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Prince Harry announced last-minute that the Duchess of Sussex and their children would not accompany him on his trip to London |
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Hannah Furness Royal Editor |
The last time the King saw his Sussex grandchildren in person, he was not the King. In the four long years since, there have been emotive words from Prince Harry about how much he would love them to meet, but no meeting.
The Prince’s security in Britain, he has said, is not sufficient.
This week, it seemed as if things would finally change: he was bringing the Duchess, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet to his homeland.
Despite all the drama, the accusations and the public airing of Royal family laundry by the Sussexes, the King has never cut his younger son off. Buckingham Palace invited Harry to bring his family to stay at a royal residence, and aides searched for time in the diary to make it work.
Could Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet finally bridge the gap between the Royal family and its Montecito outliers?
Not yet. At the 11th hour, Harry has pulled the plug on bringing his family to London, citing security.
The Duchess and Duke of Sussex with daughter Lilibet on her fifth birthday |
For the Duke’s opponents, it is further evidence of “emotional blackmail” aimed at the King. For his fans, it is a further stick to beat Charles III with: how could he not intervene on security (even though he is constitutionally unable to do so)?
The resulting circus has guaranteed only one thing: all eyes will be on the Sussexes this week.
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Rosa Silverman Senior Feature Writer |
From the 16th floor of Hanover Towers in Stockport, you can see the soaring skyscrapers of central Manchester.
They rise, six miles to the north, as shining beacons of modernity: glass and concrete monuments to progress. A story of post-industrial northern prosperity written on the skyline.
It is one story, anyway. The one that undoubtedly helped Andy Burnham glide from mayor of Greater Manchester to Labour MP for Makerfield and heir apparent to the beleaguered Sir Keir Starmer.
What, though, is life like for those in the towns outside Manchester, across the north-western region of England where Burnham, erstwhile King of the North, has reigned these past nine years?
The Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) Burnham led boasts that in the past decade, it has become the UK’s fastest-growing economy. Meanwhile, data suggest that this growth has been unevenly distributed.
Were you to visit some of the smaller towns outside Manchester, conversations would soon turn to what has gone wrong, not right.
According to one local in the Lancashire Hill area of Stockport, “we’ve got more crackheads, more homeless people and more troublemakers”.
It was, she says, a “lovely, very quiet neighbourhood” when she moved here 12 years ago. “It’s got worse [since],” she adds.
This report is available only to subscribers.
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Fans prepare to party in Central London |
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Oliver Brown Chief Sports Writer, in Mexico City |
It promises to be a day and a night unlike any other for England at the World Cup.
At 6pm local time here in Mexico City, and 1am at home, Thomas Tuchel and his players will enter the most fervent and intoxicating arena any of them have ever experienced, trying to reach the quarter-finals in defiance of overwhelming hostility from an entire nation.
Everything is stacked against them in this last-16 duel with co-hosts Mexico at the Azteca Stadium, the hosts’ iconic fortress, from the lung-burning altitude to the predicted violent thunderstorms.
With over 80,000 Mexican fans expected in the ground and a million more on the streets outside, England are heading into the teeth of a hurricane.
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England fans embrace Mexico’s second great passion ➤
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Chris Bascombe Sports Reporter, at Wimbledon |
An epic comeback victory for Arthur Fery proved British tennis still had a pulse to keep the flag flying into the second week.
Having shunned the showier venues, Fery brought the court of King Arthur to Wimbledon, every vantage point taken as he reversed what seemed a hopeless cause, to defeat Belgian Zizou Berges in five sets.
The longest match at this year’s championship thrilled a crowd of 750 seated fans, with many more trying to sneak a peak from the balconies as word spread of Fery’s heroics.
The 22-year-old, who is of French descent but grew up five minutes from the Wimbledon site, literally shed blood for the cause. On several occasions play was paused as Fery was treated for a nosebleed.
After breaking into the top 100 for the first time, Fery has his eye on Centre Court for the round of 16 tie.
“I’ve loved Court 18, but it’s time to move on. Now that I’ve had a few matches I feel ready for a bigger court,” he said.
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Arthur Fery produced an incredible performance to stay in Wimbledon |
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Gavin Mairs Chief Rugby Union Correspondent, at Ellis Park |
It was meant to be the moment when England demonstrated that their lessons had been learned from their humbling Six Nations campaign. But at Ellis Park in Johannesburg, a mile above sea level, Steve Borthwick’s side ended their opening Nations Championship match looking like they are still miles behind world champions South Africa. England were completely outplayed in the second half, heaping pressure on Borthwick and underlining the need for a victory against Fiji in Liverpool next Saturday.
