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Ashe Smith says her son, James Self, was the victim of a society prejudiced against men |
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Sybilla Hart |
Domestic violence makes headlines depressingly often. However, it is rare for the victim to be male. I recently met Ashe Smith, whose son James Self, 47, died after an attack by his girlfriend. He was brutally beaten by Polly Murphy and endured six agonising weeks in hospital before succumbing to his injuries. Murphy is now serving a life sentence for the crime.
Smith is devastated both by James’s death and at not seeing the truth about her son and his partner’s relationship behind closed doors. “I feel very naive…” she told me, “and James was too embarrassed to tell us what he was going through.”
James Self died on Dec 21 2023, aged 47 |
Smith says society seems to be prejudiced against men when it comes to domestic violence. She believes that “people have grown up with the idea that men are physically stronger than women”.
Now able to find some calm since Murphy’s conviction, she is determined that her son’s death should not be in vain. Smith wants to encourage more men to come forward and share their burdens – and she is working with police to raise awareness. She is, I think, a remarkable woman.
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Jude Bellingham and Harry Kane both scored against Panama |
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Oliver Brown Chief Sports Writer at the MetLife Stadium, New York |
The mood at the final whistle was euphoric as Harry Kane celebrated becoming his country’s record World Cup goalscorer by leading fans in a rousing refrain of Wonderwall.
England made it difficult for themselves against Panama, the tournament’s only team not to score a goal, but finally prevailed courtesy of second-half goals for Kane and Jude Bellingham. Now, at last, the serious business begins.
They are through to the last 32 as group winners, ready to face the Democratic Republic of Congo in Atlanta on Wednesday. It begins a mouthwatering run of fixtures, potentially involving a duel with co-hosts Mexico at the Azteca Stadium.
But there are some concerns simmering close to the surface. One in particular is at right-back, with Jarell Quansah going off with a strained ankle midway through the second half, compounding England’s catalogue of problems in that position. They have already lost both Reece James and Tino Livramento to injuries and can ill afford Quansah being consigned to the sidelines as well.
There is a nagging sense that it never needed to be this way. Tuchel had a ready-made world-class right-back in Real Madrid’s Trent Alexander-Arnold, but he decided to leave him out of the squad. The manager is adamant his players do not fear anybody. It is a mindset they will need in abundance as the sharp end of the tournament approaches.
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Roy Keane and Gary Neville’s wild punditry shows why neither made it as a manager➤
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Simon Case photographed for The Telegraph this week in central London |
The former Cabinet secretary worked closely with David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer. Now, in his first major interview since leaving Whitehall, Simon Case tells Gordon Rayner, our Associate Editor, why all of them ended up failing and what Andy Burnham, the putative Labour leader, must do if he is to escape the same fate.
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In Madagascar, there is a thin line between death and survival. In its rural communities, a relatively common medical condition can rapidly become a death sentence. Yet in the country’s remotest regions, a fragile support network of planes, supply chains, and volunteer medics is under threat from a conflict thousands of miles away writes Verity Bowman, our Foreign and Global Health Security Reporter. The US-Iran war may be drawing to a close, but its death toll is still rising – an unexpected consequence of a global fuel and food shortage triggered by the crisis in the Middle East. Continue reading ➤ |
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Hugh Grant arrives at the Community Sports Club in Makerfield, Greater Manchester |
Fifteen years after the phone hacking scandal, Hugh Grant – aka @HackedOffHugh – believes his moment to win tougher press regulation has finally arrived, writes James Warrington, our Media and Telecoms Editor. As Andy Burnham prepares to enter Downing Street, campaigners hope to revive Leveson-style regulation over the media, while Labour weighs new controls for online platforms. Britain’s prized free speech protections are being sucked into a political war. Continue reading ➤ |
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Telegraph journalists assemble their perfect festival bill – from Taylor Swift to The Smiths |
