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Emma Taggart Economics Reporter |
Earlier this year, the Bank of England announced that Britain’s banknotes would be getting a revamp.
However, the change means £5 notes featuring British luminaries such as Sir Winston Churchill are for the scrapheap.
As the Bank steers away from using some of Britain’s most renowned figures on our banknotes, Telegraph readers have been left irritated that the nation is turning away from celebrating its heritage and culture.
Earlier this week, Andrew Bailey, the Governor of the Bank of England, wrote in The Telegraph: “Celebrating our country’s great heritage and the people who have contributed so much to it is important.”
Yet some members of the public share a different view. Focus groups asked for their views for research presented to the Bank, pushed back on printing banknotes with historical figures including Churchill, saying they were “elitist”, The Telegraph can reveal.
One participant even described Alan Turing, the celebrated mathematician who played a key role in cracking the Enigma code during the Second World War, as “imperialistic”.
Even iconic British landscapes and architecture were deemed a risky proposal.
Cherish the White Cliffs of Dover? That was seen as problematic because it could be associated with immigration.
Love historic Georgian and Victorian-style buildings? They’re ruled out because they are deemed too closely linked to colonialism.
The Bank has promised that our notes will still represent Britain’s heritage as it opts for wildlife to appear on its next series.
However, as the public votes on whether a list of 18 animals, including the barn owl, brown hare and bumblebee, should replace Churchill on the £5 note, many will not be so sure that one of our most venerable institutions still values our past and culture.
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Our writers Guy Kelly, Camilla Tominey and Lisa Markwell reveal what they learnt from their early days of employment |
What are your teenage children or grandchildren doing today? It’s safe to say that if they are bustling away at a Saturday job, they are in the minority. Yet, before their careers as journalists, that is exactly what The Telegraph’s leading writers were doing. The Saturday job helped build character and instil discipline, but who converted their Fiat Uno into a makeshift taxi? Who took revenge on their boss by eating stolen stock? Who got sacked from the Waitrose delicatessen and patisserie counter for calling a customer a taxi?
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Protests broke out in Southampton on Tuesday over the murder of Henry Nowak |
White voters’ anxieties about changing demographics are combining with a perception that the system is slanted against them. The result is a potent force and Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch’s interventions over the death of Henry Nowak suggest that both leaders understand this. In this essay, Eric Kaufmann investigates the consequences produced by continued ignorance of this demographic’s concerns. Continue reading ➤ |
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Rachelle Brettler photographed for The Telegraph at her home in West London |
The troubling death of Zac Brettler, a middle-class teenager whose fabulist tales landed him in the company of London’s criminal underworld, is the subject of bestseller London Falling. Now, his mother Rachelle Brettler has given an exclusive interview to The Telegraph, where she reflects on grief, her anger at the Metropolitan Police and the fears she had about her son leading up to his death. Continue reading ➤ |
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My father died instantly in an accident 25 years ago, when I was 18, writes Simon Usborne. It was an extraordinary shock, but I can’t imagine the layers of agony that would have followed his departure had he disappeared. I thought about this while meeting Dave Grimstead, a former police detective who, in retirement, decided it was about time somebody cared more about the 13,000 cases of missing people and unidentified bodies in the Missing Persons Unit database at the National Crime Agency. He founded Locate International, a charity now made up of almost 300 volunteers who try to crack these cold cases. I joined a meeting in Exeter, where Grimstead and his team were working tirelessly to find answers for families who have spent decades searching, sometimes alone and in the dark. For subscribers only ➤ |
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Back in my day, no stag party or hen do ended without someone disrobing (including my own) |
For my 1995 Brighton hen do, my friends booked Mikey, writes Rowan Pelling. Dressed as a waiter, he gyrated to George Michael in our hotel room before I retrieved an envelope from his pouch. By the end, he lay naked except for a thong and bow tie. Modern brides are abandoning this naughty fun for escape rooms and life drawing – but they are making a terrible mistake. Continue reading ➤ |
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Dietitian Josie Porter believes many common health concerns can be tackled through everyday dietary changes |
We’re spending more than ever on pills promising to boost our energy, beat brain fog, bolster immunity or improve our bone health, but the evidence for many of these supplements is often shaky, says dietitian Josie Porter. She believes the real solution should be found on our dinner plates. Here, she shares the culinary fixes for some of the country’s most common health conditions. Continue reading ➤
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Do you have plans for this weekend? Whether you’re staying in or going out, we’ve got you covered. Every week, Diana Henry, The Telegraph’s award-winning cookery writer, brings you three dishes for a perfect weekend meal. Meanwhile, William Sitwell shares his view from the culinary world – and a recommendation or two.
If you’re staying in...
Pomodoro ripieni (tomatoes stuffed with rice) recipe |
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Diana Henry The Telegraph’s award-winning cookery writer |
It’s tomatoes for me every day from now until October. I don’t waver from this all summer. I have already started buying them by the box – I get Isle of Wight tomatoes, a huge mix of sizes and flavours – and judge each one by its balance of sweetness and tartness.
I was spoiled with tomatoes when I was growing up as our neighbour – whom we called Auntie Francis even though she wasn’t an auntie – had a greenhouse where they grew in abundance. The smell inside on a warm day was both sweet and vegetal, the scent getting stronger when you brushed past the leaves. Occasionally I find some that are just as good as hers.
Every day I make some kind of tomato salad but I also cook them. I beg you to make these stuffed tomatoes. They used to be served at a little restaurant called Sardine in London (which sadly closed during the pandemic). Make sure the stuffing is well seasoned and you’re guaranteed something special.
