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乔治·迈克尔 以及那张从未面世的最伟大专辑

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五周之痒：千禧一代女性中带状疱疹的发病率上升

卫报

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米利班德誓言在气候危机上赋予英国“全球领导力”角色

部长将出任世界银行董事会英国席位以表明决心

独家报道 菲奥娜·哈维 (Fiona Harvey) 环境编辑

外交大臣埃德·米利班德将通过出任英国在世界银行董事会的席位，表明他将把气候危机和海外发展置于英国国际关系的中心。

该职位通常委派给一名初级部长，这意味着米利班德将在塑造发展中国家所要求的世界银行变革方面发挥积极作用，并确保气候问题依然是海外援助的核心焦点。

曾在基尔·斯塔默领导下担任能源与净零部长的米利班德将表示：“国际发展并非英国外交政策的附加项——它是其核心。”

“通过担任世界银行英国代表，我想发出一个明确的信号，即本届政府在发展和气候方面的全球领导力是认真的。”

他的这一宣布正值大火继续摧毁法国和西班牙的大片地区，且在苏格兰请求军事援助以应对吞噬凯恩戈姆山脉的林火之后。

英格兰全境接近干旱状态 ➔ ➔

“这是大卫挑战歌利亚” 法国 260,000 人撤离，野火逼近波尔多

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▲ 在法国西南部吉伦特省野火持续控制期间，一名消防员在卡普费雷附近的阿雷斯地区扑灭火灾。摄影：DAMIEN KEMBERT/EPIA

警方调查泰斯公司对改革英国党的捐款

杰拉尔丁·麦克凯尔维 (Geraldine McKelvie)

此前由《卫报》首次披露的向改革英国党的付款现正受到伦敦警察厅的调查。

此次调查正审查通过由该党副党魁理查德·泰斯控制的一家公司向该党支付的款项。

苏格兰场正在调查在 2024 年大选前几周，由“英国意在商业 (Britain Means Business)”公司向该党提供的两笔 £250,000 的捐款。

《卫报》本月透露，菲奥娜·科特雷尔 (Fiona Cottrell) 在捐款前不久向“英国意在商业”公司转账 £1m。其中约一半的资金随后被移交给该党。

科特雷尔的儿子乔治是一名被定罪的诈骗犯，与改革英国党党魁奈杰尔·法拉奇关系密切。

《卫报》本月报道称，作为警方调查的一部分，菲奥娜和乔治·科特雷尔已被在刑事警告下接受质询。

在回应英国广播公司 (BBC) 关于此次调查的查询时，泰斯表示：“我是第一次听说这件事——如果属实，为什么伦敦警察厅在联系相关方之前先向 BBC 透露消息？伦敦警察厅的领导层现在是否在参与一场针对改革英国党及其领导人的、广泛的政治动机抹黑运动？”

菲奥娜·科特雷尔在 2024. 5 月还直接向该党提供了两笔捐款，每笔价值 £250,000,。这些捐款也在伦敦警察厅的调查范围之内。

在选举后当选议员的泰斯是“英国意在商业”公司的唯一董事。

他此前已确认其公司收到了来自菲奥娜 ➔ ➔

D-Day 登陆海滩获世界遗产荣誉

第二次世界大战的关键登陆地点和奥林匹斯山加入著名的联合国教科文组织名录。

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卫报 星期一 27 July 2026

内页 27/07/26 每日四个板块

对海外员工征收改革税

“将损害 NHS 和社会护理”

Peter Walker

高级政治记者

专家表示，改革英国党要求雇主为海外员工支付年度税款的计划将损害 NHS 和社会护理，导致学校教师短缺，并可能使一些大学陷入破产。

奈杰尔·法拉奇的政党提出了一项“移民工人附加费”，这将涉及更高的雇主国民保险率以及一项单独的年度收费。该政策将适用于所有不持有英国护照的雇员，包括拥有定居状态的欧盟国民，但爱尔兰护照持有者除外。

《卫报》还被告知，对于经常出现人员短缺且依赖海外员工的部门（包括 NHS 和教育部门）将不设例外。

改革英国党表示，这项将适用于整个英国的政策旨在推动机构雇佣英国员工。但卫生、护理和教育领域的智库及专业团体表示，这些人员往往无法提供足够的数量。

领先的卫生智库国王基金会（The King's Fund）表示，虽然目前尚不清楚雇主需要支付多少——改革英国党仅表示低薪员工的税率会更高——但由于 NHS England 有 20% 的员工并非英国国民，该政策将“增加一个本已捉襟见肘的服务的成本”。

国王基金会的 Suzie Bailey 表示：“我认为，最终这将影响该服务能够提供的护理，因为这笔钱必须从某个地方筹措，因此必须进行其他削减。”

“很难想象这除了影响医疗保健之外还能起到什么作用。我实在看不出这在实践中如何运作。”

皇家全科医生学院院长 Victoria Tzortziou Brown 教授表示，鉴于海外全科医生已经在英国接受了由公共资金资助的专业培训，惩罚他们可能会产生尤为

▲ Victoria Tzortziou Brown 教授表示，惩罚来自海外的全科医生将适得其反

反效果。

她表示：“全科诊所（其中大多数是承包提供 NHS 服务的规模较小的独立服务机构）也可能会受到增加雇员成本政策的不成比例的影响。”

“任何进一步增加成本或降低劳动力能力的政策，最终都可能影响患者获得护理的机会。”

警方调查通过泰斯公司向法拉奇政党提供的捐款

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Cottrell 但将关于这笔资金的报道描述为一场“出于政治动机的抹黑行动”。

《卫报》报道称，银行人员通过一份可疑活动报告，将菲奥娜·科特雷尔 (Fiona Cottrell) 向“英国意在商业 (Britain Means Business)”公司转移资金的情况报告给了国家犯罪局 (NCA)。可疑活动报告并非犯罪报告，其目的是为了识别潜在的洗钱事件。

《卫报》获悉，无论是国家犯罪局还是银行人员，都无法追踪菲奥娜·科特雷尔发送给泰斯公司的最初 £1m 的资金来源。国家犯罪局在试图了解资金来源的过程中，正寻求外国合作伙伴的帮助。

一名改革英国党 (Reform UK) 发言人表示：“改革党为其严格的捐款审查感到自豪，并始终确保严格遵守《Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000,》中规定的选举委员会捐款指南，目前的捐款情况正是如此。”

菲奥娜·科特雷尔没有回应

▲ 改革党的理查德·泰斯 (Richard Tice) 是“英国意在商业”公司的唯一董事

◄ 奈杰尔·法拉奇 (Nigel Farage) 的政党提议征收一项“外籍劳工附加费”，这将涉及在现有基础上提高雇主国家保险的税率

居家护理协会 (Homecare Association) 首席执行官简·汤普森 (Jane Townson) 表示，雇用海外护理人员已经更加昂贵且复杂，但这是由于需求增加以及英国工人短缺造成的，尤其是在新冠疫情之后。

她表示，针对低薪员工提高的征税将特别影响护理部门。“供应商无法吸收这一成本。可以预见的风险将是居家护理的获取途径减少，从而对个人和家庭造成伤害，更多的人滞留在医院，工人遭受更严重的剥削，以及供应商倒闭从而破坏人们护理的连续性——而这笔账单最终将由公共预算买单。”

对于学校而言，影响可能各不相同。虽然英格兰有近 6% 的教师是非英国国民，但他们在中学中的比例不均衡，尤其是在语言和物理等人员短缺的科目中。

教育政策研究所 (Education Policy Institute) 智库的学校劳动力负责人詹姆斯·祖科洛 (James Zuccollo) 表示，许多海外教师是英国的长期居民。“一项涵盖定居身份持有者的措施，不仅会对未来的招聘产生制约，还会对已经在我们学校任教的员工产生费用负担。”

高等教育政策研究所 (Higher Education Policy Institute) 智库的首席执行官尼克·希尔曼 (Nick Hillman) 表示，该计划可能会显著影响大学，许多大学将其预算的高达 60% 用于支付薪资。

他表示：“由于目前近一半的大学处于赤字状态，更高的成本仍将导致其他开支被削减。虽然有些大学已接近崩溃，但目前还没有英国大学真正破产，因此在极端情况下，更高的薪资支出也可能将一家或多家大学推向绝路。”

科学与工程运动 (Campaign for Science and Engineering) 的艾丽西亚·格里特德 (Dr Alicia Greated) 博士表示，该计划还可能对更广泛的研发部门造成“极大破坏”。她表示：“高昂的签证费用和复杂的签证政策已经给组织和个人带来了巨大的压力和成本，夺走了本可以投资于研究的资金。”

已联系改革英国党 (Reform UK) 寻求评论。

《卫报》试图就向“英国意在商业”公司的捐款事宜联系她，但未获回应。

当英国广播公司 (BBC) 在周六晚上询问进展时，伦敦警察厅 (The Met) 重复了本月早些时候发布的一份声明。声明称：“在选举委员会就 2024 年英国大选前向一个政党提供的捐款向伦敦警察厅提交建议后，调查于 2025 年 2 月启动。伦敦警察厅特别调查小组的侦探正在调查涉嫌违反《Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000》第 61 条的罪行。”

“已经寻求了来自皇家检控署的早期调查建议，目前已有两人在警告下接受了审讯。”

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重点在上衣：向导与棕色女孩推出全新的宽松制服

Bethan McKernan

女童军协会（Girlguiding）在 30 年多来首次全面重新设计其制服，重点在于“自我表达、归属感和自信心”。

今日推出的这一系列产品放宽了之前的规定：在听取了数千名女孩的反馈（她们表示在被允许穿着自己想要的衣服时感到“最舒适”）后，现在向导（Guides）、彩虹女孩（Rainbows）、棕色女孩（Brownies）和游骑兵（Rangers）在参加会议和活动时，仅需穿着一件上衣即可被视为“身着制服”。

该慈善机构表示，由 Hemingway Design 历时两年完成的重新设计，在 55,000 名女孩和女性的参与下打造，在反映女童军协会的传承和传统品牌的同时，也采用了现代色彩和功能，例如腰带中的隐藏口袋、拇指孔以及可兼作斜挎包的徽章绶带。

◄ 女童军穿着新制服系列，其特点是服装带有拇指孔和隐藏口袋；右图为 1980 年代的威尔士向导；下方为 1943 年身着女童军制服的伊丽莎白公主

摄影：EMILY STEIN/PA; KATHY DEWITT/ALAMY

女童军协会首席执行官 Felicity Oswald 表示：“新系列的核心在于赋予女孩们自我表达的自由，同时让他们感到自己是我们这个伟大组织的一员……实用性、舒适度和可持续性是设计的核心。”

“我们知道，自我表达与自信心是相辅相成的。由于参与女童军活动的女孩自信心提升了 30%，推出新制服旨在进一步培养这种自信，并增强真正的归属感。”

一项针对英国 2,000 名 6 至 16 岁女孩的女童军协会调查发现，93% 的人表示，在能够选择自己的造型方式时感到最舒适。47% 的人表示，在能够选择穿着时最自信，而 33% 的人表示，在拥有自我表达的自由时感到最自信。共有 41% 的人表示，严格的学校制服规定阻碍了他们这样做。

女童军协会面向 4 至 18 岁的女孩开放。该组织目前约有 300,000 名成员，以及 80,000 名志愿者。他们现在可以从 30 件新服装、15 种配饰和领巾中进行选择，并可针对当地、地区和国家活动进行个性化定制。

该慈善机构表示，旧制服可以在夏季的免费工作坊中升级改造为新的配饰。

播报员兼主持人 Angellica Bell 是女童军协会的大使，她表示：“新制服让女孩和志愿者能够自由地根据自己的需求来搭配造型……[并]赋予女孩和志愿者拥抱个性的力量。”

在 116 年的历史中，该慈善机构已进行过九次服装重新设计。

“新制服让女孩能够自由地根据自己的需求来搭配造型”

Angellica Bell 女童军协会大使

最初的制服是蓝色裙子和长筒袜，配以向导小组颜色的套衫和领巾，而棕色女孩则穿着带有贴袋的棕色束腰裙。未来的女王伊丽莎白公主在 1937 年 11 岁时成为一名向导，并一直担任该慈善机构的赞助人直到 2022 年去世。

虽然战争时期的物资短缺和配给制导致了细微的变化，但制服在很大程度上保持不变，直到 20 世纪 60 年代，颜色变得更亮，裙摆变得更短。1973 年，由于羊毛成本增加，引入了针织绒球帽，取代了棕色女孩的贝雷帽。

T 恤和短裤于 1980 年出现，以支持日益增加的冒险户外活动。最近一次重新设计是在 2014 年，首次使用了紫色等亮色，并重新引入了在 1990 年被取消的连衣裙。

女童军协会的新造型是在该慈善机构 9 月 6 日起变更成员政策之前不久推出的，该政策将强制跨性别女孩离开。

这一决定是在一项公告发布后做出的，该公告称，在 2025 年最高法院关于生物学性别的裁决之后，跨性别女孩将不再能够加入女童引导员协会（Girlguiding），其会员资格将仅限于“女孩和年轻女性”。

女童引导员协会此前表示，该组织不收集性别认同信息，因此不清楚有多少会员和志愿者可能会受到此次规则变动的影响。

英国演员 David Jonsson 获选出演新续集中的黑豹

Nadeem Badshah

电影导演 Ryan Coogler 揭晓了英国演员 David Jonsson 将接任新任黑豹。

32 岁的 Jonsson 以在《Industry》、《The Long Walk》和《Alien: Romulus》中的角色而闻名，他将在第三部作品中饰演 Chadwick Boseman 饰演的 T'Challa 之子。

周六，他与共同主演 Letitia Wright 和 Winston Duke 一起，在漫威影业 (Marvel Studios) 的国际动漫展 (Comic-Con International) 演示会上与 Coogler 共同登台宣布这一消息。

Coogler 今年凭借吸血鬼电影《Sinners》获得了奥斯卡最佳原编剧奖，他表示：“上一次我们拍摄电影时，我们引入了一个角色，他是伟大的 Chadwick Boseman 在那部电影中饰演的角色——我们的 T'Challa——的儿子。今天，我想告诉大家，在接下来的这部电影中，他长大了，他成年了。”

Jonsson 出生于伦敦，职业生涯始于西区 (West End)。他在 2018 年通过侦探剧《Endeavour》的两集作品完成了银幕首秀。

这位演员出演了 2025 年改编的 Stephen King 惊悚片《The Long Walk》，并在同年赢得了英国电影学院奖 (Bafta) 潜力新星奖。

Jonsson 将在即将上映的电影《The Chaperones》、《Benn/Eubank》和《Scandalous!》中出演，他表示：“感谢这个让我有幸且有祝福加入的大家庭。我不想说太多，因为我想让银幕来讲述故事。”

《黑豹 3》将于 15 December 2028 在美国电影院上映，英国的上映日期尚未确认。

Boseman 于 2020 年去世，享年 43 岁，在被诊断出患有结肠癌四年后离世。

2022 年上映的《Black Panther: Wakanda Forever》揭露了 Boseman 饰演的角色 T'Challa 有一个儿子。该片讲述了 Wright 饰演的角色 Shuri 在 T'Challa 去世后接任主角的故事。

▲ David Jonsson，32 岁，将在《黑豹 3》中饰演 T'Challa 的儿子

第一部《黑豹》电影于 2018 年上映，背景设定在虚构的国家瓦坎达 (Wakanda)——这是一个隐藏的非洲王国，由于拥有世界上最实用的贵金属（虚构的振金）储备而拥有创新技术。该片赢得了 3 项奥斯卡奖。

在另一项公告中，漫威透露 Ryan Gosling 将在新一部《Ghost Rider》电影中饰演 Johnny Blaze，预计于 2028 年上映。这部电影将接续 2007 年由 Nicolas Cage 主演的电影及其 2011 年的续集《Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance》。

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卫报 2026 年 7 月 27 日星期一

柏林附近致命袭击嫌疑人

警察枪杀在骄傲节庆祝活动中作案者

Deborah Cole 柏林 Jennifer Rankin

一名涉嫌在柏林骄傲节（Pride festival）附近驾驶面包车冲入人群，随后在一次伊斯兰恐怖袭击中挥刀行凶的男子被警方枪杀。

警方于昨日傍晚确认，主要嫌疑人已被击毙，据报道是在该市西郊施潘道区（Spandau）的一个分地花园综合体中进行的行动期间被杀。

周六晚上，一名男子驾驶一辆租赁的小面包车冲入行人人群，随后在勃兰登堡门附近的蒂尔加滕公园（Tiergarten park）用一把看似砍刀的武器袭击人群，造成一名女性死亡，另有 29 人受伤。

此次袭击发生在当地时间晚上 10 点左右，迫使主办方提前结束了欧洲最大的骄傲节活动之一。此前，德国在经历了一系列致命的车辆和刀具袭击后一直处于紧张状态。

德国内政部长亚历山大·多布林特（Alexander Dobrindt）将主要嫌疑人命名为 21 岁的阿卜杜勒·巴卢特（Abdul Ballout）。他在袭击现场附近告诉记者：“我们面对的是一名涉嫌的犯罪者，他此前因大量的刑事犯罪记录、激进化以及与伊斯兰主义圈子的关联而引起关注。”

他表示，巴卢特有刑事犯罪记录，曾被判处青少年监禁一年 10 个月，但该刑期被缓刑。

德国媒体报道称，巴卢特是具有黎巴嫩血统的德国国民，是“伊斯兰国”的支持者，并于去年前往中东试图加入该组织但未成功。据《图片报》（Bild）和《镜报》（Der Spiegel）报道，他随后在德国被判定犯有“准备实施严重的颠覆性暴力行为”。

在巴卢特被枪杀之前，《镜报》采访了他的父亲

▲ 柏林勃兰登堡门附近的袭击现场，人们在留下悼念之物。左图为昨日清晨裹在保暖毯中的急救人员和参加节日的人群。上图为警方地回收冲入人群的面包车。 摄影：MARYAM MAJID 路透社：MARKUS SCHREIBER/AP

◄ 阿卜杜勒·巴卢特，21 岁，被命名为主要嫌疑人，被描述为与“伊斯兰主义圈子”有关联

陶菲克（Tawfik），他当时在黎巴嫩探亲。

在描述阿卜杜勒“慷慨、感性、充满爱心”的同时，他表示儿子一直在频繁更换工作。陶菲克描述该家庭为什叶派但“并非极端宗教人士”，并表示他们“不支持”极端逊尼派组织“伊斯兰国”。

“我没允许他蓄长胡须，”他说道，称其为极端主义的象征。在被问及袭击的可能动机时，他表示：“他被洗脑了。”陶菲克说他在袭击发生当天（周六）与阿卜杜勒通过电话。“他给我打电话，我们像每天一样正常交谈。”

总理弗里德里希·默茨（Friedrich Merz）敦促德国在袭击发生后避免分裂和恐吓。他说：“我们将考虑后果，我们将捍卫我们的自由。”

此前，默茨在社交媒体帖子中誓言要惩罚责任人，将这一“令人发指的行为”描述为“对我们社会的袭击”。德国联邦议院（Bundestag）的旗帜被下令降至半旗。

警方表示，该车辆在驶入蒂尔加滕后撞击行人。就在晚上 10 点之前，这辆白色小面包车的驾驶员突然转向驶入公园，靠近当天早些时候骄傲游行路线的位置，撞击了小路上的行人并撞上了一棵树。

参加了此次活动的朱利安·梅蒂格（Julian Methig）将其描述为糟糕的一天。他说：“这是酷儿群体最糟糕的日子之一，也是我个人希望永远不必经历的一天……我震惊了。”

数十万人聚集在柏林庆祝骄傲游行。在德国，这一活动被称为“克里斯托弗大街日”（Christopher Street Day, CSD），是以纽约市石墙旅馆（Stonewall Inn）的所在地命名，那里针对警察突击搜查而引发的骚乱触发了现代 LGBTQ+ 权利运动。

柏林市长凯·韦格纳（Kai Wegner）称这次致命袭击是“对我们自由且国际化社会的攻击”。

英国记者因安全担忧“在右翼抗议和特朗普相关报道中进行自我审查”

迈克尔·萨维奇 (Michael Savage)

媒体编辑

由于对个人安全的担忧日益增加，记者们在报道右翼抗议、唐纳德·特朗普政府以及跨性别议题时正在进行自我审查，新闻编辑部被指责将他们面临的风险“常态化”。

来自英国各地的数百名记者匿名透露，他们对自身安全的紧张感在增加。一些人报告称，由于受到恐吓，他们避开或修改了关于某些话题的报道，导致了自我审查以及“公共讨论空间的缩小”。

这些结果出自一项由政府支持的关于记者安全的调查。在西方国家对传统媒体的敌意日益增长的背景下，该调查被下令开展。

“确实有些时候，某个故事可能符合公众利益，或许值得报道，但我们会坦率地讨论这样做是否‘值得’，”一名记者说道。

另一名记者表示：“我肯定在回头张望，确保没有被跟踪，并确保人们不会开始对我大吼大叫。”

调查人员发现，人们普遍认为与报道相关的虐待行为有所增加，尤其是网络虐待。他们还指出，在两极分化的政治环境下，新闻编辑部的文化将这种增长视为不可避免，并期望记者能够“脸皮厚”。

女性记者承受了最严重的虐待，她们描述了带有性别色彩和性意味的骚扰、露骨的威胁、不适当的消息以及针对外貌的网络评论。

记者们提到的引起安全担忧的常见话题包括：右翼反移民抗议；特朗普政府（包括针对美国移民与海关执法局 [ICE] 的抗议）；以及跨性别议题。

调查发现：“反移民抗议被记者提及最广泛，无论是指参加游行的面对面风险，还是随后的报道所引发的强烈反击。”

有大量记录显示，北爱尔兰的记者在报道反移民骚乱时，面临着蒙面男子的恐吓。这些情况已向英国全国记者联盟 (NUJ) 披露。

一名受访者描述，在一次“统一王国”集会上，一名女性记者遭到了厌女主义的喝斥，相关片段随后被上传至社交媒体。

由于关于记者个人安全的争论现已成为新闻编辑部的常规讨论点，部长们下令由 Alma Economics 进行调查。在受访的 531 名记者中，近一半的人表示安全担忧影响了他们报道某些故事的意愿，约三分之一的人改变了报道方式或报道内容。

参与者承认，与世界其他地区相比，英国仍然是一个安全的从业地，但表示风险已经加剧。

NUJ 总书记劳拉·戴维森 (Laura Davison) 表示：“虐待绝不应被视为记者工作的一部分。这种行为不仅对人们的生活产生巨大的负面影响，还会对记者履行职责的能力以及新闻自由产生寒蝉效应。”

文化、媒体和体育部的一位发言人表示，政府正与记者安全国家委员会合作，以应对骚扰和威胁。

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联合国教科文组织将奥林匹斯山 列入世界遗产名录

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“寻求真相”

呼吁对 1994 年 契努克直升机坠机事故进行重新审查

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国内新闻

摄影：JUSTIN TALLIUM/PICETTE

噢，他们又来了。数百人在肯特郡福克斯通港口参加了“史上最狂风之顶日”活动。这是一项年度盛事，参与者在此重现凯特·布什 1978 年热门单曲《狂风之顶》的音乐视频。在芬兰、立陶宛、德国和澳大利亚等地也举行着类似的活动，这些活动均受到 2013 年布赖顿边缘艺术节一次原始聚集活动的启发。

AI 生成的在线医生

“对公共安全构成巨大危险”

Joe Pinner

专家警告称，网络上误导性的健康主张构成了“对公共安全的巨大危险”。此前研究发现，AI 生成的医生通过传播可疑的健康建议，在 TikTok 上获得了数百万次观看。

英国医学会 (BMA) 理事会副主席 Emma Runswick 博士指出了那些“贩卖医学神话并推广所谓神奇疗法”的 AI 账户所带来的风险。

她表示：“像 TikTok 这样的平台必须采取更多措施，遏制危险的虚假医疗建议的增加……否则，公众将可能用他们的健康，甚至生命来付出代价。”

研究发现，AI 生成的医生传播了关于癌症的已被证伪的神话，包括：用塑料容器微波食物、使用除臭剂以及在手机旁睡觉都可能导致癌症——所有这些说法均已被英国癌症研究中心 (Cancer Research UK) 驳斥。

该研究由数字营销机构 Hallam 于本月发布。此前，英国国家医疗服务体系 (NHS) 曾发出警告，称社交媒体上的健康误导信息是“对公共健康的真实威胁”。

研究发现，在 TikTok 上最热门的健康相关视频中，有 40% 出现了 AI 生成内容，其中大多数是由数量日益增长的深度伪造 (deepfake) 网红账户发布的，这些账户旨在模仿真实医生。对于某些特定的搜索词，如“健康技巧”，84% 的视频被归类为 AI 生成或 AI 辅助内容。

根据 Hallam 的数据，在其搜索到的最热门 AI 生成医生和健康视频中，平均观看次数为 2.5m。TikTok 删除了《卫报》发送至该平台的一些相关视频示例。

这些账户推广了一些古怪的健康问题疗法，包括将可口可乐与洋葱混合作为止痛药，以及一款名为“Hyalethinap Plus Pro Max”的虚假产品作为抗衰老方案。

英国国家医疗服务体系 (NHS) 英格兰分部的国家医疗总监 Frankie Swords 教授表示，看到在线医疗误导信息的增加令人担忧。她补充道：“许多临床医生报告称，越来越多的患者因为那些纯粹为了点击量而制造的错误建议而感到担忧和困惑。”

皇家全科医生学院院长 Victoria Tzortziou Brown 教授表示，她对该研究同样感到担忧，并补充说，误导性的 AI 内容带来了造成伤害的“真实风险”。

Hallam 分析了 1,198 个视频，在包括“健康技巧”和“医生建议”在内的一系列搜索词中筛选出了前 50 个视频。该机构还研究了关于个人财务和教育等影响生活的通用建议。

去年，Savanta 代表患者权益组织 Healthwatch England 在英格兰对 3,575 名男性和 3,832 名 18 岁及以上女性进行的一项民意调查发现，大约五分之一的人使用社交媒体获取健康信息。

Healthwatch England 的政策与公共事务临时主管 William Pett 表示：“如果缺乏区分可靠信息与商业噱头或误导信息的技能，[人们] 可能会被误导，从而严重影响健康。”

一名 TikTok 发言人表示：“这些来自具有商业利益的营销机构的发现，并不能准确反映我们的平台。

事实是，我们会删除有害的健康误导信息（包括 AI 生成的内容），我们在应用程序内与世界卫生组织和英国国家医疗服务体系 (NHS) 合作提供可靠的健康信息，并且我们持续投资于 AI 素养资源和标签技术。”

盖特威克机场在数小时厕所瘫痪后恢复供水

Jamie Grierson

在乘客经历了数小时无法使用厕所，且酒吧和餐厅被迫关闭之后，盖特威克机场的大部分地区已恢复供水。

昨日傍晚，两个航站楼的大部分厕所已重新开放，包括酒吧和餐厅在内的设施预计将在今日首批航班起飞前恢复正常。

盖特威克机场在昨晚宣布由 SES Water 供应的用水已恢复时表示：“由于[肯特郡] Bough Beech 水处理厂出现问题并影响了今日当地区域，我们很高兴地报告，伦敦盖特威克校区的绝大部分地区现已恢复供水。”

“大多数厕所设施现已开放，我们预计所有厕所以及餐饮店将在明早首批航班起飞前全部开放。”

“自从意识到该问题以来，我们一直与 SES Water 及机场合作伙伴紧密合作，以尽量减少影响，并确保今日所有航班按计划起飞。”

昨日航班未受影响，机场向乘客就此次不便表示歉意。

昨日早些时候，乘客在网上发帖称，他们无法在这座位于西萨塞克斯郡的机场买到热饮、洗手或在水瓶中灌水。

该问题还影响到了更广泛的萨塞克斯郡和肯特郡地区。

SES Water 昨日表示，TN11、RH1、RH6 和 RH10 邮编区域的部分地区出现了供水中断。

下午 2 点，该公司表示 Bough Beech 水处理厂已重新运行，但在服务恢复正常前，水需要经过处理。

在 Facebook 上，一名用户发帖称：“现在渴得要命，而且憋尿憋得难受。这太荒谬了！”

“由于停水，盖特威克机场关闭了所有餐厅和大多数厕所。这假期开头真糟糕。”

前国会议员、近期被任命为政府“音乐冠军”的迈克尔·杜格尔（Michael Dugher）在社交媒体上写道：“至少得允许人们使用那些关闭的餐厅和酒吧里的椅子。”

“没水是一回事，但剥夺人们坐的地方又是另一回事……很多家庭不得不坐在地板上。”

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新闻 气候危机

▲ 一名消防员在波尔多郊外休息，吉伦特省的官员警告游客远离该地，因为火势难以预测 摄影：GETTY

法国努力遏制逼近波尔多的巨大山火

Angelique Chrisafis 巴黎 Sam Jones 马德里 Jennifer Rankin

法国当局正努力遏制波尔多附近的一场巨大山火。与此同时，西班牙首相佩德罗·桑切斯（Pedro Sánchez）警告称，他的国家正遭受气候紧急状态的影响，而马德里附近的火势目前正得到控制。

在吉伦特省（Gironde）地区，灭火工作在周六晚上受到风力的干扰。这场大火已吞噬了相当于巴黎面积四倍的区域，并导致近 220,000 人撤离。

在西班牙，马德里西部的火势正得到控制，但桑切斯谈到了“艰难的时刻”。

两国共有约 375,000 人被迫逃离家园。在法国，近 260,000 人因山火被迫撤离，而邻国西班牙有 116,000 人被疏散。

波尔多市长托马斯·卡泽纳夫（Thomas Cazenave）将吉伦特省的火势描述为“已到达大都市区的门口”，距离该市中心仅 15 和 20 英里；该市人口为 268,000 人。他表示，目前还没有考虑撤离该市的计划。

新阿基坦大区（包括吉伦特省）的省长苏菲·布罗卡斯（Sophie Brocas）表示，这场山火具有高度不可预测性，这是法国此前从未见过的现象。“我敦促游客在火势得到控制之前不要前往吉伦特省，”她说，“我建议已经在当地的游客考虑前往其他目的地。我们不知道火势将向何方蔓延。”

法国内政部长洛朗·努涅斯（Laurent Nuñez）昨日表示，前一晚十分艰难，“情况依然非常不利”。他指出，吉伦特省的火势在周六晚上变得“极其凶猛且不可预测”，产生了自身的风力，并向波尔多大都市区不规则地蔓延。到深夜时分，情况有所缓解。

努涅斯表示，约 2,500 名消防员（包括一支瑞士消防队）、1,500 名军方人员和 1,200 名警察已被部署到吉伦特省，同时他赞扬了来自民防组织的 450 名志愿者的贡献。

一名消防员告诉法新社，大火形成了一种“火积雨云”（pyrocumulonimbus），这是一种由火灾引发的雷暴，它会“产生自身的风，并伴有旋风，变得反复无常且不可控制”。

法国国家消防员联合会的一位发言人表示，虽然这种情况在易发生山火的澳大利亚和加拿大较为常见，但法国此前从未出现过。该联合会的埃里克·布罗卡尔（Eric Brocardi）中校告诉

“看起来就像圣经里的场景” 马德里周边居民逃离大火

当大卫·奥利瓦雷斯 (David Olivares) 在周四晚上上床睡觉时，由于经历了四小时的摩托车骑行而感到疲惫，此时向他的家乡罗布莱多-德-查韦拉 (Robledo de Chavela) 蔓延的火灾似乎是一个遥远的威胁。

他第二天醒来，看到山后升起白烟，认为对罗布莱多——这座位于马德里以西 30 英里的城镇——的威胁可能已经消退。随后，他看到白烟变成了黑烟。

“我看到了山顶上的火，”这位 27 岁的青年说道。此时他正在吃三明治，这是在拉斯罗萨斯 (Las Rozas) 的一家休闲中心由工作人员准备的，他与另外 300 人一起被疏散到了这个位于西班牙首都西北郊区的市镇。

“火势开始沿山而下，然后我的手机收到了紧急警报，告诉我们必须离开。”

“我心想，拜托，现在都 2026 年了——消防员一定能控制住局面的，”他说。“但事实并非如此。”

就在他的母亲告诉他他们必须离开时，奥利瓦雷斯抬头看向天空，天空也开始发生变化。

“天空变成了橙色，看起来像末日一样，”他说。“然后罗布莱多出现了黑烟，你能看到火光。”

“人们在尖叫——一个孩子对着他父亲大喊：‘快走吧’——到处都是汽车和人群。”

“感觉就像世界末日。我们抓起三只猫，上了车，离开了。”

同样来自附近城镇瓦尔德马奎达 (Valdemaqueda) 的疏散人员玛丽亚·罗莎·马林 (María Rosa Marín) 对这段回忆点了点头。“太阳太诡异了；你几乎看不见它。”

马林举起手机，展示了一张她拍摄的照片：一轮苍红的太阳被肮脏的橙色烟云遮挡。 “看起来就像圣经里的场景，”她说。

马林和奥利瓦雷斯只是 87,000 名被疏散或被要求封锁的人群中的一员。西班牙中部正在与野火作斗争，科学家称，由于该大陆的升温速度约为全球平均速度的两倍，气候崩溃和充足的干燥植被加剧了火势。萨姆·琼斯 (Sam Jones)

法新社 (AFP) 表示，有必要去理解一种“超出我们控制的自然力量”。

他说：“这是一个大卫挑战歌利亚的局面：我们的想法是，在某个时间点，我们会找到一个弱点并乘击。”

吉龙德省 (Gironde) 的警方在周末逮捕了三人，其中包括一名在森林中抽烟的男子和两名在森林区域进行烧烤的人。

据西班牙军事应急部门的一名高级官员称，西班牙当局表示，马德里附近的重大火区已得到控制并冷却。

桑切斯 (Sánchez) 表示：“我们正面临一些艰难的时刻，尽管最新更新显示，昨晚在火势演变和控制工作方面非常积极。”

在马德里以西的一处消防指挥部发表讲话时，首相警告称，西班牙和葡萄牙正在经历气候紧急状态带来的各种后果，从火灾、风暴到强降雪。“整个伊比利亚半岛都在以一种非常具体的方式承受着气候紧急状态的影响，”他补充道。

在马德里附近的火势得到控制的同时，救援人员正努力扑灭地中海港口城市瓦伦西亚附近的一场新火，那里至少有 15,000 人被疏散。“这场火超出了我们的扑灭能力，它

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▼ 马德里以西的一场野火正得到控制，但被描述为该地区历史上最严重的一次

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▲ 波尔多的一家展览中心安置了一些被迫疏散的人员。右图为无人机拍摄的吉龙德省的一栋被烧毁的房屋 摄影：GETTY/HEUTERS

的周长约为 21 公里，”瓦伦西亚大区主席胡安弗兰·佩雷斯·略卡 (Juanfran Pérez Llorca) 在周末表示。

西班牙内政部周六晚上表示，一名男子在巴伦西亚市马尼塞斯（Manises）的一场火灾中死亡。官员称，该男子被发现在一条山谷的汽车内。

据美联社报道，当局周六还命令马德里南部的托莱多（Toledo）附近另外八个市镇进行疏散，使得近日因西班牙山火而被强制撤离家园的人数达到 116,000 人。

西班牙环境部长萨拉·阿盖森（Sara Aagesen）表示，在中央省份阿维拉（Ávila）烧毁了 50,000 公顷土地的山火是“我国近代史上规模最大的森林火灾”。

这些大火是这个夏季山火季的最新篇章，此次山火威胁到前所未有的大片土地。在气候危机的推动下，欧洲自春季以来经历了一系列热浪，包括史上最热的六月，导致植被极度干燥。

欧盟危机管理专员哈贾·拉赫比比（Hadja Lahbib）告诉英国广播公司，这次山火造成的损害很可能将超过整个欧洲大陆之前的记录。

她说：“去年夏季有 111 公顷土地被烧毁，因此我们预计将面临另一个历史性的、令人悲哀的记录，因为今年的火灾季节开始得更早。”

西班牙环境部表示，2026 年迄今共记录了 32 场影响 152,678 公顷（377,276 英亩）土地的大规模火灾，而 2025 年同期仅有 7 场影响 24,133 公顷土地的火灾。

法国的吉伦特（Gironde）大火目前已烧毁 42,000 公顷，该面积是巴黎市区的四倍，也是第二次世界大战以来最严重的土地破坏事件之一。

一名宪兵向BFMTV表示，至少 240 栋房屋被摧毁，另有许多房屋受损。

消防员正通过空中作业努力减缓火势向波尔多蔓延，飞机正投放水和阻燃剂。距离波尔多市中心 10 英里的塞斯塔斯（Cestas）市长杰罗姆·斯特夫（Jérôme Steffe）告诉法国媒体：“我们正共同努力建立一道防火墙，以阻挡火焰的推进。”

波尔多的一家展览中心已被改为紧急避难所，为数千人提供行军床和食物，其中包括从罕见住宅中疏散出来的数百名老人。

卡泽纳夫（Cazenave）表示，由于许多企业和工人已从波尔多西部地区撤离，且旅游业受到严重影响，他已要求中央政府为该地区制定经济危机计划。

他表示，目前无法确定采取预防措施而疏散的人员何时能返回家中。

他说：“我们不知道这次危机将持续多久，是几天还是几周。”

努涅斯（Núñez）表示，兰德（Landes）大火已吞噬 3,600 公顷土地，周六再次复燃的火势必须通过空中作业来处理。

法国当局还在处理东南部瓦尔（Var）地区的山火（当地已有 3,000 人被疏散），以及上阿尔卑斯（Hautes-Alpes）和科西嘉岛（Corsica）的火灾。

米利班德将应对气候危机置于英国外交政策的核心

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以及威尔士部分地区已促使当地实施软管禁令。与此同时，据估计，欧洲 6 月的热浪导致该大陆的粮食种植者损失了 €2bn (£1.7bn) 的收入。

通过亲自出任世界银行席位，米利班德释放了一个明确信号：尽管其他政治家直到现在仍在反对净零政策，但外交部将继续推动气候行动。

对于世界银行来说，这是一个至关重要的时刻，该机构此前承受了来自特朗普政府的巨大压力，要求其扭转此前对气候融资的关注。

上个月，这家由公共资金支持的银行取消了将其 45% 融资用于气候相关目标的目标。

专家们对米利班德的决定表示欢迎，认为这将促进气候行动。

伦敦政治经济学院的经济学教授斯特恩勋爵表示，外交大臣接任英国总督席位将向世界“发出一个强有力且重要的信号”。

“作为前世界银行首席经济学家和高级副行长，我知道英国能够发挥出超越其规模的影响力，”他说道。

“但前提是必须有高层的领导力。近年来，这一点有所下滑。埃德·米利班德将使发展和气候重新成为我们国际关系中的优先事项，在一个面临气候和生物多样性危机，且全球最贫困人口的福祉面临真实且日益增长的威胁的世界中，这种优先级是必须具备的。”

由于担心遭到报复，以及在发达国家大规模削减海外援助之后，其他国家一直对挑战美国在反气候立场上的态度持谨慎态度。英国是在世界银行董事会拥有独立席位的六个国家之一。

智库 Power Shift Africa 的主任穆罕默德·阿多表示，米利班德可以倡导该贷款机构的变革，从而帮助穷人。

“真正的考验在于英国是否利用其影响力，推动世界银行为气候行动和适应提供远更多的资金，加快向各国拨款，并确保最贫穷的国家不会为了应对一个他们几乎没有责任造成的危机而陷入更深的债务之中，”阿多说道。

“如果这次任命标志着

▲ 埃德·米利班德将接任英国在世界银行董事会的席位

英国在全球气候和发展领域重启领导力的开始，这将受到整个非洲的热烈欢迎。”

米利班德将面临不断缩减的援助预算以及关于分配的艰难决定。斯塔默将海外援助削减至国民总收入的 0.3%，这比保守党执政期间的 0.5% 以及上一届工党政府达到的 0.7% 大幅下降。

气候融资也被削减了 14%，从 2021 至 2026 期间的 £11.6bn 降至每年 £2bn。

英国新任首相安迪·伯纳姆上周因其言论而受到批评，他表示，他计划在英格兰将公交票价上限设定为 £2 的计划，将主要通过把国际气候融资赠款改为可偿还贷款来筹资。这些贷款将流向热带森林永久设施 (Tropical Forests Forever Facility)，这是一个由巴西政府设立的投资基金。

慈善机构国际自然保护基金会英国分会 (Conservation International UK) 的执行董事乔纳森·霍尔表示，为了恢复信誉，政府应当撤销斯塔默对自然保护资金的削减，尽管英国情报主管们表示海外生态系统的崩溃威胁到国家安全。

“米利班德现在需要重新引入一个明确的目标，即在英国 £6bn 的气候援助预算中，将三分之一用于资助自然生态系统和热带森林，这一目标在他的前任任内丢失了，”霍尔说道。

英国将于 11 月接管 G20 集团的领导权。

英国气候特使、前世界银行高级官员蕾切尔·凯特表示：“由于霍尔木兹海峡的封锁，我们将处于能源和粮食安全危机的之中。而严重的厄尔尼诺现象则使情况进一步恶化。”

“我们需要国际金融体系中的每一分能力，来帮助世界部分地区度过这些严重影响的危机。埃德此前已经见证了动员全球采取行动所需的一切，并利用了我们所能利用的每一个杠杆。如果有必要，为了我们自身以及所有人的安全，我们将再次这样做。”

“通过接任[世界银行]的职务，我想发出一个信号，即本届政府在气候与发展方面是认真的……”

埃德·米利班德

外交大臣

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卫报 周一 2026年7月27日

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新闻 气候危机

伦敦尤斯顿路上的帐篷。安迪·伯纳姆已承诺将“在最早的机会”内结束英国的露宿街头现象。 照片：DAN KITWOOD/GETTY

“它让你精疲力竭”

伦敦无家可归者 在酷热的城市环境中 面临风险

Vandy Widyalankara

“你只能忍受。就像是在一个炎热的国家一样。它让你精疲力竭，”汤姆（化名）说道。他 60 多岁，已经无家可归很多年了。

“自从我开始在户外生活以来，还没见过这样的天气。我依然维持着我的日常习惯，但你需要找个地方坐下来休息。要么是在户外找块纸板，要么是找个允许你在室内坐一会儿、睡一觉的地方。”

随着英国经历今年的第三次热浪，卫报陪同伦敦的外展工作者，试图为这座城市最脆弱的人群提供支持。安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）在上周担任首相后的首次演讲中，誓言要“在最早的机会”结束英国的露宿街头现象。

“这座城市并非为高温而建，”无家可归者慈善机构 Thames Reach 的首席经理乔西·阿什唐（Josie Ashdown）说。“你可以感觉到，混凝土使得这里在某些时刻比该国其他任何地方都要热。”

随着伦敦在气候危机的影响下经历接连的热浪，外展团队正向风险最高的人群提供额外支持——发放饮用水，进行福利检查，并引导人们前往凉爽的场所。科学家估计，5 月和 6 月英格兰和威尔士的热浪导致 2,700 人死亡。

“外展团队在昼夜不停地工作，”无家可归者慈善机构 St Mungo's 的服务发展经理埃尔·斯莱特（Elle Slater）说道。

当卫报访问时，地下通道下的许多帐篷都是空的。阿什唐表示，居住者可能已经离开去寻找水、工作或更凉快的地方。但对于像汤姆这样数量创纪录的露宿者来说，避暑绝非易事。

剑桥大学科学与政策中心的前政策研究员詹妮·莱格特（Jennie Leggat）博士表示，露宿街头的人比普通人群更容易受到极端高温的影响。“如果你依赖乞讨来赚钱，你没有太多选择，”莱格特说。“你必须坐在户外，经常在阳光下，且通常处于炎热的城市环境中。”

许多长期露宿者患有慢性疾病。在炎热的天气里，胰岛素等必需药物难以安全保存。

汤姆有健康问题，行动不便。高温让他的处境更加艰难。“即使与户外相比，公交车也像个桑拿房，”他说。“由于走动和年龄导致的腿部肿胀，我必须给腿部包裹，但在这种天气下，我不得不换成了压力袜。”

人们通常必须随身携带所有财物，包括无法安全存放的冬装。Thames Reach 快速响应团队的服务经理安妮克·齐曼（Anneke Ziemen）回忆起一名在热浪期间依然穿着防寒服的男子。“他说：‘冬天来了，我需要我的衣服。我不能让任何人偷走它们。’这有道理，但在 34 摄氏度的高温下，你简直是在把自己给烤熟了。”

伦敦市长萨迪克·汗（Sadiq Khan）上个月宣布了“伦敦热准备计划”（Heat Ready London plan），旨在保护首都免受极端高温影响。该计划包括扩大公众可用冷却空间和免费饮用水的覆盖范围。

虽然各议会针对寒冷天气设有严重天气应急方案，但针对高温的响应则缺乏一致性。伦敦全市范围内没有统一的温度触发点或强制性的支持级别，导致各区和外展团队只能根据当地资源来解读大伦敦市政府（Greater London Authority）的指南。

伦敦市长的一位发言人表示，市政厅和伦敦各议会已发布联合指南以帮助露宿者。“这是一项涉及议会、社区组织、卫生服务和外展提供者的共同努力，”他们说。“我们的首要任务是确保支持能够触及那些风险最高的人群。”

▲ 外展团队正在努力在高温期间支持露宿者

汤姆说：“我没听说过那些‘凉快的地方’。我不去那种地方，因为可能会和其他人产生冲突。”

莱格特表示，污名化有时会阻碍人们获取资源。“露宿街头的人在那些可以避暑的公共场所可能并不受欢迎，无论是因为养了宠物、带着大包，或者仅仅是因为缺乏可靠的淋浴和干净衣物而显得不修边幅。”

Crisis组织的首席执行官马特·多尼（Matt Downie）表示，伯纳姆的承诺是“一个重大转变，从一系列昂贵的临时补救措施转向一种‘住房优先’的无家可归者处理方式”。

与此同时，给公众的建议是保持警惕，如果看到可能需要帮助的人，请使用StreetLink向当地慈善机构进行转介。

对于汤姆来说，现实包括身为可见的无家可归者所面临的持续污名化。“人们能看出或感觉到你没有家。你会听到人们在你背后低声议论，说你是个无家可归的人。”

然而，在热浪期间他也经历了一些善良的时刻。“我随身带着一个大行李箱，在炎热的天气里人们变得更友善了，会帮我把行李搬上搬下公交车。”

V&A 博物馆

超过 300 名 员工就热浪 罢工行动进行投票

Diane Taylor

维多利亚和阿尔伯特博物馆 (Victoria and Albert Museum) 的工作人员因担心气温飙升、饮用水获取以及薪资和工作条件问题，已就热浪罢工行动进行了投票。

位于伦敦四个 V&A 场地的 300 多名员工——南肯辛顿的博物馆、斯特拉特福的 V&A 东区博物馆 (V&A East Museum) 和 V&A 东区库房 (V&A East Storehouse)，以及贝斯纳尔格林的 Young V&A —— 均参与了此次投票。

V&A 成立于 1852 年的大博览会之后，被描述为“一个致力于创造力力量的博物馆家族”。其使命是“为所有人推广艺术与设计”。

公共与商业服务工会 (Public and Commercial Services Union) 于周四启动了罢工投票，原因是“影响博物馆全体员工的严重且未解决的担忧”。

虽然薪资率是一个问题（要求至少增加 4% 的薪资），但工会还提出了关于高温暴露和饮用水获取的担忧。

工会要求管理层执行一项政策：当温度超过 30°C 时关闭公共区域；为后勤工作人员引入缓解高温的措施；并允许 V&A 东区库房的员工在展品陈列区域工作时随身携带并饮用水，而不是等待另一名员工来接替他们，然后他们才能去喝水。

工会还呼吁 V&A 成为伦敦认可的生活工资雇主。目前伦敦的生活工资为每小时 £14.80。V&A 已确认其所有员工的薪资至少达到此标准。然而，该博物馆的一些外包承包商并未领取生活工资，且 V&A 迄今尚未成为认可的生活工资雇主，尽管该馆表示将于今年晚些时候对此进行审查。

不参与罢工投票的 V&A 邓迪分馆 (V&A Dundee) 是一个认可的生活工资雇主。

V&A 的一位发言人表示：“V&A 自 2 月起一直与工会方面进行谈判，且谈判仍在继续……在热浪期间，我们采取了广泛措施来支持员工，包括增加休息时间、增加画廊空间的员工轮换、关闭 V&A 南肯辛顿的几个画廊，并在热浪高峰期的 11 天内完全关闭 Young V&A。”

“为了确保国家馆藏的安全与保障，在 V&A 东区库房的‘预订物品’预约期间，禁止携带食物和饮料，且访客在预约期间由 V&A 工作人员陪同。”

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乔治亚·欧姬芙：这位“被误解”的艺术家的幽灵牧场作品将在英国展出

Lanre Bakare 艺术与文化记者

乔治亚·欧姬芙在看到幽灵牧场（Ghost Ranch）的那一刻起，就知道这里就是她的归宿。这处位于新墨西哥州圣达菲北侧山影下的偏远房产，在接下来的几十年里成为了这位艺术家的夏季住所——这个环境令她着迷，激发了多幅绘画作品的创作，且距离她骨灰撒落之地仅几步之遥。“我一到这里就意识到，这就是我要生活的地方，”她曾这样说道。

现在，考陶尔德艺术学院（Courtauld）的一场新展览将揭示欧姬芙在幽灵牧场的居所，以及这里如何塑造了她的艺术与生活。

名为“乔治亚·欧姬芙：幽灵牧场”的展览将于明年10月开幕，届时将展出24件作品，其中大部分此前从未在英国展出。

考陶尔德美术馆的资深绘画策展人凯伦·塞雷斯（Karen Serres）博士表示，英国很少有人意识到幽灵牧场在这一位最重要的20世纪美国现代主义者发展过程中所占据的重要性。

“幽灵牧场是她生命中极其重要的一部分，它实际上阐明了她整体艺术创作的很大一部分，”塞雷斯说。“例如，在她的花卉画中，她将视角拉得极近，极近，极近，她说：‘我想这样做，是因为我想让人们关注那些被忽视的事物。’在这些风景画中，她采取了完全相同的方式。”

欧姬芙于1934年搬入这处房产，该房产是一个规模达 21,000 英亩庄园的一部分——最初她租了一间房，随后最终将其买下并将其作为永久居所。

“那是我的家乡，”她曾说。“我以前从未见过这样的地方，但它与我完全契合。”

幽灵牧场是欧姬芙在新墨西哥州居住的两处房产之一。另一处位于阿比基尤（Abiquiú）村的房子，在牧场以南 16 英里处，目前被保护起来并向公众开放。

根据《纽约客》杂志在 1974 年为其撰写人物简介的卡尔文·汤金斯（Calvin Tomkins）所述，幽灵牧场不对公众开放，但那里是欧姬芙“总是感到更像家”的地方。

“孤独、静谧以及严苛、干燥且壮丽的景观，更契合她的世界，”他写道。“动物头骨和漂白的鹿角挂在她的露台墙上，散步和野营时捡回的岩石大量地铺在低矮的桌子和架子上。”

欧姬芙在采访中暗示这座房子在她买下之前曾发生过谋杀案，这增加了幽灵牧场周围的神秘色彩；而她许多最著名的摄影拍摄——包括为《Vogue》杂志与塞西尔·比顿（Cecil Beaton）合作的拍摄——都在这里进行。

尽管在国际上享有很高知名度，但欧姬芙的作品在英国极少见到；塞雷斯表示，在考陶尔德展出的24件作品中，此前仅有六件在英国展出过。

（图注）顺时针从上至下：乔治亚·欧姬芙的《红黄悬崖》，1940；《杰拉尔德之树 I》，1937；以及《带粉色圣诞牡丹的骡子头骨》，1936。 照片来源：GEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSELM

新墨西哥州 21,000 英亩的幽灵牧场庄园，后成为欧姬芙的家。左图，1960年，欧姬芙站在她的《盆骨系列》之《红与黄》作品旁。 照片来源：ANDY CROSS/GETTY; TONY VACCARO/GETTY

欧姬芙在英国的声誉并非一直被推崇。在 1993 年的海沃德展览之后，英国的男性评论家们发起了一波排山倒海般的轻蔑评论。她被称作“商业插画家”、“无可救药的业余者”，以及一个“在日历上创作精美月份图像”的艺术家。

二十年后，在她 2016 年的泰特美术馆展览前，主流叙事之一是该展览旨在挑战那些认为她的花卉画是对女性生殖器官描绘的“保守男性”假设。

Serres表示，Ghost Ranch展览将是进一步深入了解这位仍经常被误解的艺术家的另一个机会。“她被仅仅视为一位令人敬畏的女艺术家，”Serres说道，“但实际上在看到她的作品、理解她的创作初衷后，我认为我们还没有真正触及那个层面。”

Liberty 顺应缝纫趋势，将其面料部门规模翻倍

莎拉·巴特勒 (Sarah Butler)

Liberty 已经将其面料部门的规模扩大了一倍多，准备通过在今年秋季举办手工艺课程，来迎接社交媒体上对缝纫产生的兴趣。

这家百货公司于 1924 年在目前的牛津圆环附近开业，去年的面料销售额增长了 11%。

这家伦敦中心地带的百货公司去年的面料销售额增长了 11%。

Liberty 预计今年将出现类似的增长，因为除了手工艺者外，还有富裕的海外购物者在大量购买奢华面料，以便在回国后量身定制服装。

Liberty 的零售董事总经理 莉迪亚·金 (Lydia King) 表示，新部门的面积为 430 平方米 (4,630 平方英尺)，比之前扩大了 140%，拥有 2,500 多种面料和 17 名专业销售人员。Liberty 还将在今年秋季扩大其针织辅料区，为手工艺者提供更多工作坊。

“越来越多的百货公司已经不再经营 [针织辅料和面料]，但我们希望庆祝并提升客户体验，”金说道。

绗缝和钩编等工艺的日益流行，部分是由社交媒体上的演示视频以及《英国缝纫大赛》(The Great British Sewing Bee) 等电视节目推动的。

“客户的年龄跨度非常大，从一名 13 岁刚刚拥有第一台缝纫机的顾客，到为自己制作物品的国际社区，”金补充道。

二手服装的流行（可能需要在家里进行修改）也在推动缝纫趋势。工艺委员会 (Crafts Council) 表示，几年内成年人的手工艺参与度已从 15% 增加到 20%。

对缝纫的兴趣正帮助 Liberty 实现强劲的销售，而与此同时，其奢侈品竞争对手 Harvey Nichols 正在被出售，House of Fraser 则继续关闭门店。

“面料是店内存货销售密度最高区域之一，”金说。“随着我们的生活日益数字化，我们看到顾客在重新寻找‘制作’的快乐——追求工艺、创造力以及创造完全属于自己之物的机会。从定制礼服到手工绗缝被，‘制作’已成为一种现代的奢侈表达方式，因为它提供了一种日益罕见的东西：原创性。”

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▼ 盖里·史蒂文森 (Gary Stevenson) 最近的纪录片《如何变得极其富有》(How to Get Filthy Rich) 受到了评论家的差评

照片：BEN QUINTON/THE GUARDIAN

YouTube 财富税活动人士宣布停止制作每周视频

Gwyn Topham

从城市交易员转型为财富税活动人士的加里·史蒂文森（Gary Stevenson）宣布，由于健康原因，他将退出使其成名的 YouTube 频道。

他在宣布此决定之前，一部电视纪录片引起了广泛关注，但反应不一。该片虽然让他接触到了更广泛的受众，但却引起了左翼税务专家以及更多右翼批评者的质疑。

史蒂文森的 YouTube 频道“加里的经济学”（Gary's Economics）在新冠疫情期间迅速崛起，订阅人数增长至 1.64 million。他昨天在社交媒体上发布了一段 18 分钟的告别视频，题为“是时候说再见了”。他表示这将是最后一期每周视频，并补充说，随着自己“变得越来越疲惫”，制作这些视频变得“越来越困难”。

这位前城市交易员 1986 年出生于伦敦东区，通过该频道及其回忆录《交易游戏》（Trading Game）而崭露头角，他在书中描述了自己作为花旗银行员工如何赚到数百万美元。

他在因过度劳累而退休后，成为一名反对不平等主义的活动人士，主张对超过 £10 的个人财富征收 2% 的税，他称这将每年为财政部增加 £24 的收入。

史蒂文森在提高人们对不平等现象的意识以及将其与生活水平下降联系起来方面一直是一个有影响力的声音，他预言了生活成本的上涨，并警告日益增长的亿万富翁阶层不断积累财富的危险。

然而，Channel 4 上个月发布的纪录片《如何与加里·史蒂文森一起变得极其富有》（How to Get Filthy Rich with Gary Stevenson）收到了一些糟糕的评价，在该片中，他将自己的论点带到了那些将被征税的人面前。

《卫报》的露西·曼根（Lucy Mangan）写道，史蒂文森“几乎被所有受访者击败并搞得措手不及……被抛弃在原地，无法给出有说服力的反击”，并得出结论认为这是一次“略显尴尬的时间浪费”。

税务律师丹·奈德尔（Dan Neidle）告诉他，“将你对不平等的感性反应与对最佳工具的理性评估分开”，并称他的计划是“民粹主义的胡言乱语”。

《电讯报道》（Telegraph）的一篇较为同情的评论称，史蒂文森“如此习惯于对着相机直接向追随者讲话，以至于在与观点不同的人进行辩论时显得不知所措”。

尽管如此，史蒂文森关于财富税的提议正获得支持，新任首相安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）也面临着要求增加对超级富豪征税的日益增长的呼吁。

根据一项研究，一项针对财富超过 £100 的 1,000 户英国家庭征税的提案可能筹集 10bn 英镑。上周，前足球运动员加里·莱因克尔（Gary Lineker）与 120 名百万富翁共同向伯纳姆写了一封支持财富税的公开信，表示：“我们负担得起。”

“我们需要接受这不会是一场短期战斗……而且我需要休息”

