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Nick Gutteridge Chief Political Correspondent |
A poll of voters in Makerfield, published this week, showed what focus groups had increasingly been indicating to pollsters in recent weeks: Restore is making remarkable inroads among working-class voters.
Voters in Makerfield, and other areas like it, have started bringing up Rupert Lowe’s party unprompted when asked about their political views. That kind of name recognition is highly unusual for a political movement that was only set up a year ago, initially as a pressure group, and which has just one MP.
The Survation poll put Restore on 7 per cent of the vote in the Greater Manchester constituency, which would be enough to deny Reform victory, and put Andy Burnham in the Commons and on a path to No 10.
Much of Restore’s support is thought to be down to a highly effective social media operation reaching millions of voters.
Lowe’s party has also found a cheerleader in Elon Musk, who endorsed it in several posts on X this week, having previously flirted with the idea of funding Reform.
However, opponents point to the extreme views held by some of Restore’s prominent supporters, raising concerns that such opinions risk being normalised by the rise of Lowe’s party.
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Gabriel Magalhaes, a rock for Arsenal all season, missed the final penalty |
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Oliver Brown Chief Sports Writer, at Puskas Arena |
As you cast your eyes beyond all the golden ticker-tape and Parisian rapture, you noticed an Arsenal team trapped in their own private torture.
The brutal reality for these players was that, instead of truly chasing a victory in the club’s most consequential game for 20 years, they were preoccupied with trying not to lose. Rather than seizing on the thrill of a sixth-minute lead to put a shocked Paris St-Germain to the sword, they sat stubbornly on that slender advantage as if there were no alternative. And when that plan failed, they prayed for penalties, only for Gabriel Magalhães’s miss to expose their lack of ambition in desperate fashion.
PSG players celebrate with the trophy after winning 4-3 on penalties |
Ultimately, Arsenal were the architects of their own demise, their poverty of imagination so acute that PSG managed four times as many passes, three times as many touches in the opposition box, and three times as many shots. The gulf was almost embarrassing at times, with Arsenal overwhelmed by negativity to the extent that their expected goals ratio, the metric evaluating the possibility of a specific shot resulting in a goal, was 0.44 to PSG’s 1.77.
Mikel Arteta’s team preferred to exasperate, not exhilarate, genuinely believing that they could grind PSG into submission. The only problem is that PSG have the gifts to thwart even the most elaborate defensive scheme. Beauty, frankly, slayed the beast.
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More than 400 rioters arrested as PSG fans’ celebrations turn violent |
The house-price gravy train has ground to a halt. For decades, soaring property values have made generations of British homeowners startlingly rich, skyrocketing by 300 per cent in real terms since 1982 – a pace unmatched across the G7. That golden era is over. Property values in real terms have been falling for four years, and now the war in Iran is driving up borrowing costs to trigger a slow-burning property downturn. The unfolding slump will have major ramifications for the wider British economy. Continue reading ➤ |
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Najat al-Loh says she has 'no money' to travel outside Gaza for cancer treatment |
With aid restricted, Hamas showing little sign of giving up its guns and some talking of a return to war, life in Gaza is miserable enough as it is, writes Henry Bodkin, our Jerusalem Correspondent. For the roughly 13,000 with cancer, it’s hell on earth. Bodkin interviewed multiple patients who painted a disturbing picture of a desperate and often futile search for cancer treatment: diluted chemotherapy at best and virtually no radiotherapy. What they need is safe passage out of Gaza, but medical visas from third countries, including Britain, are limited, and Israel “arbitrarily” turns people away at the border. Continue reading ➤ |
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As the jobs market weakens, companies don’t have to work as hard to attract new talent with employee benefits |
As costs for employers rise, companies are rolling back on the once-generous benefits and freebies they offered to keep staff motivated. It’s not just the fluffy, and sometimes unnecessary, perks getting the chop either. Some are starting to relabel legal minimums, such as holiday leave, sick pay and even “free water” as benefits to boast about. Continue reading ➤ |
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Lesley Manville is nominated for a Tony award for her role in Oedipus on Broadway |
Lesley Manville is the classic late bloomer who became recognised as one of Britain’s greatest actresses, adored in particular for her work with Mike Leigh. Here, ahead of the Tonys in New York, she talks about family tragedy, early insecurities and disrobing at the age of 70. Continue reading ➤ |
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We lose scalp hair and may get more facial hair as we age |
Shrinking, constantly going to the lavatory and unexplained hair growths are some of the many pesky things that occur as the number of candles on our birthday cake increases. So what can we do about them? Our experts reveal their top tips to turn back the clock. Continue reading ➤
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Plastic gifts? I have serious misgivingsEvery week, one of our writers takes an unfashionable position, either defending a subject that’s been unfairly maligned or criticising something that most people love.
