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When Bruce and Sheila Harvey-Larmar met, Sheila was managing a photography shop in Somerset. “One of the printers had...When Bruce and Sheila Harvey-Larmar met, Sheila was managing a photography shop in Somerset. “One...When Bruce and Sheila Harvey-Larmar met, Sheila was managing a photography shop in Somerset. “One...
Check the water pressure, Taylor, is my first piece of advice. Yes, you may be moving into a shiny, brand-new £3...Check the water pressure, Taylor, is my first piece of advice. Yes, you may be moving into a...Check the water pressure, Taylor, is my first piece of advice. Yes, you may be moving into a...
political sketch
Nigel Farage and Richard Tice are trying to eat the Tories alive, and they are loving every second
The largest stegosaurus fossil ever found is set to fetch up to £4.7 million when it is sold at Sotheby’s this summer.
At 3.4 metres tall, the fossil, nicknamed Apex, is nearly a third larger than the next most intact stegosaurus specimen on...The largest stegosaurus fossil ever found is set to fetch up to £4.7 million when it is sold at...The largest stegosaurus fossil ever found is set to fetch up to £4.7 million when it is sold at...
Roy Keane, the former Manchester United captain, was head-butted by a fan during a Premier League match after “banter...Roy Keane, the former Manchester United captain, was head-butted by a fan during a Premier League...Roy Keane, the former Manchester United captain, was head-butted by a fan during a Premier League...
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In an interview with the Daily Mirror last week, Angela Rayner said she was fighting the election so that the...In an interview with the Daily Mirror last week, Angela Rayner said she was fighting the election...In an interview with the Daily Mirror last week, Angela Rayner said she was fighting the election...
photography
Rishi Sunak announced a general election to be held on July 4 during a downpour in Downing Street last week, marking a “soggy start to the campaign”. The events of the only July general election of the 20th century, held in 1945, show that there...Rishi Sunak announced a general election to be held on July 4 during a downpour in Downing Street...Rishi Sunak announced a general election to be held on July 4 during a downpour in Downing Street...
Brexit has reduced Britain to tears, France’s prime minister has said as he campaigned against French populists he said wanted to follow the UK out of the European Union. “Don’t let’s be [like] the British, who cried after Brexit,” said Gabriel Attal in a radio interview designed to drum up...Brexit has reduced Britain to tears, France’s prime minister has said as he campaigned against French populists he said wanted to follow the UK out of the European Union. “Don’t let’s be [like] the British, who cried after Brexit,” said Gabriel Attal in a radio interview designed to drum up...Brexit has reduced Britain to tears, France’s prime minister has said as he campaigned against French populists he said wanted...
Russia will increase income tax for its wealthiest citizens as the Kremlin seeks long-term funding for the war in Ukraine. Putin said shortly before he secured a fifth term of office in March that Russia needed to raise taxes as spending on the military rose to account for a third of the national budget. The proportion was a record for...Russia will increase income tax for its wealthiest citizens as the Kremlin seeks long-term funding for the war in Ukraine. Putin said shortly before he secured a fifth term of office in March that Russia needed to raise taxes as spending on the military rose to account for a third of the national budget. The proportion was a record for...Russia will increase income tax for its wealthiest citizens as the Kremlin seeks long-term funding for the war in Ukraine.
The black truffle, prized by Michelin chefs as one of the world’s foremost delicacies, has become an expensive rarity. Now, gourmets may be able to breathe a small sigh of relief: a 12-year-old boy has discovered the species for the first time in Portugal. Scientists have confirmed the discovery near Lisbon and are...The black truffle, prized by Michelin chefs as one of the world’s foremost delicacies, has...The black truffle, prized by Michelin chefs as one of the world’s foremost delicacies, has...
Israel launched its war on Hamas, now nearing its eighth month, after the Palestinian militant group ravaged the...Israel launched its war on Hamas, now nearing its eighth month, after the Palestinian militant...Israel launched its war on Hamas, now nearing its eighth month, after the Palestinian militant...
The African National Congress, which has governed South Africa since the end of apartheid in 1994, was predicted to...The African National Congress, which has governed South Africa since the end of apartheid in 1994...The African National Congress, which has governed South Africa since the end of apartheid in 1994...
Cher has won a long-running legal battle with the widow of her former husband, Sonny Bono. A federal judge in the US ruled this week that the singer, 78, was entitled to continue receiving royalties from a string of 1960s hits performed and...Cher has won a long-running legal battle with the widow of her former husband, Sonny Bono. A...Cher has won a long-running legal battle with the widow of her former husband, Sonny Bono. A...
