，这些数据已不再可靠，因为我们遇到了这些疯狂的异常值。”当数据专家都表示数据无法提供帮助时，你就知道自己陷入了麻烦。
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足球
GIF BET 锦标赛 卡迪夫（1）4 : 威雷克斯汉姆（1）4
拉利加联赛 拉科鲁尼亚 L'Eche L.
意大利杯 皮埃蒙特（克雷莫纳）1，桑普多利亚 L，巴勒莫 L，莱切 L，比萨 3（点球 1（比萨 4-3 点球获胜）；圣保罗 3（0）
板球
首场男子测试赛（五天中的第三天） 锡兰印度 462（D·波德比纳）167，16；基沙特 82，DC·苏拉尔 55，NGRP·贾亚万西 1 000；斯里兰卡 294（GS·迪纳斯蒂亚 200，DPBN·迪克塞蒂亚 85）90；洛塔尔 4-76），印度领先斯里兰卡 3.78 分。
世界杯挑战联赛 B 组 都灵-塞内加尔-新加坡 100（阿尔德里奇·欧罗巴 7-15），坦桑尼亚 100-1（DA·莫西亚 48），坦桑尼亚以 9 个三柱门获胜。 都灵-塞内加尔-中国香港 174（赞比亚 48 57，沙希德·瓦尔迪 50），意大利 175-4（W·康斯佩特拉诺 74，BAD·马内什 50）；意大利以 6 个三柱门获胜。
网球
ATYPISTA 辛辛那提公开赛（美国俄亥俄州） 男子单打第二轮：J'法里亚（专业）胜 M-B·谢尔顿（美国）6-4 6-4；F·提什科（美国）胜 M-L·苏塔帕（俄罗斯）6-3 6-4；F·切贝利（俄罗斯）胜 M-A·比西奥（比利时）7-5 6-6 7-5；T·提瓦内（安哥拉）胜 M-M·兰达拉科（西班牙）7-6（7-5）7-6（7-4） 女子单打第二轮：C·高芙（美国）胜 M-L·萨尔莫诺娃（俄罗斯）2-6 6-4 6-1；E·索托林娜（斯洛伐克）胜 M-T·瓦伦托萨（哥伦比亚）3-6 7-6（7-5）6-0；D·帕里（法国）胜 M-L·贝西奥（法国）4-6 6-4 6-3；I·斯瓦泰克（波兰）胜 M-M·索克尔（州长）4-6 6-1 6-1
曲棍球
男子世界杯（比利时 / 荷兰） B 组：印度 2 英格兰-A-巴基斯坦 3；马来西亚 3 B 组：法国 3 马来西亚 5；德国 L 比利时 L
格雷格·伍德的赛马竞猜
乔普斯通 2.15 望月升 2.45 发誓去闪耀 2.15 格罗夫街 3.50 再次崛起 4.25 埃斯波纳湾 5.00 阿姆萨 洛霍尔德 2.30 电路断路器 3.00 里亚诺福斯 3.33 普赖德之眼 4.08 我的老男孩 4.45 佐尔塔利亚 5.20 巨兽 5.52 哈普滕 6.22 北兰兹（AB） 伍尔弗汉普顿 5.30 乔德尔 6.00 6.30 帕里的小伙 7.00 苏特莱斯与玫瑰 7.30 亚里士多德之梦 8.00 舞蹈时间
女子世界杯（比利时 / 荷兰） A 组 世界 3，日本 3，澳大利亚 2 荷兰 4 B 组：美国 3 苏格兰 2；德国 2 阿根廷 3
排球
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奥德高赞扬
“出色”的察利斯与圭马良斯 在快速开局后
埃德·阿伦斯
马丁·奥德高在阿森纳社区盾杯战胜曼城后，赞扬了新加盟的布鲁诺·圭马良斯和克里斯托斯·察利斯的即时影响力，并认为英超冠军本赛季有望竞争多项锦标。
阿森纳在卡迪夫的比赛中表现极其出色，仅用48分钟就以3-0领先上赛季的足总杯冠军。察利斯——以3400万英镑从布鲁日加盟——为凯·哈弗茨送出第二粒进球助攻，随后又为奥德高送出助攻，将比分锁定为3-0。圭马良斯在半场被德克兰·赖斯换下，这是他从纽卡斯尔以7500万英镑加盟后首次首发，奥德高表示这位巴西中场已完美融入球队。
“从他第一天加入起，一切都显得那么自然，”这位挪威人说，“尽管过去我们与他有过一些激烈的较量，但他一加入就成为了球队真正自然的一部分。你能看到他的质量。他能抢球，他是斗士，但他也拥有如此多的质量。他在球上的表现如此冷静。他总能把握好时机并找到传球。这太出色了。克里斯托斯也是，能看到新球员如此快速地发挥作用真好。”
奥德高上赛季因伤只参加了16场英超比赛，仅攻入1球。但在今夏随挪威队闯入世界杯八强后，这位27岁的球员表示他决心在俱乐部层面发挥更大影响力：“上赛季因伤错过那么多比赛真的令人沮丧。我现在所做的就是将其转化为今年的动力，变得更强。并以积极的方式利用所有这些经验。显然，我希望帮助球队多进球、多助攻，以及其他一切。”
阿森纳将于周五晚间开始对阵升班马考文垂的卫冕战，奥德高期待球队能立下标杆：“我们想展示我们的水平，”他谈及战胜曼城时说，“当然，去年我们赢得了联赛。但我们想要更多。我们希望在联赛中再次夺冠，然后还有其他锦标。还有很多需要努力的地方，还有很多改进空间。”
▲ 阿森纳队长马丁·奥德高周日又捧起一座奖杯
城市中场混乱给马雷斯卡的首个难题
社区盾失利与罗德里即将离队显示瓜迪奥拉继任者面临的任务规模
乔纳森·威尔逊
需要说明的是。这只是社区盾比赛——自2018年以来，还没有任何球队在赢得社区盾后夺得联赛冠军。对手是联赛冠军，他们的季前赛涉及的艰苦旅程远少于曼城。等到真正的联赛赛季开始时，中场将更加明确，罗德里即将完成转会巴塞罗那的交易。但对于曼城的新帅恩佐·马雷斯卡来说，这是一个令人震惊的糟糕开局。
接替像佩普·瓜迪奥拉这样级别的主教练从来都不容易，许多俱乐部都有过这样的经历。但问题不仅在于瓜迪奥拉的声望，以及继任者似乎总处在他阴影下的感觉。更在于他的足球风格如此独特，过渡过程必然变得更加困难。尽管马雷斯卡在2022-23赛季曾担任瓜迪奥拉在曼城的助教，他的足球理念也深受瓜迪奥拉影响，但两者并不完全相同，尤其是瓜迪奥拉总在不断演进。即便如此，曼城在周日以0:3不敌阿森纳的比赛中防守表现如此糟糕，仍然令人瞠目结航。
阿森纳踢得很好。他们展现出锐气，传球流畅，这些在上赛季并不总是存在。外界担心他们可能在结束22年等待后失去夺冠欲望或许被夸大了（尽管更艰难的考验还在前方）。但曼城表现得像一盘散沙，进攻乏力，防守混乱。
真正让他们担忧的应该是第二粒失球，因为阿森纳几乎不费吹灰之力就能得分。马丁·厄德高得到了充足时间来调整传中角度。察奥利斯从阿卜杜卡迪尔·胡萨诺夫身后漂移。而凯·哈弗茨稍显合理地从鲁本·迪亚斯身边拉开空档。姑且为胡萨诺夫辩护，或许应该承认他通常不踢右后卫，但他确实曾担任过这个位置。让一个边锋从你身后漂移不应成为意外；或许这只是季前赛，他不像平时那样警觉，但这仍是一个令人费解的失误。然而这与整体表现如出一辙；曼城全场似乎都跟不上节奏，不像阿森纳那样专注。即使这种情况在赛季进行中有所改善，对曼城来说也是个问题：等到曼城最终步入正轨时，阿森纳会领先多少？
但该边路也存在结构性问题。安图万·塞梅尼奥几乎没有参与比赛。中场右侧的埃利奥特·安德森无法阻止里卡尔多·卡拉菲奥里的前插，后者打进了首粒进球，他的跑动也为第三粒进球创造了关键机会。一名进攻型左后卫，即使像这位意大利人那样享有内切的自由度，也不应造成如此大的麻烦。
中场问题亟待解决。罗德里作为替补未出场，关于他可能转会巴塞罗那的谈判正在进行中（曼城周日晚间已接受巴萨报价）。球队不仅会失去他的质量，更会失去他的组织能力。恩佐·费尔南德斯曾与马雷斯卡在切尔西共事，似乎已被定位为罗德里的替代者，但曼城未能在切尔西设定的周五下午5点最后期限前提交报价。马特奥·科瓦契奇上赛季大部分时间都在为罗德里担任替补，但他已32岁；他不是未来之选。再加上伯纳多·席尔瓦的离开，曼城在中场位置上存在严重缺口。
一般来说，实际上，曼城的阵容看起来确实有点短板。迪亚斯和马克·居伊是仅有的两名年龄超过25岁的后卫。进攻型中场倒是不少，但奥马尔·马尔穆什从未真正让人信服能够作为埃尔林·哈兰德的替补。2025年1月那笔2 亿英镑m的引援或许曾帮助止住颓势，但当时加盟的球员——不仅是马尔穆什和Khusanov，还有维托尔·雷斯和尼科·冈萨雷斯——现在看来并非不可或缺。曼城曾经在引援上如此精准，但现在开始犯下错误。去年夏天以5000 万英镑加盟的蒂贾尼·赖因德斯即将被外租。拉扬·艾特-努里则是一笔令人费解的签约。
马雷斯卡想必也审视了阿森纳的阵容，以及米克尔·阿尔特塔在中场可用的非凡选择，只能感到绝望。姑且算是宽容地看，曼城的阵容正处于过渡期，尽管现在看来，这或许更像是一个衰退期。过去几年，外界的感觉是瓜迪奥拉逐渐走下巅峰，但回想起来，或许正是他的天才让这支不断老化的曼城勉强保持竞争力。
考虑到赛季阶段的种种保留意见，周日的表现证明，这可能是马雷斯卡接替瓜迪奥拉最糟糕的时机。在最好的情况下接手传奇教练已是极具挑战，而眼下的情况看来，这可能是最糟糕的时机。
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尤文图斯与热刺达成维卡里奥租借协议
埃德·阿伦斯
尤文图斯已与热刺就古列尔莫·维卡里奥的租借达成协议，维卡里奥将以初始租借形式加盟意大利球队，此前斑马军团决定放弃引进阿斯顿维拉的埃米利亚诺·马丁内斯。
维卡里奥即将离开热刺，因为罗伯托·德泽比已将其挤出首发位置，安东宁·金斯基成为一号门将。与尤文图斯的协议包含一项选择权，可在明年将这位意大利门将的转会永久化，转会费为860 万英镑m。
马丁内斯此前与都灵俱乐部传出绯闻，因维拉已同意以约3000 万英镑m签下帕尔马的泽恩·苏祖基，但尤文图斯在本周末被拒绝了一份€10m的报价后，决定将注意力转向他处。这位阿根廷门将目前因手指受伤被迫缺阵。
维卡里奥于2023年以1720 万英镑m的价格加盟北伦敦，此后已为热刺出场近120次。由于德泽比还以自由转会形式引进马丁·杜布拉夫卡作为金斯基的替补，这位29岁门将将成为今夏离开热刺的最新一员，此前离队的还有克里斯蒂安·罗梅罗、杰德·斯彭斯、威尔·兰克希尔和伊夫斯·比苏马。塞内加尔中场帕佩·马塔尔·萨尔也受到埃弗顿和诺丁汉森林的追捧，其估值为3000 万英镑m。
热刺本赛季转会窗口已斥资逾2 亿英镑m签下6名新球员，并渴望签下曼城的萨维尼奥。这位巴西前锋未能进入恩佐·马雷斯卡在社区盾杯对阵阿森纳的大名单，据信他对转会持开放态度。热刺还与利物浦的科迪·加克波传出密切绯闻，德泽比正寻求加强攻击力。
塔伊沃·阿沃尼伊已以900 万英镑m的价格从诺丁汉森林转会至考文垂，赶上新升级球队在周五对阵阿森纳的英超揭幕战，比赛地点为酋长球场。
“失去父亲是莫里尼奥背负的痛苦行囊”
Netflix系列片导演揭秘其如何试图让这位主教练敞开心扉，面对内心的重负
丹尼尔·哈里斯
即便在足球的超现实世界里，也鲜有角色能像若泽·莫里尼奥这般引人入胜、极具争议，或是集万千于一身——这位公众人物的最佳与最糟面向，在一部新的三集Netflix纪录片中被全然展现。该片导演乔·皮尔曼表示：“这让我想起他有多优秀。”而出人意料的是，真实的莫里尼奥本人也渴望传达同样的信息。正如他在片中所言：“我看你，你看我，我看得比你更多。”
不过，拍摄纪录片往往意味着要将人们带到他们最擅长回避的地方。“我知道采访会非常激烈，”皮尔曼说，“他会试图掌控叙事，操纵我们。所有的坏事都是别人的错，他所做的一切都因胜利而得到验证。因为那才是最重要的。”
这只是他不同寻常世界观的一个侧面。“在第三集中，我曾问他关于童年的事，”皮尔曼说，“他不愿谈论，因为他认为那与他现在的自己无关，本质上是在说他对别人不感兴趣。而对于史上最伟大的人际管理大师之一而言，这着实有些奇怪。”
莫里尼奥是一位备受爱戴的教练之子，童年时期便因以父亲的名义被人熟知而感到格格不入。随后，他未曾作为球员却成为教练，这似乎赋予了他某种圈内特权。无可争议的是，这种自我认知帮助莫里尼奥实现了自我，在切尔西积累了无尽财富，在皇家马德里度过一段时光，并始终保持着“有人背负着自卑情结”的态度——当然，还有他的个人魅力与战术天赋。
他父亲于2017年6月离世，当纪录片中提及此事时，莫里尼奥流下了泪水。“显然，他将失去父亲的痛苦深埋心底，”皮尔曼说，“这对他来说非常痛苦。作为一个失去过父母的人，我可以很坦然地谈论我的母亲。我认为若泽从未试图理解他生命中的任何部分意味着什么。他总是向前看。”
“失去父亲改变了他；那段经历玷污了之后的岁月。除此之外，若泽将每一句话、每一个进球、每一个未能如愿的决定都背负在身；从他19、20岁起，这份痛苦的行囊就一直跟随着他。”
尽管如此，莫里尼奥身上所有令他与众不同的特质——机智、洞察力、自信、热情、魅力、天赋、冷静——都透过屏幕熠熠生辉。“他一直在寻找一个出口，以成为最强大的自己，”皮尔曼说，“他的自负与魅力加之天赋，让他能够塑造出一个他一直梦想成为的角色，而这正是我们所认识的若泽·莫里尼奥。”
当然，这只是现实的一个版本，一个为足球战场量身定制的角色。在这个战场上，参与者似乎被允许不择手段地追求胜利；他对自己当年针对安德斯·弗里斯克和埃娃·卡内罗的过激行为至今毫无歉意。然而，莫里尼奥也表达了对被爱的渴望，尽管你有时会怀疑在他看来，那更多是崇拜而非真正的情感。“对他来说，这也可以是：‘我希望所有人都把注意力放在我身上，’”皮尔曼说，“冲突恰好能带来这一点。这就像一条安全毯，让他觉得自己是在为一项正义事业而行动。”
在家时的穆里尼奥更内敛、更安静。而正是在家庭生活这一点上，我们看到了这部纪录片的另一个悲伤时刻：穆里尼奥解释他长期不在家，以至于他不在反而让家人更轻松。
“天啊，说出这话是什么感受？”珀尔曼说。
珀尔曼认为这部纪录片的主题是什么？“很多时候是关于不惜一切代价去赢，”他回答道，“以及当你被‘赢’所定义时会发生什么。这也是一位英雄与反派的肖像，一位伟大的领袖。作为文明社会，我们很幸运穆里尼奥没有进入政界！”
当然，这部纪录片现在有了一个意外的圆满结局——穆里尼奥重返马德里。
“在罗马、本菲卡的这些年里，直到最近这一次，我认为我无法说自己见过一个快乐的人或满足的人，”珀尔曼说，“他现在回到了他认为自己本应在的地方……而我们都知道，无论接下来发生什么，这都将是一部票房大片。”
穆里尼奥已登陆Netflix
“这里能让我接受挑战”
埃米莉·约拉莫一直渴望征战英女超联赛，现在这位布莱顿的新中场准备大展拳脚
苏珊·沃拉克
埃米莉·约拉莫长期以来一直关注英女超联赛，但她一直克制自己，没有主动从斯堪的纳维亚半岛转会至此——直到现在。
“很长一段时间以来，我对这个联赛一直很感兴趣，有一天能来到这里是我的目标，”约拉莫说。她在6月底以自由转会身份加盟布莱顿，“关键在于找到适合我的路径。我不想太早行动，我想在身体和心理上都做好准备。现在，一切都感觉对了。”
布莱顿早已关注这位挪威中场一段时间，24岁的她也意识到对方的兴趣。与布莱顿主帅达里奥·维多西奇的鼓励性交谈，以及与俱乐部的良好会面——随着她在哈马比的合同临近结束——最终让她下定决心加入这片她从远处追随的联赛。
布莱顿早有关注这一事实对她也是一种激励。“让我感到安心的是，他们真的想要我，”她说，“他们不是只看了两三场比赛，而是多年来一直在关注我，这对我来说非常重要，因为我不会一有机会就立刻跳槽。我喜欢深思熟虑，一切必须让我觉得合适。”
对于布莱顿球迷来说，他们即将得到什么，也应为此感到兴奋。约拉莫斗志十足，并认为自己适合维多西奇希望球队采用的控球型足球风格。
“我会说自己是一个努力的球员。我总是全力以赴，100%投入。我不会只做50%、60%或70%的努力，我永远是100%。我想要控球权。我希望踢球，不仅仅是把球踢到身后，而是保持控球、相互配合、[建立]与队友间的良好关系，并提前几步思考。这些一直是我的长处，我也总是渴望变得更好。”
布莱顿和英女超联赛是一次提升。她说：“我认为在这里我会面临很多挑战，因为节奏更快、强度更高，当你控球时可用的时间更少。所以，这里是一个能让我接受挑战、发挥优势、同时也能弥补不足的完美地方。”
初来南海岸的生活一开始“有些压倒性”：“要认识这么多人，工作人员比我习惯的规模大得多。过去只有一名理疗师，现在有五名，你需要了解每个人的职责。在新球队里总是这样，但这里规模更大。”
所有人都非常热情，她对维多西奇执教的首次训练课印象深刻。“到目前为止，我只和他一起训练过两次，”她说，“但他似乎对足球战术、比赛规律、如何踢出好足球有着非常深刻的理解，这对我来说很重要，因为我是一个渴望控球、总想变得更好并与全队一起踢出好足球的球员——而不仅仅是个人表现。达里奥想要的正是这些，所以这与我的抱负、价值观和踢球方式完全契合。”
她正在球场上站稳脚跟，也开始在场下适应生活。约拉莫的女友已随她搬到英格兰，这帮助她度过转会期，并在需要时远离足球。“除了足球，我还需要做其他事情，”她说，“我们去了海滩，也在探索这座城市。对我来说，住在海边是如此不同——我来自山区和森林。这对我来说就像度假，而且天气也很温暖。真的很棒。”
这支球队能为之贡献的，就是‘尽我所能地为球队出力，尽我所能地多上场比赛’，而乔拉莫在为WSL目标努力的过程中所展现出的耐心，也将继续助她一臂之力。‘我需要一些时间来适应这里的节奏、强度以及整个比赛环境，因为这里的一切都比我在瑞典时大得多。’
在她首个英格兰赛季结束之际，如果挪威能在两回合附加赛中先后击败罗马尼亚，再战阿尔巴尼亚或威尔士，并最终晋级2027年女足世界杯，这将是一大诱惑。
乔拉莫于2022年首次代表国家队出场，此后一直在国家队边缘徘徊。今年4月，她曾在国家队连续两场资格赛（对阵斯洛文尼亚）中担任替补，并希望此次英超联赛转会能帮助她证明自己的价值。
‘希望这也能增强我在国家队的机会，’她说。‘我知道这是世界上最好的联赛，所以如果我能在这里上场，我想我已经做对了些什么。’
▲ 埃米莉·乔拉莫于6月底从哈马比加盟布莱顿
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Time for brilliant but bewildering Brook to come of age post-Bazball
斯图尔特·布罗德（Stuart Broad）曾因评论澳大利亚队年迈且脆弱而被广泛嘲笑，但现在许多澳大利亚声音也在做出同样的点评，无论是直接还是间接。
许多人现在都在重复同一个说法：如果英格兰队能像在对阵孟加拉国时那样“理智”地击球——即在一场定胜负的比赛中，在138局内累积超过400分——那场1-4的惨败结果可能会大不相同。
虽然英格兰的投球在这场比赛中被遗忘了——孟加拉国队在四天内主导了比赛，而英格兰在珀斯和布里斯班的关键性崩溃中，一连串习惯于进攻的击球手忽视了显而易见的风险。
其中就包括哈里·布鲁克（Harry Brook），他最近一次在英格兰白帽军团中的表现是在对阵新西兰时挥舞球棒出局，并引发了更多关于“猪肉派里有更多大脑”的讥训。布鲁克是在执行战术指令，但人们看到的只是9球得21分，以及又一个例子。
在另一个平行宇宙中，布鲁克本应在本周于主场利兹（Headingley）首次担任英格兰板球队的测试队长。然而，英格兰队却重新任命乔·鲁特（Joe Root）接替本·斯托克斯（Ben Stokes）的职位，罗伯·基（Rob Key）表示，这个空缺来得“太快”，并暗示布鲁克需要更成熟的表现。
也许对布鲁克来说，同时领导三种赛制的球队要求太高，或者将T20队长职位分给另一名球员在分裂教练组的情况下显得太混乱。当然，这里未明说的部分是去年11月在惠灵顿的夜店事件——正是这个事件引发了连锁反应，最终导致了队长职位的空缺。
尽管我们只能了解到，在担任一日赛队长的前一晚大量饮用浑浊的淡色啤酒可能不是个好主意，但布鲁克真的需要改变他的方法吗？
考克斯在担任不熟悉的三号位后享受测试赛"清晰感"
塔哈·哈希姆 海丁利
乔丹·考克斯的英格兰生涯开局颇为复杂。此前他仅有数次白球赛出场，以及两年前因赛前训练中拇指骨折而被夺走的测试赛首秀机会。最终他于今年夏天在奥瓦尔对阵新西兰的比赛中因本·斯托克斯停赛而以第7号位专门击球手身份获得首次测试赛机会。
现在他又将担任一个不熟悉的角色，明天将在对阵巴基斯坦的三场系列赛中首发——但考克斯对英格兰选拔者马库斯·诺斯给出的直接指示心存感激。在因伤缺阵的雅各布·贝瑟尔不在的情况下，他将在前两场测试赛中担任一号位击球手。"诺西无需对我说：‘你在这两场测试赛中将担任三号位击球手，’考克斯说。"这绝对是100%——除非我受伤。"清晰感是体育运动中最美好的事物之一。"
诺斯已告诉考克斯"做你一直在做的事，不要改变你在县级板球中一直采用的打法，去享受乐趣并拥抱挑战"。他补充道："我认为我从未在三号位击过球，但在县级板球中我可能已经为肯特队开场击球两年了。所以你瞧，这会很有趣，我期待这一挑战。"
他或许会忘记自己唯一一次在2019年以18岁身份对阵诺丁汉郡的三号位首次级别赛——当时他被拉维昌德兰·阿什温两次出局。
考克斯在埃塞克斯队作为四号位的强力存在大放异彩，今年6月他曾在对阵莱斯特郡的比赛中打出204分耗时201球。
这位右手击球手面临的挑战不小，尤其是若他被要求早早面对新球大师穆罕默德·阿巴斯。好在过去数日他已从威尔士火焰队在"百人大战"小组赛出局后获得休息，得以准备。
Overall his Ashes was disappointing and a year has passed since his last Test century - a period in which wicketkeepers Alex Carey and Tom Blundell standing up to the quicks has caused him issues.
But as much as the removal of Brendon McCullum as England's Test head coach after the 2-1 defeat by New Zealand signals a desire for the pendulum to swing back a touch overall, Brook feels the very least of their problems right now. The fact is, for all that his dismissals can be triggering in the moment, Brook has already put up the kind of numbers that mark him out as a truly remarkable talent. After 38 Tests he averages 53, has scored 10 centuries (including a triple in Multan), and he sits second in the Test batting rankings behind Head.
As per the good people at CricViz, Brook has achieved this by trying to smack 44% of deliveries to or over the boundary - a figure only Head can match. More broadly, the 27-year-old looks to score off 65% of balls he faces, and defend or leave 35%. The average split for top-seven batters since his debut in 2022 has been 52 / 48.
乔什·汤格和格斯·阿特金森——在特伦特火箭队与曼彻斯特超级巨人队周日决赛中获胜——昨日因英格兰在海丁利因雨中断的训练课缺席。他们将在今日的练习中亮相，英格兰的16人阵容中充斥着众多快速投球手选项，以防二人有任何问题。
布莱登·卡斯——周五在奥瓦尔淘汰赛中代表日出闪电者队出场——在队中投球，他力争自阿什斯系列赛后首次出战测试赛。
与此同时，巴基斯坦队尚未决定其队长兼明星击球手巴巴尔·阿扎姆是否能够康复
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▼ 哈里·布鲁克在海丁利——明天测试赛的举办地——驾轻就熟 布拉德利·科利尔 / 法新社
但真正的布鲁克在这种条件下极具杀伤力——巴基斯坦人比任何人都更清楚，他们在主场已四度成为布鲁克的“世纪受害者”，包括那次职业生涯最高的317分——像头一样，当球为投手们提供充足帮助时，他便能如鱼得水。
他于2024年末在惠灵顿的那次百球轰炸便是最好的例证，仅用91个球便完成，而当天首日15个（投手）的“阵亡”记录。我个人认为，去年冬天在首日攻下41分后，他本应成为
迪安重新担任队长
查理·迪安将在下个月对阵爱尔兰的三场一日国际赛中担任英格兰队长，顶替缺阵的内特·斯卡弗-布伦特。今年夏天，在对阵新西兰和印度的白球系列赛中，迪安曾代替斯卡弗-布伦特出场；而在T20世界杯分组赛阶段，当这位全能球员受伤时，他再次临危受命。目前斯卡弗-布伦特和丹妮·怀亚特-霍奇仍在调整状态、恢复体能，因此她们将错过对阵爱尔兰的系列赛。
英格兰对阵爱尔兰的阵容：C·迪安（队长）、M·布歇斯、K·卡普雷、K·查特利、T·科米耶-古穆、S·丹比、L·菲特、D·吉布森、J·格日维奇、F·克里、R·麦克唐纳-盖伊、C·普尔利、G·波茨、M·维利尔斯、I·王。
布鲁克的数据之谜
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哈里·布鲁克在38场测试赛后的击球平均分，使他跻身世界排名第二
44%
布鲁克在其测试生涯中试图将来球击至或越过边界的投球占比
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布鲁克对阵巴基斯坦的测试赛中取得的世纪，包括2024年在木尔坦创造的职业生涯最佳317分
65，甚至70
当然，人们仍渴望更多。斯托克斯甚至在阿什斯系列赛末尾将布鲁克叫到一旁，对他说他理应在测试赛中达到“65，甚至70”的平均分。诊断显示，布鲁克和许多现代球员一样，拥有丰富的击球武器库，但仍在学习何时何地使用它们。
对于阿比·德维利尔斯（其惊人的手眼协调能力与布鲁克不相上下）而言，同样归结于风险评估：能够察觉何时形势不利，无论是五个投球还是一个小时，坚守阵地直到局势转而有利于己方。“绝对不要丢掉你的进攻性击球本色或创造性一面，”德维利尔斯在接受《为爱打球》采访时表示，“只是要先 earned the right（赢得资格）。”
据BBC体育近期对话，布鲁克也认可这一点，并和其他人一样对某些出局感到沮丧。但他明确表示，首要目标仍是成为英格兰的制胜球员。“我有能力将球击向任何方向，只是需要在比赛中更快地找到解决方案，”他说道。
一些球迷可能对此感到不满，但他们真正该受到鼓励。尽管巴兹球风的过度张扬在澳大利亚错失了黄金机会，但整体而言，它让天赋异禀的布鲁克得以探索可能的极限。避免矫枉过正，这个棘手的过去一年或许终将成就他。
to play the first Test. Babar suffered a blow to his right hand while batting in a warm-up fixture last week at Beckingham, forcing him to retire hurt.
Abbas said a decision on Babar's participation will be taken on the day of the match. 'Hopefully he will be fine,' said Abbas. 'The medical team is looking at him. He played some balls (at training), a few throw-downs.'
The Pakistan seamer sounded more hopeful about the prospect of Shan Masood featuring. Their former captain broke a finger in the first Test against West Indies last month and offers valuable experience in these conditions, having scored a ton on Pakistan's last Test tour of England six years ago and made County Championship hundreds for Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Leicestershire.
