Proud to be British Read more from journalists who champion our culture, history and values Enjoy three months’ free access to The Telegraph. Cancel at any time. |  | Jessamy Calkin | Having long been fascinated by the disciplines of forensics and psychiatry, the idea of actually interviewing a forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist who had worked with offenders in Broadmoor Hospital was very appealing to me.
Forensic psychiatry is a medical speciality focusing on the intersection of law and psychiatry, but in practice it means treating offenders with mental disorders who have agreed to therapy, in prisons and hospitals.
Dr Gwen Adshead, who was persuasively calm and measured, has treated hundreds of people, including murderers, arsonists, child-sex offenders, stalkers and people who have been referred to her after their release from prison to help them readjust to life on the outside.
She sees her role as trying to understand the causes of what is termed by society as ‘evil’; she is not trying to excuse it. We had a long and fascinating discussion about violence, the nature of evil and the types of childhood adversity that can tip people into crime.
She has strong views about what can be done to improve the penal system in this country and I was keen to ask her about criminals who have been in the news recently, such as Lucy Letby and Axel Rudakubana.
Continue reading ➤ | | Eric Williams Money Reporter | The results are in for Reform’s trial run at holding the reins of power.
Five months ago, Reform won control of Kent in an apocalyptic night for the Tories. Nigel Farage branded the victory a “tectonic shift in British politics” and the county promised to become a litmus test for whether his once-fringe populist movement has what it takes to govern.
But the wheels seem to have come off.
A council tax row has already broken out as the new crop of Reform councillors struggle to deliver on grand promises Mr Farage made on the campaign trail.
While Mr Farage lambasted the previous Tory leadership for increasing council tax by the maximum five per cent, it now looks like Reform may have to do the same.
Linden Kemkaran, the newly elected Kent county council leader, admitted to The Telegraph that the row was a “bump in the road”. She struck a very different tone to the aftermath of her victory and now claims that voters in Kent actually support council tax increases.
Walking the streets of Maidstone, the reality is very different.
Reform supporters told The Telegraph they would “never vote for them again” and said the row showed the party were “just like all the others, promising the world but never delivering”. | Linden Kemkaran says she faces ‘a black hole in the finances left by the Tories’ | Kent has been the guinea pig for Reform’s ‘Doge’ cost-cutting drive, modelled on chainsaw-wielding Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.
But that project appears to have fizzled out, leaving opposition councillors gloating that the party’s chainsaw has turned out to be “made out of sponge”. Continue reading ➤ | Join the debate Share your thoughts with our journalists and your fellow readers Enjoy three months’ free access to The Telegraph. Cancel at any time. | | When the G20 convenes in Johannesburg next month, world leaders will be meeting in a city that residents claim is in freefall. Neighbourhoods go without water for weeks at a time, services are collapsing and some areas are crumbling. The fate of the city is now set to dominate the country’s politics as an emboldened opposition scents blood and tries to kick out the ruling African National Congress. Continue reading ➤ | | | When the first patients came banging on my door, desperately seeking weight-loss injections for their children, I was hesitant to help – even though I’ve been running an obesity clinic for 40 years, and, for five of them, prescribing weight-loss drugs to adults. But they kept coming back and I realised the root of their desperation: their children were unable to get help anywhere else, writes Dr Sindy Newman. Continue reading ➤ | | | Thirty years ago, Anthea Turner was the golden girl of British television with a sunny smile and perky voice. Then things went wrong. Leaving her husband for Grant Bovey, a married man, destroyed her squeaky-clean image. Later, a promotional tie-in at their wedding drew widespread vitriol. “They’re going to pull you down at some point,” she says. “I was one of the first who learnt the hard way.” But, as she explains in this interview, she picked herself up, dusted herself off and found a new audience. Continue reading ➤ | | | What do preppers with sniper rifles, teenage drone pilots and members of a 100-year-old paramilitary group all have in common? Should a single Russian jackboot cross their border, they’re ready to defend Poland to the death.