A sex offender known as the “bad breath rapist” who fled during his trial in Massachusetts in 2007 only to be...A sex offender known as the “bad breath rapist” who fled during his trial in Massachusetts in...A sex offender known as the “bad breath rapist” who fled during his trial in Massachusetts in...
The son of the former YouTube chief executive Susan Wojcicki died from an accidental drug overdose, according to a...The son of the former YouTube chief executive Susan Wojcicki died from an accidental drug...The son of the former YouTube chief executive Susan Wojcicki died from an accidental drug...
gerard baker
Few people familiar with American politics and law ever doubted that Donald Trump would be found guilty by a jury in...Few people familiar with American politics and law ever doubted that Donald Trump would be found...Few people familiar with American politics and law ever doubted that Donald Trump would be found...
analysis
The criminal conviction of Donald Trump has put the United States in uncharted territory as the country readies...The criminal conviction of Donald Trump has put the United States in uncharted territory as the...The criminal conviction of Donald Trump has put the United States in uncharted territory as the...
2,000 jobs at risk at fertiliser mine
After a failed bid by BHP, Anglo American is facing a backlash from local politicians over plans to cut spending on the Woodsmith mine, as the focus shifts back to the FTSE 100 miner’s radical restructuring plan. A cut in capital expenditure on the polyhalite fertiliser mine in North Yorkshire...After a failed bid by BHP, Anglo American is facing a backlash from local politicians over plans to cut spending on the Woodsmith mine, as the focus shifts back to the FTSE 100 miner’s radical restructuring plan. A cut in capital expenditure on the polyhalite fertiliser mine in North Yorkshire...After a failed bid by BHP, Anglo American is facing a backlash from local politicians over plans to cut spending on the...
The Czech billionaire who would be the owner of Royal Mail has revealed plans for a structural shake-up of the company, which could threaten the jobs of tens of thousands of postal delivery workers and thousands of the company’s signature red pillar boxes. In a rare public comment, Daniel Kretinsky, whose interests have had a £3.5 billion...The Czech billionaire who would be the owner of Royal Mail has revealed plans for a structural shake-up of the company, which could threaten the jobs of tens of thousands of postal delivery workers and thousands of the company’s signature red pillar boxes. In a rare public comment, Daniel Kretinsky, whose interests have had a £3.5 billion...The Czech billionaire who would be the owner of Royal Mail has revealed plans for a structural shake-up of the company, which...
Business confidence has climbed to its highest point in nearly a decade, according to figures that are likely to be latched upon by the Conservatives as evidence that the economy is gathering momentum. According to Lloyds Bank’s latest business barometer index, confidence climbed to its highest level since November...Business confidence has climbed to its highest point in nearly a decade, according to figures...Business confidence has climbed to its highest point in nearly a decade, according to figures...
Comment
Starmer’s purge goes further than Corbyn
Patrick Maguire
Trusted enforcers have pursued the remaking of Labour with a determination his predecessor could not muster
gerard baker
Trump verdict makes presidential race even harder to predict
emma duncan
Nimbys, bats and newts, your time is up
martin samuel | notebook
Dance degrees are useless? Don’t take the mickey
Roland White
Loony party is a joke decades past its sell-by date
Leading Articles
No Jam Tomorrow
As Labour rules out high-revenue tax rises, even as it contemplates the reality of government, the shadow chancellor must clarify how promises will be paid for
Mending Fences
Britain and its European Nato allies lack an integrated missile defence system
Bespoke Treatment
Personalised vaccines herald an age of highly targeted cancer therapies
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Second thoughts of voters switching sides
Sir, Jenni Russell is right in suggesting that some longstanding Tory voters who have been planning to switch to Labour are wobbling a little after the first week of the campaign (“Labour’s campaign is spooking some switchers”, May 30). After...Sir, Jenni Russell is right in suggesting that some longstanding Tory voters who have been...Sir, Jenni Russell is right in suggesting that some longstanding Tory voters who have been...
Daily Universal Register
Briefing
UK: Office for National Statistics publishes UK Health Accounts for 2022 and 2023, a healthcare expenditure analysis consistent with international guidelines; Nationwide Building Society publishes its house price index for May; Historic England holds its annual London History Day, on the anniversary of the date when the Elizabeth Clock Tower first started keeping time in 1859.
