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Donald Trump is escorted off stage by secret service agents after the attempted shooting |
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Hannah Furness Royal Editor |
The King and Queen will land in Washington this afternoon, for the beginning of a state visit that was already fraught with difficulties.
The stakes are high. The King is supposed to be soothing the choppy waters between Donald Trump and Sir Keir Starmer over Iran; Epstein victims are calling on the royals to meet them; and there is the newly delicate matter of the Falklands.
Then someone tried to shoot Trump.
Palace staff, like the rest of Britain, woke yesterday to news that the US president and first lady were unharmed in the shooting, and that a lone gunman had been arrested at the annual White House correspondents’ dinner.
No wonder US and UK security services spent the night and following day locked in talks to determine whether the King and Queen’s visit could safely go ahead. They ruled that it could, and last night Buckingham Palace confirmed this in a statement.
There will be some modifications to the schedule, but none that the public will notice. Trump called the King ‘‘brave’’.
Security preparations are under way outside the White House ahead of the state visit |
As of today, the real business of a state visit will begin. Can the King pull it off? It is the trickiest tour of his reign, but he does have decades of diplomatic experience to draw from. As a palace source told me this weekend: ‘‘It’s not his first rodeo.’’
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Go deeper with our full coverage:
• Daniel Collings: Politicians must help the King save the ‘special relationship’
• Latest updates: Trump responds to gunman’s motive: ‘I’m not a paedophile’
• Visual reconstruction: By the time the US president realised what was happening, Vance had been swept to safety
• Tim Stanley: Trump has dodged another bullet, but political violence is killing democracy |
Telegraph journalists on the balcony of the Fleet Street building, on the newspaper’s final day there |
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Christopher Howse |
The observant among you might have noticed that the masthead of this newsletter has changed. The Telegraph clock was an icon of Fleet Street, where this newspaper was once based. It was part of an ambitious Fleet Street redesign, a sign of the paper’s optimism for the future.
The grand marble-halled building was demolished and replaced with an even grander building in Art Deco style, with soaring giant pillars of Portland stone and decorative Egyptian elements. The Prince of Wales reopened the office in 1882.
In the centre of the fourth floor jutted out a stunning clock. There had been a clock there before, with the letters of the word Telegraph standing in for nine hours. Workmen with alarming confidence and no safety harnesses dismantled it in 1930 in favour of a huge clock mounted in a multicoloured, modern casing of blue, red, green and gold that outdid the most ambitious cinema design.
Workmen dismantle the clock outside the Daily Telegraph office in 1930 |
The new Telegraph clock stood for modernity and up-to-the-minute news. Fleet Street, running from St Paul’s Cathedral to the Law Courts, could set its activities by it. From the first edition, in 1855, we have relied on new technology. That accounted for The Telegraph, a “name we trust appropriate, from the sources of our special information”.
On April 19 1858, an engraved device appeared in the paper that still heads our leading articles: a pictorial celebration of the electric telegraph and the mysterious words: WAS · IS · & · WILL · BE.
These words meant that The Telegraph was rooted in history, devoted to current news and committed to future improvement: “We shall be guided by a high tone of independent action; we shall be bound to the fetters of no party; we will be fearlessly independent,” as it declared in its first edition.
These are qualities that matter to this day, so it felt fitting to celebrate them at the top of From the Editor, our biggest newsletter – and Britain’s most popular.
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Lord Hermer has long insisted there is no tension between his past work as a human rights barrister and his current role in Government. However, an email from 2014 buried in a cache of 25,000 legal documents reviewed by this newspaper pushes that claim to its limit.
In the email, the man who is now Attorney General responds to the revelation that his clients, a group of Iraqis suing the Ministry of Defence, are Islamist militiamen who falsely claimed British troops had murdered civilians, by criticising the army.
Writing to a junior solicitor facing press criticism for her role in the case, he urges her to focus on the “much more important big picture”. “[Y]our hard work, dedication and ability are outstanding and have made a real difference to people’s lives – that is not something that Forbes, Neil Garnham or his clients can ever say,” he says. Here, we reveal why this line now threatens to haunt Lord Hermer. Continue reading ➤ |
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Police officers Simon Vandepeer (left) and Zachary Stimson. As anti-Semitism rises, they know they have a vital role |
On a quiet north London street, outside a Jewish primary school preparing for the Sabbath, police are no longer responding to ordinary incidents but to the grim new reality of “violence as a service”. After a suspected hostile reconnaissance outside the school, The Telegraph joined Metropolitan Police officers on Operation Compertum – an unprecedented surge deployment launched after a string of firebombings on Jewish sites. Continue reading ➤ |
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Wales was once Labour’s heartland, writes Annabel Denham, our Senior Political Commentator. Now, after decades of devolution, higher spending and worsening outcomes in health, education and jobs, that bond is breaking. In Port Talbot and beyond, boarded-up high streets and economic decline are fuelling a political revolt. As Reform surges and Labour slumps, Britain’s oldest electoral fortress may be on the verge of collapse.