Reporting from five locations across Poland, I spoke to volunteers, survival experts, military school pupils and good old-fashioned eccentrics who are getting ready for war, writes James Rothwell. Continue reading ➤ | | | He is a larger-than-life figure, a national treasure who could always find the fun in cricket. But the laughter stopped for him in 2021 when he was caught up in a racism storm. Now, he has emerged from this “dark period” and treats Chief Sports Writer Oliver Brown to a whirlwind hour of anecdotes and stories. Continue reading ➤ | | | Since Jodie Kidd saved a West Sussex pub from closure in 2017, it has won awards and seemed to be a cornerstone of village life. So it was a surprise when the Half Moon's landlord announced that staff had faced abuse from customers and were taking a break. We visited Kirdford to find out what happened, and it became clear there’s another side to the story. Continue reading ➤ | |  |  | Every Sunday, Sarah Knapton, our Science Editor, and Joe Pinkstone, our Science Correspondent, demystify your supernatural experiences. From ghoulish encounters to bizarre coincidences, there’s always a scientific explanation and nothing is as strange as it seems...
A baffled reader writes...
“Many years ago I was a radio officer on a Danish ship and I had a raging toothache. We were 10 days from our next port of call in Japan.
“The second mate had the keys to the medicine chest and gave me a couple of pain killers but they didn’t touch the ache so to stop me pestering him, he gave me two sleeping pills with instructions to take another if the first two didn’t work.
“Needless to say they didn’t work so two hours later two morphine pills were administered. I lay on my bunk and fell asleep. Some time later, I woke up and turned over but realised I hadn’t moved. I was puzzled by this so I thought I would take the experiment one stage further.
“I got out of the bunk and walked across the cabin, turned around and saw that I was still in my bunk. At this point I panicked and jumped back into my body. Had I momentarily died or just hallucinated? Could it be that in that brief period I was a ghost?”
Sarah and Joe answer...
Taking a long, hard look in the mirror can often be hard enough, but seeing yourself still asleep from across the room and contemplating your mortality is a different matter entirely.
You were right to ponder if you had shed your mortal coil as seeing your own body from a different perspective is a common event reported by people who have had a near-death experience.
Almost half of people in one study on close shaves with the reaper reported some kind of out-of-body experience (or OBE). Of course, we’ll never know for sure if it is a harbinger of death, as those with indubitable evidence are unable to tell the living – not even to querying journalists.
However, while an OBE is common among those who dodge death, it is not exclusive to life-or-death scenarios.
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Plus, send in your questions for them here ➤ | | What a time to be alive if you’re a teetotaller (or persevering through “Sober October”). Alcohol-free and low-alcohol beers are now big business, with the market – worth £380 million in 2024 – encompassing a dizzying range of stouts, porters and craft wheat beers. But before you raise a glass, it’s worth checking the label, as many contain a lot more sugar and calories than you may think. From Guinness to Lucky Saint, here’s what a nutritionist has to say about the leading brands.
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Below are two more articles that I hope will brighten your weekend: | | Westminster, 1973: Gurney breaks the window of a car, hauls out the rear-seat squab stuffed with 120lb of high explosives and disconnects a bomb | Peter Gurney had a remarkable career in which he rose to become head of the Metropolitan Police Explosives Office, writes Andrew M Brown, Obituaries Editor.
Awarded several decorations for gallantry, he had been fascinated by explosives ever since he was a boy during the Blitz, and his career unfolded at a time when the IRA were trying to terrorise Londoners with the threat of random bombs.
Gurney helped to catch “Brighton bomber” Patrick Magee, who had attempted to destroy Margaret Thatcher and her Cabinet; and when the IRA tried to blow up 10 Downing Street with the PM John Major inside, Gurney handled a burning-hot malfunctioning mortar bomb.
Devices were planted at department stores, and one attack began with an explosion in an Oxford Street Wimpy Restaurant. As Gurney picked his way through the wreckage, he saw the body of his best friend. He recognised the shredded cardigan. Gurney successfully neutralised a bomb, but for years afterwards had nightmares about trying, but failing, to save comrades from bombs.
Fear was a tool of his trade, he said. When he could no longer contemplate what he called “the long walk to the loneliest place in the world”, he should stop.
You can read his obituary here. | | Test your trivia skills and put the answers below in order. Play all three rounds of today’s trivia game, Sorted, plus our full range of brainteasers on Telegraph Puzzles.
Get a head start on today’s Plusword by cracking this clue: Yesterday’s Panagram was MULTITUDE. Come back tomorrow for the solution to today’s puzzle. | | Finally, we have launched a second edition of this newsletter: From the Editor PM. It will land in your inbox in the early evening to update you on the day’s headlines and bring you the best analysis, comment and features from our London and Washington newsrooms. To sign up, click here.
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