加里·史蒂文森 YouTube

史蒂文森在纪录片播出时接受《新闻之夜》（Newsnight）采访时，已经预告了他的意图。他告诉英国广播公司（BBC）：“这很累。我这么做是因为我不希望这个国家走向崩溃……在[英国]和西方世界，不能出现这样一种情况：工人阶级、中产阶级和政府都迅速地将所有财富输给 1% 的人。”

然而，“加里的经济学”频道的告别视频暗示，在休息一段时间后，他可能会回归公众生活。史蒂文森表示，他目前正在考虑播客形式，并且不排除制作每月视频的可能性。

他说道：“世界上最富有的人将会对此进行斗争……我们需要大部分人口意识到，生活水平的下降是因为不平等现象的加剧。”

史蒂文森最后说道：“我不能成为这方面的唯一教育者。我们需要接受这不会是一场短期战斗……而且我需要休息。”

英国演员批评派拉蒙与华纳合并

Lanre Bakare

艺术与文化记者

演员艾伦·卡明 (Alan Cumming)、本尼迪克特·康伯巴奇 (Benedict Cumberbatch) 和本尼迪克特·王 (Benedict Wong) 表示，派拉蒙 (Paramount) 与华纳兄弟 (Warner Brothers) 拟议的合并可能会损害英国的“劳动者、文化和公众”，他们认为该交易应当被阻止。

他们在《卫报》中撰文指出，如果这两家公司合并，可能会给英国电影业带来永久性损害，导致数千个工作岗位流失，并导致一个令电影制作人不得不减少冒险尝试的局面。

“我们正以日益忧虑的心情观察整合对我们作品的广度和深度所产生的影响：在 2019 年至 2025 年间，领先的独立电影节圣丹斯 (Sundance) 的独立电影收购量下降了一半，”这些演员写道。

“那些获奖纪录片——赢得奥斯卡奖并获得电影节评审团最高认可的影片——在寻找商业发行渠道时举步维艰，因为它们触及了少数剩余买家认为不便处理的主题。每一次此类合并都缩小了故事能够触达观众的渠道。”

一次合并将把好莱坞最后五家传统制片厂中的两家，以及电视网络和新闻机构，统一在一家公司的控制之下。

卡明、康伯巴奇和王赞扬了文化大臣丽莎·南迪 (Lisa Nandy) 向议会发表的声明，该声明确认她“倾向于干预”这笔 $110bn (£82bn) 的收购案。该交易目前正在美国和英国接受审查。

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奥林匹斯山与诺曼底登陆海滩加入联合国教科文组织世界遗产名录

海伦娜·史密斯 (Helena Smith)

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古希腊众神的神秘家园——奥林匹斯山，在联合国教科文组织 (Unesco) 宣布将其列入世界遗产名录后，进入了这座现代名录之殿。

经过 12 年的等待，这座希腊最高峰与法国北部的 D-day 登陆海滩，以及日本的古都飞鸟和藤原一起入选该名单。

南苏丹的博马-巴丁吉洛 (Boma-Badingilo) 景观——世界上规模最大的陆地哺乳动物迁徙地之一——也获得了认定，这是该东非国家首次获此殊荣。

这些提名是联合国教科文组织委员会昨日在韩国釜山审议的数十项申请之一。

在奥林匹斯山的案例中，该地因其文化和自然意义而被列为混合世界遗产地，这一消息在希腊引起了近乎狂热的庆祝。

作为宙斯神座的永恒象征，这座山从希腊北部接近海平面的基底升起，高度达 2,918 米，自 2014 年起就一直处于预备名单中。

希腊联合国教科文组织代表团团长格奥尔基奥斯·库穆措科斯 (Georgios Koumoutsakos) 对这一决定表示赞赏。他说：“这再次肯定了我们为造福当代和后代而保护奥林匹斯山的坚定承诺。正如希腊神话明智地提醒我们的那样，与神灵保持良好关系始终是最好的选择。”

该地区市长埃万杰洛斯·格罗利奥斯 (Evangelos Geroliolios) 表示，这将“让我们在保护环境方面承担更大的责任”，尤其是保护当地非凡的生物多样性。

这次年度会议将于周三结束，预计将审议约 30 项提名。获得成功的地点将加入分布在 170 个国家、因其“对人类具有突出价值”而列入世界遗产名录的 1,428 个遗址之列。

被列入名录的古迹将在联合国教科文组织监督的一项国际条约下获得法律保护，该组织还将提供建议和财政支持。其他世界遗产地包括雅典的卫城、中国长城、埃及的吉萨金字塔和印度的泰姬陵。

争取让诺曼底第二次世界大战海滩入选的努力也已持续多年。法国的申请涵盖了所有五个海滩——奥马哈 (Omaha)、犹他 (Utah)、索德 (Sword)、金 (Gold) 和朱诺 (Juno)——1944 年 6 月 6 日有超过 150,000 名盟军部队在此登陆，以及作为进攻重点的奥克角 (Pointe du Hoc) 悬崖。

这是有史以来规模最大的两栖作战，共有 4,400 名士兵牺牲，对于从纳粹占领下解放欧洲的战斗起到了决定性作用。法国在 2008 年首次提名这段 50 英里的海岸线。

对此决定做出反应时，该国驻联合国教科文组织常驻代表阿勒姆·加尔比 (Ahlem Gharbi) 表示，在当前如此紧张的国际形势下，这一认定具有特殊的重量。

一直支持这一目标的诺曼底大区主席埃尔韦·莫林 (Hervé Morin) 坚持认为，入选名录将是对那些做出巨大牺牲的士兵们的“极大认可”。

他呼应希腊官员的话说：“这一决定赋予了我们责任。它促使我们去保存这个遗址，保护它，更加珍惜它，并推广它的价值。”

国际古迹遗址理事会是建议联合国教科文组织名录增加项目的机构之一，该机构此前曾警告，旅游业、气候变化、海平面上升以及附近风电场的开发给诺曼底遗址带来了威胁。

这条海岸线覆盖着第二次世界大战的遗迹，包括德国碉堡、沉船和盟军设施。

联合国教科文组织表示，这些海滩形成了“一个由 1944 年的事件及其持久记忆共同塑造的卓越文化景观”，这一切都证明了进一步保护的必要性。

与奥林匹斯山一样，登陆点在近年来也吸引了创纪录数量的游客。

将与冲突相关的地点纳入其中的举措，引发了关于“记忆之地”是否符合世界遗产地位以及联合国教科文组织所宣称的“促进一个更加平等与和平的世界”这一使命的争论。去年，柬埔寨红色高棉政权用于酷刑和处决的三处遗址被列入了名录。

泽连斯基今日将访问英国，首相誓言提供“坚定不移”的支持

Peter Walker

资深政治记者

弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基将在今天成为安迪·伯纳姆就任首相后的首位海外访问者，伯纳姆表示，这将凸显英国对乌克兰“坚定不移”的支持。

就在基尔·斯塔默将其首相任期内的最后一次出国访问定在基辅之后不到两周，

弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基将成为安迪·伯纳姆就任首相后的首位外国访问者

泽连斯基将与伯纳姆一同前往一个乌克兰军队接受训练的海军基地。

在伯纳姆就任首相时，这位乌克兰总统是他接触的首批世界领导人之一。他已承诺将延续斯塔默对乌克兰的支持，以击退俄罗斯的入侵。

在今天的访问期间，两人将与参加了“海风”（Sea Breeze）演习的乌克兰和英国军事人员交谈。这是一项由 15 个国家参与的训练部署，重点是黑海的扫雷演习及其他海上行动。

今年演习的第二部分在多塞特郡的波特兰完成，于周五结束，涉及 200 多名乌克兰人员。

伯纳 hamil 和泽连斯基预计还将讨论共同项目，包括“石斗篷”（Stone Cloak）——一种英国已与乌克兰共享知识产权的电子干扰器。

数千个大小约等于平板电脑的干扰器已被发送至乌克兰并安装在无人机上，旨在阻止俄罗斯防空系统对它们进行跟踪和锁定。

乌克兰目前已能够量产该设备。在乌克兰初步使用后，这些干扰器将被安装在英国的新型武器上，包括巡航导弹。

伯纳 hamil 表示：“英国与乌克兰肩并肩站在一起，我们的支持坚定不移。俄罗斯绝不应对我们的决心产生怀疑，在为乌克兰实现持久且公正的和平之前，我们绝不退缩。‘石斗篷’代表了英国本土创新的最高水平，并已在前线得到验证，对于维护我们两国的安全至关重要。”

根据第 10 号唐宁街（No 10）的数据，自 2022 年 2 月俄罗斯全面入侵乌克兰以来，英国向该国提供的支持总额已达 £25bn。泽连斯基表示，他希望与伯纳姆建立强有力的关系，并安排“尽快”会面。

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卫报 2026 年 7 月 27 日，星期一

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国内

默西赛德郡车祸致四人死亡，家属发表悼词

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在默西赛德郡发生一起汽车撞击灯柱事故导致四名 20 多岁的男子死亡，其家属现已向挚爱之人表达悼念。

警方接报称，周五凌晨 2 点前，一辆黑色 Cupra Formentor 汽车在休顿的利物浦路上撞击灯柱后冲出道路。

Jack Diggle（23 岁）、Benjamin Dooley（23 岁）、Andrew Roberts（24 岁）以及 Craig Shackleton-Brady（26 岁）均被宣布在现场死亡。

默西赛德郡警方表示，该车当时正从

◀ 从左上角起顺时针方向：Andrew Roberts（24 岁）、Craig Shackleton-Brady（26 岁）、Jack Diggle（23 岁）和 Benjamin Dooley（23 岁）在车祸中丧生

利物浦开往诺尔斯利。四个家庭均于昨日发布了悼词。

Shackleton-Brady 被描述为两个孩子心中“尽职且充满爱心的父亲”，以及一名“忠诚且慷慨”的男子。

身为一名自豪的埃弗顿支持者的 Diggle，被家人描述为“善良、安静、体贴且充满爱心”。

Dooley 的母亲 Kerry 表示，她的儿子是她认识的“最善良的人”，并且“拥有一颗金子般的心”。他的姐姐 Demi 描述这次死亡感觉就像“一场可怕的噩梦”。

Roberts 的家人表示：“Andrew 的离世是一个痛苦的提醒，让我们意识到每一刻究竟是多么珍贵。”

任何掌握该事件信息的人员，请联系默西赛德郡警方严重碰撞调查部门，电话：0151 777 5747，或发送电子邮件至 SCIU@merseyside.police.uk，并注明参考编号 26000600149。

限制饮食时间可能保护老年期大脑健康

Ian Sample 科学编辑

研究人员表示，将正餐和零食的时间限制在 9 小时窗口内，并在睡前 4 小时避免进食，可能有助于延缓老年时期的认知能力下降。

一项初步研究发现，对于超重或肥胖的老年女性，与将饮食时间分散在更长时段的人相比，在限制时间内进食的人在心理技能方面有改善迹象。

如果能在更大规模的研究中得到证实，这项工作表明，人们可以通过在相对狭窄的时间窗内进食且不在深夜进食，来帮助保护自己的认知能力。

美国新泽西州罗格斯大学（Rutgers University）的营养学家 Sue Shapses 教授表示，仅减轻体重就有助于减缓老年时期的认知下降，但对于不在 8 至 9 小时窗口之外进食并在入睡前 4 小时停止进食的人来说，可能还存在“额外益处”。

痴呆症是英国的头号死因，也是全球第七大常见死因，每年导致全球近 2 million 人死亡。一些风险因素是不可避免的，例如年龄和遗传，但专家认为，近一半的病例可以通过改变生活方式来预防或延迟。中年肥胖可使晚年患痴呆症的风险增加 30%。

Shapses 进行了一项试验，其中 47 名年龄在 50 至 79, 岁之间、且超重或肥胖的女性被鼓励在六个月内将每日饮食减少 500 卡路里。在该组中，26 人被建议仅在 9 小时窗口内进食。通常这意味着在上午 10 点到下午 6 点之间进食，而其余的人则将饮食分散在约 12 小时内。

试验结束时，两组的体重减轻情况相似，平均约为 7kg (15lb)。但认知测试显示，时间限制饮食组在空间规划和问题解决方面的表现更好。此外迹象表明，他们在记忆力和学习测试中犯的错误更少。

Shapses 表示，这些“温和”的效果表明，时间限制饮食可能有助于人们记忆日常任务所需信息的能力，并减少与记忆、注意力及问题解决相关的错误。相关细节在马里兰州举行的美国营养学会年度会议 Nutrition 2026 上公布。

研究人员计划调查为什么进食时间与进食内容同样重要。这些益处可能是由昼夜节律、代谢和炎症之间复杂的相互作用所驱动的。

在许多国家，在 14 小时的时间段内进食很常见，仅在夜间留出 10 小时不进食。但研究表明，延长夜间禁食具有健康益处。最近的一项综述发现，在晚上 7 点前完成进食与体重、血压以及代谢健康指标的显著改善相关。

伦敦国王学院营养科学负责人 Wendy Hall 教授（未参与该研究）表示，时间限制饮食可能对老年人有益，“不仅因为它可能有助于体重管理，还因为避免在深夜进食大餐可能会改善血糖控制、血管功能和炎症”。她警告称，这些发现是初步的，有必要查看完整的同行评审研究，以确定这些改善是否具有临床意义。

◀ 在一项研究中，在 9 小时窗口内进食的老年女性在某些认知测试中表现更好 照片：LULOSTOCK/ALARY

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National

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去年英格兰预期寿命创历史新高，但南北差距扩大

Ian Sample

科学编辑

在过去的十年中，英格兰南北方的预期寿命差距有所扩大，北方地区的人们面临更多疾病（如心脏病和癌症），以及自杀以及与酒精和药物滥用相关的死亡。

金斯基金会 (King's Fund) 表示，初步数据显示，预期寿命在 2025 年达到了历史最高点，英格兰男性和女性的平均寿命分别达到 80 年和近 84 年，但增长绝大部分发生在南方。

尽管在新冠疫情期间寿命下降最剧烈，但在截至 2023-25. 年的十年间，伦敦的预期寿命上升了近一年。英格兰东南部、西南部和东部也记录到了增长。

然而，居住在北方五个地区（即西北部、东北部、约克郡和亨伯、西米德兰兹和东米德兰兹）的半数英格兰人口，在同一时期的预期寿命几乎没有增长，这反映了更高程度的贫困。

根据这家健康慈善机构的数据，伦敦居民目前的预期寿命比东北部居民长三年。在地方层面上，差异更为显著：兰开夏郡黑池的男性预期寿命比汉普郡哈特短 10 年，女性短八年。

“在最贫困的 30% 地区，过去十年的预期寿命要么下降，要么没有改善，这是一个令人不安的故事，”金斯基金会高级研究员 Veena Raleigh 表示。“与此同时，在最不贫困的 30% 地区，预期寿命增加了半年。”

“在过去的十年里，北方进一步落后，而‘升级’计划和北方的振兴计划并未实现，”她补充道。“这不仅仅是一个修复医疗服务的问题。它需要整个政府的推动，以解决更广泛的、潜在的健康决定因素，例如确保人们拥有稳定的工作、公平的薪酬、足够的住房、洁净的空气、便捷的交通以及负担得起的健康饮食。”

政府针对 英国国家医疗服务体系 (NHS) 的 10 年计划旨在增加英格兰所有人的健康预期寿命（即人们处于健康状态的年数），同时将最富裕和最贫困地区之间的差距缩小一半。但金斯基金会认为这一目标“不切实际”，因为它需要规模上数十年未见的全民健康改善。

在截至 2022-24, 年的十年间，英格兰所有地区的健康预期寿命均有所下降，人们现在平均在健康状况较差的状态下多生活约 2.5 年。区域差距保持在约六到七年不变，但在最贫困和最不贫困的地区之间，差距可达 20 年。这些数据意味着，英格兰最贫困地区的人们不仅寿命更短，而且在健康状况较差的情况下度过的年数更多。

“尽管政府的 10 年健康计划承诺将重点从治疗疾病转移到预防，但目前的焦点主要集中在缩短候诊名单和等待时间上，”Raleigh 说道。“公共卫生和预防疾病需要被放在更高的政策议程上，例如，以应对肥胖率上升的问题。”

她说：“特别是劳动年龄成年人健康状况恶化的普遍程度增加，这令人深感担忧，因为这可能会危及一些年轻人的生命轨迹，此外还伴随着经济不活跃人口增加带来的高昂成本。”

卫生与社会关怀部的一位发言人表示，政府将健康预期寿命差距缩小一半的目标反映了“挑战的规模和复杂性”。他们表示，有 £2.2bn 资金正被重新用于贫困地区的药品和医疗设备等关键资源。

'北方进一步落后，振兴计划未能实现'

Veena Raleigh 金斯基金会

“一个人的邮政编码绝不应该决定其寿命，本届政府决心解决英国各地依然存在的触目惊心的不平等现象，”该发言人表示。

“我们已经在采取行动，从更公平地分配全科医生（GP）资金，到在最需要这些设施的地区建立开创性的社区健康中心。但现在我们将进一步向地方社区下放权力，将决策权交给最了解当地情况的人，并在全国范围内推动持久的变革。”

设备意外坠落导致北海新钻探工程延迟

Geraldine McKelvie

高级记者

《卫报》披露，由于一座钻井平台的设备在北海意外坠落，英国最大的未开发油气田的生产可能会延迟数月。

安迪·伯纳姆的新政府正面临化石燃料行业的压力，要求允许从 Rosebank 场址提取石油。该场址位于设得兰群岛西北约 80 英里处，此前被认为在获得部长批准后，能在今年年底前开始产油。

负责 Rosebank 的 Adura 公司目前表示，预计这将发生在 2027. 年。根据行业估计，该油田在其 25 年的寿命期内预计将生产 300m 桶石油。

一些国会议员认为，在全球不稳定的情况下，通过提高能源安全性，增加国内油气生产将有助于解决生活成本问题，而这正是新任首相关注的核心。但绿色活动人士认为，开发这些油田对英国经济的影响将微乎其微。

然而，Rosebank 的延迟意味着该油田的生产不太可能影响冬季几个月的英国能源供应。Rosebank 和另一个场址 Jackdaw 的许可证是在保守党执政期间授予的，但在环保团体提起法院挑战后，运营被暂停。

新任能源大臣 Miatta Fahnbulleh 预计将在下个月关于排放的磋商结束后，就这些油田的未来做出决定。

本周，Adura 告诉英国广播公司，位于阿伯丁以东约 150 英里的 Jackdaw 最早可能在 10 月产气。然而，Rosebank 的准备工作受到了 18 April 发生的钻井平台事故的阻碍。事故中没有工人受伤，但包括安全阀在内的两件核心钻探设备坠落 1,100 米掉在海床上。

该平台由 Adura 从挪威 Odfjell Drilling 公司租赁，已被运至卑尔根的一家造船厂进行修理。目前平台已返回 Rosebank，但尚未投入运行。

Odfjell Drilling 在内部文件中表示，该钻井平台可能会停工长达四个月。《卫报》了解到，这意味着一些油井的完工将大大落后于计划。

伯纳姆正面临来自工会和反对党的呼吁，要求提高北海产量。

300m

Rosebank 在其 25 年寿命期内预计生产的石油桶数

内阁办公室部长 Sally Jameson 认为，增加国内油气生产将使英国在能源成本上拥有更大的控制权。其他人则担心，这对于账单不会产生实际影响，同时会对气候造成无法估量的破坏。

工党环境运动组织的 Mike Reader 表示，没有证据表明新钻探能长期挽救就业岗位。根据 Adura 提交的一项环境影响评估，北海剩余最大气田之一的 Jackdaw 仅能创造 27 个直接全职就业岗位。

新任外交大臣 埃德·米利班德 在工党处于反对党地位时，将 Rosebank 的提案描述为“气候破坏行为”。然而，据信最近几周双方就如何在不违反工党 2024 年竞选宣言承诺（承诺不发放新许可证，但会履行现有许可证）的情况下允许新钻探进行了讨论。

据了解，环保团体正在考虑，对于政府允许新钻探的任何决定，他们是否具有采取法律行动的依据。

赫尔大学环境法讲师 Angeliki Papantoniou 表示，虽然发起新的挑战是“机会渺茫”，但如果基于“实质性的环境问题”（如生态系统破坏和污染），则最有可能获得成功。

活动人士敦促新任能源大臣 Miatta Fahnbulleh 阻止 Rosebank 的钻探活动 摄影：FUK VALCIZONA PRESS WIRE/INUTTERSTOCK

“可以认为，在做出可能产生重大环境影响的决定时，不能合理地忽视这些进展，”她说道。

“理论上，如果在没有对钻探对海洋环境、气候和人类健康影响进行详细风险评估的情况下，[法恩布勒] 很难声称 [政府] 采取了所有必要的预防措施。”

对最初授予许可证的决定提出挑战的绿色和平组织（Greenpeace）共同执行主任 Areeba Hamid 表示，批准这些油气田对能源账单将产生“零影响”，且创造的就业机会寥寥无几。

“尽管有这些微小的益处，我们却在延长一个助长热浪的污染产业，同时向我们的国际盟友发出一个灾难性的信号，”她说道。

Odfjell Drilling 拒绝置评。Adura 没有回应置评请求。

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国家政治

伯纳汉誓言若有必要将公开表达与特朗普的分歧

彼得·沃克 (Peter Walker) 资深政治记者

安迪·伯纳汉在就任首相后的首次重大广播采访中承诺，如有必要，他将与唐纳德·特朗普表达分歧，包括在公开场合这样做。

与此同时，新任国防大臣韦斯·斯特雷廷表示，他不认为白宫在寻找那些“拍马屁”的盟友。

在外交政策方面相对缺乏经验的伯纳汉在进入唐宁街10号后不久，与总统进行了长时间的交谈，唐宁街官员将其描述为一次“热情”的通话。

但随着华盛顿重启对伊朗的攻击，早期紧张局势的可能性已经出现。伯纳汉坚持执行基尔·斯塔默时期的政策，即不支持美国的进攻性行动，而这一点曾引发特朗普激烈的公开抨击。

在接受英国广播公司（BBC）第一频道《周日与劳拉·昆斯伯格》（Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg）节目采访时，伯纳汉表示：“我无法在任何时刻保证我不会与他 [特朗普] 持不同观点，我可能需要表达一个对英国而言是正确的不同想法。”

首相表示，如果需要，他将在公开场合阐明他与特朗普的分歧：“你必须在任何事情之前首先捍卫自己的国家利益。如果你想正确地履行这项职责，这就是你必须做的。”

斯特雷廷在天空新闻（Sky News）的《周日早晨与特雷弗·菲利普斯》（Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips）节目中表示，他已与美国同行皮特·海格塞斯进行了交谈，并坦诚地讨论了在伊朗问题上持续存在的分歧。他补充道：“我很明确地表示，我们过去没有支持在伊朗采取进攻行动，未来也不会支持。但有很多事情是我们能够且应当共同完成的。”

斯特雷廷认为，这种直率受到了特朗普及其团队的认可：“你首先要做的是，不要拍马屁。我的印象是，特朗普总统及其政府并不在寻找这种人。他是一个直率的人。”

当被问及是否信任唐纳德·特朗普时，斯特雷廷回答道：“我不认识他，但我信任美国。”

“你必须在任何事情之前首先捍卫自己的国家利益”

安迪·伯纳汉 论面对特朗普的态度

他补充说，担任国防职务使他能够“以独特的视角洞察在国防与安全领域，这种关系是多么亲近且不可或缺”。

在采访过程中，伯纳汉排除了通过快速举行大选来潜在利用工党民调回升的念头。“不会提前举行大选。我认为民众并不希望如此，”他说道，并补充说人们在 2024 年是“为竞选宣言而投票”。

他说：“我认为我目前最需要做的是让英国专注于将国家恢复到应有的状态。”

关于国防开支，伯纳汉表示，他“非常清楚”约翰·希利希望将国防开支迅速提高到 GDP 的 3% 这一诉求（希利曾在斯塔默任内担任国防大臣，现任财政大臣），但他拒绝给出具体的时间表。

他说：“我们共同面临的首要挑战是确保国防投资计划获得充分资金，这是摆在我们面前的事情，我们需要在预算案出台前逐步解决这个问题。”

斯特雷廷告诉天空新闻，作为国防大臣，他有责任确保任何增加的预算都能被明智地使用。他说：“在国防采购、性价比等方面显然一直存在长期问题。正如我本周对国防部团队所说的，这些事情不仅在抽象意义上重要，或者因为明智地花钱是正确的事，而且因为这关系到我们向大量纳税人请求资金支持。”

他补充说，英国不应过分在意伊朗的“武力恫吓”。本周早些时候，德黑兰外交部（MFA）指责英国政府允许美国实施“非法攻击”，从而“共犯侵略罪和战争罪”。

虽然政府拒绝参与针对伊朗的进攻行动，但已允许美国从驻有美国人员的英国基地发起防御性打击。

伊朗外交部在的一份声明中表示，任何支持“针对伊朗的军事侵略”的人将“为其决定的后果和影响承担责任”。

当被问及伊朗是否可能会将英国列为目标时，斯特里廷（Streeting）在接受《英国广播公司早间节目》（BBC Breakfast）采访时表示：“我们没有加入针对伊朗的进攻行动。我们参与了防御性行动，以支持英国人民、人员、利益以及我们的盟友，且我们将继续这样做。”

“但我们已准备好应对伊朗可能对本国或我们的盟友发起的任何攻击，我们将继续维持这一立场。”

多元化得分 内阁组成揭示阶级分歧的复杂性

Esther Addley

与英国过去 20 位首相一样，安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）内阁新任人工智能大臣卡尼什卡·纳拉扬（Kanishka Narayan）曾就读于伊顿公学。在进入这所全英最顶尖的私立学校后，纳拉扬就读于牛津大学鲍利欧学院，在那里他学习了——还能学什么呢？——PPE（政治、哲学与经济学），与大卫·卡梅伦、里希·苏纳克、埃德·米利班德以及众多其他高级政治人物一样。随后，他在斯坦福大学获得了MBA学位，并在金融城开启了职业生涯。

但纳拉扬的背景绝非典型的英国统治阶级。他出生于印度东部的比哈尔邦，12 岁时随家人移居卡迪夫。当时他和弟弟睡在他们的一室一厅家中地板上，

直到他中学的一位老师建议这个聪明的男孩可以申请一些私立学校。他的父母在抵达威尔士后几乎立即加入了工党，经营一家加油站。能够进入伊顿公学完全是凭借全额奖学金才实现的。

21世纪英国的阶级与代表性可能是复杂的。例如，根据某些衡量标准，伯纳姆在周一就任首相后公布的新任部长团队的组成，

▲ 人工智能大臣卡尼什卡·纳拉扬曾凭奖学金就读于伊顿公学

可以被视为一种倒退。他内阁中超过五分之一的人在大部分教育阶段就读于私立学校——而在基尔·斯塔默执政期间，有时所有高级部长都就读于公立学校。令人瞩目的是，目前领导政府政策的部长中，有 54% 就读于牛津或剑桥，而斯塔默时期这一比例为 29%。（英国人口中只有不到 1% 就读于牛剑两校。）

然而，从其他方面来看，伯纳姆的高层团队更加多元化，参加内阁会议的人员中有一半（当然包括首相）代表北部选区。而且，历史上首次实现了内阁中男女比例平等。其中一位是能源大臣米亚塔·法恩布勒（Miatta Fahnbulleh），她也属于接受私立教育的人员——此前她与家人于 1986 年作为寻求庇护者从利比里亚抵达

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这一切有多重要？首相的高级部长们应当具备能力——但他们是否也需要具备代表性？

萨顿信托基金（Sutton Trust）首席执行官尼克·哈里森（Nick Harrison）表示：“当然，内阁的背景很重要。如果他们旨在代表这个国家，那么他们就应该是这个国家的代表。我们绝对认为，如果你在讨论桌周围拥有广泛的观点、视角和背景，你会做出更好的决策。”

虽然 28 名内阁出席者的样本量可能较小，但对于伦敦政治经济学院专注于阶级与不平等研究的社会学教授萨姆·弗里德曼（Sam Friedman）来说，其组成象征着英国权力获取范围的广泛性。他表示，审视这些处于高级职位的人员“为关于人们的背景如何影响其在社会中达到顶层职位的更广泛对话提供了一个窗口”。

根据弗里德曼的研究，英国的权力仍然绝大多数集中在极少数人的手中。他指出，学生

首届内阁中就读于牛津或剑桥的比例

+1% 的普通大众就读于牛津或剑桥

伯纳姆	54%	46%
斯塔默	39	62
苏纳克	52	48

首届内阁中就读私立学校成员的比例*

7% 的人口就读私立学校

Burnham	22%	78%
Starmer	8	92
Sunak	63	39
Trass	60	32
Johnson	64	36
May	95	70
Cameron	95	50
Cameron	62 (number one)	38
Brown	32	68
Blair	32	68
Major	71	29
Thatcher	91	9

来源：HS Ministers Database, Sutton Trust。 注：参加内阁会议的部长。Burnham 内阁中有一名成员的就学情况不详。*若就读多所学校，则选取就读时间最长的一所。

上周 Andy Burnham 与其内阁成员在唐宁街，其中 54% 的成员就读于牛津或剑桥大学 (Oxbridge) 摄影：EDDS MILWOLAND/WPASSETTY

在九所最顶尖的私立学校就读的人，进入精英阶层的可能性仍然是就读任何其他类型学校的人的 52 倍。出生于 1960 年代和 1970 年代早期的牛剑毕业生——Burnham 出生于 1970 年并就读于剑桥大学——进入英国精英阶层的可能性比那些未上大学的同龄人高出 250 倍以上。

Friedman 认为，内阁仅仅是庞大的权力中间人冰山的一角，这些人的精英背景可能是政府决策方式中的关键。

根据他针对精英阶层态度进行的一项研究，他表示，“那些在更特权背景下成长的人倾向于向右倾”，而且“内阁中拥有权力的人经常与公务员和商业领袖互动，而这些人中介了他们做出决定的能力”。

对于埃克塞特大学社会流动性教授 Lee Elliot Major 来说，审查国家管理者的背景是合理的，但他表示：“仅仅统计私立学校和牛剑学位只能揭示部分情况。真正的挑战在于，部长们是否理解英国当代的机遇体系目前是如何运作的。”

“传统的标志，如就读学校或父母职业，不再像以前那样直截了当地预示着优势。如今的差距越来越多地由财富、地点、人脉以及决定进入和晋升精英阶层的隐藏文化代码所决定。”

Major 认为，挑战远远超出了扩大进入传统权力渠道的机会，尽管这一点很重要。相反，无论背景如何，政治家必须应对他所谓的“现代资本主义承诺的深刻瓦解”——即对于 40 岁及以下的人来说，现在经历向下流动的人比向上流动的人更多——换句话说，他们的生活水平不如他们的父母。

“对这个政府的考验不在于部长们本身是否实现了社会流动，”Major 说，“而在于他们能否创造一个让更多人拥有真正发展机会的社会。”

斯旺西大学讲师 Daniel Evans 博士（其研究重点包括政治和社会阶级）对此表示赞同。他说：“（政治家的）出身故事有点像是在转移注意力。更大的故事是毕业生溢价的彻底崩溃，以及学生在大学期间背负的债务，以及毕业生面临的就业市场是多么残酷。”

“我们一直在谈论社会流动性，好像每个人都能实现一样，但由于财务原因，很多人根本无法上大学，就业市场极其糟糕。没有人能买得起公寓。话语体系已经跟不上现实了。”

圣洁的不同

不要指望天主教首相会引入美国的文化战争

Aamna Mohdin

社区事务记者

随着英国首位终身罗马天主教首相的任命，该信仰目前在英国和美国都处于显眼的政治地位。

但虽然唐纳德·特朗普的政府——特别是副总统、天主教皈依者 JD Vance——将天主教置于其文化战争的核心，并因美国在社会问题上的强硬立场而多次与梵蒂冈发生冲突，但安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）则是由一套具有不同政治优先事项的英国天主教传统塑造的。

在周一抵达唐宁街之前的几个小时，伯纳姆访问了位于威斯敏斯特的一家由天主教创立的无家可归者慈善机构 Passage。随后，他将结束露宿街头作为其担任首相的首个承诺。

就像他之前的方济各教宗一样，利奥教宗经常被美国基督教右翼描绘成由于捍卫移民而变得“觉醒”（woke）。当伯纳姆在 2023 年以大曼彻斯特市长的身份前往罗马时，他向方济各赠送了一件签名的曼联球衣；而在教宗逝世后，他称赞其对“人类平等与慈悲”的奉献。

工党附属组织“左翼基督徒”（Christians on the Left）负责人汉娜·里奇（Hannah Rich）表示：“英国教会不是美国教会，英国围绕基督教的文化也与美国不同。”

“那些棘手的 [文化战争] 问题并不一定是驱动人们的因素。这并不是说这个国家的基督徒在这些问题上没有强烈的观点，且方向各异。但对于这个国家的教会来说，这些问题在政治上的凝聚力远不如它们在美国文化和政治上表现出的那样强。”

伯纳姆长期以来一直开玩笑说，有三个机构塑造了他：埃弗顿足球俱乐部、天主教会和工党。

对他而言，教会与政党长期以来交织在一起。在 20 世纪 80 年代他担任祭坛男孩时，利物浦大主教德里克·沃洛克（Derek Worlock）是玛格丽特·撒切尔最激烈的批评者之一，并敦促天主教徒与贫困和不平等作斗争。沃洛克将录音信息存在磁带上，发送到每一个教区。

创建了“劳工天主教徒”（Catholics for Labour）的工党议员迈克·凯恩（Mike Kane）表示，他看到天主教社会教义中的原则（如尊严和团结）反映在伯纳姆的政治风格中。

“他实际上并不会与对手撕破脸，”凯恩说，“我认为他的政治最终是非常充满希望和乐观的。”

智库 Theos 的高级研究员尼克·斯宾塞（Nick Spencer）表示，他认为英国和美国在基督教政治表达上出现如此巨大差异的原因有很多。

“文化战争政治实际上繁荣于一种排外的叙事，”他说，“但在英国，很难主张你作为一名基督徒在社会、文化和政治上被边缘化。如果你为国家元首加冕，如果你在上议院拥有 26 位主教，那么你已经非常接近权力中心了。”

到目前为止，天主教及其他有组织的宗教团体对伯纳姆施加的压力主要来自左翼团体。在慈善机构 HIAS+JCORE 的协调下，近 40 位资深基督教、穆斯林和犹太教领袖敦促伯纳姆重新考虑英国的庇护政策。

耶稣会难民服务中心英国分会主任、该信函签署人戴维·赖尔（David Ryall）博士表示，目前有一场捍卫庇护权的夏季运动。

“看到这么多天主教教区、团体和家庭在信仰的驱动下，向当地政治家以及现在的候任首相发出呼吁，这太令人惊叹了，”他说道。

英国日益增长的宗教多元主义与宪法之间存在着不协调。法律与宗教专家拉塞尔·桑德伯格（Russell Sandberg）教授表示，现行立法仍禁止虔诚的天主教徒和犹太教徒在英格兰教会的任命问题上为王室提供建议。

“在实践中，首相在任命主教方面的作用已经下降了，”他说道。“即便如此，即便伯纳姆只提交一个名单，也将违反《1829年罗马天主教救济法》。”他补充说，这些职责可以委派给另一位部长。

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卢克·康姆斯 (Luke Combs)

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凯蒂·霍桑 (Katie Hawthorne)

我们第一次看到卢克·康姆斯时，这位出生于北卡罗来纳州的超级巨星正走在体育场的观众群中。他压低了帽子，脸上带着腼腆的神情，这一举动不像是在应付狗仔队的追拍，更像是一个普通的小伙子在上班路上躲避快闪人群。

康姆斯现在是史上最畅销的乡村音乐艺术家，但他以谦逊的态度对待成功：当他终于走上那个以酒馆为主题的舞台，面对近 70,000 名

尖叫的粉丝时，他依然保持着那种低调的风范。

“通常我会问你们今晚感觉如何，但我知道你们今晚的感觉，”他笑着说。

本周，康姆斯将在英格兰、苏格兰和爱尔兰仅有的 7 场演出中，为超过 50 万名粉丝带来表演：对于一名在这里尚未拥有 Top 10 单曲的艺术家来说，这是一次非凡的加冕。

但如果你从观众大声合唱他 2016 年的热门歌曲《Hurricane》的样子来看，你根本不会意识到这一点。这首关于在酒吧偶遇前任的软摇滚心碎之作，其电影般的副歌（“月亮躲了起来，星星不再闪耀”）将其提升到了一个高度，这更接近于早期的泰勒·斯威夫特，而非任何乡村音乐硬汉的阳刚之气。

此次短途巡演以近期单曲《My Kinda Saturday Night》命名，它承诺——并兑现了——一场派对。康姆斯为我们带来了三组开场表演、大量的烟火效果、名人客串，并在两小时内塞进了近 30 首歌曲。但其中最精彩的时刻，例如在结束前就让人感到怀旧的《Tell 'Em About Tonight》，本应有更多的呼吸空间。

令人遗憾的是，回声效果使得康姆斯说话时几乎无法听清词句，并模糊了他那些更为亲密细腻的歌曲，例如带有小提琴伴奏的 5 Leaf Clover。但康姆斯拥有当代乡村音乐中最强大的嗓音之一，既能发出震撼人心的撕裂吼叫，又具备真正的温柔与掌控力。

他充满活力的乐队为《Back in the Saddle》和《Beer Never Broke My Heart》注入了体育场摇滚的自信，而闪耀且带有悲剧色彩的《Where the Wild Things Are》则引发了粉丝在回家路上依然延续的合唱。在猛烈演绎《Ain't No Love in Oklahoma》（选自电影《Twisters》原声带）时，康姆斯的能量在迸发，他双臂高举，抛弃了谦逊——而这确实是实至名归的。

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奥巴马将在英国开展现场访谈巡演

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前美国总统巴拉克·奥巴马将通过一系列舞台访谈在英国进行巡演。

这位 64 岁的总统曾在 2009 年成为美国首位黑人总统。在去年于伦敦 O2 体育馆和都柏林 3Arena 举行活动后，他将把名为《与巴拉克·奥巴马总统共度的一晚》的演出带到贝尔法斯特、格拉斯哥和曼彻斯特。

他将于 10 月 13 日在贝尔法斯特 O2 体育馆、10 月 14 日在格拉斯哥 Ovo Hydro 体育馆以及 10 月 15 日在曼彻斯特 Co-op Live 体育馆亮相，客座主持人将另行公布。

组织者表示，奥巴马将以现场访谈的形式探讨“美国的未来，以及我们所有人的未来”。今年 9 月，历史学家大卫·奥卢索加在伦敦 O2 体育馆对其进行了采访。

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沃达丰门店经理去世后，其家属呼吁制定新的特许经营规则

Simon Goodley

一名曾任手机店经理的人员在沃达丰（Vodafone）特许经营店开业前几天被发现溺亡，其家属正敦促政府以他的名义引入一项特许经营法。

本月，沃达丰就 62 名前特许经营商提起的一项长期法律诉讼达成了和解。这些原告指称，该公司通过损害他们的利益，使自身获得了高达 £85m 的“不当得利”。

双方在一份联合声明中表示，在向高等法院提起诉讼 19 个月后，双方达成了这项“不承认任何法律责任”的机密协议。

这些原告代表了 167 个沃达丰特许经营商中的近 40%，他们的困境最初由《卫报》在 2024 年 12 月报道。随后，沃达丰向原告道歉，而原告则指责电信集团施加的压力诱发了自杀念头。

但这些人中并不包括前沃达丰员工 Adrian Howe。他的家人表示，Howe 在 2018 年自杀，因为他深信自己与该电信集团签署的新特许经营协议将在财务上导致毁灭性后果。

他的案例在 1 月份被提交至议会，促使时任首相基尔·斯塔默承诺审查管理特许经营协议的法律。

“英国的特许经营商没有任何保护——这一点需要改变，”Howe 的女儿 Kirsty-Anne Holmes 表示。“需要有一个监管机构来监督这些合同。像沃达丰这样的特许经营商可以在合同中随意放入任何条款，例如个人担保，这绝对是恶劣行为。如果之前就有了这些保护措施，我父亲自杀的事情可能就不会发生。”

Holmes 本月会见了时任商业和贸易部的代表，讨论她父亲的案例，并提出了在“Adrian 法案”旗号下制定新特许经营监管条例的可能性。

“我不希望这件事仅仅因为有人接任［首相］就被遗忘或被掩盖，”她说。“我希望父亲得到公正。”

Howe 的案例进一步引发了人们对这家电信公司如何对待其特许经营商的质疑。一项 2020 年的调查显示，绝大多数特许经营商对其行为给心理健康带来的影响持有批评态度。

据其家人回忆，58 岁的 Howe 当时正准备在北艾尔郡的欧文（Irvine）开设一家沃达丰特许经营店，但随后公司告知他，他需要接手第二家位于基尔马诺克（Kilmarnock）的特许经营店。

他此前曾在基尔马诺克店工作，知道那里经营困难。如果业绩无法好转，由于在特许经营合同中向沃达丰提供了个人担保，Howe 的家庭住房将面临风险。

Howe 的小儿子 Nathan 表示，在他去世前不久，两人在一家酒吧喝酒时，父亲告诉他：“沃达丰抓住了我的死穴（Vodafone has me by the balls）。”他说父亲补充道：“这杯酒或许能救我的命。”

这名门店经理于 2018 年 8 月 27 日在其家附近不远处被发现溺亡，而他的特许经营业务原定于 9 月 2 日开业。

这个临近的日期似乎促使他在家中被发现的一个笔记本上写下了一段话。根据尸检报告，Howe 写道：“9 月 1 日，能死去真是太好了。”

病理学家的文件暗示了其他可能的因素（如心脏病），并指出 Howe 有“焦虑和抑郁病史 (1995)”，尽管他的亲属表示那次特定的心理健康发作时间很短，且从未复发。

法医病理学家表示，Howe 因“筹建新业务而‘压力稍大’”，并得出结论认为其死亡“与溺水一致”。

沃达丰本周未就 Howe 的案例提供任何新的评论。

该公司去年表示，它“完全拒绝”任何关于其“故意或鲁莽或疏忽地”给特许经营店相关人员施加不合理压力的说法。

心理健康专家强调，自杀通常是复杂的，且往往涉及许多诱因。

沃达丰英国 (Vodafone UK) 的一名发言人此前表示：“虽然如果任何合作伙伴经历了艰辛的局面我们深表遗憾，但我们否认任何关于我们的特许经营商承受了不当压力的说法。”

“我们继续运行成功的特许经营业务，许多现有的特许经营商通过接手更多门店在我们的平台扩展了业务。我们鼓励每个人提出问题，并且我们将始终寻求解决这些问题。”

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◀ 克斯蒂-安妮·霍姆斯 (Kirsty-Anne Holmes)，她的父亲亚德里安 (Adrian) 于 2018 年去世，她希望以父亲的名字制定一项新法律来保护特许经营商

摄影：MARK WALGUE/卫报

“我不希望这件事被掩盖——我希望为父亲伸张正义”

克斯蒂-安妮·霍姆斯，女儿

“巴勒斯坦行动”五名成员或因破坏银行而被判恐怖主义罪

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五名“巴勒斯坦行动”（Palestine Action）活动人士因打破窗户并在兰开夏郡的一家巴克莱银行（Barclays Bank）分行投掷红漆，面临被作为恐怖分子量刑的可能。

布伦登·奥哈根（Brendon O’Hagan），28 岁；阿曼达·凯利（Amanda Kelly），31 岁；胡梅拉·阿蒂奎萨尔（Humeera Atiquisar），31 岁；穆罕默德·马利克（Mohammed Malik），28 岁；以及阿尔玛·亚尼夫（Alma Yaniv），70, 岁，被裁定在 2024. 8 月于伯恩利的一次直接行动抗议活动中造成了 £212,000 的损失。他们将该银行作为目标，是因为该行持有以色列武器公司 Elbit Systems 的股份。

在裁决后，法官菲利普·帕里（Philip Parry）告知检方和辩方，他将考虑是否存在“恐怖主义关联”，尽管陪审团和被告均未被告知这种可能性。

上个月，四名“巴勒斯坦行动”活动人士成为首批被判定破坏财产且其犯罪行为（在布里斯托附近 Elbit 的 Filton 工厂袭击期间）在定罪后被约翰逊法官（Mr Justice Johnson）认为具有“恐怖主义关联”的被告。帕里在要求律师就巴克莱银行案件中可能的关联提交陈述时，附上了约翰逊的判决书。

马利克表示：“法官和皇家检控署（CPS）现在试图因为红漆和几扇破碎的窗户将我们作为恐怖分子定罪。这远远超出了法院审理的指控，并引发了人们对越来越多地利用反恐立法来迫害政治异见者的严重担忧。”

他补充说，这“证明了约翰逊法官所创下的极其危险的先例”。

“巴勒斯坦行动”联合创始人胡达·阿姆里（Huda Ammori）表示，这是约翰逊决定导致“闸门开启”的一个例子。

此次银行抗议活动发生在“巴勒斯坦行动”被禁为恐怖组织之前，且当时内政大臣和官员均未将其评估为恐怖主义事件。

尽管检察官在审判前或审判期间未提出此可能性，但皇家检控署主张应将巴克莱银行的这五人作为恐怖分子量刑。

《卫报》获悉，皇家检控署认为，这种关联仅在被告于审理期间的承认中才得以揭露，包括涉及他们与“巴勒斯坦行动”的关系，且此次抗议是针对巴克莱银行更广泛活动的一部分。

人权组织 Liberty 的主任秋子·哈特（Akiko Hart）表示，此案进一步凸显了“英国反恐法的深刻缺陷，这些法律将大多数人绝不会认为是恐怖主义的行为纳入其中”。

工党议员、前影子财政大臣约翰·麦克唐纳（John McDonnell）表示：“根据刑事法审理直接行动抗议者，随后却根据恐怖主义立法对其量刑，无论如何都不能被视为公平或正义。这种做法似乎专门旨在消除那些反对加沙种族灭绝之人的声音。”

伯恩利案件的量刑定于 4 September。皇家检控署和司法部门拒绝发表评论。

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总理被敦促下令审查 1994 年造成 29 人死亡的直升机坠毁事故

Josh Halliday 英格兰北部编辑

1994 年一次英国皇家空军 (RAF) 契努克 (Chinook) 直升机坠毁事故的遇难者家属，敦促安迪·伯纳姆 (Andy Burnham) 结束英国的“掩盖文化”，并下令对该灾难进行独立审查。

当时，一架契努克 HC2 直升机在从北爱尔兰飞往苏格兰西南部的金泰尔角 (Mull of Kintyre) 途中坠毁，造成 29 名在役军职人员死亡。

两名飞行员最初被指为坠机原因，但在 2011, 年的一次调查后被免责，而该调查未能确定事故原因。

前保守党国防大臣利亚姆·福克斯 (Liam Fox) 领导了那次官方审查，他上个月表示，人们“深感担忧”某些“关键信息”可能被隐瞒。福克斯目前支持进行新的独立审查，他表示，现在有“足够充分的理由”相信曾发生过掩盖行为。他指出，人们担心国防部提供的关于该直升机适航性的细节“并不正确”。

一名高等法院法官本月裁定，由于时间太晚，几名坠机遇难者的家属无法就该事件向国防部提起法律诉讼。

“契努克正义运动” (Chinook Justice Campaign, CJC) 由 25 名遇难者的 55 名以上家庭成员组成，该组织表示将把此案提交至欧洲人权法院。

然而，父亲约翰·托比亚斯中校 (Lt Col John Tobias) 在事故中丧生的马特·托比亚斯 (Matt Tobias) 表示，家属们“不希望再进行数年的诉讼”，并敦促首相提供帮助。

他表示：“我们敦促伯纳姆先生在他就职的前 100 天内与我们见面，以便我们提交近年来出现的新证据，并解释为什么我们认为现在必须进行一次独立于国防部的重新审查。伯纳姆先生在

在金泰尔角坠毁的英国皇家空军契努克直升机残骸 PHOTOGRAPH: CHRIS BACON/PA

下议院的演讲中，他谈到了要结束英国的掩盖文化并加强坦诚义务，这给我们的家庭带来了真正的希望。”

在给伯纳姆的一封信中，契努克遇难者家属表示，这可以成为新《希尔斯堡法》(Hillsborough law) 的一个“测试案例”。该法律本月获得国会议员一致支持，规定公共官员和机构在调查期间具有法律强制执行的坦诚义务，必须透明运作。

托比亚斯说：“我们要求他及其部长们给契努克家属更多的尊重，而不是像他的前任那样——前任拒绝与我们见面，拒绝进行调查，反而相信国防部的谎言。在 32 年后，我们并不是要求特殊对待，我们只是在寻求真相。”

CJC 团体表示，希望伯纳姆能建立一个独立于国防部的全新审查机制，并全面查阅所有与契努克 Mk2 直升机适航性及坠机前情况相关的相关文件。

一名国防部发言人表示：“我们理解最近的法院判决会让相关人员感到失望。国防部部长此前已与 CJC 见过面，我们将继续与他们沟通。”

被指控导致前伴侣死亡的男子在狱中去世

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一名被指控谋杀前伴侣的男子在监狱中去世。

李·格林南 (Lee Greenan)，46 岁，被指控于上周一傍晚在爱丁堡克雷吉瓦 Square (Craigievar Square) 的一处住宅中杀害维基·所罗门 (Vikki Soloman)。

所罗门，44 岁，被发现时身受重伤，并在现场被宣布死亡。

苏格兰警方表示，格林南于昨天早晨在爱丁堡监狱 (HMP Edinburgh) 被发现死亡。一名发言人表示：“周日早上 8.55 左右，我们获悉一名 46 岁的男子在爱丁堡监狱去世。”

“目前看来没有任何可疑情况。”

一名苏格兰监狱服务局发言人表示：“每一次死亡，无论是在监狱监管中还是在我们的社区中，对于所有认识和支持该个体的人来说都是一场悲剧。”

“在受我们照顾的人员去世后，苏格兰警方会收到通知，相关事项将报告给检察官。”

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壮丽的肯尼亚人

国际牛仔日 (International Cowboy Day) 在每年 7 月的第四个星期六庆祝，旨在纪念牛仔和女牛仔的历史。虽然根植于北美的传统，但牛仔文化和乡村音乐近年来在非洲部分地区赢得了日益增长的追随者，尤其是在肯尼亚，西式时尚、排舞、骑马和音乐活动吸引了一群爱好者，例如周六在内罗毕的这些参与者。摄影：Luis Tato/Getty Images

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因担心美国弹药枯竭，特朗普继续推迟对伊朗的打击

Andrew Roth 耶路撒冷

由于顶尖军事专家建议唐纳德·特朗普停止其轰炸行动，且外交谈判仍在继续以避免重回全面战争，美国昨晚继续克制，未对伊朗进行打击。

据称，在这场已持续近五个月的冲突中，特朗普正在权衡外交与军事方案，本雅明·内塔尼亚胡预计将于明天访问白宫。这位以色列总理一直公开批评华盛顿与德黑兰的谈判，并敦促美国继续对伊朗进行军事打击。

内塔尼亚胡面临巨大的政治压力，必须在10月选举前证明其针对伊朗以及黎巴嫩真主党的军事行动已取得成效。

德黑兰方面昨日表示，将暂停所谓的针对该地区美国盟友的“报复性”袭击。军方发言人穆罕默德·阿克拉米尼亚（Mohammad Akraminia）表示：“这些（美国的）攻击一直持续到两个晚上前，但过去两个晚上美国人停止了攻击。我们的策略基本上是报复性的。我们也已经停止了我们的报复行动。”

据报道，特朗普政府的高级官员已警告总统，弹药库存的减少可能会妨碍持续的军事行动。

Axios昨日报道称，美国在该地区的最高军事指挥官布拉德·库珀（Brad Cooper）海军上将已告知特朗普，美国军事行动的效能已达到极限。

“我们正在与（伊朗人）交谈……我认为随着时间的推移，他们变得越来越认真”

唐纳德·特朗普 美国总统

据称，这一信息影响了特朗普决定在近两周以来首次推迟对伊朗的打击。该新闻网站报道称，库珀曾告诉特朗普，美国已经几乎耗尽了其为进攻伊朗而制定的目标清单，如果不恢复大规模作战行动，继续轰炸行动几乎没有意义。

昨日在NBC的《压力面谈》（Meet the Press）节目中，当被问及特朗普是否排除了对伊朗进行追加打击时，总统的联合国大使迈克·沃尔兹（Mike Waltz）表示：“我完全不会这么说。总统将所有选项都摆在桌面之上。”

这场从周五晚上开始的战斗间歇，发生在由特朗普促成的停火协议崩溃之后。华盛顿将对美国在该地区部队及盟友的袭击，以及关闭霍尔姆兹海峡（该海峡是全球约 20% 石油和天然气的运输通道）归咎于伊朗。

据报道，伊朗和阿曼的高级外交官昨日正就重新开放这条重要水道进行谈判，德黑兰的一位官员确认，其同事一直与美国谈判代表保持联系，以防止战争回归。伊朗要求对通过该海峡的船舶进行支付费用并实施控制。

伊朗外交部发言人伊斯梅尔·巴盖伊（Esmail Baghaei）在昨日的新闻发布会上表示：“调解人正在努力工作，试图防止紧张局势升级。”

但一名伊朗军队发言人暗示其态度强硬，称美国没有清晰的战略，且正“经历战略决策疲劳”。

据媒体报道，美国副总统JD·万斯（JD Vance）和参谋长联席会议主席丹·凯恩（Dan Caine）在周五的椭圆形办公室会议上向特朗普警告了重启对伊军事行动的风险。随后，总统命令军方取消新的打击计划，他此前警告过这些打击可能会“摧毁他们拥有的一切”。

“我们现在正与（伊朗人）交谈，”特朗普周五告诉记者，“我认为随着时间的推移，他们变得越来越认真。我们已经准备就绪，随时可以出击，但我们正在与他们交谈。”

在当晚的一次白宫记者协会晚餐会上，特朗普表示，他不认为伊朗准备好达成协议，但他愿意倾听。

凯恩警告特朗普，弹药储备正在减少，其中包括“爱国者”导弹拦截弹以及“战斧”巡航导弹等进攻性武器。万斯在竞选期间主张反对美国干预中东事务，并且在反对伊朗战争方面表现得更加激进。

内塔尼亚胡的办公室昨天表示，他在今天前往华盛顿之前将召集安全内阁会议。他在游说特朗普于2月对伊朗发动联合袭击中发挥了关键作用，并表示美国谈判代表必须在伊朗的核计划和弹道导弹计划上采取强硬立场。然而，他们目前将优先考虑开放霍尔木兹海峡。

内塔尼亚胡在西岸地区今年最严重的暴力事件期间前往华盛顿。周四，武装定居者进入一个巴勒斯坦村庄，导致四名巴勒斯坦人和两名以色列人死亡，随后其军队在该地区发起了一场“大规模”行动。

在新任首相安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）的领导下，美国和英国正讨论本周在伦敦举行会议的计划，以探讨建立一个保护霍尔木兹海峡船只并清除水道水雷的联盟的可能性。

“这令人感到羞耻” 五角大楼被指掩盖部队伤亡数字

大卫·史密斯 (David Smith)

前美国国防部长兼中情局局长里昂·帕内塔 (Leon Panetta) 告诉《卫报》，五角大楼在公布伊朗战争中美国人员伤亡信息方面采取了一种“令人羞耻的做法”。官员们正面临指控，称他们因担心 11 月中期选举前引发公众强烈反弹，而隐藏唐纳德·特朗普在伊朗发起的这场“选择之战”的真实代价；与此同时，五角大楼已经两个半月没有举行新闻发布会了。

在阿富汗和伊拉克战争期间曾主持五角大楼每周简报会的帕内塔批评该部门未能披露在伊朗对美国基地的炸弹袭击中有多少人受伤。他表示：“这里存在一种蓄意的努力，基本上是在向美国人民隐瞒信息。我认为在很多方面，这代表了一种在面对打仗这一共同责任时令人羞耻的分享方式。”

截至上周日，伊朗战争中美国军队的死亡人数上升至 18 人，

▲ 由于特朗普正在权衡其军事选项，预计本杰明·内塔尼亚胡 (Benjamin Netanyahu) 将于明日访问白宫。摄影：DEBBIE HILL/UPUSHUTTERSTOCK

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而大约有 430 名美国士兵受伤。五角大楼上周表示，自 7 月 7 日以来，有 100 名服役人员受伤，但其中 96% 已重返岗位。

根据《纽约时报》的一篇报道，该部门最初未能披露这些数字，直到后来才在社交媒体帖子中承认伤亡情况。

官员们将《时报》的文章斥为“毫无根据且恶意”的，并主张如果服役人员预计将重返岗位，他们无需公开受伤情况。但当另一篇《时报》报道称，五角大楼网站将部队死亡人数从 18 人下调至 14, 人时，质疑声进一步增强，对此五角大楼将其归咎于“临时的数据中断”。

前美国驻联合国代表副手、前国务院发言人内德·普赖斯 (Ned Price) 表示：“这已经超出了一个常规政府对新闻界的不信任和敌视。这更多是为了掩盖这场战争给美国人民带来的真实且全部的代价。”

自五个月前战争开始以来，政府对行动保密性的追求与媒体代表公众要求透明度之间一直存在紧张关系。即使在充满争议且不受欢迎的越南战争和伊拉克战争期间，沟通渠道在很大程度上也是保持开放的。

但自特朗普在 2025, 年 1 月重新掌权以来，被重新命名为“战争部”的五角大楼一直在限制访问权限。

它几乎立即将包括《纽约时报》和国家公共广播电台 (National Public Radio) 在内的主要媒体驱逐出局。

$37.5bn

自五个月前冲突开始以来，美国在伊朗战争中的财务支出

以及 Politico 离开他们占据已久的办公桌，取而代之的是像 Breitbart、One America News Network 和 New York Post 等亲特朗普的媒体。5 月，五角大楼对记者在大部分建筑内的自由行动实施了限制。

不断收紧的限制引起了新闻自由监督机构的警觉。10 月，大多数新闻机构选择离开五角大楼，而非同意新规则——这些规则意味着，如果他们试图报道未经国防部长皮特·赫格塞斯（Pete Hegseth）批准发布的信息（无论是否为机密），他们将面临被驱逐的风险。

