lundi 10 août 2026

Israel rejects Trump’s Gaza plan

Prisons risk running out of space as reoffenders fill cells | Spy cameras on Navy drones sent data to China
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Monday, 10 August 2026

Issue No. 533

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Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected Donald Trump’s peace deal in Gaza, suggesting the enclave would become “Hamastan” without full disarmament. Until then, the Israeli prime minister says the country’s defence forces will remain in place. The move risks infuriating the US president and leaves the prospect of peace in Gaza bleaker than ever, writes Henry Bodkin, our Jerusalem Correspondent.

Elsewhere, Andy Burnham is facing the first big test of his premiership. As pressure grows to block the early release of Pc Andrew Harper’s killers, the head of the probation watchdog warns that prisons could run out of space again because so many offenders are being recalled to jail after being freed. Charles Hymas, our Home Affairs Editor, has the story.

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Israel rejects Trump’s Gaza plan

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Henry Bodkin

Henry Bodkin

Jerusalem Correspondent

 

The prospect of a peaceful way forward in Gaza looks bleaker than ever after this weekend.

We already knew that Israel was unhappy with Donald Trump’s disarmament deal with Hamas.

However, yesterday Benjamin Netanyahu went nuclear. He used a televised cabinet meeting to reject the agreement that his great ally Trump had previously described as “historic”. He even appeared to suggest that the US was naive for having adopted it, saying there would be no “Hamastan” under his watch.

The Israeli prime minister also faces a stiff task in the elections this October and it almost goes without saying that he would have liked the US president’s endorsement by now.

Clearly Netanyahu feels either that he cannot wait for that, or that withdrawing from Gaza is more electorally damaging than a Trump endorsement would be helpful.

A drone strike by the Israeli army targets several buildings in Gaza City

The fact that Israel signed up to an international deal last October, which obliges them to take part in a staged disarmament-for-withdrawal that is similar to the new agreement, does not seem to be getting much air time in Jerusalem.

That, combined with apparently new demands from Iran over reopening the Strait of Hormuz, has not made for a particularly optimistic start to the week when it comes to peace in the Middle East.
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Prisons risk running out of space as recalled criminals fill cells

Charles Hymas

Charles Hymas

Home Affairs Editor

 

There are no easy options for Andy Burnham as he faces growing demands to block the early release of two of Pc Andrew Harper’s killers.

As we reveal today, ministers have been warned that prisons are at risk of running out of space again because so many repeat offenders are being recalled to jail.

Martin Jones, the chief inspector of probation, has told the Government there is a risk that a “significant number” of prison places freed up by its early release scheme will be “dissipated” by the record numbers of freed prisoners being recalled to jail for breaching their licence or reoffending.

The number of prisoners who had been recalled to jail in the last 12 months was 51,419, the highest on record and double the number before the first emergency early release scheme was introduced by the Tory government in 2023.

One in seven of all prisoners in England and Wales is now a recalled offender.

It means that Burnham’s room for manoeuvre is incredibly limited. He has already been forced to reverse plans to free 1,000 rapists and child sex offenders early.

Blocking the early release of Jessie Cole and Albert Bowers, Pc Harper’s killers, could mean nearly 500 other criminals also convicted of manslaughter will have to remain in prison.

Whether the Prime Minister decides to free killers early or risk a worsening overcrowding crisis is the first test of his premiership.

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Opinion

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Jonathan Sumption

Andy Burnham, a written constitution is fundamentally un-British

The PM’s suggestion would leave our democracy at the mercy of the courts

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Gianni Infantino’s alleged lover received a pay-out from Uefa of more than £150,000, The Telegraph understands.

Jason Arday has cancelled a series of events promoting his forthcoming memoir. Great and Unfortunate Things will be published in the US tomorrow and in Britain on Aug 27.

Britain will be “more ambitious” on deepening ties with the EU. The minister in charge of the Brexit reset has said he will look at the “art of the possible” within Labour’s manifesto red lines on Europe.

Andy Burnham is set to crack down on online subscriptions that are difficult to cancel. He will force businesses to provide regular reminders about renewal, as well as tackling misleading discounts.