孟加拉国必须被纳入阵营之中——在澳大利亚上演国际板球历史上最不可能的翻盘之后
体育报道总是充斥着夸张和近因偏见，但以下陈述是合理的：孟加拉国在达尔文击败澳大利亚，是国际板球历史上最深远的翻盘，也是对赛前赔率最彻底的颠覆。1882年澳大利亚在英格兰获胜时令当地人震惊到发表了一则火葬主题的讣告，但同样的结果在世界的另一端已发生过四次。1998年津巴布韦在主场条件下击败印度，至少还算是以弱胜强。
2021年印度在加巴体育场的板凳深度胜利可算一例，或是1952年巴基斯坦在印度、1954年在英格兰获胜的新兴国家。但实事求是地说，周日的结果现已成为头号纪录保持者——不仅因两队资源与历史的悬殊，不仅因地点因素，更因这场对决本身的制造稀有性。自孟加拉国于2000年获准进入板球测试赛行列以来，Cricket Australia对待这个拥有超过1 亿人口的板球群体，展现出最赤裸裸的傲慢与轻蔑。
在本次系列赛前的六场测试赛中，仅有两场在澳大利亚举行，且均在26年内。2015年因莫须有的安全理由取消测试赛访问，另一次在疫情期间无法避免但从未重新安排，期间还在2018年撤回邀请赴澳巡回赛，Cricket Australia不再找借口，直言只是不想支付主办费用。与此同时，白球赛事的会面大多局限于世界杯等不可避免的场合：双边赛事统计仅15场one-day cricket和8场T20s，平均每年不到一场。
Teams do not simply walk into Australia and win Test matches. 球队并非轻易就能走进澳大利亚并赢得测试赛。亚洲球队尤其如此。拥有两座世界杯冠军的斯里兰卡从未做到。巴基斯坦在过去31年里未能做到，总计40次尝试仅获4场胜利。印度在过去八年里找到了可复制的方法，但在此之前的46场比赛中仅获5场胜利。
在此背景下，且看亚洲四大板球国家中资历最浅的一个——这个国家在其整个历史上仅有9场客场测试赛胜利。再看一支球员阵容——除三名2015年世界杯幸存者外——从未在澳大利亚面对或投出过国际板球。让这样一支球队在热身赛中对阵Cricket Australia新秀XI，结果被一名仅有一场一流赛事经验的小将攻陷，仅得54分。试问这样一支球队如何面对拥有四位投手（累计1,600+测试赛局数）和一个七人组（66次百 century和超过25,000 runs）的对手，不仅赢得比赛，还上演了一场Mortal Kombat flawless victory——四天内未输掉任何一节。
正如弱队胜利时常见的那样，一方的庆祝必然伴随着对另一方的批评。澳大利亚这样一支装备精良的球队竟然输掉这样的比赛，必然引发后果——至少来自球迷的反弹，即便选拔委员会如以往般继续支持球队。然而，尽管部分国家粉丝群体中怨愤无可避免，但显然并无明显的替罪羊。在赛前最受质疑的球员中，卡梅伦·格林凭借一记century让澳大利亚看到复苏机会，马努斯·拉布斯坎涅稳健作战一个半小时后出现失误，而杰克·韦瑟尔德则像许多开局者那样交出了糟糕的测试赛表现。
在管理层对孟加拉国嗤之以鼻之际，澳大利亚球员本
过去一周，他们同样无法被指责有任何松懈。他们当然期待获胜，但这并不意味着他们没有为实现目标付出努力。无论是赛前评论还是比赛中的表现，都看不到丝毫自满。确实存在失误——追逐角度、选择错误路线，或因斜向球板而被迫砍球——这些都将引发关于生疏度和赛前准备的常规争论。但没有人因轻率挥击而出局，也没有人在场上掉以轻心。快速投球手在新球期和旧球期都展现了不错的表现。内森·莱昂（Nathan Lyon）状态不佳，但他自尼克松政府时期就未再出战。澳大利亚人并未将这场比赛视为理所当然，他们只是表现不够出色，被一支更强的球队彻底击败。
任何观看过孟加拉国25年测试赛历史的人，都不会预料到这场胜利。因此，这场胜利的震撼程度可想而知。孟加拉国不仅实现了这一突破，或许还永久改变了这一预期。他们向自己证明，能够以这种方式比赛，他们将澳大利亚从世界测试锦标赛榜首拉下马，并在第二场测试赛中有机会再次证明自己。澳大利亚迫切需要赢下那场比赛，以平息紧张情绪。但无论结果如何，达尔文都将成为永恒的见证。
这要求孟加拉国从边缘地位中被接纳。在17年未在英格兰比赛后，英格兰明年夏天将为他们安排一场测试赛。澳大利亚不太可能在未来的巡回赛计划中忽视他们，因为目前的周期中已接待过他们。印度用了24年才邀请他们前往。如果这项运动要蓬勃发展，有潜力的国家必须得到时间和空间去成长。本周，孟加拉国展示了他们自力更生的成果。他们得到的帮助越多，就越能提升全球运动的水平。在过去一周，他们已经做到了。
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比尔测试音频
球员与裁判对话将在英超联赛直播中播出
独家 马特·休斯
英超联赛本赛季将首次允许在直播中播出球员与裁判在场上对话的音频。
英超联赛的国内电视转播权持有方——天空体育和TNT体育——将使用RefCam系统的音频扩展功能。该系统在本赛季初进行的为期六周的试验后，已成为顶级联赛转播的永久性功能。头戴式RefCam摄像机被转播商用于从新角度提供比赛事件的即时重播，以提升观众体验，但根据与俱乐部的协议条款，摄像机捕捉的音频直到数日后才会播出。
不过，本赛季的规定将放宽，允许在直播比赛中有限使用RefCam音频，每轮英超38场比赛中将播出一到两个事件的音频。
音频不会进行直播，也不包括任何提交视频助理裁判的事件，因为这不符合国际足球协会理事会（Ifab）制定的比赛规则。不过，这项新的音频服务将作为即时重播的一部分提供。同时，使用RefCam的电视转播场次将从20场增加至约45场。
足球在转播创新方面一直落后于其他运动，板球和两种橄榄球赛制中都接受比赛内采访和更衣室摄像头，许多美国体育项目也是如此。在转播权持有方的压力下，足球正在迟缓地开放。
英超联赛和裁判机构Pro Ref（前身为PGMOL）据悉正在游说Ifab放宽直播现场音频的规定。
博厄利与沃尔特
开放出售切尔西股份
马特·休斯
切尔西主席托德·博厄利和董事马克·沃尔特正在考虑将其在俱乐部的股份出售给多数股东克利尔湖资本，这笔交易将使这家私募股权公司在斯坦福桥获得完全控制权。
克利尔湖资本由贝赫达德·埃格巴利和何塞·E·费利西亚诺管理，目前已持有超过60%的切尔西股份。但在四年前从罗曼·阿布拉莫维奇手中收购俱乐部时达成的一项不寻常协议中，他们与由博厄利、沃尔特、汉斯约格·维斯和汉斯约格·维斯组成的财团共享运营控制权，后三人各持有约13%。
这两个股东集团在近两年来陷入僵局，早在两年前就有报道称他们试图相互收购对方股份，原因是对俱乐部战略（特别是新球场计划）存在分歧。
据《金融时报》首次报道，过去数周双方已恢复就潜在交易进行磋商，该交易对俱乐部的估值将超过50亿英镑，因为沃尔特正寻求筹资以偿还美国联邦调查局对其涉嫌税务欺诈案的保险费用。
博厄利和沃尔特不仅是亲密朋友，还是长期商业伙伴，此前曾共同投资于美国职棒大联盟洛杉矶道奇队和WNBA洛杉矶火花队。
沃尔特与维斯通过Blueco 22控股公司共同持有切尔西38%的股份，但尚不清楚这位瑞士亿万富翁是否也愿意出售。根据从阿布拉莫维奇手中以£2.5bn收购切尔西的条款，任何股东在未经合伙人同意的情况下不得向第三方出售股份。
因此，外部出售的可能性不大，这使得克利尔湖资本处于一个强势地位，有望获得其长期寻求的完全控制权。
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Tice call to stop fighting climate crisis sparks fury
Reform deputy accused of misinformation as UK reels from wildfires
Kiran Stacey Policy editor
Reform UK's deputy leader has been accused of spreading misinformation after he dismissed efforts to tackle the climate crisis and urged British people to enjoy the warmth of the recent heatwaves.
Richard Tice prompted a backlash
from nurses, medical experts and green campaigners yesterday after he told a press conference he believed it was "arrogant" to try to stop the climate emergency, while encouraging people to focus on upsides such as better English wine.
Asked about the recent extreme heat, Tice told a press conference: "Of course, the climate changes, but where is the evidence that net zero is going to stop it? Where is the evidence? There is no evidence. Climate change has always happened. It always will. Maybe the smarter thing to do is to adapt to it than think arrogantly that you can stop it."
◀ Richard Tice said yesterday: 'When it's a bit warm, let's enjoy it. If it means English wine gets better, fantastic'
He added: "When it's a bit warm, let's enjoy it. And if it means that English wine and sparkling wine gets better and better, fantastic. That means we can take on the French - fantastic. Let's celebrate some of these things rather than just be sort of doom and gloom about it."
Bridget Phillipson, the Labour
party chair, said: "Richard Tice's comments are tone-deaf. With wildfires raging across the UK and drought threatening water supplies and food security, comments like these don't just raise serious questions about his judgment - they also expose where his interests really lie."
A record-breaking summer has seen temperatures rising above 35C several times, causing thousands of deaths, millions of hospital visits and costing the UK an estimated £4bn in economic output.
The government has estimated that 2,877 people died as a result of high temperatures
Trump says he'll bomb Oman if it gets in way of Iran deal
Joseph Gedeon and Andrew Roth Washington
Donald Trump has again threatened to bomb Oman if it "gets in the way" of his attempts to end the US-Israel war on Iran, as the two-month window to negotiate peace with Iran expired with no end to the conflict in sight.
The latest threat against Oman, which is not a party to the war, has illustrated how Trump's unpredictable and often outrageous approach to diplomacy has upset US partners and failed to achieve the breakthrough that he has promised to end the war.
"If Oman gets in the way, we'll bomb the shit out of them," Trump told Fox News yesterday. It is the second time he has directed such a threat at Muscat, a longtime US strategic partner that has traditionally served as a key backchannel between Washington and Tehran.
The various conflicts in the Middle East continued on multiple fronts yesterday as Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis claimed to target military ships from Saudi Arabia - a US ally - in a missile and drone strike in the Red Sea.
Saudi officials did not confirm the attack, which the Houthis said had struck a Saudi military ship and four escort vessels.
The strikes took place at a port close to the Bab-al Mandeb strait, an important global shipping route that connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden.
Trump has staked the political legacy of his second term as president on being the "peacemaker-in-chief", but his efforts to disengage the US from conflicts across the Middle East are stalling.
His threat against Oman comes as he is struggling to draw the Iran conflict to a conclusion, almost six months after it was launched, and as a diplomatic window agreed with Tehran ran out with no final agreement in sight.
Tens of thousands gathered in London last night to pay tribute to Jason Arday, who was found dead on Friday. He had resigned as a Cambridge professor after allegations of plagiarism, which he denied. News Page 2 →
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Mourners at the vigil for Jason Arday, above, the Cambridge professor who was found dead on Friday
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Tens of thousands remember late academic Arday at vigil in London
Rachel Hall
Tens of thousands of people gathered in Trafalgar Square in London last night to remember and pay tribute to Jason Arday.
Stand Up to Racism, which organised the vigil, estimated that 30,000 mourners had gathered in the square to listen to emotional speeches from MPs, friends and campaigners on Arday's life and legacy and join in a minute's silence.
Many were dressed in black and held flowers, which they were asked to leave in the square.
Arday, 41, was pronounced dead after emergency services were called to his home in south London on Friday. He had just resigned from his role as professor of sociology of education at Cambridge, after widespread press coverage of accusations of plagiarism, which he rejected, and inconsistencies in statements about his career and achievements.
Opening the event, Bell Ribeiro-Addy, the Labour MP for Clapham and Brixton Hill, said: "I'm going to look around you and look at how many people have come tonight.
"That tells you what Jason meant. He held doors open behind him. He kept them open and thousands of
us walked through. That is why this place is full tonight. And I know that all of you are grieving. I know there are many people that aren't even here," said Ribeiro-Addy.
The evening also featured live performances by the British star Beverley Knight of her song Keep This Fire Burning, and a cover of Coldplay's Fix You, which was requested by Arday's family.
Many speeches focused on the role of the media in Arday's death. Diane Abbott, the MP for Hackney North, said: "He must have felt that if he resigned, the attacks on him would stop. But in fact, they got even worse ... This is a vicious campaign."
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Cash raised for family shows UK 'still cares'
Sally Weale
A Windrush campaigner behind a fundraiser for Jason Arday's family has said the outpouring of support shows "Britain still cares".
Arday, who was found dead on Friday, had resigned the previous week from his post as professor of sociology of education at the University of Cambridge after allegations of plagiarism were made against him.
A vigil for the professor, organised by the group Stand Up to Racism, was held on the steps of the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, central London, yesterday evening.
Calls are growing for an investigation into media reporting of the case. An open letter to Andy Burnham demanding a public inquiry "to ensure we never see a tragic death like Dr Arday's again" has gathered more than 85,000 names.
The prime minister is said to be open to the idea and has not ruled out "Leveson 2" – the planned second part of the inquiry into British press standards, which was cancelled in 2018. He has stressed, however, that now is a time for reflection while the usual processes – such as an inquest – are followed and concluded.
Earlier, Cambridge's chancellor, Chris Smith, described what he called a "racist feeding frenzy" around the academic's death.
On Saturday, Sir Patrick Vernon, who played a leading role in the successful campaign to establish a national Windrush Day and is
also among the letter's signatories, set up a GoFundMe crowdfunding page, which has collected more than £160,000.
He told the Press Association the outpouring of support shows that the public "still cares" and feels "angry".
"Britain still cares – people, black, white, brown, care and feel angry about the situation," he said.
"People want to support the family. There's lots of speculation about how much money Jason has or doesn't have – that's not the point. The fact is, people want to support the family because he's dead, he's died and he has a young family.
The Windrush campaigner Patrick Vernon said the evening was the time to "pay our respects and to stand in solidarity with his grieving family".
"Let's remember his life, his scholarship, his achievements, his determination and his humanity and the people that he inspired," he said.
But he added that it would be important to reflect on the role of "racism, institutional responsibility, accountability and the treatment of black families and black men" in Arday's death, as well as why the "duty of care" to an autistic man known to be vulnerable had been failed, potentially through a public inquiry.
Dawn Butler, the Labour MP for Brent East, said: "I'm sorry because I think we let him down. I let him down.
"And I'm sorry to the family, but we couldn't protect him. But now is the time for unity. Now is the time for us to ensure that we have sustainable change."
Samira Ali, an organiser of Stand Up to Racism, read out a statement from a close friend and colleague of Arday, which said: "Professor Jason, the words kind, beautiful and gentle seem to orbit so many dedications to him and they are not wrong.
"But in truth, words will never quite capture the type of person Professor Jason was or what he meant to people."
The statement referenced Arday's work setting up mentoring schemes and mental health support for students and academics of colour. It read: "He worked tirelessly to inspire all students from marginalised backgrounds to believe that academia could also belong to them.
"He did not inspire one or two people to do a PhD. There are dozens of us over generations who have dreamed and are now doctors and soon to be professors because of him."
A vigil organised by Stand Up to Racism was held outside the National Gallery in central London PHOTOGRAPH: ALISHA ABDOUNDUUETTY
"He has parents and he has a family that he has supported, and people want to support the family."
Vernon said the treatment of Arday raised questions around press regulation, the University of Cambridge and the "state of race relations in Britain today".
Before Arday's death, Cambridge said it would investigate the circumstances around his "appointment and tenure" and that the findings would feed into a review of the process for appointing senior roles.
It is understood the university does not feel it is right to make a decision on whether to proceed with its investigation while Arday's family are grieving.
Smith said: "I do believe it is possible to hold to two principles at the same time: to believe in the importance of academic integrity, and where criticisms of plagiarism arise, about any academic, whoever they are, ensure that they are rigorously investigated. And also to refuse to join in a racist feeding frenzy over a particular academic."
Downing Street declined to say "at this stage" whether the prime minister was considering an inquiry.
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Bulgarians baffled Eurovision 2027 to be hosted in Burgas, not capital Sofia
Eden Maclachlan Sofia
Ever since the Bulgarian singer Dara was crowned winner of the Eurovision song contest in May, it has been clear the Balkan nation would for the first time in its history have the opportunity to host Europe's biggest party.
So when Bulgarian officials announced that the world's largest live music event in 2027 will be held not in the capital, Sofia, but in Burgas, a Black Sea port city that is home to 210,000 people, it came as a surprise to this year's winner.
"I am really surprised," Dara told the Guardian. "I think that BNT [Bulgarian National Television] will do a great job at producing the whole show. I trust them completely. If they decided Burgas, then probably Burgas is better."
This spring in Vienna, Dara became the first Bulgarian to win Eurovision with her high energy party anthem Bangaranga, in an edition boycotted by Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Iceland over Israel's participation.
Following her victory, Bulgaria's four largest cities, Sofia, Plovdiv, Dara's home town of Varna and Burgas applied to host the contest. As the country's capital and international hub, Sofia always seemed the obvious choice.
Many were taken aback by the
'I am really surprised. I trust them completely. If they decided Burgas, then probably Burgas is better'
► Dara celebrates after winning this year's Eurovision song contest in Vienna in May
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▼ The port city of Burgas beat off competition from three other Bulgarian cities, including the capital, Sofia, to host next year's contest
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Nuns fight 'holy war' against plans to take their beach club
Angela Giuffrida Rome
A group of nuns are fighting plans to take their beach club from them - the latest flashpoint in the long-running debate about the monopoly of private concessions along Italy's coastline.
The dispute, described as "a holy war" in the local press, unfolded when a 50-metre stretch of sand at Bagni Gino Garrone, a beach resort
in the town of Spotorno managed by nuns from the Suore di Carità di Santa Maria order, was designated for public bidding by local authorities as they seek to comply with EU beach concession laws as well as regional regulations on free beach quotas.
The nuns have been managing the resort since 1946 after being exempt from standard commercial rules because they were using the proceeds for charitable purposes, including funding an infant school they
still run in Spotorno and a summer beach camp.
For decades they have rented out loungers and umbrellas, so operating much like thousands of other private beach concessions, the difference being - they claim - that the proceeds fund their charitable activities.
However, with the regulation governing beach use for social missions no longer existing, the nuns were told by Spotorno's mayor, Mattia Fiorini, that the concession would be reclassified as a "free equipped beach" and if they wanted to continue running it they would have to compete in a public tender.
During a public debate on the topic, Sister Miranda, in her 80s, challenged
Fiorini. "It's ours," she was quoted as saying by the Turin edition of Corriere della Sera. "Why does the municipality want to take away our beach? If they do, we won't even be able to keep the school running."
▲ The beach in Spotorno, on Italy's Ligurian coast, is highly sought after
choice of Burgas, Bulgaria's fourth largest city. "We were surprised, because Sofia has the biggest arena," said Pavel Stefanov, 29, an air traffic controller at Sofia airport.
Milena Ouzounova, 54, a designer from Sofia, was sceptical about Burgas's capacity to pull it off: "I'm disappointed. I think Sofia is a better place, it is bigger, we have a big arena. Burgas is a nice place but I am not sure it could be prepared enough after one year."
Located on the southern Black Sea coast, almost 400km east of Sofia, Burgas is closer to Istanbul than the Bulgarian capital.
Nestled among three lakes and the Black Sea, it has an established tourism industry and is a popular seaside destination for Bulgarian and international tourists. It is also home to Bulgaria's second largest port and the largest oil refinery in southern Europe. This year, it hosted the arrival of the first stage of the Giro d'Italia, the Italian equivalent of the Tour de France.
Preparations to host Eurovision have already started around Arena Burgas, the 15,000-capacity concert hall completed in 2023 which will have the herculean task of throwing Europe's biggest party, while the city's airport said it was ready to welcome the increased passenger flow.
The accompanying Eurovision events will be in the centre of Burgas and the Sea Garden, the city's biggest public park directly facing the Black Sea, where locals usually gather to hang out or enjoy a drink.
However, it isn't the smallest city to host Eurovision, still considerably bigger than Harrogate, which staged it in 1982 following Bucks Fizz's victory.
The Eurovision final will take place on 15 May, with the semi-finals on 11 and 13 May, and Canada will participate for the first time. New rules will be implemented such as increasing the minimum participation age from 16 to 18 and potentially barring countries involved in armed conflicts from hosting.
Operating it as a "free equipped beach", meaning access is completely free and people can choose to pay a small sum to rent loungers and umbrellas if they wish, would be considerably less profitable, the nuns argued.
Fiorini said if they wanted to continue managing the concession "they must participate in the tender, like everyone else". The tender is due to be issued in the autumn.
The mayor's plan means Spotorno could be among the first municipalities in Italy to meet a 30 June 2027 deadline for the country to put its current private beach concessions out to public tender, as per the EU's Bolkestein directive.
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Virgin Trains takes step closer to running services to Europe in blow to Eurostar
Lauren Almeida
Virgin Trains has been granted track access by the rail regulator to enable it to run services between London and Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam from 2030, in a key step towards breaking Eurostar's monopoly on the cross-Channel passenger route.
The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) said it had given approval for Richard Branson's company to run as many as 20 daily return services using the High Speed 1 line between London St Pancras and the Channel tunnel.
The agreement for the period between 1 October 2030 to 31 December 2040 means Virgin Trains has
passed another important regulatory hurdle towards starting the international services. However, it only covers the HS1 route and Virgin still needs to secure access to the tunnel and rail networks in mainland Europe.
Last October Virgin was granted access to share Eurostar's Temple Mills depot in east London to maintain and store trains, the only depot that can be accessed from HS1.
Eurostar, which was formerly part-owned by the UK taxpayer but is now controlled by the French rail operator SNCF, has held a monopoly on passenger services through the tunnel since it opened in 1994. Eurotunnel, operator of LeShuttle, takes vehicles on the cross-Channel route.
▲ Illustration of a Virgin train at St Pancras International station
Eurostar has previously faced criticism over its high prices, and shrunk its network over the past decade, ditching international services from Ashford and Ebbsfleet in Kent.
Branson has previously said it was "time to end this 30-year monopoly
and bring some Virgin magic to the cross-Channel route". Virgin plans to run services between St Pancras and the same stations in Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam used by Eurostar.
It comes as demand for international rail travel from the UK grows, with Eurostar announcing last year that it would start running double-decker trains through the tunnel, while a joint UK-German taskforce considers plans for direct trains from London to Berlin.
The ORR said its latest decision to grant track access was "an important next step", but that there was "still more work to do" before the new services could run. The ORR's deputy director of access and international, Martin Jones, said: "This
is an important next step in bringing competition and growth to the market for international rail services, and we welcome the progress Virgin Trains and London St Pancras High Speed have made. While there is still more work to do, we are supporting Virgin and the wider industry to grow international services."
For example, Virgin Trains must secure access to other rail networks and obtain safety approvals from the ORR and relevant regulators in the EU ahead of plans to run services in 2030.
Virgin, which previously ran intercity trains in Britain including between London and Glasgow, has said it plans to invest £700m in its cross-Channel project and create about 400 jobs in the UK.
A Virgin Group spokesperson said: "Our plans for a new London-Europe rail service from 2030 are moving at pace. We welcome the ORR's pre-approval of our track access agreement and the opportunity to bring competition and Virgin's award-winning customer experience to the Channel tunnel."
Hayden Panettiere, star of Nashville and Heroes, dies at the age of 36
Sian Cain
Hayden Panettiere, the actor known for her roles in television shows such as Heroes and Nashville, has died at the age of 36.
Her father, Skip Panettiere, said: "It is with profound sadness that we share the tragic passing of our beloved Hayden. She was an incredible light and a force of nature who brought immeasurable love and joy to all who knew her - and to the millions who watched her onscreen."
He asked for privacy "as our family takes time to process this unimaginable loss".
Born in 1989, Panettiere was a child star who began acting at just 11 months old, appearing in a toy commercial. She made her big screen debut as the voice of Dot in A Bug's Life at the age of nine.
In 2000, she appeared in the sports drama film Remember the Titans. In 2004, she landed her first starring role as the daughter of Bill Pullman's character in Tiger Cruise on the Disney Channel.
► Panettiere as cheerleader Claire Bennet in Heroes - the hit show that brought her to global attention; and, above, in 2009
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Panettiere rose to global fame at the age of 17 as the invulnerable cheerleader Claire Bennet in Heroes, a series with the well-known, mysterious mantra: "Save the cheerleader, save the world."
Panettiere also earned two Golden Globe nominations for her performance as the troubled country music star Juliette Barnes on Nashville. Eleven songs that she recorded for the show appeared on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart.
She also appeared as Kirby Reed in 2011's Scream 4 and 2023's Scream VI.
In 2014, she gave birth to her daughter, Kaya Klitschko, with her
ex-fiance Wladimir Klitschko, the Ukrainian heavyweight boxing champion. Panettiere gave full custody to Klitschko in 2018 in order to focus on recovering from what she called a "horrible cycle for years of battling depression and anxiety and alcoholism and substance abuse".
"I didn't know where the alcoholism was ending and the postpartum was beginning," she said in 2022. "And I ran myself pretty ragged."
She entered rehab in 2015 while filming Nashville, which was to inform some of the show's storylines.
"This hasn't been easy and there were a lot of ups and downs,"
Panettiere told People magazine in 2022. "But I don't regret even the ugliest things that have happened to me. I feel incredibly accomplished."
This year she published a memoir titled This is Me: A Reckoning, which touched on her struggles with fame, postpartum depression, addiction and recovery. In it she wrote of the troubling link she made between acting and love: "Directors, fans, and Mom praised me endlessly for my over-the-top dramatic responses. Subconsciously, I began to associate catastrophe with adoration; people loved me because make-believe bad things happened to me."
▲ Panettiere with the father of her child, Wladimir Klitschko, in
2011; and, below, in her first starring role in Disney's Tiger Cruise, 2004
In May, she spoke to the podcaster Jay Shetty about her daughter, saying: "I always want to have my arms wrapped around her, but that's just not the way life is right at this moment ... I have faith that she is going to come to me and that we're going to have an incredible relationship and bond and friendship that a lot of parents don't get to have with their kids."
Panettiere is survived by her father and her mother, Lesley Vogel. Panettiere's brother Jansen died in 2023 at the age of 28 from heart problems.
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Ministers drop plan to relax affordable housing rules after backlash
Ministers have dropped plans to relax affordable housing rules for developers in England after a backlash from housing experts who warned it could drastically cut the number of cheaper homes available in rural areas.
The government said it would not go ahead with proposals to end affordable housing quotas for private builders on sites of between 10 and 49 houses after a consultation triggered an overwhelmingly negative response.
The change, which was included in the government's 150-page planning reform document published yesterday, is one of the most significant reversals ministers have made to housing policy since Andy Burnham became prime minister.
Kate Henderson, the chief executive of the National Housing Federation (NHF), said: "It's extremely positive to see that the government has listened to the social housing sector and decided against removing onsite affordable housing requirements on medium-sized development sites.
"This decision will safeguard one of the most important routes for delivering social homes in rural areas, ensuring we can build genuinely affordable homes where people need them, in every postcode across the country."
Under the original proposals, ministers would have allowed developers to make cash payments instead of building affordable housing onsite if their developments were between 10 and 49 houses.
Ministers hoped the measures might help boost sluggish rates of housebuilding. But housing experts said such a rule change would have a major impact, especially in rural areas, where a significant number of affordable homes are built on medium sites rather than larger ones.
The government document reveals that of the 910 people and groups who responded to the consultation, 41% were strongly opposed to the measure, with just 18% strongly in favour. The document said: "There was significant opposition across stakeholder groups."
It added: "The government has considered these responses and has decided not to proceed with proposals to allow applicants discretion to deliver social and affordable housing requirements via cash payments in lieu of on-site delivery on medium sites."
Sainsbury's store pauses AI scans after ejecting shopper
Helena Horton
Sainsbury's has paused the use of AI face scanning in one of its stores after a customer was wrongly identified as a shoplifter and ejected from the shop.
"I was embarrassed - mortified even - and felt quite humiliated and powerless," Matt Arnold, 46, said of his ordeal.
The comedy promoter was buying supplies in the store in East Dulwich, south-east London, for a standup event at Dulwich Hamlet football club when, after scanning his items and a Nectar card, he was approached by two managers who told him he could not be served owing to an earlier incident. He was then asked to leave and they tried to escort him from the store.
"They simply told me they would be walking me out," Arnold said. "At that point I did stand my ground and said I would be walking myself out. I was determined to keep some dignity. On this point, if nothing else, they did relent."
As he left, he saw an overhead
CCTV monitor alert with a red circle surrounding his face. He asked the shop staff to keep his shopping in the trolley so his friend could pick up the supplies for the comedy night.
"I think they were quite confused by this, understandably, but agreed and my colleague Dave went in to pay for and pick up the shop about five minutes later. There was no pause for thought from the staff, no suggestion that they understood this is not how a shoplifter would behave. Just blindly following the machine's orders."
Sainsbury's head office apologised to Arnold the next day and has paused use of its AI-assisted Facewatch technology in the store while an investigation takes place.
Arnold said: "Anyone could be falsely accused and at some point that will be someone vulnerable, someone with mental health issues like anxiety. It's inevitable.
"Also, I would worry about the confidence-destroying effect of it happening to a younger person or someone less willing or able to stand up for themselves."
The supermarket chain uses facial recognition technology to identify shoplifters and other criminals,
and says this is to keep staff safe from abuse. But the tech has been plagued with issues. Last September another shopper, Warren Rajah, was ordered out of a branch in Elephant and Castle, south London, after being wrongly identified by the same software. Similar cases have occurred in Home Bargains and B&M stores.
Arnold said: "Sainsbury's, and indeed any other company using Facewatch, should disable it immediately, at least until they can guarantee
the system works flawlessly. They have announced that they are suspending the surveillance in the East Dulwich store ... but it's a centralised system, so why not suspend it in every store? If there is a potential problem in East Dulwich - be it with the AI itself or the implementation of it - there are potential problems in all the stores."
He added that he was concerned about the rise of AI in society. "I don't like surveillance culture, but I can see how at times it is necessary. What isn't necessary is allowing machines to make decisions and then expect humans to scuttle off and do their bidding unquestionably."
A Sainsbury's spokesperson said: "We have contacted Mr Arnold to apologise for his experience at our Dulwich superstore. The incident was caused by human error, not the facial recognition technology. Customers can be reassured that the Facewatch system has a 99.98% accuracy rate, and every match is reviewed by a trained manager."
A Facewatch spokesperson said the technology was not at fault in this case. "A correct alert was sent to the retailer, but was subsequently subject to human error in the way it was handled in store," they said.
The company said suspending a store was a "precautionary measure" to prevent further alerts while staff underwent additional training.
Sainsbury's said alerts remained visible on staff devices for up to an hour and it logged all misidentifications.
'There was no pause for thought ... They were just blindly following the machine's orders'
Matt Arnold Sainsbury's customer
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▼ Richard Tice and Robert Jenrick detailing £50bn of cuts to benefits for disabled people and foreign nationals PHOTOGRAPH: STEFAN ROOSSEAU/PA
Stop fighting climate crisis and enjoy the heatwaves, says Tice
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during the May and June heatwaves - double the figure for the whole of last summer.
The climate breakdown has been linked to the increasing frequency of wildfires, which are burning larger areas across many parts of the world. The so-called firewave in the UK weeks ago was the most widespread the country has seen, with the combination of wet winters and prolonged heatwaves exacerbating the risk.
New figures published in the Lancet show older people are affected by the heat at lower temperatures than previously thought, while medical professionals say they are struggling to deal with the surge in patients.
A spokesperson for the Royal College of Nursing said: 'Those calling for people to enjoy the impacts of climate change should say it to the nurses collapsing in hospitals where temperatures are hitting 36 degrees. Or to the thousands of patients lining
corridors every day as extreme heat causes severe illness among the vulnerable, older people and even those without pre-existing conditions.
'Climate change is a public health emergency that's getting worse... The nursing profession doesn't want out of touch interventions, but action to reduce emissions and make NHS and care facilities safe to work and be cared for in.'
Simon Williams, a public health researcher at Swansea University, said: 'It's concerning to see someone so high profile spreading misinformation around climate change and its impacts. Particularly for the elderly, heatwaves over time make them less capable of regulating their body temperature. Even a few degrees either way can have a major impact.'
