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When tens of thousands of migrants poured into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta a fortnight ago, the debate was all about borders, Schengen and the elastic limits of the West’s moral obligations.
Even Spain’s socialist leader Pedro Sánchez, of all people, began talking the language of territorial integrity.
Meanwhile, in the shadowlands of the internet, a simpler explanation was already circulating. Tucker Carlson, a former Fox News presenter turned YouTube firebrand, released a two-hour video promising to reveal “who’s behind the invasion and why”. His answer was simple: it woz the Jews wot done it.
Tucker Carlson (right) has featured Nick Fuentes, an open admirer of Hitler, on his show |
Was Israel really behind the “invasion”? Of course not, but this is the Great Replacement Theory and it is gaining mass appeal. Its history can be traced from the eugenicists of early-20th-century New York, through the passage in Mein Kampf where Hitler supplied the crucial innovation, to a Berkshire campaigner who blames Israel for 9/11 (and whom Rupert Lowe hailed as a “good man”).
Along the way, we find a Restore Britain candidate calling rival parties “Zionist dog slaves”, a deleted Tommy Robinson essay, and the Jewish former immigration minister now abused online as “the Jewess”.
Oh, and one in three Britons now believes the conspiracy theory is “definitely or probably true”. So that’s encouraging.
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Thousands of pensioners who had put money into an inheritance tax scheme run by Octopus Group bankrolled failed hospitals and care homes owned by the company.
Octopus Inheritance Tax Service (OITS), a subsidiary of Octopus Group, raised money from 18,000 people with the promise of lowering their inheritance tax bills by investing in businesses to qualify for relief.
OITS customers were sold shares in Fern Trading, which owns about 300 energy, property and telecoms companies. These businesses were the main selling point for investors.
The Telegraph can reveal that Fern also ploughed investors’ cash into struggling businesses separately owned by Octopus Group without explicitly telling them where the money was going.
A number of these investments turned sour, with Fern and the pensioners that had backed it ultimately taking over the businesses.
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• Britain’s newest “super-prison”, built at a cost of £400m, has hundreds of empty cells because it cannot recruit staff. It has space for nearly 1,500 prisoners but is operationally restricted to just over 1,100.
• Donald Trump has accused the BBC of harassing his family after the broadcaster tried to subpoena his children and son-in-law. Its lawyers want Donald Trump Jr, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner to testify.
• The head of a Cambridge college has called for an investigation into the “media onslaught” against Jason Arday. Lord Woolley said Arday had been subjected to the “most horrendous, toxic, vicious witch hunt”.
• US actress Hayden Panettiere, best known for her roles in Heroes and Nashville, has died at the age of 36.
• “England’s prettiest village” has blocked a new shopping area in an attempt to curb over-tourism caused by TikTok influencers. Residents say there has been an influx of coaches along narrow lanes.
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Satellite imagery and leaked documents reveal a network of secret launch bases capable of sending Moscow’s newest long-range attack drones deep inside Nato territory, with some placing Warsaw within range. As Richard Holmes, our Forensic Investigations Editor, reports, the Kremlin is reshaping the battlefield right under Europe’s nose. Continue reading ➤ |
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Jock Hutchison is not what you’d call a wellness guru. The ex-Royal Marine wears a Stetson, swears a lot and is happiest roaming the hills on horseback, just like his boyhood heroes in the cowboy movies. Behind his bluff exterior, Colin Freeman writes, lies a man who’s had his own battles with mental health and now runs a charity in the Scottish Highlands that uses horse-riding as therapy. I visited him at his stables, where he told me about his life and work. Continue reading ➤ |
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Hollywood has turned Team Lioness into a hit spy thriller. The women who inspired its name say their real story is far more remarkable. Thrust into front-line combat in Iraq despite an official ban on women fighting on the ground, they returned home traumatised, overlooked and forced to fight for recognition. More than two decades on, they argue that television has borrowed their legacy while leaving their history untold. Continue reading ➤ |
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If ever there was an unsung national treasure, it’s Paul Heaton. The former frontman of The Housemartins and The Beautiful South has made music that is adored by millions, and yet industry acclaim has been in short supply. Ahead of Heaton’s new album, Rob Fitzpatrick talks to Britain’s nicest curmudgeon about Andy Burnham, adoring fans and how to save Britain’s pubs. Continue reading ➤ |
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Nine years ago, I told you about my six-week body transformation, writes Patrick McAleenan. That was just the start of my story. The decade that followed was filled with busy years, changing work, ageing and a cancer diagnosis. Thankfully, despite the challenges, I’m still strong and healthy at 54. This is how I did it. Continue reading ➤ Here is another article that I hope you’ll find useful this morning:
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The mighty colanderWhile Orlando Bird, our loyal reader correspondent, is away, Kate Moore is on hand to share an off-piste topic that has brought out the best of your opinions and stories. Kate writes...
In her rollicking work of social history, Consider the Fork, the food writer Bee Wilson tells the story of the kitchen utensils that many of us take for granted. Readers may be surprised, as I was, to learn that the table fork itself is a fairly recent innovation, while the waffle-iron and the colander have a far longer history.
I mention this because colanders have been much on readers’ minds in the past few days, following a run on kitchen hardware shops by people anxious to view the solar eclipse in safety.
As Valerie Keeling pointed out in her letter to us: “This means that many people don’t possess one. How do they drain their pasta?”
The next day, Ramesh Nayak dared to suggest that the colander was in fact a pointless utensil. “Instead, use tongs or a fork to pull out long strands [of pasta], and a slotted spoon to lift out small pasta shapes, vegetables or beans, leaving the water behind.”
That was enough to get readers seriously riled up. “I have a colander and it is frequently used when harvesting home-grown fruit and vegetables from the garden or blackberries from nearby hedgerows,” retorted Janette Weekes.
“Currently it is sitting on my kitchen worktop full of freshly picked tomatoes.”
Sue Gaynor was similarly energised. “My colander comes into use for various tasks, such as rinsing fruit and vegetables and straining hot cooked food while retaining juice and vegetable water for making sauces and gravy.”
However, it was Sandy Pratt who took the prize for creativity. “I have a colander: it makes a wonderful flower pot. All those little holes in the bottom mean that excess watering runs away.” Culinary saviour, or basic waste of space? Let us know what’s in your kitchen here.
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1940 | Hitler orders a total blockade of Great Britain
1945 | George Orwell publishes Animal Farm
1998 | Bill Clinton admits on television his involvement with Monica Lewinsky
2014 | England win the Women’s Rugby World Cup (see our front page from the following day)
Birthdays: Thierry Henry (49), Sean Penn (66), Robert De Niro (83)
Plus, in the news today, a cyclist has set a world record for the longest continuous ride on a penny farthing. How long was he cycling for?
1. 2 hours
2. 9 hours
3. 14 hours
4. 17 hours
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