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Almost every town, no matter how affluent it is, has its rough areas or sink estates. The image projected by Middlesbrough over the past week or so, however, is that the whole town is in the tank.
Since the shocking car crash last weekend that killed two policemen and the five louts who ploughed into them while driving the wrong way on a dual carriageway, the lid has been taken off a community whose law and order problems are more like those we would normally associate with the worst parts of Los Angeles, Palermo or Johannesburg. For provincial England, this is shocking.
What is happening in Middlesbrough is a problem of the post-industrial white working class, and self-inflicted. One culprit is welfarism – the encouragement of the notion that one can simply become the state’s, or rather the taxpayer’s, responsibility – and the idea that any misfortune must be somebody else’s fault.
Such a mentality has reduced the toughness of a once-resilient people and helped dilute the essential distinction between right and wrong. The latter has been aggravated by the ease with which criminals get away with many of their crimes.
Today, it is Middlesbrough that appears to be in a state of anarchy. How long, given that these toxic attitudes and inadequate law enforcement pertain around the country, before it becomes commonplace rather than exceptional?
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Andy Burnham is on a collision course with Donald Trump over a combination of the Falkland Islands and defence spending.
The US has threatened to drop its support for Britain’s sovereignty over the territory unless the Prime Minister sets out a viable path to meeting Nato’s 5 per cent spending pledge.
A senior US official told The Telegraph that Britain would receive “special attention” in Washington’s ongoing review of allies’ commitment to Nato, which would examine whether member nations had credible paths to reaching the target.
Officials in Washington believe that, while Britain has the potential to be a leading defence partner, the defence investment plan, announced by Sir Keir Starmer in June, is not enough of a “step in the right direction”.
“I would expect Britain to receive special attention because it has so much potential,” the official said about the review. “We will therefore continue efforts to incentivise and enable Britain to step up in a major way.”
Asked about the prospect of the US changing its position on the Falklands, they added: “I can say that they [conversations] are candid and nothing is being ruled out as far as options for encouraging the sort of burden-sharing that we seek.”
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• Vladimir Putin’s sabotage campaign in Europe risks a “miscalculation” that could accidentally trigger a confrontation with Nato, Western officials have warned.
• Petrol prices have hit their highest levels in almost four years as motorists prepare for the busiest bank holiday weekend on the roads in more than a decade.
• Andy Burnham has refused to back the assisted dying bill in a blow to campaigners battling for a change in the law. The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill returns to Parliament next month.
• A Reform UK-led council is to become the first to pay for town centre security guards to protect residents from asylum seekers.
• Bodies of victims swept away in Nepal’s floods have washed up more than 100 miles from the disaster zone. Read our dispatch here.
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I visited the National Archives in Kew, west London, to meet the authors of a new book on MI5’s declassified records, writes Rozina Sabur, our National Security Editor. Authors and archivists Mark Dunton and Stephen Twigge have had unparalleled access to the trove of files the Security Service has chosen to make public over the past two decades. The result is a visual record of the agency’s formation and its operations during major events of the 20th century, including illuminating new details about the Cambridge Five spy ring. Continue reading ➤ |
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A house for £5 sounds like a tantalising offer. As property prices put home ownership further out of reach, more hopeful buyers are turning to property raffles for a chance to strike it lucky. The Telegraph’s investigation reveals a catch: very few actually result in a property changing hands. Continue reading ➤ |
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What does Sir Geoffrey Boycott think of England star and fellow Yorkshireman Harry Brook? “Enormous talent,” with the potential to be as good as legends Brian Lara and Sachin Tendulkar. There is a but… in episode three of Sir Geoffrey Boycott: An Extraordinary Innings, he says Brook is his own worst enemy as a batsman and reveals what happened when he offered to help with his batting. Continue reading ➤ |
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While many of us are conscious of how much we drink, how we spread out our alcohol consumption matters, too. Read our analysis to find out whether you’re more of a social sipper, a daily drinker, a heavy indulger or a weekend binger, and what your drinking style means for your health. Continue reading ➤ Here is another article that I hope you will find helpful this morning:
- In this week’s episode of The Travel Expert, Simon Calder and Greg Dickinson discuss the controversial new passport checks on the UK-Ireland frontier. Click here to listen.
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Do you know what you’re going to eat this weekend? We’ve got you covered. Every week, Diana Henry, The Telegraph’s award-winning cookery writer, brings you three recipes for a perfect weekend meal. Meanwhile, William Sitwell shares his view from the culinary world – and a recommendation or two.
Plum and raspberry squares with lemon thyme |
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Bank holidays, especially the last one of the summer, require a cake. With families making their way back home, I wouldn’t dream of going anywhere. This is a bank holiday for doing nothing except drinking tea, hopefully in the garden if the rain hasn’t set in. It should be a bank holiday out of an English sitcom.
So, what to bake? It has been a great summer for fruit and for the vegetables we grow on veg patches and allotments. Soon we’ll be sorry that we’re no longer tripping over unruly bags of courgettes on the kitchen floor and that stone fruit has completely finished. If you can get good plums, use them for this traybake of plum and raspberry squares – but it can also be made with nectarines, peaches or apricots (I can’t lay my hands on apricots any more, though I snoop around local Turkish and Greek shops that have stone fruit for longer than anyone else). The raspberries can be swapped for blueberries if they have a hit of sourness. This bake is a bit special because of the lemon thyme flavour that infuses the sugar in the cake batter. Keep it in an airtight tin and it might see you through the rest of the week.