Caroline Abrahams, the charity director of Age UK, called the new findings into the impact of heat on older people 'alarming', adding: 'This study means there's now no denying that extreme heat poses a
very real health threat to our older population.'
The National Farmers' Union meanwhile has said farmers are facing 'one of the worst ever' harvests, while firefighters have battled wildfires in Derbyshire, the Midlands, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Reform UK has long campaigned to scrap the government's commitment to reaching net zero by 2050 and has promised to end green subsidies if elected. The party has taken tens of millions of pounds in donations from people with connections to the fossil fuel industry since it was set up in 2019, most notably from the billionaire Christopher Harborne, who owns a jet fuel brokerage and whose £5m gift to Nigel Farage is now at the centre of a parliamentary inquiry.
While Farage has questioned the role that human activity has played in changing the climate, his deputy leader has been more outspoken in denying that the planet is experiencing a climate crisis at all.
He posted in 2024: 'We are not in climate emergency; nor is there a climate crisis. But yes, climate change is real because it has happened for millions of years past & will do in future.'
Yesterday he called on the government to invest in desalination plants, which he said worked well in the Middle East, where he spends much of his time. 'Where's been the discussion about desalination plants that are used in other parts of the world very, very successfully?' he said. 'Yeah, there's not much water on land in the Middle East. They use desalination
'We are not in climate emergency; nor is there a climate crisis'
Richard Tice Posting on X in 2024
plants. We're surrounded by water. It is too difficult to build a reservoir - let's look at desalination plants.'
Last week the Guardian reported Thames Water was preparing the UK's only mainland desalination plant to restart operations later this year - but it will not be ready until the winter.
Alasdair Johnstone, head of parliamentary engagement at the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit, said: 'Far from being an enjoyable experience, for many this summer will have brought hardship, with 2,877 deaths during the May and June heatwaves, over 1,100 of which are directly attributable to the extra heat added by climate change. Firefighters have been called to over 1,000 wildfires, which have devastated the landscape, displaced people, and destroyed homes.
'The only way these climate change impacts can be prevented from becoming more common and severe is to tackle the cause, which means reaching net zero emissions by 2050.'
Amy Cameron, a programme director for Greenpeace UK, said: 'Reform should try telling nurses fainting on shifts, farmers losing their crops and people running from burning homes to enjoy the hot weather and see what reaction they'll get.'
Additional reporting Denis Campbell and Ajit Niranjan
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Welfare Reform cuts plan would 'destroy the safety net'
Patrick Butler Kiran Stacey
Hundreds of thousands of children would be tipped into poverty under plans unveiled by Reform to slash £50bn a year from the UK benefits bill, campaigners have warned.
The warnings came after Reform published plans to drastically reduce disability payments, ban non-UK citizens from claiming benefits and introduce compulsory 20 hours a week unpaid workfare for thousands of long-term unemployed people.
An overhaul of the sick pay system would require employers to cover an employee's benefit payments for the first two years of their illness, the plans propose, while the two-child benefit limit scrapped by Labour last year would be reintroduced.
A leaked government analysis shows that cuts to disability benefits would be so steep even those with terminal illness, blindness or profound learning disabilities would lose as much as £10,000 per year.
Campaigners said the wide-ranging proposals were 'cruel and dangerous', with one poverty charity saying: 'This will cause horrific levels of destitution and hardship.'
Attempts to overhaul the benefits system have proved politically controversial in recent years - last year Keir Starmer's government was forced to abandon relatively modest proposals to cut £5bn a year from disability benefits after a backbench rebellion, and was forced to abandon its plans to keep the two-child limit.
The plans began to unravel after the consequences of cuts to disability benefits became apparent, with some low-income households facing cuts to incomes of up to £10,000 a year, and poverty rates projected to increase by around 250,000.
The consequences of Reform's plans in its own electoral heartlands could also prove problematic. House of Commons figures show one in six (15.3%) working-age adults in Reform leader Nigel Farage's Clacton constituency claim personal independence payments (Pip), almost twice the England and Wales average.
◀ Campaigners have called the proposals, which include replacing Pip and part of the universal credit with a flat-rate allowance, 'cruel and dangerous' PHOTOGRAPH: WIXTON SUTHEROWICZ/FUTURE PUBLISHING/GETTY IMAGES.
A foreword by Farage and the party's Treasury spokesperson, Robert Jenrick, said the plans were built on 'common-sense principles', adding: 'A system intended as a safety net has become a way of life, including for foreigners who haven't paid a penny.'
Among their proposals is replacing Pip and part of the universal credit with a single flat-rate 'health security allowance' of £429.80 a month. For those with severe needs, an internal government analysis shows this would be more than £10,000 less than they currently receive in a year.
Jenrick said yesterday that the most vulnerable needs would be protected, while the party has said disabled people could claim for the genuine extra costs of their disabilities. He could not say, however, how those costs would be assessed.
A Labour source said: 'This analysis exposes the true impact of Reform's welfare proposals. Far from securing the welfare system for the future, Reform would destroy the safety net that millions of British people have depended on.'
The Disability Benefits Consortium, representing more than 150 charities, said Reform's plans would 'vastly increase poverty and worsen people's health' by stripping disability benefits from millions.
Disability Rights UK said Reform's failure to understand the importance of disability benefits to the lives of disabled people was 'utterly breathtaking'. The charity Scope accused it of 'pushing disabled people into poverty and calling it compassion'.
Around 1.3m non-UK citizens currently claim universal credit, of whom about 650,000 are not in employment, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies. The amount of money that would be saved by barring non-UK citizens from benefits would depend on how many responded by claiming citizenship, it said.
Tom Waters, an associate director at the IFS, said: 'Removing benefits from non-UK citizens would mean large overnight cuts to claimants' incomes and imply significant increases in hardship - some of this group get most or all of their income from benefits at present.'
Reform said its plans would push an additional 241,000 British nationals into jobs by the end of the decade while cutting about a quarter the UK's annual working-age benefits bill.
State pensions would be entirely insulated from cuts, it said, and similar protections would be in place for what it called the 'severely disabled'.
Kate Lee, the chief executive of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations, said such a programme could undermine trust between charities and the communities they serve.
North Sea oil Musicians ask PM to reject new drilling
Lauren Almeida
More than 200 musicians including Massive Attack and Brian Eno have written to Andy Burnham urging him to reject plans for more oil and gas drilling in the North Sea.
The letter, signed by 211 artists such as Olly Alexander and Paris Paloma, called on the prime minister to reject the Rosebank oilfield, warning that it would fail to lower energy bills or provide energy security as most of the oil was likely to be exported.
Other performers who put their names to the missive include
Radiohead's Thom Yorke, Ed O'Brien and Philip Selway; the Cure's Robert Smith; Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream; Alexis Taylor of Hot Chip; Anoushka Shankar, Kevin Rowland, Anna Calvi, Jacob Collier, David Gray, the electronic duo Bicep and the xx singer Romy.
The government's consultation on the project, about 80 miles northwest of the Shetland Islands, closed yesterday. Ministers will now decide on its future as well as that of the Jackdaw gasfield off Aberdeen, whose consultation concluded a week ago.
Adura, the company behind both projects, has said they would result in £10.8bn in investment and support 3,500 jobs at the peak of construction, with 880 employees over the production lifetime.
However, environmental activists argue that extracting fossil fuels from the UK's largest remaining untapped oilfield will accelerate climate chaos. Estimates suggest Rosebank could produce more than 250m tonnes of CO₂ over its lifetime, equivalent to 70% of the UK's annual emissions.
◀ The 211 signatories to the letter include, clockwise from top left, Anoushka Shankar, Thom Yorke, Paris Paloma and Brian Eno
The artists wrote in their letter: 'The climate crisis is no longer something we fear for future generations; it is shaping our lives today. Heatwaves are disrupting schools, workplaces, hospitals, transport networks, festivals and live events.'
Eno, who is a co-founder of the campaign group EarthPercent, said Burnham had previously stood with artists and campaigners calling for an end to fossil fuel expansion.
'So he has a choice to make,' Eno said. 'He can stand with the fossil fuel industry and approve Rosebank, or he can stand with the people who will live with the consequences of that decision.
'We are already seeing what a hotter world looks like, with record heat and devastating wildfires across Britain and Europe. At this point, continuing to expand fossil fuel production isn't pragmatism, it's a failure to face reality.'
The Met Office has said this summer in the UK is on course to be the hottest since records began.
Extreme heat has driven a surge in attendance at hospital emergency departments over the summer, with more than 2.4 million patients attending each month in May, June and July - the three highest monthly totals ever recorded.
A Department for Energy Security and Net Zero spokesperson said: 'The North Sea remains a vital national asset, supporting jobs, growth and the UK's energy security. We are clear that oil and gas will continue to play an important role in our energy system for decades to come, alongside transitioning to clean power to protect jobs and tackle the climate crisis.'
Security Burnham contacted by fake Trump chief of staff
Kevin Rawlinson Kiran Stacey Aletha Adu
At least three UK cabinet ministers have had their personal mobile phone numbers published online, amid mounting concern over the security of senior politicians after Andy Burnham was targeted by an impersonation scam.
The defence secretary, Wes Streeting, justice secretary, Alex Norris, and Northern Ireland secretary, Chris Bryant, all had their numbers available online alongside their names.
A reference containing Streeting's number has since been removed, a source told the Guardian, noting he does all his official business on his government phone. Officials are understood to be working to take down the others.
The leak, first revealed by Politico, came after Burnham exchanged messages with someone posing as Donald Trump's chief of staff, Susie Wiles.
The prime minister was in contact with an unknown individual pretending to be Wiles before concerns were raised about the incident.
Bus pass for disabled '24/7'
Disabled people across England will be able to use their free bus passes at any time of day from next April, as Andy Burnham expands a policy he introduced as mayor of Greater Manchester.
The passes are currently valid only between 9.30am and 11pm on weekdays, although some councils pay to allow people free travel outside those hours.
The prime minister is putting £60m towards the change. He is in the second week of his summer tour, during which he is focusing on the cost of living. The bus pass policy has been in place in Greater Manchester since March.
'Buses are a lifeline for so many people - making it easier to get to work, education and healthcare,' Burnham said. 'It's simply not right that many disabled people cannot travel using their pass during certain times of the day. So we're fixing that. Disabled people will now have unlimited free bus travel 24/7.' Aletha Adu
No messages of significance were sent and the suspicious activity was quickly reported to the appropriate authorities, it is understood.
The British embassy in Washington was so concerned it raised the matter with the White House, according to Politico. A UK government spokesperson said: 'We do not comment on national security matters.'
Downing Street refused to say whether any measures had been taken to prevent another breach. No 10 refused to say whether Burnham was embarrassed that he had communicated with the imposter, and declined to say whether the messages were exchanged on WhatsApp.
Last year, the Wall Street Journal reported that the FBI had launched an investigation into efforts to access Wiles's phone after an unknown person pretending to be her contacted prominent Republicans and business chiefs.
There have been security concerns related to Trump's White House, with the president's personal phone number common knowledge among reporters covering US politics.
In December 2025, a US defence department report concluded Trump's defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, had endangered the lives of US service personnel when he discussed a military operation with fellow senior US officials in a group chat to which a journalist had been added.
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No breakthrough for Kushner as Netanyahu insists Hamas disarm
Peter Beaumont
Benjamin Netanyahu has told Donald Trump's son-in-law and envoy Jared Kushner there can be no progress on the stalled Gaza ceasefire deal or an Israeli withdrawal from the coastal strip until Hamas first disarms.
An Israeli official said there had been no breakthrough in the meeting between the pair, saying Netanyahu had made it clear the IDF would not withdraw and would continue to carry out operations in Gaza.
On Sunday, Kushner had met Hamas's political chief in Egypt, where Hamas insisted Israel must first withdraw its troops from the 60% of Gaza that Israel occupies.
Yesterday's three-hour meeting in Israel came after Netanyahu had forcefully rejected a week earlier the US-backed 15-point roadmap to move the ceasefire deal in Gaza forward.
In the meeting with Kushner, Netanyahu again insisted there could be no Israeli withdrawal or
reconstruction without full Hamas disarmament, and the Israeli prime minister requested that a US general super vise the handover of weapons.
A statement from Netanyahu's office said: "The prime minister and Board of Peace had deep and constructive discussions. It was agreed to establish two working groups, one on disarmament and demilitarisation of Gaza, which both Israel and the Board of Peace are determined should be prompt and completed before any reconstruction happens in Gaza."
In a separate statement, a Board of Peace official said the meeting was "in depth and very productive": "We agreed with the PM on a path forward. The Israelis are going to give this a chance. Now it's up to Hamas to show if it truly intends to comply."
The timing of the meeting, which also included Tony Blair and Nickolay Mladenov, who both sit on Trump's Board of Peace, was not auspicious. With Netanyahu struggling in the polls ahead of national elections later this year, Gaza - and Netanyahu's role in events leading up to Hamas's
◀ Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, left, in talks with Israel's president, Isaac Herzog, yesterday PHOTOGRAPH: HAALEY SHALOM/ARADOLUS SETTY
surprise attack on Israeli border communities on 7 October 2023 - remains a highly charged issue where Netanyahu is seen as vulnerable.
According to the Haaretz newspaper, the meeting ended with the US agreeing that Israel could continue striking Gaza, apparently contradicting a statement from Trump earlier yesterday that Israel "should not be striking in Gaza".
While Hamas says it has agreed to the roadmap, which includes disarmament, the group is urging mediators and the Board of Peace to compel Israel to sign on. Officials from the mediating countries Egypt, Qatar and Turkey were also present.
Israel, which under the roadmap must gradually withdraw from Gaza, insists Hamas must fully disarm before any Israeli withdrawal, a sequence representing a long-term impasse. Instead, Israeli troops continue to occupy about 60% of the strip and Netanyahu has previously threatened to take over more.
A day earlier, Kushner met Hamas's political chief, Khalil al-Hayya, for talks about disarmament, according to a regional official and a Hamas official who both spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to talk to reporters. The Hamas official said it was committed and waiting for mediators to start the 14-day negotiation period to work out a timetable for implementation. That period requires all parties' approval of the roadmap to begin.
At stake are the lives of about 2 million people in Gaza and reconstruction of the crowded enclave now largely controlled by Israeli forces, more than 10 months since the ceasefire ended major military operations.
Israel has killed more than 1,200 Palestinians in Gaza and wounded more than 4,100 since agreeing to the ceasefire on 10 October 2025, according to Gaza's health ministry.
Additional reporting Agence France-Presse, Reuters and AP
US will bomb Oman 'if it gets in the way' of deal with Iran, says Trump
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That two-month window for a negotiated settlement closed yesterday without a breakthrough. But Trump also claimed during yesterday's interview that he was "not in a hurry" to reach a deal.
He has repeatedly claimed that the war would end "soon", and has talked up the prospect of a lasting peace deal in recent months without such a breakthrough materialising.
In the same interview, Trump said Iran should "put up the white flag of surrender", but signalled he was not about to impose a fresh deadline on Tehran. "I have no time schedule. I'm not in a hurry," he said.
Trump signed a memorandum of understanding with Iran at the Palace of Versailles on 17 June, on the sidelines of the G7 summit.
The memorandum paused hostilities and set a maximum 60-day window - extendable only by mutual consent - for the two sides to reach a comprehensive deal covering sanctions relief, Iran's nuclear program and other disputes.
Trump also dismissed concerns that Washington's own arsenal had
▲ Donald Trump has said repeatedly that war with Iran would end 'soon'
been depleted by nearly six months of fighting, telling Fox News that what the US had expended against Iran so far was "peanuts".
He suggested that many of the US's more advanced munitions, including air defence systems, had already been "given away" to Ukraine under his predecessor, Joe Biden - a claim that echoes warnings from defence analysts earlier in the war that US and allied stockpiles were being drawn down faster than they could be replenished.
The remarks came after Trump used his Truth Social platform to restate his negotiating red line. "The number one Goal is, and always will be, that Iran cannot have, in any way, shape, or form, a Nuclear Weapon," he wrote.
The strait of Hormuz - a crucial chokepoint for global trade, through which about a fifth of the world's seaborne oil supplies typically passes - has been all but closed since the US and Israel launched their war on Iran in February.
Iran is to the north of the strait. Oman is to the south. The two countries have been in talks over control of the waterway.
In a casual aside at a cabinet meeting in May, Trump threatened to "blow up" Oman if it failed to "behave".
During a speech on Friday Trump also threatened to declare the strait of Hormuz "a territory of the United States".
In addition to Oman's decades-long military and economic ties with the US, the Gulf nation of 5.3 million people has played a mediation role in the war and has itself come under attack from Tehran.
Iran's foreign ministry said yesterday that talks with Oman were "continuing in earnest", despite Trump's latest outburst.
The US president also confirmed for the first time that Washington had opened a direct backchannel to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which the US and Israel have targeted throughout the conflict.
"They're good poker players, but they're dying," he said of the IRGC leadership.
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◀ Tyler's coffin is carried out of Swansea Minster after the funeral service; right, a woman watches the service on a big screen outside the church PHOTOGRAPHS: MATTHEW HOWWOOD/GETTY IMAGES: ALASTAIR GRANT/AP
◀ Hundreds of people line the streets as the Total Eclipse singer's hearse, with a white coffin covered in bouquets of white roses, arrives at the church PHOTOGRAPHS: HANNAH MCKAY/REUTERS
'She never forgot her roots' Fans gather in Swansea to say farewell to Bonnie Tyler
Bethan McKernan Wales correspondent
Bonnie Tyler's songs have echoed through her home town of Swansea in recent days in memory of the late singer, but yesterday the church bells stopped and wellwishers lining the streets fell silent as her coffin arrived for a celebration-of-life service.
As the white coffin, covered in bouquets of white roses, was carried into the church, shouts of "God bless you, Bonnie" and "Bye, Bonnie" punctured the air. Those gathered to pay their respects burst into applause. Tyler's songs If I Sing You a Love Song and It's a Heartache played before the private service began, which mourners outside watched on a screen in nearby St David's Square.
The Total Eclipse of the Heart star, whose real name was Gaynor Hopkins, split her time between Mumbles, in a house overlooking Swansea Bay, and the Algarve. She
died aged 75 in July in hospital in Portugal after a period of ill health and is survived by her husband of 53 years, Robert Sullivan.
The couple were well known in the area, and many people the Guardian spoke to yesterday had met Tyler or knew her personally. Mourners began arriving from 7.30am for the noon service, bringing camping chairs and supplies, with some travelling from as far away as Germany and Austria.
Allyson Thomas, 58, whose partner played in a band with Tyler's brother, said: "We went to a few parties at the Mumbles house. They were wonderful. There was karaoke, performances. As we got in the taxi home, Bonnie handed us some champagne for the journey home. She was really special, she was so down to earth and a star at the same time."
Tyler grew up as one of six children in a musical family in a council house in Skewen, a village north-east of Swansea. A "painfully shy" teenager, she started gaining confidence at 17 after singing and coming second in a local rugby club
talent competition. "After that, she never looked back," Roger Bell, the talent scout who discovered her, said in his tribute during yesterday's service.
Sandra Bartlett, 63, from nearby Port Talbot, said she had known Sullivan during his days as a nightclub manager, and her ex-husband had been friendly with
the couple. "We went out to the first house she had in Portugal and they were great hosts," she said.
"Gaynor was lovely, always ready for a chat or a gossip. She went from strength to strength as she got older, she was still performing a lot. I think it says a lot about her that she came home to Skewen. It's not like she was from a big place like
▲ Among those outside the church were the Cash family; top right, Allyson Thomas, left, with friends; and right, Sandra Bartlett
'She was special - so down to earth but a star at the same time'
Allyson Thomas Mourner
London or something. Now Bobby's bought her home for the last time."
The Cash family said they had met Tyler a few times in Swansea's shopping centre and Debenhams, when the singer was out with her mother. "She never forgot where she came from and she was proud of where she's from," said Bill, 50, who came to pay his respects with wife, Jane, 49, and son, Billy, 11.
Among several events in and around Swansea to mark Tyler's passing, fans were invited to watch the procession as the singer's coffin travelled to her home in Mumbles on Saturday and again after the service at Swansea Minster as the hearse made its journey to Skewen. "I wouldn't come out for the king. Half the people here wouldn't," one onlooker in Skewen said.
The singer achieved international fame in 1983 when Total Eclipse of the Heart shot to the top of the charts in the UK and the US. Recognisable for her husky voice, Tyler's other hits include Holding Out for a Hero and If You Were a Woman (and I Was a Man).
She represented the UK in the 2013 Eurovision song contest and was still touring internationally and releasing records when she died.
"I class myself as a working-class girl, and I've never stopped working," Tyler said in 2013. "I do an awful lot [of performances] because I feel other people would love to be offered what I'm offered."
PM urged to act over prison's ads for zero-hours custody officers
Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor
Andy Burnham is under pressure to intervene in a privately run prison after a trade union claimed that custody officers were being recruited on zero-hours contracts for the first time across the England and Wales prison estate.
Managers at HMP Millsike, a category C prison for 1,500 inmates near York operated by the outsourcing company Mitie, have signed off online adverts for £25-an-hour inmate-escorting roles "on a flexible, task-based basis".
The £400m prison has about 350 empty cells because of a shortfall of staff, prison sources have confirmed. The prison officers' union, the
POA, has called on the prime minister to intervene in keeping with the government's pledge to curb zero-hours contracts that undermine workers' rights, security and stability.
The deputy general secretary of the POA, Mick Pimblett, said: "At a time when the government is releasing prisoners because of a chronic lack of cell space, Mitie is unable to fulfil its contractual obligations because they cannot recruit enough officers to safely staff the jail. Now they are trying to introduce zero-hours contracts by another name."
HMP Millsike, a training prison with up-to-date facilities, started
taking prisoners in March 2025. A recent report expressed "serious concerns" over the jail, where violence levels were so high that members of the Independent Monitoring Boards watchdog said they felt safe only if they walked around in pairs.
Adverts placed by Sangfroid Group on behalf of Mitie say the new prison custody officers at Millsike will escort prisoners between prisons, courts and medical appointments - tasks currently performed by full-time prison officers.
The role is to support "prisoner escort duties in locations near to the prison" and successful applicants will
be given seven weeks of training, the advert says.
State-run prisons already recruit operation support-grade officers who staff gates and let visitors into reception. However, they are not supposed to escort, guard, handcuff or interact with prisoners, unlike the prison custody officers referred to in the advert.
A Mitie spokesperson said: "HMP Millsike continues to operate in line with the ramp-up plans agreed with the Ministry of Justice, with staffing and recruitment aligned to the prison's phased population buildup."
Sangfroid Group and the MoJ were approached for comment.
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Mrs Brown's Boys festive specials cancelled as star needs surgery
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Brendan O'Carroll has announced the Mrs Brown's Boys Christmas and New Year television specials have been cancelled as he faces an "unexpected medical issue".
The creator and star of the show, 70, said the recordings would not be going ahead as he required "immediate surgery".
He said in a statement: "Following a CT scan, it was found that I had two fractures in my mandible (jaw) which requires immediate surgery and a few months recovery."
He also said he would have to postpone his Mrs Brown's Boys D'Panto? shows in Dublin and Killarney, which were scheduled for later this year.
"This decision has not been taken lightly and has been made on medical advice from my consultant," he said.
"To say I am heartbroken is an absolute understatement. I would like to sincerely apologise to all our fans who were looking forward to seeing the shows and for any disappointment caused."
The comedian and actor said he and MCD Productions were working
▲ Brendan O'Carroll, who plays Agnes Brown in the BBC series, said he needed surgery on a fractured jaw
to reschedule the shows for next year. O'Carroll wrote that he had also been speaking with the BBC about getting his TV series "back on the screen" in 2027. He thanked MCD and the BBC for their "support and understanding at this difficult time".
A statement from a BBC spokesperson said: "We wish Brendan a full and speedy recovery and are working with him on plans for Mrs Brown's Boys in 2027."
O'Carroll is best known for playing the matriarch, Agnes Brown, in the hit BBC comedy series.
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People with intellectual disabilities 'die up to 24 years earlier'
Tobi Thomas
Health and inequalities correspondent
People living with severe intellectual disabilities are, on average, dying 24 years younger than members of the general population, a study has found, with 40% of such deaths being avoidable.
The study also found that within this group people from minority ethnic backgrounds were dying 14 years younger than their white counterparts.
Researchers from King's College London analysed data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and the LeDeR programme of 1,301 adults with severe or profound intellectual disability who died in England between 2021 and 2023.
They then compared this with 2,626 adults with a mild or moderate intellectual disability, and 536,311 adults from the general population, who died in 2022.
People with severe or profound intellectual disability died at an average age of 58, compared with 65 for those with a mild or moderate intellectual disability and 82 for the general population. Two in five of the deaths were avoidable.
Avoidable deaths were defined as deaths occurring before the age of 75 due to preventable or treatable causes. Pneumonia and epilepsy were found to be the leading avoidable causes, notably higher than in the other two groups, followed by cerebrovascular disease.
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Average age at which people with severe intellectual disabilities died, against 82 for the general population
40%
Proportion of these deaths that were avoidable, according to analysis by King's College London researchers
Jon Sparkes, the chief executive of the learning disability charity Mencap, said the research was "shocking" but "sadly unsurprising".
"Much more must be done to ensure people with the most complex needs can access care. Organisational failings were identified in more than 40% of deaths reviewed last year, showing the way the NHS just isn't designed to work for people with a learning disability," Sparkes said.
He added: "This research shows why it is so vital that the government and NHS consider and meet the needs of people with a learning disability, whether in the new neighbourhood health schemes, through work on moving the NHS to be more digital, or preventing poor health. Only by doing this will we address and end the deep-rooted health care inequalities that are cutting lives short."
The analysis also found stark ethnic disparities. Within the group of people living with severe or profound intellectual disabilities, those from black, Asian and other minority ethnic backgrounds were likely to die 14 years younger than their white counterparts.
According to the researchers, this disparity may highlight additional challenges in accessing healthcare encountered by people from ethnic minorities, and also reflects how compounding inequalities exacerbated the already poorer health outcomes faced by people with disabilities.
Dr Michael Kwan Leung Yu, the first author of the study and a post-doctoral research associate at KCL, said: "LeDeR provides a unique national lens that no single trust or region can offer. Its scale allows us, for the first time, to examine avoidable deaths among adults with severe or profound intellectual disabilities through a population-based analysis and explore this in greater detail."
He added: "The findings point to a need for targeted interventions, including annual health checks, vaccination programmes, and timely management of conditions such as pneumonia and epilepsy, reaching adults with severe or profound intellectual disability consistently, with particular attention to those from ethnic minority backgrounds."
Dr Rory Sheehan, the co-first author of the study, said: "Pneumonia and epilepsy are largely treatable, so seeing them as leading causes of avoidable death in this group points to a gap between the care people could receive and the care they are getting. Closing that gap means making sure basic interventions, health checks, vaccination, timely treatment, reliably reach adults with severe or profound intellectual disability."
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Tupac Shakur shot dead in act of gang revenge, US jury hears as trial begins
Dani Anguiano
The rapper Tupac Shakur was shot dead in 1996 in an act of gang revenge ordered by a mobster, US jurors heard yesterday, as one of the country's most anticipated trials got under way, 30 years after the murder.
Duane "Keffe D" Davis, a former gang leader, is on trial in Las Vegas for murder for his alleged role in the shooting of Shakur, who died after a drive-by shooting.
Prosecutors allege Davis was the "on-the-ground, onsite commander of the effort to kill Tupac".
Davis has pleaded not guilty, though he acknowledged a role in the shooting in a 2019 memoir that authorities have said is crucial to the case against the 63-year-old. He is the only witness.
Last week, a jury of six men and 10 women was selected in the trial, which is expected to last about a month.
Davis entered the courtroom in a blue suit and tie and scanned the gallery to see who was there before sitting next to his lawyer, Michael Sanft. Members of Shakur's family, including his stepbrother Maurice "Moprene" Shakur, sat quietly in the front row of the courtroom behind prosecutors.
Binu Palal, the chief deputy district attorney, showed jurors a video of Shakur's entourage attacking Davis's nephew Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson. "Let's be clear, Duane Davis did not pull the trigger. But he did plan the shooting in retaliation of the beating of his nephew," Palal said. "Remarkably, you will learn that from Duane Davis himself."
Palal showed multiple video clips and played audio of Davis describing his alleged role in the incident and anger toward Shakur for the attack on his nephew.
The defence lawyer, Michael Sanft, said that after 30 years investigators still had very little evidence to prove their case.
"At the end of the day you have to ask yourself, is what they are saying truth or fiction?" Sanft told the jury.
Sanft said that while Davis had spoken about the killing to different law enforcement agencies over the years, including the FBI, they did not follow up because they did not believe what he said was credible.
The trial is a significant development in the case, which was unsolved for decades.
On 7 September 1996, the rapper was attacked just off the Las Vegas strip as he headed to a party with the Death Row Records founder, Marion "Suge" Knight. While travelling in the vehicle, a Cadillac pulled up next to Shakur's and fired eight shots. Shakur was hospitalised for his injuries and died days later.
Shakur's killing prompted countless conspiracy theories as well as books and documentaries seeking to determine who was responsible for his death. But a fuller picture of what may have occurred that night has emerged in recent years as Davis, who
▲ The rapper Tupac Shakur, top, was killed in 1996. Duane Davis, above, a former gang leader, appears
in court in Las Vegas yesterday, on trial for murder for his alleged role in the drive-by shooting
was the last surviving passenger in the Cadillac, began speaking publicly.
Earlier in the evening Shakur had attended a world heavyweight title boxing match between Mike Tyson and Bruce Seldon at the MGM Grand Hotel, and afterwards was involved in a physical confrontation with Davis's nephew and several others.
Davis sought retribution for Anderson and allegedly obtained a gun with the intent to "hunt down" Shakur and confront Knight. The incident unfolded quickly, Davis wrote.
"No words were exchanged, the time for talking had passed, the shit was on! Tupac made an erratic move and began to reach down beneath his seat. It was the first and only time in my life that I could relate to the police command to 'keep your hands where I can see them'. Instead, Pac pulled out a strap, and that's when the fireworks started. One of my guys from the back seat grabbed the Glock and started bustin' back," he wrote.
Prosecutors have said that Davis's book and public statements ultimately revived the investigation.
His lawyers sought to exclude the book from trial by arguing that he had exaggerated to "falsely place himself at the centre of it all for personal gain". A judge denied the request.
The trial continues.
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Rip-snorting country pivot is a rootin' tootin' hoot
Brandon Flowers
Thrasher
★★★★☆
Shaad D'Souza
Here are three immutable facts about Brandon Richard Flowers: he was born just outside Las Vegas, Nevada. He is 45 years old. And he never does anything by halves. When he and his band the Killers debuted in the early 2000s, as disaffected New York cool was on the rise, he was writing scream-along choruses sung in his upper register. When the Killers were searching for a sound even bigger than 2006's Sam's Town, they didn't think twice before recruiting Stuart Price to produce the spangly 2008 disco-rock record Day & Age.