The King has donated an entire wheat field at his Sandringham Estate to an artisan hat maker amid a national shortage in straw. Emily Hurst said it felt “surreal” to learn of the King’s unexpected offer.

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Royal Navy spy drones used by Britain’s elite special forces secretly sent data to China, The Telegraph can reveal. The cameras on the K3 Scout surveillance drones had components made in China that were secretly transmitting information to a device in the country. The revelation raises fears that Beijing has been attempting to spy on Britain’s military after years of security warnings.

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The collapse of boomers’ million-pound property dream

Boomers have grown wealthy from soaring property prices, but there are signs that the housing market juggernaut is finally running out of steam. The most expensive homes are plunging in value, leaving many older homeowners facing huge losses. “Generations of people made hundreds of thousands of pounds just by sitting and doing nothing,” says Will Watson, head of The Buying Solution, an upmarket agency. “Those days are very much over.”

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Mexican cartels are killing influencers live on camera

Last week, a Mexican influencer was killed on a livestream – shot in the head in front of scores of viewers. This was not the first incident of its kind. Cesar Gastelum’s death marks a growing pattern of ambitious content creators in cartel hotspots, allegedly offering narcotraffickers propaganda and promotion in exchange for luxury. These entanglements can often have fatal consequences.

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£110,000 vs £770: The unstoppable rise of ‘superfake’ handbags

A new breed of counterfeit luxury handbags, known as “superfakes”, is targeting Westerners from manufacturing hotspots in China. British women are among those paying up to £750 for high-end replicas of Chanel and Hermès bags, reports Raquel Carvalho. Behind these fakes I found a shadowy operation run by organised crime. As Hayley Van Loon, chief executive of Crime Stoppers International, puts it: “There is no such thing as a victimless fake handbag.”

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Seize the day

The best exercise routine to treat arthritis, from an orthopaedic doctor

Dr Thomas Naylor

Arthritis does not mean giving up on exercise. In fact, the right movements can ease pain, improve mobility and strengthen the muscles supporting vulnerable joints. Dr Thomas Naylor shares seven simple exercises and three stretches designed to help people with painful hips and knees move more freely.

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The world, it seems fair to say, is not short of things to feel gloomy about at the moment. That is precisely why we need The Telegraph’s letter-writers, who in recent days have produced a correspondence capable of cheering even the staunchest cynic.


 

It began with a recollection from Mike Harris: “In 1966 I was given a lift from an autobahn access point by a German businessman in a large black Mercedes. After a lengthy journey he bought me lunch and asked me to wait while he visited a shop. He then presented me with a bottle of a premium local Würzburg wine.

“The reason for this generosity was that he had seen the Union flag stitched on to my rucksack and wanted to show appreciation for the kindness shown to him while he was working as a PoW on a farm in Cornwall during the war.”


 

Many readers, it transpired, had similar experiences to share. Diana Jones replied: “I was in Germany in 1962, and found that men who had been PoWs in Britain were anxious to reciprocate the generosity shown to them in whatever way they could.

“In particular, I remember an optician who gave me a huge discount for a pair of spectacles and urged me in Mancunian-inflected English to buy myself ‘a cup of tea and a bun’.”


 

I also thought this, from Isobel Wood, was very moving: “In the 1970s I worked in Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire. It is a very friendly little town. During the war, there were German PoWs stationed nearby. On Sundays they were marched to local churches.

“Despite the rule on non-fraternisation, there was immense goodwill. After the war ended and the PoWs returned home, the people of ‘Ossie’ heard about the dreadful food shortages in Germany – far worse than our own quite stringent rationing. So they clubbed together and sent food parcels from their own rations to our former enemies.

“Friendships were formed, and at least one marriage.”

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On this day

1793 | Louvre Palace officially opens in Paris as the Musée Central des Arts

1960 | Elizabeth II becomes the first monarch to visit the Shetland Islands in 700 years (see our picture special in the paper below)

2020 | Jimmy Lai is arrested in Hong Kong under its new security laws

2023 | Virgin Galactic flies its first tourists to the edge of space

Birthdays: Lawrence Dallaglio (54), Roy Keane (55), Charlie Dimmock (60)

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dimanche 9 août 2026

The 50 greatest books of all time

Michael Johnson breaks his silence | Israel’s secret pipeline
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Sunday, 9 August 2026

Issue No. 532

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Not all of the 150 million books ever published are equal. So how do you decide which to read? Jake Kerridge, our Chief Obituary Writer and a peerless bibliophile, has scoured three millennia of writing to choose the 50 greatest. You can find his selection below.