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I can’t decide whether to make that or this courgette loaf cake, one of the best moist cakes I’ve come up with in recent years. You don’t need an electric stand mixer, just a bowl and a spoon. Since the cost of pistachios has gone through the roof, you can replace half of them with almonds if you prefer.
Lemon and ricotta cake with citrus fruits in lemon-thyme syrup |
Lemons aren’t summer fruits, yet they’re always here and always necessary; that sharp freshness is important in the summer, especially in something sweet. So my third suggestion to you is a lemon and ricotta cake, which is delicious even if you don’t make the citrus compote included in the recipe (which is more wintry). Serve it with berries instead, invite friends round to join you (the fresh ricotta means the cake doesn’t keep for long), and you’re giving the summer a good send-off.
Before you go, I’ve written before that I’m a sucker for a brilliant bakery, and there are some great destinations in this bucket-list guide, which highlights the signature creations – cube croissants, cinnamon buns and crème brûlée doughnuts among them – that are well worth a journey. I’d love to know how far you’ve travelled to get your hands on a pastry or bun.
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Meanwhile, William Sitwell reflects on a botched attempt at conversing with a tradesman...
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Jason, the decorator at my West Somerset hotel, was up a ladder. “Good morning,” I heralded in my best Northern Irish – Jason is from Belfast so presumably appreciates my attempts to make him feel at home. “When you’ve finished slapping on the green can we have a chat about the architrave,” I added, displaying both bonhomie and technical know-how. I’m at one with tradesmen, right? Jason stepped down from the ladder and eyed me squarely. “I do not ‘slap on paint’,” he said, sounding like Liam Neeson (“I will find you and I will kill you.”). Perhaps, actually, toffs shouldn’t attempt conversation with tradesmen…
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Proud LudditesEvery weekday, Orlando Bird, our loyal Reader Correspondent, shares an off-piste topic that has brought out the best of your opinions and stories. Orlando writes...
Cash is still king – at least according to your replies to Thursday’s edition. As a habitual card user, but also someone who sees a certain romance in resisting convenience, I’m beginning to wonder if I should change my ways.
Olwyn Bull writes: “I use cash for 75 per cent of all purchases. It definitely helps with budgeting. Cards are great for certain things, but when used on a regular basis you lose control of your finances.”
Roslyn Smith adds: “Cards are addictive. They suit the era of instant gratification. Some Luddites and their cottage industries still exist, though. I belong to a local art gallery. Hopeful amateurs, including clever children, exhibit amazing work, hoping for sales. Others create exquisite handicrafts, which take hours. It’s cash only – even if it’s sad to turn away keen buyers who present a card.”
John Riches has succumbed to temptation, however: “I am a Luddite and still believe cash is king but confess that, in my twilight years, cards are often more convenient when I am fumbling to pay for purchases.”
I also enjoyed your responses to my colleague Kate’s column on the benefits of a “free-range childhood”, an increasing rarity in this screen-addled age.
One reader recalls: “My family moved to northern Canada. I woke early each morning, did my chores around my parents’ hotel and then I was off, hiking in the wilderness looking for wildlife, which included moose, deer, beavers and the occasional bear. I took our outboard motorboat and fished for hours, cooked a shore lunch and went home for supper. All at the age of 10.” That’s all from me, folks. I’ll be back next week to bring you the best Telegraph talking points. In the meantime, you can contact me here.
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Welcome to Andrew Baker’s Saturday quiz. Test your knowledge below to see if you have been paying attention to our newsletters this week...
1. Dogs named Mia and Pula arrived in Britain this week with their owners. To whom do they belong?
2. In search of solitude, what does William Sitwell long to be able to do again?
3. Lisa Armstrong, our Head of Fashion, is bang on trend with her bixie. What is that?
4. This week in 1875, Capt Matthew Webb became the first man to do what?
5. A favourite self-deprecating line of the late Dolly Parton was: “It costs a lot to make a person look this…” What?
Find as many words as you can in today’s Panagram, including the nine-letter solution. Visit Telegraph Puzzles to play a range of head-scratching games, including The 1% Club, Cogs, and Quick, Mini or Cryptic Crosswords.
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Yesterday’s Panagram was CRUCIFIED. Come back tomorrow for the solution to today’s puzzle.
Plus, can you tackle The 1% Club? Scroll down to see if you got the questions right – and play for free on our website and app.
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1882 | England lose to Australia for the first time on home soil, giving birth to the Ashes rivalry (you can see how we covered this in the following day’s paper below)
1994 | Oasis release their debut album Definitely Maybe
1997 | Netflix is founded as an online DVD rental business
2018 | Alex Salmond resigns from the Scottish National Party
Birthdays: Thomas Tuchel (53), Sir Lenny Henry (68), Elliott Gould (88)
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Thank you for reading. Have a fulfilling day and I hope to see you tomorrow. Chris Evans, Editor
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Quiz answers:
- The Duke and Duchess of Sussex
- Mow his lawn
- A hairstyle: part bob, part pixie
- Swim the Channel
- Cheap
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The 1% Club answers:
- Directory
- Back to front
- Scuttle
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