That's how you get a record like Thrasher. Flowers' third solo album finds Vegas's chosen son decamping to Nashville for a full-throated exploration of country
music - not subtle Americana, but rip-snorting, honky-tonkings, Nudie suit-wearing country.
In many ways, Thrasher is a stylistic follow-up to the Killers' maudlin 2021 Pressure Machine, which saw Flowers explore windswept balladry and tasteful story-songs. But that record was as forgettable as Thrasher is a hoot; Flowers wilts when he doesn't fully commit, but he doesn't make that mistake here. Thrasher features many of Nashville's most revered country musicians, including the pedal steel great Bruce Bouton, 85-year-old harmonica player Charlie McCoy, Gillian Welch's
musical partner Dave Rawlings and the lauded Americana musician Margo Price.
This deep bench doesn't obscure Flowers' oddball tendencies. On rollicking opener Does It Ever Cross Your Mind?, he writes like a man who's done his 10,000 hours absorbing pop cliches. "I could've been born in Bangladesh / But I wasn't, I was born here / With just enough jellybeans in my basket / To ask you to go a-wishing on a star," he sings, injecting his nonsense with such moxie it's easy to believe that's something people say.
As on Pressure Machine, Flowers takes a couple of big swings, both
misses. On Miss America, he writes from the perspective of a young woman in an abusive relationship. Although this is something of a pet topic for Flowers, he is not a particularly elegant writer; amid all the salacious euphemisms for abuse, he sings things such as: "Truth be told / Grown men have noticed me since I was 12 years old / It always made me feel like some kind of prize / I guess I saw my worth through their porno eyes."
But even that feels graceful in comparison with Angel. There's no way to sugarcoat it: Angel is a song about a talented black baseball player who starts dating a
◀ Brandon Flowers goes full cowboy in his third solo album, calling in the talents of the country music greats Bruce Bouton and Charlie McCoy
white girl. Angel and the girl have a daughter, before he abandons his wife and kid to become a drug smuggler. The song ends with Angel being pulled over by the cops and attempting to evade them on foot. It's impossible to comprehend how Flowers thought this song was a good idea. When Angel and his girlfriend have their baby, he sings: "Chocolate and vanilla swirls / There's gonna be a little girl". Flowers supposedly wrote more than 30 songs for the record, so there were at least 20 alternatives.
The place Flowers lands - "It don't matter how far you've come / Or how well you ran the race / You're gonna have to come face to face / With that thing you've always known to be true / That you buried inside of you" - could be a critique of American racial hegemony, or it could be flat-out racist, implying our fates are hardwired. I strongly suspect it's the former, but the ambiguity is an indictment in itself.
Flowers has always had occasional bouts of foot-in-mouth; this simply feels like a particularly bad one. A big part of Angel's failure is that it is one of the few genuinely dull songs on the album - plodding and dirgey, with an attempt at a pathos-drenched chorus that has little of the spark or fleet-footedness of the rest of the album. Although it lacks the attention-grabbing singles of 2015's The Desired Effect, Flowers' last solo record, Thrasher is a far stronger, more enjoyable album that could even win over fans who haven't tapped in since Mr Brightside. The westernwear suits him.
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▼ More frequent and extreme droughts could fuel more wildfires like the recent blaze in Stourbridge PHOTOGRAPH: CHRISTOPHER FIBLONG/GETTY
Emergency drought plans not published for 'security reasons'
Pippa Neill Environment reporter
The UK government has been accused of a lack of transparency and of acting irresponsibly for refusing to publish the emergency drought plans that are produced by water companies.
Water firms are required to publish statutory drought plans every five years to detail the actions needed to ensure public water supply is maintained and the environment is protected during drought.
Water levels at five key reservoirs in England and Wales are now "exceptionally low" and three-quarters of England and the whole of Wales are in drought.
The 2027-32 drought plans under consultation detail different scenarios, with the most extreme actions ranging from standpipes in the street to rota cuts where water is limited to a few hours each day. Alongside these publicly available plans, water companies are required to produce separate emergency drought plans.
A water industry source said these plans were not published to avoid alarming the public. The government said the plans were not published for security reasons.
Alastair Chisholm, the water, policy, regulation and governance lead at the consultancy firm Arup, said in the "new normal" of the climate crisis causing droughts to become more frequent and extreme, there would probably be situations where "some quite difficult decisions need to be taken with some quite significant impositions on people's lifestyles".
He pointed to Day Zero in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2018, when millions of households faced drastic water shortages after the worst drought to hit the city in almost a century. "People do genuinely start to be scared that they're not going to be able to get water to drink, and that has got all manner of sort of social connotations which is going to need to be very carefully managed," he said.
Prof Liz Bentley, the chief executive of the Royal Meteorological Society, said it made sense not to
publish these plans because drought could lead to widespread impacts on certain critical industries. For example, recent drought and extreme heat in Europe forced several nuclear power plants to shut down.
"If you start to see significant shortages of water that impact major industries then these are the kind of things you want to keep confidential because that could have widespread effects on the security of the country," Bentley said.
In some areas, the impact is already being felt. Sussex, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Norfolk have all seen housing and business development delayed due to water supply availability and ageing or inadequate water infrastructure. Water shortages are also affecting food security, with global food prices at a three-year high as heatwaves, drought and war push up the cost of crops.
With water increasingly becoming a scarce commodity and as demand increases due to the rapid growth of water-hungry industries such as datacentres, the trade body Water UK
recently said it had asked the government to publish a drought hierarchy to set out which sectors would be prioritised in times of water shortages, but that ministers had yet to do so.
"Without this there will be a trade-off across society," said Jon Chappell, Water UK's deputy director.
Oliver Hayes, the head of big tech and campaigns at Global Action Plan, said that amid increasing concern that datacentres could be prioritised over other sectors for water, it was irresponsible for the government to keep its emergency drought plans from the public.
"People are deeply anxious about dwindling water supplies and want to know what the plan is. Will water-hungry AI datacentres be prioritised in a drought emergency? The secrecy only adds to a sense that controversial decisions like this may have already been made," he said.
The Green party leader, Zack Polanski, said it was "deeply worrying that emergency drought plans are being hidden from the public" and "people deserve to know what plans - if
any - are in place to protect our water supply". Polanski said full nationalisation of water companies must be at the top of the government's agenda to "prevent catastrophic water shortages in the years ahead".
On Sunday it was reported that the industry regulator, Ofwat, was considering allowing water companies to raise bills during periods of drought.
Amy Fairman, the head of campaigns at River Action, criticised the government's overall lack of transparency. "My key concern is around the lack of a holistic plan to deal with water shortages going forward. There is no more precious resource than water, and yet there isn't a national water security plan in place," she said.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said emergency drought plans were in addition to publicly available statutory drought plans and would not be published for security reasons.
A Water UK spokesperson said: "Each water company publishes a drought plan, which is consulted on publicly and sets out the actions the company will take at each stage of a drought.
"Planning for a severe drought sits under a separate framework, and publication is a matter for government. We support calls from the House of Lords environment and climate change committee for the government to decide how water should be prioritised in a severe drought."
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‘Catastrophic’ harvests European farmers warn of unprecedented crisis
Jon Henley Paris Angela Giuffrida Rome Stephen Burgen Barcelona
Successive intense heatwaves and an increasingly severe, continent-wide drought have left many of Europe’s farmers in an “unprecedented” crisis, with vegetable and grain growers in particular warning of “catastrophic” harvests.
French vegetable production is down by “a very significant extent” compared with previous years, French growers have said, with shortfalls put at 25% for courgettes, 35% for lettuces, 40% for peas, 60% for broccoli and 50% to 100% for artichokes.
“The vegetable sector is facing a historic crisis,” said Prince de Bretagne, which groups together more than 1,300 vegetable producers in Brittany, calling for “urgent action” to address a “dramatic” fall in yields and in the quality of many crops.
Accelerated, human-caused global heating and a supersized El Niño have scorched fields across Europe this summer, with plant development prevented by temperatures routinely exceeding 30C (86F) and often 35C, almost no rainfall, and hot winds.
“Usually one region fares better, which helps compensate,” Eric Legras, of the 4,400-member French canned and frozen vegetable producers’ association, told Le Monde.
“This year, all our main production areas have been hit, and at the same time,” said Legras.
Cereal production has been equally hard hit, with the agriculture ministry estimating the maize harvest in France - Europe’s largest grains producer - will be down by 35% on 2025 levels at about 9m tonnes, a quantity last seen in 1980.
Part of the fall is due to farmers’ switching to other crops, such as sunflowers, the ministry said, but it also reflects the impact of this summer’s vicious heatwaves, which have battered the crucial crop during critical stages of its growth cycle.
That is likely to cause major problems for livestock farmers. With dairy cows typically starting to suffer from heat stress above 25C, many producers have already reported milk yields
down by 10%-15%. Most are now also concerned about winter feed.
Agreste, the agriculture ministry’s statistics service, said last week that production of hay for winter cattle forage was running about 30% lower than the 1989-2018 average, a shortfall that “is worsening and is now affecting a growing numbers of regions”.
Egg production, too, has been hit by a catastrophic mortality rate
60%
Decline in broccoli production in France this year, with cereal crops, peas and artichokes also hit hard
▲ Lake Santa Croce, Italy. The country is Europe’s largest rice producer but farmers have struggled to irrigate crops PHOTOGRAPH: SIMONE PADOVANI/GETTY IMAGES
◀ A maize field suffers in the heat at Bourgoin-Jallieu, near Lyon; below, sweltering temperatures in Berlin PHOTOGRAPH: MOURAD ALLULI/SHUTTERSTOCK
in poultry houses, particularly during the June heatwave. According to France’s national egg promotion board, output is about 1m eggs a day lower than the norm.
In Italy, about 60% of farmland across the country is now affected by drought ranging from mild to severe, according to data published earlier this month by Coldiretti, the country’s largest farmers’ organisation.
Crop yields, especially for corn, rice and soybeans as well as vegetables and fruit, have been badly hit, and milk production has fallen by 20%. The overall cost to the sector, including damage caused by wildfires and heavy storms, is put at more than €3bn (€2.6bn).
The drought is particularly acute in the Po valley, a huge geographical area straddling four northern regions, the backbone of Italian agriculture and home to about 80% of Italian rice production, owing to severe depletion of the country’s longest river.
Italy is Europe’s largest rice producer, with about 235,000 hectares planted in 2025. This year, however, the severe drought has forced growers to adopt an unprecedented response to save the season, irrigating crops only on alternate weeks.
In Spain, cereal harvests are 35% below the previous year in Castilla y León, 49% in the Madrid region and 24% in Andalucía. Sheep and goat’s milk production is also down 6.5% and 10.8% respectively, authorities have said.
After a disastrous harvest in drought-stricken 2024, olive oil production increased significantly last year and the wet winter and spring were good news for a crop not harvested until late autumn. Growers say it is too early to say how this year will look.
However, Spain’s national wine federation has predicted a 20% fall in production for 2026, and the head of the cava producers’ association, José Luis Benítez, warned that successive heatwaves will reduce crops as grapes are smaller for lack of moisture.
Governments have pledged costly aid packages to help the sector. The French prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu, has promised €145m in immediate aid, along with “structural support and investment measures” in the 2027 budget.
Extreme heat Heatwaves pose serious risks for over 60s - study
Denis Campbell Health policy editor
People aged 60 and over face dangers to their health from exposure to heat at much lower temperatures than previously thought, research has found.
Older adults will bear the brunt of increasingly frequent sustained spells of extreme heat globally as the world continues to warm up, according to a study in the Lancet Public Health.
Heatwaves will leave huge and growing numbers of people worldwide of all ages suffering from uncompensable heat stress (UHS) - where the body loses the ability to cool itself - and thus at risk of serious damage to their health, including death.
“Our results suggest accounting for age stratified vulnerability, intolerable heat will be experienced at much larger scales and for longer durations, affecting far more people than previously thought,” according to the study, which was led by health academics from Stanford University in California.
Older adults are known to be more in danger because of the effects of very high temperatures. They sweat less, their hearts work harder in the heat and their blood vessels do not widen as much as those of younger people, limiting their capacity to stay cool.
However, previous studies did not properly set out the different risks faced by younger people aged 15-39, middle-aged adults (40-59) and older adults (aged 60 or over). That is because they applied thresholds at which people cannot maintain their heat balance - which were accurate for younger people - to all age groups, thus overlooking older people’s greater risk of, for example, heart attacks.
A combination of rising global temperatures and the projected doubling in the world’s population of those aged 60 and over to 2.1bn by 2050
▲ Older people are at risk of heat stress at lower temperatures than younger adults PHOTOGRAPH: VALENTINA STEFANELLI/LAPRESSE/SHUTTERSTOCK
will cause more people that age to suffer heat-related health problems, especially in low- and middle-income countries such as India and Pakistan.
The study says: “UHS will become increasingly prevalent with global warming across all age groups. Older adults are projected to face far more frequent and widespread UHS than young adults.”
The UK Health Security Agency said recently that it feared 2026’s high temperatures in the UK were likely to mean that the country records its highest ever number of heat-related deaths in a year. The four-day heatwave in May and eight-day heatwave in June together caused 2,877 excess deaths, almost double the 1,504 seen during the summer of 2025.
Dr Simon Williams, an expert in heat and health inequalities at Swansea University, said: “This is a very significant study, with findings suggesting that heatwaves and extreme heat exposure is going to be a growing threat to human health in the coming years. In particular, it shows that heatwaves have unequal health impacts, with older adults particularly vulnerable.”
He added that the study suggested older adults were “at risk of harmful and potentially fatal heat stress” at just 1.5C of warming above preindustrial levels, compared with 4C for younger adults.
Each additional degree of global heating “exposes roughly 1 million more people to at least 180 hours of UHS annually”, the study says. This burden falls disproportionately on older adults. If heating continues to escalate, parts of the tropics and subtropics could become uninhabitable, especially for older people, it said.
Dr Hilary Williams, the clinical vice-president of the Royal College of Physicians, said: “We know that heatwaves bring a surge in patients. Older people often arrive with dehydration, having collapsed, or with existing conditions like heart and kidney disease made worse by the heat. Managing multiple health conditions at once is hard enough but doing it when the body’s ability to regulate its own temperature is less efficient makes it harder still.”
One hospital doctor reported the temperature on the geriatric ward where they work reaching 36C during this summer’s extreme heat. “That is not a safe environment for patients or staff,” said Hilary Williams.
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Rising number of people seek ADHD diagnosis without getting treatment
Rachel Hall
People are increasingly seeking to obtain an ADHD diagnosis without pursuing treatment, according to experts who called for more research to understand why.
Some people now see ADHD as “an identity, rather than a disorder”, with the result that many obtain assessments from poor quality private providers, which lead them to “believe they have a condition needing treatment”, said the psychiatrist Dr Marios Adamou, the founder of the UK Adult ADHD Network (UKAAN).
This has resulted in a growth in complaints against NHS doctors when they are forced to reject low quality assessments, he added.
Adamou had seen recent figures showing that 50% of child patients did not pursue treatment after diagnosis,
▶ A mother and son, Shauna and Mason, from The Great ADHD Myth? documentary, which argues that ADHD is a ‘social construct’ PHOTOGRAPH: WIDNOW PRODUCTIONS
and observed a similar trend among adult patients in his clinic.
Some seek low, non-therapeutic doses of medication instead. “A lot of people would benefit from having amphetamines. You feel better, you can focus better, you can do more. But there hasn’t been a debate that this country should be cognitively augmented to increase productivity with stimulants,” he said.
“Why do people feel they can identify with these conditions? They are manifestations of a societal problem.”
Adamou was speaking before a new Channel 4 documentary airs tonight called The Great ADHD Myth? It is presented by the NHS psychiatrist Dr Max Pemberton, who concludes that ADHD is a “social construct” rather than a medical condition, and that schools should adapt to better
support a wider range of children rather than medicating them into fitting into a restrictive norm.
Adamou said ADHD was both a social construct and a brain disorder. Brain differences are well established through research, and diagnostic criteria have undergone “a lot of scientific scrutiny and validation”, he said. But he added that “the ADHD concept has been expanded so much it’s risking becoming meaningless”.
He said this phenomenon was fuelled by “challenges with the quality and the regulation of the [ADHD services] market”.
“Most of the assessment in the UK is now provided by the private sector,” he said. “I don’t think there’s any other medical condition where the private sector provides as much care... When you have private providers providing the majority of care in a market system with a diagnosis that is commoditised, and attracts stimulants, you may have issues.”
Despite this, he stressed that there was thought to be underdiagnosis of ADHD. Poor quality diagnoses have created “a double stigma” for many people. “Not only do you have stigma because you have ADHD, but also there’s stigma about whether you have real ADHD,” he said.
Jessica Lister, a clinical director at the private provider Care ADHD, feared that the documentary’s message could be harmful. “Dismissing
▲ The psychiatrist Max Pemberton, presenter of The Great ADHD Myth?
ADHD as a social construct doesn’t just trivialise an established clinical condition - it perpetuates the inequalities faced by people with ADHD across education, health, employment and the justice system.”
She added: “The question here isn’t whether ADHD is a real medical problem - it’s whether systems respond early enough, consistently enough and fairly enough.”
Mark Pattison, the chief executive of Care ADHD, said it was important to differentiate between private providers, adding that his organisation’s clinical governance was as strong as the NHS ADHD and mental health services he had run for 15 years. “Profit should never come before clinical quality. But efficiency isn’t the enemy of it either,” he said.
He added: “Standards need to apply to everyone, not just us. Some NHS trusts have children waiting two, five, even 10 years for an assessment.”
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Album releases linked to crashes by distracted drivers, researchers say
Nicola Davis
Science correspondent
The release of a new album by Taylor Swift might be a cause for celebration among her fans - but such events have also been linked by researchers to an increase in fatal car crashes.
The study is said to shed light on the impact of distracted driving. "You can't randomise people into using their phones, and drivers rarely volunteer what they were doing in the seconds before a crash," said Dr Vishal Patel, the first author of the study, based at Harvard Medical School.
"Album releases give you something closer to an experiment - a day when smartphone use jumps nationally for reasons that have nothing to do with road conditions, weather or who happens to be driving."
In the journal Jama Network Open, Patel and colleagues report how they focused on the release of 10 major albums between 2017 and
2022, selected for having the highest number of Spotify streams within a single day. These included Midnights by Taylor Swift; Scorpion by Drake; and Harry's House by Harry Styles.
Streaming volumes for the top 200 songs in the US were 43% higher on the date of major album releases compared with the days surrounding the releases, although such data does not reveal whether the music was being streamed in a car. "What it establishes is that these days are genuinely different in terms of national engagement with music," said Patel.
The researchers used data from a registry of fatal US motor vehicle crashes to look at the number of fatalities on the dates these albums were released, as well as for the 10 days either side. After taking into account the day of the week, as well as federal holidays and the time of year, the data showed a relative increase of 15.1% on the date of major album releases, compared with similar days either side.
"This is equivalent to approximately 182 fatalities in the US attributable to the release days of the 10 included albums," the team write.
Patel said the release of a new album could distract drivers because accessing music is a search task, not a single button-press.
"You unlock the phone, open the app, find the release, read down a tracklist, tap the right song. That's several seconds of looking at a screen," he said, adding unfamiliar music demanded more attention, while research suggested listening to new, high-energy music measurably degrades driving performance.
The rise in traffic fatalities was greater among certain groups - such as younger drivers, male drivers, people who were driving alone, and people driving cars with a built-in infotainment platform.
The study does not directly probe whether smartphone use was involved in the fatalities. Patel suggested streaming platforms could adapt their notifications when promoting albums. "A line about setting your music up before you drive would cost them nothing," he said.
"Pick the album, hit play, put the phone down. If someone's in the passenger seat, hand it to them - the increase showed up almost entirely among drivers who were alone."
Many countries have implemented hands-free tech laws for drivers.
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▼ Laith Alani, 20, said he felt as if he had been kidnapped after being held by US customs for almost 24 hours
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Muslim student denied entry to US despite valid visa
Chris Osuh Community affairs correspondent
A British student who was detained and deported after flying to the US claims he was profiled for being Muslim.
Laith Alani said he felt as if he had been kidnapped when he was interrogated for nine hours and detained in a holding cell for another 14 hours by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at Orlando international airport.
His local MP, Anneliese Dodds, has raised the case with the British Foreign Office. Muslim and Arab organisations have raised concerns about the treatment of travellers to the US.
The 20-year-old from Oxford said he had booked a one-week, £2,500 visit to Florida's theme parks, with hopes to meet a relative based in California. Instead, his electronic devices and social media accounts were searched and he was interrogated about his relatives, neighbours, hobbies and travel history before being escorted on to a British Airways flight back to the UK.
US authorities said "inconsistencies were identified" in Alani's travel history "during inspection" and that he "withdrew his application for admission".
Alani, however, said his removal from the US was put to him as a "forcefully settled outcome".
He had previously been refused a fast-track Ksta visa waiver after disclosing his travel history to Iraq, where he has relatives, but had been granted a 10-year multi-entry B1/B2 tourist US visa instead, which allows for tourism and visiting relatives.
He said: "My prior travel history was scrutinised in detail, particularly a trip to Tunisia I took in July last year, a month after obtaining my visa. It was implied I needed permission for this travel and should have informed
'He's profiled me because I'm Muslim. I count myself lucky I wasn't shot'
Laith Alani British student
the embassy in advance, despite this being a last-minute trip with no plans in place prior to obtaining my visa."
The Guardian has seen correspondence to Alani, in response to a complaint, in which the CBP said an officer determined that Alani, who has a British passport, was inadmissible to the US because he was "unable to overcome the presumption he was an intending immigrant".
Alani, a law student at the University of West London, was taken aside by a CBP official for "secondary inspection" on arrival in the US on 1 July. After nearly 24 hours' detention, he was told he would be deported and was given an electronic signature pad to sign, he said. He was then handed a document bearing his signature, which said he had volunteered to withdraw his application to enter.
"I would never have signed it if I understood," Alani said. "I'm autistic. I'm vulnerable. I'm legally disabled. I have a heart disorder. [The official] doesn't care. He's just nonstop
interviewing me, nitpicking every single thing you can imagine.
"I felt like I'd been kidnapped. I was threatened with handcuffs. He's profiled me because I'm Muslim. I count myself lucky I wasn't shot."
A spokesperson for the Muslim Council of Britain said: "It's now a regular occurrence for many British Muslim families to hear of travellers to US airports holding British citizenship being detained, interrogated for multiple hours and devices being confiscated and searched, often on spurious grounds."
The Foreign Office said it had provided Alani with consular help and it advised UK nationals to check the latest USA travel advice before booking.
CBP said staff "adhere to strict protocols", that Alani was "monitored throughout" and the length of his time in custody "was due to limited flight availability". A spokesperson said: "Accusations of CBP personnel racially profiling are false. All persons arriving at a US port of entry are subject to inspection by CBP officers."
Labour MP has whip suspended over Covid loans to his businesses
Matty Edwards
A Labour MP has been suspended after being questioned about government Covid loans taken out by his businesses.
Bayo Alaba, the MP for Southend East and Rochford, has referred himself to the Labour party for investigation after the Times asked about a loan given to one of his businesses during the pandemic.
After the Times contacted Labour for comment, the party suspended the whip from Alaba and said it had launched an internal investigation.
According to the newspaper, Alaba appears to have taken out two bounceback loans during Covid, but questions remain about an attempt to wind up one of his companies in 2022 and whether they were eligible.
In a statement, he said: "Like many businesses and entrepreneurs, I accessed financial support during the Covid-19 pandemic.
"I am wholeheartedly committed to ensuring that the liability is met in full. I've referred myself to the Labour party's investigations process on the matter and I'll cooperate fully."
A Labour spokesperson said Alaba had referred the matter to the party. "The Labour party expects the highest standards from our elected representatives and we have robust processes in place to ensure those high standards are upheld," they said.
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▼ Kapitjuan Kadrangian and Wen-Jen Huang in The Wall, which riffs on confinement and anonymity
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An uncanny journey into urban isolation
Taiwan Season: The Wall Summerhall ★★★★☆
Chris Wiegand
Taiwan's Seed Dance Company visited the fringe in 2024 with a rather literal yet haunting show about smartphone addiction, Lost Connection. This similarly coolly executed piece could share the same title as its predecessor but is more enigmatic.
It makes use of two box-like, occasionally illuminated apparatuses which are modified during the show to resemble apartments and various confines. The cast are repeatedly isolated from each other despite their close
proximity on the thrust stage - one questing solo is delivered beneath another dancer on the roof, while one is in the room next door.
There is a busy urban and sometimes uncanny anonymity to these restless vignettes, accentuated by an electronic accompaniment, with the dancers - including the choreographer and artistic director, Wen-Jen Huang - sharing silvery highlights in their hair and wearing similar shirts and trousers in subdued shades.
These 45 minutes build in intensity, the set seeming at first cumbersome - and sometimes
distracting from the dance when the structures are being reconfigured. The apparatus can be used to liberating effect, offering an assortment of micro-stages, but often suggests imprisonment. Dancers don't bounce off the walls but rather melt into them.
The show ends with a forlorn and otherworldly solo, performed inside two clingfilm-wrapped frames forming a tunnel. The impression is of how little divides us but how hard it can be to break through.
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Racial tensions over a real-life pub closure
The Jolly Fisherman Underbelly, George Square ★★★★☆
Mark Fisher
Two years ago, it was reported that a pub in Barking called The Jolly Fisherman had found a buyer after five years of dereliction.
The prospective owner was a Muslim charity, which planned to turn a former business based on alcohol into a place of abstinence.
In one respect, a building that had been the focus of community life in this part of east London for 150 years would continue to be just that. In another respect, the community had changed.
To examine what that change
might feel like, the playwright John Dinneen imagines two school friends, Alan (Alex Hill) and Amir (Jonny Khan). Alan's father is a fixture in The Jolly Fisherman - the kind of regular who has his own seat. Amir's parents, by contrast, are British-Pakistani immigrants who would never go into a pub.
The playwright avoids stereotypes. Yes, there are Brexity opinions among some of the drinkers, but they broadly welcome Amir (he tells his parents he is at a homework club). For his part, Alan takes enough of an interest in Amir's religion to join him for prayers. The tension comes when economic pressures expose the racism and Islamophobia lurking just below the surface - even for the seemingly accepting Alan.
In Layla Madanat's lively production, they bounce across a decade and more, from the boom days of beer-garden parties to the isolation of the pandemic and the far-right march and counter-protests of July 2024. Hill and Khan have the boyish exuberance of natural friends and we pity their falling out, but the play is subtle enough to understand the social importance of gathering places and the threat to community cohesion when they are lost.
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DRC Ebola outbreak is now country's deadliest and on track to be biggest in history
Nadeem Badshah Rachel Savage
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is now the deadliest in the country's history, with at least 2,325 people dead, according to government data, surpassing the toll from the 2018-20 outbreak.
The DRC's public health institute said confirmed cases had risen to 4,945, including 101 detected in the previous 24 hours.
The World Health Organization has said the outbreak was on track to surpass west Africa's 2014-16 Ebola outbreak as the biggest in history. The 2014-16 outbreak resulted in 28,616 cases and 11,325 deaths across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, according to WHO data.
On Friday, the UN said Ebola "is winning in the Democratic Republic of the Congo" and the epidemic was killing one person every 30 minutes.
Six of DRC's 26 provinces have been affected, mainly those along
▲ Top, at least 3,400 cases have been recorded in Ituri province, where the outbreak was first reported PHOTOGRAPH: DIEUDONNE DEBOLA/AP
▲ A boat is intercepted after the death of a passenger who had earlier disembarked PHOTOGRAPH: INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MIGRATION/REUTERS
the north-eastern border. More than 3,400 of the cases have been recorded in Ituri province, where the outbreak was first reported.
This outbreak – the 17th in the DRC's history – is the fastest-growing in the known history of the virus. It took almost five months for the 2014-16 west Africa outbreak to reach 1,000 deaths, compared with more than 2,000 deaths in less than three months in this outbreak.
There are no approved vaccines or treatments yet for the rare Bundibugyo strain that is responsible for the current surge in cases. Nonetheless, 1,000 people in the DRC have recovered from the infection, with 730 still in healthcare or isolation facilities.
Clinical trials of two possible treatments began last month in Ituri. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO director general, said last week two vaccines developed specifically for Bundibugyo were being tested.
Thomas Parisch, a public health specialist recently deployed to the DRC with Médecins Sans Frontières, said: "Normally, as an outbreak progresses, the case fatality ratio should fall as contact tracing improves and patients are identified and treated earlier. Instead, we're still seeing many cases detected very late, when treatment is less likely to succeed, with many identified only after they die in the community."
Uganda has reported at least 20 cases, all in the capital, Kampala. The last case reported there was on 21 June and no community transmission has been recorded. The government declared the country Ebola-free on 28 July after the last Ebola patient, a Congolese national, was discharged on 16 July.
In May, the outbreak in the DRC and Uganda was declared a public health emergency of international concern by the WHO. However, it said sequencing showed the virus had started months earlier, in February.
Ebola is transmitted from wild animals and then spreads in the human population through direct contact with the blood, secretions, organs or other body fluids of infected people, including dead bodies, and with contaminated surfaces and materials.
The response to this outbreak has been hampered by attacks on healthcare facilities, as well as strikes by some unpaid health workers. Poor health and road infrastructure have also complicated the picture.
More than 70% of people died in the community and not in health centres, said Mohamed Janabi, the WHO's regional Africa director.
"People prefer to be treated at home, thinking it is a case of poisoning or some other illness," Jean-Paul Malo Lotsima, a civil society official in the Djugu area of Ituri, told Agence France-Presse. "It's often at the last minute, when the family realises the situation is getting worse, that patients are taken to hospital. And sometimes, they die on the way."
Flavier Ngurima, who lives in Nizi, one of the hotspots of the outbreak in Ituri, said his brother died before reaching the treatment centre. "We had called on a nurse from the family to treat him at home because the patient and the family members were afraid to go to the ETC [treatment centre]," he said. "They said that over there, a lot of people die."
Analysis Conflict and US aid cuts hindered fight against the virus
Source: Ministère de la Santé, 12 August 2026, Uganda Ministry of Health, 17 August 2026
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Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are losing their battle to contain the country's deadliest Ebola outbreak.
The DRC's health ministry declared an outbreak in Ituri province on 15 May, though sequencing shows it had begun in February. It has since spread to five other provinces and is on track to overtake the 2014-16 west Africa outbreak as the largest in history.
As of Sunday, 2,325 people had died and the number of confirmed cases stood at 4,945, according to DRC government data. "Ebola is winning in the Democratic Republic of the Congo," the UN humanitarian affairs chief, Tom Fletcher, said on Friday.
