Israeli activists stand guard against Israeli settlers who have surrounded the Nayef al-Kaabneh’s compound |
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Henry Bodkin Jerusalem Correspondent |
The Israeli settlers arrive at sunset to terrorise the inhabitants of the remote farmsteads.
In Taybeh, the last entirely Christian village in the West Bank, I witnessed an attack on one family that lasted for an hour.
A few days earlier, The Telegraph had been caught up in another evening assault, near the village of Qusra, which was miraculously repelled by villagers.
The violence continues here, despite the Israeli Defense Forces declaring these to be “closed military zones”.
On paper, these orders are supposed to protect Palestinians by preventing settlers from roaming near their homes illegally.
Yet locals claim that, in reality, the orders are being used to keep journalists and human rights activists away from contentious zones while allowing the settlers to continue their attacks.
Footage obtained by The Telegraph shows Israeli soldiers admitting that they have no intention of removing the settlers.
One villager from Taybeh, an area Jesus is believed to have visited after raising Lazarus from the dead, claimed that the settlers had been given the “green light” to do what they wanted and the closed military zone offered “no protection”.
It was here that settlers used leaf-blowers to fan the flames of fires they had started close to a Byzantine-era church last year.
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Leaf Arbuthnot |
In 2022, Jacob-Rees Mogg, then a Cabinet minister, caused a characteristic hoo-ha when he toured Whitehall and left notes on its many empty desks.
“Sorry you were out when I visited,” they read. “I look forward to seeing you in the office very soon.”
Civil servants still chilled by that memory can rest easy. If the words of Angela Rayner, the Housing Secretary, this week are anything to go by, no similar entreaties will be made to the armies of public sector workers working from home any time soon.
Yet Britain is in the midst of a quiet public sector productivity crisis: having made modest gains in the lean 2010s, public sector productivity collapsed during the pandemic – and remains some 2.5 per cent lower than in 2019.
This has come with a real cost. According to one estimate, if public sector productivity had kept pace with private sector productivity between 2019 and 2024, the UK’s GDP would have become 3 per cent larger.
You might hope the Government would throw the kitchen sink at trying to turn the numbers around – and that it might follow the lead of many top private companies by getting WFH-ers back to the office. Alas, not a bit of it....
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- The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have not been guaranteed an invitation to Royal family events, such as Christmas at Sandringham, when they return to the UK. The Duchess is also facing uncertainty around her casting in Guy Ritchie’s Britain-based Netflix production amid a public backlash. In one potential victory for the Sussexes, though, senior Labour MPs have suggested the family should be entitled to taxpayer-funded security.
- Iran shut down a British power plant for four days in an unprecedented cyber attack, The Telegraph can disclose. The incident took place at the same time as a series of attacks on US water infrastructure.
- Two police officers were among seven people who died in a head-on crash following a pursuit near Middlesbrough. Pc Matthew Blades and Pc Tom Clough were killed when their marked police vehicle collided with a Volkswagen Passat travelling in the wrong direction.
- Andy Burnham will send “mansion tax police” to homes to decide whether the owners should pay thousands of pounds more under the new levy.
- Plus, the same old Tottenham Hotspur were given a reality check of epic proportions with a humiliating loss to Brentford.
Roberto De Zerbi could not bear to watch as his team were put to the sword |
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The footballer turned actor returns to our screens in a second series of Guy Ritchie’s Netflix drama The Gentlemen. Helen Brown met him on his farm in Sussex, where he tells her he doesn’t vote and “my interest in politics is minus zero – I don’t understand it, and I want nothing to do with it”. Continue reading ➤ |
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You never really know someone until you unpack their bag of charity shop donations, writes Tansy Hoskins. Volunteering in a charity shop, I saw everything from the weird and wonderful to the sad and disturbing. I wanted to understand what really happened to the 350,000 tonnes of worn clothes donated to Britain’s 9,900 charity shops every year – and to find out who, ultimately, was profiting. The story took me through tax havens and secrecy jurisdictions to the billionaire palaces of European royalty. Continue reading ➤ |
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As a child, Jill was told she had been “chosen” by the parents who raised her. Decades later, she discovered the horrifying reality: she had been taken from her unmarried mother against her will. Her search for the truth uncovered a father who had waited 60 years for her, a devastating family secret, and a past stolen from her. Continue reading ➤ |
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When Gerald Stratford retired to the Cotswolds, he was looking for a way to fill his time. As an enthusiastic gardener, he decided to turn his hand to growing giant vegetables. Then, after a post on Twitter went viral during lockdown, he had Gucci and McQueen begging to work with him. Now he’s returning to his roots, helping to foster a love of growing among the next generation. Continue reading ➤ |
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It will be a scenario familiar to many midlife women. Caught in a tailspin of bringing up children, a busy job and perimenopause, Deborah Joseph lost her style confidence and enthusiasm. After turning 50, she decided to try to reclaim her fashion mojo. Here’s how she did it, along with tips and tricks that could work for you, too.
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One type of holiday seems to inspire the Telegraph Travel audience more than any other: the cruise. The attraction starts with the possibility of avoiding airport stress by boarding at a UK port. You can visit a series of alluring destinations without constantly unpacking and repacking. Then there’s life aboard…
Not all ships are created equal. In one article featured in today’s Travel Newsletter, our cruise expert picks her six favourite luxury voyages. Expect free-flowing champagne, enlightening excursions, super-fast complimentary Wi-Fi and even a butler to help with that once-only unpacking. I report on a rather different cruise: a one-night grand tour from Fife to Newcastle. The 38-year-old vessel was hardly the last word in cutting-edge luxury, but every passenger seemed to have the time of their life.
Also today, a reader asks for the ideal en-route stopover between Sydney and Britain, excluding Singapore and the Middle East hubs – one city stands out. Plus, we assess the nine contenders jostling to become UK City of Culture in 2029. My money is on Portsmouth – which is also a growing cruise port.
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Phyllida Law, who has died aged 94, was a distinguished actress on stage and screen, frequently performing with her daughter, Dame Emma Thompson. Perhaps the most noted film they did together was The Winter Guest (1997), Alan Rickman’s directorial debut. They also appeared in Kenneth Branagh’s divisive Peter’s Friends (1992), in which Law was one of the few members of the ensemble cast to underplay her part as the deadpan housekeeper to Stephen Fry’s young aristocrat.
By accident or design, Law conveyed an appealing dottiness. She habitually wore a monocle, and wrote in The Telegraph that she found it “wonderfully effective” when dealing with terrifying figures such as waiters. The problem, she said, was that on public transport, “other passengers look alarmed, thinking I am an elderly Nazi”.
She was also the keeper of the flame, during a long widowhood, for her late husband Eric Thompson – the man who made The Magic Roundabout magical – and she became a bestselling author in old age with a series of offbeat memoirs. She refused to retire until she was approaching 90. “We must exit disgracefully,” she insisted. “I refuse to be marginalised and remaindered because I neither menstruate nor f---.” Read more about her fascinating life here ➤ |
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1305 | William Wallace is executed in London for high treason against Edward I
1939 | Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree to the Molotov-Ribbentrop non-aggression pact
2011 | Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, is overthrown (and our coverage on the following day’s front page can be seen below)
2023 | Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner mercenary group, is killed along with nine others in a plane crash
Birthdays: Joanne Froggatt (46), Ray Park (52), Rick Springfield (77)
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