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Zayna Iman told The Telegraph she felt ‘let down’ by Andy Burnham |
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Camilla Turner Sunday political editor |
Andy Burnham has been accused of failing to hold “predatory” police officers to account after a woman was allegedly raped in custody.
Zayna Iman, who waived her right to anonymity in an attempt to bring the alleged perpetrators at Greater Manchester Police (GMP) to justice, told The Telegraph that she felt let down by Burnham after he said he would help her.
Although her decision to speak out led Burnham to commission an independent review into the treatment of vulnerable women in custody, she feels this was a “PR stunt” to help with “damage limitation”.
Iman claims she was drugged and sexually assaulted in a cell while in custody at a GMP station in February 2021.
Shortly after she went public with her claims in July 2023, Burnham commissioned Dame Vera Baird KC, the former victims’ commissioner, to conduct an independent review into the treatment of vulnerable women in custody, and referred her case to the Independent Office for Police Conduct.
Burnham also issued a statement to the media saying he could give people the “assurance” that her case would be “fully, properly and independently” reviewed, adding: “I will be overseeing things to ensure that everything is fully investigated.” Continue reading ➤ |
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Bernard Jenkin A six-point plan to save the Tories and the nation Continue reading ➤ |
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Veronika Chuyan with her sons Jacob and Jasim |
As a Russian missile tore through a building overhead, Veronika Chuyan threw her body over her two young children. She was killed instantly, but her selfless act saved her children’s lives. The Telegraph spoke with Veronika’s family, friends and the Scottish paramedic who was at the scene, to paint a picture of who Veronika was and what happened that night. Continue reading ➤ |
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Tim Martin photographed for The Telegraph at the Metropolitan Bar, London, one of his 794 pubs |
Meeting The Telegraph in one of his 794 pubs, the plain-speaking Wetherspoon founder shares the secrets to his success, his satisfaction with Brexit, and his fears for Britain under Sir Keir Starmer’s “anti-business” Government. Continue reading ➤ |
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The US president can’t escape questions about his health for much longer |
As Donald Trump turns 80, public scrutiny over his physical fitness is mounting. Behind his bombastic exterior lies a clinically obese US president who shuns exercise, survives on fast food and conceals bruises with layers of make-up. Despite his record number of recent medical tests, his team of doctors insists he remains in perfect health. Continue reading ➤ |
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Anita Rani at the 2026 Bafta Awards |
It takes a certain level of confidence to rock up at the BBC to present one of its flagship radio programmes wearing bright pink Adidas tracksuit bottoms. Enter Anita Rani, the Woman’s Hour and Countryfile presenter, who loves to do just that. At 48, Rani is having more fun with fashion than ever, as she tells Caroline Leaper. Continue reading ➤ |
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Michael Mosbacher Deputy Comment Editor |
I have a confession to make: I can’t stand football. Those who share my affliction have prepared for the World Cup – albeit not by working out where to watch England play, but how best to avoid the whole soul-crushing spectacle. For us, the next five weeks will be a period of isolation and incomprehension.
As friends, colleagues and even family members jabber on about the latest exhilarating match, we will stare blankly into the distance. Football will intrude into conversations with normally sane and agreeable people, who usually avoid all mention of the beautiful game. Our best, indeed only, hope is to find solace among fellow footie refuseniks.
I suspect that my predicament is not uncommon, but most are rather better at covering up their natural inclinations. During the regular season, such men – women are freer, to be honest, about such matters – pick a team and feign interest. Most manage to avoid David Cameron’s mistake of becoming confused about which team they support. In 2015, the former prime minister declared his devotion to West Ham, before correcting himself to say he was, after all, an Aston Villa fan as previously stated. If only an MP publicly proclaimed they had no interest in football, I might be inclined to vote for them, regardless of what else they stood for.
My disdain for football is not a middle-aged affectation, but a decades-long personal battle with the sport |
The only essential that fan fakery requires is a regular look at the league table to remember roughly where “your” team stands. During the World Cup, matters are more straightforward still, and a rally to the flag is sufficient.
Why not take this easy option and do your best to pass for a regular guy, I have been asked on any number of occasions. Well, for a football innocent like me, it is just too easy to trip up. Sports journalism assumes a far greater level of knowledge than any art review ever would. No political story would ever assume that readers would know the differences in Commons procedure on a sitting Friday devoted to Private Members’ Bills from those on Mondays to Thursdays devoted to government business.
Yet match reports invariably do presuppose readers are au fait with the sport’s private language. This translates over to everyday conversation, so best to avoid the topic altogether. Sadly, that’s excruciatingly difficult during the World Cup.
Valentine’s and New Year’s Eve can be two of the most miserable days of the year – times of compulsory jollity which are just no fun when you are not in the mood. The next five weeks will be this on steroids for us football naysayers. The nation will take a collective leave of its senses, and we will need to explain every time we are less than ecstatic.
Then there is the national moroseness and self-pity to look forward to when England is inevitably knocked out.
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David Hockney in 2015: he forged a vibrant painting style that was distinctly his own |
David Hockney, OM, who has died aged 88, was Britain’s greatest living artist and its best known, writes Andrew M Brown.
He reinvented himself, we say in our obituary, “with clockwork reliability and restless curiosity in each successive decade”. His world revolved around Yorkshire, where he was born; California, where he spent an adventurous youth; London, where he blended into its arty circles; and recently, Normandy.
These environments provided him with his favourite subjects: the beauty of landscapes combined with the intimate lives of people. He captured these elements through varied media – latterly including the fax, the Polaroid and the iPad – favouring azure blues, as in his famous pool paintings, lush greens and vibrant reds.
Hockney’s Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures), 1972 |
Hockney remained unfazed by fame, and wore a badge on his lapel saying: “End bossiness soon.” It couldn’t say: “End bossiness now”, he explained, because that would have been too bossy.
He turned big-picture questions into what seemed like fun. “I suppose essentially I am saying we are not sure what the world looks like. An awful lot of people think we do, but I don’t,” he observed. “I’ve always believed that pictures make us see the world. Without them, I’m not sure what anybody would see.”
Read his full obituary here ➤ |
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1777 | The US Continental Congress adopts the stars and stripes flag
1942 | Anne Frank’s first entry into her diary, two days after it was given to her for her 13th birthday
2017 | Grenfell Tower disaster (see our front page from the following day below)
Birthdays: Boy George (65), Olaf Scholz (68), Donald Trump (80)
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