五角大楼还宣布其新闻办公室为机密空间，记者不得进入，因为该空间被那些“经常处理机密材料”的演讲稿撰写者使用。

无国界记者组织（Reporters Without Borders）的华盛顿主任克莱顿·威默斯（Clayton Weimers）表示：“我认为这样说并不夸张，

◀ 美国旨在破坏伊朗军事路线的袭击后，霍尔木兹甘省一座桥梁上的损毁情况 照片：MORTEZA AKHOUNDUGETTY IMAGES

目前的五角大楼比记忆中近期的任何一个五角大楼都对新闻媒体更加敌视。”

目前的含糊其辞与伊朗战争初期的情形形成鲜明对比，当时赫格塞斯无处不在，发表着夸张的简报，在其中他吹嘘将“毫不留情”地消灭伊朗军队，并将美国恢复为一个“真正的战士”之国。

随后，当被认为“不雅”的赫格塞斯照片出现在公共领域时，五角大楼禁止了摄影记者的进入。前国务卿助理副部长乔尔·鲁宾（Joel Rubin）表示：“当你无法清晰地沟通地面上实际发生的情况时，这意味着你可能对地面上发生的事情以及它在政治和政策领域将如何演变缺乏信心或感到不安。很明显，人们现在非常担心这场战争中的伤亡情况。”

普莱斯（Price）表示：“这不是那种只有十几个或二十几个军人遭受轻微脑震荡的情况。政府可能正确地计算出，如果经济成本与对我们军人造成的全部损失叠加，这场在政治上已经是输局的战争，将进一步拖垮政府。”

尽管赫格塞斯一直回避媒体，但他上周不得不出席国会山的听证会，为这场已花费美国 $37.5bn (£28bn) 的战争辩护。在一次激烈的参议院拨款委员会听证会上，两党政治家都对政府无休止的资金要求，以及拒绝提供直接回答或连贯战略的行为表示深深的挫败。

五角大楼否认其在淡化伤亡报告。首席发言人肖恩·帕内尔（Sean Parnell）在的一份声明中表示：“特朗普总统和赫格塞斯部长一直在直接向媒体和美国民众在线提供更新，就我们的目标和决定性行动提供清晰、未经过滤的见解。”

尽管简报会已经枯竭，但五角大楼的常驻记者仍在继续挖掘他们的消息源并追寻信息。帕内塔（Panetta）表示：“本质上，他们是在挑战媒体去寻找真相，而媒体一定会找到。他们可以躲避、闪躲和掩盖，但根据我的经验，无论你多么努力地隐藏，真相最终都会大白。”

凯蒂·佩里 (Katy Perry)

白宫在战争视频中使用其歌曲引发愤怒

Marina Dunbar

在特朗普政府将其热门歌曲《Firework》用于一段导弹袭击伊朗海军舰艇的 TikTok 视频后，凯蒂·佩里对此表示谴责，称她从未批准使用其音乐。

佩里在周末于 X 上发表声明，回应了这段已累计超过 600 万次观看的视频。

“看到‘Firework’被白宫 TikTok 账号用作军事打击视频的背景音乐，我深感震惊和愤怒，”她写道。

“我创作这首歌是为了给那些处于人生最黑暗时刻的人们提供希望、疗愈和内在力量的赞歌。看到一个关于自我价值和提升的信息被武器化，用来为破坏和暴力配乐，这完全违背了我歌曲所代表的一切。我的音乐是为了将人们团结在一起，而不是为了庆祝战争。”

佩里是众多批评特朗普政府在政府社交媒体帖中使用未经授权音乐的艺术家之一，而总统则与几位——大多是女性——流行歌手发生了冲突。

在奥利维亚·罗德里戈 (Olivia Rodrigo) 的一首歌出现在一段宣传遣返工作的政府视频后，她批评了该政府；碧昂丝 (Beyoncé) 在其歌曲《Freedom》被用于一段社交媒体上的竞选视频后，禁止唐纳德·特朗普使用该曲。

萨布丽娜·卡彭特 (Sabrina Carpenter) 在其热门歌曲《Juno》被用于一段显示移民与海关执法局官员进行逮捕的视频后也发声了。卡彭特称该视频“邪恶且令人厌恶”，并告诉政府：“永远不要让我或我的音乐参与到你们非人道的议程中以获取利益。”

佩里正与前加拿大总理贾斯汀·特鲁多 (Justin Trudeau) 交往，而特鲁多本人也多次成为特朗普攻击的目标。

▲ 佩里是近期一系列批评白宫的艺术家之一

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▼ 德里地区“蟑螂民众党”(Cockroach Janta party) 的支持者庆祝 Dharmendra Pradhan 从教育部长职位上辞职 摄影：ADNAN ABEDI/REUTERS

蟑螂在进军

印度年轻人发现自身力量，莫迪盟友辞职

Hannah Ellis-Petersen 德里

即便是在纳伦德拉·莫迪接受其教育部长辞职的前一晚，这位印度总理似乎仍自信地认为，在他执政 12 年以来规模最大的这次群众起义，并不能动摇他的政府。

周五深夜，他在 Instagram 的短视频（reel）中向他的“年轻朋友们”发表讲话，感谢人们提供的“深思熟虑的建议”——而此时，全国各地已有人群大规模集结，高喊反政府口号。

不到 24 小时后，多年来一直塑造强人形象的莫迪接受了 Dharmendra Pradhan 的辞职。分析人士指出，对于一个已证明自己不愿在任何公众压力面前低头，且自 2014 年以来几乎在不受制约的情况下统治的政府来说，这是一次令人瞩目的挫败。

在过去的一周里，一个自称“蟑螂人民党”（Cockroach Janta party，简称 CJP）的 Z 世代运动发动了前所未有的抗议活动。起因是一场考试试卷泄露事件，导致 2 million 名学生被迫抵制考试，并被指导致十多起自杀事件。

尽管抗议活动已扩展为一场更广泛的民主斗争，但让莫迪的盟友 Pradhan 辞职以承担责任，一直是他们的首要诉求。然而，莫迪在 Instagram 的演说中并未提及 Pradhan。周六上午，在德里具有历史意义的詹特·曼塔（Jantar Mantar）地标，参与抗议的人数达到顶峰，骚乱正蔓延至其他城市，包括由莫迪领导的印度人民党（BJP）执政的邦。

但“蟑螂运动”夺取的不仅仅是物理空间。自执政以来，BJP 在掌控网络叙事方面表现得极其高效，利用其强大且组织严密的 IT 部门来动员并攻击任何被认为是对政府的批评，无论对方是公民、政治人物还是记者。

然而，他们面对过去一周涌入 Instagram 的数百万个 Z 世代模因（memes）和短视频时，显得毫无招架之能力。这些内容大胆地侮辱莫迪并公开谴责政府，且一个比一个更具创意且更具煽动性。莫迪试图通过 Instagram 直接与年轻人对话的尝试，结果仅仅是招来了更多的嘲讽。

莫迪还失去了另一个对 BJP 统治至关重要的媒介——主流电视新闻频道。这些频道被广泛认为已被 BJP 收编，成为其右翼印度教民族主义意识形态的传声筒。

起初，电视台忽略了这些抗议活动；而当他们报道时，则是暗示抗议者得到了阴暗外国势力的资金支持。作为回应，抗议者利用社交媒体揭露他们的“谎言”。而当抗议升级时，莫迪在电波中地道的缺席显得格外醒目。

在政府似乎已穷尽所有其他选择的情况下，Pradhan 最终辞职。鉴于周一对抗议者采取警察暴力的行为引发了大规模愤慨，采取残酷镇压的方案似乎已不可行。

“网络空间被抗议者完全占领，亲政府的媒体严重丧失了合法性，”布朗大学国际研究教授 Ashutosh Varshney 表示。“愤怒如此之全面，以至于除了让 Pradhan 离职外，别无选择。”

但 Varshney 表示，这不仅仅是失去一名部长的问题。这也是莫迪政府首次失去对叙事权的掌控。“这是一个高压政府，”他说。“它要求服从，不容许批判性讨论，并制造恐惧。但现在，恐惧的氛围已经崩塌了。”

▲ 昨天在孟买的 CJP 支持者。抗议活动已蔓延至印度各地，包括 BJP 执政的各邦。 摄影：INDRANIL AZETYA/NURPHOTO/SHUTTERSTOCK

分析人士表示，这次辞职还可能影响莫迪对其内阁的控制力。普拉丹是莫迪的意识形态先锋之一，完全按照党内高层的意愿执行政策。他还帮助印度人民党在总选中首次赢得了奥里萨邦，带来了至关重要的席位。

政治专栏作家普拉塔普·巴努·梅塔表示：“莫迪知道，一旦你开始解雇最忠诚的部长，就会给其他部长带来叛逃的激励。如果你的内阁开始为一个可能不再获得政府支持的未来做对冲准备，那么你就陷入麻烦了。”

在本周的动荡之前，莫迪在经历了一系列重要邦选举胜利后气势正盛。印度人民党似乎已经从 2024 年的选举中恢复过来，当时该党未能赢得议会绝对多数席位。

与此同时，反对派在邦选举中持续失利，他们对印度人民党选举舞弊的指控大多石沉大海。

然而，“蟑螂党”的出现不仅激活了印度的青年，也激活了其政治反对党。随着抗议活动的组织和议会的停摆，反对党国大党度过了多年来最好的一周；其领导人拉胡尔·甘地在莫迪住所外支持学生时被警方戏剧性地强行带走。

分析人士认为，在过去 12 年中被压制的不满情绪现已重新被激活。

梅塔表示：“在很长一段时间之后，社会不同阶层开始主张政治能动性。一旦你看到这种能动性出现在街头，它就会赋予许多其他参与者力量。”

CJP（蟑螂党）的下一个重大考验将在明年年初到来，届时印度最大且在政治上最重要的邦——北方邦将举行邦选举。能否在印度人民党的政治核心地带维持权力被认为对该党至关重要，并将对 2029 年的总选产生重大影响。

CJP 在周六取得惊人胜利后打算如何进行政治动员仍有待观察。领导人和支持者坚称这仅仅是开始，尤其是在推动教育改革方面。CJP 创始人阿比吉特·迪普克具有一定的政党组织经验，但尚未公开其野心。

CJP 发言人索拉夫·达斯表示，人们正被鼓励投身政治。“我们需要增加青年在政治中的参与度，因为现在政治是由那些只关心自身生活方式、不理解我们这一代人需求的‘叔叔阿姨们’控制的。”

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2026 年 7 月 27 日，星期一 卫报

国际

27

西装革履

马姆达尼在任何季节 都坚持这种 准备好工作的形象

亚当·加巴特 (Adam Gabbatt)

纽约

踢足球。在沙滩上玩耍。与艾丽西亚·凯斯 (Alicia Keys) 以及整个纽约尼克斯队 (New York Knicks) 的阵容在舞台上共舞。在游泳池中游泳。在海洋中游泳。

传统上，西装和领带会被认为在上述每项活动中都是不恰当的着装。然而在过去的一年里，佐兰·马姆达尼 (Zohran Mamdani) 似乎在进行一场一个人的远征，以证明事实并非如此。这是因为这位纽约市长几乎从不穿西装以外的任何衣服：几乎总是深色，配有领带，且大多搭配精致的黑色靴子。

他绝非第一个拥抱西装的男性政治家——毕竟，对于那些试图展现严肃和庄重的人来说，西装事实上就是制服——但很少有人像他这样如此痴迷。

今年五月在麦迪逊广场花园为尼克斯队助威时，马姆达尼因决定穿着深色西装和领带而显得格外显眼。在尼克斯队获胜后，他做出了一个不寻常的决定：在衬衫和领带之外，但在西装外套之内，穿上了球队的球衣。六月，他在海边与孩子们进行媒体宣传活动时，穿着一套深蓝色西装、白衬衫和蓝色条纹领带。

这些甚至还不是最不寻常的例子。2025年元旦，在竞选市长期间，他穿着西装参加了“北极熊俱乐部”潜水活动，这是纽约的一个传统，人们在寒冷的亚特兰大洋中游泳。马姆达尼在随附的 TikTok 视频中说道：“我快冻僵了……就像我作为下一任纽约市长将冻结你们的房租一样。”这一信息为他赢得了大量媒体报道。

▲ 佐兰·马姆达尼在妻子的陪伴下，在西装内穿着一件篮球球衣。 陪伴他的是其妻子拉玛·杜瓦吉 (Rama Duwaji)。

市长在与巴拉克·奥巴马 (Barack Obama) 一起会见孩子们时也一直穿着外套。 照片：ANGELINA KATSANIS/GETTY

上个月，马姆达尼穿着全套西装跳入哈莱姆区的一个游泳池，宣布该市的游泳池在夏季开放，再次证明了水对他而言并非障碍。（右翼的《纽约邮报》报道称，马姆达尼“在此过程中违反了规定”，“规定要求所有游泳者在水中必须穿着泳装”。）

看来，这位市长陷入了一个由他自己制造的羊毛或可能是羊毛混纺的囚笼。但这是为什么？马姆达尼最近的几任前任并没有如此依赖西装。比尔·德布拉西奥 (Bill de Blasio) 喜欢短裤，而埃里克·亚当斯 (Eric Adams) 则偏好波罗衫，有时还会穿羊毛开襟衫。

时尚评论员埃拉·德维 (Ella Devi) 表示：“我认为马姆达尼想要加倍强化自己作为一名‘工作市长’的形象，即一个始终在岗、时刻准备工作的形象。此外，他还是一个年轻的穆斯林社会主义者。”

马姆达尼一直是右翼媒体关注的焦点，他很可能被要求遵守比白人中道政治家更高的标准。土耳其裔美国左翼主播哈桑·派克 (Hasan Piker) 最近也提出了这个问题，他认为如果自己穿着得体，保守派会“更容易接受”。

“我以前一直穿 T 恤，”他说。“但后来我想，我应该开始穿西装和领带，因为有很多成年人在福克斯新闻 (Fox News) [该右翼频道经常播出派克的讲话片段] 上观看。如果在片段中看到我说某些话，而我处于一个更具吸引力的形象中，他们会更容易接受我的观点。”

左翼杂志《当前事务》(Current Affairs) 的编辑内森·鲁宾逊 (Nathan Robinson) 表示，由于美国社会主义者经常被认为是边缘人物，“西装是一种通过潜意识断言社会主义思想的正当性和权威性的方式”。

“如果有一种视觉语言能意味着可信度和权威，为什么不利用它呢？”鲁宾逊在本月写道。“你可能会认为穿西装的人是严肃、专业且准备好开展业务的。你可能会认为他们属于参议院或董事会。”

“他想要加倍强化自己作为一名时刻在岗者的形象”

埃拉·德维 (Ella Devi)

时尚评论员

这是一个被马姆达尼（Mamdani）推进到极致的概念。作为一名热衷的足球运动员，他本月在展示球技时穿着黑色西装配灰色领带；而当他参加比赛时，马姆达尼只是在西装外套上套了一件足球衫——尽管他确实脱掉了外套。

情况并非一直如此。一位在马姆达尼当选前与其在同一球队效力的消息人士表示，他当时并不穿着西装领带踢球，但对方补充道：“他总是穿着西装，或者至少是西装裤，再加上他那双出名的球鞋出现，然后在球场上更换衣服，因为他总是迟到。”

市长办公室拒绝就马姆达尼的衣橱发表评论，但他在最近接受 CNN 采访时谈到了自己对穿西装的偏好。当被问及穿着西装跳进游泳池的决定时，市长说：“我想是我误解了‘泳装’这个词。不过我也得对 Goodwill（一家以销售二手服装商店闻名的慈善机构）说声谢谢，因为我那套西装只花 30 块钱，你不能把你拥有的其他西装给弄坏了。但我也在逐渐意识到，在 100 度天气里，可能需要不同的着装方式。”

“一场灾难”：法国放宽对蜜蜂有毒农药的禁令引发愤怒

乔恩·亨利 (Jon Henley)

欧洲特派记者

在法国议会批准一项重新授权两种禁用水农药的法案后，当地的养蜂人与环保人士反应激烈。科学家表示，这些农药会毒死蜜蜂。

“无法用语言来形容这种挫败感，”大巴黎地区埃索讷省 (Essonne) 的养蜂人卡罗琳·布格 (Carolyn Bouguet) 表示，“蜜蜂种群已经受到了气候变化、新寄生虫和栖息地丧失的严重影响。而现在又来了这个。”

法国养蜂协会发言人亨利·克莱门特 (Henri Clément) 称该措施是“我们行业的绝对灾难，对整个生物多样性也是如此”。他在接受当地媒体采访时表示，风险是“极高的死亡率和减产”。“这些农药竟然被重新授权，简直不可理喻。我们已经与它们斗争了 30 年。这简直是丑闻，是不理智且不负责任的。”

▲ 在此前于巴黎举行的一次抗议活动中，一名养蜂人展示了蜂巢上的死蜜蜂

该法律允许在特殊情况下使用两种农药：啶虫脒 (acetamiprid) 和 氟吡呋喃 (flupyradifurone)。这两种药物在欧盟内是允许使用的，但此前在法国被禁止。

允许使用这些农药是为了防治蚜虫携带的疾病，这些疾病可能会毁掉糖甜菜、苹果、榛子和樱桃的作物。此前法国的禁令导致生产者声称他们无法再与欧洲竞争对手竞争。

科学研究已经证实，具有强力神经毒性影响的新烟碱类杀虫剂啶虫脒会毒害蜜蜂，影响其觅食能力和记忆力。一项 2024 年的研究表明，氟吡呋喃可能对部分蜜蜂具有致命性。

绿色和平组织法国分部 (Greenpeace France) 表示，该国的中间派政府及其右翼盟友正在“践踏科学、健康、环境和人民的明确意愿”，称该立法“令人深感忧虑”且是“一种耻辱”。

法国环境部长莫尼克·巴布特 (Monique Barbut) 表示，这项立法是“一次过于沉重的环境挫败”。她提交了辞职申请，但在与埃马纽埃尔·马克龙 (Emmanuel Macron) 会面后被说服留任。

根据官方数据，从 20 世纪 90 年代中期引入新烟碱类杀虫剂到 20 世纪 10 年代中期，法国的蜂蜜产量减半，尽管栖息地丧失和气候崩溃也是影响因素。

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世界

卫报 周一 2026 年 7 月 27 日

“我们计算每一升水” 古巴能源危机导致数百万人缺水

Lucien Migné 哈瓦那

在哈瓦那唐人街公寓狭小的厨房里，米雷拉·马丁内斯（Mirella Martínez）推着一个堆满空油桶的旧金属手推车。

她擦掉额头上的汗水，轻轻地给自己扇风。“太热了！”她说。由于又一次停电，电风扇停摆不前，她的公寓在近乎黑暗的状态下闷热了数小时。

几分钟后，这位 61 岁的前保安将步行约半英里前往她女儿的单位，那是附近少数几个水流依然正常供应的建筑之一。近三年来，她与三个女儿及孙子合住的这套公寓一直没有可靠的自来水。

在古巴，停电不仅让人们陷入黑暗：它还让水龙头干涸。随着该国能源危机加深，电力短缺导致许多抽水站无法运行，而老化的配送网络和长期的燃料短缺使数百万人难以获得用水。

该国原本就已经严重的能源危机，在今年美国军队抓获委内瑞拉总统尼古拉斯·马杜罗（Nicolás Maduro）后进一步恶化。委内瑞拉作为古巴主要的燃料供应商，其石油出口的暂停深化了本就被美国禁运和经济制裁所加剧的燃料短缺。

根据古巴国家水利资源研究所的数据，近 3 million 古巴人正面临用水困难。该国水系统的运行燃料仅为所需量的 37%，而哈瓦那多达 70% 的用水在到达住户之前就通过泄漏流失了。

古巴的酒店和富裕家庭通常拥有储水箱、发电机或太阳能电池板，或者能够雇佣私人运水车。其他人则只能等待配送、自行搬运，或付费请非正式的运水工代劳。

马丁内斯将部分水烧开并过滤后用于饮用。其余的水则被定量分配用于烹饪、洗漱和洗涤。“所有东西都是定量供应的，”

“我精疲力竭了。只要电力恢复——有时是在半夜——我们就得起床接满水箱”

Dhayamis Hernández Díaz 哈瓦那居民

▲ 上图：在中心哈瓦那的一个抽水站，胡安·卡洛斯·雷耶斯（Juan Carlos Reyes）和胡安·德·拉·克鲁兹·维拉隆（Juan de la Cruz Villalón）在接水以供出售；中图：米雷拉·马丁内斯在厨房里过滤饮用水；右图：卡洛斯·桑切斯（Carlos Sánchez）在帮一位年长居民填充水箱 摄影：LUCIEN MIGNÉ

她说。“这些水被用于所有事情。我们计算每一升水。尽管我已经退休了，我每天还是要走三趟，但在这个年纪，我不应该搬这些油桶，但我别无选择。”

在中心哈瓦那，Dhayamis Hernández Díaz 看着一股细细的水流缓慢地填充一个塑料桶。她手里拿着烟，等到桶满后将其倒入服务于她所在建筑的屋顶水箱中。没有人知道水还会流多久。

“我精疲力竭了。只要电力恢复——有时是在半夜——我们就得起床接满水箱，做饭并给手机充电。我们的整个生活都依赖于那几个小时的电力。这根本不是生活。”

她和姐姐一起经营一辆电动三轮出租车，收入微薄。雇佣

▲ 客人们在哈瓦那历史中心的一家豪华酒店泳池中享受。豪华酒店更有可能拥有水箱、发电机和太阳能电池板。

私人运水车远远超出了她们的承受能力。“所以我们自己接水，一桶接一桶。晚上因为太热，我几乎睡不着觉。”

随着公共系统的持续失效，一个非正式的水经济在首都各地兴起。在中心哈瓦那的埃斯科巴（Escobar）抽水站，66 岁的胡安·德·拉·克鲁兹·维拉隆和 55 岁的胡安·卡洛斯·雷耶斯正将水装入容器中以供出售。

每天清晨，胡安·米格尔·雷耶斯 (Juan Miguel Reyes) 都会拿着他的配给本在一家国营面包店外等候。在排了半个多小时的队后，他带着几个面包卷离开，准备与他的兄弟和叔叔分享。

“昨晚，水恢复供应了大约两小时。我们在睡前赶紧起来把所有的水桶都接满。有时，这样可以省去跑一次抽水站的麻烦。”

到中午时，这三个男人推着一辆沉重的推车穿过洛斯西提奥斯 (Los Sitios)，这是一个工人阶级社区。推车的轮子在破碎的人行道上发出咔哒咔哒的声音，他们穿梭在成堆的垃圾之间。走了超过一英里后，他们到达了少数几家仍在运行的抽水站之一，然后将水运给那些水龙头早已干涸的居民。

在 23 年的时间里，雷耶斯一直担任重症监护医生。“我从未想象过自己最后会靠卖水为生。现在我们要顶着烈日走好几个小时，然后把水桶搬上楼梯，”他说。“这很累，但至少我们总有东西吃。”

每个 200 升的水箱售价 1,500 比索（按非正式汇率计算约为 £1.75）。雷耶斯每天赚取 3,000 到 4,000 比索。“每周我们都得去更远的地方取水，而且我们永远不知道抽水站明天是否还能运行，”他说。“人们经常感谢我们，因为许多人年事已高，无法亲自取水。在这里，如果没有邻居帮忙，没人能生存下去。”

几英里外，在哈瓦那的轮渡码头附近，卡洛斯·桑切斯 (Carlos Sánchez) 正在收集从破裂管道中溢出的水。他一桶接一桶地填满安装在自行车上的 200 升水箱。“整个网络都在崩溃。这么多人都需要水，而这些水却在被浪费。我收集起来，卖给那些没有体力或没有时间亲自来这里的人。”

水箱装满后，他用防水布将其覆盖，然后将自行车推向哈瓦那的历史中心。在侄子的帮助下，他把水桶搬上一栋摇摇欲坠的建筑的楼梯。

“我的腰快撑不住了，但我别无选择。运水赚的钱比我做殡葬技术员时还多，”他说。“我的孩子们都离开了这个国家。我留了下来。”

到了傍晚，马丁内斯 (Martínez) 回到了家中。电视机依然关着。由于没有电，家里每晚观看的肥皂剧已成为罕见之事。“水和电应该是基本权利，但在这里它们变成了奢侈品。天黑后我不再出门，也不让我女儿出门，”她说。“当街道陷入黑暗，一切都变得更加危险。我只希望有一天我们能重新过上正常的生活。”

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周一 2026 年 7 月 27 日 卫报

日本的挥霍之举

高市首相是否在冒 触发“莉兹·特拉斯时刻”的风险？

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商业

希思罗机场扩建将“夺走其他地区的就业机会”

Gwyn Topham

交通记者

根据对政府自身预测的分析，扩建希思罗机场将夺走英国其他地区的数千个就业岗位，仅西米德兰兹郡就将损失近 10,000 个岗位。

交通部上个月发布的一份经济报告显示，如果希思罗机场建设第三条跑道，英格兰和威尔士的机场可能会损失数百万乘客，这将对地区就业造成沉重打击。

经济学家称，据预测，到 2050 年，仅伯明翰机场每年就将损失 7.5 million 名乘客——这一降幅相当于该机场及其供应链损失约 9,500 个工作岗位。

在安迪·伯纳姆就任首相一周多之后，这些发现可能会让人们进一步质疑扩建计划在政治上的支持度。伯纳姆曾表示，过多的基础设施支出集中在英格兰南部，并承诺将通过“10 号府北区 (No 10 North)”来重新平衡支出。

新经济基金会 (NEF) 表示，报告显示在希思罗机场创造的就业机会，主要代表了从全国各地转移而来的岗位。

该机构对交通部模型的分析表明，到 2050, 15,200 个本应留在各地区的航空就业岗位，以及 6,400 个伦敦及东南部其他机场的岗位，将被希思罗机场取代。

然而，政府方面表示，NEF 的分析仅聚焦于一个有限的时期，并坚称希思罗机场的扩建将为全国带来利益。

这份提交给交通部的报告是在希思罗机场扩建国家政策声明启动磋商之后发布的，国会议员必须批准该声明才能建设第三条跑道。

随之发布的交通部模型也证实，整体经济提振效果可能仅为部长们预期的一小部分。

前财政大臣瑞秋·里夫斯曾以经济增长之名支持希思罗机场的计划，但影响报告称，对 GDP 的整体影响每年最高仅为 0.05%。

另一份交通部出版物进一步质疑全国是否都能感受到扩建带来的利益——这是政府批准该计划所设定的四项测试之一。交通部 GDP 分析的同行评审指出：“在我看来，基于该模型地声称希思罗机场的收益在各地区有广泛分布，将是错误的。”

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根据新经济基金会的估算，西米德兰兹郡将损失的就业岗位数量

NEF 经济政策负责人亚历克斯·查普曼 (Alex Chapman) 表示：“随着每一批新数据的发布，希思罗机场拟建的第三条跑道看起来越来越不像一项增长计划，而更像是一项将就业和投资转移到伦敦及东南部的计划。第三条跑道将把支出从最需要这些资金的地方夺走——这与伯纳姆所主张的理念背道而驰。”

政府方面则表示，航空业将会增长，且 NEF 的分析具有误导性。

一名交通部发言人表示：“此次分析未将希思罗机场扩建可能带来的超过 60,000 个当地就业机会考虑在内。其利益将波及整个英国，在 £2.6bn 的经济提振中，高达 40% 将落在伦敦和东南部以外的地区。”

希思罗机场首席执行官托马斯·沃尔德拜 (Thomas Woldbye) 表示，政府使用的经济模型并未考虑所有收益。

他说道：“全国范围内的工会、企业和机场都支持这个项目，因为 they can see the real benefits。政府本身也承认，这些收益的完整经济价值远远超出了传统基础设施评估模型所能衡量的范围。”

酒吧欢庆世界杯带来 £150 销售额增长

罗伯特·戴维斯 (Rob Davies)

数据显示，延长营业时间以及英格兰队在扩军后的世界杯中晋级半决赛，为酒吧带来了近年来最强有力的足球相关增长。

根据英国啤酒与酒吧协会 (BBPA) 的数据，在整个赛事期间，酒吧比正常交易时期的啤酒销量多出 3000 万品脱，繁忙的酒泵带来了 £150 额外销售额。

世界杯带来的销售额增长似乎也超过了之前的赛事，包括英格兰队在 2024 年欧洲杯中挺进决赛期间的增长。

根据支付系统提供商 Epos Now 的数据，相对于正常班次的销售额增长最显著的一天是英格兰对阵墨西哥的凌晨场次。由于酒吧被允许彻夜营业，那一天的销售额几乎是赛前同期水平的两倍。

数据还显示，另有三场比赛的交易次数增长了三分之二。

相比之下，在 2022 年卡塔尔世界杯和 2024 年欧洲杯中，每届赛事仅有两场比赛带来了超过 50% 的增长。

在销售额上升之后，安迪·伯纳姆 (Andy Burnham) 为酒吧提供了 £100 援助方案，他于上周宣布将该行业的商业税率降低 20%。尽管政府政策因缺乏雄心而受到批评，但减税和足球的双重利好为压力巨大的行业带来了罕见的喘息机会——去年在英格兰和威尔士，该行业平均每天关闭一家酒吧。

在大曼彻斯特地区经营 Garricks Head 酒吧的唐·斯拉特 (Dawn Slater) 表示，在扩大室外容量并安装巨型屏幕后，其销售额比之前的赛事增加了一倍多。

“真的非常繁忙，每场比赛都被订满了，”她说，“我们在每场比赛开始前两小时就停止入场。”她补充道，虽然人们花钱更多，但举办活动的成本也更高。“我们增加了电视，设置了室外吧台。仅塑料杯和水壶就花费了我们 £8,700。”

然而，繁忙的比赛日之后往往紧跟着冷清期，抵消了部分收益，交易额取决于英格兰队在赛事中的晋级情况。

▲ 在切尔滕纳姆 Tailors 酒吧的英格兰支持者庆祝对阵阿根廷的半决赛进球

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“工作日的比赛太棒了，”在埃塞克斯郡威瑟姆与丈夫汤姆共同经营 George 酒吧的艾米·威廉姆斯 (Amy Williams) 说道，“与前一周相比，我们的销售额增长了 300%-400%。”她表示，他们不得不取消一场多莉·帕顿 (Dolly Parton) 的致敬演出，以便为足球迷腾出空间。

担心与伊朗冲突相关的油价回升可能迫使利率上涨

Phillip Inman

据金融城经济学家称，如果油价重新回到每桶 $100 以上，英格兰银行可能将被迫撕毁其经济预测，并在今年晚些时候提高利率。

在周四的银行官员会议之前，经济学家警告称，虽然本周可能会避免加息，但中东冲突可能会导致未来的利率上升。

他们警告说，自从唐纳德·特朗普在 3 月份开始对伊朗发动战争以来，英国经济一直保持相对韧性，但随着上周战斗重新燃起，这种情况可能会面临风险。

美国和伊朗之间脆弱的停火协议破裂，导致油价回升至 4 月和 5 月出现的高水平，引发了人们对加油站价格上涨将导致通胀飙升的担忧。

布伦特原油周四跳涨至每桶 $100 以上，随后在周五回落至 $96，仍远高于本月初记录的 $71 每桶的市场价格。

近日天然气价格也大幅飙升，此时正值大多数欧洲国家在冬季前关键时期填充储气设施。

预计银行由九名成员组成的货币政策委员会将在周四以 7 比 2 的票数投票支持维持利率不变，并将其保持在 3.75% 至少直到 12 月。

这与他们在 6 月的上次会议情况相似，当时委员会中有两名官员投票支持加息，以遏制通胀上升。

德意志银行首席英国经济学家 Sanjay Raja 表示，如果近期空袭的强度得以维持，且允许油轮进出石油终端的海上通道被封锁，那么计算结果可能会改变。他说：“我们认为短期内利率前景存在上行风险，很大程度上取决于正在展开的能源冲击持续时间。”

宾夕法尼亚大学沃顿商学院教授、国际货币基金组织前首席经济学家 Mohamed El-Erian 表示，油价持续上涨至每桶 $90 以上，就足以重写英国政策制定者的预测。

他说：“如果油价保持在每桶 $90 以上——这是一个重要的‘如果’——那么整体通胀将面临巨大的上涨压力。”

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“伯纳姆反弹”若焦点偏移将失去动力

理查德·帕廷顿 (Richard Partington)

一个 “伯纳姆反弹” (Burnham bounce)、阳光明媚，以及英格兰男足在世界杯上的强势表现：这会是英国陷入困境的消费经济的转折点，还是又一次虚假的开局？

上周，数据公司 GfK 将 6 月份英国消费者信心以近三年来最快的月度速度提升，归功于安迪·伯纳姆 (Andy Burnham) 回到议会。其中绝大部分动力源于消费者对英国经济前景的看法：他们对过去一年的感受提升了 10 点，对未来 12 个月的预期提升了 8 点。

GfK 表示：“新任首相任命后带来的重启感，无疑在一定程度上促成了这次反弹。”

对于整体经济而言，保持收银机响起来至关重要：家庭消费约占总经济规模的 60%，为全国的高街商铺、服务提供商、建筑商和制造商提供了生命线。

伯纳姆决定从 10 月起在英国实行临时电费增值税 (VAT) 削减，将英格兰全境的巴士票价上限设为 £2，并为酒吧、俱乐部和现场音乐场馆削减 20% 的商业税率，这些举措旨在提供帮助。此外，整体通胀率比预期下降更多，降至 2.6%。

但事情并非表面看上去那么简单。深入分析 GfK 的数据，一些揭露性的趋势便浮现出来：65 岁及以上的年长英国人

◀ 期待扭转局面……安迪·伯纳姆上周在巴斯驾驶一辆巴士 摄影：TORY MELVILLE/AFP/GETTY

是最悲观的群体。相比之下，16 至 29 岁的人群则更为乐观——尽管年轻人面临着由人工智能干扰的就业市场以及极高的租金和房价等挑战。青年失业率处于十年来的最高水平。但 65 岁以上人群比 30 岁以下人群更倾向于预测失业率上升。他们对经济前景、自身财务状况和房地产市场的担忧也更多。

消费者对经济的感知也存在真实的分裂——这暴露了英国深层的不平等。最贫困的人群一再表现出最悲观的前景。其原因不难发现。

官方数据显示，英国住户平均每周支出 £676.60，其中住房、燃料和电力约占总额的五分之一。交通是次高消费类别，其次是包括度假、休闲、通讯以及餐饮在内的其他支出。健康和教育在平均每周支出中仅占 3%。

有迹象表明，最富裕的人群正在进一步领先。截至 2025 年 3 月的一年期最新官方数据显示，最富裕的五分之一住户的每周支出增长速度是最低五分之一的两倍，增长了 10%（即 £98.10），达到 £1,083.60；而后者仅增长了 5%（即 £18.10），达到 £407.30。

自 2021 年末生活成本危机开始以来，平均消费价格上涨了四分之一以上。但在某些类别（包括食品和能源）中，涨幅更高。除此之外，英格兰银行为了应对通胀失控而提高了利率，这给借款人带来了压力。

因此，消费支出受到打击并不令人惊讶：官方数据显示，面向消费者的服务业产出仍比疫情前水平低约 6%。旅行社、餐饮业和酒店业受影响最严重。

Threadneedle Street 预测，在截至 6 月底的一年里，实际收入将下降约 0.5%。而且随着中东冲突预计将推高通胀，英国消费者的紧缩状态可能仍将持续。

反映地区差异的是，储蓄集中在英格兰南部富裕地区的富人手中。智库“城市中心” (Centre for Cities) 发现，在贫困地区（主要在英格兰北部的城市和镇上）每存入 £1 的同时，富裕地区住户则存入了 £12。

为了使“伯纳姆反弹”（Burnham bounce）能够持续，需要消费者信心持续回升。而这需要将注意力精准地集中在那些最艰难的家庭身上。

担忧首相计划可能导致日本陷入特拉斯式的冲击

Phillip Inman

国际投资者正在质疑，日本首相将从何处筹集 370 万亿日元（£1.7tn）的额外资金，用于她在 2040 年前计划投资的 17 个工业部门。

高市早苗领导的联合政府所计划的支出规模之大，以至于她党内许多人都担心她即将摧毁日本经济，从而引发一场类似于莉兹·特拉斯（Liz Truss）式的经济冲击。

在金融市场上，投资者对一个通常沉稳的日本政府竟然计划重写预算规则，并开展一次广泛且无资金支持的“购物狂欢”感到震惊。

高市早苗挫败感的根源可以追溯到 1991, 年的金融危机，当时日本房地产市场的泡沫破裂得极其惨烈。在出口繁荣之后，东京一度成为全球生活成本最高的地方，但在崩溃后的几个月内，支撑大部分贷款的银行纷纷破产。

在世纪之交之前，动荡进一步加剧，东京一些最大的金融机构因无法应对第一次崩溃后留下的坏账后遗症而倒闭。

自 2008 年全球金融冲击以来，经济一直处于停滞状态。作为应对，政府的支出经常比其收到的税收高出 10%——其中大部分用于应对快速老龄化的人口问题——且债务持续上升。到 2020, 年，债务与 GDP 的比例达到了 260%，随后在预算紧缩和经济增长小幅改善的带动下，该比例在 2025 年降至 230% 以下。

高市早苗表示，她的投资计划将提升经济的生产能力，确保日本在 AI 革命中处于前沿，并使经济摆脱对华贸易日益增加的依赖。

自 6 月份提出方案以来，股市反应是一波接一波的下跌，不过中东敌对行动的重启以及油价上涨的前景也未能缓解局面。

许多投资者在政府就职后立即抛售，打击了最大规模公司的股价，其中包括索尼（Sony）和丰田汽车公司（Toyota Motor Corporation）。

索尼面临来自韩国和中国竞争对手的激烈竞争，而丰田一直对纯电动汽车持保留态度，现在则面临被蓬勃发展且获得高度补贴的中国汽车工业击溃的风险。

国内外贷款机构在近几个月内将日本国债（JGBs）的利率推高至 2.8%，为 29 年来的最高水平。

国际社会对日本经济前景支持的减弱也打击了日元的价值。而近期，高市早苗的大胆之举——与特拉斯一样，经常被定性为鲁莽——成为了拖累货币的沉重负担，将其推至 163 日元兑 1 美元的水平，创下四十年新低。

债务账单增加的部分原因与通货膨胀上升有关，随着日元下跌，通胀随之攀升，这主要是因为低汇率提高了能源和原材料的进口价格。

尽管日本的核心通胀在过去四个月中一直低于日本银行（BoJ） 2% 的目标，但分析师预测，由于伊朗战争导致油价上涨，今年最后一季度的通胀将跳升至 2% 范围的中段。

咨询公司 Pantheon Macroeconomics 的亚洲专家 Kelvin Lam 表示，金融市场真正担心的是缺乏关于新投资资金来源的细节。

“只要你不说明将如何为支出提供资金，你就在走向‘莉兹·特拉斯时刻’，”他说道，指的是市场对这位短暂任职的首相在 2022 年 9 月提出的 £45bn 无资金支持的减税计划所作出的反应。“市场此前已经担心日本的长期财政健康，而这个计划毫无帮助。”

一份草案计划包括强迫日本银行（BoJ）与财务省步调一致，并重新编写政府债务的计算方式。内阁最终通过的一份提交方案承诺将维持中央银行的独立性，但这仅作为一项脚注。方案中写道：“为了实现强劲的经济，货币政策采取适当的引导以实现价格稳定上涨至关重要。”

损害已经造成，就像特拉斯发现自己在……之后陷入了无法挽回的局面

“市场此前已然担忧。而这项计划并没有起到帮助作用”

Kelvin Lam

亚洲经济专家

正与英格兰银行及预算责任办公室展开正面交锋。

这项名为“骨太方针”（Honebuto no Hōshin）的投资计划旨在未来 14 年内向 17 个领域注入资金，以使日本的经济增长率翻倍至 1% 以上。

这与前任领导人低调的政策蓝图截然不同，在某些方面令人联想到北京的五年计划，后者设定了国家增长目标并主导工业政策。该蓝图将目标锁定在人工智能（AI）、半导体、生物技术、国防和能源等领域，以期“尽快”实现 1% 的增长率。

该文件强调“物理人工智能”，即将 AI 与日本在制造硬件方面的优势相结合，“以加速所有领域的 AI 转型”。

根据日本经济研究中心（Japan Center for Economic Research）智库的数据，经济学家的预测通常指向 2027 年增长 0.93% 和 2028 年增长 0.85%，未能达到 1% 的目标。

自 2022 年以来，财务省已花费约 £160bn 试图限制日元的下跌。在俄罗斯入侵乌克兰后，全球范围内为应对通货膨胀而推动提高利率，而财务省仍向央行施压，要求保持低利率。

日本央行（BoJ）已将其政策利率提高至 31 年来最高点 1%，但相对于其同行而言仍然较低。

在新冠疫情之后，所有中央银行都通过购买政府债务来为政府支出提供资金。尽管大多数银行在近年来试图扭转这一局面，但日本央行却被鼓励进一步深化此举。日本养老基金也感受到了来自财务省的压力，后者期望它们出于爱国责任感购买政府债券。

高市在最近的一篇 X 帖子中表示，她整天以及大部分夜晚都在规划日本的复苏，许多人认为这是试图扭转上个月民调支持率下降 10 点的尝试。

然而，金融市场表达了怀疑。许多人在问，随着中国寻求生产更精密的产品（这一领域此前由日本、德国和美国主导），强调制造业是否能证明是成功的。

问题在于东京是否有资源与北京竞争，并在 2030 年代开辟出一个足够大的生态位以实现自足。6 月份的出口额同比增长 20%，但考虑到日元的贬值，增长的实际价值几乎为零。

每年通过货币贬值来刺激贸易并非一项可持续的政策。也许高市的投资计划可以。

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约书亚在踉跄中生存，但通往富里之战的道路上仍存在严重质疑

在这场价值 £150m 的全英国对决之前，缺乏抗击能力导致两次被击倒是一个令人担忧的信号

Donald McRae

这场混乱与疯狂仅持续了 5 分 43 秒。在安东尼·约书亚回到更衣室的避风港后，他声称自己学到了“一个宝贵的教训”。在第二回合通过残酷地击停此前名不见经传的阿尔巴尼亚选手从而自救之前，约书亚曾两次被克里斯蒂安·普伦加击倒。

在两名日渐衰落的前世界冠军分别经历了截然不同的比赛（本周末这两场比赛本应是常规表演赛）后，约书亚还展望了与泰森·富里之间备受期待的对决。“我现在会变得更强，”约书亚在试图清除大脑中因其动荡职业生涯中最糟糕的一回合而产生的震荡迷雾时如此声称。

但令人悲哀的真相在第一回合仅 20 秒后就已清晰地显现。一次横扫的右手直击——这是比赛中第一次有意义的出拳——摇晃了约书亚，并为普伦加那记剧烈的上勾拳创造了机会。这些是像样的打击，但令人不安的是，约书亚保留的抗击能力如此之低。他依然拥有肌肉发达的雕塑般身材，但在他跌落在画布上时，他看起来迷茫且狼狈。约书亚设法翻过身，将白色的拳套按在蓝色画布上，撑起了身体。

当他困惑的脸上出现一丝勉强的微笑时，他的双腿还在打颤。在经过 8 秒计数后，约书亚很快再次陷入困境。一记凌厉的右交叉拳将他击退到

▲ 安东尼·约书亚在比赛初期被克里斯蒂安·普伦加给了巨大的惊吓 MARK ROBBINSON/MAYURHOOR BOXING/GETTY

绳圈边缘，裁判本可以对他进行另一次计数。每次普伦加击中右拳，即便没有使用过分的力量，约书亚都显得脆弱不堪。

另一记上勾拳再次将他击倒，尽管这一次他的拳套在重新站起前仅触及画布。约书亚的勇气显而易见，但在那些凄凉的时刻，认为他能挺过另一次猛攻并在 11 月面对富里的想法似乎过于幻想了。

但随后，不可思议地，一切都改变了。在回合间隙，就好像普伦加收到了一条秘密指令，要求他收起火力，不要毁掉富里与约书亚之间这场价值 £200m (£150m) 的巅峰对决。实际上，这似乎更像是因为普伦加将约书亚逼至崩溃失败的边缘而让自己感到震惊。

普伦加并没有在出场后结束比赛，而是向后退却。他允许这个神志不清的受害者夺回控制权并开始倾泻拳头。这位阿尔巴尼亚人被钉在角落里，由于没有做出任何有效的反击，他突然承受了巨大的压力。连续的组合拳让他瘫倒，随后一记凶猛的右拳将普伦加击晕。

约书亚的坚韧和终结能力值得赞扬。但即便是一次如此干净利落的击倒，也无法抹去这样的画面：每当他被那些曾经可以轻而易举化解的打击击中时，他就像一棵被击打得摇摇欲坠、即将倒地的老树。

在七个月前导致其挚友及团队核心成员 Sina Ghami 和 Latif "Latz" Ayodele 丧生的车祸中受伤后，约书亚向他们致敬：“这不仅仅是拳头力量。那是精神。那是 Latz，那是 Sina，那是他们的家人。提起这件事就很痛。这段时间很艰难。他们是我的兄弟。”

约书亚几近落泪。他的痛苦可以理解，但当他暗示个人悲剧给了他更高的恢复能力时，情况就更令人担忧了。“你知道我学到了什么吗？伙计，我无法被阻止——我无法被否认。”

他的家人、朋友和推广人们都应该停下来，并在接下来的日子里细心照顾他。最好让他们建议约书亚，他已经不再具备承受即使是仅有合格水平的重量级选手的重击的能力。像摩西·伊陶马和 2024 年曾将约书亚击出毁灭性击倒的丹尼尔·杜博伊斯这样年轻的拳手，如果当时在擂台上的是他们而非普伦加，将会对他造成严重的伤害。

诚然，富里在周五晚上于泰国进行的比赛中，经过七个回合一边倒的优势击败了一名平庸的 46 岁波兰重量级选手马里乌什·瓦赫时，表现得缺乏吸引力。

瓦赫仍然设法击中了富里几次，因为这位年老的“吉普赛之王”已不再是那个难以捉摸的擂台技术大师。但富里骨子里依然是个战士，面对这样一个大幅缩水的约书亚，他可能会造成严重的伤害。

“我们已经签署了合同，”约书亚的推广人埃迪·赫恩在拳手侥幸脱险后表示，“一切都办好了。但是

“今晚关乎约书亚所展现的力量。没人知道他经历过什么”

▲ 安东尼·约书亚向他在十二月去世的朋友们致敬

今晚关乎的不是泰森·富里。而是关乎安东尼·约书亚能够出现在这里所展现的力量。没人知道他在过去七个月里经历了什么。当他在第一回合倒下时，我认为他回归得太早了。”

然而，正如赫恩随后承认的，已签署的合同规定富里和约书亚将在 11 月在英国进行比赛。目前人们普遍预期这场对决将在美国举行，因此一套新合同可能会再次推迟这场闹剧。

在回顾与普伦加之间这场近乎噩梦的比赛时，约书亚补充道：“那是一个艰难的时刻，但我学到了宝贵的一课。开始要更快。走出去，去他妈的拳击，做好准备。你可以在 20 秒内完成。如果普伦加运气好一点，他可能已经把我击败了。”

他还暗示“今天真的是一个深刻的警示”。确实如此，因为他抗击能力的匮乏在所有人面前暴露无遗。在任何一个比拳击更理智、更有人情味的行业里，约书亚身边的人都会试图说服他，现在是时候带着财富和完整的意识离开这里了。

相反，他将被诱导重新回到擂台与富里对决——这场两位年迈重量级选手之间的较量，现在看来不仅涉及巨额资金，而且充满了危险和潜在的灾难。

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卫报 周一 27 July 2026

未来一周预告

保琳·费兰-普雷沃 (Pauline Ferrand-Prevot) 将回归，旨在卫冕她的环法女子赛冠军，比赛将于周六在洛桑开始

今天 世界报告 英联邦运动会 格拉斯哥（至周日）TNT Sports 2 板球 百球赛（女子） Southern + M London, Utilita Bowl (3pm) Sky Sports Cricket 百球赛（男子） Southern + M London, Utilita Bowl (6.30pm) SSC 男子巡回赛（五日赛之第三日） 西印度群岛 + 巴基斯坦，Tarsada (3pm) 瑞士名单 上海女子赛 中国（至周日） 信条 WTA & KTP Mubadala Chi DC Open 华盛顿特区（至周日） ATP 西部网球公开赛 墨西哥洛斯卡沃斯（至周日） 赛马 Ayr Racing TV, Ryoun Sky Sports Racing, Southwest SSR, Windsor SSR

明天 足球（除非另有说明，否则均为晚上 7.45pm） 欧联杯 第二轮资格赛：次回合 Celje (2) + Cyneta (3) (7.15pm); D-Zagreb (1) + Than (1) (7pm); Hearts (0) + Stame Giza (4) (7.45pm) PLI; KJPS (0) + Salam (1) (4pm); Lincoln RI (0) + BJ&B (1) (5pm); Shamrock (0) + Avanti-Armenia (2) (8pm)

欧协联 第二轮资格赛：次回合 切尔西 (Unusual) (0) + 2No Gori (0) (6pm); CSKA 1948 Sofia (0) + Spartak Trnava (0) (6.30pm); Erba (1) + Plaviania (1) (7pm); Riga (3) + Vardar Skopje (2) (6pm) 板球（除非另有说明，否则均为 6.30pm） 第三届女子 500 赛 Gladion Flablais, 荷兰 (6.30pm) Metro Bank 一日杯（男子） A 组 Lancs + Kent, Earegion (1.1am), Neds + Lancs, Trent Bridge (1.1am) 百球赛（女子） Leeds + March, Headingley (3pm) SSC 百球赛（男子） Leeds + Manchester, Headingley SSC 赛马 Deverley RTV, Pita Lia SSR, Goodwood (TV) /RTV, Yarmouth SSR

周三 足球（除非另有说明，否则均为晚上 7.45pm） 欧联杯 第二轮资格赛：次回合 Karak (0) + Cinema (1) (4pm); Zalgiris (0) + IO (0) (5pm); Lech Roman (4) + AEF (1) (6pm); Hapoel de Er Sheici (1) + Vilengar (2) (6.30pm); Uni Crassna (0) + Levski Sofia (1) (6.30pm); Gornik Zahra (0) + Frerichalica (1) (7pm); Rli Belgrade (4) + Larisa (0) (7pm); S Bratton (2) + Maria (109) (0) (7.15pm) 欧协联 第二轮资格赛：次回合 Dasgigiro (0) + Lagano (1) (3.30pm); 哥本哈根 (3) + Zhelentor (3) (6pm); X Vienna (3) + Santa Cristina (1) (7.30pm) 板球（除非另有说明，否则均为 1.1am） 百球赛（女子） M London + London Spirit, The Kia Oval (3pm) SSC, Welsh + Trent, Sophia Gardens (1.30pm) SSC 百球赛（男子） M London + London Spirit, The Kia Oval (6.30pm) SSC, Welsh + Trent, Sophia Gardens (3pm) SSC Metro Bank 一日杯（男子） A 组 Marks + Surrey, Edgbaston B 组 Durham + Glam, Gosforth, Hovey + Collie, Arundel, Yorkshire + Worcestershire, York 赛马 Goodwood (TV) /RTV, Leicester RTV, Redcar RTV, Sandmoor RTV

周四 足球（除非另有说明，否则均为晚上 7.45pm） 欧联杯 第二轮资格赛：次回合 Anderlecht (1) + Hammurthy (1) (7.30pm); Benfica (1) + St Gallen (2) (8pm); CSKA Sofia (0) + Spalding (0) (7pm); Feenincucos (2) + Twente (1) (7.30pm); Hradec Králové (1) + Tromsø (0) (6pm); 特拉维夫马卡比 (5) + Sheriff (0) (5pm); Midtjylland (0) + Budulya (1) (6pm); F{srsk (0) + Haplak Split (2) (6pm); P4DK (1) + Dynamo Kyiv (2) (6.45pm)

欧协联 第二轮资格赛：第二回合 Ape (4) + Vojvodina (1) (晚上7点); Attelic Club PTuclides (0) + Kadax (4) (下午3点); Aisle (1) + FCSA (2) (下午3点); 维也纳奥地利 (2) + 莱比锡 (0) (晚上7点30分); Balbani (1) + Behemia (2) (晚上7点); Betzar (1) + AEK Larraca (0) (晚上6点30分); 布拉加 (1) + D善舟car Pancras (0) (晚上6点); 文莱 (2) + Uni City (2) (晚上6点); CFR 城市 (1) + 阿伯丁 (1) (晚上7点30分); Coleraine (0) + KIR (1) Saddipan; 德里 (0) + 里的耶卡 (1) (晚上6点30分); 迪纳摩城市 (1) + Aliswain (1) (晚上6点); Drazwa Meski (4) + Nefna (2) (晚上6点); FCI Levadia (2) + Gilefsing (1) (下午5点30分); Gant (0) + NZ Dombay (0) (晚上7点30分); Krimovice (1) + Zilava (2) (晚上7点30分); Gant (6) + Atent (2) (晚上6点); Hill (0) + Motherwell (2) (晚上6点); Alderman (0) + Malinheva (2) (晚上8点); Rees (0) + Stjarnam (1) (下午5点); 索非亚国际 (1) + 伊斯坦布尔 Balakhehir (1) (下午5点); 亚布洛内茨 (2) + Yamazite (3) (下午5点); Koper (2) + NIS (0); Ladegrams (0) + 特拉维夫哈普尔 (2) (晚上7点); Noah (1) + Zhelbe (1) (下午5点); Namime Kaja (2) + Zwillbourne (1) (下午5点); Narodjaaland (0) + GAIS (1) (晚上6点); 帕那辛奈科斯 (2) + Palo (1) (晚上7点30分); Portocolo (0) + Newk-Banja Laka (2) (晚上6点); Pystek (0) + Oelovaca (1) (下午5点); Shkandija (1) + Kress (2) (晚上7点); 锡永 (1) + Bate (1) (晚上7点15分); Sufpoka (0) + Vitekuk (1) (晚上6点); 新圣徒 (0) + Parra (1) (晚上6点30分); Tahed Kozianog (1) + Panaviczo (1) (下午3点); URA Strasser (0) + 游击者 (4) (晚上7点15分); 瓦莱塔 (1) + eskov (1) (晚上6点30分); Vestiri (1) + RFS (4) (下午5点); Veles Mostar (0) + VMC (下午3点) (下午1点10分); Zalgo (0) + Shanee (1) (晚上6点); Zira (0) + Paide Linzenverband (1) (下午5点); Zrzysk (0) + Volar (1) (晚上7点30分)

橄榄球联赛 Betfred 超级联赛 哈德斯菲尔德 + 赫尔城 (晚上8点) SS+ 板球 (下午2点 除非另有说明) 百球赛 女子组 Southern + Birre, Utilita Bowl SSC 百球赛 男子组 Southern + Birre, Utilita Bowl SSC Metro Bank 一日杯 男子组 A组 兰开斯特郡 + Neds, 普雷斯顿 (凌晨1.1点) 高尔夫 Rectest (下午1.1点) 底特律 (至周日) Sky Sports Golf 全女子 500 赛 利瑟姆圣安内斯 (至周日) SSG 赛马 埃普索姆 RTV, 古德伍德 (TV) /RTV, 诺丁汉 RTV, 伍尔弗汉普顿 SSR

周五

足球 (晚上7点45分 除非另有说明) William Hill 苏格兰超级联赛 邓迪联 + Rangers (晚上8点) SSF 橄榄球联赛 Betfred 超级联赛 赫尔 KR + 布拉德福德 (晚上8点) SS+ 利兹 + Stalwart (晚上8点) SS+ 莱顿 + 威根 (晚上8点) SS+ 板球 (凌晨1.1点 除非另有说明) 第一场女子 120 国际赛 斯里兰卡 + 巴基斯坦, 汉班托塔 (凌晨5点30分)

百球赛 女子组 曼彻斯特 + 特伦特, 欧鲁德福德 (下午3点) SSC 百球赛 男子组 曼彻斯特 + 特伦特, 欧鲁德福德 (晚上6点30分) SSC Metro Bank 一日杯 男子组 B组 德比郡 + 格拉摩根, Ripton; 埃塞克斯 + 汉普郡, 切尔姆斯福德; 伍斯特郡 + 米德尔塞克斯, New Road; 约克郡 + 达勒姆, 约克 Metro Bank 一日杯 男子组 A组 格洛斯特郡 + 萨里, 布里斯托尔 (下午2点); 肯特 + 萨默塞特, 坎特伯雷; 北安普顿郡 + 兰开斯特郡, 北安普顿 赛马 巴斯 SSR, 古德伍德 (TV) /RTV, Moordburgh RTV, 纽卡斯尔 SSR, 纽马基特 RTV, 伍尔弗汉普顿 SSR

周六

足球 (下午3点 除非另有说明) Caraboo 联赛杯

预赛 Trasmore + 罗奇代尔 SS+

William Hill 苏格兰超级联赛 阿伯丁 + 之心 (下午5点30分) SSF; 法尔基克 + 圣米伦 SSF

William Hill 苏格兰冠军联赛 艾尔 + 阿布罗斯; 莫顿 + 帕特里克; 因弗内斯 CT + Duddersfield; 利文斯顿 + 皇后公园; Keith's Starrines

William Hill 苏格兰甲级联赛 Alba + 东法伊夫; Cree + Airdromians; 东基尔布赖德 + Qck; 蒙罗斯 + 汉密尔顿; 彼得黑德 + 罗斯

William Hill 苏格兰乙级联赛 安南 + 斯巴坦人; 克莱德 + Stranvar; 爱丁堡城市 + Elyse; Torfa + Kirby; 斯特灵 + Sunderburm

橄榄球联赛 Betfred 超级联赛 卡斯尔福德 + 沃灵顿 (下午3点) SS+, 加泰罗尼亚 + 韦克菲尔德 (下午3点) SS+, 约克 + 圣海伦 (下午5点30分) SS+