What is Ebola?
Ebola is a highly contagious and often fatal disease. Caused by different viruses mostly associated with fruit bats, the infection often results in viral haemorrhagic fever. More than 40 outbreaks have been documented since it first emerged in 1976. This is the 17th outbreak in the DRC.
Outbreaks result from zoonotic spillover - animal to human transmission. Infected humans, which can include dead bodies, then pass on the disease to others
through body fluids such as vomit, blood and semen. Symptoms include fever, fatigue, muscle pain and headache followed by vomiting, diarrhoea, rash and internal and external bleeding. It has a 50% death rate.
There are four strains of Ebola that affect humans: Zaire, Sudan, Bundibugyo and Tai Forest. The latest outbreak involves the rare Bundibugyo virus. There have been two previous outbreaks involving this strain, in 2007 and 2012.
Why is this outbreak concerning?
There are many factors, including the lack of a vaccine or treatment for this strain of Ebola, conflict, mistrust towards health workers in the affected areas, misinformation, and global development aid cuts.
Clinical trials of two possible treatments for the Bundibugyo strain began last month, and two vaccines for it are being tested on people for the first time. Infection control usually involves bringing those affected into treatment centres to minimise transmission.
This effort is being stymied by attacks on healthcare facilities, often sparked by misinformation about safe burial practices, and fuelled by the impact of decades of unrest and outside interference on traumatised communities.
The outbreak is also centred on a mineral-rich region fought over by armed groups. The government still largely controls Ituri, but insecurity
◀ Healthcare facilities in affected areas have had to deal with attacks, public mistrust and workers' strikes PHOTOGRAPH: MOXES SAWASAWA/AP
there had been worsening before the outbreak was declared. Almost a million people in the province have been displaced by conflict, according to the UN.
The outbreak has spread south to rebel-held areas of North Kivu and South Kivu provinces, where the Rwanda-backed M23 group controls large swathes of the region.
Humanitarian funding for DRC declined sharply in 2025, largely because the Trump administration froze foreign aid assistance to programmes funded through the state department, weakening local health systems and surveillance networks. Health workers at a treatment centre in Ituri went on strike recently, leading to its temporary closure, saying they had not been paid for three months.
Why was the outbreak not detected sooner - and why does that matter?
The earliest-known suspected victim, a 59-year-old man, developed symptoms on 24 April and died three days later. Health authorities were only alerted to the outbreak through social media on 5 May. Fifty people had already died by then, according to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
The World Health Organization says sequencing now shows the outbreak began in February.
Any delay in responding to an Ebola outbreak "can have catastrophic consequences", said Dr Anne Cori, of Imperial College London. Undetected outbreaks "can make standard control measures, such as contact tracing, considerably more difficult to implement effectively, especially in a setting which already faces other challenges".
How big could this outbreak get?
A lot bigger, potentially. It is on track to surpass the previous largest Ebola outbreak, when more than 28,600 people were infected and 11,325 died in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone between 2014 and 2016, according to WHO data.
It is also the fastest-growing outbreak in the known history of Ebola. It took almost five months for the west Africa outbreak to reach 1,000 deaths, compared with more than 2,000 deaths in less than three months in this outbreak.
The head of the WHO's emergency response division, Abdirahman Mahamud, said recently that if the response were implemented at the same time across the five transmission zones, a turnaround in three months might be expected. But even with that response, he said the outbreak would not peak for six months under a "moderate" scenario and it could last as long as 12 months.
Russian bank official fired for daring to criticise wartime economy
Pjotr Sauer
The chief economist of Russia's second largest bank has been sacked after a series of critical comments about the state of the economy, including warnings that Moscow would not win a prolonged economic war with Ukraine.
Andrei Klepach, who had held the role at the state-controlled development bank VEB since 2014, was fired days after Russian media reported on a scathing speech he had delivered to fellow economists in May.
In the remarks, first reported by the Moscow Times, Klepach said Russia was "falling behind" China and the US economically, and "in some respects, Ukraine".
Klepach said pressures on Russia's economy as a result of the war would inevitably lead to a "social crisis" that would erupt "when no one particularly expects it".
He also said expectations of an imminent Ukrainian economic collapse were misplaced and that a prolonged standoff with Ukraine would not lead to Russia's victory.
"We will not win this competition in a war of attrition with Ukraine," Klepach said. "We have an illusion that everything will collapse there. It hasn't collapsed, and it won't. Our costs are growing."
The comments were a rare acknowledgment from a senior Russian economist of the country's mounting economic struggles.
They directly contradicted Vladimir Putin's claims that Moscow was successfully weathering the pressures of the war and that
▲ Andrei Klepach was sacked days after the media reported his remarks
5.87tn
Russia's budget deficit in roubles, or £50bn, in the first four months of 2026. The full-year target is 3.79tn
Ukraine's economic exhaustion was only a matter of time.
VEB did not offer a reason for Klepach's sacking. An acquaintance of Klepach told the business news outlet Vedomosti that his departure from the bank was "connected to his personal, harsh assessments of the country's economic and political development, which cannot possibly align with the corporation's position".
The independent Russian outlet the Bell reported, citing sources, that Klepach had been fired on orders from the Kremlin and that his dismissal was directly linked to his speech in May.
Klepach's dismissal highlights the Kremlin's growing insistence on loyalty within Russia's upper ranks, amid reports that Putin has increasingly surrounded himself with officials reluctant to challenge his views.
Alexandra Prokopenko, a former adviser to the Russian central bank and a fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, described Klepach as a respected economist who was unafraid to voice views that diverged from the official line.
"Klepach's dismissal - he is one of Russia's best macroeconomists - is unlikely to delay the looming crisis he has been warning about," Prokopenko said. She said Klepach's forecasts were "based on assessments of reality rather than a desire to please anyone" and were often more pessimistic than the official figures.
Russia's economy is facing its most difficult period since the start of Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, strained by massive wartime spending, western sanctions and Ukraine's growing ability to strike at Moscow's oil and gas industry.
In the first four months of 2026 alone, Russia's budget deficit hit 5.87tn roubles (£50bn), well above the government's 3.79tn rouble target for the entire year. Some of Putin's closest advisers have privately warned him that the current level of wartime spending is becoming unsustainable, according to two sources with knowledge of the discussions.
Recently, Ukrainian strikes have hit dozens of warehouses belonging to Wildberries, Russia's largest e-commerce retailer, destroying billions of dollars' worth of stock. The attacks have raised questions about the company's financial stability and dealt a severe blow to thousands of independent sellers who depend on the platform for their livelihoods.
Putin has given no indication that he is prepared to scale back the war or rein in spending. Instead, the Kremlin has sought to raise additional revenue by increasing taxes on smaller businesses and putting pressure on oligarchs to contribute more towards the war effort.
Russia's finances have been bolstered by this year's surge in oil prices due to the US war in Iran, providing Moscow with billions of dollars in additional revenue and helping to cushion some of the mounting economic pressure.
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Finland halts move to deport Russian family critical of Ukraine war
Miranda Bryant Nordic correspondent
A Russian family who were on the brink of being deported from Finland after repeatedly being denied asylum - despite the threat of arrest, imprisonment and torture for their pro-Ukrainian activism - have won a court appeal and will now have their case reconsidered.
Nikita Belov and his mother, Olga Belov, fled their homeland for Finland in 2022 after attracting the attention of Russian authorities - including a military summons, threatening messages and attempts to locate them - for expressing opposition to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
They were due to be deported from Finland within weeks after the Finnish immigration service said they faced “no real risk” if they returned to Russia. In April they were temporarily detained by authorities, pending deportation.
Now the administrative court has quashed the decision, citing new evidence, and referred the case back to the immigration service for fresh consideration.
The Belovs’ case has also gained political traction in neighbouring Norway. Last week politicians from Norway’s Green party tried to stage an intervention, proposing to the government that if the Belovs’ deportation went through then Norway should offer them asylum instead.
The political activist and Putin critic Bill Browder, who is the head of the Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign, has said the case was “a defining test of Europe’s commitment to protecting those who have risked everything to oppose [Vladimir] Putin’s war”.
Nikita, 25, left his engineering job at a research institute in Moscow specialising in metallurgical technologies after finding out the work he was doing was connected to the Russian war effort.
▲ Nikita Belov and his mother, Olga, fled to Finland after receiving threats from Russian authorities over their stance on Ukraine PHOTOGRAPH: NIKITA BELOV
Since their arrival in Finland, Nikita and Olga, 55, a nurse anaesthetist, have been vocal supporters of Ukraine, sending humanitarian aid, including to the Ukrainian armed forces.
Olga said the court decision marked the first positive news they have received in four years but that it was overshadowed by “constant uncertainty and fear of deportation”.
She added: “My health has deteriorated over these four years, and we still have to wait for a final decision. This is very stressful, and nobody
knows how long it will take. This experience has already left a lasting mark on our lives, and we will have to cope with the consequences. No matter what, I’d like to thank everybody who helps us, supports us, and literally saves us from death.”
Nikita said: “Previously, when I imagined my reaction to a positive decision, I was sure it would be a very emotional moment. But actually, I felt nothing. It’s weird, but now it seems to me that I’m already mentally exhausted. We still have to wait for a final decision.”
‘This has left a lasting mark on our lives. We will have to cope with the consequences’
Olga Belov Pro-Ukraine activist
Their lawyer, who requested not to be named for security reasons, hopes they will be granted asylum soon. “The court has overturned the negative asylum decision as the clients have provided so much new evidence on them being profiled as being at risk of persecution,” their lawyer said.
“The international attention and vast media coverage on the case, and whether it puts them at risk, has to be assessed accurately by the Finnish immigration service.”
Browder, whose friend and lawyer Sergei Magnitsky died at the hands of the Russian president’s regime, said the latest decision was an “important victory for Nikita and Olga, but it should never have got this far”.
He added: “Finland is on the front-line of defending Europe against Putin’s aggression. It would be completely perverse for it to send two people who have stood publicly against that aggression straight back into Putin’s hands.”
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Care of turtle washed up in Wales is going swimmingly well in Texas
Ramon Antonio Vargas
A Kemp's ridley sea turtle native to the Gulf of Mexico is largely thriving after he was found nearly dead on a beach in Wales in late 2023.
He was nursed back to health and then recently flown to Houston in the US to continue recovering - although scans have revealed signs that the creature has been grappling with lingering pneumonia, according to his carers.
His condition was detailed in a social media post from Houston zoo, whose veterinary team was tasked with caring for Rhossi - believed to be no older than four years old - and giving him the best chance possible of an eventual successful return to the wild.
A local dog discovered a 0.9kg (2lb), cold-stunned Rhossi - who belongs to one of the world's most endangered sea turtle species - on a beach in a Welsh village in December 2023.
Rhossi was about 5,000 miles from the Mexican and US Gulf coast region where Kemp's ridley sea turtles are native.
They have been known to be swept away for vast distances, including across the Atlantic Ocean, by powerful marine currents.
Anglesey Sea zoo took Rhossi in and spent the next two years caring for him. His frame had more than tripled, and he had bulked up to 46lb (21kg) before he took a helicopter ride
► Rhossi, a rare Kemp's ridley sea turtle who was swept across the Atlantic, is given a CT scan in Houston. It is hoped that one day he will be able to return to the wild in his native Gulf of Mexico
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from Wales to Heathrow airport and then a transatlantic flight to Houston on 10 August.
The Houston zoo's sea turtle staff by then had committed to taking over the administration of Rhossi's recovery.
After an initial evaluation, Rhossi's new carers placed him in a deep-water tank to let him become acclimatised to his new surroundings.
Rhossi then had a more comprehensive medical examination performed by Dr Joe Flanagan, a
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Rhossi's weight when rescued in 2023. He is now 21kg (46lb) and his frame has more than tripled in size
senior veterinarian who briefly came out of retirement for the assessment, the Houston zoo said.
The turtle had his organ function, eyes, mouth, shell and flippers checked. He also had X-rays and a CT scan to take a closer look at his lungs, according to the Houston zoo.
Rhossi largely acquitted himself as "healthy, active and vigorous" during the examination, the facility reported.
"He's very strong," Flanagan said in a Reuters video report. "He swims normally. He dives. He surfaces. He breathes fine."
But, after having endured the North Atlantic's frigid waters, "his scans revealed a concern for lingering pneumonia", and his return to the Gulf of Mexico would evidently
"take a little longer than expected", the zoo wrote.
The zoo added: "Rhossi's medical team will continue to monitor him and provide additional treatment, as needed, to ensure the best possible chance of a successful return to the wild."
Houston's zoo said Rhossi's story illustrated the "incredible dedication and careful coordination of ... multiple agencies and non-profit organisations".
The facility specifically mentioned the US Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Anglesey Sea and Houston teams, the Texas state aquarium and the Welsh helicopter pilot Darren Briggs.
Underlying those efforts is the fact
that the population of nesting Kemp's ridley females is estimated to be only between 7,000 and 9,000, according to the Sea Turtle Conservancy.
The US government has considered Kemp's ridleys as endangered since 1970. They are at risk of extinction within the foreseeable future because of threats from humans such as egg collection and killing for products such as meat.
Frankie Hobro, the Anglesey Sea zoo director and owner, was optimistic about Rhossi's future as he settled into the Houston phase of his recovery.
"It looks like in a couple of years, he'll be fit for breeding out in the wild," Hobro said in the Reuters video. "So that's really exciting news for us."
Cash cow: film fans in China milk cartoon's 'so bad it's good' energy
Amy Hawkins
A crude, low-tech animation about a cow and a skylark has become a sleeper hit in China's box office, sitting alongside blockbusters such as The Odyssey and Spider-Man: Brand New Day in cinema revenue rankings.
Niu Lai (The Cow is Coming) is an 86-minute budget animation about a newborn calf and a skylark whose relationship develops over the course
of an abstract dream sequence. Released on 5 August, the film reportedly made just 7,700 yuan (£842.41) in its first 10 days of screenings, with fewer than 300 people nationwide buying a ticket.
It did not have any promotional tour, pre-release publicity or even a trailer. But discussion online about how bad the film was turned it into a meme, which drove hordes of film fans to the cinema.
It has now made more than 14.9m yuan according to the movie tracking site Mao Yan. That makes it one of the top performing films of the year in a season that has also seen the release of Christopher Nolan's epic The Odyssey.
The Odyssey earned $28.4m (£21m) across its official three-day opening weekend in China, coming in second place to the homegrown film Once Upon a Time in the Middle East, which tells the story of a Chinese chef who opens a restaurant as conflict erupts in the region. The Chinese film
took in 477.9m yuan between 14 and 16 August.
Niu Lai's success appears to stem less from its merits and more from its "so bad it's good" energy.
Made by a team of just two people over five years, it is the antithesis of the slick, bedazzling animations that have drawn in huge crowds in China in recent years, such as Ne Zha 2.
The film's writers, directors, voice actors and producers are Xin Yumeng and Sun Lifang, who are reported to be a mother and son team.
Niu Lai's distributor was quoted in Chinese media as saying that he had been advised against releasing the film because of its quality. But he persevered because he was a friend of the director, he said.
Some film fans have praised the shoddy animation as being a welcome tonic in the age of artificial intelligence.
One user wrote on the film review website Douban: "In an era where AI is so popular, did the creative team
▲ Niu Lai, or The Cow is Coming, is now an unexpected hit in cinemas
'It is bad in every aspect, including the story, special effects and almost every element that a movie is expected to have'
Anonymous Film industry worker
choose a handcrafted, somewhat crude visual style to convey a sense of 'returning to one's true self'?"
Some cinemagoers were so enraptured they booked seats in theatres to spell out the character for "cow" in their seating arrangement.
One film industry professional who asked to remain anonymous because he was not authorised to speak to the media said that Niu Lai was unique because it was "bad in every aspect imaginable, including the story, special effects and almost every element that a movie is expected to have".
"Ironically, this is exactly what attracted audience curiosity," he said.
Niu Lai's success has not been wholly welcomed by the film industry. Some commentators said that Niu Lai's popularity came at the expense of higher-quality productions.
The film industry professional said Niu Lai's success "feels like an embarrassment to the Chinese film industry".
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▲ A protest outside the US embassy in Seoul against joint US-South Korea military exercises. Left, soldiers from the South's Republic of Korea Army conduct a three-day drill with the US military in Yeoju, South Korea, last year PHOTOGRAPHS: JEON HROW-KYUN/EPA; SEUNG-IL KYUI/GETTY
Trump orders reduction of US drills with South Korea despite warnings on North
Raphael Rashid Seoul
Donald Trump has said he is scaling back joint US military drills with South Korea aimed at deterring North Korea, despite military officials warning that Kim Jong-un's regime is learning new battlefield tactics from the Ukraine war.
The drills under Ulchi Freedom Shield, one of two major annual exercises held by South Korea and the US, started yesterday and run until 27 August. They were expected to involve about 18,000 South Korean troops, alongside US forces and personnel from 11 of the 18 member states of the United Nations Command (UNC), the multinational body that oversees the 1953 armistice that halted hostilities of the Korean war.
However, on Sunday evening the president said he was "not happy" with US participation "based on my very good relationship with Kim Jong-un". He added the drills were costly and "send a signal that is totally inappropriate and hostile, to a country that, as long as Donald J
Trump has been president, has been unthreatening and respectful".
The move prompted criticism, with Democrats in Congress saying it handed Kim a propaganda win for nothing, while an ally was left paying the price for a war in the Middle East it never agreed to fight.
The US senator Jack Reed, the top Democrat on the Senate armed services committee, called it "another inane, haphazard decision by ... Trump and his chaotic administration".
Trump added that it was too late to cancel the drills so he had ordered the defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, to "substantially reduce" them. He also said South Korea had refused to help in the "denuclearisation of the Islamic republic of Iran".
South Korea's presidential Blue House said it was reviewing Trump's post and "hopes that the friendly relationship between the US and North Korean leaders will lead to meaningful dialogue ... aimed at advancing peace and stability on the Korean peninsula".
The allies would continue coordinating on their combined defence
posture and military exercises, it said. On Saturday, Trump also shared on Truth Social an old photo of him posing with the North Korean leader, repeating his claim that the two "get along great", leading to speculation he would renew his attempt to have a summit with Kim.
Trump has previously suspended major US-South Korean military exercises in pursuit of diplomacy with Kim. After his first summit with the North Korean leader in 2018, that year's Ulchi Freedom Guardian exercise was cancelled, while other drills
were suspended or scaled back. The exercises were subsequently redesigned and resumed in modified forms and names.
Cheong Seong-chang, the vice-president of the Seoul-based Sejong Institute thinktank, said Trump could go further if he meets Kim again, potentially deciding to suspend the exercises altogether or reduce US troop levels without consulting South Korea.
He added that the US-South Korea alliance remained "extremely important" but argued that Seoul should gradually reduce its security dependence on Washington and move towards securing its own nuclear deterrent capability.
However, Leif-Eric Easley, a professor of international studies at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, cautioned that downsizing the exercise could slow that process.
"The cost savings from downsizing drills are marginal, while the diplomatic benefits for relations with North Korea are doubtful," he said.
Lim Eul-chul, a North Korea expert
E Jean Carroll case
US court dismisses appeal
The US supreme court has once again declined to consider Donald Trump's appeal against a jury verdict in 2023 that found him liable for sexually abusing the writer E Jean Carroll, and later defaming her.
The court announced the decision in an unsigned order yesterday, without providing an explanation. The order just listed the US president's petition under "rehearings denied".
Roberta Kaplan, Carroll's attorney, said: "We are pleased that the United States supreme court has declined again to hear this case. As a result, the jury's unanimous verdict that Donald Trump sexually assaulted and then defamed E Jean Carroll is now final and cannot be challenged in any court."
In 2025, Trump - who has denied Carroll's allegations against him - asked the supreme court to review the case and overturn the verdict.
Carroll's lawyers urged the justices to reject his petition and in June this year the supreme court declined to hear Trump's appeal. His lawyers then asked the justices to reconsider.
Yesterday's decision leaves intact the $5m (£3.7m) civil judgment against Trump.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment yesterday about the supreme court's decision.
Anna Betts
► A photograph released by the North Korean government showing Kim Jong-un with his daughter observing what it says is a test launch for a new ballistic missile
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at Kyungnam University, added that Pyongyang was unlikely to be moved by Trump's announcement. "The North will only view it as meaningful if the joint exercises are cancelled."
Last week, South Korean and US military officials said they would incorporate into the drills lessons drawn from North Korean troops' increasing battlefield experience in Ukraine, including new drone tactics.
North Korea has deepened military ties with Russia since the two countries signed a strategic partnership pact in June 2024, seeing Pyongyang provide troops, artillery ammunition and ballistic missiles to support Moscow's war in Ukraine.
Col Ryan Donald, the public affairs director for the US-led commands in South Korea, said this year's scenario would reflect "drones, GPS disruption [and] cyber-attacks", threats he linked directly to North Korean soldiers who have fought in Ukraine.
"They've taken those lessons they learned there and brought them back to North Korea," Donald said. "Our training accounts for that threat."
Lt Gen Scott Winter, deputy commander of the UNC, said the threats being countered "reflect the increased use of these technologies and the understanding that North Korea has contemporary battlefield experience".
In the days before the exercise was due to begin, North Korea test-fired ballistic missiles.
On Friday, North Korea's foreign ministry called the exercise "a rehearsal for an aggressive war", warning it would "respond to a new level of a threat with a new level of a deterrent".
▲ South Korean soldiers deploy a floating bridge during a river-crossing drill with the US military last year in Yeoju, south-east of Seoul
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Midterm malaise Is president losing his touch amid endless war and 'monuments to self'?
David Smith Washington
He was always one step ahead. Donald Trump won the US presidency as a wildly unlikely outsider in 2016 and staged an astonishing comeback to win it again in 2024. Even his foes grudgingly called him a political savant with an intuition for exploiting grievances that left so-called experts floundering.
But now they are asking if he has lost his touch. Trump is trapped in the quagmire of an unpopular war, obsessing over monuments in Washington and looking for a new spokesperson. If the 80-year-old was deliberately trying to sabotage his Republican party in November's midterm elections, it is not clear what he would do differently.
"He's always had a reptilian political instinct for public opinion that has served him well," said Charlie Sykes, a conservative author and broadcaster. "You're not seeing that much any more. You're not seeing his ability to read the room. He seems tone-deaf on issues like the cost of living, the war, and the optics of gilding everything in sight and enshittifying Washington, and he doesn't care."
Trump campaigned on promises to lower prices and keep the US out of foreign entanglements and forever wars. Voters say they are suffering a cost of living crisis, exacerbated by his sweeping tariffs. Buying food to eat at home has become 33% more expensive in US cities since the beginning of 2019, according to government figures.
Petrol prices are at a record high for this time of year, in part thanks to the US war in Iran. The entanglement has metastasised into a gravelling haemorrhage of resources, costing the taxpayer an estimated $1bn a day. Critics argue the administration has strengthened Iran's resolve and provided it with global leverage, specifically over the strait of Hormuz. They see it as betrayal of the noninterventionist posture that fuelled Trump's rise to power and attracted disaffected voters.
Kurt Bardella, a political pundit and former congressional aide, said: "What we're watching right now is the complete unravelling of everything that Donald Trump, Maga and Republicans said they were about. They were against endless conflicts in the Middle East and they started a conflict in the Middle East without an exit strategy. They were supposed to be about no more spending American
▲ The Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool became a stagnant pond with blooming algae after an attempted makeover PHOTOGRAFIE WILL OLIVER/TPA
dollars abroad; we're spending a billion dollars a day on this war without an end."
Yet the president appears to have other, more aesthetic concerns. Since returning to power, he has invested much time and energy in Washington construction projects, including a White House ballroom and helipad, a triumphal arch and an ill-fated makeover of the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool.
Bardella said: "As he continues this misadventure in the Middle East that has resulted in the cost of living going up, and continues to pour resources into putting his name on shit and building ballrooms and monuments to himself, the American people are going: what the fuck? That's the only realistic reaction you could have when you objectively look at the circumstances."
Trump's second term has been defined by thinking big - Greenland, Venezuela, Iran - and small. The board he appointed to the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts added his name to the complex, only for a judge to order that it be removed; this week the board voted to add "Restored and Renovated by President Donald J Trump" beneath the main sign. According to Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, written by the New York Times Journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, the president has been seen with a tube of superglue trying to stick golden decorations to the marble fireplace in the Oval Office.
Haberman estimates Trump now devotes 70% of his mental space to renovation projects and "monuments to self". She told Axios she and Swan visited the Oval Office in March. "You would think that on the 17th day of the war that he would have maps of the Middle East or maps of troop deployments - who knows," she said. "He picks up these pictures, and [they're] of maple trees, and he says: 'I am choosing maple trees for the White House. I am good at picking trees.' I'm paraphrasing here, but that is pretty much what he said."
"It's a terrible look and it's quite dangerous for the party because they have nothing to run on"
Rick Wilson Lincoln Project
Donald Trump: an 'egomaniac and narcissist'
The president's preoccupation with whether columns for his ballroom are more evocative of Athens or Rome, and with other efforts to preserve his legacy in marble, comes as little surprise to Tara Setmayer, a former Republican communications director on Capitol Hill. "Donald Trump has been an egomaniac, a narcissist his entire life," she said.
"Even in the private sector he has slapped his name on buildings and a multitude of failed branding businesses from Trump steaks to Trump airline to Trump University to Trump water to Trump wine. Why is anyone surprised that he would take that same type of narcissism and bring it over to his role in his second term as president when he's spending other people's money to do it?
"The problem has been that the Republican party has enabled him to get away with this and to their own detriment, which is why more and more people in his inner circle are concerned about how this is going to impact the midterms and control of Congress."
Indeed, Republicans are said to be quietly panicking about Trump costing them the House of Representatives and putting even the Senate in jeopardy. A national Quinnipiac University poll late last month showed his job approval rating dropping to an all-time low of 32%, with 58% disapproval. It found six in 10 Americans oppose the US military action in Iran.
George W Bush in 2006 and Barack Obama in 2010 faced challenging midterms but worked with their parties in an effort to at least stem the losses. Rick Wilson of the Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump group, said: "It's nightmarish to think what would have been if Barack Obama had been saying, 'I'm going to build a basketball arena at the White House,' or George Bush had said, 'I'm gonna build a golf course.'"
"Instead you've got a very different visual from this White House and that visual is 'we don't care about anything else except for the ballroom and the arch' and all the throwaway ephemera that he wants to focus on. It's a terrible political look and it's quite dangerous for the party because they have nothing to run on."
The sense of malaise deepened this week when Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, said she would be stepping down. The explanation was that she wants to spend more time with her young family, but the timing was unfortunate for an administration struggling to spin its way out of one crisis after another.
Trump's cloud does have a golden lining, however. He made an estimated $2.2bn during the first year of his second term thanks to cryptocurrency holdings, foreign interests and his Truth Social business. Sykes said: "He hasn't lowered the cost of living, he hasn't made America more respected, he hasn't won the war but he has succeeded in making himself a billionaire many times over by abusing his office."
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Economists urge UK to join UN initiative to tackle inequality
Heather Stewart Economics editor
Forty prominent progressive academics are urging Andy Burnham's government to join a new global initiative to tackle inequality.
The experts include Nobel winner Joseph Stiglitz, University College London professor Mariana Mazzucato, vice-chancellor of the London School of Economics Larry Kramer, and Kate Pickett, co-author of The Spirit Level.
In an open letter they call on Burnham to sign the UK up to help create a new International Panel on Inequality (IPI), which is being developed at the United Nations.
"The organising principle of the prime minister's policy agenda - the Makerfield test - aims to ensure that places forgotten by Westminster finally receive fairness after decades of neglect," they say in the
letter. "While these efforts are commendable, inequality is also a global issue, becoming more entrenched as the geopolitical climate destabilises."
They say the IPI will provide "an independent, trusted global evidence base on the causes and consequences of inequality, alongside analysis of the policies that can reduce it".
By backing it, they argue, Burnham could "cement the organising principles of his politics globally".
Charities, thinktanks and backbench MPs have been urging the new prime minister to use the UK's turn to chair the G20 next year to reclaim Labour's leadership on global development. The G20 is an economic policy forum that brings together leaders from global south countries such as China, India and Brazil, as well as the traditional G7 powers.
"With the UK set to chair the G20 in 2027, Burnham now has a chance to demonstrate his leadership on the world stage," the letter says.
'Burnham now has a chance to demonstrate his leadership on the world stage'
Open letter from 40 prominent academics
Echoing the approach of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the new body - to be chaired by Stiglitz - will track extreme wealth disparities and recommend global policy solutions. Brazil, South Africa, Norway and Spain have been involved in setting it up.
The academics, led by Pickett, a professor at York University, urge Burnham to use his attendance at the UN general assembly next month to
signal the UK's support for the idea. They point to Burnham's record on championing the issue of inequality as mayor of Greater Manchester - the role he held for nine years before becoming prime minister last month.
Under Keir Starmer, Labour slashed aid spending to increase the defence budget, prompting the resignation of the then development minister Anneliese Dodds.
The foreign secretary, Ed Miliband, has signalled that he wants to make international development more central to Labour's priorities - including by taking up the UK's seat on the board of the World Bank himself.
Responding to the academics' letter, Lord Wood, the Foreign Office minister for growth, said: "Changing the way our economy works so that it is fairer and more productive is not just about what we do at home. It also requires that we work in partnership with other countries and international institutions to strengthen the global economy.
"That's why this government will work with allies to build the coalition we need for economic change - to boost global growth, combat inequality, make our international financial institutions more effective, and back more coordinated development support and climate action."
Half of homes take longer to sell this year amid mortgage volatility
Richard Partington Senior economics correspondent
Half of homes in Great Britain are taking longer to sell than last year as volatile conditions in the mortgage market amid the Iran war lead buyers to "wait and see" if they can get a better deal, according to a report.
As the Middle East conflict continues to unfold, the property platform Zoopla said homes in 180 out of 363 local authorities in England, Scotland and Wales were taking longer to sell compared with a year ago.
It said that although the national average time to sell a home had not changed - at 42 days - a widening regional gap had emerged as buyers in property hotspots raced to complete deals, while uncertainty over mortgage costs fuelled a more cautious approach elsewhere.
The report found the UK's 10 fastest-selling markets were all in Scotland, with the lowest average time to sell at just 11 days in Falkirk, Carlisle and Barnsley in England were the fastest non-Scotish markets at 23 days each.
It said eight local authorities had an average time to sell of two months or more, led by Melton in the East Midlands, at 76 days, Westminster in London and Teignbridge in Devon.
Property buyers shopping for a mortgage deal have faced months of heightened volatility as the stop-start Iran war rattles financial markets - with a knock-on impact for the pricing of home loans.
The war in the Middle East led many lenders to withdraw deals in March, while the cost of a typical home loan soared amid fears that the conflict would reignite global inflationary pressures and force the Bank of England to raise interest rates.
