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Andy Burnham has arrived in New York for his second foreign visit since he entered No 10.
The Prime Minister hadn’t even stepped off the plane before making his first announcement of the trip, confirming that Britain will give military support to Saudi Arabia to fight the Houthis in Yemen.
An RAF aircraft will assist the Saudi military with air-to-air refuelling to prevent further strikes on its oil facilities after frequent drone and missile attacks by the Houthis on the country’s southern towns, key Red Sea ports and energy infrastructure.
Burnham’s trip to the UN General Assembly has been pitched as a chance to talk up Britain’s role on the world stage.
In reality, all eyes in Whitehall and Westminster are on another meeting: Burnham’s first face-to-face session with Donald Trump.
The Prime Minister is expected to meet the US president at around 5pm BST for a brief bilateral meeting in the margins of the UN summit. His officials are praying he comes out unscathed.
The pair will almost certainly discuss the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, and their new partnership on military use of AI, but White House sources have told The Telegraph that Trump is likely to challenge Burnham on Britain’s anaemic defence spending, and could revive some of his old grudges against British green energy projects.
On the plane over from London last night, Burnham told reporters that the special relationship was “as strong as it has ever been” and that he and Trump had “found a connection”.
He will be hoping the bromance continues. As Sir Keir Starmer found out, the US president can be a fickle friend.
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Victoria Ward Deputy Royal Editor |
The 30th anniversary of Princess Diana’s death is almost a year away, but the battle to lay claim to her legacy is already well under way.
First came Earl Spencer’s memoir, Swan Song, which prompted a rare retaliation from Buckingham Palace.
Next out of the blocks is the Duke of Sussex, who is in talks to make a documentary about his late mother’s life, The Telegraph understands.
While the television project is in its infancy, he has been approaching various friends and relatives of the late Princess.
A well-placed source said: “The Duke has discussed a number of possible projects to mark the 30th anniversary of his mother Diana, Princess of Wales’s passing.
“Nothing has been finalised or confirmed, and he is still considering the most meaningful way to honour her legacy during this important anniversary year.”
Among those Prince Harry has approached is his uncle, who reveals in his own memoir that he would rather write his own version of events than be a “talking head” in someone else’s documentary.
Earl Spencer admits in the book that his nephew is among the many who have asked him to take part in a programme about his sister next year.
The Earl told The Telegraph that Diana’s story deserved to be told “honestly, however uncomfortable for others”.
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Charles Moore |
On Saturday Sept 6, 1997, I sat in Westminster Abbey for the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales. Earl Spencer, Diana’s brother, delivered the eulogy. His powerful speech could have featured in a Shakespeare play, like that of Mark Antony over the body of Julius Caesar. It was close to a challenge to the throne. Those attacks, and Earl Spencer’s fresh accusations in his memoir, are deplorable and irrelevant.
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Hamish de Bretton-Gordon Putin is contemplating mobilising hundreds of thousands of additional soldiers as Washington signals reduced commitment to Nato Continue reading ➤
Tom Harris The Lib Dems’ trans madness is a symptom of the Left’s cowardice Continue reading ➤
Celia Walden Harry and Meghan need to keep bitter Charles Spencer at arm’s length Continue reading ➤ |
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• Senior financiers and chief executives have warned Andy Burnham that raising capital gains tax risks damaging growth and driving wealthy entrepreneurs out of Britain.
• A British asylum charity repeatedly tried to persuade judges that lying adult migrants were children, a Telegraph investigation has found.
• The Treasury has borrowed £8.1 billion more than expected so far this financial year, official figures show, underlining the Chancellor’s challenge in the Budget. Follow the latest updates here.
• Girls and boys exhibit sex differences within a few hours of birth, a University of Cambridge study has found. Infant girls show a natural preference for looking at faces within a few hours of birth, while boys would rather gaze at objects.
• Benefit claims for teenagers diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism have more than tripled since the pandemic, with the sharpest rise seen in the richest areas.
• Finally, Kristi Noem, Donald Trump’s former homeland security secretary, has been pictured posing with a large elk she killed with a bow and arrow after a “super fun hunt”.
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Airports across northern Britain descended into chaos yesterday as an outage at the Prestwick control centre near Glasgow resulted in hundreds of flights being delayed or cancelled. The failure was the second in a fortnight, following an outage in Hampshire that grounded 2,000 flights. National Air Traffic Services (Nats), which manages Britain’s airspace, said the two incidents had resulted from unrelated technical problems. With every incident that passes, concern is growing that the multibillion-pound system established by Nats is not fit for purpose.