板球 百球赛 女子组 伯明翰 + 威尔士, 埃奇巴斯顿 (凌晨1.1点) SSC, 伦敦精神 + Southern, 勋爵公园 (下午2点30分) SSC

百球赛 男子组 伯明翰 + 威尔士, 埃奇巴斯顿 (下午2点30分) SSC, 伦敦精神 + Southern, 勋爵公园 (下午3点) SSC

自行车 环法女子赛

Du 9 Augil

赛马

Dorchester SSR, Goodwood (TV) /RTV, Hamilton RTV, Loughfield SSR, Newmarket (TV) /RTV, Thora (TV) /RTV

星期日

足球（除非另有说明，均为下午 3 点） William Hill 苏格兰超级联赛

St Johnstone + Kilmarnock (下午 2 点) SSF,

Hibernian + Wotherend (下午 4.30 点) SSF

板球（除非另有说明，均为上午 1.1 点） 第二次男子巡回赛（五日赛之第一日） WI + 巴基斯坦, 波多西班牙 (下午 3 点)

女子 Twenty-50 国际赛 斯里兰卡 + 巴基斯坦, 汉班托塔 (上午 5.30 点)

The Hundred 女子 500

M 伦敦 + 曼彻斯特, The Kia Oval (下午 2.30 点) BDC, Fwoj-Pfynor/SSC, Trent + 利兹, Trent Bridge (下午 2.30 点) SSC

Metro Bank 一日杯男子赛

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2026 年 7 月 27 日 星期一 卫报

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足球

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阿森纳为不可阻挡的配方添加最后成分

七名新援的加盟以及俱乐部明确的目标感，让人们相信自 2019 年以来首个 WSL 冠军的可能性已经出现

Suzanne Wrack

在阿森纳季前训练的第一天，乔治亚·斯坦威（Georgia Stanway）看向自己的手臂，然后低头看向腿部。“如你所见，我身上布满了纹身，”她说，“我看到的只有裸露的皮肤，也就是空白地带，所以我得继续填充。”

纹身以及被纹身是她的创意出口，是她在球场之外表达自我的一种方式。但能够洞察“空间”正是这位 27 岁英格兰中场在球场上表现出色的关键。

斯坦威从拜仁慕尼黑转会后，其揭晓视频显示她的手臂上纹着一段精致的草书，写着“无论天气如何”（whatever the weather）。在她身穿红白球衣踏上酋长球场草坪之前，就将阿森纳队歌《North London Forever》中的歌词刻在皮肤上，这是一个大胆的声明。“这表明我将为这家俱乐部倾尽所有。我想迅速进入状态，与队友们建立联系，与

▼ 乔治亚·斯坦威在今夏从拜仁转会后，准备在下个赛季迅速进入状态 ALEX BORSYON/ARSENAL FC/GETTY IMAGES

球迷们建立联系，并期待在俱乐部拥有一个激动人心的未来。”

斯坦威是阿森纳这个变革之夏的缩影，是目前七名签约球员之一。与此同时，洛特·武本-莫伊（Lotte Wubben-Moy）——一名在 13 岁就加入阿森纳青训营的终身球迷——则代表了俱乐部重点关注的核心与文化。这是一种球员们渴望成为其中一员的文化，其影响力大到让人在入队第一天就去纹身。“她把标准定得很高，”武本-莫伊笑着说，“这就是乔治亚。她全情投入，我很喜欢这一点。”

在为受伤球员顶替并表现卓越之后，武本-莫伊准备在阿森纳的首发 11 人名单中争取一席之地，此前她在防线上的具体位置一直难以固定。“我一直觉得自己准备好了，”这位 27 岁球员说，“当机会到来时，我就能发挥作用。从历史上看，作为一家俱乐部，我们建立在防守稳固的基础上。如果我们拥有稳固的防线，就能为进攻和得分创造空间。这应该是通往胜利的垫脚石。因此，我将继续以任何方式、任何形式做出贡献。但我想要我的位置。”

如果阿森纳想要更进一步，阵容就需要翻新，年龄需要降低，且必须做出改变。这意味着一些大牌球员将离队，最显著的是贝丝·米德（Beth Mead）和凯蒂·麦凯博（Katie McCabe）。“她们两人都是这项运动的绝对传奇，我们非常尊重她们，”前阿森纳前锋、今年 1 月成为俱乐部技术总监的乔迪·泰勒（Jodie Taylor）表示，“但我们一直

▲ 洛特·武本-莫伊希望争取一个常规首发位置

知道这个窗口期将会伴随一些变化。”

“在女足中，变化是不可避免的，”武本-莫伊说，“如果你和一名球员交谈，而他们不认为自己是灵活的，那么这个人就不适合这项运动。我们已经成为一支灵活的队伍，一支能够随女足运动的涨落而调整的队伍。

“这不仅仅体现在球员群体中，在职员、董事会、商业团队和沟通团队中也是一样。每个人都非常愿意地做出调整，并主导我们想要的方向。如果四五年前你问我关于变化的事，我可能会感到有些畏惧，但现在我知道该怎么做，并且我是这种驱动力的一部分。我们作为一支球队、一个整体所拥有并能看到的机遇，确实让我感到非常兴奋。”

阿森纳在招募斯坦威时采取的方式，是她想要加盟该俱乐部的一个促成因素。“阿森纳在很早的时候就接触了我，”她说，“我非常享受他们从一开始就表现出的绝对忠诚，即使在我无法立即加盟时，他们依然想要我。被需要是一种美好的感觉。

“在慕尼黑的最后四年不可思议，但我知道我想迈出下一步，而且我觉得在阿森纳有一个

“对我来说，这是一个能够提升我的比赛水平并与世界级球员共同竞技的机会。”

阿森纳在转会市场的大部分操作都完成得很早，随着斯坦威的加入，经验丰富的国际球员塞琳娜·塞尔奇、热拉尔丁·罗伊特勒、奥娜·巴特耶和米莎·罗德里格斯也相继加盟，此外还有年轻天才丽莎·鲍姆和伊莎贝拉·达姆。在没有重大国际赛事的情况下，在季前训练第一天就完成了七名球员的签约，这对勒内·斯莱格斯及其教练团队来说是一个巨大的助力，尤其是在经历了两个赛季国内联赛起步缓慢之后。

“不过，市场并不简单，它在不断变化，顶级人才的池子很小，而且有好几家俱乐部都在其中‘钓鱼’，”泰勒说道，“你尽量地尝试做好计划，但你也必须具备快速反应的能力。我们始终在关注未来，但我们必须非常灵活。”

“我们可以讨论位置需求、特质、年龄和接班计划，但如果一名球员不可得或者根本不存在，那就就像是试图把方钉钉进圆孔里。”

加入的球员们带来了活力，伍本-莫伊这样说道。在阿森纳男队英超冠军和女队欧冠冠军的庆祝游行中，她的情绪经历了剧烈波动——游行巴士绕过了海布里之角（她在这里拍摄了续约视频），以及伊斯灵顿市政厅（几周后她与自行车运动员陶·格奥根-哈特在此结婚）。

“我倾向于关注他们进入的环境，”伍本-莫伊说，“那是一个由历史、由作为球队核心的球员和工作人员共同创造的文化，他们都经历了这些变革：凯莉 [史密斯]、勒内、我自己、莉亚 [威廉姆森]、金 [利特尔]，还有乔迪。我们接触过许多不同的事物，但我们所有人都在以一种健康的方式，保留我们需要保留的，并舍弃需要舍弃的。这很高效，我们很专注，我们知道下一步怎么做。”

“就像你在烹饪一道最精美的食谱，然后加入最后一点点能产生边际差异的微小配料，使其升华，从而创造出某种美丽且让你能够细细品味和享受的东西。这就是我们现在通过漫长而美好的季前准备阶段所处于的过程。我渴望快点完成这个阶段，这样我们就能把‘烹饪’好的成果呈献给球迷，然后说：‘开饭了，我们一整年都要一起享受这顿大餐。’”

上赛季在酋长球场观看 WSL 比赛的平均观众人数超过 34,000 人，加上俱乐部在女足领域的开拓历史，以及 2025 年赢得的欧冠冠军，这些都是巨大的吸引力。阿森纳的所有相关人员都渴望获得更多，包括自 2019 年以来首个女超联赛冠军头衔。

“我们处于一个绝佳的状态，”泰勒说，“但我们希望上赛季能赢得更多奖杯，这也是我们进入本年度的抱负。我就直截了当地说了：我们想要赢得联赛冠军。我们是一家有野心的俱乐部，通过目前的签约，我们觉得自己已经处于一个能够实现这一目标的绝佳位置。”

足球

简讯

托特纳姆热刺

国际米兰体育总监确认与罗梅罗进行谈判

国际米兰已就签下克里斯蒂安·罗梅罗一事与托特纳姆热刺展开谈判。这位俱乐部队长自 2021 年加盟托特纳姆热刺以来共出场 156 次，并在去年带领球队取得了欧联杯的成功。但随着中后卫扬·保罗·范海克（Jan Paul van Hecke）和马科斯·塞内西（Marcos Senesi）在今夏加盟，热刺将允许这位 28 岁的阿根廷国脚离队，其代表人员本周末已在米兰与国际米兰进行谈判。国际米兰体育总监皮耶罗·奥西利奥（Piero Ausilio）告诉 Sky Italy：“这绝对是一笔我们正尝试与球员及俱乐部达成的交易。这些事情需要一些时间，但确实存在兴趣。拭目以待吧。” PA Media

桑德兰

“话题已结束”：勒布里斯排除扎卡离队可能

雷吉斯·勒布里斯（Régis Le Bris）宣布切尔西对格拉尼特·扎卡的追求已“结束”，并坚持认为桑德兰在今夏没有出售这位具有影响力的队长的可能性。切尔西本月为这位 33 岁的球员开出了 £8m 的报价，但该报价立即被拒绝，其主教练也坚决否认该交易可能会被重新审视。“不，这个话题已经结束了，”勒布里斯说道，“他对他自己的未来表达得非常清晰。他热爱桑德兰，他想留在桑德兰。他想要创造桑德兰的未来。他是一位优秀的队长，伟大的领导者。” Andy Hunter

皇家马德里

巴黎圣日耳曼放弃竞争，迪奥曼德将加盟伯纳乌

在巴黎圣日耳曼退出竞价战后，皇家马德里看来赢得了签下 RB 莱比锡翼锋扬·迪奥曼德（Yan Diomande）的竞争。这位 19 岁的球员此前被认为极有可能转会巴黎，但现在看来将前往伯纳乌。巴黎圣日耳曼昨晚发布了一份声明，称：“巴黎圣日耳曼今晚正式撤回对扬·迪奥曼德的兴趣及出价。PSG 不将违反其理性的财务管理和阵容平衡原则。” Mark Dobson

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卫报 周一 27 July 2026

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体育 足球

亚当斯的逝世如何震撼一个南非社区

这位 25 岁去世的足球运动员在参加世界杯后的数周内离世，人们将记住他谦逊的风度。

Firdose Moonda

开普敦

对于本月 25 岁去世的南非中场球员杰登·亚当斯（Jayden Adams）来说，足球曾是一个“安全空间”。

亚当斯的青训教练史蒂夫·巴克（Steve Barker）在 11 天前的追思会上使用了这些词汇，这足以让你了解他在球场之外的生活。

亚当斯的种种磨难几乎是与生俱来的。尽管他出生在刚刚实现民主化的南非，但到 2000 年代初，这场革命已在很大程度上被背叛。投票权虽已扩大到所有人，但很少有人能充分利用这些自由，因为该国的社会经济状况几乎没有改变。亚当斯一家所在的斯泰伦博斯（Stellenbosch）就是一个完美的例子。

这里的表象是游客的梦想之都：一座坐落在葡萄园、开普荷兰式建筑和独立精品店之间的大学城。大多数访客从未离开过市中心或进入其郊区，而那里居住着享有特权较少的人群，是被忽视的避风港。这些地区是典型的种族隔离后遗症，财富被保留在历史上享有优势的精英手中，而处于边缘的有色人种工人阶级社区则几乎处于隐形状态。

▲ 各球队在世界杯期间为纪念亚当斯举行了一分钟静默

讽刺的是，这也是人们最常描述亚当斯的方式。他在社会以及他所擅长的这项运动的阴影中前行。“杰登是个话很少的人。他安静，非常害羞，而且是队友中个头最小的，”亚当斯家族发言人布伦丁·约翰逊（Brendine Johnson）说道。“很多人因为他的体型而忽略了他的足球才华，但他有非常强大的斗志。只是这种斗志并不总是展现在表面。”

亚当斯深爱这项运动，他的姑姑莫妮卡·塔奥格（Monica Thaoge）回忆起他小时候会踢任何圆的东西——她在追思会上说，“甚至是洋葱”。他的父母胡安尼托（Juanito）和坎迪丝（Candice）之前提到，土豆是他们儿子首选的“足球”。家里没人谈论缺乏经济手段，因为他们所在的社区一直在努力改善生活。但有些缺失是存在的，尤其是在早期。

“在那样的地方，每个人都只是在努力维持生计，”前南非板球运动员罗杰·特莱马库斯（Roger Telemachus）说道，他与亚当斯的父亲在克洛埃特斯维尔（Cloetesville）同一条街上长大。“对于孩子们来说，他们可能没注意到那么多，因为他们忙于活动，主要是运动。一些父亲，比如胡安尼托，非常鼓励孩子，每个人都在街上尝试各种运动：网球、足球、橄榄球、板球。这也是远离麻烦的最好方式。”

问题显而易见，而且根据特莱马库斯的说法，在“过去 20 年”中情况变得更糟。这些问题包括帮派活动、药物滥用以及从轻微到严重的各类犯罪。亚当斯在搬到相对富裕的伊达谷（Ida's Valley）地区后得以逃离那种生活，但他依然没有过奢侈的生活。在一段时间里，包括四个孩子在内的六口之家住在两居室的房子里。有时，他们与他的外祖母马里安娜（Marianna）住在一起。“他基本上是在她的院子里长大的，”约翰逊说。

当亚当斯在 15 岁时被选中进入斯泰伦博斯学院 Under-18 队时，情况开始发生变化。“环境很艰苦，尤其是如果你不够强壮或不够高，但当身体素质不再是最重要的因素时，人们发现杰登在技术上非常出色，”约翰逊说道。

他的教练们也认同这一点。巴克——南非非洲国家杯冠军教练克莱夫（Clive）的侄子，现任坦桑尼亚辛巴队教练——认为：

“在球场上是他的快乐之所。他不是在传球，而是在抚摸球。他是特别的。”

◄ 这位中场球员帮助南非队在今夏的世界杯上进入了32强 HECTOR VIVAS/ FIFA/GETTY

◄ 周六在亚当斯的葬礼上，马梅洛迪日落队的成员们抬着棺材，家属和朋友们跟在后面 ESA ALEXANDER/ REUTERS

在亚当斯去世后不久，他对他地技术进行了情感深沉的评价。“你能遇到很多优秀的足球运动员，但能遇到伟大的足球运动员却很少。杰登就是伟大的，”他告诉 Newzroom Afrika。

“杰登拥有三个让他脱颖而出的特质：惊人的第一触球、传球的力度——我从未见过如此精妙的传球——以及他对足球极其的热爱。在球场上是他最快乐的地方。他不是在传球，而是在抚摸足球。他是特别的，他的足球智商简直出类拔萃。”

正是在巴克（Barker）的指导下，亚当斯才得以绽放。他成为了来自斯泰伦博斯学院（Stellenbosch Academy）首位在南非顶级联赛——超级足球联赛（Premier Soccer League）中效力的球员。五年后，在获得国家队征召后，该国最富有的俱乐部马梅洛迪日落队（Mamelodi Sundowns）向他发出了邀请。今年，在效力该队的第二个赛季开始时，亚当斯剃光了头发，他开玩笑说这是成熟的标志，并称自己为“grootman”（大人物）。这个绰号从此传开了。

亚当斯从未明说，但他可能也意识到自己成长了多少。那时，由于在训练营迟到并惹恼了主教练雨果·布鲁斯（Hugo Broos），他被国家队选中、出场后又被除名。此外，他还失去了两名学院队友，其中一人是他的挚友。

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▼ 杰登·亚当斯的追思会在斯泰伦博斯举行 RODGER BOSCH/AFP/GETTY

在 2023年 2月，年仅 19 岁的奥什温·安德里斯（Oshwin Andries）因在斯泰伦博斯以北 16 公里的帕尔（Paarl）遭受刺伤而去世。三年后， 20 岁的杰安德雷·加富尔（Jeandre Gaffoor）在克罗姆河（Krom River）溺水身亡。

当日落队在 5 月赢得非洲冠军联赛冠军时，亚当斯将自己的奖牌献给了安德里斯。承受如此巨大的损失让这座小镇倍感沉重，但通过亚当斯，他们找到了庆祝的理由。

他在日落队夺冠中的作用以及入选世界杯大名单，表明亚当斯的职业轨迹正处于上升期。在日落队的第一个赛季，他经常在替补席待命，其在队中的地位也受到质疑，但随后他成为了球队不可或缺的一部分。在

“他想要回馈。每场比赛后，他都会把球衣和球靴送给孩子们”

亚当斯的追思会上，日落队的高级教练史蒂夫·孔佩拉（Steve Komphela）称他为“我们球队的核心以及我们比赛风格的跳动心脏”，他“像教练一样理解比赛，像球员一样踢球”。

在过去的一年里，亚当斯展现出了那些熟悉他的人在多年前就预见到的潜力，并以他的勇气和成功驱动力让他人感到惊讶。南非队队长朗温·威廉姆斯（Ronwen Williams）回忆起今年非洲国家杯上的一起事件：身材矮小的亚当斯用一些当地的刻薄话挑衅一名身材高大的马里对手。威廉姆斯问亚当斯是否知道他所嘲讽的球员有多高大，但亚当斯对此不以为意，回答说那个马里人反正也听不懂。

“这就是他的个性，”威廉姆斯在追思会上说道，他在告别这位被他称为“my ma se kind”（我母亲的孩子，南非的一种亲昵称呼）的队友时，在泪光中微笑。

随着名声大噪，亚当斯很小心地不去宣传自己的成就。“杰登知道自己拥有什么，但他从未想过要宣之于口。他非常有竞争力，但从不吹嘘，”约翰逊说。“有些人社交媒体上口才很好。杰登不是那样的人。而且他想要回馈。每场比赛后，他都会把球衣和球靴送给请求他的孩子们。”

他还集中精力供养家庭，因为他“一直承诺他们，他会改变他们的经济状况”。

在世界杯上，亚当斯即便承受着巨大的痛苦仍为他们出战。他的祖母玛丽安娜在南非对阵捷克的比赛前一天去世，但亚当斯选择留在球队中。他参加了那场比赛，赛后看起来精神不错，并将 1-1 的平局评价为积极的，尽管他内心感受正相反。

他还参加了接下来的对阵韩国的比赛，南非队赢得了该场比赛，并首次晋级淘汰赛。赛后影像显示，当球队其他成员在唱歌跳舞庆祝时，他独自一人坐着。

在纪念会上，孔佩拉向亚当斯一家提供了一段圣经经文作为慰藉，但这段话也像是一篇总结。诗篇 23:4：“我虽然行过死荫的幽谷，不怕遭害，因为你与我同在。”

他们知道，在亚当斯短暂的一生中，他曾多次走过那样的旅程，而他并不恐惧。他留下了父母、三位兄弟姐妹、一名伴侣、两个孩子，以及一个经历了任何社区都不应承受之痛的群体。在这一切中，他从不想被外界知晓，变成了进入足球界聚光灯下的焦点。在几场世界杯比赛中，人们为纪念亚当斯而举行了一分钟的默哀。这并不是他的家人想象中他获得全球关注的方式，但这向他们证明了，在足球世界里，他的价值远超任何人的想象。

“我认为社区的人们并不知道他有多伟大，也不知道人们是多么欣赏他的足球，”约翰逊说道，“这是一个巨大的打击。”

基耶萨目标在伊劳拉执教的利物浦开启“新篇章”

这位意大利球员期待在经历阿尔内·斯洛特执教下令人失望的赛季后获得一个新的开始

安迪·亨特 纳什维尔

费德里科·基耶萨表示，在阿尔内·斯洛特执教期间经历了一段令人沮丧的时光后，他希望在安多尼·伊劳拉带领的利物浦开启“一个新篇章”，并声称俱乐部在上一赛季能够获得欧冠资格纯属运气。

由于在安菲尔德的两年时间里难以获得出场时间，这位利物浦前锋在这个夏天被传将返回意大利。基耶萨上赛季在斯洛特麾下出场 36 次，从数据上看还算不错，但其中仅有 5 次是以首发身份出场。

尽管利物浦在进攻端因亚历山大·伊萨克和雨果·埃基蒂克受伤而面临问题，但基耶萨上赛季在英超联赛中仅首发 1 场，而他最后一次首发是在 2 月 14 日足总杯第四轮对阵布莱顿的胜利比赛中。基耶萨希望，主教练的更换将预示着命运的转变。

“每年年初都是一个新的开始，”这位 28 岁的球员说道。在周六于纳什维尔进行的友谊赛中，利物浦 4-2 击败桑德兰，他贡献了一个精湛的进球。“也许[对他而言]已经有了太多的新开始。但我不在乎，我正努力为这位新任主教练做到最好。”

“上赛季在阿尔内·斯洛特麾下，我一直在努力做到最好。去年我觉得自己已经准备好承担更重要的角色，然后就

▲ 基耶萨希望给新主教练安多尼·伊劳拉留下深刻印象

取决于教练是否想让我上场。当然我想多踢比赛，但事实就是那样。教练有他的战术计划，他做出了决定，对此我没什么好说的。今年，就说这是一个新篇章吧。现在有了新教练，我必须专注于此。”

基耶萨承认，自从这位巴斯克教练在 6 月接替斯洛特以来，他尚未与伊劳拉讨论过自己的未来。“我唯一进行的对话是关于压迫和战术的，”他

“我在利物浦很开心。我热爱这家俱乐部，热爱球迷”

费德里科·基耶萨 利物浦

说道。“在对阵桑德兰的比赛中，他让我踢前锋，他希望我出现在那个位置。”

但这位合同还剩两年的意大利国脚声称，他的首要任务是向主教练证明自己，而不是寻求重返意甲。科莫和前东家尤文图斯都被传在接触这位前锋。

“现在我在利物浦这里很开心，”基耶萨说。“我热爱这家俱乐部，我热爱球迷，我热爱这里的一切。我正在尽我所能地争取在这里获得机会。然后我们再看。目前，我唯一思考的就是利物浦。”

在 5 月一个动荡赛季的最后一天，利物浦确保了欧冠资格，而那场比赛被证明是斯洛特执教的最后一场比赛。基耶萨坚持认为，对于利物浦这样一个量级的俱乐部来说，这并不值得庆祝，下赛季必须有所提升。

这位前锋表示：“利物浦值得更多。两年前，我们还是英超冠军。去年，我们几乎失去了欧冠席位。我们当时在为第五名而战，虽然在当时看来足够了，但正如我们所知，通常只有 4 个名额能进入。我们运气好。”

“去年是一个艰难的赛季，这个赛季我们需要做得更好，在欧冠中也是如此。我们在面对巴黎圣日耳曼时出局了。我们希望走得更远，并且希望在英超联赛中表现得更好。”

基耶萨还希望在下赛季夺回在国家队的地位，因为他最近缺席了多次大名单。意大利队目前正在寻找一位新主教练，因为在詹纳罗·加图索的带领下未能获得世界杯资格。

基耶萨说：“情况是我和主教练加图索谈过几次，但当时我的身体状态还没准备好。当我 3 月回归后，不幸受伤了。但我期待为国家队出战。我曾随国家队赢得过[欧洲冠军赛]。能为自己的国家队比赛并获胜总是很棒的事。”

以格调之姿为新赛季热身

费德里科·基耶萨（左）和多米尼克·索博斯莱在周六利物浦战胜桑德兰的比赛中均打入进球 ANDREW I CLARK/ IPS PHOTOS/GETTY

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体育 英联邦运动会

游泳

兰姆齐-皮蒂身处逆境，但已制定“战斗计划”以寻求金牌复兴

Sean Ingle

托尔克罗斯游泳中心 (Tollcross Swimming Centre)

亚当·兰姆齐-皮蒂 (Adam Ramsay-Peaty) 从来不掩饰自己的情绪。他将情感坦率地表达出来，就像他手臂上那显眼的巨狮和海之神波塞冬的纹身一样。

在本次 Commonwealth Games（英联邦运动会）100米胸泳决赛中遭遇意外失利后，这位 31 岁的运动员再次倾诉心声——并坚称他已制定了一套“战斗计划”，以争夺今日的50米胸泳金牌。

兰姆齐-皮蒂在半决赛中以 26.82 秒排名第三快，表现确实看起来更流畅。然而，他距离南非选手迈克尔·胡利 (Michael Houlie) 仍有零点几个秒的差距，后者的成绩为最快的 26.61。

澳大利亚选手萨姆·威廉姆森 (Sam Williamson) 希望在 100 米冠军的基础上增加 50 米项目的冠军，他在半决赛中以 26.79 夺冠，状态同样出色。尽管如此，皮蒂对自己从周六的意外失利中反弹的方式表示满意。

“感觉好多了，”他说。“过去的 24 小时像一场旋风，但我对此感到非常开心。

▲ 亚当·兰姆齐-皮蒂昨天显得更加从容

我们正朝着明天的目标稳步前进。

“对我来说，排除心中杂念最好的方法就是把它写下来。当我写下哪里出了问题，哪里在起作用，什么样的改变？什么不能改变？那么我就有了战斗计划。”

他补充道：“人们忘了我已经两年没参加这类比赛了。甚至我自己也忘了。所以当你经历预赛、半决赛和决赛时，如果你不习惯，这会相当困难。我认为这种心态是有益的。”

在辉煌的职业生涯中，皮蒂在全球锦标赛中曾 32 次登上最高领奖台。然而，自 2022 年伯明翰英联邦运动会以来，他尚未赢得过金牌。这一记录在周六进一步延长，当时他在100米胸泳中仅获得铜牌，成绩为 59.65，落后于冠军威廉姆森（59.3）和来自泽西岛的才华横溢的 18 岁选手菲利普·诺维茨基 (Filip Nowicki)。

赛后，兰姆齐-皮蒂坦诚地讲述了为了准备英联邦运动会他所经历的“所有烂事”，包括凌晨 5.30 分起床、因训练错过家庭聚会，以及他及其家人在社交媒体上遭受的大量辱骂。

昨天，他进一步阐述了自己的困境，指出在过去四年中，他一直在与倦怠感和脚踝骨折作斗争，并暗示了那段被广泛报道的与家人的疏离关系。

“过去几年有很多因素在起作用——倦怠、脚部骨折，以及与你热爱之物的对抗。这很艰难，”他说。“其中有些

相当痛苦，尤其是从脚伤之后开始。

“回到我现在的状态并决定冲击洛杉矶，我认为这将是我面对的最艰难的一次攀登和最严峻的考验。因为太难了，很难看到顶峰。我觉得没有人能理解。”

那次 59.65 的成绩比他的世界纪录慢了近三秒——

甚至比他在春季英国选拔赛中的成绩还要慢。

“实际上，我训练时的状态要比 59.6 快得多。这不是一个好成绩——我们知道这一点，”他昨天说道。“当你的世界纪录相差三秒时，我们必须严肃地询问哪里出了问题，因为那不是真正的我。

“我们需要审视它，审问它，分析数据，并询问这是否是比赛节奏、体能问题，还是其他原因。我不认为是个体能问题，但游泳是由许多组成部分构成的，所以我们必须进行分析。”

他补充道：“实话实说，我在四月份训练量更少时体能反而更好，这其实不合逻辑。我想这就是教训。也许我执行的是一个我自己并未完全理解的计划，也许还需要两年的时间才能找到正确的方法。”

Netball

加宾主导比赛，澳大利亚队大胜玫瑰队

Yara El-Shaboury

OVO Hydro 体育馆

在英格兰队于黄金海岸凭借最后时刻的戏剧性绝杀击败澳大利亚队的八年之后，网球这项运动中最伟大的英联邦宿敌之战在格拉斯哥再次上演。但这一次，玫瑰队没有迎来童话般的结局，卫冕冠军在 Hydro 体育馆以 66-47 击溃英格兰队，钻石队将他们在运动会上的交手记录延长至八场比赛中获胜七场。

自从海伦·豪斯比（Helen Housby）在 2018 年决赛中用最后一秒的绝杀震惊钻石队以来，这两支球队的每一次交手都带有额外的火药味。澳大利亚队在四年前伯明翰夺金的道路上击败英格兰队，报了一箭之仇；而昨天的英联邦运动会小组赛碰撞，再次标志着这项运动中最激烈的竞争现状。

从开场哨响起，澳大利亚队就表现得更快、更敏锐、更高效，由索菲·加宾（Sophie Garbin）和基拉·奥斯汀（Kiera Austin）组成的星级进攻线立即撕开了英格兰队的防线。

“场上的身体对抗非常激烈，但这正是我们预料之中的，也是我们准备面对的，”加宾说。“显然，赢得胜利很棒，但英格兰队也进行了非常顽强的抵抗。”

“我们知道有很多苏格兰人在为我们加油。我想每个人都告诉我们要去击败那些英国女孩，所以我们知道在这里会得到很多支持，但他们（英格兰队）同样也会得到支持。这太棒了。这就是你想要的——在这样一个惊人的场馆里，在这样的观众面前进行比赛。这真的非常令人兴奋。”

随着奥斯汀开始掌控局势，钻石队迅速取得了 10-4 的领先，而英格兰队在面对澳大利亚队在全场持续的压迫时显得难以应对。在临时主教练安娜·斯坦布里奇（Anna Stembridge）寻找对策期间，萨沙·格拉斯哥（Sasha Glasgow）在第一节结束前被替换下场，而洛伊斯·皮尔逊（Lois Pearson）移至进攻端（goal attack）暂时缓解了颓势。

英格兰队将比分追至 13-9，但每一次势头的好转都被澳大利亚队冷酷的效率所熄灭。加宾在底线反复找到空间，最终在 42 次尝试中完成了 41 个进球，而奥斯汀则贡献了 15 个进球、19 次助攻和 17 次喂球。

到第一节结束时，澳大利亚队以 18-11 领先。英格兰队试图在第二节初期改变局面，将杰达·佩乔娃（Jayda Pechová）投入防线，同时将队长弗兰·威廉姆斯（Fran Williams）移至防守端（goal defence）。这些变动起初奏效了，佩乔娃打乱了澳大利亚队的节奏，英格兰队以一波 4-1 的进攻开启了这一节。

杰米-李·普莱斯（Jamie-Lee Price）和奥斯汀恢复了澳大利亚队的冷静，而英格兰队的挫败感开始显现。利夫·奇内（Liv Tchine）依然是玫瑰队最亮眼的进攻点，她利用她的

◀ 澳大利亚队的索菲·加宾（Sophie Garbin），她砍下了 41 个进球，在 A 组 66-47 的胜利中摆脱了英格兰队杰达·佩乔娃（Jayda Pechová）的压力 JOEL CARRETT/AAP

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2026年7月27日 星期一 卫报

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Ramsay-Peaty 冲击 50 米金牌

亚当·拉姆齐-皮蒂在昨天的半决赛中奋力拼搏 ADAM PRETTY/GETTY IMAGES

周六，拉姆齐-皮蒂还将矛头指向了社交媒体和传统媒体，这些媒体一直对他及其怀孕的妻子霍莉（名厨戈登·拉姆齐之女）以及他与母亲关系的疏离深感痴迷。

“你们并不了解我，”他说道。“那些发表评论的人，那些看到故事的人，因为你们只读了标题，你们得对着镜子审视自己。你们伤害不了我。”

他补充道：“就我所经历的而言，这并没有产生影响，因为在某种程度上我仍然对那个结果感到满意，但这必须停止。在媒体吸取教训之前，还要有多少运动员、多少人经历这些？你们必须学习并做得更好。”

身高和移动能力旨在保持英格兰队的竞争力，但考特尼·布鲁斯和乔·韦斯顿不断迫使对方出现困难的传球并造成失误。

布鲁斯和奇内在圆圈区域内发生了多次肢体接触，而随着英格兰队试图扰乱澳大利亚队的防守单元，比赛变得日益激烈。奇内在第二节末尾推了布鲁斯的背，这总结了日益增长的挫败感，此时“钻石队”在半场时将领先优势扩大到 35-24。

如果英格兰队还心怀再次上演著名反击的希望，澳大利亚队在第三节便将其熄灭。在一段毁灭性的时间里，他们以 21-11 领先于“玫瑰队”，以极高的精准度利用对方的失误。失误、进攻方接触和传球不稳多次直接将球权交还给澳大利亚队，而后者惩罚了每一个错误。带着 21 球的领先优势进入最后一节，比赛实际上已经结束。

“这绝对不是我们追求的结果，但这也不是（应有的）表现，”威廉姆斯说。“我们离最佳状态相去甚远，而且我们从未真正获得某种势头来深入掌控比赛，这很遗憾。当比赛在下半场像那样崩盘时，情况真的非常糟糕。你必须确保自己仍在追求那些小小的胜利和微小的抗争。”

英格兰队的球迷宠儿埃莉诺·卡德威尔在格拉斯哥观众的巨大欢迎声中入场，立即为进攻注入了新鲜活力。她与萨拉·克劳的较量为这场本就激烈的遭遇战增添了另一个冲突点，克劳在将卡德威尔撞翻在地后收到了官方警告。卡德威尔拒绝了克劳提供的帮助，随后拍掉身上的灰尘继续比赛。

英格兰队在最后一节略胜一筹，但到那时损失早已无法挽回。

体操

沃德夺得全能金牌并欢迎受伤的朗顿回归

Sean Ingle

格拉斯哥国际竞技场

在本次英共体运动会上，最令人心暖的景象无疑发生在昨天午餐前，当时一名年轻的英格兰体操运动员一瘸一拐地走回格拉斯哥国际竞技场的座位上。

36小时前，加布里埃尔·朗顿（Gabriel Langton）在单杠上发生一次恐怖的坠落，颈部着地，令许多队友在现场落泪。如今，尽管在医院度过了 24 小时且身上带着不少瘀伤，他依然回到了现场——并决定让大家听到他的声音。

他为他的英格兰队友卢克·怀特豪斯（Luke Whitehouse）和亚当·托宾（Adam Tobin）呐喊助威，后两者分别获得第七名和第五名。而当很明显他们无法夺冠时，他则为代表苏格兰出战的英国队友鲁本·沃德（Reuben Ward）加油，后者最终赢得了一枚出色的个人全能金牌。

沃德正是周五晚上那些流泪的人之一，在获胜后，他想起了球队理疗师在事故发生时告诉他的话：“为了盖布（Gabe）而战。”

“我在 2022 年和盖布一起参加了青少年欧洲锦标赛，”沃德说。“昨天，当他从医院回到英格兰队入住的莱昂纳多酒店时，我就在现场。我看到了他。我为他鼓掌，给了他一个拥抱。我真的很高兴他没事。”

“老实说，前几天在团体决赛中，当他倒在地上时，场面非常恐怖。我们参加青少年欧锦赛时，他才 15 岁，那时候他还是个孩子，而现在他是个男人了。然后他倒在地上。理疗师走过来，说：‘为了盖布而战。’我想苏格兰队的我们有三个人哭了，包括我。”

然而，这一天体操运动再次提醒人们这项美妙运动所潜在的危险，新加坡选手乔维·罗（Jovi Loh）被担架抬走，看起来像是严重的膝盖受伤。

这位 18 岁的运动员在单杠项目上完成动作，但在进行双前翻半转下法时未能稳住重心

▲ 鲁本·沃德在获得意外金牌后表现出欣喜之情

随即倒地，捂住膝盖，面露痛苦之色。

沃德的话得到了托宾的共鸣，后者表示他也听到了朗顿在为他呐喊。“我其实没看到他，但我听到了他的声音，”他补充道。“我知道他的声音是怎么样的。这太棒了，而且我认为看到他昨晚走回酒店，身体健康，感觉非常好。”

“他一直在喊：‘加油！’以及‘动作干净点。’这太伟大了。在短短两天内，他经历了这样一件极其恐怖、具有创伤性的事情，而他现在就在这里，支持着我，支持着英格兰队以及苏格兰队。所以我非常高兴他状态良好。”

托宾还赞扬了英格兰队的教练在混乱中让每个人保持冷静。“我的意思是，我们当时都震惊了，脑海中跳出的第一个念头就是：‘他没事吧？’教练们在屏蔽外界信息、让我们保持在一个‘保护壳’中方面做得非常好，并试图让我们集中注意力，因为我们还有任务要完成。然后，这便不再仅仅是为了奖牌，我们是为了盖布而战。”

“比赛第一天就像坐过山车一样。我们赢得了一枚团体奖牌，对此我极其开心。从那时起，我必须让自己冷静下来，重新振作精神迎接今天的比赛，所以这成了一次全新的体验。”

曾被视为金牌热门的怀特豪斯在获得第七名后强撑起精神。三次跌落代价沉重，其中包括在自由操项目上进行标志性的三周后空翻时摔了一次。

“总的来说，我相当失望，”他说。“我的比赛开始得不如预期，在前三个项目和三周后空翻时都失误了——这对我来说很不寻常。然后我在鞍马项目的下法上犯了一个低级错误。”

不过，怀特豪斯也能客观地看待自己的失望之情。“知道盖布没事，没有严重受伤，只是淤青，真是太令人欣慰了，”他说。“昨天在酒店欢迎他回来并把奖牌交给他，我感到无比自豪。”

当被问及周五在兰顿（Langton）坠落后他如何获得奖牌的表现时，怀特豪斯（Whitehouse）补充道：“我不知道我是怎么做到的。那是一次非常可怕的坠落。我认为你必须将其抛在脑后，真的尽量不去想它。”

▲ 苏格兰的鲁本·沃德（Reuben Ward）在主场观众面前进行高杆表演 TOM JENKINS/THE GUARDIAN

今日亮点

格拉斯哥的日程十分繁忙，本届运动会的首批田径奖牌将在此产生。各项赛事共设有 27 枚金牌；TNT 的现场报道将于上午 8.20 开始，首播项目为草地滚球。第五频道的集锦节目将在晚上 10.05播出。

主要赛事

田径与残疾人田径

下午 6.30-晚上 10pm

有许多看点，包括前橄榄球运动员杰克·诺里斯参加的男子链球比赛，哈米什·克尔参加的男子跳高决赛，以及在女子 T37-38 100米决赛中，2022 年的获胜者、来自威尔士的奥利维亚·布林将与 2018 年的获胜者、来自英格兰的索菲·汉展开激烈角逐。

游泳与残疾人游泳

晚上 7pm-10pm

澳大利亚的萨姆·肖特是 800米自由泳的夺冠热门。此外，在经历了周六 100米比赛中令人情绪低落的失败后，请关注亚当·拉姆齐-皮蒂在 50米蛙泳中寻求救赎的机会。

篮网球 (Netball)

下午 2pm-5.30pm，晚上 7pm-10.30pm

在早盘赛段，英格兰将在 A 组对阵马拉维；汤加将对阵北爱尔兰。随后，苏格兰将在 B 组对阵特立尼达和多巴哥。

体操

下午 1pm-5.30pm

赛程密集。请关注爱尔兰的奥运冠军里斯·麦克莱纳根，他在 2022 年伯明翰运动会上获得第二名，此次决心更进一步。

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卫报 周一 2026 年 7 月 27 日

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体育 自行车 环法自行车赛

波加查跻身伟大行列，范德普尔赢得激烈收官战

杰里米·惠特尔 (Jeremy Whittle) 巴黎

塔德伊·波加查 (Tadej Pogacar) 昨日赢得了环法自行车赛第五次冠军，追平了历史纪录，与雅克·安奎尔 (Jacques Anquetil)、埃迪·默克斯 (Eddy Merckx)、贝尔纳·伊诺 (Bernard Hinault) 和米格尔·印杜拉因 (Miguel Induráin) 一起进入了该赛事最成功车手的殿堂。在环法惊心动魄的收官战中，马修·范德普尔 (Mathieu van der Poel) 在蒙马特高地 (Butte de Montmartre) 的最后一次爬坡中与波加查一同脱离大部队，随后在香榭丽舍大街以仅轮胎之差挡住了追击的冲刺车手群，夺得其本赛事的第二个分站赛冠军。

默克斯因其在环法之外取得的广泛成就而被广泛认为是史上最伟大的车手，他认为波加查现在将继续赢得第六个环法冠军。这位 81 岁的比利时人表示：“我认为他不会满足于仅仅与我以及其他冠军平起平坐。他很快就会打破我们环法夺冠次数的纪录。”

从蒙特惠奇 (Montjuïc) 到蒙马特，波加查和令人窒息的高温笼罩了 2026 年的环法赛。这场在热浪和山火背景下举行的比赛，最终以必然的结果告终——那位不懈的斯洛文尼亚人再次获胜。

波加查在本次环法赛中无出其右，在自行车赛中最令人生畏的两段爬坡——图尔马莱山口 (Col du Tourmalet) 和休斯峰 (Alpe d'Huez) 均打破了记录，并引导他的门徒艾萨克·德尔·托罗 (Isaac del Toro) 获得最终排名第三。

在另一种平行时空里，奥运公路赛冠军雷姆科·埃文波尔 (Remco Evenepoel) 可能已经赢得了他的首个环法冠军，而法国新秀保罗·塞克萨斯 (Paul Seixas) 则登上了领奖台。但对于他们，以及因摔车退出比赛的约纳斯·温格高 (Jonas Vingegaard) 来说，不幸的是，他们正处于波加查及其不可撼动的阿联酋航空 XRG 队 (UAE Emirates XRG) 的时代。

一个更精干、更强悍且更有动力地埃文波尔证明了质疑者是错误的，重新确立了自己作为巴黎胜利有力竞争者的地位。但这位比利时人也知道：

▲ 马修·范德普尔冲刺夺得其本赛事的第二个分站赛冠军

在那样的事情发生之前，波加查可能得先退休。

统计数据揭示了环法现代史上最具统治力的表现之一。波加查最终以近六分半钟的优势赢得总冠军，夺得五个分站赛冠军，并创下了比利牛斯山脉和阿尔卑斯山脉传奇爬坡路段的纪录时间。如果不是因为他决定让德尔·托罗在第二赛段获胜，他本可以赢得六个分站赛冠军。

“这次环法我表现得非常好，”波加查在周六前往休斯峰的赛段后说道，同时也承认温格高和弗洛里安·利波维茨 (Florian Lipowitz) 等竞争对手运气不佳，两人去年都登上了巴黎的领奖台，但今年均在比赛中摔车出局。“这就是环法，这是三周的时间，”波加查说，“很多糟糕的事情都可能发生。”

但他的持续成功伴随着警示。如果不对背景有所了解就去庆祝一名五次环法冠军，将是非常天真的。毫无疑问，波加查是一个奇迹，但他的随行团队带着一段不那么快乐时期的包袱。

他的车队经理毛罗·吉亚内蒂 (Mauro Gianetti) 表示：“波加查太强大了，无论在哪个车队，人们对他都会有质疑。”但在车队抵达巴黎前的 24 小时，吉亚内蒂表示自己是其车队车手涉及的过去丑闻的“受害者”。

最臭名昭著的是 Saunier

最终排名

总成绩榜 (General classification)

1 T Pogacar Svn	73hr 56m 26s
2 R Evenepoel Bel	74hr 02m 52s

积分榜 (Points classification)

1 M Pedersen Den	559pts
2 J Philipsen Bel	475pts

爬坡王 (King of the mountains)

1 R Carapaz Ecu	156pts
2 T Pogacar Svn	100pts

最佳年轻车手榜 (Young rider classification)

1 I Del Toro Mex	74hr 06m 08s
2 P Seixas Fr	74hr 08m 22s

最多环法冠军头衔

5 J Anquetil (Fr)
E Merckx (Bel)
B Hinault (Fr)
M Induráin (Sp)
T Pogacar (Svn)
4 C Froome (GB)

2008年的杜瓦尔丑闻，当时由吉亚内蒂管理的车队在明星车手里卡多·里科被检测出血液兴奋剂阳性后退出了环法。里科及其队友莱昂纳多·皮埃波利被解雇，赞助商撤回了资金。

“我犯了让他们加入我车队的错误，”吉亚内蒂告诉《队报》，“我本应该做出不同的反应，对媒体更坦诚，解释我其实也是受害者。”

在波加查和温格高在第 15 赛段前接受独立检测机构 (ITA) 的夜间检测后，围绕波加查团队的旧焦虑再次浮现。

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此次检测得到了环法赛长克里斯蒂安·普鲁登以及国际自行车联盟 (UCI) 的支持。在检测三天后发布的一份声明中，UCI 将此次检查描述为“一项在有限且合理情况下采取的例外措施”。

尽管睡眠被打断，波加查对检测表示接受。“如果为了证明我们是在干净地骑行而有必要这么做，”他说，“那么我完全接受。我承诺配合。”

ITA 向 卫报 重申，“对于阴性结果不会进行公开沟通”，但同时也表示“不存在一个能让所有检测结果被确定为阴性的截止日期”。

在某种程度上，这使得波加查及其长期竞争对手温格高的成就处于不确定状态。无论如何，这位斯洛文尼亚车手预计将参加下个月的西班牙自行车赛，试图夺得他目前唯一尚未赢得的大赛冠军。

明年，环法赛将北上，在 苏格兰 举行大起跑 (Grand Départ)。上周在接受 卫报 采访时，普鲁登将爱丁堡描述为一座“神奇的城市”。“每次环法访问英国，都助力了环法赛的成长，”他说，“如果环法能帮助将重大自行车赛事带回英国的不同地区，那将太棒了。英国为环法赛贡献了极多。”

波加查在凯旋门夺冠

塔代伊·波加查在巴黎香榭丽舍大街骑过这座地标，奔向他的第五个环法冠军 GONZALO FUENTES/MASTERS

分析

William Fotheringham

Pogi 也许目前还未拥有最顶尖的数据，但其无可匹敌的获胜能力使他脱颖而出

2026 年的环法自行车赛呈现了一场史诗般的对决，两位拥有不同技能且水准极高的主角之间展开了日复一日的较量。这是一个关于史诗级突围、耐人寻味的团队战术以及命运反转的故事，并在赛事最艰苦的赛段达到了壮观的高潮。马兹·佩德森（Mads Pedersen）与贾斯珀·菲利普森（Jasper Philipsen）之间争夺积分王绿衫的比赛堪称经典。

那些希望在总冠军黄衫之争中看到类似场面的人很快就失望了。在第六赛段还剩 42km 时，在拉蒙吉（La Mongie）滑雪村的高空之上，塔代伊·波加查（Tadej Pogacar）在图尔马莱山口（Col du Tourmalet）甩掉了约纳斯·温格高（Jonas Vingegaard）以及其他潜在的夺冠热门，所有的悬念随之消失。这是一次熟悉的犀利攻击，以及一个熟悉的结果——这位斯洛文尼亚车手拉开的领先优势看起来不可逾越，而事实也的确如此。

前 FDJ United 经理马克·马迪奥（Marc Madiot）在向 RMC 广播电台分析黄衫之争时，措辞毫不委婉地说道：“这次环法中只有一个车手发起了攻击：塔代伊·波加查。他攻击了一次，每个人都意识到比赛结束了。”

对于中立观众来说，不幸的是，自行车运动伟大人物的艺术就体现在于：他们不仅仅是消除了悬念，而是将悬念捆绑并将其肢解，然后在其冒烟的残骸上跳跃。中立观众只能满足于佩德森的绿衫，或者理查德·卡拉帕斯（Richard Carapaz）的山地波点衫。

从图尔马莱山口的那一刻起，波加查加入雅克·安克蒂尔（Jacques Anquetil）、埃迪·默克斯（Eddy Merckx）、贝尔纳·伊诺（Bernard Hinault）和米格尔·印杜拉因（Miguel Induráin）的五次环法冠军之列就已成定局。昨天傍晚，这位世界冠军如期进入了记录册。即便保罗·塞克萨斯（Paul Seixas）崛起，以及雷姆科·埃文波尔（Remco Evenepoel）确认成为了环法级别的人物，如果波加查选择继续，很少有人会打赌他不能在 2027 年打破绝对纪录。

波加查在许多方面都表现卓越，但在五次环法冠军的精英俱乐部中，他同样出类拔萃：他比其他四位都要年轻，而且与所有曾在巴黎作为五次世界最伟大自行车赛冠军站立的人不同，他的平静晋升之路上没有任何故障或疑问地干扰其进程至

顶尖之中的顶尖

史上最伟大选手的奖杯总数

埃迪·默克斯 (Eddy Merckx) 11 次大巡回赛冠军，3 次公路赛世界冠军，1 次小时纪录，19 场纪念碑级古典赛冠军 贝尔纳·希诺 (Bernard Hinault) 9 次大巡回赛冠军，1 次公路赛世界冠军，6 场纪念碑级古典赛冠军 塔代伊·波加查 (Tadej Pogacar) 6 次大巡回赛冠军，2 次公路赛世界冠军，13 场纪念碑级古典赛冠军

纪录册上。与以往所有真正的伟大选手不同，在过去几周的任何时刻，波加查都无需担心胜利是否会从手中溜走。

有人推测他在最后一周更换了黑色短裤是为了掩盖胃部问题，但这不能被视为失误——尤其是与希诺相比，后者在第五次夺冠的最后一周于圣艾蒂安终点发生碰撞，导致鼻骨骨折，看起来像个经历了一场惨烈夜晚的拳击手。或者与默克斯在 1974 年比赛中一直困扰的腹股沟开放性伤口相比，那个伤口需要“不断的护理、清洗、涂抹药膏和使用无菌敷料，并用泡沫块和胶带垫好”。默克斯在那届环法赛中赢得了 8 个赛段，但在 Pla d'Adet 的山顶终点赛时几乎崩溃，此后他再也没有回到巅峰状态。

同样地，尽管最终因兴奋剂被剥夺冠军，但 2003 年是兰斯·阿姆斯特朗在最后一次个人计时赛之前没有稳操胜券的唯一一次环法赛；而在 1995 年，“大米格”因杜兰 (Induráin) 及其 Banesto 车队在前往 Mende 的途中，在中央高原 (Massif Central) 经历了一天的危机。众所周知，安奎尔 (Anquetil) 在 1964 年险些被雷蒙德·普利多尔 (Raymond Poulidor) 追上，他能感谢自己的好运，因为“普普”在关键的一次计时赛中遭遇了爆胎。

在自行车运动最伟大冠军的殿堂中，波加查早已超越了“大米格”——后者身体素质令人印象深刻，但本质上是一名大巡回赛专家，避开了单日古典赛，且从未赢得过公路赛世界冠军。他也远胜于精明但富有魅力的安奎尔，后者同样未能在古典赛中大放异彩，不过波加查永远没有机会去挑战“杰克大师”职业生涯中最疯狂且不切实际的挑战：在没有休息日的情况下，同时赢得多芬自由赛 (Dauphine Libéré stage race，现名为 Tour Auvergne Rhone Alps) 阶段赛和波尔多-巴黎 (Bordeaux-Paris) 摩托车领骑马拉松赛。

当你对比希诺时，统计数据的博弈变得更加微妙，争论也变得更有趣。波加查在单日重大赛事获胜数量上领先于这位“獾”——拥有 13 场纪念碑级古典赛冠军且在增加，外加两次公路赛世界冠军——但希诺赢得的大巡回赛更多，他两次获得环西和环意冠军，而波加查仅有一次环意冠军。至于默克斯，这位斯洛文尼亚人在大巡回赛、世界冠军和纪念碑级赛事上的胜场数均少于这位“食人族”，而后者还曾创造出令人称道且痛苦的世界一小时纪录。

关于谁是最伟大的争论将继续，而且如果波加查在今年晚些时候参加环西赛和世界锦标赛，情况可能会出现进一步的转折，因为如果他参加这些比赛，极有可能会两项全得。只有在默克斯和希诺处于绝对巅峰时期时，才能写下这样的结论，而这正是对过去三周波加查所处位置的最佳体现。

体育简讯

▲ 卢克·利特勒 (Luke Littler) 在世界比赛赛中以时尚的姿态击败格温·普莱斯 (Gerwyn Price) 赢得胜利

飞镖

利特勒在比赛赛中横扫对手，打破泰勒纪录

卢克·利特勒在黑池以 18-9 击败格温·普莱斯，强势夺得连续第二个世界比赛 (World Matchplay) 冠军。这位 19 岁的选手在决赛中的平均分达到 111.53，使其整个赛事的平均分达到 111.04，打破了菲尔·泰勒 (Phil Taylor) 106.31 的纪录。利特勒还打破了自己 180 分的赛事纪录，他在决赛中命中 12 次，使本周总数达到 66 次。他成为继泰勒和迈克尔·范格文 (Michael van Gerwen)（后者最近一次在 2016. 年完成）之后，第三位成功卫冕比赛赛冠军的选手。此前，博·格里夫斯 (Beau Greaves) 在四年来第三次夺得女子世界比赛冠军，以 6-5 险胜法伦·谢罗克 (Fallon Sherrock)。PA Media

板球 The Hundred

巴特勒强有力的 90 分助力超级巨人队获胜

乔斯·巴特勒击出精彩的 90 分，带领曼彻斯特超级巨人队在老特拉福德球场举行的男子百分赛（Hundred）中，最终以 87 分的优势击败伯明翰凤凰队。由于下雨导致比赛推迟开始（此前早上的女子比赛已被迫取消），客队在球类进攻阶段取得了进展，但海因里希·克拉森迅速贡献的 210 分和莱乌斯·杜·普洛伊的 13 分帮助主队在 69 个球后达到了 113 分（失去四名球员）。而巴特勒凭借一个飞向深处中截球员后方的巨大六分球达成半个世纪得分，他在击球方面起到了主导作用，最终在局势仅剩三个球时出局。超级巨人队最终以 187 分（失去五名球员）结束。伯明翰队在回应中，在 97 个球后全部出局，仅得 100 分。PA Media

高尔夫

Koivun, 21, 击败舍夫勒，夺得首场冠军

新秀杰克逊·科伊文昨日在明尼苏达州布莱恩举行的 3M 公开赛中，以低于标准杆 5 杆的 66 杆击败了全力追击的斯科蒂·舍夫勒，首次在 PGA 巡回赛中夺冠。Koivun, 21, 最终以低于标准杆 25 杆的成绩完赛，以 3 杆之差胜过世界第一的舍夫勒，后者在 TPC 双子城赛场最后一场打出 63 杆。科伊文在转专业后的第三场比赛中，在最后两轮表现出了极强的沉稳，没有出现任何博基球（bogey）。路透社

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体育 一级方程式赛车匈牙利大奖赛

卫报 周一 2026 年 7 月 27 日

▼ 迈凯伦的兰多·诺里斯在马克斯·维斯塔潘之前率先冲线 MARK SUTTON/FORMULA LIGETTY

诺里斯终于迎来迟到的胜利，安东内利持续施压

吉尔斯·理查兹 (Giles Richards) 匈牙利环道

在经历了充满考验的赛季开端后，兰多·诺里斯终于有了庆祝的理由。作为迈凯伦的现任一级方程式世界冠军，他在匈牙利大奖赛中取得了本年度的首胜。

然而，尽管在这场充满意外的比赛中，这场胜利实至名归，但大局却呈现出一种过于熟悉的趋势：基米·安东内利在这样一个对梅赛德斯车手而言或许被视为“止损”的周末中脱颖而出，再次扩大了他在车手冠军积分榜顶端的领先优势。

诺里斯在匈牙利环道从杆位出发，凭借稳健的驾驶表现无坚不摧，帮助迈凯伦在该赛道上创下了第14次获胜的纪录。他在第二弯将领先位置丢给队友奥斯卡·皮亚斯特里后依然保持冷静，随后在进站过程中展现出强悍的节奏并夺回领先。这位澳大利亚车手运气不佳，他在关键时刻试图套圈威廉姆斯车队的卡洛斯·塞恩斯时被阻挡并发生碰撞，对此感到愤怒不已。

最终，皮亚斯特里因变速箱问题不得不退赛，但此时诺里斯已经牢牢掌控了比赛，在前方毫无干扰的情况下，他迅速建立了巨大的领先优势。当方格旗挥舞时，他领先马克斯·维斯塔潘 15 秒。迈凯伦为匈牙利站带来的升级效果显著，尤其是在这位英国车手的操控之下。

▲ 基米·安东内利获得第三名，继续朝着冠军挺进

在他身后，安东内利再次在不利的位置上抢回大量积分，给竞争对手带来压力。这位意大利车手在受到三个排位名次处罚后从第七位起跑，但凭借极其强劲的追击表现夺得第三。此外，安东内利的梅赛德斯队友乔治·拉塞尔再次陷入被厄运缠身的困境，这种阴霾似乎让他无法摆脱。

拉塞尔的赛车在起跑线上进入了防熄火状态，导致他掉到第20位。这一机械问题促使车队负责人托托·沃尔夫表示，梅赛德斯必须停止犯错。由于拉塞尔在起跑线上轻踩油门导致动力激增，他随即松开油门，从而触发了防熄火机制。他奋力追回至第七位，但在体育赛事进入夏季休赛期之际，他与这位意大利车手的分差进一步扩大。目前，安东内利领先刘易斯·汉密尔顿 50 分，领先拉塞尔 59 分。

与拉塞尔一样，皮亚斯特里也可以认为自己极其不幸。他原本处于领先地位，但在试图套圈这位西班牙车手时被塞恩斯阻挡并碰撞。皮亚斯特里险些被撞出赛道，但勉强控制住车辆继续比赛。

“他他妈是白痴吗？快他妈让开，你这个白痴。我的天啊，”愤怒的皮亚斯特里告诉他的车队。当时蓝旗已经挥出，而威廉姆斯车队也告知了塞恩斯——塞恩斯由于未能注意到皮亚斯特里且直接转向撞向迈凯伦赛车，负有责任。他被处以五秒的处罚。

这无疑让皮亚斯特里失去了领先位置，但这或许已不再重要，因为在澳大利亚车手提前进站获得自由空间后，诺里斯在无干扰状态下的速度如此之快，这位世界冠军无论如何最终都会夺得领先。但这对于同样质疑车队策略的皮亚斯特里来说，几乎没有安慰作用。

汉密尔顿同样感到沮丧，他的法拉利车队命令他在虚拟安全车期间进行第三次延迟进站，导致他失去了面对维斯塔潘和安东内利的赛道位置。即使换上更新的轮胎，他也无法追回这些位置。汉密尔顿认为这是一个错误的决定，考虑到在匈牙利赛道超车如此之难，这一观点很难被反驳。

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周一 2026年7月27日 卫报

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▼ 奥斯卡·皮亚斯特里在因变速箱问题退赛前处于领先地位 BERNADETT SCARCHESTERS

他以第四名的成绩冲过终点线，但由于在维修区超速被罚时5秒，落后于他的法拉利队友查尔斯·莱克勒。这令人遗憾，因为汉密尔顿在整个比赛中都奋力拼搏，包括与维斯塔潘之间一次惊心动魄的你追我赶，其中

这位荷兰人通过在第一弯内侧的一次精彩超越完成了反超，单就这一动作就足以让观众觉得门票物有所值。

然而，这个下午真正属于诺里斯，人们能明显感受到一种宽慰和喜悦，因为他终于在这一赛季摆脱了心理包袱，并且

▲ 兰多·诺里斯在夺冠后受到迈凯伦车队的祝贺 BRYN LENNON/FORMULA 1 YSA GETTY IMAGES

板球

THIRD MEN'S TRENTY'S INTERNATIONAL

Hunan Indus 192-5 (V) Suryanavanh 81: 津巴布韦 157-7

(W) Ruri 14 no)。印度队 beat 津巴布韦 by 35 runs。

THE HUNDRED WOMEN

Ereeman 264 Trafford 比赛在未投球前取消。

Trent Bridge Trent Rockets 142-7. London Spirit 146-5.