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Madeleine Ross Money Reporter |
Naked consumerism is an ugly thing. I am not sure that is the conclusion I was supposed to draw from a recent Harry Potter Studio Tours press trip. However, after being handed a lump of red plastic on a key chain – the Philosopher’s Stone, £10 – and stomping my way through the airport duty-free maze of the shop, it was unavoidable.
Under the watchful gaze of some of Britain’s greatest actors, ghoulishly projected on to the walls, a receptive customer could spend hundreds of pounds on tacky souvenirs. Amid it all, the impressive craftsmanship behind the sets of these beautiful films was overwhelmed.
This is just one example of a wider problem. The country has a harmful addiction to plastic rubbish (wrapped and transported in yet more plastic).
The trend is ruining our charity shops, cramming out high-value antiques with disposable rubbish.
It’s also economically nonsensical, requiring large amounts of national expenditure to be squandered on objects that will break in five minutes and are mostly manufactured abroad. It’s feeding our economy with empty calories.
What’s even worse is that it’s hurting the climate. Each British household chucks away enough plastic every year to fill 10 bins – and only half of it is recycled. A survey by Everyday Plastic earlier this year found that 82 billion pieces of plastic packaging were thrown away annually, which it called a “national crisis”.
Oliver Bonas made a cool £8m profit selling tat to the middle classes last year, while simultaneously warning that households faced a cost-of-living squeeze that would make it more difficult to afford its £28 water bottles.
Even Waterstones – which is supposed to sell books – isn’t immune. Large swathes of its shop floors are now dedicated to random “reading accoutrements”, almost all of which could be replaced with natural light and a single bookmark.
I cannot blame only the shops, though. They’re simply responding to demand.
As a grown-up with some disposable income, I am not totally immune to a piece of plastic nonsense. In my kitchen is a soap dispenser in the shape of a naked woman and I own a frankly silly croissant-shaped butter dish as well.
I am trying to be better. To buy only things I really need. Not to buy souvenirs on every unmemorable trip I take. To tell my friends not to spend money on such junk for my birthday or Christmas – to spend it in our beleaguered pubs and restaurants instead. Not, finally, to order anything from Temu, ever.
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Jacqui Chan with Rex Harrison in Cleopatra (1963): ‘My death scene was a particular challenge because… I could see right up the togas of the men bending over me’ |
Jacqueline (Jacqui) Chan, who has died aged 91, was an actress of Chinese heritage who trained as a dancer in England and enjoyed a long career on stage and screen. She became a darling of Sixties gossip columnists as the girlfriend and muse of the photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones, the future Lord Snowdon, before he married Princess Margaret.
In films, she was best-known as Gwennie Lee, the mild-mannered Hong Kong prostitute in The World of Suzie Wong (1960). Just a few months before the film was released, Princess Margaret’s engagement to Armstrong-Jones was announced. Dredging through his romantic history, the press found that Chan had been his lover, and she was propelled to overnight celebrity, which she rather enjoyed.
Anne de Courcy, in her 2008 biography of Lord Snowdon, wrote: “Jacqui, with her porcelain looks and exotic charm, was Tony’s first real love.”
Despite numerous further roles in film and TV, Chan remained fixed in the public’s mind for the link to Lord Snowdon. In 2017, the story was garishly presented to a new generation when it featured in The Crown, with Chan (played by Alice Hewkin) featuring in a graphic sex scene with Armstrong-Jones (Matthew Goode) on the staircase of his studio. Read the full obituary here ➤ |
On this day1669 | Final entry in Samuel Pepys’s diary, citing poor eyesight
1911 | The Titanic is launched in Belfast (and coverage the following day on page 12 of our newspaper)
1919 | Flying boat lands in Plymouth completing first flight across the Atlantic
2008 | Usain Bolt breaks the 100m world record: 9.72s
Birthdays
Colin Farrell (50), Viktor Orbán (63), Clint Eastwood (96)
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