|
Enjoy full access to The Telegraph, including all the articles in this newsletter. But hurry, our lowest annual offer will expire soon.
|
Sir Ken McCallum said he feared the row about the Brexit vote would please Russian trolls by making them seem ‘10ft tall’ |
 |
Rozina Sabur National Security Editor |
The head of MI5 has challenged suggestions that Russia swung the outcome of the Brexit referendum, insisting the result is “not in dispute”.
Debate over the extent of the Kremlin’s interference in the 2016 vote reignited after Andy Burnham said it was important to get “on the record” that Moscow had interfered in the referendum. It led opponents to accuse the Prime Minister of implying that the referendum was illegitimate.
Sir Ken McCallum, MI5’s director-general, waded into the row as he delivered his annual threat update to journalists yesterday, saying there was an “important difference” between “interference attempted and outcome swayed”.
The spy chief went a step further when he added that he “worried” that dwelling on the debate over Moscow’s involvement in the referendum overstated the Kremlin’s role.
He said: “I am anxious that we don’t play into our adversaries’ hands by making these trolls look 10ft tall. That is not our experience.”
Burnham had told a podcast that on entering Downing Street he had asked whether there had been “interference in the 2016 referendum from Russia”. He said: “I’ve had the clear answer that, ‘yes, there was’.”
However, in a statement to the Commons on Monday, Burnham clarified that the “legitimacy” of the result was not in question.
The Government’s official position has always been that while Russia attempted to interfere in the referendum, it had not been successful.
Alex Burghart, the Conservative Party deputy leader, said Burnham had been forced “into another embarrassing retreat”. “The head of MI5 has issued an extraordinary slap down to the Prime Minister over his comments about Russian interference in the Brexit vote,” he said.
This report is available only to subscribers.
Continue reading ➤ |
|
Tom Harris No other prime minister in recent memory has had his fingers rapped in quite the same publicly embarrassing way Continue reading ➤
Poppy Coburn Trump’s new press secretary is unbearable Continue reading ➤
Celia Walden That book you’re thinking of writing? Please don’t Continue reading ➤ |
To make sure you don’t miss our newsletters when they land in your inbox, click here. |
 |
• Leading dementia experts have united to urge ministers to lift the NHS block on breakthrough Alzheimer’s drugs. The Telegraph can reveal that the decision has been referred to the Health Secretary.
• Britain has been left without its only icebreaker warship after HMS Protector suffered a double “engine defect” at sea, The Telegraph understands.
• The Pope has been diagnosed with lung cancer. Pope Leo XIV underwent surgery yesterday which the Vatican said was completed “successfully, on schedule and as planned”.
• Myha’la Herrold, the Celebrity Traitors star, has claimed the reality show has “unconscious racial and cultural bias” in its format. The actress was the second contestant banished from the latest series.
• Kemi Badenoch has criticised Nigel Farage over his “humiliating” comments about giving Donald Trump the Chagos Islands in return for silence about the Falklands.
• The man killed by a tiger after entering its zoo enclosure was a child actor who had appeared in a BBC drama. William Chapman’s family said he was a “warm and engaging young man” who had “suffered from significant mental illness”.
On the day of his death, William Chapman posted another picture in which he posed with a Bible and crossbow |
The incident caught the attention of Donald Trump who shared a clip of the attack with his 13 million followers on Truth Social, captioning the video “Don’t ever mess with nature!” |
Russia bombed six Ukrainian power stations in the 24 hours after Donald Trump announced an “energy ceasefire” on Sunday, writes Roland Oliphant, our Chief Foreign Analyst. That should not have come as a surprise, for Russia is in the midst of its most destructive bombing campaign to date. The objective is clear: to make living in Ukraine, and Kyiv in particular, physically and economically impossible. The air war is not entirely one-sided: Ukraine is hitting back, including with strikes on Russian data centres. For ordinary Ukrainians, however, this will probably be the most difficult winter of the war yet.
Continue reading ➤
Trump offered Ukraine enhanced security guarantees ➤ |
|
 |
The responses to yesterday’s Your Say section left us inundated with comments about the return of the tie. Though it was far from unanimous. Some were gleeful about the renaissance, while others were keen to see the strangling garment banished to Room 101. David Wilson noted that ties do keep your neck warm in the winter and Roslyn Smith was up for a revival, saying: “Men have few options to make a statement.” Colin Lane added: “The coolest thing is an open neck shirt with a loose tie, preferably the old school style.” This is all well and good, but as Cameron Henderson, our reporter, discovers, the public has forgotten how to tie one. For subscribers only ➤ |
|
|
When I spoke to Lalaine Garcia, it brought the reality of modern “mail-order brides” into sharp focus, writes Julie Bindel. Brought to this country for marriage, she ended up as a sex slave. I’ve been investigating commercial sexual exploitation since the 1990s and it’s an age-old problem. My contacts in the Philippines, however, are telling me how much worse the situation is now – shady websites and online “matchmakers” are seemingly impossible to police. Continue reading ➤ |
|
Who better to interview 94-year-old Lady Glenconner, the former confidante and childhood playmate of Princess Margaret, than Sophia Money-Coutts? It turns out Money-Coutts’ grandfather was godfather to one of Lady Glenconner’s daughters, presenting her with a (real) cow as a Christening gift. This is just one of the riotous tales in their interview about Lady Glenconner’s latest book, which she claims will be her last. We very much hope not. Continue reading ➤ |
|
|
Here are the 10 models you can really depend on, along with 10 that are more likely to let you down. Based on a survey of 40,000 British owners, there are some surprises among the winners, and some much-vaunted names among the losers. How does your car rate?