London Spirit beat Trent Rockets by five wickets.

THE HUNDRED MEN

Ereeman 264 Trafford Manchester Super Giants 307-5

LEC Battler 90: Birmingham Phones 100: Manchester

Super Giants beat Birmingham Phones by 87 runs.

Trent Bridge London Spirit 159-5 Trent Rockets 160-6

(SW Backett 75)。Trent Rockets beat London Spirit by four

wickets.

BETING BANK ONE DAY CUP MEN

Group A Bristol Kent 208 (SA Northend 84):

Gloucestershire 212-4 (JR Brizley 81, CT Bancroft 89 no):

Gloucestershire beat Kent by six wickets.

Guildford Northamptonshire 254-8 (NA McSweeney 64,

SA Bartlett 62, BC Flanks 4-60)。Surrey 208-4 (MG Thomas

83 no, RS Patel 64)。Surrey beat Northants by six wickets.

Group B Levi Lancashire 383-4 (W Jennings 131, MS Norris

711: Lincolnshire 162-8 (R de Swardt 126, R Skable 91):

Lancashire beat Lincolnshire by 21 runs.

Taunton Somerset 337-8 (LP Galloway 101),

FA Limousine 85, JF Thomas 50: Warwickshire 212

UB Linott 52, JM Theobon 4-56)。Somerset beat

Warwickshire by 125 runs.

Group B Endlerit Glamorgan 66: Middlesex 67-2.

Middlesex beat Glamorgan by eight wickets.

Trent Yorkshire 325-7 (W Luston 117, SW Whiteman 74):

Suisse 140 (V) Hudson-Premise 50: R Tudor 5-12):

Yorkshire beat Sussex by 184 runs (DL5 Method).

Chelmsford Essex 257-7 (T Westley 102): Derbyshire

248-9 (MRC Lane 97)。Essex beat Derbyshire by nine runs.

New Road Worcestershire 307-8 (HC Callow 72, K 46 65,

DK Langan 64)。Hampshire 303 (T) Post 70, NRT Lubbers

57)。Worcestershire beat Hampshire by four runs.

METRO BANK ONE DAY CUP WOMEN LEAGUE 2

Bodily Worcestershire 304-8 (EX Bayslet 108, LC Caridge

95, R Knowling-Davies 4-41)。Derbyshire 203 (A Griffiths

4-31)。Worcestershire beat Derbyshire by 101 runs.

Needs Glamorgan 239 (Storge 63)。Sussex 241-8

(P) Wilkinson 51; G Porter 4-31)。Sussex beat Glamorgan by

two wickets.

Canterbury Middlesex 306-7 (A Downey 67 no, SW Hurley

61, KP Pindars 400)。Kent 309-9 (R King 109, EL Barrilather

51)。Kent beat Middlesex by two wickets.

Northampton Northamptonshire 311-8 (A Kenny 107,

R Cline 52)。Lincolnshire 313-9 (RS Brooker 58, E Phillips

55)。Match tied.

网球

WTA MSC HAMBURG LADIES OPEN (Germany)

决赛：T Karpatsch (Ger) 94 A Bondar (Huo) 6-5-6-3

WTA LIVESPORT PRAGUE OPEN (Czech Republic)

决赛：L Tagger (Aut) 8-0 Selger (Ger) 7-6 (7-3) 6-2

ATP MILLENNIUM ESTONIA OPEN (Canada, Portugal)

男子决赛：L Van Ansche (Fr) 8 A Blocks (Bel) 6-4 4-6 7-5

骑行

环法自行车赛 (TOUR DE FRANCE)

第 21 赛段（蒂埃里-法里斯-香榭丽舍大街，89公里） 1 M van der Post (Nett) Alperio-Presson 76 by Sifran-Ritaç,

2 J Pellipson (Bel) Alperio-Presson Tech, 3 M Pedersen (Den) Lab-Truck 4 M Guiderot (Ev) 4/85 Motors Team

3 G Rasey (Nett) Rebellion CMA (GM Team) 4 M Nelstein (Svr) Bahrain Victorious, 7 R Planners (Nett) Tudor Pro Cycling Team, 8 A Turgis (Fr) Team TotalDvergies, 9 M Hattie (Bel) Cofidis, 10 C Russo (Fr) Groussous FD (United at at same time. Selected others: 25 F Wright (GB) Phantoms G26: 2 Pro Cycling Team, 17 F Haley (Int) 10 Education EasyPost, 18 J Stewart (GB) HSN Cycling Team, 43 A Yates (GB) LMC Team Emirates -MIG

总成绩：1 T Pogacar (Svr) LMC Team Emirates MIG 749-5 (Sim) Zloac, 2 R Evenquest (Bel) Red Bull-ROKA Hampshire +06-26; 3 J del Toro (Mex) LMC Team Emirates MIG +05-42; 4 P Seuss (Fr) Decaffron CMA (GM Team +11-36; 5 L Maribos (Fr) Bahrain Victorious +13-02; 6 M Sajamson (Den) Lab-Truck +14-59; 7 J Apose (Sp) Lab-Truck +17-48; 8 R Carasac (Ecu) 10 Education EasyPost +20-00; 9 P Polusis (GB) Phantoms G26: 5 Pro Cycling Team +29-26; 10 J Angel (Fr) Team TotalDvergies +33-21.

其他入选者：21 A Yates (GB) LMC Emirates -MIG +1-51-59; 10 R Hodge (Int) 10 Education EasyPost +5-51-65; 10 R Walker (GB) 10 Education EasyPost +5-13-19; 12 R J Fasting (GB) Netcompany Ineos +5-28-28

飞镖

PDC 世界锦标赛 (PDC WORLD MATCHPLRY)（黑池）

决赛：L Littler (Eng) 8 G Price (Mal) 18-9

高尔夫

女子苏格兰公开赛 (WOMEN'S SCOTTISH OPEN)（Dumbentall Links, 德国）

领先最终成绩（除非另有说明，均为 GB 6-1，Fw 72）

279 1bn J (Oxo) 66 67 71 71. 281 1bn A (Khr) 67 72 74 66. 283 P Anamacukaro (Thu) 71 69 69 74. 284 T Yamashita (Ger) 70 68 73 71. 285 W Yamashita (Jan) 70 74 70 71. L Coaghton (US) 66 74 71 71. 286 C Wamasami (Thu) 71 76 70-00. 287 L Maguire 72 72 73 70. E Nara (Jan) 70 70 71. 76, R O'Toole (US) 73 72 71 71. 288 J Lopez (Sp) 71 74 73 70; A Nouray (Jan) 70 70 69 71. 289 C Nouray (Jan) 70 70 76 67; P Tawatawahi (Thu) 71 69 70 71. Yang A (Khr) 74 69 71 71. 290 D Dager (Int) 74 73 70 71. N Korda (US) 72 76 73 69; Kim HJ (Oxo) 75 70 73 72. 291 P Rousser-Bouchard (Fr) 73 73 76 69; W Stark (Swo) 74 72 73 72. A Hewson 75 75 73-71; D Dargans (Ecu) 73 73 74 74. Kim D (Oxo) 73 72 73 71; Zhang W (Zhu) 73 73 73 72. 292 N Kasewa (Duo) 72 74 73 73; R Zhang (US) 73 72 71 70. A Adampans (Thu) 73 73 73-75. 293 A Kumbant (Swo) 70 79 73 71. Yuan (Tao) 73 68 76 76. A Yates (Thu) 73 72 77 71. 294 M Naddad (Fr) 75 73 74 74. S Koselewa (Ezi) 77 69 74 72. M M Hwy (Md) 73 75 76 70; H Green (Aus) 74 76 74 70; C Neal (Jan) 72 74 75 75 1an MH (Oxo) 75 68 77 74.

SM 公开赛 (SM OPEN)（马雷克斯，美国明尼苏达州）

领先最终成绩（除非另有说明，均为 US，Fw 71）

259 J Rousser 64 68 61 66. 262 L Scheffler 65 70 64 61. 264 R Harman 69 64 66 65. H Matayama (Jan) 70 65 65 64. D McCarthy 66 68 64 66. C Phillips 66 65 66 67. 265 E Giles (Avg) 64 67 63 66. D Thompson 68 68 63 66. 266 R Halifax 67 69 65 70. 267 M Kim 69 70 70 69. E Power (Ev) 68 68 63 66; G Woodland 64 71 67 65. 268 Z Bizer 68 65 68 67. B Herychei 67 68 65 70. J Kogas 68 70 68 62. 269 D Chatfield 69 68 64 68. Dmc Z (Cnr) 67 69 67 66. P Flodham 70 68 66 65. Nc C-n (Sv) 69 66 66 68. 270 L Busselton (SA) 68 67 69 66. L Hodge 68 67 65 70; Kira 3-6 (Bor) 68 69 67 66. R Norrigard-Peterson (Den) 66 72 66 66. 271 C Bunnett 67 68 67 69. M Brennan 65 69 63 74. A Kitamura 68 69 66 68. Hiukaki 69 69 65 66. J Parry (Eng) 69 69 64. A Smotherman 68 67 68 68. J Parry 69 69 64 68. J Parry 69 69 64 68. J Parry 69 69 64. C Kim 70 69 64 69. K Koy 65 70 68 69. 273 J Oatman 70 69 66 68. M Donohue 73 67 70 64. M Holland 70 69 65 69. M McNulty 71 66 72 64. Y Whaley 67 69 68 69.

UV 联合王国 (UV UNITED KINGDOM)（加拿大，瑞士）

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匈牙利的起伏

汉密尔顿批评法拉利，但 诺里斯再次感受到冠军风采

▲ 在获得胜利后， 兰多·诺里斯 受到了马克斯· 维斯塔潘和 基米·安东内利的 祝贺 MARK SUTTON/ FORMULA | VIA GETTY IMAGES

Giles Richards

匈牙利赛道 (Hungaroring)

刘易斯·汉密尔顿在匈牙利大奖赛与梅赛德斯的基米·安东内利进行冠军争夺战中失分，他对自己的法拉利车队表达了沮丧之情；而兰多·诺里斯则找回了状态，这位卫冕世界冠军夺得了本赛季的首场分站赛冠军。

汉密尔顿在匈牙利赛道的实际完赛位置是第四名，但由于在维修区超速被处以五秒处罚，最终排名第五。本场比赛由麦拉伦的诺里斯夺冠，红牛的马克斯·维斯塔潘获得亚军，安东内利获得第三名。

汉密尔顿在虚拟安全车期间被召回进站，这虽然让他更换了新胎，但却使他在赛道位置上输给了维斯塔潘和安东内利。他未能追回名次并受到了处罚。这次指令让他对车队的策略决策产生了质疑。

“这非常糟糕。非常令人沮丧，”他说道。“我绝对认为我们不应该进站，但指令是在进入维修区入口前瞬间下达的，我没有时间讨论。”

“如果意味着要放弃赛道位置，我绝不会进站。我本可能保住第二名。他 [维斯塔潘] 确实在追我，但最差也能拿到第三名 [排在安东内利之前]，那样会好得多。”

随着一级方程式进入夏季休赛期，汉密尔顿落后安东内利 50 分，这位英国人认为年度停赛的时机正好。“我会努力工作

试图回归并重新调整，”他说道。“还有很多名次可以追回。”

诺里斯夺得了他个人以及麦拉伦本年度的首胜，他认为自己正处于巅峰状态，甚至比他赢得冠军时还要好。“就挖掘赛车性能以及每一圈都如此接近极限而言，我想今天大概是我表现最好的一次，”他说道。“如此接近极限，以至于车队不得不要求我稍微收敛一点。”

“所以，虽然说出这句话让我有点心酸，因为这并不意味着你一定能赢，但我感觉我今年的表现比去年更好，而且这种情况已经持续一段时间了。”

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波加查在进入

五冠俱乐部时 仍处于“大幅 进步”中

杰里米·惠特尔 (Jeremy Whittle)

巴黎

在巴黎的最后一赛段，由于担心蒙马特高地 (Butte de Montmartre) 鹅卵石路面在雨天威胁下的安全问题，该赛段被设为中立赛段。塔代伊·波加查 (Tadej Pogacar) 在此赛段后正式加入五次环法赛冠军的精英俱乐部。

波加查统治级的成功（七年内五次夺冠）使得 Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe 队的雷姆科·埃文波尔 (Remco Evenepoel) 和这位斯洛文尼亚人的 UAE Emirates XRG 队友艾萨克·德尔·托罗 (Isaac del Toro) 成为仅有的两名在获胜时间 10 分钟内完赛的选手。

波加查的成就现在与埃迪·默克斯 (Eddy Merckx) 并列，后者同样是五次冠军，且被广泛公认为自行车运动史上最伟大的冠军。这位 27 岁选手的第五次平纪录夺冠，在一套特别设计的全黄色套装中得到了庆祝，该套装上印有数字 5。

“你的经验会增加，处理事情的方式会改变，一些小细节在不断改进，”波加查说道，“但有时起决定作用的是细节，是心境和情绪。我认为这是我进步很大的地方。”

他向队友们的努力表示致敬，其中几名队友在环法赛的后半段一直在与疾病作斗争。“我对所有队员在过去三周里的付出深表敬意。我之前就已经很欣赏队友们的工作，但现在这达到了另一个水平，我必须感谢他们每一个人。”

波加查暗示他再次考虑退役。“我绝对不会长期从事这项运动，”他说道，并暗示他的队友德尔·托罗是他自然的接班人。“他还年轻，学习速度快，非常聪明，拥有巨大的天赋和强大的心肺能力，所以让我们看看前路如何。我很开心能和他在一起，我们能这样共同骑行。”

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Miliband vows to give UK 'global leadership' role on climate crisis

Minister to take up UK position on World Bank board in show of intent

Exclusive Fiona Harvey Environment editor

The foreign secretary, Ed Miliband, is to indicate he will put the climate crisis and overseas development at the heart of UK international relations by taking up the country's seat on the board at the World Bank.

The position, which is usually delegated to a junior minister, means Miliband will play an active role in shaping the changes to the World Bank that developing countries have called for, and ensuring the climate remains a core focus for overseas aid.

Miliband, who was energy and net zero secretary under Keir Starmer, will say: 'International development is not an add-on to British foreign policy - it is central to it.'

By taking on the role of UK governor to the World Bank, I want to send an unambiguous signal that this government is serious about its global leadership on development and climate.'

His announcement comes as fires continue to devastate swathes of France and Spain, and after Scotland called for military aid to tackle a blaze that engulfed the Cairngorms.

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'It is David v Goliath' Wildfire nears Bordeaux as 260,000 flee in France

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Police look into Reform donations by Tice firm

Geraldine McKelvie

Payments to Reform UK first revealed by the Guardian are now being investigated by the Metropolitan police.

The inquiry is scrutinising payments made to the party via a

company controlled by its deputy leader, Richard Tice.

Scotland Yard is looking at two donations of £250,000 made to the party by Britain Means Business in the weeks before the 2024 general election.

The Guardian revealed this month that Fiona Cottrell made a £1m

transfer to Britain Means Business shortly before the donations were made. About half of the funds were then passed to the party.

Cottrell's son, George, is a convicted fraudster with close links to Reform's leader, Nigel Farage.

The Guardian reported this month that Fiona and George Cottrell had been interviewed under criminal caution as part of the police investigation.

In response to a query about the investigation from the BBC, Tice said: 'This is the first I have heard of it - if true, why are the Met police briefing

the BBC before contacting interested parties? Is the Met leadership now engaged in the widespread politically motivated smear campaign against Reform and its leaders?'

Fiona Cottrell also made two donations directly to the party, each worth £250,000, in May 2024. These are also within the scope of the Metropolitan police investigation.

Tice, who was elected to parliament after the poll, is the sole director of Britain Means Business.

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Reform levy on overseas workers

'would harm NHS and social care'

Peter Walker

Senior political correspondent

Reform UK's plan to make employers pay an annual levy for overseas staff would harm the NHS and social care, cause a shortage of schoolteachers, and could push some universities into bankruptcy, experts have said.

Nigel Farage's party has proposed a "migrant worker surcharge", which would involve a higher rate of employer national insurance as well as a separate annual charge. It would apply to any employees without a UK passport, including EU nationals with settled status, with the exception of Irish passport holders.

The Guardian has also been told there will be no exceptions for sectors with frequent staff shortages and a reliance on overseas workers, including the NHS and education.

Reform says the policy, which would apply throughout the UK, is intended to push organisations into taking on British employees. But

thinktanks and professional groups in health, care and education said these were very often not available in sufficient numbers.

The King's Fund, a leading health thinktank, said that while it was unclear how much employers would have to pay - Reform has said only that the levy would be higher for lower-paid staff - with 20% of NHS England staff not being UK nationals the policy would "add costs to a service that is already stretched".

Suzie Bailey, from the King's Fund, said: "I think, ultimately, it would impact on the care that the service is able to give, because that money would have to come from somewhere, so other cuts would have to be made.

"It is very hard to see how this would do anything other than impact on healthcare. I really struggle to see how this would work in practice."

Prof Victoria Tzortziou Brown, the president of the Royal College of General Practitioners, said penalising overseas GPs risked being especially

▲ Prof Victoria Tzortziou Brown said it would be counterproductive to penalise GPs from overseas

counterproductive, given that they would have undertaken specialist training in the UK at public expense.

She said: "General practices, most of which are small-scale independent services contracted to deliver NHS services, could also be disproportionately affected by policies that increase the cost of employing staff.

"Any policy that further increases costs or reduces workforce capacity ultimately risks affecting patients' access to care."

Police investigating donations to Farage's party via Tice firm

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Cottrell but described reports about the money as a "politically motivated smear campaign".

The Guardian wrote that the transfer from Fiona Cottrell to Britain Means Business had been reported to the National Crime Agency (NCA) by bankers via a suspicious activity report. Suspicious activity reports are not crime reports but exist to identify potential incidents of money laundering.

The Guardian understands that neither the NCA nor bankers have

been able to trace the source of the original £1m sent by Fiona Cottrell to Tice's company. The NCA is seeking help from a foreign partner in its attempts to understand where the money originated.

A Reform UK spokesperson said: "Reform takes pride in its stringent vetting of donations and always ensures that the Electoral Commission guidelines on donations, as set out in the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000, are strictly followed, as has been the case with donations so far."

Fiona Cottrell did not respond to

▲ Reform's Richard Tice is the sole director of Britain Means Business

◄ Nigel Farage's party proposes a 'migrant worker surcharge' that would involve a higher rate of employer national insurance on top

Jane Townson, the chief executive of the Homecare Association, said employing overseas care staff was already more expensive and complex, but happened because of rising demand and a lack of UK workers, especially after the Covid pandemic.

A levy that was higher for low-paid workers would particularly affect the care sector, she said. "Providers cannot absorb this. The predictable risks would be reduced access to home care, causing harm to individuals and families, more people stuck in hospital, greater exploitation of workers, and provider failure damaging continuity of care for people - with the bill ultimately landing back on the public purse."

For schools, the impact could vary. While nearly 6% of teachers in England are non-UK nationals, they are disproportionately represented in secondary schools, and particularly in subjects with shortages of staff such as languages and physics.

James Zuccollo, the head of school workforce at the Education Policy Institute thinktank, said many overseas teachers were long-term UK residents. "A measure that includes settled-status holders would operate not only as a brake on future recruitment but as a charge on staff already teaching in our schools."

Nick Hillman, the chief executive of the Higher Education Policy Institute thinktank, said the plans could significantly affect universities, with many spending up to 60% of their budget on salaries.

He said: "As close to half are running deficits at the moment, higher costs still would lead to other spending being cut. No UK university has ever yet gone bust, though some are close, so higher wage bills could, in extreme circumstances, also push one or more to the wall."

Dr Alicia Greated from the Campaign for Science and Engineering said the plans could also be "highly damaging" to the wider research and development sector. She said: "High visa costs and complex visa policies already put significant strain and costs on organisations and individuals, taking away money that could be invested in research."

Reform UK was contacted for comment.

the Guardian's attempts to contact her about the donations to Britain Means Business.

The Met, when asked by the BBC about the developments on Saturday evening, repeated a statement issued earlier this month. It said: "An investigation was launched in February 2025 after a referral was made to the Metropolitan police by the Electoral Commission relating to donations made to a political party ahead of the 2024 UK general election. Detectives from the Met's special inquiry team are investigating alleged offences under section 61 of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000.

"Early investigative advice has been sought from the Crown Prosecution Service and two people have so far been interviewed under caution."

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It's the tops: Guides and Brownies get a new, relaxed uniform

Bethan McKernan

Girlguiding has fully redesigned its uniform for the first time in more than 30 years, with a focus on "self-expression, belonging and confidence".

The range, launched today, has relaxed previous rules: Guides, Rainbows, Brownies and Rangers now

only have to wear a top to meetings and activities to be considered "in uniform" after feedback from thousands of girls who said they felt "most comfortable" when allowed to wear what they want.

The charity said that the two-year redesign by Hemingway Design, created with input from 55,000 girls and women, reflects Girlguiding's heritage and traditional brand while

◄ Girlguides wear pieces from their new uniform collection which features garments with thumb holes and hidden pockets; right, Welsh Guides in the 1980s and, below, Princess Elizabeth in her guiding uniform in 1943

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embracing modern colours and features such as hidden pockets in waist bands, thumb holes and badge sashes which double as cross-body bags.

Felicity Oswald, Girlguiding's chief executive officer, said: "The new range is all about providing girls with the freedom to express themselves, whilst feeling part of our amazing organisation ... With practicality, comfort and sustainability at the very core of the designs.

"We know that self-expression and confidence go hand in hand. With girls in guiding being 30% more confident, the introduction of the new uniform is designed to further nurture that confidence and foster a true sense of belonging."

A Girlguiding survey of 2,000 girls aged six to 16 in the UK found that 93% said they feel most comfortable when they can choose how to style

themselves. Forty-seven percent said they were most confident when they can choose what they wear, while 33% said they feel the most confident when they have the freedom to express themselves. A total of 41% said strict school uniform rules stopped them from doing so.

Girlguiding is open to girls aged four to 18. The organisation currently numbers about 300,000, along with 80,000 volunteers, who will now have the choice of 30 new items of clothing to wear and 15 accessories and neckerchiefs, which can be personalised and customised for local, regional and country events.

Old uniforms can be upcycled into new accessories at free workshops over the summer, the charity said.

The broadcaster and presenter Angellica Bell, who is a Girlguiding ambassador, said: "The new uniform gives girls and volunteers the freedom to style it the way that suits them ... [and] empowers girls and volunteers to embrace their individuality."

The charity has undergone nine outfit redesigns in its 116-year history.

'The new uniform gives girls the freedom to style it the way that suits them'

Angellica Bell

Girlguiding ambassador

The original uniform was a blue skirt and stockings with a jumper and neckerchief in the Guide groups' colour, while Brownies wore a brown tunic dress with patch pockets. Princess Elizabeth, the future queen, became a Guide in 1937, aged 11, and remained a patron of the charity until her death in 2022.

While wartime shortages and rationing led to minor changes, the uniform remained substantially the same until the 1960s, when colours got brighter and hemlines shorter. In 1973, wool costs led to the introduction of a knitted pom-pom hat, replacing the Brownies beret.

T-shirts and shorts arrived in 1980 to support the increasingly adventurous outdoor activities on offer. The last redesign, in 2014, used bright colours such as purple for the first time and brought back dresses, which were dropped in 1990.

Girlguiding's new look is being launched shortly before a change in the charity's membership policy from 6 September, which will force transgender girls to leave.

The decision came after an announcement that transgender girls would no longer be able to join Girlguiding and membership would be limited to "girls and young women" in the wake of the 2025 supreme court ruling on biological sex.

Girlguiding has said previously it does not collect gender identity information and therefore does not know how many members and volunteers might be affected by the rule change.

British actor David Jonsson cast as Black Panther in new sequel

Nadeem Badshah

The British actor David Jonsson has been unveiled as the new Black Panther by the film's director Ryan Coogler.

Jonsson, 32, known for roles in Industry, The Long Walk and Alien: Romulus, will play the son of Chadwick Boseman's T'Challa in the third instalment.

He joined Coogler on stage at

Marvel Studios' Comic-Con International presentation to announce the news on Saturday, alongside co-stars Letitia Wright and Winston Duke.

Coogler, who this year won the Oscar for best original screenplay for his vampire film Sinners, said: "The last time we got to make a movie, we introduced a character who is the son of the character that the great Chadwick Boseman played - our T'Challa - in that film. And today, I want to tell you that in this next film, he grows up, he comes of age."

Born in London, Jonsson began his career in the West End. He made his screen debut in 2018 in two episodes of the detective drama Endeavour.

The actor appeared in the 2025 adaptation of Stephen King's thriller The Long Walk and in the same year won the Bafta rising star award.

Jonsson, who has roles in the forthcoming films The Chaperones, Benn/Eubank and Scandalous!, said: "Thank you to this family that I have the honour and the blessing to join. I don't want to say too much, because I want to let the screen do the talking."

Black Panther 3 will be released in US cinemas on 15 December 2028, with a UK release date yet to be confirmed.

Boseman died aged 43 in 2020,

four years after being diagnosed with colon cancer.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, released in 2022, revealed that Boseman's character T'Challa had a son. It followed Wright's character, Shuri, as she takes on the role of

▲ David Jonsson, 32, will play T'Challa's son in Black Panther 3

the protagonist following the death of T'Challa.

The first Black Panther film, released in 2018, was set in the mythical country of Wakanda, a hidden African kingdom with innovative technology due to its reserves of the world's most useful precious metal, the fictional vibranium. It won three Oscars.

In a separate announcement, Marvel revealed that Ryan Gosling will play Johnny Blaze in a new Ghost Rider film, slated for a 2028 release. It will follow the 2007 film starring Nicolas Cage, and its 2011 sequel, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance.

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Pride celebration shot dead by police

Deborah Cole Berlin Jennifer Rankin

A man suspected of driving a van into a crowd near Berlin's Pride festival, and then going on a knife rampage in an Islamist terror attack, has been shot dead by police.

Police confirmed yesterday evening that the chief suspect had been fatally shot, reportedly during an operation at an allotment garden complex in the Spandau district, on the city's western outskirts.

One woman was killed on Saturday evening and 29 others were injured when a man drove a rented minivan into a crowd of pedestrians, then attacked people with what appeared to be a machete in the Tiergarten park near the Brandenburg Gate.

The attack, at about 10pm local time, forced organisers to cut short one of Europe's largest Pride events. It came as Germany remained on edge after a series of deadly vehicle and knife attacks.

The German interior minister, Alexander Dobrindt, named the chief suspect as 21-year-old Abdul Ballout. "We are dealing here with a suspected perpetrator who had previously drawn attention to himself through a high volume of criminal offences, radicalisation and affiliation with the Islamist scene," he told journalists near the site of the attack.

He said Ballout had a criminal conviction and had been sentenced as a juvenile to a year and 10 months in prison, but that the sentence had been suspended.

German media reported that Ballout, a German national with Lebanese roots, was a supporter of Islamic State and had travelled to the Middle East last year in a failed attempt to join the group. He was then convicted in Germany of "preparing a serious act of subversive violence", the news outlets Bild and Der Spiegel reported.

Before Ballout was shot, Der Spiegel spoke with his father,

▲ People leave tributes at the scene of the attack, near the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. Left, emergency personnel and festivalgoers wrapped in

thermal blankets early yesterday. Above, police recover the van that crashed into the crowd PHOTOGRAPHS: MARYAM MAJID REUTERS: MARKUS SCHREIBER/AP

◄ Abdul Ballout, 21, was named as the chief suspect and described as being affiliated with the 'Islamist scene'

Tawfik, who was in Lebanon visiting relatives.

Describing Abdul as "generous, emotional, loving", he said his son had bounced from job to job. Tawfik described the family as Shia but "not extremely religious" and said it "does not support Islamic State", an extremist Sunni group.

"I did not allow him to wear a long beard," he said, calling it a symbol of extremism. Asked about a possible motive for the attack, he said: "He was brainwashed." Tawfik said he had spoken with Abdul on Saturday, the day of the attack. "He called me and we spoke normally, like every day."

The chancellor, Friedrich Merz, urged Germany to avoid division and intimidation in the aftermath of the attack. "We will think about consequences, we will defend our freedom," he said.

Earlier, Merz had vowed to punish those responsible, describing the "heinous act" as an "attack on our society" in a social media post. The flag at the German Bundestag was ordered to be lowered to half mast.

Police said the vehicle had struck people after being driven into the Tiergarten. Just before 10pm the driver of the white minivan had swerved into the park, close to where the route of the Pride march had been earlier in the day, hitting people on a path and crashing into a tree.

Julian Methig, who attended the event, described it as a terrible day. "It's one of the worst days for the queer community and a day I personally hoped I'd never have to experience ... I'm shocked," he said.

Hundreds of thousands of people had gathered in Berlin to celebrate the Pride parade. It is known in Germany as Christopher Street Day (CSD), named after the site of the Stonewall Inn in New York City where riots against police raids touched off the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement.

Berlin's mayor, Kai Wegner, called the deadly assault "an attack on our free and cosmopolitan society".

UK journalists 'self-censoring stories on rightwing protests and Trump over safety fears'

Michael Savage

Media editor

Journalists are self-censoring their reporting on rightwing protests, Donald Trump's administration and trans issues because of growing concerns about their personal safety, with newsrooms accused of "normalising" the risks they face.

Hundreds of journalists from across the UK have anonymously disclosed increasing nervousness over their security. Some have reported

avoiding or altering coverage on certain topics due to intimidation, leading to self-censorship and "a narrowing of the public conversation".

The findings are revealed in a government-backed investigation into the safety of journalists, ordered amid growing hostility to traditional media across the west.

"There have definitely been times where there's been a story that's maybe in the public interest, maybe worth reporting on, where we have had frank discussions about whether it's 'worth it'," said one journalist.

Another said: "I was definitely looking over my shoulder and making sure I wasn't being followed and making sure that people weren't going to start shouting things at me."

Investigators found a widespread belief that abuse linked to reporting has increased, especially online. They also reported newsroom cultures that treated the increase as inevitable given the polarised political environment, with journalists expected to be "thick-skinned".

Female journalists faced the brunt of abuse, describing gendered and sexualised harassment, explicit threats, inappropriate messages and online comments focused on appearance.

Common topics raised by journalists as causing safety concerns were rightwing anti-immigration protests; the Trump administration, including protests against US Immigration

and Customs Enforcement (ICE); and trans issues.

"Anti-immigration protests were most widely referenced by journalists, both regarding the in-person risks of attending the marches and the backlash to any subsequent reporting," the investigation found.

There are numerous accounts of journalists in Northern Ireland facing intimidation from masked men while covering anti-immigration riots. These were disclosed to the UK's National Union of Journalists.

One respondent described seeing a female journalist subjected to misogynistic heckling at a "unite the kingdom" rally, with the footage later uploaded to social media.

With debates about the personal safety of reporters now a regular discussion point in newsrooms, ministers ordered an investigation by Alma Economics. Almost half

of the 531 journalists surveyed said safety concerns influenced their willingness to report on certain stories, while about a third had changed how or what they covered.

Participants acknowledged that the UK was still a safe place to work as a journalist, compared with other parts of the world, but said the risks had intensified.

Laura Davison, the NUJ's general secretary, said: "Abuse should never be viewed as part of a journalist's job. Not only does this behaviour have a hugely detrimental impact on people's lives, it also has a chilling effect on journalists' ability to do their jobs and freedom of the press."

A spokesperson for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport said the government was working with the National Committee for the Safety of Journalists to tackle harassment and threats.

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Ooh, they're here again Hundreds of people take part in the Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever in Folkestone harbour, Kent, an annual event in which participants recreate the music video for Kate Bush's 1978 hit Wuthering Heights. Similar events take place around the world - in Finland, Lithuania, Germany and Australia - inspired by an original gathering at Brighton fringe in 2013.

AI-generated online doctors a

'huge danger to public safety'

Joe Pinner

Misleading health claims online pose a "huge danger to public safety", experts have warned, after research found that AI-generated doctors are gaining millions of views on TikTok by spreading dubious health advice.

The British Medical Association council deputy chair, Dr Emma Runswick, flagged the risks posed by AI accounts that "peddle medical myths and promote so-called miracle cures".

"Platforms like TikTok must do more to stop the rise of dangerous fake medical advice ... otherwise, it is the public who could be paying the price with their health and perhaps even their lives," she said.

AI-generated physicians were found to have spread disproved myths about cancer, including that

microwaving food in plastic, using deodorants and sleeping next to your phone could all cause cancer - all claims which have been refuted by Cancer Research UK.

The research was published this month by Hallam, a digital marketing agency. It follows warnings by the NHS that health misinformation on social media is a "real threat to public health".

The research found that AI-generated content appeared in 40% of top health-related TikTok videos, with most posted by a growing number of deepfake influencer accounts designed to resemble real doctors. For some specific search terms, such as "health tips", 84% of videos were classed as AI-generated or AI-assisted content.

According to Hallam, top AI-generated doctor and health videos in their search received an average of 2.5m views. TikTok took down examples of

the videos that were sent to the platform by the Guardian.

The accounts promoted bizarre remedies for health problems, including Coca-Cola mixed with onion as a pain-relief remedy and a fake product called "Hyalethinap Plus Pro Max" as an anti-ageing solution.

Prof Frankie Swords, the national medical director of NHS England, said it was concerning to see a rise in online medical misinformation. "Many clinicians are reporting an increasing number of patients who feel worried and confused due to false advice that has been made solely for clicks," she added.

Prof Victoria Tzortziou Brown, the president of the Royal College of General Practitioners, said she was also concerned by the research, adding that misleading AI content carried a "real risk" of harm.

Hallam analysed 1,198 videos, selecting the top 50 videos across

a series of search terms including "health tips" and "doctor advice". It also looked for general "life-impacting" advice on issues such as personal finance and education.

Last year, a poll conducted by Savanta of 3,575 men and 3,832 women aged 18 and above in England on behalf of the patient champion Healthwatch England found that about one in five people were using social media for health information.

William Pett, the interim director of policy and public affairs at Healthwatch England, said: "Without the skills to distinguish reliable information from commercial hype or misinformation, [people] risk being misled in ways that can seriously affect their health."

A TikTok spokesperson said: "These findings from a marketing agency with commercial interests are not an accurate reflection of our platform.

"The facts are that we remove harmful health misinformation, including when it's AI-generated, we partner with the World Health Organization and the NHS on providing reliable health information in-app, and we continually invest in AI literacy resources and labelling technologies."

Water supply

restored to Gatwick after hours without working toilets

Jamie Grierson

The water supply has been restored to most of Gatwick airport after passengers spent hours without access to working toilets, and bars and restaurants were closed.

Most toilets had reopened across both terminals yesterday evening, with facilities including bars and restaurants expected to return to normal for the first of today's flights.

Announcing that the water, supplied by SES Water, had been restored, Gatwick airport said last night: "Following an issue at the Bough Beech water treatment works [in Kent] which impacted the local area today, we are pleased to report that the water supply has now returned to the vast majority of the London Gatwick campus.

"Most toilet facilities are now open and we expect all toilets - as well as food and beverage outlets - to be open for tomorrow's first flights.

"Since becoming aware of the issue, we have been working closely with SES Water and our airport partners to help minimise the impact, and ensure all today's flights departed as scheduled."

Flights were unaffected yesterday, with the airport apologising to passengers for the inconvenience.

Earlier yesterday, passengers posted online that they were unable to get hot drinks, wash their hands or fill up water bottles at the airport in West Sussex.

The problem also had an impact in the wider Sussex and Kent area.

SES Water said yesterday that there had been interruptions to water supplies in parts of the TN11, RH1, RH6 and RH10 postcode areas.

At 2pm, the company said the Bough Beech water treatment works were running again but the water needed to be treated before services could return to normal.

On Facebook, one user posted: "Gasping for a drink & crossing my legs right now. This is ridiculous!

"Gatwick airport has shut all restaurants and most toilets due to a water outage. Not a great start to the holiday."

Michael Dugher, the former MP and recently appointed government "music champion", wrote on social media: "At least allow people to use the chairs in all the closed restaurants and bars.

"No water is one thing, but depriving people of somewhere to sit is another ... Families are having to sit on the floor."

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▲ A firefighter takes a break outside Bordeaux, with officials in the Gironde warning tourists to stay away as the fire is unpredictable PHOTOGRAPH: GETTY

France fights to contain huge wildfire approaching Bordeaux

Angelique Chrisafis Paris Sam Jones Madrid Jennifer Rankin

Authorities in France are battling to contain a huge wildfire near Bordeaux as Spain's prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, warned his country - where blazes near Madrid are coming under control - was suffering the effects of the climate emergency.

Efforts to extinguish the blaze in the Gironde region, which has consumed an area four times the size of Paris and led to the evacuation of nearly 220,000 people, were hampered by wind on Saturday night.

In Spain, fires west of Madrid were being brought under control, but Sánchez spoke of 'difficult hours'.

About 375,000 people have been forced to flee their homes across both countries. In France nearly 260,000 have been forced out by wildfires, while in neighbouring Spain 116,000 have been evacuated.

Bordeaux's mayor, Thomas Cazenave, described the Gironde blaze as being 'at the gates of the metropolitan area', between 15 and 20 miles from the city itself, which has a population of 268,000. An evacuation of the city was not on the cards, he said.

Sophie Brocas, the prefect of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region (which includes the Gironde), said that the highly unpredictable nature of this

wildfire was a phenomenon never seen before in France. 'I urge tourists not to come to Gironde as long as the fire has not been contained,' she said. 'I invite tourists who are already here to think about going to another destination. We don't know where the fire is going to go.'

The country's interior minister, Laurent Nuñez, said yesterday that the previous night had been difficult and 'the situation remains very unfavourable'. He said the Gironde fire had become 'extremely virulent and unpredictable' on Saturday night, generating its own wind and spreading erratically towards the Bordeaux metropolitan area. It had become calmer by the end of the night.

About 2,500 firefighters (including a Swiss firefighting team), 1,500 military personnel and 1,200 police had been deployed to Gironde, Nuñez said, as he praised the contribution of 450 volunteers from civil security organisations.

One firefighter told Agence France-Presse that the fire had formed a pyrocumulonimbus, a fire-generated thunderstorm that 'creates its own wind, with whirlwinds, becoming erratic and uncontrollable'.

A spokesperson for the National Firefighters Federation of France said that while known in wildfire-prone Australia and Canada, one had never been seen before in France. The federation's Lt Col Eric Brocardi told

'It looked like something out of the Bible' Residents flee blazes around Madrid

When David Olivares went to bed on Thursday night, tired from a four-hour motorbike ride, the fire creeping towards his home town of Robledo de Chavela seemed a distant menace.

He woke the next day, saw white smoke behind the mountains and thought the threat to Robledo, 30 miles west of Madrid, had probably receded. Then he saw the white smoke had turned black.

'I saw the fire at the top of the mountain,' said the 27-year-old as he ate a sandwich prepared by a council worker in the leisure centre to which he had been evacuated - along with 300 other people - in Las Rozas, a municipality on the north-western outskirts of the Spanish capital.

'It started to spread down the mountain and then I got the emergency alert on my phone, telling us we had to leave.'

'I thought to myself, come on, it's 2026 - the firefighters will get it under control,' he said. 'But that wasn't the case.'

Just as his mother told him they needed to leave, Olivares

looked up at the sky, which had also begun to change.

'It turned orange and looked very apocalyptic,' he said. 'Then there was black smoke in Robledo and you could see the fire.'

'People were shouting - a kid was screaming to his dad: 'Let's go now' - and there were cars and people everywhere.'

'It felt like the end of the world. We grabbed our three cats, got in the car and left.'

María Rosa Marín, a fellow evacuee from the nearby town of Valdemaqueda, nodded at the recollection. 'The sun was so strange; you could hardly see it.'

Marín held up her mobile phone to show a photograph she had taken of a pale red sun hidden by dirty orange clouds of smoke. 'It looked like something from the Bible,' she said.

Marín and Olivares were just a few of the 87,000 people evacuated or ordered to lock down as central Spain battles wildfires that scientists say are being fuelled by climate breakdown and plentiful dry vegetation on a continent that is heating at about twice the rate of the global average. Sam Jones

AFP there was a need to understand a 'natural force beyond our control'.

He said: 'It's a David v Goliath scenario: the idea is that, at some point, we'll find a weak spot and strike there.'

Police in Gironde made three arrests over the weekend, including one man smoking in the forest and two having barbecues in a forest area.

Authorities in Spain said major areas of fire near Madrid had been contained and cooled down, according to a senior officer with Spain's military emergencies unit.

Sánchez said: 'We're facing some difficult hours, although it's true that the latest update has shown that last night was very positive in terms of the fire's evolution and efforts to control it.'

Speaking at a firefighters' command post west of Madrid, the prime minister warned that Spain and Portugal were experiencing the varied consequences of the climate emergency, from fires and storms to heavy snowfalls. 'The entire Iberian peninsula is suffering the effects of the climate emergency in a very specific way,' he added.

While the fire near Madrid was being brought under control, emergency workers battled to extinguish a new fire near the Mediterranean port city of Valencia, where at least 15,000 people were evacuated. 'The fire is beyond our capacity to extinguish, it

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▼ A wildfire west of Madrid is being contained, but has been described as the worst in the area's history

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▲ A Bordeaux exhibition centre is housing some of those forced to evacuate. Right, a drone image shows a burnt-out house in Gironde PHOTOGRAPH: GETTY/HEUTERS

has a perimeter of about 21km," the Valencia region's president, Juanfran Pérez Llorca, said over the weekend.

Spain's interior ministry said on Saturday evening that a man had died in a fire in the Valencian town of Manises. He had been found in a car in a ravine, officials said.

Authorities also ordered the evacuation of eight more municipalities near Toledo, south of Madrid, on Saturday, bringing the number of people forced to flee their homes by wildfires in Spain in recent days to 116,000, the Associated Press reported.

Spain's environment minister, Sara Aagesen, said the wildfire that has burned through 50,000 hectares of land in the central province of Ávila is "the largest forest fire in our country's recent history".

The blazes are the latest episode in a summer of wildfires that threaten to burn an unprecedented expanse of land. Europe has endured a series of heatwaves since the spring, fuelled by the climate crisis, including the hottest-ever June, leaving vegetation tinder dry.

The EU commissioner for crisis management, Hadja Lahbib, told the BBC it was likely that damage from the wildfires would exceed previous records across the continent.

"Last year, 111 hectares burned during the summer and so we are expecting to face another historic, sad record because the season has started earlier in the year," she said.

Spain's environment ministry said 32 major fires affecting 152,678 hectares (377,276 acres) had been recorded so far in 2026, compared with seven affecting 24,133 hectares in the same period in 2025.

The Gironde fire in France has so far burned 42,000 hectares, an area four times the size of Paris and one of the biggest devastations of land since the second world war.

At least 240 homes had been destroyed and many more damaged, a gendarme told BFMTV.

Firefighters are battling to slow the fire's progression toward Bordeaux from air, with planes dropping water and retardants. Jérôme Steffe, the mayor of Cestas commune, 10 miles from Bordeaux city centre, told French media: "We are working together to put in place a firewall to block the advance of the flames."

An exhibition centre in Bordeaux has been turned into an emergency shelter, providing camp beds and food for thousands of people, including hundreds of older people evacuated from rare homes.

Cazenave said he had asked the central government for an economic crisis plan for the area because many businesses and workers had been evacuated from areas west of Bordeaux, and the tourism industry had been heavily affected.

He said it was impossible to say when people evacuated as a precaution could return to their homes.

"We don't know how long this crisis will last, whether several days or several weeks," he said.

The Landes fire has consumed 3,600 hectares and a rekindling of flames on Saturday had to be tackled from the air, Núñez said.

French authorities are also dealing with wildfires in the south-eastern Var region, where 3,000 people have been evacuated, as well as the Hautes-Alpes and Corsica.

Miliband puts tackling climate crisis at heart of Britain's foreign policy

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and parts of Wales have prompted hosepipe bans. Meanwhile, the June heatwave in Europe is estimated to have cost the continent's grain farmers €2bn (£1.7bn) in lost revenue.

By taking up the World Bank seat personally, Miliband is sending a clear signal that while other politicians even now argue against net zero policies, the Foreign Office will continue to drive climate action.

It is a crucial time for the World Bank, which has come under heavy pressure from the Trump administration to reverse a previous focus on climate finance.

Last month, the publicly funded bank scrapped its goal for 45% of its finance to be directed to climate-related ends.

Experts have welcomed Miliband's decision as a boost to climate action.

Lord Stern, a professor of economics at the London School of Economics, said the foreign secretary's take-up of the UK governor's seat would "send a powerful and important signal" to the world.

"As a former chief economist and senior vice-president of the World Bank, I know that the UK can punch above its weight," he said.

"But only if the leadership is there from the top. In recent years, that has slipped. Ed Miliband will be restoring development and climate to the priority in our international relationships that they must have, in a world facing climate and biodiversity crises, and with real and growing threats to the wellbeing of the world's poorest."

Other countries have been wary of challenging the US on its anti-climate stance, for fear of reprisals and after widespread cuts to developed countries' overseas aid. The UK is one of six countries with its own seat at the World Bank board.

Mohamed Adow, a director of Power Shift Africa, a thinktank, said Miliband could champion changes at the lender that would help the poor.

"The real test is whether the UK uses its influence to push the World Bank to deliver far more finance for climate action and adaptation, to get money to countries faster, and ensure the poorest nations are not forced deeper into debt to respond to a crisis they did least to cause," Adow said.

"If this appointment marks the

▲ Ed Miliband will take up the UK's seat on the board of the World Bank

start of renewed British leadership on global climate and development, it will be warmly welcomed across Africa."

Miliband will face a shrinking aid budget and tough decisions over allocation. Starmer slashed overseas aid to 0.3% of gross national income, a sharp reduction from 0.5% under the Conservatives and the 0.7% reached under the last Labour government.

Climate finance was also cut by 14%, from £11.6bn for the period 2021 to 2026, to £2bn a year.

Britain's new prime minister, Andy Burnham, was criticised last week for saying his planned £2 cap on bus fares in England would be funded mainly by changing international climate finance grants into repayable loans. The loans will go to the Tropical Forests Forever Facility, an investment fund set up by the Brazilian government.

Jonathan Hall, the managing director of the charity Conservation International UK, said that to restore its credibility, the government should rescind the cuts Starmer made to funding for nature protection despite Britain's spy chiefs saying that ecosystem collapse overseas threatened national security.

"Miliband now needs to reintroduce a clear target for a third of the UK's £6bn climate aid budget to finance natural ecosystems and tropical forests, a goal which was lost under his predecessor," said Hall.

The UK will take over the leadership of the G20 group in November.

Rachel Kyte, the UK's climate envoy and a former senior World Bank official, said: "We will be in the midst of an energy and food security crisis from the blockage of the strait of Hormuz. Compounding that is a severe El Niño.

"We will need every ounce of capacity in the international financial architecture to help some parts of the world through the severity of these impacts. Ed has seen what it takes to mobilise the world to action before, pulling every lever we have available to us. If needed, we will do it again, for our own and everyone else's security."

'By taking on the [World Bank] role, I want to send a signal this government is serious ... on climate and development'

Ed Miliband

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Tents on Euston Road, London. Andy Burnham has promised to end rough sleeping in the UK 'at the earliest opportunity' PHOTOGRAPH: DAN KITWOOD/GETTY

'It drains you'

London's homeless at risk in sweltering urban environment

Vandy Widyalankara

'You've just got to bear it. It's like being in a hot country. It drains you,' said Tom (not his real name), who

is in his 60s and has been homeless for a number of years.

"I haven't seen weather like this for as long as I've been outside. I keep to my routines, but you need to find somewhere to sit down and rest. Either some cardboard outside or you find somewhere they'll let you sit and sleep a bit inside."

As the UK sweltered through its third heatwave of the year, the Guardian joined outreach workers in London as they tried to support some of the city's most vulnerable people. In his first speech as prime minister last week, Andy Burnham vowed to end rough sleeping in the UK "at the earliest opportunity".

"The city is not built for heat," said Josie Ashdown, a lead manager at the homelessness charity Thames Reach. "You can feel that the concrete makes it hotter here than probably anywhere else in the country at points."

As London endures repeated heatwaves fuelled by the climate crisis, outreach teams are offering extra support to those most at risk - handing out water, carrying out welfare checks and directing people to cool spaces. Scientists have estimated that the May and June heatwaves in England and Wales killed 2,700 people.

"Outreach teams are working around the clock," said Elle Slater, a service development manager at St Mungo's, a homelessness charity.

Many of the tents beneath an underpass were empty when the Guardian visited. Their occupants had probably left in search of water, work or somewhere cooler, Ashdown said. But for the record numbers of people like Tom who are sleeping rough, escaping the heat is rarely straightforward.

Dr Jennie Leggat, a former policy fellow at the University of Cambridge's centre for science and policy, said people sleeping rough were far more vulnerable to extreme heat than the general population. "If you're relying on begging to earn money, you don't have much choice," said Leggat. "You have to sit outside, often in the sun and usually in hot urban environments."

Many long-term rough sleepers have chronic health conditions. Essential medication, such as insulin, is difficult to store safely in hot weather.

Tom has health problems and struggles to get around. The heat has made it harder for him. "The bus is like a sauna even compared to outside," he said. "I have to keep my legs in wraps due to the swelling from moving around and my age, but I've had to switch to stockings in this weather."

Often people have to carry all their belongings with them, including winter clothing they cannot safely store. Anneke Ziemen, a service manager for the Thames Reach rapid response team, recalled one man who was dressed for cold weather during the heatwaves. "He said: 'When winter comes, I need my clothes. I can't have anyone steal them.' It makes sense, but it's also going to be 34C and you are literally cooking yourself."

Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, last month announced the Heat Ready London plan, which seeks to protect the capital from extreme heat. It includes expanding access to publicly available cooling spaces and free drinking water.

While councils have a severe weather emergency protocol for cold conditions, the response to heat is less consistent. There is no

▲ Outreach teams are working to support rough sleepers in the heat

single London-wide temperature trigger or mandatory level of support, leaving boroughs and outreach teams to interpret Greater London Authority guidance according to local resources.

A spokesperson for the mayor of London said city hall and London councils had issued joint guidance to help rough sleepers. "This is a collective effort involving councils, community organisations, health services and outreach providers," they said. "Our priority is making sure support reaches those who are most at risk."

Tom said: "I haven't heard about the 'cool places'. I don't go to places like that, as there can be issues with other people."

Leggat said stigma sometimes prevented access. "People who sleep rough may not be welcome in public spaces that could offer respite from the heat, whether that be due to having a pet, having large bags or simply looking unkempt due to a lack of reliable access to showers and clean clothing."

Matt Downie, the chief executive of Crisis, said Burnham's promise was "a significant shift away from a series of expensive temporary fixes and towards a 'housing first' approach to homelessness".

In the meantime, the advice to the public is to remain vigilant and use StreetLink to make a referral to a local charity if they see someone who may need help.

For Tom, reality includes the constant stigma of being visibly homeless. "People can tell or sense when you're homeless. You hear people whispering about you, saying you're homeless."

Yet he also experienced moments of kindness during the heatwaves. "I carry a big case around and people have been kinder in the hot weather, helping me get my luggage on and off the bus."

V&A Museum

More than 300 workers vote on heatwave strike action

Diane Taylor

Workers at the Victoria and Albert Museum have balloted for heatwave strike action over concerns about soaring temperatures and access to drinking water, along with pay and conditions.

More than 300 workers at four V&A sites in London - the museum in South Kensington, V&A East Museum and V&A East Storehouse in Stratford, and Young V&A in Bethnal Green - are taking part in the ballot.

The V&A, founded in 1852 after the Great Exhibition, is described as "a family of museums dedicated to the power of creativity". Its mission is to "promote art and design for all".

The Public and Commercial Ser- vices Union launched the strike ballot on Thursday owing to "serious and unresolved concerns affecting staff across the museum".

While pay rates are an issue, with calls for a minimum 4% pay increase, the union has also raised concerns about heat exposure and access to drinking water.

It is calling for management to implement a policy of closing pub- lic areas when temperatures exceed 30C, introduce heat mitigation meas- ures for back of house workers, and allow staff at V&A East Storehouse to carry and drink water while working in areas where exhibits are on dis- play, rather than waiting for another worker to come and relieve them while they go for a drink.

The union is also calling on the V&A to become an accredited living wage employer in London. The cur- rent London living wage is £14.80 an hour. The V&A has confirmed that all its staff are paid at least this rate. However, some of the museum's out- sourced contractors are not in receipt of the living wage and V&A has not so far become an accredited living wage employer, although it says this will be reviewed later this year.

V&A Dundee, which is not part of the strike ballot, is an accredited liv- ing wage employer.

A spokesperson for the V&A said: "The V&A has been in negotiations with the trade union side since Feb- ruary and those negotiations are ongoing ... Extensive measures were implemented to support our staff during the heatwave, ranging from additional rest breaks, increasing staff rotations across gallery spaces, closing several galleries at V&A South Kensington and closing Young V&A altogether on 11 days during the peak of the heatwave.

"To ensure the safety and secu- rity of national collections, during Order an Object appointments at V&A East Storehouse, food and drink are not permitted and visitors are accompanied by V&A staff during their appointment."

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Georgia O'Keeffe 'Misunderstood' artist's Ghost Ranch works to feature in UK show

Lanre Bakare Arts and culture correspondent

As soon as Georgia O'Keeffe was shown Ghost Ranch, she knew it was her place. The remote

property in the shadow of the mountains north of Santa Fe in New Mexico would become the artist's summer residence for decades - a setting that fascinated her, inspired several paintings and is a short walk from where her ashes were scattered. "I knew the minute I got up here that this was where I would live," she once said.

Now, a new exhibition at the Courtauld will shed light on O'Keeffe's home at Ghost Ranch and how it shaped her art and life.

Two dozen works, most of which have never before been shown in the UK, will make up the show Georgia O'Keeffe: Ghost Ranch, which opens in October next year.

Dr Karen Serres, the senior curator of paintings at the Courtauld Gallery, said few in the UK were aware of the importance of Ghost Ranch in the development of one of the most important American 20th-century modernists.

"Ghost Ranch was such an important part of her life, and it actually illuminates a large part of her art in general," said Serres. "For example, in her flower paintings where she goes really, really, really close up and she says: 'I want to do that because I want to make people look at things that are overlooked.' She does the exact same thing for these landscapes."

O'Keeffe moved into the property, which was part of a sprawling 21,000-acre estate, in 1934 - initially renting a room before eventually purchasing it and making it her permanent home.

"That was my country," she once said. "I'd never seen anything like it before, but it fitted to me exactly."

Ghost Ranch was one of two properties O'Keeffe lived at in New Mexico. The other was a house in

the village of Abiquiú, 16 miles south of the ranch, which is preserved and open to the public.

Ghost Ranch is not open to the general public but was somewhere that O'Keeffe "always felt more at home", according to the New Yorker's Calvin Tomkins, who profiled her in 1974.

"The solitude, the stillness, and the harsh, dry, splendid landscape are more her world," he wrote. "Animal skulls and bleached antlers hang on the walls of her patio, and rocks picked up on her walks and camping trips spill in profusion over low tables and shelves."

O'Keeffe added to the mystique around Ghost Ranch when she suggested in interviews that the home had been the scene of a murder before she bought it, and many of her most famous photoshoots - including with Cecil Beaton for Vogue - took place there.

Despite a significant international profile, O'Keeffe's work has been rarely seen in the UK; Serres said only six out of the

Clockwise from above: Georgia O'Keeffe's Red and Yellow Cliffs, 1940; Gerald's Tree I, 1937; and Mule's Skull with Pink Poinsettia, 1936 PHOTOGRAPHS: GEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSELM

The 21,000-acre Ghost Ranch estate in New Mexico, which became O'Keeffe's home. Left, O'Keeffe pictured beside her Pelvis Series, Red With Yellow, in 1960 PHOTOGRAPHS: ANDY CROSS/GETTY; TONY VACCARO/GETTY

two dozen works going on show at the Courtauld had been shown in Britain before.

O'Keeffe's reputation in the UK has not always been exalted. After her Hayward show in 1993, Britain's male critics unleashed a torrent of dismissive reviews. She was called a "commercial illustrator", "irredeemably amateur", an artist who "made good monthly images on calendars".

Two decades later, before her show at the Tate in 2016, one of the main narratives was that the show aimed to challenge the "conservative male" assumptions that her flower paintings were depictions of female genitalia.