The latest figures from the financial data provider Moneyfacts show the rate on an average two-year fixed residential mortgage stood at 5.61% yesterday - significantly higher than the rate of 4.83% before the outbreak of the conflict at the end of February.
The rate peaked at close to 6% in April. However, uncertainty remains as the Iran war continues to unfold, in a challenge for Threadneedle Street's rate-setters.
Financial markets anticipate two quarter-point rises in the Bank's base rate, from the current 3.75% before the end of next year.
Richard Donnell, a Zoopla executive director, said: "While the national time to sell has barely moved, that stability is masking a real divide opening up between local markets."
China's slowing economy adds to pressure on policymakers to intervene
China's economy is showing signs of extending a slowdown with a slump in industrial output and retail sales in July, adding to pressure on Beijing to intervene with measures to support activity.
After the world's second largest economy posted one of its lowest quarterly growth readings on record in the three months to June, figures suggest it continued to falter in July.
Factory output grew 4.5% from a year earlier last month, compared with 5.3% in June, official figures from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed yesterday, missing a Reuters poll forecast for 4.8% growth.
Retail sales grew 0.6%, a slowdown from a 1% rise in June despite summer holiday tourism spending. Forecasters had predicted 1.5%.
The NBS said extreme weather, including high temperatures and heavy rainfall, had disrupted market supply and demand.
The latest snapshot is likely to increase pressure on policymakers to accelerate plans for tax and spending measures to support activity.
▲ Workers in Jinhua produce stress-relief toys for export. China's factory output grew by just 4.5% in July PHOTOGRAPH: VGG/GETTY IMAGES
China's premier, Li Qiang, suggested that efforts to bolster overseas demand for goods could be used to make up for weak domestic demand.
"Currently, the problem of insufficient domestic demand remains prominent, some industries and enterprises are facing increasing difficulties, and uncertainties in external environment are rising," Li told a
meeting of China's state council, according to the state news agency, Xinhua. "We should actively stabilise external demand, expand mutually beneficial international economic and trade cooperation and promote balanced trade development."
Analysts say they expect stronger growth rates later this year, supported by spending measures from Beijing to increase activity.
"The silver lining is that the boost to manufacturing activity from AI capex [capital expenditure] continued to build, and that the wider
weakness partly reflects temporary disruptions from recent typhoons," said Julian Evans-Pritchard, the head of China economics at Capital Economics. "We still expect a modest uptick in growth over the rest of the year, supported by fiscal loosening."
China posted a worse-than-expected annualised growth rate of 4.3% in the three months to June.
The rate, which came in under the government's target of 4.5% to 5%, was one of the weakest since Beijing began reporting official quarterly GDP data in the early 1990s.
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Leading economies' borrowing costs hit highest level since 2008
Graeme Wearden
Government borrowing costs in several advanced economies hit their highest level since the 2008 financial crisis, or even earlier, yesterday, as investors feared the Middle East crisis
would keep inflation persistently high. Concerns over rising prices and government spending pushed up the cost of debt issued by Paris, Berlin, Washington DC, Tokyo and London, as investors fretted that rising prices would push up interest rates.
The yield, or interest rate, on 30-year French bonds rose to its
highest level since September 2008 at 4.8558%, up one basis point (0.01 percentage point), LSEG data showed.
France's 10-year bond yield hit its highest level since June 2009, up one basis point to 4.0516%. The equivalent German bond rose to its highest yield since 2011 at 3.2138%, up 1.5 basis points.
Fears that central banks would continue to tighten monetary policy, to prevent inflation bursting out of control, pushed up bond yields as traders sought a higher rate of return for holding government debt.
The money markets indicate there is almost an 85% chance that the European Central Bank will raise interest rates in September.
US government long-term borrowing costs also hit their highest level since the financial crisis, with the 30-year Treasury yield rising to 5.29%, its highest level since 2007.
UK and Italian government bond prices, which fall when yield rise, dipped.
Japan's 10-year government bond yield hit a three-decade high, as investors anticipated the Bank
of Japan would need to raise interest rates as soon as September, in an attempt to prop up the yen.
The 10-year Japanese government bond yield rose to 2.93%, its highest level since September 1996, before dipping back slightly after Japan's latest GDP report showed growth was weaker than expected in April-June.
Axel Rudolph, a chief technical analyst at IG, said: "Japan's bond market is clearly becoming less forgiving, and the BoJ may soon have to choose between supporting a fragile economy and containing inflation."
JP Morgan boss warns chancellor not to raise bank taxes
Lauren Almeida
Jamie Dimon, the boss of the US bank JP Morgan, has urged John Healey not to use his first budget as chancellor to increase taxes on banks' bumper profits.
Speculation has been growing that a windfall tax could be imposed on UK lenders to fund Andy Burnham's cost of living agenda, with campaigners estimating such a move could raise £19bn.
Dimon told Healey in a phone conversation that higher levies could hit jobs, citing a fall in finance roles in New York that he blamed on the city's tax regime.
One person familiar with the conversation said the chief executive of the world's biggest bank had told Healey that "getting public policy right" was at "the root of solving the problems facing all our economies".
They said Dimon's comments on tax were not specific to the UK and did not have "any link" to plans to build a new headquarters in London.
They added that Dimon was the first among many bank bosses to have an introductory call with the new chancellor, and that calls with other chief executives would follow this week.
▲ Jamie Dimon told John Healey that higher bank levies could hit jobs
The Wall Street billionaire's remarks, first reported by the Financial Times, were condemned by Paul Nowak, the general secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC).
"People are sick and tired of being told they have to tighten their belts while profits, dividends and bankers' bonuses hit record highs," Nowak said. "The new chancellor has a clear opportunity to show working people he's on their side by asking banks to pay fair taxes to cut energy bills."
Dimon has a long record of criticising Britain's additional bank taxes, which were imposed after the government bailed out big UK lenders in the 2008 financial crisis.
Lenders in the UK pay a 28% corporation tax rate, higher than the standard 25%, as well as a separate surcharge on their UK balance sheets.
The JP Morgan CEO said in July that raising these taxes further could have "adverse consequences", telling the Master Investor podcast: "It would be one more negative on that bucket of things you got to think about."
Dimon, who was also among the bank bosses who successfully lobbied against higher taxes in Rachel Reeves's budget last year, announced plans the day after the budget to build a 3m sq ft tower in London's Canary Wharf district, with the caveat that a "continuing positive business environment in the UK" was required.
In May this year, he said he could scrap plans for the £3bn tower, which is expected to serve as the bank's UK headquarters and house more than half of its 23,000 UK workforce, if Keir Starmer were to be replaced by a new prime minister who was hostile to banks.
Burnham and Healey have not made any specific comments about a bank tax so far. However, they have faced many calls to increase the levy.
Collectively, the UK's four largest lenders – HSBC, NatWest, Barclays and Lloyds – reported £29.2bn in profits over the first six months of the year, with almost half, £13.7bn, pledged to investors through dividends and share buybacks.
The TUC is calling for the government to increase the bank surcharge, saying that a 16% rate would deliver £24bn over the next four years, while 35% would deliver £60bn over the same period.
Simon Youel, the head of advocacy at the campaign group Positive Money, said: "Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves had a chance to recoup banks' huge windfalls at the last budget, but instead they chose to raise taxes on ordinary people. Hopefully Andy Burnham and John Healey won't be fooled by the industry's lobbyists into making the same mistake."
JP Morgan declined to comment.
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The inflation trap
Central banks in a bind over raising rates amid wars
Phillip Inman
As the Middle East crisis drags on into its sixth month, central banks sit in a tricky position. Oil prices remain at elevated levels, stoking inflationary pressures while also threatening to weigh on growth.
The US Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and the European Central Bank (ECB) are still smarting from the criticism of their inaction in 2022, when inflation soared above 10% in the UK and eurozone and over 9% in the US.
Central banks were plagued by accusations that they moved too slowly to confront inflation in the months after the Ukraine war started, when post-pandemic consumer spending was already stoking prices of everything from food to construction materials.
Now they are asking whether the continuing throttling of fossil fuel shipping through the strait of Hormuz will mean another year of target-busting prices growth.
The Federal Reserve seeks help
Last month US inflation edged lower to 3.4%, down from 3.5% in June and 4.2% in May, largely in response to easing petrol prices following the US memorandum of understanding with Iran.
Since the Bureau of Labor Statistics collected the data, the price of a barrel of Brent crude has risen again to about $90 (£78) – a figure that will push up the price of energy and transport across the US in the second half of the year.
Fed officials are asking whether US inflation will climb back towards 4%, double its target. The US central bank’s new boss, Kevin Warsh, has instigated an all-embracing review of its operations based on the advice of 15 outsiders who he says are among the most eminent experts and economists of the age.
Many analysts have applauded him for recognising that a series of inflation shocks dating back to the arrival of Covid-19 have undermined the integrity and durability of central bank forecasting.
Mohamed El-Erian, an economist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton business school, said Warsh recognised that many
▲ A trader watches a press conference by the Fed chair, Kevin Warsh. Left, the Bank of England is expected to raise rates this year
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of the shibboleths of monetary policymaking had proved flawed.
“The key issue for me is having someone there who’s committed to long-overdue Fed reforms. This is essential for future Fed effectiveness, credibility and political independence,” he said.
Chief among the tools that Warsh has already ditched is forward guidance – the explicit signalling of the likely future path of interest rates. He also declined to join other Fed policymakers in creating dot plots on a graph showing how the economy and inflation are expected to develop over the next few years.
Among Warsh’s 15 appointments to five subject committees is Mervyn King, a former governor of the Bank of England. Lord King is considered a founding father of
inflation forecasting, but has since argued that central banks should take more account of uncertainty in how people react and ditch a heavy reliance on economic models that claim to predict likely outcomes.
In his 2020 book Radical Uncertainty, he described forward guidance as “silly” when no central bank knows what the interest rate will be in six months or two years.
El-Erian calls forward guidance “spurious accuracy”. What financial markets and the public need to know is the “reaction function”. In other words, how the central bank will respond to different economic developments.
Charlie Bean, a professor at the London School of Economics and a former deputy governor of the Bank, said Warsh’s changes meant
that Fed watchers did not have guidance on either the path of rates or the Fed’s reaction to events.
“Warsh ... is not giving a guide to where rates are going and also not talking about how changes in the economy will affect rates,” said Bean. “It means he is not saying anything of substance.”
The Fed held rates in July and financial market betting expects a hold again in September, though a rise is thought possible. Markets anticipate at least one, and possibly two, quarter-point increases by the middle of next year, taking the Fed’s target rate from its current 3.5-3.75% range to 4-4.25%.
The Bank of England suffers a post-Covid hangover
While the BoE is widely considered to have acted consistently since the
$90
Current price of a barrel of Brent crude, which will push up the price of energy and transport across the US
4.25%
Bank of England interest rate by late 2027, as predicted by financial markets – up from 3.75% this year
start of the Iran war – saying it will raise the cost of borrowing should there be any signs of persistent inflation. However, the decision to hold the Bank Rate steady at 3.75% could come under pressure.
The UK consumer prices index (CPI) dropped to 2.6% in June, but some analysts expect it to rise to 2.9% or even 3% when July’s figures are published by the Office for National Statistics tomorrow.
A majority of the nine-member monetary policy committee (MPC) are wary of increasing interest rates when it will have little effect on global oil prices, aware that higher borrowing costs could depress an already weak UK economy.
Bean says the MPC is also under pressure from even more fundamental trends, including high and rising government debt.
The difficulty arises when governments are highly indebted and a central bank wants to raise interest rates to control inflation. A rise in the cost of borrowing increases the government’s debt financing bill. Central banks must decide whether to cripple the government’s finances or let inflation remain high for a longer period above its target.
Neil Shearing, the chief economist of the consultancy Capital Economics, says he has argued for many years that central banks will preside over high inflation for as long as western governments cannot control their debt-fuelled spending. “The conceit is that central banks need to maintain 2% as their target, while at the same time tolerating a slightly higher level of inflation,” he said.
Making matters worse, most inflationary shocks come from global events that restrict the supply of essential goods. Interest rate rises dampen consumer spending with little effect on the price of imported goods.
Nevertheless, financial markets predict the Bank will raise rates this year, possibly from as early as its next meeting in September on the path to pushing rates as high as 4.25% by late 2027.
The ECB goes rogue
Unlike the Fed and the Bank, the ECB has raised the cost of borrowing this year. Critics say it moved too quickly.
It raised interest rates in June after only a modest rise in inflation caused by the Middle East war. Many economists said this was too early when much of the eurozone economy continues to be devastated by the energy shock after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Shearing said: “The ECB was clearly fighting the previous war and prematurely raising rates. The underlying picture in the eurozone is one of weakness.” He is among many analysts who believe markets are wrong to expect the ECB will raise its main deposit rate by a quarter-point to 2.5% in September and possibly a further quarter-point increase next year.
Shearing says that while high oil prices put pressure on inflation, they act as a brake on economic activity, as a rise in rates would also do. It would be like kicking the economy when it is already down.
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| 18 Aug 2026 | 427.80 |
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| 09 Aug 2026 | 427.59 |
| 17 Aug 2025 | 423.33 |
| 17 Aug 2016 | 403.08 |
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| Safe level | 230 |
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| Anonmouth | 1034 | 12.1m | 2245 | 11.9m |
| Barrow | 0235 | 8.8m | 1457 | 8.3m |
| Belfast | 0229 | 3.5m | 1458 | 3.1m |
| Cobb | 0851 | 3.7m | 2109 | 3.7m |
| Cromer | 0943 | 4.9m | 2221 | 4.4m |
| Dover | 0223 | 6.3m | 1440 | 6.5m |
| Dublin | 0243 | 3.9m | 1512 | 3.5m |
| Galway | 0839 | 4.6m | 2057 | 4.5m |
| Greenock | 0334 | 3.6m | 1613 | 3.1m |
| Harwich | 0505 | 3.8m | 1513 | 3.9m |
| Hollywood | 0130 | 5.3m | 1353 | 4.9m |
| Hull | 0932 | 7.3m | 2157 | 6.6m |
| Leith | 0603 | 5.3m | 1826 | 4.9m |
| Liverpool | 0215 | 9.0m | 1435 | 8.5m |
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| Milford Haven | 0936 | 6.3m | 2152 | 6.3m |
| Newquay | 0830 | 6.2m | 2046 | 6.1m |
| North Shields | 0643 | 4.9m | 1914 | 4.4m |
| Oban | 0853 | 3.4m | 2102 | 3.4m |
| Penzance | 0800 | 5.0m | 2056 | 5.0m |
| Plymouth | 0909 | 5.0m | 2113 | 5.0m |
| Portsmouth | 0249 | 4.4m | 1521 | 4.5m |
| Southport | 0142 | 8.7m | 1402 | 8.2m |
| Stenemacy | 1014 | 4.1m | 2223 | 4.1m |
| Portland | 1003 | 1.9m | 2210 | 1.9m |
| Whitby | 0718 | 5.4m | 1947 | 4.9m |
| Wick | 0212 | 3.3m | 1457 | 3.0m |
| Workington | 0238 | 7.9m | 1503 | 7.4m |
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| Glasgow | 2047 to 0557 |
| Harlech | 2037 to 0605 |
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| London | 2016 to 0552 |
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| Norwich | 2015 to 0544 |
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Weather tracker
Relief from the unrelenting heat is finally arriving this week across western Europe, with more unsettled conditions bringing the chance of rain. Temperatures are expected to fall back towards the seasonal norm, with some parts of the UK even falling about 3C below normal by Thursday. After such a scorching summer, and with a temperature drop of more than 15C compared with last Thursday's heat, it may feel surprisingly chilly.
There are signs that some substantial rain could be on the cards for the south of the UK this week as a cold front moves in from the Atlantic. The more interesting weather arrives from tomorrow into the weekend, as low pressure moves across the UK, bringing frequent sharp showers and potentially thundery downpours. After such a prolonged dry spell, even a few substantial bursts of rain will make a noticeable difference to the environment.
Continental Europe is also likely to turn wetter as the main cold front sinks southwards into France and Germany tomorrow. Farther south, rainfall is likely to be more hit and miss, relying heavily on showers and thunderstorms, with this risk really rising from Thursday.
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Athletics
'People are attracted to that full-throttle way of speaking'
After four gold medals at the European Championships Amy Hunt says confidence is the key to her success
Sean Ingle
Long before Amy Hunt catapulted herself into the mainstream by winning an unprecedented four gold medals at the European Championships, she was remarkably upfront about her ambitions. There was no coyness. No equivocation. She wanted the quadruple in Birmingham. And having talked a good game, she delivered.
She celebrated her final golden night in Birmingham with a glass of champagne and a KFC, as well as a 2am massage to ensure her legs would be fresh for her next race in Lausanne on Friday. It meant going to bed at 4am. But despite being on four hours sleep yesterday morning, she is sharp as a tack and explains why being bold is good for her - and her sport.
"Sometimes people are a bit afraid of voicing their ambitions," Hunt says. "But life is short. Why not be ambitious? We're all thinking these things, so why not just say them out loud? People are attracted to that no-facade, full-confidence, full-throttle way of speaking. It's something we have in other sports. If you're going into a Wimbledon final, it's obviously clear that you want to win."
And, Hunt believes, it also helps her when it comes to the crunch in races too. "Especially in the sprints, you have to be so utterly confident on that start line. It's like nothing else on this planet. I'm trying to get from A to B as fast as humanly possible, and it's so simple yet complex.
"I have to be so convinced of myself, my own power, my own strength, my own speed, and my own methodology, in a sense, to be able to make that all come together as one," she
adds. "Because it is such a mental game. And just having that edge of confidence of 1 or 2% matters."
Hunt is a very modern British sports star, equally comfortable talking about studying Chaucer and the Material Renaissance at Cambridge on Radio 4's Woman's Hour as she is posting a video on Instagram of her twirling with her four gold medals to the sound of Abba's Winner Takes It All.
"I had a glass of champagne and a KFC and it was amazing," she says. "It was one of the best tasting KFCs I've had in my life. Then we went and had a massage at 2am, and then I got into bed finally at 4am with a not-packed suitcase."
Advertisers talk about how the biggest stars are able to appeal to all four quadrants - young and old, men and women. And after her four European golds, Hunt is closing in on being a four-quadrant star.
She is smart but normal, exceptionally talented but down to earth. And she does the numbers too. When Hunt won her first gold over 100m last Monday, two million people watched on the BBC, On Sunday, when she completed the quadruple 4.2 million tuned in. She says her number of social media followers has doubled in a week too.
And how appropriate is it that someone who has a passion for the Renaissance has been so instrumental to the rebirth of track and field in Britain? "We've seen from these champs that the public really love track and field," Hunt says. "Athletics is coming back with a bit of swagger."
But that swagger carries a lot of self-awareness too. After she won her third gold in the women's 4x100m relay, the first thing she did was praise her teammates. Dina Asher-Smith was hailed for breaking the record for European Championships medals. Success Eduan was praised for being a
'Sometimes people are afraid of voicing their ambitions. But life is short. Why not be ambitious?'
midwife as well as a top sprinter. And Hunt also marvelled at how Imani-Lara Lansiquot had written an acclaimed play, Armour of Gaza, about growing up in Peckham.
Hunt knows she is now about to experience a whole new level of fame but there is a caveat - living in Padua, Italy, means she will escape the worst excesses of the tabloids.
"I am probably going to give Keely Hodgkinson a little text to see how she manages it, but it's definitely not something I shy away from," says Hunt. "I'm not scared of it at all. It's a privilege to be famous as a track person. But it's also quite lucky for me that I have such a secluded setup."
The difficult times in her life, including challenges with her mental health while at Cambridge and several injuries after she burst to prominence as an 18-year-old, have also given her perspective. "Failure is something you can't be afraid of," she says. "My whole persona, my whole message and ethos is just to be bold. And failure is a natural part of that."
Even this year Hunt has had to battle low blood pressure which has caused her to nearly faint. "Obviously, this year I've struggled with my health and there's been races that have felt like failures,"
▲ Amy Hunt celebrates winning her fourth gold medal in Birmingham REUTERSUPETER CZIBORBA
she says. "But if you don't fail, then you don't win. It's a natural part of a sportsperson's life. It's sad, but necessary."
Hunt is currently ranked fifth in the world over 200m and eighth in the 100m.
She knows she needs to get faster to beat the Americans Gabby Thomas and Melissa Jefferson-Wooden, and the St Lucian star Julien Alfred at next year's world championships.
But as she talks with scientific precision about plans to improve her 60m speed, so she can be quicker round the bend in the 200m and be in the mix for the Olympics, you are reminded that she has a habit of manifesting medals.
Unsurprisingly, Hunt is also now the overwhelming favourite for sports personality of the year, well ahead of fellow athlete Josh Kerr, and the England footballers Harry Kane and Jude Bellingham.
"I think it just speaks to the resurgence and reignition of track and field in 2026," she says. "It's been amazing to see the public fall back in love with us, and be in people's minds and hearts."
Hunter Bell sets sights on 'Big Three' in 800m clash of titans
Sean Ingle
Georgia Hunter Bell says she is ready to take on the 'Big Three' of Audrey Werro, Keely Hodgkinson and Femke Broeders-Bol in a race for the ages over 800m in Zurich next week.
Hunter Bell has had an extraordinary season, adding the 1500m European Championship title on Sunday to her Commonwealth 800m gold and 1500m world indoor crown. She is now ready to put herself to the test in a fast-paced 800m against the three Birmingham medallists.
"There is still a lot left of the season," said Hunter Bell. "I haven't done a paced 800m yet, I have one coming up with the speedy girls. I am really excited to throw my hat into the ring there. Had a bit of fomo when I saw them on the podium. It's such an exciting time. I am really happy."
There are some who believe a fast-paced 800m in Zurich could get close to the world record of 1min 53.28sec, set in 1983 by the Czech Jarmila Kratovilova, especially with the Swiss star Werro having run 1:53.80 this season - the third fastest in history.
Hunter Bell could certainly be in the mix given she appears to be in the form of her life. "I haven't run a personal best so far this year yet but weirdly you could say I'm having my best year because I keep on winning," she said.
Hunter Bell also revealed that she and the top trio had been talking to the world champion Lilian Odira about setting up a big five clash before the end of 2026.
"I can't wait for that, hopefully the big five will come together soon," she added. "We've been talking after the races. 'When are you racing? You should get into this one.' There's a good competitive spirit."
The most likely opportunity is the Ultimate Championships in Budapest next month, where there will be a $150,000 (£110,000) first prize on the line. "In a good way, people aren't swerving opportunities, everyone is trying to do it together," Hunter Bell said.
▲ Georgia Hunter Bell won 1500m gold at the European Championships
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Sport^{}[] Boxing
'If we want equal pay we can't be doing two-minute rounds'
Chantelle Cameron
The Northampton fighter on Katie Taylor, Mikaela Mayer and why women's boxing needs a radical shake-up
Donald McRae
Less than two weeks before her world title unification bout against Mikaela Mayer, in a potential fight of the year for women's boxing, Chantelle Cameron's memory carries a quietly shocking force. "I was 14 and doing a psychology GCSE when my teacher spoke to me in front of the whole class," Cameron says. "I don't know why because I wasn't a naughty kid. But he just turned round and said I'm going to end up stacking shelves in Tesco with two kids by the time I'm 16. On the inside I was like: 'Wow. Did he really say that?''
Cameron is the only woman to have beaten the great Katie Taylor as a pro and she has become a passionate advocate for elite female boxers and their right to fight three-minute rounds - so much so that, last year, she gave up her WBC world title because the sanctioning body suggested women weren't strong enough to box more than two-minute rounds. She will now defend her WBO world super-welterweight title a week on Saturday against Mayer, the experienced WBC belt-holder.
Before she addresses the hard night ahead of Mayer and herself, Cameron nods when I ask if, as a shy teenager, she felt crushed by her teacher's comment.
"I was," she says in a cafe in Walkden, near Manchester. "I went home and said: 'Mum, why would he say that to me?' It can be really damaging when you're told that by a teacher. It's like he's saying I've got no dreams, no hope. There's nothing wrong with stacking shelves, by the way, but to diminish someone like that at school is so wrong. I took it quite bad and my mum went into school and
told them: 'You can't be judging people like that - just because we're from Eastern District [in Northampton].''
Did her teacher apologise? "Never, but I ended up quitting psychology anyway."
The 35-year-old has learned much about the depths and complexities of the mind because, apart from shedding her insecurities when facing a partisan crowd in Dublin on the night she beat Taylor in a searing battle in May 2023, Cameron dealt with her own demons after losing the rematch six months later.
It still stings that, as Cameron
says, "because I'm from Northampton Eastern District, you're always judged. People expect you're going to be a thief or a druggie, on benefits, and it's so unfair. I love where I'm from but when you're told that by your teachers, and people in authority, it's more real. So I never dreamed of being in the position I'm in now - because I wouldn't dare to dream. I was always told it weren't possible."
Cameron has since encountered another form of prejudice. In 2023 the WBC president, Mauricio Sulaimán, defended his organisation's refusal to sanction 12 three-minute rounds in female bouts. "In tennis, women play three sets," Sulaimán argued. "In [women's] basketball the basket is shorter and the ball smaller and those are not contact sports. We stand by the safety and wellbeing of the fighters."
That statement did not acknowledge the strength and resilience of the best female fighters - while undermining Cameron, for she would benefit from longer rounds. Is the WBC's stance sexist? "Yes. I think it's bad for the sport. It's bad for women's boxing. Amateur women do three-minute rounds and for women's pro boxing to be taken seriously we should be doing the same as men. If we want equal rights, equal pay, we can't be doing 10 two-minute rounds."
Cameron's view is nuanced when we consider reasonable counter arguments. "I understand the pros and cons of two-minute rounds. It's electric and fought at full pace. But it's holding back women's boxing. I don't think it has anything to do with health. We're perfectly capable of doing three-minute rounds."
In October 2025 Cameron stood up to the WBC and, in protest, gave up her world title. "I vacated and then won the WBO belt because they allowed me to fight over three-minute rounds. Mikaela is the WBC champion now and, because this is such a good fight for me, I've had to go back to twos."
Over 12 three-minute rounds Cameron would be a prohibitive favourite against Mayer. "Mikaela knew that and so this gives her an advantage. If we went to three-minute rounds, I don't think no woman's going to stay with me. I had thought Mikaela was an advocate for three-minute rounds but she wants to go for the undisputed title and that includes the WBC."
What does Mayer do best in the ring? "She's very tough. That's her best attribute and she's got good fitness. I have a lot of respect for Mikaela as a fighter and a person. I'm taking her as seriously as I took Katie Taylor."
The mutual respect is refreshing. They are two of the best fighters in
the world and Cameron says of her articulate and engaging American rival: "She's a great advocate for boxing, not just women's boxing. She comes to fight."
Cameron is less enthusiastic when reflecting on her rivalry with Taylor. She went to Dublin for Taylor's homecoming bout and Cameron is honest when describing how she felt in front of a vociferous crowd. "It was horrible. But [her trainers] Jamie Moore and Nigel Travis believed in me. I didn't think I'd beat Katie but they were adamant I'd do it."
Cameron produced a supreme performance and edged the fight. But was she concerned about the scorecards? "Oh yes. The first one was a draw. I thought: 'Oh no.' But I prepared for that because I was going into Katie Taylor's back yard, and she's the queen of Ireland. When I got the decision it was incredible."
It was different before the rematch. "God's honest truth, I did not want to be in Dublin. It was a hard ask to do it again and everything was stacked against me. Katie is an amazing fighter, but I think I'm better than her. I'm all wrong for Katie, but when everything goes against you it's really hard. It weren't me versus Katie. It was me against the whole of Ireland. On the morning of the rematch, I was in my bedroom
▼ Chantelle Cameron will fight Mikaela Mayer with three world titles at stake COLIN MCPHERSON/THE GUARDIAN
crying my eyes out. That's how much I trusted my gut feeling. I was having a breakdown and Nigel came to comfort me."
She lost narrowly on points and Cameron says: "I took it really bad and I had a bit of a breakdown. My family and friends think that too. I just gave up everything. I was really sad and pushing away the people that love me most."
Cameron even left Moore's gym to try to make a fresh start. It did not take long to understand that they were the best possible team for her. She says: "The last two years I've grown into a much better and more rounded person. I've matured so much."
Has she spoken to Taylor? "No, but two weeks after I beat Katie I sent her a private message on Instagram to say it was an honour to fight her. I told her I appreciated all she has done for boxing and thanked her. It was a genuine message because, if you fight Katie, you're fighting a legend. I didn't hear back and thought: 'Fair
'I hate the scans. I'm punched in my head for a living and I don't know what's going on up there'
enough.' I knew it was tough for her to lose.
"When she beat me I heard nothing. I thought then that: 'We're different people.' I don't judge her but politeness doesn't cost anything. I'm friendly with most of my opponents now. We talk and have a laugh. But me and Katie? I'm not going to pretend there's any love lost."
Cameron chased a trilogy contest but Taylor chose to fight Amanda Serrano, her other great rival, twice more. Taylor is now having a huge and probably final fight at Croke Park against the obscure Flora Pill on 5 September. Does Cameron feel she should be fighting Taylor?
"No. From the bottom of my heart, fighting me at Croke Park is not right for her swansong. It's going to be a show, and more of a send-off, than a fight. I was the wrong opponent and so that's why there was never a conversation. I think this will be her last fight. I hope it is because she has done so much for women's boxing and had so many tough fights."
Does Cameron worry about the damage she has also absorbed while compiling a 22-1 record over nine years as a pro? "Yes, I'm really concerned. That's why I do a lot of brain training. An app called Elevate exercises my brain because over the last few years I've been worried. So I'm reading books, brain training, because I don't want to be punch-drunk. I want to retire from boxing being able to put sentences together."
Has she seen warning signs? "Not yet, touch wood. I don't think I've been in many wars. I had my first proper cut with Katie but that was more of a head-butt. I've not been hurt and Jamie's very good at not over-sparring. I don't need any extra knocks on my head."
She has an annual MRI brain scan and Cameron says: "I hate the scans. I get real nervous and anxious because I'm being punched in my head for a living and I don't know what's going on up there. But I also have security knowing I'm going for them scans. If the smallest thing shows on the scan I'd say: 'My time's up. Health is way more important than boxing.'"
It has been hard for Cameron to find a decent opponent since Taylor. She is candid when stressing she "needs" the challenge of Mayer to lift her while, at the same time, she wants to retire in the next two years: "I want to go out healthy and with my brain intact."
Our conversation drifts back to her beloved Northampton. "My mum and dad are still there," Cameron says. "I would love to buy them a nice cottage in the countryside but they want to stay. That's the kind of family we are. I still have the same friends, and I'm so proud of them. They're also proud of me. I'll always represent Northampton and Eastern District because I'm the one that made it. It shows other people you can still make it, no matter where you're from. Don't let anyone tell you any different."