It’s Glastonbury weekend, but with the festival on a fallow year (perhaps for the best, given this scorching weather), The Telegraph’s writers couldn’t resist compiling their fantasy line-ups. Dead or alive, British or American: Michael Deacon, Neil McCormick and more pick their dream headliners, from a reunited Smiths and R.E.M. to Taylor Swift and Prince. Who would be yours? Continue reading ➤ |
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Will Stoddart decided to pick up a racquet after hearing that playing tennis was associated with a 15 per cent lower risk of dying |
Of all the things you can do in midlife to live longer – eat better, sleep more, stress less – picking up a tennis racquet may be the most powerful. A recent study linked the sport to a 15 per cent lower risk of dying, the strongest results for a single form of exercise, including jogging or going to the gym. Here’s why. Continue reading ➤ Here is another article that I hope you’ll find helpful this morning:
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Shall I tell you what’s really disruptive to learning? Heat stroke
My child attends a very well-maintained nursery in east London. They have air conditioning in every room and a vast garden shaded by plenty of trees. It’s basically impossible to get into – thanks, if rumours among the neighbourhood nannies are to be believed, to extremely stringent DEI policies. I digress, I have absolute faith that it’s the best place for her if the mercury rises. Not least because our ex-council mid-terrace is insulated to the point of suffocation.
Despite that, if the only other option were to send her to the kind of grotty establishment I myself attended as a child and teenager, where half the lessons were conducted in portacabins known to reach 43C at even the barest sniff of a sunny interval, you bet I’d be keeping her at home.
Common sense dictates that if it’s hot enough for the pavements to melt, it’s too hot for a child to sit in a poorly ventilated prefab box doing phonics. Shall I tell you what’s really disruptive to learning? Heat stroke.
“What about work?” a colleague asked this morning when I let my feelings be known. Well, that seems like a problem for them – my biggest responsibility is to my child. The fact is, we seem to be on the receiving end of a heating climate, a not unwelcome position to be in, if we’re honest with ourselves. However, that doesn’t mean that we have the infrastructure to handle it.
People are quick to point to other parts of the world where they go about their lives even in furnace conditions, but that’s because they’ve adjusted. If the next few summers do indeed bring the sort of temperatures that climate doomers have predicted, then it’d be sensible to follow the example of those hotter economies: air con where possible, daily siesta everywhere else, no outdoor work and schools that follow hot weather timetables. |
Jim Sewell, right, being presented with an award from the FBI at the US embassy: he was the most widely travelled British policeman of his day |
Jim Sewell, who has died aged 94, was nicknamed “Supercop” by the press on account of his remarkable clear-up rate, writes Andrew M Brown, our Obituaries Editor.
He rose to near the top of the Metropolitan Police, but his golden years were the 1970s, when he ran the Murder Squad and then the Flying Squad.
Creative in his approach, when chasing villains who had battered a petrol station attendant to death, he once borrowed 200 pupils from a nearby prep school to comb the countryside for a stolen cash register.
Sewell as deputy assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, c 1983 |
Another especially callous case was the shotgun killing of a bank cashier, since the young woman had already complied with the thief’s demand to hand over the money.
When crime writer PD James interviewed Sewell, she described the contents of his “murder bag”: as well as handcuffs and a tape recorder, it included more gruesome items such as “sample bottles for stomach contents” and an “instrument for the extraction of teeth from the corpse”.
In 1981, Sewell led the crowd-security operation at Charles and Diana’s wedding. The day was gloriously crime-free: “Thieves have to have holidays too,” Sewell enthused. Read Jim Sewell’s full obituary here ➤ |
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1846 | The saxophone is patented by Antoine-Joseph Sax
1914 | Franz Ferdinand is assassinated, setting off a chain of events that lead to the First World War
1919 | Treaty of Versailles is signed in France, ending the First World War
1982 | Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales announce the name of their first born: William (and our front page coverage the following day)
Birthdays: Elon Musk (55), Kathy Bates (78), Mel Brooks (100)
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Thank you for reading. Allister Heath, Sunday Telegraph Editor
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