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Anne McElvoy |
The arrest of August Hanning, the head of German intelligence from 1998 to 2005, on a string of espionage and treason charges this week has sent shockwaves through Western spy agencies.
It is a hammer blow to the BND, Germany’s counterpart to MI6. Hanning, now 80, is accused of paying his former chief of staff to furnish him with more than 2,000 classified documents over 12 years, starting in 2010.
The former spymaster faced financial difficulties when he lost a portion of his pension in a Baltic banking scandal, and was claimed to have become more cavalier about entangling his business and secret lives.
While one source who served with him in a diplomatic capacity recalls him as “bureaucratic and boring”, another who knew him personally says: “Don’t be fooled by his dour appearance. He was umtriebig – a go-getter – a man with fingers in a lot of pies.”
While Hanning denies treason, the timing of the crisis could hardly be worse in a week when the UK and Germany deepened their security ties under a new treaty finalised by Andy Burnham and Friedrich Merz, the German chancellor, in Berlin.
It adds yet another reason for suspicion on top of the history of leaks, moles and accidents that has dogged German intelligence since reunification, especially at a time when European security demands trustworthy alliances.
As the BND and its allies scramble to work out what sensitive information has potentially been stolen from under their noses, there is one place where the news will be received with unbridled joy: the inner sanctum of the Kremlin.
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Neil McCormick Chief Music Critic |
This week, my Music of the Decades series crosses perilously into a new century, boldly grappling with the fast-moving, sound-clashing uproar of pop in the turbulent 2000s.
It was a decade that witnessed the death of Top of the Pops and the birth of YouTube – along with iTunes, the iPod, Spotify and all manner of computer home-recording technology that threatened to turn the charts into a bewildering melange with no coherent centre.
Yet millennials chose new music heroes who turned out to be outstanding talents, including Amy Winehouse, Adele, Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Lily Allen, Arctic Monkeys and Coldplay.
Join the conversation about which music from the 2000s was built to last, and which should be consigned to the pop dustbin.
I will be in the comments section of this article from 10am today.
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Luke Johnson I don’t believe Burnham’s Government understands the true extent of our economic peril – and wilfully driving away entrepreneurs won’t help Continue reading ➤
Janet Daley Good riddance populism, welcome back Labour vs the Tories Continue reading ➤
Zoe Strimpel The Nobel Peace Prize is now totally discredited Continue reading ➤ |
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More than 50 per cent of adults in thousands of neighbourhoods across England and Wales are living on out-of-work benefits, a report has found. Sir Iain Duncan Smith, the architect of Universal Credit, will reveal in the report, which is to be published on Tuesday, that millions of Britons have fallen back into a welfare trap that is super-charged by health-related benefits that disincentivise work. This benefits trap has resulted in more than 3,300 “welfare hotspots” – neighbourhoods in which more than half of working-age adults are claiming out-of-work benefits.
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We live in an age of celebrity – and pubs are no exception. Famous landlords to emerge in the past few years include Jeremy Clarkson, James Blunt, Sir Ian McKellen, Guy Ritchie and Jodie Kidd (above). This week, it was revealed that Daniel Craig had become a part-owner of The Horseshoe, until now a spit-and-sawdust, darts-focused pub in Clerkenwell. So which of these six notable Britons has the finest establishment? Will Hawkes, our resident pub expert, endeavoured to find out. Continue reading ➤ |
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Sir Kenny Dalglish remains one of football’s towering figures. He electrified Liverpool as a player and, as the club’s manager, helped to ease the city’s anguish after the Hillsborough disaster before his own. Oliver Brown went to meet him in Formby for an hour-long interview about his life, discussing everything from the strength of his marriage to his friendship with Sir Paul McCartney. Continue reading ➤ |
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They were once ubiquitous – lithe, affluent women in fashionable leggings, carrying oversized water bottles, on their way to yoga class. Yet the ancient practice, given a 21st-century makeover by celebrities such as Kate Moss and Madonna, is falling out of favour. Last month, Triyoga, once a cornerstone of the British yoga community, closed all its locations. Up and down the country, studios are reporting a decline in numbers. What has happened to the yummy mummies’ favourite workout? Charlotte Lytton reports. Continue reading ➤ |
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Putting down roots in an area is one of the most important life decisions a family can make, but what gives a place enduring appeal? We identified the authorities in every region in England and Wales that have enjoyed substantial house price growth over nearly two decades, and pinpointed the reasons behind their long-lasting popularity. Continue reading ➤ • As a leading sports cardiologist, Prof Dan Augustine knows the importance of muscle at every age. Here, he explains why skeletal muscle is key to healthy ageing – and how to maintain it.
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Your face will soon be your fortune – at least, when it comes to flying home to Britain. Starting later this month at East Midlands Airport, and swiftly rolling out to other locations equipped with e-gates, British passport holders will be able to smile (or frown) their way into the country without having to wield a travel document.
Our imminent freedom from frontier friction comes from Advance Passenger Information, which airlines collect, and astonishingly smart facial verification technology. Carriers will send the British Border Force the names and passport numbers of the passengers they plan to fly to each British airport that day. The system will extract the relevant facial biometrics held on file by HM Passport Office.
“We’ve been expecting you,” is the mantra. Your visage needs to be compared only to those thousands of possible matches, rather than the entire population. Assuming you look the part, travel is about to get easier.
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Barry Humphries: impeccably eccentric |
What makes a life great? What makes an obit worth reading? When The Telegraph’s Hugh Massingberd came up with the modern obituary in 1986, he had a vision to capture human life in all its Technicolor vitality. For instance, the Marchioness of Reading, who died at 96, raced stock cars before the Second World War and praised the fighting spirit of the British football hooligan; or Judge James Pickles, who asked “who are the Beatles?”, or Jeffrey Archer, who had the fatal flaw of telling whopping lies. The Telegraph invented a different way of thinking about lives, and what made them truly “great”.
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1965 | The Post Office announces the nationwide rollout of the postcode system
1982 | Henry VIII’s warship, the Mary Rose, which sank in 1545, is raised from the bottom of the Solent off the coast of Portsmouth (see our front page coverage from the following day below)
2000 | Hansie Cronje, the South African cricket captain, is banned for life over match-fixing allegations
Birthdays: Joan Cusack (64), Dawn French (69), John Nettles (83)
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Thank you for reading. Allister Heath, Sunday Telegraph Editor
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