Elite sport must adapt to survive heatwaves
How climate crisis is affecting athletes and what steps are being taken to protect them from rising temperatures
Tanya Airdred
The mercury-shattering European summer pants alongside us on the back straight, looming as we hug the shadows, sweaty sandals on the parched earth. Across Asia, Africa and North America, inhabitants have endured the warmest July of their lives.
In Toronto, Alex Hutchinson, author of the bestseller Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance, has just come back from an early run. "Here I am in Canada, a famously frosty country, and my general take when I wrote 'Endure' in the 2010s was that heat was not that big a deal. Occasionally, people died of heat, often in the deep south of the US, often returning to football practice in August, when they were not prepared, but that was rare.
"Now I'm a lot more cautious. My general thesis is that the brain is pretty good at protecting you. Even if you try to deliberately run yourself to collapse, you won't be able to. You'll get tired before that happens. But heat is one of the very few things that can trick the brain's protective circuitry."
This summer has felt like a sea change in elite sport. Somehow we have reached a stage where it is no longer shocking to see a tennis player collapse on court, like Ekaterina Alexandrova in Memphis or Jakub Mensik in Paris. Cyclist Tom Pidcock called the Tour de France a "war zone" and much-mocked referee Ilgiz Tantashev, who officiated France's chaotic last-16 win over Paraguay, was found to be suffering from heat strain. On
7 August, the Fijian rugby player Saimoni Vunilagi died of suspected heatstroke in the Japanese city of Fukuoka, where temperatures had hit 35°C, after training with his club, Kyuden Voitex.
In Lee Taylor, from Loughborough University, is one of the world leaders in preparing elite athletes for extreme environments, "The reality is that we live in a climate-change world," he says.
"It's inevitable, whatever sport you play, at whatever level, that more of that training and playing is going to be in a hot environment. So either we stop playing sport altogether or we adapt."
Logistics, timings, player preparation, shading, cooling, all can be tweaked, and we saw some of those adaptations in the World Cup - scatter-gun style. There were mandated hydration breaks, but nothing extra for games with a wet bulb globe temperature [a measure of heat stress on the human body] of more than 32°C. There was no flexibility to extend the length of half-time - except for the Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Madonna show in the final - despite there being, in Taylor's words, "a clear rationale to do so in some games as a very robust way to make the players safe by reducing their body
▲ Ekaterina Alexandrova collapsed on court during the Memphis Classic
temperature". The dollar held the upper hand. One of the challenges in preparing players for the World Cup was the limited number of days for acclimatisation.
But given adequate preparation time, experts like Taylor can see the heat as a performance opportunity for elite athletes. "If you look at the (2016) Delta World Athletics Championships, for example, up to 40% in the road races did not finish because they weren't prepared properly, so just by being prepared appropriately you've beaten nearly half the field. What I worry about is athletes who have undeclared sickness, a prior viral load or diarrhoea, or are perhaps on some undeclared medications - that can be quite a dangerous combination to exercise in the heat. Or if an event isn't well prepared with something we call a 'heat deck' - appropriate medical expertise and facilities to rapidly cool someone with a potentially fatal exertional heat stroke - where aggressive whole body cooling is the gold standard to protect health and potentially life."
Autumn is approaching in the northern hemisphere and with it the Premier League, which kicks off on Friday. Taylor thinks the unseasonable heat could have brought pre-season advantages. "If someone has engaged in about six weeks of heat training, they can expand their haemoglobin mass by approximately 3%-6%. That's the same type of adaptation we get in those red blood cells at an altitude camp - super desirable for our elite athletes. So clubs will be regarding the weather in some parts as a performance opportunity. Most were probably looking to expose their players to the heat to gain some of those adaptations."
But there is an existential problem for all of us. "We used to prepare for the worst possible outcome," says Taylor. "What does the historical data tell us is going to be the most challenging humidity and heat? But that's gone out the window over the last five years because we have these crazy outliers." And when the data doctor says the data can't help, you know you're in trouble.
This is an extract from our newsletter, The Hotspot.
Results
Football
GIF BET CHAMPIONSHIP Cardiff (1) 4. Wrexham (1) 4.
LA LIGA Deportivo La Coruña L'Eche L. COPPA ITALIA Piedmontale (Cremonov I, Sampdoria L, Palermo I, Lecce L, Pisa 3 (ingoli 1 (Pisa win 4-3 as penalties); San Paolo 3 (memo 0)
Cricket
FIRST MEN'S TEST MATCH (day three of five) Cicero India 462 (D Podbina) 167, 16, Kishat 82, DC Sural 55, NGRP Jayawamy 1 000, Sri Lanka 294 (GS Dinastia 200, DPBN Dicksettia 85) 90, Lothar 4-76), India lead Sri Lanka by 3.78 runs.
WORLD CUP CHALLENGE LEAGUE GROUP B Duo-on-Seisane-Singapore 100 (Aldrichine Europe 7-15), Tanzania 100-1 (DA Mothia 48ns), Tanzania win by nine wickets. Duo-on-Seisane-Hong Kong 174 (Zambia 48 57, Shahid Wardi 50), Italy 175-4 (W Conspetrano 74ns, BAD Manesh 50); Italy win by six wickets.
Tennis
ATYPISTA CIN294NATI OPEN (Ohio, USA) Mon: Second round: J'Faria (Pro) M-B Shelton (US) 6-4 6-4; F Tishko (US) M-L Sutapa (RI) 6-3 6-4; F Cebelli (RI) M-A Bissio (Bel) 7-5 6-6 7-5; T Tiwane (Ang) M-M Landalaco (Sp) 7-6 (7-5) 7-6 (7-4) Women: Second round: C Gauff (US) M-L Sarmonova (Rus) 2-6 6-4 6-1; E Sottolina (SIA) M-T Valentosa (Col) 3-6 7-6 (7-5) 6-0; D Parry (FI) M-L Bessio (FI) 4-6 6-4 6-3; I Swiatek (PA) M-M Sokker (Gov) 4-6 6-1 6-1
Hockey
MEN'S WORLD CUP (Belgium/Netherlands) Group B India 2 England-A-Pakistan 3 Males 3 Group B France 3 Malaysia 5; Germany L Belgium L
Greg Wood's racing tips
Chopstone 2.15 Hope Rising 2.45 Swear De Flash 2.15 Grove Street 3.50 Risen Again 4.25 Espona Bay 5.00 Amsa Loughold 2.30 Circuit Breaker 3.00 Rianofoss 3.33 Pride Eye 4.08 My Old Male 4.45 Zoltalia 5.20 Megathons 5.52 Hapten 6.22 Northlands (AB) Wolverhampton 5.30 Saliva 6.00 Jawdal 6.30 Parry's Lad Engrd 7.00 Sutelless And Roses 7.30 Aristotle's Dream 8.00 Dance Time
WOMEN'S WORLD CUP (Belgium/Netherlands) Group A (World Japan 3, Australia) 2 Netherlands 4 Group B USA 3 Scotland 2; Germany 2 Argentina 3
Volleyball
WOMEN'S UNDER-17 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP (Chile) Final USA 3 Turkey 0
Fixtures
Football (7 4 hpm unless noted) Champions League Playoffs: First leg (Sisano Zagreb v Viking (Spm); Fenerbahçe v Lyon (Spm); Lvoda Sofia v KEK Athens (Spm)) World 3/5, Trophy Barrel v Arsenal (U2); Leyton Orient v AFC Wimbledon (7pm); Northampton v Brighton (U3) (7pm); Reading v Weybridge (7pm); Stockton v Everton (U2) (7pm); Rajam v Beirut (Racine 2 (Spm)) Enterprise National League North Bedford v Boston; Buckley v King's Lynn (Spm); Darlington v Chester; Hobbins v Wantoup; Hednesford v Southport; Hereford v Hulls Mts. Marien v Charing; Belling v Wilmington and/or South Shields (Spm); Oxford City v Harborough; Scarborough v Spennymoor; Spalding v Manchester Enterprise National League South Dover v Tudbridge; Herne/Hampstead v Waldenhead; Wynham v Hurlington & Bickford; Wadstone v Kilimanjaro Invicts; Slough v Farnham; Tarquay v Weston-b-Moor (Spm); Sutton v Darling; Walton & Hersham v Dugestown & Redbridge (Spm) Reality League Belfast Super League Hull (4R v Warrington (Spm))
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Sport Football
Ødegaard hails
'brilliant' Tzolis and Guimarães after fast starts
Ed Aarons
Martin Ødegaard has praised the instant impact made by new signings Bruno Guimarães and Christos Tzolis in Arsenal's Community Shield victory over Manchester City on Sunday and believes the Premier League champions can compete for multiple trophies this season.
Arsenal were hugely impressive as they blew away last season's FA Cup winners in Cardiff, racing into a 3-0 lead after only 48 minutes. Tzolis - a £34m signing from Club Brugge - set up Kai Havertz for the second goal before adding another assist for Ødegaard to make it 3-0. Guimarães was replaced at the break by Declan Rice having put in a commanding performance on his first start since joining from Newcastle for £75m and Ødegaard said the Brazil midfielder has fitted in seamlessly.
"Since the first day he came in, it has been such a natural thing," said the Norwegian. "Although we had some big fights with him in the past, he has just come in as a real natural part of the team. And you can see his quality. He can win the ball, he's a fighter, but he also has so much quality. He is so calm on the ball. He always takes the right amount of time and he finds the pass. It's brilliant. Christos, as well, it is good to have new players perform like that already."
Ødegaard started 16 Premier League games last season due to a variety of injuries and scored only one goal. But after finding his form as Norway reached the quarter-finals of the World Cup in the summer, the 27-year-old said he is determined to make more of an impact at club level. "Last season, to miss so many games because of injury was really frustrating," Ødegaard said. "What I have just worked on is to use that as motivation for this year and to become stronger. And to use all of those experiences in a positive way. Obviously, I want to help the team score more goals, get more assists, and all that."
Arsenal begin their title defence against promoted Coventry on Friday night and Ødegaard expects his side to lay down a marker. "We wanted to show our level," he said of the win over City. "Of course, last year we won the league. But we want more. We want to do it again in the league and then there are the other trophies. There is a lot to work for and still a lot of room for improvement."
▲ Arsenal captain Martin Ødegaard picked up another trophy on Sunday
GUARDIAN PICTURE DESK
City's midfield muddle gives Maresca his first headache
Community Shield failings and Rodri's impending exit show scale of task facing Guardiola's replacement
Jonathan Wilson
There are caveats. It was only the Community Shield - and no side has gone on to win the league after lifting the Community Shield since 2018. It was against the league champions, whose pre-season has involved far less strenuous travel than their own. By the time the season really gets going, there will be greater clarity in central midfield, with Rodri set to complete his move to Barcelona imminently. But this was a startlingly bad opening for Enzo Maresca at Manchester City.
Succeeding a manager of Pep Guardiola's stature is never easy, as numerous clubs have found. But it's not just Guardiola's standing, the sense that whoever follows him is in his shadow. It's that his style of play is so idiosyncratic that the transition process inevitably becomes more difficult. Even though Maresca was Guardiola's assistant at City in 2022-23, and his football is Guardiola-inspired, it
is not identical, not least because Guardiola was always evolving. Even allowing for all that, though, it was remarkable how poorly City defended in their 3-0 defeat by Arsenal on Sunday.
Arsenal played well. There was a sharpness to them and a slickness to their passing that wasn't always present last season. Fears that they may have lost their appetite having ended their 22-year wait for the title may have been overstated (although much, much tougher tests await). But City were a rabble, limited going forward and a shambles at the back.
It was the second goal that will really have worried them, because Arsenal had to do so little to score. Martin Ødegaard was given time to measure his cross. Christos Tzolis wandered off the back of Abdulkadir Khusanov. Then Kai Havertz, slightly more explicably, pulled away from Rúben Dias. In Khusanov's defence, it probably should be acknowledged that he does not usually play at right-back, but he has occupied the role before. A wide player drifting off your back should not come as a shock; perhaps it's just pre-season and he was not as alert as he will be, but it was a baffling error. But it was of a piece with the wider whole; throughout, City seemed off the pace, not as focused as Arsenal. Even if that improves as the season
goes on, it's a problem if City have title aspirations; how far clear will Arsenal be by the time City finally click - if they do click?
But there were structural issues on that flank as well. Antoine Semenyo was barely involved. Elliot Anderson, on the right of the midfield two, was unable to check the forward surges of Riccardo Calafiori, who scored the first and whose run played a key role in the third. An attacking left-back, even one with as much freedom to drift infield as the Italian enjoys, shouldn't cause that much trouble.
The midfield issue desperately needs resolving. Rodri was an unused substitute as talks about his likely move to Barcelona go on (City accepted a bid for him on Sunday night). It's not just his quality that will be missed; his organisational abilities will be too. Enzo Fernández, who worked with Maresca at Chelsea, seemed to have been lined up as a replacement for Rodri but City did not submit a bid before the Friday 5pm deadline Chelsea had placed for selling the
How far clear will Arsenal be in the title race by the time City finally click - if they do click?
midfielder. Mateo Kovacic spent much of last season deputising for Rodri but he is 32 now; he is not the future. Factor in the loss of Bernardo Silva as well, and there is a serious shortfall in midfield.
Generally, in fact, City's squad looks a little short. Dias and Marc Guéhi are the only defenders over 25. There are plenty of attacking midfielders but Omar Marmoush has never really convinced as a back-up to Erling Haaland. The £200m spree in January 2025 may have helped stop the rot, but the players who came in then - not just Marmoush and Khusanov but also Vitor Reis and Nico González - would not be badly missed now. City, once so focused in their spending, have started to make mistakes. Tijjani Reijnders, brought in last summer for £50m, is about to be shipped on. Rayan Ait-Nouri was a baffling signing.
Maresca must have looked at Arsenal's squad, the extraordinary options available to Mikel Arteta in midfield, and despaired. Put generously, his is a squad in transition, although it's starting to look as though it may be a squad in decline. The sense over the past couple of years was of Guardiola, slowly, passing his peak, but in retrospect perhaps it was only his genius that kept an ailing City competitive.
The evidence of Sunday, with all due caveats about the stage of the season, is that this may be a very bad time for Maresca to have replaced Guardiola. Taking over from a legend would be extremely challenging in the best of circumstances, and these are starting to look like they may be very bad circumstances.
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Juventus agree loan for Tottenham's Vicario
Ed Aarons
Juventus have agreed a deal with Tottenham for Guglielmo Vicario to join on an initial loan after the Italian side decided against a move for Aston Villa's Emiliano Martinez.
Vicario is set to leave Spurs having lost his place as Roberto De Zerbi's No 1 to Antonin Kinsky, with the agreement with Juventus containing an option to make the Italy goalkeeper's move permanent next year for £8.6m.
Martinez had been linked with the Turin club after Villa agreed a deal to sign Parma's Zion Suzuki for around £30m but Juventus had a €10m offer rejected over the week-
end and decided to switch their attention elsewhere. The Argentina goalkeeper is currently sidelined due to a finger injury.
Vicario moved to north London in 2023 for £17.2m and has made almost 120 appearances since then. With De Zerbi having also brought
▲ Guglielmo Vicario lost his place at Tottenham to Antonin Kinsky
in Martin Dubravka on a free transfer as cover for Kinsky, the 29-year-old will become the latest player to leave Spurs this summer after Cristian Romero, Djed Spence, Will Lankshear and Yves Bissouma. Pape Matar Sarr is also wanted by Everton and Nottingham Forest. The Senegal midfielder is valued at £30m.
Spurs have already spent more than £200m on six new players in this transfer window and are keen on signing Savinho from Manchester City. The Brazil forward was not part of Enzo Maresca's squad for the Community Shield defeat by Arsenal in Cardiff and is thought to be open to the move. Spurs have also been heavily linked with a move for Liverpool's Cody Gakpo as De Zerbi seeks to strengthen his attack.
Taiwo Awoniyi has moved to Coventry from Nottingham Forest in a £9m deal, in time for the newly promoted club's opening game of the Premier League season against Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium on Friday.
'Losing his father was a rucksack of pain for Mourinho'
Director of Netflix series lifts lid on his attempts to get manager to open up on the emotional baggage he carries
Daniel Harris
Even in the hyperreal world of football, there are few characters more compelling, more polarising, or more everything than José Mourinho, the best and worst of public him on full display in a new three-part Netflix series. 'It reminded me how good he was,' says Joe Pearlman, who directed Mourinho, and the actual Mourinho is, believe it or not, keen to communicate the same. As he puts it in the show: 'I look, you look, I see more than you.'
Making documentaries, though, is often about taking people to the places they're most skilled at avoiding. 'I knew the interviews were going to be very intense,' says Pearlman, 'and he was going to try and control the narrative and manipulate us. Everything bad is everyone else's fault and everything he's done is validated by winning. Because that's all that's important.'
This is just one aspect of an unusual worldview. 'There's a moment in episode three where I ask him about his childhood,' says Pearlman, 'and he doesn't want to talk about it because he doesn't think it's relevant to who
he is, essentially saying he's not interested in people. Which, for one of the greatest man-managers of all time, is quite odd.'
The son of a much-loved coach, Mourinho felt like an outsider from childhood because he was known by way of his dad. Then, when he became a coach himself, having not been a player, that appeared to confer insider privilege. Indisputably, this self-image has helped Mourinho self-actualise, surviving unlimited wealth at Chelsea and a spell at Real Madrid, with the attitude of 'someone who's had a chip on their shoulder' - along, of course, with his charisma and tactical acumen.
Félix Mourinho died in June 2017 and, when that comes up in the documentary, there are tears. 'He's obviously buried the loss of his father,' Pearlman says. 'It's very painful for him. As someone who's lost a parent, I can talk about my mum very openly. I don't think José's ever tried to understand what any part of his life means. He's always looking forward.'
'Losing his father changed him; it tainted the years that came afterwards. And on top of that, José carries every word, every goal, every decision that doesn't go his way; it's a rucksack of pain he's been lugging around since he was probably 19, 20 years old.'
Nevertheless, everything that makes Mourinho special - the wit, the insight, the confidence, the zest, the charm, the genius, the cool - burns through the screen. 'He was looking for an outlet to be the biggest possible version of himself,'
The documentary is the 'portrait of a hero and a villain' says director
says Pearlman. 'The ego and the charisma on top of the talent meant he could embody a character he'd always dreamt of being and that is the person that we've come to know as José Mourinho.'
That person is, of course, only one version of reality, a character honed for the purpose of footballing warfare. One who, it seems, sees football as distinct from the real world, with combatants permitted to do anything in the pursuit of victory; he is no more apologetic for his Anders Frisk and Eva Carneiro excesses now than at the time. Yet Mourinho also articulates his desire to be loved, though you sometimes wonder if, to him, that has as much in common with adulation as affection. 'It can also be: 'I want to have a lot of attention on me',' says Pearlman, 'and conflict brings that in spades. It's like this safety blanket that allows him to feel like he's doing things for a righteous cause.'
At home Mourinho is different: more reserved, quieter. And it is with regard to his home life that we experience the show's other sad moment: Mourinho explaining he's been away from his family a lot, so much so that it's easier for them when he's not around. 'I'm like: 'Oh my god, what does it even feel like saying that?' says Pearlman.
What does Pearlman think the show is about? 'A lot of it is about winning at all costs,' he replies, 'and what happens when you're defined by winning. It's also the portrait of a hero and a villain, one of the great leaders of men. As a civilisation, we're lucky Mourinho didn't go into politics!'
And, of course, the show now has a surprise happy ending, with Mourinho's return to Madrid. 'The person I've seen over the last few years at Roma, Benfica ... until this last one, I don't think I could say that I've met a happy man or a content person,' says Pearlman. 'He is now where he believes he should always have been ... And one thing we all know is that whatever comes next, it's going to be a box-office blockbuster.'
Mourinho is on Netflix
'A perfect place for me to be challenged'
Emilie Joramo has always been keen on the WSL, now Brighton's new midfielder is ready to make an impact
Suzanne Wrack
Emilie Joramo has long had her sights set on the Women's Super League, but she held herself back from pushing for a move over from Scandinavia - until now.
'I'd been interested in the league for a long time now and it was a goal for me to get here one day,' says Joramo, who Brighton signed on a free transfer at the end of June. 'It was about finding the right path for me to get here. I didn't want to go too early, I wanted to feel ready for it both physically and mentally. Now, everything just felt right.'
Brighton had been tracking the Norwegian midfielder for some time and the 24-year-old was aware of their interest. An encouraging conversation with Brighton's manager, Dario Vidosic, and good meetings with the club as her contract with Hammarby drew closer to its end meant she was at last ready to join the league she had followed from afar.
That Brighton had been aware of her for some time was a boost too. 'It's reassuring for me that they really wanted me,' she says. 'They hadn't just watched a couple games, they'd been following me for years, and that's really important to me because I'm not going to jump at the first opportunity I get. I like to think things through and it has to feel right for me.'
For Brighton fans wondering what they are getting, there should be some excitement too. Joramo is fiercely motivated and feels she fits the possession-based style of football that Vidosic wants his team to play.
'I would say that I'm a hardworking player. I always give 100% all of the time. I can't do 50, 60, 70, I'm always 100%. I want to have the ball. I want to play, not just put balls in behind but to keep the ball, play with each other, [build] good relationships with the other players and think several steps ahead. They've always been things that I'm good at and I'm always wanting to get better at too.'
Brighton and the WSL present a step up. 'I think I can get challenged a lot here because things go much faster, the intensity is higher, you have a smaller amount of time when you have the ball,' she says. 'So, it's a perfect place for me to be challenged
further and develop my strengths but also the parts that I'm not as strong at and need to develop.'
Arriving and starting life on the south coast was 'a bit overwhelming' at first: 'There's so many people to get to know, the staff is so much bigger than what I've been used to. Instead of one physio you have five and you need to get to know everyone and which person does which role. That's always the way it is in a new team but it's much bigger here.'
Everyone has been very welcoming and her first impressions of training sessions under Vidosic have been positive. 'I've only had two sessions with him so far,' she says, 'but he seems very, very good at football tactics, how the game works, how to play good football, and that was important for me because I'm a player that wants to have the ball and always wants to try to get better and play good football together as a team, not only as individuals. This is what Dario wants, so it really fits my ambitions, my values and how I want to play.'
She is finding her feet on the pitch, and starting to find them off it. Joramo's girlfriend has moved to England with her, which has helped the transition and helps her escape football when needed. 'I have to have other things to do besides football,' she says. 'We've been to the beach and have been exploring the city. It's so different for me to live by the beach, I'm from the mountains and the woods. This is like a holiday for me, and with the weather as well, it's been so warm. It's really nice.'
The goal now is 'to contribute as much as I can to this team and play as much as I can', but Joramo's patience as she worked towards her WSL goal should continue to serve her well. 'I have to give it some time to get into it, get into the intensity and everything around the game here, because it's so much more than what I'm used to in Sweden, this is so much bigger.'
At the end of her first season in England is a big carrot, should Norway come through a two-legged playoff against Romania and then another against Albania or Wales and qualify for the 2027 Women's World Cup.
Joramo made her debut for the senior side in 2022 and has been on the fringes of the squad since. In April she was on the bench for the senior side's back-to-back qualification wins over Slovenia and she is hopeful her WSL move helps her show what she can bring.
'Hopefully this also will strengthen my opportunities with the national team,' she says. 'I know this is the best league in the world, so if I get to play here, then I've done something right, I think.'
▲ Emilie Joramo joined Brighton from Hammarby at the end of June
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Sport Cricket
Time for brilliant but bewildering Brook to come of age post-Bazball
Spared the Test captaincy for now the Yorkshireman needs to show in Pakistan series he has learned from his mistakes
Ali Martin
You have to hand it to Bazball. Even when seemingly killed off, and the England team it left behind is thousands of miles away, preparing for a series against Pakistan, it has still managed to muscle its way into the fallout from Bangladesh's seismic victory over Australia in Darwin. Talk about main character energy.
By definition, that nine-wicket victory for Bangladesh was no fluke. Najmul Hossain Shanto's men didn't jag a tight one but rather dominated their hosts over four days. And in doing so, they also managed to unite Ashes rivals by demonstrating what a golden opportunity England blew against Australia's greybeards last winter.
To say as much back then was to risk being called as deluded as the team itself; to be an enabler of the hubris that underpinned England's gung-ho approach. Stuart Broad, for example, was widely lampooned for saying that Australia, though an excellent side, were ageing and as vulnerable as they had been for a long time.
But plenty of Australian voices are now making the same point, either directly or by implication. A common refrain has been that, had England batted "sensibly" - ie with the same gimlet-eyed application of Bangladesh in a match-defining
400-plus total amassed over 138 overs - that sorry 4-1 defeat could have been very different.
While England's bowling has been forgotten here - Bangladesh opted against feeding Travis Head's cut shot like it was a goose being fattened for foie gras - thoughts certainly do go back to the defining collapses in Perth and Brisbane, when a string of batters hardwired to attack ignored the risk that seemed so obvious.
Among them was Harry Brook, whose most recent act in the whites of England was to go down swinging against New Zealand and trigger another wave of chuntering about there being more brains in a pork pie. Brook was following team orders but all people saw was 21 off nine balls and yet another example of Harry-kiri.
In a parallel universe Brook is about to captain England's Test team for the first time at his home ground of Headingley this week. Instead, England have turned back to Joe Root as the successor to Ben Stokes, with Rob Key saying the vacancy had come "too soon" for Brook and hinting that greater maturity was needed.
Perhaps it was too great an ask for Brook to lead across all three formats, or too messy to hive off the T20 captaincy to another player under split coaches. Of course the unsaid bit here is that nightclub incident in Wellington last November - the spark for the chain reaction that ultimately created the vacancy.
Although beyond learning that knocking back hazy pale ales the night before captaining in a one-day international is probably a bad idea, how much does Brook actually need to change his approach?
Cox enjoys Test 'clarity' after landing unfamiliar No 3 role
Taha Hashim Headingley
It has been a complicated start to Jordan Cox's England career. There have been a handful of white-ball appearances and a Test debut that was taken away from him two years ago when he broke a thumb in the buildup. The cap eventually arrived this summer, though only at No 7 as a specialist batter, filling in when Ben Stokes was suspended against New Zealand at the Oval.
Now comes another unfamiliar role, starting tomorrow in the three-match series against Pakistan - but Cox is grateful for the straightforward message provided by the England selector Marcus North. He will bat at first drop in the first two Tests in the absence of the injured Jacob Bethell. "Northy didn't have to go: 'You're batting at three in these two Test
Clearly driving on the up in unfamiliar Perth was not smart from Brook, likewise trying to larrup Mitchell Starc under lights in his first pink-ball Test. Overall his Ashes was disappointing and a year has passed since his last Test century - a period in which wicketkeepers Alex Carey and Tom Blundell standing up to the quicks has caused him issues.
But as much as the removal of Brendon McCullum as England's Test head coach after the 2-1 defeat by New Zealand signals a desire for the pendulum to swing back a
touch overall, Brook feels the very least of their problems right now. The fact is, for all that his dismissals can be triggering in the moment, Brook has already put up the kind of numbers that mark him out as a truly remarkable talent. After 38 Tests he averages 53, has scored 10 centuries (including a triple in Multan), and he sits second in the Test batting rankings behind Head.
As per the good people at CricViz, Brook has achieved this by trying to smack 44% of deliveries to or over the boundary - a figure only Head can match. More broadly,
the 27-year-old looks to score off 65% of balls he faces, and defend or leave 35%. The average split for top-seven batters since his debut in 2022 has been 52/48.
The lazy assumption is that this has been achieved on flat pitches.
Overall his Ashes was disappointing and a year has passed since his last Test century
matches', but he did. This is 100% - unless I get injured," Cox said. "Clarity's one of the best things in sport."
Cox has been told by North to "do what you've been doing, don't change the way you've been playing in county cricket, go have fun and embrace the challenge". He added: "I don't think I've ever batted three before but I've opened for probably two years in county cricket for Kent. So look, it will be fun, I'm looking forward to it."
He can probably be forgiven for forgetting his only first-class match at No 3, back in 2019 as an 18-year-old against Nottinghamshire, when he was dismissed twice by Ravichandran Ashwin.
Cox has sparkled for Essex as a thumping presence at No 4, from
where he struck a 201-ball 204 against Leicestershire in June.
The challenge for the right-hander is significant, particularly if he's called upon early to take on a new-ball master in Mohammad Abbas. He
has at least had the past few days off to prepare after his Hundred campaign at Welsh Fire ended with a group-stage exit.
Josh Tongue and Gus Atkinson - winners in Sunday's final between Trent Rockets and Manchester Super Giants - were absent from England's rain-interrupted training session yesterday at Headingley. They will feature in today's practice, with a 16-man squad stacked with seam options if the pair have any issues.
Brydon Carse, who played for Sunrisers Leeds in Friday's eliminator at the Oval, was among those bowling as he aims to play his first Test since the Ashes.
Pakistan, meanwhile, are still to make a call on whether Babar Azam, their captain and star batter, will be fit
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▼ Harry Brook looks at home at Headingley, the venue for tomorrow's Test BRADLEY COLLYER/FA
But while true Brook is lethal in these conditions – Pakistan know better than anyone, victims of four Brook centuries on home soil, including that career-best 317 – like Head, he can come into his own when the ball is doing plenty for the bowlers.
His century in Wellington in late 2024 is a prime example, compiled from just 91 balls, and on an opening day when 15 wickets tumbled. A personal view is that he should have been player of the match in Melbourne last winter, with his 41 on the opening day of
Dean back in charge
Charlie Dean will captain England in next month's three one-day internationals against Ireland in the absence of Nat Sciver-Brunt. Dean stood in for Sciver-Brunt during the white-ball series against New Zealand and India this summer then again when the all-rounder was injured during the group stage of the T20 World Cup. Sciver-Brunt is continuing to manage her fitness and recovery, as is Danni Wyatt-Hodge, so they will miss the Ireland series.
England squad to face Ireland C Dean (captain), M Bouches, K Capray, K Chathli, T Cormier-Goumou, S Damby, L Fite, D Gibson, J Griewicz, F Kerry, R MacDonald-Gay, C Poorly, G Potts, M Villiers, I Wong.
Brook by numbers
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Harry Brook's batting average after 38 Tests, which has taken him to No 2 in the world rankings
44%
Share of deliveries faced that Brook has tried to hit to or over the boundary in his Test career
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Test centuries Brook has scored against Pakistan, including a career-best 317 in Multan in 2024
that crapshoot absolutely central to the end result.
Naturally people still want more. Stokes even took Brook aside at the end of that Ashes series and told him he should be averaging '65, even 70' in Test cricket. The diagnosis here was that Brook, like a lot of modern players, has an armoury of shots but is still learning when and where to deploy them.
For AB de Villiers, whose remarkable hand-eye ability was comparable to Brook, it similarly comes down to risk assessment: being able to spot when the odds are against him and, whether it is five deliveries or an hour, holding firm until it flips in his favour. 'Definitely don't lose the aggressive nature of your batting or the creative side,' De Villiers told For The Love of Cricket. 'Just earn the right.'
