We speak your mind. Enjoy free-thinking comment that champions your values. | | Brook (centre) and other England players were criticised for their drinking sessions in Noosa |  | Will Macpherson Deputy Cricket Correspondent, in Sydney | Just when you thought England’s Ashes tour could not get any worse, it has taken another dark turn. England have just fallen to a 4-1 defeat, and now Telegraph Sport can reveal that Harry Brook had been placed on a final warning and handed a heavy fine for a late-night altercation with a bouncer in New Zealand on the eve of the Ashes.
Brook was on duty as captain of England’s white-ball team and has been Ben Stokes’s right-hand man with the Test side. He came perilously close to being stripped of the captaincy for the incident, in which he was struck by a bouncer while appearing drunk just hours before a game in Wellington.
This bombshell comes amid accusations about the team’s culture and alcohol consumption. Brook has at least accepted responsibility, and apologised for his behaviour in a statement released to The Telegraph, saying he has “brought embarrassment to both myself and the England team”.
Read the full story here ➤
| Ben Stokes and Joe Root watch Australia celebrate their series victory | Back on the pitch, Jacob Bethell’s magical maiden century in Sydney, amid some fight from the whole team, only delayed an inevitable defeat which eventually arrived by five wickets. England will undoubtedly rue missing the opportunity of a lifetime to win in Australia after consistently underperforming.
See how the day’s play unfolded ➤
Now the recriminations begin. Telegraph Sport columnist Geoffrey Boycott believes the regime, under Stokes and coach Brendon McCullum, has “sold a lie” for three years, and called for change.
Read his column in full here ➤ | | Kemi Badenoch and Mel Stride with Tim Martin, the Weatherspoons boss |  | Kemi Badenoch | Something most Labour MPs don’t understand is that pubs aren’t the same as bars and restaurants in London – important though these are. They serve a completely different purpose. They are the places that knit our towns and villages together.
Pubs are part of the fabric of our nation – or at least in many places they used to be. Because in Britain today, we are losing a pub nearly every single day.
We’ll start by scrapping business rates for thousands of pubs. Not cutting rates, not freezing them, not pausing them until a later date. Abolishing them entirely for thousands.
Next, we will bring down pubs’ energy bills. Our Cheap Power Plan won’t just save the average family £165. It’s going to save the average pub more than £1,000.
And when we cut the deficit – with billions of pounds of savings from things like bring down the welfare bill – pubs and hospitality businesses are going to be some of the first to benefit.
The Telegraph is right to be campaigning about the future of the British pub.
Without them, we lose a huge part of our way of life.
Read Mrs Badenoch’s piece and the full story here ➤
The celebrity pub landlords squaring up to Starmer ➤
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For £137, writer Ben East spent the night in an executive pitchside room at the Blackpool FC Stadium Hotel. What was Ben not allowed to do in this room, in fear of a £2,500 fine? | Fighting fit Every weekday, Orlando Bird, our loyal reader correspondent, shares an off-piste topic that has brought out the best of your opinions and stories. Orlando writes...
Ah, January. The month in which no waistband feels sufficiently elasticated. And the greatest injustice? With each passing year, it becomes that bit harder to counteract the indulgences of December, even without an icy carapace covering the land and making it too dangerous to go for a penitential jog (at least according to me).
Still, Telegraph readers refuse to be discouraged, and there’s been a flurry of responses to our article on staying slim and strong, despite the encumbrance of age.
Alex Bremner’s top tip: “Never stop moving. My elderly father still played doubles in his late 80s. Then lockdown happened, and enforced isolation and immobility ruined him.”
John W B adds: “You are given one body, so look after it. I run cross-country most days, and hard at the athletics track, plus I do mobility, isometrics, plyometrics and weight training. I sleep well, and have eschewed alcohol and processed food for 50 years. Is it worth it? Yes. I am 78, but blood tests say my biological age is 57. I feel a lot younger.”
If that sounds relatively straightforward – albeit quite hard work – Michael Caffyn Parsons has a word of warning: “I have trained at the gym from 14 through to 58, and now have knee, shoulder and elbow problems. My wife does no exercise and has no such issues.”
I have a couple of friends who take a similar approach to exercise, yet somehow defy the law of calories. Life isn’t always fair.
Willard Freeman has a more leisurely suggestion: “For 54 years we had dogs. The last died a year ago, and we decided that was it. But, after six months of prevarication, we got two more. They are smallish and hypoallergenic, and are pals. Most importantly, we walk them every day for over an hour, and that keeps us fit and sane.” What’s your regime? Send your responses here, and the best of the bunch will feature in a future edition of From the Editor PM, for which you can sign up here.
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