Final days to claim your email-exclusive offer | | In an emotional interview, the BBC commentator reveals how he has dealt with grief |  | Oliver Brown Chief Sports Writer | In my 20-plus years as a journalist, the interview I conducted with BBC commentator John Hunt counts among the most memorable.
On July 9, 2024, John, a devoted family man, discovered that his wife, Carol, and his two younger daughters, Hannah and Louise, had been murdered by Louise’s ex-boyfriend at his Hertfordshire home in an act of unimaginable savagery. For the past 20 months, the task of picking his way through the desolation has not been just day-by-day or even hour-by-hour, but minute-by-minute.
As he prepared for a return to his beloved Cheltenham Festival, we met near Hampton Court Palace to explore the most fraught questions: How do you bear the unbearable? How do you speak about the unspeakable?
From the outset, John was comfortable answering anything, explaining every element of the armour he has acquired to navigate his torment. He discussed the importance of therapy, of socialising, even of filling out his fantasy football entries, in his attempts to find solace amid the devastation.
I was particularly struck by his account of how Hannah, having raised the alarm in her dying moments, gave him a reason to live. Convinced that he would have been Kyle Clifford’s fourth victim if he had returned to the house earlier that evening, he described feeling as if he had a second chance and was determined to seize it in honour of Hannah’s memory.
He also spoke movingly about how the Queen, who he met last December, has treated Amy, his surviving daughter, almost as her own grandchild. His courage, truly, is awe-inspiring.
Read the full interview ➤ |  | Roland Oliphant Chief Foreign Analyst | Over the past week, America’s soldiers, sailors and airmen have demonstrated why they are still the planet’s most powerful and feared military.
They have achieved air superiority over a country three times the size of France, sunk almost an entire navy and hit thousands of targets for the loss of just six American lives.
To what end, though?
For all the operational brilliance, no one seems to know how this war will conclude. Most Iranians are clear: they want the end of the regime that has terrorised them for decades, crashed the economy and slaughtered thousands of protesters just last month. For them, the whole edifice of the Islamic Republic must be brought down and replaced with a democracy. Many middle-class Iranians inside the country believe that is possible. Reza Pahlavi, the exiled crown prince, also champions that dream.
However, Trump himself seems sceptical. More realistic, he has suggested, would be a replay of his intervention in Venezuela: cutting a deal with what is left of the regime that would leave the hard men in charge as long as they surrender their nuclear ambitions and missile programme.  | | Pastors praying for Trump in the Oval Office yesterday | In Washington and Jerusalem, that might look pragmatic. For Iranians, it would be a ghastly betrayal. Now, an even darker fate looms on the horizon: with the regime leaderless, the armed forces in danger of splitting and the CIA planning to back ethnic minority armed groups, Iran could well be facing state collapse and civil war.
Which endgame will America, Israel and the regime choose? Will the Iranian people themselves be offered a choice?
Read Roland’s full analysis ➤ | | Charles Moore Successive prime ministers have lacked the requisite levels of cunning and thought to keep us relevant on the world stage Continue reading ➤ Tom Harris Polanski’s Ayatollah stunt shows how extreme the Greens really are Continue reading ➤ Camilla Tominey Ed Davey is worse than a laughing stock. He’s a disgrace Continue reading ➤ | | To make sure you don’t miss our newsletters when they land in your inbox, click here. | | Retired astronaut Tim Peake takes the controls of the Spitfire at Southampton airport | | The crisis has exposed a sharp divide between those who treat this city as a hotel, and those who have dropped anchor, Isabel Oakeshott says | | From her 42nd-floor balcony in Dubai Marina, Isabel Oakeshott recounts a surreal new rhythm of life: empty highways, missile alerts and midnight trips to the underground car park with her daughters clutching their passports and teddies. Yet above ground, the metro glides on, beaches fill and food deliveries arrive within minutes. War, perhaps – but with room service. Continue reading ➤ | |  | | Martin Deeson went to see a heart consultant after receiving ambiguous CT scan results from an NHS screening | | Martin Deeson finally embraced a healthy lifestyle when he was 50, swapping pints and cigarettes for weight training and kombucha (on a good day). But what damage had been done before then? After an NHS scan revealed he had “calcification of the arteries” but couldn’t confirm how serious it was, he visited a private heart consultant to learn more. Continue reading ➤ | | | Is Leonardo DiCaprio’s Oscars battle already won? Can Sinners take a bite out of Marty Supreme? Will Jessie Buckley be crying tears of joy? By crunching decades of awards numbers, our data team predicts who will win in the “big six” categories. Continue reading ➤ | | | Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire comes with an eye-watering price tag | | Ticket prices at major British attractions have soared in recent years, with many theme parks unfairly using surge pricing for admission during school holidays and at weekends. We asked the experts which of Britain’s most expensive attractions are worth paying for and which you should save for a rainy, off-peak day. Continue reading ➤ | | Pining for Spring | Spring onion and goat’s cheese tart |  | Diana Henry The Telegraph’s award-winning cookery writer | I’m trying to fight it, but I have a very strong urge to leap into spring once I see the first signs of it. It’s almost as if we can’t control it; like a plant, we turn our faces to the sun and walk taller.
The thing is, it’s always a mixture of bad and good weather at this time of year, so in the kitchen, you can find yourself cooking the wrong dish for supper. I have even been eyeing up red peppers, which are just too summery (resist, they’ll be in season soon enough). But I am cooking in-between-the-seasons dishes this weekend. There’s no asparagus yet, but a tart of charred spring onions and goat’s cheese is taking us in the right direction. | Leafy salad with a simple vinaigrette | I love winter salads of bitter leaves and all those wintry vegetables and fruits – beetroot, blood oranges, pomegranate seeds, squash – so it’s been a while since I’ve made a simple leaf salad (the one pictured above would go very well with the goat’s cheese tart). I’m glad to go back to them. Remember to taste the dressing again and again as you make it so you have the seasoning and the balance of fat and acid just right. I’ll be making a lemon cake, too. Citrus fruits are at their best in the winter, but lemons always pull us to the next stage of the year. Pictured above is a cake from a friend who is a Shetlander – I had it at one of the famous Sunday teas they hold there – and had the neat idea of using a tube of sherbet lemon (you can buy it in sweet shops) instead of icing sugar on the top. I hope you enjoy it.
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Happy cooking! | Andrew Baker’s Saturday Quiz |
Gather round for the latest instalment of my Saturday quiz. - On this date in 1876, a patent was granted for an invention called the “telephone”. Who was the inventor?
- What is the name of the green Teletubby?
- The green lynx spider of the southern US and Central America is named for its colour and which cat-like characteristic?
- Whose backing band was called The Spiders From Mars?
- The planet Mars has two small, irregularly shaped moons. What are they called?
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Yesterday’s Panagram was BUTTERFLY. Come back tomorrow for the solution 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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