Serres said the Ghost Ranch exhibition would be another opportunity to gain deeper knowledge of an artist who was still often misunderstood. "She's known as just this formidable female artist," said Serres. "But actually seeing her work, understanding what she's about, I don't think we are there yet."

Liberty leaps on sewing trend by doubling its fabric department

Sarah Butler

Liberty has more than doubled the size of its fabric department as it prepares to embrace the social media interest in sewing by hosting crafting classes this autumn.

Fabric sales rose 11% last year at the department store, which opened in its current location near Oxford Circus,

Fabric sales at the central London department store rose 11% last year

central London, in 1924. Liberty is expecting similar growth this year as crafters are joined by wealthy overseas shoppers who stock up on luxury fabrics to be tailored into outfits in their home countries.

Lydia King, Liberty's retail managing director, said the new department, which is 140% bigger than previously at 430 sq metres (4,630 sq ft), housed more than 2,500 fabrics and 17 specialist salespeople. Liberty will also expand its haberdashery area this autumn, where it will provide more workshops for crafters.

"More and more department stores have moved away from [haberdashery and fabric] but we want to

celebrate and elevate the customer experience," King said.

The rising popularity of crafts such as quilt making and crochet has been partly driven by demonstration videos on social media and TV shows such as The Great British Sewing Bee.

"It's a really broad age range, from a customer of 13 who has just got her first sewing machine to an international community making things for themselves," King added.

The popularity of secondhand clothes, which may need to be altered at home, is also driving the sewing trend. The Crafts Council said craft participation had risen from 15% to 20% of adults in a few years.

The interest in sewing is helping Liberty to achieve strong sales even as its luxury rival Harvey Nichols is put up for sale and House of Fraser continues to close outlets.

"Fabric is one of the highest sales density areas in the store," said King. "As our lives become increasingly digital, we're seeing customers simultaneously reconnect with the joy of making-seeking out craftsmanship, creativity and the opportunity to create something that's entirely their own. From a bespoke dress to a handcrafted quilt, making has become a modern expression of luxury because it offers something increasingly rare: originality."

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▼ Gary Stevenson's recent documentary, How to Get Filthy Rich, was poorly received by critics

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YouTube wealth tax activist calls time on weekly videos

Gwyn Topham

The City trader turned wealth tax campaigner Gary Stevenson has announced he is quitting the YouTube channel that made his name, citing health concerns.

His announcement came after a mixed reaction to a televised documentary that brought him to a wider audience but drew some scepticism from left-leaning tax experts as well as more rightwing critics.

Stevenson, whose YouTube channel Gary's Economics took off during Covid and grew to 1.64 million subscribers, posted an 18-minute sign-off on social media yesterday titled "It's time to say goodbye". He said it would be the last weekly video, adding they had become "harder and harder" as he had "got more tired".

The former City trader, born in 1986 in east London, came to prominence through the channel and his memoir, Trading Game, in which he described how he made millions as a Citibank employee.

Retiring with burnout, the anti-inequality campaigner argued for a 2% tax on individual wealth over £10m, which he said would raise £24bn a year for the Treasury.

Stevenson has been an influential voice in raising awareness of

inequality and linking it to falling living standards, predicting the rises in the cost of living and warning of the danger of constant accumulation by the growing billionaire class.

However, a Channel 4 documentary released last month, How to Get Filthy Rich with Gary Stevenson, in which he took his arguments to those who would incur the tax, received a number of poor reviews.

The Guardian's Lucy Mangan wrote that Stevenson was "outdone and undone by almost all of his interviewees ... left floundering, without convincing comebacks", concluding that it was "a faintly embarrassing waste of time".

The tax lawyer Dan Neidle told him to "separate your emotional reaction to inequality from a rational assessment of the best tools for it" and called his plans "populist claptrap".

A slightly more sympathetic review in the Telegraph said Stevenson was "so used to addressing his followers straight down the camera that

engaging in debate with people of differing views leaves him floundering".

Despite this, Stevenson's proposal for a wealth tax is gaining traction and the new prime minister, Andy Burnham, is fielding growing calls to increase taxes on the ultra-rich.

A proposal to tax the 1,000 UK households with wealth of more than £100m could raise £10bn, according to one study. Last week, the former footballer Gary Lineker was among 120 millionaires who wrote an open letter to Burnham in favour of a wealth tax, saying: "We can afford it."

'We need to accept this will not be a short-term battle ... And I need to rest'

Gary Stevenson YouTube

Stevenson gave some notice of his intentions in a Newsnight interview when the documentary aired. He told the BBC: "It's tiring. I do this because I don't want this country to go down the toilet ... You cannot have a situation across [Britain and] the western world where the working class, the middle class and the government all very rapidly lose all of their wealth to 1% of people."

However, the valedictory video on Gary's Economics suggested that, after a break, he may return to public life. Stevenson said he was now looking at a podcast format and did not rule out doing monthly videos.

He said: "The very richest people in the world are going to fight this ... We need a big chunk of the population to understand that living standards are falling because of rising inequality."

Stevenson ended by saying: "I cannot be the only educator on this. We need to accept this will not be a short-term battle ... And I need to rest."

British actors criticise merger of Paramount and Warner

Lanre Bakare

Arts and culture correspondent

The proposed merger between Paramount and Warner Brothers could harm British "workers, culture and the public", according to the actors Alan Cumming, Benedict Cumberbatch and Benedict Wong, who believe the deal should be stopped.

Writing in the Guardian, they argue that if the two companies merge it could permanently damage the UK's film industry, costing thousands of jobs and resulting in a landscape where filmmakers are forced to take fewer risks.

"We have watched, with growing alarm, what consolidation does to the breadth and depth of the work we produce: independent film acquisitions at the leading independent film festival Sundance fell by half between 2019 and 2025," the actors write.

"Award-winning documentaries - films that won Oscars and topped festival juries - have struggled to find commercial distribution because they touched subjects the remaining handful of buyers found inconvenient. Every merger of this kind narrows the funnel through which stories can reach audiences."

A merger would bring together two of the five last legacy studios in Hollywood, as well as TV networks and news operations, under the control of one company.

Cumming, Cumberbatch and Wong praised the culture secretary Lisa Nandy's statement to parliament confirming she was "minded to intervene" in the $110bn (£82bn) takeover. The deal is currently being scrutinised in the US and the UK.

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Mount Olympus and Normandy landing beaches join Unesco world heritage list

Helena Smith

Athens

Mount Olympus, the mythical home of the ancient Greek gods, has been inducted into a hall of more modern fame as Unesco announced it would be added to its world heritage list.

After a 12-year wait, Greece's highest mountain made the list alongside the D-day landing beaches in northern France and the ancient Japanese capitals of Asuka and Fujiwara.

South Sudan's Boma-Badingilo landscape, the host of one of the world's largest land mammal migrations, also won a designation - a first for the east African country.

The nominations were among dozens reviewed by a Unesco committee in Busan, South Korea, yesterday.

In the case of Olympus, inscribed as a mixed world heritage site in recognition of its cultural and natural

significance, the news was met with near euphoria in Greece.

Immortalised as the seat of Zeus, the mountain, which rises 2,918 metres from a base near sea level in northern Greece, had been on a tentative list of sites since 2014.

The head of Greece's Unesco delegation, Georgios Koumoutsakos, hailed the decision. "It reaffirms our unwavering commitment to safeguarding Mount Olympus for the benefit of present and future generations," he said. "As Greek mythology wisely reminds us, it is always best to remain on good terms with the gods."

The region's mayor, Evangelos Geroliolios, said it would "place greater responsibility on our part to protect the environment," not least its extraordinary local biodiversity.

The annual meeting, which ends on Wednesday, is expected to examine about 30 nominations. Those successful will join 1,428 sites across

170 countries admitted to the world heritage list for their "outstanding value to humanity".

Inscribed monuments become legally protected under an international treaty overseen by Unesco, which also gives advice and financial support. Other world heritage sites include the Acropolis in Athens, the Great Wall of China, the pyramids of Giza in Egypt and India's Taj Mahal.

Efforts to get the second world

Asuka, a former capital of Japan, has also been added to the UN list

war beaches in Normandy inscribed had also gone back years. Included in the French bid were all five of the beaches - Omaha, Utah, Sword, Gold and Juno - where more than 150,000 allied troops came ashore on 6 June 1944, and the Pointe du Hoc cliff that was also a focal point of the assault.

The largest amphibious operation ever mounted, in which 4,400 soldiers died, was decisive in the battle to liberate Europe from Nazi occupation. France first nominated the 50-mile stretch of coastline in 2008.

Reacting to the decision, the country's permanent delegate to Unesco, Ahlem Gharbi, said the designation carried particular weight at a time of such international tensions.

The president of the Normandy region, Hervé Morin, who had championed the cause, maintained that inclusion on the list would represent "immense recognition" for the soldiers who had sacrificed so much.

Echoing Greek officials, he said: "This decision places a responsibility upon us. It compels us to preserve this site, to protect it, to cherish it even more, and to promote its value."

The international council on monuments and sites, one of the bodies that recommends additions to the Unesco list, had previously warned of the threat posed to the Normandy sites by tourism, climate change, rising sea levels and nearby windfarm development.

The coastline is covered with remnants of the second world war, including German bunkers, sunken vessels and allied installations.

Unesco said the beaches formed an "exceptional cultural landscape shaped both by the events of 1944 and by their enduring remembrance", all of which justified further protection.

As with Mount Olympus, the landing points have attracted record numbers of tourists in recent years.

The move to include places associated with conflict has fuelled debate over whether "sites of memory" are befitting of world heritage status and Unesco's stated mission to "foster a world of greater equality and peace". Three sites used by Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime for torture and execution were listed last year.

Zelenskyy to visit UK today as PM vows 'unwavering' support

Peter Walker

Senior political correspondent

Volodymyr Zelenskyy will become Andy Burnham's first overseas visitor as prime minister today, something Burnham said underlined Britain's "unwavering" backing of Ukraine.

Less than two weeks after Keir Starmer travelled to Kyiv for the final foreign trip of his prime ministership,

Volodymyr Zelenskyy will be Andy Burnham's first foreign visitor as PM

Zelenskyy will join Burnham at a naval base where Ukrainian forces have been receiving training.

The Ukrainian president was one of the first world leaders Burnham spoke to when he became prime minister. He has promised to maintain Starmer's support for Ukraine in pushing back Russia's invasion.

During today's visit, the pair will speak to Ukrainian and British military personnel who have taken part in Exercise Sea Breeze, a 15-nation training deployment based on mine exercises and other maritime operations in the Black Sea.

The second part of this year's exercise, in Portland, Dorset, finished on

Friday and involved more than 200 Ukrainian personnel.

Burnham and Zelenskyy are also due to discuss joint projects including Stone Cloak, an electronic jammer for which the UK has shared the intellectual property with Ukraine.

Thousands of the jammers, which are about the size of a tablet computer, have been sent to Ukraine to be fitted to drones, with the aim of stopping Russian air defence systems from tracking and targeting them.

Ukraine is now able to mass-produce the devices. After being initially used in Ukraine, the jammers will be fitted to new UK weaponry, including cruise missiles.

Burnham said: "Britain stands with Ukraine, shoulder to shoulder, and our support remains unwavering. Russia should be in no doubt of our resolve, and we will not back down until we achieve long-lasting and just peace for Ukraine. Stone Cloak is the best of homegrown British innovation and proven on the frontline, and it will be vital to protecting our security in both our countries."

According to No 10, since Russia's full invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, British support for the country has totalled £25bn. Zelenskyy said he hoped to build a strong relationship with Burnham and arrange a meeting "as soon as possible".

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Families pay tribute to four who died in Merseyside crash

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The families of four men in their 20s who died after a car crashed into a lamp-post in Merseyside have paid tribute to their loved ones.

Police were called to reports that a

black Cupra Formentor had come off the road after crashing into a lamp-post on Liverpool Road, Huyton, just before 2am on Friday.

Jack Diggle, 23, Benjamin Dooley, 23, Andrew Roberts, 24, and Craig Shackleton-Brady, 26, were all pronounced dead at the scene.

The car had been travelling from

◀ Clockwise from top left: Andrew Roberts, 24, Craig Shackleton-Brady, 26, Jack Diggle, 23, and Benjamin Dooley, 23, died in the crash

Liverpool towards Knowsley, Merseyside police have said. All four families released tributes yesterday.

Shackleton-Brady was described as a “devoted and loving father” to his two children and as a “loyal and generous” man.

Diggle, a proud Everton supporter, was described by his family as “kind, quiet, thoughtful and loving”.

Dooley’s mother, Kerry, said her son was “the kindest person” she knew and had “a heart of gold”. His sister Demi described his death as feeling like “a terrible dream”.

Roberts’ family said: “Andrew’s passing is a painful reminder of how precious every moment really is.”

Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact the Merseyside police serious collision investigation unit on 0151 777 5747, or email SCIU@merseyside.police.uk quoting the reference number 26000600149.

Restricted eating hours may protect brain health in old age

Ian Sample Science editor

Confining mealtimes and snacks to a nine-hour window and avoiding food for four hours before bed may help stave off cognitive decline in older age, researchers say.

For older women who were overweight or obese, there were hints of improvement in mental skills among those who ate within the restricted period compared with those who spread their meals over a longer time, a pilot study found.

If confirmed in larger studies, the work suggests people could help to protect their cognitive abilities by eating within a relatively narrow window and not eating late into the night.

Losing weight alone can help slow cognitive decline in older age, said Prof Sue Shapses, a nutritional scientist at Rutgers University in New Jersey, US, but there may be “additional benefits” for people who do not eat outside an eight- to nine-hour window and stop eating four hours before going to sleep.

Dementia is the leading cause of death in the UK and the seventh most common worldwide, leading to nearly 2 million deaths globally each year. Some risk factors are unavoidable, such as age and genetics, but experts believe nearly half of cases could be prevented or delayed through changes to lifestyle. Obesity in middle age can raise the risk of dementia in later life by 30%.

Shapses ran a trial in which 47

women aged 50 to 79, who were overweight or had obesity, were encouraged to cut 500 calories from their daily diet for six months. Within the group, 26 were advised to eat only within a nine-hour window. Typically, this meant eating between 10am and 6pm, while the rest spread their meals over about 12 hours.

At the end of the trial, both groups had similar weight loss averaging about 7kg (15lb). But cognitive tests revealed that the time-restricted eating group performed better on spatial planning and problem solving. There were also hints that they made fewer errors on memory and learning tests.

Shapses said the “modest” effects suggested time-restricted eating may help people’s ability to remember information for everyday tasks and limit errors linked to memory, attention and problem solving. Details were presented at Nutrition 2026, the annual meeting of the American Society for Nutrition in Maryland.

The researchers plan to investigate why it may be important to consider when we eat as well as what we eat. The benefits could be driven by a complex interplay of circadian rhythms, metabolism and inflammation.

In many countries, it is common to eat over a 14-hour period, leaving only 10 hours overnight without food. But research points to health benefits from extending overnight fasting. A recent review found that finishing eating before 7pm was associated with significant improvements in body weight, blood pressure and markers of metabolic health.

Prof Wendy Hall, the head of nutritional sciences at King’s College London, who was not involved in the study, said time-restricted eating may have benefits for older adults, “not only because it may help with weight management but also because avoiding large meals late in the evening may improve blood sugar control, vascular function and inflammation”. She cautioned that the findings were preliminary and it was important to see the full peer-reviewed study to determine whether improvements were clinically meaningful.

◀ In a study, older women who ate within a nine-hour window did better in some cognitive tests PHOTOGRAPH: LULOSTOCK/ALARY

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Life expectancy in England at record high last year but north-south divide widens

Ian Sample

Science editor

The north-south divide in life expectancy in England has grown over the past decade with people in northern regions facing more illnesses such as heart disease and cancer, as well as suicides and deaths related to alcohol and drug misuse.

Provisional figures show life expectancy reached an all-time high in 2025, with men and women in England living, on average, for 80 years and nearly 84 years respectively, but the gains were overwhelmingly in the south, the King's Fund said.

Despite suffering the sharpest fall in lifespan during Covid, London saw life expectancy rise by nearly a year in the decade to 2023-25. The south-east, south-west and east of England also recorded gains.

But the half of England's population who live in five northern regions,

namely the north-west, north-east, Yorkshire and Humber, West Midlands and East Midlands, experienced little or no rise in life expectancy over the same period, reflecting greater levels of deprivation.

According to the health charity, people in London can now expect to live three years longer than those in the north-east. Even starker disparities emerged at the local level, with life expectancy in Blackpool, Lancashire, 10 years shorter for men and eight years shorter for women than in Hart, Hampshire.

"In the most deprived 30% of areas, life expectancy either fell or didn't improve over the past decade and that's a disturbing story," said Veena Raleigh, a senior fellow at the King's Fund. "Meanwhile, it went up by half a year in the least deprived 30% of areas.

"Over the past decade, the north has fallen further behind and the plans for levelling up and the

regeneration of the north haven't materialised," she added. "This isn't just a question of fixing the health service. It requires a cross-government drive to also address the wider, underlying determinants of health, for example, ensuring people have secure jobs, fair pay, adequate housing, clean air, accessible transport and affordable access to healthy diets."

The government's 10-year plan for the NHS aims to increase healthy

'The north has fallen further behind and the plans for regeneration have not materialised'

Veena Raleigh King's Fund

life expectancy - the number of years people spend in good health - for everyone in England, while halving the gap between the richest and poorest. But the King's Fund called the goal "unrealistic", requiring improvements in population health on a scale not seen in decades.

Healthy life expectancy fell in all regions of England in the decade to 2022-24, with people now spending on average about 2.5 years longer in poor health. The regional divide has remained unchanged at about six to seven years, but can reach 20 years between the most and least deprived regions. The figures mean those in the most deprived parts of England have both shorter lives and spend more years in poor health.

"Although the government's 10-year health plan promises a shift from sickness to prevention, the focus is mainly on reducing waiting lists and waiting times," Raleigh said. "Public health and prevention of ill

health need to be much higher up the policy agenda, for example, to tackle the rising prevalence of obesity.

"The increasing prevalence of ill health in adults of working age, in particular, is deeply concerning because it risks jeopardising the life course of some young people with, additionally, the high costs of rising economic inactivity," she said.

A Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said the government's aim to halve the gap in healthy life expectancy reflected the "scale and complexity of the challenge". They said £2.2bn was being repurposed for critical resources such as medicines and medical equipment in deprived areas.

"Someone's postcode should never dictate how long they live, and this government is determined to tackle the stark inequalities that still exist across Britain," the spokesperson said.

"We're already taking action, from allocating GP funding more fairly to delivering pioneering neighbourhood health centres in the areas that need them most. But we will now go further in devolving power to local communities, putting decision-making into the hands of those who know their areas best, and driving lasting change across the country."

Delays to new North Sea drilling after gear accidentally dropped

Geraldine McKelvie

Senior correspondent

Production at Britain's biggest undeveloped oil and gasfield could be delayed for months after equipment from a rig was accidentally dropped in the North Sea, the Guardian can reveal.

Andy Burnham's new government is under pressure from the fossil fuel industry to allow oil to be retrieved from the Rosebank site. Located about 80 miles north-west of Shetland, it was believed to be ready to generate oil before the end of the year, pending ministerial approval.

Adura, the company responsible for Rosebank, now says it anticipates this will happen in 2027. The field is projected to produce 300m barrels of oil over its 25-year lifespan, according to industry estimates.

Some MPs believe that enhanced domestic production of oil and gas would help tackle the cost of living, a central focus of the new prime minister, by improving energy security amid global instability. But green campaigners believe the impact on the UK economy of exploiting the fields would be minimal.

However, delays at Rosebank

mean production at the field will be unlikely to affect the UK's energy supply over the winter months. Licences for Rosebank and another site, Jackdaw, were granted under the Conservatives but operations were paused after a court challenge by environmental groups.

The new energy secretary, Miatta Fahnbulleh, is expected to make a decision on the fields' future after consultations regarding their emissions conclude next month.

This week, Adura told the BBC that Jackdaw, about 150 miles east of Aberdeen, could produce gas as early as October. However, preparations at Rosebank have been hindered by the rig incident, which occurred on 18 April. No workers were hurt, but two central pieces of drilling equipment,

including a safety valve, fell 1,100 metres on to the seabed.

The platform, hired by Adura from the Norwegian company Odfjell Drilling, was taken to a shipyard in Bergen for repairs. It is now back at Rosebank but not yet operational.

Odfjell Drilling said in internal documentation that the rig could be out of action for up to four months. The Guardian understands this means that some oil wells will be completed significantly behind schedule.

Burnham is facing calls from trade

300m

The number of barrels of oil that Rosebank has been projected to produce during its 25-year lifespan

unions and opposition parties to ramp up North Sea production.

Sally Jameson, a Cabinet Office minister, has argued that more domestic production of oil and gas would give Britain greater control over the cost of energy. Others fear it would have no real impact on bills, while wreaking untold damage on the climate.

Mike Reader, part of the Labour Environment Campaign, said there was no evidence new drilling would save jobs in the long term. Only 27 direct full-time jobs would be created by Jackdaw, one of the biggest gasfields remaining in the North Sea, according to an environmental impact assessment filed by Adura.

Ed Miliband, the new foreign secretary, described the Rosebank

Activists urge the new energy secretary, Miatta Fahnbulleh, to block drilling at Rosebank PHOTOGRAPH: FUK VALCIZONA PRESS WIRE/INUTTERSTOCK

proposals as "climate vandalism" when Labour was in opposition. However, in recent weeks talks are believed to have taken place on how to allow new drilling without breaching Labour's 2024 manifesto commitments, in which it pledged not to issue new licences but honour existing ones.

Environmental groups are understood to be considering whether they would have grounds to take legal action regarding any government decision to allow new drilling.

Angeliki Papantoniou, a lecturer in environmental law at the University of Hull, said that, while a fresh challenge would be a "long shot", it would be most likely to succeed if it was based on "substantive environmental matters" such as the disruption of ecosystems and pollution.

"It could be argued that those developments cannot reasonably be ignored when taking a decision with likely high environmental effects," she said.

"In theory, it could be hard for [Fahnbulleh] to claim that [the government] took all necessary precautionary measures without detailed risk assessments on the effects of drilling on the marine environment, climate and human health."

Areeba Hamid, co-executive director of Greenpeace, which challenged the original decision to grant licences, said approval for the fields would make "zero difference" to energy bills and generate few jobs.

"Despite these meagre benefits, we would be prolonging a polluting industry that's fueling heatwaves while sending a disastrous signal to our international allies," she said.

Odfjell Drilling declined to comment. Adura did not respond to a request for comment.

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Burnham vows to publicly disagree with Trump if it is necessary to do so

Peter Walker Senior political correspondent

Andy Burnham has promised to disagree with Donald Trump if necessary, including in public, in his first big broadcast interview since becoming prime minister.

His comments came as Wes Streeting, the new defence secretary, said he did not believe the White House was looking for allies who "suck up".

Burnham, a relative novice when it comes to foreign policy, spoke at length to the president shortly after entering No 10, in a call described by Downing Street officials as warm.

But with Washington resuming its attacks on Iran, there is the potential for early tensions, with Burnham sticking to the policy under Keir Starmer of not backing US offensive operations, something that prompted fierce public attacks from Trump.

Speaking to BBC One's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, Burnham said: "I can't at any point say that I won't take a different opinion from him [Trump], that I will need to voice a different idea that is right for Britain."

The prime minister said that, if needed, he would set out his differences with Trump in public: "You have to defend your own national interest before anything else. That's what you're required to do if you're to do this job properly."

Streeting, appearing on Sky News' Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips, said he had spoken to his US counterpart, Pete Hegseth, and was plain about the continued differences over Iran. He added: "I was clear that we have not supported offensive action in Iran and we won't support offensive action in Iran. But there are plenty of things that we can and should do together."

Such straightforwardness was valued by Trump and his team, Streeting argued: "The first thing you do is, you don't suck up. My impression is, President Trump, his administration - that's not what they're looking for. He's a straight talker."

Asked if he trusted Donald Trump, Streeting said: "I don't know him, but I do trust the United States."

'You have to defend your own national interest before anything else'

Andy Burnham On standing up to Trump

Being in the defence job, he added, had granted him "a unique insight into just how close and integral that relationship is when it comes to defence and security".

During his interview, Burnham ruled out the idea of a swift general election to potentially capitalise on any bounce in the polls for Labour. "There's no early general election. I don't think people want it," he said, adding that people had "voted for a manifesto" in 2024.

He said: "I just think what I most need to do is get Britain focused on getting the country back where it should be."

On defence spending, Burnham said he was "very aware" of the desire of John Healey, who resigned as defence secretary under Starmer and is now chancellor, to increase defence spending quickly to 3% of GDP, but refused to give a timetable.

He said: "The first challenge facing us both is to ensure that the defence investment plan is fully funded and that's the thing that's right in front of us and we need to work that through as we go towards the budget."

Streeting told Sky that as defence secretary he had a duty to make sure any increased budget was spent wisely. He said: "There have clearly been longstanding issues with things like defence procurement, value for money. And as I said to the team at the Ministry of Defence this week, these things matter not just in abstract and because it's the right thing to do to spend money wisely, it's also because it matters because we're asking a lot of taxpayers."

He added that the UK should not put too much stock in the "sabre-rattling" by Iran. Tehran's ministry of foreign affairs (MFA) earlier this week accused the government of "complicity in the crime of aggression and war crimes" by allowing the US to carry out "unlawful attacks".

While the government has refused to take part in offensive campaigns against Iran, it has allowed the US to launch defensive strikes from British bases hosting American personnel.

In a statement, Iran's MFA said that anyone who supported "military aggression against Iran will bear responsibility for the consequences and repercussions of its decision".

Asked whether Iran could target the UK, Streeting told BBC Breakfast: "We haven't joined offensive action against Iran. We have taken part in defensive action to support UK people, personnel, interests, and our allies, and we will continue to do so."

"But we stand ready to respond to any attacks that Iran wishes to wage against this country or our allies, and we will continue to do that."

Diversity points Makeup of cabinet reveals complexity of class divisions

Esther Addley

In common with 20 of Britain's past prime ministers, the new minister for AI in Andy Burnham's cabinet, Kanishka Narayan, went to Eton. After the country's most elite private school, Narayan attended Balliol College, Oxford, where he studied - what else? - PPE (politics, philosophy and economics), like David Cameron, Rishi Sunak, Ed Miliband and a host of other senior politicians. An MBA at Stanford and a career in the City followed.

But Narayan's background is hardly typical of the British ruling class. Born in Bihar in eastern India, he moved with his family to Cardiff when he was 12. He and his younger brother were sleeping on the floor of their one-bedroom home

when a teacher at his secondary school suggested the bright young boy could apply for some private schools. His parents, who had joined the Labour party almost as soon as they arrived in Wales, ran a petrol station. Eton was possible only thanks to a full scholarship.

Class and representation in 21st-century Britain can be complicated. By some yardsticks, for example, the makeup of Burnham's new ministerial team,

▲ Kanishka Narayan, the minister for AI, went to Eton on a scholarship

announced after he became prime minister on Monday, could be seen as a backward step. More than a fifth of his cabinet attended private schools for most of their education - at times, under Keir Starmer, every senior minister went to a state school. And a remarkable 54% of the ministers now leading government policy went to Oxford or Cambridge, up from 29% under Starmer. (Less than 1% of the UK population went to Oxbridge.)

In other ways, however, Burnham's top team is more diverse, with half of those attending cabinet - including, of course, the prime minister - representing northern constituencies. And for the first time in history, the cabinet has equal numbers of women and men. One of them, the energy secretary, Miatta Fahnbulleh, is among those who were educated privately - this after she and her family arrived

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in Britain as asylum seekers from Liberia in 1986.

How much does all this matter? The prime minister's top ministers ought to be competent - do they need to be representative too?

Nick Harrison, the chief executive of the Sutton Trust, says: "Of course, the background of the cabinet matters. If they're meant to be representing the country, they should be representative of the country. We would absolutely say that you get better decisions if you have a wide range of views, perspectives and backgrounds around the table."

The sample size of 28 cabinet attendees may be small, but to Sam Friedman, a professor of sociology at London School of Economics whose work focuses on class and inequality, its makeup is symbolic of the wider access to power in Britain. Scrutinising those in senior positions "provides a window into a wider conversation about how people's backgrounds shape their ability to reach the top positions in our society", he says.

Power in Britain remains overwhelmingly concentrated in the hands of a very narrow group of people, according to Friedman's research. He points out that pupils

Share of first cabinet who attended Oxford or Cambridge

+1% of general public attends Oxford or Cambridge

Burnham	54%	46%
Starmer	39	62
Sunak	52	48

Share of first cabinet who attended private schools*

7% of the population attend private schools

Burnham	22%	78%
Starmer	8	92
Sunak	63	39
Trass	60	32
Johnson	64	36
May	95	70
Cameron	95	50
Cameron	62 (number one)	38
Brown	32	68
Blair	32	68
Major	71	29
Thatcher	91	9

Source: HS Ministers Database, Sutton Trust. Note: Ministers who attend cabinet. Schooling unknown for one member of Burnham's cabinet. *For multiple schools, the longest-attended one was chosen

Andy Burnham in Downing Street last week with his cabinet, 54% of whom went to Oxbridge PHOTOGRAPH: EDDS MILWOLAND/WPASSETTY

of the nine most exclusive private schools are still 52 times more likely to reach elite positions than those who go to any other type of school. Oxbridge graduates born in the 1960s and early 1970s - Burnham was born in 1970 and went to Cambridge - were more than 250 times more likely to reach the British elite than their peers who did not go to university.

The cabinet is merely the tip of a vast iceberg of powerbrokers whose own elite backgrounds can be key in the way government decisions are taken, argues Friedman.

According to his research surveying attitudes among the elite, he says "those who are brought up in more privileged backgrounds tend to tilt to the right", and "people in positions of power in the cabinet are often interacting with civil servants and business leaders who mediate their ability" to take decisions.

To Lee Elliot Major, a professor of social mobility at the University of Exeter, it is legitimate to scrutinise the backgrounds of those running the country, but "counting private schools and Oxbridge degrees only tells part of the story," he says. "The real challenge is whether ministers understand how Britain's contemporary opportunity system now works.

"Traditional markers such as school attended or parents' occupations no longer signal advantage in the straightforward way they once did. Today's divides are increasingly shaped by wealth, place, networks and the hidden cultural codes that govern entry and progression into our elites."

The challenge goes way beyond widening access to the traditional routes to power, important though that may be, Major argues. Instead, politicians of whatever background must grapple what he calls "the profound unravelling of the promise of modern capitalism" - the fact that, for people in their 40s and younger, there are now more people experiencing downward mobility than upward - in other words, they are less well-off than their parents.

"The test for this government isn't whether ministers themselves are socially mobile," Major says. "It's whether they can create a society in which many more people have genuine opportunities to flourish."

Dr Daniel Evans, a lecturer at Swansea University whose work includes a focus on politics and social class, agrees. "The origin story [of politicians] is a bit of a red herring," he says. "The bigger story is the total collapse of the graduate premium and the debt that students are getting into in university and how brutal the job market is for graduates.

"We keep talking about social mobility as if everyone can do it, but university is out of reach for loads of people financially, the job market is horrendous. No one can get a flat. The discourse hasn't kept up."

Holy different

Don't expect Catholic PM to import US culture war

Aamna Mohdin

Community affairs correspondent

With the appointment of Britain's first lifelong Roman Catholic prime minister, the

faith is now in a prominent political position in both the UK and the US.

But while Donald Trump's administration - in particular the vice-president, JD Vance, a Catholic convert - has placed Catholicism at the heart of its culture wars and repeatedly clashed with the Vatican over the US's hardline stance on social issues, Andy Burnham has been shaped by a British Catholic tradition with a different set of political priorities.

Hours before he arrived in Downing Street on Monday, Burnham visited the Passage, a Catholic-founded homelessness charity in Westminster. He later made ending rough sleeping his first pledge as prime minister.

Pope Leo, like Pope Francis before him, is frequently portrayed by the American Christian right as "woke" for defending migrants. When Burnham travelled to Rome as mayor of Greater Manchester in 2023, he presented Francis with a signed Manchester United shirt, and after the pontiff's death, praised his dedication to "equality and compassion for humanity".

Hannah Rich, the director of Christians on the Left, a Labour affiliate, said: "The British church is not the American church, and British culture around Christianity isn't the same as America.

"Those hot-potato [culture war] issues are not necessarily the things that drive people. That's not to say Christians in this country don't have strong opinions on those issues, in both directions. But they're not as unifying a political force for the church in this country as they seem to be culturally and politically in America."

Burnham has long joked that

three institutions shaped him: Everton Football Club, the Catholic church and the Labour party.

The church and party have long been intertwined for him. When he was an altar boy in the 1980s, Liverpool's archbishop, Derek Worlock, was one of Margaret Thatcher's fiercest critics and urged Catholics to fight poverty and inequality. Worlock recorded messages on cassette tapes that were sent to every parish.

Mike Kane, the Labour MP who founded Catholics for Labour, said he saw the principles of Catholic social teaching, such as dignity and solidarity, reflected in Burnham's style of politics.

"He doesn't actually claw his opponent's eyes out," Kane said. "I think his politics is ultimately very hopeful and optimistic."

Nick Spencer, a senior fellow at the thinktank Theos, said he believed there were many reasons why we were seeing such different expressions of Christian politics in the UK and US.

"Culture war politics really thrives on a narrative of exclusion," he said. "But it's much harder to argue that you are being socially, culturally and politically marginalised as a Christian in this country. If you crown the head of state, if you have 26 bishops in the Lords, you are already quite close to the heart of power."

So far, Catholic and other organised religious pressure on Burnham has come largely from groups on the left. Almost 40 senior Christian, Muslim and Jewish leaders, coordinated by the charity HIAS+JCORE, have urged Burnham to rethink Britain's asylum policy.

Dr David Ryall, the director of the Jesuit Refugee Service UK and a signatory to the letter, said there was a summer campaign defending the right to asylum.

"It's been amazing to see so many Catholic parishes, groups and families, driven by their faith, taking up this call with their local politicians and now with the new prime minister," he said.

Britain's growing religious pluralism sits uneasily alongside the constitution. Prof Russell Sandberg, an expert in law and religion, said legislation still prevents practising Catholics and Jews from advising the crown on Church of England appointments.

"In practice, the role of the prime minister in appointing bishops has declined," he said. "That said, even the presentation of one name by Burnham would breach the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829." Those responsibilities could be delegated to another minister, he added.

Andy Burnham presents a signed Manchester United shirt to Pope Francis during a visit to Rome in 2023

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Arena-sized swagger from a regular Joe megastar

Luke Combs

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Katie Hawthorne

The first we see of Luke Combs, the North Carolina-born megastar is walking through the stadium crowd. Cap pulled low, with a bashful look on his face, the stunt is less pap walk, more regular Joe dodging a flashmob on his way to work.

Combs is now the highest-selling country artist of all time, but he wears his success with humility: when he finally reaches his saloon-themed stage, with near-70,000

screaming fans before him, he keeps that unassuming presence.

"Normally I'd ask how you're feeling tonight, but I know how you're feeling tonight," he smiles.

This week, Combs will perform to more than half a million fans across just seven dates in England, Scotland and Ireland: a remarkable coronation for an artist yet to have a Top 10 single here.

Not that you'd know it, from the way the crowd screams every word to his 2016 hit Hurricane, a soft-rock heartacher about running into your ex in a bar, elevated by a cinematic chorus ("moon went hidin', stars quit shinin'") that's

▲ Country star Luke Combs delighted fans with his vocal firepower in a show with crowd-pleasing

pyrotechnics at Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh PHOTOGRAPHS: KATHERINE ANNE ROSE/THE GUARDIAN

closer to early-doors Taylor than any country-bro machismo.

Named after recent single My Kinda Saturday Night, this short tour promises - and delivers - a party. Combs brings us three opening acts, lashings of pyro, celebrity cameos, and packs almost 30 songs into two hours. But its biggest moments, such as the nostalgic-before-it's-even-over Tell 'Em About Tonight, deserved more breathing room.

It's a real shame that echoing sound makes it almost impossible to pick out words when Combs speaks, and muddies his more intimate songs, such as the fiddle-laced 5 Leaf Clover. But Combs has one of contemporary country's most formidable voices, owning an almighty, torn-up roar as well as real tenderness and control.

His exuberant band bring arena-rock swagger to Back in the Saddle and Beer Never Broke My Heart, while the glittering, tragedy-struck Where the Wild Things Are demands a sing-along that endures as fans walk home. By storming closer Ain't No Love in Oklahoma (from the Twisters soundtrack), Combs is crackling with energy, his arms in the air, humbleness be damned - and deservedly so.

At Wembley Stadium, London, from Friday until Sunday

Obama to return to UK with live interview tour

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The former US president Barack Obama is to tour the UK in a series of onstage interviews.

The 64-year-old, who in 2009 became the first black president of the US, will take the show, An Evening With President Barack Obama, to Belfast, Glasgow and Manchester, following dates at the O2 in London and the 3Arena in Dublin last year.

He will appear at the O2 in Belfast on 13 October, Glasgow's Ovo Hydro on 14 October and Manchester's Co-op Live on 15 October, with guest moderators to be announced.

Organisers said Obama would speak about "what comes next for America, and for all of us" in the live interview format. He was interviewed by the historian David Olusoga at the O2 in London in September.

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Family calls for new franchising rules after death of Vodafone store manager

Simon Goodley

The family of a former mobile phone store manager who was found drowned days before his Vodafone franchise was due to open is pressing the government to introduce a franchising law in his name.

Vodafone this month settled a long-running legal claim filed by 62 of its former franchisees, who alleged the company had “unjustly enriched” itself at their expense by up to £85m.

The confidential agreement was reached “without any admission of liability” 19 months after the claim was filed at the high court, the parties said in a joint statement.

The plight of the claimants - who represented almost 40% of the 167 Vodafone franchisees - was first reported by the Guardian in December 2024, after which Vodafone apologised to claimants, who blamed pressure from the telecoms group for triggering suicidal thoughts.

But their number did not include Adrian Howe, a former Vodafone employee. His family said he killed himself in 2018 after becoming convinced his new franchising deal with the telecoms group would prove financially ruinous.

His case was raised in parliament in January, prompting Keir Starmer, then the prime minister, to pledge to review laws governing franchising agreements.

“There is no protection for franchisees in the UK - that needs to change,” said Howe’s daughter, Kirsty-Anne Holmes. “There needs to be some governing body to oversee these contracts. The fact that franchisees like Vodafone can put anything into a contract, such as personal guarantees, is really bad behaviour. If these protections had been in place previously, my dad taking his own life might not have happened.”

Holmes met a representative of the then Department for Business and Trade this month to discuss her

father’s case, and raised the prospect of new franchising regulations under the banner of “Adrian’s law”.

“I don’t want it to be forgotten and brushed under the carpet just because someone else takes over [as prime minister],” she said. “I want justice for Dad.”

Howe’s case raised further questions about how the telecoms company treated its franchisees, who, a 2020 survey revealed, were overwhelmingly critical about the effects its actions had had on their mental health.

Howe, 58, had been preparing to open a Vodafone franchise in Irvine, North Ayrshire, but was then told by the company that he needed to take

on a second franchise in Kilmarnock, his family recall being told.

He had previously worked in the Kilmarnock store and knew it had struggled. If its performance could not be turned around, Howe’s family home would have been put at risk by a personal guarantee given to Vodafone as part of its franchising contracts.

Howe’s youngest son, Nathan, said his father told him “Vodafone has me by the balls” when they met for a drink at a pub shortly before his death. He said his father added: “This pint might have saved me.”

The store manager was found drowned a short walk from his home on 27 August 2018, days before his

franchising business was due to open on 2 September.

That looming date appeared to have prompted an entry in a notepad discovered at his home. Howe wrote: “1st September nice to have death,” according to the postmortem report.

The pathologist’s document hinted at other possible factors such as heart disease and stated that Howe had a “history of anxiety and depression (1995)”, though his relatives said that specific mental health episode had been short-lived and never recurred.

The forensic pathologist said Howe had “been ‘a bit stressed’ due to setting up a new business” as she concluded that his death was “consistent with drowning”.

Vodafone did not provide any fresh comment on Howe’s case this week.

The company said last year it “wholly rejects” any suggestion that it had “knowingly or recklessly or negligently” put anybody involved with its franchise stores under unreasonable pressure.

Mental health experts emphasise that suicide is usually complex and can often involve many triggers.

A Vodafone UK spokesperson has said previously: “While we are sorry if any partners have had a difficult experience, we reject any suggestion that our franchisees were put under undue pressure.

“We continue to run a successful franchise operation, and many of our existing franchisees have expanded their business with us by taking on additional stores. We encourage everyone to raise issues, and we will always seek to resolve them.”

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◀ Kirsty-Anne Holmes, whose father, Adrian, died in 2018, wants a new law in his name to protect franchisees

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‘I don’t want it to be brushed under the carpet - I want justice for Dad’

Kirsty-Anne Holmes Daughter

Palestine Action five could face terror sentence for bank damage

Legal affairs correspondent

Five Palestine Action activists face being sentenced as terrorists for breaking windows and throwing red paint at a branch of Barclays Bank in Lancashire.

Brendon O’Hagan, 28; Amanda Kelly, 31; Humeera Atiquisar, 31; Mohammed Malik, 28; and Alma Yaniv, 70, were found guilty of causing £212,000 of damage during a direct action protest in Burnley in

August 2024. They targeted the bank because it held shares in the Israeli weapons company Elbit Systems.

After the verdicts the judge, Philip Parry, told the prosecution and the defence he would consider a “terrorist connection”, despite neither the jury nor the defendants having been informed of the possibility.

Four Palestine Action activists last month became the first defendants convicted of property damage whose offending - during a raid on Elbit’s Filton factory near Bristol - was deemed by Mr Justice Johnson

post-conviction to have a “terrorist connection”. Parry attached Johnson’s judgment when asking lawyers for submissions on a possible connection in the Barclays case.

Malik said: “The judge and the CPS [Crown Prosecution Service] are now seeking to sentence us as terrorists for red paint and a few splintered windows. This goes far beyond the charges before the court and raises serious concerns about the increasing use of counter-terrorism legislation to persecute political dissent.”

He added that it “demonstrates the extremely dangerous precedent set by Judge Johnson”.

The Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori said it was an example of “the floodgates flowing” from Johnson’s decision.

The bank protest took place before Palestine Action was banned as a terrorist group and neither the home secretary nor officials assessed it as a terrorism incident at the time.

The CPS argued the Barclays five should be sentenced as terrorists, despite prosecutors not raising the possibility before or during the trial.

The Guardian understands the CPS is arguing that the connection only came to light from admissions made by the defendants at trial, including relating to their affiliation to Palestine

Action, and that the protest was part of a wider campaign against Barclays.

Akiko Hart, the director of the human rights body Liberty, said the case further highlighted “the deep flaws in the UK’s counter-terror laws which capture activity most people would never consider terrorism”.

The Labour MP and former shadow chancellor John McDonnell said: “Trying direct-action protesters under criminal law but then sentencing them under terrorist legislation cannot be seen in any way as fair or just. It is a practice that seems to be specifically targeted to silence the voices of people speaking out against the genocide in Gaza.”

The sentencing in the Burnley case is set for 4 September. The CPS and judiciary declined to comment.

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PM urged to order review into 1994 helicopter crash that killed 29

Josh Halliday North of England editor

The families of those killed in an RAF Chinook crash in 1994 have urged Andy Burnham to end Britain's "cover-up culture" and order an independent review into the disaster.

Twenty-nine serving military personnel died when the Chinook HC2 helicopter crashed on the Mull of Kintyre in south-west Scotland during a flight from Northern Ireland.

The two pilots were initially blamed for the crash but were exonerated after an inquiry in 2011, which did not determine its cause.

The former Conservative defence secretary Liam Fox, who led that official review, said last month there were "deep concerns" that "vital information" may have been withheld. Fox, who is backing the calls for a fresh independent review, said there was now a "strong enough belief" that a cover-up had taken place. There were concerns, he said, that details provided by the Ministry of Defence on the helicopter's airworthiness were "not correct".

A high court judge ruled this month that the families of several victims of the crash could not bring a legal claim against the MoD over the incident because it was too late.

The Chinook Justice Campaign (CJC), which is made up of more than 55 family members of 25 of the victims, has said it will take the case to the European court of human rights.

However, Matt Tobias, whose father, Lt Col John Tobias, was killed in the crash, said the families "do not want years of further litigation" and urged the prime minister to help.

He said: "We would urge Mr Burnham to meet us within his first 100 days in office so we can present the evidence that has emerged over recent years and explain why we believe a fresh review, independent of the Ministry of Defence is now essential. Mr Burnham's speech in

The wreckage of the RAF Chinook that crashed on the Mull of Kintyre PHOTOGRAPH: CHRIS BACON/PA

the House of Commons, in which he spoke about ending Britain's cover-up culture and strengthening the duty of candour, gave our families real hope."

In a letter delivered to Burnham, the Chinook families said it could be a "test case" for the new Hillsborough law, unanimously backed by MPs this month, which creates a legally enforceable duty of candour on public officials and authorities to act transparently during investigations.

Tobias said: "We ask that he and his ministers give the Chinook families more respect than we received from his predecessor, who denied us a meeting and an inquiry - believing MoD lies instead. After 32 years, we are not asking for special treatment. We are simply asking for the truth."

The CJC group has said it wants Burnham to establish a fresh review, independent of the MoD, with full access to all relevant documents relating to the airworthiness of the Chinook Mk2 helicopter and the circumstances leading up to the crash.

An MoD spokesperson said: "We understand the recent court judgment will be disappointing for those involved. Defence ministers have previously met with the CJC and we will continue to engage."

Man charged over ex-partner's death dies in jail

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A man charged with murdering his former partner has died in prison.

Lee Greenan, 46, was accused of killing Vikki Soloman at a house on Craigievar Square in Edinburgh last Monday evening.

Solomon, 44, was found with serious injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police Scotland said Greenan had been found dead at HMP Edinburgh yesterday morning. A spokesperson said: "Around 8.55am on Sunday, we were made aware of the death of a 46-year-old man at HMP Edinburgh.

"There do not appear to be any suspicious circumstances."

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The magnificent Kenyans

Observed annually on the fourth Saturday of July, International Cowboy Day celebrates the history of cowboys and cowgirls. While rooted in the traditions of North America, cowboy culture and country music have gained a growing following across parts of Africa in recent years, particularly in Kenya, where western-style fashion, line dancing, horseback riding and music events have attracted a community of enthusiasts like these participants in Nairobi on Saturday. Photographs: Luis Tato/Getty Images

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Trump continues to hold off on Iran strikes amid fears US munitions are dwindling

Andrew Roth Jerusalem

The US continued to refrain from strikes on Iran last night as top military experts advised Donald Trump to halt his bombing campaign and diplomatic negotiations continued to avoid a return to all-out war.

Trump is said to be weighing up diplomatic and military options in the nearly five-month-old conflict, with Benjamin Netanyahu expected to visit the White House tomorrow. The Israeli prime minister is a vocal critic of Washington's negotiations with Tehran and has urged the US to continue military strikes against Iran.

Netanyahu is under considerable political pressure to show that his military campaigns against Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon have yielded results before elections in October.

Tehran said yesterday it would pause what it called 'retaliatory' attacks against US allies in the region. 'These [US] attacks continued until two nights ago, but over the past two nights the Americans have stopped their attacks,' said Mohammad Akraminia, an army spokesperson. 'Our strategy has essentially been retaliatory. We have also halted our retaliatory operations.'

Senior officials in the Trump administration are reported to have warned the president that dwindling munitions stockpiles could hamper a sustained military campaign.

Axios reported yesterday that Adm Brad Cooper, the top US military commander in the region, had told Trump that the US military campaign had reached the limits of its effectiveness.

'We're talking to [the Iranians] ... I think they're getting more and more serious as the days go by'

Donald Trump US president

The message was said to have influenced Trump's decision to hold off on strikes on Iran for the first time in nearly two weeks. Cooper had told Trump that the US had nearly exhausted the list of targets that it had developed to attack in Iran, and without a return to major combat operations, there was little point in continuing the bombing campaign, the news website reported.

Asked yesterday on NBC's Meet the Press whether Trump was ruling out additional strikes on Iran, Mike Waltz, the president's ambassador to the UN, said: 'I wouldn't go that far at all. The president is keeping all options on the table.'

The lull in fighting, which began on Friday evening, follows the collapse of a ceasefire brokered by Trump. Washington blamed Iran for strikes on US forces and allies in the region and its closure of the strait of Hormuz, a conduit for an estimated 20% of the world's oil and gas.

Senior diplomats from Iran and Oman were said to be holding negotiations yesterday on reopening the vital waterway and an official in Tehran confirmed colleagues had been in touch with US negotiators to prevent

a return to war. Iran has demanded payment and control over which ships pass through the strait.

'Mediators are working and trying to prevent tension from escalating,' Esmail Baghaei, the Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson, told a press conference yesterday.

But an Iranian army spokesperson signalled defiance, saying the US had no clear strategy and was 'experiencing strategic decision-making fatigue'.

JD Vance, the US vice-president, and Dan Caine, the chair of the joint chiefs of staff, warned Trump of the risks of a renewed military campaign against Iran at an Oval Office meeting on Friday, according to media outlets. The president then ordered the military to call off new strikes, which he had warned could 'knock out everything they have'.

'We're talking to [the Iranians] right now,' Trump told reporters on Friday. 'I think they're getting more and more serious as the days go by. We're locked and loaded and ready to go, but we're talking to them.'

At a White House Correspondents' Association dinner that evening, Trump said he did not think Iran was ready to make a deal but that he was ready to listen.

Caine warned Trump about dwindling munitions stockpiles, which include Patriot missile interceptors and offensive weapons such as Tomahawk cruise missiles. Vance campaigned on his opposition to US military interventions in the Middle East and has grown more vocal in his opposition to the war in Iran.

Netanyahu's office said yesterday he would convene a meeting of his security cabinet before leaving for Washington today. He played a crucial role in lobbying Trump to launch joint strikes against Iran in February and has said US negotiators must take a strong line on Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile programme. Instead, they have prioritised opening the strait of Hormuz.

Netanyahu will travel to Washington amid some of the worst violence this year in the West Bank, where his military is launching an 'extensive' operation after the deaths of four Palestinians and two Israelis when armed settlers entered a Palestinian village on Thursday.

The US and UK under the new prime minister, Andy Burnham, are discussing plans for a meeting in London this week to talk about the potential for a coalition to protect ships in the strait of Hormuz and remove mines from the waterway.

'It's shameful' Pentagon accused of cover-up over troop casualty figures

David Smith

The Pentagon is taking a 'shameful approach' to releasing information about US casualties in the Iran war, the former US defence secretary and CIA director Leon Panetta has told the Guardian. Officials are facing accusations that they are hiding the true cost of Donald Trump's war of choice in Iran in fear of a public backlash before November's midterm elections, while the Pentagon has

not held a press briefing for two and a half months.

Panetta, who held weekly Pentagon briefings during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, criticised the department for failing to disclose how many people had been hurt in bomb attacks by Iran on US bases. He said: 'There's a deliberate effort here to basically withhold information from the American people, and I think it represents in many ways a shameful approach to sharing the responsibility that we all have when it comes to fighting a war.'

The number of US troops killed in the war on Iran rose to 18 last

▲ Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to visit the White House tomorrow as Trump weighs up his military options PHOTOGRAPH: DEBBIE HILL/UPUSHUTTERSTOCK

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weekend, while roughly 430 US troops have been injured. The Pentagon said last week that 100 service members had been injured since 7 July but that 96% had returned to duty.

The department initially failed to disclose the figures, according to a New York Times newspaper report, only belatedly acknowledging the casualties in a social media post.

Officials dismissed the Times article as "baseless and malicious" and contend that they are not required to publicise injuries if service members are expected to return to duty. But questions intensified when another Times report said the Pentagon's website had lowered the number of troop deaths from 18 to 14, for which the Pentagon blamed "a temporary data disruption".

Ned Price, a former deputy to the US representative to the United Nations and former spokesperson for the state department, said: "This goes beyond a run-of-the-mill administration distrust toward

and hostility against the press. This is more about shielding the American people from the true and total cost of this war."

Since the war started five months ago, there has been a tension between the government's desire for operational secrecy and the media's demand for transparency on behalf of the public. Even during contentious, unpopular wars in Vietnam and Iraq, the lines of communication were kept more or less open.

But since Trump's return to power in January 2025, the Pentagon - restyled as the Department of War - has been restricting access.

Almost immediately, it ousted major outlets including the New York Times, National Public Radio

$37.5bn

Financial cost of the war on Iran to the US since the conflict started five months ago

and Politico from their long-held desks, supplanting them with Trump-friendly media such as Breitbart, One America News Network and the New York Post. In May, it imposed restrictions on the free movement of reporters in much of the Pentagon building.

The ever-tightening limits have alarmed press freedom watchdogs. In October, most news outlets walked out of the Pentagon rather than agree to new rules that would leave them vulnerable to expulsion if they sought to report on information - classified or otherwise - that had not been approved by Pete Hegseth, the defence secretary, for release.

The Pentagon has also declared its press office a classified space inaccessible to journalists because it was used by speechwriters who "routinely handle classified material".

Clayton Weimers, the Washington director for Reporters Without Borders, said: "I don't think it's an exaggeration to say this

◀ Damage on a bridge in Hormozgan province after US strikes aimed at disrupting military routes in Iran PHOTOGRAPH: MORTEZA AKHOUNDUGETTY IMAGES

Pentagon has been more hostile to the news media than any other Pentagon in recent memory."

The current obfuscation is particularly jarring when contrasted with the opening days of the Iran war when Hegseth was a ubiquitous presence delivering bombastic briefings in which he crowed about annihilating the Iranian military with "no mercy" and restoring the US as a nation of "real warriors".

The Pentagon then banned photojournalists when images of Hegseth deemed to be "unflattering" appeared in the public domain. Joel Rubin, a former deputy assistant secretary of state, said: "When you're not able to communicate clearly what's actually taking place on the ground, that means you're likely not confident or comfortable with what is happening on the ground and how it will play politically and in the policy world here. It's a pretty obvious thing that there's a lot of concern about there being casualties in this war right now."

Price said: "This is not the sort of thing where a dozen or two dozen service members have suffered low-grade concussion. The administration probably rightly calculates that, if the economic costs were compounded with the full toll that this is taking on our service members, this war, which is already a politically losing proposition, would drag the administration down even further."

Though Hegseth has avoided the media, he was obliged to attend a hearing on Capitol Hill last week to defend a war that has already cost the US $37.5bn (£28bn). During a combative Senate appropriations committee hearing, politicians from both sides of the aisle expressed deep frustration with the administration's endless demands for money coupled with its refusal to provide straight answers or a coherent strategy.

The Pentagon denies that it is minimising reports of casualties. Sean Parnell, the chief spokesperson, said in a statement: "President Trump and secretary Hegseth have been constantly providing updates directly to the media and the American people online, delivering clear, unfiltered insight into our objectives and decisive actions."

Though briefings have dried up, Pentagon beat reporters continue to work their sources and pursue information. Panetta said: "In essence what they're doing is challenging the press to find what's really happening, and they will. They can dodge, bob and weave, they can hide it, but my experience is that no matter how much you try to hide it, in the end the truth comes out."

Katy Perry

Fury after White House uses her song on war video

Marina Dunbar

Katy Perry has condemned the Trump administration after it used her hit song Firework in a TikTok video over footage of a missile striking an Iranian naval ship, saying she never approved the use of her music.

Perry responded to the video, which has amassed more than 6m views, with a statement on X at the weekend.

"I am deeply appalled and angry to see 'Firework' used on the White House TikTok account as a backing track for video footage of military strikes," she wrote.

"I wrote this song to be an anthem of hope, healing, and inner strength for people going through their darkest personal moments. To see a message of self-worth and upliftment weaponized to soundtrack destruction and violence is a complete violation of everything my song stands for. My music is for bringing people together, not celebrating warfare."

Perry is among a number of artists to criticise the Trump administration over the unauthorised use of music in government social media posts, with the president picking fights with several - mostly female - pop singers.

Olivia Rodrigo criticised the administration after one of her songs appeared in a government video promoting deportation efforts and Beyoncé blocked Donald Trump from using her song Freedom after it was featured in a campaign video on social media.

Sabrina Carpenter also spoke out after her hit song Juno was used in a video showing Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers making arrests. Carpenter called the video "evil and disgusting" and told the administration: "Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda."

Perry is in a relationship with the former Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau, who himself has repeatedly been targeted by Trump.

▲ Perry is the latest in a series of artists to criticise the White House

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▼ Cockroach Janta party supporters in Delhi celebrate the resignation of Dharmendra Pradhan as education minister PHOTOGRAPH: ADNAN ABEDI/REUTERS

Cockroaches on the march

Young Indians discover their power as Modi ally resigns

Hannah Ellis-Petersen Delhi

Even the night before Narendra Modi accepted the resignation of his education minister, India's prime minister appeared confident that the largest mass uprising to take place in his 12 years in power would do little to shake his government.

Addressing his "young friends" in a late-night Instagram selfie reel on Friday, he thanked the people - who were mobilised en masse across the country, shouting anti-government slogans - for their "thoughtful suggestions".

Less than 24 hours later, Modi - who has cultivated his strongman image for years - had accepted Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation. It was, say analysts, the remarkable humbling of a government that has proved itself unwilling to bow in the face of any public pressure and which has ruled with almost untouchable impunity since 2014.

Over that past week, a gen Z movement that called itself the Cockroach Janta party (CJP) had mobilised unprecedented protests

when the leaking of an exam paper forced 2 million students to resist tests and was blamed for more than a dozen suicides.

The resignation of Pradhan, a Modi ally, remained their first demand for accountability, even as the protests expanded into a wider fight for democracy. Yet Pradhan went unmentioned by Modi in his Instagram address. On Saturday morning, more people than ever were joining the protest in Delhi's historic Jantar Mantar site and unrest was spreading to other cities, including in states ruled by Modi's Bharatiya Janata party (BJP).