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Manchester United historian Wayne Barton was recently approached by the family of the late Tom Tyrrell, long-time United reporter for Piccadilly Radio, writes Jim White. Would he, they wondered, be interested in their father’s archive? What he discovered was a treasure trove of recordings, many with Sir Alex Ferguson when he first arrived at Old Trafford. These are his lost tapes. Listen to the recordings here ➤ |
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On Sunday, you may have tuned in to watch ITV’s new crime drama The Blame, writes Charlotte Gifford. It’s based on my 2023 novel of the same name, published under my pen name Charlotte Langley. I sold the TV rights several years ago, not long after becoming a Money Reporter at The Telegraph. It turns out it is not impossible to balance a full-time job with writing a novel. Continue reading ➤ |
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In Singapore, the average person enjoys nearly 15 more years of good health than the average Briton. Unlike ancient longevity hotspots shaped by specific diets and traditional lifestyles, this has been engineered through deliberate urban planning, efficient transport and health-focused public policies. So, what can we learn from their approach?
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This piece is part of our new weekly series, bringing you expert health advice from professionals.
Dr Gina Kennedy is a consultant neurologist who specialises in headaches and migraines |
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Emily Craig Senior Health Writer |
A headache is far from pleasant but, generally speaking, it’s not debilitating.
It is a far cry from a migraine, which, along with a crippling headache, causes sensitivity to lights and nausea that can last from four hours to three days, leaving sufferers unable to get on with their life.
One in seven people in Britain suffers from the complex neurological condition caused by nerves in the brain becoming overstimulated.
“Patients have to change plans and stop what they’re doing,” says Dr Gina Kennedy, a consultant neurologist. “They tend to want to withdraw, get away from the environment as much as possible, go into a dark room and be very still until it all goes away.”
While they can occur out of the blue, innocuous habits, like enjoying a lie-in, having a cup of coffee or eating breakfast later than usual can bring on a migraine attack.
This Migraine Awareness Week, Dr Kennedy, clinical lead for the headache service at Sunderland Royal Hospital, has shared six tips she gives her patients to manage attacks.
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The sound of silenceEvery weekday, Orlando Bird, our loyal Reader Correspondent, shares an off-piste topic that has brought out the best of your opinions and stories. Orlando writes:
Another Proms season has come and gone, and Giles Wood had a bone to pick with Sam Jackson, the festival’s director (and controller of BBC Radio 3): “The English composer Havergal Brian, whose 150th anniversary falls this year, was studiously overlooked in a season of hybrid music that favoured jazz, progressive rock and a slurry of film scores,” he wrote in a letter last week.
“Born in Stoke-on-Trent, Brian was a working-class, self-taught prodigy who composed well into his nineties. This should be the year to showcase one – or in fact all – of his 32 symphonies, the majority of which were composed after he had turned 70. The late flurry of activity is one of the many hallmarks of Brian’s singular talent, which was admired by Richard Strauss and Edward Elgar – and, curiously, the Grateful Dead, whose charitable foundation supported him financially. Making the case for Brian is surely the responsibility of our publicly funded broadcaster.”
Still, if the BBC won’t do that, Telegraph readers will. Havergal Brian fans have been out in force. Paul Bendit observed: “There is a continuing view in the world of classical music that, apart from the big names of Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Walton and Britten, British composers rank second to their European counterparts. Even Vaughan Williams was not properly recognised on his 150th anniversary in 2022.
“In the early 20th century, the German critic Oscar Schmitz claimed that Britain was ‘das Land ohne Musik’ (the land without music), referring to the supposed fact that it never had its own rich seam of classical composers. It’s time we stopped believing him.”
Quite right – though I’m with Neil Sewell-Rutter on when the real high point came: “No discussion of English music is complete without mention of the Tudor polyphonists. One might start by listening to John Taverner’s Missa Gloria Tibi Trinitas or Thomas Tallis’s Spem in Alium. I am not an expert, but have always thought that this was the great age of English composition.”
I’d put in a word for William Byrd (no relation) too, and was pleased to see Keith Gubbin write in praise of a slightly later genius: “Henry Purcell was one of England’s finest composers and a rival to all his Baroque contemporaries.” Are British composers unfairly neglected? Send your responses here, and the best of the bunch will feature in a future edition of this newsletter.
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1735 | Robert Walpole takes up residency in No 10 as de facto British Prime Minister. His actual title is First Lord of the Treasury
1955 | First televised advert in Britain, for Gibbs SR toothpaste on ITV
1989 | Baywatch premieres in the United States on NBC and, five years later to the day, Friends makes its debut on the same channel
2020 | Britain’s second Covid lockdown begins (and the front page the following day can be seen below)
Birthdays: Billie Piper (44), Chesney Hawkes (55), Sue Perkins (57), Ruth Jones (60)
Plus, George Lucas’s Museum of Narrative Art opens in Los Angeles today. How much did the building, which will showcase fine art and pop culture, cost?
1. $10m
2. $100m
3. $500m
4. $1bn
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Thank you for reading. Have a fulfilling day and I hope to see you tomorrow. Chris Evans, Editor
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