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Anders Fernstedt, a homeless Swedish man who camps out on the building’s portico, is the only occupant of Rutland Gate |
London’s garden squares remain among the capital’s treasures, writes Michael Mosbacher, our Deputy Comment Editor. However, tucked beside Hyde Park, one of the city’s most expensive homes has become a symbol of absentee global wealth. Once sold for £210m million, 2-8a Rutland Gate now stands empty, decaying and bizarrely occupied only by a homeless artist. Continue reading ➤ |
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Finally binning the L-plates is one of early adulthood’s great moments, but many young Britons are stuck in first gear, as the costs of getting a licence pile up. Then there’s fuel inflation, and the excessive delays now faced by would-be drivers – who can wait up to six months to sit a practical test. The result is a hellish traffic jam, with predictable effects for the British economy. Matthew Bell maps out the data. Continue reading ➤ |
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The supermarket shelves might be drowning in mild cheddar, but seek out a more complex, farmhouse version and the options are far more scarce. Cheddar is suffering the same fate as other traditional British cheeses, writes Tomé Morrissey-Swan. That is: you can count the number of producers, once in the thousands, on your fingers. Those who remain tell me they fear for the future of their hard cheeses, which are losing out in the popularity stakes to alpine styles and funky washed-rind numbers. To save them, we must eat them. Or else Britain’s cheesemaking heritage will be reduced to crumbs. Continue reading ➤ |
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From multi-wedding outfits to Pantone-precise colour codes, Telegraph readers share their fashion conundrums for that all important day |
Wedding season can present a minefield of fashion dilemmas. We asked Telegraph readers for their worries, from budgets to body confidence, confusing themes to the fear of frumpiness. Caroline Leaper, our Deputy Fashion Director, has assembled a stylish survival guide to nine very specific wedding wardrobe challenges, proving that elegance needn’t mean surrendering personality.
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There was a time when I would have been deeply unimpressed by Sophia Money-Coutts’s suggestion that dinner parties should end at 10.30pm, American-style. For me, long, rambling evenings round the table were one of life’s great joys, during which no wine cork should ever be reunited with its bottle.
That changed, mysteriously enough, with the arrival of my daughter, an alarm clock without a snooze button. Now, on the rare occasions when my wife and I go out together, the babysitter’s fee ensures that we’re back at what I would once have considered an utterly risible hour. When people linger at ours, we find ourselves deploying such subtle hints as fishing my pyjamas out of the laundry pile.
I’ve enjoyed readers’ responses to Sophia’s piece. “Overstaying was one of my mother’s bêtes noires,” wrote Martin Watkins. “She lamented that the ‘set’ times for guests to leave a formal meal were largely forgotten by the late 1960s. She said that the agreed times, pre-war, were 2.45pm for luncheon and 10.45pm for dinner.
“She also observed that, for those lesser mortals who didn’t know the rules, a hostess’s ultimate recourse was to say in icy tones: ‘Would you like a lemonade?’”
Peter Sharp added: “My dad used to say that the best time to leave a dinner party is when you still wonder whether you’ve left too early, not when you’re in a taxi regretting you left too late. He also used to say that nothing good happens after midnight. I spent my twenties and thirties proving him wrong, and my forties and fifties discovering that he was merely early with the evidence.”
Anna Wareham, however, put in a word for the night owls: “Oh, but the world in general expects those of us who wake late to adapt relentlessly, demanding that we get up in the middle of the night.”
Douglas Chirnside, writing from the States, confessed that he missed “the British way. Here in California we are frequently home from dinner at 7.50pm. If you are not an evening person and flake at 10pm, don’t host a dinner party – opt for weekend brunches or lunches. If you cast your dinner party well, no one will want to leave, but guests will also judge when the time is right.” How’s your dinner-party stamina? Send your responses here and the best of the bunch will feature in a future edition of this newsletter.
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Homeowners in Coventry have been left furious after an 8ft parcel locker was installed just metres from their front doors. What do they claim it prevents them from doing?
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