Czech Republic: Main meetings take place as part of a two-day informal meeting of Nato foreign ministers ahead of the Nato Summit in July. A press conference with Jens Stoltenberg, the Nato secretary-general, will be held at 1pm at Hrzan Palace in Prague.
US: President Biden hosts Alexander De Croo, the Belgian prime minister, for a meeting at the White House.
On this day
In 1731 Philip, Duke of Wharton, credited with founding the first Hellfire Club of high-society hell-raisers, died aged 32 from the effects of alcoholism. The “man of letters” was also described as “a drunkard, a rioter, an infidel and a rake”. He lost most of his fortune in the 1720 South Sea Bubble stock market crash; in 1837 the famous pantomime clown Joseph Grimaldi died. Clowns from all over the world pay their respects at his graveside in Islington, London, on the anniversary of his death; in 1879 Dr Werner von Siemens demonstrated the world’s first electric locomotive at a Berlin trade fair. The train, with three carriages each holding six passengers, carried more than 86,000 passengers in four months; in 1916 the Battle of Jutland began off northwest Denmark’s coast. It was the largest naval battle of the First World War, and although there was no decisive victory the battle secured British control of shipping lanes; in 1996 Timothy Leary, US psychologist and advocate of psychedelic drugs, died, aged 75. He popularised the 1960s counterculture phrase “turn on, tune in, drop out”. Richard Nixon (US president 1969-74) described Leary as “the most dangerous man in America”. Leary took another “trip” on April 21, 1997, when some of his remains were launched into orbit. In 2015, at the Burning Man festival in Nevada, the actress Susan Sarandon placed some of his ashes in an art installation which was later burnt.
Nature notes
The dog roses are in bloom. They grow on thorny bines that clamber their way high up supporting trees. Their flowers, which vary from pink to white, fill lanes with a delicate perfume, and the hum of pollinators. Once these flowers set, they begin the summer-long process of becoming rosehips, those orange-red beauties of autumn. Rosehips are one of humanity’s oldest foods; their remains have been found on numerous Stone Age digs. Our ancestors recognised a good thing: rosehips have 50 times more vitamin C than oranges. The trick is to boil, simmer and then mash them carefully so as to remove the irritating hairs from the small seeds. During the Second World War, civilians were encouraged to gather rosehips to make syrup for the troops. Jonathan Tulloch
Jonathan Tulloch
Birthdays today
Terry Waite, pictured, adviser on Anglican communion affairs to the Archbishop of Canterbury (1980-92) who was held hostage in Lebanon from 1987 to 1991, 85; Michael Baum, surgical oncologist, emeritus professor of surgery, University College London, 87; Tom Berenger, actor, Platoon (1986), 75; Paul Brakefield, evolutionary biologist, professor of zoology, University of Cambridge, 72; Ben de Lisi, fashion designer, 69; Sir Jeremy Dixon, architect, 85; Clint Eastwood, actor and director, Unforgiven (1992), 94; Colin Farrell, actor, The Banshees of Inisherin (2022), 48; Mark Foy, chief executive and chief nuclear inspector, Office for Nuclear Regulation, 62; Miriam González Durántez, Lady Clegg, founder, Inspiring Girls International, vice-chairwoman, UBS Europe (2019-21), 56; Leon Haslam, motorcycle road racer, British Superbike champion (2018), 41; Tristram Hunt, director, Victoria and Albert Museum, historian, Labour MP (2010-17), 50; Stephen Jones, milliner, 67; Jean-Paul Luksic, chairman, Antofagasta (mining company), 60; Prof Dame Angela McLean, mathematical biologist, UK government chief scientific adviser, 63; Debbie Moore, founder-chairwoman, Pineapple Dance Studios, 78; Archie Panjabi, actress, The Good Wife (2009-15), 52; Guy Parckar, chief executive, Pharmacy Research UK, 46; Lord (John) Prescott, Labour MP (1970-2010), deputy prime minister (1997-2007), 86; Rob Rinder, barrister and broadcaster, 46; June Sarpong, TV presenter, Loose Women (2005-17), director of creative diversity, BBC (2019-22), 47; Brooke Shields, actress, The Blue Lagoon (1980), 59; Douglas Stuart, writer, Shuggie Bain (Booker prize 2020), 48; Iga Swiatek, tennis player, world singles No 1, 23; Lynne Truss, writer, Eats, Shoots & Leaves (2003), 69; Peter Winterbottom, rugby player, England (1982-93), 64.