Britain must wake up. Follow rigorous reporting on the threats to our democracy. One year for £25. |  | Kieran Kelly Foreign Reporter | The last thing Nazar Bokhii remembers is the noise – a deafening buzz that seemed to come out of nowhere. He had stepped from his dugout for only a few seconds, taking a rare pause from the endless routine of drone launches and landings along the front line.
“I didn’t hear the explosion, only a ringing sound in my ears… the lights just went out. Everything disappeared,” he told The Telegraph.
Nazar was one of the lucky ones. He survived.
The 28-year-old Ukrainian is one of several infantrymen The Telegraph spoke to about their encounters with drones, which have come to define the three-and-a-half year conflict with Russia.
Once used as reconnaissance tools, they have become precision killers, striking military bases and chasing soldiers across the battlefield. Officials estimate that drones now cause as many as 80 per cent of battlefield casualties.
The Ukrainian soldiers’ testimonies demonstrate how drones are reshaping the human experience of war.
The terror of their sound haunts survivors long after the skies have fallen silent. Shellshock has a new name: dronephobia.
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Continue reading ➤ | | | Padel, the fashionable racket sport, is growing exponentially in the UK and passed the 400,000-player mark this year. Could it eventually overtake tennis, its older and more respectable brother? Jamie Murray, Britain’s greatest tennis doubles player, told The Telegraph that padel “is probably a better business model, and more likely to get bigger numbers playing the sport over time”. Simon Briggs investigates. Continue reading ➤ | | | Apple Martin may be the famous daughter of Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin, but the 21-year-old got her start working in a clothes shop. “My parents don’t want me to be entitled. I have to work,” she tells Rebecca Cope. Now she’s turning her interest in fashion towards modelling – starting with a just-released campaign for a British label that counts the Princess of Wales among its clientele. Continue reading ➤ | | | Your mother was right – breakfast really is the most important meal of the day. A new study found that for every hour breakfast was delayed, the risk of death over the next decade rose by 10 per cent. From blood sugar spikes to weight gain, here’s why when you eat is just as important as what you eat. Continue reading ➤ Below are two more helpful articles for you this morning: - Traditional dining rooms are back, but is it all over for the eat-in kitchen? We put the two rooms head-to-head to determine what’s best for your aesthetic.
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| | For some travellers, hiking New Zealand’s Mitre Peak, discovering its Maori heritage and exploring the unspoilt Bay of Islands may appeal more than tanning on Australia’s Bondi Beach.
Yet Australia has much to offer: vast deserts and sites of natural beauty (such as Uluru) are a draw, as are the cosmopolitan cities – not to mention the Great Barrier Reef and the Sydney Opera House. Despite their geographic proximity and a shared colonial ancestry (New Zealand rejected an offer to join the Australian federation), the two countries could not be more different.
Mark Chipperfield, our destination expert, has spent much of his life in both. Here, he compares them across seven categories including landscapes, nightlife, accommodation, beaches and value for money.
Read on to find out which reigns supreme – and don’t forget to tell us which is top of your travel wishlist in the comments section.
Continue reading ➤ | Are trigger warnings ever useful? Orlando, your loyal Reader Correspondent, is on a much-needed holiday and will be back with you soon. For now, Joe Burgis is on hand to deliver an off-piste topic that has brought out the best of your opinions and stories. Joe writes...
Only once have I regretted the absence of a trigger warning: in the final throes of Middlemarch, with days of my life lost, I wished I’d been put off by a cautionary note on the acute tedium ahead of me. But I suppose the experience put hairs on my chest.
The encouraging news is that trigger warnings – eg those for “blood” (Macbeth), “racism” (To Kill a Mockingbird), “awful people” (Normal People) – are having the opposite effect to that desired. New research published by the Journal of Behaviour Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry claims that they entice readers and viewers to look where they supposedly shouldn’t.
E Hatfield explained that, in fact, the allure of trigger warnings is nothing new: “My Victorian great-aunt always made a point of listening to programmes that were deemed ‘not for those of a nervous disposition’, hoping to be mildly shocked. She rarely was.”
S Grant considered the welfare of the warners: “There can be no doubt that the people who attach trigger warnings perform a vital public service, but what about their own mental health? Surely we should protect them by pre-emptively banning any book, film or stage play that might possibly contain anything disturbing.”
K E Smith pulled no punches: “Trigger warnings are as idiotic as a takeaway coffee cup bearing the legend ‘WARNING contents may be hot!’ If people are too stupid to realise that a James Bond movie from the 1960s may have attitudes that are not the same as today’s, 60 years later, then maybe they should stick to watching Paw Patrol instead.”
Yet perhaps they have their uses. As M Tucker wrote: “They’re a great way of finding non-woke stuff that’s actually worth watching.” Is there ever a good excuse for a trigger warning? Let me know here, or head to our Your Say page on the Telegraph app. | Plan your day with the telegraph | Set your alarm to catch up with journalists on the Your Say page and listen to their analysis on our latest podcasts.
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The solution to yesterday’s clue was HOMEOWNER. Come back tomorrow for the answer to today’s puzzle. | | Thank you for reading. Have a fulfilling day and I hope to see you tomorrow. Chris Evans, Editor
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