Hot and sour tomato and watermelon salad recipe |
There is no limit to tomato salads. They can be southeast-Asian-inspired – with a hot and sour-sweet dressing – or Mediterranean, showered with basil. Combinations I like often include fruit so you have a sweet and savoury thing going on. Try nectarines and tomatoes with a basil dressing or one with a Moroccan vibe, dressed with coriander, chillies and cumin. Tomatoes go brilliantly with watermelon – as in this recipe – which surprises people.
Giant beans with tomatoes, honey and herbs |
As I write this, Radio 4 is broadcasting one of Michael Mosley’s old programmes, and he’s reminding me that cooked tomatoes are even better for you than raw ones. When tomato cell walls break down it makes lycopene (an antioxidant linked to the prevention of cancer and heart disease) easier to absorb. So here’s another recipe starring cooked tomatoes – and also giant beans, honey and herbs. This dish is mighty – full of intense flavours – and gets even better as it sits in the fridge. Make it today and it will be even lovelier tomorrow.
Find me here every Saturday and in the new Recipes newsletter, which you can sign up to here.
If you’re eating out, will you be leaving a review of the establishment’s decor as well as its food? In William Sitwell’s column this week, he delves into the latest critique of his restaurant’s interior.
A customer at The White Hart expressed their displeasure at the new colour of the bathroom walls |
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William Sitwell Restaurant Critic |
Feedback. It’s a word that strikes terror into the hearts of those in hospitality, but even more so to me as a restaurant critic turned restaurateur. For the guests of The White Hart, my establishment in West Somerset, find delicious satisfaction in turning the tables on me.
As I write this week, it’s just ratcheted up a few notches. Feedback, specifically on my interior design, has been etched, literally, on to the walls of our downstairs loos. “Too dark” was the graffiti scratched on to what I thought was stylish dark green paint. Which has left me hoping this is not a West Somerset trend – and that I’m not about to be hit with critiques of the food and service written on the linen tablecloths or even the walls of the dining room…
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Memories of CoulsdonIn Tuesday’s Pride of Place column, Mick Brown rolled back the years with his memories of Coulsdon, his hometown. Today, he’s standing in for Orlando Bird to pull out the best of your responses. Mick writes...
Thank you so much for your replies to my column. It was heartening to see so many of you had fond memories of the town where I grew up.
The mention of watching the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run in Coulsdon seemed to jog a few memories, with Sue Ollier recalling that she and her family “were also regular spectators every November”. Ann Cooper, too, remembered “going there every year to watch the cars”.
Shifting to another form of transport, a number of people brought up the different train stations situated in the town. Sally Whiteside proudly declared: “Coulsdon South was ‘my’ station. I travelled there every day for six years to attend Purley Grammar School for Girls. I remember the bridges as we approached the station in the mornings back in the 70s. Bridge three meant ‘put the homework away!’”
Meanwhile, Peter Rand’s memories of the town were from a slightly later stage than mine: “I remember Coulsdon well. I was born and brought up in Purley, just up the Brighton Road. My first ‘proper’ girlfriend lived in Coulsdon so obviously I was a regular visitor. I sometimes shopped, or had my car serviced, in the town centre.”
A few also shared their recollections of the forbidding Cane Hill psychiatric hospital. Ray Bradshaw remembered his mother saying she used to see “residents, sitting on a wall, whiling away the day”. Ros Thomas, whose mother “worked in the wages department of Cane Hill” said the asylum’s patients “were allowed to wander around Coulsdon”. Ros also remarkably recalled me being “one of the cool set”.
Thanks so much, Ros. I’m not sure I agree with you, but that’s very kind of you to say. You’ve made my day.
Where should we feature in the next Pride of Place column? Let us know here if you have a town in mind. |
Andrew Baker’s Saturday quiz |
Come together for the latest instalment of my Saturday quiz.
1. The philosopher Jeremy Bentham died on this date in 1832, but his skeleton, dressed in his clothes and sitting in his chair (but topped with a wax head, his own being kept in store) remains on display. Where?
2. Who plays the evil Skeletor in the film Masters of the Universe, released this week?
3. Which is the oldest university in the USA, founded in 1636 to train Puritan clergy?
4. Who played the Vicar of Dibley on television between 1994 and 2007?
5. What does one usually do with the tool known as a dibber?
You can find the answers at the end of the newsletter.
Plus, can you tackle The 1% Club? Scroll down to see if you got the questions right – and play for free on our website and app.
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1944 | Operation Overlord, as part of the D-Day landings, begins
1994 | Brian Lara hits a record 501 not out, the only first-class quintuple-hundred in history (a story covered on our front page the following day, as well as the D-Day celebrations)
2022 | Boris Johnson survives a vote of no confidence
Birthdays: Pete Hegseth (46), Jason Isaacs (63), Björn Borg (70)
Our front page on June 7, 1994 |
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Find as many words as you can in today’s Panagram, including the nine-letter solution. Visit Telegraph Puzzles to play a range of head-scratching games, including The 1% Club, Cogs, and Quick, Mini or Cryptic Crosswords.
Yesterday’s Panagram was MICROCHIP. Come back tomorrow for the solution to today’s puzzle. |
Thank you for reading. Have a fulfilling day and I hope to see you tomorrow. Chris Evans, Editor
P.S. Please send me your thoughts on this newsletter. You can email me here. |
Quiz answers:
- University College London
- Jared Leto
- Harvard
- Dawn French
- Make holes in the ground
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1% Club answers:
- Banker
- J
- Prof. Ears because it is the only one that, if it was read as one word, could not be found in the dictionary
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