But it was not only physical space that had been captured by the Cockroach movement. Since it came to power, the BJP has proved enormously effective at capturing the online narrative, deploying its powerful, highly organised IT cell to mobilise and attack any perceived criticism of the government, whether from citizens, politicians or journalists.

They proved no match for the millions of gen Z memes and reels that began to flood Instagram over the past week, fearlessly insulting Modi and pillorying the government, each more creative and incendiary than the last. Modi's

attempts to speak directly to young people via Instagram were simply met with more ridicule.

Modi had also lost another medium critical to the BJP's domination - the mainstream TV news channels, widely regarded to have been co-opted by the BJP as mouthpieces for its rightwing Hindu nationalist ideology.

Initially the TV stations ignored the protests, and when they did

cover them it was to suggest the protesters were being bankrolled by sinister foreign forces. In response, the protesters used social media to expose their "lies", and when the protests escalated, Modi remained conspicuously absent from the airwaves.

Pradhan's resignation came as it appeared that all other options for the government had gone. A ruthless crackdown appeared to be untenable given the mass outcry to the police violence against protesters on Monday.

"The online space was totally conquered by the protesters and regime-loving media was seriously delegitimised," said Ashutosh Varshney, professor of international studies at Brown University. "The anger was so comprehensive there was no option left but for Pradhan to go."

But this was more than the loss of a minister, Varshney said. It was also the first time the Modi

▲ CJP supporters in Mumbai yesterday. Protests have spread across India, including in BJP-ruled states PHOTOGRAPH: INDRANIL AZETYA/NURPHOTO/SHUTTERSTOCK

government had lost control of the narrative. "This is a repressive government," he said. "It wants obedience, it wants no critical discussion and it generates fear. But now the climate of fear has collapsed."

Analysts say the resignation could also have implications for Modi's power over his cabinet. Pradhan was one of Modi's ideological footsoldiers and had implemented policies exactly as senior party figures had wanted. He had also helped the BJP win Odisha state for the first time in the general election, bringing in crucial seats.

The political columnist Pratap Bhanu Mehta said: "Modi knows, once you start firing your most loyal ministers, it sets up the incentives for defections in other ministers as well. If your own cabinet starts to hedge for a future where they may not be backed by your own government, that's when you are in trouble."

Before this week's unrest, Modi had been riding high after a string of important state electoral victories. The BJP appeared to have bounced back from the 2024 elections, when it failed to win an outright parliamentary majority.

Meanwhile, the opposition had continued to lose state elections and their allegations of voting impropriety by the BJP fell mostly on deaf ears.

Yet the emergence of the Cockroach party has reinvigorated not only India's youth, but its political opposition parties. The opposition Congress party has had its best week in years as it mobilised protests, shut down parliament, and its leader, Rahul Gandhi, was dramatically dragged away by police outside Modi's house in support of the students.

Analysts say dissent, which had been crushed over the past 12 years, has been re-galvanised.

"After a long time, there's an assertion of political agency across different sections of society," said Mehta. "And the minute you see that agency out in the street, it empowers lots of other agents."

The next big test for the CJP will come early next year, when India's largest and most politically important state, Uttar Pradesh, will hold its state elections. Holding on to power in the BJP's political heartland is seen as crucial for the party and would have significant implications for the general election in 2029.

Just how the CJP intends to politically mobilise after its striking victory on Saturday remains to be seen. Leaders and supporters insist this is just the beginning, particularly in their push for education reform. The CJP's founder, Abhijit Dipke, has some experience as a political party organiser but has not made his ambitions known.

Saurav Das, CJP spokesperson, said people were being encouraged to go into politics. "We need to increase youth participation in politics because right now it's controlled by uncles and aunties who are only interested in looking after their own lifestyles and don't understand the needs of our generation."

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Mamdani sticks with work-ready look in all seasons

Adam Gabbatt

New York

Playing football. Playing in the sand. Dancing on a stage with Alicia Keys and the entire New York Knicks roster. Swimming in a swimming pool. Swimming in the ocean.

Traditionally, a suit and tie would be considered inappropriate attire for each of these activities. Yet over the past year Zohran Mamdani has seemingly been on a one-man crusade to prove otherwise. That's because the New York mayor hardly ever wears anything but a suit: almost always in a dark colour and worn with a tie, mostly paired with smart black boots.

He's hardly the first male politician to embrace the suit - after all, it's the de facto uniform of those seeking to project seriousness and solemnity - but few have been quite as wedded to it.

Cheering on the Knicks at Madison Square Garden in May, Mamdani stood out for his decision to wear a dark suit and tie. After the Knicks won, he took the unusual decision to wear the team's jersey over his shirt and tie, but under his suit jacket. In June, he wore a navy suit, white shirt, and blue striped tie for a press opportunity with children at the beach.

Those aren't even the most unusual examples. On New Year's Day 2025, while running for mayor, he wore a suit to take part in the Polar Bear Club plunge, a New York tradition where people go swimming in the frigid Atlantic. "I'm freezing ... your rent as the next mayor of New York City."

▲ Zohran Mamdani, accompanied by his wife, Rama Duwaji, wearing a basketball jersey under his suit.

The mayor also kept his jacket on to meet children with Barack Obama, top PHOTOGRAPHS: ANGELINA KATSANIS/GETTY

Mamdani said in an accompanying TikTok video, a message that won him lots of press coverage.

Water again proved to be no obstacle when Mamdani leaped, fully suited, into a swimming pool in Harlem last month, to announce the opening of the city's pools for

summer. (Mamdani "broke the rules in the process", the rightwing New York Post reported, "which require all swimmers to wear bathing suits in the water".)

The mayor is trapped, it seems, in a wool or possibly wool-blend prison of his own making. But why? Mamdani's most recent predecessors were not as tied to the suit. Bill de Blasio was keen on shorts while Eric Adams was partial to a polo shirt, and sometimes a woolly cardigan.

Ella Devi, a fashion commentator, said: "I think Mamdani wants to double down on

appearing as a working mayor, as someone who is always on the job and on the clock. It's also that he's a young, Muslim socialist."

It seems likely that Mamdani, the repeated focus of rightwing media, is held to a higher bar than white centrist politicians. It is an issue that Hasan Piker, a Turkish American leftwing streamer, raised recently when he said he believed conservatives would be "more receptive" if he dressed smartly.

"I used to wear T-shirts all the time," he said. "But then I figured I should start wearing a suit and a tie because there are a lot of

'He wants to double down on appearing as someone who is always on the clock'

Ella Devi

Fashion commentator

adults watching on Fox News [the rightwing channel frequently airs clips of Piker speaking]. If they see me saying something in the clips, they'll be more receptive to what I have to say if I'm in a more appealing format."

Nathan Robinson, the editor of the leftwing Current Affairs magazine, said that as US socialists were often considered to be fringe figures, "the suits are a subtle way of asserting the legitimacy and authority of socialist ideas".

"If there's a visual language that connotes credibility and authority, why not take advantage of it?" Robinson wrote this month. "You might see someone in a suit as serious, professional, ready to do business. You might think they belong in the Senate or a boardroom."

It is a concept Mamdani has taken further than most. A keen football player, he wore a black suit with a grey tie while showing off his ball skills this month, and when he played in a game Mamdani simply threw a football shirt over his suit - although he did ditch the jacket.

It was not always thus. A source who played for the same team as Mamdani before his election said that he did not play in a suit and tie, although they added: "He always showed up in a suit, or at least suit pants, and his famous boots, and would change on the pitch because he was also always running late."

The mayor's office declined to comment on Mamdani's wardrobe, but he addressed his penchant for suit-wearing in a recent interview with CNN. Asked about his decision to jump into a swimming pool wearing a suit, the mayor said: "I think I misunderstood the term swimsuit. I do also have to say thank you, though, to Goodwill [a charity known for its shops that sell used clothing], because I got that suit for 30 bucks, because you can't go ruining the other suits that you have. But I'm clearly learning that there might be a different way to dress when it's 100-degree weather."

'A disaster': fury as France eases ban on pesticides toxic to bees

Jon Henley

Europe correspondent

Beekeepers and environmentalists in France have reacted furiously after parliament approved a bill reauthorising two banned pesticides that scientists say can poison bees.

"There are no words to describe the frustration," said Carolyn Bouguet, a beekeeper in Essonne,

greater Paris. "Bee populations have already been badly compromised by climate change, new parasites and loss of habitat. And now this."

Henri Clément, a spokesperson for the French beekeeping association, called the measure "an absolute disaster for our sector, and for biodiversity as a whole". The risk was "very high mortality rates and reduced harvests", he told local media. "It's just incomprehensible these pesticides

▲ A beekeeper displays dead bees on honeycomb at a past protest in Paris

have been reauthorised. We've been fighting them for 30 years. It's scandalous, irrational and irresponsible."

The law authorises the use of the pesticides acetamiprid and

flupyradifurone, which are allowed in the EU but had been banned in France, in exceptional circumstances.

Their use will be permitted to combat aphid-borne diseases that can ruin crops of sugar beet, apples, hazelnuts and cherries. The previous restrictions in France had led producers to claim they could no longer compete with European rivals.

Scientific studies have established that acetamiprid, a neonicotinoid with powerful neurotoxic effects, can poison bees, affecting their foraging capacity and memory. A 2024 study suggested that flupyradifurone could be lethal to some honeybees.

Greenpeace France said the

country's centrist government and its rightwing allies were "trampling on science, health, the environment and the clear will of the people", describing the legislation as "deeply concerning" and "a disgrace".

France's environment minister, Monique Barbut, said the legislation was "one environmental setback too many". She submitted her resignation but was persuaded to stay on after meeting Emmanuel Macron.

According to official figures, honey production in France halved between the mid-1990s, when neonicotinoids were introduced, and the mid-2010s, although habitat loss and climate breakdown were also factors.

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'We count every litre' Cuba's energy crisis leaves millions short of water

Lucien Migné Havana

In the cramped kitchen of her flat in Havana's Chinatown, Mirella Martínez pushes an old metal trolley stacked with empty jerrycans.

Wiping the sweat from her forehead, she fans herself gently. "It's so hot!" she says, as the electric fans remain still owing to another power outage that has left her flat sweltering in near darkness for hours.

In a few minutes, the 61-year-old former security guard will walk about half a mile to her daughter's workplace, one of the few buildings nearby where water still flows regularly. For almost three years, the flat she shares with her three daughters and grandson has had no reliable running water.

In Cuba, power cuts do more than leave people in the dark: they also leave taps dry. As the country's energy crisis deepens, electricity shortages prevent many pumping stations from operating, while an ageing distribution network and chronic fuel shortages leave millions struggling to access water.

The country's energy crisis, already severe, worsened further this year after the capture of the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, by US forces. The suspension of oil exports from Venezuela, Cuba's main fuel supplier, deepened fuel shortages already exacerbated by the US embargo and economic sanctions.

According to Cuba's National Institute of Hydraulic Resources, nearly 3 million Cubans are experiencing difficulties accessing water. The country's water system is operating with just 37% of the fuel it requires, while up to 70% of Havana's water is lost through leaks before it can reach households.

Hotels and wealthy households in Cuba often have water storage tanks, generators or solar panels, or can afford private water lorries. Everyone else waits for deliveries, hauls water themselves or pays informal water carriers to do it.

Martinez boils and filters part of the water for drinking. The rest is rationed for cooking, washing and laundry. "Everything is rationed,"

'I'm exhausted. As soon as the electricity returns - sometimes in the middle of the night - we get up to fill the tank'

Dhayamis Hernández Díaz Havana resident

▲ Top, at a pumping station in Centro Habana, Juan Carlos Reyes and Juan de la Cruz Villalón fill containers with water to sell; above, in her

kitchen, Mirella Martínez filters water for drinking; right, Carlos Sánchez fills an older resident's water tank PHOTOGRAPHS: LUCIEN MIGNÉ

she says. "This water is used for everything. We count every litre. I make this journey three times a day even though I'm retired. At my age, I shouldn't be carrying these jerrycans, but I have no choice."

In Centro Habana, Dhayamis Hernández Díaz watches a thin stream of water slowly fill a plastic bucket. Cigarette in hand, she waits until it is full before emptying it into the rooftop tank serving her building. Nobody knows how long the water will keep flowing.

"I'm exhausted. As soon as the electricity comes back - sometimes in the middle of the night - we get up to fill the tank, cook and charge our phones. Our whole lives depend on those few hours of electricity. This isn't living."

Along with her sister, she earns a modest income operating an electric three-wheeled taxi. Hiring

▲ Guests enjoy the pool of a luxury hotel in Havana's historic centre. Luxury hotels are more likely to have water tanks, generators and solar panels

a private water lorry is far beyond what they can afford. "So we fill the tank ourselves, bucket after bucket. At night, I barely sleep because of the heat."

As the public system continues to fail, an informal water economy has emerged across the capital. At the Escobar pumping station in Centro Habana, Juan de la Cruz Villalón, 66, and Juan Carlos Reyes, 55, fill containers with water to sell

Early each morning, Juan Miguel Reyes waits outside a state bakery with his ration book. After more than half an hour in the queue, he leaves with a few bread rolls to share with his brother and uncle.

"Last night, the water came back for about two hours. We got up to fill every bucket before going back to sleep. Sometimes, that saves us a trip to the pumping station."

By midday, the three men push a heavy cart through Los Sitios, a working-class neighbourhood. Its wheels rattle over broken pavements as they weave around piles of rubbish. After walking over a mile, they reach one of the few pumping stations still operating before hauling water to people whose taps have long run dry.

For 23 years, Reyes worked as an intensive care physician. "I never imagined I'd end up selling water. Now we spend hours walking under the blazing sun before carrying buckets up staircases," he says. "It's exhausting, but at least we always have something to eat."

Each 200-litre tank sells for 1,500 pesos (about £1.75 at the informal exchange rate). Reyes earns between 3,000 and 4,000 pesos a day. "Every week we have to fetch water from further away, and we never know whether the pumping station will still be working tomorrow," he says. "People often thank us because many are too old to collect water themselves. Here, without neighbours, nobody would make it."

A few miles away, near Havana's ferry terminal, Carlos Sánchez collects water spilling from a broken pipeline. Bucket by bucket, he fills a 200-litre tank mounted on his bicycle. "The whole network is falling apart. All this water is being wasted while so many people need it. I collect it and sell it to people who don't have the strength or the time to come here themselves."

Once the tank is full, he covers it with a tarpaulin and pushes his bicycle into Havana's historic centre. Helped by his nephew, he carries buckets up the staircases of a crumbling building.

"My back is starting to give out, but I have no choice. I earn more transporting water than I did working as a funeral technician," he says. "My children have left the country. I stayed behind."

By evening, Martínez is home again. The television remains off. Without electricity, the family's nightly telenovelas have become a rarity. "Water and electricity should be basic rights, but here they've become luxuries. I no longer go out after dark, and I don't let my daughters go out either," she says. "When the streets go dark, everything becomes more dangerous. I just hope that one day we'll have a normal life again."

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Heathrow expansion 'would take jobs from other regions'

Gwyn Topham

Transport correspondent

Expanding Heathrow airport will take thousands of jobs from other regions of the UK, including almost 10,000 from the West Midlands alone, according to an analysis of the government's own forecasts.

An economic paper published by the Department for Transport last month shows airports in England and Wales are likely to lose millions of passengers if Heathrow builds a third runway, in a significant blow to regional jobs.

Birmingham airport alone is forecast to lose out on 7.5 million passengers a year by 2050 - a decrease that equates to about 9,500 jobs lost at the airport and in its supply chain, according to economists.

The findings could cast further doubt over the political support for the expansion, a little over a week

after Andy Burnham became prime minister. Burnham has said too much infrastructure spending is in the south of England and has promised to rebalance spending via No 10 North.

The New Economics Foundation (NEF) said the report showed that the jobs created at Heathrow would primarily represent jobs displaced from around the country.

Its analysis of DfT modelling suggests that by 2050, 15,200 aviation jobs that would otherwise accrue in the regions, and 6,400 jobs at other London and south-east airports, would go to Heathrow instead.

However, the government said the NEF analysis was focusing on a limited period and insisted that Heathrow's expansion would bring benefits nationwide.

The report for the DfT followed the launch of a consultation on the Heathrow expansion national policy statement, which MPs must approve to build the third runway.

DfT modelling published alongside it also confirmed that the overall economic boost could be a fraction of what ministers had hoped.

The former chancellor Rachel Reeves championed Heathrow's plans in the name of economic growth but the impact report says the overall effect on GDP would be only up to 0.05% a year.

A separate DfT publication casts further doubt on whether the whole nation would feel the benefit of expansion - one of the four tests set down by the government for approving the scheme. The peer review for the DfT of its GDP analysis states: "In my view, it would be erroneous to claim a broad distribution of the

10,000

Number of jobs that would be lost in the West Midlands, according to the New Economics Foundation

gains from Heathrow to regions on the basis of the modelling."

Alex Chapman, the head of economic policy at the NEF, said: "With every new release of data, Heathrow's proposed third runway is looking less like a plan for growth and more like a plan to move jobs and investment to London and the south-east. The third runway will take spending out of the places that need it most - anathema to what Burnham stands for."

The government said the aviation industry would grow and that the NEF analysis was misleading.

A DfT spokesperson said: "This analysis doesn't factor in the potential for over 60,000 local jobs that Heathrow expansion will bring. The benefits will be felt across the UK, with up to 40% of the £2.6bn boost to the economy outside of London and the south-east."

Heathrow's chief executive, Thomas Woldbye, said the economic models used by the government did not factor in all the benefits.

"Trade unions, businesses and airports right across the country back this project because they can see the real benefits," he said. "The government itself acknowledges that the full economic value of these benefits extends far beyond what can be measured through traditional infrastructure appraisal models."

Pubs cheer £150m sales boost from World Cup

Rob Davies

Late opening hours and England's progress to the semi-final of an expanded World Cup helped provide the best football-related boost of recent years for pubs, figures suggest.

Pubs poured 30m extra pints over the course of the tournament compared with a normal trading period, with busy pumps delivering £150m in added sales, according to the British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA).

The World Cup-related increase in sales also appears to have outstripped that seen during previous competitions, including England's run to the final of Euro 2024.

The standout day, in terms of increased sales relative to a normal shift, was England v Mexico in the early hours of the morning, according to data from the payment systems provider Epos Now. Sales nearly doubled that day compared with the same period pre-tournament, as pubs were allowed to open through the night.

Three other games delivered a two-thirds increase in the number of transactions, according to the data.

In contrast, only two games at each

of Qatar 2022 and Euro 2024 led to an increase of more than 50%.

The rise in sales was followed by a £100m aid package for pubs from Andy Burnham, who announced a 20% cut in business rates for the sector last week. While the government policy was criticised for a lack of ambition, the dual benefits of the tax cut and the football brought rare respite for the hard-pressed industry, which recorded one pub a day closing last year in England and Wales.

Dawn Slater, who runs the Garricks Head pub in Greater Manchester, said

it had more than doubled sales compared with previous tournaments after expanding capacity outside and installing giant screens.

"It's been really busy, fully booked every game," she said. "We stopped entry two hours before each game." While people spent more money, the event was also more expensive to put on, she added. "We had extra TVs, an outside bar. Plastic cups and pitchers alone cost us £8,700."

However, busy match days were often followed by quieter periods, offsetting some of the gains, with

▲ England supporters at Tailors in Cheltenham celebrate a goal in the semi-final against Argentina

PHOTOGRAPH: OLL SCARF/IAFF/GETTY

trading dependent on England's progress in the tournament.

"The weekday games were amazing," said Amy Williams, who runs the George in Witham, Essex, with her husband, Tom. "We had a 300%-400% increase in sales compared to the previous week." She said they had had to cancel a Dolly Parton tribute act to make room for football fans.

Fears oil price rebound linked to Iran conflict may force rise in interest rates

Phillip Inman

The Bank of England could be forced to tear up its economic forecasts and raise interest rates later this year if oil prices return to above $100 a barrel, according to City economists.

Before a meeting of Bank officials on Thursday, economists have warned that while an interest rate rise will probably be avoided this week, there could be rate increases in the future resulting from the conflict in the Middle East.

The UK economy had remained relatively resilient since Donald Trump's war on Iran began in March but this could be at risk after fighting reignited last week, they warned.

The breakdown of the fragile ceasefire between the US and Iran sent oil prices back to the high levels seen in April and May, prompting fears that higher prices at the pumps would send inflation soaring.

A barrel of Brent crude jumped above $100 a barrel on Thursday before falling back to $96 on Friday, well above the market price of $71 a barrel recorded earlier this month.

Gas prices have also surged in recent days, before the crucial pre-winter period during which most European countries refill their storage facilities.

The Bank's nine-member monetary policy committee is expected to vote on Thursday in favour of holding interest rates steady, and to maintain them at 3.75% until at least December, by a margin of seven to two.

This echoes their last meeting, in June, when two officials on the committee voted to increase rates in order to head off rising inflation.

Sanjay Raja, the chief UK economist at Deutsche Bank, said that calculation might change if the recent intensity of air strikes was maintained and the sea channels allowing tankers to enter and exit oil terminals were blocked. "We see upside risks to the interest rate outlook in the near term, with much dependent on the duration of the unfolding energy shock," he said.

Mohamed El-Erian, a professor at the Wharton school, University of Pennsylvania, and a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, said a sustained increase in oil prices to more than $90 a barrel could be enough to rewrite UK policymakers' forecasts.

"Should oil prices remain above $90 a barrel, an important 'if', then headline inflation would face significant upward pressure," he said.

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Business

Economics viewpoint

'Burnham bounce' will deflate if focus falters

Richard Partington

A "Burnham bounce", sunshine and a strong World Cup run for the England men's football team: could this be a turnaround for Britain's struggling consumer economy or yet another false start?

Last week, the data firm GfK credited Andy Burnham's return to parliament for lifting UK consumer confidence at its fastest monthly pace for almost three years in June. The lion's share was driven by how consumers viewed the prospects for the British economy, with a 10-point advance in how they felt about the past year, and an 8-point gain for the next 12 months.

GfK said: "The sense of a fresh start following the appointment of a new PM surely accounts for some of this bounce."

For the economy at large, it is important to keep the tills ringing: household consumption accounts for about 60% of the total economy, providing the lifeblood for high streets, service providers, builders and makers nationwide.

Burnham's decision to introduce a temporary VAT cut for electricity bills in Great Britain from October, cap bus fares at £2 across England, and cut business rates by 20% for pubs, clubs and live music venues, is designed to help. In an extra boost, headline inflation fell by more than expected, to 2.6%.

But there is more going on than immediately meets the eye. Drill down into the GfK data and some revealing trends emerge: older Britons, aged 65 and over, are

◀ Hoping to turn things round ... Andy Burnham gets behind the wheel of a bus in Bath last week PHOTOGRAPH: TORY MELVILLE/AFP/GETTY

among the gloomiest. In contrast, 16- to 29-year-olds are more optimistic - despite challenges facing younger people from an AI-disrupted jobs market and sky-high rents and house prices. Youth unemployment is at the highest level in a decade. But over-65s are more likely than under-30s to predict a rise in joblessness. They also worry more about the economic outlook, their financial situation and the property market.

There are real splits in the consumer perception of the economy, too - exposed by the UK's deep inequalities. Time and again the poorest have the gloomiest outlook. It is not hard to see why.

Official figures show that UK households spend £676.60 a week on average, with housing, fuel and

power accounting for about a fifth of the total. Transport is the next most consumed category, followed by other spending including holidays, leisure, communications and food and drink. Health and education make up just 3% of weekly spending on average.

There are signs the wealthiest are pulling ahead. The latest official figures for the year to March 2025 show weekly spending by the richest fifth of households increased at twice the rate of the poorest fifth's, rising by 10%, or £98.10, to £1,083.60 compared with 5% (£18.10) to £407.30.

Since the onset of the cost of living crisis in late 2021, average consumer prices have risen by more than a quarter. But in some categories - including food and

energy - they have risen far more. On top of this, the Bank of England has driven interest rates higher to combat the inflationary splurge - putting pressure on borrowers.

It is thus hardly surprising that consumer spending has suffered: official figures show that consumer-facing services output remains about 6% below its pre-pandemic level. Travel agents, food and drink, and hoteliers are among the hardest hit.

Threadneedle Street predicts real incomes will have fallen by about 0.5% in the year to the end of June. And with the Middle East conflict expected to stoke inflation, the belt-tightening for the British consumer is only likely to continue.

Reflecting regional divisions, savings were concentrated among affluent people in richer southern English neighbourhoods, where the Centre for Cities thinktank found households banked £12 for every £1 saved in poorer areas - mostly in northern English cities and towns.

For the "Burnham bounce" to be sustainable, it will require a continued turnaround in consumer confidence. That will need a laser-like focus on the households struggling the most.

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Business

▼ Japan's prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, plans to invest in 17 industrial sectors over 14 years PHOTOGRAPH: THE ASAHI SHIMKUN/GETTY

Takaichi's spending spree

Fears PM's plans could lead Japan to Truss-style shock

Phillip Inman

International investors are asking where Japan's prime minister will find the 370tn yen (£1.7tn) of extra cash that she wants to invest in 17 industrial sectors by 2040.

Such is the scale of spending by Sanae Takaichi's coalition government that many in her own party fear she is about to blow up the Japanese economy, triggering a Liz Truss-style economic shock.

In financial markets, investors are stunned by the plans of a usually sober Japanese government to rewrite budget rules and embark on a wide-ranging and unfunded shopping spree.

The roots of Takaichi's frustration date back to the financial crisis of 1991, when Japan's property market bubble burst spectacularly. Tokyo had become the world's most expensive place to live following the country's export boom, but within months of the crash, banks behind much of the lending were bust.

Before the turn of the century there was more turmoil, when some of Tokyo's largest financial

institutions, unable to cope with the hangover of bad debts from the first crash, went under.

Since the 2008 global financial shock, the economy has stagnated. In response, the government has regularly spent 10% more than it receives in tax receipts - much of it to cope with a rapidly ageing population - and debts have continued rising. By 2020, the debt-to-GDP ratio reached 260% before tighter budgets and a modest improvement in economic growth brought it below 230% in 2025.

Takaichi has said her investment plan will lift the productive capacity of the economy, keep Japan at the forefront of the AI revolution, and free the economy from its increasing dependence on trade with China.

The stock market has reacted with a succession of downward steps ever since the June proposals, though the renewal of hostilities in the Middle East and the prospect of higher oil prices have not helped.

Many investors sold up as soon as the government arrived in office, hitting the shares of the biggest companies, among them Sony and Toyota Motor Corporation.

Sony faces intense competition from rivals in South Korea and

China while Toyota has stood out against all-electric cars, and now faces being crushed by a flourishing, highly subsidised Chinese car industry.

Domestic and international lenders have pushed up the interest rate on Japanese government bonds (JGBs) to 2.8% in recent months, the highest in 29 years.

Waning international support for Japan's economic outlook has also hit the value of the yen. More recently it is Takaichi's boldness, which like Truss's is often characterised as recklessness, that has acted as a heavy weight on the currency, pushing it down to 163 to the US dollar, a four-decade low.

Much of the blame for higher debt bills is connected to rising inflation, which has tracked upwards as the yen has fallen, largely because a low currency rate raises the price of imports of energy and raw materials.

Although Japan's core inflation has remained below the Bank of Japan's (BoJ) 2% target over the last four months, analysts predict a jump in the last quarter of the year to the mid-2% range on higher oil prices following the Iran war.

Kelvin Lam, an Asia specialist at the consultancy Pantheon

Macroeconomics, has said what the financial markets really fear is the lack of detail about where the fresh investment money will come from.

"As long as you don't say how you are going to finance your spending, you are on course for a Liz Truss moment," he said, referring to the market response to the short-lived prime minister's plans for £45bn of unfunded tax cuts in September 2022. "The markets were already worried about Japan's long term fiscal health and this plan hasn't helped."

A draft plan included forcing the BoJ to walk in lockstep with the finance ministry and rewriting how government debt is calculated. A final submission agreed by the cabinet pledged to maintain central bank independence, but as a footnote. "To achieve a strong economy, it is very important for monetary policy to be conducted appropriately to see stable price rises," it said.

The damage was done, much as Truss found herself in an unrecoverable situation after

'The markets were already worried. This plan hasn't helped'

Kelvin Lam

Asia economies specialist

going head to head with both the Bank of England and the Office for Budget Responsibility.

The Honebuto no Hōshin (big-boned policy) investment scheme is aimed at injecting cash into 17 sectors over the next 14 years to more than double Japan's economic growth to more than 1%.

A break with previous leaders' low-key policy blueprints, it is in some respects reminiscent of Beijing's five-year plans, which set national growth targets and direct industrial policy. The blueprint targets areas such as AI, semiconductors, biotech, defence and energy to achieve a 1% growth rate "as early as possible".

The document emphasises "physical artificial intelligence" that combines AI with Japan's strength in manufacturing hardware "to accelerate AI transformation in all sectors".

Forecasts by economists typically point to growth of 0.93% in 2027 and 0.85% in 2028, falling short of the 1% target, according to the Japan Center for Economic Research thinktank.

Since 2022, the ministry of finance has spent about £160bn in efforts to limit the yen's decline. It has also put pressure on the central bank to keep interest rates low amid a global drive to increase them to combat inflation after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The BoJ has raised its policy rate to a 31-year high of 1%, but that is still low relative to its peers.

Following the Covid-19 pandemic, all central banks financed government spending by buying government debt. While most have sought to reverse the situation in recent years, the BoJ is being encouraged to go further. Japanese pension funds are also feeling heat from the finance ministry, which expects them to buy government bonds out of a sense of patriotic duty.

Takaichi said in a recent post on X that she spends all day and most of the night plotting Japan's recovery, which is seen by many as an attempt to reverse last month's 10-point poll rating decline.

However, financial markets have voiced their scepticism. Many are asking if an emphasis on manufacturing will prove successful as China seeks to produce more sophisticated goods, an area previously dominated by Japan, Germany and the US.

The question is whether Tokyo has the resources to go up against Beijing and carve out a big enough niche to fund itself in the 2030s. Exports rose 20% year-on-year in June, but after taking into account the yen's depreciation, the value of the rise was almost zero.

Depreciating the currency every year to boost trade is not a sustainable policy. Maybe Takaichi's investment plan will be.

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Weather

Monday 27 July 2026

UK and Ireland Noon today

Forecast

Carbon count

Daily atmospheric CO₂ readings from Mauna Lea, Hawaii (ppm).

Latest 21 Jul 2026 428.07 Weekly average 12 Jul 2026 428.48 26 Jul 2025 427.91 26 Jul 2026 404.55 Pre-industrial base 280 Safe level 250

Around the UK

Atlantic front

High tides

© Crown Copyright and/or database rights. Reproduced by permission of the Keeper of Public Records and the UK Hydrographic Office

Aberdeen	--	--	1223	3.6m
Amonmouth	0522	10.6m	1749	11.2m
Barrow	1007	7.6m	2221	8.1m
Belfast	0953	3.0m	2212	3.3m
Cobb	0346	3.4m	1613	3.6m
Cromer	0501	4.3m	1740	4.2m
Dover	0950	5.8m	2215	5.8m
Dublin	1025	3.5m	2229	3.8m
Galway	0357	4.1m	1604	4.5m
Greenock	1101	2.8m	2331	3.2m
Harwich	1017	3.5m	2244	3.6m
Holyhead	0914	4.7m	2123	5.0m
Hull	0432	6.3m	1715	6.1m
Leith	0100	4.7m	1336	4.7m
Liverpool	0952	7.9m	2205	8.4m
London Bridge	0000	6.2m	1228	6.2m
Lassinmouth	1046	3.4m	2251	3.6m
Milford Haven	0446	5.7m	1707	6.1m
Newspay	0339	5.5m	1600	5.9m
North Shields	0354	4.3m	1428	4.3m
Okan	0428	3.1m	1647	3.4m
Penzance	0313	4.5m	1533	4.8m
Plymouth	0400	4.5m	1620	4.8m
Portsmouth	1016	4.1m	2223	4.2m
Southport	0914	7.6m	2133	8.1m
Storoneway	0551	3.8m	1756	4.3m
Portland	0504	1.4m	1726	1.8m
Whitby	0226	4.8m	1459	4.7m
Wick	1011	2.9m	2216	3.1m
Workington	1019	6.8m	2234	7.3m

Sun & Moon

Sun rises 0516 Sun sets 2056 Moon rises 2018 Moon sets 0222 Full Moon 29 July

Lighting up

Belfast 2135 to 0528 Birn'ham 2107 to 0521 Brighton 2054 to 0521 Bristol 2106 to 0529 Carlisle 2123 to 0513 Cork 2131 to 0530 Dublin 2129 to 0535 Glasgow 2134 to 0515 Harlech 2118 to 0529 Inverness 2142 to 0504 London 2056 to 0518 M'chester 2113 to 0519 Newcastle 2119 to 0508 Norwich 2056 to 0508 Penzance 2113 to 0546

Starwatch

We know summer is truly upon us when the Summer Triangle appears overhead. Although not an official constellation, it is one of the easiest patterns to find in the sky.

The chart shows the view looking high in the south-east from London at 11pm today. It will remain essentially unchanged all week, with the triangle climbing higher as the evening goes on.

The brightest of its three stars is Vega, in Lyra, the lyre. North-east from Vega is Deneb, the brightest star in Cygnus, the swan. Lower in the south-east is Altair, in Aquila, the eagle.

The Summer Triangle frames the northern Milky Way, which, from a dark site, reveals itself as a pale band of light running across the sky. It is the combined light of billions of stars that make up the wider sweeps of our galaxy. Grab a pair of binoculars and enjoy the rich star fields that can be seen within its confines. Stuart Clark

Around the world

Algiers	11	Lisbon	14
Anu'dam	12	Madrid	15
Athens	13	Malaga	16
Auckland	13	Melb'ton	17
B.Aires	13	Mexico C	17
Bangkok	13	Miami	17
Barcelona	13	Milan	17
Bosra	13	Montbasa	17
Beijing	13	Moscow	17
Berlin	13	Mumbai	18
Bermuda	25	N.Orleans	18
Brussels	25	Nairobi	18
Budapest	25	New Delhi	18
C'hayen	25	New York	18
Cairo	25	Oslo	19
Cape Town	25	Paris	19
Chicago	13	Perth	19
Corfu	13	Prague	19
Dakar	13	Reykjavik	19
Dhaka	13	Rio de J	20
Dublin	13	Rome	20
Florence	13	Shanghai	21
Gibraltar	17	Singapore	21
H'Kong	17	Stadk'in	21
Harare	17	Strad'g	22
Helsinki	17	Sydney	22
Istanbul	20	Tel Aviv	23
Ja'burg	20	Towerite	23
K.Larbour	23	Tokyo	23
K'mundu	23	Toronto	23
Kabul	23	Vancouver	23
Kingston	23	Vienna	23
Kolkata	23	Warsaw	23
L Angeles	23	West'ton	24
Lagos	23	Welt'ton	24
Lima	23	Zurich	24

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Sport

Boxing

Joshua survives stumble but serious questions remain on road to Fury payday

Lack of punch resistance leading to two knockdowns was a worrying sign before the £150m all-British fight

Donald McRae

The bedlam and madness lasted for just five minutes and 43 seconds and, after Anthony Joshua was back in the sanctuary of his dressing room, he claimed to have learned "a valuable lesson". Joshua had been knocked down twice by Kristian Prenga before he rescued himself in the second round with a brutal stoppage of the previously obscure Albanian.

Joshua also looked ahead to the hugely anticipated fight with Tyson Fury after the two faded former world champions came through wildly contrasting bouts which were meant to be routine exhibitions this weekend. "I'm gonna come back stronger now," Joshua claimed as he tried to clear the concussive fog from his brain after the worst round of his tumultuous career.

But the sad truth had already risen up with piercing clarity after just 20 seconds of that first round. A sweeping right hand, which was the first meaningful punch of the fight, rocked Joshua and set him up for Prenga's jolting uppercut. They were decent blows but it was disturbing to see how little punch resistance Joshua retains. He still cuts a sculpted figure of hard muscle but he looked lost and scrambled as he tumbled to the canvas. Joshua managed to roll over and, pressing his white gloves down on the blue canvas, he pushed himself up.

His legs were rickety as a grimace of a smile crossed his confused face. After he took a count of eight, Joshua was soon in trouble again. A sharp right cross sent him reeling into the

▲ Anthony Joshua was given a huge early scare by Kristian Prenga MARK ROBBINSON/MAYURHOOR BOXING/GETTY

ropes and the referee could have given him another count. Every time Prenga landed the right hand, even without undue force, Joshua was vulnerable.

Another uppercut sent him down again, even if this time his gloves only brushed the canvas before he was up again. Joshua's courage was obvious but, in those desolate moments, the idea that he would survive another onslaught and face Fury in November seemed beyond fanciful.

But then, inexplicably, everything changed. During the break between rounds it was almost as if a loaded message had been given to Prenga that he should pack away his artillery and stop ruining the £200m (£150m) showdown between Fury and Joshua. In reality it seemed more a case that Prenga had shocked himself by dragging Joshua to the brink of a shattering defeat.

Rather than coming out to close the show, Prenga backed away. He allowed his dazed victim to seize control and start unloading punches. The Albanian was pinned in a corner and, throwing nothing of consequence in return, he was suddenly under immense pressure. Successive combinations made him sag before a ferocious right hand poleaxed Prenga.

Joshua deserves praise for his

fortitude and finishing power. But even that clinical knockout could not wipe away the images of him weaving like a battered old tree about to crash to the ground whenever he was tagged by blows he would have once shrugged aside.

Having been injured seven months ago in the car accident which killed Sina Ghami and Latif "Latz" Ayodele, his close friends and key members of his camp, Joshua paid tribute to them: "It's more than punch power. That was spirit. That was Latz, that was Sina, that was their families. It hurts to even talk about it. It has been tough. It's my brothers."

Joshua was close to tears. His distress was understandable but it was more worrying when he suggested that personal tragedy had given him higher powers of recovery. "You know what I learned? I can't be stopped, man - I can't be denied."

His family, friends and promoters should all pause and, in the coming days, take great care of him. It would be best if they advised Joshua he is no longer equipped to absorb heavy punishment from even a merely competent heavyweight. Younger fighters such as Moses Itauma and Daniel Dubois, who administered a crushing knockout of Joshua in 2024, would have hurt him badly had they, rather than Prenga, been in the ring.

True, Fury was uninspiring when

beating Mariusz Wach, a mediocre 46-year-old Polish heavyweight, after seven one-sided rounds in Thailand on Friday night.

Wach still managed to tag Fury a couple of times as the old Gypsy King is no longer an elusive ring technician. But Fury remains a fighter to his core and he could cause serious damage against such a reduced version of Joshua.

"We've signed the contract," Joshua's promoter, Eddie Hearn, said after his fighter's lucky escape. "Everything is done. But

'Tonight was about the strength Joshua has shown. No one knows what he's been through'

▲ Anthony Joshua pays his respects to his friends who died in December

tonight wasn't about Tyson Fury. It was about the strength Anthony Joshua has shown to be here. No one knows what he's been through the last seven months. When he went down in the first round, I thought he'd come back too soon."

Yet, as Hearn conceded later, the signed contracts stipulate that Fury and Joshua will fight in the UK in November. It is now widely expected that the contest will take place in the US instead and so a new set of contracts could delay the circus yet again.

Reflecting on his near nightmare against Prenga, Joshua added: "It was a tough moment but I learned a valuable lesson. Start faster. Come out, fuck this boxing, and be ready. You can do it in 20 seconds. If Prenga had a bit more luck on his side, he could have had me out of there."

He also suggested that "today was a real good eye-opener." It was, in the sense that his lack of punch resistance was stripped bare for all to see. In a business more sensible and compassionate than boxing, those close to Joshua would try to persuade him that the time has come for him to walk away with his riches and senses still intact.

Instead, he will be enticed back into the ring to fight Fury - in a contest between two old heavyweights which now seems freighted as much with danger and potential calamity as colossal amounts of money.

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The week ahead

Pauline Ferrand-Prevot returns to defend her Tour de France Femmes title, beginning on Saturday in Lausanne

Today World report Commonwealth Games Glasgow (to Sun) TNT Sports 2 Cricket The Hundred Women Southern + M London, Utilita Bowl (3pm) Sky Sports Cricket The Hundred Men Southern + M London, Utilita Bowl (6.30pm) SSC Men's Tour (third day of five) West Indies + Pakistan, Tarsada (3pm) Swiss list Shanghai Women's China (to Sun) Tenets WTA & KTP Mubadala Chi DC Open Washington, D.C. (to Sun) ATP West Tennis Open Los Cabos, Mexico (to Sun) Racing Ayr Racing TV, Ryoun Sky Sports Racing, Southwest SSR, Windsor SSR

Tomorrow Football (7.45pm unless stated) European League Second qualifying round: Second leg Celje (2) + Cyneta (3) (7.15pm); D-Zagreb (1) + Than (1) (7pm); Hearts (0) + Stame Giza (4) (7.45pm) PLI; KJPS (0) + Salam (1) (4pm); Lincoln RI (0) + BJ&B (1) (5pm); Shamrock (0) + Avanti-Armenia (2) (8pm)

Conference League Second qualifying round: Second leg Chelsea (Unusual) (0) + 2No Gori (0) (6pm); CSKA 1948 Sofia (0) + Spartak Trnava (0) (6.30pm); Erba (1) + Plaviania (1) (7pm); Riga (3) + Vardar Skopje (2) (6pm) Cricket (6.30pm unless stated) Third Women's 500 Gladion Flablais, Netherlands (6.30pm) Metro Bank One Day Cup Men Group A Lancs + Kent, Earegion (1.1am), Neds + Lancs, Trent Bridge (1.1am) The Hundred Women Leeds + March, Headingley (3pm) SSC The Hundred Men Leeds + Manchester, Headingley SSC Racing Deverley RTV, Pita Lia SSR, Goodwood (TV) /RTV, Yarmouth SSR

Wednesday Football (7.45pm unless stated) European League Second qualifying round: Second leg Karak (0) + Cinema (1) (4pm); Zalgiris (0) + IO (0) (5pm); Lech Roman (4) + AEF (1) (6pm); Hapoel de Er Sheici (1) + Vilengar (2) (6.30pm); Uni Crassna (0) + Levski Sofia (1) (6.30pm); Gornik Zahra (0) + Frerichalica (1) (7pm); Rli Belgrade (4) + Larisa (0) (7pm); S Bratton (2) + Maria (109) (0) (7.15pm) Conference League Second qualifying round: Second leg Dasgigiro (0) + Lagano (1) (3.30pm); Copenhagen (3) + Zhelentor (3) (6pm); X Vienna (3) + Santa Cristina (1) (7.30pm) Cricket (1.1am unless stated) The Hundred Women M London + London Spirit, The Kia Oval (3pm) SSC, Welsh + Trent, Sophia Gardens (1.30pm) SSC The Hundred Men M London + London Spirit, The Kia Oval (6.30pm) SSC, Welsh + Trent, Sophia Gardens (3pm) SSC Metro Bank One Day Cup Men Group A Marks + Surrey, Edgbaston Group B Durham + Glam, Gosforth, Hovey + Collie, Arundel, Yorkshire + Worcestershire, York Racing Goodwood (TV) /RTV, Leicester RTV, Redcar RTV, Sandmoor RTV

Thursday Football (7.45pm unless stated) Europe League Second qualifying round: Second leg Anderlecht (1) + Hammurthy (1) (7.30pm); Benfica (1) + St Gallen (2) (8pm); CSKA Sofia (0) + Spalding (0) (7pm); Feenincucos (2) + Twente (1) (7.30pm); Hradec Králové (1) + Tromsø (0) (6pm); Maccabi Tel Aviv (5) + Sheriff (0) (5pm); Midtjylland (0) + Budulya (1) (6pm); F{srsk (0) + Haplak Split (2) (6pm); P4DK (1) + Dynamo Kyiv (2) (6.45pm)

Conference League Second qualifying round: Second leg Ape (4) + Vojvodina (1) (7pm); Attelic Club PTuclides (0) + Kadax (4) (3pm); Aisle (1) + FCSA (2) (3pm); Austria Vienna (2) + Leipzig (0) (7.30pm); Balbani (1) + Behemia (2) (7pm); Betzar (1) + AEK Larraca (0) (6.30pm); Braga (1) + D善舟car Pancras (0) (6pm); Brunei (2) + Uni City (2) (6pm); CFR City (1) + Aberdeen (1) (7.30pm); Coleraine (0) + KIR (1) Saddipan; Derry (0) + Rijeka (1) (6.30pm); Dinamo City (1) + Aliswain (1) (6pm); Drazwa Meski (4) + Nefna (2) (6pm); FCI Levadia (2) + Gilefsing (1) (5.30pm); Gant (0) + NZ Dombay (0) (7.30pm); Krimovice (1) + Zilava (2) (7.30pm); Gant (6) + Atent (2) (6pm); Hill (0) + Motherwell (2) (6pm); Alderman (0) + Malinheva (2) (8pm); Rees (0) + Stjarnam (1) (5pm); Inter Sofia (1) + Istanbul Balakhehir (1) (5pm); Jablonec (2) + Yamazite (3) (5pm); Koper (2) + NIS (0); Ladegrams (0) + Hapoel Tel Aviv (2) (7pm); Noah (1) + Zhelbe (1) (5pm); Namime Kaja (2) + Zwillbourne (1) (5pm); Narodjaaland (0) + GAIS (1) (6pm); Panathinaikos (2) + Palo (1) (7.30pm); Portocolo (0) + Newk-Banja Laka (2) (6pm); Pystek (0) + Oelovaca (1) (5pm); Shkandija (1) + Kress (2) (7pm); Sion (1) + Bate (1) (7.15pm); Sufpoka (0) + Vitekuk (1) (6pm); The New Saints (0) + Parra (1) (6.30pm); Tahed Kozianog (1) + Panaviczo (1) (3pm); URA Strasser (0) + Partizan (4) (7.15pm); Valletta (1) + Rakow (1) (6.30pm); Vestiri (1) + RFS (4) (5pm); Veles Mostar (0) + VMC (3pm) (1.10pm); Zalgo (0) + Shanee (1) (6pm); Zira (0) + Paide Linzenverband (1) (5pm); Zrzysk (0) + Volar (1) (7.30pm)

Rugby league Betfred Super League Huddersfield + Hull FC (8pm) SS+ Cricket (2pm unless stated) The Hundred Women Southern + Birre, Utilita Bowl SSC The Hundred Men Southern + Birre, Utilita Bowl SSC Metro Bank One Day Cup Men Group A Lancs + Neds, Preston (1.1am) Gulf Rectest (1.1pm) Detroit (to Sun) Sky Sports Golf All Women's 500 Lytham St Amies (to Sun) SSG Racing Epsom RTV, Goodenød (TV) /RTV, Nottingham RTV, Wolverhampton SSR

Friday

Football (7.45pm unless stated) William Hill Scottish Premiership Dundee United + Rangers (8pm) SSF Rugby league Betfred Super League Hull KR + Bradford (8pm) SS+ Leeds + Stalwart (8pm) SS+ Leigh + Wigan (8pm) SS+ Cricket (1.1am unless stated) First Women's 120 International Sri Lanka + Pakistan, Hambantota (5.30am)

The Hundred Women Manchester + Trent, Old Trafford (3pm) SSC The Hundred Men Manchester + Trent, Old Trafford (6.30pm) SSC Metro Bank One Day Cup Men Group B Derbyshire + Glam, Ripton; Essex + Hampshire, Chelmsford; Worcestershire + Middlesex, New Road, Yorkshire + Durham, York Metro Bank One Day Cup Men Group A Gloucs + Surrey, Bristol (2pm); Kent + Somerset, Canterbury; Northants + Lancs, Northampton Racing Bath SSR, Goodwood (TV) /RTV, Moordburgh RTV, Newcastle SSR, Newmarket RTV, Wolverhampton SSR

Saturday

Football (3pm unless stated) Caraboo League Cup

Preliminary round Trasmore

• Rochdale SS+

William Hill Scottish Premiership

Aberdeen + Hearts (5.30pm) SSF;

Falkirk + St Mirren SSF

William Hill Scottish Championship

Ayr + Arbroath; Morton + Partick; Inverness CT + Duddersfield; Livingston + Queen's Park; Keith's Starrines

William Hill Scottish League One

Alba + East Fife; Cree + Airdromians; East Kilbride + Qck; Montrose + Hamilton; Peterhead + Ross

William Hill Scottish League Two

Annan + The Spartans; Clyde + Stranvar; Edinburgh City + Elyse; Torfa + Kirby; Stirling + Sunderburm

Rugby league

Betfred Super League

Castleford + Warrington (3pm) SS+, Catalonia + Wakefield (3pm) SS+, York + St Helens (5.30pm) SS+

Cricket

The Hundred Women

Birmingham + Welsh, Edgbaston (1.1am) SSC, London Spirit + Southern, Lord's (2.30pm) SSC

The Hundred Men

Birmingham + Welsh, Edgbaston (2.30pm) SSC, London Spirit + Southern, Lord's (3pm) SSC

Cycling

Tour de France Femmes

Du 9 Augil

Racing

Dorchester SSR, Goodwood (TV) /RTV, Hamilton RTV, Loughfield SSR, Newmarket (TV) /RTV, Thora (TV) /RTV

Sunday

Football (3pm unless stated) William Hill Scottish Premiership

St Johnstone + Kilmarnock (2pm) SSF,

Hibernian + Wotherend (4.30pm) SSF

Cricket (1.1am unless stated) Second Men's Tour (first day of five) WI + Pakistan, Port of Spain (3pm)

Women's Twenty-50 International Sri Lanka + Pakistan, Hambantota (5.30am)

The Hundred Women's 500

M London + Manchester, The Kia Oval (2.30pm) BDC, Fwoj-Pfynor/SSC, Trent + Leeds, Trent Bridge (2.30pm) SSC

Metro Bank One Day Cup Men

Group A Kent + Neds, Beckenham; Lancs + Somerset, Grae Ansel, Northants + Lancs, Northampton; Marks + Gloucs, Rugby Group B Derbyshire + Sutton, Derby; Essex + Worcestershire, Chelmsford; Watts + Durham, Utilita Bowl, Middlesex + Yorkshire, Lord's

Racing

Chelmsford, Chester SSR, Yarmouth SSR

Yarmouth SSR

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Football

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Arsenal add final ingredients to an irresistible recipe

Seven new signings and clear sense of purpose at club have created belief that first WSL title since 2019 is possible

Suzanne Wrack

Georgia Stanway looks at her arms and then down at her legs on day one of Arsenal's pre-season. "As you can see, I'm covered in tattoos," she says. "I only see the bare skin, the space, so I need to keep collecting more."

Tattooing and being tattooed is her creative outlet, her way of expressing herself off the pitch. But seeing space is key to the 27-year-old England midfielder being exceptional on the pitch.

Stanway's unveiling video, after her move from Bayern Munich, showed a delicate, cursive script reading "whatever the weather" tattooed on her arm. It was a bold statement to get the lyric from North London Forever, Arsenal's anthem, etched into her skin before she has stepped on to the Emirates Stadium pitch in red and white. "It shows I'm going to give absolutely everything for this club. I want to hit the ground running, connect with my teammates, connect with

▼ Georgia Stanway is ready to hit the new season running after her move from Bayern this summer ALEX BORSYON/ARSENAL FC/GETTY IMAGES

the fans and look forward to an exciting future at the club."

Stanway is emblematic of Arsenal's summer of change, one of seven signings so far. Meanwhile, Lotte Wubben-Moy, a lifelong fan who joined Arsenal's academy at 13, represents the core and culture that is a point of focus at the club. It is a culture players want to be a part of, so much so it leads to getting a tattoo on day one of being there. "She has set a very high bar," says Wubben-Moy, with a grin. "That's Georgia. She goes all in and I like that."

Wubben-Moy is ready to stake a claim in Arsenal's starting XI after struggling to nail down a position in defence despite having performed exceptionally well when covering for injured players. "I've always felt ready," says the 27-year-old. "When I get my moment, I deliver. Historically, as a club, we're built on defensive solidity. If we have a solid defence, it allows us to create and score. That should be the stepping stone towards victories. So I will continue to contribute in whatever way, shape or form that is. But I want my spot."

Arsenal's squad needed a revamp, the age needed to be lowered and changes made if they were going to take the next step. That meant big names leaving, most notably Beth Mead and Katie McCabe. "They're both absolute legends of the game and we have so much respect for them," says Jodie Taylor, the former Arsenal striker who became the club's technical director in January. "But we always

▲ Lotte Wubben-Moy hopes to stake her claim for a regular starting spot

knew this window was going to come with some changes."

"Change is inevitable in women's football," says Wubben-Moy. "If you speak to a player and they don't say they're nimble, you've got someone not built for the game. We've become a nimble team, a team that can move with the ebb and flow of women's football.

"That's not just within the playing group, it's replicated within the staff, the boardroom, the commercial team, the comms team. Everyone is so willing to move and to dictate what we want. "If you'd asked me about change four or five years ago, I'd have been a bit intimidated, but now I know what to do and I'm part of the driver of it. The opportunity we have and that I see for us as a team, as a collective, is something that really excites me."

Arsenal's approach to Stanway's recruitment was a contributing factor to her wanting to join the club. "Arsenal came in early doors," she says. "I really enjoyed they were super loyal from the beginning and wanted me even when I wasn't available. It's a nice feeling being wanted.

"The last four years in Munich were unbelievable, but I knew I wanted to take the next step and I felt at Arsenal there was an

opportunity for me to be able to make my game better and to play with world-class players."

Arsenal have done most of their business early, with Stanway joined by experienced internationals Selina Cerci, Géraldine Reuteler, Ona Batlle and Misa Rodriguez, as well as young talents Lisa Baum and Isabella Damm. No major international tournament and seven signings in for day one of pre-season is a big boost for Renée Slegers and her coaching staff, particularly after two seasons of slow starts to domestic campaigns.

"The market is not easy, though, it's constantly changing and the pool of elite talent is small and several clubs are fishing from it," says Taylor. "You try and plan as much as you can, but you also have to be reactive. We're always trying to keep an eye on the future, but we have to be quite agile.

"We can talk about positional needs, qualities, ages and succession planning, but if a player's not available or they just don't exist, it can be like trying to fit square pegs and round holes."

The players who have come in have brought energy, says Wubben-Moy, who was on an emotional rollercoaster during Arsenal men's Premier League and women's Champions Cup-winning parade, with the bus looping past Highbury Corner, where she filmed her contract renewal video, and past Islington town hall, where she got married to cyclist Tao Geoghegan Hart a few weeks later.

"I like to focus on what they're entering," says Wubben-Moy, "which is a culture created by history, by players and staff that are the core of this team and who have all lived through the changes: Kelly [Smith], Renée, myself, Leah [Williamson], Kim [Little], Jodie too. We've been privy to lots of different things but all of us are holding on to and releasing, in a healthy way, the things we know we need to. It's efficient, we're focused, we know what we do next.

"It's like you're cooking the most beautiful recipe and then you add the final small ingredients that make the marginal difference, that elevate, and you create something that's beautiful and that you can relish and enjoy. That's what we're in the process of now with a beautiful long pre-season. I'm desperate to get it out of the way so we can then serve what we're cooking to the fans and be like: 'Let's eat and we'll all eat together for the whole year.'"

The average attendance of more than 34,000 fans for WSL games at the Emirates last season and the club's pioneering history in women's football, as well as the Champions League win in 2025, are huge selling points, and all concerned at Arsenal want more, including a first Women's Super League title since 2019.

"We're in a great place," says Taylor. "But we would have liked to have won more trophies last season and that is our ambition coming into this year. I'll flat out say it: we want to win the league. We are an ambitious club and with the signings we've made we feel like we're in a great place to do that."

Football

In brief

Tottenham

Inter sporting director confirms Romero talks

Inter have entered talks with Tottenham over the signing of Cristian Romero. The club captain has made 156 appearances since he joined Tottenham in 2021 and guided the club to Europa League success last year. But with centre-backs Jan Paul van Hecke and Marcos Senesi joining this summer, Spurs will let the 28-year-old Argentina international depart and his representatives have been in Milan for talks with Inter this weekend. Inter's sporting director, Piero Ausilio, told Sky Italy: "It's definitely a deal we are trying to sign with the player and the club. These things take some time but there's definitely interest. Let's see." PA Media

Sunderland

'Topic is closed': Le Bris rules out Xhaka exit

Régis Le Bris has declared Chelsea's pursuit of Granit Xhaka "closed" and insisted there is no prospect of Sunderland selling their influential captain this summer. Chelsea made an £8m bid for the 33-year-old this month but the offer was immediately rejected and their head coach has emphatically denied that a deal could be revisited. "No, this topic is closed," said Le Bris. "He has been really clear about his future. He loves Sunderland, he wants to stay in Sunderland. He wants to make the future of Sunderland. He is a good captain. Great leader." Andy Hunter

Real Madrid

Diomande to Bernabéu after PSG end interest

Real Madrid look to have won the race for RB Leipzig's winger, Yan Diomande, after Paris Saint-Germain withdrew from the bidding war. The 19-year-old was heavily linked with a switch to Paris but now looks set for the Bernabéu. PSG released a statement last night which read: "Paris Saint-Germain has this evening formally withdrawn its interest in and bids for Yan Diomande. PSG will not break its principles of rational financial management and squad balance." Mark Dobson

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How the death of Adams shook a South African community

Footballer who died aged 25, weeks after playing at World Cup, will be remembered for his humble demeanour

Firdose Moonda

Cape Town

For Jayden Adams, the South Africa midfielder who died this month at the age of 25, football was a "safe space".

Those words, used by Adams's junior coach Steve Barker at his memorial service 11 days ago, tell you everything you need to know about his life beyond the pitch.

Adams's battles were bestowed on him almost from birth. Though he was born into newly democratic South Africa, by the early 2000s the revolution was well on its way to being betrayed. The vote was extended to all, but few could make full use of the freedoms available to them because socioeconomic circumstances in the country had barely changed. Stellenbosch, where the Adams family were based, is a perfect example.