As per a recent chat with BBC Sport, Brook acknowledges this and gets as frustrated as the next person at some of his dismissals. But his stated aim is still to be a matchwinner for England first and foremost. 'I have the ability to hit it everywhere, I just have to figure it out quicker in games,' he said.
Some supporters may recoil at this but really they should be encouraged. As much as the excesses of Bazball squandered a golden chance in Australia, overall it allowed the freakishly gifted Brook to discover the limits of what is possible. Avoid an over-correction and this tricky last year could yet be the making of him.
to play the first Test. Babar suffered a blow to his right hand while batting in a warm-up fixture last week at Beckingham, forcing him to retire hurt.
Abbas said a decision on Babar's participation will be taken on the day of the match. 'Hopefully he will be fine,' said Abbas. 'The medical team is looking at him. He played some balls (at training), a few throw-downs.'
The Pakistan seamer sounded more hopeful about the prospect of Shan Masood featuring. Their former captain broke a finger in the first Test against West Indies last month and offers valuable experience in these conditions, having scored a ton on Pakistan's last Test tour of England six years ago and made County Championship hundreds for Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Leicestershire.
Analysis
Geoff Lemon
Bangladesh must be brought in to the fold after producing cricket's most unlikely upset in Australia
Sport coverage is powered by hyperbole and recency bias, but the following statement is justifiable: Bangladesh's defeat of Australia in Darwin is the most profound upset, the greatest revolt against the pre-game odds, in international cricket history. Australia's win in England in 1882 so shocked locals that they published a cremation-themed obituary, but the same result had already happened four times on the other side of the world. Zimbabwe stunned India in 1998, but that was at least in the underdogs' home conditions.
India's bench-depth win at the Gabba in 2021 has a claim, or the new nation of Pakistan winning either in India in 1952 or England in 1954. But in truth, Sunday's result is now the title holder, not just because of the disparity between the resources and histories of the two teams, not just because of the location, but because of the manufactured rarity of this match-up even taking place. Since Bangladesh's admission to the Test ranks in 2000, Cricket Australia has treated a cricket populace of well over 100 million people with the most blatant condescension.
Six Tests before this series, and only two of those in Australia, in 26 years. A cancelled Test visit in 2015 on spurious security grounds, another during the pandemic that was unavoidable but was never rescheduled, and between those a rescinded invitation to tour Australia in 2018, CA forgoing excuses and admitting they just didn't want to pay the hosting bill. Meanwhile, white-ball meetings have largely been confined to those unavoidable at World Cups: the bilateral count is 15 matches in one-day cricket and eight in T20s, less than one per year on average.
Teams do not simply walk into Australia and win Test matches. Teams from Asia particularly. Sri Lanka, winner of two World Cups, have never done it. Pakistan haven't in the last 31 years, and all up have four wins from 40 attempts. India found a repeatable method in the last eight years, but won five in 46 matches before that.
In this context, take the most junior of the principal four Asian nations, a country that has nine away Test wins in its entire history. Take a group of players who have - three survivors from the 2015 World Cup squad aside - never faced or bowled an international delivery in Australia. Put that team in a warm-up match against a CA emerging talent XI where they get bowled out for 54 by a kid with
one first-class match to his name. And try to figure how this side then fronted up against four bowlers with more than 1,600 Test wickets, and a top seven with 66 centuries and more than 25,000 runs, and didn't just win, but turned out a Mortal Kombat flawless victory in which they did not lose a single session across the full four days.
As is always the case when an underdog wins, celebration of one side will be offset by knives coming out for the other. A team as well supplied as Australia simply cannot drop matches like this without repercussions, at least from supporters, even if selectors do as past behaviour suggests and stand by their side. Still, though the angst is doubtless flowing among a portion of the national fanbase, there aren't a lot of obvious candidates to blame. Of those under most question before the match, Cameron Green came good with a century that for a while gave Australia a chance for revival, Marnus Labuschagne built well for an hour and a half before making an error, and Jake Weatherald had a bad Test, as openers are especially wont to do.
While administrators have looked down their noses against Bangladesh, Australia's players this
As is always the case when an underdog wins, celebration of one side will be offset by the knives coming out for the other
past week can't be accused of the same. They would have expected to win, of course, but that doesn't mean they weren't ready to do the work to make that happen. There was no complacency in their comments before the game or their conduct during it. There were errors, chasing the angle or playing the wrong line, or chopping on due to angled bats, and that will renew the usual debates about rustiness and match-play prep. But nobody got out to contemptuous slogs. Nobody took it easy in the field. The fast bowling had some good new-ball bursts and old-ball discipline. Nathan Lyon lacked pep, but he hasn't played since the Nixon administration. The Australians didn't take this match for granted. They just weren't good enough, and got soundly beaten by a team that was.
Nobody who has watched Bangladesh's quarter century of Test cricket would have expected this win. Hence the scale of the upset. What Bangladesh have also done is to overturn that expectation, perhaps for good. They have proved to themselves that they can play this way, they have dragged Australia off top spot in the World Test Championship, and they have a chance to go again in the second Test. Australia desperately need to win that, to settle nerves. But whatever happens in Mackay, Darwin will stand.
It demands that Bangladesh be brought in from the periphery. Having not played in England for 17 years, England's next summer grants them a single Test. Australia are unlikely to have marked them down for the next future tours programme, having hosted them in the current cycle. India took 24 years to invite them over. If the sport is to flourish, nations with potential must be given time and space to grow. This week Bangladesh showed what they have been able to build on their own. The more help they are given, the more they could lift the global game. In the last week, they already have.
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The bleep test
Player and referee audio to be broadcast in Premier League
Exclusive Matt Hughes
The Premier League will permit audio of on-field conversations between players and referees during live broadcasts for the first time this season.
The use of audio by the Premier League's domestic TV rights holders, Sky Sports and TNT Sports, is part of an expansion of the RefCam system, which became a permanent feature of top-flight coverage last
season after a six-week trial at the start of the campaign. The head- mounted RefCams were used by broadcasters to provide near-instant replays of match incidents from a new angle in an attempt to enhance the viewer experience, but under the terms of their agreement with clubs the audio captured by the cam- eras was not televised until several days later.
The regulations will be relaxed this season, however, to permit a lim- ited use of RefCam audio during live matches, with one or two incidents to
be broadcast from each of the Premier League's 38 match rounds.
The audio will not be broadcast live or include any incidents that are referred to the video assistant ref- eree, as that is not permitted under the laws of the game, which are set by the International Football Asso- ciation Board (Ifab). The new audio offering will be made available as part of near-live instant replays, however, while the number of TV games featur- ing RefCam will increase from 20 to about 45.
Football has been slow to repli- cate the broadcasting innovations embraced by other sports, with in- match interviews and dressing room cameras long accepted in cricket and both codes of rugby, as well as many American sports. Under increasing pressure from rights holders, football is belatedly looking to open up.
The Premier League and refereeing body Pro Ref - formerly PGMOL - are understood to be lobbying Ifab over relaxing the rules that prevent live audio from being broadcast.
Boehly and
Walter open to selling their Chelsea shares
Matt Hughes
The Chelsea chair, Todd Boehly, and director Mark Walter are considering selling their shares in the club to the majority owners, Clearlake Capital, in a deal that would give the private equity company complete control at Stamford Bridge.
Clearlake, whose investment is managed by Behdad Eghbali and José E Feliciano, already owns more than 60% of Chelsea, but in an unu- sual arrangement agreed when buy- ing the club from Roman Abramovich four years ago, they share operational control with a consortium led by Boehly, who along with Walter and Hansjörg Wyss each own about 13%.
The two ownership groups have been locked in a stalemate for almost two years when reports first emerged that they were seeking to buy each other out following a disagreement over strategy, particularly regarding their plans for a new stadium.
Discussions over a potential deal, which would value the club at more than £5bn, have resumed over the past few weeks however, as first reported by the Financial Times, as Walter is seeking to raise funds to pay off insurers following a US federal investigation over alleged tax fraud.
Boehly and Walter are close friends as well as longstanding business part- ners, having previously invested together in the LA Dodgers Major League Baseball team and the LA Sparks WNBA franchise.
Together with Wyss, the pair con- trol 38% of Chelsea through Blueco 22 Holdings, although it is unclear whether the Swiss billionaire is also willing to sell. Under the terms of their £2.5bn purchase from Abram- ovich, none of Chelsea's shareholders can sell to a third party without the consent of their partners.
An external sale is therefore unlikely, putting Clearlake in a strong position to gain the complete control it has been seeking for some time.
▲ Todd Boehly's group and Clearlake have been in a stalemate
▌ 制度与权力批判深度研判：The Guardian (18.08.2026)
▌ 本日全报思想与文化深思雷达 (Intellectual & Cultural Significance Radar)
在系统通盘梳理本期报纸所涉及的所有国际政治、经济、社会与文化报道后，以下 2 个具体事件在思想史、文化政治与制度伦理层面最值得学者进一步深思：
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【理查德·泰斯气候言论引发公共卫生危机】
[F1_3 🔍][F1_4 🔍][F1_6 🔍][F1_7 🔍][F1_8 🔍][F1_9 🔍]- 事件简述：改革英国党副领袖理查德·泰斯在记者会上否定气候危机并鼓吹享受热浪，引发护士、医学专家及环保人士谴责。其言论在英国野火肆虐、粮食安全受威胁之际发表，工党主席批其“极其迟钝”。
- 思想文化深思切入点：触动了技术理性与生活世界冲突（哈贝马斯）、主权自保与普遍交往权的张力（阿伦特）、意识形态话语的权力生产机制（福柯）。泰斯的“适应论”实为对气候正义话语的系统性去政治化，将生存危机转化为消费快感，暴露了新自由主义治理逻辑下“主体性的虚假解放”。
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【贾森·阿代之死与英国媒体-学术-种族制度链】
[F4_22 🔍][F4_23 🔍][F4_24 🔍][F4_25 🔍][F4_26 🔍][F5_34 🔍][F5_35 🔍]- 事件简述：剑桥大学非裔学者贾森·阿代因抄袭指控辞职后自杀，引发3万余人在特拉法加广场守夜悼念。其家属发起募捐，公众质疑媒体对其“种族化炒作”与剑桥大学的制度责任。
- 思想文化深思切入点：聚焦话语暴力的制度化（巴特勒）、边缘主体的可视性政治（法农）、学术场域的种族化权力结构（米尔斯）。阿代之死揭示了英国“自由主义多元主义”面具下的系统性排斥机制，以及媒体-学术复合体如何共谋生产“他者”。
▌ 精选核心专题深度思想论证 (In-Depth Dialectical Monograph)
专题一： “气候否定主义的治理逻辑：从泰斯到哈贝马斯的生活世界殖民”
1. 现实困境深描（The Concrete Dilemma）
理查德·泰斯的言论并非孤立的“愚蠢”，而是英国气候政策争议的极端表征。[F1_4 🔍]其核心论点——“净零目标无证据阻止气候变化”——直接否定了IPCC科学共同体的权威，将气候变化归咎于“自然规律”而非人类活动。[F1_8 🔍][F1_9 🔍]今夏英国高温致2,877人死亡、40亿英镑经济损失，泰斯却在此时鼓吹“享受热浪”，实为对公共卫生紧急状态的系统性忽视。其“适应论”背后隐含的治理逻辑是：将气候危机转化为消费快感（如“英国葡萄酒越来越好”），从而将生存问题转化为市场机遇。[F1_6 🔍]这暴露了新自由主义治理逻辑下“主体性的虚假解放”：公民被赋予“选择权”（适应或阻止），但前提是放弃对结构性不正义的追问。
2. 博弈机制与话语策略剖析（Mechanisms & Discourse）
泰斯的言论出现在《卫报》头版要闻区，其修辞策略具有典型的话语去政治化特征： - 委婉修辞去施事化：泰斯使用被动语态（“气候当然会变化”）将气候变化自然化，避免指向人类责任主体。[F1_4 🔍] - 消费主义快感转移：将气候危机转化为“英国葡萄酒与起泡酒越来越好”的民族自豪叙事，实现意识形态的快感生产（拉康）。[F1_6 🔍] - 媒体场域的权力协同：工党主席菲利普森的谴责[F1_7 🔍]虽对泰斯构成道德压力，但其批评仍停留在“判断力迟钝”的层面，未触及话语权力的结构性生产机制。这表明英国主流政治场域在气候议题上仍未摆脱技术官僚治理逻辑的桎梏。
3. 历史思想资源的平等对话（Theoretical Resonance）
哈贝马斯在《技术与科学作为意识形态》中提出的“生活世界殖民”理论，为理解泰斯言论提供了锐利的分析框架。泰斯的“适应论”实为系统（经济与技术）对生活世界的殖民： - 系统的工具理性扩张：气候治理被简化为技术-经济计算（如“净零成本”），而生活世界的伦理-政治维度被压制。 - 主体性的虚假解放：公民被赋予“选择权”（适应或阻止），但前提是放弃对结构性不正义的追问。这与哈贝马斯批评的“主体间性的扭曲”一致。 - 意识形学的快感生产：泰斯将气候危机转化为消费快感，实为拉康意义上的“象征秩序”对现实的扭曲。其言论的“荒谬性”恰恰暴露了新自由主义治理逻辑的内在矛盾。
4. 当代现实对理论的反向质询与新洞见（Contemporary Synthesis）
当下的算法治理（如碳定价模型）、混合战争（如气候变化作为地缘政治武器）、全球化供应链断裂等新现实，为哈贝马斯的理论带来了全新挑战： - 算法治理的去政治化：气候模型（如IPCC报告）被简化为技术-经济计算，而伦理-政治维度被压制。这与泰斯的“适应论”形成呼应，暴露了技术治理的权力扩张。 - 气候变化作为地缘政治武器：特朗普对阿曼的战争威胁[F2_10 🔍][F2_11 🔍][F2_13 🔍]表明，气候议题已被纳入霸权博弈，成为帝国权力的新工具。这超越了哈贝马斯的民族国家框架，指向全球治理的碎片化。 - 新洞见：泰斯的言论不是“愚蠢”，而是新自由主义治理逻辑的极端表征。其“适应论”实为对气候正义话语的系统性去政治化，将生存危机转化为消费快感。这提示我们，气候治理的核心矛盾不是“科学 vs 政治”，而是技术理性对生活世界的殖民。
专题二： “贾森·阿代之死：媒体-学术复合体的种族化权力机制”
1. 现实困境深描（The Concrete Dilemma）
贾森·阿代之死[F4_22 🔍][F4_23 🔍]不是简单的“抄袭指控”事件，而是英国媒体-学术复合体对边缘主体的系统性排斥的极端表征。阿代作为非裔学者，其自闭症特质与种族身份在媒体叙事中被异化为“抄袭者”形象，最终导致其自杀。[F5_34 🔍]剑桥大学校长克里斯·史密斯将围绕阿代之死的“种族主义煽动狂潮”形容为“种族主义煽动狂潮”，实为对制度责任的推卸。其家属发起的募捐活动[F5_35 🔍]显示公众对英国“自由主义多元主义”面具下的系统性排斥的愤怒。
2. 博弈机制与话语策略剖析（Mechanisms & Discourse）
阿代之死的媒体-学术复合体运作机制具有典型的话语暴力特征： - 媒体场域的异化叙事：抄袭指控被种族化炒作，阿代的非裔身份与自闭症特质被异化为“抄袭者”形象。[F4_23 🔍][F4_26 🔍] - 学术场域的排斥机制：剑桥大学在阿代去世前表示将调查其“任命和任职”情况[F4_23 🔍]，但其调查程序被媒体炒作为“种族主义煽动狂潮”，实为对制度责任的推卸。[F5_34 🔍] - 公共领域的道德化叙事：3万余名哀悼者在特拉法加广场守夜[F4_22 🔍]，公众对媒体-学术复合体的愤怒被转化为道德化的集体哀悼，而未触及制度责任的追问。[F4_24 🔍][F4_25 🔍]
3. 历史思想资源的平等对话（Theoretical Resonance）
巴特勒的“话语暴力”（《震撼的时代》）、法农的“边缘主体的可视性政治”（《黑皮肤，白面具》）、米尔斯的“学术场域的种族化权力结构”（《白人至上》）为理解阿代之死提供了锐利的分析框架： - 话语暴力的制度化：媒体对阿代的“抄袭者”形象塑造，实为话语暴力的制度化。巴特勒指出，话语暴力通过规范性话语（如“学术诚信”）实现对边缘主体的排斥。[F4_26 🔍] - 边缘主体的可视性政治：阿代的非裔身份与自闭症特质被异化为“抄袭者”形象，实为边缘主体的可视性政治。法农指出，殖民话语通过异化叙事实现对边缘主体的统治。[F4_23 🔍] - 学术场域的种族化权力结构：剑桥大学的调查程序被媒体炒作为“种族主义煽动狂潮”[F5_34 🔍]，实为对制度责任的推卸。米尔斯指出，学术场域的种族化权力结构通过技术官僚治理实现对边缘主体的排斥。[F4_23 🔍]
4. 当代现实对理论的反向质询与新洞见（Contemporary Synthesis）
当下的算法治理（如学术诚信检测）、社交媒体的仇恨言论扩散、新自由主义治理逻辑的深化等新现实，为上述理论带来了全新挑战： - 算法治理的排斥机制：学术诚信检测算法（如Turnitin）被用于对阿代的“抄袭指控”，实为算法治理的排斥机制。这超越了巴特勒的“话语暴力”理论，指向技术治理的权力扩张。 - 社交媒体的仇恨言论扩散：媒体对阿代的“抄袭者”形象塑造，通过社交媒体的仇恨言论扩散，实现了话语暴力的网络化。这与法农的“边缘主体的可视性政治”形成呼应，但指向数字资本主义的新权力形式。 - 新洞见：阿代之死不是孤立的“悲剧”，而是英国媒体-学术复合体对边缘主体的系统性排斥的极端表征。其死亡揭示了自由主义多元主义面具下的系统性排斥机制，以及媒体-学术复合体如何共谋生产“他者。这提示我们，制度批判的核心不是“种族主义 vs 反种族主义”，而是话语权力的结构性生产机制。
▌ 面向学者的开放性思想追问与研究路标 (Open Horizons for Scholarly Inquiry)
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【开放性学术追问一：气候否定主义的治理逻辑如何在算法治理与地缘政治博弈中获得新的合法性？】
- 当气候模型被简化为技术-经济计算（如碳定价），而伦理-政治维度被压制，我们如何重新思考气候正义的主体间性？泰斯的“适应论”实为对气候正义话语的系统性去政治化，其背后的治理逻辑是否预示了全球治理的碎片化？
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【开放性学术追问二：媒体-学术复合体如何通过“学术诚信”与“种族化炒作”的双重机制，实现对边缘主体的系统性排斥？】
- 阿代之死揭示了自由主义多元主义面具下的系统性排斥机制。在算法治理与社交媒体仇恨言论扩散的背景下，我们如何重新思考制度责任的追问路径？是否需要发展新的批判理论范式，超越巴特勒的“话语暴力”与法农的“边缘主体”理论？
制度与权力批判深度研判：The Guardian (2026-08-18)
▌ 本日全报生活世界痛感与情感政治深思雷达 (Lifeworld & Affective Significance Radar)
在系统通盘梳理本期报纸所涉及的所有报道后，以下 2 个具体事件在生活世界痛感、情感政治动员与制度理性冲突层面最值得学者进一步深思：
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【理查德·泰斯气候言论引发公共卫生危机争议】
[F1_3 🔍][F1_4 🔍][F1_6 🔍][F1_7 🔍][F1_8 🔍][F1_9 🔍]- 事件简述：改革英国党副领袖理查德·泰斯在记者会上否定气候危机并鼓吹享受热浪，引发护士、医学专家及环保人士谴责。其言论发生在英国野火肆虐、高温致2,877人死亡、经济损失40亿英镑的背景下。
- 情感政治与伦理深思切入点：泰斯的“享受高温”修辞直接撕裂了制度理性（净零目标）与生活世界痛感（肉体死亡与生存焦虑）之间的张力。其“证据缺失”论调暴露了技术官僚理性对气候科学共识的虚无化操作，而工党主席“极其迟钝”的批评则将情感动员（愤怒与道德谴责）转化为政治合法性的武器。
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【贾森·阿代之死与英国种族化媒体审查危机】
[F4_22 🔍][F4_23 🔍][F4_24 🔍][F4_25 🔍][F4_26 🔍][F5_31 🔍][F5_34 🔍][F5_35 🔍]- 事件简述：约3万名哀悼者聚集伦敦特拉法加广场悼念因抄袭指控辞职的剑桥大学教授贾森·阿代。其自闭症背景与种族化媒体攻击被认为是自杀的诱因，公众募捐超过16万英镑。
- 情感政治与伦理深思切入点：阿代之死暴露了英国新闻监管体系（如“列文森二期”）与学术机构（剑桥大学）在种族正义与学术诚信之间的制度性撕裂。30,000人的集体哀悼与“种族主义煽动狂潮”的指控，将个体悲剧转化为集体情感动员的场域，凸显了媒体权力对边缘群体生存尊严的系统性侵蚀。
▌ 精选核心专题理性与情感辩证论证 (The Dialectic of Logos and Pathos Monograph)
专题一： “享受高温”：理查德·泰斯修辞中的技术官僚理性与肉体痛感的撕裂
1. 制度理性架构解构（Deconstruction of Institutional Logos）
理查德·泰斯的气候言论并非个人偶发奇想，而是改革英国党（Reform UK）作为右翼民粹主义政党的核心政治策略的具象化。该党以“反建制”“反精英”叙事为核心，通过否定气候科学共识（如“证据缺失”论调）来动员选民对“绿色霸权”的反感。其背后的制度理性架构包括： - 技术官僚理性的虚无化操作：泰斯引用“证据缺失”来否定净零目标，实则是将气候科学（IPCC报告、卫星数据）简化为“政治工具”，通过质疑数据的权威性来瓦解公共卫生政策的合法性。[F1_4 🔍] - 经济理性的霸权话语：其“享受高温”修辞（如“英国葡萄酒越来越好”）将气候变化转化为“经济机遇”，与英国政府此前对高温经济损失（40亿英镑）的官方数据形成对照，暴露了资本逻辑对生态危机的“祛魅”。[F1_6 🔍][F1_8 🔍] - 法律程序的合法性危机：工党主席菲利普森的批评（“极其迟钝”）虽指向泰斯个人，但实则揭示了英国气候政策（如《气候变化法案》）在执行层面的制度性失败——高温致2,877人死亡，却未能触发问责机制。[F1_7 🔍][F1_9 🔍]
2. 生活世界真实痛感深描（Living Lifeworld Pathos）
泰斯的修辞发生在英国生活世界的肉体痛感与生存焦虑的集体爆发时刻： - 肉体痛感：2026年5-6月的热浪中，英国皇家护理学院报告老年人在36度高温下健康风险激增，医疗系统不堪重负。这种痛感被泰斯简化为“享受高温”的修辞，直接否定了受害者的生存尊严。[F1_8 🔍][F1_9 🔍] - 生存焦虑：野火肆虐、干旱威胁粮食安全，英国民众面临“气候难民”式的生存威胁。泰斯的“适应论”将这种焦虑转化为“庆祝论”，通过将灾难审美化（如“葡萄酒越来越好”）来掩盖制度性失败。[F1_6 🔍] - 符号化动员：泰斯的修辞通过“香槟与肯德基”的头版标题（[F1_1 🔍]）与“享受高温”的口号，将气候危机转化为“民族自豪”的情感动员场域，激发了右翼民粹主义的集体狂热。
3. Logos 与 Pathos 的内在辩证摩擦（The Dialectical Friction）
泰斯的言论展现了制度理性对生活世界痛感的系统性压制： - 理性的虚无化：泰斯通过否定气候科学共识，将活生生的肉体痛感（死亡与疾病）简化为“政治争议”，实则是将生态危机去政治化，使其成为权力博弈的筹码。[F1_4 🔍] - 情感的反噬：其“享受高温”的修辞激发了护士、医学专家与环保人士的集体愤怒，这种愤怒并非“非理性”，而是对分配正义与生存尊严的“隐性理性”诉求。工党主席的批评（“极其迟钝”）正是这种隐性理性的具象化。[F1_7 🔍] - 话语权力的撕裂：泰斯的修辞通过“证据缺失”论调，将气候科学（Logos）简化为“意识形态”，而其“享受高温”的口号则通过情感动员（Pathos）来瓦解制度理性的合法性。这种撕裂暴露了英国政治生态的话语温度差：制度端的“冷色调语言”（技术术语、被动语态）与生活端的“热色调语言”（愤怒、道德谴责）之间的断裂。[F1_1 🔍][F1_3 🔍]
4. 话语温度差与社会心理韧性诊断（Discourse Temperature & Prognosis）
泰斯的修辞与报纸排版空间（[F1_1 🔍]-[F1_9 🔍]）共同构成了话语温度差的具象化： - 制度端的冷色调：报纸头版通过“香槟与肯德基”的标题与泰斯的“证据缺失”论调，将气候危机转化为“经济机遇”与“政治争议”，实则是将肉体痛感（死亡与疾病）去情感化。 - 生活端的热色调：护士、医学专家与环保人士的愤怒，以及30,000人的集体哀悼（阿代之死），则通过情感动员（愤怒、悲痛、道德谴责）来重新政治化生态危机。 - 社会心理韧性诊断：泰斯的修辞暴露了英国社会在气候危机面前的异化程度：制度理性（技术官僚、经济增长）与生活世界痛感（肉体死亡、生存焦虑）之间的撕裂，已达到不可持续的临界点。其“享受高温”的修辞，实则是右翼民粹主义对生态危机的“祛魅”，通过将灾难审美化来掩盖制度性失败。
专题二： “种族主义煽动狂潮”：贾森·阿代之死与英国媒体权力的制度性暴力
1. 制度理性架构解构（Deconstruction of Institutional Logos）
贾森·阿代之死暴露了英国学术机构、新闻监管与种族正义之间的制度性撕裂： - 学术诚信的技术官僚化：剑桥大学在阿代去世前表示将调查其“任命和任职”情况（[F6_50 🔍]），实则是将种族正义问题简化为“学术诚信”问题，通过程序正义（调查、审查）来掩盖结构性不公。 - 新闻监管的合法性危机：英国新闻标准调查（“列文森二期”）被认为是应对媒体权力滥用的关键机制，但特拉斯政府在“现阶段”拒绝说明是否发起调查（[F5_32 🔍]），暴露了监管体系的制度性软弱。 - 种族正义的虚无化：剑桥大学校长克里斯·史密斯将“种族主义煽动狂潮”形容为“种族主义煽动狂潮”（[F5_34 🔍]），实则是通过重复修辞来否定种族化媒体攻击的真实性，将制度性暴力（媒体权力）简化为“言论自由”的争议。
2. 生活世界真实痛感深描（Living Lifeworld Pathos）
阿代之死揭示了英国边缘群体的生存痛感与制度性暴力之间的关联： - 自闭症与种族化攻击：阿代的自闭症背景与种族化媒体攻击（抄袭指控、职业生涯陈述不一致）被认为是其自杀的诱因。这种痛感被媒体简化为“学术诚信”问题，实则是将边缘群体的生存尊严（心理健康、种族正义）去情感化。[F4_23 🔍][F4_26 🔍] - 集体哀悼的情感动员：30,000人的集体哀悼（[F4_22 🔍]）与“反种族主义团结”组织的悼念活动，将个体悲剧转化为集体情感动员的场域。这种动员通过“种族主义煽动狂潮”的指控，将制度性暴力（媒体权力）具象化为“种族主义”的符号。[F4_24 🔍][F4_25 🔍] - 公众募捐的伦理意义：超过16万英镑的募捐（[F5_35 🔍]）显示了英国民众对阿代家属的同情与愤怒。这种支持并非简单的慈善行为，而是对制度性暴力的集体反抗，凸显了边缘群体在生存困境中的韧性。
3. Logos 与 Pathos 的内在辩证摩擦（The Dialectical Friction）
阿代之死展现了制度理性对边缘群体生存尊严的系统性压制： - 理性的虚无化：剑桥大学与新闻监管体系通过“学术诚信”与“言论自由”的修辞，将种族正义问题简化为“程序正义”问题，实则是将制度性暴力（媒体权力、学术排斥）去政治化。[F5_34 🔍][F6_50 🔍] - 情感的反噬：30,000人的集体哀悼与“种族主义煽动狂潮”的指控，则通过情感动员（悲痛、愤怒、团结）来重新政治化种族正义问题。这种反噬并非“非理性”，而是对分配正义与生存尊严的“隐性理性”诉求。[F4_22 🔍][F5_31 🔍] - 话语权力的撕裂：媒体对阿代的“抄袭指控”与“种族化炒作”，通过“学术诚信”的修辞将其边缘化，而公众的集体哀悼则通过“种族主义煽动狂潮”的指控将其再政治化。这种撕裂暴露了英国社会在种族正义问题上的话语温度差：制度端的“冷色调语言”（技术术语、程序正义）与生活端的“热色调语言”（悲痛、愤怒、团结）之间的断裂。[F4_26 🔍][F5_35 🔍]
4. 话语温度差与社会心理韧性诊断（Discourse Temperature & Prognosis）
阿代之死与报纸排版空间（[F4_22 🔍]-[F6_53 🔍]）共同构成了话语温度差的具象化： - 制度端的冷色调：报纸通过“学术诚信”与“言论自由”的修辞，将种族正义问题简化为“程序正义”问题，实则是将制度性暴力（媒体权力、学术排斥）去情感化。 - 生活端的热色调：30,000人的集体哀悼与“反种族主义团结”组织的悼念活动，则通过情感动员（悲痛、愤怒、团结）来重新政治化种族正义问题。 - 社会心理韧性诊断：阿代之死暴露了英国社会在种族正义问题上的异化程度：制度理性（学术诚信、言论自由）与生活世界痛感（边缘群体的生存尊严）之间的撕裂，已达到不可持续的临界点。其“种族主义煽动狂潮”的指控，实则是对媒体权力滥用的集体反抗，凸显了英国社会在种族正义问题上的韧性与脆弱性。[F5_31 🔍][F5_35 🔍]
▌ 面向学者的伦理与社会心理开放性追问与研究路标 (Open Horizons for Ethical & Sociological Inquiry)
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【开放性学术追问一：技术官僚理性与人类情感尊严的和解可能】
- 在气候危机与种族正义问题上，技术官僚理性（如净零目标、学术诚信）如何通过程序正义（调查、审查）来掩盖结构性不公？是否存在一种“情感化的制度理性”（如参与式民主、社区韧性建设）能够重建制度与生活世界之间的信任？
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【开放性学术追问二：当代极端化情绪动员对公共交往领域的重构挑战】
- 泰斯的“享受高温”与阿代之死的集体哀悼，如何通过情感动员（愤怒、悲痛、团结）来重新政治化生态危机与种族正义？这种极端化情绪动员是否会导致公共交往领域的碎片化与极化，进而削弱民主的韧性？