Elsewhere, Michael Johnson, the record-breaking sprinter, set out to revolutionise athletics with his ambitious Grand Slam Track league, but the venture spiralled into a financial nightmare that threatened his hard-earned reputation. Now, in his first interview since the ordeal, Johnson reveals the real story behind the project’s collapse to Oliver Brown, our Chief Sports Writer.

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The secret Israeli pipeline that could solve the energy crisis

Spain’s socialist maverick PM pushes Europe to the edge

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The 50 greatest books of all time

Jake Kerridge

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Chief Obituary Writer

 

So many books, so little time. “Of making many books there is no end,” Solomon says wearily in the Book of Ecclesiastes, and there have been some 150 million more published since his day. How on earth do you pick out the book that might change your life from that mass of print?

Let me offer my pick of the 50 greatest books of all time – the half-century of fiction and non-fiction works that I think will enhance any reader’s life. Spanning the best part of three millennia, these are the works that have made me think something, or feel something, or laugh at something, in a way that no other books have.

Such lists are usually compiled by committees – this one is just the fruit of a single person’s lifetime of reading and individual (you may think highly questionable) taste.

However much you disagree with my inclusions and exclusions, I hope you enjoy reading the list – and, even more, that you might go on to enjoy any or all of my choices.
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Michael Johnson exclusive: I tried to save athletics, not profit from it

Oliver Brown

Oliver Brown

Chief Sports Writer

 

For 16 months, Michael Johnson has stayed silent while his good name has been besmirched. His great dream to revolutionise athletics, to implant it more deeply in public consciousness outside the four-year hoopla of the Olympics, has curdled into a nightmare that threatened, at its nadir, to torch his reputation.

One of the greatest athletes of all time, and known to millions through his unmistakably forthright analysis on the BBC, he found his Grand Slam Track project sabotaged by a “catastrophic capital issue” when a key investor withdrew. Amid the ensuing nightmare, where he lacked the money even to pay the track and field stars who had signed up, he frequently found himself unable to sleep. “Are you stupid?” he would ask himself. “Why did you do this?”

This is Johnson’s first interview about the ordeal. When we meet in Santa Monica, not even the idyllic Californian sunshine can disguise the mental strain he has endured. Just 12 miles from here, in Malibu, he and wife Armine watched in horror last year as half their street burnt down, with the vast Palisades Fire destroying nearly 7,000 buildings in some of the most desirable postcodes on the planet. Even today they are still not back in their own home, having bounced between six different rental properties.

To navigate this stress, and the agony of Grand Slam Track unravelling in its first season, Johnson, once the world record-holder over 200 and 400 metres, explains that he has applied the same principles as when recovering from the stroke he suffered in 2018. “Getting myself back to a point where I could enjoy life as I did before required the absolute best version of myself,” he says. “It’s a lesson I’ve been able to call on again and again.”
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Opinion

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We are witnessing the emergence of a 21st century British fascism

From talk of ‘traitors’ to calls for mass deportations, a strain of US-inspired ethnonationalism has arrived on our shores

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Weekend reads

The secret Israeli pipeline that could solve the energy crisis

Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Gulf’s energy producers cannot use the main shipping routes to export their barrels of oil and tanks of gas. Iran has blockaded the Strait of Hormuz in the wake of US-Israeli strikes while exports through Bab-el-Mandeb in the Red Sea face constant attack from Houthi rebels. Now, Israel and the region’s oil powers – who have been enemies for decades – are quietly drawing up plans to use an overland pipeline to break the impasse.
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How Labour broke Britain’s rental market in 100 days

Labour’s groundbreaking Renters’ Rights Act was designed to give power back to tenants. One hundred days after the law came into force, though, Britain’s buy-to-let market is in chaos. Rents are up, landlords are quitting, and many tenants feel worse off than before. With the legislation’s architect, Angela Rayner, back in the Cabinet, the situation for tenants and landlords threatens to get worse.