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Brothers Bram and Niek Koning are exemplary apprentices in road building, writes Melissa Lawford. It feels surprising that they were recently both school drop-outs. If they lived in Britain, they would have fallen through the net and joined the more than one million 16 to 24-year-olds who are not in employment, education or training (Neet). The Konings live in the Netherlands, the country with the lowest Neet rate in Europe, which has caught the eye as a potential policy blueprint on the other side of the North Sea. For subscribers only ➤ |
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The former Williams driver won at Silverstone four times |
Nigel Mansell was known during his career for his daredevil driving. At 72, he remains a force of nature. Before today’s British Grand Prix at Silverstone, the 1992 F1 world champion spoke to Tom Cary about “Mansell-mania”, how he nearly died on a golf course and what drives him in his eighth decade. Continue reading ➤ |
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Different approaches to drinking, spending and exercise can put strain on a long-term relationship |
Are you an early bird married to a night owl? Or a gym obsessive in love with a couch potato? It’s a couples cliché that opposites attract, but certain mismatches can put strain on a relationship. These are the six lifestyle clashes that could wreck any marriage, and how to solve them. Continue reading ➤ |
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Tom Brown says watering is a job best done in the morning |
With hose-pipe bans either in force or on the horizon, watering becomes one of the most important jobs in the garden, writes Tom Brown. It is something to do first thing in the morning, as plants process water when they’re actively growing. Although you can saturate the ground at night, our flowers, herbs and bushes don’t actually need it then. Once wetted, cover your ground with well-rotted compost or even cardboard (especially in greenhouses) to avoid evaporation from exposed soil. Continue reading ➤
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Sydney Sweeney is not a girl’s girl
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Poppie Platt |
If 1985’s Weird Science were made now – against a backdrop of Andrew Tate-loving boys smashing their pimple-dotted faces with chisels to “looksmaxx” – the protagonist would be Sydney Sweeney.
The 28-year-old actress is what patriarchy’s dreams are made of, manufactured for the male gaze. She moonlights as a car mechanic! She loves jet skis and country music! She adores showing off her ahem, assets, especially in her hit HBO series Euphoria.
The only thing Sweeney enjoys more than rubbing her God-given cleavage in our faces? Insisting any feminist quick to criticise her gratuitous sex scenes in the coming-of-age drama (written and directed by a man) is jealous or missing the point. In an interview with Vanity Fair, she says Euphoria’s creator Sam Levinson asked whether she would prefer to shoot scenes without “any nudity”. She refused, saying: “I’m an actor and that’s my job.”
That’s where she misses the point. Of course Sweeney is welcome to strip off on screen – women are, and should be, free to do what they want with their bodies. The issue is that Sweeney’s talent is beginning to play second fiddle to her pretty face. Early in her career, she chose genuinely interesting projects – The Handmaid’s Tale, or Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood. Since making the A-list, however, she has resorted to so-so romcoms (Anyone But You), schlocky horrors (Immaculate) and downright-awful superhero blockbusters (Madame Web) in pursuit of box-office dominance.
Largely, these have flopped, because what Sweeney forgets is that to become a Hollywood star with allure, you have to be likeable. Tom Hanks, Will Smith and Julia Roberts all have popularity in common. Sweeney, meanwhile, is decidedly unpopular, especially among women, meaning she has no core audience to depend on.
Many believe Sweeney’s unpopularity in Hollywood is due to her politics – she is a registered Republican – but it’s much simpler than that. She does not seem like a “girl’s girl”, so women don’t pay to support her. Scoff at that all you will, but if her next film opens to more half-empty cinemas, perhaps she’ll begin to understand that appealing to her own gender is not so bad, after all.
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In the 1980s, Rodney Atkinson took the view that even Margaret Thatcher was not committed enough to Thatcherism |
Rodney Atkinson, who has died aged 78, was at various times a lecturer in linguistics, a merchant banker and the co-founder of a company that released vintage radio recordings on cassette. Through it all, his greatest passion remained Eurosceptic politics and his biggest claim to fame (as he cheerfully admitted) was that he was Rowan Atkinson’s brother, writes Andrew M Brown, Obituaries Editor.
For half a century he was a punchy contributor to The Telegraph’s Letters page. In a typical broadside, he proposed that readers fed up with the BBC and its “journalistic incompetence” should seek a cheaper licence fee by swapping their colour TV sets for black and white: “This will save them £47 and will reduce by that amount the funding of the most important source of Left-wing propaganda in Britain today.”
In 2000, he entered the contest to become leader of Ukip and lost by just 16 votes. He couldn’t convince his Left-leaning brother Rowan to endorse his campaigns, but he was proud of Rowan’s defence of free speech.
Atkinson produced hundreds of articles and papers and a stream of books with sensational titles such as Treason at Maastricht.
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1865 | Britain introduces first speed-limit law: 4mph in rural areas, 2mph in towns
1945 | The Labour Party under Clement Attlee wins British parliamentary elections (see below for our front page from the day after – results were not declared until July 27)
1994 | Amazon.com is founded by Jeff Bezos in Bellevue, Washington
2024 | Sir Keir Starmer succeeds Rishi Sunak after a landslide victory for Labour
Birthdays: Marc Cohn (67), Edie Falco (63), Joe Lycett (38)
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