Continue reading ➤
|
 |
Jessamy Calkin Senior Feature Writer and Editor |
When I was nine, my father came home from work one day and told us we were moving to Africa. He had accepted the job of general manager at the Farmers Marketing Board, in Malawi, a small country formerly known as Nyasaland.
So in the summer of 1968, we packed up our belongings, rented out our house in Shoreham-by-Sea and off we went.
Friends, relations and neighbours came to see the family off at Shoreham station in 1968 |
We moved into a house with a beautiful view of Mount Mulanje, with jacaranda and mango trees in the garden.
We had a “houseboy” – a dignified elderly Muslim called Kaliate – and a cook called Whiskers (our neighbour’s cook was called Poison).
I attended St Andrew’s, a school where the textbooks in the library were crumbling because they had been eaten by red ants.
School hours were 7am until midday, when it became too hot, and I would go home to play with my pet chameleons and rescue the lizards that our Siamese cats had hidden in the fringes of the rugs.
A ten-year old Jessamy Calkin with her pupils, Harry and Boy, in Malawi |
In the late afternoons, I would teach English and maths to the gardener’s sons, Harry and Boy; they would report to my “school” – a straw hut in the garden – with their pencils in paper bags.
Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda had been prime minister since 1963, and he was often referred to as a benign dictator, but there was nothing benign about the thousands imprisoned without trial under his rule.
He also had very particular views about fashion. Women and girls were banned from wearing trousers or short skirts in public.
My school skirt had to be four inches below the knees and my brother Adam, who was at boarding school in England, had to get a savage haircut before he came out for the holidays, quite an affront in 1969. Sinister men called the Young Pioneers would patrol the town with tape measures, giving transgressors 24 hours to leave the country.
After four years, things became difficult and my father didn’t renew his contract. I was heartbroken to leave and couldn’t understand why we couldn’t take Kaliate, Whiskers and my favourite chameleon, who liked to climb up strands of my long hair, hand over hand, and settle on top of my head to catch flies.
Plus, 11 years ago Jessamy returned to Malawi with her father to find out how much had changed. You can read what she wrote here ➤
Have you ever lived abroad? Let us know your memories here. |
Pen to paperEvery 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...
Handwriting: remember that? Well, it’s back at Winchester College, which has decided that an elite education should involve knowing how to wield a pen. Elizabeth Stone, the school’s headteacher, argues that laptops can be a distraction for pupils in class. Truly, the place is a hotbed of dangerous ideas.
Of course, there’s no guarantee that the habit will stick. I spent my entire school career writing by hand, but these days my arm seizes up if I have to produce anything more than my signature. I’m routinely put to shame, however, by Telegraph readers, who still send beautifully calligraphic letters, and you think Winchester’s new policy is a thoroughly good thing.
Christine Hodgson wrote: “My granddaughter sat her GCSEs this summer at a comprehensive school. She remarked how misguided the current system is: pupils spend junior school perfecting their handwriting, then four or five years of senior school using a laptop, only to be expected to write again for their exams. Grandpa, at 84, still uses the Parker pen he was given aged 11, and, unlike the laptop, it didn’t cost £500.”
Another reader contended: “For children, reading and writing should be paramount, rather than replacing their brain power with AI. Give them laptops at the appropriate time, but not before. There are too many parents who just sit their kids in front of these brain-degrading devices, and many schools now facilitate this in the classroom.”
Liz Morgan added: “I did all my university notes and wrote all my essays and exams with a fountain pen. Those who did a dissertation had to pay someone to type it. I still make a point of writing with a fountain pen every day, and have a Filofax and diary.” Do you still write by hand? Send your responses here, and the best of the bunch will feature in a future edition of this newsletter.
Please confirm in your reply that you are happy to be featured and that we have your permission to use your name. |
|
1913 | Senghenydd Colliery disaster, Britain’s worst coal mining accident, where an explosion kills 439 people (our paper coverage from the following day can be seen below)
1926 | AA Milne’s book Winnie-the-Pooh is released. The bear went on to be cancelled eight times, as catalogued here by Patrick Kidd
1940 | Balham Tube station is bombed by the Luftwaffe during the Blitz
1969 | Britain introduces the 50p coin, replacing the ten shilling note
Birthdays: Steve Coogan (61), Sir Cliff Richard (86), Ralph Lauren (87)
Plus, in the news this week, a Republican’s campaign for a Senate seat has been undermined by his past theft of another man’s property. What did he steal?
1. A watch
2. A pen
3. A signet ring
Click one of the options to reveal the answer...
|
|
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.
Yesterday’s Panagram was FRAGILITY. 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
I’d love to hear what you think of this newsletter. You can email me your feedback at fromtheeditor@telegraph.co.uk. |
|
Enjoy full access to The Telegraph, including all the articles in this newsletter. But hurry, our lowest annual offer will expire soon.
|
|
.png){kind=icon}
.png)
%20(1).png)
.png)
.jpg)
_reliable_cars_revealed-1.jpg )
.png){kind=icon}
.jpg )
.jpg )
Aucun commentaire:
Enregistrer un commentaire