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Spain’s socialist maverick PM pushes Europe to the edge

Pedro Sánchez, the Left-wing Spanish prime minister, has provoked anger from his country’s international allies for his stances on Donald Trump’s war against Iran and Israel’s assault on Gaza. The sight of tens of thousands of people streaming across Europe’s only land border with Africa at Ceuta, a Spanish enclave in North Africa, prompted an extraordinary, critical response from 22 of the 27 EU member states. While Sánchez has improved Spain’s economy over the past five years, this committed Europhile now stands accused of turning his country into a Left-wing pariah.

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‘I finally found love at 75 after years of failed internet dates’

When my husband Tony died suddenly from a heart attack, I found myself alone at 63, writes Jacqueline May. The grieving process was brutal. He was my rock and a loving dad to our two daughters. After three years of solitary nights in a big, empty bed, however, I felt ready for love again. Dating apps led to nothing but disappointment, and six years later, I had all but given up hope – until a blind date cooked up by my daughter turned out to be the start of something special.

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Your Sunday

‘I lost 2st by working with a gut coach’

In 2020, I was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis, a chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), writes Emily Mead. By then, it was dominating my life. I couldn’t go anywhere that wasn’t within running distance of a toilet. After struggling with my symptoms for five years, with medication having little impact, I finally came across The Gut Coach, Chris Roberts, an IBD recovery specialist who had successfully managed his own UC through diet and lifestyle. Could his 21-day reset give me my life back?
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Simon Calder: Airport liquid rules were ‘security theatre’ all along

Many a crestfallen passenger at a British airport has seen their expensive sprays or shampoos consigned to a bin by security staff. Twenty years ago, restrictions on liquids, aerosols and gels (LAGs) in hand luggage were brought in overnight in response to the 2006 liquid bomb plot.

Security officials settled on 100ml as the largest safe size for an individual container. Seven years ago, Boris Johnson promised that the rules would be lifted by 2022. Yet we are halfway through the summer of 2026 and only a handful of British airports have removed the LAGs rule. As Greg Dickinson, our Senior Travel Writer, and I discuss in The Travel Expert podcast, confusion remains rife – amid controversy about whether the limits do any good.

Liquid levels are also a concern for thousands of would-be river cruisers on the Rhine and Danube, many of whom have seen historically low water turn their voyages into coach holidays. In brighter news for airline passengers, Gatwick’s expansion is set to bring more choice and lower fares.
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One great life

Nirmal Purja, first Gurkha to join SBS and mountaineer who smashed records but courted controversy

Nirmal Purja, who has died aged 43 in an avalanche in Pakistan, pushed the boundaries of high-altitude climbing and was a celebrated figure in Nepal and on social media, but his life was not without controversy, writes Andrew M Brown, Obituaries Editor.

In the space of six months and six days he climbed the 14 mountains in the world that are more than 8,000m high and at the time of his death was about to attempt his 58th ascent of an “8,000er”, without using supplementary oxygen.

Good-looking and dashing, Purja gained millions of followers on social media and was the subject of a Netflix documentary – quite something for a mountaineer from a poor farming background in Nepal, though purists criticised his somewhat buccaneering techniques.

He developed his climbing career while still a soldier in the Gurkhas, making back-to-back ascents of Mount Everest during the 2017 British Gurkha Everest Expedition. His Gurkha training never left him and he led expeditions to search for lost climbers.

In 2009, he became the first Gurkha to join the Special Boat Service.
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On this day

1902 | Edward VII is crowned King, succeeding his mother, Queen Victoria

1945 | US drops second atomic bomb, codenamed “Fat Man”, on Nagasaki, Japan, destroying part of the city

1974 | Richard Nixon resigns as US president and Gerald Ford, his vice-president, takes over (and our front page story the following day, seen below)

1988 | Just one day after 8/8/88, the number 888 is the winning lottery combination in New York

Birthdays: Vivek Ramaswamy (41), Gillian Anderson (58), Rod Laver (88)

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