Its facade is a tourist dream: a university town nestled among vineyards, Cape Dutch architecture and indie boutiques. Most visitors never venture beyond the town centre or into its suburbs, which are home to the far less privileged and are havens of neglect. Those areas are classic apartheid hangovers, where the wealth has been preserved for a historically advantaged elite and those on the margins, working-class communities of people of colour, are all but invisible.

▲ Teams held a minute's silence in memory of Adams at the World Cup

Ironically, that is how Adams is most often described. He moved in the shadows, both of society and the sport in which he excelled. "Jayden was a guy of very few words. He was quiet, very shy and the smallest among his teammates," Brendine Johnson, an Adams family spokesperson, says. "A lot of people missed his football qualities because of his size, but he had a very good fighting spirit. It just wasn't always on display."

Adams loved the game dearly and his aunt Monica Thaoge recalled how, as a child, he would kick anything round - "even onions" she said at his memorial. His parents, Juanito and Candice, previously mentioned potatoes as their son's football of choice. Nobody in the family talks about lacking in financial means because theirs was a community striving to make life better. But there were absences, especially early on.

"Everybody in areas like that is just trying to make ends meet," says Roger Telemachus, the former South Africa cricketer who grew up on the same street as Adams's father in Cloetesville. "For the kids, they may not have noticed so much because they were occupied, mostly with playing sport. Some fathers, like Juanito, really encouraged their kids and everyone used to play everything on the street: tennis, football, rugby, cricket. It was also the best way of staying out of trouble."

Problems were there for everyone to see and, according to Telemachus, have got worse "in the last 20 years". They include gangsterism, substance abuse and crimes that range from petty to serious. Adams was able to escape from that life when he moved to the slightly more affluent area of Ida's Valley, but still he did not have a life of luxury. For a period, the family of six, which included four children, lived in a two-bedroom place. At other times, they were with his maternal grandmother, Marianna. "He basically grew up in her yard," says Johnson.

Things started to change for Adams when he was picked for the Stellenbosch Academy Under-18 side at the age of 15. "The environment was tough, especially if you are not big or tall enough, but when physicality was no longer the most important thing, people saw that Jayden was technically very good," says Johnson.

His coaches agree. Barker, the nephew of South Africa's Afcon winning coach, Clive, and the current coach of Simba in Tanzania,

'Being on the pitch was his happy place. He didn't pass the ball, he caressed it. He was special'

◄ The midfielder helped South Africa reach the last 32 at this summer's World Cup HECTOR VIVAS/ FIFA/GETTY

◄ Members of Mamelodi Sundowns carry the coffin, followed by family and friends, at Adams's funeral on Saturday ESA ALEXANDER/ REUTERS

gave an emotional assessment of Adams's skills shortly after his death. "You get many good footballers but you get few great footballers. Jayden was great," he told Newzroom Afrika.

"Jayden had three attributes that set him apart: an incredible first touch, his weight of pass - I've never seen anything like it - and he loved the game so much. Being on the pitch was his happy place. He didn't pass the ball, he used to caress the ball. He was special and his football intelligence was just outstanding."

It was under Barker that Adams blossomed. He became the first player from the Stellenbosch Academy to play in South Africa's top flight, the Premier Soccer League. Five years and an international call up later, the country's richest club, Mamelodi Sundowns, came calling. This year, at the start of his second season with them, Adams shaved his head, in what he joked was a sign of maturity and called himself a "grootman" (big man). The nickname stuck.

Adams never said it, but he may also have realised how much he had grown up. By then, he had been picked, played for and dropped from the national side

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▼ The memorial service for Jayden Adams was held in Stellenbosch RODGER BOSCH/AFP/GETTY

after arriving late at a training camp and irking the head coach, Hugo Broos. He had also lost two of his academy teammates, including a close friend.

In February 2023, Oshwin Andries, who was 19, died from stabbing injuries he sustained in Paarl, which is 16km north of Stellenbosch. Three years later, Jeandre Gaffoor, 20, drowned in the Krom River.

When Sundowns won the CAF Champions League in May, Adams dedicated his medal to Andries. To lose so much has weighed on the town, but through Adams they have had reason to celebrate.

His role in Sundowns' continental victory and a call-up to the World Cup squad suggested Adams's career trajectory was rising. After a first season at Sundowns when he was often playing off the bench and his place in the side was questioned, he had become integral to the team. At

'He wanted to give back. After every game, he would be giving away shirts and boots to kids'

Adams's memorial, the Sundowns senior coach, Steve Komphela, called him "the heart of our team and the heartbeat of our playing style" who "understood the game like a coach and played it as a player".

In the past year, Adams was playing to the potential people who knew him well had seen years ago and surprising others with his courage and drive to succeed. South Africa's captain, Ronwen Williams, recalled an incident at this year's Africa Cup of Nations when the tiny Adams took on a tall Mali opponent with some choice local words. Williams asked Adams if he knew the size of the player he was sledging, but Adams shrugged it off and replied that the Malian wouldn't understand anyway.

"That was the character he had," Williams said at the memorial, smiling through his tears as he bade farewell to the teammate he called "my ma se kind" (my mother's child, a term used in South Africa).

As his star rose, Adams was careful not to advertise his achievements. "Jayden knew what he had, but he never wanted to voice it. He was very competitive, but he would never brag," says Johnson. "You get people who are very good verbally on social media. Jayden was not like that. And he wanted to give back. After every game, he would be giving away shirts and boots to kids who asked."

He also concentrated on providing for his family because he "always promised them he would change their financial situation".

At the World Cup, Adams played for them, even through immense pain. His grandmother Marianna died the day before South Africa's match against Czechia and Adams opted to remain with the squad. He played that match and appeared in good spirits afterwards and called the 1-1 draw positive, even if he was feeling the opposite way.

He also played the next game against South Korea, which South Africa won to reach the knockouts for the first time. Post-game footage showed him sitting on his own while the rest of the squad celebrated with a song and dance.

At the memorial, Komphela offered the Adams family a Bible verse as a comfort, but it may as well be a summary. Psalm 23:4: "Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me."

They will know Adams took that walk many times over his short life and he did not fear. He leaves behind his parents, three siblings, a partner, two children and a community who have gone through what no neighbourhood should. In all that, he has gone from not wanting to be known, to entering the footballing world's spotlight. A minute's silence was observed at several World Cup games in Adams's memory. That is not the way his family would have pictured him coming to global attention, but it has shown them that, in football, he was always far more valued than anyone thought.

"I don't think the community knew how big he was and how people enjoyed his football," says Johnson. "It's a huge shock."

Chiesa aiming for 'new chapter' under Iraola at Liverpool

Italian looking forward to fresh start after disappointing season under Arne Slot

Andy Hunter Nashville

Federico Chiesa has said he wants "a new chapter" at Liverpool with Andoni Iraola following a frustrating time under Arne Slot and claimed the club were lucky to qualify for the Champions League last season.

The Liverpool forward has been linked with a return to Italy this summer having struggled for minutes during his two years at Anfield. Chiesa made 36 appearances for Slot last season, a healthy return on paper, but only five were starts.

He started one Premier League game last season despite the problems Liverpool had in attack because of injuries to Alexander Isak and Hugo Ekitike, and his last start came in the FA Cup fourth-round win against Brighton on 14 February. A change of head coach, Chiesa hopes, will herald a change in fortune.

"It is always a fresh start at the beginning of the year," said the 28-year-old, who produced a fine finish in Liverpool's 4-2 friendly defeat of Sunderland in Nashville on Saturday. "Maybe there have been too many fresh starts [for him]. But I don't care, I am trying to do my best for this new manager.

"Last season under Arne Slot, I was trying to do my best. Last year I felt ready for a bigger role, then it

▲ Chiesa will hope to impress the new head coach, Andoni Iraola

depended on the coach whether he wanted me to play or not. Of course I wanted to play more but it is what it is. The gaffer had his gameplans, he took his decisions, I have nothing to say about that. This year, let us say it is a new chapter. There is a new manager and I have to focus on that."

Chiesa admits he has not discussed his future with Iraola since the Basque coach succeeded Slot in June. "The only conversations I had were about pressing and tactics," he

'I am happy at Liverpool. I love the club, the fans'

Federico Chiesa Liverpool

said. "He put me striker against Sunderland and he wants me there."

But the Italy international, who has two years remaining on his contract, claimed his priority is to prove himself to the head coach rather than seek a return to Serie A. Como and former club Juventus have been linked with a move for the forward.

"Right now I am happy here at Liverpool," said Chiesa. "I love the club, I love the fans, I love everything. I am doing the best I can to have a chance here. And then we will see. At the minute, the only thing I am thinking about is Liverpool."

Liverpool secured Champions League qualification on the final day of a troubled season in May in what proved to be Slot's final game in charge. Chiesa insists that was no cause for celebration at a club of Liverpool's stature and there must be improvement next term.

The forward said: "Liverpool deserves more. Two years ago, we were Premier League champions. Last year, we almost went out of the Champions League spots. We were battling for fifth, which was enough at the time but as we know usually only four go in. We were lucky.

"It was a tough season last year and this season we need to do better, in the Champions League as well. We went out to PSG. We want to go further and then we want to do even better in the Premier League as well."

Chiesa also hopes to reclaim his place in the national team next season, having missed out on several squads recently. Italy are now searching for a new head coach, having failed to qualify for the World Cup under Gennaro Gattuso.

Chiesa said: "The situation is that I spoke to the manager a few times, Gattuso, and I was not ready physically at the time. When I got back in March, unfortunately I got injured. But I am looking forward to playing for the national team. I have won with the national team [the European Championship]. It is always nice to play and win for your national team."

Warning up for new season in style

Federico Chiesa (left) and Dominik Szoboszlai both scored in Liverpool's win against Sunderland on Saturday ANDREW I CLARK/ IPS PHOTOS/GETTY

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Sport Commonwealth Games

Swimming

Choppy waters for Ramsay-Peaty but he has 'battle plan' for golden revival

Sean Ingle

Tollcross Swimming Centre

Adam Ramsay-Peaty has never been one to hide his emotions. He wears them proudly on his sleeve, next to the striking tattoos of a huge lion and Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea.

After his shock defeat in the 100m breaststroke final at these Commonwealth Games, the 31-year-old was back pouring his heart out – and insisting he had a 'battle plan' to win 50m breaststroke gold today.

Ramsay-Peaty certainly looked smoother in qualifying third fastest from the semi-finals in 26.82sec. However, he still has a couple of tenths to find on the South African Michael Houlie, who was fastest in 26.61.

The Australian Sam Williamson, who is hoping to add the 50m to his 100m crown, also looked good as he won his semi-final in 26.79. Yet Peaty pronounced himself happy with how he had bounced back from Saturday's shock loss.

'It felt much better,' he said. 'The last 24 hours have been a bit of a whirlwind, but I'm really happy

▲ Adam Ramsay-Peaty seemed more at ease with himself yesterday

with that. We're on a great trajectory for tomorrow.

'For me, the best way to ever get anything out of my head is just to write it out. When I write down what's going wrong, what's going right, what kind of change? What can't change? Then I've got a battle plan.'

He added: 'People forget I haven't done this for two years. And even I forget that. So as you go through heats, semis and finals, it's quite difficult if you're not used to it. So I think that perspective is a good thing.'

Peaty has stood on the top of the podium 32 times in global championships across his glittering career. Yet he has not won a gold medal since the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. That record was extended on Saturday when he could take only bronze in the 100m breaststroke in 59.65, behind Williamson, who won in 59.3, and the brilliant 18-year-old Filip Nowicki from Jersey.

Afterwards Ramsay-Peaty was strikingly honest about 'all the shit I have been through' to get ready for the Commonwealth Games, including the 5.30am starts, missing family gatherings because of training, and also the amount of abuse he and his family has received on social media.

Yesterday he added more context to his struggles, pointing out that he battled with burnout and a broken foot over the past four years, as well as hinting at the much-publicised estrangement with his family.

'There have been a multitude of things at play over the last few years – burnout, breaking my foot, fighting against something that you love. It's been hard,' he said. 'Some of it has

been quite painful, particularly from that foot injury onwards.

'Coming back to where I am now and making the decision to go for LA, I think this is going to be the hardest climb I've ever faced and the hardest test. It's really hard to see the summit because it's so hard. I don't think anyone understands.'

That 59.65 was nearly three seconds behind his world record –

and slower even than he swam at the British trials in the spring.

'I work a lot harder than a 59.6, really. It's not a good time – we know that,' he said yesterday. 'When your world record is three seconds away, we've got to seriously ask what's going wrong because that's not me.

'We need to look at it, interrogate it, look at the data, and ask whether it was an issue with race pace, fitness,

or something else. I don't think it was fitness, but there are a lot of components that make us swim, so we really have to analyse it.'

He added: 'I was fitter in April with less training, which doesn't really make sense, to be honest. I guess that's the learning point. Maybe I'm on a plan that I don't fully understand, and maybe it'll take another two years to find the right way.'

Netball

Garbin runs the show as Australia rip Roses apart

Yara El-Shaboury

OVO Hydro

Eight years after England's dramatic last-gasp triumph over Australia on the Gold Coast, netball's greatest Commonwealth rivalry was renewed in Glasgow. But this time there was no fairytale finish for the Roses as the defending champions dismantled England 66-47 at the Hydro, the Diamonds extending their record against this opposition at the Games to seven wins from eight meetings.

Ever since Helen Housby's last-second winner stunned the Diamonds

in the 2018 final, every meeting between these two has carried extra edge. Australia gained a measure of revenge by beating England on the way to gold in Birmingham four years ago and yesterday's Commonwealth Games pool clash was another marker of where the sport's fiercest rivalry stands.

Australia were quicker, sharper and more clinical from the opening whistle, with their star-studded attack of Sophie Garbin and Kiera Austin immediately exposing England's defence.

'It was very physical out there, but that's what we expected and that's

what we prepared for,' said Garbin. 'Obviously it's nice to get the win, but England put up a really good fight.

'We knew we had a lot of Scots barracking for us. I think everyone told us to go and smash the English girls, so we knew we'd have a lot of support here, but they would as well. It's awesome. That's what you want – to play these games in front of these crowds in this amazing arena. It was really exciting.'

The Diamonds raced into an early 10-4 lead as Austin began dictating proceedings, while England struggled to live with Australia's relentless pressure through the court. Sasha Glasgow was withdrawn before the end of the opening quarter as the interim head coach, Anna Stembridge, searched for answers, and Lois Pearson's move into goal attack briefly stemmed the tide.

England clawed back to 13-9, but every glimpse of momentum was extinguished by Australia's ruthless

efficiency. Garbin repeatedly found space on the baseline, finishing with 41 goals from 42 attempts, while Austin contributed 15 goals alongside 19 assists and 17 feeds.

By the end of the opening quarter Australia led 18-11. England attempted to shake things up early in the second period, introducing Jayda Pechová into defence while

shifting the captain Fran Williams into goal defence. The changes initially worked, with Pechová disrupting Australia's rhythm as England opened the quarter with a 4-1 burst.

Jamie-Lee Price and Austin restored Australia's composure, while England's frustration began to show. Liv Tchine remained the Roses' brightest attacking outlet, using her

◀ Australia's Sophie Garbin, who poured in 41 goals, evades pressure from England's Jayda Pechová during their 66-47 Pool A victory JOEL CARRETT/AAP

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Ramsay-Peaty going for 50m gold

Adam Ramsay-Peaty in action during yesterday's semi-finals ADAM PRETTY/GETTY IMAGES

On Saturday, Ramsay-Peaty also took aim at social media and traditional media too, which has become fixated with him and his pregnant wife, Holly - the daughter of the celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay - and his estrangement with his mother.

"You don't know who I am," he said. "And people who comment, people who see the story because

you read a headline, they've got to look themselves in the mirror. You can't hurt me."

He added: "That hasn't played a part in the sense of what I've experienced, because I'm still happy with that result in some sense, but it has to stop. How many athletes, how many people, have to go through this until the media learn their lesson? You have to learn and do better."

height and movement to keep England competitive, but Courtney Bruce and Jo Weston continually forced difficult feeds and turnovers.

Bruce and Tchine exchanged plenty of contact in the circle, while the contest became increasingly feisty as England tried to unsettle Australia's defensive unit. Tchine's shove into Bruce's back late in the second quarter summed up the growing frustration as the Diamonds stretched their advantage to 35-24 at half-time.

If England harboured hopes of another famous fightback, Australia extinguished them in the third quarter. They outscored the Roses 21-11 in a devastating spell, capitalising on errors with clinical precision. Turnovers, offensive contacts and loose passes repeatedly handed possession straight back to Australia, who punished every mistake. With a 21-goal cushion entering the final quarter, the contest was effectively over.

"That's definitely not the result that we came for but it's also not the performance," said Williams. "We were just far off our best and we never really got some momentum to get our teeth into the game, which is a shame. It's really tough when a game blows out like that in the second half. You've got to make sure that you're still going after those small wins and little fights."

England fan favourite Eleanor Cardwell entered to a huge reception from the Glasgow crowd and immediately injected fresh energy into the attack. Her battle with Sarah Klau added another flashpoint to an already bruising encounter, with Klau receiving an official warning after sending Cardwell tumbling to the floor. Cardwell refused Klau's offer of assistance before dusting herself down and continuing.

England marginally won the final quarter, but by then the damage had long been done.

Gymnastics

Ward claims all-around gold and welcomes back injured Langton

Sean Ingle

Glasgow International Arena

Surely the most heartwarming sight at these Commonwealth Games came shortly before lunchtime yesterday, when a young English gymnast hobbled to his seat in the Glasgow International Arena.

Thirty-six hours earlier, Gabriel Langton had landed on his neck after a horror fall off the high bars, leaving many of his fellow gymnasts in tears. Now, despite spending 24 hours in hospital and sporting a fair few bruises, he was back at the scene - and determined to make himself heard.

He shouted for his English teammates Luke Whitehouse and Adam Tobin, who finished seventh and fifth. And when it became clear they were not going to win, he urged on his British teammate Reuben Ward, competing for Scotland, to a brilliant individual all-around gold medal.

Ward had been one of those in tears on Friday night and after his win he remembered what the team's physiotherapists had told him when it happened: "Do it for Gabe."

"I went to junior Europeans in 2022 with Gabe," Ward said. "And I was there yesterday when he came back from the hospital and went to the Leonardo hotel, where Team England is staying. I was there. I saw him. I clapped him in, gave him a hug. I'm just so glad he's all right.

"Honestly, the other day in the team final when he was on the floor, that was very scary. When we went to junior Europeans, he was 15, and he was just a kid then, and now he's a man. And then he was on the floor. The physio came over, said: 'Do it for Gabe.' I think about three of us on Team Scotland cried, including me."

However, this was a day when gymnastics offered another reminder of the perils of this wonderful sport, with Singapore's Jovi Loh being taken away on a stretcher with what looked like serious knee injury.

The 18-year-old was finishing off his routine on the bars but he did not stick his double front-half dismount

▲ Reuben Ward shows his delight after securing an unexpected gold

and went down clutching a knee and grimacing in pain.

Ward's words were echoed by Tobin, who said he had also heard Langton shouting for him. "I didn't actually see him, but I heard him," he added. "I know what his voice sounds like. It's great, and I think seeing him walk back into the hotel last night, fit and healthy, was great.

"He was shouting: 'Let's go!' and: 'Keep it clean.' And it's so great. In the span of two days, he's gone through this incredibly scary, traumatic thing, and he's here and he's supporting me, Team England and

Team Scotland as well. So I'm just so happy he's doing great."

Tobin also praised England's coaches for keeping everyone calm amid the chaos. "I mean we were all completely shocked, and the first thing that jumped into our head was: 'Is he OK?' The coaches did a really good job of hiding us up, keeping us in a bubble, and just trying to keep our head scooted on because we still have a job to do. And then it became more than a medal. We were doing it for Gabe.

"It was a bit of a rollercoaster on the first day of competition. We walked away with a team medal, which I'm extremely happy about. And then from that point, I've had to calm myself down and build myself back up going into this competition today, so it's been a bit of a new experience."

Whitehouse, who had been the favourite for gold, put on a brave face after finishing seventh. Three falls proved costly, including one doing a triple backflip on the floor, which is his signature move.

"Overall I'm pretty disappointed," he said. "I didn't start the competition the way I wanted, falling on the first three apparatus and the triple back - that's pretty uncharacteristic for me. Then I just made a silly mistake on the pommel with a dismount."

However, Whitehouse was also able to put his disappointment into perspective. "It's such a relief to know that Gabe's OK and there's no serious injuries, just bruising," he said. "And to welcome him back to the hotel yesterday and present his medal to him, I couldn't be prouder."

Asked about his medal-winning performance on Friday after Langton's fall, Whitehouse added: "I don't know how I did it. It was a pretty horrific fall. I think you've just got to put that aside and just try not to think about it really."

▲ Scotland's Reuben Ward on the high bar in front of his home crowd TOM JENKINS/THE GUARDIAN

Today's highlights

A busy schedule in Glasgow, as the first athletics medals of the Games are awarded. There are 27 golds in total on offer across the sports; TNT's live coverage starts with bowls from 8.20am. Channel 5's highlights show is at 10.05pm.

The main events

Athletics and Para athletics

6.30pm-10pm

Plenty to watch out for, including former rugby player Jake Norris in the men's hammer, Hamish Kerr

in the men's high jump final and, in the women's T37-38 100m final, 2022's winner Olivia Breen of Wales battling it out with England's 2018 winner Sophie Hahn.

Swimming and Para swimming

7pm-10pm

Australia's Sam Short is favourite in the 800m freestyle. Also watch out for a shot at redemption for Adam Ramsay-Peaty in the 50m breaststroke, after Saturday's emotional 100m defeat.

Netball

2pm-5.30pm, 7pm-10.30pm

In the early session, England take on Malawi in Pool A; Tonga face Northern Ireland. Later, Scotland play Trinidad & Tobago in Pool B.

Artistic gymnastics

1pm-5.30pm

A busy lineup. Keep an eye on Ireland's Olympic champion Rhys McClenaghan, who was second at Birmingham 2022 and is determined to go one better.

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Sport Cycling Tour de France

Pogacar joins greats as Van der Poel wins frantic finale

Jeremy Whittle Paris

Tadej Pogacar took a record-equalling fifth win in the Tour de France yesterday, joining Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and Miguel Induráin in the canon of the Tour's most successful cyclists. In a thrilling finale to the Tour, Mathieu van der Poel took his second stage win of the race on the Champs-Élysées, fending off the pursuing pack of sprinters by a tyre's width, after breaking clear with Pogacar on the final climb of the Butte de Montmartre.

Merckx, widely considered the greatest-ever cyclist because of the breadth of his achievements beyond the Tour itself, believes that Pogacar will now go on to win a sixth Tour. "I don't think he'll be content just to draw level with me and the other champions," the 81-year-old Belgian said. "He'll soon break our record for Tour victories."

From Montjuïc to Montmartre, Pogacar and the stifling temperatures suffocated the 2026 Tour. A race staged against the backdrop of heatwaves and wildfires, culminated in the inevitable - another win for the relentless Slovene.

Pogacar had no equal in this Tour de France, breaking records on two of the most daunting climbs in cycling, the Col du Tourmalet and Alpe d'Huez, and shepherding his protege, Isaac del Toro, to third place in the final standings.

In another life, the Olympic road race champion, Remco Evenepoel, would probably have won his first Tour, and the French debutant Paul Seixas climbed on to the podium. It is their misfortune, and that of Jonas Vingegaard - who crashed out of the Tour - to race in the era of Pogacar and his impregnable UAE Emirates XRG team.

A leaner, meaner and more driven Evenepoel proved his doubters wrong, reasserting himself as a genuine contender for victory in Paris. But the Belgian knows too that

▲ Mathieu van der Poel sprints to his second stage victory of the race

Pogacar may have to retire before that happens.

The statistics tell the story of one of the most dominant performances in the modern history of the Tour. Pogacar won the race overall by almost six and a half minutes, took five stages and set record times for

legendary climbs in the Pyrenees and Alps. He might have won six stages, had it not been for his decision to allow Del Toro to win on stage two.

"I did really good this Tour," Pogacar said after Saturday's stage to Alpe d'Huez, while acknowledging the bad luck of rivals such as Vingegaard and Florian Lipowitz, both of whom finished on the podium in Paris last year and crashed out of this year's race. "It's the Tour, it's three weeks," Pogacar said. "A lot of shit can happen."

But his unrelenting success comes with caveats. It would be naive to celebrate a five-time Tour winner without understanding the context. There is no doubt that Pogacar is a phenomenon, but his entourage has baggage from less happy times.

His team manager, Mauro Gianetti, said: "Pogacar is so strong that no matter the team, there will be doubts concerning him." But 24 hours before the peloton arrived in Paris, Gianetti said he was a "victim" of past scandals involving riders on his teams.

The most infamous is the Saunier

Final standings

General classification

1 T Pogacar Svn	73hr 56m 26s
2 R Evenepoel Bel	74hr 02m 52s

Points classification

1 M Pedersen Den	559pts
2 J Philipsen Bel	475pts

King of the mountains

1 R Carapaz Ecu	156pts
2 T Pogacar Svn	100pts

Young rider classification

1 I Del Toro Mex	74hr 06m 08s
2 P Seixas Fr	74hr 08m 22s

Most Tour titles

5 J Anquetil (Fr)
E Merckx (Bel)
B Hinault (Fr)
M Induráin (Sp)
T Pogacar (Svn)
4 C Froome (GB)

Duval scandal of 2008, when the Gianetti-managed team quit the Tour after their star rider, Riccardo Riccò, tested positive for a blood-doping agent. Riccò was fired, along with his teammate Leonardo Piepoli, and sponsors withdrew funding.

"I made the mistake of taking them in my team," Gianetti told L'Équipe. "I should have reacted differently, been clearer with the press, explained that I was a victim."

The old anxieties around Pogacar's entourage resurfaced after the Slovene and Vingegaard were sub-

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jected to night-time tests by the Independent Testing Agency before stage 15. The tests were supported by the Tour de France director, Christian Prudhomme, and the UCI. In a statement released three days after the tests the UCI described the controls as "an exceptional measure, reserved for limited and justified circumstances".

Despite the interrupted sleep, Pogacar was accepting of the tests. "If this is necessary to prove that we are riding clean," he said, "then I totally accept it. I commit to it."

The ITA has reiterated to the Guardian that "no public communication is made regarding negative results" but also that "there is no date from which all tests can be considered definitively negative".

To some extent, this leaves the achievements of Pogacar and those of Vingegaard, his longstanding rival, in limbo. Regardless, the Slovene is expected to ride next month's Vuelta a España, in an attempt to claim the only Grand Tour he has yet to win.

Next year, the Tour looks northwards, towards a Grand Départ in Scotland. Speaking to the Guardian last week, Prudhomme described Edinburgh as "a magical city". "Every time the Tour has visited Great Britain, it has helped the Tour de France grow," he said. "If the Tour can help bring major cycling events back to different parts of Britain, that would be fantastic. The UK has given the Tour an enormous amount."

Pogacar triumphs at Arc de Triomphe

Tadej Pogacar rides past the landmark on the Champs-Élysées in Paris en route to his fifth Tour de France win GONZALO FUENTES/MASTERS

Analysis

William Fotheringham

Pogi might not have the greatest numbers just yet but ability to win unopposed sets him apart

The 2026 Tour de France served up an epic battle that lasted for day after day between two protagonists of the highest calibre with different skillsets, a tale of epic breakaways, intriguing team tactics and reversals of fortune, building to a spectacular climax on the race's toughest stage. The contest for the green jersey of points winner between Mads Pedersen and Jasper Philipsen was a classic.

Those hoping for something similar in the race for the yellow jersey of overall winner were disappointed, and rapidly. Any suspense was eliminated with 42km of stage six remaining, high above the ski village of La Mongie, when Tadej Pogacar dislodged Jonas Vingegaard and the other putative race favourites on the Col du Tourmalet. It was a familiar stinging attack, and a familiar outcome, with the Slovene opening a lead that looked insurmountable, as indeed it was.

Analysing the race for the maillot jaune to the RMC radio station, the former FDJ United manager Marc Madiot did not mince his words: "There was one single rider who attacked in this Tour: Tadej Pogacar. He attacked once, and everyone understood it was finished."

Unfortunately for the neutrals, the art of cycling's greats balls down to this: they don't so much kill suspense as tie it up and eviscerate it before jumping up and down on its steaming remains. The neutrals have to make do with Pedersen and the green jersey, or Richard Carapaz and the polka dots.

From that moment on the Tourmalet, the chances of Pogacar joining Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and Miguel Induráin as a five-times Tour winner were nailed on, and yesterday evening, the world champion duly entered the record books. Even with the rise of Paul Seixas and Remco Evenepoel's confirmation as a man of the Tour, few would bet against "Pogi" taking the absolute record in 2027 if he chooses to do so.

Pogacar is exceptional in many areas, but in the elite club of quintuple Tour winners he also stands out: he is younger than the other four and, unlike all those who have stood in Paris as a five-time winner of the world's greatest bike race, there were no glitches or question marks to disrupt his serene progress to

Best of the best

Trophy hauls of the all-time greats

Eddy Merckx 11 Grand Tours, 3 world road titles, 1 Hour Record, 19 Monument Classics Bernard Hinault 9 Grand Tours, 1 world road title, 6 Monument Classics Tadej Pogacar 6 Grand Tours, 2 world road titles, 13 Monument Classics

the record books. Unlike all the previous true greats, at no point in the past few weeks could Pogacar wonder if victory might slip away.

Speculation that he might have switched to black shorts in the final week to disguise stomach issues doesn't cut it as a glitch - not compared with the broken nose that left Hinault looking like a boxer who'd had a bad night in the final week of win number five after a finish-line crash at Saint-Étienne. Or with the open wound on the crutch that dogged Merckx throughout the 1974 race, needing "constant care, bathing, the application of cream and sterile plasters, and cushioning with bits of foam and plasters". Merckx did win eight stages in that Tour, but he was close to collapse on the mountain-top finish at Pla d'Adet and was never the same athlete again.

Similarly, although he was eventually stripped of the victory for doping, 2003 was the only Tour when Lance Armstrong did not have the race sewn up until the final time trial, while in 1995, "Big Mig" Induráin and his Banesto team had

to cope with a day of crisis in the Massif Central en route to Mende. Anquetil, famously, was run close by Raymond Poulidor in 1964, and could thank his lucky stars that "PouPou" suffered a puncture in a key time trial.

In the pantheon of cycling's greatest champions, Pogacar has long since outstripped Big Mig, physically impressive but essentially a Grand Tour specialist who shied away from one-day Classics and never won a world road race title. He is far above the calculating but charismatic Anquetil, another who never shone in the Classics, although Pogi will never have the chance to match "Master Jacques" most insanely quixotic career challenge, winning the Dauphine Libéré stage race (now known as the Tour Auvergne Rhone Alps) and the Bordeaux-Paris motorpaced marathon without a day off.

When you get to Hinault, the statistical game becomes more nuanced, the debate more interesting. Pogacar has forged ahead of the "Badger" in major one-day wins - 13 Monument Classics and counting, plus two world road titles - but Hinault has won more Grand Tours, having won the Vuelta and Giro twice each, to Pogacar's single Giro win. As for Merckx, the Slovene has won fewer Grand Tours, fewer world titles and fewer Monuments than the "Cannibal", who also, famously and painfully, claimed the world one-hour record.

The debate over who is the greatest will continue and could well take a further twist if Pogacar rides the Vuelta and world championships later in the year, because if he starts those races, the chances are he will win both. Only when Merckx and Hinault were in their absolute prime could that be written, and that is the best reflection of where the past three weeks have put him.

Sport In brief

▲ Luke Littler enjoys a stylish World Matchplay win over Gerwyn Price

Darts

Littler smashes Taylor feat in matchplay romp

Luke Littler bulldozed his way to a second consecutive World Matchplay title as he crushed Gerwyn Price 18-9 in Blackpool. The 19-year-old averaged 111.53 in the final, setting an average for the tournament as a whole of 111.04 to break Phil Taylor's record of 106.31. Littler also broke his own competition record for 180s as he hit 12 in the final to reach 66 for the week, as he became only the third man to successfully defend the Matchplay final after Taylor and Michael van Gerwen, who did it most recently in 2016. Earlier, Beau Greaves claimed her third Women's World Matchplay title in four years as she edged Fallon Sherrock 6-5. PA Media

Cricket The Hundred

Buttler's mighty 90 fires Super Giants to victory

Jos Buttler hit a superb 90 as Manchester Super Giants went on to close out an 87-run win over Birmingham Phoenix in the men's Hundred at Old Trafford. After a delayed start because of rain, which had forced the morning's women's match to be abandoned, the visitors made inroads with the ball before Heinrich Klaasen's swift 210 and Leus du Plooy's 13 helped the hosts to 113 for four after 69 balls. But it was Buttler, who brought up a half-century with a huge six over deep midwicker, who led with the bat, eventually falling with three balls of the innings left. The Giants finished at 187 for five. Birmingham stumbled to 100 all out from 97 balls in reply. PA Media

Golf

Koivun, 21, holds off Scheffler for maiden win

The rookie Jackson Koivun shot a five-under-par 66 to see off a charging Scottie Scheffler and win on the PGA Tour for the first time at the 3M Open yesterday in Blaine, Minnesota. Koivun, 21, finished on 25 under par for a three-shot victory over the world No 1 Scheffler, who closed with a 63 at TPC Twin Cities. Koivun demonstrated serious poise to play the final two rounds of only his third tournament since turning professional without making a bogey. Reuters

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▼ McLaren's Lando Norris takes the chequered flag ahead of Max Verstappen MARK SUTTON/FORMULA LIGETTY

Norris seals overdue win as Antonelli presses on

Giles Richards Hungaroring

Lando Norris finally had reason to celebrate after a testing opening to the season, as McLaren's defending Formula One world champion took his first win of the year at the Hungarian Grand Prix.

However, while the victory was thoroughly deserved in an incident-packed race, there was an all too familiar feel to the bigger picture as Kimi Antonelli emerged from a weekend that might have been considered damage limitation for the Mercedes

driver having once more extended his advantage at the top of the drivers' championship.

Norris was implacable with an assured drive from pole at the Hungaroring, achieving McLaren's record 14th win at the circuit. He maintained his cool having lost the lead to his teammate Oscar Piastri in the second corner and then showed relentless pace in going on to retake it through the pit stops. The Australian was unlucky and was left fuming that he had been blocked and struck while trying to lap the backmarker Carlos Sainz in a Williams at a crucial point.

Ultimately Piastri had to retire with a gearbox problem but by then Norris had the race by the scruff of the

neck and, in clean air out front, had powered into a commanding lead. By the flag he led Max Verstappen by 15 seconds, as the upgrades McLaren brought to Hungary proved to be working to great effect, especially in the British driver's hands.

▲ Kimi Antonelli stayed on course for the title with a third-place finish

Behind him, Antonelli again put the squeeze on his rivals by returning big points from an unlikely position. The Italian started from seventh, after a three-place grid penalty, but put in a very strong comeback drive to take third. Moreover, Antonelli's Mercedes teammate George Russell was left once more to curse a run of ill-fortune that haunts him as a blight he seems unable to shrug off.

Russell's car went into anti-stall on the grid, dropping him to 20th, a mechanical problem that led Toto Wolff, the team principal, to say Mercedes had to stop making mistakes. As Russell had applied a little throttle on the grid the power had surged, so he backed off it and the anti-stall was activated. He drove hard to come back to seventh but has dropped even more points to the Italian as the sport goes into its summer break, with Antonelli now leading Lewis Hamilton by 50 points and Russell by 59.

Like Russell, Piastri can consider himself to be on the very unlucky side of the ledger. He had been leading but was impeded and struck by Sainz as

he tried to lap the Spaniard. Piastri was very nearly knocked off the track but just held control to race on.

"Is he fucking stupid or what? Get out of the fucking way, you idiot. Oh my God," a furious Piastri told his team. Blue flag markers were being shown and Williams had told Sainz, who was at fault having not spotted Piastri and simply turned into the McLaren. He was penalised with a five-second penalty.

It certainly cost Piastri the lead but that was perhaps moot, as such had been Norris's pace in clean air after the Australian's early pit stop set him free that the world champion would likely have taken to the front anyway. But that would have been of scant consolation to Piastri, who had questioned the team's strategy as well.

There was frustration to for Hamilton, whose Ferrari team ordered him to take a late third pit stop under a virtual safety car, costing him track position to Verstappen and Antonelli. He could not make up those places even on fresher rubber, which Hamilton felt had been the wrong call, with

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▼ Oscar Piastri was leading before retiring with a gearbox problem BERNADETT SCARCHESTERS

which it was hard to argue given how hard passing was in Hungary.

He crossed the line in fourth but dropped behind his Ferrari teammate Charles Leclerc because of a five-second penalty for pitlane speeding. It was a shame as Hamilton had battled hard throughout, including a thrilling to and fro with Verstappen in which

the Dutchman pulled off a bravura overtake diving up the inside at turn one which was worthy of the price of admission alone.

Yet the afternoon had really belonged to Norris and there was a palpable sense of relief and pleasure that he finally had the monkey off his back this season and that

▲ Lando Norris is congratulated by the McLaren team after his triumph BRYN LENNON/FORMULA 1 YSA GETTY IMAGES

Results and standings

1	Lando Norris GB	35pts
	McLaren	1hr 39min 56.180sec
2	Max Verstappen Perth	18
	Red Bull	+15.080sec
3	Kimi Antonelli H	15
	Mercedes	+18.728
4	Charles Leclerc Msc	12
	Ferrari	+23.840
5	Lewis Hamilton GB	10
	Ferrari	+24.540
6	Ixack Hadjar Fr	8
	Red Bull	+55.488
7	George Russell GB	6
	Mercedes	+57.503
8	Liam Lawson NZ	4
	Racing Bulls	+1 lap
9	Nico Hüllenberg Ger	2
	Audi	+1 lap
10	Arvid Lindblad GB	1
	Racing Bulls	+1 lap
Also finished
11	Gabriel Bortolote Br Audi	+1 lap
12	Pierre Gasly Fr Alpine	+1 lap
13	Lance Stroll Can Aston Martin	+1 lap
14	Fernando Alonso Sp Aston Martin	+1 lap
15	Franco Colapinto Nry Alpine	+2 laps
16	Esteban Ocon Fr Haas	+2 laps
17	Alex Albon Thu Williams	+2 laps
18	Carlos Sainz De Williams	+2 laps
19	Oliver Bearman GB Haas	+2 laps
Not classified
RET	Oscar Piastri Aus McLaren	DNF
RET	Valtteri Bottas Fie Cadillac	DNF
RET	Sergio Pérez Msc Cadillac	DNF
Championship standings
Drivers: 1 Antonelli 225pts; 2 Hamilton 169;
3 Russell 160; 4 Leclerc 138; 5 Norris 128;
6 Verstappen 109; 7 Piastri 92; 8 Hadjar 68;
9 Lawson 43; 10 Gasly 42
Constructors: 1 Mercedes 375pts;
2 Ferrari 307; 3 McLaren 220;
4 Red Bull 171; 5 Racing Bulls 66; 6 Alpine 61; 7 Haas 212; 8 Audi 12; 9 Williams 11;
10 Aston Martin 1; 11 Cadillac 0

Lando Norris lifts the trophy after earning his first win of the season at Hungaroring MARK THOMPSON GETTY IMAGES

McLaren might yet, whisper it, be players in this title fight.

They have a long way to go, not least because Antonelli proved again that he is as indomitable in adversity as any veteran, but Norris will still believe this is far from over.

Earlier, F1 confirmed the addition of a race at the Sepang circuit in Malaysia, which will take place on 4 October between the rounds in Baku and Singapore. The meeting, which is to replace the cancelled Bahrain GP, is to be branded as the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia. with a Gulf state understood to be meeting much of the costs of hosting the race on the circuit near Kuala Lumpur.

The Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, also cancelled due to the war in the Middle East, will not be replaced.

Sepang last held an F1 meeting in 2017, which was won by Verstappen, and the addition brings the calendar back to 25 races, if the two meetings which close the season in Qatar and Abu Dhabi are able to take place. F1 is understood to be considering adding a race at Imola as the season finale if they are called off.

Results

Football

PREMIER SPORTS SCOTTISH LEAGUE CUP

Group A Aberdeen 3 Kelly G: Queen's Park 3 Queen of the South 1. Group B Arlircaith 1 Stirling G: Montrose 0 The Spartans 2. Group C Dumbarton 2 Cow 0: St Mirren 0 Dunfermline 1. Group D Kintiboskians 0 Ross 3: Dundee 4 Clyde 0. Group E Forfar 3 Brechin 1: Stonhoussmair 0 Livingston 0 (Stonhoussmair was 3-1 or zero). Group F Greenock Marrow 0 Awareness CF 1: St Johnstone 1 East Fife 1 (East Fife won 3-4 or zero). Group G Arv 4 Hana 1: Falkirk 3 Stroncarer 0. Group H Hamilton 5 Digh 0: Peterhead 0 Kilmarnock 0 (Peterhead won 3-4 or zero)

WOMEN'S CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

First qualifying round: Third-place finals (behavioral Podgorica 0) Hapoel Jerusalem 1: Glenfarian 4 Piyush 2:

K1 4 Zimbru Chiolona 1: Lasso 2 Skaggs 2014 0

First qualifying round: Final: Athlone 1 Czairé Szewowiec 3:

Mitravi 2: Ludogorets Razgval 0: PAOK 3 Nefro Bakr 0:

Kiga 4 Wrotham 1: Spartak Wynos 6 Wigari 1

BREEDON HIGHLAND LEAGUE

Banks 07 Dec 2 Mick Academy 0: Brevy 3 Deavennauld 0: Buckie Thistle 2 Heavens (Levi-Morris 0), Clachucadeh 0: Hewitt 0: Torres Mormons 1: Knift 1: Fruehlberg 0: Invergnorlos 0: Lussismouth 1: Huttig 0: Nairn 3 Ralhos 0: St-Johapay 1 Forrestime 2

SSE AIRTRICITY MEN'S HIGH PREMIER DIVISION

Galway 0 Waterford 0: Stags 2 Drogheda 2:

Friday St Patrick's Athletic 1 Donelab 1

Rugby league

WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL

France 4 England 58

BETIFIED SUPER LEAGUE

	P	W	D	L	F	A	PO	PA
Leeds	20	16	0	4	698	304	+394	32
Waterford	20	15	0	5	555	307	+215	30
Wigan	20	15	0	5	587	375	+212	30
Warrington	19	13	0	6	478	328	+320	26
Leigh	20	13	0	7	458	378	+80	26
Half 68	19	12	0	7	348	323	+225	24
St Helens	20	12	0	8	452	426	+26	24
Calcutta Dragons	20	9	0	11	407	389	-182	18
Toukson	20	7	0	13	432	498	-60	14
Casterford	20	7	0	13	372	610	-238	14
York	20	6	0	14	386	381	-185	12
Bradford	20	6	0	14	386	389	-223	12
Hull	20	5	0	15	337	441	-104	10
Huddersfield	20	3	0	17	311	615	-304	8

Leeds 42 Bradford 12: Leigh 28 Warrington 12:

Toukson 16 Catalina Dragons 19: York 22 Huddersfield 24

Friday Wigan 38 St Helens 16: Waterford 52 Castlered 14

BETIFIED CHAMPIONSHIP

	P	W	D	L	F	A	PO
London Broncos	18	18	0	0	1151	174	+97
Newcastle	20	17	0	3	913	236	+677
Wigan	18	16	0	2	685	245	+361
Wolves	19	17	0	5	662	280	+302
Barrow	19	14	0	5	514	339	+175
Doncaster	18	13	0	5	619	288	+313
Sheffield	18	12	0	6	445	434	+11
Midlands	18	10	1	7	426	442	-18
Baltist	19	8	0	11	515	471	-44
Whitehaven	19	7	1	11	394	549	-155
Drexbury	18	7	0	11	410	434	-14
Salford	21	7	0	14	480	724	-244
Rochdale	17	6	0	11	273	548	-275
Goole	20	6	0	14	422	705	-293
Keighley	17	4	2	11	403	492	-89
Hamlet	19	6	0	14	364	474	-310
Worlington	18	4	1	13	344	550	-206
Swinton	19	4	1	14	350	638	-288
Halifax	19	8	0	11	482	504	-22
North Wales	19	3	0	16	260	1298	-1018

Goole 28 Dewsbury 24: Hamlet 18 Whitehaven 18:

Midlands 16 London Broncos 70: Newcastle 54 Swinton 10:

Oldham 28 Garrow 10: Sheffield 56 Rochdale 4: Workington 34 Kingsley 24

NATIONAL CONFERENCE PREMIER

Thistle Heath 32 York Acorn 18: West Bowling 20

Waterhead 22: West Hull 50 Rochdale 6:

Wigan St Judes D'Hunist 30

Cricket

THIRD MEN'S TRENTY'S INTERNATIONAL

Hunan Indus 192-5 (V) Suryanavanh 81: Zimbabwe 157-7

(W) Ruri 14 no). India beat Zimbabwe by 35 runs.

THE HUNDRED WOMEN

Ereeman 264 Trafford Match abandoned without a ball

beveled.

Trent Bridge Trent Rockets 142-7. London Spirit 146-5.

London Spirit beat Trent Rockets by five wickets.

THE HUNDRED MEN

Ereeman 264 Trafford Manchester Super Giants 307-5

LEC Battler 90: Birmingham Phones 100: Manchester

Super Giants beat Birmingham Phones by 87 runs.

Trent Bridge London Spirit 159-5 Trent Rockets 160-6

(SW Backett 75). Trent Rockets beat London Spirit by four

wickets.

BETING BANK ONE DAY CUP MEN

Group A Bristol Kent 208 (SA Northend 84):

Gloucestershire 212-4 (JR Brizley 81, CT Bancroft 89 no):

Gloucestershire beat Kent by six wickets.

Guildford Northamptonshire 254-8 (NA McSweeney 64,

SA Bartlett 62, BC Flanks 4-60). Surrey 208-4 (MG Thomas

83 no, RS Patel 64). Surrey beat Northants by six wickets.

Group B Levi Lancashire 383-4 (W Jennings 131, MS Norris

711: Lincolnshire 162-8 (R de Swardt 126, R Skable 91):

Lancashire beat Lincolnshire by 21 runs.

Taunton Somerset 337-8 (LP Galloway 101),

FA Limousine 85, JF Thomas 50: Warwickshire 212

UB Linott 52, JM Theobon 4-56). Somerset beat

Warwickshire by 125 runs.

Group B Endlerit Glamorgan 66: Middlesex 67-2.

Middlesex beat Glamorgan by eight wickets.

Trent Yorkshire 325-7 (W Luston 117, SW Whiteman 74):

Suisse 140 (V) Hudson-Premise 50: R Tudor 5-12):

Yorkshire beat Sussex by 184 runs (DL5 Method).

Chelmsford Essex 257-7 (T Westley 102): Derbyshire

248-9 (MRC Lane 97). Essex beat Derbyshire by nine runs.

New Road Worcestershire 307-8 (HC Callow 72, K 46 65,

DK Langan 64). Hampshire 303 (T) Post 70, NRT Lubbers

57). Worcestershire beat Hampshire by four runs.

METRO BANK ONE DAY CUP WOMEN LEAGUE 2

Bodily Worcestershire 304-8 (EX Bayslet 108, LC Caridge

95, R Knowling-Davies 4-41). Derbyshire 203 (A Griffiths

4-31). Worcestershire beat Derbyshire by 101 runs.

Needs Glamorgan 239 (Storge 63). Sussex 241-8

(P) Wilkinson 51; G Porter 4-31). Sussex beat Glamorgan by

two wickets.

Canterbury Middlesex 306-7 (A Downey 67 no, SW Hurley

61, KP Pindars 400). Kent 309-9 (R King 109, EL Barrilather

51). Kent beat Middlesex by two wickets.

Northampton Northamptonshire 311-8 (A Kenny 107,

R Cline 52). Lincolnshire 313-9 (RS Brooker 58, E Phillips

55). Match tied.

Tennis

WTA MSC HAMBURG LADIES OPEN (Germany)

Final: T Karpatsch (Ger) 94 A Bondar (Huo) 6-5-6-3

WTA LIVESPORT PRAGUE OPEN (Czech Republic)

Final: L Tagger (Aut) 8-0 Selger (Ger) 7-6 (7-3) 6-2

ATP MILLENNIUM ESTONIA OPEN (Canada, Portugal)

Men: Final: L Van Ansche (Fr) 8 A Blocks (Bel) 6-4 4-6 7-5

Cycling

TOUR DE FRANCE

Stage 21 (Thierry-Faris-Champs-Elysées, 89kns) 1 M van

der Post (Nett) Alperio-Presson 76 by Sifran-Ritaç,

2 J Pellipson (Bel) Alperio-Presson Tech, 3 M Pedersen

(Den) Lab-Truck 4 M Guiderot (Ev) 4/85 Motors Team

3 G Rasey (Nett) Rebellion CMA (GM Team) 4 M Nelstein

(Svr) Bahrain Victorious, 7 R Planners (Nett) Tudor Pro

Cycling Team, 8 A Turgis (Fr) Team TotalDvergies, 9 M Hattie

(Bel) Cofidis, 10 C Russo (Fr) Groussous FD (United at at

same time. Selected others: 25 F Wright (GB)

Phantoms G26: 2 Pro Cycling Team, 17 F Haley (Int) 10

Education EasyPost, 18 J Stewart (GB) HSN Cycling Team,

43 A Yates (GB) LMC Team Emirates -MIG

Overall standings: 1 T Pogacar (Svr) LMC Team Emirates

MIG 749-5 (Sim) Zloac, 2 R Evenquest (Bel) Red Bull-ROKA

Hampshire +06-26; 3 J del Toro (Mex) LMC Team Emirates

MIG +05-42; 4 P Seuss (Fr) Decaffron CMA (GM Team

+11-36; 5 L Maribos (Fr) Bahrain Victorious +13-02;

6 M Sajamson (Den) Lab-Truck +14-59; 7 J Apose (Sp) Lab-

Truck +17-48; 8 R Carasac (Ecu) 10 Education EasyPost

+20-00; 9 P Polusis (GB) Phantoms G26: 5 Pro Cycling Team

+29-26; 10 J Angel (Fr) Team TotalDvergies +33-21.

Selected others: 21 A Yates (GB) LMC Emirates -MIG

+1-51-59; 10 R Hodge (Int) 10 Education EasyPost

+5-51-65; 10 R Walker (GB) 10 Education EasyPost

+5-13-19; 12 R J Fasting (GB) Netcompany Ineos +5-28-28

Darts

PDC WORLD MATCHPLRY (Blackpool)

Final: L Littler (Eng) 8 G Price (Mal) 18-9

Golf

WOMEN'S SCOTTISH OPEN (Dumbentall Links, Germany)

Leading final scores (GB 6-1) unless stated, Fw 72)

279 1bn J (Oxo) 66 67 71 71. 281 1bn A (Khr) 67 72 74

66. 283 P Anamacukaro (Thu) 71 69 69 74. 284 T Yamashita

(Ger) 70 68 73 71. 285 W Yamashita (Jan) 70 74 70 71.

L Coaghton (US) 66 74 71 71. 286 C Wamasami (Thu) 71 76

70-00. 287 L Maguire 72 72 73 70. E Nara (Jan) 70 70 71.

76, R O'Toole (US) 73 72 71 71. 288 J Lopez (Sp) 71 74 73

70; A Nouray (Jan) 70 70 69 71. 289 C Nouray (Jan) 70 70 76

67; P Tawatawahi (Thu) 71 69 70 71. Yang A (Khr) 74 69 71

71. 290 D Dager (Int) 74 73 70 71. N Korda (US) 72 76 73

69; Kim HJ (Oxo) 75 70 73 72. 291 P Rousser-Bouchard (Fr)

73 73 76 69; W Stark (Swo) 74 72 73 72. A Hewson 75 75

73-71; D Dargans (Ecu) 73 73 74 74. Kim D (Oxo) 73 72 73

71; Zhang W (Zhu) 73 73 73 72. 292 N Kasewa (Duo) 72 74

73 73; R Zhang (US) 73 72 71 70. A Adampans (Thu) 73 73

73-75. 293 A Kumbant (Swo) 70 79 73 71. Yuan (Tao) 73

68 76 76. A Yates (Thu) 73 72 77 71. 294 M Naddad (Fr) 75

73 74 74. S Koselewa (Ezi) 77 69 74 72. M M Hwy (Md) 73

75 76 70; H Green (Aus) 74 76 74 70; C Neal (Jan) 72 74 75

75 1an MH (Oxo) 75 68 77 74.

SM OPEN (Marex, Minnesota, USA)

Leading final scores (US unless stated, Fw 71)

259 J Rousser 64 68 61 66. 262 L Scheffler 65 70 64 61.

264 R Harman 69 64 66 65. H Matayama (Jan) 70 65 65

64. D McCarthy 66 68 64 66. C Phillips 66 65 66 67.

265 E Giles (Avg) 64 67 63 66. D Thompson 68 68 63 66.

266 R Halifax 67 69 65 70. 267 M Kim 69 70 70 69. E Power

(Ev) 68 68 63 66; G Woodland 64 71 67 65. 268 Z Bizer 68

65 68 67. B Herychei 67 68 65 70. J Kogas 68 70 68 62.

269 D Chatfield 69 68 64 68. Dmc Z (Cnr) 67 69 67 66.

P Flodham 70 68 66 65. Nc C-n (Sv) 69 66 66 68.

270 L Busselton (SA) 68 67 69 66. L Hodge 68 67 65

70; Kira 3-6 (Bor) 68 69 67 66. R Norrigard-Peterson (Den)

66 72 66 66. 271 C Bunnett 67 68 67 69. M Brennan 65 69

63 74. A Kitamura 68 69 66 68. Hiukaki 69 69 65 66.

J Parry (Eng) 69 69 64. A Smotherman 68 67 68 68.

J Parry 69 69 64 68. J Parry 69 69 64 68. J Parry 69 69 64.

C Kim 70 69 64 69. K Koy 65 70 68 69. 273 J Oatman 70 69

66 68. M Donohue 73 67 70 64. M Holland 70 69 65 69.

M McNulty 71 66 72 64. Y Whaley 67 69 68 69.

UV UNITED KINGDOM (Canada, Switzerland)

Leading final scores (GB 6-1) unless stated, Fw 72)

258 L Hattner (Aus) 61 66 65 67. 254 T W Hottler (Eng) 66 68[{"box_2d": [800, 832, 978,

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Sport

Highs and lows in Hungary

Hamilton criticises Ferrari but Norris feeling champion again

▲ Lando Norris is congratulated by Max Verstappen and Kimi Antonelli after his victory MARK SUTTON/ FORMULA | VIA GETTY IMAGES

Giles Richards

Hungaroring

Lewis Hamilton expressed frustration with his Ferrari team after he dropped points in the title battle against Mercedes' Kimi Antonelli at the Hungarian Grand Prix, while Lando Norris returned to form with the defending world champion claiming his first race victory of the season.

Hamilton finished in fourth place on the track at the Hungaroring but, with a five-second penalty imposed for speeding in the pit lane, he was classified as fifth in the race won by McLaren's Norris, with Max Verstappen second for Red Bull and Antonelli third.

Hamilton had been called in for a stop under the virtual safety car, which gave him fresh tyres but cost him track position to Verstappen and Antonelli. He could not make the places back and received the penalty. The call left him questioning the strategy decisions by his team.

"It was pretty bad. Pretty frustrating," he said. "I definitely don't think we should have taken the stop but the call came just before the pit-lane entry and I didn't have time to debate.

"I would never have stopped if it meant I was giving up track position. I may have been able to hold on to P2. He [Verstappen] was catching me but most likely it would have been P3 [in front of Antonelli] and it would have been much better."

Hamilton trails Antonelli by 50 points as Formula One enters its summer break, and the Briton feels that the annual shutdown has come at the right moment. "I'll work hard

to try and come back, reset," he said. "There's still a lot of places to take."

Norris, who took his and McLaren's first win of the year, believes that he is driving at his very best, better even than when he won the title. "Today I would probably say it was up there with one of my best performances, in terms of extracting performance out of the car and being so close to the limit every single lap," he said. "So close that the team had to ask me to peg it back a little bit.

"So although it kind of hurts me saying it because it doesn't mean that you just win, I feel I'm doing a better job this year than I was last year, and I have done for a little while."

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Pogacar still

'improving a lot' as he enters five-time club

Jeremy Whittle

Paris

Tadej Pogacar joined the small club of five-time Tour de France champions in a final stage in Paris that was neutralised by concerns over safety due to the threat of rain on the cobbles of the Butte de Montmartre.

Pogacar's dominant success, his fifth win in seven years, left Remco Evenepoel of Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe and the Slovene's UAE Emirates XRG teammate Isaac del Toro as the only others to finish within 10 minutes of his winning time.

Pogacar's achievements now rank with those of Eddy Merckx, another of the five-time winners and widely accepted as cycling's greatest champion. The 27-year-old's record-equalling fifth win was celebrated in a specially designed all-yellow kit, featuring the number five.

"You get more experience, you deal with things differently, there are small things that are improving," Pogacar said, "but it's the details that sometimes count, the mood and emotions. I think this is where I am improving a lot."

He paid tribute to the efforts of his teammates, several of whom spent the second half of the Tour fighting off sickness. "Massive respect for what all of the guys have been doing over the last three weeks. I already appreciated the work of my teammates but now it's another level and I must say thank you to every single one of them."

Pogacar hinted that he was again contemplating retirement. "I will definitely not be doing this for a long time," he said, suggesting that his teammate Del Toro was his natural successor. "He's still young, he's a quick learner, super smart and has a big talent and big engine so let's see where the road takes us. I'm happy to be with him in the team and that we can ride like this together."

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▲ Tadej Pogacar gives a wave to mark his five Tour de France wins

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  • 2 million students 翻译为 2 million 名学生，未将数字完全本地化。
  • 体育数据表部分翻译极其混乱，大量英文原词与碎片化中文混排，缺乏可读性。

审计总结： 此版本不可交付。翻译不仅未能忠实于原文，且在文档中段引入了与源文件完全无关的虚构内容，同时保留了大量调试标签和代码乱码。