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Melissa Lawford
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In an alcove outside the Shakespeare pub in the City of Westminster, a 37-year-old man is sitting wearing an elaborately embroidered jacket, a red cravat and a tricorn hat.
His front teeth are missing because someone attacked him one night while he was trying to sleep at Victoria station.
“I used to use the station to go to work,” he says. Now, he’s been sleeping there for the past three years. He’s been on the streets for five. “It was Covid. I lost everything.”
He is one person in an overwhelming national tidal wave of rough sleeping. Official figures show the number of people sleeping on the streets in England has nearly tripled since 2010, hitting a record 4,793 on a single night last autumn.
In London, it has become the most visceral embodiment of Britain’s failing state as a lethal trifecta of a housing crisis, a cost of living crisis, and a mental health crisis pushes people to the edge.
Enter Andy Burnham, who has made tackling rough sleeping his biggest priority in office and has staked his political reputation – and nearly £900m – on a promise to fix it. Can he do it?
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Celia Walden
Interviewing him for the second time, he seemed unhinged, almost levitating at his own goodness. How convenient to be able to erase the past
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Janet Daley
Trump was punished for sinning against the great American dream
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Neil McCormick
Are the Adele rumours true – or do we just wish they were?
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Throwing money at pensioners has been a tried-and-tested vote winner for decades. Across Europe, this golden age is coming to an end. Cash-strapped governments of all stripes are desperately trying to balance the books, and retirees are in the crosshairs.
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You might expect a viscount to have a grand country estate, a sizeable fortune and an heir to inherit it all. Jamie Long has none of the above. Born with disabilities after his mother took just two thalidomide pills, the 65-year-old aristocrat talks family secrets, coming out as gay and why his ancient title will die with him.
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In some ways, Kiki Tautz’s life is like that of many 16-year-olds – she likes shopping, fashion and hanging out with friends. But with her father having served abroad for five of her birthdays and three Christmases, she’s faced challenges that most of her peers haven’t. Kiki, a proud service child, would never wish to change her father’s RAF career, and takes pride in seeing his service being recognised on Remembrance Sunday.
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A remembrance banner at a football match after the murder of a drug dealer connected with the supporters of Rome’s Lazio football team
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Rome may be synonymous with sunshine, scooters and the Colosseum, but a darker side to the city has emerged in recent weeks. A series of mystery bombings has rocked the hardscrabble periphery of the capital, far from the tourist sites.
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Could the secret to a longer life be hiding in your white blood cells? Scientists have discovered that men and women experience biological decline very differently, helping explain why women live longer but suffer more autoimmune diseases. From cycling to vaccinations, here’s how to give your body’s natural defences a fighting chance.
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Simon Calder in Baalbek, Lebanon, last year
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World Travel Market, Britain’s annual jamboree for the industry of human happiness, always arrives with a surprise or two. At the event in east London this week, Saudi Arabia had a huge presence despite being on the Foreign Office no-go list. The team from Syria (which also has an advisory against travel) talked optimistically of journeys to come. And Lebanon, which I visited a year ago, attracted plenty of attention.
The real surprise, though, happened at the Wanderlust Travel Awards ceremony in the gorgeous surroundings of the Painted Hall in Greenwich. Along with the great, the good and the middling of the travel industry, up popped none other than Prince Harry. The man who is fifth in line to the throne is also the founder of Travalyst: a global coalition aiming to change travel for good.
In a brief but powerful speech, the Duke of Sussex summed up the essence of travel: “The joy of discovering somewhere new, the perspective gained from meeting people whose lives are different from our own, the wonder of being somewhere that reminds us just how extraordinary this world truly is.” But our journeys must never come at the expense of the host community.
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The 3rd Lord Moyne, Jonathan Guinness, who has died aged 96, served on the board of his family brewing company for 27 years. He was less well-known for his business acumen than for his vigorous Right-wing views and colourful personal life. He also became infamous following his polygamous liaison with Susan “Shoe” Taylor, a statuesque butcher’s daughter and free spirit who had performed topless as “the strongest woman in the world”. “Evil is glamorous, isn’t it?” he once told an interviewer. “The Prince of Darkness is a gentleman, after all.”
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1895 | German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen produces and detects electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as X-rays
1942 | Operation Torch begins as British and US forces land in French North Africa (see our front page coverage from the following day below)
1974 | Lord Lucan disappears and is never seen again after his nanny is found murdered in London
1989 | Byker Grove begins broadcasting on the BBC
Birthdays
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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 MANOEUVRE. Come back tomorrow for the solution to today’s puzzle.
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Thank you for reading.
Allister Heath, Sunday Telegraph Editor
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